skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. In Texas, location matters in transit (arteries and such) in a similar manner, esp. in San Antonio. That's why I choose to live a mile from work, so my commute is 10 minutes on a really bad day.

But ya, Texan neighborhoods might have their own style and some unique places, but not a totally distinct culture.

BTW, I'm in San Francisco for the first time this week, and it's an amazing city.
Hard to argue with Apple's success, essentially no malware vs the cesspool of Windows malware everyone deals with.
Whenever I come across an interesting "___ read an article" post, I just Google the title of the article.
Funny you mention that you love Bertrand Russell since he was a massive fan of idleness and against the cult of overwork.
I remember reading the paper (or "a" paper) on the Sandia cooler a couple of years ago. The author seemed to indicate that the disks spinning so-fast-yet-so-close served to break the boundary layer AND keep the gap clean and clear of dust and grime.

I'd be interesting to understand just how precisely matched the surfaces have to be for this to work well. Machining a reasonably flat reference surface on a CNC lathe or mill isn't all that difficult. The question in my mind is more about how flat these surfaces have to be. The cutting tools will leave some grooves, even if almost imperceptible. Do the surfaces have to be lapped (sanded) and polished for this heat exchanger to work well? What are the tolerances? A good shell cutter on a high-quality milling machine can produce a mirror-like surface. It's one thing to do this in small quantities and quite another in mass production (which I now nothing about).
Sorry, but if you have to come in to work for 130 hours, unless you are getting paid overtime, that's just insane. You aren't going to be able to get much done. If you can't get done what you need to get done within a regular 8 hour a day, 40 hours a week work week, then you need to learn how to set deadlines and perhaps think about a different line of work.
And I'm saying, your opinion is stuck in the 1990's. John Carmack was very excited about both the xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. He's just not excited about the next generation because, in comparison to the most recent generation, he believes we're at diminishing returns for having more and more powerful 3d graphics. Which is exactly why he's taking VR headset development into his own hands.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE3DF1E30F...
"The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC" -John Carmack

http://www.ripten.com/2011/08/14/john-carmack-thinks-the-ps3...
"His keynote lasted more than 90 minutes and throughout, you could clearly tell that John had become a fan of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console"

He was also excited about the innovation in the Wii remote controller, and the Wii is what he plays with his kids.
The strongest source in the article appears to be Moniz and Kazimi 2009. Not sure if I've tracked down the one they're referring to, but the MIT Nuclear Power Update, on which they are coauthors (http://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/studies/nuclear-update.sht...) states:

The 2003 report found that “In deregulated markets, nuclear power is not now
cost competitive with coal and natural gas. However, plausible reductions by
industry in capital cost, operation and maintenance costs and construction
time could reduce the gap. Carbon emission credits, if enacted by government,
can give nuclear power a cost advantage.” The situation remains the same
today.

... citing increased construction costs across the board, increases in interest rates during construction of recent plants, and a decline in the cost of oil and gas costs after a spike in the mid-2000s. Their base case suggested nuclear at 6.7 cents/kWh, and coal/gas at 4.3/4.1. With carbon corrections, coal/gas rises to 6.4/5.1. With capital corrections equivalent to coal plants, nuclear falls to 5.5 cents/kWh.

Keep in mind that US data on nuclear efficiency is limited because we haven't built any new reactors in the last 30 years. We're running plants a generation (and a half) behind current technology, and they're still this efficient. Meanwhile, extracting gas and coal is becoming more difficult, and not likely to get any easier. Just take a look at the economic feasibility studies of Alberta's tar sands.

MIT's opinion?

In sum, compared to 2003, the motivation to make more use of nuclear power
is greater, and more rapid progress is needed in enabling the option of nuclear
power expansion to play a role in meeting the global warming challenge. The
sober warning is that if more is not done, nuclear power will diminish as a
practical and timely option for deployment at a scale that would constitute a
material contribution to climate change risk mitigation.

Honestly, the phrase "clean coal" should have have been clue enough to stop reading. :-/
And licensing purposes too. Back in the old days Apple used the Mac ROMs to prevent cloning.
Kind of an aside, but I find the requirement of providing proof in an argument to be pretty ambiguous in an age where Googling things is so darned easy.

Sure, I could find a link that gives the quantum dynamics of why water is wet when I use that fact in an argument... but do I really need to? These days, it seems that pushing back on people to provide easily knowable supporting information is just a delaying tactic or cognitive dissonance coping method... as in "Oops, I just read a really uncomfortable conclusion... I think I'll ask for proof then close this window before it's actually provided." :)
I know a fellow who, while working at MSFT a few years back, proposed this very thing. Nobody bit.
For Android devs, Box brings one cloud to the platform
A Peltier element only moves the heat from one side to the other. If you don't have some device to cool the hot side, the element will overheat and burn - so you still need a big heat exchanger to dissipate the heat into the air.

