skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An implication you do not like Trump is uninsightful and OT.

An implication Trump doesn't like clean energy is uninsightful and OT.

The, us against them (in this case miners, not exactly the 1%) is not healthy and OT.
The prices I am talking about from the article and the graph provided above are both in $/MW-h!

So where's the tricky accounting?
~4000 for Twitter (although I vaguely recall a culling recently, not sure how many they let go).
Old people are expensive. If the people on Medicare were as healthy as the average 50-year-old, it would basically solve Medicare's long-term funding problem. If it cost, say, $100K every 10 years, it'd be worthwhile to give it to everyone for free.

Edit: checked numbers. There are about 40 million Americans 65 or older, and Medicare spends about $600 billion/year, for average annual spending of $15K each.
> non-technical people do not know that abcnews.com.co is a subdomain of com.co, not a subdomain of abcnews.com

This is a huge issue. A lot of HN always seems to forget that there are a lot of users out there who are not as gifted with technology as we are. (Case in point, my mother just learned what HTTPS meant last week through an NBC Nightly News segment.)

Unfortunately, it seems to be largely generational in nature.
The no-fly list doesn't get any of the same attention. People are put on the no-fly list today, have their rights taken away, and have little to no recourse if they are innocent and no formal appeals process.

I also seriously doubt it's going to be based on religion, which can easily be faked. It will be based on country of origin, which we have had to some extent for decades (especially those countries with defunct governments where passports and identification can easily be counterfeited).

Many Trump speeches were taken out of context, butchered, and converted into easy sound bites that misconstrued what he was actually saying. This is some of the fake news that Facebook claims it is attempting to curb. I just wish the rest of the industry would follow suit.
GitLab's self-hosted requirements are too high for my small needs so I use gogs.io.

It's a git web interface written in Go and is much more friendly on a VPS with small amounts of memory.
Maya – Datetime for Humans
Croove – a car sharing service by Mercedes-Benz
Haha, identical incomes is what Scott Winship would call Denmark.

I've recently got exposed to someone questioning whether or not we should even care about inequality, a provocative idea for sure. Hillsdale college had a worthy lecture posted earlier this month.
Scott Winship talks about Intergenerational mobility as an interesting orthogonal concept (https://youtu.be/vDUhpaO1YCE?t=305)
William Watson says in the same lecture "The question I was assigned 'Do we want income inequality', just so it's clear I don't care about inequality. What I want is fairness, or equity." (https://youtu.be/vDUhpaO1YCE?t=3131).

A classic one I like on the topic is Sowell's manna from heaven slant on income and its distribution...

Peter Robinson: Intellectuals and Society once again, “The very phrase income distribution is tendentious. Wealth can be created only after capital and labor have reconciled their competing claims and agreed to terms on which they can operate together in the production of wealth”. Income distribution, the very phrase is tendentious how come?
Thomas Sowell: Income is not distributed, and newspapers are distributed. Social security checks are distributed and one time milk was distributed. Income is not distributed, people earn it directly from those for whom they provide some good or service. And, the argument made by many people you see, is that the, it’s a question of capital and labor have conflicting interests and dividing up the income. No, no, there is no income to divide up before they first reconcile their conflicting interest and decide on what terms they’re going to produce that income. There is no preexisting, there’s no manna from heaven for them to fight over.
Just curious if anyone has used ANTLR on Android lately; I recall it was easy to run out of stack because the runtime relies on very deep recursion.

Also I think there were some dependencies on AWT or Swing for debug console.

https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/issues/744
Forgive me if this comes across as patronizing, but I think you might avoid this in the future by doing the following:

* Charge daily or weekly, not hourly.

* Don't anchor your results to "free" (this includes not getting paid unless specific results happen).

* If a customer has been repeatedly burned by other consultants and believes this problem could be solved in an hour, consider either 1) avoiding those customers or 2) working on an agreeable scope that precludes an absurd amount of time.

I'm not saying that will fix all your problems, but if it helps, I've never encountered this issue with this formula.
Wow, I just saw that in the headlines. I suspect that's what Congress has in store for Trump if he gets out of hand. Either that or impeachment for something. They have their perfect guy waiting to take his place.
My argument is very simple but you apparently misunderstand.

morgante guessed that I reject fact checking simply if it doesn't confirm my worldview.

I rebutted that the fact checkers in question aren't simply disproving my worldview. Rather they are advancing an opinion-based counter-narrative under the guise of objectivity.

You replied and suggested that I should be held to the same standard as a purported arbiter of truth.

I rebutted that I do not claim to be a sterile, objective source of bald fact-checking. And a major news consumption platform is not appending my opinions to people's feeds and elevating my opinions to objective status. My opinions-masquerading-as-fact won't be advanced by Facebook as evidence of the disreputability of those I disagree with.

