skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I changed my email address at my bank. They still send emails to my old address (and to my new address). They have no idea why and how. I'm pretty sure this kind of "thing" will happen to many others, with the difference that I keep my old (yahoo) address active...
It also now handles when the Nest is in a hot spot, for example a wall that a patch of sun crosses during the day. I was having trouble with that, we talked about it at length and shared historical temp readings vs other seven zones in the house, and they even sent me a new unit to make sure it was the sun not the unit. A few months later, the had an update for this issue.
I still can't decide what's more embarrassing: That the US have a third-world health care system or that people act like it is a hard, unsolved issue to implement something better.
To make it go viral: Make it interesting, original (if possible), authentic (people can smell "fake") and the rest will follow on their own.

The truth is that you have very little control over what truly goes viral and the last thing you need is for your site to go viral for all the wrong reasons. There is such a thing as bad publicity.

And just remember that Marketing != Going viral, which in some cases may be anti-marketing.
The adults are saying "no", the children just have to go along with that choice that was made for them. This is arguably a form of coercion because the children are being denied the opportunity to a better life.
He's saying that he thinks people who employ the network effect as an argument for the unshakeableness of Facebook are probably appealing to dogma, because there cannot be that many people who deeply understand the dynamics of networked behavior. And I tend to agree -- the network effect is often offered as undeniable proof of a near-eternal reign from Menlo Park. I don't think that's what it means to have network or lock-in effects in your product.
So far so good — I threw a 1080p file at it last night and it did fine. Admittedly, most of my content is in 720p, because that was about all the Apple TV I used to use could deal with.
I can't understand how Americans, who have the least efficient, most expensive health care system in the world, are so quick to write off public healthcare. The idea that government healthcare is more wasteful than a private system is not supported by facts, but the theory is too hard to let go of.

Which is not to say there is a perfect solution. But just about any of the alternatives would be better than the US system.
Its part of the continuous cycle of creation and destruction.
" people without insurance are going to bring some losses, but you don't just let them die."

Are you aware of the health insurance debate/disaster in the US? How long can doctors operate at a loss?

I must say that you are very fortunate if you do not know someone who has died of cancer and was unable to see/pay every specialist they could fit in to their final months days. People die of cancer all the time wishing they had the money to see the ______ oncology specialist.
The dark stories of the bombing need to be told, too. And we need to hear them.
I had a hard time gleaning the tone of this piece. At first I thought it was facetious, since the list of purportedly annoying responses from IT actually seemed quite reasonable. The last one in particular, “You never said that is what you really wanted. We did what you asked for.”, seems hard to argue against.

Yet the rest of the piece is clearly sincere. Perhaps that just goes to show how wide the chasm is.
>You should not be able to patent data exchange formats;

I fully agree. I despise patents on anything that stifles interoperability. However this wasn't anything new. Din't we grow up with patents on GIF? Isn't Apple doing the same with patents on NFC sessions? [1] Or Google with their proprietary file system[2]? Don't even get me started on the bucket load of patents IBM has collected over the decade. Then why single out Microsoft? Patent wars between corporations is nothing new. (However, I would develop a deep hatred if they went after non-profit org like Linux with this.)

The point I am trying to make is, it was/is common for corporations to file patents on most trivial things. I find the Patent Office at fault here.

[1]http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/05/apple-fi...

[2]http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/06/google-file-system-...
I suspect it is because those with the means to move are generally doing well enough to avoid the failings of the US system.
The revenue from apps/games is tiny.
Those who like this will probably like the short documentary "Ascent - Commemorating Shuttle" produced by a some NASA engineers. It uses similar footage from launchpad cams, with lots of technical commentary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwqZ4qAUkE
What Congress needs to do is get out of retirement entirely (including 401k's, etc) except to maintain and protect Social Security as the last-ditch retirement system.
I agree, we moved to Belmont for the schools but have both our kids in private school - hence we are broke.

One not obvious issue with schools is the local demographics are NOT always in sync with the student body demographics.

Menlo Park which has a high income tax base has a mixed group of students. The wealthy families put their kids in private schools, the result is a student body out of sync with the local demographics. I would of never expected this but one of our close friends is a teacher in Menlo Park/Atherton and has to put her kids in private schools vs the local public schools in Menlo/Atherton district.
It may be a vicious cycle at this point, Americans have no faith in their government, and their government proves itself unworthy of their faith.
They sort of parked their mobile devices progress in the same sense they tried to park IE forever at version 6 and Windows at version XP.

I guess they figured out they no longer have to innovate now when all the market was theirs following the fall of (Netscape, Mac & other OSes, Palm).

