skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno. My water bills average $200/mo, for a single home (no pool, mostly drought resistent yard, etc). We're in an area with low density (out in the country).

I pay about $120 in fees. Then the water is the rest of it.

In winter, when we use less water, my bill goes down to about $130. $10 worth of water per month.
I propose a new type of grid with electronic signaling of spot prices.

For heavy duty appliances (eg. air conditioning, water heating) the consumer pre-programs it with a desired average cost and a maximum price per kWh.

Then as demand and supply rises and falls on the grid, the spot price changes, and the devices receive signals and turn themselves on and off as needed. (There would be a certain minimum of fixed-price energy per month to make sure financially strained families never have to go without any)
None of the issues you are describing in this comment address stagnant middle class income/consumption, which is a demand side problem not a supply side issue. Certainly there is need for more efficient regulatory and tax schemes for businesses, but really it has little to do with what's currently responsible for our economic situation.
Yup, tried it, did not help. The minute I'd hit a site needing flash (Google Voice was a frequent one) it'd go bonkers again.
Oh, the main page seems broken in WebKit (I was using Safari, also broken in Chrome). I can see the login link with Firefox.
Very interesting, good luck with your new job.
It really does matter because "a year ago" is VAGUE. Is that 1.5 years ago? 1.1 years ago? 1.6 years ago? And depending on the content, it is even more critical. Let's say it is a sporting event of Usain Bolt. Did that amazing shot of him running happen in the Olympics or at a meet? No. Idea.
The archival quality of something displayed on the screen is not as small of a factor as some people are making it out to be. I can't count the number of times a poor user has pasted the output of "hg log" into an email without stripping the sequence number out of the changeset line, only to confuse another mailing list reader when they look for the patch using the sequence number.
For those not a part of the Django community: Toastdriven is not new, Daniel Lindsley is a staple for us. Haystack and Tastypie on their own are wonderful projects with untold hours of unpaid OSS. This is more of a full-stack project than either of those, but I have a huge amount of faith in their ability to execute, given the time required. I would much rather see them working on OSS than consulting, it's better for everybody (except maybe clients who can't have them exclusively)
Minneapolis isn't exactly nowhere.
I'm always amazed by the way people think of things manufactured in China, especially people who still consider it to mean cheap and inferior. It's true China makes a lot of poor quality crap cheap, but they also make really high quality products if you're willing to pay for it instead of going to the cheapest bid.
You mean simply 'Simon.' The Chrome logo has been called into question about it's similarity in the past. Weirdly I now associate those primary colours with Google rather than M$.
Crucial question (this will become a meme): is the average weighted, or unweighted?
I'd be down, once my work permit comes through.
Go Native or Go Home
Again, the plural of anecdote is not data, but I've felt much better since going vegan. I'm willing to grant that may be a placebo effect, but my acne seems to also have improved a bit as well.
>Just because you don't like how it works, doesn't mean it's a bug.

OTOH just because Apple closes the bug 'as designed' doesn't make it a non-bug. Five seconds with Google tells you that it's a bug in the eyes of a vast number of users.
No, he isn't. Another way that a UIWebView can provide a super experience to custom NSViews is if the UIWebViews implement more of Facebook's functionality than the custom views, or if the features the UIWebView expose match the ones users want better.
TCP sends an ACK (ACKnowledgement) to the sender for every received packet.

Not quite. TCP receivers only need to send ACKs when they have received enough data to fill the sliding window. That may be every packet, every other packet (the recommended by the RFC) or more.
You Waste A Lot Of Time At Work
That's insane, I just had the same 2) rejection and spent literally weeks thinking that I wasn't able to properly explain what the codes where for, because it didn't make any sense for them to reject that. But since you've had the same issue, i guess they really start to be seriously deranged.
I couldn't believe this was an actual quote. Isn't this great for everyone except maybe maker? The consumer definitely benefits if the product works the same and costs 500 dollars less.
New Hover Vehicle Recalls 'Star Wars' Bike
Only if that type of competition results in better products. If it's just cheaper products, there's no real gain.

And that's where I have a problem with this. Sure, it's completely legal. But it doesn't seem ethical to just take someone else's work wholesale and profit from it.
You just repeated your oversimplification:

"They valued their sense of developer efficiency over user experience"

No, they made a judgement that user experience would ultimately be better from being able to deploy rapid changes via a consistent cross platform experience under their control vs writing OS specific code and placing themselves under the control of a third party and that will significantly operationally limit them ("Can we roll out the new user profile yet? No, we're still waiting on Apple to approve the change ...").

