skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because 25.5°C is not anywhere near the peaks we're seeing here. Right now, it's nice and cool, scattered clouds, exactly 25°C outside where I live. Nobody would dream of turning on the AC right now, in fact it would be nice if it could get a little bit warmer and sunnier.

When summer was starting out this year, it got to 32°C outside my home in the shadow, but that still wasn't a heat wave. During a heat wave, this rises to the mid thirties, and can in extreme situations approach 40. Lots of unremitting sunlight and stagnant air can drive the actual temperature people experience in cities much higher.

Mind you, I'm not arguing that Germany has the most extreme climate on the planet. Yes, you can easily pick a hundred thousand places that are far worse, and you guys in the Deep South are very very tough and all that ;)

It's a different thing to argue that in Germany you flat-out don't need air conditioning, especially if you never experienced how bad it can get. But even if this is all just a sign of my own special and extraordinary weakness, I still feel better when I have one.
https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell
Lesson learned: don't host your stuff at unknown cheapskate companies, you got what you paid for. $1 a month or "one time fee" for hosting, really? http://www.cloudatcost.com/pricing.php
Tea and tisanes are to some extent substitute goods, so increased demand for tisanes lowers the price of tea in China ;)
With coffeescript, at least, there is no extra compile step from the user's point of view. You can run `coffee myapp.coffee` in the same way you would run `node myapp.js`
One such amazing and free monitoring is http://www.uptimerobot.com been using them for 3 years.
Fascinating idea. In the areas that this would work, would it not be simpler to just use a normal cell phones data connection or SMS?
I've been using a couple of their VMs for 6 months for some personal projects and haven't had an issue. In fact, they are up and running right now (40 days and 28 days since the last time I rebooted the servers for software changes).
That said, most people I meet that have signed up for their service thinks it is a scam because they couldn't figure out the admin and console pages. Mostly front end developers that don't understand networking and virtual machines; they thought they bought a web host service. With some explanation, I have shown each of them how to start their server, image it with the OS they want and how to login. So at least part of the social media complaints are user errors, but I think it is perfectly fair to blame the lack of documentation.

I have never pushed my VMs hard, but I am also running Debian, so I wonder if there may be a problem with the CentOS image being used (the author mentioned typos in config files).
There's a section on minification here: https://github.com/sindresorhus/multiline#minification
I think they actually want MBAs that can make good business decisions.
Anonymous Wikipedia edits from the Norwegian parliament and government offices
Yes exactly that - I am a customer with several vps, I signed up knowing that it could be a dud (when something seems too good to be true, it normally is), $12 a year I think is pretty cheap (price of 4 coffees, one days caffeine for some) for the lowest spec. I'm happy enough, so sorry to hear you are having trouble, I hope you get it all resolved.
Be sure to scroll to the bottom for a real-world example, this is very brittle.
The flawed premise is experience. To a headhunter, two resumes may look comparable, yet for the problem at hand one person is objectively more experienced than the other.
Texas is fairly dry, though, yes? The heat combined with humidity is the real killer.
It seems simple you just give an OS program the URI necessary. The program then performs the download and tags it with the relevant metadata.

The example you give would be a bit more complicated, but you would just rewrite curl to attach metadata to file descriptors. Then the OS can have some restrictions about certain programs reading from file descriptors with metadata it deems untrustworthy.
> so, how much would it cost to put in a ductless in the bedrooms?

I didn't install central air either, it's basic split units (probably the precursors to your moon rocket cooler) where the only thing you really need to get through the walls are relatively thin coolant lines that run to the outside heat exchangers. It's about 600€ per unit, I'd say. The modern ones are pretty quiet as well.

The nice thing I noticed about them is they have an efficiency of around 2.6 - meaning that for every Watt you put in, around 2.6 Watts of energy are being moved, both in or out. Obviously, that subject to some adjustment depending on the temperature gradient, but it's way more efficient than the electrical heating that was installed in my bungalow before.

> I have not seen the electric bill yet.

I remember an episode of "Married with Children", where Al brings home a ancient German AC that was made by the Nazis or something, and when they plugged it in the entire neighborhood lost power. That's what I picture is in your house ;)
Seems like the protection laws were enacted with the goal of ensuring access to books in small towns. Big stores are prevented from discounting books (more than 5%) with the idea that small stores will go out of business from price pressure, then selection will be limited to what the big stores have, which is less than the aggregate of the small stores.

Seems reasonable, but does that still apply to Amazon? Even if critics of Amazon are correct, and Amazon raises prices after small businesses are gone, consumers are no worse off than they are now, when discounts are prohibited.

I can't see how anybody other than the booksellers are being advantaged here, with the cost being paid by consumers.
When you charge $1 per month for cloud hosting you attract pathological customers like the one who wrote this hate page. It should be obvious that a company can't afford effective customer support and high quality hardware at this price point.

