skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Net metering technically isn't a subsidy since they are being compensated for a benefit they provide, it's just forcing utilities to not pay less than they're benefiting, and solar is a good investment for individuals when sensible regulation ensures they get a share of the benefits they provide to the grid.

Here's a respected centrist think tank's take:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/rooftop-solar-net-meterin...

"Nevertheless, by the end of 2015,
regulators in at least 10 states had conducted studies to develop methodologies to value distributed generation and net metering, while other states conducted less formal inquiries, ranging from direct rate design or net-metering policy changes to general education of decisionmakers and the public. And there is a degree of consensus. What do the commission-sponsored analyses show? A growing number show that net metering benefits all utility customers"
I don't think they're interested in the purely speculative stuff.

I worked with them as a consultant for a year until June. Blockchain tech and smart contracts were interesting. BTC trading not so much.
The implied consent is based on trust. The browser is my user agent, it is meant to interpret the data that it gets from HTTP stream the way I want it. I let it do the things as specified in the received data (i.e. by you), because I trust that you're not an asshole and will not abuse that power.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of assholes on-line, who decided to abuse the default behaviour - so now we have ad blockers and reader modes.

Ultimately, it is (by intention and design of the HTTP protocol, and computer networks in general) up to me what I do with the data - if, how, and which parts of it I decide to process.
On a US-English keyboard on the mac, you can always type the proper glyphs directly on the keyboard. That's always been harder on windows where one would have to type some numerical character code each time they wanted some non-ascii character. That's where the auto-replace originated.

On the mac:

Option [ “ (English open quote)
Option Shift [ ” (English close quote)

A lesser-known feature is that some other quotations are also possible from that same US-English keyboard:

Option \ « (French open quote)
Option Shift \ » (French close quote)
Option Shift W „ (German open quote)
Look for schools that offer and have madatory co-op programs. Schools with good relationships to help you get jobs will get your farther when you graduate.
The complete business model is taking the p*ss imho. I am seeing more than a number of people reverting to simple €20 nokias for basic telephone + sms usage on top of a gadget / secondary device for consumption or mobile business.
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Downvoted for making sense...
The Moon isn't a useful analogy precisely because the Martian atmosphere does make a significant difference. Just not enough to allow parachute-only soft landings. I've seen the 'thick enough to be annoying, too thin to be useful' meme before but it doesn't really match reality.

For example Pathfinder decelerated from 7.3km/s to 0.4km/s purely using it's aeroshell, before it even deployed the parachutes[0]. Now 0.4km/s is still pretty fast, but a saving of 6.9km/s dV is absolutely enormous.

Red Dragon was only possible because, with modifications to the capsule aerodynamics, the Martian atmosphere would brake the capsule enough for it to soft-land on the SuperDracos. There's no way a Dragon could usefuly soft-land on the Moon. It's just way too heavy for it's size. All that thick capsule hull is just dead weight for an airless environment. Given it's high dry mass the rocket equation demands huge amounts of fuel to compensate. The parameters are all wrong for the Moon because it's designed to use atmospheric drag to do most of the work.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_atmospheric_entry
Eh. For me having smart unlock attached to my watch works. Sure, the range is farther than with nfc, but it's acceptable to me.
I don't see why FTP is any more valid than HTTP for this. Uploading from the browser directly to S3 isn't difficult. You can support resume and whatever auth strategy you want as your backend generates the signing key.
In my experience, this strongly correlates with "...and your password is l3tme1n." "Wait, isn't that insecure?" "Nah, it's fine, who would want to hack us anyway?"

In other words, anyone offering FTP as an integration path in 2017 is most likely wide open for a host of other security holes.
>Is it a bug though, or a feature?

It's a bug.
Ask the orphans of Iraq, Afghanistan, or Syria how peaceful the U.S.is
They (allegedly) send the full list in. The cops are not only looking for citizenship clues, but also outstanding warrants. So if you're behind on child support, or have unpaid parking tickets - stay somewhere else.
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I think it's common to use ESC (0x1b) and then set the high bit on the next byte, so ESC itself would be sent as 0x1b, 0x8b.
I love Arch Linux. I'd say though there is a huge learning curve before you become comfortable/productive. However, in the end it's the most comfortable, because you are pretty aware how most things work, especially if you like to heavily customize things.
Tulips can be grown and look pretty too...
The FCC Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence
Nice - I like Chromebooks for on-the-go work because they are light, have great battery life, and Google's tentacles make for a slick UI.

I use crouton and xiwi, though, because while native is nice, you can't beat surfacing X windows into Chrome tabs. I love the cheap 10-11" ones for stuff like OpenSCAD and KiCAD.

