skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every city water utility has this same problem. Having close knowledge of the problems, I don't think this is a good solution. Many of the customers get shut off and then immediately pay their bill along with the penalties (approx 3/4). This is often cyclical with the same people getting shutoff every couple months. Appears to me to be administrative. Should have financial people show them how to budget or organize their bills to prevent getting the fees so it doesn't happen again in the long run. Another thing the article points to is a $250 fee for turning on the water. Often when the water is turned on without authorization the utility equipment is damaged. The fix can involve calling out trade workers to saw out parts of streets and sidewalks and replacing expensive brass lead-free parts. $250 would be in the neighborhood of the cost.
Obligatory link to Nolst Trenité's "The Chaos": http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Callback hell used to be a real concern, until Promises and structural guides came into use. As a 2012 article, I understand where it was coming from. But it's far less relevant today.
> surely more options and variety is a good thing?

Ahh, the mantra of modern society. Somehow the massive landfills aren't considered a problem.
I love that Perl 6 has a proper REPL now.
Thanks! There's no osx folder, so I guess there are no OS X binaries for development snapshots.
Not exactly the smartest move if you're a business that cares about profit though.
On that topic I would be curious what people use on mac other than photoshop for both Gimp and Inkscape. The best I found so far is Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer but while they are superior than Gimp and Inkscape in many regards, they are also lacking in others :(
They do. I think the originator of the idea gets a 5% profit share.

Edit: 1% - https://ideas.lego.com/guidelines#anchor-29
Perhaps it means that HN's cumulative sense of humor differs in some respect from your own?
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When brilliant and accomplished rocket scientist Yvonne Brill died in 2013 The New York Times opened her obituary with

She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. “The world’s best mom,” her son Matthew said.
I think you're being downvoted because people don't want to accept that what you are saying regarding critical thinking being anti-adaptive may be true. The followers of the hacker ethos are revolted by prospects that the less-skilled. less-disruptive, and less-smart can succeed by social optimization and conformity. It's a direct threat to the existence they've doubled down on.
Deviations from the Trivium are fashionable but I find that the more I deviate away from it the worse off I end up being in my education. I used to think that understanding was something that was solely axiomatically derived. Now I view skills like memorization as being essential for thought. In order to become fluent in a domain one must have plenty of data, which requires solid memories to maintain. These facts can be synthesized later, which is what the next two steps of the Trivium are for.

It does need to be updated for modern times, though. The basic principles are still worth enforcing. This is where I was introduced to it: http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html
Later on on page 44 he changes the assumptions based on 50% efficient farms growing plant matter for biomass. Even if you had 50% efficient panels and you covered 200m^2 per person with them (there are only about 900 m^2 per person that are not covered with farm land or roads), you'd only get about 32KW/person/day which is less than what the energy used for transportation alone (40kw/person/day).
Usenet is also usable for backups. Normally you would upload a huge encrypted RAR.

Some time ago i built a tool where you can store files/folders incrementally on Usenet with encryption, parity etc. I put much effort into this.
It was possible to restore a directory tree by a unique ID (which you could write on some piece of paper) that securely resolves to a chain which links to meta/raw blocks via Message-IDs and you could mount the whole thing with OSXFuse.
The ID was reusable after updates to the tree, so incremental backups worked without a new ID.

I thought this would be a nice alternative use for binaries on Usenet instead of piracy stuff. But I never released it because I think that it would lead to pollution of the Usenet network.

Is anyone interested in this? Or maybe somebody has an idea on how to use this without polluting the network? Would love to hear some thoughts about this!
2.9.x are development releases.
I'd love it if articles like this came with links to scientific evidence that XX-chromosome humans have the same distribution of interests and aptitudes as XY-chromosome humans. Alternatively, maybe HN readers have some such links?

At the very least, I'd hope reasonable people could agree that in a universe where this scientific hypothesis isn't true, or turns out not to be true, this situation looks very different from the way the article (which seems to assume it is true) presents it. Certainly, Occam's razor being a thing, any falsification of this hypothesis would be a very parsimonious explanation for the statistical disparities being observed.
Snow Leopard was pretty much the peak of the OSX's, IMHO. If for no other reason that they hadn't yet broken Expose/Spaces and called it "Mission Control."
Yes! Formulation of scientific questions is an essential skill which I think that every person should have. A scientific question is a request for evidence from the world in the context of what we already think is correct.
good support for 16 bit editing, finally! Maybe I should try to come to terms with Gimp's GUI again...
IMHO, starting to teach it in college would be waiting more than 15 years too late.
Well, one could run their own NNTP server.
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Yeah, I saw that. :) This is impressive. I wish I knew about this project sooner. I didn't see this project on the Clojure subreddit, so I shared it there in case others haven't seen it before either.

