skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US Grid is split into three relatively unconnected grids, east coast, west coast, and texas. Each section has one plant designated to keep the frequency, sort of a "master plant" that is used to balance instant load. All of these are synchronized across the US using phaser measurement units that are timed to GPS.

The other cool thing about AC power is that you can send power based on the relative phase of a node on the grid. This means that a node at a lower AC voltage can send power to another node at a higher voltage by adjusting the relative phase. Mostly this is done by switching capacitor banks at various transmission nodes to adjust the reactive power component at that node.
They have the same phone # and vaguely similar style to: http://investment1.co/faq
JSmol: HTML5 molecule visualizer
They skirted the rules for local presence for a long time too. They had an engineering office in California, but were not charging sales tax. The office was a wholly owned subsidiary
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To be pedantic: deployed it a an external service, not necessarily a public service (I suppose to a legal entity that would not normally share license rights, such as an inividual not part of the organisation or to another organisation). Those external users would have to be given an option to access the full source with modifications.

As for the "part of a web service"-bit, I'm not sure what the agpl's actual "reach" is. My understanding is that with a (modified) db under agpl powering eg a web app runing in php, the end users (accessing only the web server) would not be entitled to the db source. If the agpl covered the web srrver itself or a php library on the other hand, the users would be entitled to that code?

Similarly if one sold a modified db-as-a-service, modifications would be covered by the agpl.
unless i'm missing something, the idea is to hand over all of your personal information to two college kids with internet access?
1. Reorder stuff for me on instacart (would have taken 2 minutes), 2. Lookup a URL for me, 3. Lookup 10 quotes. Last one could be called "iffy," but this was after texting them asking for parameters to which they responded "as long as it's legal, we're in beta now so anything goes." (paraphrase) Again, not here to trash these guys / gals, but...
This 64-bit version of Olldbg is in the works

http://ollydbg.de/odbg64.html
Don't miss a chance to taste raw coconut water, it is awesome. None of these packaged stuff (at least the ones I've tried) is anything close to the raw one.

Drinking out of clay cups - that tastes even better than steel :)
This looks great! I tinkered with building a similar service-oriented bot, using ZeroMQ for communication (though not very robust as it would block for responses IIRC); http://demonastery.org/2012/07/building-a-decoupled-irc-bot-...
Ask HN: Why aren't there any families with a trillion dollars in assets?
If you graphed out family fortunes, it would resemble a power law function (similar to monthly website hits). But I'm wondering why none go higher than the $100-$200 billion range. Is it because Western society hasn't been stable for a long enough period of time?
This was published 18 months ago.

A subsequent publication[0][1] argues that their notion of "negative temperatures" is invalid as they used a flawed definition of entropy.

[0] http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?cites=41283096248189415...

[1] http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/theo1/hanggi/Dunkel_Nature...
I looked into the market trend question, and it looks like YC Series A is trending up significantly faster than the market as a whole.

Graph: https://twitter.com/DanielleMorrill/status/49357608066654208...
To save a single page - yes (to be precise, it simulates key presses and does not rely on any mouse action). The saving of the web page part is actually handled by another script I wrote few days back (https://github.com/abiyani/automate-save-page-as), and it was the only option I could find to automate saving a page (as rendered by the chrome). I will be very happy to learn of any other alternative for this task.

This particular script (orkut-community-downloader) uses "automate-save-page-as" script to download every single page, and therefore contain the (simple) logic for navigating through all the posts, polls, and later on changing the links to point to local copy, symlinking stuff to save space, and providing support for "resuming" the download operation.

Do you mind sharing what bugs you are facing (and which platform you are testing on), so I can try and fix them ? If HN comments doesn't seem a fit place, then feel free to email me (ID: <username>@gmail.com).
Economic benefits of being beautiful
great points. happy to take this approach on future posts and would love to collaborate in the future.
Definitely agree with the auto carousel. Not a fan of things disappearing when I'm halfway through reading them.
Number theory is an extremely broad field in itself. I'm pretty sure most of it is completely irrelevant to the NSA. If you do a PhD in any theoretical field you'll almost never find a job outside of academia that uses any of your work.
Thanks. I had no idea the other poster was a troll with multiple sock-puppet accounts.

I really appreciate the amount of detail in your reply. In all honesty, I severely underestimated the level of top-down editorial control on HN from the early days. I had thought that it was basically just PG, that he was too busy to deal with this kind of thing and that the type of discussion was due to the user base having come mostly from his essays. I have been lucky with the much smaller communities on my own websites over the years in that there were relatively few bad apples and only one sock puppet that I knew of.