You replied incoherently as far as I can tell.
Might be just that there were so many more people, thanks to industrialization.
You're conflating smog and CO2! CO2 is invisible and a free molecular gas. Smog is mesoscopic particulate matter.
Canada says hello.
> When I see terminate() I know I have a problem. I essentially have to start using "grep" for every possible "throw" statement

What debugger are you using that doesn't provide a full stack trace on an uncaught exception?
And to add, these are reasonable things for a consumer to believe that are not evidence of irrationality.
People _relied_ on Google Code
The plutocrats' sheriffs need their pound of flesh to intimidate the peasant sheeple into spending all their money on pointless trinkets and distractions to keep the billionaires rich. Anything or anyone presenting a threat to the corrupt establishment must be destroyed economically, socially and militarily.
I think it'd be more like alerts being sent to all the drivers asking who is available for pickup.
> Do you have ANY Libre DataCenterInfrastructureManagement/BuildingManagementSystem that can really be used in production?

An open source DCIM that's used in production: https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox
Topic Modeling to Predict Publication Year of NIPS Papers
You can host your own "GitHub". It's called "GitLab". For my use, it's just as good.

The only downside is that for a toy project, you have to spend money and resources on it.
Exynap - Android Studio plugin
I know very well how that works - from basic electricity and photoluminescence, to having worked for an electricity provider and knowing about the electrical grid, to knowing enough programming and signal processing and machine learning concepts to appreciate the process of audio recording, speech-to-text, networking, and automation to make the light come on.

The details of this are not that fascinating to me; I'm frankly far more interested to study the economic and political forces that brought such technology to bear and might (or might not) save the biosphere which we are in the process of wrecking. It's not like I don't know what science and technology are good for of what they've achieved.

You know what fascinates me? Magnets. Now that you can 3d print them I'm considering designing a desktop-size particle accelerator to see what happens if you put a source of charged particles next to it. I'm also fascinated by geometry, number theory, and the topology of higher-dimensional manifolds - basic things that work unreasonably well (apart from the manifolds which I've only experienced in imagination) and are rather hard to fathom. Why, for example, does Phi keep showing up in nature, and why do books on it amount to little more than stamp collecting? What governs the distribution of prime numbers? These things are far more interesting to me than technological conveniences.
Seems like this should probably be normalized by then current population.
From what I hear not only will all Android Things collect data for Google, but also all devices that use the Weave protocol (for which the device makers have to use Google's servers).

That's crazy, if true. An IoT communication protocol shouldn't rely on Google or any other company to work. Imagine if your Wi-Fi router only worked if Samsung got to collect all the data that passes through it.

This sounds even worse than when people complained that in some cases data from AMP pages would go through Google. At least then developers could still use the open source independent version of AMP.
Alternatively, they know how to negotiate, or don't mind it, but given the bigger picture it's not worth their time to go back and forth through the intro emails -> demo conference call -> pricing negotiation loop with every company that has high prices, and they are faced with an information asymmetry as to which ones are worth it.
if err != nil ?
Instapage is awesome. I made djtresistance.com with it in a few minutes.
In a very rough analogy, this is why we have film critics, because we can't trust other institutions in the industry (studios, individual theaters, directors) as a guarantee of quality.

If a panel of respected tenured professors in the field ranked the best works in open access journals each month, or if there was a high profile yearly prize for best open access papers of the year, that could help disaggregate reputational effects from the publication itself.

Bootstrapping this sort of thing is hard. I'm sure Nobels didn't signal as strongly in year one as they do now.
>This is one of the first watches I've seen that is capable of standing on its own (somewhat) if untethered from a phone. There have been cell phone watches, but not at this price point, and not with the same slick interface.

Am I living in a parallel universe or just the future? You can get watch phones for less than the price of an actual (decent) watch. You can get ones that run Android for less than a hundred bucks. I don't understand all the hype about these super-expensive, low-functionality things (although your Gear S3 Frontier seems nice).

Here's one: http://m.banggood.com/KINGWEAR-KW88-1_39-inch-MTK6580-Quad-C...
> it makes me very concerned when a select few organizations have the ability to discredit information across the entire site

One could look at this conversely and say it is concerning when people and oragnizations are able to use Facebook to successfully disseminate misinformation unchecked.

I personally find both sides concerning and see no clear solution.
At modest levels of penetration it doesn't matter much that solar is non-dispatchable. There's already enough spare capacity in the system that you don't need to build backup specifically for solar. Consider, for example, the tens-of-gigawatts CAISO demand gap between 3:00 AM in April and 6:00 PM on the hottest day of August. The system already had to be ready for the peak-demand situation. Adding solar to the grid doesn't require new dispatchable backup capacity until penetration rises significantly. The backup capacity that was there before solar is a sunk cost.

