skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it refers to Estonia selling off excess carbon credits to Mitsubishi under a mid-long term agreement.

Mitsubishi needs to purchase these credits to stay within regulatory requirements pertaining to emittance of CO2 probably in the EU. Given that Mitsubishi is a large manufacturer they probably produce above their alloted quota of CO2 and therefore must purchase credits from someone/some organization (in this case Estonia) that does not use their full quota.

Estonia is using the income from this agreement to fund the fast-charging network.

This is all educated speculation as to its meaning. Apologies for no links to references to back up my understanding. I am sure a quick search will provide more information.
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My friend and I decided to throw a SXSW Food Crawl. Originally the plan was to get some foodies and techies together and crawl the best places in town. However, the attendee list has grown unexpectedly high and we are being forced to reconsider our options.

Seeing as we have no budget, we are completely open to any suggestions on what we should do or how we can secure sponsorship. Please halp!
I could see it being a problem for Google, but Backblaze wants these for archival purposes, not something where there is going to be a lot of reading and writing. The write rate is going to be whatever speed their users upload stuff, divided by the total number of their storage pods. I assume this is relatively small. The read rate is going to be whatever speed their users download restores, divided by the total number of storage pods, which is probably much smaller still.

The assumption here is that data is kept for a long time relative to how frequently it's written and read, so the IO speed probably isn't that big of a deal.
A little over 9 miles, all surface streets. Marina del Rey to Beverly Hills. For what it's worth, I canvased about five people today and asked them the untainted question "Did you notice anything about your commute today?" and all of them said it was notably faster than usual.
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Everything past 3/4ths down in the article is explicitly about the author's self-described depression.
The full paper is available for free from the Royal Society B:

Vocal copying of individually distinctive signature whistles in bottlenose dolphins

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1757/2013...

The orginal press release is here:
http://www.smru.st-and.ac.uk/newsItem.aspx?ni=1611

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-21...
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Then they have to pay fair market value for this. Consider how much money that is. West Law's pricing model is a "secret", but it's estimated at $70 per search or $27 per minute. For one person.

To buy DC's case law for one attorney, it's a little under $2,000.
http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Westla...

I'm guessing the "fair market value" would be INSANE.
Weekends. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5230201
I'm not arguing for unionizing them, although I can't help noting that other unions & guilds manage to negotiate deals with the studios.

What I'm pointing out is that having VFX shops crumble under financial pressure from studios doesn't do the studios any good either. Ultimately it's not about the hardware or software, but about the skill of the people using it. Given that R&H is a leader in its field and still went down, something is wrong with the business model.
Starbucks is a billion dollar company with a HUGE business inertia. They have exceptional busines intelligence in their supply chain, services, etc...

Their adoption of square speaks nothing of the competition in the not-starbucks market.

Just because starbucks is using square does not mean that it is the right fit for an organization that is miniscule by comparison. Where the company is so small they need to rely on the services of someone like this to augment their capability where they do not have the staff/resource/savvy....

Nobody is saying squares app is crap. We are saying that "business in a box" is pure marketing fluff and is meaningless.

I am saying that your starbucks example is exceptionally weak to say that "square won" this category.
I believe the big spike a year last Nov/Dec was the cricket bat story that went mainstream media. The one after, was that _why going offline?
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Congratulations! It's my absolute favorite community on the internet and an invaluable resource. Thanks to pg and everybody involved in providing it!
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on Windows, you can print to XPS out of the box, but not PDF.
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Are the pageviews and unique IPs per day?
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This is actually one of the most important questions.
The thing about SETI is that it is not really a search for intelligent life, it's a search for "intelligent life that broadcasts radio waves of a frequency and power that we can detect in a pattern and on a timescale similar enough to our own communications that we can recognize it".

Fermi's paradox basically boils down to: if intelligent life is at all common, it should be everywhere we look, and yet we don't see any. The traditional position is that therefore if we don't see intelligent life, it must be because it's too rare, or communication across interstellar distances is impossible. But the other possible answer is that intelligent life is everywhere, and we just don't understand or even recognize it as such.

