skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Background: I live in Ireland and hosted 7 hedgehogs in/around our garden last year. 2-3 are probably hibernating within 50m. I tag, track, name & write notes on them each evening. Anecdotally, I've never seen a badger around here though we do have foxes, stoats and, I would expect, badgers.

Hedgehogs represent the most accessible of wild animals. They don't mind human presence and you can literally walk outside with a torch and stand next to them. If you want to understand our attachment to hedgehogs, Hugh Warwicks' books, particularly 'A Prickly Affair', describe our relationship with humour, engaging stories and field research: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prickly-Affair-Charm-Hedgehog/dp/014.... Likewise, if you'd like to know more about hedgehog behaviour and research, Pat Morris' book is quite definitive: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hedgehogs-British-Natural-History-Co...

Of course badgers will sometimes eat hedgehogs! They both compete for the same food sources (insects, worms, etc), and occupy the same territory (hedgerows, bordering open farmland), and badgers have the means to kill a hedgehog (strong powerful claws). But badgers don't seek out hedgehogs. In areas where food or habitat is scare, they will eat hedgehogs. Why not? You get to take out an ecological competitor AND have a meal! Win-win for the badger. But there's also countless examples of badgers ignoring hedgehogs, or feeding alongside each other both in the wild and urban gardens.

So perhaps the question should be: when don't badgers eat hedgehogs? It appears there's no problem when food is plentiful. Perhaps we should be encouraging hedgerow preservation and reducing pesticide use (i.e., the problem) instead of calling for a cull of badgers (the symptom).

It would be worth referencing the Peoples Trust for Endangered Species statement on Hedgehogs vs Badgers: https://ptes.org/campaigns/hedgehogs/

Largely, this plight of the hedgehog against the dastardly badger is a means of using a well-loved animal to support a cull of badgers aimed at reducing TB in livestock. "Won't somebody please think of the hedgehogs" is now their rallying cry.
Well, I think it really depends on the economics of grid storage and proximity.

For instance, there was someone saying they pay $.10/kwh year round on a thread the other day and it was due to their proximity to grid storage.

$.10 to .15/kwh is realistically the range battery technology will be in for the next 10-15 years, barring a major technological change. That simply is not going to be cost effective in many areas.

EDIT:

Since I can't post...

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2977655/sustainable-it/...

> As energy push accelerates, battery costs set to plunge 60%

> Lithium-ion (Li-on) batteries will drop from $550 per kilowatt hour (kWh) in 2014 to $200 per kWh by 2020; and flow battery prices will drop from $680 per kWh to $350 per kWh during the same time.

A daily cycle, 5 year battery is still going to be ~$.11/kwh in 2020.

You need generation + battery storage [combined] to get into the below $.15/kwh for it to make sense outside of peak June-Sept, 2-7pm times.
That sort of depends. My last non-compete contained the provision that if the employer needs to continue paying the full wage during the time of the non-compete. That doesn't fully remove the lock-in but it makes it a costly option, leveling the playing field somewhat.
So it seems to me that he's not doing that as 'any other citizen' and given that he's not entirely dumb he must realize this will carry some weight. In other words, he's simply trying to influence the political process to his advantage and is using his position as attached to his name in order to do so.
A day tracking my time with Watson
Maybe this should link to the upstream? https://github.com/samccone/The-cost-of-transpiling-es2015-i...
The sellers are upset because they misunderstood the market, by millions of dollars. Whether the world is supposed to be fair or not, it's at least easy to understand why that would be frustrating.
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Yep; the other irony was that his prosecutor was O. John Rogge, one of the great liberal crusading attorneys of the day, who insisted on bringin charges in order to drag militant racism into the light of day. So Dennis, spurred by his hatred for American racism, made common cause with thuggish men who would have happily hanged him from a tree, and as a result was prosecuted by a man who otherwise would have been his natural political and moral ally. A complex man, Lawrence Dennis. (There is one biography available, The Color of Fascism, which is a little too clunky to be authoritative, but which is well worth reading. An equally unusual journey is that of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay African American civil rights activist who studied under Gandhi, introduced MLK to the theory of nonviolent activism, and ended up part of the neoconservative movement in the Reagan administration.)
Jackpocket launches ACH payments to play lottery
It would work just fine in the real world. It's just that no entity that ever came by such wealth through whatever means would give it up because it was the right thing to do.
I am curious, given the length of time she was employed at her new employer and her statement saying her editors were aware of this, whether this was just the HR compliant reason she was let go.
Offtopic, but just so you're clear on something, people "freak out" because the document is utterly ignored or worked around, not because it's been changed. It's not conducive to the respect of law when the lawmakers and enforcers don't respect it themselves.
In India Nationalism is a good word, whereas in the rest of the world it's an awful word because the rest of the world saw what Nationalism eventually takes you to (WW2, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan).

