skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be conservative, and instead of assuming 75-90% efficiency gains, we round down to 50% savings based on a majority of lighting moving to LED. That's a savings of almost 215-230 billion kWh of electricity a year.

EIA US Data:

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=99&t=3

"EIA estimates that in 2011, about 461 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity were used for lighting by the residential and commercial sectors. This was equal to about 17% of the total electricity consumed by both of these sectors and about 12% of total U.S. electricity consumption.

Residential lighting consumption was about 186 billion kWh or 13% of all residential electricity consumption.

The commercial sector, which includes commercial and institutional buildings and public street and highway lighting, consumed about 275 billion kWh for lighting or 21% of commercial sector electricity consumption in 2011.

EIA does not have an estimate for only public street and highway lighting.

Our most recent data available indicates that in 2006, 63 billion kWh were consumed for lighting in manufacturing facilities, which was equal to about 2% of total U.S. electricity consumption in 2006."
Delta has wifi on some flights, so there's always Skype.
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From Civilization, Unaware of WWII
> Clearly, being (viewed by employers as) a jack of all trades is bad.

My problem is that I can't dumb-down my resume. One Google search and most of what I've done, going back thirty years, is all there. I can't get it all deleted. At some level, why would you want to? For example, there's a 1985 paper on robotics I presented at an ACM conference (while still an engineering student) that still shows-up on a search.
I think a better perspective is to include the networking angle in anything you do, whenever possible. The most successful people are never not networking, except when they are engaged in a solo activity like programming or practicing. This goes hand in hand with self-promotion and marketing.

As others have mentioned, though, there are different definitions of the term. Going to "networking events" may not be the best use of your time. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be building connections and relationships-- with classmates, professors, roommates, bartenders, skiing buddies, vendors-- as many as you can handle. And yes: interest group meetups and and clubs can be a good place to make connections.
I would use Namebox to sell: http://namebox.io/

No affiliation
I was under the impression you should expect electronics and white goods to last a full 5 years in the UK. It's not unreasonable to expect things to still work after this time, especially with Apple's premium.

The Sale of Goods Act 1979 says that goods should be as follows:

Of satisfactory quality.
This means the goods must meet the standards that any reasonable person would expect, taking into account the description, the price and all other relevant information. In some circumstances, the retailer may be liable for any statement made by the manufacturer about the goods.

Satisfactory quality includes the appearance and finish of the goods, their safety and durability and whether they are free from defects (including minor faults)
Fit for the purpose that goods of this type are generally sold. They must also be fit for any specific or particular purpose made known to the seller at the time of the agreement.
The compiler is still in a relatively early stage of its development. At this point we feel we can make faster progress and attract more contributors if it is written in Go.

(Go programmers like to write Go code, who'd have thought? :-)
But obscurity isn't the enemy of secure crytpo; it's just not the solution to it. Assuming the enemy "already knows the system" is fine, but that doesn't mean obscurity itself somehow reduces security...

I know that's not what the principal posits, but that's an attitude I frequently encounter, and I find it profoundly annoying, for some reason.
fc2.com is really massive in Japan, it shows up in my (japanese language) google search with a very high frequency. And since it's Alexa data we're talking about here, it probably makes a difference that IE usage is still relatively high in Japan.
The article itself actually discusses this. All new internet customers are greeted with a prompt asking them whether or not they want parental controls [1]. The design of the choice menu seems to encourage choosing the porn filter.

As for existing customers, I'm not sure. The article says that "BBC's Newsnight has discovered all the major ISPs that have launched full default filters", which could mean that these filters have been turned on by default for existing customers, but the wording is fairly unclear.

Edit: It get's even more confusing. According to this[2] BBC article, the filter is automatically set to "on" for new users. This contradicts their claim that new users are offered a choice, though admittedly the choice is skewed in one direction. I think I'll wait for someone from the UK to chime in...

[1] http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71795000/jpg/_71795679...

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25400009
Prior thread -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6632576

Not sure why yet another binary encoding method is needed (per editor comments on the original ietf mailing list).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcVkYD3o910
It also drastically increases the burden of debt.
Lol. Sorry KB! My bad!
That's why the dog will give you 5 minutes only
I'm not sure why you think any of that is relevant. Educational sites should not require Big Brother's approval, even if they involve biology you'd rather not think about.
Consider the audience: this document was written for the contributors to the Go project. It wasn't intended to be on the front page of Hacker News. It's not trying to convince anyone that Go is good and C is bad. It's just explaining the rationale for the move to Go. For the intended audience, these statements are pretty much self-evident, or we wouldn't be working on Go in the first place.

