skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This results in partially absurd rewards for powering off your mini-plant to stabilize the network.

Being paid not to output electricity or, similarly, being paid to consume electricity -- which is also a thing -- is absurd only at first glance. But really, it's just transparent pricing.

And it incentivizes people to come up with ways to exploit it, either by storing power when it's cheap and releasing it when it's expensive, or by only consuming it when it's cheap. I think it's pretty neat.

It's not a new thing, either: power has always been cheaper at off-peak (during the night), because big power plants such as nuclear plants can't (or couldn't, or wouldn't) scale up and down based on time of day. This was exploited by making things such as a night storage heater, which truly is absurd, because it's both impractical (slow to react to human capriciousness) and inefficient (energy losses during initial electricity generation and power transfer).
It's hard to forcibly lower the price of something without undermining your economic system. Software is expensive to make. Premium priced products exist because developers cost a lot of money and take a long time to get it right.

Practically speaking you could government subsidize the software which is a respectable policy in Europe, and that would foster competition and drive the prices down.
> only really poor people and crackheads seem to take the bus (outside SF and NYC)

Note that you chose the top two of the cities in the US in terms of locations accessible by public transit. Of course people won't use it if it can't get them where they need to go, and they'll probably just drive if there are only a few locations it services. This tends to compound itself because the low usage means trains/buses run less often, making it even less useful (e.g. LA).

The price of car ownership definitely factors in, as it results in a lack of necessity for public transportation, but it doesn't mean people wouldn't prefer it if it's available. The price difference between an unlimited metro pass ($116/month in NY, $83/month in SF) and owning a car is still very wide.
I'd codify this further with the view that subsituting one set of technical debt with another that fits with local trends and personal opinions is bad. The reasons to program in a particular fashion are as weak as "look how elegant that code is" appealing to the asthetic of the text and layout rather than any actual metric of clarity, reusability, interpribility or whatever.

Goto considered evil is folk law when it comes down to it, I think it's almost universally believed but the fact that I don't immediately think of a crystal clear quantitative result to underpin the view that jumps in code are bad is telling.

I think that some of what is going on here is economics though, coding in the new way gives a good line of patter for the next gig, and we all need to think about the next gig.
Surprising looking at the condom, if the glove fit you can't acquit or something.
This one is very readable: http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Compiler-Second-Edition-Co....

Corresponding lecture notes: https://www.clear.rice.edu/comp412/Lectures.
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Zimride came first and eventually changed its name to Lyft. Zimride offer a carpooling ride sharing matching service.
ah! Mobile versions of websites. the sure way to communicate you did the crappiest job building a standards compliant site when you had the chance.
I don't see a great future there myself.

Imagine this: where you pay per the minute or hour for location to location driving, at a rate that is a multiple of owning it yourself. And for the poverty, low, and middle income classes, car ownership is unattainable.

Or if you are late on your car payment and the car drives back to the lot.
I always wondered if Boulet's pixel-dream is an accurate depiction of the issues you run into if space is quantized:

http://www.bouletcorp.com/hidden/quantum-pixel/
Manage Mail App Sync Settings in Windows 10
libfirm doesn't really classify as small to me, it is currently 132,638 lines of code. The cparser alone is 11k lines of code (5 times the size of my c parser).
No you are wrong. Perhaps it's not the case everywhere. But like I said, from personal experience I know that certain types of domains are checked. I tried and failed to register a certificate for a phising domain that masqueraded as a banking website.

whether or not this was originaly the point of ssl or not, this is how many non-technical people decide to trust a page or not: by looking at the lock in their browser.
Ryanair vs. EasyJet price comparison
Did I imagine those drunk Italian dinner parties?
Price is the amount the consumer pays, while cost is the price the business pays. It may cost me $5 to produce a product, which I could then sell at a price of $7, for a profit of $2.
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The Firefox for iOS TestFlight Build (#1307) Now Includes Request Desktop Site
Roughly because of Lorentz boost, aka length contraction. So if I take some distance, say 1m, and I look at it from relativistic speed it gets contracted. And if I do that from high enough speeds, it gets contracted below the Planck length, so a fundamental length constant would violate Lorentz symmetry.

Some people tried to construct such a theory, but as far as I understand, they are going nowhere. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly_special_relativity
everyone has those talks 30yrs ago when crypto was labeled munition by the usa.

if this article has any content that warrant discussion, is how out of touch with reality the social sciences are.

... and sadly, yet another proof of how necessary Snowden was.
No, you don't need a natural language interface
Isn't the definition of "profit" literally the difference between cost and price?

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/101314/what-differen...

