skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gf is an electromechanical engineer at a solar power startup (and obviously supportive of solar power initiatives).

Just asked her about this, and she said that:
1) the electrical grid wasn't designed for transferring power this way, and it can damage the grid
2) because solar power isn't a constant power source (say, a cloud blocks the sun for a minute), power companies need to keep power available for someone who's using solar. The amount of this is dictated by their peak power usage. May not seem like a big thing, but as more and more people switch to solar, they suddenly need to hold massive amounts of power, as disruptions can affect people in entire regions.

Then she started getting heavy into the physics of reactive power and my brain stopped working T_T

Anyways, there's a reason that they're charging fees for solar usage. You're using their electrical grid, and it costs money to maintain it and improve it to handle some of the new challenges of solar power.
Wouldn't you just install Linux on it instead?
I believe B is semi-reasonable considering that Wright asserts he's revealing himself due to an extortion/blackmail threat. This could be a way of getting a non-technical extortionist off his back while not taking credit in a way that gives him authority or respect in Bitcoin's technical community. This situation is plausible, if, for example, a government knows he is Satoshi (and government surveillance programs would probably make it easy to find the real Satoshi) and is trying to make him impact Bitcoin in a way that benefits them.
There are decent Android IDEs available if ChromeOS does get the Google Play store as recently rumored.
Developer mode. Chrome OS is Gentoo underneath. Most people just use Crouton because Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever are the go-to Linux distros.
When you are only four, what's the difference between an early employee and a founder?
Most Mondays to Fridays between 4pm and 6pm, subway station for 7 train downtown 5th ave crossing with 42nd. Subway entrance facing Chipolte, next to Bryant Park.

Usually 4 cops and a little table setup with some device they enter tiny paper samples in. NYPD cops. They profile as some people are not stopped.

EDIT: Okay I found the picture for you although this is not station I refer to:

http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.10508690.1433457042!/ht...
It wasn't a problem in assembly language? Which was widely used before C became popular.
> You can call into Rust directly from C++ (with a header file).

Can you tell me more about this?
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Natural gas maybe. Oil probably not since it is rarely used for electricity.
Some of what you mention is biological, but much is also attitudinal. In other words, you have some choice in how you spend your later years.

In fact, I'd say that much of your range of choice then will be dictated by earlier decisions. If you choose an atypical and dynamic life in your younger years vs settling into a "standard" lifestyle, you're more likely to live out your older years with fewer constraints of the form you fear.
Doubts rise over TTIP as France threatens to block EU-US deal
There is NaCl Development Environment (1) with bash, make, git, gcc, python, ruby and lua working. It is still very much WIP and it does not work on ARM Chromebooks. But if Android play store apps will be available there will be much more choice probably.

(1) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nacl-development-e...

Edit: it seems that ARM Chromebooks are now partially supported. I will have to check on mine.
Canadian scientists are now allowed to speak out about their work
When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.

Deuteronomy 23, 24-25
How do successful companies use integrations to reduce churn rates?
So attack that from the EE side of industry. As long as it lasts, embedded has been pretty good hunting for a long time, but the culture shift you might be exposed to looks to me to be profound.
Idea of renewables powering UK is an 'appalling delusion' – David MacKay
Slide deck style buildup has me wanting to scream. Then I found out it was Europe only. Can't use a co.uk or denote in some way?
My old bank required an exactly 5 character password.

They had two factor authentication though, with a phone call or SMS. What happened if you forgot your password? Well you had to reset it, using only phone call/SMS, of course!
Only available to the rich. They have quite a bit of work to do to make this affordable enough to became a standard feature on sub 40K cars.
Two different words are being used here, but they are not interchangeable. The words are mentor and advisor. You are correct in that the Ph.D. is supposed to be capable of original research. An advisor who is a mentor is one to takes the raw talent of a beginning candidate and grows it into an independent researcher. Don't underestimate your importance here.
Legislation around blocking non-profit internet and cable is just evil though :\
Why Immutability matters in React
Google Open Source Blog: XRay: a function call tracing system
Yes. The bigger your sample size, the bigger your ability to see small effects. A test with 1000 elements can only tell apart big effects; a test with 250000 can tell apart much smaller ones. This is the idea of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_power
Google and Microsoft have made a pact to protect surveillance capitalism
Show HN: Convert Mongo queries to PostgreSQL jsonb queries
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I wonder how much of this is required to use rust effectively. A lot of languages have fairly tricky semantics and type systems, and most developers don't fully understand them. C++ is obviously a big language, but even C has things like volatile pointers and pointer aliasing and numerical type promotion.

