skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forgive my ignorance, what does one do during non-insolated hours? Do solar cells typically come with battery packs or does one just pull from the grid?

If the latter then the cost savings are a bit less impressive than stated.

Also can you put power back into the grid in San Francisco? Is that benefit included in the cost savings estimate?
Because its "Google Maps advertising", the project is to help Google Maps make a bit more money by selling solar installs via their tool. The "G" company is all about the advertising :-)
>The quote you gave refers to cereals specifically, not vegetarian diets in general.

That's wrong, the last sentence refers to "western populations adopting vegetarian diets" in general, and cites references that suggest this. That's why I chose it. I'm not arguing that vegetarian and vegan diets are quintessentially malnutritious. I'm arguing that many people are doing it wrong.
Well, anecdotally, as someone who lost 100 pounds and kept it off for several years, the mechanisms in place don't work for everyone. I can easily eat a whole "American-sized" restaurant meal without thinking, whereas lean people tend to feel completely stuffed after eating, say, half a sandwich and a few fries.

Also, I get hunger sensations pretty much all the time, no matter how much I eat or how satiating the food is. The worst is that I actually get hunger sensations for quite a while after I eat. I suspect this can be the case for many obese people. For me, I need to use my eyes to regulate my eating rather than my hormones.

The amount of willpower necessary can vary considerably from one person to another, and for people like me just 'eating when hungry until I'm full' is not an option.

But you're definitely right about focusing on better food quality rather than simply eating less. It's far too easy to go overboard eating plates of spaghetti and meatballs than it is grilled-chicken atop salad. After I lost weight and cleaned up my diet, I now perfer the latter to the former. When my diet is consistently clean, it's easier to maintain the cleanliness. There's a lot of inertia when it comes to eating and controlling the velocity is far more valuable than just changing the speed.
Evernote is inherently private, and while some of its features are shareable, it's about keeping private notes in a centralized location (at least it is for me). Evernote now has 150M users and @ 1% paid (it's much more), they'd be doing $35M a year in revenue. Pretty good as long as you can keep your costs down.

See this interview with the CEO : http://t.co/VGmbSDq52l

Freemium relies on the "pull" of the paid features to the intended user. The problem comes when the features of the free account are unbalanced (more valuable) or an unforseen use arises where lots of people who will never upgrade find a use for the basic features.
Does anyone have an extra/outdated tablet that I can give my homeless friend Augie?
You mean Silverlight died? I've seen that said over the years, but:

A) Microsoft still mantains and updates silverlight.

B) It's mentioned as one of the components of Windows 10[1].

So I'm really confused here as whether Microsoft will kill it already, or keep it alive. They seem to be willing to kill it[2][3], but Netflix alone is enough reason to keep it alive.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/default.asp...

[2] http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-wont-includ...

[3] http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-confirms-its-new-edg...
https://indiewebcamp.com/ is a bit more interesting and open.
> It's truly staggering to read at the start that there were ten times as many titles (15,000) than there are for the DS or GBA.

It makes sense that there will be a lot more games on a open platform than on a platform from company that is notorious for not attracting 3rd party titles.

> For some reason it doesn't feel like as much love and passion goes into a lot of games being produced at the moment. So many of those Spectrum titles were labours of love by single people working for months on their own in bedrooms.

Step outside the world of Call of Duties and Battlefields and you will find lots of games that are very much labor of loves from bedroom developers.
It's a good case for private repos, but an even better case for not committing passwords to a repository in the first place.
> I don't get it why Americans stand for this.

