skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are talking about spot market prices, not wholesale power prices. Most of the wholesale prices are established in forward markets (several months to a day ahead) and I don't remember ever seeing them negative. So following your logic it would be unfair that some power plants can run and earn positive income (when their production is sold forward) at the same time when other need to pay to run (when their production is sold on spot market). But there is nothing wrong in this - that's how balancing in power markets works.

Also you mentioned that wholesale and retail power prices can be very different. There are multiple of reasons why this is the case, but the important result is that consumers do not understand how balancing market works and why prices can be one hour $1000 and the next negative. If we want to encourage solar power installations by retail customers the pricing should also be based on retail model.

So I would disagree that your comment about negative prices is relevant to how prices should be set for power produced by home solar panels.

But I do agree - it is quite complicated question as most questions concerning power grid.
> But if you switch to the web app from the native app, now Facebook is tracking all your web usage.

I use this app, which is supposed to run the Facebook mobile site in a separate sandbox from my other browsing.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...
What platform does `&&` not work on? It works fine in Windows `cmd`, which is the typical shell to worry about portability with.
For the record I really enjoy following Eric's twitter stream but be forewarned that he isn't the end all be all expert on market micro-structure.

Infact I find he is alot like the book flash boys. Entertaining and capable of finding interesting data and putting his own spin on it but he is often just flat out wrong.

At one point he and I were talking when he claimed that Canada doesn't have a MOC auction, which 1) is just false, and 2) very easily verified by a 10 second google search.

Having said that, his graphs of market micro-structure are among the best I've found from anyone on twitter. Just don't blindly believe that when he shows a chart and claims shenanigans that there is actually something nefarious going on, which to be fair makes him no different than anyone else on twitter:)

I now view him as soneone who has earned his spot at the table as a market micro-structure "expert" but is very biased in his views.
So who actually tries to make this a "debate"? The world effectively agrees (from your link):

"Reports by the United States National Research Council and the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements and the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) argue[16] that there is no evidence for hormesis in humans and in the case of the National Research Council, that hormesis is outright rejected as a possibility despite population and scientific evidence.[17] Therefore, estimating Linear no-threshold model (LNT) continues to be the model generally used by regulatory agencies for human radiation exposure."

There's no even any logical proof that the radiation, that even in the lowest dosages destructs the DNA whenever it hits it, can make beneficial mutations instead of simply producing a cancer. That the "chemical agents" can be beneficial in low dosages isn't the issue as the radiation isn't a chemical agent but a DNA destruction agent.

Note: "Radiation hormesis is the hypothesis that low doses of ionizing radiation (within the region of and just above natural background levels) are beneficial."

No proof of that.
OK, but that is what happens in real life!

The way things are right now, employees will simply use their judgement to determine whether or not it is "safe" to violate "the letter" of a non-compete clause in their contract.

That usually works out just fine, until it doesn't :-(

Hopefully the public shame of more stories like this will encourage more employers to think twice about draconian non-compete clauses.
Lots of people sell things people don't need. There's something to be said for marketing.

Github and Stackoverflow, to name two that come to mind, run on their own hardware in a datacenter. Backblaze built out its own storage system in a datacenter due to how much cheaper it was than AWS' S3 system.

I think AWS is a wonderful system to prototype in, before you move to your own gear if you're profitable. But every dollar you spend in AWS is gone once its spent; with new US Section 179 deduction rules, you can immediately write off $500K/year in hardware costs. That means that you own that hardware forever. That might not matter to a Fortune 50 or 500 business, but it matters a lot to small to midsized businesses.

Disclaimer: I do devops/infrastructure, and love AWS, but also don't believe in spending more than you must for a solution.
Is there any technical or legal reason why it's not as easy to handle playing video as it is to show an image, from a site developer point of view? Why can't the browser do it natively? Why does it have to be handled via JavaScript and whatever else?
OS X has less users than Windows XP:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-os-ww-monthly-201501-2016...
Should you buy one? We test the Xiaomi Mi Band 1S
Hmmm.

There are like 5 superconductor guys and 3 ion trapping guys, so I guess they're going for superconductor qubits. Unless they're doing way better than the superconductor groups in academia, I wouldn't hold your breath, it's still pretty far from a workable technology.
Work while I'm sleeping at home or take day off.
When did you build/release those apps? Were they all iOS? Do they keep generating any sort of revenue after 6 months? Any specific niches/categories you had better/worse results?
Ha, it may very well be, I never noticed.

