skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you into opensource and are mailing-list religious?
I was being sarcastic to point out the irony of referencing a Greenpeace study to support nuclear power over coal.
Thanks for that link. I suppose it's good that some effort from experienced people has been made, but this really concerns me that the security stiffening was a "side project" of some Google folks.

"Board member and investor Bill Maris of Google Ventures says that some of Google’s security team helped stiffen Nest’s safeguards as a side project."
My clocks no longer require manual changing, and those that do I end up replacing... I haven't been sure when daylights saving time starts/stops for a while now and have been caught off guard when I end up being early at work because my body naturally woke me up at a certain time.
I don't disagree with anything in this article on principle, but we should remember that 37 Signals is a small company with stellar employees, and Best Buy (and others) are very, very large companies where not everyone is a superstar. You don't necessarily manage those two organizations the same way.
You definitely meant [past](http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=pas...):

Past \Past\, prep.
1. Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the
reach or influence of. "Who being past feeling." --Eph.
iv. 19. "Galled past endurance." --Macaulay.
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Until we be past thy borders. --Num. xxi.
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Love, when once past government, is consequently
past shame. --L'Estrange.
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Who else provides this combination of both login and payment processing?
I develop using firefox/ firebug. I do really like the way firebug works, but its starting to show its age a bit.

The integrated tool are getting better but I often forget they're there. The responsive page resizer/viewer I use frequently

Tools->web developer seems to incorporate firebug and the native tools (confusing...). I like the way firebug puts a little button on the menu bar I can click to turn debuggin on and off.

We'll see how this shakes out.
I'm sure they'll be willing to work with other publishers as well. From talking to the project manager, they don't seem to have any goal of restricting this to academic publications.
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Though it's still a bit early to say, it looks like the probability of a YC startup ending up worth a billion dollars is at least .5%. So the truth is somewhere on the continuum between (a) that you're off by a factor of 5000, and (b) that we improve people's chances by 5000x. And while it would be a great compliment if people chose extremum (b), I think it would be a stretch to claim we can improve the probability by even 10x.
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Woohoo! Finally the weiqi on nodejs+socket.io app we built a year ago is ready for prime time:

http://evening-meadow-5281.herokuapp.com/

It's pretty shoddy, but this might give me some inspiration to move forward.

The nice thing about socket.io, is it prefers websockets, but will fall back to long polling if not available on both the client and server.

So this didn't even require a redeploy, just a `heroku labs:enable websockets`

And like magic I can support more than 10 concurrent users ;)
This is not really calculable, nor is the number of people killed by coal calculable in any reasonable manner. However the impact of nuclear catastrophe is far far more insidious and lasting, particularly when caused by a global calamity that causes meltdown in many plants.
My little weekend project (http://chatzilla.herokuapp.com/) that I put on Heroku a few weeks ago uses socket.io with Flask, gevent and socket.io would automatically fallback to XHR polling. Using socket.io is great for these cases since it's all done automagically.
In the US, if you post BAIL you do get it back, a BOND however is a service provided by a company where by they post BAIL for you and you pay a company 10% (normally) for their service, The BOND company then guarantees to the court you will appear or they will track you down, if they bond company does not they must pay the court 100% of your BAIL. So if you have a $5,000 bail, you can go to a bonding company and get out for $500, you will not get that $500 back, however if you had the $5,000 you could give that to the courts, and get 100% of that money back.
It depends on your alarm (I can hear mine with earplugs in).
Amplifying this point...

Even the greatest of musicians through history have had to struggle to survive, it wasn't always about rock supergroups skipping across the world in private jets, screaming groupies ready to service their every desire.

I'm reminded of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, which are some of the greatest works by one of the greatest musicians that ever lived. These works were not a platinum hit at the top of Billboard's charts. Heck, Bach didn't even get paid for them! These compositions were sent on spec to the mayor of Brandenburg (hence the name) in the hope of stirring up some sponsorship so Bach could continue his work.

If you're like me, you picture the hopeful rock star as struggling along, trying to supplement his income by giving guitar lessons to locals. This also describes Beethoven - he was frequently hunting for commissions to keep himself afloat, and had to earn money by giving piano lessons.

