skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There actually was/is an obvious. Jobs are bouncing back in several urban markets, and Quantitative Easing has been continually making it cheaper and cheaper to borrow larger amounts of cash. As it becomes cheaper, people borrow more, bid more, and house prices go up.

The question is how well they will sustain, and whether a future market shake up (quite possibly Trump-related) would reset things to more sane levels, and for how long.
Storing huge amounts of energy is easy: use pumps to add potential energy to water.

This isn't ultra efficient, but it's cheap and probably good enough. We have lots of experience with hydroelectric power.
Not we. You would have been talking about the marxist administration.

Just what is marxist about his platform?
It's not the only option either. Combine that solution on a massive scale with re-forestation and (even though eventually it's CO2 neutral) it might actually make a dent. My go-to model was always:

- Plant heliostat molten salt reactors in desert coastal areas [1]

- Use generated heat to desalinate water

- Use desalinated water to provide irrigation

- Plant (potentially GMO'ed) bootstrapping organisms to
create a soil (greening)

- Plant trees

- Rinse repeat.

However, your idea makes more sense if the only goal is CO2 scrubbing. But adding the heliostat molten salt reactors in a desert might be quite feasible, they generate tons of heat, which can be translated into energy or simply mechanical force (water pressure)…and there is no shortage of silicates in the desert.

[1] http://www.solarreserve.com/en/technology/molten-salt-energy...
Millions of citizen personal data exposed by Indian govt. by accident
No its not. :)

Blog has no product description, and even the product description on getpostman.com (below the fold) is amazingly vague:

"A powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation and sharing."

So... It's a text editor? A test framework? What languages does it work with? Web APIs or native? Why would I use it over my existing toolchain?
If you shop in a generic store instead of online or at a specialized shop - it is because it is unpopular. If you buy off Amazon, just as an example, you have a few dozen options if you search "unscented body wash" .

People like to "smell clean" - not necessarily "be clean". So scented things are a big part of that.
I've used KeePass for years. Am I using it all wrong or what? That's how it works on my computer. Yes, you could install a browser extension that interfaces out to KeePass (and I've used those in the past too), but that doesn't give much, if any, security benefit over LastPass; you're still exposing the attack surface to the browser's environment.

I do actually also use Chrome's built-in password manager so that I don't have to copy and paste as much.
How horrible that we live in a world where a venus fly trap pretends to be a flower --A Fly
I don't think it's fair to blame the OS for driver crashes. Those are a result of third parties and can happen on any platform.
Today companies say that they only hire diverse people. Who is getting discriminated? Pls tell me
In the case of this specific post, they seem to be using "native" to mean "has features that require access to native OS APIs, and which cannot exist purely within the HTML5 abstract machine."

There's probably a better term for this. "Native-enabled", perhaps? "Unsandboxed"?
I really can't recommend this any more either - it used to be really nice but it seems to crash most times I come to use it now.

There seem to be updates coming out regularly but they don't seem to fix the issues I'm having.
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/11056
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/5740
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/7643
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/5423
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/10808
I'd probably still prefer .Net, but ES6 and TypeScript have made nodejs pretty bearable for me. I'd prefer it to and maybe even argue it's a better platform for concurrency than Python at this point, even 3.5, for most situations.

The concurrency you get with async/await is nice enough and performant enough over 0 concurrency to make it pretty good. You don't get thread pools and it's not the fastest at single threaded processing.. And there is only one number representation which is a hassle forcing the use of BigNum occasionally.. The stdlib is a mix of callback and events and requires wrapping for good async/await consumptions and.. Well there are a lot of drawbacks.

C# on CLR is superior IMHO as a platform and language in nearly every way except... It's not JS. If you are moving around between a ton of stuff constantly you'll end up doing a lot of JS(and in my case TypeScript because I've successfully introduced it multiple times) due to frontend work and the employee common denominator.

