skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe folks will start to realize that an EDG (Emergency Diesel Generator) without critical support systems is useless.

I was just reading about the Fukushima accident, and how most of the EDG's failed because they were water-cooled, and while the EDG's were located out of harms way, the pumps for providing cooling water were located on low ground and were damaged by the tsunami. http://fukushima.ans.org/report/accident-analysis

Yesterday I saw a story about the Datagram data center in NYC having to shut down. From their reports about the damage (http://www.datagram.com):

"As of 5pm on October 29, 2012, Datagram had thoroughly tested its emergency systems at 33 Whitehall, NYC fully staffed and awaiting the storm to hit Manhattan's shores. Once ConEd lost power to Lower Manhattan, Datagram's emergency systems kicked on maintaining power to Datagram's datacenter. Unfortunately, within a couple hours of the storm hitting Manhattan's shores, the building's entire basement, which houses the building's fuel tank pumps and sump pumps, was completely filled with water and a few feet into the lobby. Due to electrical systems being underwater the building was forced to shut down to avoid fire and permanent damage."

It's pretty obvious that, despite all the disaster planning done in the past, Datagram (and TEPCO, and others) have really neglected to appreciate the potential modes of failure for their backup power systems. In both cases, they misunderstood the threat to critical backup power infrastructure. If your EDG is on the roof but the fuel pumps and electrical switchgear is in the basement, what will happen during a flood? If your EDG's are on high ground but the pumps to cool them are not, what happens during a tsunami?
I bought one for $10 and it too works fine.
I don't think that's necessarily true. In my opinion, both languages can be used by novices for simple scripts and by experts for complicated tasks. However, C++ seems to be getting easier for simple tasks (lambdas, initializers, auto, alias templates, etc.), while Python is getting more complex/powerful (metaclasses, exception tweaks, new I/O and function annotations — just to name a few).
For ord he could use std::to_string

string ord(string const &s) {
return to_string(unsigned(s[0]));
}

He skips all the const-refs...
Apple's valuation growth is due to selling enormous quantities of products -- their P/E has roughly hovered around ~15 the entire time. If it were 20 or 30 then there'd be a lot of room to fall. But their P/E is about industry average... they just have a megaton of sales.

If iPhone/iPad sales decline precipitously (to ~2010 levels) then their share price should fall to roughly that amount [probably more, since it indicates something is terribly wrong and likely to decline further].
...and with a 6ms response time - Not bad. I'm in the market for a dual screen setup, so I've been watching these closely.

I'm probably going to wait for black friday though to see if I can nab a decent deal.
30+ here, and SD vs HD for me is day and night. Though except for computer generated animation movies, I have a hard time spotting the difference between 720p and 1080p, especially since some movies have blur/grain filters...
Two judges in two separate cases don't think these are nonsense lawsuits.

I think technical companies should realise that sometimes unclueful people will need to interact with them, and those people will not be able to use the provided forms and will not be able to use the correct jargon but it is still in the company's best interest to listen to, and understand, those people so as to prevent court action.

You avoid court action because it's slow and expensive and because it is unpredictable. (Although, since he'd already won a case, it's not that unpredictable.)

What should this guy have done? He's tried to jump through the unnecessary hoops, and it didn't work. Why should he "suffer"[1] while the multi-billion dollar company makes money off "associating his name with criminality"[2]? (Please note careful use of scare quotes.)

[1] for various values of suffer, including not something that's probably not too severe for most people

[2] assuming they had ads on the search pages with the relevant results; and I know the association (if any) is caused by the creators of the original website.
Hey everyone,

Thanks for checking out the bash profile generator! I'm a student at Flatiron School[1] NYC (where we have electricity in NYC, no small feat today) and this project came about when we were learning to setup our CLIs in the first week.

Please let me know if you have any comments/feedback on twitter: @rexfeng

[1] http://flatironschool.com/
> the hundreds of friends and acquaintances I've made throughout the years would get lost to time

As they should.
Brilliant idea. Well done! Change the name because this will be useful throughout the full year.
This is all true, but when your barista explicitly reminds you to tip them it still feels pretty pushy and tactless.

That said, I think a lot of people may not realize that baristas make server's wages, so it may not occur to them to tip, or that tipping is as 'necessary' to a barista. Something like a "please tip your barista" sign hanging up in the store or something would feel less intrusive.

The whole server's wage/tipping situation, in the US, is pretty messed up. You're expected to tip your server for doing their job--something that their pay should compensate them for naturally. Only it doesn't, so restaurants can keep food prices low, otherwise no one would ever go out to eat... but then once you get there, you're expected to tip, making the meal more expensive anyway.

Tipping becomes expected behavior that you're made to/left feeling guilty over if you don't do, rather than what it should be; a nice little bonus as thanks for good service. If you want to do that, it just means you must leave a bigger tip.
@sethbannon- This is not most promotions. Our goal is to help startups get off the ground.

