skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fahrenheit is not really optimized for that either. It's basically optimized for "still positive in the coldest days in Denamrk some 200 years ago, and less than 100 in the warmest days". (Seriously)

If you live in e.g. San Diego, it goes from ~60 to ~90. If you live in NYC, it goes from ~25 to ~100. That's not more optimized than Celsius, which goes from ~15 to ~30 and ~-4 to ~35 respectively.

However, when in NYC, you know that negative celsius means black-ice out in the street; zero celsius mostly means snow, and positive celsius means non of the above.

Also, you know that 1kcal that you get from food (or Con Edison) will heat one liter of water by one degree celsius (and a quart is a good approximation for a liter, if you're still in NYC ...)
"while a DUNS number is free, you have to pay to manage your rating"

Sounds like they're going with the Better Business Bureau's model, only with less consumer pretense that they're a legitimate governmental agency with the power to do anything and less charitable "we're a volunteer-staffed agency and thus neutral" airs.
Where is the link to the hangout?
cellphones at school is a bad thing when kids use it to only to text friends that are in the same space (the school), not talking in person and arrange commitments, and abundance of texting ends in empty talks when facing someone, losing sence of important social "skills" needed for life: and that's an important role of schools
All of the companies have insisted that they're not selling structured ASICs, though.
The Infinite Loop
Have to take a look at it, thanks! :)
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But it works both ways. It is a "tariff" when you want to export.
Font Awesome 3.0 Released - sub-setting, pixel perfect at 14px, better license
Do you think da Vinci performing and documenting dissections is strong evidence of his procrastination?

FYI my six year-old can also draw machines that can't actually fly.
Maybe I'm getting mixed up with the Acer C7 model, which was also on display.
Any ideas on what it is? I would guess Ubuntu for Android that they had talked about previously, but I have no idea of how far along that work is.
You're absolutely right. Technical people would most likely embrace the switch. Everyone else will brush it off. I find that Americans are typically very cautious of any kind of change. Especially baby boomers. Let alone a change that is "imposed" by the rest of the world. That isn't going to fly here. We don't do things in the same way the rest of the world does them. That's just our mentality. Imagine a football field marked with metric units. Man, I just cringed a little bit. :)
Water is the most important substance for life in Earth.

It boils at 100º centigrades and freezes at 0º centigrades

0.1m³ is one liter (1L) of water, so 1m³ is 1,000 liters of water

1L of water is 1 Kilogram

The imperial system is awful, please bury it.
Can your phone double up as your life-coach?
Looks like they reject any long regex, including the one on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/46155/validate-email-addr...
Elizabeth Gilbert (authored Eat Pray Love) had some similar thoughts in this fantastic TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA
> Have you ever been inside of a hardware store?

I believe so. Maybe a couple of times. Or maybe I practically lived in one for a couple of years.

Would this do for you?

http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/trips/jansvisit/?g2_page=6

Yes, there is a section for metric in the hardware store.

It's the bit at the back with about 1/2 the sizes missing and only the stuff that you don't need in stock. I've had a machine shop in Canada (which officially had metric) and it was quite hard to get metric stuff. So hard that in the end we standardized on Imperial. In the US it was way worse.

Socket sets have standard and metric. Metric mostly for working on Japanese or European cars. But the most tools 'at hand' will be imperial. Maybe your experience is different but I've had plenty of bolts on my Japanese car wrecked by a shop putting imperial tools on them and plowing ahead. Works especially good if you use airtools, instant roundness.

You care about road signs because they're a sign that you really are standardizing. If your road signs are still in Miles then you're not a 'metric' country.

And you care about a tape measure only in metric because that's all you use in a metric country.

Machine tools - of which I owned a small fortune worth of - have things called morse tapers for the various tool bits. Morse tapers are adapters that allow you to quickly switch bits, most of the tooling that fits them is in Imperial. Collets, the elements that hold tooling for a mill or a lathe are all in imperial sizes. Unless you order from a very large catalogue it is very difficult to get mills in metric, but that is much more frustrating is that it can even be hard to source drills in metric.

Machining is done to thousands of an inch in the US. The rest of the world uses 1/100th of a mm for both turning and milling, and a series of fittings for more precise work.

The good news is that the bigger bearing companies all do carry metric if you need it. And if they don't have it in stock it 's usually only a day away.

Unless you've actually tried to design a somewhat complex chunk of machinery you might be given the impression that 'metric is easy'. In practice stuff like shafts, gears, supports and so on are all easier to source in Imperial than in Metric both in the US and in Canada too.

You want to order in Imperial, just one moment while I get your order form the warehouse out back. You want to order in Metric. That's perfectly fine, we're a metric country after all. Would it suit you to pick your order up in early march, possibly the middle of april before it is complete?
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I've always considered the first rule of development is to first figure out what the client actually needs:

Average people will try to build what the client wants and fail.