Many of us don't, hence the protests and hundreds of articles that you've been reading. But the truth is most voters don't have encounters the police. People are taught from a very young age that police are the "good guys" keeping the "bad guys" at bay, and so they get whatever protections and defenses they think they need, including immunity from prosecution. But articles like this and the protests over the various recent murders raise awareness that the police are out of control. Change doesn't happen overnight and it doesn't happen from nothing. These articles are Americans refusing to stand for this, and we need to keep it up.
Does this mean that SwiftKey is now open source, that what they've open-sourced doesn't include the actual prediction engine, or that what they've open-sourced is not the latest version? The GitHub page says they use Presage.
Court: Volunteers at Major League Baseball FanFest Not Entitled to Minimum Wage
>C is even more unsuitable for this than Haskell, and yet most of the compilers are written in C. Technical superiority does not count at all in choosing an implementation platform.

Or maybe technical superiority is a more varied thing than what you consider (merely a language's features and "expression" capabilities), and includes tooling, portability, speed, direct access to hardware, existing codebase to work upon and lots of other parameters, for which C was king or very near the top for many decades...

>In order to avoid unnecessary flame war: I give no crap to any popularity based arguments.

And from my side: I don't give a crap for "technical arguments" that focus only on a very narrow area of technical benefits ignoring lots of others.

Even "familiarity of the team with a language" is a technical argument (in the sense that it speaks to the capability of a teams to practically use something).

I also don't think that "popularity" is just fluff. It might not be a 100% solid proof, but it does point to real, battle proven, results (as oposed to vapour-ware and hand-waving about superiority).

In the end, history and actual results are the only criteria. That's being pragmatic and empiricist -- as opposed to mere beliefs that don't pan out in practice.
Are firefighters any less likely to enter a house fire where the roof is covered in heavy solar panels? I've heard stories, but never dug into whether it was anti-solar FUD.
Some parts are very telling (in order):

1. There is no example in the email of nice act(s) that he is personally aware. Just like politicians do, he should have put: "This doesn't describe the Amazon that gave Mr. X two-months paid leave to deal with his wife cancer or when Susan had ...".

2. Threatening tone: If you know of anything escalate to HR or email me. That is some comfort. Dear billionaire: The NYT article reflects 100% of my experience at Amazon. Please help. Best, Insignificant Analyst

3. "... our tolerance ... needs to be zero". Needs to be??? Are we at 20% tolerance level? Why it isn't zero already?

4. "...I don't recognize this Amazon and I very much hope you don't either". Hope??? Are you kidding? Should be: I'm SURE you don't either".

5. "...I don't think any company ...could survive...thrive...in today's highly competitive tech market". Translation: Our stock price tells me we are on the right track so FU NYT.

6. "People we hire here are the best of the best". Err... if you go to a random coffee shop in SF and ask the first 100 people in the door where the best of the best work I bet Amazon would probably account for <3% of the answers.

7. "You are recruited everyday ... you can work anywhere you want." Translation: employment here as at will. If you don't like it there is plenty other places for you to work. So don't even bother sending me that email to me or escalating this to HR. Just leave.

8. "I know I would leave such company." Finished too early the sentence he should have continued: "leave such company, but I can't because IT IS MY COMPANY. When you get your own company and become a billionaire like me you will understand. In the mean time just leave so I can hire another guy just like you.

9. Again, Jeff is full of hope. Should be: I'm sure the Amazon described in the NYT article doesn't exist. We are a fun place to work..."

10. Thank you!!!! Really? The NYT picks you to pieces and you end the email to "rally your troops" with Thank you? No call action, no initiative, no passion, no "let's prove them wrong"???
An excel power-user is indistinguishable from a programmer. If you are an excel power-user, and don't think you are a programmer, learn javascript, http://eloquentjavascript.net/.
In fairness. The vast majority of the code in this library is describing the UI, and event handlers, which is exactly what React is used for. It's not like there's a ton of non-React code in here that could be abstracted out into a separate library.
It is worth taking a step back and recalling how long the problem of police brutality existed BEFORE it became a hot-button issue. For the longest time, raising such issues would incite accusations that one is either sympathetic to criminals or naively on the track to "Escape from NY" levels of crime.

