skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much the only way to exceed 100W is to be running a high end gaming laptop, while actively playing games.

A desktop equivalent(ish) quad core hyperthreaded i7-4700MQ that turbos up to 3.4ghz only has a 47W TDP, which is a worst case number, so even heavy duty number crunching isn't enough.

Even exceeding 100W, you'll still be draining the battery much more slowly than when unplugged. At 125W the battery will last 5x longer.

It's hard to imagine a real world situation where 100W would be insufficient, where the user wouldn't be very much better off using a desktop machine for gaming.
I'd argue that depends on your accent. I'll grant you that "he's" is probably a bit tricky, but I can totally see people writing "hers", stopping, looking at it, "Hm, ownership... apostrophe!".

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not greatly bothered either way; I got over my prescriptivism a while ago. I'm just curious whether the trend will continue.
It looks like only the installer for OSX is up to date.

Is Ubuntu supported? Where do Linux users other than OpenSUSE users get packages? Do they build it themselves?
Hm, their page says:

What Makes Old Compose So Unique?
Old Compose was built from scratch as opposed to other solutions which simply trick the browser into thinking you are using Internet Explorer 8.

What's the difference?

Old Compose can work... forever.
Old Compose can support all the extensions you love... forever.
Old Compose works with all the awesome new Gmail features.
Old Compose will even work with awesome products that haven't even been invented yet!
Show HN: Code documentation on GitHub with Javadoc to Markdown converter
Are you aware of any tests confirming this, or is it just anecdotal?
The universal USB connector we’ve been waiting for is almost here
Neither of those sources confirms the 'widespread issues' today.
Fun times today at work.
OR

- Hit down arrow in bottom right corner of (crappy little) compose window

- Select "Default to Full-Screen"
Wow - these are wonderful comments everyone - even the ones I don't agree with all that much. This post has had almost 4000 views since this morning - that is huge for me. The point I really want to drive home here though, is that even if you think there are "issues" with older workers, do you also believe these companies should be suppressing this data? As I said, it seems to me to be too much of a coincidence that three different tech companies would independently decide to leave this data out, unless they were hiding something. I think "transparency" is a base value among members of Hacker News, and I appreciate the support I have gotten for writing this.
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You don't have to take my word for it, download the plugin, open it with 7zip and look at the source.

All it does is change the user-agent.

When Google stops supporting IE8, it will be over, hopefully we have many years.
If you're looking for a wired solution (completely renovating my house) I just started using OpenMotics (https://www.openmotics.com).
All hardware and software is open source and its pretty damn cheap (which was a deciding factor for me).
i keep getting that decryptoblocker.exe is no an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. What gives? What am i doing wrong?
The psychological effects of Skylab: divine retribution
Honestly, I find it's bad tools. Every database lib I've worked with tried to bully you into using prepared/compiled queries or full ORM queries, but occasionally you still have to break out and smash strings together to build queries.

And when that happens? You can't help but notice that nobody provides you with a simple "EscapeSql" function you can use, so I always have to roll my own (or do horrible things with dynamically constructing the parametrized query and the parameter array in parralel).

I wouldn't be surprised if many developers just throw up their hands and skip sanitizing.
But the "team" is "Culturally Diverse"!
Disagreed. Any form of discrimination or ignorance should be challenged with more dialogue instead of less. Take whatever abhorrent ideological position you can think of and I will tell you that we should discuss it publicly, challenge it publicly, and destroy it intellectually in a public forum.

This has the advantages of:

* the person who held these thoughts outs themselves as a bigot as opposed to being a toxic agent

* a corpus of knowledge how to dispel/combat such positions is formed

* people who may be in the beginning stages of harboring such ideas are either discouraged due to strong public pushback or are helped to realize how wrong that position is
Wouldn't it be nice to allocate a small part of the IPv6 space to geographically encoded IP addresses? In other words, the address itself can be used to physically locate the destination and a route could be chosen partially according to geography. It seems like this should be less arbitrary than the routes you need to chose now. Or is it?
It's ridiculous that the police are threatening severe consequences. It's a harmless prank.
The Dense Sphere Packings book can be downloaded here:
https://code.google.com/p/flyspeck/source/browse/trunk/keple...

