skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want "pieces" with similar functions to what React has then there is the very modular Mercury too:
https://github.com/Raynos/mercury
Looking at this as conventional power savings is wrong.

It's better to look at this as comfort. I just recently bought one of those 20 watt heat mats, for one specific reason: while using a computer it is impossible to keep my feet warm. Socks, boots, anything? Doesn't work. It was a huge problem while I was studying.

Since I got one, for 20 W, my feet are warm. In fact, my perception of room temperature as a whole has been massively improved. This is a lot less power usage then any type of whole room solution.
I really like the original idea of epcot - create a city as a rolling 'city of tomorrow' with rapid iteration on design - the way we approach at lot of things we're unlikely to get right the first time.

Say what you want about Walt Disney - epcot as originally envisioned would have been amazing.
When in doubt, go more granular. Think Dwarf Fortress.

Easy to say, I guess.
Christopher Alexander wrote extensively about humanistic cities in "A Timeless Way of Building", "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction" and many other books. His focus was in studying how people have built villages and cities over centuries, how patterns have emerged and how these patterns affect the daily life of the inhabitants.
Net Neutrality Under Fire: Sprint's Facebook-Only Plan
On hot water bottles: the energy spent boiling that water is likely comparable to the energy an electric blanket on low power would use.
Sorta like when people order whatever they want for lunch, because they bought high quality calorie offsets?
"Zebras don't get ulcers" by Robert Sapolsky [ http://amzn.to/1kFszdH ]
Great book on stress, it's evolutionary role and how it's screwing us up now, in the modern environment that's quite different from our evolutionary past.

"Brain Rules" by John Medina [http://amzn.to/UCgCPG]
John, a molecular biologist, looks at things such as health and cognitive development and performance of kids and adults from an evolutionary perspective.
He highlights problems with our approaches to work and study, how these are at odds with the way our brains evolved to work and what we can do about it.
Great collection of actionable advice backed up by current research. See more at http://brainrules.net/

"The world until yesterday" by Jared Diamond http://amzn.to/1AAJjNL
Great book on how "traditional" societies handle trade, war and interpersonal conflicts. Lots of thing to consider taking on board in "modern" societies - such as restorative justice.

"The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking" by Oliver Burkeman http://amzn.to/1rITiKX
Great overview of pitfalls that "positive thinking" approach brings and how one can start employing alternative ways of attaining happiness.
I wonder what happens now.

If i only have 'facebook' access, can I use their app? Their app has the browser built in right. So i could potentially just have a link in my profile to a pinboard/bookmark-like service, and see if it allows me full access.

Not really something I'd bother with but for people that want the cheapest rate possible it might be an interesting workaround
How does a DNS service fail over to a file store?
I live in southeast Alaska, where heating issues can make or break your ability to pay rent or afford a mortgage.

Most homes are heated using fuel oil. We moved into an awesome old house last summer, and we were worried about heating costs. The landlord had a heat pump installed last fall. I'm sure we would have had some $300-$500 heating bills (per month) last winter if we were using oil, but the heat pump never cost more than $150 per month.

That was a relief, because we spent one winter in a drafty house with a malfunctioning boiler system. That was not fun at all, and we moved out just because of heating costs.

I'm hoping to buy a house sometime in the next few years, and the first thing I'll do is complete a thorough heating overhaul of the house.
Yes. And that's a model that the market rejected in favor of the "dumb pipe" internet service model in the 1990s.
OK, you've convinced me. Let's end all subsidies, tax discounts, and grants to telecommunications companies.
Well... I'm not quite sure what to say about this... other than that you can't specify that convicted felons can't apply, for legal reasons. Uh, otherwise this is kinda just bizarre. A male escort service that's trying to convince me it's not a male escort service?
Kotatsu tables really are great. Some pictures here if you haven't seen them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu

Unfortunately even a cheap table in the U.S. is more expensive than it should be. There's an opportunity for someone to create kotatsu tables and things like them for the American market.
In a world where people paid the true cost of their energy usage, there wouldn't be an absolute deluge of houses built by terrible contractors with terrible insulation on the market, where the biggest, best and cheapest energy saving measures weren't put in when the house was built.

I want summer in my house during the winter. This should be an explicit goal, because you can't get there by just cranking up the heat since it doesn't deal with draughts and the like. If this were a recognized goal, then everyone would be better off in every way.
Actually, the mrt tool wasn't a problem (I had node installed from source, in my home-dir under opt from before -- working quite well with xstow. Meteor not installing from source is partly due to me running Debian stable -- I'm not surprised when bleeding edge frameworks won't compile, just a little bit disappointed ;).