I must admit, it is very difficult for me not to dislike "softer" forms of suppression even more so than outright removal of posts. This may be due to how I have seen media manipulation manifested living abroad for most my adult life. I sincerely apologize if I've mistaken comments by the OP to mean something other than they did. Once again thanks for the transparency.
In case you miss it, like I did, the header image is an animated infographic. Press the play button on the left.
So you're conveniently ignoring GSM?

Or claiming that the information released by the manufacturer, or the limited information released under subpoena is all just "bullshit"?

Because it's entirely impossible that a carrier has given keys to the manufacturer "for authorized legal purposes only"?

3.3 is pretty much irrelevant if you consider that even as a simple statement of purpose, the Stingray -at least- has to relay the raw traffic.
The sanctions are not meant to get rid of Putin, and they could not. The sanctions are meant to put price tag on Putin's most egregious actions. Of course, if you view it as "denying Putin access to Linux tech support", it sounds stupid, but obviously it is much broader than that, RH is just one very tiny piece here. The idea is to make certain actions costly for Russia as a state and for Russia ruling clique, and thus to reduce motivation for actions that cause sanctions. Is it going to work? It depends on the original level of motivation, either it was high enough so Putin decides it is worth the cost, or not. In any case, rising of the price would make it less likely.

Deposing Putin is pretty much out of the question, the US has neither will nor means to do it, and in any case with 80% popular support (even if those figures are inflated the popular support are extremely high) it would do no good to anybody. Management and containment remains only option, and sanctions are how the containment is done.
I am not sure about the authentication protocol. But along the same lines of thinking, it really seems like this should be detectable with software. For example, what if you used crowd sourced cell tower information to notify users / block transmissions from any cell phone tower newly detected for 24 hours or so. It seems like a temporary tower setup for a few hours should be easily noticeable compared against static, permanent ones.

Also, judging by how ridiculously hard the company who makes them is trying to keep them hidden (NDA's, etc.), it seems like they may realize that if the details of the product were known it could be easily circumvented.
Do you have a link to CloudFlare geo-DNS? I have multiple servers in multiple parts of the world, and didn't know that Cloudflare supported that.
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Beane turned down the offer, but Theo Epstein (then Sox GM) employed many of Beane's tactics. I suspect the reason he found more success than Beane is because the Red Sox have a payroll over three times larger than that of the A's.

And of course, Big Papi's 8 walk off hits in the 04 playoffs, and the pitching in 08 and 13, certainly did not hurt.

Source: Die hard Sox fan
In the book Moneyball, Billy is quoted as saying "My sh*t doesn't work in the playoffs."
That's good news. If they offer X processing for the same price and demand doubles that means revenue doubles. If they get 2x supply for current 1x price then they just made more profit.

Just because computing gets cheaper doesn't mean they have to offer it for cheaper. It's likely competition will force the price down, but the point the parent is making is that the price of service doesn't have to come down as fast as the cost of service does. That would imply more profit without raising prices, merely holding them steady while costs go down.
Given how much time has passed since introduction of the sanctions, it is impossible to say now if they are effective or not. Sanctions do not work overnight.
I don't think you would even need to use the signal strength. You could just flag / block cell towers which are newly detected (say 24-48 hours). Crowd sourcing seems pretty perfect for this, and it's not like new cell phone towers are erected that frequently.
Ask HN: Why do people bid early on eBay?
Lately I’m seeing people get into bidding wars on my eBay auctions (popular, high-priced things like Apple products) within the first day of a 7-day auction (no "Buy It Now" or reserve price). It's driving me crazy trying to understand the rationale driving the behavior when “sniping” is pretty much always better for the buyer.

So far, I'm thinking it could be one of three things:

1. People think eBay works like a traditional English auction where it ends after a period of bidding inactivity. If so, they are mistakenly hoping no one else sees the auction for a while and that they'll somehow win before the auction's end date.

2. People are using a "shotgun" approach, bidding (low) on a large number of similar items, and not really tracking any one auction closely. They're hoping to win something if they bid in enough auctions.

3. People think eBay is small and that no one else will see these popular items before the auction ends.

#1 doesn't seem very likely since many of these people have high feedback scores and are presumably familiar with eBay.

#2 seems more likely, but is a bit disturbing because it indicates these people are probably committed in their bids to purchasing much more than their budget would allow. Fortunately, they probably win so rarely that they aren't on the line for too much, but it could be dangerous if they win many of the same/similar items (why eBay doesn't allow sellers to target only buyers who have the funds available via PayPal is beyond me - I've been stuck with non-paying buyers on eBay on numerous occasions and it's really annoying).

#3 would still be irrational - that is, even in a limited market, it'd be advantageous to wait and bid late.