Edit: This is a bit of a ramble. I don't think NodeJS is the best thing going. But while I personally would prefer C#, Go(depending on project), F#, potentially clojure, and etc after removing personal preference and adding in all the other factors that come in to play when selecting a technology that a team has to use and support -> nodejs/TypeScript is often a pretty good option.
Not just that, but CA is unique with Prop 13. That is an artificial pressure cooker factor that other markets do not have. The best time to buy in CA was as close to when Prop 13 was implemented as possible.
Trezor Redesigns Wallet Interface and Adds Advanced Recovery Feature
What's wrong with using Sublime? Quite possibly the best text editor I've ever used. It's snappy, elegant, and it has a boatload of features.
18F's new Code of Conduct
You're telling yourself a lot of things. You're also comparing other people's highlight reels to your backstage. You're much more normal than you think. You do seem to have a barrier that once broken will be gone forever. Usually it's achieved by meeting someone special or experiencing something special which will make you go "whatever I thought all my life is irrelevant right now because I'm enjoying this so much."

Stop planning and researching. Go outside and get in trouble.
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is there a laws and regulations lobby?
*NASA
Doing so would actually be illegal for the Automakers, who tried similar things in the early days of the Auto Industry and several laws and regulations were passed to protect consumers for Highway vehicles

It is highly unlikely this will work out very well for JD.
Looks like one of the best DoS vectors against a person: just hide an encrypted drive in his house and produce one or two people who claim to have witnessed he/she a) saves illegal files on that drive and b) knows the password. Boom, person gone forever.
How is a bar owner rent seeking? They are providing a good and charging market prices for it. If bars in the city got together and introduced a bar-density limit within the city so as to limit the number of bars that can exist and thus allow them to raise prices, that would be rent seeking. If a bar hired a bunch of people to attend town hall meetings preventing new bars from opening up and allowing itself to raise prices - that would be rent-seeking.

If prices of drinks are going up naturally because people are making more money, "rent" for real estate is going up, etc. that is not "rent-seeking".
Electron is to desktop computers as PhoneGap is to mobile devices: not just a framework that embeds web views, but also an API bridge that allows said web-views to access APIs that web-views are normally sandboxed from accessing.
Don't worry, I'm in Australia.

Also not sure how my original post got downvoted since it's just recollecting my opinions on open-plan offices. Maybe the Open Plan Cabal hates me speaking ill of their utopia. Go figure.
There's always TAICLOCK.

* http://cr.yp.to/proto/taiclock.txt

Technically, "always" is a stretch. But it's shorter than "until the age of the universe is well over an order of magnitude bigger than it is now".
Rust Belt checking in here. My hometown's in a northern union stronghold where waves of plant closings starting in the 1980's completely wrecked the local and regional economy. Which still hasn't recovered -- and seems to be getting worse, after being rocked by the financial crisis a few years ago and the currently ongoing drug overdose epidemic.

Laws or union restrictions can stop firms from getting away with extremely low pay, treating their employees like crap and shitting all over the environment. But only if those firms don't have the option of relocating to other places that don't have similar restrictions.

I fully recognize Donald Trump has many very obvious shortcomings as a person and as a politician. But if his election finally results in shutting down the global free trade policies that have utterly wrecked my community, then all the negative things I'm sure he'll do likely won't outweigh that single positive achievement.
A CLI for Amazon Athena
[this is an explicit upvote re: Firefox extension]
You mean the ones' who like programming too much and aren't even in academia. And don't realize it's a means to an end (it's a tool to build things.) Yeah those people suck.
Including, importantly, the ability to fork+exec other native processes. You can ship an Electron client app that spawns and then interacts with a native C background service, if you like. (I believe that's how Keybase's native client works, in fact.)
I've got a similar one. I was working on an app once where the current results were being logged to a text box, nothing too fancy, but I noticed it got a lot slower on larger blocks. Changing "textBox.Text = textBox.Text + newline" to "textBox.Append(newLine)" cut >99% of the CPU time.

