skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correction: a single GFCI outlet on a circuit protects all outlets on the load side of the GFCI outlet. A GFCI cannot sense a ground fault on the line side.

If you want to protect an entire circuit with one GFCI outlet, it must be the first on the circuit.
BigDataBorat
I think the gp is alluding to a cartogram-style map:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram
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Man with 1 database know data consistent. Man with 2 database never sure. Man with 3 database brag about it on hacker news. #bigdata
The problem is that the cars Uber has are already insured as limos. Just by the parent company that they are getting them from, not by Uber itself.
This is the reason Forstall has left the building, iOS 6 is a disaster:

* Maps was not ready for prime time (so bad it required a public apology)
* Podcast was not ready for prime time.
* Passbook was not ready for prime time.
* App store is a step backwards.
* Battery and WIFI issues.
* Soooo many bugs.

There are usually problems but this is the first time I've seen so much utter crap shipped including tons of minor bugs and issues (well Mobile Me was pretty bad :-)

I'm using Audible, Downcast and the built in Music app where I used to just use the Music app. iOS 6 was a huge step backwards for me.

Rather than waiting until it's ready (think copy/paste on iOS) Forstall was responsible for shipping a mess. Hopefully this will fix itself with new leadership.
> People seemed to manage for hundreds of centuries just fine without computerized toilets.

Diarrhoea is a major cause of child death. Many of these deaths could be prevented with better hygiene, including better toilets and running water for hand washing with soap.
A former Yahoo big data engineer here. At some point I was bombarded with enquires from different startups who were looking for a "Big Data Guy". The conversation would go as:

- (Me) So, how much data are we talking about?
- (them) 50GB
- Per hour?
- No thats our dataset so far.
- (pause)
- (pause)
(FIN)
Where might I find the CS61A videos? A cursory search found the Brian Harvey course page at

http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp11/

but the lecture webcasts link seems to be broken

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=...
Exactly. A recent example I saw of this was the Princeton Election Consortium, http://election.princeton.edu/electoral-college-map/
Uh, no. Rob works with a number of other programmers on code that is directly used by thousands of other programmers.
Uber claims their drivers already meet the requirements, but if Uber doesn't register with CPUC how can they know if it's true? Are they supposed to take Uber's word for it?
Don't sign it unless you mean it. I wouldn't. If that clause is enforceable (which varies by state), the copyright to your code is assigned to your employer as soon as you write it, so you have no right to contribute it to the GPL project. If you don't have that right but contribute anyway, the project would be infringing on your employer's copyrights. Not a great situation to put them in.

IANAL
I also found Teavana's teas to be adulterated with unnecessary flavors and ingredients that aren't natural to the tea. I instead prefer to go to their cousin store, Lupicia, which are usually located in the same malls. The difference is that Lupicia tries to preserve the tea's natural flavors instead of trying to "enhance" them with fruity flavors.
> the use of modals to show individual apps on the iPad

This bugged me a lot after iOS6 update. Also the small things such as when there are App Updates and badge shows up on the App Store icon, clicking it takes me to Featured Apps section - not updates as one would expect. On Android for instance, the update notification takes you directly to a screen allowing you to update as expected.
I'm hardly the person to write lessons for it; but there are pure-JS impls of Scheme[0] that would be handy in building such a thing.

[0] http://www.biwascheme.org/ among many others
I don't think that "class" and "manners" are very healthy in this case. Farting is very natural and happens consistently. You shouldn't have to hide that or be embarrassed about it.

That said, I tend to look for bathrooms to relieve myself privately.
That huge heap is extremely counterproductive, because large heaps have terrible GC performance, and you're actually stealing memory from the natively memory-mapped files that make up your index.

Try it again with sane GC parameters, e.g.:

-Xmx<N>G -Xms<N>g -XX:NewSize=<N/2>G -XX:MaxNewSize=<N/2>G -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode

Where <N> is a value between 2-8.

