skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The grid should be fine with a few upgrades and implementation of charging strategies:

"The short-term impacts for most utilities should be minimal and localized. There is a possibility, however, of isolated impacts on some distribution transformers and secondary drops, particularly in neighborhoods with older distribution systems including underground systems."

http://et.epri.com/Communications_Potential_Impacts_of_Vehic...

Edit: added quote.
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3-day ban on private cars starts in Italy's Milan to lower air pollution levels
Sergey Brin Visits Indonesia, Talks Project Loon
Apple has a history of avoiding the storage of personal data when possible. They also have a history of failing to comply with the demands of authorities to release personal information.

On the other hand, Microsoft has a history of complying with government authorities.
Without developers Microsoft tools and platform will shrink a lot and fast. It was basically their only chance to open source the new dotNet core. And try everything incl. their TypeScript tactics on JavaScript to get developers back into their development tool eco system - and to lock-in them into their tool-sets and platforms.

Most devs beside enterprise IT departments use open source languages for web deveopment. NodeJS/Java/PHP/Ruby/Python/Go are very popular and only a tiny fraction (11%) runs on Windows servers with dotNet or Mono. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/11/16/november-2015-w...
I don't know how I got 3000, it's 1800+ free and 300-ish non-free, sorry to get your hopes up.
I think the disparity in valuations is interesting. To Yandex, the code is worth millions. To outsiders, it's not even worth paying £27k, because it's going to be much harder to get a return on that money.
A puff piece about a struggling online retailer. Seems like a typical submarine article to me [0]

[0] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
"most nations won't allow you to become a citizen if you have foreign debts"

How will they know? AFAIK, my country, which has pretty lenient rules, only asks for proof of no criminal record at the time the application is filled.

On the other hand, you can and will be extradited to the U.S. if you were found breaking their laws and their legal system does ask.
Thanks, as a member of the team I'm glad we got the opportunity to do this, if only for the selfish motive of reusing some of this code on my next job ;)
Designing data intensive applications. Try this book
The exec system call in Unix has an argument named argv which is an array of strings. Each of these strings has traditionally been called a command-line argument. Also, when the user of a Unix shell hits the return key, a string or line of text is submitted to the shell for interpretation, and that string used to be called a command line.

For those writers who insist on using the term "command line" to mean avoiding pointing devices and doing everything through a terminal-emulation application, please tell me what term I should switch to to refer to the elements of argv or to refer to a string submitted to a Unix shell. I want a term that does not through endless repetition on HN and other forums leave the reader with the impression that the terminal-emulation app (or the Linux console) is my preferred interface to my computer.

Suppose for example that TextMate or Atom on OS X or Linux is my preferred programming environment and that from my preferred programming environment, I frequently run programs like grep, dict and ping -- with the output from those programs collected by and presented to the user by a TextMate or Atom extension. grep, dict and ping adhere to certain conventions, such as flags or switches that start with a hyphen, and the convention of writing ordinary output to a file descriptor named stdout while writing notifications of abnormal conditions to stderr. What term should I use to refer to those conventions?
I made no threat. I'm just saying when you use hostile language people will react emotionally and hate you for it. This is common human behavior if you're familiar with it.

If you believe I made a threat, quote me on it. I clearly did no such thing.
>spyware operating system

I'm not sure how is W10 different than Android/MacOS. Actually, on Windows you at least can skip the account registration. On mac you can't even get updates if you don't register. Android doesn't even let you use the OS properly without account.
A routine is an excellent thing to have even if you aren't a nomad. I have countless little rituals I've collected and iterated on for years that serve to ground me and make my time productive no matter where I'm at.

I've noticed two different kinds, bottom-up rituals and the top-down variety. Bottom up rituals evolve organically out of whatever space / situation I happen to find myself in. In some situations I find I need a daily walk to help collect my thoughts whenever life is getting a bit too chaotic. Another ritual I might use when my workload is high is to collect tasks onto a sheet of paper, one per line. This happens perhaps twice a year and is a signal that there is mental cruft that needs to be cleaned out. The process of clearing out the list and striking the line items off of it is meditative and serves to bring that cruft to the surface so I can deal with it.

Top-down happens whenever I decide I need to make a focused change in my life and need a new set of ruts to run my wagon in. I started going to the gym every day a few months ago. I have a very specific routine that I change from time to time to keep it fresh. I often have to acquire things and maintain them in order to keep the routine convenient so I don't have an excuse to skip it.

It's gotten to where if I'm feeling unproductive, I start looking at my rituals, have I stopped any recently without noticing? Do I need a new one?
You don't need traction to get that. There are a few big investors that are willing to buy common stock. I have one owning part of my company today. I had zero traction, just an early functional product.