(for some reason the link in the flyspeck project home is dead)
Is it? As far as I can tell, only their logo is trademarked. I'd be surprised if a general term like Panamax could be trademarked.
Mostly anecdotal. It comes up on Reddit pretty often [1], for example this [2] discussion. According to this [3] article, OS X will actually warn about Chrome using too much power, though I haven't seen or heard about that personally.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/user/5HT-2a/m/machelp/search?q=Chrome+...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/2d2lim/a_thoughtwarning....

[3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2014/07/21/google-will...
The relationships between actions are so complex that "global utility" is just as blurry, maybe the ones overdosing are mostly criminals; maybe the company that creates the chemical products for the distilling process of the heavy drugs is actually owned by some guy that is going to find the cure for cancer thanks to the funds earned from his chemical company. Or maybe experiencing reality is not better than your experience on drugs. Yeah, those are very controversial statements but is mostly because it falls under the field of psychology, sociology and philosophy, which arguably are even more blurry.
I was going to say the same thing, and this quote from one of them made me laugh: "We really didn’t intend to embarrass the police."

The police did it to themselves. If they had blown it off as a waste of time and resources to investigate some prank, then they could've saved face and preserved the myth of the current "security theatre".
Dispositional mindfulness is associated with reduced implicit learning
WePay is hiring engineers and data scientists
If you play mobile games and have seen a Unity3d splash screen, then you have already used Mono. Silverlight is not Mono. Also Silverlight plugin is being displaced by the HTML5 plugin (shipping with the browser).
Wow, looks great! I don't have much interest in making a boat, but this looks like a great Kickstarter.

Also, the thrust and efficiency looks crazy good on those! At 50% it looks like 1.2kg + what looks like 30g/W, which is insane efficiency compared to multirotor motors on the market now. I'm guessing the fact that you're in water helps substantially with that, right?
I stopped using Dropbox after they hired the notorious war-criminal: Condoleezza Rice.
The issue I've had with MagSafe2 is that it's very sensitive to vertical force: If there is any tension at all on the cable and I rotate my rMBP more than 15 degrees or so around the axis between my head and the screen (say, while using it on the couch), the connector disengages. Not so if it's rotated around the vertical axis. It's not clear to me that there's any safety or durability justification for this difference, only that they wanted a connector that was much thinner along one dimension than the other.
Ouch. In that case, woe be to anyone who tries to get Cisco to replace their grey-market way-beyond-deprecated almost-definitely-not-covered-by-SmartNet Sup720 linecards in 2014. Even if TAC went for that, I imagine the turnaround time would take forever...

Btw, thanks for the link! I suspect more than a few 6500 linecards that I've seen die in years past were due to something similar, as opposed to what we'd previously assumed to be the root cause - either damage in transit or "cosmic rays" ;)
IPv6 addresses are larger, but routers only store prefixes, not full addresses. And yes, one of the design goals of IPv6 is to reduce address fragmentation, allowing the global routing table to contain fewer and shorter prefixes.

That's only achievable in the long term, though - the currently assigned IPv4 prefixes will have to coexist with the IPv6 ones for a long time.
Burning hydrogen in an internal combustion engine is extremely impractical. Low efficiency, expensive to create, hard to store.
I did not know such a thing existed. I find it rather surprising. In reading about it, though, none of the money from that tax goes to Austin, either. Additionally, if I am reading the law correctly, all businesses, incorporated or not, are subject to this.

Edit: I should also note that, as a resident of Texas, my hypothetical company would have to pay the exact same amount to various Texas tax authorities regardless of where it was incorporated.
Bittorrent sync needs to add QR code support to their desktop app so you can get the sync secrets off a device easily.