Good people will build what the client wants.

Great people will build what the client needs.
I had the same issue with my Galaxy S3 where trying to get my dad to understand how to use Google+ hangouts for video conferencing was very hard.

Having the hangouts be part of the Google+ infrastructure is hurting it's uptake because most people see Google+ as something they don't bother using because they're on Facebook instead.
Getting Hung Up
It's not up yet, but it is supposed to be on that page and on OMG Ubuntu as well once the link is announced.
I've always been happy with "The Bread Bible", by Rose Levy Beranbaum. That book contains all recipes in both metric and imperial.

When I make short meads, I do it a little more off the cuff.. Then it's what tastes right for the honey water in terms of concentration.
It's now my primary laptop as well.

I've gotten 95% of my development tools working properly on it. Granted, most of those tools are command-line based (i.e. vim, git, python, etc.), so it's not really a surprise. The only barriers keeping this from becoming my only computer are things that I never expected it to conquer in the first place. I didn't get it with the expectation it could run IntelliJ/Arduino, so no hard feelings there.

I now reach for the Chromebook far more often than I do my (older generation) Macbook Air.
Smart phones had a significant impact.

The original eee pc 701 had a small keyboard; a small (but I think nice) display and limited soldered in SSD storage. (4 gb). This was released 2007.

That's the same year the first iPhone was released. While netbooks are useful for some people a lot of people just need to read email, noodle about on the web, and play games.

I agree that it's really annoying that really cheap, portable, limited function machines are not available. Chromebooks are probably the closest, but the cloud thing is a bit of a worry for me.
Only for something super, super simple though. You can't have nested data structures in hstore.
Well, unless the project manager is a "professional" as in the article, yes, it would solve the problem.
Issues with Equity Misalignment
Yes I agree. I've never felt that I shipped a product late because it took me too long to type. A good editor and a nice setup certainly help me feel better, but I think it's very easy to get carried away.
Do you do anything besides typical "web-stuff" on it? Granted, I spend quite a bit of time in my browser, but then I have that pesky development-thing I do. I like my iPad, but it hasn't replaced my laptop.
>> The metric system was originally developed by scientists during the enlightenment, but became the political tool it is today as part of the French revolution, yes it was brought to you by the good folks who also brought you the guillotine.

>I forget the latin term for why this is a bad argument.

That latin would be, I think, "brainus fuckus" :)
Is there any indication that they'll ever add windowed (not full-screen) X-forwarding?

When I'm working from afar, ssh with tunneled X is all I need.
This is a great tool that provides a lot of great icons! We use it at taskup.com and we're glad to see that more icons are added
SlimerJS, a PhantomJS-like tool running Gecko
Qtzweb: A Quartz Composer to WebGL & JavaScript Compiler
Patent trolls want $1,000 per employee for using scanners
I'm really interested in this, and it would really sell me on using it if there was a demo provided.
Pragmatic Flight of Fancy in Rails Testing
Anyone in a country that uses the celsius scale knows that the temperature argument is rubbish... It's totally and completely what you're used to. I doubt people really think of temperature in more than about eight or ten increments anyway (bloody freezing, cold, pleasant, etc.) so having a range of forty or fifty integers really gives you more than enough precision.

I suppose it doesn't really matter what people use to express the temperature in common use, but having a unified scale across ambient temperature, cooking, science (1K = 1°C), manufacturing, etc. that people in almost every other country uses really does make sense, especially when the conversion is so annoying.
If you want to hipster it up, you can convert the code to punchcards.
Every icon has been redesigned from the ground up to be pixel perfect at Bootstrap's default 14px. We've partnered with icnfnt.com to allow sub-setting of the font to get just the icons you use on your site, keeping load times way down. And there's a more open license (SIL Open Font License). And there's new styles with spinners.
As a programmer young in my career, it's interesting to get this type of perspective.
> The raspberry pi is a much more complex machine than the arduino. 32 bit instructions vs 8 bit, 700MHz vs 20MHz clock frequency, GPU vs no GPU, 512MB memory vs less than 1MB

I have no arduino experience and am happy to be educated, but I don't see how any of those things makes the pi harder to program. Maybe the instruction set's harder, but that only matters if you're writing asm. There's more stuff you can do, but that doesn't get in the way if you just want to code arduino-like stuff.

> You certainly can make LEDs blink with a raspberry pi with your own non-OS code, but the difference in the amount of code required vs doing it in an arduino is pretty substantial.

Here is some baremetal code that blinks LEDs on a pi:

https://github.com/dwelch67/raspberrypi/blob/master/blinker0...