My point is the BoM of self-driving sensors and cpus for a car is not actually that great. The new Teslas and Volvos don't have fancy lidar scanners like the Google cars have.

The other day I was passenger in a automatic-breaking-at-intersections Volvo. We did not put that to the test. But its 'just' higher-precision parking sensors that are cheap and ubiquitous now.
Eavesdropping: An Intimate History (2011)
I've tried Taskwarrior in the past. The main issue I had is the complexity. It's not simple enough, there's a whole lot of options and things it can do which send me down a path of messing with tasks and organizing them when all I should be doing is completing them.

All I ever need is a simple text file with a list of things to do. I've ended up building a simple version that does what I need on a per-project basis and I check the file into version control sometimes (depending on the project). Sometimes I have git ignore the tasks file and it's more of a personal todo list for the project.

https://github.com/prophittcorey/t.rb

I've also integrated it within Vim so I don't even need to touch the commandline:

https://github.com/prophittcorey/vim-t
Because Uber is using these people as a resource and allowing them to set their own rates would cut in on Ubers margins.

Drivers provide capital goods (a vehicle) and work (as opposed to hiring a bunch of employees which you'd have to pay even if there was no work) and they provide these at a moments notice at Ubers discretion.

If Uber allowed drivers to set their own rates that would initiate a 'race to the bottom' reducing the fares and thus Ubers percentage.

Because it is convenient to make these operators out to be independent entities for legal reasons does not rule out Ubers desire to treat them as unpaid employees for totally different reasons.

From Ubers persective some independence is good, just enough to not assume any responsibilities that go with operating a company like this but too much independence (such as control over the rates) is a bad thing.

The 'new middlemen' have to ride a very fine line here to protect their income stream.

A real free market is simply not in Ubers interest, they would like the prices to stay as high as possible, basically what the market will bear.
And so goes the free market, in its most refined form .. how easy it is, after all, to simply clone a service in some other language, some other framework, and continue to deliver to customers.

What bothers me most is how the OS vendors are asleep at the wheel, again. These kinds of services - "I am [here] and want [blah]" - are broadly applicable. "Word"-"Summoning" apps are a dime a dozen. Shouldn't this be a builtin by now?
While I don't agree with many of the specifics of the HL7 spec[1], I guess the community behind this project should decide if this system will conform or not.

[1] http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/
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For those like me who wonder how to use npm without being root, here's an answer that worked for me on Debian:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/21712034/323094
In my mind, if your car is automatically calling emergency services after a crash, I assume they also know where you are. It would make perfect sense if you are unconscious or unable to describe the location; regulations or not.
There is little overlap between desktop and phone applications. Most phone applications are web applications in their non-phone form. Games being the exception. Microsoft needs to focus on the things they are good at and the competition isn't, productivity. Like Apple used to.
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What's the user experience like? There is a lot of talk about these "worker-own" apps/networks, however I very much doubt that they are able to compete with the uber level of service in the longer run. You need lots of software engineering etc skills to run this kind of service smoothly.
Ask HN: What Android devices do you use? Do you like them?
There used to be a lot of bumper stickers that said "I brake for xxx" of varying seriousness.

Then there is the "Brake for Moose". It's not a choice, it's a warning.
The piece is so obviously satire and not based in reality
Sidecar is trying the different model AFAIK. I'm myself very doubtful that it would work well in practice - as a consumer I don't want to haggle the price in the ordering process, I just want hassle-free ordering experience with the constant price level.
Every complex system can be defined in terms of trade-offs, right? Trial by Jury has a fairly extensive history outside of the US, and while not perfect it is a balance against a potentially corrupt establishment. I think if I had to choose trial by a jury of my peers, or by a judge, I'd probably opt for my peers.

I think the bigger problem in the US appears to be mandatory minimums, prosecutors driven by win ratios, pre-trial plea bargaining, and clearly a deep vein of institutional racism (something many other countries also suffer from).

Beyond that, I thought the original article was beautifully written, I enjoyed it.
Too bad nobody noticed.
There are numerous companies working on artificial noses that car manufacturers have been looking to integrate in order to have an equivalent of white noise generators but of course for smell.

There is no reason why just sampling the air for particular elements would not also be possible and improvement is always going to happen.

I can imagine not only having cars watch eye movement to eventually tell you to quit looking at your cell phone to having cars detect smoking and sensing children in the car and notifying you to stop. So alcohol present in a car should be a flag the car can at least suggest to you that it is concerned
You learn the nature of a thing by developing and testing hypotheses around it, I would suppose.
Canny the Robot: Programming with Headphones
Ran across a PSA from the early 70's recently that advised people not to have that 5th pint before driving home from the pub.

