skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
teaspoons and tablespoons are metric - one teaspoon is 5 ml; one tablespoon is 15 ml. I'm not sure how useful it is having a volumetric unit instead of a mass[1] unit; but that's one thing I like about US cooking. "About a cup of this; about to cups of that" - it's all nice and intuitive. I know roughly what 500 g of flour is, or sugar, but 80 g of butter is tricky.

[1] sorry if I'm using the wrong term. Friendly corrections welcomed.
On the contrary, it's a huge problem. Sooner or later there will be the surge they can't deal with and then we could easily get the same cascade issues that destabilized the North American grid during the outage. Island mode - the disconnection of all external connections - is the failsafe of last resort but by that time there will be large areas of Europe in the dark ages.

The grid has become so interconnected with such highly fluctuating loads that it's a miracle we haven't seen a serious outage yet.

Basically Germany uses Polish, Czech and Hungarian grids as a load leveler and as a way to transport power inside the union to countries they have deals with. But exactly those grids are amongst the oldest and weakest that we've got.

This is not a simple problem and the potential for error is much larger than you'd expect given the number of people that rely on these systems. So far so good. I personally believe that Germany should pay for the conditioning equipment to deal with the varying load of their windplants, the load patterns are a direct consequence of using wind energy and it should not fall to Germany's neighbours to fund a chunk of infrastructure that solely exists to deal with the wind surges.

In the United States every windplant has a conditioner at the uplink to make sure that the relatively fragile long distance network does not suffer. That's one single economic entity so there is no externalization possible.
Of course not: sovereign currencies have well-known benefits. Multiple systems of measurement are only a hindrance, a friction.
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The problems with Vista are in no way comparable with the problems in Windows 8. Microsoft did only kill minor great features with Vista (like Shell column handlers, e.h. revision number with TortoiseSvn) but not big important things like the start menu.

I wonder if Microsoft really brings the start menu back in windows 9. If not I'm out
what exactly is there not working well with Outlook in the regular Mail client on the iPhone?
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_000...

"The fraction one-fifth is likewise common (Lev. 5:16; 22:14)." "In ritual observances the fraction one-tenth occurs frequently (Num. 28)." "The term pi shenayim originally meant two-thirds but subsequently came to signify "twice as much" (II Kings 2:9)."

As for the translation, I used NIV. Some others will actually say 20% for that quote.
This is fairly similar to fuel mileage, where some places use miles per gallon (distance per volume) while others use litres per 100km (volume per distance). Changing systems is fairly irrelevant though, since you can still measure your mileage in kilometres per litre if you want.
I don't see the purpose and don't have the time to have a long, detailed argument about this, particularly when you have begun by putting the words "during his time" in my mouth. The supremacy of Leonardo is contentious and shouldn't be taken as dogma.

If you want to become an excellent engineer or artist then you will probably be better served by getting educated, and logging many hours in progressively more difficult jobs, than procrastinating and dithering.

Anyway, most people don't have the luxury, and will only get anything interesting done if they put in serious focused effort.
Have you ever used mysql cluster in a bigger deployment? I wonder if it got usable over the last ~4 years when I tried it. At the time it was buggy, continuously corrupting data and had no real support apart from a very niche IRC channel. I've still got some very basic bugs open against it without any resolution at all.
Indeed in country fully converted to metric, the old unit are converted to their closest sane metric equivalent.

For example, my grand-mother still talks about buying a pound of stuff. However a pound is now understood as meaning 0.5 kg, we even learn it that way in school.
> First, the intense magnetic field variations in the magnetosphere induce electric fields and currents over large areas of Earth's surface. In turn, this geoelectric field creates what are known as geomagnetically induced currents, or GICs, which flow in any available conductor, including high-voltage transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, railways, and undersea communications cables. These interconnecting networks essentially act as giant antennas that channel the induced currents from the ground. Hit with a 300-ampere GIC, a high-voltage transformer's paper tape insulation will burn, its copper winding will melt, and the transformer will fail, either right then and there or in the future.

> There is a quick and relatively cheap fix to help protect these transformers from geomagnetically induced currents: They can be retrofitted to block the inflow of GICs. But no utilities anywhere routinely protect their multimillion-dollar transformers in this way.
> Google is easy to identify this way, even with a spoofed user agent (which they do a lot now).

That's part of their page-cloaking detection code.
Go has full support for gdb if you want a debugger. You can even hook into go routines.
> What measurement are you optimizing for?

