skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is an open-air reservoir, chances are all sorts of animals have done all sorts of nasty things in it already - the only difference is that this kid got caught.

With an open-air water reservoir, I'd be much more concerned about things like Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm)[0] than urine. Thankfully, the Guinea worm poses a low risk to the US due to how easy it is to prevent[1], but it's a problem elsewhere in the world.

Dracunculiasis only occurs in four countries (and the US is not one), but the reason it spreads/persists there is due to improper practices regarding drinking water.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis#Cause - each generation of worms needs a human host, so even if a single water supply were contaminated, it would not be able to reproduce again unless the water supply were re-contaminated.
This seems to always be the case - people turn on neighboring socioeconomic classes, not the ones at the extreme top of the pyramid. During the Jim Crow era, the worst discrimination against blacks came not from the elite (many of whom had been abolitionists during slavery and equality-minded liberals afterwards), but from poor white sharecroppers who were one degree removed from slavery themselves. Nowadays, the conservative movement within the U.S. is composed of the ultra-wealthy plus the lower-middle-class and working-class Religious Right. The targets of the LA race riots were not rich white people, but Korean shopkeepers in minority neighborhoods.

I suspect it's because it's generally impossible to "skip" social classes and jump directly from the bottom to the top. Even rags-to-riches stories usually involved a period of a few decades where the person enters and assimilates into the intervening classes. Jan Koum went from immigrant to middle-class tech worker to aspiring entrepreneur to multi-billionaire. Henry Ford went from farmer to machinist to engineer to captain of industry. Andrew Carnegie went from immigrant to bobbin boy to telegraph operator to bookkeeper & investor to steel magnate.

As a result, each class views the class directly above them as their impediment to upwards mobility, and they're not wrong in that belief. In times of scarcity, resentment usually flows upwards to their immediate neighbors. The more distant causes of the socioeconomic structures that hold people down are effectively invisible to the rioting classes; all they see is people who are not very different from themselves doing better than them.
Me too. Thanks for the better title. We'll change it.
Not that he can use the service in the first place, or is able to even know what is going on without finding them on a third party message board...
Thomas Piketty, the economist who exposed capitalism’s fatal flaw
Another solid all-round brain snack food type channel is SmarterEveryDay--

https://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2
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Also, as someone who pretty much used PHP and Js exclusively before going for a CS degree, I've found that i've learned a lot about the languages I already knew by studying the way other languages behaved.
The "Scariac" is one of my favorite YouTube construction videos.
The people who split a lot of wood are those who heat their house with wood. Open fire places are for ambiance. If you actually want to heat your house, you use a wood stove, which is closed.
I was hoping he'd drop in some reference that would explain it, like the take over of world government by Norway after the war (sort of like Poul Anderson's Tau Zero http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zero). But I guess he just wanted it to be inscrutable.
The disease would have to be transmitted via urine, then it would have to survive in mostly clean water for what... days? Months? Years? and then it would have to be effective after normal consumption. I'm not aware of any disease that would be transmitted this way.
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Mobile Insight app helps retailers and manufacturers manage their distributed workforces by using the data captured in their everyday activities.
It would be helpful to know the largest data set this has been used with and the performance of some example queries. Ideally > 1TB to qualify as "big data".
We've been using Adzerk on 4chan for the past year and it's been a Godsend. We'd previously been using our own in-house rotation that had minimal reporting because every third-party we'd used in the past either a) fell over under load, b) was extremely expensive, or c) had a restrictive ToS.
It might be because when you live in paradise money does not have the same value and productivity does not limited to renumerated work.
If the launch is a success, how will the world react?
I got a "Peek" into my own site's usability.
I simply commented on the evidence of dangers from smoke on open fires. I haven't anything else to say. If the comment doesn't apply to you feel free to ignore it.
pronunciation*

(it's one of few weird words that change spelling when you add a suffix, such as fridge/refrigerator)
Per the site guidelines, please don't use all-caps on HN. Sorry, no irony exemption.
you might like the history page. It's a great "man sits and thinks of how to improve simple task" story, even if a bit contrived.

http://www.vipukirves.fi/english/tale_of_vipukirves.htm
Still, where did society go wrong with the knucklehead who peed in the water reservoir? What causes anyone to commit such an unwarranted antisocial gesture? Is it disdain for fellow people? Disdain for the city? That's the same kind of guy that slashes public transit upholstery and smashes public restrooms - potentially dangerous to other people, and surely poisonous to society as a whole.
Pushing for what? Pee in the drinking water?
"the utility can levels load on the grid."

Probably better stated as 'peak shaving' where the utility is lowering the peak (maximum) of its load profile. This pays significant dividends as utilities are required to have a certain amount of generation as backup in addition to the required power.

