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> All the energy storage products I've heard about cost more or about the same per kWh just to store the energy. So even if the energy to charge the energy storage was free, it still would not make economic sense to store energy if you have grid power.

1) They are re-usable. Power generation [e.g. Solar Panels] to refill them is frequently inconsistent enough that you will need to go 12+ hours without power. Cycle through enough time and paying a multiple of grid power for energy storage that lasts years is worth it.

2) If I lose grid power [happens a couple times a year] I need backup power.

EDIT:

Iirc, I'm pretty sure Powerwall and such is ~$.30/kwh with generation included and I know I eat ~$.30/kwh for a certain level of usage.

https://www.sce.com/wps/portal/home/residential/rates/Standa...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2015/05/01/why...

$.15/kwh during the day and $.30/kwh at night is actually comparable depending on usage.

If you don't want to do generation, you can arbitage rates at $.15/kwh storage + $.14/kwh charge from grid:

https://www.sce.com/wps/portal/home/residential/rates/Time-O...
> I'd think the library would have to be doing some strange things to not work if placed in the head, though.

Not really. All it does is `var body = document.body` in an IIFE. In <head>, that yields undefined.
I prioritize my giving to local, small non-profits. I usually have a relationship with them beyond the check I write (I have volunteered or been a board member).

If you are giving to big charities (because they match up with your values), they have tons of data on what they are doing with the money. They also sometimes have internal funds you can donate to that are earmarked to only be spent on a specific activity -- just ask.
I like the way it makes me feel. It's a great way to relax at night after dinner. It also makes me more creative. I come up with cool projects or approach a problem from a different perspective.
> Most people don't care about NSA surveillance or they agree with it.

John Oliver went to the streets with the question, if people have ever send a naked photo of themselves with a cellphone or email, should the government have the right to collect and look at those photos?

None of the people agreed that the government should have that right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M#t=24m54s
We're using them for a client, and pretty much every client I've worked with lately is using them. I think they'll be just fine, it's still a good product.
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>People really need to shift their focus on what actually is wrong with this world but as always the tiny smudge of dog shit on the sole of your shoe is an easier target than the huge crap pile down the street.

You see, when US tried to change one of the countries that kill hundreds of gay men by force (Iraq) things didn't go to well...

Iran doesn't care about online complaints, so complaining about them doesn't help a little bit
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Earthquake warning does not require the Internet. It shouldn't even need the Internet. Japan's primary earthquake alerting system uses NHK Radio 1 and Radio 2, which have multiple transmitters and nationwide coverage. Alerts are also broadcast over TV and cellular networks. There are special receivers which detect the alert signal.

The high speed rail system has its own detectors, both along the rail lines and at the coast.
To be fair, there is evidence that weaker ties can be highly valuable in job search: http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/weak_ties.htm

For this reason, I'm somewhat lenient in adding LinkedIn connections, as long as I at least have some idea who the people are. Unfortunately, many connection requests are from people I've never met before.
Unreal Engine 2 is still quite heavily used especially platforms quite heavily, UT2004 was UE 2.5.

AAA console PC titles also still use it I think the most "recent" ones would be Bioshock 1 and 2.
https://www.unrealengine.com/showcase/bioshock-2

Since UE 2 was ported to IOS (Don't recall if it has an Android port also) it actually became quite popular both in porting old games and in making new ones since it's a bit more optimized and is considerably easier to use than UE 3/4.
Not all places are like this. Some places have variable time-of-use rates with high premiums at peak times and large discounts at times of extreme low demand. For example, rates with Southern California Edison can be as high as 45 cents/kWh and as low as 11 cents/kWh. If you can charge up a storage system at times of low demand and then use it at times of high demand, you could save a lot of money.

The bigger use is probably industrial applications, though. Commercial users can get hit with huge surcharges if they draw a lot of power, for example, so users which only draw huge amounts of power briefly could save a lot of money by using storage to smooth that out. The utilities themselves can end up paying extremely high rates for extra capacity at peak time, so if they can use storage to eliminate that need it can save them a lot of money.
One of my biggest technological accomplishments and one of my biggest improvements in quality of life is when I finally managed (after 2 years of regular attempts) to delete my LinkedIn account and halt all emails.
NeXT quit making hardware (and renamed to "NeXT Software Inc") in 1993.
This has such potential, but ALL kinds of problems with the website navigation and display (at least in latest Chrome on Linux).

Am I missing if there is some sort of audio download somewhere?
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Nothing new here. Add it to the pile of hundreds of other altcoins.