(Also, if you keep your work backed up offline, $200-300 for a replacement isn't bad, compared to a high-end powerhouse. That's nice in a mobile machine; life happens.)
Yes there is, see their following explanation:

###

Input

Input to the game is performed by manually editing the contents of RAM address 1. Using the QFTASM interpreter, this means performing direct writes to address 1. Look for "Direct write to RAM" on the interpreter's page. Each move only requires editing a single bit of RAM, and this input register is automatically cleared after the input event has been read.

value motion
1 counterclockwise rotation
2 left
4 down (soft drop)
8 right
16 clockwise rotation

###

If you do CTRL+F on the following:

Direct write to RAM

You can find the input field :)
Reinstalling arch Linux means that you have to reconfigure everything. Arch does not work right out of the box.
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The parent's explanation didn't include the "yield to the right" rule, so it was problematic already with two cars.
Actually the claim is the best selling "single model" computer ever as most other computers had more sales but didn't stick with the same features. Might be more IBM PCs out there but they were not compatible with each other like the C64...

Though I hear this might not be a thing anymore now due to the Rasberry Pi's popularity.
> I should have mentioned that it wasn't necessarily sheer size of field, but something like sizequality in my original postl*

Understood. Marginal traditionally refers to the quality, but I wasn't sure how you thought the math would work. And since you mentioned size before, I went in that direction.

I am still unsure of how the math would work out. I have a farm that is already bordering on marginal and even ignoring labour costs it is difficult to turn a profit. Honestly, labour costs are a drop in the bucket. It costs hundreds of dollars per acre for input costs (seed, fertilizer, fuel, etc.), there is a significant capital cost to having the land and the machinery, while the labour if I paid myself minimum wage would be maybe $10 per acre over the course of the year. And I think that's pushing it. That is only 2% of the input costs when my other input costs are $500.

If a field is only 2% shy of not being marginal, I'm certain there is already someone trying to make it work.

> I don't agree with your characterization about farmers doing it for fun.

Well, that's why I do it, so I have some experience there. If it was about the money, I know software development pays far better.

> but outside of that radius you mostly have people who either already have farms

I was assuming that those who farm for fun would already have their own farm. However, now that you mention it, I always see the retired farmers are still keen to get back into the equipment, so it is not strictly limited to those who have their own farms. Living hours away from the nearest city, I don't really see it being an activity of those near the city.
Whereas the USA just invades [wherever] and says "its because you're not democratic/have too many terrorists/whatever".
Announcement made via twitter
https://twitter.com/YourBTCC/status/908285586368167936
I looked at the book reviews yesterday. Tons of one star review, but if you sorted by verified purchases the vast majority of them disappeared. Honestly, to minimize gaming Amazon might just have to start restricting reviews to verified purchases, even though that has its own set of drawbacks.
The answer might be different depending on which country you are studying in.

How much Biology have you done so far ?
It's taking more than a minute for me to sign up on Coinhive because of the proof-of-work in their registration form.

Definitely a no-no for computers older than 3 years.
I guess that's the magic of the Arch Wiki¹.
Even if not using Arch I often find it far more useful and up-to-date than the wiki of my own distributions (Ubuntu and Manjaro).

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_between_archi...
>you can’t directly draw DOM elements to a canvas without awkwardly porting it to an SVG

This is not a wart, this is a security feature. Of course, it wouldn't be a necessary limitation if the web wasn't so complicated, but the web is complicated.
Perl (Mojolicious framework)
In fact, a larger majority of the world consider that the USA is the very power that has kept the world at war for the last 80 years .. and they're kind of right.
Would be interesting to enable voice authentication contemporaneous with face scanning to make sure the lipreading matched the utterance matches the voiceprint matches the expected face. Bonus points that a vocal channel could be used to detect duress (especially if accompanied by, say, raised eyebrows) and either require further authentication (passphrase entry) or a "false unlock" to reveal only a nearly factory fresh app and data underlying. Could also potentially send a notification to friends that your phone had just been unlocked under duress. Bonus points for in parallel hard-scrubbing the underlying true data while displaying the false boring phone interface.
Take note, high-risk investors: now is a good time to buy.
Computer Science is truly the way to go. If you become a developer of normal skill (in comparison to 10Xer's) this will open so many more doors than say a degree in bioinformatics. The mindset around here sometimes seems to be we are so skilled at writing code that job offers fall into our laps out of thin air, but the reality is you will often have to go through the annoying application process that us mere mortals face on every job change. Having a degree in Computer Science makes these transitions much much easier. It won't be a constant uphill battle to prove you know as much (probably even more) than the typical CS grad. My 2 cents.
Ugh, methinks you are deliberately missing my point.

There is no reason to think bitcoin is a good long term hedge.
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It is giving consent, in some sense. But make a popular website use visitors' browsers to launch a DDoS attack and you'll find that "anything goes as long as it's the bounds of the sandbox" doesn't really apply.

