skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very expensive change for not a lot of value. Truly nefarious folks will put in a fake handle to instill confidence during background checks. The only folks who'll pay are law abiding people via their loss of privacy....and well:

> Form: Estimated Annual Cost to Public: $26,325,300.

> Website: Estimated Annual Cost to the Public: $265,020,000.

What a waste.
I am. But they don't support he languages I care about these days. Which is mostly swift I guess.
All great points. In my experience I have seen revenue losses followed by products/solutions which do map to the main objective of the company but in reality is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Example having billing of $1 million MRR but then releasing products with $15-20k MRR. So essentially the management is out of ideas on how to make up the revenue losses.
> The only folks who'll pay are law abiding citizens via their loss of privacy.

This is not for citizens, only aliens.
Hi, this is a summary of all the feedback and my proposed solutions.

Browser support: In the short term I will add more data about it and make it more obvious. In the long term I plan to implement this proposal: https://github.com/RisingStack/nx-framework/issues/3 for wider browser support.

Home page browser support: The above solution would solve it in the long term. Until then I will create a static fallback.

Lack of comparison with other frameworks: I would like to leave this to independent sources, but if it is needed I will add some to the home page.

Routing examples not working properly with links: It is a limitation of the nested examples, not the framework. I will fix it with the next home page improvements.

Thanks for all the feedback so far!
Not a word about subsidies on solar power. Has anyone got any data on raw cost of solar power, without taxpayer's subsidization?
It doesn't even need to be contact with "modern" people, just with people.
It is against their terms, but they aren't going to come after you for personal use. There have been some high profile takedowns of commercial use cases however.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/padmapper-and-3taps-se...
That rationale is suspiciously close to "FB should just turned over all and any data of everyone to the US government".

In certain cases with regard to the government, inconvenience is a feature, not a bug.
"Percentage: {:.2f}%".format(foobar * 100)
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So, are you saying they aren't using the information for anything? Why are they asking for it then? Or are you saying that it's optional, but supplying the information might have benefits, so, it's optional only in the sense that entering the US is optional?
The only folks who'll pay are law abiding human via their loss of privacy. Better for you?
Kuwait’s new DNA collection law is scarier than we ever imagined
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> If you're willing to look slightly outside the most desirable neighborhoods, it isn't that hard to find an apartment.

Not trying to be pedantic but "willing to look slightly outside" is pretty ambiguous for a city like SF. The Tenderloin is slightly outside of Nob Hill, a very upscale and posh/safe neighborhood, whereas the Tenderloin greets you with used heroin needles on the street, homeless crackheads running around, and the noise of constant sirens.

I agree with you on affordability, though. Number one reason why I'm glad I'm back in the South Bay. Also, I'd rather enjoy the laid back nightlife of Los Gatos or Campbell over the Marina or Polk Street (20 year old sorority girls puking all over the place) any day.
Opera Sync Service Hacked; Users' Data and Passwords Compromised
Aliens can be law-abiding citizens of other countries.
You could just read it. I'm only repeating what it states.
I've been hit with a Cease and Desist from Craigslist. Felt bad man. :)
There's a pasto in the SIGGRAPH course notes link: https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/fluidsimulation/fluids_notes...

this works https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/fluidsimulation/fluids_notes... (5.5MB pdf)
> With that said, if you're doing a drug deal and don't want to be murdered, why would you do it indoors?

Because you also don't want to get arrested, and the presence of tech like this means you have every reason to assume it won't be long before the moment any of the people present gets tied to drug activity, they will start to go through recordings and tag anyone he's been in contact with in circumstances that look like they might be a drug deal.

It's creating a situation where doing it outdoors does not just place you in jeopardy because of a specific deal, but potentially also because of any incidents tied to any deal any other people present have made or will make.

> or produce a lot of witnesses (if it's a public place.)

I find it bizarre that you assume an indoors location will inherently produce more witnesses than doing it outdoors.

Consider a parking garage. I've been to plenty in major cities where finding a location that is free of people for a little while would be easy even in the middle of the day.

Even so, even with witnesses, if the alternative is a few eye witnesses vs. an "all seeing" surveillance system in the sky that can track you for extended periods of time, it's not at all given that it wouldn't be preferably to be prepared to risk a few witnesses. Case in point:

> The murder happened in an alley because nobody is watching the alley.

The murder happened because they thought nobody is watching the alley. That doesn't mean there aren't plenty of other places suitable as well. So when that changes (the alley is being watched), the calculation as to which space is least risky changes too.
I have a feeling, from the title alone, that some people are going to find some way to mock the OP. "You built some thing to do some task? I do it differently. Loser!"
"Some people remember where they were when they were told Kennedy had been assassinated, says Neil Shubin."

