skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not misinformed, you are looking for solutions for the current global energy production, I think we should increase it ten fold and that's only the beginning.
The "library" doesn't have to be in headers to be statically linked, the stated arguments to push everything in header are flawed.
Little is a statically typed, C-like scripting language
A link to Oxford isn't going to help house prices much, they are just as high there!
Show HN: BedquiltDB – A Mongo-like JSON doc store built on Postgres
Or ... people name their products/companies based on their ability to secure a proper domain name, rather than being some hipster startup founder trying to appear edgy. Does Viber seem like a name that would be taken?! Listd.com vs listed.com was one I had to deal with some time ago.
https://status.cloud.google.com/ currently says (near the bottom of the page):

"We are investigating an issue with Authentication services. We will provide more information by 07:30 US/Pacific."

If I'm right about the timezones (50/50 chance) '07:30 US/Pacific' was about 3 hours ago.
Here's the thing though: Any country can walk away if they want. Why don't they?
The first commercial fusion reactor is (a) a long way off and (b) going to be tremendously expensive. Whereas solar and wind can be deployed today for reasonable prices, reducing our CO2 output.

I wouldn't be surprised if the first commercial fusion plant in the UK is built only after the 30 year design lifetime of my solar panels has passed.
According to mjg59, not good [1] [2]. I've found the power management pretty bad on Windows myself but then again my 9350 is scheduled for repairs tomorrow (backlight issues and screen "disconnecting")

[1]: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html

[2]: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/42156.html
Hi, author of the article here.

Yes, talking to Lode (from Google) about getting the changes into the main development branch.
I agree, i do like Twitter just a slight tad more...but I wonder: if a person is following someone on Twitter, do they see all of the actual output from that person? Or does Twitter do something similar to Facebook, and limit things a bit? If not now, then I wonder if it will happen eventually (Twitter's gotta monetize somehow, someday)? I should have began my comment with the disclaimer that I am becoming more and more of a curmudgeon of being a user on someone else's platform. Doubtful I'll get to RMS levels, but def. I'm a curmudgeon. ;-)
Baremetrics/barepng: Create PNGs from SVGs
The bottom has fine print saying the entire video was shot directly using magic leap technology and using 0 post processing with the only addition being [this] text explanation.
I know a few devs using the MacBook. They seem happy with it, surprisingly.

I bought a maxed out 11" Air last summer, because it has a
LOT more processing power to offer over the MacBook. Not as nice a screen, but I use it tethered to a monitor when I need a nice screen.

Of all the computers I've ever owned, this one's my favourite. The portability is unbelievable and it's got enough guts to handle Xcode. Your needs may differ from mine but I can't recommend it enough.
Callbacks are fine, if you treat them as monads and only use them for notification purposes.

In liveScript

do

error,output <- fs.readFile "helloWorld.txt"
console.log output.toString() # => "hello world from txt file"

you can combine that with co-routines to create really powerful abstractions, without the massive memory footprint of promises.
Sure, but you can't build an old coal plant. You can only build a new one.
Able to log in to our services now; waiting to hear what the root cause is at 7:30a, though. This post-mortem is going to be a doozy!
As do other countries, such as Taiwan, who use the minguo (民國) calendar that counts from the founding of the Republic of China.

The local system is the primary one used - it's currently year 105 here.
In popular culture every new business is often called a "startup". Yet to me, the key feature defining a startup in the "Silicon Valley sense" is a capital structure optimized for:

1. growth of equity value as the primary "payday" for the founders

2. receiving investment in exchange for equity based on a similar "payday" for the investors

3. non-linear growth of equity value.

Technology tends to facilitate this organizational optimization, but it can also facilitate business optimized for the generation of regular cash returns to investors.
which makes me wonder what if myself is also brainwashed to the western propaganda...like "the man in the high castle"
Such a list doesn't exist for the Echo any more than it does for your cell phone. The Echo is integrated into IFTTT, so any of the actions here [1] are available, and there are also an ever expanding list of actions called 'Skills' [2] that you can add to your particular Echo's list of available integrations (like installing a phone app).

