skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it's a puzzle, it must be solved."

I agree with you. I love solving puzzles, that's why I'm an engineer. But I had to balance solving this puzzle with the ongoing puzzle of maintaining domestic harmony. My then-pregnant-wife insisted I get the system working properly ASAP. The best way to do that was to reinstall the Honeywell -- the system worked properly within 15 minutes. As life circumstances dictated that I was away from home for most of the time -- and we moved a couple of months later, the best solution was to get a refund.

Did I have some wiring wrong? Most likely.

Not to beat my credentials against my chest, or to imply that they mean that I could not have possibly made an error... I have engineering degrees and have done a lot of instrumentation system design work. Figuring out how to wire up strange sensors to an existing system is something I do all the time. If I had this kind of difficulty, what kinds of problems are ordinary people having? Or maybe it just reinforces the aircraft industry joke that "you shouldn't let engineers touch tools, they'll break something".
You sound like a SOAP apologist. REST succeeded precisely because it was approachable by the cowboy coder.
I wasn't willing to pay more money for a professional service call. I was hot and angry and frustrated. I de-installed the units and hooked up the old Honeywells.
I don't know about NES, but at least with the N64, I swear by blowing into the cartridge. Works at least 75% of the time, and the other 25% by wiggling the cartridge a bit in the hopes of getting it to reseat better.
And Gearman.
You do realize that Mozilla does not actually get 1M/day from Google right now.. right?
It depends on the user's risk/benefit model.

There are WebKit-based browsers far lighter and faster than Firefox. Chrome, Firefox in Linux, and the Tor browser provide better security. Isolating browsers in separate VMs or Qubes AppVMs provides even better security.
If there's a fire, your insurance company will likely be able to escape issuing a payout if they discover you knowingly brought about a fire code violation.
ES6 Basics
There are 1 gig 48 port switches on Cumulus's HCL, they're around $2500 and $700/yr for Cumulus support. Unlike Cisco or Juniper, you must maintain support in order to continue using the product (legally). I can't imagine getting enough utility from a switch for this to make sense for home use.

It is substantially better pricing than list for comparable Juniper / Cisco / etc. equipment. However, Cumulus has no truly low end 1 gig switch (single power supply, limited L3 capability), and you can absolutely negotiate Juniper / Cisco / etc. down to be close to or even below the pricing of the Cumulus solution. That is tougher for 10 gig or 40 gig equipment, which is where the value proposition kicks in for Cumulus.

Maybe Cumulus's approach is enough of a value add for it to make sense to pay a premium, but everyone I talk to is interested in cost savings first and better manageability a distant second. You'll still have to have Juniper / Cisco / etc. in your life to an extent, Cumulus doesn't do routers and they don't have a full range of switch models.
Section 4 is bloody hilarious and clever.
A bunch of adware reinstall it actually, because they get money from Google for that. On a clean system its pretty simple to uninstall.
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion, not my employer's. Not representing my employer, read the links for yourself. I work at Google, not on Chrome.)

> The value they get from knowing everything you do online?

This is a myth. Or less politely, a lie you have been told.

https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/browser/privacy/ is very clear about exactly when chrome reports back data, including what happens when you sign in. It does not report your online activity in ways different from other web browsers. It sends just about the minimum possible to implement the features it provides.
Right, and then it's far less likely to be there when you need it in an actual fire.
Fine. You win. I am happy that even if you were a tenth of the programmer that I am[1], you would still be an employer's top pick over me. I am grateful to the two organizations (with $11B and $32B endowments) for the fact that, on top of the above, they provide you with a free way[2] to make yourself even more employable over me.

Oh, and right, the endowments are earmarked for other purposes as has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, so I am also glad that none of the donors cared about making the educational material accessible to people with disabilities, and that the staff of those two organizations catered to the donors.

On an even more tangential note, let's not forget to praise the lack of social stigma against the use of expressions like "petulant children" in a thread discussing people who are trying to use legal means to prevent discrimination and giving even more advantage to the already advantaged. The comment of yours would have been unimaginable if it had been about racial minorities expressing the same sentiment. But feel free to dismiss my reply as being from a throwaway account, which I am using because I have time and time again encountered the sentiment "Oh... You are deaf. I thought you were smart" or words to that effect when people learned that I am deaf from my main Web identity.

