skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terms mention this explicitly and it was talked about when the original stories broke; is there anything new here? I didn't see anything at least.

The data WhatsApp will still share with Facebook is the type of data that can be anonymized and while I'm not saying it will (I mean why would they bother? Probably more valuable to NOT anonymize) it's the typical data most apps are collecting.
More than a programmer's goldmine, this is Github's. Stack Overflow is trying to become the go-to for sample code and documentation, Github could have a lot to offer in a partnership.
Even if you deduct that amount from the utility prices, the grid electricity stays higher. Of course that has also good reasons - the grid has to paid for, and the grid is guaranteed to be available 24/7. Still this shows that solar is price competitive.
Yes, at some point the scale tips for a lot of people and the hype of going to the USA is outweighed by the trouble you have trough and the privacy you have to forfeit.

For people like you and me, we are aware of this before we get overexcited and commit to the holiday, giving us the freedom to easily choose another destination.
> because social media profiles will be created specifically for travelers to be 'clean.'

I imagine that in future we will hear about travelers being denied entry because they- "fraudulently stated wrong social media accounts"... or something like that.
It's viable with the right subsidy regime, as are all the power sources once they're made to deal with their externalities and variances. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27142377
In the rather large Australian company I work for currently my manager asked himself out loud "how many tines did we ask Microsoft for support with Office"?

The answer was - "never". They wouldn't have listened and so it was not only pointless, but it was actively frowned upon!

You can purchase a rather less expensive support contract with Collabora. You don't have to build or fix the software yourself.
Well this is kind of obvious, is it not? Of course Facebook is going to have access to your data, they run the service. It's the same as expecting Google to not have access to your nest data, or Amazon to not have access to your twitch data.

If it turns out that they're still using our data for advertisement purposes between the two platforms after opting out, then we can be outraged.
>The article emphasizes that the declining price is due mostly to peripherals & installation rather than any efficiency breakthroughs of the solar panels themselves.

Over the last few years racks, mounts, wiring, inverters and labor have made up ~60% of the cost.

Plus, Obama started slapping ~30% tariffs on the cheapest imported solar panels.
I don't get the problem. If you don't trust them why don't you just stop using them? It's not like it's a government spying program you're being forced into and it's not like there aren't a gazillions chat apps alternatives. Also the intersection of people who use whatsapp and have no Facebook already on their phone with access to contacts must be pretty small so not sure this change is as controversial as claimed in this article.
Stick with a grid-tie system for the time being, especially if you can get the right feed-in tariffs. I don't really see the case for domestic storage systems yet.
That's awesome and glad to hear you're doing well. I think you have a couple of options:

1/ Keep running it by yourself.
2/ Hire an assistant to take care of time-consuming small tasks.
3/ You could always talk to a couple of larger competitors and see if they're interested in buying you out.
Ask HN: Business/initial-idea guy seeks technical founder; what's the process?
A non tech friend of mine spoke to me about his idea for a startup, and he needs help with the technical side of things. He's never run a business and has no technical experience. His idea has legs in principle but needs a lot of development (both from a business plan and technical perspective). I have great technical contacts plus I can help guide the process of building his idea up. If I was so inclined we could take his idea and build it out without him. I'm not that way inclined at all and want to make sure he's a part of the process, but I'm not sure how much value he will bring outside of the initial idea. I'm hesitant to just open up my contacts up without knowing how to best play this out; in everybody's interest.

What should I do?

Edit: This leads to another question- what's the best way to lay the right legal foundations to a founder relationship?
Solar panels are loss-making for utility companies. If you have them on your roof you're not only not consuming their electricity and not paying their margins, they might have to pay you.

Worse this usually happens during the times when they make the most profit (daytime/summertime).

They have every incentive to try and kill solar - which is, in fact, what they've been trying to do (google for 'ALEC solar' to see how).
When I was little I remember thinking everyone in Europe lived like that for some reason.
95% of our technological jumps and innovation throughout history have happened within the last 100 years. Coincidentally, those are the years China has been a non-factor. You say China has been the world's leading innovator throughout history, but what exactly did they accomplish within those 5000 years? Not much.

With that said, the current PRC is stifling innovation, creativity and freedom. They have 1 billion people; China should be the most innovative country on the planet with all those chances for genius. Think of all the chances for Einstein, Hawking or bill gates... But what comes out of China? What product, computer program or device is China known for? Why aren't they inventing the latest iPhone, Windows OS, Mercedes Benz or Viagra? Why aren't they writing the next Game Of Thrones (can't with all the censorship going on) or bringing us the next high capacity lithium battery? Or Carbon Nanotubes? China isn't known for innovation in virtually any industry. They always rank near the bottom when it comes to innovation.

