skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It feels a bit like exporting a Western style thinking on the world and saying everyone should agree with it

You are completely right, it should not "export" and force this kind of values all over the world

But at least we got two countries that agree with this values, so they might speak about those values as equally shared and agreed by both parties, as written in their own democratic constitutions of rights

So it might be at least universal between them :)

[edit: deleted the last line as irrelevant]
Riding along with Kozmo.com in Boston, in March 2000
I think the smoke detector is a safe bet for the Nest. Like the page says, the "connected home" is starting to be something we see emerging; the issue is, what needs to be 'connected'?

There aren't really a lot of areas that benefit from home automation, but a smoke detector is at least in the right ballpark. It will still be a few years before anyone tries to come out with a 'smart refrigerator/pantry' (the logistics are a nightmare alone).

Aside from lighting/smoke/AC, where else is there to go in home automation. The least touched market is home irrigation, but even has already started to be explored.

Like I said, the smoke detector is a good step in the right direction. Not a bold and wild innovation; a more simplistic approach as they tread forward.
"It doesn’t matter if you’re interviewing at a casual tech firm where everyone wears graphic t-shirts and flip flops – this is an interview. You wear a damn suit unless explicitly told otherwise by the interviewer or company."

How does wearing a suit equate to "Dress like you’ve been there before."? It seems like the opposite, if anything.
Very true, that's what I was thinking, and saw this post

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15856604/django-mysql-pre...

and read "django has no concept of connection pooling, and every page view uses a brand new database connection. MySQL prepared statements only exist for the life of the connection/session in which they are defined" on that page... So they're somewhat connected right? My understanding of a prepared statement was a statement that a *SQL server caches for quick use -- which is only kind of right (looked it up again @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_statement and it's not too far off).

Then question marks went off as to why this still wasn't a thing yet.
You are both right, in a way, in that neither particularly matters: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem03/chem03364.htm

"As would have been predicted by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, CO infused anywhere within the chamber diffused until it was of equal concentration throughout. Mixing would be even faster in the home environment, with drafts due to motion or temperature. It would be reasonable to place a residential CO alarm at any height within the room."
What the SteamOS announcement means for living room PC gaming
Thanks, agree with everything you said. I have a different layout (just images that I'm working on. I would like to give the user the option to choose which layout they want. As for the images, I don't have much control over whether the pictures have models in them or not. Glad the images were front and center for you. One of the core ideas behind the site is to make it fun to just "window shop."
Other than the graphics the big thing I remember about Myst is the gameplay was so different than arcade style games, it was a thinking game.

It was one of the main reasons I finally took the plunge and got a PC, nearly $4,000 (1993/94 Canadian dollars) to play a game :P well more than that but it was a good part of it.

At the time a PC in a private home wasn't really all that common, at least in my region, so this hot game on this thing called an "IBM compatible personal computer" piqued the interest of many people and drove sales.
http://railscasts.com/announcements/11
http://railscasts.com/announcements/12
It is overkill until you start to build something like http://gridspy.com (entire web stack in python)

I find it extremely helpful to have symbol lookup in my own codebase, suggestions, fast file opening and the ability to have useful highlights in Python, Html, coffeescript, javascript, css, et al.
"New Century's attorney David Cook wasn't talking either, telling us only that the lawsuit speaks for itself."

Is that Saul Goodman's long lost brother?
How do news aggregators get a list of news sites?
If I wanted to make a news aggregator site how do I get a curated list of news sites such as http://www.latimes.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Its not realistic for me to manually compile a list of them all by myself. How did the popular news aggregator sites build a comprehensive list?
I see this comment all the time on HN. This is the reality of the corporate hiring world versus the Valley:

1) You are hiring for boring but important projects
2) There is a limited pool of local talent
3) The org will have banded salary caps
4) Differentiating A talent from B players is not a solved problem

It feels great to say, "Just hire A graders! Problem solved yo!" The corporate world does not work like this.
Wow, that is awesome! I would really to see videos and pictures on Google maps!
>I think we may start to see Moore's Law starting to be applied to Solar Cells.

It would have to be a kind of inverse Moore's law, given that you can't double beyond 100%.
Webvan? Pfft. Some people are holding out for the return of Yahoo.
"post hoc ergo propter hoc"
I'm going to turn to Hacker News, as I always do, for context: what would 50% efficiency mean?
On data center scale, OpenFlow, and SDN
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It4WxQ6dnn0
The fun will really begin when the question becomes "What startup did you work for?" Those conversations are a lot more interesting.
Is the composition of this one solar cell from 4 subcells of any significance? Is it just 4 for a reason?
Perhaps this might have something to do with it:

Helvetica is widely used by the U.S. government; for example, federal income tax forms are set in Helvetica, and NASA uses the type on the Space Shuttle orbiter.

