skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10% is generally the extreme low end and not something your going to see repeated for several days.

If you want days of off grid use your going to have battery's anyway. If your willing to cut back on energy that much then you might not need to even clear the snow from your panels. But, there is a wide range of easy solutions to that from manual clearing with a long pole, heating elements, or even just a steep mounting angle.

One major upside is the system should be automatic so you can leave your house unattended through a major storm. However, from a cost perspective solar hot water systems are generally worth it long before solar panels in the north.
'That country'? So does the rest of the world...
Cool initiative.

Btw, that blue (#000099) with white is so disturbing.
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The article is hyperbolic in the extreme and doesn't really reflect the reality of these systems.

However. It is an important read, in my opinion.

Because this is well rendered and well formatted summation of the rhetoric people use to argue against scaled analytics and the collection of data. Understanding the counter arguments and motivation behind this article is a good step to interfacing with people uncomfortable with these ideas.
Music thankfully isn't driven by musical technicality. You can have great music which fits into 4/4 and the western scale and still sounds fresh. Music doesn't need to be "renewed" in the way you describe.

That being said, there are far more examples of pop music outside 4/4, 3/4 and the western scale out there than just Time by Pink Floyd. To give some of my favourite examples...

Alice In Chains - Them Bones (I believe this is in 5/4):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTuD8k3JvxQ

Perfume - Polyrhythm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbiSxunJatM

The Marty Friedman cover is pretty good rock interpretation if you don't like J-Pop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE5zhVPOcZA

Dream Theater - Learning To Live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VigPPJ6j40

To get an idea of the time signatures involved in Learning To Live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfWdOBYk6g4
Can you point us to a hospital or commercial datacenter that has solar and batteries and no fuel-based generator?

You would need solar generating capacity well in excess of demand (to serve the daytime demand AND fully charge the batteries on an overcast day to address a multi-day outage). That seems far less practical than a mechanical generator as backup.
> So, each country could very easily create, and enforce, its own set of laws that would prohibit all of the crimes you mention.

The problem here is enforcement. It's one thing to pass a law. But you have to devote state resources to every law to make sure people aren't evading it. Competent, incorruptible public servants are rare and even if they weren't, you'd have to pay all of them. Resource-poor states just can't do it.

In practice all small countries can really do is accept foreign aid wherever you can get it. When you're dealing with bad actors with legal budgets bigger than your entire annual tax revenue, enforcement is hard.
How do you get $600?

$3/month is $36/year. At 10 years, that's $360.

Where do you get another $240 for the standalone product?
In my experience French people are much happier to talk politics than Americans. Possible they are sick of hearing about burkinis right now though.
One of my former employers dealt a lot with Apple. The CEO saw the secretive nature of Apple and decided he also wanted to build our products in a secretive manner. Our company was only 300 people so they were very small teams that worked on new products and couldn't tell anyone within the company. Anyway both products became a flop because of fundamental flaws in not meeting customer requirements even though they were innovative in a sense. When they first opened up to the nature of the products, I raised serious questions to which no one had answers. Ultimately those products never went into production. Meanwhile other existing products we were market leaders in were 2 years behind competitors at that point and the company end up being acquired for IP alone.
You just mentioned them. You could elaborate what makes them worthwhile your endorsement...
The good old cargo cult effect.
If all roofs had south facing PV panels, there would be huge peaks at noon. This is already a problem in some German towns, where the installation of new south facing panels is no longer allowed.
Talk about attention to detail : every page is marked "PSS Proprietary Infomration"
Order of magnitude? How could anyone possibly know this if it doesn't exist?

It could just as easily turn out to be no better than CASE or rational or any other junk that's come before.
Plus there are new areas of maintenance: sensors, cameras, batteries and so on.

I'm not sure why the article is so confident about battery life. It's not just about total lifetime mileage. As the battery degrades, the capacity drops and so its range decreases, making the car progressively less useful. It's not like the car gets to the claimed 70000 miles and then drops dead.
To the extent that "workers' rights" as expressed in union contracts make legacy car companies unable to compete, then yes, we might have to allow non-competitive companies to be crushed by competitive companies.
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Why do you care about boot time? I boot my laptop maybe 6 times per year or so, probably even less. I wouldn't care if it took even longer...
Considering most devs copy and paste code from SO, I would say they don't need github at all.
> Asm.js will still be around to support older browsers.

I don't see a need for this since WebAssembly will provide a polyfill.
What about the baggage of several levels of multimillion dollar executive compensation?
You think YC Combinator is not motivated by money or fame? Then what is it? What drives it? Desire for anonymous charity?

