skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the first gen samsung chromebook, that was priced at I think around ~350$. It's getting old and slow, but I still prefer it to my i7 laptop. It's all flimsy plastic and the power jack is starting to give up, but I'm going to use it till it gives its last breath.
To be fair, battery life on Intel's Haswell i3's is comparable and performance is much better. As much as I like ARM rising up to the challenge of the high-end Intel monopoly, they're not even close yet (though getting closer every year).
i guess this proves giving the people what they want isnt a bad thing
A smoke alarm being very loud and very sensitive is a feature to me, not a bug - I'd rather be annoyed from time to time than die of smoke inhalation in my sleep. As for 'hunt the low battery' - how many smoke alarms do you need in one area?
I'm jealous you got to see JET.

One of my favorite stories is the disruption. This happens when things don't go just right, and all the plasma with its energy squirts onto one spot. This typically puts the equipment in jeopardy. People try to prevent it, but as they push the boundaries of what's been done, it's going to happen.

Keep in mind that there's only about as much mass in the entire chamber as in a few cubic centimeters of air; it's basically a vacuum. But what little there is is so hot, and there's so much energy wound up in the fields. When JET had a disruption, the entire machine, the largest tokamak in the world, LIFTED ITSELF OFF THE GROUND AND JUMPED A FEW FEET OVER.
Yeah , freedom to get "locked in the trunk" some might say.
It's just a matter of time -- measured in weeks to months, not years -- before a new Silk Road emerges. And the creator of the next one will not be silly enough to allow themselves to be traced by a Stack Overflow post.
My favorite part about this thread is people who have abundant energy, high metabolisms, perfect health, who once gained a couple pounds after being exceptionally lazy and indulgent, lost it with no effort, and now think everyone who is overweight is constantly stuffing their face and deserve their plight.

Protip: you have no fucking clue what this woman's moment to moment life is like.
I hope it doesn't happen to me, buying every gadget I see :)
> A public company would not have been able to make this play,

Isnt it funny to hear that a public company would not have been able to do something when it is about something good for its consumers and ultimately its country and citizens, but when it is something extremely bad like compliance, obedience and evilness then they suddenly can and are free to do it.

There is nothing stopping Google, Facebook or Microsoft to act as Lavabit did. Nothing at all except for their own cowardice, malicious intents and disregard for laws and their costumers.

It is like Obama, when it comes to do something good then his hands are tied, when it comes to break laws and shit on constitution to extend mass surveillance or to wage war and drone kill civilians then his hands are not tied.

Now, lets hear some more excuses for the way the most successful tech-companies have acted, their hands were tied, they would face huge repercussions, they didnt know better, they only meant to comply with law and so on.

The truth is, they dont have democracy in interest, or their consumers best in interest, in fact you as consumer and user for their services and these companies are diametrically opposed and for your best you should consider them enemies.
So am I to assume you'll never try this sort of thing again?
It's also always been legal to say "sorry, we never record any of that information"

Only if it is true. He has the data, the article says he has worked with law enforcement before in a kiddie porn case.
Why not create an account at a Jabber service (like dukgo.com) and use a free Jabber client like Xabber, Beem, Gibberbot? Separate contact lists, standards compliant, OTR support…
Ah, OK, I didn't see that.
Choose white noise and play with the sliders. Not exact, but close.
Can we level up?
Ember.js Concepts for Rails Developers
This looks great at first glance. Thanks for all your hard work!
Nest Protect: A smart, talking smoke and CO alarm
Eradicate the menace caffeine from our streets!
Chromecast now available in UK, Spain, Germany, Australia, Holland & France
The email equivalent of cold calling people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_calling
I managed to move most of my development to an offline Samsung Chromebook; depending what work you do (mine is coding and writing) the Chromebook is lovely. Especially the battery life and the price.
"Perhaps it can even be formally proven?"