What's acceptable changes over very long time frames.
Exactly. Outsourcing your main tech stach isn't exactly competing with Uber.

It's easy to tell them apart. Which team has a properly restful API available to the public.
Thanks! This was largely inspired by Frege (https://github.com/Frege/frege) which has been on HN before, but is worth checking out.
The app/program is a great idea, thank you.

Two comments:
1. It should accept a message from stdin
2. When sending a message via the -t parameter, after clicking the notification in Android, I see "Your identifier is: Hello World!". Is that intentional or a bug?
It would be awesome to have this kind of analysis made dynamically, by some service. It's always a major hassle figuring out which airline site is more convenient to buy from. Saas idea maybe? :)
There are lots of Android devices outside the Play camp (eg Amazon devices, many Chinese ones). Secondly Play won't even start unles you link your Google account to a phone so many people aren't using Play store even on phones that have it.

There's a native Youtube WP app I believe, and decent maps apps as well. Youtube works well in browser too.
Japanese scientists create touchable holograms
>So I'm probably not getting another Windows phone ever again.

Life is long and product cycles are short. Growing up, I'd never have imagined I'd be using a Mac now.
No reason to drive while drunk and people who are driving drunk will do so no matter how much public transportation there is just as people who wont drive won't drive even if there was no busses, trains or taxis.
How is the money invested exactly, do you know?

Is he actually funding those companies in some way, or does he just own some stocks as part of some very diversified portfolio?

If it's the former, I really want to know. If it's the latter, stating that the Gates is financially supporting the destruction of agriculture is a very very strong claim. You need to argue that buying a company's stock on an open market does something significant besides increase the price of that stock by some small amount, or that the increase is meaningful. I have a hard time imagining what practical impact it would have on Monsanto's short term or long term operations that would justify using words such as "hypocrite".

There are investment funds that try to avoid "dirty" stocks, and it maybe it would be morally better to invest only in those funds. Until then, is everyone who invests in an index fund "dirty"? Monsanto is part of the S&P 500 after all.
Is it really worse than delegating it to general population, whose interests and prejudices are shaped by bullshit media narratives, and whose primary interest in the case is to get out of it as fast as possible?
The author could still be Latino as well.
Eeeeh, have you ever actually met the guy? Cuz I have and I came to the conclusion that he does have a lot of overt malice towards almost all minorities. He's just like every other old, bigotted white dude. He and my grandfather and father-in-law would get along quite well.

He literally believes that black people are biologically incapable of being as smart as white people and that they are genetically predisposed to violent behavior.

His delusions even extend to his own health status. He thinks he could use martial arts to beat up an intruder on his house. The guy has cerebral palsy so bad he can barely stand. It'd be tragic if he wasn't such a dick.
This might be a downvote target, but I think it's worth it. So here I go.

I'm curious to know why HN is overall supportive of Zuckerberg in this matter (based on top voted comments in similar threads). Here are my views and logics about this:

1. Just because a person is a billionaire, it does not mean that they should be treated the same as Buffett or Gates. If today there is a chance if winning a lottery worth tens of billions, and tomorrow a random person is a winner, is does not mean that winner is comparable to Buffett and Gates.

2. Warren Buffett became a millionaire in early 60s, then it took him 3 decades to be a billionaire on paper. Compared to this, Zuckerberg's path to be a billionaire was at least one order of magnitude faster. This does not mean that he was a genius developer, or a great business man. Many people tried building the same app as Facebook. In my view, Zuckerberg simply won that lottery, the very same way that there were many pubsub apps out there, older and arguably better designed than Twitter, but Twitter happened to win the lottery.

3. The way Zuckerberg ended up with Facebook has always been questionable. The business model of Facebook is questionable. The way Facebook handles its users privacy is questionable. In a more similar space, Larry Page also had a fast track to the billionaires club, but what he built, and how he built it, is way more sound. There are many apps hat could replace Facebook, bit there aren't search algorithms as effective as Google. You can live without Facebook without making a difference to you life, when was the last day in your life that you did not Google?

4. If we put Buffett, Gates and Page in one group, and people who won big lotteries in another, and I'm asked to play a machine learning classification algorithm, my brain would give Zuckerberg a high score of being a member of the second group.
Why would everything have to be built-in? That just kills competition and bloats the already large OSes.
Samsung Galaxy S6. Yes.
Yup I posted that. Tough luck :P . But the title didn't register I guess.
Gauging interest for video distribution platform – Vuelr
Sure, letting a murderer off who signed a confession is pretty daft.
Как участиник шоу Голос 4 готовится к первого четвертьфинала
Eh, I worked as a bartender for quite some time. How on earth did anything beyond the CC# end up in ANY system (e.g. if they intercepted the printer data from the EC terminal to put it on the bill instead of handing the customer two bills)?