Any insights here? Is there a good reason for this behavior, or should we just assume that these people are... lacking in intelligence (trying to rule that out as an option)?
Part of the problem with this study is the same as that seen in most studies in exercise science -- they only study untrained participants and last, say, 10 weeks (or 8, in this case) And then there are the tiny tiny sample sizes (14 individuals??). The fact is, doing almost anything is better than doing nothing. That's good news for the people who do nothing, I guess, because you can literally start parking two blocks from work every day and start seeing improvement.

But because of this novice effect, we don't really get a sense from the studies what the actual optimal ways of exercising are. It's after that initial period (say, 10 weeks) of going from doing nothing to doing something that you start to hit plateaus and have difficulty improving. This is the point where the difference between various forms of exercise would start to become clear, and yet that's when studies always stop.

Is doing 3 sets of 5 better than 5 sets of 5? Is HIIT better than long, slow distance for cardiovascular conditioning? We have lots of anecdotal evidence of how to improve physical conditioning past the initial novice period, but very little in the way of rigorous studies. So for now and the foreseeable future, if we are to decide what to do once doing literally anything is no longer enough to make improvements, we'll just have to rely on "bro science" and the experience of various coaches who see a lot of trainees to decide how best to exercise.
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There actually is, if by Russia you mean Russian government. Support to "Novorossiya" simply can't achieve anything, perhaps only help it last a little bit longer. When Russia wanted to change the status quo it had legal excuses and it acted openly and forcibly. Half-measures take you nowhere.
It wasn't a marketing suggestion. If an existing community (even a small one with hundreds of users) promotes the plugin, you will get feedback about requirements and feature enhancements. This is a necessary precursor to finding 100K users. Even Facebook started in a limited school environment.

These "second screen" or "third voice" apps require people to be (a) trained on the tool, (b) have a common set of target objects that they want to talk about. You could start off simple by looking for a small community of people who:

(a) use chrome

(b) regularly visit multiple (5-10) sites related to their primary site

(c) currently talk about the secondary sites using their primary site

(d) see value in having their existing conversations appear in-context on the secondary sites

The plugin may have business applications for proof-reading.
Most contract law systems include the notion of force majeure, which significantly limits the liability for breach of contract in such circumstances. Government sanctions is a common example of force majeure.
Was it cold? Coconut juice tastes a lot better when it's ice cold IMO.
You open by claiming that you are being downvoted because you are such a free-thinking maverick that you lost the popularity contest with the stodgy conservatives at HN instead being due to any shortcomings in your argument. That's adorable.

Your second paragraph sticks with the same nonsense as your previous post i.e. investors are smarter than us so they have to be right.

Now you try some new stuff so thanks for that. You made a good example of Amazon but since I already claimed that strong CEOs can resist short-term investor pressures and Bezos clearly falls into this category I invalidated this argument before you even wrote it down. It makes me think you aren't really paying attention.

I am not sure what point you are trying to make with the next paragraph but whatever it is there is not enough information there to draw any sort of conclusion. Stocks tank for many reasons including bad luck so one tale of a data point isn't useful.

Your last paragraph is well done. Unlike your other points it took a little thought to deduce why it is incorrect. I do believe there are many overvalued stocks but I am not going to short them. Bubbles can live a very, very long time and shorting them is a bet on when the bubble will pop, not on how big the bubble is, and I claim no special insight or information on the exact time any particular ponzi pyramid will inevitably implode.

Much improved: 2/10 (earned in the last paragraph only.)
Here's to hoping that history is only rhyming.

I do get the feeling that Putin is a bit smarter and a bit less insane, but I would be hesitant to bet on it. The apparent concentration of power in one individual makes Russia scary as hell at the same time as being very brittle.
I am using Amazon S3 to host static files (CSS, Images and Javascript). I use a few gigabytes per month spread out over multiple blogs and websites, I pay around 60 cents per month (AUD), the highest it ever was is a couple of dollars ($2.50 AUD) because someone ran a scraping script on one of my sites and downloaded a few images.

It would be interesting in seeing if any competitor offerings are just as cheap, if not cheaper. I'm paying less than a litre of petrol per month for my image/asset hosting at present.
You sound like you're just having some sort of pointless thought experiment. We don't know if exercise will extend ones life. It might reduce, increase or have no effect on our life span. We simply don't know. What we really need to figure out is how to better measure changes in our bodies. What's going on in our cells, for example? How can we better measure everything about our bodies?
Only if Russian law would somehow exclude the notion of force majeure (which it does not) or Russian courts would decide to make political decisions (which they definitely could and routinely do). In the latter case, American companies would have to seriously think if the profitability of the business in Russia is enough to warrant the enforcement risks due to political courts.
What you are talking about takes more than ten thousand years.
this reminds me of Vagrant Story puzzles where you have to move box crates into the right places.
This doesn't seem all that crazy to me. The Wikipedia article says that the left side of his face is paralyzed because the corresponding nerves are destroyed. The left side of his face may not wrinkle because the muscles do not contract. This is similar to the mechanism of Botox, which interferes with nerve terminals at the injection site.

