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Sadly, not in very many places. In most US states, for example, utilities have lobbied to get laws that don't allow residential customers to sell power back to them, at most net-metering agreements will allow you to get credits from any excess power your panels generate (which is how my utility handles mine - unfortunately, since I generate more than I use, I can't actually make use of those credits fully, and I'm giving away some power to the grid).
It's the same way you call into C from C++. When Rust has a no_mangle extern C function to the universe it's just a C function. Your C++ header just needs to mark the fn as extern C and you're done, you can call it as you would call any other C/++ function.
Hey HN, I built this last weekend when I found myself in a cafe with no one to look over my laptop. On the client side, it monitors your camera (if you have one) and internet connection and texts you if there's any suspicious activity. Would love any feedback!
[NB I voted you up - not clear why you are being voted down]

I was really replying to the excellent comment by steego about property rights being a "sacrosanct moral imperative" - I sort of think that if you do believe that then you surely have to agree with those who argue that "taxes are theft" - not that I think this but at least they have a degree of logical consistency on their side.
[1] - Radford, Metz, Chintala https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code#arithmetic-on-faces
Cost of display scanout in terms of power? When nothing's moving, more pixels = higher bandwidth requirements, and the thing has to be clocked higher. (I guess it runs constantly. The new non-scanned LCDs will help I suppose.) You also need more RAM, and that needs refreshing. And any time anything is moving, there's 4x as many bytes being shuffled about, and they have to be shuffled about 4x as quickly, because the display area is the same.
Show HN: Python Module Update Checker (WebApp)
Hi,

I have created small Python module update checker on my site as a learning exercise (gevent / threading ), which i think is good enough to be released in wild!

Just copy output of "pip freeze" and hit submit it should show if you are using latest version of python module available.

You can give it a try at,

https://ninadmhatre.com/apps/py_upd_checker

Feedback is welcome :)

Note: I didn't realize that links in text are plain text! Sorry for that...
Facebook Messenger Bots – A Rundown of the Most Influential Opinions
Agreed, this has good potential for developed countries as well. Makes me wonder what the home equivalent of "bioweapon mode" is too, looking at the main filter in my home's HVAC system, it's certainly far from advanced...
Reverse-engineering a beer app to reach feature parity in 8 hours with Ionic
You're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink which has not been reproduced in humans.
Why Live Video and Voice Chat Is Making a HUGE Difference to Online Sales
this is the same as the "electric cars are actually powered by coal!" argument. it seems like it ignores all side effects of an incremental improvement in pricing/availability of technology: proliferation of EVs leads to removal of internal-combustion cars (all point sources of pollution), in turn leading to lots of cars dependent on the grid for power, in turn leading to that cleaning up power plants instantly cleans up millions of cars.

by the same token, price reductions in solar power cost leads to battery storage systems (or other storage systems) being even more desirable and cost-competitive, in turn leading to them being installed in preference over other types of power plants.
With Apple releasing Metal, I think the vendors do have an interest in making developers lives easier if it helps to draw them into their platform. I'm just glad OpenGL is still supported at this point.
Yes, this terrible awful rate is completely out of the norm for the industry. For example, on AdSense, publishers get 68%-51% share! [0] Oh wait, 10% is the cut that Flattr takes, of which 90% is kept by publishers. Note, included in that 10% is the macro transaction fees paid to integrate with other payment providers.

[0]: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/180195?hl=en
Unlikely. Solar Panels don't replace all of your electricity costs. Naturally, you'll still run your refrigerator at night, right?

And during the day, when you have peak-solar energy, you'll be at work and won't be taking advantage of it. You'll recoup some of the costs through net-metering, but you usually buy back at wholesale prices and not at retail prices.

Finally, I'd expect utility companies to change their pricing scheme in the near future to account for solar. They service your electrical wires for example, and you'll likely have to pay a certain amount of money for that. So while you're not buying "power" (or at least, as much power) as before, you'll still have the service cost of being hooked up to the grid.
> The disease is actually related to the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1800s

I was in Ireland a few months ago. Someone I met in Galway said this famine wasn't really a famine; that there were plenty of crops. The king simply withheld the potato supply, forcing the famine.
Eh, I wouldn't go crazy. It's only a dual-core Core M processor after all.
> I cannot think otherwise because you seem to say that stealing is still the only means of survival. I offered what this person could do instead of stealing. Stealing is still not the only solution.

My point, which you still do not seem to understand, is that someone who is starving is not in a frame of mind where you can expect them to be able to calmly and logically go through the available options, weigh them, find the most moral one, and execute on it.

Hence why I asked if you have ever experienced starvation rather than just hunger.

