skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Domestic water is probably overpriced not underpriced. It's the farmers who pay way too little (often zero!) for water. This has created screwed up incentives for farmers. Many crops are worth less than the true cost of the water needed to grow them!

This is what happens when you have a system driven by politics and not the market - it's prone to lose touch with reality (actual cost/value). Unfortunately it will be very difficult to get back to prices based on actual costs - smaller number of big losers (some farmers) and lots of small winners (consumers & taxpayers) as well as tons of interlocking, inflexible regulations and subsidies (local, state & federal).
A list of Bay Area rebate programs:

http://www.bayfriendlycoalition.org/LYL-rebates.shtml

And the program most relevant to your current question:

http://www.valleywater.org/Programs/LandscapeRebateProgram.a...
YC W15 emails are out
Don't give up!
Down in AU but it's just come back up.
Ha, right as we pushed some facebook related functionality to test. No wonder the testers all thought it was down.
Sorry to hear that. Its surprising, given how many times your video was viewed and usage of your demo, I'd have thought they were interested.
The mission was insured, and it didn't cost "billions".
Thanks a lot for the tip, that theme is beautiful!. It's now my default :)
YMMV, ubuntu failed me on 3 separate laptops which ran fine with arch.
Depends on the situation.

An anonymous person contacts you - how do you get their key from a public authority? There is no impersonation attack possible in this case.

Someone claiming to be Edward Snowden contacts you today (now that he is longer anonymous) - in this case yes, the author just including their key would not necessarily be secure.
Demands a login without saying anything about what it is, or giving a privacy policy.

No thanks.
So, how will I procrastinate now? Tumblr, I guess...
It's back (Serbia, EU)
Up here, Austria / EU.
Up in NYC
Ok, thanks. That is what I am actually doing now (host it yourself). It might be nice to mention that in the documentation/article that those links shouldn't not be used on production. Currently it is definitely not the messaging that comes across.
eg. "Minified build for production: http://fb.me/react-0.12.0.min.js"
Facebook theoretically loses about $22,453 for every minute it’s down around the globe.

The average yearly programmer salary is generated about every four minutes. Neat.
This president is one of the biggest hypocrites! I can never forget him being caught saying: "I'm very good at killing people." And he's a Nobel Prize Laureate!
I wonder, just a little bit, if the [deleted] poster, "soodef_32", isn't one of the TLA sockpuppets that we've seen hinted at, the ones that just stir up arguments to make sane people abandon targeted on-line forums.
Bankers and programmers.
back up, was down for me maybe 30 minutes
> I'm surprised Google released such a minimal product in such an important domain

I'm not -- they need to have some data aggregation/presentation front-end to encourage manufacturers and source-data-feeding app vendors to integrate with the back-end. Once they do that, there'll be more incentive for more presentation front-end work (both by Google and by third-parties -- that's the whole point of an open platform.)
I had to relearn calculus because I decided to study stats after finishing my BA in psychology. I was good at Math before but now I have to relearn it.. What did I do???? JUST LEARN IT AGAIN! I listened to lectures online; read the textbook.. I really don't think there is any shortcut to this. Also I am sure you didn't forget everything. You will surely learn faster the second time around.
Their earlier blog post gives reasons for each of the API changes they made:

https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2014/10/14/introducing...
I'm excited to hear about it. http://fourbeansoup.com/ has some cool-looking apps!
At first ubuntu pretended to offer freedom of choice then silently dropped this. Not being able to choose by myself and being unable to remove a component of the ubuntu package I had no use for is one of the reason why I removed ubuntu from the dozen computers I'm sysadmin for.
Speaking of rocket anomalies - This is a video of the Chinese rocket that's considered to be the worst rocket accident ever (counting human losses)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_EnrVf9u8s
IMHO it's more consistent because the things that react has been modifying have been Elements all along (DOM Elements).

