skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your detailed comment. I went to a great deal of effort in my article to measure the power consumption accurately, accounting for the power factor, but I left out most of the details since most people don't care. I'm not multiplying the average current and average voltage to compute watts, because that obviously would not work due to the power factor. Instead, I'm multiplying the instantaneous voltage and current 50,000 times a second and summing this up, which gives the actual power, corrected for the power factor. (While the internal current changes tens of thousands of times a second, the line current changes slowly due to the input filtering, so this is plenty of resolution. I'm using a Tektronix TDS5104B 1 GHz oscilloscope, so I have a pretty accurate view of the input voltage and current.)

The main sources of error in my measurements are the cheap isolation transformer (which causes a bit of line voltage distortion under load), the current sense resistor, the tolerances of the voltage divider resistors, and noise in the measurements. So I wouldn't claim these measurements to be better than 10%.

You can take a look at one of the oscilloscope power graphs at https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pbrO8BQz38kDo9xU5ejffd...
Yellow is the input voltage, and turquoise is the input current. The non-sinusoidal current shows the non-unity power factor. Note that there's no phase shift, but instead the current flow happens only at the voltage peaks (which is a consequence of the input diode bridge, not of the switching power supply per se.) At the bottom of the image is the instantaneous power, computed from the instantaneous voltage and current.

For the iPad vs iPod measurement above, I didn't have the oscilloscope handy so I used a Kill-A-Watt, which does in fact take the power factor into account.

Going back to your statement that "bigger charger -> larger dead load". By "dead load", do you mean the power consumption under no load, which I call "vampire power" in the article? This varies widely between chargers, having more to do with the design than the size of the charger. But in any case, this wasted power is pretty much irrelevant under load. For instance, 100 mW is a typical vampire power usage. So if a hypothetical larger charger has twice that wasted power, at a 3 watt load, this is only a 3% difference.
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Some business certainly can, but when you HAVE to go door to door to make the business work, when it has such a physical "meatspace" presence you need to go full time.
I love Kashi brand cereals without milk. I buy them, and when I see my roommates eating them with milk, I tell them they're ruining the experience.

Really, I like eating plain Kashi cereals and drinking a glass of milk separately. It provides close to complete nutrition, from protein to fiber to vitamins. I just don't like them combined. Even the plain, tastes-like-cardboard Kashi cereals, I eat like a snack.
Thanks for the comment! In your opinion, where would be the most ideal location in New York?
The fat from the milk will slow down the metabolism, "leveling out" the release of sugar.

Also lactose takes time to break down...
material scientist here. I've worked on carbon nanotubes (cnt if you want to sound cool) for a few years. Looking at them under the electron microscope, I've always wondered how in the hell we'd ever line them up without having to recourse to nano-tweezers (which of course is impractical if you want to scale to a few billion switches). Looks like IBM finally cracked a decent technique (though I suppose the device yield isn't that great), and it hopefully will be a path toward production. What would be really cool is if we can find economically-viable application for carbon nanotubes outside of semi-conductors. The biggest problem right now is their cost (~$400/gram for good purity [for reference: 20X the price of gold]) and the fact that platinum is used as a destructive catalyst to make them.
Also, don't both photons in fiber and electrons in copper wire travel around 60% of the speed of light?
What happens when architects are inbred with marketing
Easy to say for starting a project, but I find the "finishing touches" are always discouraging.
> Here's the difference: as a developer I don't feel the least bit threatened by the existence of spec work. I know that it's not a substitute for what I do.

I am unqualified to answer this because I am not the kind of designer 99designs would threaten. What I do is very different and unreplicable in a spec-work environment, so one could almost say I have an unfair advantage.

I agree that if spec work didn't exist, most of those jobs would be produced for free. But the remaining portion would be produced by professional or professional-to-become designers, and that would produce a surplus for the economy, and I'd hazard a guess that the surplus would be larger than what it currently is—but obviously it's just my reasoning, not hard data.
That's a great article. Do you know when it was written? It's weird how it's just dangling there with all of 2 sentences of context at http://lubutu.com.

Also, how do you do the superscripts?!
It's because it's delicious and goes really well in lots of foods.

It moderates strong flavors, smooths out acidic drinks, fluffs up eggs among many other thousands of beneficial food uses.

Other dairy products like butter and cheese are key to an immense palette of flavors and cooking techniques.

Dairy is so delicious that I've even seen people with violent milk allergies put up with the consequences just to scarf down a few bites of custard or ice cream.
Well not exactly the same. While you may be able to determine some basic relative positioning information just from looking at the picture, it's not the same as having the actual GPS coordinates. While you could do some perspective math plus relative positioning to known other locations to figure a rough estimate of an object it would require a fairly expert knowledge to get to the coordinates for your mortar. With GPS it's much easier for someone with far less expertise to come up with a position.