To me the above ranks with the (admittedly apocryphal) "let them eat cake". Technically, yes, he "could" have done many things.
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Me neither, even in the real world, and I have cabin air filters. They throw in a free air filter change when I get my oil changed.
That is a slightly more nuanced question than you might think.

First, I work from a baseline cost of $19K, even though the list price was closer to $40K I didn't pay that for the system so I use the actual cost in my calculations.

Second there is the point where the money you've saved is equal to the money you paid, we hit that point about 10 years in. And then, depending on the life of your system (which has "positive cashflow" at that point) determines your overall rate of return. The replacment inverter (which is actually going to replace both inverters) is $2K ("upgrade" pricing from the manufacturer) And as the inverter was failing our system was under performing (so not generating as much power). The question will be how much longer am I willing to run the panels. The warranty is 25 years, so in theory another 10 years but the manufacturer (Sharp) no longer makes them and cannot replace them under warranty (they can only offer to repay you to buy a panel from some other vendor with equivalent specs and size).

So from a money perspective, had I used the $19K and put it into an S&P 500 ETF in 2003, it would have doubled by now (SPX was 1,008 in 2003, its over 2,016 today). So "bad investment" comparatively. If the panels continue for an additional 8 years and PG&E's costs stay about the same then I'll have generated about $20K in value from them so that would pencil out to a ARR of about 3.5%. Initially I funded the panels with a refinance of the house loan and that was at 6% but that has since been refinanced even lower. However had it not been, at my original purchase I'd still be running a deficit trying to both pay back the house and generate cash from the solar.

Interestingly for me, with the $7K it would cost to re-implement that system today, and 4% mortgage rates, it would have a rate of return of closer to 14% (10% if you subtract 4% as the cost of capital for a mortgage refi) and pay for itself in a bit more than 3 years and have doubled the return in 6. The challenge is additional regulatory changes which get incorporated into new installations versus the regulation regime I operate under based on my 2003 install date. I wonder sometimes what the trigger is for resetting the project's origin date.
What is going to stop a crowd of justifiably hungry people looting a grocery store causing the grocer to become homeless themselves and thus making the problem worse? The government has no right to sanction someone's property as "ok" to be stolen because of need. I'm generally not in favor of imminent domain for a public works project either, but that's another matter). This ruling is an act of aggression by the government against the non-hungry that steals not only their property, but their liberty. Most of us do not want anyone going hungry, but this is not the solution.
More likely you'll SSH or RDP to a desktop/server environment somewhere, but there are developer options (crouton) if you need more in the box.
Is this DIY, or installed? If it's not DIY, mind passing along who you're using? Inquiring TX minds would like to know!
Other crops continued to do well, and Ireland still exported food; but the peasantry relied on potatoes, and the potatoes rotted.
The Projected Improvement in Life Expectancy
I was thinking the remaining trees will just spread and the dead ones will feed the ecosystem.

The danger of course is forest fires. So long as nothing catches fire, the system can continue to build upon the non-resistant trees.
I don't understand why this is a problem. Two things:

1) You're still using MUCH less overall fossil fuels. A 40% reduction in fossil fuel use would do wonders for the world economy and be a huge step forward in reducing emissions.
2) If other people are feeding power back into the grid, then you can be using their solar power. It's sunny somewhere, right?
> Isn't it enough evidence that laborers back then could buy a good property in the city for 2.5 years of work, and now you'd have to get a very good salary and be lucky to be able to afford the same in maybe 20, 25 years?

No, because you're talking about - and I quote - Society's dynamics in terms of balances of power. Buying a good property in the city is a very, very small part of that.

Consider that Mayor DeBlasio can't come in and arbitrarily decree that that house is his, now, and so is my wife and horse. Consider that if I don't like his policies, I can run against him, campaign against him, vote against him. Consider that I actually have a fairly good chance of running into him on the street and actually having a critical conversation about his policies without the possibility of being whisked away and beheaded.

> But given the way you've attacked me

Nobody attacked you, they asked you to back up your thesis with more evidence than "I can't afford to live in New York". You then accused someone of making a strawman argument, when all they did was ask you to compare the same laborer you used against something other than the single point you're offering.
List of most polluted cities in the world by particulate matter concentration
I feel the same way - though, it's all about DPI. A 1080p display at 22" is not very good, but a 1080p at 13" is very very nice.

I have a 13" retina Macbook Pro with god knows how many pixels, and I'm left with a choice between full HiDPI where everything is giant, or "scaled" mode where the GPU renders even more pixels and then scales it down. This is because the UI components in OS X are bitmaps, and there is a set of 2x HiDPI bitmaps, and a set of 1x regular ones that are too small to read on a retina display. I use the scaled mode where it renders everything as if I had a giant monitor and scales down the whole screen to a normal size. Since I have the 1st generation 13" retina, it understandably struggles at times with its Intel GPU. It does look great, though.

