skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's perfectly possible to be both humble and assertive. Assertiveness is about having clear boundaries and enforcing them. You can be humble about your place in the wider scheme of things and very assertive within that place.

Humility doesn't mean letting people walk all over you, it means not thinking you're the most important person in the room.

Mr Myagee (sp?) from Karate Kid was both humble and assertive.
Twice? Well....
Make Color Text in C++ on Ubuntu
If the current interest rate is high compared to default risk, why hasn't some private company come in to undercut the government and make a killing? I don't think it's because the banks aren't greedy enough. My guess would be that it's because of the extremely high default rate on student loans, and the extremely favorable repayment terms that government loans offer: payments capped at 10% of discretionary income, and forgiveness after 20 years (10 if working in non-profit or government)[1].

[1] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
Funny little app to show you the time of any location
Ok at best, not revolutionary or extraordinary, there are other panel companies with panels in the same price range even now if you want to buy "cheap" panels from China you can get as low as 0.3-0.4$ per watt.

For most house installations the panel costs aren't the big deal, the installation and the electrical setup cost more than the panels, and it's really not clear from the article if this is included in the price.

The labor costs, mounting frames, battery/capacitor bank, inverter and all the wiring cost a small fortune, if you want to hook it to the grid for offload you'll end up paying even more because then you need to tick quite a few additional regulatory boxes.

So while I'm sure that these are going to be great panels, and 55 cents per watt for the panel it self isn't a bad price it's not going to be amazing, and this isn't even much beyond the current status of the market if you count in panels in general, for a US made panel that's going to be "revolutionary" for sure but again that should't really give it any substantial merit.

But on the other hand of this is an overall price for a turn-key system this is a huge deal because this is in the orders of magnitude cheaper than the current turn-key price for an installation, which is what makes me think this is the panel price only.
Disclosure: I work for Google.

To the best of my recollection, I don't believe we've ever shutdown a product. Was there one in particular that hit you? (Reader, Wave, etc are totally different divisions.)
they won't sell their panels outright because they are not trying to make money from manufacturing panels, but from providing the service (and the monitoring) to install and use them. That is Solar City's business, and they make lot of money doing it. These panels are about as efficient as others, and the installed cost is still a good bit higher. Not a game changer at all.
Which would be understandable if they ever shut down any cloud service offering of this level before (which they have not).

This whole "Google loves to shut stuff down" is really tired and overplayed.

Go ahead and compare Google's track record with Apple's or Microsoft's, or any other company. They are about on par, yet Google almost always gives 6+ months notice (often over a year), provides one-click alternatives, allows you to export your data in one of many formats, and more often than not has an in-house alternative that you can use automatically.

Take a look at the wiki page of google's products [1]. I'd be surprised if you even knew about 10% of those, let alone used more 1 or 2 significantly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon...
You can buy cheap panels today if you want them, either find a panel with a 1pc minimum or get some people and buy in bulk, the panels themselves aren't the major cost of installing solar at your house tho.

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/price-per-watt-solar-panels....
No. Ignorance is to blame. Can the 18 year old be expected to make good financial decision? Probably not, especially if they only have a government school education which most likely does not teach basic economics. However, does that 18 year old not have parents?

And what do we end up with when these 18 year olds become 23 year olds with a load of debt and still no basic idea of economics or understanding what it means to go into debt? We end end up with an even bigger problem.

Also, government is not society.
Oh, we'll get unquotes, don't worry. It's more a question of not-yet-implemented than anything else.

Here I might as well ask HN what syntax I should go with for unquotes in 007. In Perl 6, unquotes are written as three nested braces: {{{$ast}}}

Almost no-one is happy with that syntax. It manages to be distinctive (and can be easily syntax-highlighted, too) but pretty it ain't.

The difficulty of finding something better is that it has to be orthogonal to basically all other syntax in the language. And that's a challenge in Perl. :) People keep proposing Unicode sigils and stuff, but I haven't seen something I like yet.
Microsoft Received Over 175,000 Customer Complaints Regarding Tech Support Scams
Another interesting paradox in probability is Bertrand’s Paradox[1]. Given an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle, what is the probability that chord of the circle chosen at random is longer than the side of the triangle? (Hint: The answer depends on your method of selecting a random chord.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_%28probabilit...
> We are also working on a solution that would persist custom packages across sessions on different VM instances.

Nix?
I also assumed that it's just a webshell to connect to your existing instances.

Only now I realized that it's a 1-click launch of O&M instance with persistent home directory (and in the future maybe persistent image as well).

I hope they will give the ability to switch instance type.

It's a good pattern to have an O&M node, where people are allowed to ssh, which will have all the devops scripts.

