skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's no big deal.

www.popularmechanics.com/home/reviews/news/4217864

If you make a habit of breaking them open near your face and inhaling the gas, you probably have bigger problems. I've read that the actual average mercury exposure from a broken CFL is less than 10% of the mercury exposure from a serving of tuna.
Open floor plans reduce productivity 66%
Thanks for the downvotes ;) Its a classical greek tragedy - hubris in action. When you think your launch will be as big as Instagram and Zuckerberg will take you out to lunch next week you're destined to loose faith and self-esteem post launch, even if things aren't actually that bad. And when that happens you start looking for other ideas instead of looking at the launch as just the beginning of something great.

Been there, done that. Not fun. Or launch early, thinking everyone will hate your product, and then you're up for a positive surprise.
Why is an app that's supposed to be measuring radiation collecting and reporting stats on if my calls were answered or not?
> The more variable is local the shorter it should be.

I disagree, as someone with low experience with python, I found their example much more understandable than both of your examples.
This is actually a common misconception: in the US (as in most OECD countries), households consume slightly more energy than the industry.

As a case in point, in 2009, industry consumed 256 million tons of oil equivalent, versus 262 mtoe for the residential sector (ie households).

http://www.iea.org/stats/balancetable.asp?COUNTRY_CODE=US
Area woman sues Ford because her hybrid's mileage sucks
Absolutely awful advice. I am going to drop Mike Monteiro on this from a great height:

http://vimeo.com/22053820

The crater will be visible from space.

It is true, a proper contract from a lawyer is expensive. But you will be surprised how often it comes in handy. In my experience so far there are only two kinds of contractor: the ones that can tell a story about struggling to get paid, and the ones that have not been paid yet.

One of my favorite contract clauses is the one about how, if you have to sue the client for payment, they'll cover your legal costs. Try getting that kind of leverage without a contract, via firm handshakes or obsequious bowing and scraping or whatever.
Pixie, the world's most intense desk lamp
It's great if you want to make something and put it in the public domain. But I detect a normative undercurrent here, a suggestion that the author feels that restrictions on copying are bad, or at least not as nice, as her love-based approach.

I would like to live in a world where people can support themselves through creative work. And online culture has failed to come up with a replacement for strictly enforced copyright that doesn't involve de-facto monopolies, rampant advertising, and spying on people through their computers. Jaron Lanier goes into these issues in insightful depth in his book You Are Not a Gadget.
Ubuntu's had ARM images for going on like 4 years now!
How long does it typically take for a voicemail or answering machine/service to pick up? And what percentage of your long ring-time countries (e.g., Libya) have such a service?

Given that only 5% of calls go unanswered in Libya after ringing for so long, I think that's a huge confound that affects our behavior.
Interesting, but very little data. They seem to have lots more that they aren't showing. A list of countries (top 50) would be nice. And it would totally rock if we could get the full (anonymised) dataset in csv format or something.
"tawkon is a free application that will alert you when radiation from your phone spikes and suggest ways on how to minimize your exposure."

I want an app that will tell me when my phone's aura is no longer blue, because phones with blue auras are really good listeners and I want people to be able to hear me when I call them! /s
At the beginning of the second paragraph on page 2:

The second question is: ''How are programmers

In LaTeX, `` is used for open quotes, and '' for close quotes. [0]

[0] http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/QuotDash.html
Don't expect them to move quickly. If they do agree to sell, I would personally plan for it to take close to 5 months. (Decisions and actions don't happen quickly at IBM or AOL).

Options to make it go faster...
1) Start with a similar domain (eg: getProduct.com) simply to get started
2) Use Linkedin to find a first or second degree connection in the company in IT Operations, or Legal.
3) Contact that person on Linkedin and try to get a phone number of the right person to talk to OR
4) Ping them directly from a non-gmail account (ideally a personal business sounding domain). (expect a 2 week time for them to respond).
5) Follow up consistently. It will get dropped.
6) Legal will say "No" at first, bc that's what they do.
7) Try try again.

hope it helps
Entrepreneurs Who Rule By Gut Instinct Usually Lose
Clojure/ClojureScript: One Language to Rule the Web
Defining a sane syntax while the language is still in its infancy is anything but bikeshedding. You have only one chance to do it right before an entrenched codebase develops or interest in the language fizzles.

MS Research did this right with the experimental hardwhite support while F# was still in alpha. People liked it so much that it became the default style for the compiler and the standard library. It would be impossible to try to make the switch now that the language is widely used.

