skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to the human condition. Evidently, the human imagination predicts well in the context of small family groups in the wilderness. Have a society with enough complexity to merit laws, and the imagination isn't so finely tuned.
I always wondered why it said "Shavers Only". Luckily the worst thing I ever stuck in was an American phone charger.
> Another problem springs up. At present, some appliance manufacturers INTENTIONALLY connect the outside of their metal products to one of the power wires. This must be stopped.

I disagree with this.

If one side is tied to ground (and it is), then tying the chassis of a piece of equipment to that same line is the same as tying it to ground...a ground that you're already standing on.

Am I missing something?
3D Printing Survey Hints To The Third Industrial Revolution
Meh, I think what I said was accurate. I specifically did not throw out the phrases "fast and fluid" or "design language" because I was trying to express how I feel, and not simply repeat the marketing material.

Are the things I said inaccurate?
Are the trolls used as furniture in that setting?
> They [Serial Entrepreneurs] understand that technology is just a means to an end, the firm is in business to make money

While I dont doubt that a firm is usually in business to make money, I dont think we can just degrade technology to a means to and end
An electrician explaining electricity is like a cop explaining the law.

They're hired to follow an instruction book. That doesn't mean that they have the least idea of the whys and wherefores of what's in the book.

Look at any of 1,000 videos of cops making up laws, falsely citing either the Patriot Act of 9/11, or explaining that parts of the Constitution and Bill of Rights don't apply in certain circumstances.

I'd rather listen to a cattle farmer talk about bovine genetics - he's likely to have some clue!
British plugs[1] have a pretty clever design. There's 3 prongs arranged in a triangle, each of equal length, but they are rectangular prisms, not cuboids, so you can only plug it in one way up. The lower 2 "live" holes only open if there's a prong in the top earth hole. Because of this, double-insulated appliances still have a plastic prong on the plug.

And yes, we have insulation on both "live" prongs.

Plus, it's the only kind of plug that's both Grounded, Polarised, Fused and has Insulated Pins[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_1363

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Comp...
We all have the desire to analyze the things in our life (groups of friends, clubs, companies, communities) that have died. I do it all the time. I wonder what happened to community "x" that I was a part of and really enjoyed and miss. You look around at your neighborhood or city and see permanence and figure your community must have had something wrong with it.

Of course, the barriers to entry and exit for an online community are very low. People change, the time they have available changes, their interests change, whatever. They exit the community as easily as they entered it. Soon the community dies. Your town or neighborhood isn't so easily left or entered so the stakes are much higher.

Sometimes communities just get old and people leave. Pretty soon they're gone.
Electricians are the wrong people to ask. It's like asking an IT exchange admin to explain the the SMTP protocol.
Yep. The correct person to ask about electricity is a Physicist, or in your analogy's case, a lawyer.
What are the factors that would make it compelling?
He mean't to say "No problems!" :)
You assume it was Groupon who turned down the deal and the public "rejection" was not just a face-saving maneuver done as a private favor by Google to Groupon's investors after they themselves had rejected the deal.
Can you link to a comment or two on LW that exhibits the trolling you speak of? I honestly have not noticed although I would not be terribly surprised.
My first post on HN, but I wanted to share my experience. While in college for my CS degree I worked part time in the automotive industry (first as an intern, later as "student employee"), most of the time implementing lean manufacturing methods/processes. It is amazing how many problems are laying around in big manufacturing companies, you just have to walk around with open eyes. And most of them are easily solvable if you think in a structured manner (a thing mathematician, programmers, physic's, etc. tend to do). After college (2008) financial crisis struck and I was happy to get a job in a software company, since that was what I studied for and I wanted to see something else. But two years later I got an offer back in the automotive industry and I took it.

The big difference was that in the software company I was working to meet the specs of the client/boss. Not much creativity asked for, since it only had to be as good as necessary. Today I work in logistics and at least in my case it is so much easier to excel here, since they have huge amounts of data flowing around but hardly anybody making sense of it.

I'm not a full time programmer anymore, back to the lean production thing now, but I do get to program still. The thing is that now I can "choose" the problems I want to work on and more important nobody tells me how I have to solve them. Also the feedback you get is much more immediate (production may depend on the data) and honest/direct (since they look you into the eyes while telling you their critic). And it is easy to amaze people when all they are used to is SAP and MS Excel/PowerPoint.

Finally I have to admit that I got lucky with my bosses, they let me do and support me.
> Why hasn't it been eliminated or reformed by now?

Because of the way large bureaucracies work. For one, a clearly defined role of prevention means that false positives are essentially not a concern. Second, rigid promotion and pay rules limit rewards and thus incentives: the old "work only so hard not to be fired" ham.