I find a general difficulty with processing the meaning of "modal" buttons. If it's showing the "Pause" symbol, does it mean it's paused now, or that it will pause when I click it? I had the same problem with the stupid slider buttons that have become fashionable to use in place of checkboxes.
I bet it's a problem in the winter due to A/C and electric heating. When it's sunny in summer, solar production goes up but it also makes people use A/C more. There is significant canceling out.

In winter, solar production goes up, but people use less energy due to electric heaters not be as needed since it's warmer. Not a lot of the country uses electric heaters, but it's enough to add to the problem.
First world patronising Africa, again.

As if the minute amount of power produced by this shameless, transparent attempt at viral marketing will ever recoup the cost of production of the device itself, let alone the R&D budget or maintenance cost.

This is like a Toyota Prius with 10x worse environmental impact. Its biggest impact is on the conscience of people who are predisposed, literally, to believing bullshit, so that they can continue to eat diesel-ship-fuelled sushi and fly on aircraft, a single hour of which will negate a lifetime of sitting on an environmental toilet.
Classics in the History of Psychology
Or you can have a javascript loop check the video's current time.
Only on desktop, on mobile it must be showing an MP4 file since it works on the iPhone.
Hence, why like the old man at the sea, I see these frameworks come and go, and get to use the best ideas from them when they get eventually added to JEE.
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i love how CS people always assume everyone in every other field is just slacking off waiting on the programmers to assist them with their elite knowledge about things no one else has considered
I personally have NPM install packages local to the project and check them in. This allows for managing the dependencies and reproducible builds without the hassle of files that change every commit.

Example:

http://ttrscorer.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest
It's also true. Even at the most benign level, non-free software exists to coerce you into running unverifiable code on a machine you own. Less benign non-free software coerces you into paying for a license, signing an EULA, participating in a botnet, etc.
1000x yes gulp is a nightmare. I too have replaced an extremely complex Gulpfile with a few shell scripts.
This is not from first hand knowledge, so it may be wrong, but my understanding of the downsides:

Tooling sort of sucks; this helps python, but deploying other Lambda apps is not very nice. I have no idea how you debug these services either, which is related to the fact that...

You have no access to the underlying host, so you can't install software, configure the kernel, etc

Startup latency can be up to 10s, so they recommend having a scheduled task that keeps your servers warmed up, which will reduce your cost savings by having some parts always-on, but you'll still run into the startup latency when you run out of capacity on your existing lambda VMs.

You will need to architect your app differently for lambda vs normal servers, e.g. lamba has an enforced maximum run time, but also where your data lives; keeping local databases for things like MaxMind isn't an option any more, you'll need to access all of your long lived data from other servers and have a cache.

So, unless you actually need the fast scaling capability (10s vs 10m) or you need autoscaling, but don't want to build it yourself, the only potential reason to use this is cost, and at the low end it's not much in savings (I pay $16/month for a few small servers 24/7 in AWS) and will cost you more in your own time.
> ...isn't this just part of being an adult?

It is, but in practice I don't think it's as straightforward as that, because:

1. There can be a presumption that the contract will be fairly written. Some of my recruiting employers have behaved as though they have your best interests at heart, which could lull you into a false sense of security. [A]

2. As you mention, it can seem that the decision is strictly yes/no. Corporate EULAs fall into this category - you either agree to abide to the terms of huge piles of legalese, or you don't use the software. I admit that I just agree to all of these. Even if I did read them and find a clause that I wanted to negotiate, I don't know how I'd even begin to broach the subject with an Apple, Microsoft, Adobe etc. And a similar situation exists in employment contracts, where someone who is desperate to accept a job offer (e.g. at a big uni or company), and they may not know that the terms are negotiable.

3. People just may not be aware that there are really long term consequences, such as the non-compete clause in the OP. I certainly didn't know about these sorts of issues before I worked in the Bay Area.

4. Some of the more restrictive legal clauses may be quite innocuously or confusingly written, and therefore require a lawyer with relevant experience to spot. So even if a layperson is being diligent, they may still fall afoul of something dodgy.

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[A] Quick aside. One startup CEO gave me such a contract, and when I verbally raised some issues, he just laughed them off and said they were typical boiler-plate legal language, and said that none of this would ever affect me. I was on friendly terms with the CEO and was therefore ready to accept those assurances, but my wife wouldn't have any of it, and she urged me to make some modifications.

I just looked up the email thread where my wife and I discussed one particular startup employment contract. It featured a section on intellectual property rights, where if you didn't complete an additional "Exhibit A", you were at risk of giving the company free licensing rights to anything you'd worked on in the past.

