skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In that sense, using electric cars as batteries seems interesting.

No, it really does not seem interesting, it seems like a terrible idea up there with solar freaking roadways.

Car batteries have a completely different profile than long term storage batteries.

Different voltage, charge and discharge cycles and drain and output attenuation.

While Tesla does sell a "power wall" it has nothing to do with the car batteries they use, it's a completely different beast and even that is not optimised that well compared to dedicated household level battery storage.

>They would charge during the day and discharge during the night.

Nighttime electrical use is when it's at it's lowest, not to mention that why would you want your car to be discharging at night? You need to drive it in the morning, and if you want to save power you want to charge it at night not to add to the day time use so you want a full battery in the morning.

>The fact that they move around is a bonus :)

A bonus for what? having a system that is unpredictable/unreliable because the location, availability and density of your storage changes constantly?
I was barely awake when just having this problem last night, but SVG sprites(a bunch of icons in 1 s SVG file) have very limited support in CSS. In Chrome, it doesn't even work to specify a sprite symbol ID as a background URL, for example, even though that would be the most straight forward way to use sprites as icons IMO. CSS icons can have the same effect of having the icons being bundled in a single request while actually working. lol
Until relatively recently, nuclear was the clear smart option over burning coal. The people who hitched to that are often having difficulties accepting how profoundly and rapidly the situation is changing.
The way out of burnout
I was curious about this too.

Age 25-54 men in US: 52.3 million. Currently 11.4% are out of workforce, compared to 8.5% in 2000.

2013 statistics: "As of last September, more than 1.6 million military members who’d been deployed in what’s classified as the global war on terror – in Iraq and Afghanistan, primarily – had transitioned to veteran status, VA records show. Of those, about 1 million were from active-duty service and about 675,000 from Reserve or guard deployments.

And of those, about 670,000 veterans have been awarded disability status connected to their military service. Another 100,000 have their initial claims pending, according to a November VA analysis." (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/articl...)

So let's generously round up and say 0.8 million due to military service (majority are men). At most 1.5% of the rise could be attributed to military action. (obviously asking the question: why did the previous wars see so little effect on removal from workforce compared to the present ones?).

However, the major rises in removal from workforce seem correlated with the economic depressions.

The biggest question is: why are men getting knocked out entirely?

Painkillers, military service, and economic recessions have all been around many times since the 1950's. They aren't the reason. My hunch is the loss of valuing community and family in US culture. With no reason/motivation to work, no one depending on them, men just drop out.
come up with an idea that is predominantly software then you can mod the knockoffs into the finished products.
He wants to jail Clinton, because she has committed numerous felonies. And how has he been "actively undermining the legitimacy of the electoral process"? That's what Clinton did, remember? You know those Podesta emails that proved what everyone with a brain already knew? That Sanders never had a chance and the DNC had it rigged from the start?
What farmers? People used to kill other animals and pick berries, fruits and seeds.
Nanopipe: a C++ framework to connect message systems
Cisco Announces Acquisition of Worklife
President Obama explains why you can’t run the U.S. like a startup
Elm is one of the simplest languages you will ever stumble across. I realise the simple is subjective, but you must be having some kind of mental roadblock, because it really does almost ALL the work for you.
Right, it intentionally violates the URI spec by appending something to the end of it. The data structure they're storing has a natural pair-of-structures at its top level:

data Database = InMemory | LevelDB Path | ViaHTTP URL

newtype DataSet = DS Text
newtype Hash = Hash Text
data Accessor = AccessDS DataSet | AccessValue (Either DataSet Hash) Path

type DBAccessor = (Database, Accessor)

They elected to basically encode a DBAccessor above as a string which you can split on "::", with the URL above being stored on the left in the case of the ViaHTTP databases.
Interesting. Support looks patchy, only about 50% of listed devices are fully supported. https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility I searched for fully functional 2016 models and found only Acer Chromebook 11. Closer inspection revealed their information was inconsistent and that only 2014-2015 models work - 2016 models apparently don't and use the unsupported NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor. http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/models/laptops/acer-chr... Case in point: finding decent mobile Linux hardware is often a pain in the ass. Here is a frank discussion of Gentoo on Pixel Chromebook: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Chromebook_Pixel_LTE
No, try reading it. We do both of those things all the time. Where's the war crimes trials? Those are only war crimes under certain circumstances.
Do you think I wouldn't like to idle at home as I please, and paint and write and read and laze about?

