skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like the "vote with your money" mechanism should solve that: don't buy those securities. Do you claim that this mechanism doesn't work? If so, why is that?
Any advice on how to step into the tech/startup world? I just moved out to LA, and have about 4 months before I must have some income coming in. I want to use that time to experiment with some different career paths and to learn.

My work experience is not related to tech work, but I have a passion for it and have been working on side projects for a long time. Where should I start to get my feet wet?
Our business model is simple. It's identical to the mobile game model – nothing fancy or sneaky. We'll share revenue – you get 70 percent. We’re planning to make it as easy as possible for you. And OUYA is built on Android. It will also support most of the popular engines. Already Unity is a launch partner.
that was a huge hit thruzt took then.
Exactly, Haskell for instance, would be fantastic as it just relies on symbols that can be commonly read by everyone, we don't have to grok the meaning of "function" and "and". The only time you'd need to learn English to program Haskell is using the functions from the STL or Prelude.
I can't help but comment here... on the marketing.

Making the comparison to Dropbox steers people to evaluate the service in comparison to one of the best out there.

I'd instead just explain why corkboard is great on its own merits. Claiming to be "easier than Dropbox" is probably effective at grabbing eyeballs but I'd question if it's the best strategy to acquire actual users.
They do POST or perhaps ajax, which means you can't take a link to search results, which means it's useless.

This is weak.

P.S. Chrome source search does the same thing, makes me angry and sad with so many stupid people.
More info available than you could read in a lifetime. This is probably the most studied historical topic of all time.
That sounds like a bug! Just sent you email : )
The link title is wrong, the paper title is wrong, and the abstract is wrong.

Actual NES games are not NP-hard. They have a finite number of levels, and those levels have all been solved [edit: solved in constant time moreover, as they have all been solved within the lifetime of a human being].

An abstraction based loosely upon the concepts behind the NES games is NP-hard.
Cool, thanks for the breakdown :)
Styling the unstylable: you can style title and html, too
I hadn't even considered a cross text-editor solution/protocol. That's a fantastic idea.
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"Thus, we decided to only run computations when the outdoor temperature near the user is below a certain level (currently 16 degrees Celcius). When it's that cold outside, we assume that the computer's room is being heated anyway. All of the electricity used to do computations gets turned into heat, according to the laws of physics. So the heat generated by the computations displaces the need for heat generated by a heater, eliminating or minimizing the net elecricity usage."

https://gridspot.com/gridspot_safe

Doesn't work in the USA. Natural gas heating in the US averages $10.80/thousand cubic feet ~= $10/gigajoule [1]. Electricity averages $0.1179/kWh ~= $33/gigajoule [1] -- more than three as expensive for raw heat. Natural gas heating is twice as common in US homes, with about 55.6 million vs. 28.4 million using electric resistance heating [2] -- not including 9.8 million electric heat pumps.

In the common case, you're displacing cheap gas heating with expensive electric resistance heating; the cost "savings" on heating is small. At 100W power consumption, you're spending 1.2 cents/hour on electricity, saving 0.4 cents/hour on gas, for a net loss of 0.8 cents/hour. Meanwhile your CPU is being sold for 0.1 - 0.3 cents/hour [3] -- far less than the electricity needed to run it, apparently (?).

[1] http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/report/prices.cfm (residential retail prices, 2011)

[2] (.xls) http://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/data/2009/xls/HC6...

[3] https://gridspot.com/compute/

European costs for comparison:

[4] http://www.energy.eu/
how to succeed at what?
Sorry to sound skeptical, but back in the day cancer was killed twice a week on Digg.
Incidentally, that page doesn't mention Unicode emoji (😊), which are probably more likely to get into your average database now that OS X supports them and such.
If Smith were to be defeated the RIAA would just start throwing money at whoever became the chairman of the committee that he's currently in charge of. (The new chairman would likely be another Republican since they currently have a majority in the House.)

Corruption is so deeply entrenched in the system that you won't get rid of it by throwing out one politician, no matter how influential. The best approach might be to publicize as widely as possible how the system works in the hope that there will eventually be widespread support for reforming it (maybe by passing a constitutional amendment to outlaw the kind of legalized corruption that we call "campaign finance" in the U.S.). If I were a billionaire, that's what I'd put my money behind.
Changes the context of his smugness? Yeah as in erasing all doubt that the author is not merely smug but full on delusional.

Elon Musk is moving industries forward. The first time I used an iPhone it was so beautiful I could cry.

But, Rails? I mean, not to harsh on Rails at all, it's a great tool.

Moving an industry forward whenever you use Rails? WTF?
"Click below to contribute! (Windows only)".

