skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good thing we have been doing better than that for some time now.

>The MAN S80ME-C7 low speed diesel engines use 155 grams (5.5 oz) of fuel per kWh for an overall energy conversion efficiency of 54.4%

>The efficiency of a combined cycle gas turbine system can exceed 60%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine#Fuel_economy

In fact, it's shameful how underutilized diesel engines are in this world. Same with stirling engines.
This was originally a presentation aid and as such I only fully tested it in Chrome on a projector at 1280x960. I would like to keep improving the FF support in my spare time, and PRs are also welcome ;)
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The federal poverty level isn't particularly relevant if you are in a place that is considerably more expensive than average. Also, its not that he does not want to work enough hours, his employer doesn't allow him to work more. Plus, by that token, I could argue $7/hour is a livable wage, as long as you work 100 hours a week.
Agreed about Joel. When I first read his "corpus", it was already a few years old. But whenever you get to it, get to it.

My only complaint is that once you find some really good writing in this field, you realize how hard it is to come by (in print, anyway). I happened to find "Joel on Software" in the "Professional Computing" section at Barnes & Noble. That and "Coders at Work" are the only books worth reading I've ever seen in decades of browsing that section. Still, I'm glad I came across them.
Why do you have to be special to get customer service?
For my understanding, the problem with the fossil fuels is that they are trapped in the ground and we are releasing the carbon that was trapped in the ground into the atmosphere.
Look at figure 2 in the attached research paper. You'll find this is exactly how this model of iSight camera works.

This interlock failed because the Micron sensor Apple used had software straps that could be reconfigured to have the sensor ignore its enable pin.
obligatory: http://tubelor.neocities.org/
Bitcoin's been extremely bouncy, there is a chance that it could re-test resistance at around 700-800, or it could retest support at $300 short term.
Scary, because with some machines you're not drilling into a separate webcam lens but through the display glass to get to the webcam lens.
> "You people think you have it aaaaaall figured out and that no one has a right to interfere with 'the due process of nature'..."

I realize you've already tapped out of this conversation, but I think the root of this whole misunderstanding is right here. The other people you are talking to here are not saying that nobody has the right to stop bitcoin (or whatever crypto-currency may follow it). They are saying that nobody has the ability.

That should be about as uncontroversial as stating that a democratic, non-draconian, society has no ability to eliminate the sale of cocaine. Pointing that out isn't saying that cocaine is a good thing or something that society should tolerate; it is just saying that society lacks the ability to prevent it.
Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid
You can have both speed and proper semantics (I assume you mean clean separation of concerns) by having your build script do the inlining.
I say that the claim that prayer is "communicating with God using pure thought" is your assumption which in no way actually corresponds to what prayer is. Pretty much the only part that is probably correct there is "God", all the rest is assumptions which might be true but usually are not. E.g., actual catholic links above say prayer is an expression of ultimate trust. Not the only definition possible but certainly doesn't fit what you're saying. Repeating it again, it is not possible to reach correct conclusion if you start with wrong assumptions.
Review: NSA snooping should stay in place
There was a similar discussion with a very interesting comment regarding their use of mongodb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428382

PG's reply in the thread is very telling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428372
walked across the border with a thumbdrive of bitcoins/litecoins/??coins.

What about walking across the border with the account credentials of a WoW character with a lot of gold?

intranet of cryptocoins for budgeting and spending.

Is there a way to make a "trusted bitcoin" for internal use only where you don't have to do all the computation? I guess at that point it could just be a centralized Excel spreadsheet for all anybody inside the company cares.
Then you haven't been listening.
I understand first and second example, but not the third.

Someone care to explain?
You can assign value for card but no read at the same line?

Once I though that I understand something but I was wrong :)
I believe conduit produces one of those adware toolbar plugins that get installed when you install utorrent, etc. It will also attempt to change your browser home page as well. I'm assuming that very few hits to conduit.com are actually intentional.
Scalability is a fascinating process, too. But oak trees aren't scalable.

There are lots of ways to generate local "renewable" energy optima from waste products. Unfortunately, none of them scale.
They haven't fixed the core issue at all. What they have done is admitted the situation is entirely their fault (and Brian deserves credit for showing up here so quickly). Hopefully an appropriate remedy will be forthcoming.
Yes, it is absolutely correct. A provider can waste my time, lock me into dispute resolution and even if I "win" and get a full refund, I can't leave public feedback so that the next buyer knows how shitty they are.

I won't even touch the non sequitur about India.
That sounds like an allegation worth verifying, but in any regard, a 2 minute delay could be caused by a the relative lead composition of the driver's foot just as much as it could be caused by a bus blocking a stop.
I do hope that, at the very least, you will not make him pay the "locked in" price for a delay that is your fault. There are many threads on bitcointalk.org suggesting that these delays only happen when the BTC price is very volatile, and that once they are resolved, the actions taken by Coinbase (either cancellation of the order or delivery at a locked in price) always inure to the financial benefit of Coinbase.

