skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in a company that provided remote power monitoring. We put a box in your circut breaker panel and monitor your power use. Its kinda neat, but way more intrusive than I imagined.

It didn't occur to me how much you can learn until looking at power consumption home page of our demo house when the owner was on vacation (owner = boss). All the circuits are flat.
A manager at the company who installed it too, came hold and told his wife "I see you came home at 3". He knew because he could watch the power come on. We could count loads of laundry done and watch the sun rise from solar panel output. Then there is the awkward conversations when you know the dog walker didn't walk as long as they said they did.

I was glad the company transitioned to monitoring businesses, but I left after a few years for unrelated reasons.
That's precisely right. I think between this and some of the upcoming work in memcomputing (& self-organzing electronics more broadly), we have a new set of tools which may resemble 'physical oracles' . IE, these special systems can compute exponentially difficult problems through thermodynamics or whatever other quantum-ally optimal properties biology has evolved to use. They may not be universal computers at first, but they ultimately may point the way forward towards that vision.
Google Maps Brings Its “Add a Pit Stop” Feature to iOS
Sounds like "Uncomfortable with privilege". I think that was the point of the comment - to make first world folks aware that their problems are first-world problems.

In the big picture, maybe it doesn't matter exactly how comfortable 5% of the world is. Maybe the real issue is how bad things are in Africa. If people really all matter?
I still ordered the vive, the promise of valve software + the controllers sold me.
Reading these comments makes me feel really good about what I'm trying to do with my startup, Krewe (https://www.gokrewe.com). It helps people make lasting, meaningful friendships that they can actually see and do stuff with everyday. It places people into a small social group where everyone lives within a half mile radius, and then encourages them to stick together and meet up often. There really is no reason why we all shouldn't have a close group of friends in our neighborhood, no matter how old we are, we just need an organization to help make those introductions and connections.
We'll see about that when the Oculus controller comes out.
The Vive already ships with special controllers for VR (and how those compare, etc). Until then, it's hard to compare (only price-wise).
I don't think refreshing is working. I tried that and had to remove and re-add it to the cart to get it to work.
It's about as interesting as noticing that my house and your house are on the same street, if you think about it.
Trust, but verify. I like the idea of knowing when the teenager actually got home, or how much the dog walker is stiffing me.
The target audience for this article is executives at corporate America, who understand very little of tech. It is helpful to understand how the rest of the world looks at tech.
Plus tax for a lot of places.
> Maybe I'm being too contrarian but I still think this new AI thing (with Google et al. going down in the rabbit hole) is just the same as before: a dead-end.

You may find this interesting: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-...
I'll get a chime when my kids arrive home, and another if their love interest show up after hours

I imagine your kids (and potential interests) might have something to say about that. Taking that to its logical extreme, how is your desire to invasively monitor people in your care any different from what the government is doing?
>>the undue weight that non-scientists place on expert opinion

Speaking as a non-scientist, I can recognize an appeal to authority probably just as well as a scientist. But having recognized one, what do I do? I lack the training, knowledge, and time necessary to evaluate the research directly. I can choose to only trust studies that are peer reviewed, or in major journals, or backed by whatever relevant government body there might be, or that my friend who knows about this thinks are right. And maybe that's a good idea, but it's still just appealing to different kinds of authority.

Most of the time laypeople have no realistic alternative to expert opinion.
To you, it's odd that our recruiting propaganda had to be outsourced when the message is roughly: Google engineers are very capable.
do you have a link describing a flow cell?
I think its interesting that the original term 'fubar', which has an adult and cynical meaning, has morphed into something that literally could mean anything: 'foo' 'bar'. The fact that this thing that has no real meaning is meaningful enough to warrant a TLD, is perhaps fubar in its truest form?
In Belgium, including tax an shipping: 972.81 €

This includes two controllers as well though, so not entirely apples-to-apples.
The biggest "shut up and take my money" feature is the built-in wifi. Not that it wasn't easy to add wifi before, but this gives a true standard that special use cases can be built around. For example, using a Pi as a Tor bridge in my house. There have been plenty of articles on how to do that, but if the article code uses version 2.01 of a chipset and you have 2.02 you were screwed, not going to work, just give up.
Oh no, a worrying trend of displaying humility and admitting the possibility that one might be mistaken! What will become of HN's core value of speaking arrogantly from a place of ignorance!
In this kind stuff, there is positive psychology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology#Happiness_...