It's not that bad, really. Admittedly some of the peripherals are much harder work than that. I should add that I have nothing against the Arduino, but as a n00b to baremetal / embedded style programming I'm not finding the pi particularly gruelling. Maybe I just don't know what I'm missing.
That would probably work if the US economy wasn't so big. In reality, it isn't until you get to niche products that it will be possible (and ay have happened); anything as mainstream as a Coke bottle will be fine in imperial.
Custom Solarized-Light Color Scheme for Sublime Text 2
Show HN: Our HTML5/CSS3/GSAP-JS/SoundJS/letterpress holiday card
For our holiday card this year, we made a site where anyone can create and send their own holiday card in the form of a word puzzle. The art was all created by well known letter press print studio Firecracker Press (you know, movable lead type!) and the code uses bleeding edge libraries from Greensock ( http://www.greensock.com/gsap-js/ ) and CreateJS (http://www.createjs.com/#!/SoundJS ). The link is to our blog post about it. You can play the game itself at http://www.xmaspie.com!
I listen to either ratchet music or dubstep. Probably some of the worst music to listen to, but it gets me motivated.
So many solutions, so few problems :/
Success of the Chromebook? Sure there needs to be more data than being at the top of Amazon bestsellers list?

Real hard numbers from Google would be good but I don't think they're going to release them(no Nexus sales numbers). Statscounter and Net Applications numbers would be good for a proxy count.
> Great people will build what the client needs.

Be careful with pricing though. They want something cheap, that won't work. They need something more expensive that will work. Persuading them may be frustrating, may take time, may risk you losing the job to someone less scrupulous than you who puts in a lower quote.

Are you going to be paid for the consultation involved in persuading them to use the better solution?

Compare two other industries: sign making and electronic sub contract engineering.

If you ask a sign maker to make a sign with a spelling error you'll get a sign with a spelling error. It's up to the customer to know what they want, and it keeps a bright line of expected behaviour from the sign maker.

Similar with sub contract electronic engineering. They build stuff to your supplied documents. If your documents are wrong they'll build the device wrong. If they really cannot build the device they'll get in touch. They are charging you for a service and that's what they deliver. They're not charging you for design work, and so they don't do that.
Preserve field order with Unix cut
What is it about the Chromebook that you prefer over the Air?
I do a lot of ssh stuff from it, there's a pretty decent ssh client available and that helps a lot.

When I first got it, the default ssh client was javascript based, but you could get the native code version by joining a specific Google group and then installing a development version of the same ssh client, not sure if thats changed yet
Really interesting idea, could become something big for the opensource community.
Here is the thing: Created for still positive for the coldest days in Denmark and under 100 for the warmest is optimizing for ambient outdoor temperature. And much more human readable than heating one liter of water etc. I am not saying it is perfect, but I don't see why it shouldn't continue to be used as it is currently: F for weather reports and such while using C/K for more scientific pursuits.
Interesting, now multiples times I have had client not consider this "Real World" enough. :) How would you go about handling such a client?
Were time conversions as common or necessary as other unit conversions, you can bet your ass decimal time would have more takers.

Even so, varying units does restrict how we can express time. Even if someone tells you something as simple as "half a week", you have to ask for clarification. And while "a week from now" translates to a date, forget about "a month from now." That could mean half a dozen different things.
So ACE editor + GitHub API + Commenting and Liking. It's a very, very simple concept. I think mainly what it has going for it is the limited barrier to entry. I'm just not sure what the long term sustainability is. Mainly its lacking the personal network aspect. I have no way of finding the developers I'm following on GitHub.
TypeScript Grammar
You might've spent $850 on cars that month, but what about the rest of the year? I tallied up my Zipcar usage for 2012 the other day, and I spent $1750 on Zipcars. Most I'd rent a car was 3-4 times a month for 2-4 hours. Compare $1750 to the $100/mo and $250/mo, plus maintenance and gas for the car I used to own and Zipcar is still incredibly affordable.
It seems to me that time zones are standard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_time
I think they (canonical) have hinted at Ubuntu with touch support. This could be interesting for some of the touch laptop hardware that has been coming out with W8.
Do you have a link to your source code? It would be interesting to see the difference in the actual code.
Does anyone else on HN work on their own car? My ancient unbreakable domestic mfgr '97 GM car is all metric. Right off the top of my head the oil drain plug is a M12-1.75 bolt. I just replaced the battery two weeks ago, all metric (I think they were M10 bolts? I was in a huge hurry). Seemingly everything on my GM car is metric, and it was built 15 years ago, I can only imagine how metric everything in auto-land is now.
Great set.
Unfortunately it's not his posts that would be noise[1], it would be the very many replies to his posts that would be noise.

[1] Some of the comments are noise. The pretty harsh language would be challenging for some people to not respond to.
> This is a bunch of fictions.

