skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See, e.g. http://www.esa.org/ecoservices/comm/body.comm.fact.ecos.html

In this case, New York avoided $6-8 billion in costs for constructing filtration plants by actively managing the Catskills watershed. Like with any "free" service, you can price it by asking: what would I have to pay to replace it?
Commodity that can be used as a currency, same as gold.

In fact I'd say that's what bitcoin is, digital gold. Just as gold still remains an important holding for central banks, I have to wonder if at some point a second digital/crypto currency will be developed that somehow uses bitcoin as its stable base/commodity but which solves the issues that all the economists are whining about.
> I think the better discussion would be whether or not bitcoin should actually hold any value.

An interesting point. Do you think that it should hold any value?
Remotely reboot the router of any Virgin Media Superhub customer (Major UK ISP)
Virgin Media have an online activation process for their superhub users and at the end of the process they automatically reboot your router; but once this process is completed visiting this URL reboots your router regardless with no CSRF protection.

URL: http://activation.virginmedia.com/Activation/start.do

so a simple iframe on any webpage is enough to restart any virgin superhub users connection with a 3-5 minute reboot.

Proof of concept: http://jsfiddle.net/DmArd/
If you don't mind me asking, I'd be curious to hear what decisions you've made on cash vs accrual accounting, pass-through vs corporate taxation, and the use of guaranteed payments vs distributions.

I know a lot depends on the specifics of each situation, but haven't heard a lot of details on this from people running single-member bootstrapped SAAS LLCs before :) .
So it's not just me after all.
BubbleConf 2013 announced
Accessing java objects in a pentaho kettle transformation
Can you play full songs from Spotify on the app with a standard Spotify account? Since the Spotify app only allows full catalog access on mobile devices with a premium subscription, it seems strange that they would allow the Twitter Music app to do this.
Normally you take a knife slice a bagel down the middle and you end up with 2 half's but part of that action ends up cutting both sides of the hole at the same time.

Instead take a knife cut to the center but not the other side then as you cut around the edge rotate the cut so by the time your around the full bagel the knife is upside down. If you picture it at one point knife handle is on the above the bagel and after a little while it's below the bagel. The only trick is to make you cut line up when your done.
Well I'm not really claiming the book is sentient, just trying to come up with a criteria that excludes books and everything else except for people, without being completely arbitrary.

Anyways you can think of time as a dimension. Each moment of time exists, connected to the ones that came before and come after it. You can represent the every state that a turing machine goes through all at once. Just like those rows of rocks. What does "running" even mean in a universe where all points in time can exist at once?

But regardless of that, you can still say the book is "running" when it is being written or when it is being read. The characters don't just exist in the book, but literally in your mind. Though I still wouldn't call them conscious or even intelligent.
Secret space war
Actually, as of 2.4 there is an experimental text search feature built-in: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/text-search/. While it is no Lucene (and is still considered experimental) it does provide simple tokenizing, stop-words and stemming.
Diversity In Tech: It’s Your Responsibility
"You can outrun his motor, but you can't outrun his motorola."
The name wasn't mentioned, but I remember the article because I wrote a comment on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5512507
I would imagine email address corydoras@ridculousfish.com would give a hint.
I think the really interesting topic is whether or not a currency can work without being at least slightly inflationary. At a specific point, all the bitcoins will be mined so people will be/are incentivized to hold on to bitcoins instead of spending them.

Also, there are two general groups of commodities: renewable and nonrenewable. To be specific, we're talking about a nonrenewable commodity here.
I don't think it is hidden but not indexed by common methods. ie navigation is mostly POST based or JS based to avoid indexing.
True about England, false about the ladder. We can do better with a combination of renewables and nuclear, and the Chinese would be better off for it as well (depending on how much you like the smell of sulfur).
Thanks for pointing this out. We have changed token schema and validation process.
If you're in Brighton in the UK and you like this then maybe you'll be interested in the one day workshop run by Jamie (author of the blog post) and myself. This post was actually based on some of the material written by Jamie for the course.

Next one is happening next Thursday and there are still a couple of tickets:

http://dabapps.com/services/training/python-for-programmers
I've played this game a bunch and can't wait to get my own copy. Randy has done so much amazing work to make this fun for gamers and non-gamers alike, and our kids! It's awesome to see somebody who works in the digital realm manifest a physical product. :)
It looks like most of those "accept Bitcoin" by using a service like Bitpay. In other words, they accept only fiat currencies but allow you to send them payments through another service that will exchange Bitcoin for some fiat currency.
I've had only one project in Scala and in general I really liked the language. My biggest reservation about Scala though is what I consider the over-DSLy-ness of some of the Scala libraries (3rd party libraries).

