skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess would be the limiting factor is actually the capacity of the turbines, not that of the reservoir, in which case it makes sense to talk about watts. I agree that it is a weird way to talk about it though?

edit: quote from http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24331470/california-a...

"The 1.3 gigawatts is a capacity target, because different storage technologies have different rates at which they can accept and discharge energy, and the mandate aims to be technology-neutral."
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When should I use SQLite3 and when SQLite4? Are there any special use-cases for one or the other? Or should I just use 4 from now on, since it's simply "better" than 3? Didn't read like that's the case.
Thanks! That's a really good point - and it's currently one of the codebases biggest weaknesses. I use DataTables EVERYwhere. They're fantastic - I have tons of places where I need to show thousands of records, so I use server side processing for pagination, filtering, sorting, etc. However, they don't look good on mobile, and the responsive tables plugin is not the greatest. What I actually do (for now) is wrap the table in Twitter Bootstraps .table-responsive class, which basically creates a viewport for the table on mobile. You scroll left/right to see hidden columns. Works pretty well. Long term, I'm not sure what I am going to do as there are no other table plugins with as rich a featureset and I prefer not to write my own.
And yet research costs money. No way around that sadly.
Yes and no. Life experiences do not affect one's genes, but the way those genes are expressed. Though, I don't know if (and doubt) that distinction was known in his day.
I don't see how you can get a fair flat tax, once you take into account transfer payments and entitlements that benefit lower-income people. I think you can make government's intake look fair with a flat tax, but that the inevitable outcome of that will be a system that lowers the burden on the wealthy by doing fewer things for the poor.

I don't think the complexity of the tax system is really that much of a problem. And for the past few years, I've been getting a face-full of the system in all its complex and frankly idiotic glory. I think it's fine that the system kind of screws people like me, and also benefits accountants and a tax preparation industry. We can afford it.
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Just about to release software and I was wondering what books are a good read to help me with all the business/finance side of the business.
Obviously they were supported by the FDR's welfare system. To this day, ending up without a roof over your head is very rare without other problems like substance abuse or untreated mental illness.
Seems like it would be easier to measure the genetic trauma suffered by the decedents of the American Slave Trade
>>I suspect it was performance, cruft, and aesthetics… In my experience (admittedly mostly dealing with IBM and IBM-sanctioned vendors) a typical Smalltalk demo was a program that ran 10x slower than VB on a computer with twice as much memory…<<

So incompetent programmers ?
The word kernel is so espoused to operating systems for me that seeing the nature of the project was surprising. In fact, I specifically expected to see some modified Linux kernel and was wondering if someone made use of some liveliness-guaranteed locking system of some sort. After the surprise, I thought about my personal definition of "kernel", and it turns out it's as outlined below (ones in parentheses would never be expected, but would be concessions after having been surprised, as I was with this article).

1: Linux Kernel. 2: BSD-derivative kernel. 3: Some other Unix kernel. 4: Some other OS kernel. ( 5: Maize seeds. 6: Some core part of other software. )
It's not an exaggeration. You're assuming that current authorities are interested in and have the capabilities to prevent the criminals and traceable crimes you speak of and that there is an ongoing, massive effort to do so. For most crimes, this isn't currently the case, at least in the US, even though the data is being collected. Right now, only high profile cases get this treatment (think Boston marathon bombing) and there is generally no problem solving those. It could be the case that this starts to be applied for victimless petty crimes (the favorite here in the US to lock up people on) and thought crimes soon as it was in the Soviet bloc countries. I wouldn't be surprised as this stupid idea that all infractions of criminal code (formerly called crimes, but that implies malicious conduct which is not the case for most infractions in the US) can be solved and should be punished is pretty popular in the US (tough on crime attitudes), despite ignoring the fact that almost all major positive social change comes from criminals (civil rights movement, gay rights movement, cannabis legalization, etc.). I'd like to say that the police in the US do not have the same nature and motivations as their communist equivalents, but the only real difference is the size of the population and those pesky bill of rights amendments. So really, for practical purposes, only the size of the population.
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If you are implying that patents are the only way to fund research you are wrong. They are in fact one of the least efficient ways. The NIH funds more research with a paltry $30 billion than all of pharma does taking $300 billion in patent royalties each year.
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Since it uses React internally, I wonder how large these documents can grow until the experience gets sluggish. I ask this because React basically requires all of the internal content to be "visited" upon a redraw. But regardless of React, it is still interesting to know the constraints in terms of performance.

Also, instead of just pointing to the code on github, I'd like to get at least a little insight into the architecture of the project, because that is the interesting part, in my opinion. There is a brief description in the readme on github, but it doesn't really paint a clear picture.
Europe needs many more babies to avert a population disaster
Cat Purr is one of my favorites. I blend it with one of the water sounds, which effectively blocks out most office noise and creates a calm, soothing space.