Point taken that there is important information you could get from a picture alone. There's lots of other information they posses that GPS doesn't, and vice versa.
I tried AppCode and I preferred Xcode, actually.
same on firefox 16.0 in Win7
Let me put it a different way. If A = decompress(B), then necessarily B = compress(A), so B is obviously a derivative of A. Introducing xor does not change anything; one of the parts must be a derivative of the original.
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If you focus another tab in Chrome/Linux yes (not on minimize).
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The importance of Milk/Cows has been recognized in other cultures as well. My ancestors found cows to be so important that they deemed it sacred

Today, India is the largest producer of Milk in the world, and that goes a long way in providing nutrition to its masses.
I am no expert but another linked story (http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in...) explains it better why Agriculture had overall deteriorating effect on human health:

1. Early farmers had less access to variety of diet compared to hunter-gatherers. It is hard to disagree with this one. For a lot of Asia, Rice is still the main food and rice on its own contain little more than carbohydrates.

2. Risk of starvation if crops failed.

3. Encouraged crowded societies and deterioration in position of Women. Agriculture forced women to have children often and that in turn impacted their health. I don't know much about Europe but in India Govt. still runs advertisement encouraging Women to have kids at a gap of 3 years or more. I think it is widely held that healthier Mother in general means healthier baby.
All software companies need external security consultants when you go beyond a certain level of of forensic analysis; unless you dedicate completely to that field it's unlikely anyone has in-house staff for that.
I came here to say just this. I'm a vim user, and I have my doubts about this project, but overall I encourage people to experiment and do new things in the editor space-- so I don't begrudge this. But the name is terrible. Don't project an emotion onto your users.
That just encourages the powers that be to take a "shoot 'em both and let God sort it out" approach. Also, the metadata that says Z = X xor Y will be seen as infringing.
This isn't necessarily true. It's important not to conflate "small precinct" with "suburban/rural area" and "large precinct" with "urban area", since many rural precincts might have more voters than urban ones.

And in fact, the paper spends quite a bit of time addressing this.
I'm not speaking about accidental violation of the provision, I'm even talking about intentional violation. Anti-circumvention provisions don't cover the copyrighted work, they don't even cover a derivative work. It's just suppression of speech that tangentially supports or encourages illegal activities, which the Supreme Court has ruled the government has no compelling interest in quelling.

A lot of this speech can take many forms. It can be blog posts delving into how some encryption scheme works, it can be keys that are derived mathematically from Sony's mistakes, and it can be software which may only incidentally be used as a tool to circumvent DRM. This does not survive strict scrutiny.
And possibly in a much more traditional sense than that word's typical usage around HN!
>> We do have that laws in part because it’s just plain immoral to ask people to work for free or nearly-free even when they know what they’re getting, much to the capitalist’s chagrin, and in part because it would create a race to the bottom on all parts of the society.

Well, I didn't mean to question the point of minimum wage. For typical salaried jobs, I completely understand and somewhat agree with the notion that it's unethical to pay below a certain amount.

However, I think that freelancing, entrepreneurship, etc, are a different realm. These are not people who've been interviewed, hired, and retained by a company. Instead, they are people who possess (and/or are developing) a set of skills that they hope to exploit on their own via a business model of their choosing. In my opinion, these differences are significant enough to warrant an entirely different set of moral considerations.

Take myself, for example. Today I'm some combination of a web developer, designer, and sysadmin, but I got my start doing pure web design. I was terrible at first. I doubt I could have landed a serious job at a decent company. But I enjoyed doing contract work where I could, and I enjoyed entering design contests as well. If nothing else, they were a chance to work on my skills and creative processes to see how they compared with others. And, best-case scenario, I could make some money while feeling good about winning. It felt like the furthest thing away from being taken advantage of.
Which is the point really.
that itself means that the figure has to be way less than 50%
The wolfram alpha link shows 18g sugar per cup, other sites (and the 2% label in my fridge) show 12g. And 8g protein plus whatever fat.

See also http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/7...

Milk does have a low glycemic index, so it would reduce the average from the pasta: http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Glycemic_index_and_gl...
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Optical conveyors: A class of active tractor beams
I would imagine because there are many UI features that cannot be easily reproduced in the terminal and maintaining two different interfaces with very different capabilities is more trouble than it's worth.
This sounds absurd only because we have a hard time really understanding the consequences of dealing with a vast search space. Yes, 128^140 is the space of all possible tweets (in ascii), but just because we're able to count them (sorta) and assign a number to each message doesn't actually give us any power over them. After all, the omega number [1] is just another number too.