You can do this with AWS' t2.micro instance and launch hyperlink and some custom webshell, but it will not be that integrated as Google Cloud Shell.
In that case, I wish they would make money providing service in other countries too.
Let's say that it is an "intuitive" way to reach the same conclusions one reaches after excessive study of religions, philosophy, physics, and then social psychology to explain religions and social conditioning.

Ultimate reality is realization (a glimpse of) the fact, that the ego is not the self, and even intellect is not the self, that most of our perceptions are socially/culturally conditioned, beginning with our spoken language in the first place, and that there is no self apart from that conditioning.
"that against a cosmic scale of time and space, every human being is minute"

There is a paved road to clinical depression which starts with thoughts like these.
I know it because I've taken it.

Life stops having meaning if you take this too seriously - I mean, why do anything or achieve anything if we're just specs in time and space destined to die and be forgotten ?

Besides, this doesn't necessarily imply humility.
If it doesn't matter then it doesn't matter - if you've got a small/quiet ego or you're a larger-than-universe egomaniac... because... we're just a minute...
Ask HN: If you prove that P=NP, dare you announce it?
If you solve the P=NP? problem that find that P=NP. Dare you announce it publicly?
Be in control of it.

You can do that bit by bit. Everyday, do one thing that you really don't want to do. Everyday, refrain from doing something that you want to do and can do.

If you want to go hardcore, expand this circle of do's and don'ts over the course of a month. By the end of the month, you'll be living as an ascetic, and that is when you'll know you have mastery over yourself.

Then every year repeat this asceticism for about 1-2 weeks. Withdraw from the world, read and write, eat one meal a day. That way your control over yourself keeps strong.
Show HN: Getform – Simple effortless form processing
So what should we call "painting"?
Yes, we should strive for a world where no-one has to work.
Don't pay it and default.

You'll only have to pay the income tax on the defaulted loan.

It's not like you need credit anyways since almost no one in this generation is going to be able to afford a house down payment.
If that were true, why would private student interest rate be 7% also? It has no such favorable repayment terms.
Great advice on assuming other people are also reasonable, and try to understand the problem they are trying to solve.

Years ago, Peter Norvig was a tech editor for an AI book I wrote. I realized two things: he has a clearer way of analyzing things than I do, and also that I was very fortunate that he ended up spending several hours helping me with his review material.
> but if the resulting work depends on someone else work.

Yes, so obviously your argument cannot be that "in theory, we could replace this with a workalike".

You better have the workalike, and that's what you should be shipping.

A powerful argument that you aren't infringing is that your shipping media are completely devoid of the work.

> don't care if its use or integration

For the sake of the GPL, they must care in this case, because the GPL specifically abstains from dictating use; it governs redistribution!

The only parts of the license relevant to use are the disclaimers; the only reason a pure user of a GPL-ed program might want to read the license at all is to be informed that if the program causes loss of data (or whatever), the authors are not liable.

GPLed programs get used all the time. A proprietary app on a GNU/Linux system can use the C library function system() which might invoke /bin/sh that is GNU Bash, and even depend on that functionality.

> For example, if I buy a painting and cut it into pieces and rearrange them, I actually need an additional license beyond what I got from purchasing the copy.

But what if that cut-up never leaves my house?

Or what if I only distribute instructions which describe the geometry of some cuts which can be made to a painting, and the relocation of the pieces?
My story parallels yours. I eventually saw a chiropractor (here come the downvotes lol) who performed what's documented here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081245 --I actually pointed him to that webpage and luckily he'd been trained to perform those treatments. After 4 sessions, my tinnitus and TMJ were barely noticeable and the tension in my neck and ears was gone.
Monetary policies after 2008, causing price increases due to artifical housing shortaged and asset bubbles are to blame.
It's still a vm. It uses the browser to "ssh" into the machine. They've got that functionality fol all other vm's as well. Now they offer this "ssh as a service"
"Software engineering" certanly feels better but I think generally our work is closer to a craft than an engineering practice; imagine if we built bridges, tunnels and planes as we build software - catastrophes every day!
The code is just normalized to separate each bit of functionality and each class into its own source file, which IMO can hardly be seen as a negative. Yes you could do the same in a lot less lines of code, in a single source file, but that does not necessarily mean the code would be 'better' (easier to read, debug, maintain), just shorter and easier to analyse by quickly scanning it. If someone would ever like to add more advanced features to this simulator, the advantages of the normalisation and separation of concerns will quickly outweigh the 'downside' of having a few more files than absolutely necessary.
It takes too long to compile otherwise, and I didn't want people to give up during compilation...
You can run 'make optimize' to use -O1
Great question! At the time of this glitch, Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions had not yet been published (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...). But even current researchers have not fully adapted to Kuhn's lessons. For example, last I saw, you couldn't pick up an intro text on the sociology of science and read a clear explanation of what academic, funding, and social structures allow scientists to be open minded and what structures prevent that. We don't really know. We haven't yet fully answered your question.
> But what if that cut-up never leaves my house?