The point of that blog was to give a down-to-earth assessment of life's choices and guidance on gambling on those choices. Do you know how big is the percentage of youngsters slogging in those exciting startups due to lack of access to truths and guidance? Do you still believe the work-life in these startups is the life to dream of?

We are talking about an average and most common startups which keep trumpeting forever to its employees about the bright future just around the corner. Not the already-successful ones.
> Have you seen another search engine make a dent in Google's market share?

Google has been doing a good job in maintaining the technical superiority of their search engine and haven't provided a serious incentive for people to switch, even though they came close with their whole Google+ clusterfuck.

That said, Bing and DuckDuckGo did make a dent in Google's market share, it's not much, but it's significant enough that they'll still exist for some time. The problem of Bing and DuckDuckGo is that they are optimized for the US market, not for the international one. As I kept telling people, the search results of Bing and DuckDuckGo in Europe are horrible.

But Google can lose against local search engines. Baidu is the primary search engine in China, not Google. Yandex is the primary search engine in Russia, not Google.

> How about another OS challenging Windows on a PC?

OS X hasn't won a majority, but it won the market that mattered - that of professionals and software developers. At this point, for most users, Windows is nothing more than a shell for your browser, or for games distributed by Steam or through PirateBay. If it weren't for Microsoft Office & Exchange keeping it alive in enterprises, it would have been long gone.

Even so, both OS X and Windows are going to be cannibalized by Android and iOS. It's going to be a sad day for those of us that were born in an era when computing wasn't locked down in walled gardens, but make no mistake as it happens. Chrome OS has been quite successful and Google is merging it with Android. Microsoft themselves have seen the writing on the wall, hence their desperate attempts to inflate the Windows 10 numbers and make it seem a success.

> This situation, commonly known as a monopoly, cannot be reversed by free market competition

You're wrong, free market competition works, but not in the way you think it does. You can't beat big companies at their own game, since they have huge resources that you don't, but you can invent technologies that make old monopolies irrelevant. Read the "Innovator's dilemma", it happens all the time.
Electric vehicles require less windscreen wiper fluid? Technology truly is great :)
Or the contact. It'd make sense for Facebook to try to connect people from both sides of the relationship.
It would be nice to hear more coffee-quitting stories like the one from proactivesvcs.
What I meant was that the suit would change your "wifi fingerprint", not that it would be absorbent.
Perhaps it poor taste, but I think that it's the "official" example of a flashbulb memory in USA. For example: https://source.wustl.edu/2003/11/flashbulb-memories-of-jfk-a...
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That'd probably be a trademark infringement. FCCN is a pretty well established clothing company with the same name.
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> I've driven my model s for 2 1/2 years and not yet had any need for service.

My car (2014 Ford Focus) is 2 and 1/2 years old. Here are the list of things I've done to my car:

* Three oil changes and tire rotations. The tires should be rotated every 7500 miles or so, regardless of the vehicle.

* New Windshield Wipers -- Rubber degrades when exposed to the sun over long periods of time. I had to replace my windshield wipers recently.

* Air Conditioning Filter -- Pollen gets in there. Replaced at 20,000 miles (a few months ago).

* Windshield Wiper fluid -- I top it off every month or so.

* Three punctured tires -- Why are there so many screws on the road? Uggghhhhh. I check tire-pressure weekly and top it off at a gas-station to 35 PSI.

The only thing the Tesla gets rid of, compared to my car, are the three oil changes, which happen whenever I rotate my tires anyway. (I do oil changes / tire rotations myself. Very easy job)

The cost of full-synthetic oil + filter is $35, spent every 7500 miles for the oil change. Its basically negligible.

My previous car was a Nissan Maxima with 150,000+ miles on it. My family changed its brakes twice in its lifetime (hand-me-down from my father as I left for college). I think people are severely overestimating the amount of times brakes need to be changed.
Today this would be a Reddit self post to /r/space.
Harvard Study Admits Drug Prices Are High Because Govt Granted Monopolies
I've seen a significant uptick in Qt projects in the last 2-3 years.
>Obviously that's only two data points, but it's broadly representative of the general trend.

NO, IT IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF ANYTHING.

So many things changed between 1931 and 2013, and the circumstances surrounding ESB and 1WTC are so different (9/11, for one) the comparison is utterly meaningless.
"The best" is subjective. I have played around with libui (https://github.com/andlabs/libui), which runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. A nice thing about it is that it is written in C, and therefore has bindings with several programming languages. I have experimented using it from Java (via JNA) and it works quite nicely.
Re 6. If you used a DNS provider with a short TTL that problem can be minimized very easily.
The headline is slightly click-bait. Most the work is outside slack - parsing Craigslist, classifying etc.. The slack channel bit is one part of the puzzle. The article itself says there are 4 steps and devotes 2 paras to slack.