Did they record their customer info for rewards programs or what happened there?
Google makes NSA look good.
Cross-Platform Onboarding Without Signup Screens
> Node n, i, c, s, *st;

I disagree; "brevity" and "readability" are unfortunately a tradeoff, and IMO the author's version optimizing the wrong metric.
Gee, if only there was a signed confession. Oh wait.
Ball dropping
The thing is, "peers" has had its meaning mutated beyond recognition over the ages.

A jury of your peers used to mean exactly that - people who were familiar with you, the social circumstances that lead to your being in the dock, who had empathy both for you and for the law. Part of the tradition comes from the Frankpledge and tythings, which required you and your peers to collectively police one another, and endure collective punishment if you failed in your duty to justice. In addition, early juries were responsible for investigating the purported crime themselves, and were allowed to acquire information for themselves.

This of course all lead to a degree of corruption (in fact, significant corruption in later years), but was potentially an ultimately fairer system, less biased in favour of conviction.

Having a jury prevaricate on the outcome of a trial concerning someone who comes from a different world to them, who don't understand the nuance of the reality that faces them, who are not allowed to educate themselves about legal facts or the facts of the charges, frankly beggars belief - but it's what we have.
damn brother this was enlightening
Absolutely this.
While reduced data storage may have been a beneficial side effect the real driver was update consistency.
people who are driving drunk will do so no matter how much public transportation there is

This is pretty unconvincing. I've only driven after drinking alcohol twice, and both of these occasions were in the US (just for the record, I drank only a drink or two). In my home country I've always driven 100% sober, every single time.
An anecdotal counterpoint: I experimented with rent-per-minute cars in my local city last year. I learned that almost all my driving was commuting to work or sport practice, so I figured "what would it actually cost to get rid of the car?"

It turns out I paid appreciably less than the self-owned car model by getting an unlimited public transportation pass and using self-driving cars when I didn't feel like riding a bus or tram. Something like 40% less, I don't remember exactly now. I'd previously been driving a 7 year old Ford, so it's not like I'm comparing it to something lux.

Also, you won't have traditional car payments to be late on if it's all Just in Time provisioning and service.

It's all about overlapping layers of service though. Private ownership will make sense for some. Never owning will as well. Robust bus networks, trams/trains in very dense established areas, self-driving (or at least shared economy) cars, and lastly private-owned vehicles all converge to provide a more accessible means of public transportation.
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> No "self mutation" as you suggest.

Your example would be the implementation for immutable Vector2Ds, and is implemented for you if you just wrote __add__. (I presume object.__iadd__ falls back to self.__add__.)

The only time you should actually override __iadd__ is for mutable objects, in which case it should look more like

class Vector2D:
def __iadd__(self, other)
for i, x in enumerate(other):
self[i] += x
return self

That's the self mutation I was talking about.

Well, strictly that's not OK either, since operators shouldn't be duck-typed. Instead you should do

class Vector2D:
def __iadd__(self, other)
if not isinstance(other, Vector2D):
return NotImplemented

for i, x in enumerate(other):
self[i] += x
return self
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For what it's worth, you can direct-connect the Migration Assistant as well via FireWire USB or (I think?) Ethernet.... I remember doing this back to the PowerBook days.
Having a car is a lot more useful and comfortable than public transit, though. So there really needs to be a huge difference in cost to justify spending money on public transit when you could just spend a bit more and have your own car.

We see that in SF and NYC where the traffic and parking situations make driving very expensive in time and money. But elsewhere in the country? Even if it had great coverage, it wouldn't be worth the time and discomfort to take it just to save ~$200 a month (or less, if you routinely drive family members around).
Have you read into how big a sham our grand juries are? I'm currently serving on a federal grand jury, and several times a month they pay travel and per diem for dozens of people to listen to a one-sided argument by a US Assistant District Attorney to bring a case to trial. No defense is offered, and they can withhold as much evidence as they like. It's a total waste of time, and I'm sure costs the tax payers millions of dollars a year. After witnessing how ridiculous the whole process, I read that in most countries the prosecutor simply offers their evidence to a judge, who determines probable cause.

But the most outrageous stories you've heard recently about grand juries are that even though they'll "indict a ham sandwich," police officers accused of crimes rarely get indicted because it's in the prosecutor's best interest not to aggravate the department from whom they receive most of their work.
This is a 404 Error http://www.mathworks.com/discovery/matlab-vs-python.html

This is an actual working link.
http://www.mathworks.com/discovery/matlab-vs-r.html

And the lets see what is on Stack Overflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1738087/what-can-matlab-d...