skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a Nest early since I preordered it. Unfortunately it just died so I'm not the happiest person.

But, over the 1.5 years I had it I saved about 3% from previous years with a dumb thermostat. This doesn't recoup the cost at all.

One reason the savings was so low was that the firmware on the Nest was very inadequate during the 1st year. It didn't even do automatic heating/cooling on a schedule. All that was resolved last year.

The other reason is that the Home/Away detection is worthless for me (and I suspect many folks) because the thermostat location isn't in the traffic pattern of the house. I've pleaded with them to do a remote sensor but so far they don't care. Most of the new modern wireless system have the ability to add remote sensors so they're being left behind quickly.

Even so I'm not disappointed in the Nest. It's cool and I am very pleased to have wireless access via my smartphone to the temperature settings.

But they need to do a lot a work to get back to the level of companies like Honeywell and their distributed system.
First of all, when you get a 'unique', turn off javascript, then go back and click the 'Test Me' button again.

Then, look for a new way to get information as the web has become almost unusable for you in 2013.
He should contest the NSL gag orders. They've already been declared unconstitutional at least 3 times, but they managed to trick the justice system by changing a few random words in the law (with the help of Congress), in effect creating a "new" law that was wiped clean of any "unconstitutionality" ruling.

The NSL is still unconstitutional in principle, it's just that it needs to be contested every time they change the law to escape the ruling. Hopefully this time Congress will stop playing along and creating new laws for them.

Watch this and you'll get it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT2fQu50sMs
I'm alive, or am I?
You can say the same thing about iCloud. I'm not a Microsoft fan-boy, but I have to say that SkyDrive does what I expect it to.
Looked it up and I was wrong about this being the FBI, it's actually the DEA.
I am really rather certain there are members of Congress, perhaps members of the Intelligence Oversight Committee even, that can get at anything they want. Sadly, that they are not pushing harder tells that they agree with the actions of the administration.
There are other options. For example, if someone's status = hellbanned, them change the header bar to reflect it. It's simple and doesn't require anything to be sent out.
I once emailed PG and asked if I could be unbanned. HIs response:

> You're not banned in sense of having been banned by
a mod or a spam filter. Your karma just got too low.
One would argue it was the only way a black person could be elected US President: by being whiter inside than white old men. Someone threatening like Jesse Jackson never stood a real chance; in fact, giving the electoral system, no real reformer will ever have a chance: old white people from rural states are overwhelmingly over-represented, the game is rigged in their favour.

It's like the football/soccer rule-changing committee being structured in a way that nobody can change anything if British federations don't agree.
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches - should be up shortly

you can also get it here - https://gist.github.com/mjhea0/6200588
I still cannot "review" my agreements for some reason.

Stuck waiting for more "magical" design.
You can always freeze your head and wait until they can give you a new body.
it is true that rigour is eventually needed, but the principia, laplace's celestial mechanics and countless other works (heard of euler?) were all published before cauchy and weirstrass. all of the wonderful work in elliptic functions by gauss, abel and jacobi was done before rigour was en vogue. euclidean and non-euclidean geometries both flourished wonderfully w/o modern rigour (when was hilbert's book on geometry published?)

you're also wrong about your examples. it wasn't nowhere differentiable functions, but fourier series that motivated lebesgue. that's what the author is referring to regarding analytical traps ie, monotone convergence.

it is also quite a leap to assert the arithmetical definition of limits solves the zeno paradox!!! i few of my
colleague's might disagree with you.

don't led your initial fascination with rigour (it can be addicting) get in the way of your intuition. rigour is necessary, but it comes after - sometimes to the chagrin of some. look at the teaching of modern algebra. pure abstraction and rigour, with complete detachment of all the wonderful ideas, and experiences that gave it rise.

up with triangles i say :)
I've had my Intel SSD since 2009, it's only needed to be replaced once, and Intel did it in a week (and I didn't lose any data). SMART warned me that it might fail soon (I think it ran out of remappable sectors), and Intel sent me a free replacement, which has been running fine since.
Yep, it works now. Thanks.
it sounds like this first phase is more market testing than the final product - I suspect if interest is high then they will have enough data and potential buyers to formulate a business plan.
Even if the US escapes from the two party local maximum, it'd probably land in a three party local maximum like many modern democracies (Germany is a good example). Then, a middle-ground party works with the election winner to maintain government stability. It is not a much better model.

