skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'limited lifespan' of lithium batteries ma not be such a deal killer in the near term. As batteries in cars get used up, they aren't dead, they are just not powerful enough to be carried around anymore. After that, than can be put to use in stationary power while they continue to degrade.

I suspect this is one of the reasons the powerwall makes so much sense for Tesla. The battery comes out of a car and then they re-sell it to go into somebodies house.

There is a start-up in Melbourne working on this model as well. http://www.relectrify.com/
How many people in a jury do you think would share your feelings?
You generally treat mild inflammation by cooling. The reason why you don't want to use ice water is because that will cool the outer layer of your skin to the point of pain before it's cooled the deeper layers significantly. Using slightly cold water means you can stay in the water for fifteen minutes easily, cooling all the skin layers well.

I thought this was common knowledge, i.e. basic first aid for burns in general?
See previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12983827

and the Vice article referred to:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/new-program-decides-crimina...
Outraged by the election? It could be because you moralize rationality
Ask HN: Resources about back end development?
I have recently needed to write a simple backend for my mobile app side project. I decided try PaaS with app engine and aws. Professionally I do mobile/web frontend most of the time. I've managed to get some basics up and running relatively easy although it was still harder than expected especially with app engine that seemed to have lacking documentation. At this point I have found it hard to find solid resources about how to move from 'hello world' level of simple API examples to a solid product. I would appreciate any recommendations for books/articles/courses. I'm mostly interested in security & scalability. Thanks.
I love your perspective on pinball, and also wholly agree with your one criticism. I still prefer to play to have fun and just go full chaos mode in multi-ball, even though I've gotten better at playing the safe-but-boring route.
It was me, at Subgraph, that setup the Secure Desktops mailing list and website. We hope to collaborate more with other projects in the future. There is already interest from other projects in things we've built for Subgraph.

As for Subgraph in Qubes, being a template OS, etc, maybe later? We haven't even had a real release yet and are still building. I wouldn't recommend it anyways unless all of the Qubes VMs have hardened kernels by default.
A Good Bundle [151 games]
Plus the fact that, by design, they have to support planes being able to land on them. Thus we not only have a great network to move goods, but also built-in landing strips across the nation.

I doubt they are in compliance with the latest heaviest planes the military fields, but still, pretty forward thinking and synergy of infrastructure spending for both economical and military needs.
Come on MS! Nobody cares about Solitaire!

Just hurry up and release minesweeper already, and stop teasing us!
Consciousness is the way your brain self corrects. That is my personal theory.

On a few time scales you brain makes plans. It uses beliefs and a model of the world to make those plans. It stores those plans and the actions it has taken. And then checks if actions had their intended effects, and if plans reached their intended goals. Updating its model of the world, its beliefs, and what useful actions are.

This is a constant process reflecting upon the current situation, and upon the recent past of actions and plans. It is like an observer observing itself. This is the root of consciousness, I think.

Probably abstract thinking and language, enough intelligence, and a theory of mind, leads to self awareness.

If this is correct, we can formulate some necessary parts for a system to be conscious:

* recognition of the environment
* a model of the environment
* ability to reason about actions, their consequences, and how to achieve goals
* memory of past plans and goals and outcomes
* a process of executing actions, making new plans, and learning from the outcomes
You're talking about Arizona. Hello, solar...
Let's say one nation, Uruguay, says "you know what ? Encryption is fine. And btw we're funding 1gb cheap fiber to everyone in our biggest city". Something like that could attract swarms of techies.

It could, but it probably won't, because hardly anyone is going to move to a new country just so they can enjoy encryption and fast web browsing...and I say that as someone who has moved internationally 6 times.

Look, your argument is fundamentally weak - we can generalize and say big countries are bad because it eliminates competition between smaller jurisdictions, therefore federalism is bad. And indeed, the notion that federalism is bad (or at least damn risky) is partly why the USA has ~3000 county governments despite the manifest inefficiency involved.

