skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused with this statement but I'll try to clear up something you seem to be missing.

1) China is already convinced. It's in the article. They are the world-leading user of solar power and are pushing harder than anyone to get away from dirty power.

2) Trump wants to push and invest in dirty power. He wants to significantly increase the production of coal and gas. The very stuff that causes global warming. Convincing Trump is about saving the world from itself. If Trump has his way, the last 20 years of progress towards renewable energy will be wiped out, with a strong possibility of making life very difficult for humanity in the next 50 - 100 years.
>The amazing thing about katanas is not that they're better than european swords (they're not), it's that they were able to make good weapons at all out of shit-tier iron.

How are they not better? I'm pretty sure European swords never had that neat feature of higher hardness at the blade than at the back side, giving the sword better strength while still staying sharp on the cutting edge.

Katanas are really different swords from medieval European swords, designed for an entirely different type of fighting. European swords are a product of the type of warfare they waged, which involved a lot of metal armor with knights. A katana wouldn't work too well here, so European swords are designed to crush armor and to be good at stabbing straight through the armor. Katanas were designed to use against unarmored or lightly-armored foes (I think Japanese samurai armor was basically leather), and are designed to be used in slashing motions more. I'd say that for their purpose and their style of fighting, katanas are definitely better. But against heavily armored opponents, they're just not the right weapon.
What is Azure RMS?
Camping in the Woods and the Value of Mobile Time Tracking
If my options are:

1.) I need a car to get around town. First I need to learn how to drive a car

- or -

2.) I need a car to get around town. First I need to learn how to drive a car. I also need to learn how to do the stick-shift part as well

It's obvious why people no longer do manual transmission. It's one more thing to learn that doesn't help me with my end goal of needing to drive around town.

> To be honest I'm surprised the most that America doesn't have that same psuedo masculinity requirement thing happening

Thanks for the negative stereotyping!
It granted, indeed. Albeit with a slightly narrower claim scope. See my analysis of the issued independent claim.
maybe most arrests happen that way, but you need to be prepared for any reasonable eventuality. apprehending people can be very dangerous. I see no reason why an officer would willingly go into that situation unprepared to defend him/herself with lethal force. having armed help a radio call away doesn't seem comforting when you're dealing with someone who's armed and angry now.
Amazon SQS – FIFO Queues with Exactly-Once Processing and Deduplication
> No desktop user ever interacts with the init system.

So you've never restarted a service on your desktop system?
The "Toyota style" has already played a substantial role in the philosophy of influential technology companies like Apple and Pixar. Steve Jobs was a known admirer of W. Edwards Deming, who created it.
China lacks road infrastructure in dense cities, and lacks the room to build what it actually needs. By moving to self driving cars from say taxis, road usage can be increased dramatically (closer following distances, faster speeds, cooperative traffic control). It isn't the cost of the driver that is the issue here, it isn't the same benefit as we are expecting for the USA.

People in china are already ok with Uber, didi, and of course taxis. The private car was more about prestige and convenience (availability), not sure what to do about the former, but the latter is fixable easily enough.
> exactly the problem that this thread pointed out at the beginning

Sure, hence why I started it. :)
A few days ago I tried out an HTC Vive VR device with Google's Tilt Brush app. It's basically MS Paint in 3D. You hold both Vive controllers and have a brush in one hand and your palette in the other.

I was amazed how intuitive the controller UI was. Some of the controls are on the back of your hand, but it was incredible how natural it was to pick up and use comfortably. I've never been all that fond of the Minority Report floating screen UIs, but other 3D UIs can feel very natural in the right context.
Say your application contained 5 nodejs containers, 5 postgres containers, 10 load balancers and 10 sets of secrets. You'd put those into a helm repo (git) and do a helm install and you'd have the app running and deployed as a named and versioned helm deployment, like wandering-goat. I plan on incorporating it into my CI/CD pipelines at some point but not quite there yet.
Somewhere in the vicinity of 20 companies.