Theodore Roosevelt regretted not having reformed American health care in his time in office. It took this long to get the imperfect ACA. Police brutality as a national issue is no different. Unless there is serious, sustained momentum for change, it simply won't come. This video should be such a reminder.
Maybe panel prices have dropped enough in the last 4 years that partially-lit areas are now worth covering in solar (cost < savings * acceptable ROI months).
I read his response as an open confession that he's out of touch with his own company.

I'm not sure how he intended it to be read. I'm waiting to see if his "you'd be crazy to work at a place like that" actually results in improvements, or an increase in attrition.

My experience there (also 3 months) was that there were all these young kids who had no idea what a healthy work environment looked like and so they didn't know what they were missing out on.
My pg&e bills have never surpassed $50/month, so project sunroof convinced me that solar is not a good investment!
The main photo is not visible in Chrome, but it's visible in IE11.

The clone detection is a little paranoid, I get a lot of false positives with the default configuration. It's better to increase the thresholds.
It's not the trust issues, it's that the current platform is literally doesn't work most of the time.

But I do agree with you, a newer platform that already exists probably has a better chance. All they need is some marketing directed at frustrated upwork users.
Not what I was expecting based on the title. But it is an important principle that should be more widely followed. Good on them.
I have been following the Neo9000 project and debating on getting a phone. They are crazy expensive since aren't produced in mass quantity, when they start shipping. We will see how it pans out.
Dependency hell is from when multiple components depend on the same framework, but work with different versions. Since React is pre 1.0, you can expect the API to change a bit. If you build an app with multiple React components, you'd better hope all of them are well maintained, or you'll break some scripts when upgrading React (which you'll need to do for other scripts' bug fixes)
I was surprised to see the Leviathan was one of only 5 roller coasters in this category. I'll admit that seeing it in person is incredibly intimidating though. So much so that it was the only one I haven't been on yet.
Is that even possible? I don't know the latest size of the IA, but it must be ridiculously huge by now, (1 billion pages a week added) bandwidth cost would be massive.

Maybe they could offer a mail-us-a-multi-petabyte-hdd service... Returned a few weeks later full of data :)
Same even with a Canadian IP.
Toss a fair coin or fake it and win
Doesn't show anything next to the big "Is this a company you'd like to compare?" arrow.
As for other recent threads on HN maybe it is time to rewrite something with Rust... ;-)
There are only two big reasons to release a freemium offering. 1) To upsell free users later 2) To use free users as marketing.

I wrote an article on this last month... http://taprun.com/articles/secret-to-freemium-pricing
Mobile Security and the IoE--no small challenge
Mozilla libère une mise à jour de FireFox 40.0.2
It's not that Macs last longer than PCs or are somehow more robust, most $1000+ machines will last longer than $500 machines.

My Lenovo W510 benchmarks the same or better than the T430s they're handing out now at my office. The only reason I have to upgrade is that I'd like a battery that last longer than the walk from 1 meeting to the next.
I have been contacted by recruitment from Amazon and Friday's article got me thinking.

This story is really pushing me to walk away from the process.
What's the difference between ML and data science? ML has more programming?

And what's the difference between data science and statistics? Statisticians try to come up with new mathematics, while data scientists just try to come up with ways to apply that maths?
You're kidding, right?
Wouldn't that make the evidence inadmissible though?

A thorough legal aid following the chain of evidence would see right through that.
I have a Mac SE/30 FDHD (dual floppy) with external LaCie hard drive that still works.

Not that it's useful but kind of fun to boot up every now and then.
> I'm curious, is there any mention of an "underworld" in any Christian Bible?

The idea that Christianity is contained entirely within the Bible is a fairly new idea within Christianity (its one of the new doctrines that separated some branches of Protestantism from the established Catholic -- as well as Orthodox, and even other Protestant -- belief.)
A phrase/name can't be copyrighted and prior art is irrelevant to copyright. Nothing stops them from claiming it, but it's a non-sequitur so there is really no reason to claim it.