Take your pick. The US is at or very near the worst among OECD countries in: infant mortality, child poverty, child health and safety, life expectancy at birth, healthy life expectancy, rate of obesity, disability-adjusted life years, doctors per 1000 people, deaths from treatable conditions, rate of mental health disorders, rate of drug abuse, rate of prescription drug use, incarceration rate, rate of assaults, rate of homicides, income inequality, wealth inequality, and economic mobility.
If dreadful stock photos were a game over for every article I'd ignore half the internet.
A month is generous, though it depends on the community, I suppose.
Hieroglifs participates in the International Technical Fair in Bulgaria
In autumn 2012 Hieroglifs Translations took part in the International Technical Fair which is amongst the most well-known Bulgarian forums of investment solutions and technological innovations. Read more: http://www.hieroglifstranslations.ro/en/blogs/Hieroglifs_in_technical_fair_Plodliv
and who are you? I mean what is the company that you bootstrapped?
Yeah, when I got to that part I had to read it twice and check the URL. It suddenly turned into some kind of smutty story talking about her cleavage and beautiful dark blonde hair.

Some more details on how they setup the business and deliver the goods to customers would be helpful.
Also calling shenanigans. The sentence 'As a graduate student at Harvard she had become familiar with the Bing search engine's advanced capabilities' reeks of marketing.
A quick search for Jasper Kuria (the author and submitter) on LinkedIn explains the slobbering over Bing -- he was a software engineer at Microsoft.

What a pile of hoof-and-mouth cowpies.
Ugh, I tried reading that a few years ago. Its pretty much a schlocky self-help book with large doses of new age religion in it. I guess whatever works for Steven Pressfield, but that doesn't work for me.

This website has everything that book has, and more, without the awkward self-help spiritualism that's so popular:

http://gapingvoid.com/2004/07/25/how-to-be-creative/

Also, if you're "busy" reading /r/getmotivated and books like these you're not actually doing work. You're reading about doing work. These advice guides are traps and time wasters in themselves. Good in small doses, but after a point, they're just as bad as watching TV.
From NASCAR to rum, the 10 weirdest parts of the ‘fiscal cliff’ deal
So, 'Big Data' has been simplified to 'Problems Solvable by MapReduce'? sigh.

Not every problem can be reduced into a completely cache-able batch job, trivially parallelizable across all of your data. 'Big Data' isn't about breaking up your batch processing into three layers, it's about being smart enough and knowledgeable enough in compsci, statistics, calculus, text processing, regexes, machine learning, business analysis, et cetera, to design an effective system which harvests useful insights from a large bank of atomic, messy, inconsistent data, with an appropriate level of availability and consistency.

The real work is not in using/configuring Hadoop—it's about figuring out what information would bring greater-than-marginal value to a business, and how to compute that efficiently from an existing corpus of data.

There's no silver bullet. Remember?

EDIT: I think the following is particularly disingenuous: "The lambda architecture solves the problem of computing arbitrary functions on arbitrary data in real time by decomposing the problem into three layers"

This is such a ridiculous promise, that it put me in a strongly skeptical mood for the rest of the article.
Designer-friendly templates + A/B testing for Django
Is there a deal for both the PDF and the book? Or do I have to pay twice (it looks like it's $29 each for the book and PDF).
weren't we supposed to kick this problem over to enterprise architecture??
Done correctly, you don't even need to use assembly to do this sort of thing. http://stratiger.com/cpup4.c is a straightforward C member of the same category of programs.
Then look at one of the many other countries that have completed it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication#Chronology_and_stat...
But aren't things like road signs in mph defined by law?
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In defining goals similar to this I've often found that its easier to stick to the goal when I've clearly defined and understood the reason for the goal. Why do you want to write an average of 100 words per day? Improve your writing skills? get more traffic to your blog? Simply prove to yourself that you can do it?
The Future of Sales Technology
The UK and the US is essentially the same story. The British seemed furious that the EU mandated use of metric internally. But it did not force the UK to change its road signs (still in yards and miles) or what beer comes in (pints).

Nothing really changed, other than confirming by directive that EU member states uses the Metric system with one another. There are still Brits who complain that the weather reports are no longer in Fahrenheit, but in Celsius. But the EU has no control over that.

So yeah; pretty much the same. Oh and the Brits still weigh themselves in stones.
Hiring your first sales rep: 10 tips to avoid common mistakes
The article opens by quoting the NYTimes claiming the iPad's keyboard is "abysmal for typing anything over 140 characters", yet fails to address this point anywhere. Is touch as fast and accurate as a keyboard and mouse?
Fraud in this area is not a major problem. Participants who misrepresent their gender usually do not find dating success.
It'd be acceptable to me if:

i) There was a clear expectation when I signed up
ii) You handle the ads; you're not giving my email address to anyone else
iii) There's a clear way to get ads turned off (paid upgrade is fine)
iv) Ads don't interfere or obscure with unsub links.

Be aware that I HTML email sucks and is evil. And email with images in is also pretty suck and evil. I'm aware that I lost that argument years ago, and so I can receive html email, and I can chose to view images.
How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?
My understanding of speed limits in the US is that each state defines it. There is no national speed limits (hence why Montana is famous for its high speed limits on motorways, but not much else).