The idea that musicians should somehow be above all this stuff is a modern invention. Most of the greatest works in history were not done by people enjoying easy financial prospects.
You're grandfathered in.
You might also like:

http://www.reddit.com/r/tinycode
If they can cheaply and quickly add it (by leveraging someone else's hardware or software) it could be worth it, but certainly not suggesting you change the design you sent to a contract manufacturer or anything like that.
I've been using this with a Play Framework + Akka + Scala app and it's working great! Thanks Heroku.
Landmines already make lethal decisions on their own. They just use far simpler heuristics.

And they have an appalling track record for making the wrong decision, because those simple heuristics also tend to produce answers like "Kill this five-year-old child because they're playing in a field where a war took place twenty years ago".

If you're trying to make an argument for why automated killing machines are a bad idea, landmines are just about the perfect example.
This is amazingly cool and stimulating to think about. It's also a compelling reason to take another look at Mathematica. The code is clearly dense and hard to understand, but I wouldn't even know how to go about performing some of these computations in another language.
The HP Chromebook 14 should be available soon for $299. despite the bigger screen it's still only a 1366x768 resolution which makes it useless for me, but i'm thinking of picking one up for my parents.
- as far as #2 goes, I have to open up the style editor tab (then i find myself switching back and forth, is it possible to add rules in "rules" panel inside the "inspector" tab to avoid the switching? Also, in my build (maybe a week old or so), When I right-click a node in the inspector I only have copy html options and delete node, no edit html - does a more recent release have this - that would be awesome.
I'm unsure that it requires the internet, just a router and AP to direct connect the two devices together. Furthermore, if the the furnace is the root of the CO emission it would be a boon to have the nest thermometer ask for forgiveness vs ask for permission to save you from death.
>> Often the battery doesn't make good contact with the metal contacts inside the detector. This results in constant false positives that the battery is low.

This is probably not bad design. The smoke detector is trying to tell you something.
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Is your microwave networked or something? That is not typical.
But why would you, given that LLVM is written in C++ and that clang.llvm.org exists?

I get the impression this article wants a C compiler written in plain C for reasons of ideology. I don't think writing a compiler in C on top of a huge project written in C++ is compatible with that ideology.
Almost all of these comments are about the headline, but the actual article is really good:

-Get rid of luck

“When you say you got lucky, you got lucky because you didn’t know what was going to happen. The corollary is, if you know what’s going to happen, then there is no luck. There’s also no uncertainty and no risk,” Friedberg says. “In this context, shouldn’t your objective be to always know what’s going to happen? To always remove the unknowns?”

You can see the world as one of superstition, luck, and magic, or you can see the world as one of logic and explainable order. Nassim Taleb had a few things to say about people using logic to explain random past events, and there is some truth to this as well (which incidentally is probably somewhat relevant to predicting nearly chaotic weather problems.) But, you can make manageable, hedged bets and discover truth to the reality today. The output will be a solved problem that makes customers happy.

There are more opportunities today than I have ever seen before. There are more tools for people to solve these problems than ever before. Look at waste, look for inefficiencies, and remove them even just a little bit at a time. You don't need to build a billion dollar company. But, if you do an excellent job at fixing that small problem, you might end up with a billion dollar company.

A lot of companies make money through introduction of waste, inefficiency, and confusion. They fatten their short term margins while erasing their companies long term viability.
> or am I missing something?

Yea. It's Amazon. They're kind of a big deal.
I don't see why it would require Internet access to function as a normal smoke alarm. I'm sure it still goes off just like a normal alarm if there is no Internet connection — you just lose the convenience of multi-room notices and the furnace changes.
In my experience, most people don't know they have TLB problems because, effectively, it's always bad.

It's only when you start getting to the metal to see what your hardware is actually capable of that the TLB stands out as a glaring source of inefficiency.

Put another way: yeah, the TLB is making your app slow, but it's doing so always, so you don't notice. Instead, you mistakenly think your hardware is just slower than it really is.
It doesn't require internet to function properly - it still works as a smoke and CO alarm without internet. It can't shut down your boiler for you without internet - like most other CO detectors.
I think you'd want to know right away that you have a CO leak. You can call in an emergency utilities guy to drain the pipes - the internal insulated ones won't burst within a couple hours. And as the other commenter says, you can almost certainly restart the furnace or cancel this action.
Why in the world would anyone title a blog post this way? It sounds like he purposefully went out of his way to phrase his tactics in the worst possible way. Call it "market testing", call it "product validation", anything but "selling shit I didn't have".