Edit: I was benchmarking a similarly sized (though very differently configured) Solr cluster for a well-known internet company, and was able to tune it to do 5000qps, with p50 ~2ms and p99 ~20ms.
The Difference Between A Vulnerability
Attention, Authors: I Tripled My Royalties, and You Can Too
Arguing (or watching people argue) trivial matters gives my brain a break from the serious things I would otherwise be working on. That's probably what drives most people into these discussions and onto their soap boxes too. It's a lot more fun than trying to figure out why my app can't find that damn configuration file.
Awesome, I've always wondered if having to set up a WAP on the device to route traffic through caused more delays then a straight tether.
I believe you're looking for http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61AS/fa12/
EBS shouldn't really matter, because with a reasonable heap, he should have 40-50G of available filesystem cache, and 48G of data.
I'm signed up, answered all the questions. I'm on the leaderboard or w/e.

I love code koans.

I want more.

Feed me.
If the drivers already have the required paperwork and insurance then why doesn't Uber just register as a taxi provider and submit it as CPUC requested? Is that really so onerous (honest question)?
Cool use of clojure. I like your background and typography choices.

A few things:

1. Creating a new account directs me http://gratefulplace.com/favorites/3 and says "Sorry, there's nothing here." Could be because I favorited a post before creating an account.

2. Have you thought about integration with twitter? Seems perfect for quotes. Plus, marketing.

3. Keep making cool stuff! With a little work you could have "the angry place" :) !
Fair enough. We want to complement real life with a virtual environment and make it easier to collaborate with dev's outside your existing network.

Congrats on the leaderboard status.
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IIRC some of them have self-cleaning mechanisms. Anyway, I would imagine I would still want to clean once a week with the rest of the toilet.
No, you're paying $3 CPM to reach Facebook's audience. They own the platform. You're just visiting. And nobody rides free. The price for the users is to be spammed and data mined. The price for advertisers is to pay cash.
This just about sums up my experience with autotools except for the fact that I quit in frustration after step 2.
I really like Lyft. I use it when I need a taxi and it works very well.

Although I do agree that a world where these types of "collaborative consumption" services (like AirBNB) are essentially unregulated (or at least more open to competition) is much better, it is true that a number of industries are regulated, and incumbents that have been "playing by the rules" were promised a protected business environment. And it's not like they didn't have to give anything up in that trade - a taxi medallion in NYC is worth a lot of money - they have been exchanged for over a million dollars.

So the question is: how do we transition to the better world without being unfair to the "stranded capital"?
Making Government Suck Less
doesn't sound like "hacking" so much as "using"
This just seems to be how they handle audio media. It's not even anything specific to podcasts. My own scanner stuff is just a web page, and it gets hit by this from time to time. Each call is a single file, it's static, and there's nothing funny going on with it. It looks like the playback stuff is jumping around in some attempt to figure out exactly what it is first. It seems like it would be far better if they always downloaded at least some reasonable quantity and then decided to bail out later if it seemed overly huge, but this is where we are.

To me, it feels like someone who's trying to be fancy and do things like seek() in a stream. Just because HTTP has progressed to the point where you can effectively do that with Range: requests doesn't mean it's a good idea. Offering seek() type behavior for a HTTP resource seems like a great way to get people to use it and not even realize what sort of messes they may be creating. Leaky abstractions, eh?

Here's just one example from last week. Note: the file is 7001 bytes. There's no reason for this insanity, and yet here it is.