I see the issue you created about separating the Clojure API from the AI code. I think I'd have to do that because I'll be creating an AI from scratch.

I noticed in the thread you linked to that you mentioned Java packaging and possibilities for contributions. I might be able to help there. Let me know, or if you want to create some GitHub issues, I can take a look later and see which ones I can take.
I'd argue that Elastic Beanstalk, too, is Amazon's explicit attempt to package and present AWS as a PaaS.
BTW, I find these unjustified down votes quite offending too..
I've seen the phenomenon on Reddit where two identical comments will have completely polar votes. One might have -50 and the other 50.

Someone deduced that it was the time that the comment was created that mattered. If a large number of jokesters are on at one point then their up votes will create the critical mass to push the comment to the top and keep it there.

I also believe that once a post is at the top fewer people will downvote it, either because they are afraid to go against popular opinion or merely respect it and leave it as it is.
Honest question: is it morally fair to be creating big incentives for hiring female workers in tech positions that aren't offered to men? I am 100% in agreement that there is a huge problem, but am personally of the opinion that we need to fix early-life biases to actually create more female engineers and executives rather than trying to entice the few STEM-educated female graduates into jobs they may or may not want. It just seems to me like tech companies are creating an equivalent of college affirmative action, which could backfire by creating animosity from male job applicants who get passed over because they're not in the right gender bucket to meet quotas.
The Platform Paradox
"Meanwhile, I had been clicking all around on the water company’s website, and I found a 400-page PDF document that was a list of account numbers of people who owed money that the water company supposedly couldn’t deliver bills to by mail. We took one of the account numbers and plugged it into the utility company’s website, and it showed a lot of information: How much was owed, consumption history, payment history. And there was a payment button. "

Surprised that information was out in the open, I don't think it should have been. Props to her to make something good out of it. It's also quite strange that the water company would be able to deliver water but the postal service can't deliver mail. Both appear to be tied to the same physical location.
I guess it's obvious to some but I just recently learned about the single window mode even though I used gimp for years.
Coder crafts his own off-grid smart home
"Rakudo's had more testing since it's been around forever but MoarVM is where my hopes lie" is a little confusing to me. Rakudo and MoarVM are not the same type of thing. Rakudo is a Perl 6 compiler with multiple backends. I don't follow this very carefully, but I think it used to have a Parrot backend, and currently has two maintained backends: one for the JVM and one for MoarVM.

Is that wrong? If not, did you mean "Rakudo on Parrot" or "Rakudo on the JVM" when you wrote just "Rakudo"?
Its funny how we have to fall for these fake hackers all the time before we either give up or find the real one. I wont allow others fall for the fakes i did, paid several times with no results till my sister in law found out and opened up to me she has a private investigator which i later found out was a hacker Scott Edwards greyhatcreator001@gmail.com. He brought life back to me, did the Whats app hack, Facebook, emails and even some things i shouldn't mention here, am talking of bank transfers and credit cards. Basically all i needed although his fee was on the high side but who cares, i'll rather pay well for the right thing than lose to cheats. i don't think its right to give his cell out like that but if you tell him you are from Michael he will definitely respond as he is a busy man so he selects who to respond to. Michael is the key to get his fast response or he might just read your mail and not reply. I hope my friends here get their problems solved either by the help of Scott or a real one not fake
Just as with torrents, the public trackers will always have this issue. Private ones tend to have less of a problem.
Elastic Beanstalk is the Amazon PaaS offering. Lambda is much more like a BaaS provider - it abstracts away the concept of a server entirely, and instead just gives you an API to execute code on some cloud service.
I get the basic logic of using random. I just doubt it translates well to AI.

As you say "practically impossible to configure an AI so that it can scout all possible common early builds" so an AI is essentially flying blind anyway. Hence no advantage in picking random just more things to worry about.
"my" is shorter than "local" or "let" and fairly evocative. Maybe you should ask why other languages don't use "my", instead. :P
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I'm sorry for your grandfather but what does that have to do with anything happening today? You think safety standards and understanding of risks are still the same today as in the 1950s?
I just got it to run, yay! Things are going well, and MQTT functionality has been working well for the past hour. Just checking in :P
Think locally, act globally.
to a degree, i guess. On AWS there are a lot of services, which would qualify as PaaS offerings. Even on Rackspace, you get Databases (and HA Groups), Load-Balancers (w/ SSL termination), Queues (albeit the obscure, OpenStack one) and ElasticSearch for Logging (the latter is pretty hefty priced IMO, though).