That's all in addition to the basic things it can do out of the box, like set timers and reminders, manage a todo list, play music and books (from an admittedly limited set of sources), tell (mostly bad) jokes, sync with your google calendar and respond to questions about upcoming events, tell you the weather forecast, read off headlines, and a bunch more.

To a greater or lesser extent, it's like a living room installation of Siri.

[1] https://ifttt.com/amazon_alexa
[2] http://alexa.amazon.com/#skills (might require you to already have an Echo)
Thanks diego! Yes, you're totally right. That line is not needed. I'll go in and fix it. But because of how `promisifyAll` works the code would still work the same way :)
Curious what the head gear looked like. Also, the vibrations of the models were very jarring to me, I could barely look at it anymore by the time the video ended. Obviously this is amazing technology, but I can't adopt it until 1) It doesn't make me sick, and 2) I don't look like a total doofus while using it.
reads like a PR piece. does Amazon Echo really need a "the real story" piece? it's barely been out...
The country with the biggest space-guns / asteroid-throwers
Good read. I've been using bluebird in my own code lately and love it.
The large demographic trend for the last few decades is that people are moving away from the center and toward the coast. Right now, about 40 percent of the US population lives in a county right on the coast, and that number is sill going up. For a variety of reasons--the industries that held the middle--agriculture and heavy manufacturing--don't employ as many people as before. The centers of media and finance are in port cities. So, in a sense, we don't have a housing problem, we have a distribution problem. The long-term environmental and infrastructure pressures on the coast are going to get worse, and no amount of new housing is going to change that, in fact, it contributes to it getting worse.

So yeah, you'd think there'd be opportunity there for cities to encourage startups and other businesses in need of relatively cheap space, if they can develop the culture and infrastructure needed to support it. Cities that have good academic centers and sources of funding are probably in the best position.
The British do have moments of patriotism (I've certainly heard it in events ranging from football events to the Last Night of the Proms).

But yeah, American patriotism has too much of the more ridiculous nationalistic / jingoistic side of things. I can't think of a Western country where something as ridiculous as, say, not wearing a pin with an American flag on it, or supposedly failing to put your hand over your heart during the Presidential anthem, would become a major political attack angle.
>At the moment users are mostly deciding that the risk is worth it.

Users aren't making a conscious decision. Browser vendors are making the decision for them. Most people don't change the default settings, especially something that claims to make your browsing "safer".
If this sub-thread were not about being specific in one's characterization, I would not point this out, but:

> online or via mobile apps

As far as I'm concerned 'mobile apps' operate 'online' and it isn't clear the distinction you are making. Is it common to refer to 'online' as via a web interface (ports 80/443)?
India is subsidizing only local solar panels, that's the issue. I think if all solar panels were subsidized, then that would be fine.
I've used PrettyTable on a few projects and found it to be very easy to use. Highly recommended!
Yahoo to Weigh Bids from Verizon, TPG, YP as First Round Closes
Hi All,

I've been working on this project on-and-off for a few years now, and thought it was time to show it to the public.

The Gist:

BedquiltDB is a vaguely mongodb-inspired json store built on top of PostgreSQL's jsonb column type. It does the things you'de expect, creating _id fields automatically, creating tables on the first write, etc.

It is implemented as a postgres extension (a horrible lump of PL/PgSQL), and client libraries for python, node and clojure.

While I'm not using it in production for anything, it is pretty well tested, and I had fun making it, which is what really matters :)

Questions welcome!
i3 repositioning - meta + arrows

i3 resizing - meta + r and arrows

i3 floating - meta + shift + space move meta + left mouse button
Number of good open source data analysis projects by primary developer of the NumPy package and his company listed here:

https://www.continuum.io/open-source-core-modern-software
As someone who upgraded my own 13" MacBook Pro to 16GB RAM, I would NEVER recommend 16GB to anyone except those who can justify it.