I would never allow an investor into my company under any other terms: they eat the same dog food I or anyone else does. You don't need their money, there is a lot of money flowing around out there, so set the terms how you see fit and find the investor to match it.
Most of the requirements described there are met by RISC-V:
http://riscv.org
The flawed system that allows companies to make millions off the injured
Mobile-geddon wasn't such a big deal, but it's definitely becoming more and more important in SEO, search, and just user experience in general. Good points.
These advantages are not unique to PHP. Perl, Python, and Ruby allow you to "just save the file and reload in your browser to see a change." They can be installed via apt-get (although Python always had cross-version compatibility problems.) And these languages are a lot more usable than PHP once your application grows beyond a hundred or so lines. That's why people refer to PHP as "training wheels without the bike."

What does "being written expressly for the web" mean in the context of PHP? Does it mean they implemented a taint mode like Perl, where you could sandbox untrusted user input. Well... no. Did they implement defenses against common web vulnerabilities like SQL injection? Not really. In fact, a lot of the built-in string escaping functions in PHP are seriously broken and will lead to security vulnerabilities if you use them. Is it part of a bigger web framework like Ruby on Rails? Nope. As far as I can tell "being written for the web" is just marketing.
Let's Code an Analysis and Visualizations of Yelp Data Using R and ggplot2
Harvard Law Review Freaks Out, Sends Threat Over Public Domain Citation Guide
It's an unsettling feeling with Microsoft ever since the rise of mobile devices and cloud based systems. Nonetheless the company deserves a lot of respect for setting the foundation of a lot of under the hood tech it has paved the way with.

Microsoft can't monetise in multiple ways from singular products the way other companies can nowdays. I think most general users use mocrosofts core products as a platform to connect with other companies to monetise. The push with win10 to connect with the Microsoft store was a good move IMO.
I've daydreamed of one step beyond the Digital Nomad to 'Citizen of the World'. The plan is fairly well formed, and combining a 'placeless' vocation with such citizenship can make one globally and indefinitely nomadic.

My thinking is to spend one month in a locale, explore it to the extent I desire, get to know a few people, learn how the locals live, and then move on.

The foundations of this lifestyle are Around-the-world air tickets from the major carriers [0] and AirBnb. I like the notion of finding friendly AirBnb hosts and learning from them what the local lifestyle is: Where they shop for food, how they get around, what activities they enjoy, what their days are generally like... Then spending a month more or less doing the same things. In the meanwhile, working for pay as a remote consultant.

Total cost of this lifestyle would depend on the class of digs you want to live in. Some cities are really inexpensive, say, Athens or Aukland. You could be comfortable averaging US$125/day for a place and $25/day for food. Another $25 for 'other stuff', entertainment, etc. Call it $175/day, 365/year, throw in the air fare, health insurance and taxes, and you're looking at about $85,000 in income to live this way.

What is interesting is that with this lifestyle, you don't need to own an apartment, or a car, or closets full of clothes. So the money you spend where you are is all the money you need.

[0] http://www.staralliance.com/en/book-fly
Apparent hack on road signs surprises California motorists with pro-Trump message
Yup.

If you an use it in your next job, think of how many people can use it in their current job.
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I don't, and neither does anyone else. The point is that they remain a proprietary software company at their core and will likely remain that way.
I agree that mobilgeddon was no big thing. Everybody played it off like it was going to be the worst thing in the world. That we were all going to suffer rankings and everybody was going to drop off of the face of Google. Though, it is still important to have a responsive site. User experience, as you mentioned, is highly important not just in ranking online but if you want any sort of online conversions from your site.
See:

http://examine.com/supplements/Marijuana/

"While smoking per se is seen as negative, infusions of THC enhance lung function and acute usage of marijuana as joints seem to confer more benefit to lung function than drawbacks."
One of the benefits of learning how to create a language is you get better at analysing the various new languages that are popping up. Nothing like learning how the sausage is made. So now whenever I look at new language, I mentally take it apart to see what the underlying structure is, then I process the actual syntax (which ends up being the least important part) last.
It seems like this is a MongoDB database.

Scanning the US IP ranges for Linux hosts (as mentioned in the article) with port 27017 open with ZMap and then running a script that connects to the open database and saves the size of the database in a file would be a good place to start for those who want to find it.
Of course. Here are three randomized, controlled studies just from the first page of the Google Scholar results:

http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=20429...

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ajp.2006.16...

http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=20433...

Apparently, 91 papers passed Nussbaumer et al's assessment of the abstract (and were presumably randomized, controlled trials):

We assessed 91 full-text papers for inclusion in the review, but only one study providing data from 46 people met our eligibility criteria.