I was indeed installing from source, as that is a requisite for contributing to the project (if I can't build it how could I possibly submit patches).

I have no problem with you citing any one distribution/version as supported however -- it would be madness to demand support for "everything" from an alpha source release! And I think aiming for cross-platform-distribution comparability would be wasted effort at this point.

With Vagrant from wheezy-backports, everything came up fine -- just had to(?) increase the vms ram to 512 mb for ipython notebook to work.

Now my only problem is figuring out how to get the hacker cms to publish anything (to users without login). I've understood that the cms should be stuffing files under /var/www (in my vagrant/virtualbox vm) -- so I'll have to check if "publish" pushes anything there -- and if there appear to be an nginx-instance set up to serve files from /var/www...).

As for meteor -- I have a few reservation of their architecture in general -- but my main problem is the complexity of the setup -- especially how hart it seems to be to build everything needed from source. But then again, they're not yet at 1.0, are they?

(Still seeing as how easy nodejs is to build from source, it is a shame meteor manage to somehow mangle that process...)
This video has been making the rounds. I call bullsh*t.

1. People aren't idiots. We get the idea that poor people tend to be dumb in the US because, in many cases, it's true. If you have intelligence, work ethic, and grit, in the US, you'll get out of poverty. If you lack those, you'll get into poverty. As you move into the developing world, everyone from some settings is poor. The number of smart, ambitious, curious, hard-working people is quite high.

2. Chocolate in Africa is not 2 EU. Food there is cheap. That includes chocolate.

Background: I spent a lot of time in the developing world, including several ECOWAS countries (same part of the world).
I don't know man, my pal @SkinnyPete told me http://badger.com implemented this and it turns out the whole idea of cops having to tell you if they are cops if asked is bullshit.
This all depends on the type of heating system you have, the weather where you live, whether you have a humidifier on your heating system, and the insulation level of your house.
I don't see any misunderstanding about how Pinterest works. He points out that one of the pinned photos is itself a kind of meta-Pinterest -- the "Gallery Wall" item is an article about how to arrange stuff on a wall similar to Pinterest. Nothing about clicking, nothing about the same column showing every time.

> those pictures on pinterest that you seem to think are fantasy are not fantasies, they are actual pictures of actual homes

Actually, quite a lot of pinned photos on Pinterest are from marketing materials (catalogues, Etsy, magazines, etc.). That applies to Houzz, too. Sure, there are some real homes there, including ones that have been designed by professional interior designers. But the point is that's why they are pinned there: It's what a lot of people aspire to. Not necessarily what they have.

Speaking from experience of other people's homes, people generally don't have homes like those shown in interior design magazines. Part of it is that most people simply don't have the taste -- whenever I speak to Americans about their beige homes, their wainscoatings, paneling, stained-glass windows and other reactionary cruft, they insist their love it -- and also that it's often very expensive.
https://github.com/contra/are-you-a-cop#what

> What?
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> This is satire.
Dark Data, Amber, and Attenborough
UniFi VoIP
A funny thought: this is a very obvious thing for people who follow the competitive scenes of (valid) multiplayer games. There are lots of cases where progamers get to a high level of skill after an amount of practice that absolutely would not be enough for other people. In the end it's not dark magic, they just tend to already have the right mindset (and experience from other games for example) to make the most of their practice.

An iconic example is the team (Na`Vi) that won the first big DotA2 tournament. The game was in closed beta and professional DotA1 teams got a key at different times. Navi got their key just 1 month before the tournament while other teams got theirs way before. Still, 1 month was enough to beat all other professional teams.

There's a lot of interesting things that one can learn from esports, even just from the sheer amount of data generated (dota2 has almost 10M unique monthly players).
If you want to found a city, here's a suggestion for its location. It's a crazy pipe dream but here goes: build a city next door to Sydney, Australia, on the other side of the Great Dividing Range.

Background: Sydney is a well developed city with a population of 4.5 million. It is built on a coastal basin, bounded by the Pacific ocean on the east, a mountain range (Great Dividing Range) on the west, a river/green belt on the north and national parks on the south, with expansion happening in a south-west direction. Real estate prices are high compared most other cities. To the west of the Great Dividing Range is the beginning of the flat interior of Australia. The first significant town to the west of the Great Dividing Range is Lithgow.

Running east to west, the Great Dividing range is delineated by a steep climb at the suburb of Glenbrook, and a steep descent at Mount Victoria. There is a winding highway and railway connecting these two points, so the trip from Lithgow to Sydney is slow. As the crow flies, the distance between Glenbrook and Mount Victoria is about 45km.