What's interesting is that about a third of those companies we have yet to see the output of. Expect Apple to get into AR/VR in a big way in 2017/2018.
Give 'em ballistic shields.
This does vary somewhat - when chicken thighs became a more trendy ingredient a few years ago prices for chicken thighs rose pretty dramatically. I mostly noticed because I was semi-regularly making a very simple slow-cooker chicken chili that used boneless skinless chicken thighs.

Also, where in the US are you paying $10/pound for chicken breast? In the Chicago area even "boutique" organic boneless/skinless chicken breast is seldom above $6/pound, regular full-price conventional chicken breast is typically $3-4 depending on where you shop, and B/S breast is often on sale for at or below $2/pound (rarely below $1.49/pound).
I'm not familiar enough to criticize that claim, though I think I recall Popper saying that this was just the means by which science existed at the time. Epistemology hadn't developed to the degree that it has today. Still, it's a valid criticism of his ideas.

I did not mean to imply that there isn't another side. Only that the gulf between poor ideas (and invective) and persecution leading to conviction on grounds of heresy (and its attendant results) is so large that it is not meaningful to defend the actions of the Catholic Church on the basis that someone was impolite in their discourse with its leaders.
I don't know where you get that idea. The prices of turkey and pork have remained stable, while the price of beef has declined . It's chicken that has raised in price.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/01/10/the-c...
To compare Ada's history to Rust's is silly. Even if the languages have a common goal of safety, the projects themselves are fundamentally different in many many ways. One of which is the fact that Ada was designed by the DoD for the DoD, and required a verified compiler, etc etc etc.

They're totally different projects, even if the languages have a small number of shared goals.
Its happening (slowly) SBSA/SBBR/etc are out there and being implemented. Its just taking a while for EDK2/linux/etc to get to the point that it can run on a random ARM SOC. Once that happens though, suddenly you have a machine that can install off the shelf linux distros. Right now, There are only a couple systems that work like you would expect (mostly AMD Seattle machines, although there are a couple others) but over the next few years I would expect that the firmware guys to start expanding the device compatibility.

Eventually (particularly with ACPI) it will become apparent to the ARM ecosystem, that they can make their devices compatible with the standards, or they can spend millions on engineering effort to build their own firmware/OS stacks that will perpetually be behind the capabilities of the rest of the ecosystem.
I bought myey.es (Spain TLD) a while back so I have look@myey.es. I'm a hobby photographer, thought I'd use it.

Never did. If there are any photogs here who want it, let me know.
Hate, oppression, and slavery: the original "great" American values the rubes can't get enough of. Staying true to our roots, indeed.
I'm a New Zealander. Do you understand why we engage in smalltalk? I know it can be difficult for people from other cultures.
We (the US) are in a good position to lead the renewables industry, and part of that is dogfooding what we make. But that dogfooding is harder if our domestic nonrenewable prices are low. Yes that means that, for now, those products aren't fully competitive. But they could get there with scale, and we get that scale by rolling them out domestically. It helps us build this industry in the long term.

China is also jumping on this opportunity, by the way. I saw an article recently that competitive solar will be a big focus point for its electronics industry.
Your assertion that LGBT rights activists didn't come up with civil unions isn't backed in history. In fact during the time DOMA was proposed many activists supported civil unions as a compromise. It was the right wing that chose to oppose that as well as the ENDA bill even when transgender protections (for folks like me) were ejected from the bill. So, I suggest you correct your statements on that post to be historically accurate.
Will the last person to leave turn the LAMP off
Valter D. Longo and Chia-Wei Cheng are the "inventors". This is a blatant attempt at taking advantage of the indifference of the uspo and the ignorance of the public to what is going on at the uspo. This is despicable and I think we as somewhat more informed participants in this little thing called civilization need to do more to have our voices heard and vilify those who keep taking advantage of society. This includes those that at the uspo that are actually reading these patents and issuing them. Can anyone find out who they are?