Somewhat of a crass introduction that needn't be there. Poor taste for wit.
There are some useful Chrome Apps out there. I can think of Authy, Postman and Signal.

Oh, I remember Moxie claiming that they've built Signal as a Chrome app because Chrome has won the desktop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10665679 - I can't decide whether this is funny or sad.
How are those costs so astronomically high? $265MM for a website!
I'm only repeating what it states. The forms that this affects are not for US citizens. So, US citizens are not losing any privacy.
From the same people who brought you the question: are you currently a terrorist or involved in genocide? They're not exactly the sharpest pencils in the box.

Interestingly, if you're a Nazi death camp survivor, you have to answer 'yes' to that question: "Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved, in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?"

Awesome, really. Either force those poor souls to lie, or force them to be questioned on that horror from their past...
Step 2: In order to assist immigration procedures, social networks will now be required to verify the identity tied to the account you're registering.

But telling the immigration official still is optional, since we already know who you are, what you buy and what por- uhm, websites, you like. (discretely fist-bumps Goomazbook) Welcome to this great nation!
To be clear, these estimates are based on some calculation of "burden" as a function of how the public would value the time they're estimating this will waste. These numbers aren't dollar values for the implementation of the program.
It's not the cost for the website. It's the estimated cost of hundreds of millions of people each needing to take a few minutes to fill in this extra bit of data.
$265MM in aggregate "burden" in additional time asked of the public, not $$ from the budget. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12375763
Auditing and certifications will drive up the cost and make the process very inefficient.
The subsidies tend to come back as payments for the electricity generated so the installed costs will be the same as in the article. I installed a 16 panel, 4 kW system on my roof in 2012 for around £10,000 - and receive a subsidy of around £0.45 per kWh generated.
Ladies, the web needs you
The usual way to handle these scary "features" is to keep them optional only until the next terrorist attack.

This reduces public backlash while you can still start implementing it.
When manufacturing people talk about "tooling", they mean custom stamping dies, molds for injection molding, and other one-off items used in making parts. These are complex, custom-machined items usually cut from hard metals and machined to tight tolerances. Designing them is tough, making them is expensive, and if there's a mistake anywhere, it's very expensive to correct.

Take a look at some Youtube videos of progressive stamping for a sense of how ordinary metal parts are produced. Look at the elaborate custom tooling required. All the work is in the tooling. Once the tooling is right, the stamping process is simple and cheap.
But is it truly optional, as in if you don't provide the information, it's no different than providing it? There are other comments on this post that point to it not being truly optional, and omitting it could cause DHS to be suspicious, essentially making it a requirement (or a really annoying optional part of the process if you don't submit the information).
Is it just me, or have there been an uptick in such activity recently?
Although Coq is using constructive logic by default, it is not limited to it. One can use classical logic results just by importing the "Classical" module. Or course one then loose the benefits of having a constructive proof (like code extraction), but if the interest is only in checking a mathematical proof then it can be acceptable. The choice and trade-off is up to the user.
And I'm not even mentioning "US" in my statement. It's merely one that describe an effect of the proposal. Do you agree or disagree with that statement?

Edit: actually, yes it does affect US citizen. Do you know who is likely to have connections on social networks with US citizens? Non-US citizens coming or leaving the US. Kind of shocking to think about huh.
I would argue that if his IP was protected he would sit on a temporary monpoly and only a handful of car manufacturers that directly license the wipers from him directly could build them. Instead every car manufacturer build them benefiting everyone.

Developing IP is expensive but protecting it is even more expensive. Imagine a company invents a cancer curing drug but it cost them 10 billion dollars in R&D. They get their patent but then their competitor spends another 10 billion dollars in R&D to make their own cancer cure that doesn't infringe the previous patent.

I think we should have a patent system where when a company creates a patent and it sets the price of the patent to the cost of the R&D (plus some profit) and all buyers will own the patent collectively. The cost is evenly divided across all buyers. Initially the first company that buys the patent pays 10 billion dollars covering the R&D costs. If a competitor buys the patent they will only have to pay 5 billion dollars which then are used to reimburse the first buyer so both only have to pay 5 billion dollars. The third pays 3.33 billion dollars which again are redistributed across the previous buyers. And so on.
You heard wrong. Diesels under optimum conditions can easily exceed 45%, and state of the art is right around 50%. Gasoline engines can reach 40% or better (again, under optimum conditions). Turboshafts are generally around 35-40% efficiency at best-economy conditions, and dismal under low-load conditions. The very largest turboshafts can reach 40-45%, but come nowhere near to diesel efficiency at low load.