x.x.x.x - - [04/Nov/2012:16:02:47 -0800] "GET /audio/16-1352070236.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 206 2 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_us)" "scanner.rachelbythebay.com" "-"
x.x.x.x - - [04/Nov/2012:16:02:47 -0800] "GET /audio/16-1352070236.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 206 7001 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_us)" "scanner.rachelbythebay.com" "-"
x.x.x.x - - [04/Nov/2012:16:02:47 -0800] "GET /audio/16-1352070236.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 206 2 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_us)" "scanner.rachelbythebay.com" "-"
x.x.x.x - - [04/Nov/2012:16:02:47 -0800] "GET /audio/16-1352070236.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 206 2 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_us)" "scanner.rachelbythebay.com" "-"
x.x.x.x - - [04/Nov/2012:16:02:47 -0800] "GET /audio/16-1352070236.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 206 2 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_us)" "scanner.rachelbythebay.com" "-"
x.x.x.x - - [04/Nov/2012:16:02:48 -0800] "GET /audio/16-1352070236.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 206 7001 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_us)" "scanner.rachelbythebay.com" "-"
x.x.x.x - - [04/Nov/2012:16:02:48 -0800] "GET /audio/16-1352070236.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 206 7001 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_us)" "scanner.rachelbythebay.com" "-"
x.x.x.x - - [04/Nov/2012:16:02:48 -0800] "GET /audio/16-1352070236.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 206 2 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_us)" "scanner.rachelbythebay.com" "-"
x.x.x.x - - [04/Nov/2012:16:02:48 -0800] "GET /audio/16-1352070236.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 206 7001 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_us)" "scanner.rachelbythebay.com" "-"
x.x.x.x - - [04/Nov/2012:16:02:48 -0800] "GET /audio/16-1352070236.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 206 7001 "-" "AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.10A403 (iPhone; U; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X; en_us)" "scanner.rachelbythebay.com" "-"
It's true! Though apparently a 4.1.x ROM has leaked recently, so it looks like there is work here at least
The original purpose is to squirt water at your anus to loosen any left over faecal matter.
How is this going to charge, I wonder?
I believe that's a question for Uber, I'm just paraphrasing from the article which states as I've said.

Speculating though, perhaps there are limitations and red tape issues that would prevent them from doing so. Most likely, they don't want / need to operate the fleet of cars, just the technology that connects them to the customers.
"Mark Cuban, you can afford $0.003 per fan to increase Mavs home game attendance. C’mon son!"

Telling people what they can afford is not a very well thought out argument.
I totally agree. The stores are attractively laid out, and I did manage to get a nice in-cup loose leaf tea infuser, but I disliked my entire experience in the store. The hard sell treatment I got was really unwelcome and the tea itself was way over priced. I won't go in to another one and I don't recommend anyone go there.
Making Cents: the meager royalties currently paid to bands by streaming services
A Jungle in There: Bacteria in Belly Buttons are Highly Diverse, but Predictable
Serious Skype Security Flaw Prompts Password Reset Page Removal
How do you train a tiger?
Uber also runs Uberx, a cheaper non-towncar version of Uber similar to Lyft. Does anyone know if uberx drivers also have towncar licenses?
So in the long term, how exactly will this be different from http://www.topcoder.com/ ?

Just wondering... I signed up already anyway.
This same behavior has been happening to me since before iOS 6 came out. I can show the same "206 storm" happening as far back as August of last year with iOS 4.3.5.
So it gave you an accurate impression. Linus's role has changed dramatically.

As for you thinking he's suggesting something outlandish, I don't see him suggesting anything. The quote is a statement about something he does.
I don't know anything about CPUC so I can't really answer that question, but the lawsuit isn't about the licensing. The lawsuit is about Uber being "unfair", with no explanation for what that means. The only hint is that taxi drivers are seeing lower incomes, and the implication is that the lower incomes must somehow mean that Uber is being "unfair" rather than simply being a consequence of competition.
5 Reasons Why One Startup Gave Customers A Social Network-Style Activity Stream
At first I thought it was a fake account, then I saw the verified account logo. Scary stuff.
UberX cars still have towncar licenses though, judging by the TCP stickers on their bumpers.
Kixeye: Zynga is ‘desperate’ to get its hands on Kixeye’s secrets
Could you elaborate on why this issue shows that "large parts of the android custom ROM community unprofessional and immature"? As far as I can see, the developers trusted someone they should not have trusted. That is not necessarily a sign of being "unprofessional and immature", is it?
"The possibility that Facebook is 'insignificant' one year from now is astronomical."