I recently got a Dell Chromebook 13" with a 1080p IPS display, put Debian on it over Chrome OS, and now it's all but replaced my Macbook for everyday use. Everything is a decent size, and there is no need for the OS to do any scaling or anything weird, so everything works nicely. I mainly got it so that I wouldn't have to lug such an expensive laptop on the subway, but I've really grown attached to it. The DPI is high enough that I can't really discern the pixels, IPS displays tend to look great, and I forgot how much I missed using Linux while I was on OS X. :)
No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Potatoes_Production_Great...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
A variation of odd/even is also used in the Philippines. Manila has (some) rich people - I remember seeing an Audi R8 on the highway there.
Sadly, even exercise and good living doesn't always work. I have a family member living with dementia right now who lived a model life as far as diet (vegetarian), exercise (daily for life), no drinking or drugs, and an overall focus on doing everything possible to be as healthy as possible. Conversely, my own grandfather watched all of his coworkers die from cancer due to the chemicals they worked with, was generally sedentary, and lived into his nineties with no major degenerative diseases.

That said, I agree that one is more likely to have positive late-life outcomes if one chooses to live more healthfully in younger life.
Hang out and enjoy life.
> What about the consumption taxes we have on the books?

The broader they are, the more likely liberals are to oppose them, and oppose expanding them. Replacing the progressive income tax system with something regressive isn't something that's going to get support on the left.

> Gas tax? Hugely regressive.

But very narrow.

> Wouldn't liberals support additional carbon taxes?

Many liberals support the concept of carbon taxes as a behavior control mechanism, but not as the main way of funding government, and many raise concerns about the regressive impact. But, with them, the goal is to limit the thing being taxed and fund efforts to improve our ability to avoid it, not be the primary funding method for government.

> Value-added tax?

Virtually all the support I've seen on this in the US is on the right (often competing against flat tax proposals.)

> What about the tax of inflation that serves to redistribute wealth from savers to debtors? (middle class -> government)

While the classical middle class (e.g., Marx's petit bourgeoisie) are net holders of assets, the "middle class" as the term is used in modern discussions in the US (which is largely the middle income segment of wage laborers) aren't really net savers.
I'm convinced, endlessly watching TV has a lot to do with it as well. Not only are you not active, but you're mindlessly not using your brain.

The average older adult, watches 33 hours of TV a week! That's insane to me.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/average-american-watch...
Commenting about the footnote.

It seems like significant credit is given to the backpropagation method. I see backpropagation as a core mechanism in how neural networks learn. Are there other ideas present (or that could be explored) for a different core mechanism for learning? The backpropagation algorithm makes sense, but I still feel like there are other core mechanisms through which natural intelligence has developped.

These natural mechanism might not be applicable to artificial intelligence, but I think we could learn from them.
It's disappointing to see serious reporting like this saddled with a clickbait title like "This disease has killed a million trees in California, and scientists say it’s basically unstoppable."
More than a few of these are on display at the MIT museum in Cambridge, MA. Very awesome. Shannon made more intricate things as toys for his children than many of the things I've made professionally.
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Great PR.
This is why the SPKI guys, seventeen years ago, made one of their design goals not using ASN.1: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2692 states 'No library code should be required for the packing or parsing of SPKI certificates. In particular, ASN.1 is not to be used.'

They came up with a simple, beautiful representation for certificates. They also came up with a simple, logic, understandable way to think about what certificates can and cannot do.

The world ignored them. RFCs 2692 & 2693 stand as a remarkable example of what could have been.
If you decide to go out of the grid almost completely, and buy batteries to store your energy. Have any idea about how much you'd spend?
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Do you think an average person can afford a steak but for very rare of occasions here or something? No. The average person buys "on deal" cheap food from "discount store" - quality on par with average dog food. Fruit (except for apples) is almost luxury.

It always amuses me when I hear something like "10k USD is below the poverty rate". Do you think the living expenses are notably different?
The interaction between forest fires and tree pathogens is an area of active research - a friend of mine is studying exactly that in her ecology PhD program. http://ucanr.edu/sites/rizzolab/Research_Projects/Big_Sur_Ec...
You're saying exactly the same thing.

"This environment can shoot me in the foot, but not if I do it right."

MISRA C with copious static analysis and a talented QA team is safe, too!
Your definition of "dark side" seems borderline sociopathic.
My feedback is dumb and pretty useless, but I would update the iPhone model in the top of your website.

Again, a minor things, not a big deal, but feedback is feedback.
Try pressing "Ctrl+D" at boot to avoid the beep and wait.

In any case, I hardly ever turn on/reboot my chromebook, mostly just resume from sleep.
That same argument could be used to advocate everyone running diesel generators at home 24/7 because of the power outages that occur on the grid.