It would take a significant amount of homes to equal one heavy industrial customer.
The first time, I was shocked at how casual the situation was to the people involved. The atmosphere is more like a workshop than you see on TV dramas involving surgeons (music playing, people chatting about what their kids and weekends, etc. like told in the article).

This is part of what made MASH so great. Many of the best scenes took place with the characters in the OR talking, teasing, and generally going about their routine.
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Once again, I did answer the question, you're just too lazy to see it. You should spend more time reading what I gave you. There's no such thing as absolute right and wrong; right and wrong are agreements between people and what's considered right and wrong change over time and must be worked out through reason and debate. Had you spent an ounce of effort reading the link I gave you, you wouldn't still be asking the same questions since the whole point of secular morality is to answer those questions.

If you think right and wrong can be defined by ignorant people from thousands of years ago, you're being foolish. If you think God defines right and wrong, you're just beyond help.
A hearty "mmmmmmmmmmeehhhh" to that quote. Yay to the rest of the post.

There are plenty of non-failing businesses out there that do not require you to sacrifice your nights and weekends. The fact that you're not running one of those is neither a credit nor a discredit to you. It's just a certain type of business and a certain approach to business, which is not universal.
If you're looking for talks on Java and related, you're missing out a lot of good videos from the JavaZone conference by limiting yourself to YouTube:

http://vimeo.com/javazone/videos/sort:plays/format:thumbnail
If I understand things correctly, what they're basically saying is that the utilities can smooth out energy consumption across the entire grid. For instance, instead of everyone having the AC on for the first 10 minutes of every hour, they can turn 1/6 of the ACs on for the first 10 minutes, then turn those off and turn on the next 1/6 for the next 10 minutes, and so on. If that's the case, then instead of a huge spike (say, 80%) at the top of the hour and a huge dip (say, 10%) for the rest of the hour, the energy usage will be more constant across the whole hour (25% for the whole hour).

This should, in theory, reduce utilities costs in general, which ideally would be passed on to the consumers. And since everyone's Nest thermostat is already turning the AC up for 10 minutes, then the consumer isn't spending/losing any money on this -- they were already doing this, it's just at a different time that helps the utilities companies.

I think that's what they're talking about. It sounds like a cool plan, and a smart way for Nest to make big bucks.
so what kind of tool would you recommend instead to deal with 100TB-1PB per day ? I'm genuinely interested.
Doctors understand that they aren't miracle workers, and as such, prefer much less medical intervention at the end of their own lives than the general public.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/262588-bitter-end/

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die...
I have this hard-to-break habit of watching at least one startup/entrepreneurship/creativity video before going to bed at night, so I hope I'm somewhat qualified to answer this question. My personal favorites from the channels I'm currently subscribed to are (sorted by preference; in descending order):

- https://www.youtube.com/user/EverySteveJobsVideo - All the Steve Jobs videos in one channel

- https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium - Veritasium: an element of truth

- https://www.youtube.com/user/webofstories - Stories from Donald Knuth, Benoit Mandelbrot, Marvin Minsky

- https://www.youtube.com/user/PandoDaily - the fireside chats with Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Fred Wilson, Brian Chesky, John Doerr, Tony Hsieh are especially recommended

- http://www.youtube.com/user/ThisWeekIn - my favorite episodes are those with Naval Ravikant, Phil Libin, David H. Hansson, Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya and Eric Ries

- http://www.youtube.com/user/ecorner - Look for the talk by Phil Libin

- https://www.youtube.com/user/bigthink - Larry Wall and DHH

- http://www.youtube.com/user/kevinrose - Ignoring the raccoon toss video :D

- http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks - Look for a converstaion with Garry Kasparov

- http://www.youtube.com/user/KasparovCom - Into the night with Garry Kasparov and Peter Thiel

- https://www.youtube.com/user/techcrunch - Don’t laugh, but I love watching TC Cribs.

- http://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeleyHaas - Look for Guy Kawasaki!

- http://www.youtube.com/user/masterlock77 - Trial by Fire: Yabusame

- http://www.youtube.com/user/leweb - Look for Gary Vee!

- http://www.youtube.com/user/StartupGrind - Check out the fireside chat with Vinod Khosla.

- http://www.youtube.com/user/atotaldisruption - Justin Kan!

- http://www.youtube.com/user/500startups/ - Marc Andreessen & Dave McClure!

- https://www.youtube.com/user/building43 - ‘small teams BIG IMPACT' by Robert Scoble

- https://www.youtube.com/user/stanfordbusiness - Look for the fireside chats with Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen

- https://www.youtube.com/user/princetonstartuptv - Princeton Startup TV
Isn't that picture of helicopters? Do Russians somehow stage and fly helicopters in the US whereas we use OC-135s?
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Criminals are humans. They will use and abuse whatever infrastructure any other person has access to for their own purposes, much like (you guessed it) any other person.