There goes the 16G RAM, quad-proc machine I had sitting idle running Linux; I'm not going to reinstall the OS just to help someone else out with free CPU time.
Is HN adding pop-up ads now?
Seeing keywords double-underlined with a pop-up window on hover. Is this just me? Have I caught something or is Chrome responsible?
It loaded quickly for me, despite the poor network here.
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FYI, the right-side menu makes the scrollbar impossible to grab at the top of the page. However, I can still scroll with the wheel or bottom of the scrollbar.
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So, the only payment option is via credit-card.. And if you have no credit card what then? Am I S.O.L?
"shouldn't" is the operative term there.
See also my project, http://livegrep.com, which is very similar but does support regular expressions (and feels much snappier on the frontend to me, although his does claim comparable backend times).
Unfortunately, by deciding to be "neutral" on the issue, you're exactly where the climate change deniers want you to be.

The deniers don't have to be proven correct to prevent action on climate change, they just have to put out enough FUD to create doubt.
That certainly makes a lot more sense.

Its an unstable equilibrium though, and at some point the power will tip towards PM, they will eventually eat CL.

All your objections are surmountable, it can be made technically easier. And if landlords hear of pad paper more frequently, they will go there too.
The logger does not work, at least on the Kitchen Sink page.
My question is why is he working on a bill like this, instead of more productive/good things.
Unfortunately, as I discovered when submitting this before changing the title, Hacker News "sanitizes" titles by removing anything resembling an HTML tag. It rendered as "Styling the unstylable: you can style and , too."
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Another possible bug is that the UI reports 1.56 core-hours used, but my single-core instance has only been running 24 minutes.
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I think you have malware. I don't see any ads (underlined or else)
Also wasn't that 0.3C in a nothing done to avert it scenario? With various green efforts around the world I would expect it to not quite hit the mark.
Good point. Maybe that's the reason why it's not found by search, too. I think claiming the app's name was "Timer" when in fact it is called "Timer :"[1] is dubious. Ok, maybe the app stores search should prioritize highly rated apps but it seems there are simply a large number of apps having "Timer" in their names.

(Besides, relying on the app store as such for marketing is a gamble, that should be established by now ...)

[1] how did the author come up with "Timer :", it's just weird, I think.
Why do we tolerate price-fixing and interest rate manipulation of the whole economy through the Bank of England's control of the pound sterling dealing rate? The central bank of the UK is setting interest rates for the entire economy yet people only care about Libor rates being manipulated. It's a hypocrisy.
That's true - but when there's risk of something, you need to buy insurance. Alt. energy, geo-enginnering, and small CO2 taxes are all ways of hedging that we should deploy in some combination. We can't say "don't know, therefore do nothing".
Sure, so let's call this button that erases your data "list files", and just very clearly document it. It's not lying if we change the definition.
I think panarky meant flee/hide from.
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Probably the best reply/answer you could have hoped for!
You're right. I tried to remove it, but I can't edit the comment anymore.
Also, China is now liquifying coal.
I agree, that should be the case. Otherwise I have to open the file myself to get the context. And when I do that then I can also directly do the grep on the console.
I think it is a bit more nuanced than that.

There are clearly differences between people who embrace the fact that they aren't perfect and thus are open to learning, and those who feel shame at not succeeding at something they consider themselves competent at.

Clearly its in the same genus as problems with addiction or habituated behavior but its a more easily overlooked.
I think the bigger thing to pull from that quote centers on the word "prediction". The IPCC FAR didn't really make any predictions. Instead, it made a series of projections (twelve of them, to be precise) based on running various sets of hypothetical parameters through a climate model.

Some of those projections were based on very pessimistic scenarios (very high CO2 sensitivity, very high future CO2 emissions). They projected very high increase in temperature. Other projections were based on more optimistic scenarios. They projected a lower increase in temperature.

Now, the number that the author quotes (0.3C +/- 0.1C per decade) corresponds to the range for the block of projections that assumes a very high climate sensitivity - a sensitivity that turns out to be high. Since the projection was based on a scenario that did not correspond to reality, if we assume that the models were reasonably accurate then it should not surprise us that the projection didn't end up corresponding to reality, either. So there's an interesting omission. . . and an example of how what someone doesn't say can say as much about their position as what they do say.

Another omission that speaks volumes is highlighted if you compare the projections for scenarios that ended up being more representative of how those parameters did evolve over the next two decades to what global temperatures have been doing over that time period. Far from the alarmist claims of gloom and doom that the author would like to suggest were made, the projection for the scenario that ended up most closely corresponding to what actually happened slightly underestimated the actual change in temperature. But by an amount that was quite small in comparison to the error bars, so an honest and scientific analysis of the TAR projections would force us to conclude that in this particular respect the IPCC's analysis was actually dead on.