That is the whole purpose of standards organizations and testing organizations. UL has been in this business for a long time: http://www.ul.com
OT but how is the animation under "For a closer look" done when you change between the sides?
I'd imagine that strictly speaking one would have to register the foreign company with the secretary of state as a branch or foreign company, if certain conditions were met.
500K - as in half a million, you missed the K in there ;-)

dimitrik.free.fr is a great source of info for mysql performance with careful benchmarks to prove everything...

Bothers me that 5.6 is just getting settled in, yet 5.7 looks even more promising but will take a year or more for GA

They also need to look into either a multi-segmented or multi-threaded query cache.
Paraphrasing Steven King, HN accepts humor. It just isn't promiscuous about the humor it accepts.
Seems that you're not her, so you're in no position to decide what is and isn't important in her life.
It's way more than two times purchase cost. You can get a smoke detector and CO2 alarm for ~$20.
Ha ha, only on HN will this be asked ;-)
Surviving the startup roller coaster
I have not reviewed the documents in question, so forgive me if I'm wasting your time, but I suspect it was not, in fact, a warrant. Generally requests for so-called 'metadata' don't require the same amount of supporting evidence as search warrants (the theory being that you shouldn't have an expectation of privacy for that data).

Lavabit was a service that explicitly provided a secure and private email to its paying customers. In my opinion, an expectation of privacy _did_ in fact exist for its user's 'metadata'.
> There is nothing stopping Google, Facebook or Microsoft to act as Lavabit did. Nothing at all except for their own cowardice, malicious intents and disregard for laws and their costumers.

Try being CEO of Google, Facebook, or Microsoft, and suddenly deciding to close the entire business, and see how far you get before being removed.
I love Haskell, but disagree :)
(disclaimer: I'm a initial customer who asked for a refund!).

Opt-in would have been the minimum to my taste. Here is how I lived the experiment from here:

- the billing info was captured by making me believe the content was completely available (it's actually still advertised here http://publicbeta.co/library/)

- I wrote to Adii who asked back for my trust etc, I said: ok let's wait until this guy is able to bootstrap his stuff, let's give him a chance

- later, I received a mail which I didn't fully read ("Announcing our new launch", I just assumed that everything was going on as planned - I didn't receive "We change everything, are you ok with that?" as the subject or similar)

- then I got charged for something different from what my billing info was captured for

EDIT: I then realized what was happening by actually attending the MicroConf Europe where Adii made a presentation.

- I tried to cancel but could not find a link to cancel from inside the app

- I asked for a refund + cancellation by email and got it

Note that I'm in no way angry (personally) against Adii!

I'm just analyzing this from a customer perspective.

The problem is that trust is basically broken at step one, and then later one can only wonder if the long email then the charge without clear notice then the lack of link to cancel etc aren't just other tactics to keep the game going on.

I wouldn't recommend using these techniques to friends!

I'm pretty sure this is illegal and risky to do (at least in some countries) and could actually break the TOS of Recurly or payment gateways.

Again, nothing personal, I'm just sharing my experience in case someone wants to mimic the technique here.
Agreed, it was a very pretty design.
Startups Need Mergers And Acquisitions For Growth
Microsoft Capitulates on YouTube App for Windows Phone
While they have had problems in the recent past: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ignition-failed

~~ They've since had ignition: http://www.independentnews.com/news/article_792110c0-2c5b-11... ~~

[I'm positive that the ICF's predecessors also achieved ~~ignition~~ fusion on smaller scales.]

The real trick is that [0] you need to get out more than you put in (exceed break-even) [1] you need to be able to harness the energy produced by the ignition and [2] be able to do it over and over again, producing reliable power.
Xerox scanners/copiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
Is your company data driven?
It's possible. Just follow the link "Save Your Current Slider Settings" then the URL. I should make it more obvious though, you are right.
When I visited the article I immediately thought I was looking at a screenshot of Gmail, until I noticed the ugly Yahoo banner ad on the right.

I guess Gmail is succesful and popular enough that copying them makes a lot of sense.
> 1. Do consumers want what is essentially a modern netbook?