And why is that? It's because the PRC stifles their society with all the controls and limits their creativity. Everything has to be government approved, and go through miles of bureaucracy (or straight up corruption/bribes). People forget, China ranks 100th on the corruption index released by transparency.org. There are 99 countries less corrupt than China.

> Yes, some intellectuals were killed and many more subject to physical and mental abuse, but to say "all" were killed is absurd.

Worse, he killed intellectualism itself. While he may not have killed every intellectual, their society isn't set up for individuality and creativity -- things which breed intellectualism.
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actually renting servers is cheap.
however renting a stable network isn't.

when you rent servers you either need a overlay network via a VPN or you end up renting a rack (1/3, half, full) and connect it yourself. but as you might guess you are now inside a single datacenter, if it burns or somehow looses it's connection you are offline. that's not a big deal for some sites, but some stuff will suffer from that.

AWS and Clouds are more about networks and traffic spikes than just a bunch of servers. It's also easier to just replace the system in a outage than on most other services where you mostly try to heal it up. On Clouds you just trash it.
We have some small sites on 3 AWS Small instances and a AWS RDS Master-Slave. Whenever one instance breaks or AWS makes a notice that this instance will be recycled we just reprovision it. We are also on AWS Frankfurt which didn't have a real outage yet. Google pricing would be in favor but no RDS Postgres yet, same for Azure (even when we get 130 € per month on 7 accounts for free (startup program) for 3 years or so).

however our software is sold to customers as hardware and not designed to run on a cloud (yet), mostly because of sensitive data.
It's worse than that. The sole contribution of the "publishers" is to make content hard to access - both practically, because you need a university library or a private login, and financially, because either your library has to pay a lot of money, or you do. ($45 for a three page PDF? Please...)

While some people try to conflate this with other kinds of IP, this is a completely different process, because research already funded by public money is being kept from the public.

Which means anyone who may be interested in research outside of academia - including startups, corporations, and private entrepreneurs - has to pay through the nose for official access.

And that simply removes money from the ecosystem and puts it in the pocket of the publishers. It doesn't fund new research, it doesn't increase publishing standards, it doesn't keep food on the table for struggling researchers.

It costs a fortune, but adds no social or scientific value at all.
> Making a copy without permission is stealing.

Do you still keep the original? Do you also see art forgery as theft?
There is a scene in Homeland where Saul is captured, in that video objects are "tagged" as combatants (triangles), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3MWxgfUWyA ... I find remote sensing technology like that to be entirely operational (domestic and foreign) at this point.
I'd like to complement that copyright is meant to increase the total amount of access to culture, knowledge, etc. Not to deter it.
Furthermore i'd like to add that in the case of atleast European competition law it is not allowed to use a dominant market position in market A in order to gain a dominant market position in market B.
What we see today however, is that certain dominant market actors destroy the types of businesses you predict by means of endless torrents of lawsuits ( Grooveshark for example.) while at the same time buying competing stocks such as for example Spotify.
Due to the international nature of these affairs and the insane spaghetti of legal persons created and being involved; it's unfortunately near impossible to commit further investigations into these matters.
>Failure to file or filing fraudulently are, of course, offenses that risk jail time.

So the income tax is a grotesque violation of Human Rights and should be abolished.
Really? All my friends, my boss, the shop I just bought a new suit at, my municipality, they're all on whatsapp nowadays. It's a pretty big deal to just cut it out of my life. It's a platform that's approaching something like 'have an email address' or 'have a phone' in practical terms.

There are workarounds but they're not as painless as simply deciding to 'use an alternative chat alternative'. It's like saying you don't like English? Well try esperanto and good luck functioning in the US. I've given some extremely exaggerated examples, particularly this last one haha, but I've found reliance on Whatsapp to be substantial and on the rise.

I do agree by the way that this isn't that big a deal. I'm completely fine to continue using them, but if I wasn't the proposed 'just stop using them, there's chat alternatives' really doesn't fly. It'd be really shitty.
Show HN: I'm launching Makerloom to simplify sharing 3d models (makerloom.com)
Hi Everyone,

I've been very interested in 3d printing and modelling for quite a few years now.
Something that I noticed was that it was fairly difficult to get (purchase) a 3d model for at good price. On the other hand, when I wanted to list my 3d models on a store there were complex (and annoying) agreements that I had to read and agree to. One of them was that I had to pay 30-70% of the selling price of my model to the platform. There were also restrictive exclusivity clauses that gave better rates but forced me to list my models on a single platform. That was always difficulty because I wanted to expose my models to as many people as possible.
That's why I started Makerloom. To offer the 'makers' 75% of what they sell their models for without any bull*%&£ exclusivity clauses. This tremendously drops the total cost of each 3d model.
I want 'makers' to be able to list their 3d models very easily and at good prices while exposing them to the largest audience possible. Check out the site at www.makerloom.com and join the next generation of makers and manufacturers.