So, why don't you? If you really value these things more than your current life, maybe you should pursue them and let someone else take (part of) your place on the treadmill?
This isn't about RT. I personally couldn't care less what happens to RT. What I'm really concerned about is freedom of speech and Free Media in the west. Neither of those are"privileges" to be negotiated for as part of some quid-pro-quo agreement among friends. They are rights. If you really believe in the Free Press, you believe that it's in your own country's best interests, regardless of what some other country might be doing. The fact that a respected nation like the UK is moving to silence dissenting media, is something we should all be extremely concerned about.
I think it is pretty interesting to see that the authors (Wolfram Hempel) company, deepstreamhub, does have a businessmodel not far away from RethinkDBs.

Both are based on paid consulting/support and try to monetize their open source software (RethinkDB and Horizon on one hand, deepstream.io on the other) through hosted versions, the Horizon Cloud (beta) and the yet to be released deepstreamhub.com. I really hope this works out for deepstream.io, maybe the focus on PaaS makes the difference.
I don't understand why environmentalists have problems with forced natural reserves like Chernobyl and Fukushima?

But maybe I should be happy -- if they had a clue, then they might start building dirty bomb together with the islamists. :-)
Mobile Firefox does this fine. JumpGo does it, too, which means that it's certainly still possible in Android System WebView.
It is mentioned as an issue on the github page.
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman- Episode 3
All other things being equal, pure CSS could be a superior alternative to SVG / font icon if your SVG / font icons are loaded via HTTP (this is usually the case with SVG and always the case with font icons). Reducing the number of requests is associated with better performance and user experience.
There have been far fewer accidents involving nuclear plants than fossil fuels, and even with those disasters the environmental impact is considerably less severe than running fossil fuel plants.

The problem is that radiation is scary, no one cries about cancer rates and other stuff when you live 20 miles downwind from a coal power plant, but anytime there is even a slightly elevated radiation everyone freaks out.
Product Designer at Jackrabbit Mobile in Austin, TX
I think the problem resides in the west's insistence on spreading the ideas of equality. Watching a youtube video from buzzfeed is (in the minds of many) a legitimate way to learn about things like group conflict or any other social phenomenon. Mass communication has indirectly given rise to mass access to bad information. However, that alone would not be a problem. What makes it a problem is once you are told that your opinion is equal to all others in society, you begin to believe that your buzzfeed backed opinion is on par with a nobel prize winning POLS professor.
Universe 25 did not have all its needs met: it was chronically overcrowded. That was the whole point of Calhoun's experiments.
Data Dive: Keeping hackers out of the bank vault
IF – a poem in visual code
No offense but that seems like a rather narrow mindset. Following that logic, why don't you just toss your trash on the street? Or steal every time you get a chance? Or be a jerk to everyone you meet?

Some people have the "luxury" of lazing about at home but that kind of lifestyle is not sustainable for society at large. Expecting someone else to carry your weight just because you don't want to is rather childish.
I asked people not to reply to the comment, thanks.
JavaScript: It's OK to still use var
There are other designs. Molten salts for instances, still promising.
By homoeostasis, same as all the other chemical processes that maintain the body.
Investigate further because the Telegraph is probably only giving you half the story.
What nation? Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Serbia, France, Russia, Japan, you name it. Because of this worldwide rebuilding effort there was an incredible demand for products, construction, and so forth. US industry and exports boomed as a result.

The greatest generation in the US had it a lot easier than their peers in Europe, but the economics are intertwined. By focusing exclusively on US prosperity you're missing that. The US prospered in large part _because_ of the miserable rebuilding effort in the rest of the world.

WW2 also lasted for 6 years, not 4.

As for your claim that boomers are the worst generation in American history, surely you're not suggesting that they're worse than the slave-holding generations? That position is frankly untenable.
Also, don't discount the role religion plays on fear (yes I am a Christian.) The popular idea in the church is that we are currently living in the end times and the world will progressively become more sinful/dangerous until the earth is destroyed and recreated by Jesus. This is a relatively new idea since the 19th century, but represents the current theological and emotional state of the church today. Look at Islam and you will see a similar expectation of the apocalypse. I think a lot of fear and paranoia in our culture stems from unhealthy religious belief systems.
There is research suggesting medical marijuana is a good replacement for opioids, in some cases. Too bad FL isn't a state that gives you that option, so you could at least try it.

In CO, the deaths by opioids have gone down significantly.
This story's opening hits too close to home.
I grew up in what was predominantly a minority and gay neighborhood in NY. My mom was moderate-left and a musician who you can easily associate with the things and people you'd associate with NY musicians in the 70s.

Bob Grant, Curtis Sliwa and Rush Limbaugh irrevocably changed my family. My mom is now a religious-conservative, homophobic, racist bigot. She shouts at people for no reason. She's gotten into arguments with family members at family dinners and then called the cops on them to have them removed.

My brother is, thankfully, just conservative. Small miracles.
Unix V7 for the X86 (2007)
Does your laptop has a sticker: designed for Windows?
How to Find Clients as Freelancer – Your Secrets to Hustle Pt1
> and run it again two hours before the presentation.