Your error is in assuming that competition is always beneficial. As we can see in the US, counties and states frequently pass laws that reduce rather than enhance freedom. So while I wouldn't want you to construe this as an endorsement of the TPP in particular, I reject your claim that any kind of trade agreement is necessarily destructive of freedom.

Besides, your notion of comeptition as unalloyed good is easy enough to subvert. Uruguay sets up the world's freest internet? Denounce Uruguay as a haven for cyber-criminals and impose penalties on unverified connections from there. Despite the fact that it makes the digiterati uncomfortable, things like child porn and terrorism are genuine problems that impact the lives of real people when allowed to operate unchecked. This isn't a 'think of the children' argument; I personally know people who were trafficked for sex and child porn as small children and who suffer from serious dysfunction as adults because of this. Their liberty and safety shouldn't be considered acceptable sacrifices on the altar of your liberty and safety; there are valid reasons to delegitimize some kinds of commercial traffic.
I grew up in a town along the Mississippi River. It's "ass to glass" all the way from Minnesota to Louisiana. Basically every city, town, and village on both banks treats its drinking water and its wastewater, then releases its treated wastewater downstream.

Are the farmers paying so much less for treated, potable tap water delivered through municipal water mains? I think you'll find the cost of the water itself is pretty small. You may find that treating it, transporting it, and distributing it pretreated to all those people are the real economic costs even during most stages of a drought.
Chrome, Safari, and Opera (because of Blink) have implemented Custom Elements and Shadow DOM. Firefox appears to be working on it, and for Edge it's high priority, so things are coming along nicely :)

edit: The polyfills are also very viable. I know sometimes people knock polyfills, but they're really just libraries that implement the component model and encapsulation that frameworks generally have to, but they go away over time.
Sure, there are somewhat simpler DNS servers than BIND, of which djbdns is a good example, but realistically speaking, the reasons to avoid BIND are historic and no longer relevant. BIND has seen multiple major overhauls since the bad old BIND 4 days, and its security has been fine for more than a decade. In the past I would talk about other DNS servers as reasonable things to spend time on (and have contributed to alternative DNS servers in a variety of ways in the distant past), but these days, I tend to say "just use BIND."

All of the docs you're going to find on the web are about BIND. BIND gets new standards first, because that's the implementation that the standards authors use and work on. BIND gets more real world testing than all other DNS servers combined. In short: It's fast enough, secure enough, and has more features than anything else. The only downside may be that it is somewhat intimidating, but BIND configuration maps more closely to the standards docs than anything else...so, if you understand BIND you understand DNS and vice versa, which is not as true of some of the others that try to be simpler to configure. BIND is DNS in more ways than any other server so clearly is the service it provides.

DJB software is/was great, but there's rarely a reason to go that route for most users most of the time, today.
Kubernetes with CoreOS on AWS
Indeed. It's unsinkable, let's hitch ourselves to Ti...erm, Google.
And no visit to Las Vegas is complete without a stop at the Pinball Hall of Fame - http://pinballmuseum.org/

I happened to visit as they finished setting up their Tron LE back when that came out, and immediately fell in love. That machine -- especially the LE edition with the light-up "lightcycle" ramps, and the Daft Punk at full volume -- is my holy grail of material possessions. I'll know I've made it when I can buy one of my own.
Doesn't Google handle it's own internal IT services in this way? You don't log into a domain, every internal IT service is available on the web and not behind a firewall, but requires a company provided cert to access? This always seemed better to me than trying to secure a perimeter around resources anyway, usability considerations notwithstanding.
Solitaire first came with Windows 3.0. The entire OS required 7MB free disk space.
NHTSA – Driver Distraction Guidelines
While the virtual DOM is a component in React's popularity, the main thing that I believe people use it for is the functional, one way data flow it allows you to use combined with the component model.
Polymorphism, subtyping and type inference in MLsub
I think it's an important distinction. The crime is in how it's used, not in the technology itself. Banning the tech outright only affects actors who are willing to follow the law. So banning this tool would mostly limit white hats.