The lesson here is that the moment you accept a penny from people they believe they're entitled to the world because they're now your customers. Raise your prices and you won't have to deal with people like this.
The irony is lost on that one...
I'm a little confused about what threats you fear that you would not perceive in "house/business owner, graduate of ivy league, employee of a large company".
How configurable data models and schemas make digital analytics better
Creating interactive wireframes with Inkscape and JavaScript
Their plans look really attractive from a dev's perspective tbh.. simply use them for dev and deploy somewhere reliable.
How is that even supposed to work? Are they renting Amazon VMs on stolen credit cards underneath?
What's wrong with their web page? The font they picked looks terrible on both Chrome and Firefox, even when zoomed.
I just use ES6 template strings together with the es6ify transform for Browserify. Works in all browsers and very likely performs much better than using Function.prototype.toString.
I'm not sure it could be considered the same thing, but by visiting the DreamFactory's site I found this in the comments http://www.wakanda.org/

Any feedback on it?
just so you know, all the information that's stolen from people without their knowledge, also happens to you, so the sense of knowing exactly what you share is honestly just an illusion.
That's an incredible idea.
I've been using a dirt cheap VM from VPSdime - they've been great so far, they even processed all my tickets very quickly. I got much better service than I expected at $8/year (this particular deal I found at http://lowendbox.com/blog/vpsdime-7month-6gb-8year-128mb-and... but it is no longer available, sorry)
Apples and Oranges – The ultimate categorization of products
Better to just link to the tool: https://github.com/edsu/anon.

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- Denmark (https://twitter.com/FTingetWikiEdit)

- Sweden (https://twitter.com/RiksdagWikiEdit)

- United States (https://twitter.com/congressedits)

- Chile (https://twitter.com/CongresoEdita)

- United Kingdom (https://twitter.com/parliamentedits)

- France (https://twitter.com/wikiAssemblee)

- Canada (https://twitter.com/gccaedits)

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Local government:

- North Carolina (https://twitter.com/NCGAedits)

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(To those wondering, no interesting edits so far.)
And I just need a tiny DVB-T transmitter to feed my own blockchain to it. I like that idea of yours! :P
My S3 hosting is about a dollar per month and it's solid enough to use for business-critical infrastructure.
My grandfather would put a piece of eggshell in to settle them - not sure how scientific that is...

edit - found this http://blog.khymos.org/2010/08/04/norwegian-egg-coffee/

"When looking into the chemistry behind this it isn’t as strange as it may sound. Fish skin as well as eggs contain proteins. The addition of proteins while preparing the coffee serves two purposes: 1) it helps the coffee grounds to flocculate, allowing them to sink faster to the bottom of the pot (this effect is probably more pronounced when using eggs) and 2) the proteins bind irreversibly to astringent and bitter tasting polyphenols in coffee to form insoluble complexes that will precipitate. The end result is a clearer coffee with a pleasant and mild taste. The bitterness is only barely noticeable, but the coffee still has enough “body” so it doesn’t feel too thin! "
Because it would allow only very short exposures otherwise.
Why not just send the confirmation back by SMS?
Unless people are posting original content or some other category of no longer copyrighted work (or have signed a license agreement), every single work on genius.com is likely to violate copyright.

Us hacker/nerd/geek types can pretend copyright doesn't exist or is dumb all we want, but it doesn't make the liability go away.

Looking at what's on genius.com right now, they're focusing on either things you can get off of gutenberg (verified to be out of copyright) or excerpts to modern works with a link to a "buy this thing at amazon".

Here's the guidelines when you submit:

For copyrighted books (published 1923 or later), only add EXCERPTS, not full texts

This is going to require quite a bit of curation to resolve and keep right of the law. 13 year old me wouldn't have had any problem copy-pasting an entire e-book.

This, Airbnb, and Uber (not YC) and a few other recent startups seem to think making a business model off of out-of-law business ideas is a good model. And I get it, there's a bit of an "the law is wrong let's prove it" going on, and the VCs are using these companies to put pressure on the legislature, but it's pretty dangerous.
Higher antioxidant, lower cadmium, and lower pesticide residues in organic crops [pdf]
More information on the study (including the paper) here: http://csanr.wsu.edu/program-areas/m2m/research-areas/nutrit...
St Mary's Hospital was not government controlled or funded when Fleming was working there. It was one of the 'voluntary hospitals' supported by philanthropy and private donors. Furthermore, if you read the history of penicillin [1] you can see a long history of tinkering (meaning the discovery was somewhat inevitable) and that Pfizer, Inc. worked out how to mass produce it.

But you know, whatever...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_penicillin
I haven't any input on the actual product - it's not something I have a need for but spell check the site! The about page is full of mistakes.

> ...powerful tools that have been developped to process languages...

