skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea, although it has the same failings as classic sci fi and much of the modern left when it comes to economic illiteracy (in particular agricultural efficiency being mandated by law instead of left to the market).

Also projections of population don't suggest any more than doubling by 2080 at the maximum. And raising and killing animals humanely should become easier with improvement in robotics technology.
Article did not answer my first question, which is why this thing is called "$1". I clicked expecting to discover some sort of cheap hardware device.
tldr: Government subsidies for wind power production exceeded the cost of "selling" at a negative price so it was profitable for wind farms to do so.
There's the rather entertaining talk "A Whole New World" by Gary Bernhardt1[1]. The first time I saw it I was quite disappointed such a system didn't exist.

[1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
I am pretty sure that parent meant DNNs love to fit noise. So you two are in strong agreement.
I'm afraid I have no idea what I'm looking at...
Care to do it yourself?
As an aside, it annoys me when people straw-man economists. It is of little consequence, but obviously any economist who studied the situation would understand at once why producers are incentivized to do this.
GBPJPY Pauses Recovery, Vulnerable to the Downside
As noted in the article, wind power is highly variable, but other sources have the opposite problem: Slow ramp up and ramp down times.

If you're running a massive coal plant (and nuclear is ten times worse), you can't just turn it off for 5 minutes if the last 5 minute auction didn't go your way. Even if you think the next 10-20 auctions won't be economical for you to win and you start the shut down process, you'll still need to get rid of that power you're generating in the meantime.

What (probably) happened is that the a combination of high wind production and low demand meant the system temporarily had a surplus of power, and some (non-wind) producers actually were selling power at a loss just to get rid of it because they couldn't wind their systems down fast enough. Which is a much more interesting story than "federal government subsidies wind". Shame Slate didn't talk about it.
Stroke order matters. As does amount of strokes per gesture.

Once you get that, it's fairly accurate.
Excellent tip. First part works great. But what do you mean by canc? Is that a button on the inspector? A key combination? Can't find it.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious. It's been a long day...
Given that floats are already bitwise reproducible (provided the compiler is appropriately shackled), what does this idea add to reproducibility?
Symantec issues lame apology, fires wrong people in cert screwup
How is it a moral issue? If it's immoral to block certain behavior on sites, then it's just as if not _more_ immoral for users to block ads in the first place. The usual argument is that sites with ads constitute an implicit agreement, etc. If users have the prerogative (regardless of moral ambiguity) to block content they don't like, sites have the same prerogative to block unsavory visitors as they see fit. To say that using FuckAdBlock is forcing anyone to accept content is complete and utter nonsense.
Is there a reason the electrical plants don't short / burn off their excess electricity rather than paying consumers to use it?
Really nice! I use reflux right now but I think I am going to give Redux a try for my next pet project.

In case anyone is interested of a similar one using reflux coffee, hapi,webpack with hod reloading (no undo): https://github.com/rrecuero/coffee-react-webpack-hapi-templa....
> Illumina hit the $1,000 mark in January of 2014.

Everyone I know (admittedly small sample size) is still paying around $2000-3000 for 30x WGS. Does the $1000 genome actually exist, or is this just pure PR on Illumina's part? What is BGI charging nowadays?
The same reason people do not take their own trash to the dump, it is cheaper for electrical plants to outsource the wasting of electricity.
If you are in a modern EU/Korean/Japanese car, you would have to be rather unlucky or going fast if anything was to happen to you. Also,it takes a lot more to actually drive you off the road - you can literally push back.

On a motorbike all it takes is a bump,and, you have to be lucky not to end up in hospital.

Btw in no way im for window rattling. However, EURO4/5, I would not be surprised if my vacuum cleaner was louder
I'm sorry to inform you that line twelve of that html has a script tag. Here's the kicker: it's google analytics.
See gizmo686's much more accurate reply on this topic.
There Is New Evidence That Football Destroys Brains–and It’s Terrifying
Any database that can't recover from kill -9 is not worth trusting your data with.
As a rule of thumb, whenever a "big" number is used in a headline, it is usually a much smaller than amount than it sounds.

I don't have domain experience in this field, so I can't say in this case if it's significant.
You mean of course to say, robotically.
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This is why I bought Tesla stock. Tesla Energy is aiming to own this market.
TrueNorth chips would probably be a competitive disadvantage. I found Yann LeCun's critique[0] compelling. In short, simulating the brain via spiking neurons is less efficient than just doing the floating point math like regular neural nets do.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10152184295832143
AVG new privacy policy: they can/will sell your browsing history to 3rd parties
78.4 mpg
So this isn't a free market. This negative price is the result of an artificial market created by government subsidies.