[1] Looking at your GitHub page, you probably aren't. But, for just one example, consider that you have most likely run some of my code when using Python (I have contributed to the base CPython implementation). I am not employed, and hearing people right out of school who are seeing Python for the first time in their lives are employed by the dozen..

[2] Watching lectures and learning from them — a way that is completely inaccessible to me since I can't even pay for someone to transcribe the lectures.
I have a Nest thermostat and s Nest Protect. I'm s big fan of both. The Nest Protect has not been buggy for me. It has done the one thing I bought it for--not give us false alarms from the shower down the hall. Out previous smoke alarm would go off all the time from steam, but the Nest Protect hasn't. As the video shows, maybe we are just lucky!
Ah, the old "incremental improvements" canard.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/16/creation-myth
You're right, so the informed customer is likely to avoid both Google (and other large companies where the product/service isn't the core business) as well as startups.

It's unfortunate for startups, but also a reality. For large businesses, they can mitigate this effect over time by sticking by anything that they launch and seeing it through. Microsoft did that to an extent beyond what anyone expected when it came to Zune, for example. Google has developed a reputation for doing exactly the opposite. In fact, with Google Wallet they're shutting down pretty much the most compelling payments service for digital goods that the web has seen. Why? They never promoted it properly, and as a result web developers generally don't even know it exists.
This is useful for us.

We've been using containers rather heavily in our infrastructure for a few years now (neither rocket, nor docker) and we've developed our own toolset to handle the container images, and to manage the containers.

Even though although it kind of deprecates a lot of our work, I really see the value in having a standard that can be used with different container runtimes, and I'll be looking at migrating our internal format to the app container specs. Having tools like this to handle migrations makes a lot of sense to me. We can continue developing our tools, without marrying a specific backend.
this comment is sadly very accurate ;)
The worse part IMO is that companies indeed play on that effect, and people, even smart techies will always fall for the new cool.

We have such a tendency to have to follow trends in groups.. its a little scary at times.
I assume he means the product doesn't get a second chance to make a consumer impression because any sane person will abandons the product after a mishap like this.
And protobuf.

No, wait, that was someone else.

:-)
to be a little more fair safari made webkit possible (and thus chrome)..
I think you might want a new classification approach.
Apple is not a software house? They produce two OS's with development tooling and applications, they run some of the largest online services on the Internet, and they just released their own new programming language. What would a software house look like?
No, these are compatible statements. They both try to poach, and Tesla can be having more luck at it.
I'd be inclined to keep the minimum required complement of cheap detectors around, for just that reason.
They weren't in their wheelhouse when they went into phones, either.
We don't need to pipe water far, smaller plants can be setup around communities that need the water. Much of the energy can be generated from solar.
Is it? A lot of free services manage to survive without so-called dark patterns. Frankly, I'd be more likely to pay for a subscription if I trusted them.
In other news, talented hacker Brad Fitzpatrick now available for hire.
The video looked like a preview for a new game where you run around Hogwarts collecting smoke alarms in a bucket.
"Our lawyers refused to accept the liability involved in us shipping a product that actually obeys your wishes, because we must assume that you are a moron who will indicate the wrong thing and then sue us."
It works -- but what you're really doing is fixing an intermittent electrical connection by introducing moisture. Over the long term that's a recipe for corrosion.
Depends on the behavior you want. With smudge/clean filters, the files in the repository history are encrypted. That means you don't get the benefit of delta encoding, and any tools you have that look directly at the repository (such as gitk or anything based on libgit2) cannot operate on the cleartext data.

On the other hand, git-remote-gcrypt (https://github.com/joeyh/git-remote-gcrypt/) encrypts when pushing and decrypts when pulling, which leaves the local repository unencrypted but keeps it encrypted on the untrusted remote server.
I'm excited to see Elon Musk vs Apple. grabs popcorn
I posted a link to the citation in the root comment of this thread.
The Mac was not an imitation Alto. Xerox tried and failed subsequently to commercialize the Alto. The iPod was not an imitation Diamond Rio; the iPod could fit in your pocket and hold most people's entire music collection, rather than a few dozen songs. IPhones are not Blackberries; the latter were black & white email centric keyboard centric non-touch business centric devices with modest compute and consumer media features and no comparable app & music ecosystem. iPads are not Microsoft Tablet PC's. Microsoft has launched generations of tablets going back to the late 80's/early 90's, none of which were very successful.
Thats because natural language is ambiguous. Even simple sentences like " I saw a man on the hill with a telescope" have multiple meanings.