You might as well say that calling nat gas cheaper than solar is misleading because a valid comparison would require carbon capture and storage on the fossil plants.
I'd really love to read the summary of the patent landscape that explains that.
Nuance/evidence-free claims. There are pluses and minuses to every situation which must be weighed with common-sense. Also, psychiatrists spend very little time on patient, use little or no evidence-based medicine and rarely act as social workers.
Ask HN: Optimal Legal Terms
Hi,

I'm going through & setting up a new project management app called 'Duet' [1], & part of it asks for me to enter terms which appear on estimates & invoices. I found an article from FreshBooks talking about optimizing what terms are most effective [2], so I use that as a guideline.

However I have an idea for extra language to somehow state that 'All IP generated by (My Company) throughout the course of our working relationship with the customer is wholly owned by (My Company) during which time that any invoices are unpaid, & transfer of ownership of said IP to customer is only valid upon the condition that all outstanding balances are current.'

My question is with regard to how realistic this type of condition is, & I'd like to know if anyone's aware of an affordable legal resource who could help me with the right wording to do this.

-Thanks! -c

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12404871

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160219
Between the theory that cybernetically augmented humans will become the "hard AI" of science fiction and signs that a cure for aging is nearly here, I would feel a lot more comfortable if we all started having a public debate about the limits we will set on metahumans.

A cybernetically augmented human might gain an intelligence completely alien (and hostile) to us non-augments. And an immortal-except-for-catestrophic-accidents could amass an unseemly amount of wealth and control over non-immortals over their long lives - moreso than the elites of today could dream of.

My concern about those that metahumans will hold such disproportionate power and they'll quickly get bored. Idle hands are the devil's playthings after all, and they could really make life difficult for the rest of us.

I want to see what a many-hundreds of years healthy life will be like and live many lives, but I do not want to have implants or devices that warp my mind/memory. I want to stay human, just minus the frailties. I'm hoping that these evolving new technologies sort neatly into two buckets: those that enhance but still retain the essential (limited) human experience, and those that seek to obliterate and replace the human experience (so that I know which ones to avoid.)
It isn't really about one specific thing, nor do I particularly want to name brands. One very senior policy person from a major hardware vendor asked at a small session how that working group could move to "regulate WebRTC" (2013) - Basically, there are high level reps from all the vendors through the whole telco stack, and then politicians, lobbyists, regulators etc. and if you sit and listen, you can see where the interests sit, and who is taking note of what interests.
This is a really great mini-documentary about solar from May this year. They talk about the tumbling price and interview investors and manufacturers in China. The eye opening moment for me was the fact that they already have 2M people in China manufacturing panels, and production is still ramping up.

It looks like solar is starting to become an inevitability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmyrbKBZ6SU
I'm getting a Chromium security error because this website is presenting a certificate from *.github.com.
Clear and obvious to who? What makes you believe this is not a Dunning-Kruger effect on your part? Do the customers have the same special insight you do?

Most importantly, is it more likely that you're not as well informed as you think you are, that you don't fully understand the competing priorities at play, or that the business is actually being stupid, as you say?
Age discrimination is illegal. And I wouldn't want to work for the next Theranos or zenefits anyway.
I would recommend getting familiar with using your db from the command line. If you are in MySQL or Postgres, learn the basics. selects, inserts, updates, deletes, and joins. After you have a bead on those, get used to subqueries. Learn what denormalization is (might want to do that so you can play with joins). Learn what transactions are. At this point, you are probably better than most. After that, start digging into deeper parts by going through public docs and seeing what neat functions they provide.

After you know the above, you can use that SQL knowledge in any language you want when accessing the db. No need to learn a new ORM per language or anything.

Also, at this point, you are likely to start understanding more about scaling systems which involve intelligently choosing indexes, replication, and sharding. Now you are on your way to Jr. DBA status :)

That was my path at least. There are likely better ways.
Ask HN: Got hacked on Instagram possible due to a vulnerability. How to proceed?
With my 5+ years of experience on HN, I'm fairly certain this is not the right place to ask this but I need to minds of the people here. And, to be honest, if this catches the attention of a Facebooker, even better.

The gist of it is, my Instagram account got hacked. I have no idea how it happened, the hacker claims it was a vulnerability with Instagram. They changed my username (which is a common Turkish first name, so a bit valuable to some people) to something else, deleted my photos and also created another, new, account with my username. I’ve tried the proper channels, tried to make my case but got no where. I'm not even sure if they've read what I've wrote.

I've detailed everything (with screenshots, archive.is links and original copies of emails on Github's Gist) on Medium since it's the least boring way I could think of: https://medium.com/@batuhan/i-got-hacked-and-i-dont-think-instagram-cares-fe4160364ef1#.1u2hu7k1w

I'm not sure how to proceed. Any ideas?