The extra RAM has some big disadvantages:

1. As I recall, I lost about 40 minutes run time on batteries.

2. It decreases battery sleep time. Prior to the upgrade, I could go for 4 or 5 days in sleep, and still have useful enough battery life. Now it is more like 2 or 3 days.

3. It dramatically increases time to sleep and wake from sleep.

4. It eats valuable SSD space. You need 16GB to sleep. And you swap files will be bigger. You likely need a bigger SSD to support the RAM

5. RAM does cost money up front.

If you do need 16GB, you know it and should be ready for these trade offs. As someone who regularly runs 2 or 3 browsers, Mac and Linux development tools, MS Office, Adobe, Linux and Windows VMs, etc, I am in the class of people who need the extra RAM. Most people do not.
1. The Indian government issues grandiose announcements of these sort on a regular basis. Each announcement is followed by international news waving their hands "it's happening!" followed by no follow up coverage when every single time the claims fall apart and the plan never happens.

2. "I think a new coal plant would give you costlier power than a solar plant." Someone's "I think" is a gut feeling by a government minister, not anything to do with reality.

3. The given cost comparison takes a one-time outlier lowest-price-ever in an auction to provide a 70Mw plant installation with certain assurances, with the overall average cost of the other technology. An invalid comparison, as well as inaccurate to imply that the lowest bid for 70Mw was also the bids for the other parts of the 420 mW projects.
I guess in theory they should already be required by the telecommunications act of 1996 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
A colleague recalls a trip from Perth to Port Hedland on a overnight bus when she was doing picking up north as a student. Bus has a formidable roo-bar. During the night she was constantly woken up by annoying "pings" from the front. Early morning se got off at a stop to take a piss and witnessed the driver hosing of the roo bar. Something he did at most stops up.
Windowframe – a game by Daniel Linssen
Lightest and themeable blog engine base on GitHub issues
>In those cases, how is it different to me reading the book in a bookshop then putting it back on the shelf? //

There are alternatives but one way might be that the bookshop have an established financial relationship with the publisher [who has rights to distribute the work via copyright] whilst Google have taken a book known to be in copyright [in many cases] have created copies and distributed copies without having such a relationship.
Interesting: CdTe has a bandgap of 1.5eV, closer to the ideal for solar efficiency than Si, which has a bandgap of 1.1eV. Multijunction cells can achieve efficiencies of over 80% since each junction can address a different part of the solar spectrum. However, they're not cost-effective yet.
cool, checking it out now
We built the blog engine based on the github issues and host it on the github gh-pages, we called Mill. Every issue in Mill Blog is a blog post and issue tags as post tags. And we also support the themes, but we support the themes in a different way. We use the jsx syntax as template syntax and load the theme as a plugin in the browser. User can easily switch the theme like some backend support blogs.
Come on, it would definitely still be possible with AGPL code. What brought people to whatsapp is its ubiquity and the fact that it just works, and what keeps them from going elsewhere is the inevitable network effect.

Nothing in the AGPL prevents either from occurring.
This came to mind for me as well. Can any engineers comment on whether current xray technology could do this without breaking the bike?
Ok, from these opinions it looks like I need to check this out myself.

Maybe I can try one during the 14 day return period.

Thanks for all the replies!
I still meet people who are unaware that Amazon sells more than books. Many people are just not that connected/don't care.
> Instead they try to develop inhouse production that they own and have to cover the initial capital costs.

Then provide tax credits and advantageous financing. A local content minimum insures that the local industry faces no incentive to become competitive and is simply a sinecure for well connected and politically powerful industrialists.
Do you know these 11 SQL-on-Hadoop Hive alternatives?
I have an early 2013 i5 2.6ghz MacBook Pro. Nearly 3 years later the newest macbook pro is ~$1500.00 for a slight bump in specs. Better intel graphics and 2.7ghz processor. I have the upgraded version 2.9ghz and 16GB of RAM which I got from work recently.