This isn't solved by magic, but pure statistics. Try and ask your friends who has the telescope in the previous sentence and some will say the man and some will say "I". Without context we can't tell, but we can judge which one is more likely given who had the item in previous sentences of similar structure (the prior). Then usually we also have some context.

Now we can add context: "I got a telescope for my birthday and was eager to use it. The next day I saw a man on the hill with my telescope". Now most people would expect the speaker to be looking through the telescope, but the man might have stolen it and taken it to the hill. Even humans have to guess.
This article kind of comes at a perfect time for me. I just recently started working on a project with a code editor and I've been battling for a while how to communicate changes through react.

I plan to use ace, and require the ability to get and apply patches as the user types into the ace editor, get code when they need to compile, as well as be able to modify other properties of the editor.

At the most complex level, I need to keep two ace editors in-sync, doing this with cure javascript and ace is simple, as you just need to apply a patch from one editor to the other.

Building large and complex applications has always been the big problem for me with React, and the author states it right up front

we ran into issues finding examples of how React could
apply to an application as complex as ours, given that
most tutorials focus on the specifics of toy-sized demo
apps as opposed to more general discussions of the
problems specific to larger applications.

This is just something that is going to take time though.
Note that it still uses way more ram than firefox regardless.
in firefox right now.. ive 4 tabs open and been using it for 2 hours.. 246megs used.
I just started chromium 42.. open hacker news and theverge.. boom already at 311megs.(thats measured with about:memory)

Another funny thing is that chromium "measures" ff memory but measures it as more than the OS or Firefox itself. Not too sure whats going on there, albeit its still lower
If anyone would like to give feedback on how addons are working with e10s (multiprocess) enabled on Nightly, have a look here: http://arewee10syet.com/

There are bugs in progress linked from this tracking site, and so, for example, if you want to help test Greasemonkey or Vimperator or whatever, search down the page, go to the bug, and see if there's something useful you can add to the comments in bugzilla.mozilla.org.

If you're willing to do some testing and go back and forth with developers a bit, it can be really helpful!
$20 billion is s drop in the bucket. The developed countries have pledged $100 billion by 2020 for climate mitigation. Why not spend it on this?
The same problems exist in Firefox, too - I open a private browsing tab when I need to access my work Google Apps account when I'm logged into my personal Gmail account. Google's multiple-account login system is just totally broken, it would be less frustrating if they didn't offer it at all.
It seems like the majority of people who had problems with the Nest Thermostat in these comments had it hooked up to a heat pump system.

Mine is a first-gen, bought the instant they were available to the public, and it's been rock-solid for the past 3+ years. However, I only have a standard central air and central heat (gas furnace) setup here in Texas. Nothing complicated.

I've been debating the Protects myself, the battery operated ones.
I'll be sharing more but not yet. Still gathering information.
Some do. Many others also use the photoelectric smoke sensor that Protect does, and some use both. The photoelectric type is better at detecting smoldering fires. The ionization (radioactive) type is better for detecting flames. Perhaps with a temperature sensor in the Protect, they thought they were covering their bases.
And despite me silencing the master bedroom one, the other four didn't shut off. That's my major complaint.
sendfile is also not necessarily zero-copy: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=25560...
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st... (sendfile calls splice; the splice manpage also states that it might copy instead of move pages.)

That said, it equates to a single kernel-to-kernel copy instead of a kernel-to-userspace plus a userspace-to-kernel copy as in the read/write case.
People tend to overlook the necessity of feeding the fish. So your resource chain goes fish food -> fish -> waste (nitrites) -> plants -> human food. Applying nitrites directly to the plants would be more efficient.
>>> If you use C or C++ and genuinely don't care about performance you performed a premature optimisation in the choice of these languages. Any JVM language would be suit your needs better in some way.

>> That is a surprising statement, especially since you don't necessarily have any idea what my needs are.

> Look we've probably exhausted this discussion and are talking past each other,

I agree, it's petered out.

> but I do want to point out that this is a simple misunderstanding.

> I meant "you" in the sense of the archaic english "one" "If one uses C or C++ and one does not care about performance one has performed a premature optimisation."