In my project different source files using different libraries could almost look like different languages due to the DSLs of the libraries those source files used. Maybe it's just my lack of experience with Scala, but I dislied this because I thought it reduced readability.

Even worse is when two or more DSLs in use in the same source file conflict, for example, with their implicits. Then you may be stuck with different source files using the same library but with different syntax, one with the DSL syntax (where there were no conflicts) and one without.

I suppose this is something you get used to with Scala, but I wonder if you've run into this and if so, what your reaction to it is?
That's the point. When people in rich parts of states can get artificially cheaper power through coal plants that poison the poor people in the state, the incentive to move to alternatives is diminished.
I've used buildout for years but I'm now moving away from it. I've enjoyed it though, and I wouldn't recommend against it.

Several issues:

the buildout process is long and monolithic and not conducive to minor adjustments. I'm using ansible now and its much better for just changing one setting on an nginx config file or settings file and reloading. I chatted with the author of buildout and he said he was building to an rpm and then mounting that as his means to do a live deploy.

I often wished I had virtualenv, so many things work well with it. for instance python-vim and sublime lint / rope like to have a virtualenv to get the python paths. also ctags is happier if I can just enter the virtualenv and run it.

there may be a recipe for that but I never found one that worked nicely.
I don't think there's any ambiguity here...the first quote indicated that a client is absolutely allowed to send auth headers without receiving a 401 response. I read the second quote as giving client implementers a suggestion on when they should automatically send the auth headers, without actually requiring them to do so.
I typed in my comment pretty quickly, and thus ignored the point you make, but I concur with it completely. It's all about tradeoffs, and for a small team/startup, you're going to have to look at them more carefully than a big company that can just throw money at things.
Bands now have a strong reason to get very spammy on twitter. Hope it doesn't go the way of MySpace, which ended up being LinkedIn for people who want to promote their band. (there was a lot of other things wrong with MySpace, but when it just became a bunch of bands spamming each other, anyone who wasn't a band had little reason to be there anymore)
Virtual envs don't relocate well, they tend to be very specific to machine and even install location. Plus you can recreate them from your requirements.txt file so there's no need.

Just add the env directory to your .gitignore
"pip is vastly superior toeasy_install for lots of reasons, and so should generally be used instead."

Unless you are using Windows, as pip doesn't support binary packages.
:waves bye

Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris:1 and Hackers' Lounge:2 were the first major time sinks of my digital life in the late 90s and early 2000s. ychat and ymsg were my intro to network protocols. I learned Makefiles, C, C++, and Python so I could build, understand, and modify programs like curfloo, curphoo, zinc, and gchat+/gyach. Although I moved on to IRC, I'll never forget when someone passed me "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" (and the implicit link to Phrack) or the first time a bot I created logged in and took drink orders. The pride the first time I wrote a patch for my client to handle a login change all by myself.

A lifetime later, I know I wouldn't be where I am as a programmer if not for the encouragement of friends (some of whom I still talk with and do business with) I made as a teenager on yahoo chat. A lot of people I know grew up on IRC, but Yahoo Chat was my first love. Good bye, I'll miss you!
PhantomJS script to list resources with http, on an https page
I think my first experience with programming was a Rexx app on an old Palm OS device back in elementary school. I made an interactive fiction game, if I remember correctly.
Amazon S3 – 2 Trillion Objects, 1.1 Million Requests/Second
Some of these estimates are certainly on the very conservative side.

Example: NUCLEAR ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION (page 59 bottom table) all estimating an impact ratio of 0.1 (cost of waste / revenues)

Actual cost of nuclear waste and other related cost are more likely about 100 times or more than estimated in this study - they are pushed to future generations or just passed over to tax payers globally by subsidies or cost covers e.g. cost for dismantling / building back a nuclear power plant after its commercial lifetime - from 3 Billion to 20+ Billion depending on the power plant etc. - power company will only cover a marginal amount of that, majority is paid from taxes. Storage cost for nuclear waste (thousands of years - most likely hundreds if not 1000s of Billions in cost)

About 2 years ago in Europe an in-depth scientific study into the actual cost of (uranium based) nuclear power has been undertaken (paid by various European institutions) including all subsidies provided to the power companies for building these nuclear power plants (in Europe hundreds of Billions) and (as far as I remember) also parts of the actual cost for waste - the outcome: true cost per KWh ~1.20 EUR - cost base used in business / profit calculations about 0.02 EUR
Work From Home Or From An Office?
I disagree on both counts. Just because something is an enemy now doesn't mean it always has been; the scale of coal use is the problem, and early industrial levels happening today would have far less detrimental effect.