Poorly reasoned arguments are certainly unfortunate. . . but if you really want to make your position look bad, try blatantly cherry-picking the data.
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Will you be charged for pre-credit card instances after you add a card? Also, it's very unclear as to how you end a running instance.
Awesome "coming soon" page with parallax scrolling.
What's a site that only offers "no ads" as their paid-upgrade benefit? I haven't seen one offer just that, it usually comes with a grab-bag of other features that can't be replaced with a client-side script/extension. (DeviantArt's premium account is the upgrade I thought of. (http://sta.sh/047k5sokcr2) The two major client-side features of no ads and more thumbnails are solved with NoScript and AutoPager respectively.)
I agree with you on most points. Perhaps legalizing the creation and use of alternative currencies would be a step in the right direction.
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I was thinking the same thing as mikegirouard, about the filename column having links too. I was also thinking I need to learn a bit about JS.

So heres a bookmark to add links to the page, run it after completing the search query:
http://pastebin.com/G53SjNWy

Also, its my first little foray into JS, so I'd really appreciate any criticism of the code and/or style.

edit: new link preserves the <td> tags
I've been reading BoingBoing for years, and i really appreciate the battles Cory Doctorow fights... but I'm not fond of his hyperbolic reporting style, which diminishes his credibility.

I suppose he considers to be preaching to the choir and is trying to whip us up into action.
It works because you have only one public television organization in your town.
Even more ridiculous.. the full quote is:

"We might be able to setup space mirrors or otherwise increasing the reflectivity of our atmosphere. Obviously, we cannot hope to both keep pumping CO2 in the atmosphere, and correct for it afterward: this could quickly become economically infeasible."

In the context of killing the planet and the entire human race, we still mention a plan could be "economically infeasible".

Jeez.
It seems apparent to me that Space's best use would be education of programming through pair programming. Or, imagine a lecture being taught with Space - each student watching the prof (and, of course, not deleting everything she types) code on their laptop rather than on a projector.
I'd be genuinely curious to know why it fails specifically for banks while it works wonders in other industries such as tech.

Isn't that obvious? Capture of the political and regulatory process. As Senator Durbin said of Congress, banks "frankly own the place". Tech does not.
You're right and you explained it well, but I don't agree with the characterization of it being "annoying". It's just the market figuring out the best use of the space. But I also don't live in NYC... :D
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As IBM and Microsoft were aware, to win with FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), they didn't have to convince you to buy their product, they just had to convince you not to buy the competitions', thereby starving the competition out.

Cigarettes, seat belts, lead paint, asbestos, Linux, climate change. They've all been fought using the same tactics.
Actually some crap called Yontoo. Removed. Thanks.
The developer knows how App Store SEO works, but this seems like an attempt to get some free press using the hotbutton complaint about App Store SEO as a ploy.

Here's the list of apps they've published:
"Timer :"
"Mirror ◎"
"Launch Center Pro"
"Gas Cubby - Fuel Economy (MPG, Mileage) Calculator and Car Maintenance & Service Log"
"Trip Cubby • Mileage Log for Tax Deduction or Reimbursement"
"Tweet Speaker - Listen to Twitter"

Guess which ones have more sales? Their better SEO optimized apps sell better. SEO could have scaled his $5k/month (not bad!) results by a factor of 3x, 5x? Maybe more?

This app doesn't even rank for it's own name (searching for "Timer :". Don't complain about it, fix it!

Perhaps it's the best timer application ever, and it might very well be... but this seems like poor form.
Short answer, No.

If you don't have a contract in place, they wouldn't hesitate to lay you off just before a project because the company saw a good opportunity to be sold or pivot, why should you be any different?

That said, if you are only 'stuck' because of the salary then you should have that conversation with your manager. They might ask you leave, so you should be prepared for that, but it would 'unstick' you :-).
The point is you are being lied to about the nature and. Alice of those instruments, the value of which is manipulated up before you buy and down afterwards. Efficient markets only work when participants have reliable information on which to make buy and sell decisions.

It's like telling someone who bought a car that's had its mileage manipulated that they shouldn't have bought the car. Well duh !
How is this a "project"? This sounds like crowdfunding on-going business costs.
From https://gridspot.com/privacy

> We have designed the Gridspot Software...

Sorry if i missed but : Who are you ? Please put some information about "yourself" somewhere on your site. And if you can, please answer these questions on your page :

- What is your company name and legal type ?

- What is your location ?

- How can i contact to you ? No, support@gridspot.com doesn't count, put some landline numbers too.

- Who are your team members ?