Also, my cat freaked out a little when I played it for her.
I absolutely loved the "Things I won't work with" articles, very enjoyable to read. And I even learned some things about chemistry in the process. I can only recommend everybody who is even slightly interested in chemistry to read them.
Anything that changes behavior can eventually lead to speciation.
You edited your comment.

Your original comment was "victimology comes to genetics [...]"
The word "shell" in this context already means something. A text shell is a command line interpreter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(computing)#Text_.28CLI....). There are many shells that do not use the pipeline convention (e.g., irb), so your attempt to redefine it to promote PowerShell fails from the start.

PowerShell's object pipeline is functionally analogous to function chaining in languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript, not Unix pipelines. PowerShell's object pipeline does not exist outside of the .NET runtime and you can not stream objects between arbitrary executables outside of the .NET runtime.

You can't compare an apple to an orange and say one is "objectively better," no matter how hard PowerShell advertisers try to pretend their apple is an orange.
I'd like to see the data and not just an assertion that the RUSI Mask is a better match.
I agree in principal. Though I have never explored data extensively I would say in general it's probably true. Though patents were created to protect the average inventor, they end up protecting (net value) the large corporation.

It's hard for the typical "hard-core capitalist / free-market guy" to understand, but I consistently argue that regardless of where the money flows as long as passionate people are able to sustain a comfortable living studying what they love, there will always be amazing breakthroughs in all fields, regardless of "market forces".
Yes! Yes! and Yes!

Facebook offers a bug bounty program, use it! I just did and got paid $2000 this month for reporting a crypto related flaw. The thing is, if a company offers a bounty program and you choose to go around it and publicly disclose you are sort of a jerk and to more than just the company. Another researcher had already found and reported the bug. Facebook was already working on a fix. The researcher was likely waiting for the terms of the bug bounty program to be met so they could then publish and spin it into a Black Hat, DEF CON, CanSec talk, then this kid comes along and takes the thunder. That's a real dick move.
Exactly! You're getting it. Part of it, but a big part.
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Here's a joke told in the movie The Lives of Others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vDQaAYaQg

I think I saw the movie on Vudu. It's a very moving story about the secret police, and the people they spy on. Really, watch it. As others have said, we're not so far away from this in time, and there are many, many people who lived through it.
Some people don't have English as a first language. You should probably try harder to give their comments a charitable interpretation.
You can criticize SSAO/SAO as much as you want, but it can add spectacular details.

Here is a Viking Shield that I setup shading on:

https://clara.io/view/01529814-3164-449a-8765-61a77cf780e0

Then I added this SAO/SSAO pass:

https://clara.io/view/966d2196-8573-47df-b9c2-bd6e1ad65a73

And the result is this, which I think is dramatically better than what I began with:

https://clara.io/view/d59d26ab-c26e-4fa0-8907-d52c0c8acc1a

I find the end result has significantly more detail and feeling of depth than what I started out with.
Continuous documentation is continuous because you just edit your docstrings, push to GitHub, and your docs are now updated.
To connect with the Beatles, all they needed was a helicopter
Do you mind pointing to any resources that can help in understanding pursuing trauma-release treatments.
Thanks in advance.
"But in recent years, as sci-fi has expanded to include storytellers who are women, gays and lesbians, and people of color, the Hugos have changed, too."

I welcome the increased diversity, but surely this should read "[...] expanded to include [more] storytellers who are women, [...]". While there are probably notable examples of the other categories listed, Ursula K. Le Guin immediately springs to mind as belonging amongst those "Gods" discussed in the previous breath - and she won a Hugo in 1969 and another in 1974.
I paid 10k for our team's new domain. But all we got was less traffic
It was called "Pax Romana" in Augustus' times.
$(document).on lets you keep your javascript source files relatively flat because the event handler listens on the document, rather than an individual element. So even if the element is not currently on the page (loaded in via AJAX for example) the $(document).on handler will still pick it up. You never need to bind or unbind event handlers manually. The rails recommended way is to respond to the JS format and do server-rendered javascript.... but I tend to prefer using a simple data-transport-only (JSON) api, then do the client stuff on the client side.

