jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When home renewable reaches a level of penetration where simultaneous loss would be in excess of spinning reserve any further embedded generation will be regulated in such a way as to not contribute to the problem. For instance by prohibiting exporting energy back to the system, and separating your house from the system if the frequency is falling quickly and your embedded generation is going to trip,in order to avoid the simultaneous load step due to the loss of all the embedded generation they could just disconnect it all. And in that case the embedded generation can continue to feed your house if it can operate an isolated network.
> They hit 10 petabytes two years ago* - which is 10000 terabytes. Torrents don't really cut it at that scale.

I see no reason why torrents couldn't handle this. Data transport through bittorrent still works even with large numbers of bytes.
An illustration of crap code. Wow.
I wouldn't mind seeing this as a poll. A significant number of people do clearly read the comments first, but perhaps those who don't are not responding. A ratio would be interesting.
Thank you for illuminating this for everyone.
> Now, a drug called chloroquine — and some people would add to it “hydroxy-.” Hydroxychloroquine. So chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine. Now, this is a common malaria drug. It is also a drug used for strong arthritis. If somebody has pretty serious arthritis, also uses this in a somewhat different form. But it is known as a malaria drug, and it’s been around for a long time and it’s very powerful. But the nice part is, it’s been around for a long time, so we know that if it — if things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to kill anybody.

> When you go with a brand-new drug, you don’t know that that’s going to happen. You have to see and you have to go — long test. But this has been used in different forms — very powerful drug — in different forms. And it’s shown very encouraging — very, very encouraging early results. And we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. And that’s where the FDA has been so great. They — they’ve gone through the approval process; it’s been approved. And they did it — they took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we’re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states.

> I spoke with Governor Cuomo about it at great length last night, and he wants to be right on — on the — he wants to be first on line. And so I think that’s a tremendous — there’s tremendous promise, based on the results and other tests. There’s tremendous promise. And normally the FDA would take a long time to approve something like that, and it’s — it was approved very, very quickly and it’s now approved, by prescription. Individual states will handle it. They can handle it. Doctors will handle it. And I think it’s going to be — I think it’s going to be great.

> Then we’re quickly studying this drug, and while we’re continuing to study it — but the studying is going to be also done in — as it’s given out to large groups of people, perhaps in New York and other places. We’ll study it there.

From his March 19 statement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres.... In total, he mentioned the drug by name 11 times during that statement (according to Ctrl+f).
Just had to add my favorite, William Carlos Williams:

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

You should all subscribe to the writers almanac podcast. A free poem & other good stuff in < 5 minutes every day. http://writersalmanac.org/podcast/
It might be, but if you did want to use expansion joints to alleviate some or all of the problem you most likely could.

There are other alternatives too, such as allowing the tubing to move sideways a bit in a long curve. That would change the overall shape of the trajectory but the air cushion they talk about could take care of that.

If they do end up using expansion joints they could actually use the fact that some air might leak in to purposefully increase local air density to use that as an impromptu air bearing.

Anyway, there is plenty of challenging engineering in hyper loop, but the least interesting part is how to make a long metal tube, either in one piece or out of segments.

And of course even more challenging than the engineering will be the economics and the paper tigers.
Sounds like an interesting service, and I will e-mail you shortly for an invite. That said, can anyone recommend a good recruiter like you refer to here, who is good at helping candidates with good skills learn how to interview better? (if so, e-mail is my username at gmail)

I know recruiters have a bad reputations among most developers, but someone like that would be worth their weight in gold to me.
I once misconfigured iptables and locked myself out of our buildserver. Had to call lab support in a different country. Is Linux too complicated? Joyent famously took down their whole region by rebooting wrong nodes. It’s almost like running distributed networks of supercomputers at scale is hard or something...
Hey Ryan,
there is some sort of that already :D
I generated some more wide playlists by genre and saved it into the public tastemaker profile:
https://tastemaker.cc/public

Maybe you find something nice there. I a working on also bringing this public playlists to the landing page :)
It took many decades to widely adopt UTF-8. I think that one of the reasons was that US companies did not really care about character encodings, as it's not something they have to often deal with. Even today managing multiple keyboard layouts is a pain in most operating systems, it's buggy, it does not have enough configuration options, it's not convenient. Probably because most US developers never tried to use that functionality.
Yeah, let's do nothing and wait for something better (sarcasm).

I wonder what education or lack of someone must have to think that re-forestation is not the right thing to do right now. Planting trees is not rocket science and could for example be done with planes (like China does). Even when forests aren't enough to reverse climate change we can use wood instead of concrete as our building materials or use wood to make bio-fuel or bio gas all of which will reduce our CO2 footprint.
What does not work? Is there an error or just no playlist in Spotify?