Maybe so, because the exclusive right is framed as a right "to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work" (separate from reproduction, distribution, and other copyright rights).

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106
You don't have the benefit of retrospection in advance, it's true.

But you can take more time before releasing major components/features, and try to get them right. Eckel thinks they could have done better if they hadn't been in such a hurry, and focusing on marketting over quality, and maybe had some more skilled people involved. Especially in a platform so committed to backwards compat, if you release something designed poorly, you're stuck with it.

I guess the 'marketting' rejoinder would be if they had taken more time before releasing an attempted solution, it might have prevented Java's success in the 'market'.

I don't know. But I think it's general consensus at this point that eg J2EE API's and design was/is pretty awful -- and I don't think it actually takes retrospection to see that, it was awful right away and was seen so by many right away too.
Why fake followers? Social proof of course, one of the core tenants of getting a potential customer to trust you.(1)

Faking followers to create the impression of social proof / trustworthiness should, of course, be regulated since it's flat out trickery and falsely persuasive.

I don't envy the FTC's job on regulating commerce with issues like fake followers and the chaos ahead in regulating fake reviews, thousands of undisclosed endorsements via podcasts / you tubers / etc

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof
There are also ambiverts :)
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Why is OVH dysfunctional? My dedicated server is running splendid for 2y now.
So, what if you don't have that button? Is there a minimum amount of product you need to have before this service becomes active?
I use Chrome and a plugin called Font Changer that lets one override fonts on pages. I don't need to have it turned on for all sites but it can be done. Mostly I just have everything set to Arial (I don't like reading any serif fonts on screen). Perhaps there is a plugin for Firefox that does a similar thing.
Which is why we moved away from them of course...
Not all toxins are carcinogenic. In particular, VW seems to have been leaning out the mixture, resulting in lower levels of soot and carcinogenic polyaromatics. I'm not aware of any studies showing oxides of nitrogen to be carcinogenic.
Google Drive hosting, to be fair it still works and you guys gave plenty of heads up (August 31, 2016). Just because they are in different divisions doesn't mean Google hasn't shut things down.
The first Kurzweil was indeed additive, not sample-based - with hardware designed by Hal Chamberlin, who was famous for the Musical Applications of Microprocessors book.

The other famous additive synth was the DKI Synergy. It was a preset-only version of the ludicrously expensive Crumar GDS ($27,500), although if hung a Keypro micro off it you could create your own sounds without the GDS.

The Kawaii additive synths came a lot later.

The most recent additive outing is Camel's Alchemy, which does additive and other synthesis types. It which was bought by Apple and bundled with Logic Pro 10.2. NI's Razor is also additive, although the programming model is strange.

Additive can sound amazing but it's incredibly tweaky and time-consuming to program, so most people still prefer subtractive/analog.
> non-profit colleges, which are the most expensive kind (even worse than for-profit)

This sounds strange. How does that work?
How is it better than VNC?
Albeit much different, yet with some common ideas, I've created a docker “devops environment” image, that if you provide with a GCE service account, it will auto-activate google cloud and even setup ansible to work with your gce project. Emacs and vim are provided, pre-configured to a certain degree. The best usage scenario would be emacs+golang but there is basic support for other languages. There are some other conveniences too, like bash-completion being enabled (no more need for remembering all git flags).

If anyone is interested or want to borrow some ideas:

https://hub.docker.com/r/andmarios/devenv/

https://github.com/andmarios/docker/tree/master/devenv
People on other OSes wish they could use this tool. That's not complaining, that's actually a praise.

On the other hand, the website doesn't mention target platform, which is very irritating. That small piece of info is vital to see if the project is useful to us.
The sensitivity to CO2 is a very very very difficult to estimate parameter. Different values have been proposed in the past, so I don't think this is new.

I've read before about the influence of the sun, that has another difficult to estimate parameter, so I don't think this is new.

Is there some article with more details? Preferably with some graphics that show the agreement between the new model and the measured temperatures. Bonus point for a clear 5 and 10 years prediction, so we can compare that in 5 and 10 years. Extra bonus point for publishing it in a peer review journal!
To the universe you are nothing. To history you are probably nothing.

But to a small number of people you can be everything.
> Someone else would be better off without making you worse off

That money doesn't come from nowhere; someone is paying for it.

Student loans are already provided at below-market interest rates[0], which means they're being subsidized by taxpayers, either explicitly or implicitly.