So you're saying there IS a very high likelihood that Facebook will be insignificant a year from now? I believe you meant to say that the possibility (i.e. probability) was "infinitesimal", not "astronomical"...
Is anyone else a little upset to see that the "use 'fucking' in your title to get to the front page" tactic is still working? I understand that 'fucking' is in the original submission, but I really can't understand how a small 4-paragraph rant (by the author's own admission) makes it to the front page in <20 minutes except for the fact that HN seems to love the word 'fucking'.

[flash edit] I mean no disrespect to the author and the point he makes with the article.
It just reeks of special interests protecting their turf. Of course when you are operating in highly regulated environment and have a well-oiled connections with local politicians it is annoying when somebody new comes around and tries to take part of your customer share. However for me as a consumer it is annoying that government yet again tries to take away my choice under the guise of protecting me from imaginary threats - and instead ends up protecting me from better service and lower prices. I don't need this kind of protection.
Is This Apple Abusing The Patent System Or The USPTO Abusing It?
I would be very proud - and I suggest most people should be - if I had written so many complete, useful and novel tools for myself (and others). It shows great proficiency and understanding of how to get things done. Which is arguably the most important skill a programmer can have (read Linus' C++ rant too ...).

Personally I think - and that mindset was to a significant part shaped at University where this was a bit of a running gag in the 90's because the notion was actually taught - that OO was simply an attempt at getting people who have a more dominant right half of brain ("less intelligent people" if you forgive the conclusion) to structure their code better, because for some reason working with OO patterns and methods supposedly appeals to that half more.

In other words, OO was inflicted upon us to get dumb people to write code too. Yes, it's offensive, but ... make your own observations.
While it's true that the New Windows 8 UI is likely a greater departure from the design of previous consumer desktop OS interfaces than is iOS (for better or worse), it remains saddled with Desktop Compatibility mode, user-exposed filesystem and mouse-and-keyboard-oriented UI elements. iOS was a clean break, while Windows 8 is a more conservative hybrid approach.
"The school system, as we know it, is on the verge of extinction"

I'm pretty tired of moocs being hailed as the greatest thing ever. Its just the same old format replicated on the internet.

*don't get me wrong, more education for more people is better, but we can do better than moocs
We have nothing else to talk on HN other than toilets?
CyanogenMod domain dispute resolved "amicably" - Team regains control of domain
MongoSV: MongoDB Conference in Silicon Valley
That's mostly irrelevant. What you have to consider is the opportunity costs of forgoing food or internet compared the opportunity cost of settling for an 'old-fashioned' toilet. For me, at least, the former are much cheaper.
Microsoft has failed
It shows the proportion of people who voted Democrat or Republican for each county as a gradient between blue and red; and the number of voters in each county is shown by the height of the horizontal bars.

-- This is interesting.
The bounty is calculated according to the diff's Levenshtein distance
Actually, as a user I'm annoyed by this as well. When I like a page it's usually because I'm interested in what they have to say.

I really want is control of that myself. Default me to everything and I'll "show less from this page" or unlike if they are spamming me.

Some companies and organizations are using Facebook to communicate with me and Facebook is deciding what I'll see or not see.

THAT is Cuban's real problem. You can't reach all of your audience without coughing up a fairly large amount of money because Facebook has decided not everybody wants to see your message.
And there's also the real world where the "best programmer" isn't entering pointless contests.
But the right answer isn't "avoid OO", at least not any more than the answer is "avoid if statements". The answer is to use the library function your language already provides to solve the problem in front of you and get on with your life. This is something applicable to any paradigm or language.
I used to work at http://castfire.com/, and we've seen that similar issue from a LOT of iOS clients. Stats become increasingly difficult, because we saw one unique request bounce with upwards of 50+ 206s for similar / overlapping media... and then it bounced through a cell provider, to a WiFi network, and back, etc.