It might be childish for me to choose one language for a project than another over trivial things like semicolons, but for the language itself it's an irreversible decision once the spec gets set in stone.
An 'A' release, probably. I suspect they'll be like hurricane naming in that regard.
So the baserequesthandler serves the same purpose as wsgi middleware but more verbose and front page worthy?
Why iOS 7 is important for Apple nerds
Using a Raspberry Pi as an alarm clock with MPD
So, what LED bulb is available to replace 100W incandescent?
SocialFeed.js: Generate a Social Feed in javascript
> It describes Swartz as both an "Internet pioneer" and "programming pioneer". Both seem exaggerated.

Based on what? What exactly did he pioneer? I know that he stole all that stuff from his school and called it justice. What else did he do?
The Algorithmic City - How can we scale cities for the future?
I agree - I would rather pay sales guys all day. I tell each that I'd love to keep writing them big checks, as big as I can make them.
Electronics Store in Australia Accepts Bitcoin
Yes, right. No trial needed. Huge money imbalances are always based upon exploitation. Actually the huge imbalance itself is based on exploitation and force.

Just as a tip of the iceberg, land rights in current day US for example, have their basis on the takeover of Native American lands. Tons of fortunes in the South have their basis on profits made by slave work.

From that, to the loyal employees who are laid off after 30 years of service whereas the owner has accumulated billions off of their work, to the politicians paid to pass a law that favor some multinational, it's a trail of blood, sweat and tears, alright.

Of course one sleeps better if he things he made all his millions by hard work alone and never directly hurt anyone.
Why not do a session/presentation/lunch&learn on how to build web apps without a library. Or how to build something like backbone. Showing teams how to test their front end code is also a great way to introduce better practices and more concern for quality.

The biggest challenge to being a mentor isn't wisdom, it is respect. The person you are trying to teach needs to respect you before they will be willing to learn from you.
I'm not sure what you mean by "I think you might be asking a question that is not relevant to the subject matter", could you clarify?
Ubuntu 13 out
What bank should I use for my newly incorporated startup in Delaware?
I'm looking for a bank in the US that's friendly towards startups. I'm not interested in opening an account with Silicon Valley Bank, there must be other banks in the States that are flexible and friendly towards startups? Any suggestions?
Ubuntu 13 is here
Then maybe you can help me understand what it means. Say I write a book but nobody purchases a copy, while thousands of unauthorized copies are downloaded from torrent sites. How does all this "value" put food on my table?
It depends on how many people are in your family and how frequently they forget to turn off the lights. Plus, having 400W of incandescent bulbs on is 400 more watts that the A/C system has to cool.
It depends on what you're trying to do. The server-side breaks down into MVC readily: you have a database or set of files or some more exotic data store as a model, the HTML/CSS/JS/whatever that gets sent to the client as a view, and your middleware as the controller.

When you do this, then by the time you get to the browser, you're already working in the view. But does it make sense to break the view down into its own model, view, and controller? If you're dealing with a page as a monolithic blob of text, then probably not, and there are cases where it makes sense to do that.

But not all content can be treated as monolithic blobs of text. You mention journalism, but it is not at all uncommon in journalism to have to present some form of raw data to the user -charts, tables, and such- even if that data is just a summary of some other data. MVC is well-suited to that task, perhaps as a series of data presentation widgets within the site. But even blobs of text are not always monolithic. One example that comes readily to mind is also pertinent to news sites: comments. If you need to manipulate comments on a page, then that's another case where MVC could come in handy.

The bottom line is that it depends on what you want to do to the site. Monolithic blobs of text don't require MVC, if that's really all you're handling, but is that all you're handling? Maybe, but maybe not.
I've come to believe that it is the cognitive dissonance between the programmer and the machine. The language used often obscures what is actually executed. Often we find this useful but without proper cues we can write programs that make the divide between program and process really wide.

Personally I find declarations about properties, relationships, and categories of things easier to understand than descriptions of the tedious processes that calculate them. The former give me the ability to reason about the program elements in a logical way. The latter requires me to become a stack machine and execute the program in my head... a process that is error-prone and full of false assumptions.

eg: how many people believe that "all arrays are just pointers," in C? When is an array not like a pointer?

Research like this is good. Are there any studies that go beyond trying to trick programmers with trivial programs in the Algol family and look at the difference in performance between categorically different styles? I mean languages that are declarative vs imperative vs functional vs concatenative in nature. I think that would be very interesting to read.

updated for clarity
Rust isn't there yet in my opinion. The syntax and semantics are still undergoing development, and the standard library is still in the process of definition.

If you want to rewrite your codebase on a quarterly to cope with the changes, that's up to you, but I wouldn't.

I'm waiting for 1.0 to really start writing code in it.
Watch a Woman from the 1990s Explain What a Computer Is
It was not very long ago that CF bulbs were $13 each. And even they were still more cost efficient to buy than incandescent bulbs.
Yes, I thought so too times ago, but when your numbers become more complex things, and one has overridden gt(), and you need to debug in a hurry, because what you are trying to do is not even remotely related, then the verbose version if much easier.
My first thought is: This is a great way to get their attention. If you've been surreptitiously flying under the radar up until now, I think that stage is long gone.