In all cases, you can increase efficiency somewhat by going to the complication of compound cycle, where you harness some of the wasted heat in the exhaust by making steam.

Large, high bypass turbofan jet engines are very efficient from an overall propulsive efficiency standpoint, but you aren't measuring the same thing (shaft power times time, divided by energy consumption).
Until an AI monitoring the video dispatches the police to intercept you, because it's decided that behaviour like that is associated with subsequent criminal activity.
I only know them from spamming my inbox.

And when I mention it on Twitter I get automatically followed by companies who produce videos for Udemy.

No, I'm not a Udemy user. Never was. I haven't subscribed to anything.
I know how anti-surveillance HN is, but I would like to make a case this could be an amazingly good thing.

The cost of crime to society has been estimated to be on the order of $300 billion/year (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835847/). But that doesn't include numerous indirect costs. E.g. decreased property values, white flight and the various issues it causes, people staying indoors or making sacrifices due to fear of crime, etc.

One of the biggest things is that bothers me about our society, is children are not allowed to go outside anymore. People blame electronics, but it's almost entirely due to parents that fear their kids being outside of their eyesight. Look at the incredible map on this article, on how much range children have lost over time: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-... And it's almost entirely due to fear of child abductors and crime, although other issues like increased automobile traffic play a part. I find this incredibly sad.

A surveillance society could eliminate almost all crime, or at least serious crimes. Even just reducing them significantly would have enormous economic and social impact.

I too, find the idea of being watched constantly creepy. So I propose some restrictions. They should require a warrant to get the data from the surveillance machines, and only be allowed to use it for a particular case. It should be entirely air gapped. It should be deleted after a week. And it should ideally be stuff like this surveillance drone, which can't make out individual faces, just movements to see where people have gone.

We are looking at a society that is surrounded by sensors anyway. Surveillance cameras on businesses are becoming nearly universal now they are so cheap, and everyone walks around with a microphone in their pocket. Soon all cars will have insurance mandated dashcams, not to mention self driving cars loaded with sensors. All that stuff seems much creepier than a drone, as it can't make out the faces of individuals and what they are doing or saying.
The latter part of that will be basically null now, since most or all of the survivors have passed on. Not thankful for their passing, but thankful that no one will have to answer that question and dig up horrible memories... At the very least it should be a separate question.
Big brother for aliens
> "Current Actions: This submission is being made to extend the expiration date with a change to the information collected as a result of adding a question about social media to ESTA and to Form I-94W, as described in the Abstract section of this document. There are no changes to the burden hours or to the information collected on Form I-94, or the I-94 Web site."

I can't quite understand what it mean to "extend the expiration date ...". Shouldn't it be "extend the collection process" or something similar ?
You can share your Excel files and macros with other people too. Python notebooks are kind of cool but if you need something quickly to sift through the data to have an idea, Excel is an amazingly good tool for it
The article was talking about the raw, unsubsidized costs of solar. It is now on a level, where it can compete on a price basis with conventional energy production. And that does not count in the hidden costs of coal/gas/nuclear as their environmental impact rarely gets accounted for.

Here in Germany, rooftop solar electricity costs about half of what the utility companies charge off the grid.
It sounded like a gigantic loud vacuum cleaner even just idling, and gave the impression of straining mightily to achieve even mild acceleration. Fuel consumption was TERRIBLE.
The person I was replying to was referring to citizens. I wasn't making a judgment, only repeating the facts of the proposal.
"HawkEye II is intended to see expansive areas wtih resolutions that allow users to detect movements of people and vehicles. It does not provide the ability to detect gender, ethnicity, age, hair color, nor can it be used for facial recognition. This is an inherent limit to Wide Area Motion Imagery. If cameras get better - and they will - the same rseolution limits will remain in place, the change will be in the size of the coverage area."

At least the company behind this seems to be ethical.

http://www.pss-1.com/#!hawkeye-ii-resolution/ccm3
CopperheadOS adding commercial licensing to its Android N builds
Seeing from your earlier post about a year ago when you seemed to be dealing with a burnout, I would recommend getting a co-founder or someone experienced who can guide you.

Handing out some responsibilities is not bad, it's what happens when you grow. It will help you to scale and grow more easily with less stress.

Good luck!
But that's an advantage too. As a non English-native user, I like when companies care about my language and culture and they do not stick dates to the MM-DD-YYYY format that is used by Americans only. Yes, of course, we should all go for YYYY-MM-DD... fine by me, but now you go telling my mom :¬)
I took a principled stance back in 2001 of not returning to the US until the DHS was disbanded. At the time I felt it was an unnecessary invasion of privacy, and for a country as large as the united states what was needed was better communication and cooperation between local agencies, not federal integration (as I felt this was a states issue, not a federal one).

