skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you aware of how little light you need to see? Just because you assume the light in the video is similar to a 40w bulb is short sighted (no pun intended). A 2W "pretty dim" incandescent bulb will illuminate a room no problem.

Human eyes can adjust very well to low light levels.
It's okay, you can atone by writing a survey of programming languages and using the title "On the Use of English in Software Development".
Line three: you write

Energy stored E = mgh (300 J)

but by substitution

Energy stored E = 10 (kg) (9.8 m/sec) 3 (meters)
2940 J

2940/1800 is 1.6W
Yes. Think about the word awful -it used to mean "inspiring awe" but it flipped and now always means bad.

I got curious so I looked up some examples that still can mean something or the exact opposite:

Bolt - run away or secure in place

Cleave - cut or join

Garnish - add (parsley) or remove (wages)

Weather - weather the storm or become weathered
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The demand has at least two aspects. Aside from better, faster service, there is significant demand to see Time-Warner lose undeserved/un-and-under-served business.
I value TED for bringing me new info. Sure some of it is not applicable, yet. However I am glad to see this info. As to its results, I take a wait and see attitude. As to the intentions be good this letter, I find it suspect. Frankly the critics should stay away from censoring TED.
from the caption under the house door/garage images:

Hang it in the shed or make it into a great porch light, you can clip on a hanging basket or anything weighing about 20lbs.

So that's ~2x your estimate, which doesn't seem impossible.

I do wonder what they're suggesting using for the ballast though, that avoids excessive bulk. Another consideration is going to be finding a suitable mounting point in a typical shack/slum type dwelling.
> Amusingly, they also implement DNS-based throttling, as my roommate and I found out one evening. The solution is obvious, though not for non-techies.

Just to be clear, they're delaying the response time of their own DNS servers as a method of throttling?? If that's what you mean, it fails on several levels (use a different DNS, only works on first lookup, does nothing for large file downloads, etc.)

Please tell me I'm reading this wrong.
It's very simple. Using this document, you might interpret Flynn's psych degree as a "common warning sign" and so, as the document suggests, "be alert". A cursory search of Flynn's work, as you show, would alleviate those concerns immediately. The document doesn't claim to be a blacklist and doesn't read that way.

Furthermore, "Engage with other scholars" certainly does includes publishing in peer-reviewed journals; why wouldn't it? And beyond that, some of those publications are co-authored.
they could be doing something as crazy as putting the key in the "share this" URL. If they put it after the fragment then it doesn't get sent to the server and they can continue to deny having the ability to read file contents. Someone did a "Show HN" with a site that did something similar a month or two back.

Presumably mega then don't offer a site search but instead rely on google to index warez forums with links to the site that include the decryption key. I don't know.

Edit: found the site that did this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3852649
They won't. They get data on 100% of your user's / visitors this way and can use that data to advertise to them via their search engine.
They not only steal but steal at very good timing. Since Google will give their focus to javascript and go from now on :)
"Why is female->male fear different than other kinds of irrational fear?"

That's a loaded question. One of the core things to understand is that this is not an irrational fear at all. In fact, it is very rational.

If a person has had consistent, repeated experiences in which male conference attendees have exhibited unwelcome and aggressive behavior, then they are quite rational to expect that kind of behavior again. Public codes of conduct give people hope that when this kind of behavior does happen again, it will be dealt with appropriately.

It is wrong and irrational to expect harassing and aggressive behavior from everyone; that is stereotyping. But it is quite rational to expect the overall pattern to continue.
It depends on what you're trying to do. For just minimal seeing, yes. For reading, or many kinds of tasks, not so much. There's not enough in the article to know for sure how they're pitching it to the people that might actually use it.
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I'm surprised that nobody has pointed out the other sciences, in which English is clearly the dominant language. If you learn chemistry in any country around the world, you're going to be interacting with periodic tables using the Roman alphabet for elements, for example.

At one point, Latin was the lingua franca[1], but those days are long past. French and Russian were used in the mathematics, but even there, mathematical papers are being published largely in English nowadays as much as possible, even if the author is a native speaker of another language.

The reason this is practical is because the sciences all speak their own language anyway. Every chemist, regardless of their native language, knows that this expression[2] denotes the combustion of propane. Likewise, mathematics uses its own symbols and relationships.

I remember the story of someone - perhaps Erdos? - co-authoring a paper with another mathematician, despite neither of them speaking a single natural language in common.