@davidedicillo- We're happy to help recent signups who qualify, shoot an e-mail over to support@braintreepayments.com and we'll set things right.

-Kristi from Braintree
Some numbers: a 1 megawatt generator burns 70 gallons / hour. If someone can carry 10 gallons (60 lbs), they need to make 7 trips / hour up 17 stories. I think one soldier could manage it.
Just a quick aside: jollyjinx is the author of JollyFastVNC and ScreenRecycler (among other apps) and apparently knows his way around OS X at a fairly low-level (i.e. under the hood).
Circular developer here. Ok, so last month I launched an open source clone of Buffer, built on top of Backbone, Bootstrap and MongoDB, and named Tampon.

Many people hated the name... However, the app as well as the open source project have seen some nice early adoption, so I've gone ahead and chosen a less controversial one.

I've also implemented multi-account support, which was by far the #1 feature request from users (As suggested by 37Signals I've discarded every other feature request :)), as well as many many other improvements.

Let me know what you think!
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>> You show street fighter as your first game

I think that one would also need 8 buttons to play Street Fighter on MAME/FBA, since you also need buttons for the player 1 coin and player 1 start.

>> Happ nor Sanwa/Seimitsu parts

I imagine that would easily add $20 to $40 to the cost of the unit. Personally, I'd love to see a version that just had cutouts for the stick and pushbuttons so that I could add my own stick parts.
Currently using pre curated tracks from http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/
http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass
http://soundcloud.com/housemusic

I agree the genres are off. Will be working on improving them.
Only if you want the truth.

More seriously: you're probably ok with books written by scientists who are respected as scientists, such as Kahneman mentioned in the article. But be very wary of books written by journalists.
Actually, I was subscribed to the security repository, meaning I only got security updates, and over the year and a half I did this, there were probably no more than 10 megs of updates total IIRC.

You're probably (and the OP, Joey Hess is definitely) talking about Debian unstable, though, which does not have a security repo. (I was on testing IIRC.)

It was not hard to upgrade to a new version of Debian, either, because the tool I was using to download the necessary files, apt-get, would reliably restart the download where it left off, so I downloaded the files over about 7 consecutive nights.

It was pretty sweet, actually. In contrast, I wouldn't have a clue how to keep OS X updated with security patches using a dial-up connection.
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I suppose he wanted to showcase boost::format. You can do it simpler with std::to_string:

return to_string(static_cast<unsigned char>(s[0]));
> And when you are a creator rather than a consumer (especially of the written word, be it code, essays or books), screen size rarely matters.

I don't necessarily agree with the parent post's sentiments, but I also disagree with this very broad blanket statement of yours. I am reasonably happy most of the time on my Macbook Air screen, but I definitely prefer to be coding on a larger screen when I can. I knew Joey back in college and he is a sharp guy with a LOT of working memory. My memory has gotten worse over time, and I tend to work with heterogenous codebases, so I can't fit everything in my head and need the screen real estate.

I know many excellent, productive devs who love having large screens to code on.
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My retina MBP displays everything at "the same sizes we have today" right now, on a 2880x1800 panel.
I think that "good design" can be done by anyone, not just someone with a job title of "designer". The major design success that comes to mind is Google's homepage. Same with Facebook, the developer had an insight into what people wanted to see on the page and how they were going to interact with it. That's how design plays a bigger role than most developers realise.

I see design and development as symbiotic, and I wish I saw more start-ups using both to solve problems, rather than an over-reliance on the back-end and then shoving bootstrap, or a $10 template on the front.

And don't get me wrong, there is a place for these type of templates and crowd sourced art. But if your product is a web based service, you can't rely on clipart and templates to solve a problem effectively for the person using it.
Michael from Braintree, here.

The idea behind this offer is to help launch more startups. We aren't policing this with specific limits, but we're asking that you only use this if you are truly a pre-revenue start-up or just started to collect fees for your product. If you’ve already got your start, then congratulations - we would love to work with you and help you grow. And you'll probably find that our standard pricing works well for you.
Blacked out and plugged in
Compared to the amount of work involved after unscheduled power loss in a data centre yes. Been there done that, and I would defiantly haul buckets of diesel for 12 hours rather than spent the next months sorting out systems that had not restarted cleanly.
It's been fixed now. Clear your cache and reload the page.
Congrats on the re-launch (and re-name ;) Looks promising!
To provide some perspective, I did a calculation using their pricing information and assuming the average transaction size of $10 - the waived fee amounts to $2950.

edit - changed language to make it more meaningful
That's how I do my bookmarking with Chrome. I sync bookmarks across all devices and only customize the bookmark description (by appending a few tags) if the page title isn't identifiable enough by itself. Then I just search them using the address bar if I can remember what I'm looking for. Only very occasionally do I need to use the bookmark manager.