Still, people want to try. But it seems risky to do something different, and if I'm different and it goes bad, then it's obviously my fault. So we'll just keep installing more anti-virus programs and x-ray scanners. At least then we have something to count, and quantifiable bullet points always look good on annual reviews.
Looks interesting. I just tried to scrap a sample API but got an error with no further information on why it was broken:

http://apify.heroku.com/resources/4fca83088526fe000100011a/e...
Voltage drop across the neutral side can and does happen. Also, loose connections often happen on the neutral side supplying the plug. This could give you the full voltage across your chassis.
Shameless self plug: http://letslide.com

It uses landslide as the backend. I used landslide a few times and thought it was great, but could not have non-techies adopt it since it requires some knowledge of Python, pip, etc. Figured I would put it on the web.
"favourite sound of old that's no longer common"

Stepper motors in fast dot matrix printers (such as the Okidata 2410) and in phototypesetters (such as the Itek Quadritek)
They may be splitting revenue 50/50 with their customers, but their customers frequently have to give up most of their profit or even take a loss to be able to do business with Groupon. In other words, their customers aren't exactly beating down their door; a significant, and expensive, sales effort is required.
Curious, when I look at the graph for this very item, the updates stop a couple of hours ago:

http://hnrankings.info/4058277/

Any reason?
All our materials are online at: http://intro-prog-bioinfo-2011.wikispaces.com/ (for different years of the course, just change the 2011 to whatever. The current year has not yet been written.

The enrollment is typically about 60% grad students and 40% post-docs in the various Biology departments at UC Berkeley. We'd like to increase the number of people we can support, but at the moment are limited by the instructors time (we are grad students ourselves, and supposedly primarily research focused).
They could work assuming you had both an energy source and a heat dump. For example the ISS could use a dehumidifier to collect sweat and process it because it has large solar panels and can dump heat to space. However, as described they are not going to work.
If technology isn't a means to an end then what is it? I don't see how it can be anything other than that unless you say it's like art for art's sake - technology for technology's sake.
The title is disturbingly close to "Fix windows with this one weird trick."

A couple years ago I googled for "windows vista thrashing" and found a number of good guides that say what services to turn off and it was a huge performance boost.
After playing around with it some more, it's working. Question, are you going to introduce REGEX or any other rules or even some helper functions to further process the API? That would allow us to drill down even further. It is really great for bootstrapping and getting some live data quickly. Kudos!
>There's no such thing as a free lunch, if you forgive the cliche.

Yes, but that doesn't turn everything non-free into a lunch. Try to force your change to happen too quickly, and you're simply going to watch your customers boil away to nothing. In the end, your customer base will be little more than the kind of people that make cybersquatters money because they think that the best way to search for bullets is to type "bullet.com" into the URL bar.
There is a little pencil icon next to the shortened link that lets you edit it.
Regarding the us-and-them attitude, it's a vicious circle.

A person who is a self-defined designer often means it in opposition to coding. That means that they've defined themselves as someone who can't get anything done on their own. That works in a corporate environment, because they can talk somebody into letting them boss around developers on the payroll.

However, that leads to weird power dynamics and resentment on both sides. It also creates a situation where are lot of developers are discouraged from thinking about design, meaning they appreciate it less.

Where I depart from your analysis is the notion that open source projects really want to gain mainstream usage. I'm sure many would say they do, but I doubt many actually care enough to do something about it.

I think this is only going to get better in ways that erase the corporate line between designer and developer. E.g., developers who have some design skills doing more open-source work. Or designers buckling down and learning to submit patches like everybody else. If usability is the itch they want to scratch, they shouldn't wait for somebody else.

Otherwise, I think designers have to limit themselves to producing research and inspiration. E.g., doing well-supported usability studies on a popular open-source apps. Or producing design treatments as in a positive, here's-one-way-you-could-do-it spirit.
From my reading, the reason it was unacceptable was that since the wires were previously identical, the manufacturers attached an arbitrary wire to the case, so 50% of the time it wasn't the neutral one.

So, once we switched the polarized plugs, some of the appliances would always have a hot chassis; unless we made sure appliance-makers always attached neutral to the chassis.
> Gold, silver, jewelry and other forms of portable wealth will not be able to be taken out of the country.

Does the TSA assist with customs now?
Might be the best you can do but the problem still exists.
Mark Russinovitch did a great talk on how windows uses memory. I highly recommend checking it out if you're curious about this sort of thing

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL... Mysteries of Memory Management Revealed,with Mark Russinovich (Part 1 of 2)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL... part 2
I believe you're parsing it wrong. Read "Note that a brain-teaser-type test used in a hiring process might be illegal if it can be shown to have disparate impact on some job applicants and is not supported by a validation study demonstrating that the test is related to successful performance on the job" as

"Note that a brain-teaser-type test used in a hiring process (might be illegal if [both] it can be shown to have disparate impact on some job applicants and [if it] is not supported by a validation study demonstrating that the test is related to successful performance on the job)",

not "Note that a brain-teaser-type test used in a hiring process (might be illegal if it can be shown to have disparate impact on some job applicants) and ([furthermore] is not supported by a validation study demonstrating that the test is related to successful performance on the job.)"