I am certain that the Coinbase TOS allow significant discretion as to the timing and cancellation of orders. However, systematically delaying orders and then cancelling or forcing people to buy based upon which will be most profitable for Coinbase, which seems to be occurring, could certainly be construed as fraud.
Doesn't physically turn off the internal microphone. I've found out the hard way: I have a headset with a hardware mic switch. If this switch is in the "off" position when headphones are put into the jack, the mic built into my mac still operates.

This is with a mid-2012 macbook model.
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Indeed, I would love to know a breakdown of the Mac vs. iOS app sales, especially because of the price parity.
On "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" and weaknesses in the source material
The primary difference: You don't drag stuff around to create your models. You write code for it. Now, you can import existing models for a variety of formats, then move them around (with transforms, still in code). It's more like POV-Ray, for instance, than Blender.
The recreational / downtime aspect shouldn't be overlooked.

There's nothing wrong with taking time off for non-productive activities like dinner/drinks/hanging out. Living to work is a completely meaningless and pointless life. The problem with rationalization about time off is its a non-productive activity squared.

Just admit it, wanted to hang out and goof off, and talking about work a bit made it not feel as inappropriate. No need to submit everyone else to illogical rationalizations.

It takes a certain level of bravery to just say "One night, I wanted to drink, eat, and hang out, and that's OK"

There are other, in some cases highly toxic, reasons to go on about networking. One scenario is dude at the bottom of the primate dominance hierarchy takes a night off from his 120 hour work week therefore is a worthless slacker who's not worth his salary, but if the boss at the top of the primate dominance hierarchy takes a night off from his 120 hour work week, he's a "professional networker developing leads". I'm not even remotely implying this is the case in the related article but I have seen this specific behavior in several other unrelated situations.

One way to identify pathological behavior is to list specific concrete results. Not metrics or vague feelings. "Its helped me in the past" or "I've met people and talked about things" is a strong indication of uselessness. "I have 50000 followers on twitter" is a strong indication of uselessness. On the other hand a concrete result like "I met my current tax accountant at this mixer" or "I hired two guys I met at such and such con" are examples of non-pathological specific concrete results. This paragraph has to be read with respect to the "nothing wrong with occasional recreation" because if you have a side hobby of collecting twitter followers, no matter how useless that is, if it makes you smile that's all the justification you really need. Just don't make the rest of the world sit thru illogical attempts at rationalization about a hobby or recreation or faith or whatever.
BTC-e is down
White House review panel proposes curbs on some NSA programs
One thing that comes to mind is timeshares. You have a monthly payment and get specific # of weeks to use. I have found that most of them you need to book way in advance and their websites are crap. Building a solution to solve that by using reminders and/or other systems (voting) might be useful. - My 2 cents.
Think of it this way: Slashdot is the giant's shoulders that Digg and Reddit and HN stand on.
All out of stock, all not sold in stores. He's right.
Reliability and overall experience would have been amazing if it was done on the 13 and he did not need to go public to get it fixed.
KDE Applications 4.12 Bring Huge Step Forward in Personal Information Management
When I started reading I thought this must be a joke. As a dev with what I like to think is a solid understanding of computer hardware I don't often think of new tech as spooky/sci-fi-esque, but this is so unbelievably cool. I have no words.
It sounds like you are so defensive that you're not willing to recognise that any problems could be because of their gender, which is just as likely to be wrong as the people who insist that all problems are because of gender. How do you know that she wasn't a perfectly capable lead with team members who didn't take her seriously because she was female? Do you literally believe that's an impossible scenario?

From the article, while I can't judge her abilities as a lead, at least part of her problems were to do with feeling like she was being treated differently because she was a woman and having no way to verify this. If she was one of a number of women, then it would be much easier for her to check on that feeling and see if it was true. When you are the only one of your kind, you can't look for people with similar backgrounds to look for correlations, so you can't really tell if there is a pattern or not. If I thought that it was completely unrealistic and impossible for any developers to be sexist, then I might write this story off as entirely her own neuroses - but I am not convinced that is the case.

(also, given the numerous comments along the lines of 'you don't like assholes well get out of tech then', I suspect she would have hit pushback no matter how she phrased any stories of struggles with dealing with assholes)
it barely warrants paid upgrade period.
That's up to you. Maybe that will become more clear as you see the social power imbalance more clearly. Perhaps your framing of the whole situation would change, I don't know.
While bitcoin supporters tend to hate the idea of inflation, there are others coins that have inflation built in to encourage spending -- a kind of progressive version of bitcoin.