But I doubt that Washington D.C. uses kph on its speed signs, though.
Hi, tow21. I can't tell from the wording of your ad. Do you accept remote workers or only people in London?
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I've been a zipcar user for several years. I hope they have some more affordable rates coming up after this.

I don't have a car, and so I rely on zipcar when I do need one. The problem is that if I need it a few times a month it's rediculous compared to the cost of having a car.

One month I needed a car a lot, and wound up spending $850 on zipcars! That sucked.
> This doesn't mean that weather forecasting, economics, agile software methodologies -- to pick just a few famous examples of subjects dealing with complex systems -- are totally broken tools that must henceforth be discarded.

Not that I want to ridicule you here, but it is interesting that two of your three examples fucked up so bad at various times we WOULD be better off if we discarded them (or even better: Send them back to research until they provide reliable results) - economics and weather forecasting. For the third one the bets are still open.

For the general case/dieting: The observation that a net calorie deficit always leads to weight loss seems correct. The observation that you can always induce such a deficit is also correct. Using this knowledge to state "eat less, you will lose weight" leads to what I call the "dumb and proven way" - It will work(1), but your body will(2) fight you tooth and nail at every step, i.e. your body will do everything to reduce the net deficit. The open question: Is there a way to get a comparable/bigger net deficit without fighting your body? Keto, paleo and whatever try to provide an answer. For me, they fall into the agile software methodologies category: There may be benefits. Or not.

(1) It will work if you can stay with it, which is unrealistic for many cases, but people still like the "idea".

(2) Some bodies fight hard, some not. That's life.
Use http://onlineconversion.com

1 Tablespoon [UK] = 14.206 531 25 milliliter

Tablespoon and teaspoon measurements correlate to fluid ounce measurements - 1 Tablespoon [UK] = 0.5 ounce [UK, liquid]

They're definitely imperial.
I can't read any of those questions/answers because I'm not logged in to Quora.

Which, in my opinion, further proves my point. Find me a real world person who googles a question and is able to find a Quora answer as a result.

To each their own I suppose.
I do. I do research elsewhere, and then go to Amazon for price shopping. Asus in particular was best on Amazon.
Computer Scientists Measure How Much of the Web is Archived
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Churchill
Agree in regards of Cloud awareness but as in my case it was in house Cloud which amount of nodes is not changed so frequently. Anyway when You add new nodes You have to specify them inside configuration so rack awareness also can be updated during that maintenance.
Regarding which distribution to use - there are lot of them now such as MapR, Hortonworks, Apache and Cloudera. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages but if You take support such we have with Cloudera then even special requests for incorporating fixes from Apache side is possible. And for OS it doesn't matter which to use but I would prefer CentOS because it is almost as Redhat (You do not need anything from RedHat that CentOS cannot give You for Hadoop cluster). Another thing is that CentOS is supported accross all of these vendors as usually it is made for RedHat and then works perfect on CentOS. Also there are lot of things that can improve Hadoop such as:
- Turn of swapping
- ulimit has to be at least 64K
- It is better to have more disks because of failure on one side and disk performances on another side. With having less disks than reading data become bottleneck and so on and so on
Regexper: Beautiful regexp visualizations
After having my account locked down because I didn't want to use my full name I closed my account, shortly after they turned into a more modern looking experts exchange and I wasn't so sore about not being able to contribute to the site.
In defence of imperial units
I remember during the influx of Polish workers in the UK, that a pub got into some trouble because it sold a certain Polish beer in a 1 litre glass.
Great product! But seems to be self depreciatory by limiting only to churches.

Amazing to see how the half an hour with the twitter bootstrap templates can become a viable source of income.

I dont want to have to pay to be able to pay some more.
The problem with this is some companies want to remain small. They don't want to be the next instagram or pinterest. They are perfectly happy pulling in $1-2MM and supporting a healthy lifestyle for the few employees it employs.

I'm not necessarily saying I disagree with the premise of this article, but the owners need to make a choice about what kind of company they are running and take the necessary steps to achieve that.
You do not need to replace them all at once. For example the new signs could be European style, red ringed white circles with the number inside. Virtually every car has both readings already. This would make new speed limit signs immediately recognizable to more visitors in the future while avoiding ambiguity of units during the transition. They could even say km/h during the first generation.
What about the recurring cost that we have now of using both systems?
The one big change in the UK was greengrocers and the like being prosecuted by Trading Standards Authorities for using imperial measurements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Martyrs
Ireland has converted mostly to the metric system, we switched to kilometers for speed limits in 2005. To be honest you get used to it pretty quickly. There are a number of items, particularly those that are traded with our neighbours in the UK that are shown as both metric and imperial. You still get a pint of Guinness in the pub but all bottles and cans of beer are in metric.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_Ireland
Ramsay, Scottish, he wishes! Might have been born just outside of Paisley but moved to England when he was 5. He's as English as apple pie.
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We have recently launched a startup targeting mobile donations for churches (http://thegivingapp.com/).