On the flip side, maybe instead of shutting you down, they should acquire you and then shut you down. That's a win-win, right?
Jitsi (jitsi.org) does video calling over Jabber and others.

Though it's not web based like imo.im, you also don't have to give your access credentials to a third party.
Regarding google chrome it has been fixed on the unstable channel for a while now.
I believe you misremember.
From what I recall fortress had an ascii syntax where special combinations would be translated into symbols by the doc/rendering system, eg NN would be rendered as (bold N used for natural numbers).
You can always make your own d3 directives. Relevant "how-to" blog: http://briantford.com/blog/angular-d3.html
It already came out last year: http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/128669-philips-new-10...
> I have to move my laptop screen to see what is an ad and what is not.

This is an indication you should look into calibrating your display. Right now, you're probably missing more than ad-outlines. It doesn't take very long.
Most of it. Sounds like soapy BS for the American public, in preparation for the next targeted enemy.
AngularJS: Modeling Data and State
Trivial maybe if you're a power user that knows Linux and Gnome's desktop shortcuts by heart and isn't afraid of hacking, but definitely not for the regular user Ubuntu was intended for a long time ago.
Thanks, I do know how open quotes are used in LaTex though. I couldn't understand the initial comment. Thanks for the clarification. Up-voted.
I agree, and I was astounded when I found out they had never done an end to end study of how people use Visual Studio while I was at MSFT.

It surprises me how little we really know about the human aspects of our own field. The practical/pragmatic side of understanding how we really program, what's hard, where we stumble, what we do easily, etc is something that we're trying to address with Light Table. LT happens to be the perfect playground to do this sort of experimentation, so at the very least we'll be making it easier for researchers already in the space. But as we get further along and have a few more hands to spare, we'll start picking off research questions ourselves.

The more the merrier, right? :)
I'm of the school of thought that that kind of life isn't "a price," it's poor management. Work quality (as well as employee health) decreases with incredible speed under those kinds of conditions, with very real permanent damage possible.

I don't know if it's clear upfront or not; I never was looking to interview there. But "a sense of mission and urgency" is no excuse for what can only be considered labor abuse.
Well, that's the beauty: however you define "between", once you have it, you can just say "if between(...)" and it becomes very readable.

If you want, you can subdivide this further and more clearly define the concepts used in the between function. But we don't generally choose to do that if the result is already a scant 5 lines.

Point: you should also take into account good modular design, something you have control over.
Usually strong typed languages for systems programming use the unsafe concept for the usual dirty tricks of low level programming that question language's safety.

You can find this in Ada, Modula-{2,3}, D, Oberon and many others.
I think functional programming and immutability goes hand in hand, so I wouldn't call x = x*2 an example of the functional thinking.

With the same logic, C is functional because you don't care about the bit fiddling in x++...
You also have to make an assumption about the typical weather. The waste heat offsets heating costs in cold climates, but in hot climates, you must also burn additional electricity to pump the waste heat outside. My estimate is that a 50W bulb efficiency improvement results in a saving between 30W-70W depending on the climate.

If you live in Iceland, the payback is probably never. If you live in Singapore, you will recoup the cost in months.

I personally use LEDs everwhere except my bathroom during winter, where I use inefficient globe bulbs because it warms the bathroom.
Punky Brewster makes a mobile app
Im going to try to keep it short, but its hard given the many different topic you touched on.

Any company that solely depend on government granted monopolies for their businesses model will have a hard time to claim a moral high ground or demand that the sovereign of foreign countries should be violated.

The business model I would suggest is one that do not solely depend on government grants. That would likely be to produce a product or rendering a service that others are willing to pay for.
This will definitely make data visualization easier... I want to make a bitcoin graph with it!
The lifesaver app for delinquent boyfriends, the disorganized, and forgetful
Agree, it comes down to us (humans) being able to act as one unit, and when we can, everyone will be happy to copy each others work etc as much as possible. Because if someone doesn't have food on the table, we will also be there to help. I really hope we can reach this point in the next few decades! :)
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It's not a tautology. If the brain's benefit from "branch prediction" is low, then some other factor (e.g. length of code) could overwhelm the effects of predictability. So they're making a genuine claim, which is that expectation-congruence is the most important factor.

My experience bears this out. In most of my professional life, I've abided by coding standards, even if I consider the standards imperfect. That's because of the very real improvements to the team's productivity when code does what it looks like it does.
But most people don't know their monitors can be calibrated, let alone how to do it.