The conclusion we are reaching is that representative democracy has very serious limits. Voting for the whole ideologic package does not allow my voice to be heard on stuff that: a) I really care about, or b) I really know inside and out. I'd prefer to relinquish my opinion on some stuff (agricultural policy, for example), and really be heard on other matters (there's absolutely no excuse for torture).
There is a conflict of interest between this post and HN:

HN's goal is also to promote YC start-ups (directly and indirectly), and they happen to be US-based.
""The way we encrypt messages before storing them is relatively unique. We only know of one commercial service, and one commercial product that will secure user data using asymmetric encryption before writing it to disk. Basically we generate public and private keys for the user and then encrypt the private key using a derivative of the plain text password. We then encrypt user messages using their public key before writing them to disk. (Alas, right now this is only available to paid users.)"

http://possibility.com/LavabitArchitecture.html
Yes, it's called an Impeachment. According to the Constitution it can only be for an high crimes and misdemeanors. The Congress then holds a trial and if convicted the President is removed from office. Then the next in succession becomes President until the next election. Basically, it's not going to happen over this. Remember, Congress agrees with the actions of the government more or less.

To more directly answer your question. There is no popular recall mechanism. The closest would be if there was enough public outcry to their congressional representatives that Congress began to move against the President. The bar is really, really high on this. It's not going to happen.
Out of curiousity, does anyone know who has the ability to hellban and, if so, are they themselves evaluated?
>Don't like their policy X? Don't go there.

That's precisely what he's arguing should be done.
I've long thought this as well. I think breaking up the cable monopoly and making large news sources compete against smaller independent ones is the only thing that will break the republicrat death grip on power. The debates have to not matter anymore.
Interesting. Do dead account's not find out that they are dead? They might if they do not get any upvotes or replies after a few comments. Right?
from what I've seen this is all free. which is ofcourse great. and open source too. But I wonder if you guys have a business model? I mean somebody has to pay for those servers right?
That was about what he did during his presidency, not about achieving the presidency in the first place.

If becoming president is your main achievement including two terms as president then that's sad, not good.

Even Reagan will be remembered because he's seen as a factor (not all good, but ok we'll give him a pass) in the collapse of the former Soviet Union. And Reagan was embarrassing in many other respects.

Obama will be remembered as the guy that could have changed so much but didn't. Part of that is his own fault, he was harping so much on hope and change that some of us (including me) actually believed he meant what he said.

Consider me disappointed.
Not really a black and white issue - he's definitely on the spectrum, though.
According to Snowden's slides, PRISM began to receive information from Microsoft in 2007. So now in... wait for it.. 2013, Obama was juuust about to start looking into what those crafty NSA people were doing?? The amount of stupid here is Unbearable!!
Big difference. We are the government and have at least the illusion of changing overreaching government policies (and the recent Obama speech shows that it is at least possible to get them to recognize that).

There is NOTHING we can do to change Google.
They mostly run on Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2.

They also don't really work. iMessage is unreliable at best, and iTunes match just makes home taping look preferable.
"In a civilized society, we outsource our violence to police and other agencies...."

I suspect you'll not be surprised that I strongly disagree. Honest police (I gather most of them, in fact) know they can't be everywhere, e.g. "When seconds count, the police are minutes away." Worse, it's well established in the courts that police have absolutely no duty to protect anyone in particular; the most recent case is particularly stark, on a subway Joseph Lozito subdued a knife wielding assailant taking quite a few injuries while the NYPD officers there cowered and locked themselves away.

Hmmm, have you ever lived in an area where concealed carry is shall issue and self-defense was encouraged by the local authorities? In my home town, which I've retired to, they went so far as to say a woman had an "absolute right" to use lethal force against some home invaders, and the staff of the required concealed carry class I and my father took were all active duty police officers who were entirely supportive of citizen self-defense.

I wonder if your take on drone warfare is a bit off. Haven't followed Afghanistan that closely, but I know during our occupation of Iraq we allowed people to retain an AK-47 for self-defense, "picking up a weapon" was not an automatic mark of an enemy. Context mattered, and I strongly expect does in Afghanistan. Pick up a weapon and move towards an allied unit, likely enemy. Outside of that context, isn't so clear, especially in such an well armed society.

And you at least in part recognize that, "wielding a gun against a uniformed soldier or even a drone effectively marks you as a terrorist", although I'd substitute enemy for "terrorist", and enemy is quite enough to allow for a violent response.
No. We go through a user's followers by hand; identify common influencers and interests; cross reference these against interesting content from a range of sources. We will eventually look for scalable aspects, however right now we're trying to figure out what works best on an individual level.
Scala has TCO support, but maybe not as advanced as Ocaml, being limited by the JVM and all. CPS is heavily used in scala these days, as far as I can tell by reading Ingo Meir's work.

I was confused about polymorphic variants. Scala doesn't seem to have that.

I did a lot of work with units (dr. scheme-style functors) before, and when I moved to scala for my postdoc, I found all my patterns expressible using mixins and nominal types...I didn't miss the modules (1st class or otherwise).