You're unconsciously conditioned to associate it with formal/official operations. Same reason why I'm so fond of Courier (although I'm apparently somewhat alone in that)
Uh, what? Did I just hallucinate software stores filled to the ceiling with optical media?
What with their love for predictability, it's no wonder they're strong supporters of the sun.
I would rather dump trillions of dollars into NASA and their tech :D.
>It doesn't seem like you disproved the claim that Brazil aggressively spies on its own citizens and, thus, that this is hypocritical populist rhetoric.

It can do whatever it want on it's own citizens. If they don't like it, they can vote them out of the office.

It's a third country spying on them (or on my country) I don't like.
Odd that the figure says that the efficiency was 44.7% +/- 3.1% -- given the big error bar, how could they say they'd increased 1% in 4 months? Measure it again, who knows what you'll get!
Are you assuming ignorance or malice?

Here are a few options:

* They were trying to intentionally hide this change to spite you
* They were avoiding unintentional disclosure of the attack vector for this vulnerability (indeed, none of the CVEs that I could find for this month's Adobe Flash update describe the attack)
* The security hand didn't talk to the changelog hand
* The security team worked independently of the perf team, and perhaps this case wasn't thoroughly tested or the regression not detected

And so on, and so forth. Let's be honest, there are lots of reasons we can imagine why Adobe did this, but imagining things doesn't make them true.
Maybe I missed it in the article, but what was considered a good efficiency prior to this?
Carbon monoxide is lighter than oxygen and carbon dioxide, about the same as nitrogen. All things being equal it will slowly rise in a room.

The reason carbon monoxide is a threat in the lower levels of your house is not because it sinks but because that's where your furnace and hot water heater are.

Combined smoke and CO detectors are fine (and there are many on the market today).
Probably just a benchmark. Goal # 1: "At least get half the way there".
It's pretty rare for me, but I don't watch a lot of TV. And, I very rarely think, "I want to watch X". I often browse Netflix (or Amazon Prime, when I'm working, since I work on Linux and Netflix doesn't support it), rather than go looking for something really specific.
Thanks much for the plugin suggestion. It looks promising. My app is geared toward 18-25 year old users, so I think I may go the interactive messaging route and then create a written F.A.Q.
CanCon is generally pretty bad and shouldn't be compared to the BBC, though recently I've read some Canadian production companies have had a fair amount of success in selling their shows to US cable companies.

Someone from Quebec should chime in because from my understanding their locally made product is of higher quality than that of English Canada.
> Back in May 2013, the German-French team of Fraunhofer ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin had already announced a solar cell with 43.6% efficiency.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-09-world-solar-cell-efficiency.htm...
I'm really having a hard time envisioning a functional improvement on the standard Kidde smoke detector. There are two states: "it's cool", and "hey guys. There might be a fire".

I really can't imagine much improvement on that. If the level of sensitivity that induces a couple false alarms a year gives me an extra 10s of notice in the event of an actual fire, I'll be fine without a configurable thermostat.

In my uninformed opinion (as, frankly, is everyone else's before there's actually an announcement), there would need to be some non fire-related benefit to make it worthwhile.
There are many reasons to be investing in NASA. They actually have subdomain devoted to highlighting their spinoff technologies.

http://spinoff.nasa.gov/
I wouldn't put Premiere in the untouchable league. Sure, Photoshop, Illustrator, and (perhaps to a lesser degree) InDesign are industry staples, but AFAIK, Final Cut Pro 7 is still the king of professional video editing software.
Yeah, the old domain was abiteofpizza.com. I did a 301 redirect to the new domain, and notified Google about the domain change in webmaster tools, but search traffic slowed down over the next week or two, eventually basically dropping off.

Google apparently updated their algorithm right around the same time, so it's possible I got hit by that for some reason (even thought I've never attempted to do any 'seo' whatsoever). I wondering if they consider the number of internal links on the site, or the number of pages / how often they update bad.
I'm so glad we're able to read so much into so few words.

Today I learned: "never fix" means they will never ever solve the problem when it's used on a bug report submitted due to a performance regression on what might have been a zero-day vulnerability with in-the-wild attacks:

> Adobe is aware of reports that CVE-2013-0633 is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks designed to trick the user into opening a Microsoft Word document delivered as an email attachment which contains malicious Flash (SWF) content. The exploit for CVE-2013-0633 targets the ActiveX version of Flash Player on Windows.
>
> Adobe is also aware of reports that CVE-2013-0634 is being exploited in the wild in attacks delivered via malicious Flash (SWF) content hosted on websites that target Flash Player in Firefox or Safari on the Macintosh platform, as well as attacks designed to trick Windows users into opening a Microsoft Word document delivered as an email attachment which contains malicious Flash (SWF) content.