Human sciences lack of a shared model (like in physics). Most studies remain separated and become dead branches. It's a bit sad.
He's talking about the price in Euro, which is 899€ (~$985, that would include about 23% VAT over the $799)
I read about it here on HN but this seems to be the original post: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV
Democratize art!
To call Axel Springer's reputation bad would describe their reputation as far more positive than it is. There is a famous quote by Max Goldt that describes the stance especially from the political left on the newspaper quite well:

> This newspaper [Bild a newspaper Axel Springer is publishing] is a vile institution. It's wrong to read it. Someone who contributes to it is socially unacceptable. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to their editors. One has to be as unfriendly to them as is allowed by law. They're bad humans, that do wrong things.

It doesn't matter what they're doing, it's that Axel Springer is involved that's the problem and in any discussion that involves enough Germans someone will point it out.
WHERE ARE THEY? WHY I HOPE THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE FINDS NOTHING [pdf]
> Some UUIDs are cryptographically secure.

Not if they are RFC 4122 UUIDs (more accurately, they are insufficiently cryptographically secure): even the random ones are only 122 bits, which only provide 61 bits of security.

UUIDs are still really, really useful. I don't recommend not using them unless one understands why and when not to.
Day in the Life: Producer
Yes, you are right. I was not explicit in that I meant while mocl does offer a run time repl, it is not the same as a true CL desktop environment.

Thanks for pointing my mistake.
This is actually one of the first concepts enshrined in Wikipedia in the early days, "Wikipedia is not paper". There is a whole page discussing what WP is not which describes this idea. Like all things in an anarchist project, this set of bylaws was the product of a long discussion over decades by the editing community. Read more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:What_Wi...
People Counter with Google's Cloud Vision API
I'd say that it is for the good that the young are allowed to change things, but only after they are not very young anymore.

The problem is that we are both biologically making that enabling age older and older, and at the same time we are making the world more and more dynamic. And I'll risk a guess that this is a problem that will get solved, whether we come out with a good solution to it, or we only have bad ones.
So .. I have project on my plate which is basically a firmware updater for a project based around the ESP8266 (see http://magicshifter.net/ if you're interested).

My question to anyone who knows the answer: would it be possible to write an app (in Linux of course) which access the /dev/tty.FORESP8266 and writes/reads raw blocks, such that it could be bundled into AppImage and run on, basically, OSX and Windows as a Linux app - and still have the raw i/o access it needs to perform a firmware update?

If so, I'm willing to expend the time to learn how to use it and build this app .. it seems to me to be a more interesting approach than using, for example, Qt to build a cross-platform serial i/o app ..
I prefer to let other than me use the 1st generation of any new technology.

This way, I benefit from the improvment, and a lower price point.
> A script like this gets you 95% of the way there

Ohhh, but that five percent!
You seem to have simultaneously missed the point, and largely agreed with me.
American Express is officially selling its massive Costco business to Citi
I was thinking about the food, not the people.

For example, I discriminate against liver and cauliflower.
Do you like the idea of service providers being able to monitor those things about you? How about the fact that by providing the data to a third party you've abandoned your expectation of privacy re: when and what you do within your own home?
Just a small shoutout of thanks to the CloudFlare team who was excellent about communicating with us at OpenDNS in advance of this disclosure.

As one of the largest recursive DNS infrastructures in the world, they allowed us enough time to spin up resources to determine if we were vulnerable (we were not) which was very much appreciated.

We did a small post this morning that also captures some of the history of our codebase. https://engineering.opendns.com/2016/02/29/a-brief-history-o...
I agree, this would be a fascinating experiment. 2m city on around 50 km2
is almost completely walkable, and certainly bicycleable. It would be
just about big enough to have an interesting cultural life. I wonder
why historically such a city has not evolved.
Shareholder Letters
Haha, very typical - Same thing just happened to me, the first HN Rumor post I saw regarding it was one week after I received mine from the post.

But all is not lost, the RPi2 is quite performant and I'd still wait on early adopters to report on potential overheating when under a heavy workload. RPi3 Might be approaching the higher-end ODROID (XU3/4) in cooling fan necessity.
This phenomenon may help to explain the two solitudes in the research on whether salt is harmful:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/17/scien...
Allwinner A20 has directly connected SATA.
If line-noise is a program, all fuzzers are developers
Would you consider an exoskeleton suit to be a robot aid? It neatly circumvents the AI issues. And I imagine most people would prefer to have their youthful mobility instead of a robo-butler.