Yes.

> Didn't this market die once the iPad and tablets took hold?

No, Chromebooks have been successful.
Do you remember the HP touchpad fiasco? :)
"Data provided by the music industry were misleading; contrary to what lobbying organisations were claiming, the music industry was doing reasonably well."

In my mind, this is the real clincher, and the reason why this chart runs counter to previous (false?) data - although I'd love to see their evidence for this statement.

Edit : their reasoning is explained by http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/33905/1/LSEMPPBrief1.pdf pages 4-9
Reaally data driven????
Nowhere did I ever in any comment state or even imply that she had no choice. For you to characterize my position in that way is disingenuous of you.
Note for the paranoid: this is a multi-sensor, including motion, which has wifi and can control your heater.

Now the spooks can watch you in your house! :)
Same here and I even do games on it :) I have the $249 Samsung; great machine.
There are some causes that are worth being removed as CEO for. Lavabit founder finally is allowed to speak about this.

It is enough if you threaten to shut down the business to make it known to the G-men that you wont play (the totalitarian) ball. We stopped SOPA/PIPA just with a partial blackout.

But these companies didnt make a squeek. They are accomplices.
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Both of the carriers he listed are pre-paid.
As I understand it, it's not "noise" but small current leakage through the SSRs or triacs or whatever the Nest is using.

More modern HVAC systems see this small leakage and assume a very old and crusty mercury thermostat contactor is trying to work. The HVAC's control goes ahead with the heating or A/C compressor circuit.
From what I'd read, my understanding was that thyroid issues, such as hyperthyroidism (this is only one condition AFAIK), are very hard to control, at least via diet.
It's hard to experiment if everyone knows what's going on.

If you didn't like the experiment you had the possibility to opt-out and never become a customer of him again, without having to pay a single dime.
Both Intel and ARM can work well in 32-bit, I don't see your point. On the contrary, if you're so hung up on the word size of your processor, ARM is a better fit than x86, since the latter is often running a 64-bit OS these days.

Are you mixing 32-bit and x86 in your comment?
Although you've probably thought about this more than I have, it seems like there's a fundamental tension here. On the one hand there are Java IDEs and code-generation in the sense of (re)writing physical source code files. On the other hand, there are lisp macros in the sense of "an API for the compiler". Fully embracing the latter can obviate much of the need for the former (at least there's a long lisp tradition of this).

But it seems that the Java interop aspect of Clojure complicates this picture. The JVM poking through isn't inherently good or bad (for some people that interop is an advantage, for others it's unfortunate), it's just different from other lisps.

So the point I'm ponderously getting around to making is -- it seems like this IDE will be most useful for people using Clojure as a JVM lang, as opposed to using it as a lisp per se. Would you say that's a reasonable characterization, or not?
Yep that seems pretty clear.
No ... I meant a "red" button that could be used just prior to wiping the servers clean. Your point is completely valid while the service is running.
A ChromeOS changelog from a Samsung employee referred to the Exynos 5420:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

"This adds Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling support for exynos5420 and this also adds the Adaptive supply volatge support for exynos5420."

Which points towards future devices using them.
I rather like the idea - but then I am a big fan of Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_ so I suppose I would like it.

I don't dispute your major points. However, I would say that your claim that "the US and NATO managed to put an end to ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia" is a bit lacking in nuance.

Having spent a bit of time in Serbia after the Kosovan war, I saw little evidence that NATO reduced the amount of ethnic cleansing going on and a lot of evidence that NATO deliberately killed many civilians. The former Secretary-General of NATO, Lord Carrington, even claimed that the NATO bombing caused ethnic cleansing.

But this doesn't negate your main point and is a little off-topic - sorry about that - I just wanted to mention that not everyone thinks the NATO action in former Yugoslavia was a good thing.
I run Crouton with Ubuntu Raring. Javascript/HTML/CSS dev you can even do under Chrome with some web IDE; the rest works fine under Crouton. There are just a few 'exotic' things you won't get working; for instance GHCi is broken on Raring ARM.
Surely there are other genetic traits that are not 'disorders' which could have been referenced?