Also the title was going to be "Ask HN: I got hacked on Instagram (possible due to a vulnerability) and not sure how to proceed" but got limited by the 80 chars limit. I'm sorry if sounds weird.
Are you trying to affect change or just have out of work techs?

I can point to a long history of groups entering politics affecting change, can you do the same with a pledge to quit?
You can specify the memory ordering of operations to get the desired fences.

For an spsc queue just load aquires and store releases are sufficient and will have no overhead at all on x86.

Don't use operator++ to increment ( it will use an expensive lock xadd) just code the explicit load + add + store sequence. It is safe on this specific case.
There won't be many "batteries" when renewables are supplying most power. We have fairly cheap solutions for large-scale energy storage like hydroelectric with pumps.
That's what we'd like to believe about ourselves. But until we're post-scarcity -- as long as other people are competition for limited resources (land, food, water, health care, even attention) -- I wouldn't be too quick to believe it.
You've just described the business model of essentially every department store.
> The only logically possible outcome of immortality is that sooner or later the entire biomass of the planet is consumed by immortals, at which point all growth must stop.

You seem to be using the word "immortal" in some kind of fantasy meaning of "it keeps living forever no matter what". That's very clearly impossible.

Revise your definition to state instead: "keeps living indefinitely unless prevented by accident or disease, or is killed on purpose". Now see how your conclusions change.

Preventing and/or reversing aging is definitely good. If too long a life becomes a problem for some reason and you feel burdened by it, that's easily dealt with, just get a piece of rope, find a tree, and solve your own "problem".

> Is that really a life you would want to lead?

Your reaction is typical for a surprisingly large number of people. It's just a strategy to deal with the uncomfortable outcome of your own death, nothing more. To be able to cope with that, many people end up believing all sorts of bizarre things, such as "death is part of life", or "you don't want to live in that kind of world". Bullshit. You're just brainwashing yourself because otherwise you'd find the prospect of mortality intolerable.

An attitude that's a lot more honest is to recognize that aging and death are things we ought to fight, even though as of right now we're losing that battle.
Next thing you know, we will be getting email spam to buy Yamanaka Factor.. look 30 years younger just take this pill!
> 4 GB of RAM or less

With 70% having 4GB or less RAM, I hope this makes it clear to Mozilla people that the 20% memory tax of Electrolysis is simply not acceptable. I'll take less memory usage over benefits of multi processes browser any day.
Breaking things is easy
https://www.openshift.com has a free tier
That would only be relevant if demand curves had a duty cycle of 50%. As OP mentions, in the warm parts of the world demand peaks during sunny times (thanks to AC), so there is good alignment.
In comparing $/MW, as it is done in the article (see the big blue/yellow chart in the article). Please keep in mind that I'm saying that the entirety of the article is tricky accounting, or that you're doing tricky accounting, just that it is hard to compare $/MW across sources, as well as to compare single contracts, especially when you have issues such as dumping, etc.
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HN ate my asterisks. s/231/2^31/
If this is a compliment, then I demur.

If it's sarcasm, you probably consider my thinking sloppy and I'd like to know why.

If it's just a joke, then hah hah and forget I replied.

Text can be such an ambiguous medium!
GitHub is a $100M ARR revenue company that is probably (2 VC rounds where they had a lot of leverage) still controlled by the founders. They are in a healthy state right now, regardless of the high burn compared to most VC-backed companies.

They certainly made a lot of mistakes, had changes in the leadership team and are successful despite that not because of it, but I don't see them dying anytime soon.

$60M burn over 9 months after raising $250M isn't horrible either. If they continue to grow which seems to be the case, they will be break-even long before they run out of money.

The numbers aren't surprising to me; I'm more surprised why Bloomberg makes such a big deal out of it. GitHub's bigger problem is certainly that they stopped improving, had internal team issues, etc. but that's only a small part of the article (vs. a big focus on those numbers).
Risk, rocket, and re-locate to Titan
How to fix internet
Demand for electricity is not at peak for 90% of the day.
U.S. election agency breached by hackers after November vote
It's not all that misleading when they actually take the time to make the same point and the article does this in at least three places.
We've been working hard to remove features, introduce bugs, and decrease quality throughout the year.
It's my fault. I use HTTPS Everywhere in full HTTP blocking mode, so when a link isn't HTTPS I just try manually, and accept the error for common Akamai and Github Pages certs, which is still much better than HTTP (for random sites).

But then I ended up submitting that broken link. The interesting thing is that it reached the top (#4 right now) of HN anyway.
Author here... Link was submitted using https which I had not set up yet. Just switched over to a CF nameserver so it should be working shortly...
“Affective Understanding:” Modeling and Responding to User Affect