Why is this here? Feels like the pump-and-dump world of altcoins is being done here to pump up this post.
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There seems to be plenty of privacy-oriented altcoins around. How does the privacy model of zcash compare to others, like monero or dash?
This is on mobile. It shows her name, her email address, and a circular button with a human silhouette and a plus symbol on it. All in a section titled "People you may know". The implication is absolutely that she is a user of the site.
Do you have any insights into how badly core infrastructure institutional investors are going to get hit when these large, institutional-owned tech companies deflate? Any metrics on how much of the equities market is owned by pension/retirement vs. free, non-dependent, non-core institutional investments?
> Isn't the more important point whether or not he exposed serious corruption and illegal activity? We forgive the police breaking the law, in order to enforce it, all the time.. the classic example of speeding to catch a speeder.

But...that's not breaking the law. When speeding is done as part of the police officer's job, it is not breaking the law.

In contrast, when a police officer speeds while not carrying out their duty, that is indeed breaking the law. The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2013 was awarded to an investigation that uncovered illegally speeding cops: http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/7180
I guess it very much depends on the type of work you do and service you provide. May be you can look into some similar businesses and see whether they are a registered corporate (should be able to check online on government databases), have a good TOS or have trademarks and other stuff. If they dont maybe it can be postponed for some time.
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Tangentially related: I'm not sure if anyone else gets this, but I honestly have trouble reading some of these comments without viewing any argument I disagree with as a potential JTRIG operation. (And yes I know someone was criticized yesterday[1] for making similar accusations in the other thread.)

Which is certainly uncharitable towards others' alternative opinions, but how can you honestly not be suspicious at this point? That's why the tactics are so insidious and destructive to civil society: there's really no way to innoculate yourself. Either you potentially let yourself be swayed by a NatSec astroturfing campaign, or let the same sow fear, uncertainty and doubt to where you can't even participate in a political discussion with people of opposing viewpoints.

Would be curious how many others have the same reaction and how they deal with it. Though there's a certain amusing irony that one would have cause for paranoid suspicion of those comments as well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036249
I was always a fan of HammerJS's branding, but it looks like they removed the silhouette of MC Hammer from their front page :( http://hammerjs.github.io/
can you elaborate on the "home" part of this? do you have a 24x7 box at home? then openvpn solves secure access part. or, did you mean the lack "needed but not existing yet home control hub for lights, heating, fridge, music, surveillance, etc."?
> but they live some place that does not permit it, they FEEL the impact of that law.

How is that any diffrent from living in a country where you know you are under 24-7 surveillance? Unless you planned carry a concealed gun all the time, you'd hardly ever be affected - only on the occasions where you'd have otherwise carried.
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Maybe as engineers we are tempted to misunderstand the motivation for building this. As other commenters have pointed out, the main reason for this is political. Perhaps the secondary reason is not so much the actual utility of the solar roadway but the visual impact and the meaning that it represents. I mean, one of the biggest cities on Earth has giant woman made of copper placed on an island just outside it.
Superchargers only work with Teslas, and Tesla is doing fine when it comes to doubling the number of installations on their own (there are currently 270, and they installed 113 of those last year), so having the government come in and install them doesn't seem like a good use of money.

Further, what's the relevance of Supercharger stations to electrical storage? Maybe I'm missing something but that seems like an irrelevant tangent here.
for parking lots you can build roofs to put them on. It adds shade and is never blocked by cars under them.
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There's this facility called slots, at least this is, how it used to be. A resource to be loaded is assigned a slot as available (generally 8 or so) and the browser advances over resource tags. If a resource in the head section is going to be interpreted and is ready, the resource is processed, the slot is freed and available for further jobs. (This is partly, why only hard coded resources are of relevance for the document.DOMContentLoaded event.) There's no connection between single threaded execution and parallel slots.

(Edit: So this may be true for scripts that are requiring further resources, but there's no need for this with scripts that are completely self-contained, like dragula claims to be. Here, this might rather slow down the completion of the page.)
> The local retail energy prices are approximately 10c/kWh year round, rain or shine. The price is fixed, unless you buy a contract based on the spot market.

Chances are, you live close to the Bath County Pumped Storage Station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...

Its because of these big infrastructure projects that your region has cheap energy all year (and all day) round. In areas like California, big infrastructure projects have been shuttered, and they have 41c / kWhr prices in the day, and 10c at night.

Other locations in the US have their own energy storage public-infrastructure projects that stabilize the grid. But some states (Hawaii or California) have... issues.
I expect there is more than one factor at work here.

I've known folks who "grew up" in a single company; joined out of college, worked there 15+ years, got annual raises, then got laid off and then couldn't find work at their previous salary. And the expectation of an annual raise kept forcing up their salary but I don't think the company was actually evaluating whether or not the person was getting more valuable over time.