So we're able to run quite a lot of stateless 12factor-like services on Rackspace (using kubernetes), RabbitMQ being the exception we have to manage ourselves (which sucks).
We'd love help in any of those areas! If you'd like to help with programming, take a look at [1]. For other areas, the processes is less structured and I'd suggest starting on our forums [2]. In both cases however, jump on our IRC channels if you have any questions (#0ad and #0ad-dev on quakenet).

In terms of where we most need contributors, at the moment I'm not aware of anyone working on campaign storyboarding or UI mockups.

[1] http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedProgrammers
[2] http://wildfiregames.com/forum/
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Perl 6 continues linguist Larry Wall's vision of making a very expressive language that matches the way humans think.

To me the most unique aspect is Perl 6's unicode string handling which is probably the best unicode support of any language out there. I could see it catching on in niches that need to do heavy cross-characterset text processing.
Second that, this is the only way I, and I suspect many others, ever use GIMP. The default save system is completely unintuitive in that context.
Was it a "redistribution of wealth" when paint makers were told "hey, stop making paints with lead in them, people are getting hurt"?

If it was, was that a bad thing? I would argue it was sure inconvenient for paint companies but a net gain to society. Perhaps some level of funding should be given to these companies as we take their rights away - and perhaps not, depending on how foreseeable and expensive their issues were - but the fact is, sometimes we as a society need to force them to make changes.

To my mind, it's not redistribution because the point is not to take their income away, the point is that it's time to stop. Yes, that will have an effect on their income. Not doing it will have a much higher dollar cost, and the company won't pay it directly but the country sure will.
Amiga – The Deathbed Vigil (1994) [video]
"It's really hard" does not lead to "so there's no point trying."

Facing 1/3 the builds increases your success rate drastically.
No, kids don’t really start school pre-equipped with English skills. In fact, most preschooler shows are dubbed.

The previous exposure helps some, especially those who can already read the subtitles, but more important is that when they actually start studying English, they’re also exposed to more grown-up shows—which do come subtitled.

Or that’s how it was. Nowadays, of course, it seems that kids move pretty seamlessly to content without even subtitles (think youtube and whatever it is the kids use).
That's true but not relevant.

Flip-flops are a manifestation of human design honed by millennia of design evolution. Tennis balls are a manifestation of human design honed by millennia of design evolution.

It does not follow that flip-flops are tennis balls.

But both statements above are still true, and their lack of equivalent properties is not an argument against their common history.
These cost comparisons don't take into account reliability. Power is almost useless if it's not reliable. A large part of your monthly bill goes towards reliablility and transport of power, not just the power itself.

A 100% wind or solar grid would require an equal amount of backup gas or coal power in order to provide reliability which essentially doubles these cost estimates. Even now most wind and solar is considered a novelty to most grid operators because you can't take it into account for long term planning. In some cases (like Denmark or Quebec) there exists ample alternatives available for when the wind stops blowing but most jurisdictions don't have this.

Considering how smart people in Silicon Valley are the level of ignorance around renewable energy and the'why don't we all use solar panels' mindset is crazy.
And 'undefined is not a function' provides a full stack trace to the line of code causing the error. In this particular example, both planes crash, so it's not like anyone would say "But at least it crashed because of a seg fault."

Get off your high horse. What a ridiculous and ignorant comment.
If anyone remembers Asimov's 'I, Robot' series, it ended with Machines (was that the exact name?) taking on the centralised planning of the whole globe, quietly removing recalcitrant humans from the supply chain, and apparently benefiting all humanity.

That problem is the AI problem these game designers are trying to tackle.

Just seems interesting...
You can use Gimp and Inkscape on a Mac too. Gimp works very well with it. Inkscape isn't quite as good as it runs with Ctrl-based bindings under X11.
This argument is one massive false assumption. Renewable energy sources are becoming cheaper and are already cheaper than coal and nuclear. Cheap means they will become pervasive and replace the majority of existing sources. There is technically no reason we couldn't do it [3], rather "the key roadblocks are: climate change denial, the fossil fuels lobby, political inaction, unsustainable energy consumption, outdated energy infrastructure, and financial constraints".

It's only a question of time until renewables will kill fossil fuels. If only we'd stop subsidising fossil fuels [2].

The report you're quoting is itself highly questionable. Just as an example, wind speed averages are based on Cambridge, which isn't anywhere near the coast where wind turbines should live. Anything from a comprehensive report. Furthermore, he compares the energy to a random amount of energy (50% of energy consumed by cars). The report itself seems a little bit of warm air.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_transition_in_Germany
[2] http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/fossil-fuels/in-2...
[3] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v301/n5/ful...
I see learning how to program as being contingent for learning critical thinking, and may be why the demographic on HN are so well-off in this regard. When I think about why certain people around me are so well off in how they think, I believe it's because they view thinking as a /set of operations to perform/ rather than /a bunch of rules to follow/. The operations are usually discovered during their work and applied as heuristics. Programming against hard problems makes you discover your limits at how well you can think.