And when iPhone came the whole Windows Mobile thing imploded like a house of cards.
This is unfortunate for Android but consumers are still much better off by having a 3rd major operating system. I really hope Android(or Chrome/Android) becomes a viable desktop solution.
FWIW, I don't think righteousness is really the issue here. All consultancy is ultimately based on selling valuable information and/or judgement that the client doesn't have but the consultant does, so in a sense it's always based on the consultant charging money because of the client's ignorance. It's hard to find any objective standard for reasonable pricing other than "what the market is willing to pay".

Maybe it becomes more ethically dubious when the consultant is taking advantage not of the client's ignorance in the field where they're paying for advice but of their ignorance of the consulting market itself in that field. Even then, it's the natural position that a new customer doesn't know the sellers' market, and a large chunk of sales and marketing is based on trying to convince uncertain prospective customers to buy from you and not someone else, so again it's hard to find any objective standard for what is fair and what is unfairly taking advantage. (This is a major argument for licensing practitioners in industries where bad advice can be particularly damaging, such as healthcare, law and accountancy.)

One thing that is very clear is that the value-based pricing approach only works if you can find some credible and quantifiable means to demonstrate the value you might offer to a client. If you work in a field like conversion optimisation, that's easy enough. If you (or your consultancy including colleagues/subs) are building an entire system that will have concrete benefits for the business, you can probably do it too. If you build software in general, maybe as part of a wider team or making incremental functional changes to an existing system as many freelancers/contractors do, then it's not the same situation.

This is why it sometimes irritates me when a handful of HN celebrities post repeatedly about raising rates and changing the basis for charging as if everyone can do it, even in response to someone who would obviously have to fundamentally change the kind of work they do before the advice would make sense for them. It sets false expectations, and potentially damages the careers of people who go out to customers/clients with unrealistic expectations and wind up missing out on reasonably profitable work. Worse, it could tarnish their reputation and leave unhappy clients behind, because even though they did what they said they'd do, the client later discovered they'd paid well over the odds and felt ripped off. It's never happened to me, because I choose not to work that way, but I've seen it happen to others and the results are never pretty.
Indeed, I've also been using ack for a while, and switched to ag. Much faster.
You must have missed the right checkbox. I turned it off once, never got another email.
GIF patent is our measure of Evil. We measure Evil in GIF patent fractions.

One thing is to patent, the other thing is to enforce a bogus patent/"license" it and collect money. The latter has no excuses for a product company.
Inexperienced designers (e.g. a large percentage web developers) like flat design because it's easy. Switching from skeuomorphic (with nice-looking buttons, etc.) to flat (with simple boxes) lowers the threshold for just about anyone who knows basic HTML/CSS to make a website.
I know the people reading this and posting here are, for the most part, particularly those who don't mind having their real info out on the web - but for anyone who cares about privacy or being tracked it's worth noting the info-exposure aspect of self-Googling.

Google and other search engines, I would guess, have some algorithm that kicks in when someone searches on a person name, and calculates a probability that the searcher is the person whose name is searched on. This in turn may enable linking the real name with the set of data associated with the searcher by other means (e.g. hits on Google APIs, Google Analytics, etc., plus whatever other data the search engine has from other tracking and data-mining sources).

Of course much of one's online profile may be already linked with one's RW identity, but the self-Googling may add some previously semi-anonymous data to the profile.
Apple Buys HopStop and Locationary
One of the things people don't like to talk about is how the economy handles the oversupply of college graduates: use bright line rules to get people out of the job market. Two candidates, a C/O 2012 and a C/O 2013 graduate should be fungible from the perspective of a recruiter, but they're not. The former has a scarlet letter on his resume, and people with lesser credentials from the next class will be hired over him.

The practical effect of this is to normalize the hiring pipeline quickly after a recession. But it has the effect of just cutting huge numbers of people, who happened to be unlucky to graduate in a down year, out of the market entirely. If you don't get a job a year or so after graduation in your major field, you probably never will.
I am not sure this story is really about the need for socialized medicine. This is more about the need of specialist care and second opinions. If most doctors he saw determined that he most likely would not survive treatment, a socialized medical program may have very well denied payment for such treatments, and he would have had to resort to fundraising anyways.

Maybe if the system was flexible, nimble and could make judgement calls on the side of compassion, it might work, but this is difficult in both public or private sector institutions.
I would be tempted to quit my job on the spot if I'd receive one of those orders... (Not earning that much anyway so I could deal with it.)
I wonder if this is really usable like Dropbox. I tried owncloud which is supposed to be the more stable alternative but it kept replacing new files with old ones, sync took ages and security was weak. I really want to support this kind of projects but they hold me from being productive, which I really need right now.
That earlier discrimination was done by other people is good reason not to blame these people for that earlier discrimination. It is no reason at all not to blame these people for present discrimination.
Pretty sure us Brits still get a claim on the empire thing. Pretty sure...
Kerry vows to put the screws to Venezuela over Snowden.
I am not sure what piece of information you are trying to correct? They made it quite clear in the original article that the leak began when she was outed on twitter, and that they only analysed the book because they were unsure wether they could trust the source or not.
Should have redundancy. You'd expected it to. But mistakes happen. I recall an incident where a data center found out that their two "redundant" incoming utility power feeds were really wired to the same source only when the power failed.
Countless posts and comments here on HN strongly suggest that it's precisely the vision and passion of a founder that brings life to a startup which is itself just a hypothesis; the only reason to exist is to prove or disprove that hypothesis.

