skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I don't even have an ebook reader. I'm sure there are many scrupulous people out there who won't pirate the books, but that doesn't mean they're going to buy the hardcover either. This isn't "I'm cheap/poor, I'll wait for the paperback", this is "I physically can't display a hardcover on my Kindle, so I'll get something else."
Except for the peace prize... couldn't edit in time, damn no procast settings...
Indeed. I was expecting something a little more technical, maybe about tools like Three20 and the like until I noticed it was on wsj.
Heh. I didn't know you could do that.
Even thought the US tax code is biased towards home ownership, I would NOT purchase a home unless there is a real, real good chance that you can change jobs without having to move. Or, if it's a multi-person household, that anybody can change without moving. Otherwise, as the article says, you'll likely be trying to sell an illiquid asset in a buyers market.
I think a fair amount of early adopters who use chrome/chromium also probably use a fair amount of firefox extensions too.
I know exactly how much electricity my devices use, and I certainly don't need a meter to figure out how or what they use. I worked as an electrician, I can work out the power consumption of every device, so yes personally I know where virtually every penny of my money is going.

I also have an induction meter (IIRC accurate to ~10W, I've used ones accurate to ~1W) that cost ~$60, so I seriously don't see the value in a $200 system that can't do much more than me, a pencil and time.

I see the system as a bit dishonest when you can tell people to look at a plug and read the amperage draw and tell them to times by 110. It's especially dishonest when the majority of devices now tell the wattage due to EnergyStar requirements.
It all else fails he can always ask the customer. Just phone the sucker up and start a discussion instead of guessing what they want.
If you have taken the time to send an email, give the recipient time to read it. Do not send the email and immediately walk over or send and IM asking the same question.
I think thats true, but its true of any point in life, including before college. That said, many of the successful people I know still work with their college friends regularly, and still use those connections in a major way. I don't think this is just because they're good networkers, but rather because good colleges are conducive to networking.
The idea is to allow any online clothing merchant to be able to host their offering on the site. Currently we're only showing a small number of garments available from Amazon.com

We do however have a few plus-size shirts and one pair of pants, just search for "plus" in either of the sections.
When an "upstream" owner doesn't take patches, the usual result is that there's complete chaos and mutually incompatible forks with the same name and version information spring up.

If the upstream owner doesn't accept patches the project is hosed, regardless of how it's hosted.

The big difference with a DVCS is that those chaotic forks are public and can themselves accept patches. Developers can still pool their bug fixes, added features, etc., and perhaps the project can rise from the ashes.

If the project is hosted on a centralized VCS, all of those bug fixes and new features languish as one-off forks in private repositories. Instead of being a chaotic mess, it's moribund. You still have the same issue of having to maintain your own fork; you just don't have any help in doing so.
Yeah that's next on my list of bugs to crush. Hope to have it fixed tonight.
A book I read way back was on the Trachtenberg System. Amazon has it with ISBN-10: 0313232008 and ISBN-13: 978-0313232008, but way too expensive (I thought the one I read was paperback). Wikipedia describes it at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system

which also mentions "Vedic mathematics,"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Bharati_Krishna_Tirtha%27...
Thanks!

The idea behind the "orange thing" is to allow people to see some basic instructions right away. I'm currently trying to figure out how useful the instructions are.
I am confused by this graph. It never gets warmer than 70 in San Francisco?
The magic of dynamic pricing
Unrelated but thanks for Delayed::Job, much appreciated. -fellows rails dev
Actually, write the server side in any language at all...not just JVM languages! GWT imposes no restrictions on the server side. Using servlets does win you a nice RPC mechanism, but you could use JSON and CPython, if you prefer.
It could also be seen as a benefit. It prevents accidental double closings. However that could be solved with an "unclose last tab" feature. Firefox has that, but safari doesn't. It has an unclose last window though, but it doesn't work with tabs.
The Flash one was a lot of fun, too bad they aren't in an area I would want to relocate too. If anyone was stuck or curious about the solution my email is on my profile.
Excellent, it performs incremental downloads on subsequent backups. That's a killer feature.

I've been looking for something like this, actually--the current situation with downloading posts from Tumblr is quite unwieldy.
Same with osx. When Flash hits my browser it acts as kryptonite for my battery.
What are the chances some sort of clever metering will be built in to new, higher end houses?
Thanks. I'd prefer if it was cmd and if it just opened them all without the context menu, but way better than nothing!
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Ita erat quando hic adveni.

— How to say "It was that way when I got here." without sounding whiny.

(Ref: Garbage Perpetuation Development)
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Have you ever seen the contrails of rockets that have spiraled out? They're anything but nice and straight.
I'm really unsure of where your attitude here is coming from.