Second, coal is not the desirable thing of modernization: energy is, and energy is available through many means. China seems to be very fond of solar, for example. Also the Chinese pay the externalities just as we all do; and if you've visited China your aware that they see perhaps more pollution than the rest of the world. I have no doubt that these externalities made visible will influence the nation to take them realistically, which we in the western world are not.
Hi dmethvin,

I'm the one responsible for all your complaints...sadly my dad is an edito, so I always feel bad with the spelling/grammar errors ;). You are correct in not every function works the same way (just as the case with Zepto.js). We've added new functionality and have even seen changes from our implementation make it's way into jQuery 2.0 (how props/attr work but not saying we are responsible)

For everyone else, Intel is committed to the project (that's about all I can say now). Keep a look out and you won't be disappointed!

Ian
I pay $50/month for electricity in my apartment. If I had no other options, I am pretty sure I'd be willing to pay something like $5000/month for that electricity. The economic surplus for electricity is enormous, the price comes no where near measuring the utility it provides.
England had coal so that's what they used, but there where other options. For example England has plenty of hydro power capacity to easily meet the needs of the early industrial revolution. Perhaps offsetting with some wind power in remote areas. Electric railways are slightly more infrastructure, but no more difficult than a steam engine. Considering the amount of disease related to coal mining and burning I don't think it's clear they would have been worse off. The real issue was home cooking / heating, but they did use gas streetlamps demonstrating natural gas may have been a viable alternative if England lacked coal reserves.

The real issue would have been ships, but considering how much coal was used for home heating that's a tiny fraction of overall demand.
Nobody ever seems to realize how un-economic arguments like these are. Say there had been a coal tax from day 1 in England that internalize the external costs of coal. Saying the market wouldn't have still gone through the industrial revolution is tantamount to saying that industrial society is not economically efficient! Because that's exactly what things like coal taxes do--let the market manage the externality to allow an efficient equilibrium to be reached.
Apropos of nothing the error "because because" would normally be spotted by a spell checker, so don't Washington Post use one? Press standards, yada yada ...
Some of the mentioned problems with the traditional method are partially solved with `pip install requests --user` but I understand that the bigger problem/main reason for virtualenv isn't helped by this.

However, I was very surprised that the author didn't mention venv (http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/venv.html) at all since it is basically virtualenv but part of the Python standard library.
Two years of life as an expat coder in middle-of-no-where Japan
Q: do most people really have the data plans on their mobile devices to be able to listen to music all day? I'm in Canada and we certainly do not.
Vim plugin that automatically resizes your active window to 80 columns
So other than trade and accounting, what is Bitcoin useful for?
It’s hypocritical to oppose CISPA but support gun control legislation
I think thats an interesting perspective. Just as gold is a finite quantity so will Bitcoin be a finite quantity when it reaches 21Mil coins.

I can imagine that in future Bitcoins can be used as a "reserve" currency that backs another currency
Google’s airport dreams take off: San Jose private terminal approved
Yes, absolutely. A nuanced, evidence-based approach is best.
People want to see if there's a market of tiny hardware hosting, and if yes, be first to develop necessary hosting technology (e.g. power supplies, relay boards for remote reboot, optimal RPi mounting on the server blades etc).
Boston Entrepreneurs Help FBI Gather Evidence With Photo Uploading Service
I like how you piece together two different sentences to change the meaning. Speedometer inaccuracy is very common, e.g. http://www.caranddriver.com/features/speedometer-scandal

Being off by 15MPH is near the edge of the plausible range. What you get when you start with a speedometer that was off by several percent from the factory and then you throw in bald tires, or armchair mechanics who put low profile tires on stock wheels, or replace the differential with one that has a different gear ratio, or damage from a previous collision, etc.
I was concerned about this at first - but overall it's really great. There have obviously been a few altercations between them, but those are rare. One of the dogs is owned by a member of my team so he sits right by me all day - occasionally he'll come by just to be pet, and when I am stuck on something work related we play fetch for a few minutes to clear my head. Our daily standups are pretty awesome too since we generally have a dog or two there with us, for example, yesterdays standup: http://i.imgur.com/3DABSti.jpg
The description sounds exactly like Tikal (1999), although Tikal seems to be more focused on strategy, rather than short-term tactical decisions.

More info: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/54/tikal
> Python actually has another, more primitive, package manager called easy_install, which is installed automatically when you install Python itself.

It's actually not, it's part of setuptools/distribute, though some Python distributions (actually just brew that I know of) include distribute alongside Python.

Also, while the quick skim of the rest of this looks mostly good, there's some unnecessary advice which complicates things.

virtualenv is not necessary if the crux of the advice is "don't install packages globally" (which is fantastic advice, second probably to the more important advice "don't install stuff with sudo").

What beginners (and even some more experienced programmers) need to learn about is --user. You install packages with `pip install --user thing`, and they become per-user installed (be sure to add `~/.local/bin` to your `$PATH`). This is enough to not require sudo and for 99% of cases is actually sufficient.