On the same project I discovered that "System.Envireonment.NewLine" was a relatively expensive call on c#, caching the result of that property was another 50% cut to CPU.
Seattle-Based Cannabis Merchants Are Accepting Bitcoin for Pot Sales
Not entirely sure what your point is. The best solution is of course to provide African American communities with good schools from the beginning. Like many other ethnic groups Asian Americans have been free to implement their own communities, largely based on family ties, because they weren't brought to the US in chains.
You probably need to add the continually evolving automation and mechanization tech to the list.
Foreclosure takes 1+ year in my state. I consider myself an acquirer of abandoned property at that point, and again, I don't pursue acquiring the property if there is a family attempting to live there (as you say, after he breadwinner has passed).
One thing the Russians have going for them is they're not denying climate change. That lets them sit down and think things through.
It's hard to give myself permission to do something like that when I'm so worried about actually finding something to do, but maybe that's part of the problem. I guess it is something I could experiment with, 7 days of travel, see how it feels.
We ended up just simply not caring about how "modern right way to do things" looks like. Essentially any persistent data can be stored into PostgreSQL and NFS mounted storage server and ideal way to do rich clientside javascript is to serialize the whole thing out of some server-side object tree.
This is exactly why I correct people from treating other people as "cogs in a machine" to treating them as "cells in a much larger organism".
It's short term quarterly thinking. Get my review and bonuses and get out. If any manager thinks the company will be around, he doesn't really care. He's not in it to build a company or a legacy or pride, he's there to get his money and get out.

Driving your workers as fast as possible maximizes your bonus. Who cares what happens in ten years?
Demand?

You can make your own. Example: https://wellnessmama.com/3701/homemade-shampoo/
PKI is broken. The problem isn't the crypto, it's the wardens.
Honestly, not at this point of HN. I don't think there was one thread that mentioned (or didn't mention) anything about Go which didn't have comments criticizing it.

Everyone knows its problems, and everyone knows about Rust.

It's just that some people don't need such extreme Real Time that they can't afford GC at the expense of the borrow-checker and lifetimes.
The main thread is https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.... , and it contains some nuggets like this:

So after reading this, the following auditors aren't
trusted by Symantec anymore:
- E&Y Korea
- E&Y Brazil

The following isn't trusted by Mozilla anymore:
- E&Y Hong Kong

This seems to be a worrying trend to me.

Kurt
Good News on the California Drought
I feel like stability is underrated.
> But if his election finally results in shutting down the global free trade policies that have utterly wrecked my community, then all the negative things I'm sure he'll do likely won't outweigh that single positive achievement.

What makes you think that a) he'll do it, and b) he'll succeed? Because he said he would?
How they have not suffered the "click of death" is a miracle.
Building UI's in something like Qt, GTK or swing was never really that time consuming, especially given the limited amount of controls one screen in a mobile app.
I have the exact same need. I wonder how big this market is.
>It's not hard to see why blue collar workers would rather work in 'poorer' conditions rather than sit idle and lose hope in their futures.

Trump's promises have never included the caveat of poorer conditions or lower wages, as far as I'm aware, and I see little evidence of blue collar workers intending to make any sort of tradeoffs in that regard. What he has promised, however, are "more jobs and better wages."
Yes, re-forestation or afforestation is another scheme worth considering. It can't scale up to the extent of accelerated silicate weathering but it could reach a scale of gigatons of CO2 per year. And it could produce food, wood products, and desirable living space for humans where once there were deserts with little biomass of any kind. You need to harvest-and-bury wood (as biochar, preferably) pretty regularly if the primary goal is CO2 sequestration; otherwise the steady state is approximately equal to current mature forested areas (which store plenty of carbon in soils but aren't great at continuing to remove more from the air).

