skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because the panels then need to support and run the wear of cars (which my guess is expensive). roads are repaired quite often because they have to deal with temperature contraction and expansion and also huge shifting weights rolling across them all the time.
Thanks for the input. I am going to forward these on to the server dev team and follow up with them in person. They may be aware of some of these already but it is important to us to keep track of what is causing our users the most headaches. I appreciate you taking the time and letting me know your suggestions and the issues you are having!
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-price-15-network-failure-cla...
At some point, you're gonna have to introduce some logic into your program, and that logic is gonna have to be in a function.
I'd appreciate an invite too, if you have one - vmarsi75-hn at yahoo dot com. Thanks!
They didn't do any tests first?
"The greatest form of flattery is imitation."

Huh, does that apply less if they've basically never heard of you when they imitate you? Not to imply that Erlang is unheard of, I'm just saying it's not as popular and orthodox as Python/Ruby/C/java/etc.
Everyone is free to critize the government, to accuse it of any atrocity and to denounce it on the basis of those accusations.

What you cannot do is disclose internal information to which you have privileged access as a government agent/employee/contractor. You have ample notice of this fact before agreeing to become one. In fact you must go out of your way to apply for a security clearance. If you find this an unacceptable infringement of your freedom, you may choose not to work for the government.

Snowden is not subject to arrest for dissent, but for what is effictively a breach of his employment contract.

SCOTUS recently held that government employees cannot even be fired for disparaging the government provided they do not identify themselves as government employees when doing so.
M2M versus IoE: Is IoE Really M2M with New Coat of Paint?
My browser history over the past few months is riddled with 20-minute bursts of trying to find the wikipedia page for a certain cognitive fallacy that is related to what you and your parent comment are talking about.

The gist of it is that we tend to trust the authority of the media, up until a point where the the media incorrectly or disingenuously reports on something that we are an expert on. This theory disagrees with what you and your parent comment are saying and instead contends that as soon as they switch to another story, we continue to trust their authority on other topics without any kind of diminished reputation.

I feel like I'm going crazy, but I am almost certain this page exists and my google-fu is continually failing me.
Post author here.

You've completely got me on that one. On the bright side, it requires much less cost of ownership than a more traditional DB solution.

So, there's that. :)
You'd get a better deal borrowing from Sweden, Switzerland, or Denmark
But 300 does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914045.
Being a foreign spy is always illegal. That's the point of it, and why spies are separate from soldiers and police.
If people have my contacts details that's not really a problem for me. A friend once said he wasn't going to get a gmail account because he didn't want Google knowing all his contacts but Google already had them because they all had gmail accounts. The value of keeping other people's email addresses secret is overrated. Spam is a fraction of the problem it was 10 years ago and there's always filters.
You should not.

If anything, this will cause them to send even more emails!
It does make you wonder if they decided it would be best to kill some Americans in California to make a point that they needed power.[1]

We know they had intent to protect their powers.
We know that they are willing to train and create terrorists in order to help make the point that terror is a real threat.
We know they lie and can do so with out any punishments by our government.[2]

The real question is would they murder Americans to help keep that power.

I still find it hard to believe that they would be willing to kill Americans in order to keep these powers, but I am finding it harder to keep this belief.

[1] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3df6d5019719473780ee1a652d1b2...
[2] http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/nsa-director-alexan...
It will be super cool with resizable functionality
Disrupting Japan: The Japan Startup Podcast
No, rent control does not work
I think I can infer an answer to my own question from this article: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-...

Apple's response was this is due to security stuff with the touch ID sensor and since my iPad doesn't have one, it shouldn't be affected.
Typically VCs have to sell their shares 6-ish months after there's a liquidity event and return the proceeds to their LPs.
I'm from France, and it is widely available as well, however it is nowhere near as available as alcohol.

I mean I am hardly ever further than a couple minutes away from a place where I can buy alcohol.

As for minors, I'd argue the problem lies more in the late access to alcohol in the US.

Then as of the effects of cannabis itself, it increases reaction time. So you could definitely pull the brakes one second too late in front of that kid and his balloon. But yeah, it might not make you as prone to think killing 3 people is an acceptable activity.
I use links all the time for HN. It works extremely well.
Let's talk about Service Workers – and sorry, I don't mean the union
> desktop application for business intelligence and analytics

I tried to buy the desktop app a few months ago and just got bogged down with the sales guy. They tried to sell the server products (with very high per-user pricing) when all I needed was 1 desktop licence and the free viewer.

