skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, here's a video of the invention itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0nV2S5pO2I

I like things that help battle the elements, but this isn't my cup of tea. It appears that he's also kickstarted the thing about three years ago (only to ~$10,000 in funding) and people are complaining about not receiving the item: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/36197580/finally-the-wo...

My current system of dealing with rain in the Pacific Northwest is combining a well made rain jacket with a wool baseball cap (Ebbets Fields makes some) - it solves the problem of wearing glasses in the rain pretty well. There's probably some really niche uses for the nubrella, but there's other solutions already (camera rain covers, waterproof phones/phone cases/etc).
I found it hilarious the number of comments that are tirades about student loans and "personal responsibility," like it was even a significant part of the article.
To be clear, in Aus we don't have 99% reliability. It's about 45 min every 2 years (whatever that works out to). That number was to explain the cost savings.

In much of the world those cost saving are directly applicable. Most of the world's population doesn't have 99% reliable electricity, and so they build reliability at the edges with everything from batteries in phone towers, to batteries in lighting.

It isn't at all clear to me if this is more or less expensive for new infrastructure. Given the increasing popularity of roof-top solar, the pricing model for 24/7 reliable wiring doesn't work out now in places where it is already built out. Network operators are trying various legislative measures to get subsidies for the networks, because no one wants to pay the rates they cost to maintain.

If I had free (or very cheap) electricity 99% of the time, spending $5K to get 99.99% reliability via a battery system is very tempting (and we are getting close to that point now). $1K for 99.9% - maybe.

One interesting thing is that the distribution of the downtime matters.
How could that ever happen? Information asymmetry is as high as you could imagine. A doctor tells you to take x or you will die. X has a price set by Insurance Co. You have no medical training or pharmaceutical training, so how do you make a decision? If x is really required so that you don't die, demand is completely inelastic, you will literally pay anything you can afford, or you'll take out loans you can't afford. The only limiting factor on price would seem to be median income and credit availability.
But you can provide temporary name and disposable email, no?
I wouldn't necessarily draw the line there. It always depends on your situation. If you don't have a family, working 7.30am-5.30pm (my approx working hours) 5 days per week still allows you to have enough time to spend with friends and for side projects.

If your really dedicated to your project and have no family waiting at home, why should you always leave after 8 hours? Sitting in front of the TV at home isn't necessarily better than an interesting project at work. Will not always be the case, so it's (in my opinion) completely normal to work longer during some months of the year and shorter during others.

For me, flexibility is clearly more importan than working hours. It's great to have a workplace where you can go for a long lunch once in a while or a doctor's appointment without anyone raising questions. It's about being able to make plans. If I know that I can go out for Dinner next Wed on 5pm then it's no problem to work longer on other days. Not being able to plan this sucks, no matter how much you actually work.

But I agree that if the work environment is unproductive, working more is definitely not the solution.
The claimed benefit is getting the error earlier and "at the location the erroneous value is inserted." That's exactly what happens in a dynamic language with typed collections – but, as I admitted, not at compile time. Is it better to get an error at compile time? Sure, but most of the benefit comes from the error being raised at the erroneous insertion and not later when the value is used by some completely unrelated code. Hence, my claim of getting most of the benefit. Now there are certainly other arguments to be made about "highly effective program manipulations", but that's not the case being presented by the author here.
Microsoft has more open source contributors on GitHub than Facebook and Google
Is that actually true? A good coder or sysadmin who is willing to work overtime is more valuable as a coder or sysadmin than as a team lead or something, where the nature of their work demands less overtime.
> but I think they were wrong about some of the feedback.

Your interviews and code challenge feedback were not posted in a public forum. Neither should your professional opinion.

If you feel strongly about it-- compose a note to the hiring executive, informing him (in businesslike fashion) how & where their process failed. Take the high road, offer ways they can correct the problem.

Incidentally, even smart, well intentioned companies screw up the hiring process and miss out on great talent.
Thankfully, I've never had to deal with routing in any of the applications I've worked with. (Primarily internal stuff that is true "applications in a browser", rather than stuff addressable by sub-URLs.) So, I've managed to avoid all this complexity. Wasn't until relatively recently that I even understood what client-side routing actually involves.

Personally, I think that routing in general is one of the major causes of "Javascript Fatigue", and is proof that building complex software is inherently complex.