Accelerated silicate weathering and "greening the deserts" are concepts that work well together, too. Mature fertile soil contains weathered minerals and organic matter. Crushing basalt can speed up the weathering part of producing soil, and provide micronutrients for plants plus a couple of important macros (phosphorus and potassium).
If you were in my shoes, how would you go about 'go outside and get in trouble?'. I'm just not quite sure what to do.
It doesn't make sense to blow the money by yourself. Send me some.

And while you're at it, you might want to cancel any insurance that you have. Afterall, what's the point? That will make more money available to blow.
Damn, you beat me :)

I was an early adopter :(
Again, no concrete actions coming from it. You are looking for a conspiracy where none exists. You are just like the PizzaGate people.

Listen, I wanted Bernie too. I cast my primary ballot for him as well. But clearly more registered members of the Democratic Party wanted Clinton. She was more popular than Bernie among Democrats.
Great news. I hope this means getting Postman to use the system proxy [1] would be seamless. Gave it a shot a few months back, didn't bother debugging though.

[1] https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/22...
A machine that generates money with pandas-datareader and Prophet
averages aren't all that interesting given how skewed salaries tend to be. i agree that (in general) 50k isn't so bad in alabama.
I'm seeing it too. Chrome on Android.
I'm pretty sure they're all embedded low-power processors with GSM + SMS unlocking and small simple batteries which recharge when cycled. (There is a visible delay between people scanning the codes and the locks releasing.)

GPS is usually not included, instead it uses the GPS location of the phone of the last person who hired it and reported locking it when done. ("Sometimes users search for a bike and it is not where their smartphone says it is")

For a redesign, it would be theoretically possible to do the unlock from the consumer app via wifi, bluetooth or NFC and eliminate the mobile connection entirely, using an embedded cryptographic approach similar to banking devices.

Yes, it's all VC money.
OpenSSL Licensing Update
Yes! Thank you, this has been my #1 objection to using Athena more.
Where're you going to store that much gas?
Another interesting relationship between powers and infinity is that on an infinite N-dimensional lattice, taking an infinitely long random walk, starting with dimension 3 you have a 34% chance to return to origin with each successive dimension reducing your chance. The graph of this probability follows a log curve. (dimensions 1 and 2 have a 100% probability of returning to origin)
IMHO there are four bubbles popping in China: urbanization, real estate, automobiles and education.
I recommend moving to a lower cost area of the country, investing that 2 million, and simply doing whatever you find interesting. You should be able to live perpetually on 2 million if you're getting a decent return and withdraw less than 4% annually.
Didn't he co-sponsor this bill?
Deciding What Not to Learn
> A. EV certs are bought for a reason, the very "green bar". Customers will notice this and won't be happy about it.

Are you sure? I've never heard/seen/notice anyone non-technical care remotely. Or even know what it means.
Yeah I was really excited about working with it, limitations notwithstanding... Until learning they charged $$$ for a dev license, which seems like a slap in the face and a hallmark of scams. Now I'm just waiting for used units to hit eBay + reverse engineer the protocol.

I'm not quite interested enough yet to buy bare Hamamatsu (or neospectra/other knockoff?) spectrometer chips, but would totally buy a breakout PCB for one if somebody had a bunch made
True Scotsmen should not be confused with real Scotsmen.
Right to work and Reagan era deregulation.

Temporary and contract workers can fill in holes in the workforce and are easier to get rid of. Also, you push hiring and firing accountability to the contractor.
Singapore ABSD Removal 2017 and Property Cooling Measures News Update
I have nothing against Sublime. But I personally don't use closed source text editors. For something that essential to my livelihood, I like knowing should it get abandoned, that there's a chance of others picking it up (even myself).
I honestly don't remember where I had seen/heard this. Which admittedly makes my claim far less credible. But it was something along the lines of being able to play some netflix content on some player without DRM being applied to it. DRM would be something they use because they want to, not because it's part of their contract with themselves.
ExtJS was never the pretty/handsome prom date.
Are you checking in from Erie?
Remember, one of Trump's promises is to reduce governmental regulations on businesses, and presumably that includes in the factory safety area. Plus you can expect the Republican-dominated congress to help him out here.
> I think that instead, there should be tabular fines for companies. If an employee loses their finger in a press, then they get fined $200,000 no mater what tech was used. That leaves it up to the company to figure out a good way to prevent injuries.

