skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 99% sure you're right. I ran a dedicated server/colo hosting company for 6 years. Texas is favored for the following reasons:

Cheaper energy

Cheaper real estate

No earthquake retrofitting of datacenters

Low ping times to Midwest vs. California

Cheaper employees; less biz liability insurance required

No state income tax

Honestly, many of these are the same reasons I ended up moving to Texas after I sold my hosting company (which was based in San Jose.) I run a business here now with 15 employees and it's significantly cheaper to run it here vs. California. As a side benefit, I can also afford to own a nice house with a yard my daughter and dog can play in in a great area of Austin for about 1/5 of what it would cost in San Jose.
If you haven't read Infinite Jest, you should. I admit it isn't for everyone, but it's definitely worth suffering for.
I had back pain for three years, which I attributed to sitting for long hours. I had seen a doctor, multiple physical therapists, a chiropractor, and massage therapist ... all of whom provided temporary relief at best.

Upon reading 'Healing Back Pain', I came to understand that it wasn't the sitting but rather built up stress and anxieties causing the pain.

Within 1 week of reading, my back felt 80% better. Within one month, 95%. Several months later, I'm now pain-free.

My girlfriend also experiences anxiety at times and had back pain that would come and go. She read the book and it cured her back, as well.

Admittedly, I found it very strange how effective this book was. I approached it hesitantly, but it has had profound results. Check the reviews on Amazon for further support.

This book has had a great impact on my quality of life and I highly suggest it to anyone experiencing not just back pain, but any physical ailment that might be tied to stress, anxiety, tension, etc.
This project definitely tells more about the author than about the HN community.
Pass the paywall: https://t.co/fU9VRQUpiw
Ask HN: EUPL question
1. Say there's a fancy new service released under EUPL which adds two numbers

2. I create a website which prompts the user to enter two numbers

3. The entered numbers are dispatched to the the service in #1 for addition

4. I return the result to the user

Under EUPL, am I required to release the source code of the website which collects the two numbers, makes the call to the service, and returns the result?
What other books do you consider as important fundamentals?
Sounds more like (gross) negligence as they weren't actually /trying/ to hurt someone, just didn't do what they should have to prevent it.
Rackspace HQ is is in a former shopping mall outside of San Antonio. Definitely a cool place to tour if you ever get the chance. You can still see where the "stores" were (they're now employee workspaces.)
Sorting would be nice too! (nearest to me, price low to high, etc...)
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Low humidity compared to where?

Average yearly relative humidity[1] :

Houston:
75% daily
90% morning
55% afternoon

In the summer, the heat is much more unbearable in Texas than let's say Arizona due to the high humidity rates. Every year, 97 days in Houston with Apparent temperature above 95°F due to humidity (vs. only 16 days per year where Actual temperature is above 95°F)[2]

[1] https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Texas/humidity-annual...

[2] https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Texas/hot-humid-days-...
Do kids still use Snapchat?
Is average annual high a useful measure here? When the high is around 77° during those amazing couple of weeks in March and October in I never have to turn on the heat or AC. The AC is running all day in July and August though; especially the 50% of days hotter than the average high of 95°.
Elon rarely makes categorical statements about future goals, usually throwing in a few weasel words, or "we project" or "we plan", but during Tesla's last earnings call he said:

“What people should absolutely have zero concern about, and I mean 0, is that Tesla will achieve a 10,000 unit production week by the end of next year. […] I think people should really not have any concerns that we won’t reach that outcome from a production rate.”
yeah it's relevant as a dying technology. the article includes the iPhone on a graph, so it's not much of a leap to mention traditional telephone service.
One really unfortunate aspect of the passwords being hashed is that there's no info available about their lengths. Knowing the lengths could allow you to reduce the size considerably when you enforce a minimum password length.

For example, if I have a site that requires passwords to be at least 10 chars long, I don't need any of the data for breached passwords that are shorter than 10 characters. People can't possibly use them anyway, so that's probably a huge chunk of the data that's completely useless to be storing and checking.
So much of modern philosophy seems like the task of obfuscating an illogical argument with unrelated logical ones until the reader forgets and assumed the original argument must have been proved logically.

I believe it was Apollo Robbins who said one of the brainjacks he uses is the "A, B, C, 7" pattern, where people with distracted attention tend to leap to assuming the next object is like the former ones.
Is the coal consumed in WY?
It used to be a huge concern for me as well. I realized that the more I read, the faster I read. So if you are worried about reading speed, don't. Just read, and it will get better. With no extra effort from me, my reading speed increased by at least 50% since I started reading books seriously.
I've never heard of this site, nor have I seen it in any search results. Now that I look at it, it looks very useful! I may have used it if I had known about it.