The article brings up integration with the newest chipset from intel: Skylake. I am sure the 3 computers I referenced above have different iterations of processor, even in the same "family". Am I missing larger improvements by reading too much into the specs? Is a Skylake processor or a jump from intel 4100 - 6100 graphics that large. I am an Apple fan, but a sub 2ghz processor seems very small for a laptop. Does the clock speed (i believe that is the metric) not matter and they are much superior now?

I find it hard to "feel" much improvement after buying a new laptop, so even in concert there doesn't feel like much speed improvement / better experience from hardware, at least within the Apple ecosystem.

Thoughts?
Valve releases official Razer Hydra driver for SteamVR
I try to use facebook more [0][1] but I just find it boring compared to family, work, friends and HN.

[0]: I really struggle with faces and figured Facebook would be perfect for practicing.

[1]: If anyone knows if someone has made a game out of names and faces on the social graph I'd be interested. If not gøfeel free to steal that idea.
I can see your point in cases where there _is_ a contract or an IP agreement or a TOS. How about less formal teams like open source communities, online courses, clubs, etc.? There is no employers who legally owns the conversations, just an admin who usurped rights to control them.

Case in point: many online courses use team chat services like Slack for informal communication and socializing between students, to act as virtual campuses. One wouldn't expect private conversations between students to be moderated by the faculty. :)
I'll have to check delorean out, I usually use http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/ for python date manipulation. It works a lot like the javascript library moment.
I've been a NetHack player since about 1990, and have ascended every class at least once, and I agree with you about the tediousness.

One roguelike I'm really enjoying these days is Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. It's very much like Nethack in many ways, but the developers have made it a conscious priority to remove all of the tedious elements or the need for spoilers. They have been mostly successful with this, IMO.
Largest neuronal map ever created from bit of mouse brain size of grain of salt
Dance on DJ SNAKE -Middle
My 2 cents: I would not recommend basing any new work on MRjob. As someone who inherited and has been maintaining a bunch of code that depends on it, the library seems to be barely maintained, support for VPC is only partial and not very well documented, the auditing tools stopped working quite a while ago and tracking the progress/status of EMR jobs is extremely painful (to be fair, this is more of an issue with Elastic MapReduce than MRJob itself.)

I love the concept and ease of development, but I can't shake the feeling that the infrastructure is so shaky it almost amount to instant technical debt (sorry if this offends anyone, I'm just a dumb customer.)
> There is the natural reluctance to put one's head above. And for good reason, anyone foolish or brave enough to put their head above in this all knowing state will be put down swiftly, and perhaps brutally to be made an example of. How does change happen here?

> Organizing anything in this state of pervasive surveillance is nearly impossible and should be a wake up call for those sleepwalking into one.

I saw this sentiment expressed by another poster yesterday and almost responded, but this seems like a much better context.

I, personally, agree that pervasive surveillance is a bad thing and that the power of government should be carefully restricted. That said, what is the path from "pervasive surveillance" to "be[ing] put down swiftly, and perhaps brutally to be made an example of"? North Korea's state has the willingness and power to chop down those who stand up; how would one of the nations "sleepwalking into [a state of pervasive surveillance]" get away with it?

I can certainly see, and articulate, dangers involving minority targeting. Similarly, I can articulate the dangers of isolated cases of abuse of power. I cannot, however, articulate a path for a liberal Western nation to become North Korea (or even China) without delving into tinfoil hat territory.
You can move to SalesHandy - Get Unlimited email tracking with gmail & outlook integration http://www.saleshandy.com/email-tracking
yes it's not a widget library per se, it's more of a backend library for GUI calls.
Is this with the standard CPU or with that 1.3 GHz max option?
Speaking of highly secretive, well-funded startups... Whatever happened to that super-hyped, super-secretive startup that was going to use sound waves as a control device? I forgot the details, but it was something like that, something special done using sound
>I thought DCSS was boring, 15 runes is way too much of a slog and that's with an easy class. If it wasn't so grindy I would like it a lot more, the skills are fun.