Worst PR ever.
This is misleading, because exits are such a lagging indicator. The really big exits take the best part of a decade now.
Just listened to an interesting podcast on the banking ACH system by which money moves in the US.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-...

In that podcast, they show money being transferred between UK bank accounts in a matter of seconds - which makes me wonder about some of the comments on HN re: the Amazon system not being offered in Europe.

There must be differences between a fast money transfer system and a payment system?

There was some speculation at the end regarding the lack of upgrade of the ACH system, and that large banks might not want competition with fees from other money transfer methods (e.g. wire tfrs).
I understood it to mean that it had 1/4 the error rates they were previously seeing.
lol, u mad
Random numbers are not that meaningful but the US has 300 million habitants, the EU 500 million. Comparing GDP the EU states grouped together are a bit less than a tenth bigger than the US.

I think there can plenty of reasons to start a business in the US first (looser regulations and local talent are what comesto my first to mind) but would you lose business starting in a bigger market ?
>Smoke detectors are a safety critical device which save many lives each year.

From what I can tell only in places with wooden buildings though. e.g. I don't know of a single house that burned down. Not one in my entire life. Its just a non-issue here (South Africa).

The closest I can think of is a house that was leveled by an exploding gas cylinder. (Attempting to melt gold on a gas flame in backyard shop...)
The article states that the reason given was that the city now offers curb-side recycling. They haven't stopped recycling.

Edited to add rant:
You want to help the poor? Get out of that fucking chair and go help them. No one gives a shit about your self-righteous rants about rich people that reek of naivety. And don't even pretend to preach to me about being poor, I grew up dirt fucking poor. Now down vote that.
I live in a fairly rural area of Michigan and there are a few guys who I see biking 30-40 miles a day picking up cans, 12 months out of the year.

In SF you could make a ton more money just sitting on a corner with a sign asking for money. Especially if you get a spot near a MUNI/BART stop.
How about home alarm systems?

Home alarms used to just be a buzzer you attached to your door that had a switch to turn it off.

Along came the company that added a pin code and connected the system to a phone line to monitor it for you. If the alarm tripped they could call the police on your behalf.

Sure, the phone line could get cut, but you're still no worse off than you were before.
What makes a site essential? Can I add my own essential sites? The pictures are gorgeous.
"we saw our error rates (ie. the proportion of slow or timed out queries) drop by up to 400%."

Should that be 80%?

Edited to add: Apparently it should be 75%, per comments elsewhere.
As in this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause

Does anyone know if they have plans to shut it down?
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If you are from UK then you can buy this from pcworld, the first 30 pre-orders are also sent a 4G PAYG Mobile Wi-Fi, which sells for ~£90 on it's own.

Or Use code LAPT20 to make it £209.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/laptops-netbooks/laptops/chrom...

Please make this comment come on top so that people will save some money. Thanks
In case this was a serious entry... which I honestly can't tell.

The problem with array_sum is not that it's too long but instead that it's combined two rather specific bits of functionality into a fixed (if common) form, while the Ruby code separates the ideas of "folding" and "addition" allowing for many orthogonal creations.

To pick another favorite, in Haskell you could write

Foldable.foldl1 (+)

which sums any foldable thing—anything which has elements which can be combined together one-by-one. So it'll apply to Trees or Sets or Dictionaries (well, Maps) just as easily while also allowing things like (+) to be replaced by other binary operators.
Well, the nest detector apparently has a voice that can say "I've detected Carbon Monoxide"
If you like this story I definitely recommend watching Carts of Darkness: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/carts-of-darkness/

It's about the homeless in Vancouver, who not only collect cans for money, but then ride their shopping carts down mountain roads to get to the recycling centers. It tells a story about homelessness in a very intriguing way and the action scenes are pretty intense.
Don't set it up on Wifi ... the devices will talk to each other over ZigBee as far as I can tell.
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Exactly. They've got the 'waiting room' technique to slow down apps/logins. The login process, once done, is quite fast in getting me to a blank page. (https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace/auth/userprofile page in question)
Considering that that question isn't the focus of the of the interview, I agree that it's a bit sensationalist.
It actually is good advice.

If you attempt to contribute to an open source project, you will quickly get feedback on what you're missing. The process is not particularly pleasant. But it is a very fast way to learn what you need to learn, then to find mentors who can help you. People who go through it come out much stronger, very quickly.