If someone is selling something at negative prices, then there is a business opportunity for someone to buy that product and throw it away. Someone could setup a giant space heater to do nothing more than absorb electricity. The windfarms would pay this entity to keep buying power at no cost until the price approached the subsidy. Perhaps a steel mill or aluminum smelter could be paid to fire up another furnace for no other reason than to suck up power. I'm all for free markets and green energy subsidies, but I am totally against waste.

Hopefully some market actor will appear with the ability to store and resell energy. That might be homes with batteries and net metering.
Note, Paperback has over twice the density of Optar.

Not that I'm complaining. I bookmarked both because I think they're nifty, despite "media abuse" being the best tag I could think of.
It's not crazy: it's just standard operating procedure for RISC-like architectures. In fact, anything that brings the x86 architecture closer to RISC is nice in my book.
Great cheatsheet; I'll definitely use it. Don't know if you're a react native developer or not but it would be neat to annotate these with info about which properties are supported by react native's layout, since it's not a 100% clone of flexbox.
What is a "Symantec-internal testing process" that leads to Google certs being leaked outside of Symantec? Is some engineer poking around and just used "google.com" as an example? Seems like a pretty serious wtf moment. If I was Google I would be pissed.
Ahmed Mohamed didn’t invent his own alarm clock. He didn’t even build a clock
For the same reason William Gibson wrote Neuromancer not on a computer, but on a Hermes typewriter. More low tech = more authentic.
Your point is an interesting one and leads me to an odd conclusion: the presence of wind producers in this market is not a requirement for negative prices.

Assuming the author is accurately describing the market, by definition, the bids of wind producers will always account for a minority of the capacity. Which means the other 70+ percent of the supply is coming from other producers. If your explanation holds, then coal producers and the like were bidding themselves at a loss, which seems like that is a state that could happen even in the absence of wind producers.

I can see how the wind producers are affecting this, but they're not a requirement. If there was a transition to considerably lower-usage electrical devices within Texas, the relative gap between demand and capacity of the existing producers would result in the same effect on the market: everyone scrambling to deal with ramp downs even at a loss. It's just that the wind farms produced that gap on the supply side instead.
Of course, but Robotness would probably be an improvement over humaneness given our tendency to ignore animal suffering as long as it's out of sight.
Ah yes, the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil approach to security. Certainly blaming the messenger will make the problem go away.
CT audit records are inserted directly by the CA. The blog post doesn't appear to say the certs were leaked outside of Symantec or used in the wild.
I'm not sure that 1996-era HTTP server software was "secure as hell" even if serving static content. Browsers certainly were not.
Reading through the articles/comments:

1) You can't just 'change parking'. There are already too many variables involved. Articles such as the above are all well and good, but they're pie in the sky, up there with personal space vehicles.

Implementing something like this at the national level is...going to be more than complicated (think, just as bad or worse than healthcare), controversial, and probably not worth it (inefficient and we we trying to get away from centralization anyways).

2) There are some technological solutions...but they are just as difficult, if not more so, than the legal solutions.

So my conclusion is that, for some sort of reform to work, there must be a general 'framework' that is invented, with general solutions, general planned costs, and then this framework must be publicized. That way a larger number of local governments can use these guidelines as a blueprint for reforming/updating their parking regulations.

I'm not saying this would be easy either, but it sounds more attainable than any of the alternatives. I think it would also tackle the problem more efficiently - no painful major overhauls, no expensive long planning/implementation processes, just what people actually want. And can do, given already limited time/money budgets.
I should have added that it was IT consulting shops HR I was referring to, not final clients. The further away from the actual jobs, the more buzzwordy it gets. Some might appreciate curiosity and diversity, but in the end they want simple and bankable. They told me, some missions will enjoy jack of all trades type, but the majority of their clients wants framework-specific forces.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10242524
This isn't far off from how the Putnam competition started: In 1933, five years before it launched as an annual competition between universities, the first Putnam mathematics competition was held between Harvard and the United States Military Academy. Allegedly nobody thought the Army had much of a chance, but unlike the students from Harvard they took the competition seriously, and as in this latest competition the underdogs won.
Why do we keep arguing if taking massive blows to the body, head and numerous whiplashes leads to brain health problems? Isn't that obvious?

There is nothing in the head to absorb the energy of a sudden deceleration, but the brain. So all of the energy goes there.
Calling conventions are hard – fuzz them
I'm inclined to think that wind will only work at bigger scales if we can find industrial processes that are dominated by energy costs rather than capital costs and which can scale up and down in energy consumption fast enough to track the wind output.

I can think of a couple of possibilities. Water desalination is an obvious candidate. It might be economical to massively overbuild desalination plants and then only run them at peak capacity when wind is at peak as well. If the cost of electricity is much greater than the capital cost of the desalination plants, then it might be a net win when amortized over the lifetime of the plants.