I guess the author chose slack in the title because it will result in eyeballs rather than saying how he used Python, craigslist because they aren't "sexy".
Basically it's API which has common interface for downloading many market data sources (both free/paid sources). Can also download free FX tick data through it (has example to show how to do this).
Came across:

- https://bitbucket.org/jdubray/star-javascript

- https://github.com/mozilla/reflex
How does Milky Chance fit into this conversation?
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"Those authors"? There's only one author here. Can you point to where Troy Hunt "demands" that developers "release their software as free"? Or is this just you inventing a group of people, assigning a universal opinion to them, and going ham on them because of it?

I'm pretty sure it's that one.
It's really hard to believe you aren't moving to a 100% subscription model, especially when the "standard license" is now effectively getting the legacy treatment on your product page. It doesn't feel like another version of your product, it feels like the one that is about to be dead.
Trulia has even better tech than that: They have a time-commute topology map dependent on your destination
I wouldn't be shocked if people were flagging it for the headline being sensationalized/clickbait (as "letting executive escape their crimes" is just one aspect of a much bigger story). Or just flagging it because it's BuzzFeed.
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I found OVH's offer to be very good on every point, except customer service. I'm mostly using Kimsufi dedicated servers, and let's just say that when shit goes wrong, you're left alone in the dark.

Anecdote: I had my dedicated server suddenly go down because it overheated. Wouldn't come back to life. Two days after submitting a ticket and getting no input, the machine suddenly came back up without any explanation. A day later, I got a mail saying the motherboard was broken and got replaced. Overall it was a very unpleasant experience, but it's to be expected given the low price of Kimsufi.
Net income per employee trends across industries
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How many deaths and serious injuries in comparison?
This is common in older C++ projects that predate good quality STL and good compilers everywhere. They should factor it out, but that would break a ton of code.
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I'm just going to come out and say The Web. Stick WebViews in your app and if you need some native API use a bridge (like PhoneGap).

By itself you can already have tons and tons of great UI components that work cross platform.

But if you want a web based library specifically designed to present a common interface tailored to each device (desktop, tablet and mobile) and taking advantage of its unique characteristics, use our open source one:

http://qbix.com/platform
Can somebody actually recommend these courses?
There are efforts to bring React Native to desktop but I don't think they are production ready yet.
Ended up with a 502 bad gateway. As a part time adjunct, I'm looking forward to being able to see this.
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My thought is that you would install the solar panels when you're replacing the roof. Put 30 year panels on a 30 year roof. 30 years later you get to do it all over again, but at least you're not removing and reinstalling the panels when you replace the roof.
Do I have to speak French?

[UPDATE] Ah, I see the answer is on the site: no.
Don't forget Apocalypse in 9/8 from Supper's Ready by Genesis.
Signal replaces your SMS app, which is good because it's perfectly seamless and there's no good reason not to use it, but bad because most conversations you have with it will be unencrypted because the other user doesn't have Signal installed. Unencrypted communications look pretty much the same as encrypted ones. The strategy is to eliminate inconvenience in order to increase takeup and challenge mass surveillance. But the tradeoff is that it's not such a great solution for an individual who really wants their comms to be secure.
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It's amazing to think that the long-term plan for something is for it to move slower and slower around the earth and then just burn up in the atmosphere.

Really elegant design pattern that is highly reliable (gravity) as long as these things don't get pushed out into space accidentally (which I'm guessing is highly unlikely and would take a sustained force).

EDIT: but now I'm wondering about all of the space 'trash' I've read about. Why doesn't that stuff descend back into the atmosphere also? Or does it and it just takes a while so things get a bit crowded up there?
Oh my, the end of FREE WILL ?!!?!?!
Absolutely, I've really been enjoying the influx of good pedagogical posts lately like this one and the one on the lisp dinosaur.

As a beginner to programming, not knowing how to build anything, and seeing someones thought process. It's very valuable and enjoyable to read.
Inverter failure is real, but the industry standard has risen to 12 years for string inverters, and 20-25 for micros. Even for string inverters, most of the residential/small commercial market has moved to using optimizers for voltage regulation, which means the inverter itself is a lot lighter weight/cheaper.

Backup batteries are still relatively rare, as they should be - they are fairly expensive as backup power. Most systems remain grid tied. Smaller systems don't require retail net metering for a solid payback, since almost all of the energy is used as it is produced.