And if you don't understand non-lexical lifetimes, I think that's OK. You can just be more explicit about the lifetimes and it will still work. And reading someone else's code should still make sense.
So much for sanitation. How am I going to get someone to pump out my septic tank, except to pay him some amount that is sufficient to compensate for the displeasure of the job?

Believe it or not, there are jobs that need to be done, but nobody in the world has a passion for them.

Employment isn't about fear or force. It's about two parties agreeing that they each come out better after the transaction of selling labor. I may not love what I do every day, but the sacrifice is worth it to have the benefit of the salary and other benefits that my employer gives me. And she probably isn't enamored with having to give up that money to pay me, but values the productivity I deliver (when I'm not on HN) more than that money.

The ability to trade labor for goods or money is the single greatest invention in the history of humanity. Without it I'd have to grow my own food and fibers, weave my own cloth for clothing (in the house I had to construct myself), sitting in a dark drafty room wishing that some altruist would come cure my illnesses.

But instead, we found that people can decide they value one thing more than another, and engage in voluntary commerce so that they can trade in kind.
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would a person who's starving to death ever follow a law preventing them from taking food? i can't believe they would. in fact, i think if a person starved to death when they could've just walked into a grocery story and gotten plenty to eat must have had something deeply wrong with them. i don't even think it's a matter of choice. so such a law is at odds with reality.

and consider what the consequences are for the theft. maybe they get a fine. they won't pay it, of course, because they can't even pay for food. then the fines accumulate, which has no immediate effect on the thief and does nothing to stop them thieving, because if they can't pay for food then they can't pay a fine, no matter how much they owe. on the other had, they may, eventually, be thrown in prison for their crimes, where they'll get fed on the regular, which is practically encouragement to commit crimes. you could also kill them, but i feel that's problematic.

if you don't punish the thief at all then, in the off chance they have the chance to get back on their feet, they won't have a pile of debt keeping them down, they won't have a criminal record because they were starving, and they won't be dead.
I developed most of my hobby projects in C until recently. It's not as rare as you think. C is a good language to think in.

Lately I've been switching to Ada, which I actually quite recommend if you like C. Shame it never really caught on, but using C libraries from Ada is trivial so there's not much of a library issue in spite of lack of popularity.
The ad blocking business is getting too cozy with the advertising business. Time to disrupt it again.

The Adblock people claim they're going to collect a half billion dollars a year in voluntary payments. Has anybody in the history of voluntary payments for software ever collected half a billion dollars? The American Red Cross collects about $700 million a year. Somehow, I expect that Adblock's system will not be "voluntary".
I run crouton on my chromebook but really if you intend to run desktop linux don't get a chromebook, even at boot waiting for the "developer mode" beeps are annoying besides the other compromises (small native storage etc).
Why the future of web browsers belongs to the biggest tech firms
How did you factor in market data on what current market rates were, and what was your source for that data? Was that source data also available and agreed upon by your employees?

If market rate changes for certain roles more than say, a fixed percentage every year, you can run into the trap of people falling behind market rate. Without some mechanism to correct for that, people increasingly feel they need to leave in order to get compensated fairly.

Taking a step back, I commend this effort. I have faced endless stress because of totally opaque salary situations in the past, and often thought it would alleviate the pain and save a ton of time for both parties if companies were just more open about these things. No system is perfect, but there's a lot to learn from trying this.

Perhaps the biggest challenge is that many people did not sign-up for a company with this system and may prefer the old system. They are now forced into what becomes a very social and political situation where they may not be super social themselves, and may have strong desires to avoid politics like the plague (I know I sure hate office politics). If my livelihood suddenly depended on that MUCH more than it used to, I might no longer enjoy working at such a place, even if I felt I was compensated at a fair rate because the amount of constant stress from the process would be a huge increase and detract my focus from my actual work.

Personally, I think a happy medium between the two worlds is agreeing upon solid, tangible goals for employees with a clear picture of how that impacts comp, as well as a neutral 3rd party salary data provider whose process and data are available for employees to review to ensure it isn't favoring the company (since that is who pays them).