As I read the sentence, a general brain-teaser is supported (by all the research showing that tests of general mental ability are predictive), but it is not legal unless you've done a study specifically for that brain-teaser.
I didn't know that was possible - thanks for the insight!
"I don't use any college math (since I didn't take any)"

How do you know? It is not impossible to pick up (some of) that knowledge outside of college.

"Maybe that's why they call it a programming language"

Maybe, but it could also be because of the abstract concept 'language' as used in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language
Regex is not yet pushed to the webapp. Regex support is available in the gem used by APIfy https://github.com/sathish316/scrapify
An interesting article, but built on the assumption that until a certain age you won't have any exposure to software engineering which wasn't true even in 2000. As a middle-schooler my programming ability was ahead of my math ability and I think I actually found math easier because of it. Stuff like numerical integration were things I "discovered" playing around with computers and I think that learning was much more valuable than later learning it calculus class.

He has a point, but after learning about the numbers and basic arithmetic you certainly have enough knowledge to learn to code, and who really knows if you need to know more math than that.
You go on Hacker News to use hacker news to communicate with other users of Hacker News.

This also works for every other website in existence, I think.
Does 4chan.org/sci/ have comment voting? If not, I cannot make sense out of your comment.

EDIT: replaced period with question mark in my first sentence.
It's quite one thing to form agencies with specific science and engeering goals (Manhatten Project, NASA) and populating them with experts and billions of dollars, quite another to expect the same results from other departments without that background.

And even then: the progress that SpaceX has made in the last few years is an almost text-book proof of my point. NASA provided SpaceX with a wealth of knowledge and experience that has been very poorly utilized (dollar for dollar) over the last 20 years. Within a very short time-frame we've suddenly seen innovation in the space sector like we haven't seen since the Apollo programme.

As for the military sector - given that maintaining a monopoly over the application of military force is (fundamentally) the primary function of government, it's not surprising that this is the one area of government that has understood it's place for a very long time: issuing contracts with stated operational aims and leaving the private sector to provide the innovation. Yes, the system is flawed - the F-35 programme is a bit of a disaster - but even then it can be at least partially blamed on government agencies interfering with the procurement process.
If everything is wired and functioning correctly I believe you are correct; the article mentions the case of electricians mixing up hot and ground wires. Presumably an appliance manufacturer could also have a mistake, but assembly lines are more consistent than humans -- if UL or CE tests a device it's likely all devices of that model are OK.
That's totally incorrect because "the terrorists" also know that the TSA is terrible. Bad security that everyone knows is bad has absolutely no value. If the TSA was clueless was it was a secret, then you'd be correct.
From the comments:

http://serverfault.com/a/23684
Ari Emanuel Wants You to Shut Up and Pay Up
Agreed. I feel like an idiot for not learning statistics well enough in college. Only want to analyze big data!
It's also the only plug that'll wake the neighbors when you step on it going to the loo in the middle of the night.
#musl on irc.freenode.net to discuss development.
> Only recently have the govies started thinking about how their data can be useful to the general public

The problem is that they can't anticipate how their data is most useful. Release and let the users decide.

> But I hope one day, after many iterations of API building, we'll get to a point where the data truly is transparent.

So, we should wait many years while, predictably, large budgets are blown on faltering "government innovation" projects, when we could just have the data and use it today?

This just doesn't make sense!
Dead Horse Theory [anecdotal]
I just quit Steam (so it was fresh in cache, never mind relying on SSD etc.), and started a Steam game. It took 20 seconds before the game launched (not playable, just started).

That's massive. Pretty much any of my non-steam games will be launched and playable within 10 seconds.

(I also hate unskippable intro videos; I'm fairly sure I've collectively spent much longer searching for ways to delete / skip such videos than I have ever lost watching them.)
Very explainable, if you replace now common mindset of "well being of people, their liberty to participate in market" with mindset of "world revolution, opposition to capitalist, imperialistic powers". Priority of restoration of SU first, as a power house of world revolution, becomes explainable. There was a Cold War going on, you know. Suppression of democratic reforms too - "if people don't want our brand of hierarchical command communism, then they're mistaken, they're not ready, we know better". Governments always say they know what's better for people. Of course "communism" in some far future is better than living a better life today, in eyes of communist government ideologue.