A well-written computer program may have English identifiers for variable names, but this is really cosmetic more than anything else. (If you don't believe me, go ask your lexer!) Don't confuse the fact that we usually attach English identifiers to variable/function names with the myth that our programming languages are somehow "English" in nature.

[1] An ironic term in this case, for sure!

[2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/a/7/6/a76ae3507ba0d03474726...
Check your math. I used 10 instead of 9.8 for g since I was just doing a "back of the envelope" calculation. 10 x 10 x 3 = 300.
> I know we'll have to take a hit, just as the armed forces did take hits when they put negroes, and then women, and then homosexuals on the firing line.

If by "take a hit" he means "take political arguments," then this is true but irrelevant to his argument. If he means "became less effective," then that would support his argument, but it would also be false.
"collecting this data with the intention of serving you ads"

"they're just diplaying relevant Amazon results"

How are these not ads? Especially when they have affiliate codes? I can't think of a reasonable definition of "ad" that doesn't include this.
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Ah, I took your hypothetical as a proposal for an enforcement loophole, not a legal loophole.
They forgot to mention mixrank.com, a tool for spying on your competitor's marketing strategies.
Likewise - my PhD is engineering, but my advisor was cross-appointed and I published primarily in Physics journals.

Any due diligence done by a TEDx committee should find this, though.
> I am currently in Toronto, but next month will be taking a vacation to the USA.

If you're not going to a common tourist destination for two weeks, have fun at the border.
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Truthfully, most charitable organizations or causes would like celebrities to no donate anonymously because celebrity giving often stimulates other people to give.
There is no space allotment for users. Abuse, however, isn't tolerated.

Meme freely!
By the way, I was actually describing an extremely successful 20-25 person company.

Not that I disagree with you, but even in companies of the same size, there is a huge range in strategies and outcomes for those involved. Small "family style" businesses operate under a very different model from VC-funded start-ups even though they are the same size.

At a company where I've worked, titles were completely 100% nominal and a few years in, what you were doing often had almost nothing to do with what you were hired for.
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If this sounds interesting, ping us at jobs@luma.io with a resume, github profile, and/or links to your past projects. Don't bother with the resume if your projects speak for themselves.

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Stallman hyperbolic nowadays? I hate to be snarky, but... when hasn't he been hyperbolic? He's never been known for moderation and his skills at alliance building across the political spectrum.

Of course, that's not to say he isn't right. Far from it.
Are there any programming languages/environments that allow localization of code? I mean where you can give multiple strings to each declared symbol, for multiple languages.
Math is such a big field that there tends to be much re-use of symbols, and the limited number of Greek letters doesn't help (no one likes multiple-Greek-letter variable names).

To a mathematician reading the technical literature from his own field, there's no issue with math notation. Problems sometimes come up when a specialist in one field tries to read literature from a different specialty -- but that's true in computer programming too.

This may come as a surprise, but math notation is much more uniform than computer-science notation, including all the efforts to create generic program listings. Mathematicians are reluctant to invent new symbols, but it's sometimes necessary.

When I read computer program source code, I often wish the programmer had summarized the meaning of the code using math notation. I guess that puts me in a position precisely opposite that of the author.
There's always this language-neutral programming language: https://leanpub.com/piet. Then again, some would consider it Dutch Modern...
Not without a complete OS re-design, meaning nearly trashing OSX...
Look, even Windows8 needed to introduce an app ecosystem in order to promote a touch-centric interface.
But core OS life, like windows, taskbar still are out of the scope, Windows8 Desktop Mode is still not aiming at touch.
So, i think another revolution would be necessary, despite the technology being completely ready to achieve it.
sigh, you are absolutely correct. The rounding up messed with my brain I saw the 300 and thought "oh that is just 10 * 3 (brain fart) he didn't add in the 9.8"

AND I have to correct mine too since I used 180 for time (30 * 6 rather than 30 * 60)
How much of your decision was influenced by the constraints of the H1B worker visa and the disillusionment with the whole green card process?
I would trust Ubuntu not to push down damaging updates that it would be impossible for them to do without it being discoverable.

I would not trust them to hold on to my personal data with no way of knowing what they are going to do with it.

"You do trust us" is a classic false dichotomy fallacy.
Also a Rubyist here. Not trying to start a war.

Take "the three top web languages of [blank]" as "the three [descriptive adjective] of [list]"

No one can argue that PHP, Ruby & Python are some top of the top languages on the web. Didn't mean for "the" to seem as limiting as you took it.
People love hate on Time Warner and Comcast (I do too), but I have used both of their services and they do offer more mbps than other providers.