I never really used bookmarks before, but this workflow has been lightweight enough that I can use it without thinking or switching mental gears. Ctrl/Cmd-D, maybe add a tag or two (or copy the title if I'm reading a paper with the embedded PDF reader), done.
One of the deciding factors for purchasing my Elitebook 8560w was the 1920x1080 RGB LED screen.

I can never go back.
At the same time, when do we hit our mental limits for absorbing information simultaneously? Yes there's the capacity to unobtrusively "share" and "capture," but you have to extend some mental energy to efficiently and usefully absorb this information.
We're getting some great discussion in the comments thread on the blog. Check it out here :).

http://blog.2600hz.com/post/34639934434/our-other-border-bro...
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I am not a huge fan of Dia. Besides the UX, not a fan of having to download.
Not sure I understand, ghc/platform is hundreds of MB iirc, remotely built or not. Or maybe you meant a tailored ghc distro without all the statically compiled libs and such ?
I still miss Powermarks (EOL-ed some time ago). Anyone looking to improve bookmarking owes it to themselves to look into it.

Amongst other things, it would grab a default set of tags from the page's meta-content. (Of course, this was back before there was so much gaming of same.) And tags were defined as a whitespace-separated list, which made manual tagging very easy and quick. Search was also a whitespace-separated list, with limited wildcarding. With several thousand bookmarks, it typically took me 1-3 seconds to drill down to the one I wanted. And it took only a few seconds to define a new bookmark with a sufficient set of tags that I'd be able to quickly find it again with an appropriate intersection (or, more likely, one of several possible intersections, depending upon what I remembered of it at the time of recall).

Of course, these days what with disappearing content and the like, one may be better off relying more on local, offline caching/storing of static content, á la Scrapbook, for example.
At the minimum it's against fire code. But I think the chances of an inspection are pretty low at this point.
I'm guessing that binxbolling thought that desireco42's post was in response to the title, supplying Gladwell for "... wasn't the only ...". It's a common sort of generally useless comment.
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I have the D830 with the WXUGA screen and even though it's an old 1.8Ghz Core2Duo, I still refuse to buy a new laptop because I can't find anything with a 16:10 ratio, everything is 16:9 and it's difficult to find even 1920x1080 screens at a reasonable price.
They are well known for protecting their sources, and for doing a thorough job in having multiple independent confirmations.

The "Canard Enchainé" is one of the oldest french newspaper still in print, and probably the only one not using ads or receiving public help.
Nice ad hominem and public display of self righteousness, care to respond in a civil grown up and rational manner?
You should have a look at filepicker.io then
what I was trying to say is that I think you need to be committed regardless. Even if your only goal as in your case is to learn something like how compilers work and not to make anything finished, I think we'd benefit by having clearer goals (such as now I want to build a small NFA from regex) and also having the commitment to not give up until we have achieved the goal.
But that's a completely different claim. I agree that C++11 is much nicer than old C++. I really like the improvements. I'd be glad to see that argument in his post instead.

That's not what he wrote though. The title is "C++11 and Boost - Succinct Like Python", the contents say "almost as painless as in a modern dynamic language like Python". That's what I can't agree with. There's still lots of supporting syntax that doesn't actually do anything for the end result.
Congrats! I really like the startup weekend pic in the garage. >:3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Software_Update#Command_l...
Highly optimistic. Some numbers:

Columbia Tower in Seattle, Firefighter Stairclimb event (I think you could agree a firefighter is probably on par with a soldier for fitness) - 63 stories carrying 50ish pounds of gear, average finish time, 48 minutes.

7 trips an hour up and down 17 stories = 119 stories.

Oh, and the firefighters are exhausted, drenched in sweat, require cooling down and up to an hour in rehab for each climb, with legs near collapse, burning like fire...

If I had to do this, I'd be going with the bucket brigade, every time (spoken as someone who has completed that stairclimb event).
>Yep, Ads in Google search, ads in Google Maps.

Ads in apps is a lot different than ads built into the OS. What are your examples of ads built into Android itself?
Awesome app
I like the way you show real-time stat on the homepage
Fantastic new UI. The service is still as useful as it was!
Yeah, I feel let down. There are plenty of stories on HN about struggling start-ups. I hoped that this one--featuring a crime scene!--would be more interesting. But it's just another "keep your chin up" tale despite its potential.
Congrats guys - very cool service, and it's always appreciated to see some details on the "how we got here" part of the business.
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This demonstrates the difference that contextual knowledge makes. Exec ousters are generally a decent indicator to sell. However, those of us who have been following Apple will know that these particular decisions were good, leaving Apple with a cohesive "four man band."