(we identified by redirecting all requests through a complex process of assigning an ID to them)

Hoping this is fixed. Podcast metrics are tricky, and this has been exacerbating the issue.
Thanks for clearing that up. Apparently, it is a common misconception that it is 'phase' and 'faze' is the incorrect spelling: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/faze
The longest-lasting businesses in history are small to mid-sized - at most a few hundred employees - and they are (unsurprisingly) all in timeless, age-old industries. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies ) The huge British East Indias of the world become entangled with government and rise and fall at the whims of politics.

This makes me believe there's some kind of definable relationship between money extracted, business size, business lifecycle, and benefit to society. A startup with ambitions of being very big, profitable and influential is declaring that it wants to lead civilization in a certain way. But if it achieves size and profit by simply decreasing benefits and increasing extraction, it's actually a corrupting force; post-hoc charity can't change that.

And in technology, every wave of new possibilities pulls a few corruptors along for the ride, in part because we don't always know at the outset whether they're ultimately a good or bad force. As well, the really long-term influences often appear to lie dormant for a long time... ideas from academia take forever to be used in industry, and broad demographic changes in usage can take a decade.
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Actually, for Sony, it's not novel at all. The power and territoriality of Sony's engineers is legendary. I used to work for a wholly-owned Sony subsidiary in the US, and getting any of the engineering groups in Japan to use our company's technology (which was the whole reason Sony bought us in the first place) was an exercise in pulling teeth. That said, it was getting better by the time I left.
Maybe I've just had back luck. I had one guy who was swearing up a storm, which is usually fine with me, but for some reason didn't give me confidence in him. Then there was the woman who drove like a maniac and complained about how much her life sucked.

I agree SF's taxi drivers are usually terrible, but I've had good luck with Uber Taxi. I'm not sure how much extra vetting Uber does but it seems to work. Uber Taxi charges regular taxi fares + 20% gratuity + $1, which is well worth it to me if you can get one.
Author here. No offense taken. For the record "fucking" wasn't included for front page-ness, I felt it appropriately conveyed my feelings on the topic.
I love TeaVana, though I'll admit I mostly order via the website. Their stores do annoy me.

Their stuff is expensive, but it's good. And really how much is expensive tea per glass? 25 cents? Not enough that I care.

And they have all sorts of great mixes. I probably wouldn't order just straight tea there. But the tea quality at TeaVana is much higher than the coffee quality at Starbucks.
If he prominently announced on his sites "DO NOT accept anything without a cryptographic signature as authentic", it is likely to have worked. It's not like the targeted victims had not visited Cyanogen's site or done any research before.

And at worst, a policy of signing all emails makes it so he can't be framed; someone can't alter mails and claim they were sent in that state, and if this guy thought he was going to be caught and went into the mail server to try and plant the evidence so that when the deals fell through the real Cyanogen was still on the hook, he wouldn't be able to reproduce a valid signature and one would say "Cyanogen was obviously framed, as he would never certify a deal in an email without a cryptographic signature".
In Chicago I've seen taxi drivers using Uber X, but that may be a city-specific pilot. This TC interview with Uber indicates that Uber X drivers have TCP licenses, but may not necessarily drive limos or town cars:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/01/uber-opens-up-platform-to-n...
Google named 2nd best company to work
Same here. It looked like a great place when I first went in, until I got the high-pressure sales treatment, then I decided I'll never go back.
That's not true. Most people who say that an industry is ripe for disruption have no clue how to disrupt it other than invoking magic fairy dust ("All you have to do is solve X!"). They're not talking about "ripeness"; they're talking about the amount of pain undergone by those interacting with the industry.
Adobe Hacker Says He Used SQL Injection To Grab Database Of 150K User Accounts
Cool project; I was kind of hoping when I saw the title it was a way to emulate USB over MTP, and not have to use the absolutely rubbish Android File Transfer application... but alas, not the case. Oh well.
Well, you should probably read the actual complaint before deciding anything. You can see the whole thing at the bottom of this article: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/11/14/class-action-lawsui...

IANAL and I don't know if the lawsuit has merit, but there is slightly more to it then just someone stamping their foot and yelling, "Unfair!"