Perhaps get a better marketing department?
I'd add government data, their open data portals are often subpar. For example in Germany the national weather data was made (licensed) open data this week (in German https://www.golem.de/news/deutscher-wetterdienst-wetterdaten...)
OKCupid's blog has a series of interesting (and depressing) write-ups about this.
Given that, I wonder how has Oregon has managed to have such smooth elections.
306 Million Password Hashes
> Not only is the "Object Oriented" way of doing things arguably a blight on software design, both allocation and chasing of virtual pointers are devastating to modern performance.

Um, this is not unique to Java, you know. Even C++ does this.
City Lab has debunked that notion twice [1, 2].

"[I]t’s important to realize that the situation reflected in this data represents the past, not the present. States across the country are rapidly cleaning up their grids, thanks to cap-and-trade programs, investments in renewable energy, tightened air quality standards, and more coal plants put to sleep." [2]

"Here’s the cool thing about electric vehicles in the U.S. right now: In many areas, the longer you own one, the cleaner it gets." [1]

[1] https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/06/electric-vehicles-are-c...

[2] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2016/12/the-surprisin...
It may have done at one point .. but appears to be ok now. Have had quite a few visitors!

I did notice a quota error around that time that I need to investigate further.
Maybe - even better - if you could submit only - say - first 8 characters of the SHA1 (and NOT the complete hash) and provide - still say - max 10 "whole" hashes found with that 8 char beginning (if more than 10 ask for a ninth char).

I mean, here is the SHA1 of my password (not really):

d012f68144ed0f121d3cc330a17eec528c2e7d59

This site:

https://hashkiller.co.uk/sha1-decrypter.aspx

>We have a total of just over 312.072 billion unique decrypted SHA1 hashes since August 2007.

Took exactly 221 ms to reverse it to "pippo".
> Afaik every single OO language allows this.

Ruby and Scala disallow it, to name two (edit: to clarify, Scala supports both modes via private and private[this]). I stand corrected on Java, C#, and C++.

> The reasons why TypeScript isn't a battle test solution are laid out pretty explicitly in the Github thread.

I didn't see that, can you point me to it? Yes, in TS it's a compile-time-only check (as are all TS checks), but what does that have to do with reusing the same keyword for a runtime check?
Step 1.
Make a racist comment
Step 2.
Receive racist comments back at you
Step 3.
Write a blog about yout adventure

You know you live in a great society where your biggest fear are MICROaggressions and offensive tweets
Your website doesn't have a careers page.
Or you could get many people and organizations to contribute data under an open license. That's exactly what OpenStreetMap is: http://www.openstreetmap.org
Once Uber runs out of money to burn they will be no better than your average taxi, and probably more expensive. As more stories like this come out, it's becoming apparent they will be worse.
To re-iterate, Seattle proper (not the metro area w/ Bellvue, Tacoma, etc) has a larger population than the state of Wyoming.

Any per-capita comparisons which involve industrial measurements on a statewide basis are going to seem weird for Wyoming.
On SHARC, char is 32-bit (so is short, int and long).

I don't see why it's a problem, though? As noted earlier, C accommodates that. Sure, there's a lot of C code that's written with the assumption that chars are always 8-bit, because they usually are. But it's definitely possible to write portable C code that doesn't make such assumptions.

int32_t is required to be supported on any architecture on which one of the standard types is exactly 32-bit. Since long is required to be at least 32-bit, and any 8-bit microcontroller would have to support long, it would be 32-bit as well, and so it'd have int32_t (typedef'd to long). The only case where you wouldn't have it is either if the architecture has a word larger than 32 bits as its smallest addressable unit, or if it has non-8-bit bytes.

In practice, this is really not an issue, because you don't have to target the absolute most portable subset of C. The reason for making those features conditionally supported is so that when they are there, they behave the same. So you can say "my code runs on any platform that supports ISO C, and has int32_t in stdint.h". Not only that, but you can enforce it at compile-time with clear error messages, e.g.:

#ifndef INT32_MAX
#error "int32_t requrired"
#endif

Your code is still portable. It's less portable than the mandatory subset of C, but it's a strictly defined part of the spec that behaves the same on all platforms that support that part.
I got a MBP this last refresh. I'm a programmer.