(I am dodging the other half of the question regarding who pays for it.)
I haven't checked on this, but I would wager that a rather disproportionate number of 20-29 year olds would find it much more difficult to vote than people in their 60s. Sure, it's probably possible to register in advance and get a mail-in ballot, but that is rarely done and I expect there's some hoops to jump through there. As far as actually going to the polls, young folk tend to work jobs that make that very difficult, if not quite impossible. If you are living paycheck to paycheck, and your job doesn't afford you paid days off, and you're scheduled to work that day, then you're just going to work and not vote. Anything else would set you back in a way that would be more immediately damaging than not getting your vote. And even if you could afford to take an unpaid day off, in spite of it being illegal to prevent someone from taking time off to vote, I expect it would put most people in the bad graces of their employers to exercise that right. And it's hard to prove that your rights have been violated when you get fired for being 'unreliable' or just get scheduled for fewer hours the next several weeks because 'that's just how the schedule worked out'. These employers aren't trying to disenfranchise the young, they're just acting in their own best interests by maintaining control and keeping people working, and the current job market gives them far too much leverage. And that's not even getting into people with kids.

Compare this to 60+, who are probably often retired or semi-retired, or working a job at a higher level where they've earned some form of paid time off, or are financially stable enough to just take the day off without pay, etc. They have no kids at home to take care of. They can much more easily just head over to the polls that day, without having to make extensive arrangements in advance.

*And no, this isn't universal, just general trends. Yes, some young folk have professional positions with paid time off, some don't work. Likewise, some older folk are stuck working crappy low end jobs to make ends meet. But when we're talking percentages, I'm rather confident that the older generation is more likely to be able to go out and vote on one particular day in November.
It's Treo vs PocketPC all over again! (only half joking)

I remember the back and forth comparisons and debates over price, feature set, compatibility, the companies behind them, form factor and all sorts of details. Regardless, they were some of the first "good enough" smartphones the average consumer could purchase even if their bulk and higher price kept them mostly in the realm of professionals, enthusiasts, and early adopters.

Then 5 or 6 years later we had an industry that was already becoming dominated by Apple and Google rather than Palm and Microsoft. Devices were much faster, more capable, and more accessible. Now you can buy one for $150 and get something that's actually somewhat decent.
Well, there's a little more to it than that. First off, there's the diffusion of responsibility. The more people there are that can make an invite, the more people assume somebody else would do it. Then there's the group dynamic factor. If anybody in the group has any issue with you, other people can feel awkward about inviting you. The last is the benefit factor. The benefit of getting more ingrained to the community for somebody who isn't established is for the person who isn't established. The people already ingrained have their routine, so their incentive to keep making overtures isn't nearly as strong as your desire for those overtures.
Your Computer Can Build a Sweet City from Scratch
This line of reasoning is barely even worth a response.
Very cool (and with the slider) !
I've backed this, mainly because I'd like to encourage getting the most out of our smart phones, especially in the corporate workplace. Combine this with virtualisedapps (Citrix, etc.) and you have a very usable workstation that is also portable and a LOT cheaper than a laptop. I don't expect everyone in our org to be able to replace their laptop with this, but it's definitely possible for 40% of our organisation.
4. Knowing how heavily the NSA was involved in [..] ipv6 ipsec, I have my concerns about the protocol itself

That's not an issue against IPv6. The entire ipsec standards were backported to IPv4, by people from the same organizations. There is no reason to assume IPSECv4 is any less tainted.
IRS Finds 'Get Transcript' Data Breach Was More Widespread
I've mostly been happy with Postbox since I moved from Eudora. It's a commercial fork of Thunderbird with some extras.

http://postbox-inc.com

Alas I've been having problems with v4 (including frequent hanging related to their timeboxing "Time Spent Writing" timer), so I can't endorse it as much as I used to. I'm also frustrated that the address book doesn't include Google Contacts integration.

Email is critical to me, and I'd happily pay $50 - $100 / year for the perfect cross-platform email client. (Postbox is only $15, which is ridiculously cheap for the value I get from it.)
A Brief History of opendnscache
Barclays's Threatened Exit Knocks Confidence in South Africa
We've had a dev kit at work for a while and it's the first headset that I've not wanted to take off. The ability to move around a scene and the wand make the interaction really intuitive and rewarding. As for the social implications of 'VR lockin', it'll be interesting to watch.
Most of these new microphones do not have physical switches that can be off and still be useful, and most do not have networking that can be killed by unplugging.
I agree, Berlin being so green is a great plus. Something I'd change about Berlin is to make the place more dense. For example by doubling the height of each house.
No this is a false choice. We can fight for equality at home and for better living standards abroad.