On another note, I wonder if there is any form of moral hazard in the uspo office, possibly in the form of workers being incentivized to issue patents, or workers from certain companies going to work for patent offices that are sought out by those companies for their patents. Maybe offices or workers are granting patents for the sake of being able to show a high number of patents issued at the end of the year. Maybe this makes them look good when it comes time for performance review. idk. I do know that something needs to change, a change that hopefully adds transparency and holds people responsible. Should we write our congress representatives? (lol)

edit: wording, punctuation, hoopla
I don't agree with this. Driving a scooter/motorcycle is certainly different from driving an auto/manual car. Your comparison is closer to CDL/non-CDL.

I've never heard of a situation where a person harmed themselves or others because they tried driving a manual transmission without knowing how to do so. People who don't know how to drive them simply don't drive them for one of two reasons: 1) they are too scared to try 2) they can't make it more than 2 feet without stalling.

My sister and I both acquired licenses with automatic transmissions and eventually owned manuals. Being required to take a new test to acquire a new license to manually control the transmission would have been impractical and annoying.
ewillbefull explains in another comment that the protocol is really expensive per participant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12979677
Recording the activity isn't a crime.

Don't physically try to stop the police. That's going to cause trouble. But if they're doing something out of line, record it if you can. If they tell you to stop, you can claim that you have the legal right to do so. If they continue to tell you to stop, stop. But still watch if you can.

Note well: IANAL. This is not legal advice. In particular, if anyone with real knowledge wants to correct the "If they tell you to stop, you can claim that you have the legal right to do so" part, feel free.
Anything more you can tell by now? :)
It seems like the endless iteration of OSS stripping some politics, then someone taking it and adding different politics, which makes someone else do an OSS version without that politics, etc.
>I know that I can ... avoid logging traffic by using a vpn.

Are you sure? I'd expect you be hard pressed to explain how that would be the case. Hint: how do you facilitate secure key exchange with an untrusted man in the middle? I know public key exchange is a thing, but I don't know much about it, just that I wouldn't trust it. Do you?

Check this link, for example: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg93416....
You sound like the kind of engineer that keeps software perpetually stuck in a UX nightmare.

"Of course it doesn't work that way, idiot! If only you read the obscure documentation and had years of experience like me you'd understand why you're the problem and not the software!"
China is convinced? Then China should tell China to stop building coal power plants.

They burn slightly more coal than the rest of the world combined.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/business/energy-environmen...
A Silicon Valley Wake Up Call
I don't see what the monolithic kernel has to do with it. Kernel modules are dynamically have been loadable. Yes, they run in kernel mode, and yes their version tightly bound to the running kernel -- but how is that a problem for abstracting of varying hardware?
As far as building renewables is concerned both countries are currently doing their share. But that trend needs to accelerate and at the same time fossil sources need to be scaled back. Trump's statements on energy policy are mostly contrary to the latter part.

http://www.ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/REN12-GSR201... (page 20)
More productive is to try and understand why Minority Report has successfully captured the imagination of so many, persisted over a decade, spawned an entire genre of syfy interface trope that we see in virtually every film having anything to do with future, beyond film, well into games and now commercial interface development.

The assertion that the gesture interface is some kind of virulent ear-worm, dismisses what may be the most interesting thing, the fact that it has captured the imagination of so many. Why?
It's a health thing. People have been taught that the dark meat is full of fat and the light meat is healthier.

It's kind of like choosing a Coke instead of a Mountain Dew for health reasons.
> except without the rent-seeking/government ownership attached?

Because people like money. This TLD business literally invented a new economic activity, and one with great margins. It doesn't really hurt anyone, has little to no cost, and makes a pretty penny. People With Money love stuff like this; if tomorrow they could invent a marketable TLD system for physical addresses, phone numbers or anything else, they'd jump at the chance.