Touch Bar is a nice incremental advance. Not having a physical ESC key is not as bothersome as I expected. In fact, I don't notice it at all. Disclaimer: I don't use vi.

I like the media control modes, and am looking forward to content creation apps (ex: Ableton) making use of it.

I'd be sad if it were taken away, but it wouldn't prevent me from getting work done. It's a nice-to-have extra.

Also, the new keyboard is fantastic. I love the keys, and my external keyboard is now a buzzkill and I can't wait for Apple to refresh the Magic Keyboard with the new switches.

I have never accidentally hit the touch bar.
Usually the diacritics exist because of something that is contrastive in the language's phonology. This post is mainly about a concrete example of this, where pączki and
paczki refer to two different things that a shop could sell. So it's super-helpful that shops can make that distinction in writing!

Or for example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_pair#Stress

In Portuguese, my strongest foreign language, I can think of examples like

a 'the (feminine)' / à 'at the (feminine)'

nó 'knot' / no 'in the'

dá 'gives' / da 'of the'

nós 'we' / nos 'in the (plural)'

sê 'I should be' / se 'oneself' / sé 'see (Catholic)'

pode 'can' / pôde 'could (past)'

avô 'grandfather' / avó 'grandmother'

tem 'he/she has' / têm 'they have'

among many others.

At least a couple of these reflect vowel differences, although some would be homophones in speech. Every language that holds on to diacritics would have pairs like this where the diacritics make a difference to the meaning. So people may really appreciate having writing systems that can reflect these differences in order to avoid confusions that would otherwise occur.
> 1. Members marked private being accessible from other instances of the same class [1] is counter to every other OO language I have used. What is the prior art here? Why depart from all conventions like this?

Almost every statically typed OOP language works this way. In C++, Java, and C#, privacy is class-based, not instance-based.

Privacy is instance-based in Smalltalk and, as I understand it, has been a long-time source of frustration. It makes it very difficult to implement things like an equality method so that an object can compare itself to another of its own type without breaking its own encapsulation.

If you think about it from the perspective of software engineering (and not security, which is generally not what language-level privacy is for), instance-based privacy has no benefits over class-based privacy.

The goal of access control is to encapsulate regions of code from each other so that modification to one doesn't affect others. It establishes fences between different parts of the program to make them less coupled to each other and easier to independently change.

Every instance of the same class shares the exact same code, so there is no point in preventing access between them. It's not like you can encapsulate things such that a change to class A doesn't require a change to... class A. That's the same class that you're already touching.

> We should be looking to TypeScript's private/protected modifiers as a battle tested solution that fits the existing convention set by the "static" modifier.

I believe those rely on static analysis, which JavaScript does not have.
When you say "the rate at which you find content is greater than what you can consume daily", can you provide more details? Are you, for example, trying to read all headlines of NYTimes + HN + Reddit Front page daily? What type of content are you trying to filter out / prioritize from?
Only, how is the phisher supposed to know that I used a randomized password?
Of course it doesn't justify the threats or anything that she got on twitter or facebook, but technically her tweet was racist to begin with. (Joking about people being racist just because of their skin color.)

By the way I'm always amazed by the fact that citizens of a first-world country can be so primitive to actually threaten anybody because of a bad tweet...
> Tell them it was fake! There was that story where they hired a known convicted rapist in India, who then raped a passenger, and then Uber executives tried to discredit the victim.

No they did not. They tried to procure her medical records to verify whether the rape claim was true. They never actively discredited the victim.

There's plenty of stuff to hate Uber for without you making up outrage.
Show HN: Overlay the solar eclipse and weather with Flowx
Hi HN,

I'm the developer of Flowx, an Android weather app, and I've just added the solar eclipse path and shadow to the app. So now you can plan where to find stable high pressure systems and clear skies for the 21st of August.

I believe this is the only app to show the long term weather forecast and eclipse together.

Here is demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtqeE-O0Tfk

Notice, the app is currently showing a demo eclipse date (7/8/17) so people can try it out. The real eclipse data will start showing 10-days prior to the real eclipse.

Our website is:
http://flowx.io

Google Play link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enzuredigi...

Cheers, Duane.
That's actually a feature, not a bug -- 11th hour news stories are rarely accurate, seldom have sufficient context, etc.
Is that NCA or NMC?

Typically grid storage batteries are rated to 10+ years or ~5000 cycles or something on that order of magnitude.