The same principle applies to gun rights for example. The gun itself isn't the problem, it's how someone chooses to use it. (self defense vs crime). Nobody is an absolutist here, everyone draws the line somewhere slightly different.

Outlawing the tech ensures that good guys lose the arms race every time.

When I say good guys I don't necessarily mean the government. I mean anyone out there who is not using the tech for malicious intent. People using guns for self defense, breaking into an encrypted device to solve a crime, or retrieve lost work etc.

This keeps the focus on improving the actual technology (encryption). Rather than just banning law abiding citizens from taking part.
Is watermarking considered DRM?

It doesn't restrict anything, and you can copy as much as you like.
> If you replaced "women" with "men" in that title, I'm sure you'd have no problem with it

A complete fabrication. Brietbart actually published that article; your claim is about an imaginary person in your head.

> Milo is a homosexual

That doesn't make him any less sexist (or even less homophobic if that's what he is - many leading homophobes have been homosexual themselves). Being homosexual isn't some sort of license of credibility. Who he sleeps with doesn't seem relevant.

It's interesting to me that people on the hateful right sometimes believe their own propaganda about how normal people think: That somehow we all walk around thinking that someone's sexual preferences can put them on a moral pedestal. Everyone is just people; some people's rights are abused at a much higher rate than other people's, so we try to do something about that - because they are people.
Oh. I didn't know that, and that sounds great. Or at least, way better than the NDK

I would gladly switch to a platform other than android for my smartphone, but as bad as Android is, everything else seems to suck more.
166 MB?! WTF?!

Microsoft's mission statement: We strive to balance all hardware performance increases with bad software, such that the overall performance continuously decreases!
http://genghis.codeplex.com/ would probably work for this purpose. The CommandLineParser class is particularly in need of refactoring.
Joanna hates KDE.

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2119
I hope this will be taken as non-partisan, but, at least from the perspective of the UK, Trump was the one saying "the election is rigged". Was that reported in the US?
Completely logical. Java, C, PHP are said to be algol descendants. In two words: curly braces. JS wasn't supposed to but ended up curly because social trends are that strong. Now imagine JS function being the only thing you use, then that language users and designers evolving a syntax for typed js-like functions, rince repeat, you get ML, Haskell, Elm.

In time your brain realigns, depending on how much you appreciate the functional style or not.
We use Xpra to do desktop isolation for now, by the way. It's similar to Qubes' display mechanism, but we didn't write it, and don't really like it as a security control. Just serves as PoC until we can jump to Walyand.

Therefore Subgraph OS isn't in the worst possible x11 situation, which is the default for every desktop Linux except I think the most recently released Fedora.

Re: iso / updates, we have rolling updates. Installed users are kept current if they install the OS and regularly apply updates and do dist-upgrades.
Now I want to see how the performance compares to that of Moonshine.
> The web is great, but I think security should and must go further, I do not want run random Turing machines.

Exactly. I want a document to read, not an application to execute. Sadly that battle is feeling more and more lost as time goes by.
Kind of like Game Center in iOS. Probably some intern did it, so no real harm.
In particular, during WWI (not WWII), the government took over the railroads, which nearly melted down. (To what degree the meltdown was the result of the government takeover, I don't know.)

In 1919 (I think, plus or minus maybe one year), the Army sent a convoy by road from coast to coast. I forget how long it took, but it was at least 45 days, and maybe more like 90. And the Army said, moving stuff by road is hopeless with the current roads.

One of the people on that convoy was a Lieutenant Eisenhower. When he became president, the Interstate Highway System happened.
Palantir discloses $20mm in new funding from a single unidentified backer
Seeing how people rarely view businesses as the "good guy", it is likely that many people would.
I watched both videos. I love what I see. I've wasted a ton of time with calls and emails doing this. I hope you can also replace spareroom.co.uk too, though that's mostly direct to landlord. Hurry up and spread to the rest of the UK!