This is just how the capitalist world works: stuff exists to make money, everything else is a bonus.
And yet, in UK criminals are arrested absolutely fine, even though police does not carry guns!
I enjoy PCB design too - through it results in me spending an inordinate amount of time tweaking trace placement and ground planes for mostly aesthetic purposes :)
The issue for me is more that they recreated the windows registry with all its flaws. For example, when uninstalling an app, can every entry associated with that app be easily removed?
Yes. But my point is that, with front-wheel drive, that transfers weight away from the driven axle.
Just as I was preparing to answer your comment about physicists, you edited it. But wow, is this really your argument - "disprove the results or they are considered valid"? Ever heard of Russel's teapot?

Using the method is nice, but let me know when they learn to reliably predict anything, such as election outcomes.
'Agree to the cookie' has the opposite intention: it's warning you that a company (often Google) is tracking your behaviour online.
"Accelerate gently"

Nope. Absolutely incorrect. Best fuel economy is to accelerate rather strongly to cruising speed, getting into top gear quickly. BMW studied this when they brought out the 528e, and found something like 70% throttle is most efficient for this purpose. Upshift at moderate rpm, to be sure, but dawdling in the lower gears taking forever to reach top gear is a waste of fuel.

You don't waste fuel accelerating. Fuel is being converted into potential energy. You waste fuel every single time you touch the brakes. That is turning potential energy into heat.

All your other points are spot on. Most of all, drive way ahead! As soon as you see that light change to red far ahead, let off the accelerator and start coasting.

Tire pressure is important. People look at me cross-eyed when I tell them I run 40+ psi, but it makes a big difference, and my tires do not wear in the middle.
You can't really "root" your trust in an HSM. Yes, the HSM is trusted in that if it is broken, then the security of the system is as well. But the "trust root" is what the HSM uses as a specification for what to trust. This still boils down to a public key, physical possession, proof of work, immutable hash, etc.
What possible controls can Apple put in place though other than a checkbox for do/do not sync ?

And remember Apple is a positioning iCloud as a cloud for dummies solution so adding choice comes with trade offs.
> are pushing harder than anyone to get away from dirty power.

Where do you gather that from? They use more coal than the entirety of the rest of the world combined. Their coal usage has more than doubled over the past ~15 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/business/energy-environmen...
the article fails to clarify this, but the number for the Veterans' Crisis Line and the National Suicide Hotline are the same (1-800-273-8255). When you call that number, you are prompted to press 1 to be redirected to the veterans line. In this case, Mr. Corrigan likely missed the prompt and got sent to the suicide hotline - a not uncommon experience for veterans.
This is a pity. One of the things I like with the Mac is being able to use Mac-side editors like BBEdit to be able to make changes to the configuration and files of the Unix-y server tools I need. If I can't reliably use Windows GUI editors that would limit my ability to migrate from macOS.

If one is running NGINX/PHP under WSL would one not even be able to safely edit .php files?
Microsoft is adding the ubuntu subsystem, which means this is a "problem" that's only going to get worse before it gets better. Thankfully once it gets better it will be a lot easier to use both systems and you won't need to keep such rigid isolation between the systems.
I mean.... the article does point out:

Remember: There’s a reason we gave the %localappdata%\lxss\ folder ‘hidden’ & ‘system’ attributes

You gotta work your way around a couple mild safeguards to go fucking with things.
Compared to current costs of geostationary dedicated 1:1 capacity (SCPC), 20Mbps full duplex for $3000 is actually an amazingly good deal. If you're in a place in Africa with no fiber access and your only options for a high bandwidth trunk link to the world are c band satellite, you're looking at $25,000+ to build your own 3.0 meter+ sized earth station and then $1800 to $3000 per individual Mbps per month for leased transponder kHz to reach a teleport in France or Germany. This is one of the problems o3b was designed to solve.
In 63 days Trump will inherit mass surveillance from Obama
I'm glad someone else said it. I was biting my tongue.
So what happens to the indigenous population of animals (polar bears are the first that come to my mind) when this happens? Do they just die out or are there groups trying to get them to safety?
I think that the OP is saying that the software should mount the files read only saving the user from pain.
You would be wrong.