Those eligibility criteria were:

For efficacy, we included randomised controlled trials on adults with a history of winter-type SAD who were free of symptoms at the beginning of the study.

I think it may have been the focus on prevention (rather than treatment of symptomatic depression) that excluded all the other papers.

I just skimmed the paper the paper the first time and didn't notice that the authors were searching for studies of a very specific question: prevention (excluding treatment) of seasonal affective disorder (excluding any other form of depression).
I looked around and compared prices. Nothing was cheaper than $160. Plus the package was shipped directly to me from the place that Jet got it from... which was ibuyofficesupply.com

Edit: I was asked why I think Jet paid full retail price... I can't know that for sure obviously. There was a packing slip that I didn't think to look at. In any case, the only way they don't lose money is if they bought it for close to 50% off. Seems unlikely to me.
Maybe in Safari, but definitely not in any other browser. Dart would of faced the same challenges.
If a glare is insufficient, you have to step up the game. A stern glare did not the British Empire make. You should have solicitously pointed out the location of the end of the queue for him. After all, he may not have known where it was.
I code in COBOL. I don't like it that people think it's dead or legacy because often times it isn't and that mindset keeps people from caring about security or using current best practices in COBOL code. Very important things still run on it and new code to run important things is being written in it.
There are a ton of systems that people think are dead or legacy like OpenVMS (what I love and work on) or IBM Mainframes are still current and in use and new installations are going up, and the legacy mindset hinders security best practices and doing new and interesting shit on these systems.
I'll agree there, but I feel that that is a fixable problem overall; if I knew anything about ncurses I'd fix it myself :D.

I still think using Elinks of w3m creates a more streamlined experience if your end goal is getting work done.
Yes, it might. I totally forgot to put it in the title. It's fixed now. My apologies.
discover infers a first, unless it's qualified. Which the title is not.
> It's easy to run Windows 10 without any calling home at all.

Not true at all! It's impossible, without a hardware firewall. Their kernel network driver whitelists several microsoft domains and IP address ranges. What's worse Microsoft back-ported that phone-home crap and ships them as updates to Windows 7 and 8.x (of course the coincidentally stopped writting descriptions for their Windows updates). Not even mentioning how they force end users to upgrade to Windows 10 by displaying Windows 10 ads as popup dialogs and renaming Windows update buttons to click on the Upgrade button by accident, etc. It will hurt Microsoft's reputation a lot.

With Android and iOS an end user with a little bit of knowledge (power user) can deactivate the analytics, cloud sync and error reporting "features" by changing a handful of settings. Windows 10 resets the privacy settings every major update (Threshold 2), they go even as far as change the name of exe files and registry keys. It's not too late to fix Win10 and MS reputation though, do something in 2016.
What makes them decide to pay? Paid content is sometimes better quality but the selection is always much smaller.
Mendeley is not bad at all. I save papers to a Dropbox folder, organized directories by general topic / relevance to project. Mendeley (on one computer) watches that folder, and imports the papers and fills out the bibliographic info, mostly automatically.

Mendeley lets you tag and organize things in virtual folders, as well as store notes and annotations. The bibliographic info for subsets of papers (eg. with a particular tag) can be exported to bibtex files when writing.

Mendeley is available on all platforms, and syncs across multiple computers. The only catch is that the links to PDFs are only maintained on the 'master' that watches the folder. (If you try to watch folders on multiple instances of the same synced database, all hell breaks loose.)

Pubchase (www.pubchase.com) can also sync with your Mendeley library, and does a surprisingly good job of recommending papers of interest.
The Art of Deception

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Ghost in the Wires

http://amzn.com/B0047Y0F0K
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Naah. High-visibility fluorescent yellow cycling jackets or similar attire are better ways: your body is a large blob that is much easier to notice than a little blinking light, especially if you're going along areas where there are lots of other light sources competing for the driver's attention.

But there's no reason you shouldn't go for both, of course.
Ask HN: Has animal anatomy evolved any Two Generals' Problem strategies?
I'm pushing 40 and my mom was a lifelong GTE employee, and while I only vaguely remember pre-divestiture, I've heard all the stories - from both sides of the DMARC.

Even if they want to, I don't believe it's possible for ISPs to exact Ma Bell level control over their services, for a number of reasons - the main ones being that the landscape is not a monopoly, and that while consumers might not care about their mobile carrier throttling Spotify or Netflix, they won't stand for being served with a completely locked-down web across the board. That's just not going to happen.

I know I represent a minority position inside tech - of not supporting Net Neutrality - but I would support it if there were an actual monopoly, or if ISPs were rendering sites and services completely inaccessible, which they are not. Until then, it's just a slippery slope imo.
I can only partially answer your question for Pascal: Look at the Free Pascal compiler.