And please don't use " Whois guard" ?

edit: Looks like, downvoting is easier than answering the questions. Seriously, can you explain to me : why do you trust some company which doesn't give any information about itself ?
In a way, I want to invest in this. Yet, something in the back of my mind tells me it would not be an investment, but a transfer of cash from me to them...with no product at the end of the bargain.
I agree, and what annoys me is that as a supporter of public-school science education via www.ncse.com and other organizations, I find myself being dragged into debates I didn't want to participate in. NCSE in particular has decided to lump criticisms of climate education in with their original cause, which was to do something about widespread attempts on the part of religious people to subvert public-school biology curricula.

Strong evidence for anthropogenic climate change exists, to the best of my understanding. However, it's roughly 3.4 gazillion times weaker than the evidence for evolution by natural selection. There are reasons why I am actively interested in helping with one fight but not the other... but the organizations that I support as proxies in the fight don't appear to understand or care. I'm not even sure how annoyed I should be about this state of affairs, frankly.
Contrary to the interests of Padmapper users (some of whom are also Craigslist users.)

The vast majority of Craigslist users don't want to use anything else, nor are aware of anything else.
and we'll never hear about this again
obsessive interest in the packaging of already done things

Already done for whom? If you buy a new product, and it has a feature you've never had before, it's new to you. Like anything else, this isn't subjective: you can count the number of people that have a given feature in their phones.

There is a world of difference between someone doing something new in a lab somewhere vs. someone building something that I can actually use to improve my life. The earlier is only a mere promise of things to come, while the latter is something I can actually count on.

In the context of a computer company, innovation means delivering excellent (and therefore original & novel) design, making the most of the latest technology available. Before the other companies do (if they ever do).

Tl;dr: let's dispense with the fiction that innovation stops in a research lab. It doesn't! (I should know because I work in a research lab. What we produce is only barely tangible, and it's up to others to actually take it somewhere.)
This would be more cool if the portion of profits went to those who contributed cycles.
I can't help but wonder that with the way things are going if it would be smart for Mozilla to focus on getting the Gecko engine used in more third party projects. Webkit is practically everywhere, and while Safari and Chrome are the "big" projects using it, I can think of many, many more projects that use it silently.

For example, when my smartphone broke, I spent $50 on a (used) feature phone a few weeks ago to use for the last month and a half of my contract. I found that it had a Webkit based browser, why wasn't that Gecko/Mozilla?
Sigh.

We're not going to "kill the planet," or the entire human race. Humans adapt. That's what we do. That's why we won.

Such hyperbole endangers vital rational discourse on the subject.
Thats why we use ssh/tmux for our remote pair programming. Works pretty well if your "ide" is already in a terminal
There is no need to ascribe malice to those that disagree with you about climate change issues. Reasonable people can disagree, especially on an issue that is complex and depends on predictions about future conditions.
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Yeah, the people talking about this are talking about it due to a five-minute lightning talk, and honestly it really bothers me that he is making people think that adding two objects together has that behavior when in fact it has nothing to do with objects at all: it has much more to do with automatic semi-colon insertion than with scary type conversion.
This angle seems a bit overplayed to me. The main victims of the fraud are just the counter parties on these large derivative trades that investment banks make between each other. One side was tilting the scales.

At least that's what I make of it.
Is this related to last year's node knockout entry for a distributed chess AI?
Ironically, when I move the scrollbar on this blog post (in Chrome), the scrolling is noticeably not "buttery", probably because of the JS-heavy interface...
Windows only for contributions? That seems weird, given that jobs are running within a VM.
The also linked http://martinfowler.com/bliki/PhoenixServer.html is good.

My startup has been in production on EC2 for 6 months, and I think we've never had a server up for more than 3 days, and never booted a production box from an AMI more than 2 weeks old.
After the rejection of ACTA, SOPA, and the Uber amendment reversal, the internet has done a good job tracking and stoping bad political decisions. I expect politicians will be on a short leash going forward.
Mmmm.. interesting stuff. I've only just recently switched back to using Firefox as my primary browser after going with Chrome for most of the past 2-3 years. FF performance finally seems to be mostly on par with Chrome, and the extensions situation is as good or better. After going back to FF about 2 months ago, I can honestly say that I see no real reason to prefer Chrome at this point.

I'm speaking as an individual / developer user though. For enterprise use, I haven't stayed up to date on what their response was to the brouhaha over the rapid release cycle stuff. Perhaps that is still a concern for organizational use.
When XKCD did this years ago, it was actually funny. Also, it supported more commands than just 'ls' and 'pwd'.
Yes, it seems that way, doesn't it.

And yet.

[Edit: imagine two bookies, both of them placing odds on different horses. how, exactly, are you going to figure out which bookie to bet with in order to get the fairest odds?]