Nobody in US who opposes foreign labor in US would ever wanna be called a 'Nationalist', it is the same thing as being called a racist(actually, it might even be worse).
> in the work I do in my day job, I print out to STDOUT/STDERR and let the platform wick those lines away to a central firehose.

I think this is the correct approach, but (to the nearest approximation) ~every organization I've worked at that does this has hit saturation limits of "the platform" in extremely short order. Especially if you're doing audit-trail-style logging, in my experience, this becomes the primary bottleneck of your infrastructure very quickly.
I think background app refresh may be separate from location services, and facebook still tracks your location in the background. Try also turning off location services for fb (or set it to only when in use). Settings>Privacy>Location Services
I guess you mean the node_modules folder, where in fact this makes a lot of sense. What OP means is the build folder to which the frontend part of project is compiled.
You're not sorry. Just accuse the person. It's more honest.
Honestly, you have to be better than trello for lightweight stuff, and rally or jira on the heavyweight end. There really isn't room in the middle.
The cost of logging is actually quite low relative to the enormous cost of engineering hours spent debugging a system that's flying blind.
Why was this downvoted? If there's a factual error it's better to explain it as readers like myself won't know about it otherwise. Everything started here seems to be supported by the article.
The UK's approach is generally to have "gardening leave" - if you want to be able to ensure I can't work for a competitor for 6 months after leaving you agree to pay me my full salary for 6 months after I leave in return for me not working anywhere else. It's fairly common in the client facing world of finance for instance to stop someone walking off with all of their clients to a new firm.
For me at least it seems a fairly sensible compromise - 6 months in that example is really at the top end of the spectrum, usually it is 1-3 months. That's plenty of time to have a holiday, learn some new skills and arrive at your new job refreshed and ready to go.

The length and scope of UK non-competes is fairly heavily restricted by the courts and the onus is on the employer to justify the business need. An example like in the article would be unthinkable.
> How do you sign something first and then complain when it gets enforced?

Reminds me of the plot from "The Merchant of Venice".

Suppose you are in a desperate situation where you absolutely needs work: would you start to complaining about imoral demands on the contract or shut up and take the job?

That is why non-compete agreements for employees are not enforceable in most jurisdictions - Shylock can't take his pound of flesh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlMwc1c0HRQ
The state owns a vast amount of land, which for historical reasons is used by the sovereign. (Duchies or Cornwall and Lancaster.)

If the Forestry Commission (managing forest land owned by the state) has a problem they write to the government, but their writing is public and they are accountable, ultimately, to the electorate. The royal family should follow the same process, or else return the land to be managed by DEFRA.
I am still just as skeptical as JoeAltmaier was. The fast-path for modern memory allocators are also just pointer-bumps in slabs. And if you keep mallocing and freeing something of the same size on the same thread, you are very likely to keep getting the same memory location on each allocation, which has excellent cache behavior.

For an excellent paper on state-of-the-art memory allocation techniques (which also has a good overview of prior techniques, and how their works builds on that), see "Fast, Multicore-Scalable, Low-Fragmentation Memory Allocation through Large Virtual Memory and Global Data Structures" from OOSPLA 2015: http://2015.splashcon.org/event/oopsla2015-fast-multicore-sc...

If you're aware of published works which show garbage collection consistently outperforming manual memory management for the reasons you explained, I'm very interested in reading them.
Sadly, the current popular 'solution' to this problem is for massive centralised gatekeepers (Google/Apple/Microsoft) to control software distribution, and to varying degrees prevent you from installing anything that didn't come from their store.

This undeniably makes security easier for non-technical users, but I hardly need to point on the downside on HN: these companies get to decide what programs people can install and distribute to others. They're not held to the standards of governments like due process and accountability - even though there are probably now more Android users than citizens of any one country [1].

Kudos to anyone working on alternative ways to make security easy without these gatekeepers.

[1] 1.4bn Android users in September 2015, according to Techcrunch, vs 1.38bn estimated population of China in 2015. Android is growing faster.
I know something of logs.