Simple example:

$(document).on 'ajax:success', '.guest-form', ->
notify 'success', 'Guest updated.'
$(@).parents('.modal').modal 'hide'

$(document).ajaxError (event, jqxhr, settings, thrownError) ->
handle_ajax_error(event, jqxhr)

@handle_ajax_error = (error, xhr) ->
if xhr.status is 422
error = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText)['errors']
notify 'error', error
else if xhr.status is 500
notify 'error', 'Error communicating with the server. We have been notified.'
if xhr.status is 401
notify 'warning', 'Session has expired. Redirecting to login...'
window.location = '/login'
if xhr.status is 403
window.location = '/access-denied'

So if you load in content via AJAX (I do this a lot for table views of data and the user wants to see a single record), rather than go to a separate page, I do an ajax call, put the result into a Twitter bootstrap modal, show the modal, and when the bs.modal.shown event fires, that "single javascript function" with the modal as the parameter is called, and it initializes all the javascript needed for that particular DOM container.

Example:

$(document).on 'shown.bs.modal', 'a[data-toggle="tab"]', (e) ->

$modal_body = $( $(e.target).attr('href') )
general_init $modal_body

The general_init function will initialize all my selectize elements (among other things) as such:

general_init = ($container) ->
add_selectize $container.find('input.membership-plan-select'), $.extend(true, {}, Selects.MembershipPlanOptions)

So when writing forms, lets say to create a new "Event Ticket" I simply plop in a text field with a class of "guest-select" and I instantly have an AJAX powered search field to find/create a guest to assign that ticket to.
Especially when one John Smith can speak for the rest.
Naila resident here. Ask me if you want to know something :P
> But most people hope that individual Facebook employees have limited strictly audited access to user data.

Any reason to think this is at all the case?

I recall Google getting into trouble over this in the past [1]. I can definitely see data scientists and other employees at FB taking a peek... if anything just finding out who looked at your profile/photos/etc would be pretty tempting.

At this point, FB is just too valuable as a source of intel. I just assume that the US Govt (and others) has direct and easy access. Use at your own risk.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-stalked-teens...
Incidentally, Morrissey had a single 'Piccadilly Palari' about male prostitution in the Piccadilly circus area in which he included polari cant.
> It's fundamentally different.

That's because the object pipeline is functionally analogous to function chaining within a single runtime like in Python or Ruby, not streaming data between arbitrary executables like in Unix pipelines.

This would be a lot clearer if PowerShell advocates compared it to things that it's actually functionally analogous to, but they are trying to position it as a Unix shell competitor.
Can someone give me an idea of how difficult it would be to change the default on the software from sharing location to not sharing location? Is it more complicated that simply changing a variable value somewhere in the code?
Another aspect rarely in the spotlight is the fate of the close family members of those that left successfully.
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And accelerometers & gyros. Also processors & GPUs, as my uncle comment sent. All of these being cheap and high quality is why personal VR currently has a shot at happening.
I'm running a machine with the same specs as you and I don't ever experience Firefox bogging down as you are describing. I do believe Firefox is more heavy-weight than Chrome, but nothing to the point where I have to consider updating my OS or running an SSD. I set my browser to delete everything when I close and launch again. This helps to keep registry and temp files from building up. Perhaps this might help?
Translation: I am an idea guy and need a code monkey for free!
If that happens, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple disabled iOS WebKit's ability to use custom user agent strings (i.e. all iOS WebKit browsers look like Safari to servers). That's all it'd take to stop discrimination of iOS browsers by content producers.

Really though, I doubt that much will happen. I imagine that only reasonably tech savvy iOS users will install ad blockers and the overall impact will be minimal, just like its been for every other browser that supports ad blocking.
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"Don't mistake my outrage for surprise." :)
A common abuse of SSAO I see among early users: using it everywhere. SSAO is technically only supposed to occur where there is a lack of lighting (where there is only ambient lighting). That said I think it is still fine to apply it unrealistically if the results look "good" -- maybe even preferable for some people as I tend to enjoy stylized rendering over totally realistic rendering.
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Communist, totalitarian, fascist, they're all just variations of thugocracy.

The US government operates a surveillance infrastructure beyond the wildest wet dreams of the Stasi and their ilk, beyond all practical oversight. It attracts people to work for it who think that's a good thing, including the lack of oversight. We're expected to trust them. We know that secrecy promotes laziness, and is used to hide ineptness, incomptence, greed and crime.

Some are no doubt outright thugs. Some probably believe the infrastructure as it exists and is evolving is a good thing. Either way, they're burning the village to save it, and they're using the Constitution as tinder.
> “The gene changes in the children could only be attributed to Holocaust exposure in the parents,” said Yehuda.

I don't know whether that quote is taken out of context, or is otherwise not representative of the people involved in this project, but that sentence makes me question the validity of the science involved.

Clearly there are lots of possible explanations. Perhaps the genes were present anyway, and would have been passed on regardless of the parents' traumatic experiences. Perhaps being raised by parents who have been through a traumatic experience affected the children.