I assume the author is French from the mistakes, just run it through an english spellcheck platform.
You are free to rely on the guarantees made by a particular hardware architecture. The JVM implementation doesn't "take them away" -- the spec merely doesn't guarantee them. But if you do, then you might lose portability.
Smart move but don't ever stop. I've found that by making just a little incremental design fixes gets paid in a long run.

It takes a tremendous courage to ignite the process of refactoring and wimps in the end pay the price.

When the system gets messy it really does slows the development of new features and even fixing a small bug requires a vast amount of time and labor. Not to mention a stress it introduces to the developers who in the end - leave the company.
Looking through the first 20 or so, all I can find are added links, cross-references and improved grammar. Someone's lunch pastime maybe :)
This is pretty standard for the hosting industry. If you submit a support request, you cost more than most users, so they'd rather lose you than support you.
Yes. Leaving aside the discussion of whether it is programmable to the same extent as Emacs is, it is in the same category.
This article has actually been a pretty good advertisement for me. If I need some quick, cheap servers for non-critical stuff, I will definitely consider using this.
Hm.

The point of these compile-to-html languages (eg. markdown) is that you're abstracting away from the display formatting as much as possible.

It's easy to say that you can just use HTML as content-only and style it using CSS, but the reality is that HTML is primarily a display format; it's pretty much unavoidable having classes, ids & DOM node structure in HTML that govern display behavior.

By abstracting concepts (paragraph, heading, list, etc) out, you can render them as components however you like into the HTML. Which means if you decide to change how they're rendered, you can do it all at once by editing the template.

Markdown & it's kin are certainly not perfect, but I'm pretty sure writing directly into HTML for your content is a generally really terrible idea.

(that said, with web components we will be able to do this directly in HTML by creating custom data-driven tags, so maybe that's the future. ...but it's not quite here yet)
Nicholas Felton has been doing something similar for a couple of years, but he creates a printed journal: http://feltron.com/ar12_02.html

I would be interested in a turnkey solution with modular components that would allow people to quickly "snap" together a site like this.
I would have thought software image processing could handle this.
Clicked around a little and didn't see how old he is. Personally, I could run a mile under 5 minutes in high school, ran track for high school and college, wore out my knee so it hurts constantly at any more running for years after, and currently I'd be happy to get any time at all nowadays. So 10 minutes could be quite good considering his life situation.
Well, I don't get what is the point of suggesting alternative languages that have multiline strings when we are talking about one specific language.

The topic is about how to do multiline string in Javascript in one way, and one alternative is not to use multiline strings in Javascript. It's kinda big jump from the original purpose of the topic to start suggesting alternative languages... if we are to be this slack, then we can start spamming most threads with weakly related stuff. For example, you can easily advertise coffeescript in each and every javascript thread in a similar way you did in this specific thread but do we really need want that?
It's more likely a software issue in the protocol stack that negotiates and control the switching fabric.

I work in telecoms and specialized in development and testing of TDM for almost a decade. I never saw clock slip manifest itself as a whole channel shift. The drift occurs at bit level, not in chunks of 8 bits. The elastic buffers in the phy protect against behavior and if they overflow due to a persistent drift it only results in a click in the channel.
I found a picture of the Antietam memorial depicting William McKinley delivering coffee:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/graphics/2012/08/27/Antietam...
The brackets are editorial from the editor of the post. They're not in the original email. That's the author's opinion on the bad consequences that Catmull is referencing.
Agreed. Based on his landing page, it looks like he is on the $1/month plan which makes it hard to take him seriously.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7692112
Across the entire portfolio, most YC companies are cool are at least innocuous. But knowing that YC focuses on "the people", which includes the personality and behavior, puts extra scrutiny on the founders.

When they come across poorly it reflects on YC.
The quote from the article: "It’s funny that the $35 dollar VM isn’t having the trouble. Just my higher end ones." So unless I've missed something this isn't a cheap customer. Which then renders your entire point moot.
This made me think of a great HN piece from a few weeks back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921691

Balzac on pleasures and pains of coffee.

A generation before the Civil War but interesting to see how coffee was used experimentally to spur creativity and production. He mentions other artists with similar experiments.

To say we are addicted to coffee or tea is not just to talk of the dependence on caffeine but the whole set of rituals around it. It draws my attention and I love articles like this. I also love to learn how other people make tea or coffee (though I reserve the right to be very judgemental in that regard).

Last week I sat down to watch a movie randomly picked from the Critereon Collection on Hulu. "Jeanne Dielman..." by Chantal Ackerman. Blew me away. 3.5 hours of very little action and a central scene where she does little more than make coffee

Coincidentally I was sitting and reading this while grinding coffee. 2 morning rituals: HN and fresh ground coffee.
If only there were some way to cryptographically sign stuff...
This is why I use Linode, 5 years no issues, superb support.