React called them components, and it's always felt like a kludge to create some thing that WAS a DOM element (boiling down to React.DOM), and then set it's "tagname" as an after-thought.

Things like prop are tied directly to the DOM Element, further suggesting that the "thing" the component was, was actually a DOM Element.

I guess it's really subjective, but I think it'll be clearer to explain to people now:

"React manages creation and rendering of dynamic/intelligent (DOM) Elements"

(bonus points for no overlap with the Web Components terminology)

But then again a lot of this is just my opinion, consistency
Good point. I totally agree that if the risk is low, we should adopt the technologies.

I was addressing how I believe these sorts of accidents will portrayed in the news and media, especially if there is an organization with an agenda behind the coverage.
http://www.biyee.net/color-science/color-vision-test/ has a pretty good test system if you are curious. It's not an all or nothing affair. I get about 50% correct on protanopia and 0% correct on deuteranopia.
I understand it is not CPA but if the views don't eventually lead to you buying something then the ad is wasted. In other words, technically all advertising is CPA.

So if you don't actually buy the advertised goods or services the ads have no value to the advertiser and they should stop using them, at least on you (and will if they are able to measure the effect).

Therefore viewing an ad for something you are not going to buy is just trying to fool the advertiser into giving money to the producer. So if you think not view ads is "stealing" from the producer then viewing them but not buying the products is "stealing" from the advertiser.
Terrible situation, but the radio chatter on the live feed is a wonderful way to learn about handling crises in a calm, collected manner. Impressive considering what's going on.
I have no real judgment about fitness apps, watches, etc., but I am curious about why so many people use them?

If one doesn't have health issues and/or not a professional athlete - why would one want to keep track of fitness so closely?

I just go out and get exercise and enjoy myself and all this fitness app stuff seems like a distraction. Plus, I really don't want to destroy expensive stuff while I'm mountain biking out here in CO just to see my heartbeat.

Is it just an obsessive hobby done out of curiosity or is there some reason I should use a fitness app instead of simply enjoying myself on my bike, hiking, etc. and focusing on that instead?

Again, nothing against those who use these apps and devices, I guess I just don't understand the obsession.
What's 'a'?
Explore a WebGL 3D model of YC made with the Matterport (YC W12) 3D camera
My water bill changes seasonally by about $5 (I live in an apartment). My electric bill (heating, AC, water heater, etc.) goes from about 1x to 5x depending on season/weather. Cable is the same every month.

But everyone learned their lesson with the old limited minute/text plans. You pay $25 a month for service with occasional bills of $500.

It wasn't your fault. A bunch of people mistyped the phone number for a content and sent you texts by mistake and you got charged for them. You probably won't have to pay, but it will take three hours on the phone to sort that out. And you're busy. And they already took the money from your account so maybe something bounced.

Or maybe you just accidentally triggered the data on your old feature phone without a plan to the tune of $100/mb.

So no one trusts the phone companies. Everyone wants unlimited because the billing systems are so broken and byzantine at least you can predict what the bill will be. It's very hard for normal people to budget accidental $500 charges for making a trivial mistake.
Yeah. Unfortunately for Mozilla, they don't have a download button on the #1 page on the web (google.com) and they dont bundle it either with any OS (Windows + IE, Mac/iOS + Safari, Android + Chrome) or software (Chrome auto installed from Flash upgrades, etc.)

So I don't know how strong the switch back would be...
I've been looking into React.js recently and I have a general question. Is it possible to use React.js with zurb foundation cleanly? It appears that it will not work well because Foundation expects to modify the state of the DOM for Foundation elements. Are there any workarounds?
It is very frustrating to me that we are dealing with such significant drought, while most of us Californians live within 100 miles of the ocean. Using that water seems like the answer. The problem with desalination is that it's an expensive solution to a sometimes problem.

http://www.wateronline.com/doc/santa-barbara-to-reboot-desal...