At ThoughtWorks we work with QAs constantly. It's a great relationship. There's no such thing as "QA's bugs".
That's not actually me.
Ask HN: newmogul no more?
After noticing NM being unresponsive over a month ago, I asked HN where it went:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901119

Mainly got dismissive responses that people had asked the question before and that it seemed nickb was on vacation. However, that was a previous incident and nickb came back, along with NM.

Now, NM has completely gone defunct, and there's nary a peep. Strange, since it had a fairly dedicated following, excellent submissions, and some fairly high level participants. I would not expect a site like that to just fold.

Anyone know what happened, or point me to a source?

Again, this is not the same issue that happen a couple months ago where nickb went away on vacation and came back and restored NM.
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OK, I think I fixed it - let me know on Meta or via email if there are any more problems. I also added a counter at the bottom so you can see how many times you've checked it today (EST), this week, this month, and all time.
Actually, this isn't true either. Some .NET languages require runtime libraries which are not supported on the Silverlight runtime.
It's entirely feasible that it didn't go above 70 in SF for a year. SF is not LA.

The historical data presented in the graph shows more variance.
What is the average time to recoup the cost of the meter and start actually saving money?
Thanks! I was just about to go look that up. I was certain I had seen it before. This is just another conspiracy hunt.
FD also has an effect on other projects. We just released not one, but two new device platforms for our software. There are other, interesting projects on the docket, but it's rare to get more than one day of interrupted work on them before getting another "ZOMG it's broken!" emails about the other projects.
Ditto here. I'm from Nova Scotia originally and spent the last few years in southern Ontario (Toronto and Waterloo). I never noticed my accent, though, until I lived in California.
After my parents got a prius, they noticed that their gas mileage in their other car went up as well, because they learned how to drive more efficiently. What they really needed was feedback.

This looks like it could have the same benefit.

But the name...
So far as I know, all of the draft devices were labelled as "Wireless N draft" or somesuch, I doubt all that many people were confused. Flash your devices with updated firmware and all should be good.
I don't know if the stigma is true but the UK and Australia are usually seen has having completely different levels of swearing than here in the US where we are usually limited to fuck, shit, damn, and variants on ass where the severity of that list goes from high to low.

It is usually taken that AU/UK have many more words and/or variations which would mean that common speech would have more possibilities to interject a curse word.
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And Chrome too.
This is a refreshing article.

On page 10 or thereabouts, it is noted that the line between "coder" and "programmer" was blurred and women often took on the more intellectual aspects of programming, not just data entry.

I am amazed at how little credit has been given women and how easily a male-dominated board like this "pooh-pooh's" the female contribution.

I also think the male majority on this forum does not even realize how knee-jerk their response is to this topic. And this comment will be modded down (or won't be seen).

Sigh.
Ya I thought the same thing.

Using a 14-day moving average makes it clearer. A 100-day rolling period averages out nearly all the specifics from the data.

You can change the moving average - it's in the bottom left corner of the graph.
Many many people will pay $200 dollars for the time component in your example.

You cannot read your meter as you walk around the house switching appliances.

Many (if not most) home-owners are far less aware of the power usage of common appliances than we are. They probably don't even know what a kWh is.
you know how it is, you start coding, with a photoshop template up, then by mistake you hit alt tab and go to another site, and you are so busy that you don't notice that you started copying another design.

that's what all nighters get you
Extremely likely. There are good chances that in 30 years most houses are as automated as our off-grid house on Great Barrier Island and come with power monitoring as standard.

http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2009/08/the-barrier-house.html

We plan to provide the devices today.
http://www.google.com/powermeter

hmmmm.....
Yeah, it does help if you actually read what's on the screen...
The link you give doesn't say anything about settings in the new privacy wizard failing to take effect. I set everything to "old settings", and when I went to my privacy page it had indeed kept all the old settings.

I expect people experiencing this just forgot to click one of the radio buttons or something. It would be better if the wizard defaulted to "old settings" for everything, but it really isn't that hard to use.
I agree that eyeballs + a calculator can go a long way. However, the amperage draw on the back of your power supply or device is typically worst-case (maximum) current, not average current. Similarly, EnergyStar numbers do a little better, but everyone's usage pattern is different. For instance, what is the wattage consumed by your computer? It is certainly not the summed TDP of all components in the box. It is also not the rated wattage of your power supply. For things like this that are not "dumb loads", you need a more sophisticated way of measuring power consumption.

Personally, I'm with you in preferring a different solution. I use a Kill-a-Watt (http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-... ) to measure actual average power consumption over a few days for each major device in my home. Seems to work fairly well.
> Never once while manipulating tabs in Chrome have I done something and then asked, "Now why did that happen?"