Saying there is no other possible explanation doesn't sound very scientific.
The common usage of the term does make that come to mind. However, kernel just means the central part of things. The bottom-most layer in computing. Relevant for your definition, a whole sector of operating systems are microkernel-based: almost everything in Linux/BSD are merely user-mode processes for such systems, running on a tiny kernel.
> Facebook offers a bug bounty program, use it!

How is this a bug? It's a feature of FB Messenger! He didn't have to exploit any bugs to get at the data. He just took what FB gave him and displayed it on a map. Why would this be eligible for a bug bounty?
I don't think so in this case. The company knew about the feature (per the story they were informed in 2012) so private disclosure would have likely gone nowhere.

This is another sad example in a long list of security/privacy issues that only gets fixed by what sometimes gets called "stunt hacking" or flashily disclosing the issue.

Take android security patching as a great example. Security pros have been lamenting the lack of a security patch process on android for years and years, Samsung et al have done very little about it. Now Stagefright comes along and gets the press and all of a sudden Samsung are committing to regular security patches..

Another good example is the car hacking stuff that Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller did. without the press furory around their release, do we think a recall would've happened for those cars... I don't think so.

It's an unfortunate truth in security which is full disclousre gets the results that private disclosure often doesn't.
Easily solved by blocking emails to/from and web traffic with a domain filter. If the VA had the guts to do it.
Would that be along the lines of https://packages.debian.org/sid/systemd-ui , https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/sysadmin/system... , or https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=272.0 ?
In what universe is encouraging more babies a good thing. There are plenty of them (and people in general) already.

The concerns in article are intensely nationalistic. Globally we are still a long long long way from the negative population growth that we need as species. That's far more important than what any country needs.
Yes, the college student is the real dick here...

As others have mentioned, the security issue the student highlighted was a known issue.

I think going through official channels is the right thing to do for mission critical zero day type of vulnerabilities.

Bringing increased attention to a known, unfixed, issue, doesn't seem like a jerk move to me.
That comment is utterly uninformed.

If you want to run a script simultaneously on a number of hosts, you use the Invoke-Command cmdlet (or it's alias icm).

If you want to stop a process, you use Stop-Process (or it's alias kill).

To copy files or directories you use the Copy-Item cmdlet (or one of it's aliases cp and copy).

Hence, to stop WINWORD on a host1, host2 and host3 and then copy a directory from host0 to each of them, you would write:

icm host1,host2,host3 {kill -name WINWORD; cp \\host0\C$\source C:\dest }

As simple as it should be!

The commenter is correct that you cannot start an application in another session from remote. However, this is a security restriction that prevents cross-session contamination and shatter attacks. It is a (security) limitation of Windows, not of PowerShell.

Under Windows, all services run in session 0, the interactive user run in session 1, and if more users log on (e.g. remotely through PowerShell) they are each created in their own session. Windows put severe restrictions on what programs can do cross-session - even if the processes run under the same user account: They cannot send messages, interact with the desktop windows, inject code, start threads etc.

The commenter also alludes to other security settings that you'll encounter when you first start using PowerShell:
- Execution of script files are disabled by default. You need to use the Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet to allow script execution, and for desktop editions you need to enable remote management. Both has secure-by-default values.

To enable script execution:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned LocalMachine

I.e. scripts that originates from the Internet (downloaded through a browser or received through mail/IM/etc) or other untrusted zones require digital signatures to run; locally authored scripts are allowed to run with no digital signatures.

To enable remote management run this command:

Enable-PSRemoting

On Windows Server versions it is now assumed that the administrator will want to use remote management, so it is enabled by default for servers. For desktops you'll need to set it through a group policy or with the command above.
There's a book[1] written by a Russian guy in the US about his efforts to escape from the USSR by... swimming the ocean! It's a highly entertaining book, although there's a chapter in which he describes his incarceration in a Soviet mental facility, and that one is pretty gruesome.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Inclined-Escape-Yuri-Vetokhin/dp/B0006...
Who? Link plz
In the sense that the poster is perpetuating that there is no good at Amazon at all. That everything is awful and that no one could possible like/want to work there.
From the article's summary of the study, it does not preclude the possibility that the tag was switched on in the children after birth. One would expect that experiencing trauma to the degree of the parents in the study would cause them to raise their children a substantially different environment than they would have otherwise. Since we already know that environment can influence the expression of genes, I don't see why this isn't advanced as, at least, an equally viable theory on why their children expressed similar genes.
That's an important point. I think (in general) a well-educated population, coupled with transparency of policy, almost certainly negates the possibility of long-term nefarious action. Even bad decisions can be reversed in general (in a properly functioning government). So to a point I definitely agree, but would generally promote a more pro-active philosophy to help ensure slimy situations don't sneak up on you.
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