I once had an interesting conversation with a recruiter who wanted me to pony up my current compensation. I asked, "Why is that relevant? You are the one with the job, and you are willing to pay some amount for someone to do that job, isn't it up to me to decide if I would be willing to do that job at the price offered?" There are jobs I would do for free, and jobs that you almost couldn't pay me enough to take, and that has nothing at all to do with what I'm currently being paid.

And if someone insists, I really do think they are looking to have something on paper that they can point to which will give them a safe "out" for hiring someone else while minimizing lawsuits. So much safer than "we are looking for someone who has more time to spend in this position", or "we were really hoping for a masculine point of view", or "we don't think you could relate culturally to our customers." All of which would violate the equal opportunity guidelines.
I'm tempted to start doing this for the places in my town. Cashew Chicken is a big deal here.
>> A logical endgame of this type of defensive action is an environment where a corporation gets to decide how users listen to music. <<
This isn't exactly a new problem, and I'd argue it's harder to do now than before, and a large reason why is because skipping a track is now possible.
I have always considered LinkedIn a spammer!
10% of all mining rewards for the first 5 years go to the developers. The tech is certainly interesting, but the pseudo-premine makes me a little wary of putting any significant amount of money into it.

Citation: https://z.cash/blog/funding.html (Check the "Founder's reward" section)
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Long-time Oracle user here. Yes, there are features missing. I expect that everything you can do in Oracle you can do in Postgres, but it would take considerable effort to port your logic. One fairly small, fairly clean schema here has about 5500 lines of PL/SQL in package bodies. Postgresql does not have packages, though to be sure the packages I mention don't make much use of package state and so one could easily enough break out the individual functions and procedures.

If you are an Oracle customer, and your applications make use of stored programs, moving to Postgres will require a fair bit of effort.
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While I agree that it is good to treat and cure diseases, the third perspective in the article (David King) argues that gene editing has rapidly advanced recently. The main evidence of this the UK approval of an experiment that uses the Crispr-Cas9 method, which was only developed 3 years ago.
Actually, zerocash is significantly different than other altcoins, in that it replaces digital signatures with zero knowledge proofs. It's technically very interesting, and seems like a believable next direction for Bitcoiners. The other direction would be some variant of ethereum.

If you don't believe that a general purpose one-size-fits-all blockchain technology can be easily and safely created, but you would prefer more privacy and security, Zcash is a frankly compelling idea, and deserves a look.

Monero uses a different scheme (ring signatures, essentially mixing in fake and real digital signatures) for privacy. To my knowledge, they don't duplicate the 'blinding' type of hiding about bucket recipients and ownership that zcash does.

Note also that BIP47 and the like are trying to add some of these privacy features into Bitcoin core, so there's lots of angles on improved privacy.
I've been endorsed by very close friends, who absolutely know what the endorsements are for, for things that I don't actually have any experience in. There's no way they could have been doing the endorsement intentionally.
That's really cool, I know nothing about music composition , where can I learn the basic theory/concepts/etc ?
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What? No, the Chinese are still heavily interested in the Vancouver market. Since when is small Victoria a proxy for big Vancouver?
> Nothing new here. Add it to the pile of hundreds of other altcoins.

It sounds to me like you don't understand the technology involved. To be fair, it's probably Greek to most people outside of crypto.

How many of the other altcoins were based on zero-knowledge proofs or allowed for private transfers (with respect to the blockchain)?

I'm not aware of any. I think that's something new and worth talking about.

(EDIT: Snark was removed. Sorry dang.)
This could be symbolic, given that LNKD's IPO was one of the first big events of the current boom. Opened at $119 I think.
This has a lot of potential to be very useful. One suggestion I'd make (or just implement myself) is suppress mouse events. When I'm dragging a link, for example, and I release the mouse it counts as a click on the link and I lose everything I moved.

The biggest use case I see for this is making super fast screenshots of variations of pages to illustrate an idea for an improvement to developers, other designers, or stakeholders.
We all know Nasdaq has been a bit inflated...
Why not use document.DOMContentLoaded ?
Along with dozens of other companies who's stock is down.
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> Why is this here?

Actually there's a precise answer to that. In yesterday's popular Keybase.io thread, the submitter (rdl) said "Along with Zcash, it is the most amazing crypto-engineering project I've seen in years." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11037297

That was evidence the community might find it interesting, and the project hadn't had discussion on HN yet, so we invited an earlier submitter (malgorithms) to repost it. From there it received significant community interest.