[1] http://plus.maths.org/content/omega-and-why-maths-has-no-toe...
Let’s Build Experiences, Not Documentation
I was speaking about "I need a logo and have $300" - I didn't intend it to be hyperbole. With that adjustment, do you think it's hyperbole?
If you're one of the 60 million Americans whose going to be affected by hurricane Sandy, you probably want to give this a look through.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing as I read this. If you calculate the cross correlation of two signals by performing a Fourier transform and then multiplying them, it gives you the correlation of the signals at different offsets as well. Maybe it's hard to calculate the FFT of a dataset that doesn't fit in one machine's memory. Been a while since I studied the FFT.
May I suggest also trying out http://folyo.me ? It's basically like Dribbble or Behance, except I've personally selected every designer on there, and you can also reach them all at once by email if you post a job.
I see the problem that a site like 99 Designs creates for designers at large, but I don't see how that is everyone else's problem. It's your job (if you are one such designer) to communicate the superiority of your design process to potential customers and no one owes you a well-educated marketplace.
Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings
Storage Spaces explained: a great feature, when it works
On the one hand you say it can be easier to start from scratch, but on the other you say you can almost guarantee it wouldn't be. It can't really be both.

I think the only meaningful thing to say would be whether, in the specific case of Vim, you can outline why it wouldn't be easier.
You should check out Tonido Sync (http://www.tonido.com/). It will solve your security, sync, multi-user and LAN switch requirements.
> It would make a lot of sense for them to release something like what you've developed for free.

Yeah, sounds like the whole bet there is on Microsoft SDK being not good enough.

Back in the 90s a whole bunch of companies were making money off their own libraries and SDKs. Borland, Microsoft, Crystal Reports. Then the trend kinda died off, and SDK developers usually sell consulting or SAAS.
This isnt really a great comparison. I dont disagree that this wasnt solving a big problem, but neither was AirBnB. Housing is important, but finding "housing" isnt what they do. They arent finding people apartments to keep them out of the cold, they are finding them alternatives to hotels for when they travel. AirBnB essentially took the vacation home market and opened it up to everybody with a spare bedroom. This is huge, but that is them creating a new market/vastly expanding another. They solved a "problem" people didnt know they had, they didnt provide people with food and shelter.
Makes the Gamepad API more relevant...
I haven't used it myself, but I've heard a number of people say that it's not really the same. I think their complaint was that it's a somewhat superficial emulation.
> agriculture came first, then milking, then cheese

I don't think sequence is quite right. There are several non-agrarian nomadic peoples that raise large land mammals for their milk. Keeping it in the cow/horse/camel keeps it from spoiling.

Cheese and butter just makes it easier to transport the energy without having to transport the cow.

(fermenting it also gives it longevity and was known in much of the ancient world)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis
Skim isn't tasteless, though it tastes less.
and many people believe high fat diets cause arteriosclerosis.
Your story reminds me of Thoreau's motivation for Walden (highly recommended to anyone who hasn't read it).

With this in mind, it feels like the sentiment expressed by the author of the posted link, yourself, and many others (including myself) might just be a constant of humanity, no better or worse now than it ever was (much like many other things; for instance adults saying that teenagers are more disrespectful than ever, which is a feeling that the ancient greeks expressed several millennia ago).
Article was submitted by the author about a year ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3300264

> Also, how do you do the superscripts?!

Unicode. In my case I input them in vim by way of vimperator. You can input them in vim using the digraph feature (try <C-K>11 in insert mode).

My vimrc actually parses my ~/.inputrc to extract the keybindings I use to input Unicode characters in bash and every other program that uses readline, allowing me to use the same keys for Unicode chars in every context that I input text.

https://github.com/guns/meinhaus/blob/guns/etc/inputrc#L144

https://github.com/guns/meinhaus/blob/guns/etc/vim/local/com...
Advertisers Refine Mobile Pitches for Phones and Tablets
The inner nerd in me would love the opportunity to take a peak at some Zynga game code, but the exterior sensible adult in me has mixed feelings about this. The employee's weren't terminated without pay, the employees are being gracefully compensated, I don't see what Zynga have done wrong here other than failing to predict how many employees they actually needed. Any company regardless of money in their bank is entitled to make their own decisions and trim excess staff, it's called business and I am sure even a profitable company like Apple if in the same situation would do the same thing.
I hate the taste of milk. Pour yourself a glass of milk and drink some of it. Now go away and come back 5 minutes later. Drink again. It tastes bad now.
I quickly changed to Soy Milk and I drank a lot of that instead. However, recently I have stopped all soy products because of the estrogen catalysers in them. I'm now on Almond Milk, I hope I'm good now.
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Imagine this being done not with one song, but with an entire library of electronic music.

You would have to improve the program a little bit, but this concept being realized with a vast music library?