I don't think any individual or organization is stopping Greeks from establishing their own Olympic Island.
Bedtime Stories for Young Brains
This is how most "journalism" works these days. Write your report as if the sky is falling, something extremely negative and spin it as if it's a major global trend. Then read the article and it's just some quotes from maybe three people, with very little data to back up the claim that it's a major trend. I see this type of work constantly. Especially articles about America or about "shortages." People get hyped up by a negative headline but don't think critically about the content.
Sophia database v1.2.3 released: new features and benchmarks
I like it, I'm taking the AI for Robotics class on Udacity, and I have a chromebook as my primary machine, I'm going to bookmark this and likely use it most of the time. Does it support math functions like power, exponential, etc? and how?
> No department at the company is your friend.

Of course not, except not many disguise themselves as your friend, that was the point.

Nobody thinks the finance department is there to make your life easy as a developer or to somehow take your side vis-a-vis an argument with the higher-ups.

But somehow the image of "HR" working for the employees and advocating for them persists.

Just read Jeff's email as an example. "Take it up with HR". In other words, don't worry, we'll fix it for ya.
Baseband isolation is a must for a secure phone. Blackphone does not offer it and blackphones can been compromised as a result[1].

>"The Blackphone does not protect you against vulnerabilities in the Android subsystem, in the application processor (SoC), or in the baseband itself." [1]

Blackphone excels at protecting communication from passive adversaries, but it needs to shore up endpoint security.

>The makers of Blackphone are well aware of this. “We have a bit of a problem with the press saying that the Blackphone will make you NSA-proof. If someone [at the Blackphone booth] tells you that it’ll protect you from the NSA, I’ll fire them,” Phil Zimmermann, one of the Blackphone’s creators, told Anthony. - [2]

While the NEO9000 has some baseband isolation, I would still be extremely careful in assuming this isolation is complete. I haven't researched this enough to have an opinion but I would like to know exactly what privileges it has and what sandboxing is done to isolate it.

[1]: http://www.itproportal.com/2014/02/26/blackphones-big-proble...

[2]: http://qz.com/181977/hidden-risk-in-blackphones-secure-commu...
When you do an MBA focused on startups, why should you care about academia's fashionable political opinion on something?
https://www.google.com/get/sunroof/about/

https://www.google.com/get/sunroof/faq/
Religious ignorance? Their dietary choice is not for its nutritional value, it's based on religious guidelines and taboo foods.

Also, a lot of them live in harsh conditions and have low life expectancy.
> Homepages as a handy filing page for information you want to reference,

Yes, the literal Etymology OF "Homepage". It was not just the page you wanted to see when you logged on. It was not just the page you wanted people to see first from you. It was where you did all those things online that were important to you. That's why old ones look kinda like lists. Well, that's also a discussion about design, and the evolution of symbols.
It's important to note that most of the horror stories involving Tor nodes are related to "exit" nodes. These are the nodes that bridge the open internet with the Tor network. As such, you can see what traffic is traveling through them much more easily.

It's not recommended to run exit nodes if you don't know what you are doing and have a fair bit of resources (time/money) to spend on it. Without exit nodes Tor doesn't work, but they are risky to run because you can be held liable for the content traversing the machine.
This is a really helpful perspective. For example, I've started referring to myself as a "user" of Python rather than a programmer.
I have no competitors. I think. Or its broken. On mobile so will try tomorrow. Hope it works. Love the idea.
Too bad those interstellar aliens didn't look into the mind of a zen master. They would be surprised to say the least. :)

Specially when they talk about consciousness.
By trade, I am a mainframe systems programmer at a large financial institution. My group is responsible for mainframe operating systems: z/OS (it may also be referred to as MVS), z/VM (the mainframe hypervisor), and z/Linux (Linux on a mainframe) and many of the software components that go along with these.