Here's a random example of a coin designed around a specific economic philosophy:

>Unlike Bitcoin, Freicoin has a demurrage fee that ensures its circulation and bearers of the currency pay this fee automatically. This demurrage fee was proposed by Silvio Gesell to eliminate the privileged position held by money compared with capital goods, which is the underlying cause of the boom/bust business cycle and the entrenchment of the financial elite, and has been tested several times with positive results.

http://freico.in/

(no idea if that has merit but it was the one that stuck in my head because it was so clearly articulated on their homepage)
But it's still not a currency, kind of like how "alternative medicine" isn't really medicine.
Smartphone App Helps the Blind Go to the Movies
Good point. That would also be an issue with the ice-pick method I guess.

It might be possible to drill out the webcam from the backside so long as you were very careful to not drill too far, but if that is how your computer is set up you should probably look for a safer method.
What is the appeal of Candy Crush Saga? [how it makes $1M per day]
Open Invention Network Welcomes Google as a Full Member
"I just think some of the anger at the market swing is being wrongly directed at Coinbase."

You keep mentioning market swing. Market swing is relevant if OP had the bitcoins in his control which clearly was not. So while the market swung, he lost money not because he was sitting on his ass but because he could not do anything about it to minimize a loss. See the difference ?
Nicely done! Easy to understand.
I think his point was about:

There's probably lots of other things that can be overlooked

rather than about machines and mice. It's a hard problem in science: how do you build a truly reproducible setup when you don't have a full causal understanding of the system?
Gasoline is still way ahead. It still has ~40x the density of batteries. Even at 16%, it's still going to be about 6x as efficient as batteries, even if batteries + electric motors are at 100% efficiency.

A Toyota Camry car carries 17 gallons of fuel, which, at 6 lbs per gallon, is about 100 lbs. At 28 mpg, that's enough to travel 476 miles. The Tesla S carries a 900 lb battery which is enough to travel about 250 miles. In miles per lb, that's 4.7 for the Toyota, and 0.28 for the Tesla.

Obviously, there are a lot of other considerations than just miles per lb, but gasoline's energy density and portability are stellar.
Supporting more memory carries significant performance penalties. Until they make jumbo DIMMs which are as fast as smaller ones, perhaps it's not a good idea to offer the option.
Hey there, this is Claire. Hopefully Jason was able to answer most of your questions. But if not, just wanted to chime in...

As the CEO of Know Your Company, I'll be running the business day-to-day. In the beginning, that will include everything from sales to customer support. I'll be bringing on a part-time programmer to do a bit of product development + maintenance until I'm ready to make a full-time hire. Overall, I'm not looking to build a huge team out-of-the-gate. I want to focus on talking with customers, listening to why KYC works for them, and learning how it could be better.

I'll be placing ClarityBox, the consulting practice, on hold to focus on running KYC and delivering the product. In the future though, I could potentially envision both a service and product offered together.

Let me know if you have any other questions – I'm happy to answer them.
Yes, it is traceable. That's why when you buy bitcoin at an exchange the government requires that you prove your identity. Then it's just a matter of following the money through bitcoin's permanent public ledger.

It's probably the most traceable currency ever. Even amateurs can follow the money trail.
Sure, but you always opt-in to using variables that are scoped outside of the current thread. You don't opt-in to the explicit control operators encouraged by the style where you don't use sequential statements -- they are required in order to program correctly. This is why I think the goto analogy is appropriate.
When I write, a have a lot of difficulty not revising everything I write instead of moving on to further content. I'm curious to see if how strong the modes are in the interface will help me keep to one writing mode rather than getting stuck revising.
EROEI only matters if this is your only source of energy. At $500/barrel it would make sense to use solar power for the energy intensive bits. Nothing says your conversion plant has to run day and night.
I really like the organic approach you've taken here. Just let things evolve, see where they go, and make the best decision you can at that point in time.

Also, Claire was friend of friend of mine in college, and I'm very excited for her!
I was thinking the exact same thing. Plot twist? "There is no such thing as bad publicity"
Incidentally, Coinbase's graph has an almost misleadingly modest aspect ratio. If you want to compare their growth to other growth graphs you've seen, compress it by at least half horizontally.
It's a dig at anything closed.
Cars, ships, and trains may be electrified, but I don't think planes will ever be electrified. A huge advantage of fossil fuels over batteries is energy density, and energy density is very important for planes.
of COURSE we can f@cking modulate this
Unfortunate, but true.
You should be ashamed of yourself...

And you should be ashamed of yourself for either missing my point or choosing mock outrage instead of thoughtful response.

Cheap, reliable, private transportation is not a right.

Neither is the operation of a gypsy taxi fleet.

Use a regular taxi (while they're still around).