Also, Peltiers are not really energy efficient.
There is no fine line here. Facebook changed a personal attribute of their users. This particular action is not justifiable under any circumstances I can see.
This is so old, you may not see this... but placeshifting -> start watching in one place (laptop/work), close window, pick up where you left off in the video later (Boxee Box/home).
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Just to be clear, Mozilla has always signed beta builds, which were never a problem as far as I recall (I do a lot of outreach for Mozilla). We did get false positive complaints from nightly users who also used Symantec software, and we now sign nightlies, in part because of the reputation cred given to valid, signed binaries.

All releases and betas are signed with the Mozilla Corp. cert, there's a separate cert for nightly and Aurora builds, and a third cert for dev builds. I agree that we did have false positives with nightlies in the past, but I don't think that's happened for a while. If I'm mistaken, it'd be great to hear about them (I'll ping my contacts there, as well).
> Have you thought about having two pricing tiers: one for non-exclusive use and much higher one (maybe $100 per track?) for exclusive use?

I think you've vastly underestimated a reasonable price for exclusive use, given the inability to sell it to anyone else, the amount of time needed to produce an original piece of music, and any sensible salary for individual composers.
Cool. I also just used a couple of your tracks for a little outrun-style racing game

http://codeincomplete.com/posts/2012/6/22/javascript_racer/

I would agree with the comments that you could charge more (certainly for the longer tracks)
I don't think it's worse than the "obligatory real name" thing. This at least can be fixed by a savvy user by changing preferences.
Can't wait to save the world with a kazoo with my trusty goldfish by my side. :)
By my cursory look at the first page of your comments, 60% are either down voted below 0 or contain multiple obscenities. Perhaps if you could form a coherent though that wasn't littered with obscenities you wouldn't get down voted into oblivion.
I think you failed to actually read TFA. Unlike you, I know almost nothing about heat dynamics, nor about FEA, so my comment is predicated entirely on the Sandia staff being truthful in their video (and being quoted accurately in ars's Q&A article). I claim zero authority on the subject.

Your top-level comment claims that the breakthrough in this is in the thin-air gap, rather than in the centrifugal force. Respectfully, Sandia's Jeff Koplow specifically claims otherwise, in detail.

Koplow claims the boundary layer is the key problem (a claim with which you appear to agree). He further claims that when the radiator is spinning (or otherwise accelerating) that the boundary layer thins, and that in their application it thins by roughly 10x. See the video at 1:25 or so. And while I don't trust my under-educated intuition particularly heavily, it's very easy to imagine how accelerating the fins is fundamentally different from blowing air across them, in terms of how it affects air molecules in the boundary layer. Again, note that you specifically claimed "There is no difference between spinning the heatsink and moving air at the same velocity across stationary heatsink fins", and Koplow has specifically claimed that this is not true.

The fluid dynamic bearing only becomes relevant as a secondary problem: if you're going to spin your radiator but not your heat source, obviously there's a transfer problem. Apparently this is easy enough to solve, I guess? Koplow did mention (a year ago) that they were considering adding roughness to the revolving surfaces to perturb the air in the gap to improve transfer.

Oh, and you repeatedly say "they should use fluid". Well, first of all my little pedantic nit-pick is that air is a fluid. But more interestingly, the article contains a link to Q&A with more technical details, in which that very subject is discussed! The short version as I understood it is this: viscosity kills you.

I guess what I'm saying here is this: you started off by saying the article was wrong (about the centrifugal force), and went on to question all the design choices involved, but I think you actually skipped the bit where you read the article in enough detail to know whether or not it was wrong. Even though you obviously have a much better background in the material than I or most other commenters.
Are you sure about that? There is no market in these Treasuries where they can be sold before the date of maturity?
I doubt it. The phenomenal popularity of Android smartphones hasn't done anything to sell Android tablets.
i want to know...which one was the coke? i think it was the one on the right?
I read the source before I read the readme, and was thoroughly mindfucked.

I love it.
So far the biggest annoyance is truncating results.. It's cute, but not very useful when exploring output.

For example: (.. System (getProperties)) produces a lot of output, and I'd like to look through it to find a property.

Maybe a way to expand the output (like chrome inspector's javascript objects) ?

That said, it's pretty cool, and really interesting.
Also see this:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/45814/27304
No, Craigslist didn't have to overcome this problem. They merely had to overcome the problem of building the market in the first place, which was much easier because nobody else on the Internet was obviously the "default" option.

Nowadays, any site that doesn't already have the same kind of buyer and seller populations that Craigslist does is at a complete and total disadvantage in competing, and the point is, it's virtually impossible to overcome that. Craig today would never get his foot in the door.