Considering SU later become net subsidizer of Eastern Bloc, and that these countries were in pretty good shape right after SU dissolution, with all the limitations of "socialist economy", one-sided interpretation of history as exploitation, plunder, and atrocities and nothing more, sounds to me extremely stupid and narrow minded. As stupid as "killing his own people" meme.
I'm disgusted by people who do moral interpretations of history with today's dominating moral standards. "Let's not forget atrocities of Roman Empire, plunder, enslavement, domination, exploitation of neighboring peoples ." Whole world history is one big atrocity.

Also, people who consider Soviet Union, a primitive oriental despotism, as a communist regime, without quotation marks - have no class.
Looks pretty cool. I have something I want to sell via paypal and this could save me a lot of time. How will you make money?
Keep reading. At that point outlets aren’t polarized and the case might end up connected either to ground or to the hot wire depending on how you plug it in. Even when outlets are polarized…

> “Occasionally an electrician will accidentally wire an outlet backwards. This can't be helped, because Perfect Electricians are far more expensive than the normal human variety. And so we cannot intentionally wire appliance cases to the Wide Prong of the plug, since it would cause a lethal hazard if the appliance was plugged into a miswired wall outlet. Miswired outlets look exactly the same as the normal ones.

> “The solution? Why, add a Third Prong! Connect this prong to the neutral side of the network, but do it only in one place in the circuit, and run a new third wire out to all of the wall-outlets. Give this wire a new color, one which is different from the other two. Give this this third prong a very different shape as well, so even Highly Imperfect Electricians will rarely connect the special prong to the wrong wire. Inside metal-cased appliances, insist that manufacturers connect this third wire to the case.”
Probably because I saw a posting on here some time ago (sorry I can't pull the link off the top of my head) that explained why you saw "Odd" and "Weird" on so many ads on the Weather Channel site. Given that this is my highest voted HN submission in some time, and my highest single day visit to my blog, I'd say that there was probably some science behind this :-)
The developer of Smalltalk Agents called it while C# and dotnet still were new. Smalltalk lost as a language, but as set of expectations for dev environments, has been winning. LightTable looks to complete this.
The Cloud Is Not for You
Ah, I was under the impression that Lightwave 10 was released for Linux last summer, granted it's not really on my radar. Looking at their site now showcasing version 11 there's no mention of Linux so it seems you are right. Still, Wine's AppDB page for Lightwave mentions a Linux native Lightwave 10 CORE under development.
That solves a different problem though - the problem of touching the prongs by mistake when fumbling with a plug.

I imagine there's no polarity in european plugs because the "use a third lead for grounding" solution was chosen right away instead of trying to patch things with forced polarity first (possibly with the prior knowledge of incidents from the U.S. - kind of like how PAL could avoid the issues inherent in NTSC)

edit: looks like my assumptions may be wrong - the Schuko patent predates the grounded NEMA plug patent by 2 years. But who knows how ideas like this spread back then... This is the kind of history I'd love to read a book on.
Google having 24/7 email and phone support for google apps doesn't seem to jive with this statement in the parent:

"We have senior contacts at Google who we worked with"

Saying "senior contacts" seems to indicate that they have specific high level people that they personally know who were able to escalate beyond what the response would be for a typical user.
Can you add support for CORS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing)?

Can you add support for taking existing JSON API (rather than scraping HTML)? This useful for APIs that are neither accessible with CORS nor JSONP, APIs that are provided by incompetent mental midgets who don't answer emails or participate to their Google Group (cough MBTA cough).
Seeing all the hyping for Israel's startup scene it might be informative to people who are unfortunate enough to have an ethnicity the state of Israel does not approve.
FWIW, but all my drives are set to timeoff "Never" because I would rather pay a little more in electricity. Per one of the other comments, even if the drive is spinning, Windows checks the page file first to see if it already "knows" about the file. In many cases that check takes longer than a modern drive would take to seek-find-copy. IMNSHO, Page files are an old solution that need to be rethought given the newer hardware that many of us are using.
So when will advertisers be able to buy their way out of your Gmail spam folder?
Current installations use Residual-Current Devices instead of individual breakers, at least in Europe. This requires three way wiring up to the distribution. In Germany RCDs are required for all outlets in new installations.
This is an awesome article. Here's an example of the usual non-explanation:

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/question1...

This is how it was always explained to me. Yes, neutral and ground are the same thing. Why can't you just connect the case to neutral? Because you connect it to the ground plug. Huhh???
looks quite cool actually - just didn't understand the part with the "file link"
Stillsuits have a layer of maxwelldemonium.
Most commercial studios would be running either Pro Tools, Cubase/Nuendo or Logic. There is nothing in the open-source world that comes even remotely close to rivaling any of these packages at the moment.