Your argument is about as lazy as it is old. The only possible solutions are to make all criminals go extinct (good luck), or to take away tons of important tools away from the public, because get this, criminals might use them! How terrible.
When my former co-worker was in Kwajalein he got to watch a SpaceX launch. It was initially scrubbed and all the Air Force people went home, but he stayed around and they had a successful launch a few hours later.
good read, good convo in the comments too!
The same kind of guy that would ban flourine no doubt. Oh wait no that's a different kind of anti-social.
We'll probably never meet, but thanks. If something happens to me, I'd want someone to perform CPR as long as possible on me. I'm fond of existence.
There are occasionally outbreaks associated with municipal water supplies. I remember a big one from Milwaukee in the early '90s, looking it up, it was caused by a protozoa, cryptosporidium. They can be pretty durable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptosporidium#Life_cycle
What's that old chestnut about design patterns just being workarounds for missing language features?

Multi-paradigm languages: I'll admit they're usually woefully lacking in sex appeal. When it comes to getting @$#@% done and moving on with your life, though, they be awesome.
> If you are an "emerging adult" at age 30, then there is a problem. Further, the author of this article claiming that these so called "emerging adults" are not lazy or self-entitled is ridiculous. It is clearly a case of "first world problems". The mere fact that these "emerging adults" have the luxury of living "on the dole" (whether parental or governmental) while they "figure out what they want to do with their lives" into their late 20s and early 30s is a clear case of self-entitlement.

Did you even read the article? First of all, you dismiss this people as leeches outright. Second, you claim that these people are inherently selfish and lazy with no evidence. Finally, you view receiving assistance as self-entitled at a time when a huge portion of people of all ages use some kind of assistance, governmental or otherwise, to survive. You are essentially the dismissive person that the author of this article was writing about.

> If you don't have a place to live, food to eat, and shelter ... you "emerge" as an adult pretty quickly and figure out what you "want to do with your life" by DOING WORK you don't want to do to get said food, and shelter (i.e., to survive).

According to the article, people in the 18-29 age range working an average of 10 different jobs over that period in their lives. These people do find work that helps them to get shelter and eat. Certainly some of those people rely on additional sources, like family, for some income. However, the point is that people do pursue this work even while wanting something better.
How is Yahoo So Worthless
Interesting point, but I think the authors ignores the fact that stocks with $10 in the bank per share are routinely dsicounted below $10/ share because of all the friction/ agency and delays witholding the delivery of that value to shareholders.
Utah relies on mountain reservoirs, some of which you're not supposed to swim in. That said, some people do. Our water is great. This is beyond silly.
The NFS complexity for factorization and discrete logarithm is asymptotically the same. In practice, the matrix step is more costly in discrete logarithm, but this should increase the bit security by at most a handful of bits, which is not enough to justify differentiating DL estimates from RSA estimates.

This refers to the size of p, the prime modulus. Sizes of exponents and/or subgroups are not affected by the complexity of the NFS, so they generally only need to be twice the target bit security to avoid birthday-type attacks.
Could something like this be used (at a large scale) to "extend" multiple shorter segments of rod? http://www.pl-259.com/nuts%20adapt%203%208%20to%201%204%20x%...
Ah right, forgot about chlorination. Then yeah I agree it's silly. I knew it would be diluted but I wasn't sure if the disease would multiply in the water. I guess it needs a host's nutrients to feed on. EDIT: or not? maxerickson below cites an example.

And yes the thought of drinking bird poop is disconcerting. Does this reservoir hit some sort of treatment plant or other sort of filter before hitting Portland's faucets?
I missed that bit the first time through. That seems to me to fall well on the wrong side of the line between "strong family ties" and "just plain not equipped to cope".
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I have no idea what the reasoning behind title of this submission is (in case it gets edited: "RIP: Rapportive. Finally stopped working today :("), but the latest tweet from the Rapportive account seems to indicate it was a minor glitch:

https://twitter.com/rapportive/status/324966383152676864
"Hi everyone, if you've had any trouble with Rapportive today, please reload your Gmail. We've just released a fix! —@LeeMallabone"
I'm pretty sure that the wording is wrong and the author meant that nest will automatically turn the air conditioning down (i.e. let the temperature rise in the house, reducing air conditioning load) - at least that's the information that comes across from the referenced Forbes article.
I'm just trying this out of curiosity and I haven't been able so far to find how to restrict the access to the admin panel (not per IP but per user/pass or event public key / certificate).
Anybody who comes up with a new "Big Data" solution has to realize that the 90% of the data users are vested deeply in Hadoop and the ecosystem around it. Having tools like PrestoDB, Hive, Shark on the top of HDFS makes it really hard to newcomers to convince companies to invest in something else. If data was a greenfield territory these project would be more viable. Btw. on this note, PrestoDB just getting the right features like join optimization, support for nested structures, etc.
I visited crate.io last month and remembered this. It was more than a little confusing at first.
Fine---but if the jobs are being done, why all the whining about "kids these days?"
Right, what were they thinking? :)
> Think of the starving artists, musicians, olympic athletes, working class poor, the startup set, etc

Maybe you are right and I am just cynical. But I have felt that some of these groups (with the exception of working class poor) are tolerated because of their success potential than for their status as individuals. And even with that a large number of people appear to disdainful of unsuccessful people in these fields.