Apart from that, people can easily take a different view altogether. When I visit a site, I download some bits. Doing so I don't consent to anything -- what I do with these bits is up to me.
This is very incorrect. The USA is a bully - most of the nations wanting "USA protection" are really just asking to not be bullied.
You can do this on iPhone kinda. I have it so that I can reply to text messages from the lock screen, but to view or reply to emails I have to log in. Not perfect but that works at least.
>“That is a solicitation to assault in exchange for money that is not protected by the First Amendment,” she said.

Is it, really?

People shed hair all the time, no need to knock her on her back and get to work with a pair of sheep shears.
That's probably very system dependent and usage dependent. I've been running a desktop workstation with Arch for 11 years, and experienced serious breakage (kernel didn't boot) perhaps once and some annoyances a few times (systemd migration, freetype2 rendering changes, wayland becoming somehow default and being hard to change back to Xorg). The bulk of the issues is with a need to manually upgrade non-desktop software. (PostgreSQL migrations between major versions, that need to be planned more carefully, etc.) Pacdiff helps greatly here, for config updates, too.

Over 11 years I've done only one re-install when moving to SSD. (It was not really necessary, I could have just as well copied rootfs content over and be done with it. But I wanted a clean slate after 7 years or so.) No need for big upgrades is absolutely the biggest benefit of Arch Linux for me. Understanding and being able to fix stuff myself is another one. Close second is makepkg/PKGBUILDs being simplicity itself and a joy to work with. And then wiki/docs.

Though, I was a Slackware and Linux From Scratch user before Arch, so I might be blind to things that other people would call breakage. :]
> That's the entire point of science

Challenge accepted :D

Scientific fact 1: methadone doesn't alleviate the addiction. It actually feeds it to the point that it increases the patient's tolerance at which point you have to increase the dosage.

Scientific fact 2: methadone doesn't provide the "high". Totally true. That's why the vast majority of patients seek it elsewhere(alcohol, cannabis, etc).

Scientific fact 3: Life-long methadone users have relapses more than once. Most clinics/doctors supporting methadone brush it off as "it's quite normal and logical".

Scientific fact 4: innumerable people have been able to kick off opioid addiction by following long-term(but not life-long) therapies.

General fact: You'd be hard pressed to find a drug, other than methadone, that has been so controversial in its usage.

More facts: these panels of "experts" don't provide evidence that long-term recovery doesn't work, but they opine that "hey, methadone is the best, true story.". Show me data, show me science ;)

Isn't it way too convenient for the drug industry? Has it ever happened before, I wonder?

Isn't it weird that heroin addiction in US has increased because of the gratuitous opioid prescriptions?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/29/us-heroin-us...
And for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies this is just how life goes.
Aren't we blocking ads to cut websites's revenue streams?
>> Does Motel 6 hand over their guest list to local police so they can check to see if any of them are wanted for murder or rape? Nope! But being in the country illegally? Can't have that!

Everyone has their thing, and they are here illegally - not just undocumentedly as the media keeps trying to repaint it. But I'm curious who they hire for housekeeping at motel 6, I suspect they may be using the same type of people they are reporting and that would IMHO be rather umm... Choose your words for that.

They might also call the local police if a guy with some young girls was staying there with a constant string of men dropping by. You don't know that illegals are the only ones they like to report.
Here is why I use Arch Linux:

(0) I'm somewhere at the middle in the spectrum between a noob and a power user. My parents think of me as the latter, but most technically competent people I've met think of me as the former.

(1) I'm lazy when it comes to computer stuff: If I'm given a bare-bones system, I won't bother installing and configuring more than is strictly necessary to start getting work done (not necessarily in the most efficient way). And conversely, if I'm given a bloated system, I won't bother removing what I don't need to use. Even worse, I often end up rationalizing that “I might need it someday”.

(2) I want stuff to both just work and be easy to understand. Alas, software that works automagically is usually complex, so a compromise is needed. The compromise I've settled for is that I'm willing to put just enough effort into learning from online guides and fora, so long as I'm not confronted with too much complexity. If I can't learn how to configure your software in 30 minutes, I won't use it. (The only exception is Emacs.)

Arch fits my needs pretty nicely: It provides good defaults for the low-level system stuff that I don't want to bother learning, and it provides no defaults whatsoever for the user-facing stuff that I do want to control.
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I think the only advantage is a slightly lower overhead.
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Did you read the article? Troy Hunt addressed that.
i could barely read the article. the first pop up blocked the whole screen, and when I clicked the X I also accidentally clicked the ad behind it.

Then, when I was trying to read, the text kept popping up and down as ads moved in and out. I gave up at that point.
It's not just brain plasticity. I have literally tons of Vim customization code that would need to be migrated. It's doable, but definitely not "a few days" effort.