I learned (Turbo) Pascal many years ago. Recently I've revived my usage while writing a video game. I wanted a mature, compiled, no GC language that worked well on Windows but wasn't C/C++. For the most part I've been happy with it.

It's still an alive project (version 3.0 released this year). It supports a wide selection of platforms, and a few Pascal dialects including Delphi, although I've been sticking to the old school procedural style in my game. It easily interfaces with C libraries (I've tried SDL and Lua).

As for the language itself, it seems to have lackluster support for template / generic programming, so I avoid it. That's a little disappointing to me but I think I can live without it. It does support old scool C++ style OOP, but try to avoid it because OOP's not cool anymore :).

There's plenty of documentation on the Internet, but not the amount of some of the more hip languages of today (and the websites tend to look older).

The number of tools is lackluster. It has an IDE called Lazarus that I've never used. The IDE seems focused on GUI development, which doesn't interest me. It comes with Turbo Pascal like IDE that runs in a console window, which probably won't be appealing to most people. I mostly use Notepad++ and script building in PowerShell for my game. I do miss the features from Visual Studio, like Intellisense though.
Edward Snowden says the opposite is true; he's suggested on Twitter that NSA probably alerted Juniper to the backdoors.
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How would you work out the visas and taxes though?
This app is reshaping CAD software with the Apple Pencil and the iPad Pro
I own a few services that rely on voterfile data we acquire from many sources and I am aware of quite a few others (so I feel like I need to chime in here haha). I suppose sources aren't going to disclose the actual resource or IP address until law enforcement tracks them down? I haven't been able to find any reports of anything specific.

It may not be Nation Builder per se but it could be one of their many integration points maintained by third parties:

http://nationbuilder.com/apps
> Even if you believe "local government is an expression of communion," that would not invalidate the fact that there are important distinctions, as a many political scientist and public choice theorist have outlined

Can you enumerate some of them, or point me to a simple resource? I have no desire to go read full-size papers, so something light that goes beyond the trite "we oppose any form of social organization" would be nice.

> The implications of this statement, even if true, are quite unfortunate

I guess that is true. Maybe yours is the more optimistic view of mankind. Your discomfort does not invalidate my viewpoint, though.

As for rejecting various parts of consumer culture, how would I participate in web 2.0 while rejecting walled gardens?

> Whether you define profits [..] I can't tell how it is anything but neutral

There is value in a society beyond profits. Individual freedom, social coherence and emotional stability cannot be valued at all, except perhaps in lost productivity when they break down. There are also forms of productivity that are not expressed as profit even though they could: childrearing and other forms of care come to mind. In addition, "profits" rarely include common costs (like depletion of fish stocks), or they are valued well below their true cost (e.g. carbon tax).

No, I cannot see how "profits" can be seen as neutral, when the true cost/benefit ratio to society is so skewed.

> it is genuinely difficult to say that a majority of consumers are making a wrong choice, if it may be that is what they intended by their own volition

Difficult as it is, the debate around the obesity epidemic is certainly heading in that direction.
This reminds me a bit of a reddit user who as a teenager knew of the coming ban of DRAM so he/she bought piles of them much cheaper before the ban.

And I think he said they had to desolder them from the boards. Then sold it for a very large amount of money.

I forget who the user is maybe that's a good thing!
Every time I see a laptop on a beach on Facebook I think to myself "Well, that's a lie".

I've worked from home for the past 5 years and one of the "secrets" is to have a dedicated home office as a work environment.

I personally don't see this working for the job I do. Never thought it's actually a sustainable option for more than a couple of months at best.
> COBOL programming language is no longer taught in schools

I took a COBOL course just two years ago in a Texas Public University. It was considered the 'I didn't get any offers anywhere else' or 'I am too lazy to apply' if you were picked up by IBM as a COBOL engineer. I was trying to pull up the online syllabus. Seems like they have finally gotten rid of that course (or maybe the professor who taught it finally passed away).

As annoying as COBOL was, it was unique and interesting in the way it handled IO processing. From what I understood from talking with those who had gone the COBOl engineer route from my school, was that it was never quite learning COBOL, but rather all the jank years of programmers added into the codebase. COBOL is annoying, but when you have the equivalent of jank similar to badly designed #define 's all over the place that makes you want to thrash out at everything and anything when you realize what is happening ... that is, from what I have been told, a major reason COBOL sucks.

It wasn't my cup of tea, thus I didn't pursue it, but to fellow classmates, they quite enjoyed it as one would when you program in C. It had a certain elegance to it.