EDIT: Also, one of the symptoms of Bell's palsy, which is a form of paralysis of the cranial nerves, is fewer wrinkles on the affected side of the face.
We can't spell either.
I don't know about that. #4 and #5 starters are very important for a team's season-wide performance. But in the playoffs, these players see very little action.
I'm not sure I agree with this. At least in comparison to other pro sports, the MLB playoffs seem to be the most representative of actual talent. The early rounds are 5-game series, and the best teams are playing the worst teams, so you would expect a low sample size is needed to determine the "best" team. In the later rounds, when teams are much more closely matched in talent, the series last 7-games. I haven't done the math on this (would anyone care to?), but I surmise that the statistical power of a 7-game series, spread over 10-14 days, is far higher than that of say, NFL playoffs, where the sample size is 1. This is not even considering the fact that each game has 200+ separate pitches from which to derive success or failure, as opposed to ~100 plays per NFL game.

Baseball has 162 games, which is twice as many as the NBA and NHL, and ten times as many as the NFL. It also has more independent events (pitches) per game than any of those sports. Of all the major sports, it seems baseball is the "fairest" in terms of representing talent, by the simple fact that it requires orders of magnitude more successes of independent events to win the World Series.
I really liked your write-up. As natch mentioned, it will be great to include more details in the article. I like the detail level of Digital Ocean articles.

It seems based on my recent trial experience with CloudFlare that both CDN startups might have this issue of incomplete/insufficient instructions and information for their users/customers to properly implement the solution and lot of assumptions about the skill level of users implementing the solution.

Actually, I landed up providing detailed instructions to CloudFlare on configuration and testing of their service. And a list of questions, answers to which should be readily available if CF is targeting enterprise customers.
"We hear dat... you have 'split banana'. Could we, eh... ice cream shop, yes?"
If we really wanted to affect Putin, we need to be really nice to Turkey, then cut Russia a trade deal.
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Cool, I've thought about something like this for ages, but lazy always prevails. The only thing I don't really agree with is:

"Let’s face it. One major problem with embedded web comments is that everyone is invited to participate. They’re too open.

The WORDS community, on the other hand, is necessarily comprised of people who (a) use Chrome and (b) desire a better commenting experience. Why else would they have installed WORDS?"

That's true for now, but any system that gains any amount of steam will inevitably pick up trolls, flamers, and generally idiotic people. You can't stop it from happening. And I don't know that anyone has ever found a good solution for it. In fact, the whole 'Top Comments' and up/down-voting thing most third-party comment widgets employ is literally to combat that problem, in the hopes that garbage falls to the bottom. It obviously doesn't work perfectly and I do still agree on the whole with your assertion of it being overall detrimental to good discussion.

Anyway, I'm guess I'm mostly curious if you have plans for the future of if/when the extension gets more popular and you do start finding discussions bogged down by trolls/spammers/etc and what ways you'd try and combat such things when you have 100k+ users or whatever.
I've bid early in the past when the bid itself was rather high compared to he item value (helping to ensure the purchase) when I've come across an auction without BuyItNow enabled.

This is due to 1) personal need for the item,
2)the threat of being unable to access the computer or auction at the auction end time, 3) the lack of effort towards setting up an automation of some sort to do it for me.

Sniping is better for the buyer, I agree. The effect is just too small on certain low cost items for me to give a damn.
An excellent book called Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? by Alex Hutchinson discussed that research and more recent research that followed up on it. Basically the gains from those two types of training come from improving different pathways, which explains why both sprinters and distance athletes tend to get the best results from incorporating both types of training in their regimens.
Startup Weekend is designed to spark someones interest in entrepreneurship. You aren't expected to walk away with much else besides the experience.

They got me interested in entrepreneurship.

I won one, made a very very small amount of money with the business I won with. Shut it down after 1.5 years.

I am pretty grateful to Startup Weekend for getting me... errr.. started. I encourage anybody who is interested in starting a tech business to attend one.
Have you looked at ZeroMQ pub-sub yet? It has a flag for non-blocking publish.

Also thanks!
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How do you know there aren't any families with a trillion dollars in assets? Wikipedia? ;)