The plan would be to build a tunnel under the Great Dividing Range, install a high speed train in it, and cut the travel time between Sydney and the west of the range to minutes. Tunnels longer than 45km exist today, so it should be doable from a technical standpoint. The project could be paid for by the increase in land value to the west of the range.

As an aside, there are ongoing proposals for a high speed train (HST) along the eastern seaboard of Australia, linking Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane, all major cities. The seaboard is rugged and heavily populated, so some proposals have the HST to the west of the Dividing Range. A new city, to the west of the divide, could act as a junction between a north-south HST and a connection to Sydney, providing a ready made economy.
Agreed. I also wish their OO approach would be more like Go or even Ceylon; as it stands, it looks like they took a reasonable base language and merely bolted ObjC's class model onto it, with no unifying philosophy about the language as a whole.
Something I thought of coming home from a birthday dinner this afternoon:

In order to get a better idea of what the viewer is focusing on, you might consider going to a vertical gradient instead of a pointer heat-map.

Most people don't read to the bottom of the page before they start scrolling. Imagine two lines on the screen- the bottom line is the point at which the viewer will begin to scroll. The top line is the point that the viewer wants their reading area to be located. The space in between the lines is your "target" area.

As the viewer scrolls down the page, you could average their scrolling speed, and increment the intensity for that area of the heat map only when they slow their scrolling speed drastically, or go back over an area.

Just from paying attention to my own scrolling habits, I think the top line would probably be just above the horizontal center of the screen, and the bottom line would probably be about an inch down. You could do some testing to find the average line positions.
You just can't go the bathroom.
Gabriel from AdBlock here.

Here is AdBlock's response to Wladimir's post: http://blog.getadblock.com/2014/07/adblock-and-privacy.html
From a thermal energy perspective this simply isn't possible.

However, some systems do lead to this because of flaws in the the implementation. My ground heat pump, for instance, has a backup electric heat system that it will automatically, and unavoidably, utilize if it hasn't reached the target temperature within a set, relatively short period of time. So in my very well insulated home I do indeed see significant cost increases if I do temperature setbacks, as the recovery period sees more expensive/less efficient electric heat kick in, versus just incrementally using the heat pump through the day. Some fuel-based systems go to a less efficient high-heat stage in the same sort of situation.
> It is troubling to me that the Akka/Play/Sbt/Slicks of the world get obvious preferential treatment when it comes to language prioritization.

Being a member of the Play core team at Typesafe, it hasn't been my experience that Play gets preferential treatment when it comes to Scala. If you feel that this is the case then please cite concrete instances of where this has occurred.

> Compile times and sbt's incremental compilation support is an obvious example of this

I do not agree. This has been a general issue and not directly associated with Play. Play has provided some use-cases in this regard, but that is all.
To the 3+ people downvoting me, please explain how I am not adding to the conversation / why you are downvoting.

It's the law of nature, human memory is not perfect.

I can not walk down a street and instantly run facial recognition on everyone, crosslink their FB/Twitter/etc accounts, analyze their text patterns, do NLP on their attitude for recent posts (to assess likely interaction responses), find their social graph of friends, interests, recent purchases, and so on ... as is, that is something that is unique to computers. I mean, it's like you've never heard of the Chilling Effect [1] or think that it's not a big deal, is that the case?

You still have not posted your full browser history from the previous post, why not? How can I be sure you're not trying to subvert the government, HN, or my opinion if you're not fully transparent with your entire life? As you said, "The effect of any "right to privacy" is coercive ignorance. It only really benefits dishonesty and secrecy." ... So again, if knowledge is good and so is transparency, I don't understand why you haven't posted your full browsing history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect_(law)
Apparently some telcos have been burned by their Facebook data deal.

http://adage.com/article/digital/twitter-facebook-rate-telec...

"Yet the future of the deals remains unclear, particularly after Facebook has soured several operators on the arrangements. Multiple people with knowledge of the partnerships said Facebook cut the deals for subsidized data without paying a cent, often strong-arming carriers into adopting its conditions and footing the data bills.

... Three carriers with sizable global reach -- Vodafone, Telefónica and Singtel -- have staunchly resisted Facebook's advances. Several others, analysts said, are showing rising concerns over the bottom line benefits of zero-rating deals.