I'm really excited about this announcement. I think IBM finally realized they need to be more open if they want to grow the Linux on z community. I just hope they are not too late to the game.

There's a lot of mystery and misconception behind mainframes, so I am happy to answer any questions about mainframes that I can.
Often, the most economical answer is heating a water heater rather than storing via a battery.
Perhaps it should link to a solar installer, and a lumber jack :-) More seriously though, I installed solar about 13 years ago now on my roof, California has some case law about trees blocking solar, post install, which was decided in the favor of the solar panel owner. The city tree across the street had gotten large enough in the last 10 years to start shadowing some of my panels. So when the arborists were in our neighborhood I pointed it out, and they cut a chunk off the top of the city tree so that it would stop doing that.

At one level this was "fine" in the sense they were totally ok with that and felt they were obligated under California law to do so. At another level, "solar rights" ala "water rights" or "mineral rights" for a property are probably going to become a thing at some point.

In your case, if the trees around you fell down for some reason, you install solar, and the landowners/city replant trees, by virtue of the fact that your solar is there it will impose a trimming burden on the new trees. But there is no requirement that people clear trees to make it possible for you to exercise your "solar rights". That is the next kerfluffle I expect in California.
From source site: "Demos are programs that generate multimedia presentations in real time while the demo is running. ... In Demo competition the only realistic limitation for the demo was the speed of a high-end 2015 PC computer."
Changing requirements are quite normal, but changing by the hour is just poor project management, no matter what the environment.
How to Implement a Marketing System: 5 Minute VIDEO
Flat structures work great for smaller organizations, but don't scale up with size.

That said, a bigger organization could still be structured like a federation of relatively independent businesses/departments, with clearly defined interactions (interfaces) between them, rather than a monolith.

Modular design benefits business as much as it does software architecture.
To a person who vehemently believes in the thermodynamic weight loss hypothesis (calories in minus calories out!), it would be more convenient if your anecdote, and others like it, did not exist.
If your product is about sharing in small group then it's best if the freemium plan allows only public sharing so users have an incentive to pay.

Next step is to make sure that users who like sharing publicly don't sign up in the first place because they're not your target audience and public sharing can come with support headaches (think about copyright claims for example).

Does your pay-for plan already include a free trial period? Be it a week or month, it forces users to make a decision to upgrade. In my experience lots of users simply forget and reminders/ads don't work well as they can be ignored.
Thanks for your answer, but I don't understand ...

The keyboard appears to abut both sides equally ... so while there may be an internal component in the current iteration that takes up internal space, it's not the external footprint of the keyboard that is determining port or no-port.

Perhaps I am missing something ? Genuinely curious...
When I clicked this article, I was genuinely hoping it was about CCP deciding to release some of the early/foundational code for Eve Online.
Jeff Bezos does not usually respond to this sort of article. It's quite new and the Amazon-the-horrible-place-to-work theme has been growing for a number of years(as I've been researching). I guess it's time to pop.
A similar site with more geographical coverage, but less computer vision.

http://www.canisolar.com/
It sounds like your complaint was solved and then you decided to bail. That isn't exactly a damning critique of HR.
Solar power systems don't necessarily come with batteries but a decent installation company should be able to propose and implement an integrated system. The Tesla battery pack is an example of some recent innovation in that area.

You can sell power into the grid but PG&E only has to pay you wholesale rates, 3-4 cents per kwh, not what they are charging you to take the same amount of energy out, which is 34 cents per kwh at the top tier. It's basically a scam. You don't want to overbuild on the assumption that selling the surplus would be profitable.
"The country", as if there aren't other countries. "For the country", as if it were a competition and this helps put our country ahead of all the others. As if it weren't for the customers, but for the institution of the nation.
I'm fairly certain San Francisco lets you "run the meter backwards" and put power back into the grid. That is how they are calculating 100% solar power since the amount you are sending in during the day offesets the amount you are pulling in during the evening. This also means that you don't need to worry about battery packs.