Studies of the issue of "missing heritability" have often investigated height (bodily stature), which has a very high calculated heritability (resemblance among close relatives) but which must be influenced by hundreds of genes, many of very small effect. Even very extensive genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in large samples find NO gene with large effect on height, and fail to detect most of the presumed associations with height in gene associations investigated in such studies.

The review article Johnson, W. (2010). Understanding the Genetics of Intelligence: Can Height Help? Can Corn Oil?. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(3), 177-182

http://apsychoserver.psych.arizona.edu/JJBAReprints/PSYC621/...

looks at some famous genetic experiments to show how little is explained by gene frequencies even in thoroughly studied populations defined by artificial selection.
I'm surprised they still apparently have the big banner ad on the right-hand side. I know they have to make money somehow, but it really detracts from an otherwise pretty good-looking design.

Yesterday I saw someone using the previous version of Yahoo mail, and that banner ad had a strobe effect on the border that was constantly flashing. I'm amazed people put up with this -- I guess people have probably developed pretty strong ad blindness (hence the strobe ads).

If I ran a web mail company, I would not want to be part of the arms race of user ad blindness vs. more aggressive ads. As a user I'd take google's textual, potentially relevant ads over this any day. (No, I do not care if google "reads" my email. http://www.maxmasnick.com/2012/02/12/gmail_paranoia/)
"Should programmers be held responsible for bad code" is a misleading title. The actual article is titled "Bad Code: Should Software Makers Pay?".

There is a world of difference between the managing decision makers who sign off on resourcing and warrantying, and the folks who receive marching orders and do the implementation.

If you're management, the buck stops with you. You don't get to push blame down the chain. If the problem is lower in the chain it is up to management to fix that problem.
Bayesian modeling for the perfect pizza
A closer look at Percona Server 5.6
That's interesting. To me looks like almost 100% of the time LinkedIn messages are misdirected and too close to be spam that I almost never bother to reply if I'm not genuinely interested.

When I get a proper email directly to my inbox, it immediately gets my attention and it's likely to get a reply.
It didn't happen because that sort of thing doesn't generally happen.

Simply raising the specter of 'this past year' doesn't prove some vast conspiracy on the part of the government (or maybe it's the puppetmasters who control the 'real' government?).
I don't care. It's not my role as a customer to make it easy for you to experiment. You either tell me the truth, front up, or you don't try to make the sale.
So can I read my yahoo mails on gmail without having to pay just to read them on my client or what ?
"borrowing made it appear as if the future was nourishing the present"
True, came in to say something similar. It looks a lot like GMail[1]. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing.

[1] http://media.tumblr.com/841e692e2c1bdf45eb0c3167146bd142/tum...
This thing being blatantly aimed at the education market, Google really need to do the unthinkable and let people host their own server backends to support these devices, otherwise they're simply data sucking machines. That their own educational programming environment runs on a RaspPi and can't be hosted on a Chromebook speaks volumes.

And I have a Chromebook, which I'll freely admit is brilliant for many things, but they're always going to be slightly useless until running server apps on them is supported out of the box.

The whole thing is remarkably similar to the model Acorn, Sun and Oracle were aiming for with the NC back in the 90s.
I'm not a doctor, so I can't argue about the medical aspects. Even if I was a doctor, I couldn't rely on what someone wrote on a blog that their doctor told them (we even have no way of knowing if it's true). And even if it is, this does not prove that "she's tried everything" (in terms of diet) within the limits imposed by her unfortunate disorder. I am not saying that she hasn't, but given that she thinks her body is just fine - in the visible aspect - I have a good reason to find this unlikely. Having said that, I do not hate her (or any obese people for that matter), and I'm not personally concerned in the slightest whether she loses weight or not :)
No one does, this is the internet. They found something wrong with your project and they're going to jump on it like flesh hounds. No one's going to mention a small detail like that you never took anyone's money or even that you never had malicious intent.