Yes, that's a reasonable reaction.
Is this a satire piece?
There's also the Canadian Media Fund. http://www.cmf-fmc.ca/ which supports not only film/tv production but also interactive digital media (ie. video games).
Viber, an alternative to whatsapp, has a desktop client.
I haven't been to business school... But I want to say that "Window shoppers are good for business" has to be a lemma somewhere.
As someone who did some theater in college, the same thing is happening to scripts. You can't really get a look at them without buying them off Dramatists Play Services or Samuel French. It's hard enough to get people interested in Theater without this kind of wall.
I guess what I really mean was exponential increase in gains.
Alfred is awesome. I often use it for opening browser workflows and launching quick scripts to do things like open specific JIRA tickets.
You can use Cmd+~ to switch between application windows if they're in the same desktop.
...which comes up as a phishing site in Chrome????
It's worse than that. There's no room for a single doubling of 44% efficiency. The theoretical maximum for multi-junction concentrator cells is about 86%:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley–Queisser_limit

For single junction cells it's a mere 33%.
"The single subcells absorb different wavelength ranges of the solar spectrum."
If "fast" did not matter, we could use generic constructions of most cryptographic primitives and have very strong security claims e.g. "If you can find collisions for this hash function, you can solve the discrete logarithm problem on elliptic curves." There are a few downsides to such an approach but the primary one, the one that kills it in practice, is speed.
I see a bunch of dark missiles. Where is the glowing white one?
this is great but its worth noting that efficiency isn't really what's holding solar production back, its price. few peoples roofs are crammed with PV to the point where they can't fit more in.
NettleBox 2. Virtual reality surface.
The term "international law" doesn't mean very much if we don't have a functioning international police force.
When will the world run out of the "III-V semiconductor materials" ? And which nation or corporation currently controls the largest deposits?
Allowing unrestricted Internet access.

Seriously, whitelist only the domains necessary for the job. If it's programming, I would only recommend specific StackExchange sites, GitHub, and any documentation sites. Some people have horrible self control and will waste all day on the Internet, despite that they may be great programmers and can actually get stuff done if they put their mind to it. It's not even that the job is boring, it may actually be exciting, and their project may be something they really enjoy, yet the distractions are still more entertaining to them. Like reading and interacting on Hacker News.
This is spot on. If you make it easy to legitimately acquire, I will legitimately acquire it. I don't "watch TV" in the sense that I allocate time for TV-viewing and then find the best thing available. If I want to watch something, I will find it in the most convenient way possible. If you have a pay service that is super convenient, guess what? It's an easy choice to pay $2.99 and watch it _now_ rather than to search torrent sites, wait some time to download it, hope that I got a legitimate copy, hope that I don't get harassed by my ISP, etc. If it takes an hour to download a movie, well... I'd give $3 for that hour, any day.
BOX Demo
Anecdote: I definitely don't agree. Both Python and Go are in my wheelhouse, and I feel much more productive with Go than Python. Personally, I think it's the static types and simple language design. (i.e., Reading Python code, for me, requires a higher cognitive load than Go.)

I freely admit that this may vary from person to person, but I think it's close enough that you don't need to resort to rationalizations like the Blub Paradox.

Background: I've probably written ~100K LOC in each of Go and Python in the last few years.
I am not sure where you are getting your information. Where did you hear that the NSA was spying on commercial companies? I am just arguing based on the linked article. It only mentions one company, Petrobas, which is the state-owned oil company (a minority share is public). The president, ministers, embassies, Petrobas---these are all parts of the government. Spying on other governments is why we have spies. Can you tell me that Brazil is willing to stop spying on foreign governments? (Do you really believe that?)

Furthermore, I am not sure that spying on commercial companies is wrong. If information learned is redistributed to American companies, then that seems wrong to me. (Because it would invite retaliation, introduce unfair competition, etc.) But if the information is kept within the US government, then what exactly is wrong about that? Are you arguing that privacy is a fundamental right for corporations, too?

Hitler, etc.: This is all a strawman. I am only talking about spying on Brazil. But I'm sure it will get you upvotes, so feel free to bring up Mussolini, too.
The Internet changes everything, even money.
It is? Maybe we've never spent much time setting up any other system is because the system as it currently stands is working for the majority and they see no need to seek out another system.

Also yes a large body of small time artists have to work other jobs to pay their rent, so many use copyright to try and secure income. I'm not sure how this is a bad thing. Just because you can easily subvert the system due to mp3's and fat bandwidth doesn't mean it should somehow now be legal, copyright is moot, and we tell every artist to "deal with it."
Marketing Skills For Startups
I am really interested in working at 20+ person startups. What kind of marketing skills are they looking for? Adwords, SEO, brand development, landing page recs, social media, offline marketing , Marketo, email marketing? Do they look for startup experience or marketing agency experience?
Dark Wallet: A Radical Way to Bitcoin
3D printers get cheaper, faster - and more mainstream
Sheesh that sux.