Santa Barbara built and then shut down an expensive desalination plant in the early 1990's. Desalination is expensive, and when water is abundant, it is more cost effective to use natural water sources than run an expensive plant. A desalination solution must be designed to be inexpensive and easily hibernated/restarted. That way, the state could effortlessly switch between whichever water supply was most abundant.
I keep customers and business contacts separate, both in my head as well as digitally. There are too many biz people to meet and you'll either go crazy trying to keep up, or it will just be a time consuming 'hobby' cataloguing all of your interactions. Those relationships are like friendships -- If you don't see someone and talk to them enough to know what's going on with them, then they aren't good contacts. Yet.
The Droid Turbo
That number seems relatively cheap for me. I guess it's a little over that if it's worldwide, no? Not to mention related values like stock prices, etc...
Facebook uses React in production (a lot) and has to migrate any code just like you would as a user of the library. Facebook is effectively always running React master.

Facebook also has members on TC39 and is quite involved with evolving the language.
Twitter fingerprint was for Laura's key. Micah's public key was already published and already signed by other known people, so Snowden was sure than only Micah can read the e-mails for Micah, unless somebody hacked Micah's computer, when all bets are off and GPG doesn't help anyway.
It's refreshing to see an article that criticizes GamerGate while still acknowledging the validity of many of its constituents' concerns (giving out specific examples) and how the hyperbole against it has only snowballed it further.

That said, the article contradicts itself in that it simultaneously tries to point out that GamerGate is nowhere near as big as it's made out to be, but also makes sweeping statements like "America is GamerGate" and makes the entire scandal sound quite grandiose.
That's a Chrome bug, though it's probably still down for you:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=424599
Whirlpool’s “Internet of Things” problem: No one wants a “smart” washing machine
But no names named :(
>>You see Google as a company that is just serving ads.
>>I see Google as a company collecting and organizing information.

You can see it however you want. The truth can be found by asking a simple question: how does Google make money? By serving ads. They may collect and organize information in the process, but ultimately they are an advertising company.

I'm on the fence about this detector. On the one hand, yes, there are significant benefits. On the other hand, the costs are also monumental. One has to cast their fanboy/hater hat aside and weigh these pros and cons carefully and objectively before making a decision.
This video seems a little better quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL5eddt-iAo
What if I'm the only person who uses data on that cell tower and there is no contention on the line at all?

Throttling when someone is causing problems for other people can be fair, but that's not what's going on. They chose an arbitrary point and applied a capricious punishment.

At the same time they were pushing people to new plans that gave them less for a much higher cost, but AT&Ts costs to provide the service have been dropping.
When you donate it goes to Mozilla Foundation while search deal money goes to Mozilla Corporation AFAIK.

That means they actually need donations for the foundation to run (but its not 800 employees so its much less money). Legally you can't fund the Foundation with the Corporation money - since that would make 2 Corporation and zero Foundation then :)

I don't know if the opposite is possible (send donations from Foundation to the Corporation) but I suspect it has the same problem/effect.
I need to give TechCrunch the credit for the number $22,453:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/03/why-is-facebook-down/
sillysaurus3 said every 4 minutes, meaning the salary would be somewhere between $80k-$90k, which is pretty reasonable.
> The number 1 way to conserve water is to eat less meat.

Sure, but that's more of a global issue than a local one, insofar as meat (and food for livestock) is shipped much further than water is.
Mine was around 10th September as well.
Control the New GoPro Hero4 with the Myo Armband
Acceleration?
This article overlook a few facts of history such as ubuntu actively trying to poach debian devs in an attempt to take over debian, or the fact that packages were out of date for 6 months and that the upgrade process from one version to the other often ended in a reinstall from scratch. Not to mention the numerous things that kept breaking (video drivers, pulseaudio and so on).
Ask any high-level language compiler implementor; they will tell you that x86's register-starvedness and anisotropic instruction encoding are huge losses. A number of high-quality Lisp implementations (e.g., T) never saw the light of day on x86 -- and never will -- because their compilers assumed a register file of at least sensible size (16 or so).