Wouldn't two hours be too short to fix any problems caused by the update?
A quote from Jack Sparrow ( and I don't think it's a coincidence that it comes form a pirate, but that doesn't make it imoral, as long as it stands the test of reality ) :

"There is no good or bad, it's only what you can or you cannot do".

Everyone will act in it's best interest, according to the possibilites that is has available.

Those possibilites are refined by the feedback from the other members of society.
Problems at University
What problems do people face either before they go to university or once they're at university?
I still can't get over the fact that AMP breaks the img tag and requires JavaScript.

My long-running browsers instances are bogged down by JavaScript (and I have NoScript on whitelist mode, with it only allowed where necessary!). Requiring it on any fast-page standard seems counterproductive.

And why, why would they break the img tag‽
I'm a paying customer, and the problem was manifesting in the paid version (might be in a community version too... not sure).

SPECIFICALLY, this was in relation to a Jetbrains IDE - IntelliJ - the paid version has Grails support. Sorry that wasn't clear.
The new Google News interface has done this for a while and I absolutely hate it.
Unless you have become used to see it on other sites.
> Something like 1 out of 100 people in the US are in prison, which must be close to 2 out of 100 men.

Wait, doesn't that mean that mean that twice as many men are in prison as people are in prison?
I've thought this too, same with going blind. I'm sure it would suck, I'm sure there would be a lot of distractions, but maybe sleep through that crap during the day and meditate at night. I'm very curious how well I could do in solitary confinement, or in those very noise proof rooms that people freak out in. It would probably really suck still though.
I went through something similar the past couple of years, and was letting my back determine job prospects (i.e. I didn't want to take a train downtown and walk five blocks to work, hell I didn't want to walk to the parking garage next to my building).

For me (and possibly only me, I don't know your situation), what worked better than anything was to start eating a keto (low carb, and incidentally no wheat) diet, which some attribute to having anti-inflammatory effects: http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2012/01/low-back-pain-chiropra.... The pain went away very quickly (for me within a week of starting the diet) and I can walk normally again.

I'm not saying it will work for you, I don't know, but I've been on the diet for four months now, and the pain hasn't returned since. You might want to consider it. It significantly improved my life. I also lost 40lbs as well in that time period, with not a whole lot of exercise, which I'm hoping will help insure the pain doesn't come back in the future.

It's awful and it dictates your life when you have it, I know. I hope you figure out what's wrong and find something that works for you.

Also, if nothing else, I noticed that I could stay in the pool pretty much as long as I wanted when I had back pain, due to its buoyancy effect, so when I did have back pain, I got my exercise in by going to the pool regularly, and found relief from my pain while I was in there. You might want to consider that for weight loss as well.

If you are interested in keto, check out http://www.reddit.com/r/keto. It's a great source of information, motivation, and similar stories such as mine by real people, not paid endorsements.
> Australia is actually a very stable place, nothing much really happens (no civil war, no prime ministers assassinated, little violence etc.) Of course, the media looks for something sensationalist, and now a massive number of people think Australia is "full of deadly animals waiting to kill you".

America is the same. Despite all of the rhetoric about the election, gun violence, and policing the US is largely a safe and stable country. Are there major issues to address? Sure - but every country has those (Europe has seen a similar rise in politicians such as Trump, every OECD country is having similar growing pains related to the changes in employment/housing patterns, and violence related to gangs/drugs is an issue just about everywhere).

The challenge of course is to stay aware of the issues facing the world and society without getting caught up in the fear. Stability doesn't make addressing issues such as police shootings, mass surveillance, or terrorism are any less important.
OS updates (or any update that potentially takes more than 2 minutes) shouldn't ever be forced. It's just terrible. Sure, there should be some prominant prompts saying "Plz update me" from time to time (so the average joe's computer isn't terribly out of date). But don't force me to update in the middle of prez. Because clearly, I'm best placed to know what's the best time for my computer to become an expensive paperweight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Protection

This court's jurisdiction seems to set it up in direct conflict with family members who have power of attorney to care for ailing relatives, as it appears that the court has the power to decide what is in the ailing person's best interest.

Clearly, you do need a court system to prevent actual abuse of people with diminished capacity, but unless actual harm is being done, why does the court, or any government agency, need to decide what is the "best" care for anybody?
Absolutely. Society itself is caught up in material possessions, and hell, we are bombarded by so much marketing, that we believe we need all these new things. I get caught up in it myself, but at some point in their lives, people need to take responsibility for themselves.

The original poster wants everything and expects to be given everything. Whats worse is he thinks previous generations had it so easy, and can't realize the sacrifices they had to make.