Agreed, except for Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab.
Never trust 'wizard' characters who offer help on computers. They're a species of tricksters that either purposely mislead you, like microsoft's internet connection wizard, or, when they have more experience points, cast evil spells like this one on facebook.
Accidentally how? Like you double click when you mean single? Or are you on a touch screen or some similar flaky thing?
One of them caused my pop-up blocker to reject 9 popups from the same page. I don't know what they were going to do, but just a warning.
Now that you mention it, American don't get swearing. I don't like hearing them swear either. Americans swearing never sound cheeky, charming, witty, good humoured, playful or anything like that.

I had an American friend at Uni who used to try local swearing or idioms from time to time. "Bloody deadshit!" "Ya reckon?" Relatively tame in the context (bars) he was trialing them. He could never pull it off smoothly, it always got him funny looks. The French, Arab or even Chinese could do it. It sounded fine. Not this guy.

I wonder what makes it like this.

No wonder you ban swearing in The States.

Edit: No malice intended.
From the graphic:

"When each of us posts to the group, we can choose to have it post to our own autopost destinations."
Great idea on the rotation. I just flipped my 22in. I have an Asus VH242H 24" as my main display and like it quite a bit. Just under $200.

I also use a rig of 3/4 in. natural gas pipes and some cheap VESA wall mounts that let me position my monitors however I like.
Ask HN: Review this website I built to track my weight daily
It's called a work slowdown and is an effective bargaining tool, especially when strikes are disallowed (e.g. public servants, medical practitioners).
it has been gone for some time now. looks like that community is reforming here: http://www.markenomics.com/
Poll: Have you ever "borrowed" other people's code/layout etc?
Based on that other thread, where it turned out that Indinero stole Shopify's layout and copied it, pretty much, verbatim.

I was wondering if anyone else "borrowed" things(CSS, design elements, some javascript etc) in the past?
Yes, I borrowed a few things in the past.
Nope, everything I do is original
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Here we have humans: the most ingenous and powerful species on the planet, yet they like nothing better than rubbing their bodies together and making funny noises.
I wouldn't bet on it too soon. When I was involved in the home automation industry back in the mid/late 90's it seemed like that sort of thing was imminent.

Invensys and CutlerHammer both had power-monitoring devices, electric meters and so on (I still have some CH power monitoring sensors on the main power lines at my house with a system that I put together that tracks KwH, heating oil consumption and a few other metrics).

Anyway... I haven't really seen those products move an inch in the last dozen years (other than press releases).

While I do believe that the real-time feedback is helpful, I also more strongly believe that people who really want to cut their power usage will do so by simply turning more things off or using things less. For the most part, a monthly feedback cycle isn't really THAT long. In some cases the month-long feedback loop let's you measure a more cumulative effect in dollars instead of cents.
As the homepage says, it's a clone of Jeremy Zawodny's Excel Spreadsheet (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006851.html) I've been using to help me lose weight.

I built it mostly to learn App Engine and how to use a non relational Database (though I didn't end up doing any hardcore DB stuff).

Bajar de Peso, according to Google Translate, means "Lost Weight". The source code for the site is available at http://github.com/rmanocha/bajar-de-peso
Let's turn that around, have you ever done anything at all that you thought was truly original ?
Is there no better way? Standards are great, but we're also seeing the slow release of standards (and the slow adoption of standards) having real, negative repercussions -- see HTML5 and the various flavors of CSS as examples.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqfrs.htm#5

"It is not 'owned' by anyone and is 'not a private, profit-making institution'. Instead, it is an independent entity within the government," however for our purposes this quote is probably more relevant, "the Federal Reserve must work within the framework of the overall objectives of economic and financial policy established by the government."

So, independent, but founded to enact government policy.
- Not live (data up to a day old)

- Requires a smart meter or another online meter such as a TED5000

- Extremely simple (at present)
Indeed. From my experience, you must use libraries that are built for Silverlight. You can't use just any old .NET lib in your Silverlight project.
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Lack of NoScript is the reason Chrome still asks about being the default browser on my consoles...
Let me save you $200:

- turn stuff off when it is not in use

- get rid of your old fridge/freezer

- get rid of any crts that you still have

- take a good look at wall warts and decide which ones really need to be plugged in when they're not charging something

- use a laptop, not a desktop, and enable powersaving

- use CFLS instead of bulbs

- run your heater at 18 degrees celsius (whatever that is in Fahrenheit)

- do not use electric heat for anything other than your quick-boil kettle, so no electric range etc.

There, that will save you $200 and at least that much in electricity.

The above list is a compilation of the outcome of a years worth of experimenting in a house that was powered by solar cells, the great insight of all that is that it is 10x as cheap to save a Watt hour than to generate one.
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well by original I mean, you wrote everything yourself. Sure you may have consulted other people for ideas, code samples, but you didn't just go to a site you liked, went into source, and copy pasted into your code
RUFD vs. RAD
A memory from a past experience.
Good luck selling your wife / flatmate / employee on these tips without a nice visual aid. It gets much harder when there are multiple power users.