Sounds quite interesting...
Seeing the extreme gradients at national borders in that map, I am inclined to call shenanigans on that map. It appears to be wildly overgeneralized.
The article claims that the transistors were 5x faster than existing transistors. And that is not the top possible performance.
I hate to be "that guy" but the story submitted here was published, "May 5, 2012" I am fairly certain it would have been posted here already.
I don't think Coconut milk is intended as a replacement for regular/soy milk though. Its even packaged in tin cans, so I'm assuming the primary usage is as an ingredient in Southeast Asian foods (esp. Thai Curries)
I'm a designer, honestly, a logo takes a few hours. If they want 15 variations, extensive input, full service, they're going to have to pay someone local by the hour. Or they can try betting on 99 designs. It helped me hone my skills early on, and the criticism was just as loud back then. I think the complaints have more to do with designers wanting to 'pull the ladder up behind themselves'.

EDIT: Forgot to add, 99 Designs does not supply the most important ingredient: judgement. If a client with no design sense uses 99 Designs they will pick a crappy logo, while a professional designer may have been able to steer them in the right direction. Their loss.
Yes, the first part of this quote is now part of a question I asked on Quora.
The demand companies have for labor is determined by your rate. If you charge less, clients will demand more of your time. You can work 30-50 hours a week freelancing for a single client, if that's what you want.

It's not a bad arrangement at the start, since you probably need money and are willing to work for it. Sometimes with those projects I work a lot at the start, then do maintenance work for 1-2 days a month later on.

There are many possible business arrangements.
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Why go that route when you yourself admit it is not as cheap?
Can I have one please?
I've seen these numbers but my experience in Asia (South Korea and Eastern Russia) seems to be the opposite. Milk is not heavily consumed in South Korea, but I've yet to meet more than one or two people who can't drink it.

All of the Indians I know are fine with milk and my understanding is that milk is now part of the regular childhood diet in Japanese school lunches [1].

Anecdotally, I do know a few Chinese Americans who grew up in the U.S., moved to Hong Kong during their middle and highschool years, didn't tough the stuff while there and came back lactose intolerant as adults. So I suppose it may be an acquired skill one has to keep up with? (their younger siblings who didn't make that trans-pacific journey are fine with milk)

1 - http://kyuushoku.blogspot.com/
I tried using Google Drive for daily database backups (~10 GB * 2 files).
- It failed miserably - could backup these files only occasionally.
- Quickly filled out my 100GB quota, even when I deleted old version.

Dropbox worked like a charm: reliable and much less expensive, considering that size of history files does not count (with special ~$3/month addition).

I looks like Google allocated mediocre product managers for creating G-drive.
I love to try AeroFS if you still have the invite available.
This is why Google Wave wasn't such a terrible idea.
But then what is the point? I know why manufacturers want to defraud consumers, but do consumers really want to defraud their families?
It looks like the black squares always pass through to the right, which means the actual verses just play out in full. You do get into weird loops of "Oppa Gangnam Style" and "Hey Sexy Lady", but you could do the same thing with any hook.
Nope all trading is closed tomorrow. Some customers thought it was confusing and NYSE Euronext agreed.
Here, let me feed your habit a little more. ;-)

I don't think it's about validating your existence. I think it's that internet communities are gradually replacing more traditional forms of interaction. We, even introverts, still crave some amount of interaction; if we don't get useful interaction elsewhere, we can maybe get it online.

HN, and email, and everything like it becomes a lot less important to me if I've spent the day having fun with other people. (Counterpoint: I also wind down on HN after a stressful day of dealing with other people.)
As tikhonj mentioned, Emacs evil-mode is very likely exactly what you're looking for. I had considered myself a hardcore vim user, but I felt the call of Slime and org-mode. When I finally took a serious look at Emacs, I became convinced that Emacs with evil-mode is the ultimate editor for vim lovers.
The conversion process consumes lactase, a sugar that's responsible for a significant part of the calories available in milk. Thus, eating cheese is not calorie equal to the volume of milk needed for it's production.
I hate how editing in a terminal is "single-threaded" so I can't edit code while running it and examining output.
Very true..same here...Dropbox is just awesome, +1 for it's usability!!

I wasted my entire day trying to install 'Google drive' on my Windows 7 machine. It was throwing installation error 1603. What the heck is that!!

I tried many solutions searching web (e.g. giving all permissions to %AppData% folder, uninstalling all existing google products etc) but all in vain!!
Google...why do you make such creepy s/w?
Understanding the relationships between objects
I'm just waiting for the app post to someone's timeline:

"John just searched for Carrie on Badabing! Badabing Carrie youself!"
Are you jokimg?

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Perhaps people who tolerated milk reared cows. Given that those who were exposed to cowpox survive smallpox, the advantage conferred would have been huge.
I think the few bits about lawyers not understanding the limitations of metadata weren't the thrust of the article. I do agree that the two viewpoints there aren't opposed, but that point about metadata is not the same as the wrong headed one being made by people using the phrase "illegal number."