Generating hydrogen by electrolysis and then immediately converting it to ammonia by the Haber process might be another. The production of ammonia for use in fertilizer using methane as the hydrogen source is a major green house gas contributor. There would be a significant advantage if we could move to carbon-free production.
Is this a different situation to the CNNIC Google cert issued earlier in the year? If so, how?
Ah, just saw it. Lazare's comment led me to the same conclusion.
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I am not that optimistic on that front.

Several things that might happen:
1.Use data mining or machine learning, I believe, the big networks will find ways to distinguish whether a user has enabled ad blockers or not, using only the data they collected. Google, as a network, already offers segments to publishers, called viewability, representing how the ads is viewed by the user.

2.Once they have the data, they could do a lot of things with it. Sending warnings, or service degradation, or if you are on the phone force you to jump to app in order to serve you native ads.

By any means, they couldn't 100% eliminate usage of ad blockers, but they could make it harder and more uncomfortable to use in the long term.

One thing I am more afraid of is that, it will means the death of the free web, and drive publishers/platform to serve their content through native client, like apps, where they have greater control. But what about small publishers? Well, maybe nothing but doom...
If it was leaked externally, it'd be more than just pissing off Google, it'd be justification for removing Symantec's CA certs from browsers. I.e., who knows what other domains Symantec might be "testing" that would go undiscovered because the owners of those domains don't have Google's resources.

But as the other poster says, this probably wasn't leaked at all.
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Your giant space heater would make a tiny amount of money for an hour or so in the middle of the night, every once in a blue moon when a dip in demand and a spike in supply happen to overlap, taking advantage of the fact that the other (oil, hydro and nuclear) power plants can't power down and back up at such short notice.

If this happens all the time, it will drive the average price of power down, and power hungry industries will move there, but steel mills and aluminum smelters can't move around the country at a few minutes notice.
I'm confused by the name too. It seemed abundantly clear that they were hoping to collect a micropayment from people who used the software, until I read more and it turned out to just be the name of the software.
Symantec is too big to unlist. CNNIC wasn't. /s
No. The article states that electricity is sold at the highest bid to meet the demand, and that wind was only supplying up to 40% of the demand. I.e. It is the coal and nuclear power plants that are also bidding negative.

The market is working, to such an extend that during times of extreme oversupply power generators have to assess if they will temporarily turn down production (which has a cost, especially for coal/nuclear, as they are difficult to switch), or if instead they are willing to pay people to take the electricity.

Yes, without subsidies, wind would probably minimum bid at a $0/MWh, but that would still leave fuel based producers running at negative marginal cost.

What's missing in this market is flexible demand. I'm pretty sure if our appliances would spin up real time at low prices that it would be almost impossible to hit negative prices again, as demand will rise much more rapidly in response to lowering electricity prices.
The most common complaint is that repairs for German cars are much more expensive, but this may be an artifact of the supply chain for parts and not apply to Europe.
Thats one of the things that'll happen to you if you start writting groovy code. The whole setter/getter boilerplate thing gets really annoying.

Another groovy-ism.. the whole deal with having to copy properties. (In a groovy class they're threated like a map)
The usual candidate for this is aluminium smelters.

They are extremely energy intensive: usually operators will only turn them on full when electricity is below e.g. $50 a MW.

The have the added bonus that they can act as a temporary battery: you can smelt extra aluminium to use up the negative energy rates, but then let it convert back again.
Riiiiight.... Not many places can afford a server with 6TB of RAM. Dear Lord, I didn't even know that was possible with commodity hardware. This would be hard to justify at a data-driven business even.
Unfortunately, majority of Android devices will never get patched because Google doesn't exert control over the OS.

Imagine if security patch for a normal PC needs to be written by Microsoft, approved by Dell / HP (OEMs) and Bestbuy / Fry's Electronics (carriers).

Personally I'd recommend Nexus phones for people who like Android, and avoid anything else.
The problem comes when you spot a Bean class and then it isn't. 99.9% of "getX" methods simply read the field. But if you assume that every "getX" method just reads the field, you'll be caught out by the rare one that doesn't - I've seen a production bug happen this way.
Wtf is a "pre-certificate"?
No, we are talking about a random electrical circuit noise in the analog NN hardware. Of course, if the noise is known and fixed, the net could learn to compensate (to a certain extent).
The noise we are talking about is like when you put your finger on the chip, and raise its temperature by 10 degrees, the whole thing needs to be retrained.
It's different because this was "internal testing" and the certificate wasn't used (at least, this is not mentioned). CNNIC issued a CA cert to some random intermediary. Slight difference in severity.
Searching for the “human algorithm” in 2001: A Space Odyssey
This is (or at least used to be) the default. I find it completely insane that Apple would ship with this. I know japan has special keyboards with buttons for changing language, but China and Hong Kong uses American layout and need to be able to switch.
I don't think that was a reason for scientists to use windows. It maybe allowed those used to windows to keep using it. Or maybe you only mean it was reason to choose Windows over Mac?