It was difficult to work out if they were a consultancy, a service, or selling a product. I think those things are in conflict with one another and make it difficult to understand the level of commitment and risk.
And there goes device ownership down the toilet.
That bothered me too. It seems like "pump-and-dump" is a little harsh. I used the term "speculation" in my comment. But in this case, both are true.
I quit facebook cold turkey every 2-3 months. Slowly it seems to creap back into my life.
I noticed I was replacing addictions...apparently this is common.
Thanks for contributing to GitLab. Glad to hear you like CI
Think of a sinusoidal demand for energy, with a period of a few tens of seconds. By charging when demand is low and discharging when demand is high, peak load is lowered.
Artificial Intelligence: Why We’re Not Out of the Woods Yet
So energy storage is a technical solution to market failure?
I may have been a bit facetious with my response previously but if I remember correctly HomeJoy offered that. Though it may be irrelevant whether HomeJoy offered the feature or not; if you're interacting with a person directly and you have the opportunity to continue working with them and it would be better financially for both of you (no HomeJoy cut for the cleaner and likely a lower price for you) then it's a bit inevitable. That was one of the issues HomeJoy ran into.

Perhaps HomeAglow is structured differently? Their website doesn't say.
I might be reading the wrong, but they seem to have been losing money the first three quarters of 2015: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:LNKD&fstype=ii

They would need to make a pretty good profit the last three month of 2015 to make up for it.

Again I might just not know how to read financial statements, but adding up all the "Net incomes" gives you around $108 million in lose.
How about this: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...
Your "too easy" is my "deceptive dark pattern".
Mostly crap, but I like pembient and maybe Clara foods, they have shots at making it. I really want an abiobot but I don't think their founder will make it. Same with arc reactor. Blue turtle was the fraudster of the group. I know enough about Gaucher disease to know that their proposal was total nonsense.

I'm not harshing on class 1 - probably even with ycombinator, many classes if not all are "mostly crap". Zero, though, is stunning.
Investment in what respect? Developer/analyst effort, I'd probably agree.

However, one needs to do the analysis to create a worthwhile dashboard anyway and the report can be generated easily with the knitr package.
Writey Novel – Write a book with the Internet one character at a time
You calling OP oblivious is the basest ignorance. They seem pretty well informed, perhaps more informed by reality than anyone else could possibly be. You make the mistake of not accepting that OP has never had to respond to a medical pr safety emergency because of cannabis. You see, somewhere, there many people with lots and lots of cannabis available to them, just like alcohol is available to everyone else. OP has never had to help them. The sample size isn't just 99% percent smaller than alcohol. For OP, it is zero. It never ever happens with the current availability to all or the very high availability to a few. It stands to reason then that it is much safer than alcohol at any level of availability. It is, after all, a very different drug than alcohol
That's not nice. The fact that users worry about HN being good is the most important thing keeping it good.
Choose Your Own Discount – The Evolution of Restaurants Seeking Your Attention
Nothing against the kids, but they need to play by the established rules; not undercut established juice franchisees who've invested considerable funds to purchase local franchise rights.
Perhaps not, but it's also quite rare for a minister to be a domain expert in his portfolio.
I'd imagine phoning home heavily subsidizes some of the products through the data produced in aggregate and at the level of the individual through which research can be performed and which may also be monetized in other ways.

For instance, Google paid 10x revenue for NEST [0]. Profit is obviously much lower which means that's a very long term investment for the acquirer. But maybe not if the NEST product integrates with other Google products bringing more people into the Google ecosystem, incentivizing people to stay in the Google ecosystem, and providing data for Google to both improve it's ecosystem even for non Nest Users and to monetize with third parties.

Now if NEST stayed on it's own, it could integrate with other ecosystems or create it's own or just exist as a standalone product but NEST wouldn't have too much data to sell to increase profits, and wouldn't be able to draw as many conclusions as a company which could integrate their data with other data sources. It could create it's own ecosystem but comfortably living within another established ecosystem will probably bring more users to NEST as ecosystem creation is obviously very much outside the purview of a smart Thermostat.

So it sort of makes sense that these products "phone home" even if it's not exactly what we as computer software engineers and privacy advocates might look for in a product.

[0] - http://www.businessinsider.com/nest-revenue-2014-1
I agree the Blender has problems. All I'm saying is the combined amount of money that companies like Pixar + Dreamworks + Disney + EA + Rockstar + Valve + Sony + Microsoft + all the other movie, CGI, and game companies spend on Autodesk software would probably fund 30-40 + well paid engineers and they could get an open source piece of software that they could all modify anyway they want VS what they have now, which is Maya and 3dsmax of which they are at the mercy of Autodesk AND for which they have to deal with all kinds of licensing issues.

I know it's not that simple. Each of those companies will want different features. But, with the right leadership (hardest part) it seems like it would be good thing for them to do.

