skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The controversy is over what happens when the power supplied via the grid goes out. There are generally two options that could be taken here, in light of the argument that a powered house connected to an unpowered grid is unsafe:

1. Any solar system on the house would be required to shut off at the same time, leaving the house without power from any source, or

2. A solar system on the house could continue to provide power to the house, but only if the house is temporarily disconnected from the grid while doing so.

Florida law effectively requires (1) and forbids (2). "Effectively" because, although a switch is present which could disconnect from the grid temporarily to allow the solar system to power the house, only the power company is permitted to operate it, and in fact the power company is permitted to physically lock the switch to prevent disconnection from occurring, thus preventing the solar power system from being used when the grid is down.

The net result of these policies is that, yes, it is in fact not legally possible to continue supplying power to your house from solar when the grid is down.
Thanks for this resource, looks promising. Are all stories picked by hand? It would be useful if you could paginate instead of only being able to see the archive for one day.
The spark for the article, so I understand, is that regulation advocated by FPL made it illegal for homeowners to access that switch. So, in the wake of the hurricane, it was explicitly forbidden for folks with solar systems to power their own homes.

You are describing a rational, reasonable regulatory system. :) Sadly, not the one in force.
Yeah, DOOM (2016) took four months to crack https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-removed-from-doom-after-game... — and after the crack, the DRM was removed.

And casual users might be law-abiding in the USA, but not everywhere :)
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Firefox and Servo use 1/60 as the smallest layout unit for the same reason.

http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/gfx/src/AppUnits...

http://doc.servo.org/app_units/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177805
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Interesting to see what machine learning is doing in the Data space. Other companies to look at --> Snowflake, Splunk, Google (amazing advancements in ML in the past year)
Yeah I can't even add a sink
There are different ways to relate something to morality.

The maximalists claim that copyright violation is identical to theft, whereas their opponents claim that copyright law is being used to make huge profits and destroy freedom. The former puts copyright at the center of the moral spotlight, but the latter pushes it aside and helps us see that justice and freedom are the true moral issues.
Have you had a look at GNU Ring?
It's also decentralized (except the name server but you don't have to use it) and works better for me than tox.

https://ring.cx/
> cleaner air

Ride 100 provides an excellent demonstration of this even just by closing -some- roads for -one- day.

cf this graph of pollution on Putney High Street:

https://twitter.com/jwoLondon/status/892004529545379840
These fearless teachers are bringing the internet to women in rural India
Well, no, there is no "book" in the real meaning of this word.

But some documentation is available in the "Documentation" section of the web site and inside the "Help|Help file" (Ctrl+F1) menu in the IDE itself.

There are small example and template projects as well.

Also the FASM forum is a good place to ask: https://board.flatassembler.net
> I've found there are so many people trying to get into IT that your portfolio counts for more than your qualifications

I'd expect qualifications to matter less if there are few people trying to get into IT, since employers can less afford to miss a good candidate. If they get a hundred applicants for each position, they'll be more inclined to use a weak filter to throw out half of them on a first pass.
Pineapple has created a revolutionary AR app for food visualization
> Most kids are just as happy playing with the wrapping paper as with the toy inside.

Ha… have you met any kids? Babies, yes. Toddlers up, nnnooooooooooooo (unless it's bubble wrap).
Last weekend HackZurich, Europe’s largest hackathon (programming competition), took place for the fourth time in Zurich, Switzerland. It was a very successful event with 550 participants from more than 50 countries that have submitted more than 140 projects.
Pineapple was one of the contesting teams. It consists of Nikolay Kobyshev (who was also a co-founder and organizer of HackZurich 4 years ago) and Sergi Caelles Prat, both Computer Vision PhD students from ETH Zurich.

Pineapple has created an app for using the latest virtual reality technology for visualizing food you are about to order in a restaurant. To use the app, the user just has to point the phone at their yet empty plate and they will see photorealistic models of food from the menu.