In fact, if anyone has strong recommendations for any such data providers I'd love to hear them--Glassdoor is a helpful starting point, but their data is often lacking.
We don't have anyone like that right now, but we're open to it.
Me neither. uBlock is much more efficient.
Anyway, I still support the concept that AdBlock 'creating' here.
This is what I do on my chromebook pixel (2), but sadly the audio driver (really just the changes needed in the rt5677 codec) never got mainlined:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=573776

While you would expect linux to just run out of the box on these machines, sometimes even with it running some variant of a linux kernel from the OEM things aren't always so nice.
As ebbv points out, they are dropping really fast in price.

There's a fairly decent analysis from Lazard consulting on storage:

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-storage...

It used to be part of their cost of energy analysis, but has recently been broken out:

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

But since these report aggregate information from previous years, they always feel out of date compared to watching the latest news.

Ramez Naam's forecasts are the most informed forecasts that I have found:

http://rameznaam.com/2015/10/14/how-cheap-can-energy-storage...
"3 crazy changes made local [your town here] mom save 50% on solar panels in just 16 short months. What happens next is incredible"
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As I understand it, those restrictions are typically due to having an interface with some legacy system where those restrictions can't be removed.
I recently switched to the 3000x2000 Surface Book. Worrying about capacity being "wasted" is nonsense - how would it be better to not have that capacity? Some software looks bad, but I'm sure that'll be fixed as time goes by. Games look great, text looks even better, particularly if you read a lot.
This is similar to Google Contributor https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/ except it will work with any advertising platform and hopefuly work outside of the US.

I currently put €10 per month on Flattr and it would be great to not have to click each time I want to help out a publisher.
I knew something was up when they started talking about 'flats'
There are some rentwatch-* repos here: https://github.com/jplusplus/
> Maybe it'll be better on linux, chrome, and surely it was solved problem on OSX, but I still don't see the point.

Most of my use of a laptop is for programming, which means a lot of time starring at text. The far crisper text display on Retina/UltraHD/4k/whatevermarketingterm monitor feels much nicer to read for hours on end, for my money. It's a lot more like reading print.

I feel like I'm squinting when reading jagged lower rez text on my 1920x1080 external monitor, in contrast

Diclaimer: I use OS X, so I don't run into the scaling downsides you see in other OSes, and those are significant and would probably turn me off of 4k displays.
I'd only go so far as to agree that vulnerabilities which are bug related maybe _detected_ by static analysis.

Preventing vulnerabilities is an entirely larger problem not addressed by static analysis alone. Architectural security flaws are outside of the scope for static analysis. I'm not trying to nitpick semantics but in this case I think it's important to understand that, in this context, prevention and fixes as well as bugs and flaws need to be differentiated.
That was weird. It acted as if everything was ridiculously high with its text, even though my rent is 5% higher than average in "Europe" (and I'm in the US). 5% doesn't seem like a whole lot, but it was like "Ouch! See we told you you didn't want to know how high it was!".... yeah, I don't really care.
Maybe we can care about this problem the day it actually happens, much like we would do if we were coding ?
3200x1800 is 282 dpi. That's about on par with high-end tablets, worse than good phones (440 dpi or so), and worse than jaggie-free laser-printing (600 dpi, although that's not strictly comparable).

Text on high-DPI laptop screens looks enormously better than on low-DPI ones. And whatever issues Windows has with it, ChromeOS scales everything great.
I originally thought the bioweapon mode was a gimmick. Now that I think about China, India, and the air quality common there I feel that Tesla really is onto something very clever here.
> If you have two alternatives you're considering, and both require faith for you, then you don't know which is right

But if one takes more faith than the other, which do you choose?

Think of packing your own parachute for a sky dive vs accepting one that was packed for you. Still requires faith in the equipment to function when you go to open the chute, but it's not an arbitrary choice of which to trust.

> The "God is too hipster for the rules that apply to everything else" argument.

If God created the universe, then he exists outside of it. So the "rules that apply to everything else" probably do not apply to God.
> Theft is commonplace in markets and supermarkets.

And, having known several people who worked in loss prevention, it is well-established that the lion's share of that theft -- both of cash and goods -- is by employees.
If we consider NaCl to be "C applets"... yes, it actually is safer.
What Kind of Sorcery Is This? Why code is so often compared to magic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11621716 Not exactly the same link, not exactly the same title.
Epidemic-causing pathogens like plague are nearly useless as bioweapons: they're more likely to kill the attacker (or their friends, family, or entire country) than the people they're trying to attack. Actual bioweapons are almost invariably things like anthrax, brucellosis, and botulinum, where person-to-person spread is rare or impossible, and which you're very likely to survive if you can keep your dose down and get treatment.