I don't think the FBX format is the deal breaker.
what's to stop miners with 50%+ of hashing power from withholding the founders rewards?
This is great, thanks for mentioning it. I'll definitely dig in and give it a trial run!
The creator of ZeroTier, a super easy way to set up virtual networks. Connects all your devices and encrypts the traffic by default. Pretty slick stuff. We use it in our backend to keep our microservices topology simple.
Additionally, in the USA there are theoretically protections for "whistleblowers" who reveal illegal or immoral practices by large institutions. The problem is that the security apparatus hides behind the cloak of national security needs preventing any open rational debate on the subject.
People think of Fortran and Cobol as similar, due to their age. Put simply: they are not.
They are quite large, but in the particular application weight and volume are not a huge concern. All sitting side by side they are about 20 meters long, 3 meters high, and a meter deep. Probably weighs on the order of 15 tonnes.
Talking about drag-and-drop in a thread about a drag-and-drop library is surely on topic.
It works as expected according to them if they don't expect you to look at all the results, I guess.

Please tell me what link you have at result #500, because I can't see it even if I remove the URL parameters and use the standard 10 results per page...
or very little of it for a lot of money. Website design suggests the latter

In the BI market, Tableau is very much one of the low-cost, high volume players. They've done a great job getting into lots of people's hands, the question has always been whether or not they can roll the volume of cheap(ish) single user licenses into large enterprise-type deals.
Most people don't understand how the Internet works, yet they manage to use it every day. Same goes for existing mainstream financial systems.
When you have car trouble, you can go to the dealership or the mechanic you trust. It prevents the dealer from overcharging. Why can't we have the same thing with computer gadgets, especially since they try to build walled gardens and tightly locked hardware.
needs a random button
For what it's worth I have a Facebook account and have all the email notification settings off and can't remember seeing an email from Facebook in over a year.
Besides, there's this:

> it seems that speed rather than memory would be the bottleneck in brain simulations on the neuronal level

Currently, memory access is the bottleneck of most applications that need big amounts of data.

Anyway, as we get to his prescribed 100 Tops, we are seeing more and more applications like image identification, and self driving cars.
I can hack d3js. Can crunch billions of records in a flash of the eye, can wrangle most any DB (NoSQL, et al) out there, why would I need Tableau?

Answer: We want someone stable! Not some crazy hacker. Plus if we don't spend the cash, we don't have it in our budget next year.

Oh, I get it now. :-)
Doesn't seem like there's much value in linkedin premium for non-recruiters and the recruiters certainly aren't complaining about spammy practices.
How much are you raising?
Neurobiological changes explain how mindfulness meditation improves health
It mostly depends on client needs. We had one project where I was thinking of going d3.js and wrap it around an Electron app. Our investment in R is still not at the level I'd want, we're mostly a SAS house ...

Most of our clients are tier 1, so in some instances they already have heavy investment in Qlik, but some are willing to shell out cash for Tableau where it makes sense. I've seen senior management in clients complain about the price though at times.
Assange was placed under curfew he had to surrender his passport while awaiting a decision on extradition to Sweden, that process could also have resulted in Sweden deposing him in a UK court.

Wait -- was he charged, or wasn't he?

Your response doesn't tell us anything.
CloudKit Now Supports Server-To-Server Web Service Requests
Which level of office suite do you need to get this tool?
If anyone feels like researching this, don't look at the BadBios conspiracy, that's an internet meme.

Instead look at things like Intel's trusted computing. Igor Skochinsky (of fame from Hexrays / IDA, and moderator on /r/reverseengineering) has an excellent powerpoint highlighting some research on their Management Engine, which is probably in your computer right now.

pdf: https://github.com/skochinsky/papers/raw/master/2014-10%20%5...
You should read Giving 2.0 by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen. She goes into depth this and many other aspects of philanthropy.
I don't think this is a realistic attitude. I've gotten my fingers burned more than once by trying to take this approach.

The problem with web applications is that they are not self-contained. You don't necessarily know who or what is calling what or how for some legacy applications.

I can agree with the concept of improving code as you see it, but changing the abstraction--the topic of conversation here--cannot be done willy-nilly for any non-trivial app. You have to dig up all the people are, or were, or will be counting on that abstraction, and that's a challenging thing to do sometimes.

And then you have to provide a business reason for you to allocate the time necessary to go read those 100k lines of code and understand them or write tests for them. And you tell your boss this is a mess and needs serious work, and he says, "Dude, this isn't rocket science, and we're going to burn this whole thing down in a few years anyway, and all I need you to do is add this one button in this edge case and don't break our standalone desktop app that isn't going to get updated to understand this functionality."

You're idealism is admirable, and I don't disagree with it. But the reality of the world is that if you work for a company whose primary product is not software (hell, even sometimes when you do!) the priorities are about the business functionality, not about the state of the code or the right abstraction.