Scala has a non-null-ability option, but most programmers I think would find null damn convenient.
Actually, I am working on something similar i.e being able to share terminals using browser.
Who was the first US president to speak out against slavery? (Hint: it wasn't Abe Lincoln.) I think this factoid will ultimately matter about as much to the average American after we've had 5 more black presidents.
The article is a very thin wrapping over the first answer on http://www.quora.com/Why-would-someone-choose-Carnegie-Mello....
Honestly, by this point my brain is trained to ignore anything on a web page I'm not interested in. Ads, warning messages, those annoying EU cookie warnings...

Don't get me wrong, I don't think there are bad intentions here or that you're not doing due diligence to warn users, I just think this type of installation method should be discouraged in general.
A mathematical explanation of consonance and dissonance in music is appealing for its simplicity, but it is somewhat of a reductionist approach to understanding listeners' experience of music. There are many elements of the European musical tradition that, though they sound consonant to our ears, cannot be explained on mathematical grounds. The minor mode and the minor triad are notable examples. A more subtle and insidious case is that of equal temperament.

Background reading: "Musical Consonance and Dissonance: A Cultural Criterion" (http://www.jstor.org/stable/426253)
One way I feel we can give people more power, on the individual level and even out the playing field in employer-employee relationships, is to have the government taking care of all basic living needs - where you don't actually need to work in order to survive. For a business to succeed then, they would have to be kind and people would want to have to work for them out of other options - of which I could see that leading to many more co-operatives and the like.
Yeah but Bush wasn't elected on a platform of shutting these programs down, Obama was.
No, your memory is selective. Wilson and Kelly were on the record as stating as much.

Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame subsequently had their lives pretty much ruined and David Kelly conveniently committed suicide.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_%28weapons_expert%2...
That sums it up
Iconic? Thats equivalent to saying the Beatles were iconic by coming up with a catchy band name. These things become part of collective consciousness because they are widely disseminated, repeated, an generally unoffensive. There is no special sauce in the name Beatles, nor in this sound. Both were elevated by other unrelated factors, the Beatles' music, and Apples prevalance in the computer marketplace. As long as they didnt name themselves The Motherfuckers, The Beatles would have been successful by just about any name. As long as it wasnt something offensive or grating, the sound of a cd finishing burning/phone notifying would be recognizable by millions, regardless of the sound itself.
Looks like they're basing it on previous work done by the Tor Browser Bundle (which actually does have Mac and Linux clients).
Not everyone needs to be good at everything, but it would be a nice change to stop pretending that "digital natives" are all computer wizards. They aren't, not even close - some of them fail with turning on their machines.

_If_ pepole need to computer wizards is an entirely different question, and it also depends on what they do.

As per the article:
> I have one question for these policy makers:
> Without reference to Wikipedia, can you tell me what the difference is between The Internet, The World Wide Web, a web-browser and a search engine?
> If you can’t, then you have no right to be making decisions that affect my use of these technologies.

I'd expect people deciding on "computer things" to be experts on their decision matter. Unfortunately in our society it's possible for one person to show utter disdain for those concerns and decide about mandantory internet filtering at the same time and not be laughed out of the room.

And this problem _won't_ be fixed by the current teen cohort eventually entering positions of power.
On the flip side, Apple took a security issue very, very seriously, and for that they should be commended. I mean, obviously better if it were found beforehand, but clearly someone outside of the people in charge of these web properties had a WTF moment and life became unpleasant for some people for a while.

Most firms would have duct-taped the specific section exploited.
From my experience of first trying a lightweight media center PC, leaving the browser open for extended periods caused pretty severe memory issues with the computer in general, that combined with the fact that Dashing itself is a Sinatra based application with a bunch of ruby jobs running in the background can cause some serious slowdown.
Exactly. It's like how the LCD with the real-time and historical fuel economy info in the Prius has been teaching people to drive more efficiently via the instant feedback you might not get in most other vehicles.

It's easy to say you could achieve the same thing without it, but facts show most people don't.
Quora blog spam? Anyways, we know MIT is actually harder...

To be fair, quora is impossible to use behind the GFW: choose a google login (that goes through YouTube) or a Facebook login. So copying quora content makes sense.
Meta kills, and with the amount of Snowden and whatnot already appearing on the front page, we can't afford the indulgence.