Roof repair is again, real, but not as likely as you might think. Asphalt shingles under an array are protected from wind, and even more importantly, heat. They degrade at half the rate of the rest of the roof. Assuming 12-15 years for roof replacement, you will hit the module warrantied life of ~25 years before you need to replace the roof underneath the array.

Cleaning the panels really only comes into play when the pitch of the roof is relatively shallow (3 on 12 or shallower). Otherwise rain will clean them fairly well. A lot of people won't have any trouble walking such a shallow pitched roof, and will simply hose the panels off once in a while.

Also, in general, the price of modules per watt is about half of what it was 5 years ago. Peripherals are a major component of the improved economics, but module prices themselves have mattered just as much.
> If model s is any indicator to the future of EV car reliability than basically that leaves jiffylube maybe handling:

If The Model S is any indicator of the future of EV car reliability, then things are awful.

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-consumer-repo...

Edmund's had to replace their drive unit 3 times (FOUR drive units in two years!!). Tesla clearly has a lot of kinks they need to work out still.
I've always wanted something like this with full two way translation that worked. That would be a great way to learn how other people live their lives without the wall of language.
I wrote a positive review of Sci-Hub in February (http://cis471.blogspot.com/2016/02/sci-hub-site-with-open-an... ), but just retried it and it failed. I tried retrieving a couple of my old articles from the Communications of the ACM as well as one from the current issue and got nothing but error messages -- "too many redirects" and "500 Internal Server Error." Perhaps they are just having temporary problems.
You better hope the laws (and those who make them) in the strongest economic coalition agree with your moral judgement.

The idea that one culture can decide the laws of another or else the weaker capitulates its economic will is a very tricky concept. It works when the one doing the deciding is 'right'. It's tough to have 'wrong' laws be imposed on you by a foreign power. The idea your proposing is very clearly economic cultural imperialism. Just as in moral philosophy it's very difficult to extract just and good laws from their cultural context.

'Doing business' in another country, as the US currently interprets it, includes the entire supply chain. If you make widget X, that's used in Y, that's used in Z, that's used in a gadget in a car sold in the US, you are 'doing business' in the US and are liable to spend time in US federal prison if the cultural business practices of your nation are not compatible with current US law, even if you have never set foot in the US nor sold any product to US customers. That's scary.

One country's 'anti-competitive behavior' is another's 'human sociability'. Or one country's 'artistic right to profit' is another's 'crime against society'. Could not those acts which could be justified as being a 'fiduciary duty to profit above all else' be otherwise seen as 'immoral business practices' in a different cultural context? Is tracking foreign users a violation of legal privacy? Which of the above behaviors would land you in federal prison in your country? And which would get you charged and extradited to another country's federal prison?

Does economic might make cultural right?
I flagged this post right away, since it's a political advocacy piece that --- as you can see --- generated a mostly uninformed and unidirectional thread. Generally we're better off not litigating downvotes.
"Hello, France? Which way does the water turn in your toilet?"
Any source to this?
> Erhm, do you honestly expect to keep your A/C running during a power outage? First world problems indeed..

Yeah. Lets pay $18,000 for a backup solution instead of $3000 one.

The real "first world problems" are the guys who have so much money they can afford to purchase based on ethics, as opposed to practicality.

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My power-outage plan is btw: walk to the mall / library and use their AC. If I were to get a backup unit for my house, it'd be sized for my AC unit for sure however.
I'd believe it. I priced out a solar install a few years ago and they were straight up ripping you off on the inverter and the install costs. There was a lot of room for movement in that area.
The natural taker for this is Boris Bikes in London. There's already loads of stands for ordinary bikes, perhaps they could be reconfigured for electric?

Seems to work quite nicely already with locking and registration.
FSF will ask you to assign copyright to them in those cases.
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before list? on a cons result is false, after reading it back it is something different and list? is no longer true?

Even though both print as (...)?

Okay...
It's not cloud based. It's a locally installed app with optional cloud syncing.
Thanks for your feedback. Added a description and internal prototype to the question.

> Step 1: Stop coding

Sorry mate. Damage already done.

> You need to find a niche.

I have found some niches and I am in the process of reaching out to them.

Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I am checking out indiehackers right now.
Great tips and examples. Makes me wonder what site/service you work on that attracts attackers like that.
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While a distinction can be drawn between real economy and money or financial economy, currencies, like the US dollar, are defined as legal tender by the governments that are backed up by significant real economies.

Official currencies can be devalued relative to real economic production, either intentionally or through mismanagement, but they are not an act of faith like betting on precious metals that have long since been deprecated as official currency.