I just think it's a little disingenuous for people to have these conversations in a vacuum and attribute anything from malice to incompetence to a person who takes a different approach.
Right, but that's all structure and doesn't (er, shouldn't) fundamentally affect the cost of the PV cells themselves. Regardless, I agree that it's not necessarily the most cost-effective choice, I just don't think that it's a response to some perceived lack of space either.
The big brands might not be willing to make smartwatches that don't require a phone, but you can sure get some off-brand ones: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B011IFQDTW?psc=1
I noticed that when I stopped checking my Facebook account, Facebook started sending me FOMO messages ("Hey! You have messages! People are saying things! Please come look!")
I just read the 'approach to comments' and the 'official guidelines'. If you think this post has a problem, maybe you should explicitly point it out. Most of the electorate understand we need jobs, particularly higher paying technical jobs, here in American. Calling out a politician for anti-American ideas is not with the bounds of HN, or are you just expressing personal bias? Surely the $10/bbl is a grossly stupid idea, no?
I hope I'm wrong, but if ZCash delivers on the technical promise the blowback from legislators and law enforcement is sure to result in a net loss of privacy for everyone. Enabling illegal profiteering from the very real pain and suffering of others almost always results in government actio (appropriately so); but also legislative over-reaching (eg. mandated sentencing legislations, zero tolerance policies, warrantless wiretapping) because ZCash's message of economic and societal benefits will be utterly lost amid stories of how the tech hurt people.

ZCash is very impressive. Brilliant even. But for those who want better privacy... elect leaders who share the concern. Donate to the EFF and ACLU. Advocate for a 'privacy czar' as a cabinet/ministerial level position.
> Other musical spammers simply upload the same song thousands of times with different titles that are purposely similar to major hits

Reminded me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_(EP)
In that case, we're talking about 2 totally different things.

People can fall in love with an idea if it doesn't have to love you back.
Not intended in any way as a rebuttal of your point, but considering both sides of an issue is generally worthwhile:

There's the potential for DIY open source misuse, with negative consequences:

Here, a poster's bad experience with a properly-installed OEM product prompts a "warning", directed at the open-source DIY community...

https://community.particle.io/t/spark-powered-thermostats-bu...

The poster referenced this DIY...

http://blog.particle.io/2014/01/17/open-source-thermostat/?r...

I'm an open source fan, but realize it's not a panacea, in and of itself...great care and a full understanding of potential negative consequences is only prudent...

Personally, I'm content with nursing along older appliances that were made well...but, I'm a bit of a handyman, and hate to give up on any machine until I'm convinced it's totally worn out, so IoT is unlikely to invade my home on a large scale any time soon...
Design trends: Flat Design 2.0
But is the harm really correlated with alcohol being widely available? It seems like there are several confounding factors, including:

- Excessive consumption (which most people who consume alcohol don't do).

- Excessive consumption + driving

- Mental Illness

It's unclear to me that alcohol prohibition would dramatically reduce harm, when issues like mental health problems and building safer transit systems aren't addressed.

As it is often pointed out, prohibition seems to increase localized harm (as evidenced by the the 1920s prohibition, and the current drug war in Mexico and poor US inner cities), by driving the intoxicant trade into the criminal black market.
Most people are irrationally timid about a little bit of self-promotion and err on the comfortable, meek side of doing nothing at all.
Or worse!

http://i.stack.imgur.com/qsMM2.jpg
Because in the long run, storage costs will go down, and traditional generation costs will go up. At some point, there's a crossing where storage becomes cheaper. Much of that has to do with economies of scale and driving technological improvement with demand.

Beyond that, there are externalized costs to continuing a system that depends on fossil fuels and complex/expensive nuclear plants. In a macro world, governments and public utilities should be taking the externalized costs into account.
I figured this out quite a few years ago. The first time they spammed me, I signed in and turned off anything that said they would send me email. The next time they spammed I deleted my account and black-holed the email address I used to sign up with them. I gather things continued to go downhill from there (e.g. spamming all your contacts).

I can't understand why people would continue to use a web site from such an obviously dishonest company.
I'd love to think that HN was interesting enough to JTRIG attract it's attention.

Sadly, I tend to doubt that's the case.
Is it just me, or using jQuery for a complex web app in 2015 looks like, mmm, a bit strange choice?

The author has, of course, done a great job, for we see a working app; this trumps almost any objections. Kudos to the author.

But if you developed a spreadsheet of a similar functionality, would you choose plain jQuery and writing state machines by hand? Or would you be forced to use jQuery because you'd have to use key components based on it?
Aren't these two statements contradictory?

> * was only 419 bytes long
> * infected both .COM and .EXE,
increasing the size of the former
by only 1813 bytes
> I can't speak to as to whether Zcash is a pump-and-dump particularly.

Look at the founder's stake noted here: https://z.cash/blog/funding.html

They get 20% of the mined coins off the top for the first 4 years, without doing any actual mining.