I will say that despite its "de-facto standard" nature, there's certainly a number of other options out there. I keep a list of Redux-related addons and utilities, and there's a couple dozen entries in the "Routing" category (https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma...). Again, I haven't used any of them myself, but they exist. And that's _just_ "libs that relate to routing and Redux", much less "libs that relate to routing and React, or routing in general".
"If you upset some big shot in the communist party, or were just a troublemaker, it went onto your file"

In the UK in the 1960s and 1970s upsetting a large company could get you investigated by MI5 and you could go on their files.

See: The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich & Rory Cormac

[Mind you I'd rather have the attention of the Security Service than the Stasi - but the behaviour is similar, treating dissent as insurrection].
This article seems to be written with the faux-goal of collecting a life insurance policy payout. This could be a substantial amount of money, depending on your circumstances.
I don't think this is a good design decision either.

Next release would probably check $INSIDE_SCREEN, $INSIDE_BROWSER, $INSIDE_PHONE, $INSIDE_VR, $INSIDE_PAPER, $INSIDE_HUMAN
To what extent must the provider verify that the identity provided is accurate? If 'disclosing identity' actually means 'typing text into a form', then it's pretty toothless. As an end-user, I could put whatever 'identity' I wanted there.
There's a very clear disclaimer at the start of each episode that all deals are tentative and subject to due diligence and other factors.
> Simpler models are more accurate ... simpler explanations are preferable ... because they’re easier to understand, remember, and reason with. Sometimes the simplest hypothesis consistent with the data is less accurate for prediction than a more complicated one.
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https://github.com/visionmedia/page.js looks pretty simple. I supposed you are not using it for the server-side rendering. Or you have a route in express for any route on page.js. Correct?
How do you get to the stage where you're putting that many hours in? Does it start off just staying late one night and then turns into more nights and then every day? Or is it like that from day one trying to prove yourself?
Sensible price conscious refrigeration control would just be different temperature targets based on the price, not turning off the system. If l33t d00dz wanna make my milk one degree warmer, it's not a big deal.
An interesting engineering question that needs to be raised is, given no known nuclear test conducted by Israel, how do they know about the reliability of their design ? Assuming they built the warheads by themselves. Did they use foreign blueprints ? Or did foreign countries tested their weapons under their [the foreign country's] official program ? Or do they have access to advanced computation models [which is less probable given they had these weapons since the 70s]
It exists: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/no-weights-no-limits-an-inte...
You live in the time before someone has been indicted for accepting bogus names and email addresses.

I used to live in a time where you could book a hotel without providing a valid ID.
> so many people want to be "on TV" it really is amazing

I've never understood this. I have no desire to be on TV. It feels like I'm in the vast minority, but I wonder if it's just a matter of those that don't want to be on TV aren't, and based on their personalities are also less likely to have their views propagated by popular media?
`queySelector` only returns the first matching element (according to Mozilla docs).
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This just highlights how strained US/German relations have become in the past few years...
A rather non-obvious close, so parent comment is correct.

The popup does not have an obvious bold "close" or "X" in the right hand corner or the bottom right, it has a very light grey close in the upper left, and also does not respond to clicking outside the modal dialog.

Thats enough to consider that a dark pattern.
> On the plus side, that means we don't have to sweat it so badly with the "right" way to write code and just accept that code eventually becomes one big mess with a gigantic, horrible 50-case switch statement in the middle.

No! No no. No it doesn't. Not unless someone makes it that way. Code doesn't have to become awful. It becomes awful when successive generations of maintainers choose quick easy partial-fixes over a bit of refactoring to fix the problem properly.

Code wants to be short, simple, clear, and easy to understand. People make it horrible by not caring (or by not seeing patterns).
Shoutcast definitely supported video streaming using the nsv format. I used to run a server back in the day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullsoft_Streaming_Video
For #1, it's enough to not make the team remote 100% of the time. If you get everybody together for a week or so every few months, you'll get those activities done.
I am not speaking about this case in particular, because I have no idea what happened, but in general things like this must happen all the time even if the show is "authentic."

I think a lot of diligence and deal details have to be worked out. They ask who else own shares but they don't even go through a cap table.

I know the sharks have been disappointed when entrepreneurs turned out not to be "serious" and just show up for exposure.

This person may have been scammed, but it is also possible that one red flag ended the diligence. ("Wait? how much debt?!")