The fact that we've been living with dolphins for millions of years and actively studying them for decades and have only just worked out a pretty basic fact -- they have names for each other -- despite the fact that they share most of their genes with us and live under the same environmental conditions exactly, suggests that we are probably really really bad at recognizing intelligent life that isn't exactly like our own.
Hmm. Do you actually travel in the city of Los Angeles on that trip?
Can you link them please? We already have links to PDF's rendering better in Chrome. I'd like to see where pdf.js does a better job.
Very true. Its an anthropomorphism. Its much more interesting to learn what cultural and communication structures they do use. Not to try to turn them into cartoons or easily human-digestible concepts.
Shouldn't unique IP be unique cookie? Because IP is not that much unique, two people can have the same IP and both surfing hackernews.
On the contrary, I think people are just resistant to change. My parents thought my generation was doomed because we spent so much time playing video games. And I'm sure the previous generation's parents were appalled at how much time they spent watching TV. And the parents of the generation before that were probably appalled at all the drugs and concerts. Etc.

And it wasn't just the parents. I'm sure there were conservative kids who were appalled at their peers as well. That isn't exactly a new phenomenon. I was picked on as a kid for being an early adopter of internet chat. Even today, I've had friends in their early-mid 20s criticize online dating and cell phones. And tomorrow people will pick on their friends for wearable devices. This is par for the course.

It strikes me as disingenuous to point out that kids' "neurology is shaped by technology as they grow up." Everything you do shapes your "neurology". Cell phones and Google Glass are not special exceptions. Hell, living in a basic civilization with written language and a primitive law system has drastic effects on your psychological development compared to... what are we comparing against, again? The natural state of being a caveman?

The people of the recent past were not mystical beings who were all at one with nature. They certainly weren't walking around in constant state of admiration of the beauty in the world around them. Five years ago I was the OP's age (20), and I had bad dates, too. And I'm sure people were having bad dates before me. The OP's complaint is just a more vivid way of saying, "The means by which people can be anti-social are changing."
I've been to graduate school and disagree with your comment about expecting a tenure-track job. When you get to know them, PhD students are not poor deluded souls slaving away in the misguided expectation of a plush, secure position at the end. They are rather intelligent, motivated individuals, who choose to work on projects that are more interesting/important than optimal ad placement or crafty financial swaps, and who are prepared to sacrifice some Caribbean cruises and latest model cars in return.
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This. If there is anything that has ever appealed about Rails is the ease to get started. And I think it still rocks in that regard. 90% of all apps fit the rest-style persistence in a relational database. For that, Rails is perfect.

I'm obviously biased, but I don't think any other framework can do this?
That was my first question, what are the occasional big spikes (not the weekend drops in traffic)? Interestingly, spikes in page views and unique page views do not correspond well, although sometimes they're slightly offset from each other.
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To be honest, the more you do in these situations you usually amplify the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

See sites like EncyclopediaDramatica.se (NSFW) for details why.

With that being said, abuse reports to network and hosting providers in first world countries usually are quite effective in these cases. If you can mitigate the exposure without ever communicating to the aggressors or stirring the pot, that's the way to go.

If it's a known 'shady' provider or someone not likely to care (Read: Voxility, Ecatel, Any ISP in mainland China, Most ISP's in NL/SE/IS) it's probably better not to send a report, as you'll just get it forwarded to the aggressor and show that their efforts are working to aggravate you.

Good luck, it's a tough situation to deal with.
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See also libfaketime, which does all this and more besides: https://github.com/wolfcw/libfaketime
Hey, petition starter here. As far as I can tell - no.
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I agree, as big tape drives these things are pretty cool.
pdf.js supports PDF indexes (or whatever that's called), but AFAICT Chrome's doesn't.
So where do I buy a chinese knockoff version of this that I can run Debian on? It's a very exciting hardware notion, and I'd love to hack around with some software on it.
I'm a little surprised to learn the city of Los Angeles only has 4400 traffic signals. Though I've never tried to estimate the number.

I do remember reading only a small percentage of lights have a left turn arrow. Even major intersections can be missing them. Hence the LA unofficial practice of "two cars can turn left just as the caution expires". It's the only way you'd get through some intersections at all.
Other comments aside - just glancing at the graph in your link - seems like the % is on a steady decline... LGTM.
http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...

(Concision prevents me from saying more)
This is exactly what I've done over the past several years with great results. I stayed in constant contact with my old college professor (we play a sport at the same club) at a school none of you have ever heard of in the Chicago suburbs. The top CS student(s) at small schools can have extremely high potential.

When you combine this with investing time in candidates via a good internship or apprenticeship program the results can be spectacular. When you are outside SV it doesn't take much to make your internship program stand out by letting your interns do full stack development on actual applications that ship.