Please be aware that tastemaker gets a lot better after one day, as than your full taste is loaded. At the moment of registration only a few info is loaded from your profile as otherwise the setup would take >10 minutes.
The danger with stocks is they are all the same (from the same company). Nobody would think of selling the chair they borrowed from the neighbor (if they want to stay friendly with the neighbour). Maybe it is more like eggs. You ask you neighbour for a few eggs, and later give them back (but everybody understands them to be different eggs)
>CD32 was a later project and really quite good

CD32 was a repackaged Amiga 1200. It was the worst fifth generation game system. It featured such gems as Wing Commander running at 1 frame per second.
Is her middle name \";DROP TABLE users;?
> I am assuming because 'programming in yaml' is so prevalent that many people don't agree with me.

Conditional logic is not something implicit or facilitated by YAML; if JSON was the prevalent configuration format, the same or similar constructs (hacks) would be adopted.

JSON (as in the designer) actually tried to do something against hacks - removing comments syntax - but one can use an object to implement if/then/else.

"Programming" as described in the article is not inherent in YAML.
And if you extrapolate it's easy to see we're bound for the fate of the skin cell.
Very impressive, I'll be looking closer at K-D trees.

I wrote a quick (500k lookups/sec) offline geocoder for Ruby: https://github.com/bronson/geolocal to comply with the silly EU cookie rules. It precompiles the statements you're interested in:

Geolocal.in_eu?(request.ip)
Geolocal.in_us?('8.8.8.8')

Glad to see that my lib has a role model if it ever grows up. :)
The irony is that science itself works in the same way as biological evolution. There are theories, variations and selective pressure (experiments).

It so happens that clearly not understanding science becomes a prerequisite for not accepting evolution, and understanding science implicitly makes evolution an obvious fact.
maybe "A View to a Kill"?
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Zorin
Answered in the subtitle of the article: "Filing taxes could be free and easy, but tax-prep companies and antitax politicians have fought to make it expensive, complicated and annoying."
Keeping aside rest of the debate, I'm genuinely curious if 6 hours vs 12 hours (just as an example, not real numbers) is really an issue for most people. I work exclusively on laptop, no external monitor and have for last 8-10 years. My laptop is almost always plugged in. I go at most 1-2 hours without it being plugged and most modern laptops have batteries that last that long.

Am I in the minority who uses their laptop as such?
Um, I'm pretty sure there are better ways to transfer 300M out of country without making everyone notice it.
It ok for Tazo to have a crappy landing page because they have excellent placement at point of purchase (aka. physical landing page). They have placement and packaging that converts, and built in defaults that result in sales. (eg. if you order tea you're ordering Tazo at a large number of coffee shops)

They also have excellent testimonials by having a large chain such as Starbucks serve their teas. Tea is generally an instant gratification purchase, and not something you'd wait 2 days to arrive over the internet. (Yes, perhaps there is an opportunity for a Zappos of tea, but internet retailing is not a core competency of Tazo)

If you're ordering tea from the internet, it's probably specialty and not something you can pick up from one of the hundreds of coffee shops you can find within a few miles of where ever you live. Hence if you are 'really really obscure hipster tea' then you need a good landing page, Tazo does not.

In the world of people who buy tea Tazo has the #1 ranking in terms of 'google for tea' (aka. starbucks). Designing a proper landing page and website will add almost nothing to their bottom line where as changing their packaging would have a much bigger impact, or sweetening the deal for distributors so the local mom and pop coffee shop is more likely to carry Tazo. People often forget that 98% of purchases are made offline. No one is going to order Tazo tea from the internet, nor will they decide to order Tazo tea the next time they are at the coffee shop because of a landing page. Therefore from the perspective of their bottom line their landing page is as good as it needs to be.

Also it appears that their 'landing page' is: http://www.facebook.com/tazo?v=info and not tazo.com
Let's remember that the Tea Party was founded by Ron Paul, not Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. It has become a popular political movement and therefore has drawn in a bunch of hangers-on who want to exploit its popularity. Let's judge the movement by their general principles (lower taxes, lower public spending, rejection of the bailouts), not by particular affinities some members may have.

The piece continues with the sobering assessment that America’s actual unemployment rate isn’t really 10 percent, but close to 20 percent when we factor in the number of people who have stopped looking for work.

This is true everywhere. If you want a better metric, check out the actual proportion of the population in active employment. The unemployment rate is a statistical trick: if people become discouraged and stop looking for work, it may appear that unemployment is going down.