Logging is figuring out how to keep any and everything in a small to mid-sized time window which you hope (but don't really know) may be useful later in a very small time window.

Monitoring is having something watch instrumentation (metrics) for anomalies. This may include views you build up over time on the previously mentioned logs.

If there was ever an industry that could benefit from AI, it's logging.
What to do when things go wrong
Show HN: Noise, a small 2D Perlin and Simplex noise library in Go
Having seen old complex apps written in basic, I would say use of BASIC considered harmful. You can't help but create spaghetti code.
I would never buy a computer for/with someone without reinstalling a clean version of Windows onto the machine.

You have no idea where that computer's been before you.
When it comes to these types of tools I think you need to figure out a target market.

There's a lot of folks taking on the large scale software space, however I think the non-technical space is still a bit wide open. I think a new Basecamp would do well.
Nothing stops anyone else from peering. There's no differential pricing involved here, just regular infrastructure.
I feel like there is a lot of opportunity for the agent to act like they are working for the seller while not informing them fully of their knowledge of the market.

If they are acting like an adviser, there's something at least a bit smarmy about not actually advising. If they were simply interested buyers, its harder to impute an obligation to the seller.
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I think there will be both. In dense areas there is more electricity demand than available space for panels. There are also lots of very sunny areas without any people in the way.
The top result for me is:

VideoLAN - Official page for VLC media player, the Open ...

The other results are all either directly or almost directly associated with VLC. I get no scam sites in the top 10 results. Have the search results improved? Is this the effect of search personalization? What gives?
Yes. I don't believe I ever claimed otherwise. I only claimed that this is hardly an interference. It's a normal part of democracy as we know it in the western world.
The real estate agents are clearly violating their fiduciary duty to all non-agent parties involved in the transaction by misrepresenting the market value of the property.

The average property owner doesn't understand the market and is expecting the real estate agent to provide accurate price estimations.

I don't understand, ethically, how this sort of thing could be legal as its clearly a clause meant to allow misrepresentation to take rubes for their money.
Good question.

It didn't occur to me that allowing people to systematically defraud the elderly and grieving folks might save me money.
Prince of Persia in HTML5
Thanks! I know there are better protocols out there to handle this sort of thing, but I'm already using Slack and used this protocol because it fit my own needs and it requires less dependencies to fit those needs.
How to See a Famine Before It Starts
Not necessarily - specs could come out as standardization of existing behaviour.

More importantly the things ES6 solves are kind of rudimentary (modules, classes, => syntax, actual collections), stuff after that is nice to have but provide diminishing value
By every objective measure, we are living in the greatest time in human history. There are fewer deaths per capita due to war, poverty, disease and famine than at any other time.
February monthly growth plan – user acquisition
No, you probably fell asleep and missed the last 2008 versions. Fortunately, not much has changed.
Is there a prototype [maybe using sample data] people can play with?
The author makes some very strong points...well worth a read...two caught my attention:

1} A solid performing "pared down" product is often more easily adopted by new consumers...simple intuitive use hastens understanding and speeds fluency...additional features can be added later, slowly...
(e.g., Burban is pared down, becomes Instagram; Google focuses on becoming the most reliable search engine, it's pared down UI is simple and intuitive.)

2} Don't worry about pleasing everybody...app "home runs" are rare...work on pleasing a smaller niche crowd, establish a following by delivering a quality product...scaling comes later if you're lucky...

His advice on dating profiles is worth a read, but I won't spoil it by commenting...
Well, the terse notation is indeed to terse for me, and I'm not even sure what I'm trying to understand, but the explanation on the other hand is too long.

What's the null element of the set of expressions? Is (\lambda x. ) not valid and applicable?
Blue-Green Deployment
My point was that they will be able to detect if Microsoft is subverting the Windows Firewall, trivially. So it would be incompetent for Microsoft to subvert the firewall and expect those users not to notice and incredibly foolish for Microsoft to do it if they think those users will object by moving away from Windows.
Eh you have to understand that in dealing with loan words the goal isn't to produce cognates. It is a natural well established process in English, and pointedly doesn't carry over pronunciation or diacritics. This is so that the words text is freely interchangeable as there is a long period where the term is sometimes written with diacritics (and italicized) and sometimes not. über and ueber would seem different to people and risk confusing them.