PS: Please I need as much feedback as possible so if you notice something wrong with the site please comment on my post or send me an email at okibeogezi@outlook.com or okibeogezi@makerloom.com.

Thanks for reading,
Michael Ogezi
Difference is that those debt obligations were voluntarily assumed, whereas tax debt is an odd form of debt that is imposed on someone without their agreement.
I'd appreciate honest and critical feedback. I really want to hear your thoughts on it. Thanks :)
Sure, you can make errors in Python. But you can also write tests to validate the data in Python. And there is a culture of doing so in Python.

>I think it is more because of your experience as a developer why you were able to spot and correct errors.

I don't feel like I spotted errors. I wrote a script to validate the data and the script told me if there were errors (there were).
That's okay. Probably you will just be able to provide your fb login credentials, it's easy-peazy. (turn on your sarcasm detection mechanism if you are reading this)
I don't use neither facebook nor whatsapp and I live perfectly fine. It's not like you stop breathing.

In my experience telling people that you prefer a different medium from whatsapp is not a big deal.
Also discussed at length here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9515613
I think you need to learn some basic physics
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Note that Luanda is only outrageously expensive for ex-pats, if you want to live how you are accustomed to in the West.

If you accept the lack of access to Western goods, then it is much more reasonable.

Why is food so much cheaper? Why is land so much cheaper? Why are utilities so much cheaper? What are they doing that makes everything so cheap? IMHO, this is really a phd thesis sized undertaking and would probably teach us a lot about the inefficiencies in our western system.

Have you ever been to one of these places?

People are much poorer, and the standard of living is much lower. Things like utilities often don't exist, or or much less reliable than in richer countries.

Some things are cheaper: branded clothes and foods are generally priced beyond the means of most, so people don't buy them. Transport is cheaper, because people don't own cars - they walk, or bus, or share motor-scooters.

Accommodation is cheaper on a per-person basis, because 6 people in a single bedroom apartment is normal.

A few exceptions exist of course - the US health system costs a lot more than anywhere else in the world given the health outcomes. Places like Chile and Cuba pay a lot less for health care, but sit above and below the US on tables of life expectancy[1]. There are also things like extreme inequality in some countries which can cause other distortions.

But there generally really are no secrets - they live cheaper because they are poorer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
Or they could drop him to sort out the operational risk aspects.
Not every user has access to every table or database. So if a company separates such things based on various categories, brandnamecars.com's hacker exploited account might get all the car users' credentials, but not the case for brandnametrucks.com, who had a separate table or database, and restricted the brandnamecars.com user account properly with permissions so it couldn't get that info, even if the same server handles both the databases or tables.
It is very fast, but how much of that is due to it being written in assembly? Isn't the real bottleneck for an application like this going to be network speed?
if the news has been any indication on TV in the last couple decades I've experienced, it's often hard to tell if things are actually getting bad vs. if things are actually just getting reported a certain way and with more volume.
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I suppose you mean the 'economic case'. Some people is doing it for other reasons, as is frequently the case for early adopters of any technology.
We changed the URL from https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/29/sci-hub-is-providing-scien..., which points to this.
No idea, not something I was too deep into. Back on those days I just used them.

Here is the link for the Borland C++ compiler documentation, I was actually using the Turbo C++ version for Windows 3.1.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandborn3.1Programm...

The BIDS, Borland International Data Structures were the template based library that replaced the object based one and could be accessible as a DLL as well.

To export classes from DLL one would do something like

// On the DLL side
class _export MyClass {...}

// On the consumer side
class huge MyClass {...}

Described on page 336 of the manual.

If you check the the templates documentation, the generated code code could be externalized, page 152, via the -Jgx.