The thing that remains a mystery is this follow up episode. But that makes no sense on both sides. How do you get pressured to do a follow up episode if you never saw an investment?
An "unknown third-party" has it back up as a public torrent index. I think it's a honeypot too. Don't use this service ever. Many people will still use it though..
It's not that unusual, especially in the (broadly construed) energy sector, but it is a distinct business model.
If you pay with cash, how are they tracking your identity?
Sure, copyright infringement proven by latte macchiato.
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And in the United States, if too many of your friends were suspected of being communists, etc.
We are allowed different opinions. :)

I am curious if you have any particular reason for not liking the book.
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It is not possible in the current setup, yes. But if there was no insurance company to deal with for little things like X-Ray, that's the question. Why is transparent pricing so difficult for a hospital management to come up with if they don't have to answer to an insurance company OR even the Govt. for that matter ? Private Hospitals are mostly run like a business anyway so why not this part ? The status quo is not good enough and that is the point I am making.
Extra demand for that giga-battery factory Tesla is building? What a dreadful problem that is(?!)

Also, there are other vendors happy to sell more batteries, including alternative technologies which are unsuited to cars but very suited to static power battery stations. (eg, Flow Batteries)
Not sure I understand your point, care to elaborate?
I often say to my colleagues that me working 1 hour later without a valid reason (emergency) is exactly like my boss giving me a few dollars more without a valid reason... which never happens. ever.
Why?

Any country in the world would love to be in the position of security that the US occupies. Any one.

Why shouldn't we do everything we can to hold on to that treasure we have?
Perhaps his system was better and you just didn't understand it and used a couple of buzzwords to get him fired.
the DB has also massive legal issues all over the globe - the US one just one of them.

bribery in Russia, fraud around CO2 certificates, the list is pretty big.

you can argue that the past dual-leadership of Ackermann and Jain where heading a criminal enterprise.

after VW the second large German fuckup.
Does it really matter? Since he put in his notice, I don't think he'd have worked 80 hour weeks if he didn't feel he had to. Either way, he feels pressured to do it and he is now out from under that pressure.
The funny part about stricter capital requirements is that banks somehow have to get that capital, which means they have to increase risks to lower risks.
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I think the answer to the question in the last paragraph is 'yes'.

I do dispute that the brigade are 'well-meaning' though. It is often very much for their own ends, be that in their student union or their career. They are often willing to cause a lot of damage in the name of their cause.

There is some great literature coming through against it though; Tom Slater's "Unsafe Spaces" is excellent. As is lots of the recent stuff by Joanna Williams.
I'd rather just look for a job elsewhere paying more than do tonnes of overtime to maybe get promoted.
holy cow that is an amazing pdf file! Or maybe I just especially like it bc it's exactly what I've been looking for in the last few weeks.

I'm really very interested in the economy and technology associated with deploying clean energy. I'm an idealist and want to see green power, but only in a way that makes sense. And I'd like to profit it from tracking the process.

Have you got any other resources or directions to go to find more information like this? I've found this: https://sam.nrel.gov/download
Thanks, will give it a listen. And yes, my point of view becomes more difficult the more rational the person acts when doing harm. The stereotypical evil banker is such a case, I find it much harder to find sympathy for him than for the crazy guy who does something horrible in a delusional state of mind.

I think it also makes sense to punish the rational criminal harder, because it actually might help, while the delusional person needs another kind of help.

I'm not sure how much you can do about your attitudes, I think freedom of will is an illusion. If you decide to turn your life around and become a good person, what made you do that? What made another one not do that? I think it's, as said, just the consequence of everything that ever happened before.

I sadly can't find the article anymore, in which it said that the illusion of a self and free will is important to stay the same person over time and that only than, someone can be held responsible for something and that society can only work if you have something to fear from doing wrong. In the article it was even mentioned to be proven by some simple evolutionary algorithm.
I've always been of the opinion that all reality shows are produced with actors, or aspiring actors. None of the people are everyday, average folks. This view was reinforced after watching a few seconds of this Battlebots show which you speak of. Either that, or the producers hunt down and look for TV-suitable people from the average crowd. All those people who "want to be on TV" are in that category.
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Totally hear you. But Yang's whole point was accelerator measurements are not what we should be focusing on for the next "x" new big experiments. I tend to agree.
I remember some study being conducted where they tasked a duplicate of some Mars rover with finding life... on Earth. It found none.

Whilst it might be valid that you could launch a more-effective-in-aggregate fleet of rovers for the cost of a manned mission, I'm still a huge proponent of getting people out there to have a look around.
It's stories like this that make me, as the parent of a high-functioning child with autism spectrum disorder, scared shitless. My son, as he gets older, shows over and over again that he has an amazing aptitude for pretty much anything he decides to learn.