If you place stock in the notion that ideas are worthless without execution, paying money to inherit someone else's unsuccessful idea that they lost interest in will only appeal to software developers that have no ideas or inspirations of their own.

You'd have a hard time convincing me that buying someone else's codebase of unknowable quality is going to be (or feel) any definition of "better" than designing and building your own MVP. At least your code will be familiar and not constrained by another dev's [aborted] vision.
"...except to maintain and protect Social Security as the last-ditch retirement system..."

I suspect that's the rub. I don't have ALL of the information on Social Security, but the system is probably a good deal more difficult to fix than it seems. From both a fiscal and political perspective.
Alan Turing Will Be Finally Pardoned by British Government
pure math but not much else. "bullshit" is being thrown around pretty liberally here.
He threatens to ground any Venezuelan aircraft which proceeds over NATO or US airspace if there is any (he says "the slightest") suspicion Snowden is on board.

I guess the Bolivia fiasco was not enough. This is getting pretty ludicrous.
If the current people are not to be blamed, I would argue that itself renders the apology meaningless. It would be like you going on a murder spree and then me announcing that I apologize for a random stranger's murder spree.

If they are to be blamed and willingly accept some measure of blame in order to apologize, then their apology is again empty unless they actually have taken steps to rectify the situation around them. (Which in discriminatory elements is identical to the previous situation.)

Ultimately, I think it is theatre. An easy way for people who are not willing to solve problems around them: Yes, problems which also include discrimination against gays right now; yet want some way to assuage themselves of guilt. Well fuck that.
New Relic is primarily a tool for monitoring and diagnosing on the application lauer, although they have recently expanded their offerings.

For monitoring servers, I'm currently using munin and pingdom.
Here are some plugins for other popular languages in NetBeans. I'm linking only actively developed plugins.

Shell scripts:

Install Official C++ plugin

Ruby on Rails:

Plugin - http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/38549

GitHub Mirror - https://github.com/nbruby/nbruby

Quick Start - https://github.com/MarkUsProject/Markus/wiki/NetBeans

Python (not sure about Django):

http://wiki.netbeans.org/Python

* UPDATE * - Sorry, there doesn't seem to be active Python support anymore.

Lua:

Possibly active: http://sourceforge.net/projects/luatopping/

Probably inactive: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/29607/luasupport

NodeJS:

https://github.com/timboudreau/nb-nodejs
As a side benefit, this showed me that Symfony has a really nice trace output. I wish Codeigniter had this.
I've actually worked with health insurance billing.

The way it works is that they bill ridiculously large amounts, which nobody without insurance can pay. They know this. The insurance companies negotiate it, other people pay what they can, and it all more or less works out in the end. I'd much, much prefer to see a single payer system.

Seeing every specialist is different than being in treatment with a doctor and having them cut you off because you can't pay. It's very rare I hear of a doctor going "well it's a shame you can't afford to pay for this surgery" - nearly always they do it, bill it, and accept the losses. Hospitals recover less than 20% from people without insurance.
From the security FAQ:
"Plug uses asymmetric cryptography. When Plug is installed, the application generates a RSA-2048 pair of keys, identifiable by the user's email, and with a private key protected by the user password. This private key, which is what authenticates a user in the Plug system, is stored in your Plug and your devices. We don't know this key because we don't have your password, so we cannot - us or anyone else - steal your identity."

So it really does seem to be zero knowledge, and therefore could be the magic UI that finally makes proper asymmetric encryption tolerable to the general public.

The NSA could still steal the key off of any of the devices, but it would be hard to do that systematically on a global scale. The closed source nature of this software probably still makes it a no-go though, they can just coerce them to patch it ala skype.

I wonder how this would fair against TSA also. If your entire home server looks like a folder, and they can copy that folder at the border, they now get every file you care about rather than just the ones on any one device.
Possibly with primitive sail boats, or over land before the sea cut them off. It´s also possible they did have oars but forgot about them at some point over the thousands of years because they didn´t need them.
We don't even know for sure how much Nokia pays for licensing Windows Phone, do we?
If you use GIT, checkout also 'git grep' command.
ag is indeed incredibly fast and extremely useful. It's replaced grep for me, any time I need to do a recursive search.
What Coders Should Know About Copyright Licensing
That he should have known better presupposes he's right. He may be in his circumstances, but having worked with two dozen Nests, my experience says this helps almost everyone.