... Communicating zero-rating deals to subscribers proved more difficult than imagined, the former employee said. The packages free up data on Twitter, but not other websites, a source of frustration and confusion to users."
This might sound very un-enlightening, offensive or jarring to many in this forum, but I actually like my suburban living. I'll be first to admit it is selfish, wasteful to environment (I am watering my plants and grass and mowing it). But when I wanted to buy a home I wanted a home in the suburbs with trees and wide roads and cul-de-sacs and playgrounds and pool and close to work (10min, by car, 30 by bicycle). It is one of those elements that when it came time to put the money on the table I made the decision I would have probably "preached" against in a group of peers. That probably happens often (people say they want green but end up buying an SUV instead of a Prius).

This is probably sounding very wrong and boring to many people here who extol city living, enjoy the energy and vitality of the bustling city center. Public transportation, walk-able streets, stores, clubs, coffee shops, restaurants. But I would like that on vacation only for about a week or so. Then I want to go back to my boring suburban home with grass, trees an flowers around.

See, I grew up in a city and experienced that. And it was ok. But I like this better. I wonder if there is an element of that -- rejecting the places we grew up and deciding the opposite environment is better for it. I imagine a lot of people in US grew up in the suburbs and many now feel attracted to the city.
I expect A app like showme on iPad, but is for windows.
OpenSSL – EVP_EncryptInit(3)
Big Data, Data, And Governance
This was actually discussed in yesterdays Washington Post. Electricity providers/generators weren't always competitive:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/29...
Why just a $4 ad budget if it's doing so well?
A lot of it is in the DNA. Here's a study where they compared twins, some who practise music and some who didn't:

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2160625...
Dovecot Wiki
Show HN: Full Stack Entrepreneur – A Full Stack Guide To Entrepreneurship
I know of a Fortune 500 company that has a completely enterprise critical application ( and permanently assigned operator ) which is '80s DOS code.

I doubt they'll ever change it.
At the beginning of every Mixergy recording, Andrew Warner recommends that startups use Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law.
Depends: are you using a gas stove, electric stove, inductive stove, or a microwave to boil the water?
Ask HN: How much “founders stock” do I issue to myself?
I have a bootstrapped startup. I have incorporated as a C corp, and now need to issue stock to myself. What percentage of the total outstanding stock of the corporation should I issue to myself initially? There are currently no investors, but there may be in the future. Are there tax consequences I should be considering for issuing more vs. less stock to myself?
You don't need connections to reach out to startup CEOs. They are visible and you can easily find or guess their email addresses.
U* Code Purple. Cage matches for quota.
so flexible design
support event trigger and conditional trigger,
support chainable even between two element,
easy extend
DTests – Distributively run GCJ testcases on several machines
His success in Baidu and Baidu's success in general means more victims of their advertising business which is simply online fraud (of medicine and medical treatments). And most of the victims are probably less educated, poor people who are new to the internet.

For that I despise him and whoever actively takes part in Baidu's business. And the investors. This is the worst online fraud in the world because it is literally killing people.
So the algorithm is correct 70% of the time, while (later in the article) the Supreme Court reverses 65.9% of its cases?

This is not much of an improvement over always guessing "reverse".
Melon – Turn the invisible activity of your mind visible
I went through this same thought process about two years ago.

IPython's notebook allows you to easily publish results. They include all you want and need: latex, imshow and nice code with many languages. But it's not good for generating results.

Perhaps the area it lacks most in is querying variables. In QtConsole, you just type `plot(x)` and see a plot with no side effects. In the notebook on the other hand, you have to type `plot(x)` into a new cell unless you want to rerun your code again and you have to delete that cell later (otherwise you have an unreadable notebook). Plus, the default keybindings (while easy to see) are not intuitive; I don't instinctively know how to jump back a cell.
I'm curious at what you are hinting at here. Especially when you are discussing the data structure, I've not seen too much magic that an optimizing compiler can really achieve. That is, the compilers are usually more geared to help speed up the code, not so much the data.

Any good links showing otherwise?
Would you mind sharing which affiliate sites you were using?
Yo app warns Israeli citizens of missile strikes
I think the postal service isn't the best analogy. Take the case where ISP's want to put high bandwidth content providers (e.g.) in the slow lane.

I see this as the USPS equivalent of charging you by the size and weight of the package (which they do, unless you are using a flat rate envelope). The flat rate envelope being the equivalent of some "package" internet deal a la the OP.
Those networks rely on publicly owned airwaves, so the public has the right to put whatever conditions they want on those licenses.

That said, I really hate our spectrum auction system. Going forward, I would prefer use restricted unlicensed bands... I think Europe's model is better than ours too.
$5 a month for news is less than I pay for a subscription to The New York Times, but it's included for free with your hypothetical evil plan.