At my old apartment I had 50mbps Time Warner (Rochester, NY). At my new apartment I, I have 105mbps Comcast (Charleston, SC).

Whether they'll ever offer 1gbps, I don't know, but 105mbps isn't exactly the 5mbps average that the rest of the country has either.
> If that's what you mean, it fails on several levels

Yes, it's really pointless.

> use a different DNS

That's how we first realized that this is what was happening (we spent some time testing this out to confirm it). It's impossible to say for sure on our end, but it seemed that was the case (as opposed to their DNS servers simply being overloaded, for example).

Amusingly, the trigger is downloading large files - we were downloading an Ubuntu ISO at the time (> 1 GB) that we first noticed this happening.
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What Python package you tried to install that comes with "Unix dependency"?

I have 163 packages in my local pypi, and they work fine on Linux, Windows, and OS X.
I once done a stint in the military, and during training we had to use red light at very low levels to read and write at night time .. it is possible, just a world away from what the average human with access to electricity on tap is used to, I guess.
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Am I the only who is crazy surprised this still happens? New startups have absolutely no excuse since every framework/language has some helpers for users and passwords. Old companies have no excuse because its trivially easy to upgrade users passwords to the new encrypted format.
It's great to correct their error, but I wouldn't immediately presume malicious intent.
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The utility argument to exclude a minority/woman/gay/lesbian person was just BS. But what you're talking about here is the ability to communicate. If you can't communicate with someone, I don't know how you expect them to be able to contribute to a community. The only realistic way would be to have people in charge who can communicate in every language in the world, all of which whom also share a same language in common. Or have every programmer speak every language.
You think you'd be doing someone a favor by enabling them to carry on for a little longer without learning to communicate in English, but in reality, all you'd achieve is closing many many doors that otherwise might be open for them in the future. Not just things like good jobs and scholarships (which itself should be reason enough for any young dev not speaking English yet to drop everything else they have planned and focus on learning it). Not knowing English will make it much harder, if possible at all, to learn and become really good in what they're doing.

If you saw a developer who had to stop drinking whisky each morning because their hands were shaking so badly they had trouble hitting the right key, and you decided to help them by creating a special keyboard, easier to operate with shaking hands, that would be a similar kind of charity to your "inclusiveness".
A patent attorney I know put the cost at $10,000 per non-provisional patent, just in fees and legal expenses. Unless its a fire sale, a companies individual patent is usually worth more than that, depending on the value of the underlying IP.
While I agree that this is an example of spyware, could you explain what you're referring to by "Ubuntu's real motive'?
I understand Canonicals intentions: with everything going "cloud" and "online" it makes total sense to offer just one search box instead of two. It's easy, it's convenient.

However it sends your input to a third party or maybe parties in the future. You no longer control your data. Is it even encrypted? Who can see what you are searching? Your family, your provider, everybody on your wifi?

It's not about ads in the first place, it's about data protection, trust and user interfaces.

However this isn't Ubunut, this is just Canonical Unity. I'd just install gnome-shell/kde/xfce/... and be done with it.
One of my team members actually ran out on her lunch break to buy a dictionary. She told me this a month or two after the fact. She needed to look up something I'd written in an e-mail. I apologized for causing her to go to the extra effort--and expense--but she wouldn't accept it. She enjoyed the verbal challenge and the sense that came with it of becoming a more literate person.

Good communication is not always about passing the message in the optimal way.
Thanks for posting. Maybe this will finally get me to actually start playing/learning node. :)
I love it, although ethically I think this kind of thing is only reasonable if they hide the feature or make it hard to disable. Having it opt-out makes it borderline in my opinion but I can't argue with someone who thinks opt-out is enough to put it over the line.

For example, I like the various different google fuzzers that generate fake searches to hide your real ones in the noise.
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I think your best bet is to contact your representatives in the House and Senate and push for change (whether it's an overhaul of the current system or to try to throw it out entirely). It also doesn't hurt to talk to friends and family, particularly if they ask you about it.
I didn't realize G+ had 'communities' now, so after joining this one I checked out the communities home page:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities

There's at least one major design issue with it - the communities have pictures, but no names or descriptions (unless it's in the picture), and mousing over doesn't give an alt-text description either.

Am I missing something, or does G+ expect us to open every community in a new tab to see what it is?
Not sure, but I don't think it's about improving ones sleep. It's about screwing Twitter.
Yes, the Android development environment allows/encourages this:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/localiza...