It really isn't hard to build PYMK. It's basically just triangle closing on common friends and address book import.
Carmakers Plot a Future Without Google and Apple
Mesh networks? Everything P2P.
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If you look at fuelly you may see different numbers. I know that for my last car: honda accord, and my current car: kia soul, manual transmissions both get noticeably better gas mileage even though the MSRP claims otherwise.
Like most problems it comes from too many people chasing too few dollars. The ultimate cause was the construction of a system that trains too many people for the money avalible to employ them.

The current system was deliberately constructed by politicians after WWII when we had more money (and demand for science) than scientists. They set out to create more scientists by designing a system where each scientist trained 10 to 100s of additional scientists (PhDs). This worked great until around the mid 1970s when the supply of scientists finally caught up with the money. Since then the problem has been getting worse.
As long as the trust root consist of public keys and not physical possession of the device, then the manufacturer inherently controls those public keys.
Oregon checking in.

Usually prices are:

(boneless/skinless) breast - $1.99/lb

(boneless/skinless) thighs - $2.29/lb

On sale, they are sub $2 a pound, like $1.69. This is at Fred Meyers, quality chicken - that I can tell you.

Who in the hell would pay ten bucks for a pound of chicken, I'd switch to salmon fulltime at that rate.
If I'm not mistaken, you can make/do a patented thing as an individual all you want, you just can't commercialize it.
I always wonder about people that need a extreme fast feedback cycle.
I mean most of the time I do things, I actually think about new code, watch a side project, discuss in gitter.

Our code's full test suite takes longer than 10 minutes and I still feel pretty productive when working at it.
Actually we lint/transpile our JavaScript with Google Closure which is faster than webpack, but it still takes over 5 seconds which is more than our scala app takes in continous compile?
Also I always see these cool JavaScript people, but I've never seen any real world app that still has a amazingly fast micro seconds cycle.
> Help is NOT out there unless you're extremely lucky and rich

There is, for sure. There are crisis centers that don't respond like that. They may not be common - so maybe some luck is involved - but there are people out there trying to help others.
Now this is strange, because I've had exactly the opposite experience with the same hardware. I've gotten both a (Thinkpad) W530 and a P50 working fully (with four monitors!) with their dual-GPU hardware out of the box with Linux Mint 18 (Cinnamon), which is based on Ubuntu 16.04. Incidentally, Windows 10 shit itself with a simple ATI 7990 and the onboard NIC on an Asus motherboard when I tried to install it a couple of months ago.
Outside of captivity, where would it be safe for arctic animals?
Please read my above comments more carefully. Secure boot on x86 (amd64) is deliberately crippled to avoid anti-trust scrutiny.
That quote is not from the same person.
You're cherry-picking one of many possible arguments for the status quo, arguing that this argument should be considered in the particular case of same-sex marriage while ignoring other cases where it might also pertain, and then repeatedly moving the goalposts, but whatever.

You're also characterizing this as a "vast" change. What is the vast change here? From a logistical perspective, it doesn't exist: you pass a law allowing same-sex couples to do the exact same thing that opposite-sex couples can...and now they can go do so using exactly the same procedures as opposite-sex couples could before, and obtain thereby exactly the same benefits (tax advantages of joint filing status, visitation rights, and a host of other small preferential treatments given to married couples).

Speaking of those benefits: while they exist, it is categorically impossible to uphold equality of rights and opportunities while opposing same-sex marriage. The only to reconcile these two positions is to either a) pick one or b) redefine marriage such that it confers no civil benefits (which would indeed be a vast change).