I own nine Nests in two properties, a loft office with one zone and a two building home with eight zones. The loft is commercial central heat and air. The home is boiler heat with eight baseboard zones.

The Nest in loft saved me about 30% compared to prior years, and the Nests in home saved me closer to 50%.

The reason I saved so much in the home is thanks to the energy history view in the web or iPad app. I was able to see which zones were cycling on and off when, and adjust relative zone temps until all zones were sharing work equally. When all zones were naively the same temp, some zones were always on (lower floors) while others were never on (top floor). Balancing temps differently until I could see all zones cycling equivalently dropped my boiler burn time by 50%.

Based on this, I recommended these to a number of friends and family. Those with conventional central heat and air have all commented on savings they can see on their electric bill.

The one exception is a friend with commercial office properties. He switched to Nest and was having trouble, bill shot up! Turned out his tenants were mis-training the Nest, with the classic misunderstanding that turning it higher than our goal makes it adjust temps up faster. Nest was letting temps drop farther, then tenants would turn it to 85 thinking that would make it heat faster. It learned that, and was hitting 85 every morning then tenants trained to let it drop back to 75 during day. We tweaked the Away temps to stay closer to normal, switched off learning, and set a nice schedule. Now he's saving 30% or so as well.
Congress should extend ERISA or a similar set of rules to municipal and state governments. This would force governments to manage their pension systems in a safe way

But then the politicians couldn't use the pension programs as personal slush funds. Won't happen.
Thanks, I was looking for this as well. ag --help could probably be reworked a little bit; --include makes more sense than -G / --file-search-regex in my opinion.
Switch to Kohana (which is a codeigniter fork).
Thanks. Didn't read the manpage too carefully. Still not quite as easy as with ack, but probably good enough for me.
I never talked about the legal part. Of course it is legal since their terms might likely allow this.

I just don't see it that wrong like you do. I wonder, if there is an argumentation to really call them stupid. And I don't even think this is relevant referring to their image.

As you said, this only affects people who aren't either informed about computer topics, don't know they had a Yahoo mail at all or who simply reregister their old mail address.
Do doctors make individual decisions about working pro bono, and does it come directly out of their paycheque, or does the hospital cover it for them?
Way too much terms like "proof", "fact", "confirmation", "definitely" later on. Isn't something like this always with a lot of assumption and always with a bias from the samples? Everyone could happen to be writing like someone else. There is nothing that definitively makes writing different between people like a fingerprint (which, as I understand it, is biologically highly random).

Analysing sites like HN to see indicators(!) for sockpuppets or generally correlation of likelihood between accounts' writing styles would rock!
This story makes me glad to live in France and have such a good healthcare system.
You have to trust the VPS provider.
I disabled all those ridiculous tabs. Thanks for cluttering gmail google, because god knows simplicity is incongruent with the new Google.
L Degrees: Temperatures on the Platforms of NYC's L Train
For those like me who can't access the link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130609020621/www.news.com.au/te...
Jquery.bank
It's the Laravel framework.
Kohana 3 is a rewrite (couple years old now). Not really a CI fork anymore. Looks and works completely different.
Is there a good way to sync contacts to my (Android, but possibly soon FirefoxOS) phone with FastMail?
Social Security's unfunded liability over the infinite future horizon is equal to 4% of future taxable payroll, or 1.4% of future GDP: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/social-security-faces-96t-un.... A 4% increase in FICA taxes would be hard to swallow for many families, but let's face it, it's not going to make or break anyone and it would permanently fix Social Security.
Good point. I do think the frequency of cases where the only option is private fund raising is much reduced under public systems.
Steve Wozniak Explains How Steve Jobs Came Up With The Name "Apple"
The imbalance makes sense (too many antioxidants, or too much of a vitamin, etc). I also always wondered if people who took vitamins were less likely to eat healthy as well. Or perhaps even if they do eat healthy then by eating healthy they're creating an imbalance. I wonder if you could take very small doses and eat poor;y and do okay? It seems not.
>Common name space for long and short filenames https://www.google.com/patents/US5758352
It's a hundred million more than they deserve for that patent.
You don't have to if you use EncFS. All encryption is done client-side.

The only thing your VPS provider could do is delete your files, but Unison's backup feature should protect you from losing your files (in a way).
That silly counter at the bottom using a fixed formula to count up a random statistic for no reason:

http://wappalyzer.com/sites/default/themes/wappalyzer/js/cou...

Can anybody explain the point of that thing? I'm assuming they do not query sites one by one continuously either.