> Why should we be cheering anyone on who wants to just cheat their way into this space, piggybacking on all of that hard work and dedication building this market?

Because Craigslist's success is not due 100% to hard work and dedication. It's probably more like 10% hard work, and 90% being in the right place at the right time. So the question is, why should Craigslist be forever rewarded for dumb good luck, while competitors who work even harder to create better products are doomed to fail, because it's impossible for them to attract users while Craigslist sucks them all up, just because of its network lock-in effects?

I want to see Craigslist start to have to compete and innovate again, just like most other companies have to.
I imagine they have to conform to those laws for their email service. And, given that they're a big company with plenty of lawyers, I have no doubt they are. However, this probably changes nothing about the core product.
I think you could probably make a chrome web app/plugin that does the scraping locally to get the data, then feeds it back in to padmapper.
AFAIK, it was opt-in. I'm sure they (like me) just never enabled it.
There are benefits to sprawl...

I do wish there were more shopping center/apartment complex combos, which would make for a nice place to live, play and drink without driving. OTOH, I like low rent, low taxes, fresh air, and small(er) government.
this is probably like integrating a car crash into your daily commute

but you can probably integrate into Jenkins for continuous jury-rigging
There is totally a theoretical difference between an accelerating frame and a non-accelerating frame. And a rotating frame is accelerating, and a fan-plus-static is not.

Acceleration matters!
Others have already addressed your question, but I want to make an additional point:

Anyone can still upload photos of you to Facebook... even if you don't have a Facebook. That's not an issue that can ever be fixed in a reasonable manner (short of face detection -- which dabbles with censorship).
Lord, yes!
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, every time I see the obligatory "You should follow me on Twitter" at the end of every blog post or Dribbble submission, the last thing I want to do is follow that person on Twitter. Commanding someone to do something they might not have done otherwise is neither friendly nor approachable and I'm much more likely to click on the Follow button in the sidebar once I'm done reading a few of their entries and getting a more thorough idea of who this person is than the one at the bottom of a single post.
But to be fair, they've said everyone with a Facebook username gets username@facebook.com. You can visit a profile, look at the URL, and put 2 and 2 together. It'd be worse if it was a randomized, private email address that was made public.
Search is a much more reasonable avenue, but I'm still not so certain. I've seen "$1bn/yr" quoted as Google's TAC (traffic acquisition cost) paid to Apple to be the default search provider.

However, I've also heard that that deal is tight and carefully negotiated. With hundreds of millions of iOS devices and that kind of TAC, it would then be reasonable to guess that Google's revenue, per iPhone user, on the order of dollars, maybe tens of dollars, but not hundreds of dollars.

Honestly, though, Google has never sold that many Nexus devices before... they might just want to take a loss on the whole thing to demonstrate that the device is reasonable to manufacturers, try to bootstrap the market by getting initial devices cheaply to users, or even just to make friends with Asus.

My guess is that they just want to screw Apple. Apple makes money by convincing people that they need to purchase and then replace expensive hardware. This hardware has a lot of margin in it, enough to provide outstanding customer service and to generally spend time on software improvements.

In the world of PC's, there are tons of competitors figuring out how to drive the price down, but then they don't bother to compete on design. Companies like Dell make almost no money per computer: the margins in that industry don't exist.

So, I contend that if Google occasionally does some "charity" work, maintaining an OS (at a loss) an then partnering with the currently best-scaled lower-margin device manufacturer to inject some reasonable design, they can gut Apple's business "where it hurts", even though they probably get almost no money from it themselves.

This is advantageous to Google as it allows them to keep an advantage over Apple in those negations over TAC, or make it less enticing for Apple to spend a bunch of time attempting to rebuild thigs like Maps.

Put differently: Google doesn't need this market: they have an already bootstrapped and epic profit model. This doesn't need to make them money directly, or even tangentially: it just needs to give them an advantage somehow, somewhere, that can be leveraged to make money.
My apologies. I submitted, but when it has been submitted before it usually just redirects you to the previously submitted one. Not sure why it didn't do this for me this time!

EDIT: Seems to be "http" vs. "https".
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Your hiding it doesn't help though... your Facebook email address is <<username>>@facebook.com

I don't see anyway to keep that secret.
This is your brain on multitasking
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It seems that Facebook as a company has an OCD to keep changing shit. If not interfaces then API methods.
Yeah, those problems are part of what makes this so interesting to me, especially since they so are dramatically alleviated in space. I'm betting we'll see this technology used in future space technology, and perhaps future research into the technology will take place up there. The future beckons, and it's partially in space!
Google's vow of silence is hurting investor confidence
It is true, though, that there is a limit to how much people this planet can reasonably
sustain, and I'd say we're billions over that mark - the only reason the system still
works (barely) is because a large part of the world's population lives in poverty and
hunger.