I understand your concern, in German as in most languages words are being homogenized and losing diacritics, first among the youth and informal use, and then even sneaking in to ads and "real" use. It has caused a lot of concern, and a fair amount of pushback, but you can't expect other languages' systems to follow the reactionary rules or care about the internal politics.
Luckily, in much of Europe, overly broad non-competes aren't enforceable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Europe
Meh. Developers will always be in demand. Yes, unicorn startups like "Yo" might have a bad time but, aside from that, I'd feel safe in continuing to be a bit picky.
As a consumer of AWS's services, every time I start to think "I could really use this service..." or I have a "If AWS had this..." thought, they seem to release something that addresses this concern. If they added multicast within VPC I would be the happiest lil' AWS camper.
Couldn't one argue exactly the opposite? Since, due to physics, electricity is very hard to store and there are already transmission lines, why not use them?

There are going to be factories that probably can't realistically be supported by batteries. Another alternative is to run only in the summer and on sunny days.
Or to do all heavy industry/manufacturing close to hydro, nuclear or geothermal power sources. In a sense, it would be a return towards the old mill brook economy.

They recently opened a big subsea transmission cable between Netherlands and Norway. Norway has mountains for hydro load balancing while Netherlands has wind turbines for volatile production.
You should have shared more about your current rule, considering your question directly asks whether you should keep your current role.
I've thought a bit more and made a small but important change in how the "equalish" operator works:

The operator should take three (not two as suggested before) sets of integers as input of equal sample size.

The first two sets are already known to be equalish TRUE,
as defined by either a human or a previous test of a smaller subset of the integer sets.
The third set is a the new sample you want to compare.

Example output:

equalish('{0}','{0}','{0}') -> TRUE

equalish('{0}','{0}','{1}') -> FALSE

equalish('{110,105,120}','{113,107,121}','{110,106,120}') -> TRUE

equalish('{1047072,1047216,1047441,1047521,1047682,59102,59361,59583,59818}','{1047085,1047276,1047471,1047754,1047938,59128,59364,59732,59945}','{1047085,1047276,1017471,1047754,1047938,59128,59364,59732,59945}') -> TRUE
if nothing else they make a lot of assumptions about what the end user does or does not want

If anything, Windows 10 makes "a lot of assumptions about what the end user does or does not want"... and that script is just a different set of assumptions, perhaps ones that users would agree more with.

You could argue that anything is "legitimately useful functionality", while someone else would say it's privacy-invading spyware.
Some open-sourced overhead benchmarks: New Relic vs. Scout
I agree with you; people need to take this stuff seriously!

Just after I started university in Ontario I turned down an internship in a R&D department of a company in Lichtenstein. I was so excited when I got the offer and then so disheartened by the non-compete and non-disclosure agreements.

There was definitely a little bit of meaning lost in translation and essentially was scoped to cover the industry material and didn't specify a termination date.

While I didn't think they'd be enforceable I knew they didn't need to be to become burdensome. What's interesting to me is clearly it took their employer time to find out about the prior agreements. Either this was something missed during the hiring process or something the candidate chose not to reveal.

Either way I fully understand why they were let go. If you're a business you don't want to invest in someone that a competitor can apply leverage on and has the legal grounds to do so, which would likely result in them quitting.
As someone who used to sell services to real estate agents...

Their incentives are not aligned with the seller or buyer of the home but with their ability to generate a commission per hour of labor.

Selling your house at $180,000 in 30 hours is far more lucrative than selling your house at $200,000 [fair market value] in 90 hours.

A substantial number of them will opt for the former rather than properly advising the seller.

The buyer's agent will do the reverse as their commission size is based on making the sale and the larger the dollar figure, the greater their commission. [e.g. Nudge you in the direction they think will maximize their reward for effort, such as encouraging you to pay $205,000 on a $200,000 property so there isn't any real negotiation.]
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How short-sighted and small minded. In the pursuit of answering these questions the people involved develop new techniques and new knowledge that ultimately aid in our overall scientific progress.
Couple of articles I would recommend reading about Free Basics

1. Here’s How Free Basics Is Actually Being Sold Around The World
http://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/heres-how-free-basi...

2. How India Pierced Facebook’s Free Internet Program
https://medium.com/backchannel/how-india-pierced-facebook-s-...

For the second article, reporter asked Facebook to put her in touch with Free Basics users. All the people that Facebook connected her were already internet users. But Mark Zuckerberg in an FB post claimed that "19 million people were connected to the internet for the first time with free basics".

Both these articles present examples of how Free Basics is actually advertised in rest of the world.
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