I am personally familiar with more than one person with little or no formal education and no job prospects who, through open source, got jump-started on skills that have served them well since. I will not name names since the people I'm thinking of are not public about their stories. But it really is possible to do this.
FTA:

>> But curbside recycling is sufficient only for those rich enough not to care about the redemption value of cans. As Joe Rice of the Market Street center put it, “Curbside doesn’t put money in grandmothers’ pockets.” And as many beverages are consumed outside the home, recycling centers are still crucial to San Francisco’s stated goal of zero waste by 2020.
Yes. CrossRef.org, which is the registration agency for DOIs (digital object identifiers) does this for URLs in basically the entire scholarly publishing industry. This combats link rot by ensuring that the database of metadata is always up-to-date, and with other initiatives.
More accurately, if you randomly select a company ex post from the sample used to make that headline, the probability of said company having been sold for 1B USD is 0.0000006.

With the same conditions, the probability of the sperm that made you getting to the egg, however, was in the interval [0.000000001, 0.00000002]. This, by the way, means the probability of this particular combination of unique human beings alive today is somewhere around 1e^(-1.28e^11) - that is a "0." followed by approximately 128 billion zeros before you hit another number. The probability is so small that writing it out at one digit per second, without sleeping, would take approximately 4000 years.

And yet here we all are.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that any of that actually means anything beyond what it literally says.
I wonder which the results would be if she was a man or had a different (unattractive) profile picture...
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"As reported online today in Nature Communications, more than 80% of Ashkenazi mtDNAs had their origins thousands of years ago in Western Europe, during or before Biblical times—and in some cases even before farming came to that part of the continent some 7500 years ago. The closest matches were with mtDNAs from people who today live in and around Italy. The results imply that the Jews can trace their heritage to women who had lived in Europe at that time. Very few Ashkenazi mtDNAs could be traced to the Middle East.

The results [...] conflict [...] with widespread assumptions about Jewish identity. Jews have traditionally considered that the mother determines the ethnic identity of her children. If being Jewish is defined as genetically descending from the Israelites through the maternal line, then many Ashkenazi Jews fail the test, according to this data."

Original: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3543/full/nco...
They last much longer than a year. My dad has them in his house and he's had them a while now - the fire department in the area fit them for free.
I'm not even really conscious of microwave clocks still being a thing. I guess my microwave probably has a clock, dunno why I'd ever set or use it, though.

I just checked, apparently my stove has a clock, too. It's not set to anything resembling the current time.

Neither of these appliances are things I would ever look at when I want to know what time it is, so I just file them under things that are not clocks.
This is exactly right :)
The wifi gizmo does a few things more.

- alerts you when away

- lights up when you walk under it (great for hallways)

- interfaces with the furnace to turn it off automatically in CO levels are above normal

- interfaces with the Nest controls to determine if you are present or not. Turns down temperature if you are away saving you money.

- alerts occur on all devices letting you know where the issue was detected so you can plan your exit accordingly.

Sorry but we're not talking the same thing here.
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My apartment is small so you'd have to either completely remodel the kitchen or redo the whole apartment. Please step out of your ivory tower.
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So, you think the hyper publicity of a billion dollar tech darling CEO being ousted because he wanted to defend American liberties would accomplish nothing?

The first thing it does is piss off one very wealthy person, whoever this CEO is. The second thing it does is piss off all of their very connected, wealthy friends. The third thing it does is serve as an egregious example of abuse to the public at large.

Hmm. Wealthy, influential people with large public support? Nah, these are two things politicians don't concern themselves about.
It really depends on what is meant by "objectively true or false".

You're right that some statements within a formal system are true or false.

However, the theorem does imply that the behavior of the "world out there" (and any explanation of it) is either contradictory or not following a fixed set of rules.

So yes, we can state something to be "objectively" true or false but only if we're willing to use a contradictory explanation - which we usually are in the name of usefulness, not in the name of "absolute objective truth".
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One would hope that Nest would deal with dismissals differently depending on what is detected and at what concentrations.
"Well, due process used in this context normally means innocent until proven guilty."

While this is how it is used colloquially, at least in the US, the parent is right: Due process can occur after suspension of rights.

US Supreme court basically says it's a balancing act to decide whether you need pre-or-post deprivation due process, and what must be part of that process.
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