The world would have been better off if the 68k architecture had won back in the 80s.
I have no knowledge about fish farming, but the product looks promising.
Does Facebook ever do postmortems?
> If one doesn't have health issues and/or not a professional athlete - why would one want to keep track of fitness so closely?

The majority of Americans are overweight -- which is a health issue, and addressing that health issue is one of the major reasons people use fitness trackers.

> I just go out and get exercise and enjoy myself and all this fitness app stuff seems like a distraction.

Lots of people don't enjoy exercise, especially people trying to establish a pattern with it that haven't done so yet.

> Is it just an obsessive hobby done out of curiosity or is there some reason I should use a fitness app instead of simply enjoying myself on my bike, hiking, etc. and focusing on that instead?

I think you are presenting a false dichotomy.
I expected it to self desturct.

Why would it not do that? Was it to close to the ground?
>By comparison html/js/css have produced fairly good results.

Um, based on what? My browser routinely takes up gigabytes of memory just to show me 'one PDF' worth of content. Analytics scripts steal my CPU time/power that I pay for. HTML/CSS's shitty ambiguous spec without a reference implementation means that no two browsers will ever work alike. And if you're on mobile, all that means you're battery life is screwed. And um.. security?

http://secunia.com/vulnerability-review/browser_security.htm...
Yes, we will grow otherwise too. Thanks for the kind words. :)
C vs. Assembly (The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing)
We are in need of a downdetector downdetector.
Student debt? But for grant review (I have reviewed NSF proposals before), I'd say that one of the biggest challenges is that there are a lot of people chasing a rather small amount of money (in the physical sciences). I think our committee had several strong people on it for the field and even if people were not listed as having a conflict of interest, they would volunteer if they had one and tried to be fair.

However, when you have a small pot of money, you do have to think about how do you make awards. On the one hand, you do ask the question, what are the chances that this would work and if it did, would it be "transformational"? That is, it may turn out to be a loss, but if it works, then it could really advance the field--in our committee, we did try to fund those kind of proposals over incremental advances.

Now, as to the question of reputation, I'm going to have to disagree. If you're going to give someone funds, how do you gamble? If they're young, then you can just look at their idea, their resources, and some indication that they have a chance at success. However, for a more senior researcher, they do have a track record. If they've received funds in the past and haven't accomplished anything with them, then why would you keep giving them money? If someone is publishing interesting results, then other people will try to duplicate and extend them If someone's research consistently fails these tests, then their reputation will suffer.

As for domain knowledge/math skills--I have to say that I think that this is relatively useless. Do you have any feeling for how many grant applications come in (along with multiple proposers)? And you want to test them across many subfields, etc.? These people managed to get their phDs, so if they are not competent, then that should have either showed up earlier, or in their publications.

I think there's a lot of merit in judging people by their results rather than simple tests which could be gamed.
I don't think it is anything like that. It's for cases where they need to discuss something that they don't want every person with a HAM radio to hear. A discussion between an astronaut and the flight surgeon/spouse/clergy member. I'm sure the Russians have a system on ISS as well. Just having the hardware is not enough to crack into an enemies comms. It's more that they don't want stuff like that falling into the hands of a rouge state like Iran or North Korea, or a non-state actor that might have schemes of reverse engineering it to build their own system. I'd bet there is a Russian Transceiver racked up in JSC, and a DOD system racked up at Russian Space Control.
But analog media was OK, right?
I hope you got as much out of the application process as we did. It was great to fill out the application and think deeply about our company. And we also took the opportunity to practice our pitching. Overall a great experience. It was also nice to know that someone out there took the time to watch our application video. That's about as much as we could ask for.