Optimization will only get you so far. We simply can't optimize away the fact that there
is limited space on this planet and that we're pretty much out of it already. We can't
sustain 7 billion people, tendency growing. Not at a humane average living standard.
Kickstarter project to improve your posture
I've worked long hours too. Being a hero is counterproductive in so many ways. If a deadline requires that level of exhaustion, you're doing it wrong.
Is it possible france's costs are higher because of all the other stuff they provide, like free health care and six weeks of vacation?

The op blew off 30 years of thinking on the expense of nuclear power with a reference to an unlinked paper. Sure. It's possible nukes are just kind of expensive "because", but there's nothing compelling in that article to change my thinking that it's regulatory cost.
Yeah. You know how I avoid burnout? I work 8 hours a day, no more no less. Occasionally, I will work a 9 hour day, but that's a rarity. If I can't get done what I need to do in an 8 hour day, well it just has to wait until tomorrow. Perhaps I'll put in two three hour days on the weekends. Either way, I am a programmer, and I am at my best when I program for 6 hours or less per day. The more time I spend thinking about an issue, the better my programs will be. If I am going to be sitting at my desk, coding away, for 12 hours straight, you will see some sorry excuse for code because I haven't thought through the whole process.
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I seem to be missing some terms in the "clean coal" equation:

C + O2 --> H2O

maybe it's more like:

C + O2 --> 2(H2O) + 6n + 4p (but I think this would be endothermic, to the tune of a few million EV here and there)

If somebody can supply the missing terms in this "equation", then I learn something. Otherwise, take it as simple sarcasm.
Wish this was its own comment and was upvoted to the top. I stopped going to UXMovement after the author continually attacked visitors in the comments section that questioned his posts to the point of calling them assholes and idiots. He seems to just post his own assertions about what UX is without any valuable data points.
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I think what you actually hear is coil noise from the fast switching of the current in motor's coils. The motor they use looks and sounds more like a HDD motor more than a normal fan motor - optimized for constant speed under quite a heavy load. The fan motors work in a similar way, but they use less power and less coils in a bigger enclosed space, so they can be better optimized for sound.
You're correct! If you look closely, you can see a couple bubbles near the top of the right one.
I said 'like' - I'm aware of the problems :(
"...Do not, under any circumstances, work for free..."

Totally agree with this. It ha been my experience that well paying customers are the best kind. They are more respectful of my time and less of a headache. The people that want thing low cost or for free are happy to drain your time for really no good reason.

This theory is why I also charge a certain flat fee upfront to get started on any client work. It gets the client emotionally invested in the project since some of their money is in the pot. Most of the time when I have done things without upfront payment or free work, the client is lazy to get me necessary graphics, text, authorization, etc. to do what I said I would do. Then it still reflects badly on the freelancer.
we'll be building on feedback gained this year to narrow our focus in yr 2. we aimed to be as transparent as possible in our selection process, providing feedback to applicants at each stage of the competition. with one competition cycle under our belts, we've learned a lot and hope you'll consider recommending arch grants to startups willing to base their businesses downtown and scale.
Craiglist for apartment-hunting in NYC is basically useless. 95% of ads are spammy ads from brokers who, as soon as you call them, tell you that the apartment is already gone, but ask you to tell them what you're looking for, so they can start helping you... There's no deduplication, and you wind up looking at the same ad fifty times in two weeks. Brokers stuff their ads with keywords for every neighborhood, so narrowing results by neighborhood is broken. Price search doesn't work either, because searching for "$2000" gives you apartments that are $2000 per week, $2000 per month, or $2000 for completely arbitrary periods of time, like 11 days. 95% of the listings under "no-fee" actually have fees, 50% of the listings under "sublet" are actually being shown by brokers, and another 25% are actually just looking for roommates (posting in the completely wrong section).

There's clearly zero quality control. The user experience for apartment-hunting is HORRIBLE.
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I love Yammer, so I'm really really hoping this doesn't become another AOL/WinAMP debacle.
I understand your sentiment, but at least the @facebook email address sends incoming messages to your Facebook notification center. The switch shouldn't have been automatic, but it is a fairly slick and useful feature.
I'm assuming you have timeline as I still have friends on Facebook who don't have it and their user number = fb email
Right, but that would be a backdoor in that particular implementation. If you implement RSA yourself, you're safe from backdoors. (With the usual caveats about compilers, operating system and hardware.)
The insidious thing about cryptographic backdoors is that they're embedded in the specification itself. Any conforming implementation will be vulnerable.
The important aspect of the change is they hid peoples' non-facebook e-mail addresses.