Any disruption like this this will impact full-on on my ability to program fast. Even a 10% drop in productivity over an extended migration and learning period can translate into the thousands of $$$.
The one thing keeping me on Google is Google Voice. I have yet to find another solution that allows calling and SMS in/out on desktop and mobile all from the same number.

What I need is simple, a single VOIP number linked to:

- Calling/SMS on the desktop (Windows/Linux) and on the phone

- Shared contacts and call/sms history on all devices

- When I call out/text on any device, show the VOIP number in caller ID not the device number

- When I receive a call, ring all devices

I don't need any fancy handoff from device to device, or IM integration, or anything else. Just ring all my damn devices and let me pick up one. Ideally it would have an API that allows IM clients to integrate with it as a protocol, but hell, at this point I'd go for a black box app if it could do what I want.

Is there an app for that? I'm not sure its even possible on iPhone unless you're iMessage, but of course that doesn't work if your desktop is non-Apple.

Seems like it would be fairly simple. Tempted to build something out myself, but that's a lot of ongoing support.

Twilio -- that'd make a great showcase app and it's something I'd personally pay for. Any chance you guys might pick that up?
Sure, I could have reinstalled Arch, but 1) that sort of breaks the whole "install once, update forever" ideal many Arch proponents trot out, and 2) that would still require me to install everything manually, set up the base system manually, fiddle around with config files and so on.

In comparison, to install Mint, I popped in the USB stick, ran the installer and that was it. The most complicated thing was the partition manager, and only because I have four hard drives and a Windows partition to take into account.

And that was it, 20 minutes and I was up and running on a desktop with a browser, with automatic updates, and every driver working correctly.

That's what I want from my computer these days. I want it to work for me.

I'm not a kernel hacker, I'm not even a developer (aside from some monitoring scripts at work). I want my web browser and my media player and my various little utility apps. I have no desire to be a sysadmin, I've been there and done that, and now I find it a waste of time.
The USA has a policy of not invading local countries, because they're too close to home. So, its mostly power projection "fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them .. here".

Really, this is a fundamental issue to understand. USA is not a peace-bringing nation - it is a war-projection nation. In the same way that one can use fire to fight fires, the USA thinks its war-making is actually bringing peace to the world.

I know - it doesn't make any sense. But, the military-industrial complex which runs the USA doesn't care if you think it makes sense. It only cares about dropping bombs, clearing the shelves of inventory with short half lives, and replacing it with new inventory.

EDIT: the claim that USA's wars are "just, righteous wars" is highly specious and, frankly, risible. The USA has toppled more democratically elected officials than any other nation in the history of mankind. I urge you to consider the hubris of the statement: "the USA only fights good wars", because there is fiction, and there is fact.

The fact is, a lot of people in democratic societies around the world feel that the USA hasn't fought a good war since WW2, and in fact that the opposite is true: the USA fights to put its own dictators into power. Even a casual investigation of this fact yields more than enough evidence to support the statement: the USA is up to no good.
I was never a big fan of Access, it was no so great compared to Delphi, Paradox and even systems like DBase, Clipper, etc. There is a clone of Delphi around, based on Free Pascal called Lazarus.

But honestly this whole thing has moved to the web these days. Something like Django is probably the easiest and fastest way to do a CRUD app these days.
In cryptocurrency world 10% daily change is considered normal. The markets were extremely volatile in the past and as years pass by they become more stable. We are not there yet but I believe in the future as the market cap increases and more people get involved the price will stabilize more and such changes will be considered a crash.

Also do not forget the people that had money in BTCC exchange. I suppose many of them sold their BTC in order to withdraw there money hence the crash that you see. This price drop in BTCC exchange created arbitrage opportunities and so people (and probably auto-trade bots) started buying cheap BTC in BTCC exchange and then sold to another exchange - resulting in the drop of price that we see right now. Of course panic selling is happening right now too...

Don't forget that 20% changes are not something extreme. Check TSLA price between 23th of June and 6th of July this year. The price went from $383 to $313 which is around 20% change.
At the end of the day, its still windows. There have been too many dick moves for me to trust them. As long as the terminal works in MacOS, ill use mac.
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I was hopeful about lots of alternatives, but Firefox OS is dead for now and Sailfish is hard to come by without rooting.

Rooting your phone isn't always possible. Microsoft controls both CyanogenMod, which is often the best opption, and of course Windows Mobile, but in many ways MS is actually more open source friendly than Google nowadays. (and both are obviously way more open than Apple)

Honestly, I'm rooting for Microsoft in the mobile space right now simply because the more competition there is, the more need for cross-platform standards.

But I'm also rooting for Sailfish and Firefox (assuming they try again when Servo is done). They all have interesting pros and cons.
Reverse proxies making routing decisions based on request content and making server load balancing decisions is putting policy in the middle.