I was only a BIDS user across DLLs, but I can easily imagine a combination of _export/huge and -Jgd/-Jgx being what was necessary to make it all work.
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Welcome to reality. It has been for quite some time.
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Will any of you provide your HN account information?
It's worth reading the comments under the article as well.
ASMR stands for Autonomous sensory meridian response.
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Here is a live graph of power production/consumption in germany. You should take the prediction for the rest of the day with a grain of salt though.

https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/topics/-agothem-/Produk...
Since the person to post this comment also posted that submission, probably because they're unhappy that their submission didn't catch on yet it's the exact same subject. Sadly, shit happens.
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Highly recommend Happy People: A Year in the Taiga http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/
I don't know a lot about the huge scale side, but I tried running a teeny little server of my own on AWS, and it's way overpriced and over-complicated. You can get a single server for like 20% of the price on any number of hosting services. Digital Ocean works pretty well for me right now.
The biggest market for domestic storage is people who would want an emergency generator anyway. You get most of the same benefit for a lower cost with a Powerwall (if the expectation is temporary outage tolerance).

IMO that's the best comparison for domestic storage though.
> As currently practised, democracy tends towards bureaucracy and short-term thinking (projects small enough to fit in a term).

Not to mention that it can devolve into something that's more of a democracy in name only.

Take the upcoming US elections where the choices are, on one hand, a blowhard who wants to build a massive wall to keep out Mexican immigrants, and on the other a corrupt-to-the-core corporate puppet.

This isn't much of a real democracy when parties become so big that more competent people have no chance of running for office without the support of said parties.
I'm currently trying the same approach to get an apartment in the Hague area, Netherlands. I find it very unreliable, but that's probably due to the poor state of house listings here.

The whole experience of searching a suitable house is just aweful, all listing sites are basically full of spam and scams:

- most houses are already taken, but they leave them on the site because free exposure/advertising for the realtor/landlord.

- pictures that are not taken in the actual apartment (they just reuse pictures of a different apartment that kinda looks like it).

- ads that look like normal list items (dark ui).

- super good looking houses for low prices, that turn out to be fake, just to promote the realtor/landlord name.

- loads of hidden costs (service, administration, VAT, parking etc).

- all sorts of requirements (based on sex, income, ethnicity, type of work and what not).
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The US was the world's leading commerce nation from the 1950's (after the WW2 and the collapse of the British Empire). Based on sums of imports and exports it exceeded very other country comfortably.

Until 2014, when China overtook it.

While your argument about the cost of production isn't too far fetched, it is unclear what this magical "DNA for commerce" you speak of is? I've heard of this thing called "American Exceptionalism" - is this an example?
Depends on where you live. You'd be a monster here if you didn't use WhatsApp :D
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But the person has to realize that this won't help him/her at all, only comes off as being a little bit whiny, maybe even a little bit desperate. Yeah, it happens, but it's only virtual points on an Internet site we are talking about... who cares who submitted it in the end.

EDIT: Hope I haven't offended anyone, I am usually not the judgemental type, couldn't help wondering in this case.
I think this is a good thing. Most people are very stupid about their online behavior. Or rather, they try to pretend they are someone else "IRL", because in real life they know people are looking but online they think they are anonymous. This has been demonstrated several times that this is where social media harassment comes from. Anyone who is an asshole online is an asshole in person, they just know better to hide it when people can see their face.

We should be working to make it clear to people that--just because you have a cat photo for an avatar--doesn't mean you are off the hook for acting like a decent human being.

We print out home address on official forums, why not online addresses? Make that presence "real".
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Because some of us believe in GC enabled systems programming languages, as done already at Xerox PARC (Cedar), DEC (Modula-2+/Modula-3), ETHZ (Oberon, Active Oberon, Component Pascal) and MSR (Sing# / System C#).

What is missing is a company like Microsoft to push it down to mainstream developers, at all costs, like it happen to all luddites.
Ok, so why aren't other companies financing them upfront?
If your looking to buy a generator and tie it into the house grid for X$ and desire not to because your installing solar then that's real savings. For survivalists who want 1+ years of gas X gets rather large.

Even if you just have regular power outages, or are a data center, hospital, etc that is required to gave full power off grid for days solar becomes far more attractive. Solar is also rather atractive to the military as logistics get complex and expencive.
Conversely those better cameras with a narrower coverage area (ie the same one they have now) those better cameras might have the resolution required for detection of "gender, ethnicity, age, hair color ... facial recognition."
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Oh, so 'do practically nothing' rather than 'be practically nothing'. I understand now.
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I agree. Like I said, shit happens :)
+1 for this (even though as a Romanian I'm a little biased). For comparison, I got to visit Switzerland this summer. One of the most beautiful places I've visited, the mountains looked gorgeous, but I was continuously feeling that vibe that it was all a man-made park.
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