These are Hacker News commenters, prototypal white knights eager to show off their perfect moral compasses, disregarding any opportunity for reflection or relativism.
False dichotomy. With an extra ten cents' worth of technology, the smoke detector could do its initial chirping quietly and during daylight hours. If you ignore them, then later it can escalate to around-the-clock 85-decibel alerts.

Ditto sensitivity. At the first wisps of a problem, give a gentle sound. If it gets worse, or 60 seconds pass, then get shrill.

Re: "how many do you need in one area?" the last three words do not apply. The low-battery chirp is loud enough that a dying battery anywhere in the house can wake you up. For the record, though, we were required to put one in every bedroom and two in our small hallway -- and that's just on our upper level.
And that' just the beginning ,a lot of sellers are about to get caught now.
The technology behind Aftonbladet, the biggest website in Sweden
"He didn't actually charge people before the product was finished and they were able to opt-out after they knew what happened. Would have been a whole different story if the cards had actually been charged."

He does note that he had to "authorize a $0 transaction" in order to store the details for each credit card.

But leaving that aside, not only was his conduct misleading, query whether legally enforceable contracts were entered into as soon as mutual promises were exchanged (promise to pay made by proffering means of payment in exchange for promise to deliver product).

If that is the proper analysis, a distinction based on whether the credit cards were ultimately charged does no more than draw the line between civil and criminal liability.

He should be glad that no one actually relied on what he said. Those who deal with him in the future might now do so with a degree of caution. He has probably copped enough flak in these comments to bring the message home to him - or at least I hope he has. I like the premise for PublicBeta, and it would be a shame if that service were tarred with the same brush.
Great design.

One word of caution before anyone runs out and replaces all your smoke detectors: Ask your local fire inspector about it. Fire safety rules are very convoluted and very region/state/city specific and I've run up against seemingly irrational rules in various locales in multiple past lives. It's better to find out the rules up front than to run into issues with an inspection or even worse, get into a fight with an insurance company about it if the worst does happen. I also highly doubt these detectors would fly at all in an commercial settings, i.e. don't go replacing the detectors in your office without a long chat with your fire inspector.
This has been a SEO strategy for a long time, as we were told that this was something that Google used.

How well it actually works in real life, however, is something I've been suspicious of, as I felt that it relied on a level of sophistication from linking sites that was generally not present.

We're all hoping they do something like this ...

All of us here at MegaCoolBlog like to
<a href="mycoolspeakersite/apple">buy apple speakers</a>
with our extra money.

However, they invariably, instead will write something like this, which is just as helpful to their readers, but probably not to a search engine.

All of us here at MegaCoolBlog like to buy
apple speakers at <a href="mycoolspeakersite/apple">this site</a>
with our extra money.

This really defeats the whole "anchor text" approach to web crawling, since most of the anchor text will say "this site", "click here", etc.

In fact, anybody that actually uses the anchor text in a manner that is actually useful to search engines is probably doing so on purpose, which may make good anchor text almost a vote against a site, rather than a vote for it, since their attention to this detail that helps search engines but not really actual readers, is suspect.
That seems like a false dichotomy. Why should a nice graphic layer immediately exclude everything else?
Someone needs to make a "dashboard porn" website.
They keep talking about "the industry", but I don't think anyone's been saying the entire industry was being killed. It's the recording companies that have been complaining, and yeah - their orange line doesn't look too healthy. As I understand it, most of the money for concerts and other distribution channels is going to the musicians themselves and newer companies. Am I mistaken here?
Yes, all such devices will have battery backups. You should use them for just that situation.
A lot of them don't apply just to selling stuff, e.g., being specific alone is always a very valuable skill.
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I think it's awesome that you're facing this head on, putting yourself out there even more, just to make people aware of a growing problem. Kudos!