You need to invest the time on training/mentoring/pairing to make it work though.
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The language to describe changes isn't fully standardized (at least for the US Code, I'm not familar with DC's legislative practices.) If you browse around it looks standard, but there are plenty of exceptions. So the best you can do is use a program to do a first pass.
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As long as they didn't leave out the X-axis labels the graph is fine.
That's a big point that should be mentioned. The problem is getting a PhD in a field that no one is interested in paying you for leaves you with only academia as an option (I know multiple PhD's who realized towards the end that they don't want to go into academia).
pg, is it possible to get the traffic data in text format? For those who want to try and visualize it differently.
I completely agree with what you're expressing here, but when you belong to an organization that claims to have a monopoly on meaning and truth in the universe, a higher level of consistency is not an unreasonable expectation.
Congrats PG
How about:

Every app that I need a user to access requires three requests to IT. Each application must go through a pre-approval process and a separate set of meetings to determine requirements.

That's not to mention that many applications have a view/edit distinction, requiring nearly the same page based on permissions. If you make the choice to split this page into two applications, your UI will have to be written twice rather than an if statement in the view logic. (Oh, and wait until the change request comes in..)

Maybe your system will work in small businesses and direct to customer apps. It's a non-starter in many other places.
To be fair, Reader does a lot more than simply display PDFs. Not of course that that makes PDF.js any less impressive.
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'watershed moment of civilisation'? Really? What profound social changes happened because of the moon shot. Yes, technological achievement, I'm not disputing that. Did it end the cold war? Did it even make a dint on the Vietnam war? In terms of changes to civilisation, the moon shot pales in comparison to the civil rights movements of the same era, along with the end of colonialism.

Besides, I like how you classify google's achievements based only on it's first year product. What did NASA achieve in 1958 that was so profound?
Site Advisor has flagged this site as a security risk. I wonder if the site got hacked. Wow... Talk about kicking someone when they're down!
Not movies. But definitely something that does not need your full attention - something that you don't mind tuning in and out of. This would mostly be TV shows - Simpsons, Family Guy, Two and a half men, How I met your mother. Seinfeld was great for this.
And some great digital distribution features. Finally, a modern console.

Even as a PC gamer, this is incredibly exciting. More powerful hardware means you can do fancy graphics and still have plenty leftover for other features. Every cross-platform title benefits.
The obvious thing to do is to merge emotiv [1] with glass, so you will think "OK Glass take a picture".

Granted that with the current state of emotiv/brain type interfaces, rather than thinking, you're going to be in a crowd doing the most amazing facial contortions to take a picture. It'd make a great scene for a comedy movie!

[1] http://www.emotiv.com/
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So... you're saying the Coca-Cola isn't the greatest drinks company out there?

I think there's a fundamental part of what I'm saying that you're missing.
There's a lot of comments here about how Glass will affect social interactions, which is fair enough as that's the easiest use case to grasp at the moment, but the thing that struck me most was the tiny snippet of footage of that jeweler (sculpter?) creating the glass tiger, almost like it was an afterthought in the marketing team's mind. However it struck me - suddenly there is potential to introduce a HUD into industries everywhere, which I think could have some far-reaching benefits.
For example, imagine a surgeon having vital signs overlaid on their vision as they worked, or a superimposed CAT scan, or whatever else would help them out.
Or (being trained as an engineer myself, I understand how much value this would have), an overlay of the structural drawings as I inspect a large building site.
To be honest I agree with most of the negative sentiment towards how Glass could damage social interactions, and I wouldn't be unhappy if it never saw the light of day in that use case. But there is incredible potential as a productivity tool.
Physical and intellectual freedom are worth more to me than money.
Know what the top countries on that list have in common?

I could beat the US in Internet speed if I setup a neighborhood network.
I have to wonder if Sony and Mircosoft are dooming themselves to rapid obsolescence by moving to x86 hardware...

In three years it's going to be too easy to compare the specs and quality to the latest and greatest pcs.

EDIT: I'm watching the live stream now: http://www.gamespot.com/features/playstation-meeting-2013-ps...
I understand what you're articulating as the vision, but I'm not seeing it in the promo video. I mostly see people recording a lot of activities.

What specifically in the video excites you?
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One of the developers (Wolfire's David) is building his game using the Unity game engine, which exports to Linux but only runs on OS X and Windows. Other engines / development environments like Unreal and Flash are similarly unavailable on Linux. The same is true of most 3D modelling and image editing packages.