So Google could chose colours that are less likely to be lost on poorly calibrated monitors.
When reading the paper's verbose versions, I have to act as a human compiler and keep track of state which leads to mental errors. Contrast this with a shorter version reducing the LOC count from 21 to 6:

x = [..]
y = [..]
between = lambda ls, low, high: (n for n in ls if low < n < high)

x_between = between(x, 2, 10)
y_between = between(y, -2, 9)
xy_common = set(x).intersection(y)

Experienced users made mental stakes because they skim code and make assumptions from previous sections. This can be solved by taking advantage of a language's expressiveness to clarify intent.
Did you upgrade or format/install? I'm pondering it now. I've had quite a few system hangs lately and am wondering if I should even attempt the upgrade to 12.10
SpellTower - A Game of Words
The article feels incomplete, as are many articles that praise systems of the past.

Why did Oberon become obsolete? I suspect we could learn a lot from an answer to this question.
They most definitely do. Sky here, and I can't access thepiratebay.se or thepiratebay.is.
Why would they acquire him when they could shut him down and replicate the service? It's not like they have much of a reputation to maintain. He doesn't have extremely significant traction (otherwise they would have done something by now) and AFAICT he doesn't hold any patents.

To clarify: I don't mean to disparage him, but acquisitions have to bring some sort of value to the acquirer.
Wow, this is awesome! Is it safe to use something like this for service related conversions vs info products?
Montaigne is a WASP thing.
Or they could first shut him down, and then try to acquire very cheaply. It's a very precarious situation to be in.
That's pretty amazing! I've always wondered if you could have a device that detects ice (using lasers, or other optical methods) and place one looking down at the road in front of each tire.

Your car could then warn you when it starts seeing ice, and possibly even take measures to improve control.

I know a lot of times the road will be wet and it will be below freezing but there's no ice, but it's scary to drive because you know you could encounter ice at any time.
Well this review helped me determine there is really nothing worth an upgrade to me. Some of the features sound great but are at least another release from becoming really useful. All things being equal I prefer to be on the current LTS release as that is all I'm going to run on my servers and its nice knowing all the native libraries are the same version between my desktop and server.
Most amazing business card ever
Your own simple 3D Renderer - Painter's Algorithm
This is just an amazing story. Love it.
It does if you are smart enough to pursue this value. Money from selling books doesn't have to be your goal. If thousands of people are reading your work and getting value from it you may offer more value that they would, this time, exchange for money.

Just like music stars earn a lot of money from live shows. You may become a speaker, you may sell additional stuff derived from your book (as a freemium modelo for book market). You may sell this fame of yours to sign profitable contracts to future books with a publisher. You may create online courses to offer to those who read your book (if it is a technical one) or try to sell the rights to TV movies if it is literature.

Well, it is hard to create from an hypotetical situation, but I think you got the point.
The censorship in the UK is only there to discourage new or computer inexperienced users. Tools such as Tor has always worked, and will continue to work for a predicted long time into the future. Access to a indexing site of a few hundred MB is close to impossible to censure, and quite hard to even make inconvenient.
Even before Twitter's recent aggressive behavior towards developers I would have expected this to get shut down. If this became something widely used Twitter value to me would decline. The entire favorite feature would just start to be ignored by a majority of users.
>By now there are tens of thousands of North Korean defectors living in South Korea and elsewhere. That includes others ex-prisoners (not necessarily escapees, some people are released after all). There's also satellite imagery that corroborates some of the defectors' descriptions. There's also testimony from ex-party officials and even from people who knew the Kim family, confirming that people were imprisoned or executed for thoughtcrimes.

The parts that I dispute cannot be corroborated by "satellite" (which can also show the presence of a camp).

And I'm sure that "people were imprisoned or executed for thoughtcrimes". That happens in any country, and all much more in a regime like NK.

It's the other details of life in prison, situations, etc, I'm not so hot about.
There is a related site:
http://www.ironfroggy.com/projects/index

and a github account:
https://github.com/ironfroggy
Out of curiosity - which area do you work in? Can you also post a couple of examples (from your area) of academic research papers not available for free download?
Wouldn't all the love you'd be feeling more than make up for an empty belly?
I think that is exactly it, content heavy websites are no longer just pulling blobs of text out of the database and dumping them on a static page. Even traditional content websites are becoming 'applications'. The lines are blurring and therefore choosing the right tool for the job becomes more challenging.
ACM charges $200/year or $15/paper. A paywall is a paywall.
In that case I'd say it's similar to the fact that people get depressed regardless from their objective situations and how happy they should be relatively to others.

Put another way, I'd say that even a spoiled rich valley girl who tries too hard to be the light of the party at too many social events can suffer from a valid burnout.

I don't have as much sympathy for her as I would for the guy that burns himself out trying to earn enough money to fund his daughter's cancer treatment, but that's another matter entirely ;)
What color do you suggest without making the text of the ad illegible? Perhaps a bright red border around the ads?