One particular operation I have is that "I always know something" and that even I don't see the big picture, starting from that one thing I know and continuing to reason with it just to see where it will go is sometimes fruitful, and sometimes not. If not, then I try again. It's an insight I had that was quite personal, and I find it unlikely that telling someone about this will automatically make them understand it.

When such heuristics are communicated to me, I apply them wherever I can, fishing for the insight that makes me get it.
It's Detroit. The entire city is dysfunctional. At one time the policy of the Fire Chief was to just let buildings burn if they were uninhabited, to save fire department resources.
This has since been changed and, in typical New York Times fashion, no mention was made that the article was updated[1].

It now reads:
> She was a brilliant rocket scientist who followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. “The world’s best mom,” her son Matthew said.

[1]http://io9.com/the-new-york-times-fails-miserably-in-its-obi...
Perhaps it's a small point, but I wished to counter TFA's false claim that "nuclear New Dealers" possessed any admirable sort of foresight. Do you think the publicly-stated level of safety standards is less exaggerated today than it was back then?
It's certainly feasible. Your containers run on a public cloud, just as Heroku does, which enables access to things like logging-as-a-service. But you'll soon find that such services are just as horrifically marked up as Heroku, because they too are middlemen who need to make money. (I'm referring to services like Loggly or Logentries, to continue with the logging example.)

We've been really enjoying AWS's hosted ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Elastic Load Balancer, etc. Most of the benefits of a hosted service at the cost of an EC2 instance.
Also political shift is needed. Currently in Finland you need parliament permission for any new nuclear plant. If you are likely to get only one permission every 8 years, you have to go big to have any impact. Which seems to be the reason why Olkiluoto-3 got so big. Which seems to have contributed to the schedule fuck ups from day one.

For example they had the concrete heating too much while curing when casting the floor. This was because the floor slab was lot bigger than engineers we're used to cast. Yes, they should have taken that into account. But the point is it's harder to take all things into account when you are going to unexplored territory.
Yes, it's clever because it implies how entertainment slowly but inexorably manages to take insinuate itself into and corrupt every essential application.
The experience of both is abysmal. Especially Inkscape is absolutely terrible and makes me angry every time I use it.
'Storing solar power underground' - what if it's in a pressurized and compressed form that's easily transported and has a high mass to energy ratio? Brilliant!
As if a reference to beef stroganoff was the only issue...

Though it is better.

The New Yorker points out the eight years off part isn't even factually accurate, she moved to a job with more flexible hours at FMC Corporation (involved in their work with ARPA) while still making major contributions to the world in that capacity.
As yet another person who writes a blog (of sorts, though it's more accurately described as a news site), I pretty much 100% agree with the article writer. Indeed, every single deal I've been offered I've turned down, whether that be for free games, press releases, networks or anything else.

But what I find fascinating here (and this was briefly touched upon in the post), is how desperate many of these advertisers seem to actually be. I mean, they literally just approach anyone, regardless of whether the site has about 20 people a day or 20,000 a day. And if it's legal? Oh, who cares. I know people on Youtube who were approached for sponsorship despite posting nothing but songs taken from other sources.

The speed increase from removing tracking scripts and ad network stuff is nice too, though that's not really going to be the biggest concern in future, since adblockers are inspiring a move towards the type of 'native' content that he complains about.
Once again, you're pretending I said things that I didn't actually say. I said that certain bad actions should not be tolerated. Where you get stifling from this, I don't know. In particular, your first post claimed that we shouldn't be intolerant of people implementing (not merely talking about) Biblical punishments on gays, which is what I claimed that our society rightfully would very harshly not tolerate, just as our society wouldn't tolerate government-sanctioned mass lynchings of blacks
Oh sorry I misunderstood that you're talking about fuel production.

But this highlights what I think is the main problem with the large scale nuclear energy vision, it would replace oil with Uranium as the root of geopolitical resource control wars.
I would say that comes on the back of the "living standard" thing, as the people involved are fervent UI/UX design wankers.

From personal experience, you can't design for the "aunt Tillies" in the world. They are simply too afraid of screwing up to even try to do anything, no matter how simplified the UI/X has become.

And while tilting at that windmill, they are alienating their existing community.
I just found the obituary [1] and was considering replying with the "correct" quote, but did some more digging and discovered that you are absolutely correct [2]: the Times has, without notification, edited (some might say "airbrushed out") the original phrasing. Shameful.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/science/space/yvonne-brill...

[2]: http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/yvonne-brill-and-...