It's only 3 runs for minimal ascension, right? It's as grindy as you make it..
It looks like the failures have stopped. Haven't seen a failure since 14:17 UTC (~15 minutes).
I'm wondering to what extent that this kind of Dataflow Analysis can be used in scripting languages such as Python or MUMPS. Deciding properties over all elements of an array is difficult, just as checking every element is time consuming. There is also some concern re proper treatment of sparse arrays when doing matrix calculations.
For sure. I lived in a house with solar + a few old car batteries and it wasn't bad at all.
Then I guess it's just my imagination that in the same decade Pfizer brought Viagra to market, AstraZeneca developed and brought to market the drug that just barely manages to keep me functional.

Try again.

ADDED: Side note, apomorphine AKA Uprima is so old a drug Wikipedia tells us Agatha Christie featured it in a story in 1940.
The Battle I am Losing
Hold on - are you sure we're talking about the first gen Air - that device was more like a concept prototype than anything people actually bought/used. It came with a slow spinning disk by default, and the SSD was hellishly expensive. It was also pretty slow, particularly if you didn't upgrade to SSD. I know some people who did purchase latter generations once the SSDs were within reach.
The power of platforms is the control of discovery
Project is in incubation status: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/beam.html

Project proposal: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BeamProposal
Cisco Talos Blog: Widespread JBoss Backdoors a Major Threat
It's also about memorizing the tricks. I would recommend finding videos of it from Awesome Games Done Quick or Summer Games Done Quick. Bonus! An even more challenging variant exists: I Wanna Be The Boshi.

Here's the Boshi speedrun, it's entertaining even if I would never want to play myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8GlqtSJxmk
And how sad is that?

That a person's social activity should be dictated by a single website, in this world of ubiquitous social media, portable phones with hours of pre-paid talk-time... The effect may be more pronounced in the generation who've grown up solely on social media, but it certainly exists as a phenomenon.

Whether the 'social contact' referred to by your friend is genuine in-person social contact or vague 'online contact' will probably depend on their age.

Us pre-80s/90s kids had phonecalls, 'knocking on the person's door to see if they were in', postcards and 'meeting at the usual spot at the usual time' social habits. Now a lazy click to 'like' something posted to boost the poster's ego counts as socialising. That would be fine if we actually met up and spoke from time to time but that sadly is not the case.

I thought at one point the younger generation had started to push back against screentime, but I seem to have been mistaken for the moment. Perhaps in another few years, with a bit of luck.
Eh... I don't think it's that black and white.

As I see it, there's a very compelling argument for restricting streaming of narrative heavy/gameplay light games. Walking sims and the like. I have no trouble believing that views of lets plays impact sales (although, not as much as that one blog post by the creator of That Dragon, Cancer claimed -- that seems more due to subject matter than anything else).

And FWIW most game publishers allow streaming. The right exists to limit it but few take advantage of it other than nintendo.

For context: I'm an ex-game programmer (admittedly, I mostly worked on strategy games, so this never really effected me or my employers) who watches a more streams and lets plays than I'd like to admit.
I have a gen 1 iPad mini taped to my fridge so I have voice control with Siri and I don't think Alexa can do anything Siri can't (for me). I want one, I just don't think I need it. I'd love to automate everything though.
It certainly doesn't feel like a huge boost. For those in the market to get a laptop, though, I'm betting there are going to be quite a few sales for the rose-gold, though. E.g., for freshman entering this fall, etc
Given the slow movement, wonder if there was a person wearing the their tech, or if it's mechanical.
While the policies may not be causative, the attitudes which allowed these bills to pass may have been present for much longer.
I had the springy thingy kit, a soldering iron and access to deadly tube based electronics, wire strippers and motors. I would get "broken" electronics as Christmas presents along with a SAMs.

The real gateway drug was "Understanding Solid State Electronics" by the TI Learning Center.
Angular2 Packaged for Meteor
Interesting - I had never thought about the Sleep Time impact - but that kind of makes sense. Does OS X still have a hibernate option?
Is there even a regulator that would have jurisdiction to do something meaningful? Or is it more of a legislative issue?