They may have been wrong, but it doesn't change their original intent. If anything we should all be lamenting the failure of HTML5 as a truly viable app replacement at this point; I can't blame Facebook for wanting to believe it would be possible.
Will you be adding more $200 device pledges?
Why? He is offering the same product for 500 dollars less, making it more affordable and accessible to a larger audience.
Suddenly, I became interested in politics again.
Facebook are making currently making $183M a year off mobile & they haven't rolled them out worldwide yet either.

They were appearing for me in the old iOS app & are only be shown every 150 or so (at the moment in the tests they are performing) which has been confirmed by Facebook's CFO David Ebersman who said Facebook are "being very careful about the volume of sponsored stories in the news feed because it’s so core to the user experience."
Show HN: Speedproject to toy with Soundcloud API, feedback?
I love the MISHKA Keep Watch Mixes, but I hate wading through their blog to find them. I made this ( http://crisnoble.com/keepWatch/ )so that I could see all the mixes at once and because I needed an excuse to tinker with PHP, mySQL and the SoundCloud API. It is far from perfect but I would love your feedback.
I would agree if it was an unknown entity or lesser known developer starting this. However Daniel has created two very heavily used Django libraries Haystack (http://haystacksearch.org/) and Tastypie (http://tastypieapi.org/) so that should reduce the worry of being able to deliver.
True. But the suburb I was living in was pretty close.
That's an excellent point. While it will definitely take some sales away from the original Makerbot, it will also definitely increase the size of the entire market, all of whom will now have Makerbot knowledge and be eager to see what Makerbot's next product is.

In certain circumstances, if Makerbot is constrained by cash or production volume, they might even see this as a good thing that lets them redirect their flow into a newer, better product. (I hope!)
Clickable: http://crisnoble.com/keepWatch/
Italics in logos may well be offically out!
Startups signing up for #HackerTour12
I like the idea but am confused about the interface.

Once i added the FB feed I can't figure out how to get back to find the Twitter and G+ feed
I am curious about GPL compatibility in this situation. According to [1], software developed by US federal government cannot be licensed under the GPL since it is automatically in the public domain. However, the github repo readme makes the following claim:

"The project utilizes code licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and therefore is licensed under GPL v2 or later."

While I applaud this effort and wish to see more like it in the future, is there a possible issue with licensing here?

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#GP...
The "Apple TV" (i.e. an actual TV by Apple) could be a possibility. Like the iPhone and iPad--a lot of rumors, but no one really knows what it looks like, how it would work, etc.
Here's one that has confused me: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
Moving from MongoDB to MySQL. I never understood why people felt they need MongoDB/NoSQL for their projects. Does anyone have an example where it was really necessary/advantageous?
Writing a science fiction novel is like launching a startup
Good points, but the MakerBot is completely open source - so it is ethical, as long as he releases any improvements.

Also, isn't equal quality for a lower price, better?
I feel like we're past due for somebody to come in here and complain about there being too much meta-discussion of HN these days.
Add to peeves: news sites which fail to include bylines indicating one or more of: author/reporter, city/location, date.
The "done" key is superfluous.
Why are you worrying about how it's relative to me? That's not your problem to solve.

We have a system for understanding time that is universal around the world. Instead of presenting me with information that is in that format, you're making up a new one for no good reason.

saying one is always bad and the other is always good is stupid,

Well, yes, which is why I didn't say anything like that.
That's a great idea. Perhaps you could select from three options: 1)Receive an update every time you have new credit and allocate it yourself 2)If you don't allocate within X days the credit is automatically allocated to a patient OR 3)Automatically allocate all credit to patients' based on X criteria (location, age, etc.).

We'd love to implement this!
The Hacker Grand Scheme at Skimlinks
Phil Jackson, one of our tech leads, wrote this piece to share with you the background on Skimlinks' deployments as we scale our back end to accomodate the tens of thousands of publishers now using Skimlinks!
Isn't this an ad hominem? It would be relevant if you could prove the commentators had a choice between purchasing devices made in China and identical but more expensive devices made in different countries, but there is no way that you can know this.

In the comments for the Kickstarter project, Strong suggests that the sole reason that he is able to offer his TangiBot at a cheaper price point than the MakerBot is by moving manufacturing to China. While you might disagree that this is an issue, that does not mean that others' concerns are irrelevant.
> The downsides for me were the lack of startup software jobs and the weather, tornados specifically.

I lived in KS & MO for a total of 20 years. I'd say that worrying about tornadoes in KC is a bit like worrying about earthquakes in the Bay Area. Outsiders think, "Oh, my goodness!" but people who live there just do what little (very little) they need to, to deal with it, and mostly don't worry about it.