Owning a house was one of the things that everybody aspired to, which meant they set aside money every month, and maybe after ten or twenty years of solid savings, they could afford the down payment, and buy a house.

OP is thinking of pre-2008 days, where clown and his cat was flipping houses, but that was not a normal market, and most of them lost it anyways.

He need to figure out what his priorities are: Does he want to own his own home, save for retirement, or live the latest, greatest gadgets?

If he wants everything, there's a simple solution. Find how to make more money than the people he hangs out with.
I definitely agree here. As a data scientist, sometimes it seems like we are in the wild west as far as reproducibility and versioning of our analyses.

This seems like an interesting project that tackles some of the data versioning stuff. However, I believe that, at least in data science, we need data versioning closely tied to the analyses themselves for complete reproducibility.

That is, we need the versioning tied to the inputs/outputs of data pipeline stages, such that we can reproduce pipeline runs at any time and incrementally improve and run pipelines based on diffs in data.

As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, Pachyderm (http://pachyderm.io/) does exactly this. Working both as git for data, but also enabling data pipelining and analyses with the data versioning.
Oh man you're right aren't you! I just might start doing that!
> But it does something to you, doesn't it? I feel like my view of this world has darkened over the years. I'm only thirty years old now and I feel like we're headed for disaster on a dozen different concurrent tracks. My view of man has become shrouded in a perpetual gloom, my idea of a future a cycnical dystopia.

Mirror, is that you?

> My RSS feeds are a carefully crafted web of information, as much of a not-echo chamber I can create

Can you share this list? I struggle to find myself content that isn't inside my echo chamber, and would appreciate a bigger selection of sources!
It is seriously that bad now? You have to touch windows update three times a week?!?

That sounds like an even bigger time sink than the whole "find a new Debian derivative because Unity breaks the alt key, and systemd breaks everything else" thing.
Do you think wives were idle all day at home?

It's one thing to be in the work force vs being at home and idle, and it's another to be in the work force vs at home clean / caring for children, etc.
The one day of the week where every programmer work on its own social network platform.
Simply stop and disable the windows update service, and turn it on when you have time to actually install updates. Been doing it this way for more than a year now without problems.

Of course you'll have to remember to turn it on to check for updates, but that's no different from using manual updates in past versions of Windows. The only downside is that certain things, i.e. Add/remove features might not work 100% while the service is disabled.
When is it OK to mine hacked emails?
53 Portola Valley residents made 25K noise complaints to SFO in one month [pdf]
> If we follow your example then no one really has a true democracy yet, after all in most countries people under 18 (or 21 or whatever age they use) are not allowed to vote.

They're allowed to vote when they reach the age of 18 or 21. How do people excluded from voting due to their race or gender become eligible to vote?

> You are confusing your ideal of democracy with what was actually a change in the way to look at government: it was a complete rejection of the monarchy and its god mandated right to rule unlike anything that came before.

I've already given examples where monarchical rule was rejected and curtailed - events which inspired and influenced the American revolution - so why are you still pretending the first people to come up with such concepts were American revolutionaries?

> I will also argue your point about New Zealand. If your democratic process can be subverted by the whims of a single person using the power of his/her inherited authority on the assumption of being divine, then you don't really have a democracy, no matter how many people are allowed to vote.

Key word: "If".
PHP 8 to ship with a JIT compiler
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What if the update goes badly and locks the machine two hours before your presentation? Your post is probably the worst excuse for this behaviour I have yet to read and its frustrating, on so many levels, to see it being excused.
IIRC there is. You can log out, and then have the option to not apply the updates (you'll have Shut down or update and shut down in the poweroff menu).
Windows NT 4.0 Sourcecode
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/8o...

You can't. That's probably not an oversight.
That's an interesting point, especially since Facebook's strategy for those same billion users is to bring bandwidth (which happens to be preferentially dedicated to Facebook properties) to them.
Well, the radiation from Fukushima is expected to cause a few hundred cancer cases[1] even if nobody died from acute radiation poisoning. And there likely would have been acute radiation poisoning deaths if there hadn't been an evacuation, though probably far less than the 1600 deaths the evacuation caused. But even with all that the ~1 trillionkWhr Fukushima generated over it's lifetime puts it's death toll well below the Forbes numbers for even a US coal plant at 10,000.

On the other hand, Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air gives coal mortality at 350 to 60[2] after converting to the same units which is well below Fukushima's death toll.

[1]http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/TenHoeveEES12.pd...
[2]http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_168.shtml
The larger, updated versions of that chart are available here: http://www.crestmontresearch.com/stock-matrix-options/

The real question is your investing period. I'm 48; my 90% life expectancy is around 90. So, yes, I make the assumption that I'll get around 3% after inflation, taxes, etc.