They also need a more 1-way process, something which will only forward version new files.
Why would I want my ride in a car to be fun? Safety, cleanliness, professionalism are all much higher concerns.
It is of no concern to me whether it is customary to post one's name, or not. I do not hide behind pseudonyms. Neither do I care whether people view my DDS as a positive, negative, or nothing. I post it as a matter of full disclosure of my perspective.

It is simply a matter of accountability. Antifluoridations flood the internet with patently false, misleading information, and an endless barrage of unsubstantiated claims, all while hiding behind pseudonyms. I make no claims of being an expert, and don't ask people to trust me on this issue. I simply urge them to trust the peer-reviewed science obtained from legitimate, authoritative sources, instead of junk found on antifluoridationist websites. I can provide evidence to support my claims and do not fear being held accountable to do so. Contrast this to antifluoridationists posting blatant misinformation for which they can provide no valid evidence, while hiding behind pseudonyms and insidiously attempting to steer readers to the filtered and edited nonsense on their biased little websites.

Steven D. Slott, DDS
Original paper:

http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:1749328:5/comp...
Generally, yeah. There is some ubuntu ppas but I wouldn't recommend them.

It's not too hard to build, but it does take an age on a non-ssd machine.
AWS Elastic Load Balancers are now taggable
This is awesome. Thanks! Very big application to me.
It appears academics argue much like folks on the Internet argue, just with different vocabulary and maybe a touch nicer.
PowerPC A2 (Blue Gene/Q) and POWER 8 support hardware transactional memory as well
Farewell to Asynchronous Code
Just because something directly harms the competition doesn't mean it's unethical or immoral. If it doesn't harm the stakeholders, it's fine with me. This isn't pouring waste into a river. This is going in and poaching the opponent's resources.

I also don't think it's inherently dishonest to do things like offer referral bonuses for getting the competition's drivers to join your service.

Were I an investor, where would I get the impression that they would shamelessly cheat me at the first opportunity? All they've done is improve the likelihood that the business I have invested in wins out.
Here are a few links:

http://pypy.org/tmdonate.html (Search for "haswell")

http://grokbase.com/t/python/pypy-dev/13bvt3kg70/pluggable-h...

It seems to boil down to:

* The cache size (which determines the amount of memory you can write to in a transaction before having to commit back) is insufficient, causing excessive transaction aborts.

* There is no mechanism to bypass the HTM, writing to memory within a transaction that is not rolled back. This exacerbates the small cache size, since all memory writes have a cost, not just the ones you want rolled back in the case of a transaction abort.

Interestingly, this does not bode well for HTM on a platform with many smaller cores, say a hypothetical 64 core ARM. Each core will have a tiny amount of L1 cache, severely limiting transaction size.

And many smaller cores is exactly where you'd want the benefits of HTM, since the overhead of synchronization is higher in proportion to the work each core can do.
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IPv6 addressing does sort of work that way: each RIR (regional Internet registry) has just a single prefix allocated out of the global unicast address space, instead of a whole bunch of prefixes all over the place as with IPv4. And the IPv6 address space is large enough that ISPs can be given a single huge prefix that they can grow into. Consequentially, the global IPv6 routing table should be a lot smaller than the IPv4 routing table is today.
I'm a Backblaze engineer, and we keep our one 'C' and 'C++' cross platform source tree building on three platforms every day: 1) Windows, 2) Macintosh, and 3) Debian Linux. (We also have iOS and some other future projects but I'm ommitting them from this discussion.) We use the Debian Linux binaries in our datacenter in production. The only parts that are missing are an installer and a GUI (or we could skip the GUI and let you hand edit the XML file you can already find on the Mac and Windows versions).

There are a couple of technical problems I'd like to overcome in the next 12 months and get the Linux client out there. One technical problem is how many versions and flavors of Linux to support. For example, we're going to ship binaries for Debian simply because it's the flavor we use in our own datacenter, but after than we'll need CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, probably Gentoo, others?