As it's all automated via the app, how are you handling the inevitable chaos scheduling 5 viewings in an afternoon as in demo?

Whenever I've been viewing agents or landlords will be happily upto an hour late to arrive and by third appointment plans and schedule are ruined. Leaves a viewer stood on an inevitably rainy doorstep wondering why the agent isn't answering. If you don't already have you'll need ways to update the rest of the chain, and try to bump schedules back a little etc.

For London especially you normally have to agree on the spot, so a neat one button drop to the rest of scheduled viewings is needed. As you're giving agents a signup free experience you'll need to push SMS. I wouldn't want to just no show.

Feedback - how, if at all, are you handling feedback on property? We've all looked at property that is nothing like photos due to careful framing, or lack of the one truly revealing fact.

Same for landlords/agents. If it's tenant focussed will you have means to rate agents, or pick out ones to be wary of? We've all had experience of someone who finds ways to keep part of a deposit, or doesn't respond to repairs etc.
For me, digital is absolutely necessary for any technical or academic book. I have to be able to search in it. However, I am not a fan of PDF because it is very inflexible in its presentation, and it is hard to transform into other formats. I prefer a web document or even just plain text.
Make that 4 birth threshold and 3 survival threshold.
Liberal segment of the population checking in; that's a complete strawman - we're in favour of gun control because we don't trust our fellow citizens to be responsible with them, NOT because we trust the government.

Regarding state vs federal control; I think you'll be surprised how many liberals are happy with individual states de-criminalizing marihuana and such, there's actually a lot of agreement with libertarians regarding governement power amongst many liberals.

Many of us are concerned about abuses of state power to roll back progress on abortion, teaching evolution, secularism etc. and I don't know your political leanings, but I suspect you'd agree with a lot of these, weren't it coming from the....pfff...liberals - they can never be right, can they?
Yes, only Trump said it and many outside his world strongly rejected it.
why not flowtype/typescript+js es6+react+redux/mobx?

currently a pretty nice reactive mobx-state-tree is on the frontpage of hn.
Cash Ban the Best Thing to Happen to Indian Digital Payments
Self-awareness and consciousness are different things. Sometimes when you wake up you don't know who you are, where you are, what you are, but there is a conscious experience. Consciousness is much more fundamental than your level of reasoning allows to explain.

Here's a list of things that you are adressing and that are not dealing with the hard problem of consciousness ('easy problems'): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness#...
113 MB of PowerVR textures and fonts (a number of fonts are included twice in an embedded framework).

48 MB of code and frameworks (including 10 MB for Swift).

http://imgur.com/a/MezGl
This isn't hacker or startup related. It's just amazon news being upvoated by.... Well hang on, now that makes me wonder. Does Bezos make more or less money by people getting laser eye work done?
Not with proper use. General recommendation is to wear contacts for 10, sometimes 12 hours in a 24 hour period and use supplemental glasses for the rest. Also clean them daily and well.

Sleeping in contacts is also a big no-no.

Wouldn't be surprised if there's a decent amount of anecdata that people don't really adhere to the guidelines.
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I climb in glasses fine, and my PSVR seems completely compatible with my frames. YMMV?
On level 3:

https://xss-game.appspot.com/level3/frame#'/><script>alert(1)</script>

will execute on load rather than after user input.
Retail and its current state in Virtual Reality
It's a desktop OS, and the hardened kernel is an important part of the project (i.e. no docker image).
>You are commenting about a blog post from one of the world's authorities on voting security, a CS professor at the University of Michigan (one of the country's best engineering schools) --- a post other voting security people (for instance: Matt Blaze) have been pointing at.