Great list by the way. Our offgrid house uses the same amount of power per day as two towel rails by applying this sort of approach. The main power hogs are pumping fresh water and sewerage.
To respond to one of the article's examples, maiden names and family relationships simply should not be used for security purposes.

Making this information public by default will be very beneficial for genealogical purposes. Why prevent this in favour of perpetuating broken security questions?
There's been another back-up tool in existence, but it outputs to a single HTML page.
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AT&T's strained network... your fault!
Population control cheapest way to fight CO2?
"Each $7 spent on basic family planning would reduce CO2 emissions by more than one ton" whereas it would cost $13 for reduced deforestation, $24 to use wind technology, $51 for solar power, $93 for introducing hybrid cars and $131 electric vehicles.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-12/10/content_9151129.htm
Installed cost for these home automation solutions quickly tends to exceed $1000 making them impractical as a cost saver. The sensor costs are suddenly dropping as competition heats up.

Hopefully innovative, web enabled solutions from fast moving startups re-invigorate this sector. I'd sure love to.
I wasn't aware the 'towel rail' was a new measure of power consumption, would that be the bath-towel rail or the toilet one ?

Seriously though, how many KWh do you go through in a day ?

We managed to get by on 1600 W of solar panels in Northern Canada, which in some weeks was touch and go on battery depletion (you really don't want to get below 70% or so).

That's what kept us going in the dark of winter:

http://pics.ww.com/v/jacques/renewables/batteries/IM000398.J...
I've been here 1025 days. Time flies.
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It looks good. Thanks for making / sharing it.

If you're interested in feature requests, I'd love to see it give calorie intake recommendations, like in The Hacker's Diet.

But I understand if you aren't planning on major development. Thanks again.
Thank you.

And also, for the record, I am aware that FPL is testing a product that syncs in with home networks in some cities across Florida. They're charging something like $2-3 / month for the service, which in my mind is a much better deal, especially since their analytics are probably far better.

I'm looking for a link now.
What's the problem with HTML5 and CSS (assuming you're referring to CSS3 ...)?
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Yeah, the towel rail is for the people who don't understand kWh.

That is 3.5KWH per day, powered using a 640W solar array and a petrol generator when there are several days of particularly bad weather. The battery bank stores 1200AH at 24V, and like you we try to keep it at 70% charge or above.

Gridspy was born out of monitoring power usage at the house both while there and while back in Auckland (90km away).

Read more here (should probably add more numbers to this blog entry)
http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2009/08/the-barrier-house.html
Electric heat is like converting steak (high grade electric power) in to hamburger (low grade radiated heat). It is probably the least efficient way you could possibly choose to heat a house.
How does everyone calculate all these figures? Where does anyone, as a mathematics teacher would say, show the work?
According to the article, they have 100 million users, most of them in Asia. Why is that not a success story?

Sure, they knocked back GOOG's $30m offer in 2003. Perhaps they didn't sell as they didn't want to be holding stock they couldn't sell if they wanted to (GOOG didn't float until August 2004). They managed to get an offer for more than three times as much, six years later.

Many of us would be happy with that kind of failure.
Most smart meter based solutions give you data in 15 minute chunks at the end of each day. Real time data really is far more useful.
Actually, I'm looking at the in-house readout and it is quite live. (to the second) The gadget lags, but maybe 10 minutes, not a day.

I'm using the ted5k. I don't know what you mean by simple, it's really detailed, and you can even load pricing models into the device and get an idea of what everything costs and when.

edit: Also, it uses induction coils around the mains feeds. It's easy enough to install that I did it myself.

(and disclaimer: I work for google)
If you believe the normal claim that you will save 10-30% and your average monthly power bill is > the cost of monitoring it will take you less than 1 year to pay itself off.

So if your bill is $150 a month, this system (or similar) should pay for itself within a year - IF you try to save power using it.
By 'borrow' does that mean to use the code etc to get something working then eventually re write those particular pieces yourself in a similar way that freebsd did or can they be kept for eternity.
For a competing solution, see Gridspy usage in Stephen's apartment here : http://your.gridspy.co.nz/prototype2/
I voted yes for open source web site design, but those days are behind me.

I think he could have been referring to the copy-and-paste project mentality, where you learn just enough to copy and paste chunks of code and alter it until it works.
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"Borrowing" is essential for communication. We're using words right here that other people (well, civilizations) have standardized. At a certain level of granularity, all content is borrowed.

A more useful question might be, "what's the largest proportion of a work you have ever borrowed?"