The boomers are behaving disgustingly by ramping land prices in hock with the banks. It has sent living standards into free-fall for the young.
Is that true? I've never heard anyone complain about the Veteran generation.
You can't make a direct comparison because the Vive includes two tracked controllers and two Lighthouse basestations. The headset also has a forward-facing camera.

A true price comparison will only be possible once Oculus Touch is available (the Rift's motion controllers).
Does anyone have the word on Linux support?
yeah but foo bar has been associated with programming since forever - its like "fizz", "buzz" - inb4 the .buzz domain ? or hello."world"?
I can't believe ICANN would actually let you register these (as long as you can pay for it)..
And who is that? I'm curious.

I'm not here to say that MS doesn't have people doing bullshit marketing powerplays like the one you described. But in the console market, that's pretty much how the business works.

And in the larger PC market, you've got 3 realistic options and they're all frustrating in one way or another.
Hurray! I can, and I am!
The problem with communication tools is that the meta-conversations necessary to set and adjust expectations around them don't happen as low-level and as often as they ought to. So they blow up into things like the medium post.

I would suggest at a bare minimum making part of the topic of your slack channels "Everyone must read everything posted here within 30 minutes," "everyone must read everything posted here on a daily basis," "don't read the history. If you didn't see it, it didn't happen" and also carefully consider everyone else's time before posting anything.

I would suggest that, but I'm done getting called autistic for discussing the facets of social protocol that social protocol discourages discussing. It feels better for people to be able to speak in one of those contexts without explicitly declaring how much they want to impose on someone elses time, and nobody wants to perform out-of-band signalling as a conversation casually slips between the different contexts. The way Slack tends to get used is just a rude ways to waste other people's time.
It was a no brainer to tell you guys.
Twitter Ended Up Paying $479M for Ad Tech Startup TellApart, 10-K Reveals
It's land value tax which will pull the false gains from the boomers and give value to the labour of the young again.

I'm not really very interested in Sanders except that he is clearly a response by a frustrated youth.
Network architecture research: TCP/IP vs. RINA
HTC Vive is £746.60 and VW Beetle is £795. https://www.gumtree.com/p/volkswagen/volkswagen-beetle-2.0-3... lol
A Billion second photo app.
The other side is the excitement of being one of the first experiencing this new technology. It's always a tradeoff.

E.g.: Would you rather go to space now, or wait until it's easy and comfy? For me, curiosity wins.
GE Sees $15B in Software Sales in Digital Transformation
+1. Oh how I wish people weren't forcing me to read the endless qualifications and attempts at hedging. Just say what you have to say.
The sad demise of the summer job
'suburban' is still a feature of the huge metropolitan areas. Suburban usually means that there is a big city or more around, where people drive to work.

> Having many people living in close proximity increases opportunities to optimize energy efficiency and control environmental impacts.

Alternatively you could have a landscape with smaller and dense cities, which each are more self-sufficient.

> Having many people living in close proximity increases opportunities to optimize energy efficiency and control environmental impacts.

Look what happens in these large Megacities in China or India: there are lots of opportunities to optimize efficiency. But these opportunities are not exploited. China still creates their electricity from a zillion dirty coal power plants (that's today) and the air is dirty, among the worst in the world.

There are a lot of mechanisms at play, and better energy efficiency or cleaner production is not the top mechanism. With larger energy providers, we see less modern energy creation. They tend to run huge systems for decades and avoid every pressure to modernize (-> invest money). They won't replace a paid dirty power plant with an expensive state-of-the-art gast turbine-based power plant. They are happy to invest into large scale nuclear, though. They tend to create corrupt political structures just to be able so. We've seen the effect of these large energy providers here in Germany. Without political pressure, they would not have installed one filter in a power plant, would not have invested in distributed/decentralized energy systems.

Decentralized energy production can be MUCH more energy efficient, than the big generation systems we've seen for the last decades. A typical combined electricity/heating system is extremely hard to beat. These don't need large cities. Some of them need dense cities, but not all.
It's kind of like PubSub. Whenever you subscribe to a query, you get updates on its results in soft-realtime.
What is the alternative? That we actually are special snowflakes? I think that is the more terrifying eventuality - but of course, this is a decision anyone participating in the question has to make: are we special or are we not-special, and if either is true, what difference does it make? Answer: it really doesn't make any difference. If we discover life on Mars or not, we still haven't taken the time nor made the effort to talk to the dolphins and ask them what they think about it ..
Thanks. MicroCorruption is on my to do list. CTF style can be fun because of the collaboration and the variety of categories.