There is a rare case where you actually have packages that depend on different, conflicting versions of another dependency. This has happened ~1 time to me.

Don't get me wrong, I like virtualenv for other reasons (relating to workflow and maintenance), but if we're teaching people about packaging, there's no particularly great reason to dedicate most of a tutorial on it.
I also found that infuriating. Maybe management is working the engineers really hard or something. It just seems weird that they couldn't even implement the most basic handling for a view that only contains a single button.
Gold has demand/supply based on industrial/ornamental value. But, what value does Bitcoin have?
TIL: Double-click a surround in Terminal.app/iTerm2
Additionally, if you want a more high level interface which makes multiple requests per command, wget is a good option.
Rockstart mini demo day (part II)
Just stick separate supports underneath each of the buildings and you'll have a Service-Oriented Architecture ;)
More Than 50 Years Of Putting Kids' Creativity To The Test
Wine subscription startup Winecast.com raises smart money
This looks really cool, but the look of the "pawns" feel really out of place.
Twitter's Music Site is Live
All the usual benchmark disclaimers apply, but Scala appears to compare pretty favourably in the Programming Language Shootout:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...

Generally Scala appears to use less time, less memory and less code. I have not ever used either so I cannot anecdotally confirm this.
Exactly, he externality argument is about economic efficiency, and does not value environmentalism at all. It's about discovering the dollar cost that a single entity is extracting from others property. Many environmentalists hate it because of that; it's an argument that inherently trusts in free markets, instead of environmental purity.
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The S Word
Multiplayer Game 'Eve Online' Cultivates a Most Devoted Following
One of the stretch goals of the Kickstart campaign is to upgrade to "Explorer Meeples": http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2046785826/relic-expedit...
Looks interesting.

This might be helpful for some:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/slickshare/adhdcbp...
How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be?
Thanks! we're already doing some of that, but there's certainly more that we can do. Currently, we can't imagine a single thing will suddenly bring us a flood of subscriptions... hence the more realistic / pessimistic post on HN to get a project going to help us fund this.
Google Glass Owners Are Not Allowed To Sell Or Share The Device
still not exactly sure what it does. it pulls music from other services based on trending stuff on twitter? who would want that? so much hype for nothing...
DynamoDB Local Secondary Indexes
So how many objects should have been corrupted/lost according to their SLA and how many actually did get corrupted?
> England has plenty of hydro power capacity to easily meet the needs of the early industrial revolution

The English begged to differ. The early Industrial Revolution was powered by water [1], but they switched to coal as soon as they could.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_mill#Water_.281770.E2.80...
I think the idea is that if the real port 80 never answers, real customers are highly unlikely to set up their apps in the vulnerable state in the first place. That said, having port 80 open, but returning an appropriate error code to all attempts to use the API, would probably have the same effect (while still answering on port 80, for anyone who just wants to ping it to see "are they up" --- one of the excuses the OP has heard for leaving port 80 open).
The flow of life:

Damn. I did it again.

Damn. I did it again.

Damn... well.. um... !

[Repeat n times]

Humm it came out nice !

Yeah i know i'm awesome !

Yeah i know i know i'm boss !

[Repeat n times]

Hum this is getting boring !

I don't even think anymore i'm a robot !

...

...

Moving on to another thing..

I know i'm gonna do it right !

Damn. Did it again...

...

...
Well... Their Spotify integration has some issues, I guess: http://i.imgur.com/3d5J9po.png
Oracle closes 128 holes across its product range
Not about Data plan, actually. When I was in Delhi, a $25/mo data plan gave me unlimited data usage with 100GB fair usage limit. I still could not listen to music and video all day - the battery bottleneck is much tighter.
Almost forgot: they also provide the power brick for you.
You mean like this?

http://www.motorists.org/press/safe-to-raise-freeway-speed-l...

Existing speed limits are pointless but mostly harmless because people just ignore them. Their primary purpose is to serve as a source of ticket revenue and an excuse for police to stop any vehicle they don't otherwise have cause to stop.
Hi Ian, I think you're doing an amazing job, but basically by yourself if the GitHub graphs are any indication [1]. It helps to have a group of people with differing experiences and perspectives when designing an API, and of course more people to do the heavy lifting as well. If docs aren't your thing, then there should be someone to review and write the docs. Since jqMobi has diverged from jQuery, that makes docs even more important because the name implies to people that it works like jQuery.

As far as the attr/prop thing goes, we changed it a couple of years ago in jQuery 1.6 and deprecated the old behavior, but there is still a lot of code out there that does the wrong thing. That's why 1.9 was such a code breaker for a lot of people.

[1] https://github.com/01org/appframework/contributors