You shouldn't be getting your information about the world from movies — that can get you killed — and you especially shouldn't be criticizing people who know more than you on the basis of movie plots.
Yeah very poor UI choice in that regard. Shouldn't have to click 10 times to get to the meat and potatoes, and discover it doesn't apply to you.
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Agreed, the line

> Higher pay for those with higher influence and negotiation skills

being portrayed as a negative seems like a main goal was to make it harder for people to negotiate higher salaries.
dump trucks of cash

How about $30,000[0]? Seriously, it's not the 90s anymore. The cost of making a chip is not insane and it's going to go down every year. As Moore's Law slows to a halt, we enter the golden age of computer architecture[1].

[0] http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?doc_id=1327291

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD-njD2QKN0
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> But I have a good memory and I trust it much more

Note that "a good memory" doesn't "scale" or remain constant over time. Plus more importantly you are assuming that something minor or major won't happen to you where for some reason you aren't able to remember things very clearly like you thought you would be able to.
Starving means that you have not eaten several days and are in desperate need for food immediately. 10 should give you an opinion to end this situation.

If you choose not to then the changes are that you were actually not starving.

Of course, like I told, this is a case of possible abuse. I have no idea what was actually going on.
Makes sense, I thought it was something completely unrelated to information theory.
Can anyone recommend a good python book for someone learning Data Analysis/Wrangling? I've listed a few options below.

Python for Data Analysis - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do - I'm working on this one now.

Data Wrangling with Python - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032861.do

Fluent Python - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do

Learning Predictive Analytics with Python - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781783983261.do

Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920037057.do

Thanks for any comments!
It's written on the front page in big bold letters. Turns out not everything is about the US.
Word is awkward for this. (At least the offline versions of Word are---I've never tried the online ones.) Word does have a "track changes" feature, which is invaluable when you have multiple authors, at least in the absence of 'traditional' source control tools. I don't think many neuroscientists have tried a LaTeX-git workflow and rejected it---I think the learning curve of LaTeX and git are steep enough that few have tried it. I myself prefer LaTeX, but I think you'll admit it also has its frustrations. And any time I suggesting using it to my neuroscience coworkers, they looked at me like I had lobsters coming out of my ears.
That's true but it's not what I was getting at - Angular 2 is developed in TS - it's designed with TS in mind - everything is built on classes, decorators.

React is a mishmash of various approaches and tools - functional, OO, embeded markup, etc. You can get type definitions for it but it's not really "natural", for eg. support libraries just have terrible type definitions because they don't map to typescript type system nicely at all - which is what I was getting at.
Their reasoning for taxing them is to "maintain the lines and equipment".

That is a very valid reason. Solar power - like wind - is erratic in nature and has much higher requirements for the power transmission network than e.g. hydroelectric, nuclear of fossil power.

The erratic nature is even worsened by subsidies which encourage people to peak production, regardless of consumption. The way these subsidies have been implemented varies across countries, but wherever you have them, you are also inviting trouble to the power grid.
Welcome to the perspective of Europeans on a regular basis ;)

Do agree the slide show is annoying and entirely redundant.

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(1) Your build cannot possibly be fast enough. Your boss will almost always think it is a waste of time to spend time speeding up your build, but if you work out the math in terms of minutes spent and minutes saved, the payoff time can be as little as a week for spending 2 days improving your build.

(2) Your build cannot be fast enough. Quite likely you have a machine that was chosen to be crazy cheap (Dell) or crazy beautiful (Mac) but not chosen to be crazy fast. A crazy fast machine with an SSD and the best CPU you can get will improve your productivity enough to pay for itself in 2 months or so if you do the math. Your boss won't believe it, so you might just get one for yourself.

(3) It never hurts to get up and move around

(4) It is not a bad idea to stare at the screen and think. In fact, carefully reading the output of your build should piss you off enough that you do something at (1)

(5) Overall it is dangerous to juggle a large number of balls in the area, but one exception to this is to carve out a single task you can work on while waiting for builds and make
switching to and from that task as easy as possible. This task can be anything that makes progress towards your goals, such as sorting the backlog, reading technical documentation, etc.

(6) Set up some kind of chime to ring when your build is done, that will help you get back to it. It's one of those things that people don't seem to do, but it works.
Sorry. :)

I didn't intend it to become the top comment. I just finally snapped and had to express my annoyance.

I guess I tapped into a lot of pent-up demand for the same thing.
It's not explicitly stating that stealing while hungry is moral, it's just that modern justice systems are not set up for "deterring" people from survival. Nor would that be moral, either.