Unfortunately https://www.braintreepayments.com/ is not world wide yet (I'm in New Zealand) but I will keep an eye on them.
someone on wikipedia has been maintaining a beautiful image of the history of solar cell efficiency for various technologies.. let's see if this has been added yet. It looks 1. No, and 2. There was a recent discovery by Sharp of 44.4%.

Main page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PVeff%28rev130923%29a.jpg
Could you elaborate as to how? Examples aren't synonymous with rasterized images. They use font-face in the example column where they display Open Sans.

It's not a big deal but I just didn't understand your response
requests is an HTTP library. REST is an architectural style.
is there any evidence at all that forcing real names in Internet comments improves quality? Its a sentiment you hear parroted a lot, and it's a justification for a lot of pretty damn user unfriendly moves.

For instance Facebook comments are far from the height of civility and well thought out discourse.
I really wish that this could be ported to Windows or Linux. I haven't heard much from the developer about that when asked; but it seems like a far fetched goal right now.

Does anyone have suggestions for Windows that aren't Launchy (or, Launchy addons/improvements to use)?
Mind sharing the JIRA one?
Short answer is that more of the solar insolation that hits Earth gets converted into electricity. So on the equator its about 1kW per square meter, in North America closer to 700W sq Meter, and converted at 50% you would start at 350W per sq meter, which after rectification might be 300W per square meter.
Efficiency matters, but price/watt matters more and there's still room for a kind of moore's law there.
That's definitely a feature I've been thinking about and will be enabling in a future version.
This is the fundamental problem with PV. Compared to cheap natural gas, there just isn't much future in it
The picture is more complex than just price, as greater efficiency also means greater access to available light under suboptimal/changing conditions, which can make a difference to overall deployment feasibility.
The general point of consistency is valid though. On the add alarm screen, I personally couldn't tell at first how you would add an alarm because the + was small and had no outline -- i.e. inconsistent with buttons elsewhere in the app.
Right, but it is a cryptographic hash, so presumably it would be better to call it a "cryptographic standard."
That's true. This is exciting news for the solar panel research and industry world but not the world at large.
This is a little like infinitesimally improving the efficiency of matrix manipulation. A giant leap for a microbe.

However, this is indeed good progress and gives me hope we'll get to the apparently coveted 50% efficiency milestone.
The zero and O is similar aw. Other wise it's pretty nice.
"While children under 13 can legally give out personal information with their parents' permission, many websites altogether disallow underage children from using their services due to the amount of work involved." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pro...
Apple escapes App Store restrictions in e-book conspiracy punishment
What the heck is going on with NIST’s cryptographic standard, SHA-3?
Heroku Polyglot Roadmap May 2010 by Adam Wiggins
>Prudential didn't need an affiliate locator application. They needed a static HTML page that told people to call the number.

They needed a competitor.
Image is credited to L.L. Kazmerski of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO.

Have a look at the types of markers shown on the image key again. While vast amounts of resources are being dumped on efficient electricity extraction through expensive, advanced manufacturing processes, some are looking at going back to organics, which NREL classes as 'emerging'. Apparently hybrid organic/electrical photovoltaics date back to 1958, and can produce 11.1% (roughly 1/3-1/2 of currently available manufactured products) efficiency while remaining cheap to produce at high volumes. Mitsubishi is one of the research leaders.

More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_solar_cell
Fascinating! As somebody who is starting to do freelance work a story like this is not only an interesting read but provides insight on what to avoid and when to speak up as I start freelancing.
The author did mention the laser printer technique, but decided to go for etching instead. Maybe because they didn't have a laser printer. The greatest difference to me was lifting the print with special tape, guarding against distortions but risking smudging.

It was clearly a bunch of work, but measured in hours.
No Future?

That might be true, except for that rather large elephant in the room call human-induced climate change.
I would bet that the majority of young consumers that do have cable subscriptions do it solely for ESPN and the other sports channels.
Moore's law describes a polynomial increase, not exponential.
Consider the price you paid to learn a key life lesson which will pay for itself multiple times over. If you learn from the situation, you have not failed.
To be more precise, when a bank gives a loan of $1000 million, then it creates $1000 million.

This is a straightforward conclusion of how monetary aggregates such as M1 are defined: Among other things, M1 includes money in checking and similar accounts. The creation of the loan involves, among other things, adding $1000 million to some checking account, without reducing the amount of money anywhere else.

Hence, $1000 million is created net.

This contradicts the story that most people are familiar with, but it is a more accurate description of reality than that other story.