In red states, that's known as oppressive regulation where useless bureaucrats are telling business owners how to do their job.
Let me correct you there: the American people did elect Donald Trump and he became president. Electoral College is the way to get elected, and popular vote has zero impact. That's why nobody who wants to win runs for the popular vote.
The writing is very obtuse and presupposes a lot of knowledge that isn't laid bare. Altogether I'd say it's an interesting piece if you have more background. Also, just as an aside, you gotta love "North Korean propaganda film" tagged on at the end. So what would we call the Iranian father in "Not without my Daughter"? That's right. The "evil Iranian husband" of an American propaganda film. Instead, we never see or call it out in that way - we just call it "Hollywood". Generic, bland, neutral. When it's anything but. Let's get of our high-horses with this bullshit.
Well, many widget libraries use markup languages, Qt has QML, WPF has XAML, and could give more examples but you get the idea.

Personally I prefer using Burp rather than Postman.
Or try working with it over an intermittent connection, everything goes haywire.
OpenSSL Relicensing to Apache 2.0 to Encourage Broader Use with Other FOSS
Wake up earlier.
They care when an app is a laggy mess that eats battery, cpu and memory like crazy
I spent 3 months in a automobile parts factory in Japan as part of my new employee training. This was my job for 8 hours a day, less two 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch break.

I started to develop this mind-body separation where I could do the manual labor while completely disengaging the mind towards some daydreaming, because the routine was so ingrained into my body that I no longer needed conscious brain power to move my hands and examine the visual elements of my tools and parts.

Yes we were basically robots. At least the company genuinely cared about improving processes to prevent workplace injuries, even of the repeated stress category.

While their jobs were not the most important part of these people's lives, it did enable them to provide well for their families and pay for their hobbies and pursuits (I think a blue collar job at a tier 1 Toyota group supplier pays better than a below average whitecollar job in Japan). And they seemed to have a sense of pride in their work.
> but you could imagine scenarios on other worlds where the right kind of political situation was around to stop it.

I can't imagine that. The only evidence I have to date (from a sample size of 1 planet) is that there is next to zero real political will, even if the politicians of the world create additional heat saying they have in fact found the political will.
If the technology doesn't work aren't the shares worth little or nothing? Why bet on the future of the company if there's a cash settlement still possible?
This is a huge win. The incompatibility between OpenSSL and the GPL has been one of the most notable license incompatibilities regularly encountered in practice. With this change, OpenSSL will become compatible with GPLv3, which also makes it compatible with software licensed "version 2 or later". People will no longer need to choose and port to another crypto library for license reasons.
The point isn't entirely that "true" native apps are superior, the point is really that WebView wrappers are no more a "native" application than a standard HTML web application, because that's exactly what they are and pretending otherwise is deceptive.

As for applications built with OS components being inherently better, there are a few reasons for me:

- They are guaranteed to fit in with OS styling

- They near-universally perform better (and I don't see how this can change, given the way browsers are forced to render things)

- The underlying functionality is written in native code, which allows for optimizations that cannot be made on web applications

- They don't have the insane and unnecessary bloat of a modern web browser attached.
bought its voting equipment in 2002

Who the hell was buying new systems in 2002 that relied on Zip disks? Have them taken out back and shot. If they're dead, dig them up, kill them again. By 2002, most of us had figured out the unreliability of Zip disks, and the industry had pretty much moved on by then. Except the people selling voting systems, apparently.

(For the youngsters, I'd guess that the use of Zip disks took a pretty good nose dive around the end of the 90s. By 2002, the only users left should have been those with an existing investment in Iomega's removable disk system.)