The tools simply aren't available to make Linux an attractive game development environment.
Dolphin-based sitcoms where the dolphin says "it's a living" and shrugs his dolphin shoulders.
I'd agree with this. YC is a wonderful program for both startups and entrepreneurs, PG is a godsend for these groups, especially in past years when seed funding was harder to come by. However, a lot of the hype now around YC often pushes entrepreneurs to raise way larger seed rounds than they need or know what to do with. This is of course not always the case, and I can think of several YC companies off the top of my head that did not go this route (even when there was investor demand for it), but on balance, YC seems to encourage founders to raise way more capital than these companies need in the early stages. Again, I think entrepreneurs are now waking up to some of the negative consequences that can result.
seriously though subvocalization could maybe work for very common verbs like "take a picture" or "start a video".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocal_recognition

still probably the stuff of sci fi though for a while.
Something like that, yes. Watts seemed like the most universal unit to use. The point being that even if they're really efficient, they'd still be using 25W x the number of concurrent clients in power, which is just absurd especially since they're not charging monthly. They're not doing any kind of complicated simulation on the server side.
libfaketime is very cool, but I think it does something different. It focuses on, well, faking time. Fluxcapacitor makes blocking syscalls exit immediately, faking time is a necessary side effect.

For example the docs of libfaketime say:

LD_PRELOAD=./libfaketime.so.1 FAKETIME="+1,5y x10,0" \
/bin/bash -c 'while true; do echo $SECONDS ; sleep 1 ; done'

For each second that the endless loop sleeps, the
executed bash shell will think that 10 seconds have passed

While with fluxcapacitor the sleep will exit immediately, not after 1s:

$ time ./fluxcapacitor --libpath=. -- \
bash -c 'for i in 1 2 3 4 5 ; do sleep 1; done'
real 0m0.279s
As a founder your job is to take the high road as much as possible while still pushing through the strengths of your company. It seems pretty obvious that NYT won't be changing their opinion, and maybe even reached out to Musk to confirm this suspicion. If Musk were to reply to this negatively he'd essentially be feeding an ever-lasting flame. He's taking the best parts, spinning them to those who care about his product, and is continuing on with building out a great product.

Not to mention, he's gotten a lot of good press from other media sources since (as he points out in his blog post).
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OT, but I find it amazing that the triangle of desirable traits applies in so many places. There's the obvious "faster, cheaper, better. pick any two" and yesterday I heard another one "sane, smart and beautiful, pick two", which I'm sure has a corollary like "handsome, sensitive and rich, pick two". It's as if Brook's "no silver bullet" can be applied to just about everything our life (or it's just that easy to pick three desirable traits that are often mutually exclusive of one another)
HN is actually a great resource for this.

I would suggest expanding on your OP here with some details about the app, perhaps I might be interested :P
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The problem is the number of PhD's doing "nothing" after education is going up. "You don't need a PhD to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's a dropout, don't do shit."
Definitely makes sense. Would you say HN has exceeded your expectations thus far relative to what you envisioned it at launch?
Thanks for the kick in the pants, arturspek. I'll be making the effort to put the phone away more - tech has deteriorated my relationships enough already (or at least my increasing addiction to it has).
That hasn't been a problem with past generations because since the hardware is known consoles were able to roughly keep up so that console users never felt gypped. I doubt most people will even know what's inside a PS4/XBOX3/Whatever
This is not how you do polls on HN.
You don't have to worry about offending me. I'm the biggest asshole the universe has ever seen. I assure you that I can take more than what I regularly dish out.

My problems are two fold. First, I'm located in Ohio. If I were in NYC or San Francisco, it would be a different story. Secondly, I am very confident in my abilities, and I have a lot of integrity. "B player boses" are scared of people like me.

My biggest problem is that I'm not really capable of working at a company as an employee. I need to be either a CTO level person, or as part of a team where there is no "boss". A lot of companies claim that they are a true "collaborative environment", but rarely do companies ever actually operate this way. My first engineering job was on a team where there was no boss. Everyone was equal in terms of influence over the direction of the technology. I was a perfect fit there. I contributed more than anyone else at that job.

I think it boils down to the face that I care more about software than I do about the company. I care more about the quality of the software than I do about my boss's feelings. I care more about the software than I do about my own well being. I guess I could start caring less. I could just spend all day small talking with co-workers and generally not giving a shit like everyone else...
I agree to some extent, the Council did hire West to publish their code, rather than self-publishing. Here in Arizona, the state self-published and as a result, the laws are available online (http://www.azleg.state.az.us/arizonarevisedstatutes.asp). I'm not sure I know enough to understand why the Council chose West over self-publication.
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