[0] Not all student loans, but the majority if not all of undergraduate federal student loans
>designed to be funny to use

what's funny about it?
Does it always "declare itself"? What about Wells' War Of The Worlds?
Well there you go. I remember them being almost exclusively referred to as Solaris Zones, but some Googling shows that Solaris Containers was used interchangeably as early as 2005. You're right.

However, Docker did deliberately make the shipping container analogy -- the name, the logo and the early blogposts all consciously focused on the similarity with the invention of shipping containers. So I was half-right.
Is this somehow related to node-red? It looks nearly identical. I always wondered why things like this didn't gain much popularity. They essentially make it extremely easy to interface anything with anything. Hardware, Internet services, local scripting, all of it.
It may take a few minutes but getting a doctor's appointment takes a much longer - not to mention a lot of determination.

Thanks for the link though, I may just have a try at getting an appointment again before the year is out.
Microsoft acquires Havok
They likely don't know how this is going to be used, so they want to gather usage statistics (both user and resource) to determine what it should cost.
I enjoyed the Coen brothers tweaking of this convention with their fake "The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred" declaration.
I observe therefore I am
I have to wait for it to load, view it and charge my battery later. I don't get that time back. It concerns me.
Wow, on my desktop with 16GB of cheap, 4 year old ram and a Samsung SSD I bought this year, I'm getting 30x faster io on the ramdisk. Clever solution.
Pharmacies (In the UK) can give blood pressure tests.
On that list that I've used: Buzz, Pack, Desktop, Reader, iGoogle.

To Be Discontinued: Google Drive Hosting, Google Code.

I don't think it's tired and overplayed. It's a consequence of how Google works; try lots of things and don't be afraid to pull the plug. That strategy is great, and it works.

It's just sometimes the services that are on the edge of being worth Google's time to maintain cause the most backlash because a fair number of people used those services.
If it's a federal loan, the government will garnish your wages [1] and eventually your social security payments [2], and will withold any tax refunds. And since student loans usually can't be discharged in bankruptcy, you'll have bad credit for literally the rest of your life.

Also, you pay income tax on forgiven loans, not defaulted ones.

[1] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/default#consequence...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/24/news/economy/social-security...
Are the different divisions not Google?

But it is more common for a Google product to be completely abandoned, no new features, few bugfixes, etc., as opposed to being actually shut down.
I work in solar, and this is fantastic news...for SolarCity. There's expected to be a solar panel shortage coming soon because the industry is growing so fast[1], so if you don't make your own panels, you can expect panel prices to go up. The fact that SolarCity can make its own modules, means it won't be affected by the shortage nearly as much as others.

Anyway, just to give some perspective, solar panel cost accounts for ~20% of the overall installed cost in the U.S.[2]. So reducing panel prices by this incremental cost doesn't impact the overall cost as much as you'd think. However, every little bit helps, and this definitely keeps the industry on track to meet the Department of Energy's goal of $0.06/kWh by 2020[3]. There's a lot of other players that are focused on driving down other parts of installed costs (soft costs are a huge part, for example), and we're really seeing all these efforts pay off in exponential adoption of solar.

[1]: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Will-There-Be-a...

[2]: http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/soft-costs

[3]: http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/about

P.S. Obligatory "we're hiring". If you know python, the solar industry is tons of fun!
It's a preconfigured VM that includes all the tools for developing for Google Cloud Platform. You just click a button on a console and you have everything you need, with a 5GB persistent $HOME directory.

True, you could do everything this is doing with Compute Engine. The point is that it's always one-click away and there's no setup, maintenance, or (for the time being) cost.
Might it be that this separation between those rights exists so that the copyright holder can contract out manufacturing services, while controlling distribution? The copy house is given the right of preparing copies, without having distribution rights.

I don't think I was infringing back in kindergarten when I cut up newspapers to make strips for papier-mâché. In any case, my courtroom argument there could be bolstered by the remark that the resulting work was painted, entirely concealing the original content.
This is cool, I just want an IRC bouncer.
First time i read a README from first to last word. Good job!
I would generalize to say computers are immoral!
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The Soviets maintained strict control over their passports, usually confiscating them at exit points and returning them right before re-entry, so a Soviet passport would be very uncommon and alarming.
20% of Rooftop solar costs, grid connected solar has far lower overhead.
To vape, or not to vape
Knuth suspects that P=NP. However, theoretical feasibility doesn't necessarily mean that you'll know how to solve NP problems in P time, he says.
Ah, makes sense! Thanks for the clarification.

This could be a nice way to isolate operations of production infrastructure. You could go as far as issuing Chromebooks dedicated to the task.