As an aside, all non-wage benefits that employees receive (like free dental plan or paid vacations) are eventually subtracted from their own pockets. To an employer, wage is just one of the costs of maintaining an employee. More "benefits" just means the employee pays more out of his pocket and takes home less money.
Satisfied customers can give their discs to friends and family. In fact, sending discs to existing customers might be more effective, since a disc given to you by someone you trust must have a significantly higher success rate.
How are these puzzles hypothetical? They look better written in specification than specs in the real world:

(selected few and summarized...)
Hoppity Hop!
Input: filename as arg from command prompt, file contains a number
Output: Some variation on the word "Hoppity" repeated

Simon Says
the gist: Connect to some server, call some api's in a certain order.

Battleship - write a client that connects to some server that plays battleship...

Find Sophie - read some data,build some data structures/run algorithm,output result
Input: filename and specifications of the file format
Output: result

Some test simple programming skills (Hoppity Hop is basically the Fogbugz for-loop question + no brainer file parsing) and the harder ones seem to involve knowledge of (not too tough) algorithms.

If the questions were more like "How would you move Mt. Fuji", then that's certainly hypothetical.
This would be clear cut if it were a stranger who did it.

But he's not a stranger. Married couples do all sorts of things which would be criminal if they were strangers.

It seems to me that the key point here will be his state of mind when he found the password and logged in to his wife's account -- did he believe that his wife would object? (Obviously in hindsight we know that she did object, but you can't hang a man based on hindsight.)

(Analogous situation: Man fondles woman's breast. If they're strangers, it's sexual assault. In a happily married couple, it's perfectly normal. If the wife is thinking of getting a divorce she might tell him to stop fondling her. But no court is ever going to demand that husbands receive written permission from their wives prior to each instance of breast-fondling, because there's a general recognition that people in relationships can make judgement calls about the boundaries of those relationships.)
Great post that's basically a healthy dose of reality and commonsense.

A lot of those predicting Apple's doom (or simply decline) or a repeat of the OS wars are ignoring the power of Apple's supply chain. As Gruber puts it: if Android can make a great $100 handset why can't Apple?

The point about the cost of service contracts is worth repeating: the difference between an iPhone 4 or a free handset is about 10% of the total cost so price of the isn't all that important.

You see the power of Apple supply chain with the iPad. Apple (IMHO) had no real inkling of just how big it was going to be, just like they didn't know wit the original iPhone. Now volume is more of a known quantity Apple has a lot more room to increase specs and/or lower price with the anticated revision.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab (so far the most credible competitor) offers a screen half the size at a $600 price point. That's the power of Apple's supply chain.
> The reason that Google Native Client is not set fair to become an "open Web standard" is because three of the four non-MS vendors oppose it for reasons of self-interest.

As a user, I don't want to see NaCl's compile-once-per-each-architecture model become part of the web. It's true browsers oppose it out of self interest, but NaCl has its own problems that haven't been solved.

PNaCl is a good start and much more in the vein of an open web that isn't tied to a particular platform. And whatever benefits an Open Web, Mozilla will inevitably support, as it sustains their business model. NaCl doesn't do anything for browser makers, but it also doesn't help me as a user.
I was also just making an observation that I thought was amusing. I was just riffing off of your post, not degrading it. Not all replies are arguments.

I agree that Microsoft has done a lot of great research, and I hope that some day they can turn more of it into products. Alas, from reading the pub directory at llvm.org, for example, I get the impression that when something similar to Bartok & Singularity become products for real users they're going to come from elsewhere.

Time will tell, though.

I do love my Kinect.
"The article does not explain why the FBI has such an emphasis."

Could be arrest and conviction metrics tied to performance reviews. My uneducated guess is that it's much easier to follow IP addresses and arrest/convict domestic criminals than it is to arrest/convict members of the People's Liberation Army.

That which gets tracked gets focus.
30 hours.

http://startpad.org/blog/diving-android-development-the-pock...
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v3r8m1/inde...

To allow you to use XSLT tools apparently.
I imagine the example is pretty indicative of how it works. Better to have a crappy example than no example at all.
The problem with beamed power over that kind of distance is beam divergeance (yes, even laser beams do diverge). Even very low wavelength beams, starting with very wide aperture emitters, end up with a beam many times the diameter of the solar system over these kinds of ranges. Good luck trying to capture that energy for your spaceship.

The problem with picking up reaction mass along the way is, you need to lose energy to accelerate it up to your own current speed first before you can consume it as reaction mass to speed yourself up. As you get closer to lightspeed, even with perfect, lossless conversion, e.g. at 0.9c you lose 90% of the energy of the reaction mass bringing it up to your own velocity and get only 10% of it for beneficial thrust. The total of required reaction mass, which was already ludicrously huge for any practical payload, balloons massively.

If you do actualy have energy conversion losses, those limit your maximum possible speed. If you lose e.g. 1% of the energy you convert, then once you're at 99% lightspeed, the energy you gain from burning the reaction mass is the same as the energy you expended bringing it upto your own velocity. So there's no net gain.

A top speed of 0.99C only gives you a time dilation factor of about x2.3 or so.