Do what I do (and have done): log out and check the last post you made. No need to clutter up the front page with this. :)
Something similar exists in Germany, I forgot the name though.
It sounds like someone read Russ Cox's work on regexp.

http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/

To future regexp implementors: Do it this way first!
You should tell `himerzi` that they are shadowbanned on HN.
Vim 7.4 changelog
Thank you for the link.
I am not African American (neither African nor American) but when I lived in America it always struck me how racially divided the country still is, even in New York, and how poor many African Americans are.
I thought he was showing the stress for a long time now. In general, he had a great deal of responsibility for AOSP, which is affected by decisions in other parts of the Android organization. This was a tipping point.
Okay. Are you identifying common influencers and interests off the top of your head though, or is that computed somehow?
that would just be a ban - the hell in hellban refers to the fact that you don't even know that you're a victim.
The proper channel is the press. That's why we have free speech. What Bradley Manning did is much more questionable, Snowden gave the information over to the Fourth Estate and let professional journalists sound the whistle. You would rather have him blow the whistle to the same people who are benefiting from The Way Things Are? What incentive do they have to do anything about it?
There's been a recent spate of this for political reasons: https://www.google.com/search?q=brett+kimberlin+swatting+or+...
“In America, we’re not supposed to have to worry about watching our words like this when we’re talking to the press,” Binnall said. (from article)

I am a new immigrant to America. I came with my wife from Australia 8 months ago. All my life I heard about how the US supported the freedom and rights of its people, and now that I'm here, I find that that was a sick joke. This place is a KGB state on the brink of happening.
Just remember that you'll have to use the .de ending, otherwise the BND will do what the NSA does in the US. At least they claim they only read non-.de mails, just like the NSA did…
I was also surprised to find it here. Afaik the name (and popularization as a forum-management technique) comes from SomethingAwful, but it fits the culture there.
I installed it a few months back, and prepared the SD card in linux. Instructions: http://trogrd.tumblr.com/post/38874675677/plan-9-on-rasberry...
How so? The tests are in no way normal usage, most writing hundreds of terabytes or more before failure, exactly in the expected range for those sizes of SSDs.

Consumer devices do not write remotely as much as people seem to think they do. Heck, I ran a very large, endless-churn financial system on a FusionIO platform, and two years in it had barely written several hundred terabytes.
I think the real reason is language. Europe does not share one language. There is no European media, no European public, hence creating a brand and reaching a lot of people is infinitely more difficult than in the US.

French consumers will learn about a German startup only if it gets picked up by the english speaking media (which may take years).

I think European startups should look to Isreal for a clue. Israeli startups don't have a home market to speak of so they go straight for the US market.
Math Advances Suggest RSA Encryption Could Fall Within 5 Years
Watch some Tueller Drill videos: it's very clear you've got to really have your act together to survive them, and it shouldn't be hard to image someone with their gun already in their hands failing and getting a mortal wound.
Downing street memorandum. We went to war, and invaded nations, based on knowing lies.
Yeah, to add to this further, the reason is to slow down the user so it takes them a while (if ever) to figure out they're banned, otherwise they'd just create a new account which would be more work for the mods and would drag down the quality of comments and content submitted. (Of course, this assumes the person being banned is being banned for justifiable reasons.)
Wouldn't it be easier just to check from a non-logged-in browser and see if your comments are visible?
It seems like he rather enjoy his remaining time working being as healthy as possible. I know if I am unhealthy I cannot focus on anything until I am back to "normal."
Yeah I don't really know if this thing is a good idea... but it's worth discussing. At least now people have a way to check thanks to you!
Ask HN: Any recommendations for a UK accountant specialising in IT contracting? 
Fairly immediate need and not impressed with previous umbrella company.
Thanks
Just because you drop one enjoyable thing for the sake of health doesn't mean than there is nothing left to enjoy. The world is filled with things to enjoy. Many of them are even healthy.
CMU Average Freshman Retention Rate: 95.5 %
Harvard: 98 %
Cool - it's a spectacularly cool idea and a great proof of concept.
Just remember that the author knows the NSA is watching him, and if he goes too far (i.e. by outright saying that they or the president is lying), he might become a risk to national security. In this country, the people do not have the right to criticize the government, you know? ;)
I like the place you're describing! But finding a way from here to there is the tricky part, isn't it.
Don't worry, you won't find it on the front page.
Many, many vehicles have real-time fuel-usage meters. Most people completely ignore them. The people who care about fuel-usage -- the sort of person who buys a Prius -- of course pay attention to it because it justifies the reason to buy the car.

Yet I suspect that very few of the people who bought the Nest actually care about energy usage, or reducing it. It is a lifestyle product and is a talking point, and while there are some who really desire it for that, many more set it to a static temperature and forget it. I hugely doubt that the total set of Nest users have seen any measurable decline in usage.
Coinlab, The Bitcoin Incubator, Announces First Funded Company, Alydian
Mods. Could be PG, could be someone PG has elected to be a mod. The mods don't make themselves known, as far as I've seen.

From the FAQ: [0]

> Who are the editors?

> About 30 YC alumni. They can kill stories and edit the titles, and in extreme cases (e.g. spamming or deliberate trolling) ban users.

Are the bans evaluated? Well, no, apparently not automatically. But they can be manually reviewed by sending a nice email to PG.

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
He noticed. 3 years of lurking down the drain.