Our reasons:

1. We know the church market's needs pretty well.

2. It is a niche market that we feel is underserved.

3. Our product is an MVP. If it works for churches, we feel our assumption is validated and it will work for other non-profits as well.
> We ask for a footlong, a quarter pounder etc when we go out for fast food.

So? There's nothing wrong with asking for something called a "footlong" and getting a 30cm meal. Nothing wrong with asking for a "pint" and getting 500ml of beverage.
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They do, but on the lower tiers you can still get a late-model VW Golf, which is actually pretty nice. On the higher tiers you can get Audi, Mini, BMW, Mercedes-Benz C-class. Avis's idea of a nice car is a fucking Chrysler.
No, it's different. distance / volume vs volume / distance are just inverses. Weight vs Volume are completely different measures and can only be compared by knowing the specific properties of the contents. Some recipe books have conversion tables for using depending on _what_ you're measuring.
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Please tell me this is some trolling by the Onion.
> Defining a macro for implementing a limited functionality a language can do, which consists of just a cond is a sign of inability to grasp what features are available and how to use them in appropriate way.

Work on your reading comprehension, and comprehension in general. Every fucking language has fucktard ways of contructing lists. Constructing lists and list comprehensions aren't the same thing(I am a bit weirded out that I have to point it, but with someone as dense as you, there aren't any other options).

> btw, using such kind of language against a Russian is a shortest way to a ProblemFactory)

Everytime I think online forums have hit the rock bottom, and can't go any lower, some fucktard comes along and proves me wrong. Why don't you go fuck off somewhere where people might be impressed with your imaginary tales of bad-assery? Or find other morons on youtube or something and make shit up about how badass you are, instead of wasting my time here.

EDIT: Please tell me this russian bit is your idea of humor. The alternative is depressing.
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Over the few months they worked together on the project, Sheri gradually fell for Lerionka's calm demeanor. The steely mysterious gaze in his eyes and rich baritone voice set off a deep and powerful feeling of attraction in her. She fell in love.

Almost pushin' thirty, she was worried she would never experience this amazing feeling before her looks faded. And boy does she have looks in spades! With a svelte 5' 4 curvacious figure, a pretty face, and beautiful dark blonde hair flowing freely over her shoulders, she has never lacked dates.

She often dresses down to avoid having grown men stare at her cleavage and not value her for her brains. But even with these assets Sheri believes that "only once in your life do you find a man who makes you feel truly feminine in every fiber of your being."

Lerionka may not have much formal education but he knows what it means to be a real man. When he says no, he means no. He also does not believe in sparing the rod and spoiling the woman and, in the past, used it liberally to great effect.

Recently, though, Maasai men have had to change to be more in tune with the times. Kenya's new constitution gives women more rights and many men may run afoul of the law if they stick to their old ways.

While Sheri likes the new laws she secretly admits that she prefers this strength and authority to the wishy-washy ways of the men she's dated in the posh Mercer Island, Washington neighborhood she grew up in. They tippy toe over issues and are too eager to please. She's joked with her girlfriends that Lerionka should hold a "how to be a real man" workshop for their boyfriends and husbands!

In June Lerionka and Sheri will welcome their first son, whom they have decided to name Lenana, after the legendary Maasai warrior!
So we'd have to rename the quarter-pounder with cheese to royale with cheese?
> Why not standardise ... date and time formats

There are two ways to do dates and times (especially when sending machine-readable data across the web):

1) ISO 8601

2) A world of pain.

Personally, I prefer option 1. So, that one is done.

The "world of pain" with US/UK date formats is that code that's not even written yet can fail to interoperate, but only when it's deployed to a different machine with different system defaults and only after the 13th of the month rolls around. That kind of landmine is an unacceptable feature for a format to have.
This would be a great analogy if countries in grey shared a common language.
I wish I could install arch-arm to the internal drive.
Articles are very well written! Thumbs up Ben! :D
Why do we need arrays in C++ when we have vectors?
Your like/tweet counter is serving as negative social proof. Get rid of the counter until you build up some likes.
I grew up with the metric system but have now come to largely accept the imperial system as a more humane system.

Nassim Taleb actually talks about the benefits of it in his latest book Anti-Fragile as well.

The metric system is already used for anything important in the US and doesn't need to be further legislated. Look at any food item you buy in the supermarket it already has grams or ml on it.

I wrote a piece a few years ago about this:
http://stakeventures.com/articles/2007/08/28/in-defence-of-i...