> Nothing new here. Add it to the pile

Whoa, this is exactly what we ask commenters not to do when discussing new work on Hacker News. The ratio of dismissiveness to substance in your post is too high. Substantive criticism is fine, of course, but not this; it degrades the discussion.

If you know something or have a genuine insight—including a critical one—you're more than welcome to share it. But "nothing new here", "add it to the pile", and "feels like" is far too weak to justify a dismissive swipe. A comment like this would be better phrased as the question, "What is new here?", in a spirit of curiosity not snark.
Microsoft now has PowerBI in its Office suite that is pretty powerful. Its a Tableau competitor that I believe is a big reason that their stock is falling. It integrates with Excel, Access, etc. and a ton of different other non-Microsoft services.
First up, dropping copulas is pretty common practice in new headlines. There's no loss in information or any obfuscation.

Hammond made a statement, thus the 'says' in the headline. 'Branding' is attaching a label or description (such as 'ridiculous') to something. If somebody were to make the statement 'that car is fantastic', then they would be branding it as fantastic. Both the sentences 'X branded the car as fantastic' and '"the car is fantastic", said X', would be equally valid statement.

I think you're reading into all this far, far too much.
One of their big projects was helping forces predict the locations of IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan [1]. It did a better job at aggregating all the intel they were getting on IEDs into a unified interface and platform that let ground commanders ensure their soldiers left knowing all the risks and possible bomb locations.

[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/16/military-has...
I used to be afraid of looking the fool for arguing with a machine, but when I looked around everyone was too busy with their smart phones to laugh.
I can't do an apples-apples comparison to the ones you listed because I'm only familiar with Bitcoin and the original Zerocash paper. I can say that the zkSNARK approach to crypto-currency is certainly novel and they have a great team of competent cryptographers and engineers on the team.

That is to say, Zcash isn't a hobbyist effort, it's the result of serious crypto engineering. It's not clown-shoes privacy.
Consider a Windows Phone maybe? It lacks a lot of apps but if all you are interested in is the basics (calls, messaging, GPS, etc.), then it's a pretty solid OS. And the Nokia Lumia lines of phones are outstanding when it comes to build quality and battery life.
I would normally say that niche blogs are better off having members-only features, but worried that your sessions might be kids.

If that's so, making sure you are very mobile-friendly and looking at app-install ad networks might be better than adsense.
On making it every 20msec? ;).

Seriously though, what are you working on? Would you mind sharing?
For reference the US consumes approximately 7B barrels of oil per year according to https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=33&t=6

7B * $10 / 320M population = $218.75 per person.

In case anyone was curious.

Probably we can do something simpler than nostromo's plan. Pair the oil tax with a drop in the bottom tax bracket from 10% to 7%. That's about revenue neutral.
I can't speak to as to whether Zcash is a pump-and-dump particularly, but I do know a bit about financing the technology development behind blockchains, and it's difficult. If the code is open source, you risk a fork and loss of any intrinsic value. If you sell the coins, you risk SEC difficulties in the USA. If you premine, people complain that you premined. If your company controls the currency, you get forks when founders leave (e.g. Ripple/Stellar), and you have to build large compliance teams.

In the end, though, blockchain tech needs SIGNIFICANTLY more technology development than it has had so far to develop its latent potential.

I'm sure blockchain enthusiasts would be interested in your suggestions as to how to get development funded.
Over the years I've been either a freelance IT consultant or the head of an IT consultancy. I never got a client from LinkedIn, no one that worked for me ever got a client from LinkedIn, and more broadly, no one I know has ever got a client from LinkedIn. I'm sure they have some purpose (public resume database?) that I'm not clear on, but their value from my perspective is 0.
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I don't think gas prices impact the Model S/X, the price point is just too high to be a bracket where that's a major factor. I think that for the Model 3 they're going to be production constrained to a point where we'll see gas prices come back to normal.

Also a big factor in the TCO is the lack of maintenance and overall simplicity in a electric drivetrain and that's completely independent of gas prices.
Cool.

"We also parse subtitle files and correlate each subtitle line's timecode with the timecode of the screenshot. Finally, the frinkiac binary can upload the data set to frinkiac-server. "

Could you elaborate on this parsing of the subtitle files. I've seen the "open source" star wars gifs file with the dialog and time codes[1], but I'm not sure how they pulled the text from the close-captioning? (edit: someone else something similar...sorry).

Also aside from the two character index search index you describe how are you searching the quotes with postgres? Are you using postgres's full text search[2] or something else?

Thanks, I love the simpsons and this is really cromulent[3] and cool.

[1]https://github.com/LindseyB/starwars-dot-gif/blob/master/sub...
[2] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/textsearch.htm...
[3]https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=cromulent&e=S07E16&t=10420....
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