He's not even a teenager, and can:

* Play the trombone better than peers two years older than he is, all because he inherited a trombone from his late grandfather, and wanted to honor his memory

* Compose music in GarageBand on his iPhone or Mac, and arrange covers of songs from memory, as well as play them on the trombone or piano/keyboard

* Write properly-formatted screenplays, direct and produce (with iMovie) and create VFX (with Apple Motion) for his own creations

* Write automation scripts for various Mac tasks with JavaScript

He has an amazing ability to understand advanced math and science concepts, and recently started positing theories about dark matter (!) during our nightly reading and chatting time. And he's proven that he'll effectively learn (and put into practice) anything he wants to, given the resources to do so. He's expressed more and more interest in computer programming, and I've indulged that interest by teaching him JavaScript (his first request) and now Swift.

And one day, he's going to frighten someone with his skills, and he won't understand why; for all his genius and talent, he's still on the autism spectrum, and one common disadvantage for those on the spectrum is an inability to put themselves in someone else's shoes. He cannot understand why others don't think exactly the way he does, or understand the intentions behind his actions. It is completely alien to him that subterfuge is employed by others, that words and deeds should be taken by anything but their literal or face value. He can't begin to comprehend why his stated intentions behind his words or deeds would not be completely and unconditionally believed by everyone else. It simply does not compute.

He gets services in school to help with his pragmatic communication, and I do everything I can to guide him as well. Once he's out of school, I can only hope we've made enough of a difference for him to live productively and happily in a world that vilifies people with above-average intelligence but below-average pragmatic or social communication skills.
So I would agree that $10B in seed funding is next to zero, and yes, that is my point, however I think you are overestimating it by a (decimal) order of magnitude, and that is worldwide. I think worldwide there was less than $1B in seed funding in any year. That should be easier to falsify if you can do so! I would be interested in your data sources or methodology if you succeed in showing this.
Yeah I meant PHP 5.6 , my bad
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How does single payer create an incentive for increasing the neurologist supply?
>when the guy working 60 hours and more gets that promotion over you

Plenty of people who work hard (whether 40 or 60 hours/week) do not get promoted because they can't or won't spend half of that time on self-promotion. They are seen as valuable worker-bees, but promotions go to self-promoters and schmoozers.
I'm my opinion this goes against european human rights. As soon as Sweden asked for him to be extradited from England, the clock starts ticking. After two years, they violated his right to a speedy trail and he is free to go.

I'm really sad that his hasn't gone to the European Court of Human Right to decide against Sweden (or England, because it is actually England that is keeping him locked up).

Note that I do not have a high opinion of Assange, and it is quite possible that according to Swedish law he did rape those women. But he should have been entitled to a trial in absentia.
I like the idea of a large SD card for Time Machine. I have external USB connected drives, though. I use wired networking every day at work (alas, with a USB adapter now, since the hardware that hooked everything up to thunderbolt broke) - wifi is frowned upon in that environment.
> I clicked on this article because it is how to get along in groups of men.

Stay aloof and paranoid?
I wonder what would happen if you just "walked away" on a hiking trip, got declared dead, and your family family got the life insurance, but you just showed back up five years later.

You never claimed to be dead. So it seems that's not illegal. If your family really thought you were dead, they didn't do anything illegal either. Could they be forced to give the money back?

I imagine the legalities of being declared "not dead after all" would be pretty difficult.
What does it add on top of https://github.com/wesleytodd/react-express-middleware ?
Well, her $19M bonus would fund the production cost of 600,000 $30-Epipens... Suddenly, 1,000% profit looks a lot less ethical.
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This is the culture you want to support and see thrive? Or are you a survival of the fittest kind of person? Many people in the software community believe in opensource and freedom of information. A single one of us often replaces at least 20 peoples jobs due to automation and that number will go up. Tech attracts the most spineless yet sweet personalities.

With all this in mind, you believe that the person allowing you to live should dictate the lifestyle you are allowed to. And their choice is one of "12 hours is not enough but you need sleep so you can do it again tomarrow". Do you want to live your life with only glimpses of the outside world? Do you think success in the ccorperate bubble is worth more than exploring what you want?
Lithium isn't always required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/08/hecate-...
A lot of places in France (like SBucks) ask for email/and password. In Austria it is even worse

Or you can also not allow torrent/etc through your Wifi service