I'm commenting on the claims of Russian hacking being the latest refuge for election denialists. The reason people are talking about Russian hacking is not due to academic curiosity about the security of voting machines. Pretending that it is, in an attempt to give the discussion an unearned air of impartial dispassion, is dishonest.

>And all you've managed to come up with a dismissal based on partisan politics

My dismissal is based on two things: 1) partisan politics, in that this theory is being pushed by the same people and for the same reason as previous explanations for why the election was illegitimate, and 2) the complete and utter absence of evidence.

>Injecting volatile political arguments unrelated to stories is a form of trolling. Could you please stop doing that?

It strains credulity to assert this discussion was apolitical prior to my interjection.
"Free Premium for one month"
Most certainly :-)
Funny thing is, most waste water treatment plants I've seen - the water coming out of the waste treatment plant is cleaner than the water removed from the river for drinking (which is then treated).

Wait until people learn that they air they breathe has likely already been breathed by someone else...
I know of an organization that refuses to pay any of their contractors. It is currently facing several lawsuits.

You'd think word would get around, but they've been doing it for years.

They grind every single contractor for every cent and come out far ahead. Very combative way to live.
>there is a risk for them if they are found out. How risk-averse are they?

what is the risk? US hacking Russia's elections in response? :) Sanctions? You may have noticed that hacking each other computers is considered on practice (not in the public speeches :) a fair game, kind of a quiet Cold War these days - everybody does it to everybody else and everybody keeps it quiet, be it failures or successes, for exactly that reason of not wanting to make public the fact of doing it themselves.

Specifically in this case the fallout from US government officially establishing/confirming/proving that Russia hacked the US elections would probably be more devastating to the US government agencies and to overall societal trust into the US democratic institutions than to Russia. So Russia has no downside here really either way. Such logic fits pretty nicely to the opportunistic approach (tightly coupled with absolute absence of any moral objections (bombing hospitals and other civilians in Aleppo as part of advancing the Russian interests in Syria for example)) that has already been demonstrated on many occasions by the current Russian regime.

Even without actual hacking, just by supporting and promulgating the rumors and conspiracy theories about the hacking, Russia already deals [risk-free] a lot of damage here, in particular to the societal trust, - with discussions like this one being probably a sign and/or part of that damage.
He was, when he thought he would lose. It's just as bad for the left to make those claims now as it was for him to make them then. Attacking the legitimacy of elections without evidence is bad, full stop.
Where would they come from if not a biological basis? Magic? Divine inspiration?
Vutuv is a free and fast career network
Yes always, I hate it, that's the worst part of every application, testing in general but it's also the foundation for a good night sleep.
Space Cadet pinball would be a lot nicer.
Again, usually. Hasn't really been happening over the last few years in the US and Europe. Presumably we just wait for some arbitrary long period until inflation starts to rise again? Does the theory tell us how long?

The reason you even have to ask this question is because you don't understand MV = PQ.
On Android I use Orion Viewer that handles margins effortlessly, and columns decently.
> by design, they have to support planes being able to land on them.

http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/airstrip.asp
Wow, that sounds awful. Care to share a bit more detail?

What was your prescription before LASIK?

If you could get by without glasses 90% of the time, why did you have it done in the first place?
Or maybe people could just become familiar with ML-style languages? The basic syntax shouldn't take more than an hour or two to pick up.
Depends on which "prestigious organization" it was and how convincingly the defense lawyer could frame it as a David vs Goliath situation, rather than straight-up blackmail.
I was going with the irony of commenter asserting that building the game is an inefficient allocation of MS resources when in fact productive time lost due to the ubiquity of these games has probably been one of the single most contributors to inefficient use of time in the last century (you know, due to people playing the games).
> a source with a better track record than, say, buzzfeed

Says who?

> take a look at their front page

I do see and have seen their headlines often in a news feed I read; I strongly believe they promote racist ideology and are brazen liars.

Needless to say, Bannon might make their front page more amendable at the moment but he can't erase history.