Also I think you severely underestimate the benefits of memory safety.
I thought the same, but don't forget about the sounds of your laptop you usually don't hear. And your heartbeat, stomach, all the abdominal noises, even your own breathing noise will start to annoy you. Let's exclude the deprivation from any physical or social contact (ok, admitted. for hackers that's maybe not such a big problem). I don't think that wifi works in such a chamber.
Brian, thank you for fixing the issue and making things right. As they typically say, a great company isn't judged by how many problems they have, but by how well they handle their problems.

You got a +1 here.
the difference here is that there's no "fake-world" contest. Tarsnap is asking for a real-world hack of their system.

Telegram, on the other hand, is trying to prove that their algorithm is unbreakable. AES is pretty good too.
As is noted in other comments, it's generally the system, not the algorithm, that gets broken.
Cool, I hadn't seen that one yet! It's seems to be very small in terms of file size. I'll have to check it out more later. Thanks for the link.
> I do love how simple and straight forward C is. Calling it hard to debug or write code correctly for is wholly based on the person making such statements.

The statements were that Go is easier to write and debug than C, not that C is hard. Considering that Go is memory safe and a significantly simpler language, it's hard to argue otherwise. As for the person making those statements, you should take a look at Russ Cox's resume.

> Stakeholders, external components, and team factor in.

Indeed they do. In this case, the stakeholders use Go, the external components are written in Go, and the team is the Go team. Go seems like a good fit.
> For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

Yes, like (probable) loss of market share when you increase prices arbitrarily. It all balances out eventually.
Do you have a source for this? How did it work -- the individual ISPs contacted websites they intended to blacklist and gave them the opportunity to appeal?

I find this hard to believe since Justin Hancock, who runs BishUK, claims to not have been aware that his website was being blocked until Newsnight alerted him.

If you are right, then perhaps he got some kind of form email alerting him of this possibility and assumed it was not relevant to his business?
Well, retirement isn't for me. I will never stop working on something so long as I have the physical and mental ability. That's just how I am wired.

Teaching at universities is out because, well, I don't have a degree. Ironically, I am a pretty good teacher. I've conducted seminars in the past with audiences in the hundreds of people. I enjoy it and I do have a knack for making complex topics accessible.

I have been thinking about perhaps authoring a webinar or two or launching some kind of an engineering-related educational effort. I have one idea that could be an interesting Kickstarter project for young (and not so young) engineers. Thinking about all options right now.

Well, that would be combining business with teaching. Maybe that's a good option for me.
the UK is not the entirety of Europe.
Actually there is even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_withdrawal_from_...
Did it happen to be this one, by any chance?

http://wallpaperroses.tumblr.com/post/67148629666/frank-sina...

I think our literature would be much less interesting and authentic if we required our authors to stay 'classy'!
This is why I can't take Bitcoin seriously. It's a liquidity depth issue. Much like HFT, there is a _perception_ that the order book has depth. But there's no guarantee that you'll get execution at the price displayed. At least market makers in the past were forced to execute up to a certain amount by regulation. No such regulation exists here.
Guilt-tripping
I opened an oDesk account to get some remote help on some software dev that was beyond my skills at the time. The contractor I hired was from India, I think I paid him $15/hour.

Then I opened a profile for myself as a contractor. I charge $100/hour. So far I've gotten about 10 hours worth of work from two different US companies. I'd like to increase my rates in 2014. This is purely for interesting work to me, I've already got a day job.
I wonder how many people on HN have actually touched a VT-100? Or an 8 inch floppy disk? Or how about removable platter 10 MB hard drives the size of a washing machine?
The feminist dilemma: I am not a manifesto
Video: Transparent Machines
I'm curious if SUNY gets what it wants and is allowed to close LICH whether they'd hang on to some of the space and try to get research into the area.. That's a huge tract of land (and I'd like to see it not sit completely vacant for a few years)

NYU-Poly has another incubator spot further up Jay St in DUMBO as well, looks like a nice space from the 15 minutes I've spent inside.
This whole filter is an entirely ridiculous idea. Blocking people from watching sex? It is absolutely asanine that we are so controlling and "scared" of one of the most important aspects of life. Sex shouldn't be something that we hide and don't talk about outside closed doors. It should be openly embraced as a beautiful thing, not some dark pleasure.
The Computer Connection/Extro is a lot of fun, although it's quite a bit darker than his earlier novels. It's a pageturner; Bester's books always moved along at a fast, efficient pace, and pulled the reader along with him, but I think that book is the most extreme. Within the first couple of pages, the main character has already traveled back in time to 1770s London in an attempt to save Thomas Chatterton from dying (a favour to a friend, nicknamed H. G. Wells, who uses a time machine to transport gold back into the past in order to attempt to save impoverished artists and poet such as Mozart).

Stay away from his later novel Golem^100, though. It's a sad, often mean-spirited shadow of his best work.
You don't have to trace all the money. You can mark all wallets that receive money from mixers as suspect, and disincentivize accepting suspect bitcoins.