I'm not sure I understand the state of how others release shrink wrap Linux products in 2014? We could require customers to compile it, but that seems kind of horrid and very unlike Backblaze. If you aren't familiar with us, we are known as being friendly and easy to use. Backblaze is not a developer tool for scripting backups, you simply install Backblaze and it backs up your entire computer in order to be "easy". It was the only way we could be sure we had everything you needed. This is also why we charge a flat rate of $5/month. If we charged "per GByte" we would be accused of backing up everything to jack up our profits. :-)
OpenMotics: Open-source home automation platform
TapPath – new app from Link Bubble maker
Do quantum computers threaten global encryption systems?
I have the fastest upload available in my area (5 Mbps) and my initial backup may have taken a month or two for something to the tune of 900 GB. You certainly don't need 1 Gbps to backup remotely but 500 Kbps might not be quite enough.
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Did people actually brand them as terrorists? My knowledge of this story is an inital nytimes article when it happened and someone making a rather dramatic status about it on facebook. I am honestly baffled at how serious this seems to be for the police.
So is YC going to stop working with KPCB anytime soon?
I've never noticed a correlation in my personal life between sleep time and proximity to windows during the workday.

That said, I can definitely say that, for me at least, sitting next to a window is a huge perk. I'd probably turn down a job if I couldn't at least sit near a window, unless there was something else about the job that was absolutely killer.
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It doesn't sound so much like a culture clash to me. Sounds more like a difference in the direction each company wants to take (EV vs hydrogen).

Just because they didn't share code (since they were both doing it, it makes it a common mindset for both and not a difference in culture) and one thought the brakes should be less jerky isn't some massive difference in culture. Any complex engineering project will have many difference in opinion you can nitpick. But I saw nothing in the article that shows these differences were what led to the breakup.
Voila: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hain-ipv6-geo-addr-02

Some gotchas emerge when you start thinking about actually implementing this. How can you aggregate a city under a single prefix if it has multiple ISPs?
Westboro Baptist Church Protesting SF Tech Workers This Afternoon
along about early 2013 google/gmail changed something that they will only say no longer plays happily with the edit window widget that (at least) firefox uses (i had one javascript 'expert' tell me that gmail didn't want anyone using other than their own single-key shortcuts)

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/ymngoPD... "That one should stop working, because the new composer doesn't use a TEXTAREA for message body editor."
Open Letter to the Linux World
Fyi the torrent can be found at https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/finfisher.torrent, and the encrypted archive which possibly contains the server software (which the author has asked volunteers to help crack. See section 7.) is at finfisher/www/FinFisher/Engineers7117/FinSpy/Images/FinSpy-PC+Mobile-2012-07-12-Final.zip. That file alone makes up 31.4gb of the 38.7gb total size.
That appears to be only the case for the Firefox version. The Chrome version looks legit - the main implementation is in gmail.js inside the extension folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\fcnoahpalppomkbilmlkhiimjfmpmgpk\ on Windows).
Actually the javascript source of itself can be tested: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/delight-im/Javadoc-to-Mark...

Works well, but how is this different from JSDOC[1]?

[1]: http://usejsdoc.org/
Indeed. Unfortunate that their page says otherwise.
The Oculus Rift kickstarter seems to have been delivered on-time.
JSON RPC calls would be trivial to use from any scripting environment - python, perl, or ruby; even shell scripts would be an option with curl and such.

Okay, if someone is hardware oriented and has never stepped outside the assembly and C world, then doing it from C isn't particularly convenient - but even with such background I would assume that most embedded processor people would know one of those scripting languages just to automate stuff in their development/testing workflow.
Government wants to know if phone surveilance tech is being abused
How VCs Use Kickstarter to Kick the Tires on Hardware Startups
You sound like a true believer in DRM. Just like with DRM, a lock doesn't provide all that much security because all of the information necessary to break it is encoded in the lock.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medeco :

> As of 2008, several new methods of cracking Medeco locks has been developed by Mark Tobais and Tobias Bluzmanis and were presented at the DEF CON 2008 and HOPE 2008. A simultaneous public release of a book detailing many of the exploits, called "Open in Thirty Seconds" detailed many of the attacks discovered.