Wife: "It should be okay to sign, but not without completing Exhibit A."

Me: "I think it'll be fine, they're nice people, I'll just go ahead and sign it."

Wife: "Wrong answer."

I spent hours working on the Exhibit A, and took it to the CEO the next day. When he read it, he saw red and stormed off out of the office to talk to his legal counsel. The legal counsel came back and said yeah, my wife was right, and agreed to do the changes.

When I joined the company, it turned out I was the only technical person who had filled out that Exhibit. Would this have affected any of them? Who knows, but there was certainly a quantifiable risk involved. I'm certainly glad that I had my back covered by it when the shit hit the fan. The others were smart people who just didn't understand the legal consequences of not filling in that Exhibit.
You should make a Magic: The Gathering style card based RPG around the startup scene. That would be seriously disruptive.
To be fair, in the time of RealPlayer and such, QuickTime was the least bloated and best performing video player around. There really isn't a use for it in 2016, though.
But we talked about starvation, not malnutrition.
Only in the sense that producing anything as a regulated monopoly is stealing from the consumers of that monopoly good.

People who own solar panels become producers under net-metering. They are just like any other firm in the market. The prices are wonky because they are regulated by law instead of free competition, but the prices of all utilities are wonky because they are regulated by law instead of free competition.
The United States is really weird and wonderful.

Geopolitics teaches that whichever group of people that managed to tame the Mississippi river basin was destined to become a world power. The most advanced society in the world at the time of colonialism was Great Britain. Great Britain had no idea at the time of what they had in their part of North America, otherwise they would have fought harder to keep it.

It just so happened that the most valuable region of the world came under the control of peoples hailing from the most advanced society in the world. It was a complete, but happy accident.

Imagine what the world would be like if this part of the world were more like China. Liberal democracies only flourish if they are protected from the rest of the world around them. Native Americans couldn't put up much of a fight against the Europeans because they were geographically stunted, they didn't possess the guns, germs, steel, and horses needed to mount an effective resistance.

Had they, the course of history would have been very different. China has the second-most valuable real estate on the planet. But as it was not separated geographically from its neighbors, it did not have the long periods of peace needed to evolve liberal democracy, so it never did.

Someone posted a question on Quora once that struck me. What would have happened if the Japanese never gave up China after the war? Would the Chinese all be speaking Japanese? The pithy reply was, "if the Japanese had actually tried to rule China, then the Japanese would now be speaking Chinese." Such would have been the fate of Europeans trying to conquer North America had it not been utterly stunted the by lack of horses and other necessaries to a technologically-advanced society.
For those who are very confused by the comments on this submission: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gotta-go-fast
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I think it has to do with how integral computers are to every other field. Like if everything deeply depended on woodworking to function, carpenters would be offering input on everything.
I like the idea of paying for subscriptions for no-ad service. However, the $1/week seems a little high. I might read 10 to 20 articles a year on wired.com.

I do pay subscriptions for things that I use (almost) daily: Hulu no commercials version, Netflix, and Google Music.

So, good idea, but I would expect a subscription to perhaps cost $10 to $15/year. Just my opinion...
Stopped reading halfway through.. made my stomach sick. More specifically, the part where he tranfers his hosts SSN in court through forged documents while he was staying there.
You seem to be missing the fact that utilities charge a "grid connection fee" to cover the cost of overhead like billing. In my case, that fee accounts for half of my bill. You're also failing to consider that solar installations remove load from the grid, allowing utilities to put off upgrades that would have otherwise been inevitable.
They did actually support it for a while on Android, but Apple never wanted to support third party browser plugins on iOS, and since the Android port was horribly slow even on the most basic swfs and was a huge hack, Adobe decided to drop it. AIR is still supported on both platforms, though (and I hear it's quite good).
I agree with the message in principle and in spirit, but in order to have an open and free internet we've seen that government involvement is fairly necessary. Net neutrality laws and their enforcement are paramount in order to prevent monopolization of content and information, and government cooperation is necessary in order to build the infrastructure necessary to deliver the internet to people's homes.

"You are not welcome among us" sends the wrong message, I think. I would rather they embraced a free and open internet, and were convinced of the value of keeping it so.
When P is $1M, as the article describes, I (putting myself in the seller's shoes) am not getting market value for the property; I'm only getting about 80% of market value. That's the problem I see and it really has nothing to do with you or your ability to make P on the property. The selling agent should have worked harder to capture at least a portion of that $1M, particularly since that $1M came at little to no risk for the chain of assigners. Additionally it may be the case that the buyer's agent purposely withheld a buyer, hoping to low-ball the seller, assign the purchase to themselves, and then sell the property for an offer that they could have brought to the seller in the first place.