Nonetheless, weather is an issue. KC does not have a mild climate. Late summer can get very hot. Cold, windy winter days can be miserable. Ice storms can cause power outages. Most of the year, it's fine, but these do happen, and should be taken into account.
783 days and 4 hours ago is even worse!

What is that, like two years ago, oh maybe just over 2 years, oh shit no just under...

We have a standardized date system. It's been in use around the globe for years. It works. Please use it.
Maybe you can partner with Stripe? They could provide some lower fees in exchange of increased brand awareness.
There's a pretty good explanation of it I saw posted on Facebook here: http://www.kpop24.com/Article/ViewArticle.aspx?p=2&aid=1...
"No real gain?"

Of course there's real gain! Imagine small colleges, hacker spaces, and even more individuals being able to afford these things. That's a MASSIVE gain. Increasing access to this kind of product is almost, if not more, important than improving the actual product.

Imagine a world in which there had never been a computing race to the bottom. Maybe every computer would be a supercomputer, sure, but then none of us would be able to afford our own computer in our own homes!
Spotlight on Startups: AnyPerk (YC W12) provides free perks to your employees
Here's The Real Big Change Marissa Mayer Is Bringing To Yahoo
Wow, this article is bad. And the comments are so positive, one has to wonder how many come from the writer's friends...
Cheaper products are available to more people to do cool things with.

Better products are also good, of course. If we have to trade off "the rate products improve" verses "the rates products get cheaper", I don't know what the optimal trade is, but I'm pretty sure it's not all on one side.
Or you could just show me the actual date, since it does everything a person needs it to do already.
HN inspired my move to the Bay Area too. Thanks for sharing your story.
Ask HN: Would VC invest to do research?
Hey guys

I have an idea for a project where either:

quite a bit of scientific research needs to be done first, or;

people need to be paid a lot of money to give me access to their work.

Lots of people have tried the second suggestion and have failed. The engineer that done the original work has now died and his family are unwilling to reveal the secrets behind it. So the only option is to do the research.

If once the research is complete the results are the same as the original work, there will be a ton of money to be made.

I've considered approaching my University about this work but 1) I don't think they can afford the research and 2) I think the University would own the work/potential patents, that's not ideal from a business perspective.

So, would investors put money in to do this research knowing the potential outcome?
Can Entrepreneurship Bring Change Where the Arab Spring Has Not?
Understandable. For us, if it were just a library or an extraction, we wouldn't be trying to fund it. However, what we're trying to build is more like an open-source product, essentially an entire service made public so anyone can use it.

Because of the time commitment involved, we're trying to fund it so we can work on it (as well as the software we'll be building on top of) full-time from the start.
LinkedIn's Top Users Drive the Rest of Us Nuts
There is so much hyperbole from both sides. The important thing to understand is that they are absolutely not patenting "genes" as such, despite what any sensationalist headline might read. From the article:

"Myriad's argument is that when it isolates the genes by removing them from the body, this process changes their chemical structure, and the company's test looks for this distinct chemical form"

So they are saying they are patenting not the gene, but a different compound that is produced by transforming the gene. They do not test the gene for BRCA mutations but the secondary compound.

Having said this, I find this patent frightening because by definition, if their secondary compound is sufficiently different to the gene itself then it should be quite simple to work around this patent. However it is not; if it was, people would not be forced into paying $3000 for every breast cancer test. I do not believe that the entire medical community is too stupid to come up with a workaround. It has to be that this "secondary" compound is a trivial transformation of the DNA that occurs as a natural consequence of just about any attempt to extract it. If it wasn't, people would just be extracting it a different way and there wouldn't even be a court case.

So I see the principle of this being generally OK but the specific case being wildly wrong.
According to the README they say preformance improvements with Mongo. The downside was having to port all the new features over to it.

Personally I have used it to speed up development. It allows very fast iterations early on and integrates much more nicely with most languages then a SQL based solution. Also its a lot faster the MySQL.
I'll give you an example for CouchDB that, for the first time in my life, I saw an advantage:

I created a webapp where a user can author a form (with several different kinds of fields), then it syncs with a mobile app that downloads the forms and allows for data collecting.CouchDB supports synchronizing with a server very easily and already has mobile support to. If/when the user changes the number of fields in the webapp, starting to collect that data makes it very trivial... no need to schema 'alter' statements in the server and synced back to the sqlite db in the phone. It all runs couch and it "just works".

Mind you, I am very skeptical about NoSQL in general, but for this particular example, for the first time in my life, I saw a clear advantage.
I'd like a clear example too.