One way to get your cells to last that long is to lessen the discharge depth; that may account for some of the price difference.
Debating whether to buy this model or stay away.

How do you ESC when this thing crashes?
Whatsapp is probably much more valuable to Facebook than to anyone else.

Could Google really significantly monetize Whatsapp? It seems Facebook can't - but at least Facebook can ensure their other revenue streams aren't decimated by free-and-fast Whatsapp.
That doesn't really affect energy usage though.

The Texas grid is separate due to a combination of just wanting to be independent and geography.

Back in the early days of the grid there was little reason to join the growing national grids because of the remoteness of Texas from the other population centers (transmission is expensive and in the early days inefficient) and abundant natural resources that could be used for generating electricity in the region. Before oil it was coal (and there's still a few plants in Texas using local peat coal, but fewer every year). Then oil, and natural gas. Now wind and solar are the new up and coming sources. Natural gas will be with us for awhile -- it's a handy fuel for generating electricity. It still produces CO2 (but less than coal), but can be spun up and down quickly to meet demand, something coal and nuclear aren't so good at.

We're not totally separate, though -- we have 5 DC ties to the other grids. As I write this looks like we're sending out about 350 MWh. Still, those ties are tiny compared to the current load of 59343 MWh.
So because it could potentially confuse a newbie, all the professional developers who can easily incorporate the contexts of the questions dates and their knowledge should be denied the ability to share useful information?

This is thing: I'm not arguing (and I don't think anyone is) that these questions have answers. I'm arguing that access to the opinions of others, along with their reputation and other indicators of alignment with your own values, has immense value. More value than the technical questions that do have right and wrong answers. I can sort through the information myself can come to an informed conclusion.
Industrial use.

Louisiana [1] has 18 oil refineries, numerous chemical plants, and various other facilities to process oil and natural gas that are produced both in-state and imported from elsewhere. Compared to Texas, which has more oil refineries, Louisiana has a much smaller population, pushing the per capita number higher.

Wyoming [2] expends over 58% of its energy use in the industrial sector, including energy-intensive activities like open-pit and strip coal mining (such as in Powder River Basin), underground mining (e.g. trona, soda ash). It also has six oil refineries. Further, it's located along one of the busiest transcontinental transportation corridors (Union Pacific's Rawlins and Laramie Subs, I-80), and all that Powder River Basin coal also ships out by rail -- transportation consumes another 20%.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=LA
[2] https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=WY
Capitalism does not need more regulations, the government just needs to enforce the ones that exist.
Because this is honestly a really hard problem. There honestly just not really a good way of combining accounts without lots of manual effort on the part of the user. Users also largely don't want this. When Google combined Gmail and Youtube accounts it was just a god awful clusterfuck that required a lot of manual intervention for each user to get their stuff back in order. It also was a net negative because people didn't want their email/google+ tied to their anonymous youtube accounts.
I sure hope that all that you have learned has been learned from trained professionals...

Like making love, like walking, like being kind to others, like cooking, etc.
> As per him being untraceable, if he was not read his rights

Rights? Which rights?
A decade ago I wrote something like this using Racket (formerly MzScheme)! https://github.com/srid/boalisp
Business ≠ War. That said I think Tesla's strategy is a good one.
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Although this article has a bit too much cheerleading for me to consider it an objective analysis, the emphasis on PR reminds me that Tesla currently has the best PR game in the auto industry since Henry Ford raised his workers' pay to $5 an hour.

Surely this thread will come to possess the very army of Tesla fans that the writer talks about, which will serve his very point: when was the last time any car company got the public at large to be downright elated about their product?
Digital Realty and Equinix both have multiple huge datacenters, the Informart[1] houses several gigantic datacenters inside of one building (it's mind boggling how utterly big it is), Internap has an absolutely gigantic facility there, Rackspace has I think their biggest facility here, and then there's a smattering of smaller datacenters (in and out of the Infomart) owned by every major player.

There's so much space here that most companies have only recently started chasing after highly dense stuff (like 60+ drive arrays in 4U, hyper-dense blades, etc) because there just is no need to.

And as a side note, Texas now operates the largest number of wind turbines (by MW) and I think per capita as well. Texas now generates so much power that they regularly sell it to nearby states because the whole "long term storage" problem hasn't been solved at the scale Texas needs it to be...

Which means not only is datacenter space plentiful, the power is often less expensive than it is in other markets.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomart
This makes me unreasonably happy.