In principle, once an app is designed this way, the correct language is automatically selected based on locale.
No, you're just missing the point. People are focused on the profit and monetary cost of decisions based on their limited capacity to reason about time, which is on the order of probably 10-30 years (if we're being overly generous).

Reiterating, not putting all our eggs in one basket ie self-sustaining human populations not on Earth in the shortish term, not in our solar system in the less shortish term, and not in our galaxy in the longish term, is not something a single person is going to do in their lifetime. It may take (tens/hundreds of) thousands of years to accomplish these goals, if they are even possible, but we should start them now because the alternative is a random case of bad luck with a meteor, or a nutter with a thermonuclear or biological weapon, or whatever. Extinction events.

People struggle to see beyond their own needs and desires. If we're to survive as a species, we have to think and plan on time scales that dwarf the current recorded human history.

This isn't meant to be an indictment of you personally, I'm just pointing out that the view-point, though normal and held by the majority of people, is still short-sighted by definition: a human lifetime is nothing in comparison to human history, and the potential human future.
If I were American and didn't need an H1B, It would have happened a year earlier.
How different are the two (if you've used the Ubuntu version as well, that is)?

I've got my family running Linux Mint, and they find it suits their purposes (as any well-designed mainstream Linux distro these days should!). I've been wondering if it's worth switching them over to the Debian-based version the next time I upgrade it, though.

(Linux Mint encourages the "Windows-style" upgrade - ie, back up your data, then install over, and restore, so it wouldn't be that much more work than upgrading to the latest version of the Ubuntu branch).
Have another look at the post.
Kerosene has already been replaced; batteries are cheaper than fuel, and LED lamps are cheaper than kerosene lamps. The rest of this page looks pretty scummy; it says "780 million women and children inhale smoke which is equivalent to smoking 2 packets of cigarettes every day", which blatantly fails basic sanity-checking, and as others have pointed out the duration and brightness numbers for this don't add up either. So this is at best a well-intentioned but stupid waste of money, and at worst a scam.
I nominate your analogy for "ShitHNSays."
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This is why it's on IndieGoGo, rather than KickStarter.
I would assume that Amazon has something against that kind of automatic referral in their TOS somewhere.
I find this an interesting side effect of patent-a-geddon. The government looks stupid, and politicians are only human and don't like to be associated with 'stupid' so they react.

The result has been a tremendous amount of "light" being shown on the patent process, the people who run the process, the goals of the process, the effects of the process, and perhaps most importantly the stuff that makes it through that process.

There is a lot of stuff that could use some "light" therapy. The danger is that Congress is a blunt instrument at best and a complete disaster at worst. So one has to hope that enough tension is created such that the good people are empowered to fix things, but not so much that the bogus people can use it to do more harm than good.
> I originally switched away from Ubuntu because I didn't like the stuff I saw getting pushed to my machine in updates.

What are you referring to?
Once again, reading snippets from a patent does nothing. You might as well read a copyrighted story and exclaim in horror "Well this is rich, he's trying to claim 'Once upon a time' for himself!"

A patent does not claim every single thing that is listed. An infringing device must contain every single thing listed in the claims.

Claim 7 is my favorite: "The computing device of claim 1, wherein, in one heuristic of the one or more heuristics, a contact comprising a simultaneous two-thumb twisting gesture corresponds to a 90.degree. screen rotation command."
He is correct on a lot of things if you throw popular opinion out of the window and consider what is best for you*

* human nature is inherently self-destructive. He seems to identify that it doesn't have to be.
Wow, a CEO with a Math Olympiad medal and $12 million bucks. Udemy is going places.
I didn't. I simply said they were lying. Lying is now so common that malice doesn't need to be assumed.
You offer some really good advice, and I'm in a REALLY similar boat / life.

I wrote up something like this about 1.5 years ago. I started my company on the side, while still working a similar (top-tier consulting) gig. I hedged my bets a bit more by running the shop while I still had a full-time [salary] and built out my dev team as full-timers first. As of 1.5 months ago, 3 more of us are full-time and in beautiful San Francisco trying to grow the collective into something real. 7 full time, and 10+ in the collective.

The problem with both of our writings to the world about doing this, is that it's not actionable. It's motivational and awesome, but there's not much of an action item. If you can't do it in a single pomodoro, most people won't do it :)

We're both young, without a family tie-down, and ironically both Russian-born? men.

@OP:
Team up for a blog post next week so that we can put together some actionable steps towards giving up the life of a cog and working for yourself on actually building something awesome?

vlad (at) DarwinApps.com if you're interested.
Annoyingly I did this once and then promptly forgot the port number, resulting in nmap time :(