I prefer "you" over "one." And, for the record, I didn't take it as an insult. But I find it odd to believe that the only reason anybody would use C++ is for performance. That there couldn't possibly be another use case (or if there were, it would be incredibly rare). I guess the only reason somebody would pick Python would be a strange obsession with whitespace? And Java's only for people who like checked exceptions?
Okay, fair enough. Thank you.
No, I totally agree with cgusto. Building a vehicle manufacturing base is a mammoth undertaking. Tesla's been at it for 12 years and is only now putting out 35,000 cars a year. It really doesn't make that much difference how much money you start off with; that was never Tesla's obstacle. Elon has said as much on more than one occasion, that they're spending money as fast as they can and the only real limit is the amount of work that can feasibly be done per unit time.

Apple may have almost $200 billion but where would they get the batteries, to focus on just one aspect of it? Tesla found there literally wasn't enough battery supply and decided to build the largest battery factory in the world from scratch to provide what they needed, and it's been in planning for years and won't be ready for a few years to come. And again, money isn't the blocking issue. It would be laughable to suggest that Apple could just conjure up a comparable factory out of nowhere....it would take them just as long.

And given their penchant for overseas labor, it would take even longer. Don't even get me started on that. It's like Elon has said: importing phones in bulk is one thing; importing cars or large heavy things is wholly another. They would really have to do it in the US, which could hardly be done in secrecy. Car manufacturing plants tend to be large and obvious.

My point: maybe they'll get into it, but it won't come out of nowhere and it will certainly take a LOT of time regardless of their bank account. Tesla will be many years ahead of them for the long-term foreseeable future.
And now you know more about how to do it :)
Gravitational lensing or just large magnetic fields bending light? http://www.gizmag.com/synthetic-magnetism-stanford-photonic-...
To clarify, I don't want to run my own registry and I don't want to rely on any third party for image hosting. I just want to pull tarballs from a dumb file server. No need to run a registry for that, and no one company has a privileged position in the namespace.

It's maddening, because I love Docker-the-concept but not Docker-the-implementation nor Docker-the-ecosystem. I honestly do understand how many would find the UX of "Docker, Inc. at the center of things" to be a refreshing convenience, but to me that notion is frustrating and repellent, as much so as if Git remotes defaulted to GitHub.
Twitfox actually allows bunch of those automation, not exactly follow but fav and retweet. I would assume this is against the rules, no?
Interesting what those number might mean. I expect energy consumption to be in favor of batteries, but didn't expect that much.
Iron Mountain was a mushroom farm for 20 years, until the mushroom market crashed and the owner needed another use for his abandoned iron mine. Tandy Leather took a brief detour through consumer electronics, purchasing Radio Shack and selling the Tandy computer, before eventually going back to leather.
Investors should be harmed if they invest in enterprises that engage in criminal acts. Perhaps then there will be a bit more appetite for some ethics at the expense of a little profit.
Talking with vendors is always great -- those moments when their eyes get wide and they say "You mean you're doing that? We never intended for anyone to do that!" I had a moment like that just last week on a visit to one of our hardware vendors.
Yes, if you follow one of the links from about:crashes, you can see the crash report. If there's already a bug on file for it, click on over to bugzilla.mozilla.org and see if you may be able to help out there. If there isn't already a bug active for your specific crash signature, you can try filing one and explain what you think may have caused the crash. Specific steps to reproduce a crash are especially helpful!

Another interesting thing you can do: click through from about:crashes to your crash report. Then click the "more reports" link. You can see if your crash signature is rare or if you have one of the currently "popular" ones. If a lot of other people are crashing with that same signature, there is probably a bug and developers are probably discussing it. Again the most useful thing you can do is figuring out how to make that crash happen consistently and adding steps to reproduce it to its bug.
Only recently listened to an ep or two, I've enjoyed it!
Cars are going to dictate what technology silo you end up joining. The car that works the best as a communicationpod/office will win the next major consumer battle just as Apple won the smart phone war. This is about Google not Tesla.
Neat. Would be handy though if you could preview the text without it opening a mailto
I've had a couple of battery-operated Nest Protects in the house for the past year or so - no problems or false alarms so far (thankfully no accidental fires either).
Barbara Eden, Rosie O'Donnell strut their stuff on the runway