I can see the benefits of using something like NoSQL for temporary datastores (in memory only), but MySQL can function just fine as a key->value store as well to the best of my understanding.
>we'll get the entire answer once the patent isn't pending anymore //

As an aside A-publication is substantially prior to the grant of the patent, exceptional conditions aside.
It would be really cool if they let the devs use their public names and GitHub accounts to commit. As of right now it is WH-NewMedia, and there is no history. Makes me think this is a marketing excersize rather then a new leaf in federal software development.
Torrone’s primary frustration was the over-reliance on the MakerBot trademark — the one way open source projects can protect their brand — and the good will that is associated with it. [Editor's note: Strong has since removed much of the "MakerBot" language from the Kickstarter page.]

I wish Kickstarter had an easy way to see the changes that project owners had made after the project had begun. Looking at the project's comments, it seems that Strong was opposed to removing the mentions of MakerBot (claiming that he was simply "comparing" his product to it), but changed his mind earlier this week.
Thoughts on Process
So if:

- Facebook fails to deliver features through the superior approach ...

- ... but does deliver them through a lesser approach ...

.. then the mechanism they use to deliver the features provides a better user experience, because it has the features, thus justifying the choice to deliver them in the through a subpar mechanism?

That's ... circular. Painfully so.

It would be better for the user experience if they delivered features with the highest level of quality they're capable of providing, and that's demonstrably not inside of a UIWebView.
Growth Hacking for Startups
>So if everyone had the cheapest Model S, kept it plugged in with the ability to send power back into the grid, and didn't mind that their car was sometimes down to 20% charge, you could power the entire grid on solar alone.

The OP said cost effective, not pie-in-the-sky.

Even if you took out the battery packs and sold them separately, the cost would exceed 10 years worth of electricity supply.

>Owners can be heavily compensated for pushing energy back into the grid.

You're asking people who cannot afford the expensive technology to subsidise those who can. This is the exact reverse logic of most progressive taxation regimes.

>The question is; would 5% of the driving population buy a $50k car if they no longer had to pay for fuel or battery packs? Financially that would probably put it closer to a BMW.

So you want to subsidise the purchase of expensive cars to the point where it is financially a good deal. This magic money no doubt comes from other taxpayers.

And for what end? Just so you can have some type of boutique distributed power generation system?

>What's needed is the will to make it happen.

No, what's needed it pots of other peoples money.

I've spent the best part of 5 years trying to hose down the jetsons fantasies of people pushing ridiculous schemes like this as not only unworkable, but inequitable for forcing up a basic cost input of life - energy - for effectively vanity purposes of a small subset of the population. I usually cop a pile of flamebait and downvotes each time, but I do so because there seems to be a mass delusion going on, and this has become one of those things you can't say.
Why not both?

if the date is less than a couple of days old (or whatever threshold works for you) display a relative date. This is useful because in the short term relative dates are more useful to the user. If it's older than the threshold display a YYYY-MM-DD H:m:s or whatever format floats your boat.
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Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion
Sure, a couple I can think of:

- when JSON is the native language of your application, certain NoSQL implementations are beneficial. The value/need for this is changing with more RDBMS introductions of JSON datatypes.

- speed/ease of development/familiarity - sqlite is easy to set up and maintain for small installations/projects, so is mongo or couch or redis - fairly straightforward tradeoff

- leveraging other platforms. Quick example might be wanting to take advantage of Amazon Dynamo or SimpleDB. Sure, RDS is right there too and scales in a similar elastic fashion, but Dynamo especially feels much, MUCH more hands off in terms of redundancy and application design. We use Dynamo since day 1 of its release (we transitioned from mongoDB to Dynamo with 1 day of work) and have not looked back. In our particular project I cannot conceive of how or why we would want to use an RDBMS, it does not fit the task.

I'm not advocating for NoSQL over RDBMS in any given, or especially all, situations. But there are plenty of reasons to select nosql-based implementations.
And, in the spirit of the project, they'll reject all pull requests with a patronizing response about the way things are.[1][2]

1. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legalize-and-regul...

2. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/abolish-tsa-and-us...
Developing OpenJDK port brings Java applications to Haiku
> What happens if the response from your server to mine is lost after you've already committed the change; is there an idempotent way I can verify what happened?

What is the "right way" to handle this? Say I'm building a REST API, and a user POSTs to a collection, which returns the URL to the posted resource in the Location header. POST in this case isn't idempotent, so what mechanism can I provide for the user to check that this resource was indeed created? A search method?
This was exactly my question. How can they put limitations on public domain code?
not all open source requires releases of improvements, I know I would not release any improvements....I'd sell that shit like a boss
I doubt it's a marketing exercise. There are people who really are trying to change things from inside. It takes time, and it takes a lot of small steps. Why don't you contact them and encourage them to use individual public names?
Because there's actually such a thing as legitimate murder (soldiers, etc) and no such thing as legitimate rape.