Not really, those are all pretty practical examples. I've dealt with each and every one of those.

> Americans with wrenches tend to have both SAE and metric sizes.

The metric ones will be brand new if they have them, the imperial ones will be well worn.

> The thread pitches of metric bolts differs from SAE standards

Indeed they do. In the EU Ford vehicles are all metric unless they were private imports from the USA. I'm not sure what the situation is today but when I still lived in Canada the ford we had had all imperial sizes bolts as far as they were exposed.

> Tape measures have standard units because they're standard where tape measures are used - in construction.

Yes, and as long as you don't change that that's they way it will stay. The English drive on the left because they do. But that doesn't mean they can say that they've adopted driving on the right side of the road because they could. They haven't. So construction is almost entirely in Imperial.

In a metric country, metric is used everywhere, because it makes sense.
Of course, the obligatory article about programmers and names must be linked to here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
>..or what beer comes in (pints).
If you read the bottom of the glass you will see the size in ml, 568ml.

You may call it a pint but officially it is a 568ml glass.
Designing an ASIC that only does SHA256 really fast should be a lot faster than an ASIC that does more than one thing, right?
But what should the demo provide? wbb generates html, mobi, epub or rtf files from your markdown. I don't really can demonstrate that. But you can just clone it and run 'grunt wbb:publish' and you'll see a generated book in all formats :).

Checkout the wiki: https://github.com/PascalPrecht/wbb/wiki
US uses US standard measures, not imperial.
Damian Conway on the State of Perl, Perl 6, Writing Parsers and DSLs
The magic behind Wiki Loves Monuments Panamá: free software - Wikimedia Blog
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I have found a hack to get a DUNS number instantly that I have used for 5-10 different companies of mine, it works every time and as far as I can tell there is no backlash. feel free to email me if you're reading this and want to save $230 lol
That would make good sense. What about things like wheel nuts, hitch attachements and so on?

The ford I had had a surprising amount of imperial on it about a decade ago. Presumably under the hood and inside the engine it was all metric though.
If you make it a simple surcharge that's then fully payable to whoever will take the car in the opposite direction, it should be transparent enough that people won't see it as gouging.
Capitalism is the economic and political system in which no one may initiate force against anyone else.

The only way to institute such a system is to have an institution that holds a self-enforced monopoly on retaliatory force, which is the government.

Under any form of anarchism, the gang that is most successful at weilding force gains control. "Market anarchism" is an oxymoron, because markets (freedom) and force are opposites. Likewise, "anarcho-capitalism" is an oxymoron.
I'm not really sure why this is being downvoted. At least with a firing squad the person dies nearly instantly. The anticipation may be slightly worse however.
Just bought and did a big upgrade on a used Acer Aspire One ZG5. Great little machine.

Perfect for working on the train, where space is very cramped, and since I'm already walking 4 miles a day with one full size laptop in my backpack, the low weight is a big plus!
It's a nice novelty, but it certainly won't ever usurp Gists. I'm not sure that it was intended to. However, there is one aspect of the site that really irks me: the wood grain background. For whatever reason, this style has become really pervasive among "hacked-together" sites. Moreover, it sucks. The site would be better served with a geometric pattern, or no background at all.
>UK law only allows beer to be sold in pint units.

Really? What are those things called Half pints?
If you want to see how strong society is turn off the water supply, and leave it off. Never mind the power.
A 60 minute hour is more evenly divisible than a 100 or 10 minute hour.
looks nice! I've been working on a similar app. What is it written in? Any chance you'd open source it?
My point was that you can only divide one rational by another to produce a new rational if the denominator is nonzero.

This is not what it says in the book, so there's potential for a newbie to get confused (and anyone reading the book in order to learn from it is, by definition, a newbie).
How to not teach physics
The spaceship example the author uses is a good example of why I think he is wrong. My toolbox at home is full of tools passed down from my late grandfather's toolbox. I'm pretty sure if I was building a spaceship, a lot of the tools in it would be exactly what I need to use, as well as new takes on those tools like my pneumatic wrenches.

Sure I'd use crazy new tools in addition, but its not like the fundamentals of a field have to be constantly reinvented; they're just honed, refined, expanded and specialized. The space-flight specific bits would have their own new ways of working on them specific to them, but at the end of the day I'd still just be bolting a bunch of shit together. If the new tech introduces some improvements to the fundamentals to support itself, those improvements will slowly get rolled back into the base systems.

Calling for a revolutionary breakthrough is silly, his analogy of cars is a good example. The automobile's history has just been a slow evolution of better ways to perform the same old tricks. Revolutions within software are going to be smaller because the field already exists. At a high level nothing has changed, while on smaller scale the last few years have completely redefined source control.