Imagine someone's wallet gets compromised, and all the funds are transferred elsewhere. The theft is reported to the police. Some arbiter of trust will indicate that all wallets that have received funds that flowed from the stolen wallet after the theft are suspect, and communicate to participating merchants and consumers that accepting funds from suspect wallets will put them on a blacklist. People will stop accepting funds from tainted wallets, and the incentive for future theft will go down.

Bitcoin is not a permanent haven for crime. It is more traceable than any widely accepted currency, and that traceability will be used to deter financial crimes.
Thanks! The one downside is that the local variables that are in scope (and heavily used) in the opcode handlers are all in a different file, which is super weird, but. On the other hand, I get the performance advantage of the switch statement jump table and, like you said, it's a lot easier to find whatever I'm looking for. I think it turned out a net win.
So if I bought an extra 2 years of applecare for my MBP do I get half that credited back, since it is only one 'extra' year?
It doesn't matter. There are plenty of good things about Bitcoin which folks need to do <5mins of research to find out about.

The vitriol on HN shocks me though. I would've thought this community would love something like bitcoin. But instead of good quality discussions most bitcoin threads here turn into haters vs 'fanboys'. You are a 'fanboy'. It's pretty hard to get taken seriously once that happens.... :(
Let say the person is not a US citizen. They recently incorporated (C-Corp or LLC) in a different state (e.g. Delaware). They're a one/two-person tech startup until forseeable future (e.g. building SaaS on the side). Are they eligible for this? (They might not be physically in US)
Very nice but pretty CPU intensive presentation :)
You surely don't mean total silence like in the article, but in a relatively silent room. I can imagine that you need the silence to build the worlds and for sensemaking, when you read.

The mode your brain works in the office and when reading a book are entirely different. You can visually, emotionally, auditory, or sensually build worlds just using your imagination which is fed by reading the words and sentences of your book. In the office, you can at most have a daydream though. What you do at the office is switching between multiple inputs and silence would only intensify individual signals. That's why many people like to hear music or prefer a little more noise to reduce the intensity the inputs have on you. By input I mean each task you do, including observing things, selecting and choosing the actions you want to do, plan in advance, keep a record and order of things, imagine future action, or dream about outcomes. and situations
Apple iWatch All Set For 2014
Yes i do find that all the algorithms we have right now are superior to all the algorithms that existed 50 years ago.

I don't think that I'm being like a religious fanatic by believing that better fraud detection on amazon reviews will be implemented in the future.
It worked perfectly for me in Firefox.

UPDATE: Ah, I see you fixed some bugs since the above comment.
That talking on the phone or the train or the bus is rude isn't some quaint notion that is going to go away. It's very grating to listen to a lot of one sided conversations, and planes are places that a lot of people like to sleep.
> I just wish Telegram would have less hubris.

Well, if their own marketing spiel is to be believed, and all the work was done by Mathematicians instead of cryptographers, it's understandable that they'd go and behave like they have. Not out of malice, but ignorance of the accepted practices and modes of behavior that the crypto-community has adopted...often for very good reasons.
Government mandates are indeed arbitrary. Gold star.
the quality control IS better in print, and I appreciate it. But the quality control is NOT best for the best writers.
Classify and group your experience. Then write one resume for each category. One for software developer, one for hardware technician, one for system admin, one for entrepreneur/project manager. Then think about which resume to select for each job. Always write a cover letter that discusses your RELEVANT experience, and don't hesitate to customize one of your resumes for a specific job. And leave out an old or unpopular stuff such as RPG IV. Oddly enough I noticed a job just appeared on careers.stackoverflow.com for someone with RGP III or IV experience, but it is the first time in 10 years that I have seen that stuff even mentioned. I thought it had died out in the 70s.

If you do want to apply for a job using old stuff like CNC then either make a special one-time resume or edit a stock resume that covers more recent manufacturing stuff. I know people still do CNC but my thinking is that in CA it is likely to be considered outdated since most manufacturing is now outsourced out of the state.
Apollo 16 Lunar Rover in “High Definition” (Video)
The context of the link and the intended audience (go contributors) are not obvious within the context of a link posted to HN. Sure, you can read through it and look around, but most will read the initial document with their own mindset and experience, so a lack of context is problematic.
Swasta
Amazing
Add one year of apple care to the retail price.
Already done months ago.. ?
https://github.com/tlack/snaphax
I think this is really cool, though the cynical part of me thinks that so will the social media strategists of quite a few celebrities out there, looking to promote things around Christmas...
If you were able to exploit vulnerabilities in the server, the software distribution, and the client... but that's not testing Telegram itself, it's testing everything in between -- including what's between the chair and keyboard.