And of course all of that is assuming magic fantasy tech with unbelievably high efficiencies and negligibly sized engines and mass storage.
Does anyone have information on how or if it is possible to refuse giving ID to Amtrak and still get tickets?

This was a big problem for me a few years ago... my drivers license expired. While I waited for the new one in the mail, I decided to take the train instead. They gave me a lot of shit, and I'd rather have told them that what they were asking was illegal.
ObjC on iOS is still memory management but the advantages over C are: reference counting (makes composition easier) and a defined protocol for when references wont be used anymore.
Brilliant. Makes me want to become a customer to support their sheer chutzpah. I guess they must have done at least some legal homework. Not that it matters much when you're baiting the attack dogs of the content industries, whose primary fear seems not to be loss of revenue but loss of control.
In (good) open source projects, the frameworks developers are also app developers. The difference is obvious when you compare the architecture astronautics of a framework built following "best practices" and one extracted from living code. WebForms looked great in developer conferences, but it made stuff that just comes out of the box in Rails like nice URLs or common layouts a royal pain. I left that world behind 5 years ago, and I hope it has improved, but I have no intention to go back.
hm... it's meant to move you to another page :)

But now that you say it. I can see that it visually looks like a menu item where popup behaviour is expected. I will try few other looks. Probably turn it in something more link/button like. Thanks!
Shoot me an email (in profile) with a list of pages to proof read. I'm not a content writer, but I can probably find and big errors. I'd be happy to help out with that if you'd like.
There have been some previous "Offer HN"s where someone offered to do that.
This looks really nice, the drag & drop interface is gorgeous. I see a few rough edges (as others have already pointed out), but with a bit of polish I could see you taking a good bite out of uservoice and getsatisfaction.
To the magical thinker, a small glass filled up has "more" wine in it than a large glass half-full.
You've hit on the key thing with the cloud... assume things will go wrong and accept it.
You've probably seen it already, but cpervica also just open sourced his B+ tree component of Tarsnap.

http://www.tarsnap.com/kivaloo.html

It's a specialized key value store. I'm reading through the C code for it. It will be fun to read your code along with that - thanks for putting it out there.
I just chalk it up to the fact that I can't possibly know everything. As long as I'm good at programming and/or business, I'm ok with basking in the glory of science without being an active participant. :)
Of course, and although part of that risk (from the pov of the broker and the buyer) could be hedged contractually, there is still the risk of dilution etc. That's why I'm interested in learning more about the exact mechanics of this 'cashing out' - it seems to me that the staff involved must be paying a hefty risk premium for their liquidity. I haven't seem many details of how these deals are structured show up, though. Probably because it would reduce the numbers that employees actually receive much smaller, making for much less interesting headlines.
Same situation in Italy.
Awesome resource for people who are, or want to be, startup founders. The OP links to the blog post. But here is the URL for the actual page: http://swombat.com/founders_library
It's being perceived as sounding like the stereotype of how a Japanese person would say "Link You".
I'm the author of the post linked above: thanks for the clarification about ServerName. I spent a lot of time reading that documentation and got pretty confused about how it was actually being used.
But if people have a choice, and most do - they want to deliver AND use a tech they love. Both.
> there is nothing stopping you from installing an older distribution of linux

We argument here if Gnome needs "too much" memory so that you need a relatively new computer to use it, and I gave the arguments for that, narrowing down the amount of memory needed and comparing it with still very useful and widely used XP.
If they simply refined Google Answers, it still would have failed. Google Answers didn't need refinement, it needed an entirely new approach, and thats what Quora has done.
Any data supporting the assertion / speculation presented in the article ?
Do RTOS's really present such an additional overhead that it shows up as a significant difference in battery life ? Keeping in mind that the LCD screen consumes a large part of the power budget of the device, so any inefficiency on the CPU is a tax on a small part of the overall power budget).
So funny, there is a real tech company called JamCracker -- we used them on a project years ago. I don't think these companies should recommend names if the domain is taken.
I wish I didn't have to register/login just to see this allegedly great design. I've heard about Quora, and it sounds neat, but at this point I don't see a compelling reason to create an account. It would be nice to be able to see some of the actual content before deciding if I want to register.
Are you sure a motivated eight year old would give up on programming entirely because he can't program an entire Pokemon game by himself in BASIC?
I scrolled into the comments on that article and I really wish I hadn't. Some incredibly bigoted people disagreeing with the article. ("Gay people can just find another bakery, it's not a big deal.")

Are there many who think like this? What causes us to segregate and discriminate against our fellow humans?
> You would need "bots allowed" information in the HTTP handshake itself to prevent bots from accidentally hitting pages they shouldn't.

Humans could also hit such pages. If your GET requests change state, there's no helping you.