Sure, coal and gas pickup the remaining tab, but even if they are covering half of the usage, that's better than all of it.
If your IDE is your runtime environment. Sure.

I've started with Allegro Common Lisp, so i kinda know a thing or two about that.

The success of Smalltalk then speaks for itself?
A few questions for the authors on a hot button issue, the gender pay gap:

When you opened your salaries, did you see/did anyone notice a gender disparity in pay? Have subsequent rebalancings changed that? One of the findings Google made was that women were less likely to ask for promotion, but that could be corrected by giving regular nudges to everyone to ask for it. Do you find that women are more involved than men in the salary democratic process or less?
Good point, this could very well be a submarine advertisement. If it doesn't exist, there should be a handy curated website that lists and analyzes submarine advertisements from big name newspapers/blogs/editorials, something like what snopes does for urban legends.

Claim -> Headline / Apparent Story

Whats true -> Headline related information

Whats false -> The hidden agenda ( disinformation, ad for CompanyX, repackaged press release )
Remote Code Execution vulnerability in ImageMagick
Well, if you use the gtk3 hidpi settings, yes. However, if you disable the HiDPI, scale it to 1x, and then set the font "Scaling Factor" in gnome-tweak-tool to something else, say, 1.25, (a non-integer!) it works great!
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My biggest problem with these Chromebooks is actually the limited local storage - this hardware with more local storage would be a killer linux machine.
> now that you have enough free cash to afford a security deposit on a different place

This leads me back to my original question - EVERYONE now has "enough free cash to afford a security deposit on a different place", so if EVERYONE goes and does that, we're right back to where we came from within 1 year -- the lowest class still has the lowest quality apartments with the lowest class slumlord landlords!!

Nothing changes except less people think they have to work (which causes society to further cave in on itself)!!

If anything, this damages the supply side, because now you have higher demand in the form of 20-somethings attempting to escape their parents/grandparents homes, as well as anyone who thinks they no longer have to live with roommates. Nothing but distorted perceptions.

And now, we also have the side effect of fewer people working and being economically productive in society, thanks to you telling your shitty boss to shove it. Meanwhile, anyone who was making something equivalent (or a bit more) than the new base salary can just say screw working altogether.

I don't see how any other outcome prevails. The cons continue to outweigh the pros, and you have no clue what other unforeseen side effects will unfold.
Now what does that mean? What does Fortran have to do with Go?

| add support for Fortran (CL 19670, CL 4114)
Did you read what I wrote?
I already said that you need a disciplined team.
Good luck keeping that team together for years to come.
Not sure if you are disputing the fact that keeping code around is a challenge, or not.
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Ops point was that the original price of 40k in 2003 is now 7k for the total installation. That will change your math somewhat :) So even with your low power bill it's more like 6 years.
You need to consider the economics of "grid tie" you generate excess power into the grid and "buy it back" when you aren't generating in excess. So if you generate as much power as your going to use for the entire day from your panels, you pay nothing for that day. Even though you are drawing power at night.

In the Bay Area, there are other things that screw up the numbers but the program "trues up" once a year (rather than monthly) so some months (usually late spring through early fall) I'm generating more power than I use for the month, and fall/winter I consume more power than I generate in a month. The target is to hit it at exactly 0 which was easier to do when PG&E would exchange kilowatts for kilowatts but it is harder now with their system of charging extra kilowatts over baseline. Its screwed up and not fair but I get that they are hurting, if I could get Elon to sell me the battery pack out of a Model S and the inverter infrastructure to go with it, I could leave the grid entirely and that would be easier.
I guess we could call the parent comment half-right, then, since presumably halting exports of food during a famine would have ameliorated it.
For the longest time I refused to wear glasses and learned to read 13x7 bitmap blurs. Even with glasses, I can't read any other font nearly as well, so I'm stuck with my low res screens.

What I really want is a low res screen as bright as the retina.
The donations are what caused the rift:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock_.28ublock...
Five hundred years ago, Spaniards spread the seeds of european annual grasses as they traveled between missions in California. Within a century or two, a large part of the California landscape had changed. Annual grasses crowded out native perennial grasses, and we got our "golden hills." Nobody knows exactly what California looked like before the Spanish arrived or how many species may have gone extinct, but you can still see echoes of what happened. For example Mount Hamilton Jewelflower, now reduced to a few relict populations on serpentine soil where the annual grasses don't grow so high...

SOD is a disturbance of similar magnitude. It won't kill all the oaks. For example it only kills black oaks (coastal live oak, interior live oak, California black oak, ...) but not white oaks (blue oak, valley oak, ...). What it likely will do is over time dramatically change the makeup of the oak woodlands, especially along the coast and in the Sierra Nevada foothills.