Information asymmetry. It's what makes markets interesting and how people make lots of money.
I haven't noticed any meaningful drop in battery from this feature. Also, if you have Power Nap turned on while on battery power, and the battery level reaches 30 percent of capacity, Power Nap will be suspended.

However, Power Nap only works on recent Apple notebooks with flash storage and cool microprocessors (like your MacBook Air).

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/18/#power-man...

http://www.macworld.com/article/1167970/up_close_with_mounta...
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Murdoch absolutely uses his news properties to influence politics and government policy. I don't deny that News Corp may be primarily a profit-motivated division. But you do realize that the policies Murdoch wants to influence lead to more profits, right? Even if the cultural effect is a side effect, it is a result of a motivated corporate agenda. And the reason it happens is because the corporations are so big and rich, and therefore influential, and therefore powerful.
oh, and the new color for the navigation bar is great, too
They do, but its in the top-right corner of the page. Took me months to notice.
It is because C++ is a large language and it has some features (e.g. macros) that can be horribly misused.
guylhem and blissofbeing both make very good points here. We can take into consideration the motivation behind the wish to be happy. It reminds me of a story I read while studying. I'm going to paraphrase here so please forgive any mistakes.

There was a man traveling down a road while it was raining. He came across a statue of Lord Buddha. He thought to himself, "The Buddha is getting all wet, that is not right. I shall cover his head so he doesn't get wet". He took off his shoe and put it over the Buddha's head.

Now, in those days (and even today in many parts of Asia) the act of putting something from your feet onto a Buddha's head is very disgraceful. In Thailand people don't even let their toes point at a statue of Buddha. Many people would think that man did something very wrong. However, his motivation was to protect Buddha and that single act was the eventual cause for himself to become a Buddha.

I am no expert and am just repeating what I have read elsewhere. Hopefully I did not mess the story up to bad and someone will still benefit.
I'm guessing that by "connected to a power source" they don't mean the battery.
>Most startups projects I've seen are technically trivial.

Most startup projects are made by people who are only capable of solving technically trivial problems, and who are only willing to consider languages that make solving difficult problems borderline impossible.

Imagine someone said "welding is a good way to fasten metal to metal". You are responding with "all the carpenters I've seen use screws".
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Wrong. Regardless of your volume of "likes," it's a cluttered mess with dozens of best guess advertisements and a river of promoted crap. AOL 2.0
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I like that they are trying to select more international companies and companies with female founders.

Reading through the list I don't see any really innovative companies.
Yup I highly encourage anyone interested in the back-story to give the above blog post a read. It is an overview of our last year (from inception till now).

EDIT: HN link here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4723588
A true expert can solve the same problems

That's true, but I think ignores the main problem with C++. I'd say I know about three times as many things about how C++ as I do about how Python works, but I still feel like I'm more of an expert in Python than C++ just because C++ is such a stupendously large language now.
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Plus, i can barely read the text.
That's definitely something I have considered and may well end up doing. I just haven't started moving in that direction yet.
My understanding is that the big issue is that e-Ink displays have a miserably slow pixel update time. The new Kindle Paperwhite is on the order of 450ms whereas the average LCD display is in the single digit ms range. Great for static text, but horrid for anything real-time.
Sorry for the big-thumbed post... On the other hand, contracts define a 'law' (between the parts: something which forces someone to act/not act in a specified way), they are the basis of civil relations (not civic, civil).

The fact that the other part can do something about it does not mean that I have the right to break it at will.
Several have been posted. Rob Pike's was interesting.
Do you have better suggestions? (Not being a troll - you make a fair point and I'm genuinely interested to hear what you have to say if you would have done it differently)
Sorry, you are right, libiconv was the problem. Still doesn't change that it couldn't be built on OS X for a long while (0.5 to 0.6 as far as I remember, 0.7 fixed things).

No, I didn't use ghci. I just tried to install darcs among other things.
Can you use the elevators? If the generator doesn't have the extra power to run them, offer some customers credit and a mention in the post-mortem if they'll let you shut them down temporarily to power the elevators. Then you can bring fuel up in drums instead of buckets.

edit: Nope. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4723814

:(
Ok. So your answer is: no, nobody uses a test like that for hiring. Why? Because, being cheap to grade, they're not a good measure for anything subtle. Like hiring decisions. And they certainly don't use them to evaluate anything after hiring.

As to the difference between education and test prep, I'm not unable to justify my position; I'm unwilling to try to do so to you. I don't think you're a serious conversational participant here, by which I mean one who's actually willing to learn anything.

But as a hint, your basic claim is that a fill-in-the-bubble standardized test is a perfect leading indicator for the decades-long effect we expect education to have. And that it can't be manipulated to diverge from that.

That's a very strong claim, and you're obviously smart enough to find the holes in that. You won't, though, because your whole MO on HN is as relentless debater on a pretty narrow set of political points.