The only reason this is possible is because the market is inefficient and I'd like to see more efficiency introduced into the market, whether that comes through legislation or via technical means, so that people aren't leaving $1M on the table to be scooped up by others. In reality that $5.2M property which ultimately closed at $6.2M might have sold for $5.7M, earning the family another $500K and saving the real buyer $500K.
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This guy seems to tick most of the boxes on the Psychopathy Checklist: [1]

Facet 1: Interpersonal

Glibness/superficial charm - needed to be an imposter with this much success, for so long

Grandiose sense of self-worth - evidence of this in spades in the article

Pathological lying - definitely

Cunning/manipulative - as an imposter, definitely

Facet 2: Affective

Lack of remorse or guilt - none whatsoever

Emotionally shallow - seems to be the case

Callous/lack of empathy - look at the way he treated his family!

Failure to accept responsibility for own actions - boasted nobody knows who he really is, doesn't care about what he did to his victims

Facet 3: Lifestyle

Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom - pretty self-evident, look at what he was doing!

Parasitic lifestyle - the very definition of an imposter of this nature

Lack of realistic, long-term goals - definitely, went from victi to victim, got caught, did jail time, went straight back to it

Impulsivity - pretty obvious I'd say

Irresponsibility - highly!

Facet 4: Antisocial

Poor behavioral controls - obviously!

Early behavioral problems - detailed in story, early larceny and violent crime with a crossbow

Juvenile delinquency - as above

Revocation of conditional release - yup

Criminal versatility - absolutely!

Many short-term marital relationships - no evidence of this, but used Angela K. Stamm

Promiscuous sexual behavior - no way of knowing

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In short, this is a very dangerous guy and I'd say he has no prospect of rehabilitation. It's not often you read a story of someone who satisfies every criteria and partially matches one, with the final one uncertain without delving into their past deeply.

I'm a believer in restorative justice, but in this case, for the good of society, it would be best not to let him out for a very, very long time. I'd very cautious of accepting his contrition because it was qualified and it is almost certain he doesn't care about the terrible things he put his victims through.

Psychopaths know how to manipulate, and there is definitely something wrong with them. They literally have no conscience!

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_Checklist
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The real reason Flash died was not technical, it was because Steve Jobs didn't want a whole platform he didn't control running on the iPhone.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102641883915251

Everyone in the world should have access to the internet.
That's why we launched Internet.org with so many different initiatives -- including extending networks through solar-powered planes, satellites and lasers, providing free data access through Free Basics, reducing data use through apps, and empowering local entrepreneurs through Express Wi-Fi.
Today India's telecom regulator decided to restrict programs that provide free access to data. This restricts one of Internet.org's initiatives, Free Basics, as well as programs by other organizations that provide free access to data.
While we're disappointed with today's decision, I want to personally communicate that we are committed to keep working to break down barriers to connectivity in India and around the world. Internet.org has many initiatives, and we will keep working until everyone has access to the internet.
Our work with Internet.org around the world has already improved many people's lives. More than 19 million people in 38 countries have been connected through our different programs.
Connecting India is an important goal we won't give up on, because more than a billion people in India don't have access to the internet. We know that connecting them can help lift people out of poverty, create millions of jobs and spread education opportunities. We care about these people, and that's why we're so committed to connecting them.
Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. That mission continues, and so does our commitment to India.
Sources please! There's more to retail than just billing. Off the top of my head there's advertising, acquisition of customers, creation of plans/pricing/campaigns, getting consumption information (which in New Zealand is from 50+ local distribution companies, each with their own formats), there's purchasing from the wholesale market in such a way that you're not losing money all the time, there's setting up a call centre to service those customers, there's meeting regulatory requirements such as a government disputes process, those are just the ones I can think of sitting here.

And I'm not saying that those costs should be massive, I'm just saying those costs exist. Someone must pay for them. Considering I've observed that the margin on retail electricity customers is not much (like $2K of customer lifetime value over 10 years), it's not like in New Zealand electricity companies are rolling around in cash from profit per customer, it's really just a volume game (the company I worked for had 430,000 retail customers).

BTW, the value chain in energy from generation to transmission to meter to cash is full of lots of participants. In New Zealand, the generator, wholesaler, retailer, national distributor, and local distributor are all separate entities. To say "Utilities ... are overestimating their stranded costs to the extent that they don't count the increase in the efficiency of their ability to serve load" ignores the reality of this value chain. At best, this really only benefits the local distributor.
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