> They further detailed the ability to bump current generation Medeco M3 locks.

> Many Medeco dealers continue to make claims about the Bump and Pick proof nature of their locks, however Medeco has retracted virtually all of its own press indicating such claims.

Furthermore, this particular piece of rhetoric:

> An expert lock smith might be able to pick it in his career, once.

makes no sense. Picking a style of lock once makes the next time easier, not harder.
If diverse viewpoints helped, then we'd expect a higher proportion of companies with diverse viewpoints to be successful. If that occurred, it would be (weak) evidence in favor of the hypothesis.

In contrast, the relative scarcity of such companies is (weak) evidence against the hypothesis. That's just how probability works.
I also agree with this but do think the sample size is too small.
1. Fear - this is a problem at ALL levels of organizations. Designers don't want something out that they think doesn't look jaw dropping, product managers don't define a clear MVP and feature creep keeps piling up, management doesn't want something released unless it feels groundbreaking...
BrianW from Backblaze here. Exactly. In rough numbers, 1 hard drive always takes the same power to spin up and to cool, regardless of how big of capacity it is. Also, going from 3 TByte drives up to 6 TByte drives means we have half as many hard drives (pods) to deploy every week and so we don't need to hire as many datacenter employees to deploy and maintain pods. Basically we have a little spreadsheet (it isn't complicated, but it has 10 line items on it) that tells us whether a certain price for a hard drive is a good deal or not in the 2 year timeframe, the 3 year timeframe, and the 4 year timeframe.
New USB spec brings faster data speeds and reversible plugs
I'm not sure of any official tests, but I often keep Activity Monitor open, and I've noticed Chrome using on average 2x more CPU. Plus, that's excluding the occasional "Google Chrome Helper" that tries to use 95+% of the CPU randomly (even when the app is in the background).

Not that I'm claiming that this is proof that Safari is better than Chrome, but in my experience it uses a fraction of the CPU and gets the same job done.
Quanta Magazine, published by the Simons Fonundation, has an article on each of the four Fields Medallists and the Nevanlinna Prize winner, Subhash Khot.

Artur Avila - A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos
http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-brazilian-...

Manjul Bhargava - The Musical, Magical Number Theorist
http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-the-musical-...

Martin Hairer - In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140808-in-mathemati...

Maryam Mirzakhani - A Tenacious Explorer of Abstract Surfaces
http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-...

Subhash Khot - A Grand Vision for the Impossible
http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-grand-visi...
Apart from the fact that "geographically close" does not always coincide with "network-wise close", that's essentially the principle behind route aggregation as used by routers today.

However, applying it successfully to IPv4 is severy compromised because, due to rampant address space fragmentation during the last years, increasingly longer prefixes (i.e., smaller address blocks) have had to be assigned. IPv6's much larger address space makes it unlikely that the routing table will ever become that fragmented in the foreseeable future.
Url changed from http://gigaom.com/2014/08/11/law-students-chase-patent-troll..., which points to this.
The reflex of treating this intervention as some kind of security threat is embarrassing. I read an article at the time musing that the white flags meant something about surrender. Like a child in a cave scaring himself by whispering "boo".

The installation, by the way, reminded me of Richard Ankrom's guerrilla modification of a well-known freeway sign near downtown LA (http://www.ankrom.org/freeway_signs.html).

The artist had a sign fabricated to Caltrans specs, got a haircut and a hard hat, and did the install in broad daylight (on a weekend). It was up for over 8 years -- Caltrans noticed it after a couple of months.

Eventually it was replaced by a similar design by actual Caltrans workers.
This looks really interesting, I've done some outbound sales using Salesforce and it was pretty painful. I wonder if their name will be too close to RelateIQ, an intelligent CRM in the same market as PersistIQ.
So the real important question is: Does it finally support MVC5?
There is a 2nd edition.
Flask by Example – Part 2 – Postgres, SQLAlchemy, and Alembic – Real Python