And about the only people who seem to like the working class poor are politicians who see them as a voting bloc of sorts.
> It could be possible to enable someone you trust to use your infrustracture. You don't have to know who this person is.

Am I the only one to whom this sounds absolutely crazy? How can I trust you if I don't know who you are? (I mean the general you, not you personally, devconsole.)

Your comments could have been deliberately sanitized -- perhaps you have trolling accounts elsewhere that you are exceptionally good at keeping separate from this one, and spend time making this one look good. One could be posing as a mild-mannered Python developer here on HN, but be spending one's evenings being Super-Mallory the Malicious, trolling and trading illegal information.

I really want to be able to support things like mesh networks and Tor, but the very risk the GP noted (people will use your resources for Bad Things, and good luck defending from the feds) prevents me from being willing to do so. There's no way I would trust you or someone else that I don't personally know enough to use my resources, unless I were somehow able to keep meticulous logs which exonerate me from any activity they do. (And, I don't trust that such logs would even do that...)

Saying that you should be able to trust a stranger is like saying that you should be able to run a courier service for strangers where you have no idea whether they are transporting drugs or counterfeit money.
Open fires are banned in many places where people go camping. If you must cook food, you should use a gas or alcohol stove.
Props for introductory comparison with similar libraries and up-front info on supported browsers (IE9+).
If you pay $2/month, you're a sucker; they've got lots of coupons (like the seemingly permanent 25 % discount on their website. If you look a bit further, you'll find even better discounts).
Sorry, didn't see this. Most of my recommendations are on capitol hill. Bauhaus used to be a great spot. I love Joe Bar personally, but seating is extremely limited. The cryptobucks/roy st coffee and tea has lots of space, though, and it's not so bad. Cafe Presse has a few tables that are nice, though it ends up in shadow fairly early.
I remember that. Was a kid at the time and I swear it felt like we had to boil water for months :D
So it's the size of p that matters most in practice, assuming other parameters are sane.
I've sat in on two caesarians as a father. One 'emergency' and one EMERGENCY!!!. The way I could tell the difference was that the first was as you describe and the second was disturbingly like a TV hospital drama. Both ended well, but it still makes me upset thinking about it years later.
I'm not really sure how this game works. What prevents players from cheating by lying about their real-world activities to prevent loss of game progress?
The voltage drop of a resistor is proportional to current.
Childhood bullying can cause problems decades later
9M rows? Luxury! Big data starts at 100M rows! /s
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One day startups will learn to stop building on negative/zero/low revenue social networks. After hearing about Zynga getting diversified almost out of existence on Facebook, Dalton Caldwell being served with a "Join us or else"[1] from Facebook, and the Twitter 3rd party castration[2]; it amazes Me that people are still trying to build services on top of social platforms. These platforms are generating very little revenue relative to their valuations. If you have this amazing service that starts making money or getting notoriety, it's in the social networks best interest to stop your business and build the feature themselves.

[1] - http://daltoncaldwell.com/dear-mark-zuckerberg

[2] - https://blog.twitter.com/2012/changes-coming-to-twitter-api
Wrote a Node.js script to do a simple breadth-first search and got to the point where I submit my twitter handle to the exit node but it's throwing an error.

request.post({
url: 'http://apibunny.com/users',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify({
twitter_handle: '@braddwyer'
})
}, function(error, response, body) {
console.log(body);
});

Results in:

{
"error": "Request was malformed.",
"detail": "TypeError: Cannot call method 'forEach' of undefined"
}

Not sure how to go any further with no API docs.
It seems that a list of twenty channels does not conform to the spirit or letter of the original question.
"It includes solid established open source components (Presto, Elasticsearch, Lucene, Netty) and extends those with added core functionalities like read/write support, a SQL interface, a dashboard and a query console."

This makes no sense. Presto is already a SQL query engine, so what does it mean to "extend" it with a SQL interface? Furthermore, the crate.io SQL is even more limited than Presto SQL! Presto allows operations that are not in crate SQL, like joins and "create table as select".
Pushing for a privately-controlled water bureau.
Nice sense of humor from Elon: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/457190623640969216
I'm not sure you can't get halfway decent public schools in the cities, but they tend to be local to wealthier neighborhoods. And suburbs in the area I'm from tend to at least have apartments and townhomes, which are a nice middle ground (at least as far as saving on heating, cooling, cleaning, space, cost). The commute still sucks, of course.