Over time, my views have gradually relaxed, and usually once or twice a year I consider returning to the US. Stuff like this puts me right off, but sadly I know the UK will no doubt follow suit.

Also if you think this is ok because it doesn't apply to US citizens, it doesn't apply right now. When it's declared a roaring success, there will no doubt be an attempt to extend it to US citizens.
Interesting Approach, we did similar in RhodeCode. You can pick search refs like Branches, Bookmarks, Tags for each repo individually. With this you can create few forks and set different search setup for them.

It's a workaround to do search in different branches on 1 repo, but works fine
> Then it means a whole lot.

Assuming he saw it.

Part of the problem with this is that you are looking at a scene with additional knowledge which the people present may or may not also have had, and you're looking at it from a vastly different angle.

If these things makes it to court, expect a lot of challenges on the basis of those kind of things. If it's used merely as a starting point for "real police work" then that may be ok.

But consider e.g. the policy of extrajudicial assassinations of suspected drug dealers for money in the Philippines[1], where a system like this would potentially allow police officers to "justify" their decisions far faster (and there's a lot of people with money in that) by playing fast and easy with what "looks like" a drug deal.

Or consider that the US has a government that considers extrajudicial killings of terror suspects by drone acceptable. How long until systems like the above play into providing "evidence" into those kind of decisions - we already know they don't have a problem with rather substantial collateral damage.

This kind of technology does have a lot of potential for good. But it also has a lot of potential for supporting authoritarianism and for aiding state terror.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37172002
This is great news, there should be a large push now to base large parts of the grid on solar (and of course wind). Not accounted in the costs of conventional power generation is all the environmental impact - factoring that it, solar probably is already cheaper.

Another seldom mentioned fact is, that solar plants don't have a minimum size. So for large regions in Africa, where there is no grid yet, it is much easier to set up isolated small solar plants in villages than to construct a whole grid.
GWT Is Here to Stay
Yes, they did not get what the world "hide" means in English...
Here's a link to the company's page:

http://www.pss-1.com/#!hawkeye-ii-resolution/ccm3
I take it you're not familiar with how "optional" works. You can optionally not fill it in. They can optionally deny you entry.

My wife's grandfather was asked to volunteer for a construction project in siberia. He declined. They drafted him, then sent him anyway - and still called him a volunteer.

That was optional too.
Sounds close to

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html
Why Tim Berners-Lee is no friend of Facebook
> One moral justification is that the ability to own and profit from intellectual property gives people a powerful incentive to create and share new things.

Very little is new in the tabula rasa sense. Just look at Disney movies. I'm hard pressed to think of any of them that is not derived from something in either contemporary popular culture, or ancient stories.

the notion may have held up when it covered written stories in printed books, and only for a limited (20 years, iirc) period. This because the time window was relatively short, and because the number of book printers were low and thus easily policed.

In this day and age, i can produce a million digital copies of the bible in a second.
What is SSL and how does it works?
Nothing to fear if you've nothing to hide, eh?
So basically rooftop residential solar isn't going to be economically viable any time soon - it's more or less bottomed out and is still much more expensive than conventional generation and utility-scale solar, and the latter has further potential for cost reductions.
Adding a billion numbers in Rust
Zero dependencies... Except nodejs, which on Debian has about 60 dependencies from memory.

this is the problem I have with the nodejs community.

I first learnt to write code using php. I still use php but that doesn't mean I don't also use shell scripts, lua, JavaScript, hell sometimes even Java.

Just because you can do something in nodejs, doesn't mean you should
Meanwhile, £6bn a year in subsidies available for oil and gas production in the UK.

It's like we just don't care.
I wonder if not filling in anything won't be counted against the person, with the justification that they have less info to make an evaluation.
To all the people that think this number is absurdly high, it isn't. Let's do some paper napkin thinking here:

Form:

- The forms will have to be redesigned and reprinted. Not cheap. Don't forget, the 94W is in a variety of languages.

- Flight crew will have to be trained to answer this question. For 94W form.

- Agent console will have to be updated.

- Which means agents will have to be trained to handle this data.

- Embassies will have to be trained as well.

Website:

- Updates to the website. Don't forget different languages.

- Help documentation will have to be created for the web.

Other:

- Data will have to be aggregated from social site. Development costs.

- New console will have to be created to look at a user's streams.

- Staff will have to pull and review the data.

- New infrastructure (servers, software, upkeep) will have to be put in place to handle this.

Just thinking for a few minutes, it seems expensive. It is not just a field on a form or website, it is a whole staff, backend, ball of wax.
The community sure has come along way. I appreciate that the design is still pretty much the same. Even still running on Arc lang!