And this is the crux of the issue. Both Uber and the taxi service use the same public infrastructure to operate. Streets, police, road repair, snow removal, the list goes on. Like it or not, Uber is inextricably bound up in public infrastructure and in an urban setting it is part of the public transportation system. If it cannibalizes the licensed taxi system to the point of extinction, then it will have effectively co-opted the system for the affluent, just as I said.

End the entitlement complex.

Let's start with the sense of entitlement that leads corporations like Uber to feel they have no social obligation, even though their shareholders and officers are relieved of personal liability for their actions as part of their (government-issued) corporate charter.
"tumbling to prices not seen since November." Which was 18 days ago.
My point was not that bitcoin is a currency. I happen to believe that, but I didn't argue that. My argument was that the definition you were using in order to show that bitcoin isn't a currency was flawed.
What I've found is that it's not the best-designed apps that sell the most on the App Store. It's the ones that look "beautiful" in Apple parlance – overly simplistic, bare, and stripped-down, with nice icons and good marketing.

There's nothing that I saw in iA that I couldn't get with more functionality with vim or SublimeText and some LaTeX, syntax analysis, and Markdown plugins. There's also equally nothing in Writer "Pro" (attaching Pro to the end of a consumer product seems to be all the rage these days) that seems even remotely more useful than the previous iteration. It's a simplistic and stripped-down editor that has a nice typeface and color scheme, but why does it cost $20? There's no advanced story organization features, there's a very rudimentary tree functionality for branching by headings, but you can't jump to a heading, branch them into subtopics, attach object names to them, or anything cool like that. There's little distinction between the 4 modes, and I don't see the value in not integrating the features into only 2 – writing and reading. Most people don't write drafts, edit, and then edit more – they edit while they draft, and then perform several revisions instead.

The syntax analysis looks pretty neat, but for those with above-average vocabularies and half-decent grammar, it doesn't seem to offer anything truly revolutionary.

At least not revolutionary enough to sell a million copies, and especially not at the price they're charging.
While this is theoretically possible with some firmware hack on 2008 machines you are far more likely to be compromised on any Android device that has side loaded apps.
I am not invested in bitcoin, so this may be a naive question, but is there any explicit promise that your funds will be available within n-time? There appears to be a gap in expectations. These entities do not seem to be brokerages, although many people expect them to be so.
any.do has this: an android/iphone app, a chrome plugin, and a chrome app.
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The wild west of currency, with everything that entails.
I don't disagree with your interpretation of the central banks using easy credit to patch over popping bubbles, but I don't think your logic on bitcoins is right at all.

Basically, as bad as central bank meddling is, the alternatives are far, far worse - look at the boom/bust cycles of the 19th century. For the most part, competent central banks prevent both hyperinflation and deflation through controlled expansion of the money supply.
Also, brightness trim via some sort of PWM on a GPIO.
It does not need to be licensed as a financial institution to be deemed as one. The courts can and will deem them that the company is subject to some of the rules and regulations governing the financial industry and up the charges against them when this enforced.

I am purposely not saying 'if'. Because there is no possibility of this not being brought to a judge on the behest of SEC themselves or a consumer complaint.

In layman terms:

(1)they buy and sell BTC on behalf of clients and charge the client for the transaction including their fees.

(2)they are an online payment processor of sorts.

They will need to follow more regulations than Paypal, as paypal is also a digital wallet of sorts, but while it provides a conversion, they technically do not trade(buy/sell currencies) on behalf of clients.
The article should be called, "Short descriptions of pythonic constructs, some of which should be generally avoided to reduce unnecessary complexity."
Umm, if the Bitcoins were purchased at a lower price that would be good for the buyer. It's "Buy low, sell high", remember? The problem, it seems, is that the price was locked in at the original, higher, order price, but the transaction didn't go through and so the buyer had no liquidity as the price continued to drop. Had the transaction gone through the buyer would've lost an equal amount of money (and so the accusations of outright theft or fraud are a bit over-the-top), but the big problem is they were prevented from taking corrective action to limit their loss, which I'd consider to be pretty shitty service for a financial institution.
I've found a few laptops with physical shutters for cameras; I like those. However, nothing similar for a mic yet.
Panel Urges Wide-ranging NSA Spying Overhaul
Edit2 = Damage control.
You may not have intended this, but your posts on this thread have convinced me that Coinbase should not be held responsible for their own errors that hurt their customers.

Now, care to take a guess at whether I'll ever be a customer?
From the Wikipedia article: "Furbies were banned from the National Security Agency of the United States due to concerns that they may be used to record and repeat classified information."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furby
I don't think it's really possible for a market to be "too crowded" or "too competitive" if you can create a unique and superior product.

Joining a commodity market with a me-too clone, however, would be ill advised. But it doesn't seem like that is the case here.

I do think that the education market is tough. There's so much out there that's free.