As YC readily admits, they are often wrong. I hope they are wrong about you and your company. Good luck!
That was the most impressive part for me. It's like listening to Air Traffic control--Some of the most professional conversation even in the face of tragedy.
The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements (2013)
11:57 – A Short Virtual Reality Horror Film Made for Oculus Rift and Mobile
It's written in c.
I guess is an opportunistic encryption vs no-encryption scenario, since Snowden was sending his emails anonymously at that time there was no way for him to verify his identity to anyone. However, this was before there was any attention on him and sending his public key inside his first encrypted email would at least offer guarantees of the form: "If this connection is not MITM'ed now, it cannot become MITM'ed in the future". I suppose Snowden would know if there was indiscriminate and automatic mass-interception of GPG at the time (there might be now).

I am also not a crypto expert, but as I understand it: Micah could have also encrypted the email with the key given to him by the 'anonymous mailer', included the hash of that key as part of his message and then signed the whole message with his own key. Since Snowden trusted Micah's key, he could verify the email signature and then check that the included hash matched his own key. A MITM attacker could intercept Snowden's first email and change the key, but then Micah would have hashed the fake key and included that in his email, which the MITM couldn't alter without breaking the signature, then Snowden would have seen the wrong hash on the reply email and know of the presence of the attacker.
they were interested.. but nowadays bitcoin is an old story that might never come back
I'd say it was to close to the ground to self destruct. And there would have been a call from the Range Safety Officer in the event he ordered a destruct or the computer called a destruct.
While you can join a union as an independent contractor, independent contractors who are members of a union do not have the same bargaining rights and protections as employees who are members of a union. So here too, the classification of Uber's drivers makes a critical difference.
NASA's CRS contract with Orbital is for 8 flights for $1.9 Billion. Today's flight was supposed to be number 3 of 8.

It remains to be seen if they will be able to complete the rest of their contract. The cause of the accident will need to be investigated, changes to future vehicles may be necessary, and right now it appears as though they damaged their launch pad severely.
I have a huge problem with this change explained here: https://gist.github.com/deadlyicon/da8c020662ea8e6002dc
Surveillance Program
I don't think Antares can command itself to destruct. The destruct has to be commanded by the range. There isn't any point to issuing the destruct command unless the impact point is dangerously far from the flight path, and that wasn't the case here.
Won't give up. Feels like losing 10m.
Looks like the emails have been sent. Come one guys, keep hitting the refresh button on your inbox.

Good luck everyone!
Terminals aren't weird. It's just that they work by sending and receiving strictly characters. If you look into ASCII or Unicode, there is no Ctrl+Shift+I character, so such a thing cannot be transmitted.

That's not quite the end of the story because terminals can certainly generate special escape sequences for certain keys, depending on the terminal type. For example, although there is also no ASCII character corresponding to the arrow keys, VT-100 type terminals can transmit the arrow keys somehow, so you can use them in text editors and shells. This is because they send a special sequence instead of a single character. For instance, left arrow is actually the three characters ESC[D. You can easily see this at the Bash prompt in your xterm or Gnome terminal or whatever VT100-type console you're using. Type Ctrl-V, and then hit your left arrow key. You will see ^[[D.

In principle, your terminal could also turn Ctrl-Shift-I into some special escape sequence which an application could parse. Such a sequence just doesn't exist in the terminal protocol you are using, that is all.

Moreover, your terminal emulator application probably steals some of these combinations for itself. Shift+PgUp is commonly used for scroll back these days, and so won't be sent into the terminal session even if there exists a code for it.

The function keys have VT100 escape sequences, but some function keys are mapped already. In Gnome Terminal, F1 brings up help. But F2 sends the escape ESC[OQ escape sequence. If we go into Gnome Terminal "Edit/Keyboard Shortcuts" and remap help to some other key, we can then use F1 in the terminal: it sends the escape sequence: It is ESC[OP.
Interesting that there's no feedback. If there's a process of online application, review and automated email with a standard response then surely some simple stock answer fitting to the application wouldn't be much effort. I guess if a certain number are just rejected because of sheer volume then I can understand.