Which is where the weaknesses (as witnessed by bitcoin shenanigans) lie, anyhow.
How Startup Marketers Stay Productive: Nathan Kontny of Draft
Note that when people surveyed successful startups to find out what characteristics they shared, they discovered that most of them are started by people around your age, i.e. over 40. The Zuckerbergs of the world are outliers and people who try to emulate them are chasing the thin end of the rainbow.

You really should advertise for a younger person with some more marketing skills who would like to create a kickstarter project. You have the technical and manufacturing knowledge, and they would provide the branding/marketing side of the equation. Offer to work on their idea or on one of yours. Ideally you would get together, pick three or four ideas, do some market research to narrow down to one and then prepare your kickstarter bid.
Cicada 3301 documented (2012)
The README is completely broken in movie devices due to everything being inside the `code` block :(
Things like this are neat because they remind folks that tech titans, billionaires, celebrities, and the like are, at the end of the day, people too -- not that dissimilar from everyone else. It's so easy to forget that.
C is around 40 years old. Go is about 4 years old. If Go isn't easier to write correctly, easier to debug, and more fun to write, then it's got to be the most tragic and wasted programming language effort ever.
How celebrities behave on reddit seems to be a good indication of how they actually are in real life.
> but that doesn't mean obscurity itself somehow reduces security...

Banks have window facades for a reason... Transparency is also a way of increasing security. It cuts both ways.

Consider a weakness in a hash algorithm. If found by a 3rd party, you want this information to be publicly announced as soon as possible (be you Alice or Chuck), but that's only possible if the algorithm is widely available in the first place.
MtGox was a URL that the original founder had, but the bitcoin site was not made originally to sell trading cards. It was made to sell bitcoins and he just used a URL he had.
I can see how lack of context is problematic for people who simply must share their opinions without delay.

But even without the context, your comments are in response to a misreading of a very small part of the overall document. Hardly seems worth your time.
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It's always easy to forget how ordinary extraordinary people are, and likewise how extraordinary ordinary people are.
This is so true. It's a shame really.
Maybe.. but Bill Gates..? He doesn't have to use social media strategies, he won the game already!
Someone in the reddit thread asked a good question, what would you give to Bill Gates if you are his Secret Santa?
It's funny, my early 2008 macbook pros faulty graphics card gave up the ghost today. Turns out there was an extended warranty for people's who died up until last year. In a sense I was lucky it lasted as long as it did, but despite this 'good fortune' I'm still out a laptop.

When I took it to the genius bar asking why they didn't do a recall, they suggested I part it out.
Hi, I'm one of the authors.

I don't read PHP, but you're right that we're not the first to get through the API. We might be among the first to misappropriate the service for use of storing and managing arbitrary files, though.

FWIW, we did do this from scratch. I have no idea if this library has the same secret keys and stuff, but after we finished we went back and looked at other amateur audits and found the API to be basically unchanged in form between them, meaning that if they changed the API, it differed only in the specifics of the keys used, and not in say the protocol for handing server tokens and request tokens out. (I still don't know if the keys are the same between that library and our core, for example.)
I live in Rochester, NY. When I moved to Washington DC, two friends who grew up just outside of DC always said I was a "New Yawker" in a NY City accent. With DC being 4 hours from NYC, I said then they must be as well because since I grew up 7 hours drive from the city and they grew up only 4 hours drive from the city.

Western NY, where I am from, is in the Finger Lakes region. It is full of rolling hills and long lakes. There are several cities here but many, many more pastoral small towns, much like New England. The "tall" part of NYS is home to Adirondacks region which is full of east coast sized mountains and small rustic towns, plus lots of wilderness areas. Adirondack park could actually fit Glacier, Yosemite, the Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon Nationals parks all inside its borders. (Although that is a bit of a misnomer--there are towns, roads, businesses and homes technically inside the park's boundaries. Some of those parks listed have nothing but parkland inside of them.)

I should say that between Buffalo, Syracuse and Rochester, I snobbishly say that I always refer to Rochester as nowhere near as boring as Syracuse or as depressing as Buffalo.

I never even went to NYC until I was 26 and by then I had been to England several times, 8 or 9 US states and 6 or 7 other major US cities.

Editorials time: I don't like NYC. Many of the people are extremely egotistical about their city, it's loud but not in a good way, crowded, dirty as hell and there are lots of shady areas. Granted it has a lot to offer but I feel the good/bad ratio is much worse than other cities. Washington DC for example is damn near as powerful and culturally rich yet isn't anywhere as bad to look at or dangerous.

Also, don't worry, plenty of people here in Rochester think Canada is pretty much Toronto and tundra, with some weird area near New England that wants to be France again. They technically know Canada goes all the way to the west coast, but but they don't really think about it.
That makes sense...it's typical Latin American populism that has more valid reasoning than normal. Saab did have a cheaper offer, although ostensibly a government that "spies" is evil and not someone you'd want to buy military equipment from, even though Sweden is a spying partner with the US.