Because on Linux, installing python with libraries has always been trivially automatic.
My windows experiences have always been hunting the net for hopefully compatible installers from 7 different sources and hope it won't mess my python installation... And it always ends up constraining the version I can use.

- Python(x,y) was a step forward but stagnated on python 2.

- Sagemath, which bundles a huge collection of scientific software gave up on installing on Windows. To this day, their answer is a virtualbox linux image. (It's also been a strong reason for developing SageMath Cloud, so people don't need to install Sage at all.)

- Disclaimer: haven't tried Conda.
The kind where they used Chrome to browse to an internal testing website? Though using a real website, like Google, instead of a mock is quite wtf. What I'm curious about is whether the fired* Symanted engineers were just scapegoats or had they actually been reckless and unprofessional.

* http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/tough-day-leaders
You're probably right about Spring Boot. I've never been a web developer, and TBH, I've had no direct experience with either Boot or DW other than a simple Hello, World. At the time DW seemed the safer choice simply because it used the JAX-RS standards, and using standards in the Java world (especially good ones like JAX-RS) is a very good idea. But in the meantime Spring Boot has also done the right thing and adopted JAX-RS (at least as an alternate API), so I should add it to the post.

As to Maven vs. Gradle, that turned out to be the most controversial point of the entire guide -- which surprised me. Let me put it this way: both are good and I prefer Gradle. Also, Gradle, while still far behind Maven in terms of adoption, has good momentum. Either is a good choice at this moment, but I would guess that Gradle will take the lead in five years (although it's far from a safe bet).
This is happening occasionally here in germany[1], most recently 2 weeks ago[2]. Here it's not just oversupply but also the lack of overland lines to distribute wind power from the north to the south, so we have to push it to neighboring countries instead.

[1] http://energytransition.de/2014/05/german-power-prices-negat...
[2] https://www.epexspot.com/en/market-data/intradayauction/char...
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A lot of mistakes are picked up before the devs can even compile their project. (Note that I did not say "you". I guess pro C and C++ coders are a lot more thoughful about their code and therefore don't that level of static checking.)
Looks like that article got pulled?
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It sounds to me that chrome reports to google when it encounters certificate that was not issued by them.

Symantec for some reason created google certificate internally and then someone used chrome
It's cute, but a whole article for this?
Aerial Construction
See earlier discussion on the topic on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10242987
What is frustrating? You can just study the algorithms you are unfamiliar with and then do a better result the next time you take the test? You use the same methodology any time you are given a test that you fail that you wish to pass.
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This article was already posted, without the mobile formatting.
Life in Walter Segal's self-build 'anarchist' estate
Disable HTTPS-Everywhere for the site if you have that installed. Took me quite a while to figure out.
I believe the parent was calling you out on your BS. You claimed to care about the truth, but actually misunderstood and mischaracterized me. Then when the ignorance of your original statement became obvious, rather than acknowledge your gaffe, you immaturely deflected with glib sarcasm.

Not surprisingly, consistent with your weak intellectual arguments and preceding dishonesty, your comic forwards bigotry and ignorance while ignoring every meaningfully accurate portrayal of the truth.

You're a mouthpiece for hatred and ignorance.
Glad to hear it! Learn Enough™ Command Line to Be Dangerous is the first of eight planned prerequisites to the Rails Tutorial, the first three of which cover the command line, text editors, and Git. The text editor tutorial is currently in preparation, to be followed by Git, et al. See http://learnenough.com/ for more information.
But, if rich people are seen using these, nobody else will want one. ;)
I would question these results. I ran the same code on a more modern processor (i7-3930K) for 1000000000 iterations and got these averages over 10 loops after a warm-up:

Array: 453 ms
Stream: 887 ms
Parallel stream: 120 ms

The array loop code is about twice as fast as the sequential stream (parallel stream blows both of them away). The array loop advantage will start to go away once you increase the complexities of what you're doing in the loop and, of course, the stream code is much more readable.

(Edit: I also tested IntStream().of() instead Array().stream() for the sequential stream test, the results were identical in both cases.)
Maybe you could create a cheat sheet of the combination of summaries?

Cool, that's a great idea. It should be easy to extract all the relevant tables and put them into a single document. Thanks!
For conventional electrical generation, because disposing of large amounts of power safely is more expensive than dumping it onto the grid.

For wind power, because wasting the power before it hits the grid would result in them not getting their federal green energy subsidy.