The difference between $5 per VPS and $20 per VPS is offset as soon as I have to spend half an hour figuring out an issue.

If I have clients on that machine the difference is offset the second I get a ticket from them, loss of goodwill is worth way more than $20 with my customers.
The idea is that the payment receiver doesn't need to do it. The payee needs to have some kind of uplink (like a mobile phone, amateur radio, or anything).

There are mobile payment applications already, but they are doing it using centralized service and they need make deals with payment agents. With Kryptoradio it is possible to receive payments without any extra middlemen.
heh - me too
"It's not about getting rich and making a lot of money.
It's about security"

that the American Dream can somehow provide security is its greatest lie. any american that has lived in europe long enough understands what differentiates it from america is how people perceive this issue of social and financial security. europeans expect their socialist structures to provide security. one can see it clearly in the mentality of personal investment. american's, to their credit, live for taking risks to get ahead. whereas europeans avoid it (and save), with the expectation their government is to provide them with such security. a european is more likely to put their money into an obscure insurance than a stock. sure, this risk-averse mentality might might make the place a lot less productive (at least one could argue) but it sure makes it a lot more liveable and safe.
WW3 FOLLOWUP, ISIS TAKE NUCLEAR BOMB MAKING STUFF WITHOUT KILLING?
I'm on a tablet now, what libraries is he using?
pharma/biotech?
A list of tools for generating static websites
>But especially the email about Jill getting poached suggested that Pixar had zero interest in promoting her internally

The email seemed to reflect that Pixar had considered promoting the poached employee and hadn't done so for Good Reasons(TM). Catmull admitted she had potential and would probably grow into a promotion at Pixar, but stated she was lacking experience in a "major area" of the production cycle. That doesn't sound like an arbitrary "I hate employees, let's treat them like dirt" conclusion, it sounds reasonable to me. Sony was desperate enough to hire people that didn't have that experience, but Pixar wasn't, so she went to work for Sony. I don't see the problem.
The full TeXLive is 1.3GB large, because it ensures that the only thing you need to build any semi-sane TeX document is this installation.

Describing TeX as Code misses the topic by a wide margin, a lot of the things in the distribution are fonts and compiled versions of the documentation.

Bash the idea of treating TeX as code out of your head and you will find it quite a bit saner.
I don't know, Tor has more people and organisations developing it, if I had to trust one, Tor would be more likely the result.
C.D.C. Closes Anthrax and Flu Labs After Accidents
The populated parts aren't dry at all. Houston in particular is incredibly humid year-round, and Austin and Dallas are also quite humid. West Texas is dry, but also largely unpopulated.
When making cowboy coffee (similar - brewed directly in a pot), you sprinkle cold water over the top to get the grounds to settle.
I can't believe you bothered to take the time to write that. Who cares what his running pace is, and more to the point why do you?

I think the point of the submission was to highlight the quality of the site. Not some strangers fitness level.
If you are interested in slow but usable, no they are not.
I bought one early and any network connection to the server is hellish to maintain.
There are plenty of cheap options that actually work, choose one of those.
What about web apps? you can test them too with any browser (:
Lyft reverses under legal pressure, cancels Friday night New York launch
The article misses the working part of the law.
Book prices in France are not a free market since we have a fixed book price law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price_agreement) meaning that the publisher decides the retail price of the books it publishes.
There is an exception authorizing retailers a maximum of 5% discount. In practice all majors players (book store chains, Amazon, supermarkets...) systematically apply the 5% discount.

The new law forbids retailers to apply the discount if the book is delivered but allows them to apply the discount on the delivery fees (which is useless to Amazon who offers the delivery).

The final effect is that books on Amazon are 5% + 1 cent more expensive than in physical stores.
It really depends on what was meant by "fragile". I read it as meaning that she was thin-skinned or temperamental (and therefore "fragile", i.e., she must be handled with unusual care in discussions or she'll react badly), not that she was unhealthy.
Amazing that the bug count was so small.

The only one that caught my attention was garbage collecting your functional reactive code. The solution was to use global variables. That's a huge red flag.

Overall though, this is a pretty positive report for committing some 30KLOC. Amazing, really.
Great example in the long, varied history of communication devices going back to the ancients, but really picking up speed in the Renaissance. For more example of interesting optical communication devices I recommend Deep Time of the Media by Zielinski (it includes lots of pictures too!):http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/deep-time-media
Right -- this is one of the few cases where I'd rather see a link to a blog post (providing some analysis of the raw data) rather than just the link to the data.

Government-IP updates can be either completely innocuous (someone's lunch break habit, or possible goofing off during working hours... in which case this might get someone in hot water), or seriously ominous, if "re-writing history" is someone's paid job.

The former case isn't news-worthy, is it?
About 5 years ago I submitted a post here asking for comments on an online text discussion/annotation tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=821559

Rap Genius looks very similar; glad someone made this work.