One can see how the product works in the demo video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugE5GQb0FXQ

Both founders are passionate travellers, and they were always having difficulty of not knowing how the food they order will look like, especially in restaurants abroad. An obvious solution to this problem would be adding pictures of food to the menu, but restaurants usually hesitate doing so as they do not want to sacrifice the elegancy of their menus. Sergi and Nikolay offer a hi-tech solution to this problem. “Augmented Reality will revolutionize the way people consume in the next couple of years. The usual cases for AR are buying furniture and fashion products, but food is maybe even more important as we rely a lot on what we see when deciding if a product is tasty or not,” Nikolay says. “It will also help customers to see in advance the quantity of food in a dish reducing in this way the leftovers,” adds Sergi.

The app uses the freshly released Apple ARKit as a basis for the technology, but it also has a special computer vision algorithm that Sergi and Nikolay have developed.

Now the founders want to contact leading restaurant chains and food delivery services to discuss potential collaboration.
i'd like something like that for watches.
Do you have a payment provider that verifies that card?
No you can't shoot them for trespass.
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Casio still makes many versions of the databank watch and, imo, you cant get geekier than that.
https://www.casio.com/products/watches/databank
This is incorrect for Amazon.de.

You generally pay 3,90€ for returning the item via DHL/Hermes (unless you declare the reason for return as e.g. not working). Certain categories (clothing) have free returns. This is only the case if the order was placed through FBA or Amazon itself. Marketplace sellers with their own fulfillment usually charge you for returns or don't provide a shipping-label at all.

(source: selling on AZ)
Not for nothing this isn't uncommon, The CLU on a javelin missile uses a ps2 controller. Split to separate hands but when your training on it your like, I remember this.
To be fair, most transport related things involving Manchester are a disaster - bus deregulation, the current smartcard debacle, etc.
Pretty sure most makers and tinkerers don't have the liability insurance or budget for safety testing or the mental shielding to handle when their products cause the death of a 18-month-old.

Step one of designing a toy: work out how many children who get it could be killed by it.

Step two: make that number as close to zero as you can.

Step three: arrange for enough money to cover the gap.
mysterydip, you're doing a lot of posting and not listening to some of these very good answers.

First. No, lifetime buys are not always a tough problem. While they can be tough, consumer grade electronics have to be the best product to predict lifetime buys on due to clear end of life and good data on mean time to failure.

Second. Let's do some math. Let's assume a 30 year operation. There are 48 of this sub planned. Let's say for some reason they go through 3 a year. At $30 each, we're looking at $130k to outfit the entire fleet of subs for their operational lifetime. Or, we could buy about 3.5 of the existing joystick, not even enough to outfit the 4 subs that are already in operation.

Lastly, it is likely that a 3rd party would take over the manufacture of these devices when they end of life anyway. It's a popular consumer electronic after all. The government would just buy a bunch then, reducing lifetime warehouse costs and getting better data to predict the lifetime buy.
Shouldn't then transportation funded with public money be freely accessible? What about public parks that now we have to pay for to get in?
"(preventing double-spending without the use of a trusted authority requires transaction validators (miners) to employ large amounts of computing power to complete "proof-of-work" computations); there is only probabilistic finality of settlement; and all transactions are public. These features are not suitable for many financial market applications."

The words "only probabilistic finality" makes it sound uncertain, whereas in reality the uncertainty of a bitcoin transaction is insignificant compared to the uncertainty of a trusted entity, which they advocate.

In other words, they still don't understand it.
What's really shocking is the very last entry on the FAQ page [1], which appears to imply that UK Govt has mandated every location outside of London should use some "standard" which is far, far inferior to the tried and tested Oyster system.

[1] http://www.getmethere.com/help.php
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If the invention involves "original applied math", yet is useful to ordinary people then I'm not clear on why there is harm is saying what it is, briefly. If I invent a flying car that runs on a couple of AA batteries, then saying so is not going to give away my secrets and allow competitors to beat me. It seems inconsistent to be complaining that VCs think, falsely, that your solution can be duplicated easily, while treating it as so secret you can't give a summary of what (not how) you have done.
> Define modern

'modern' was not my word. See the discussion above.

> We refer to ES2017 as "modern"

I'm not part of your 'we'. In the context of Javascript the newer iterations may be slightly more modern, but in the wider context of dynamic / dynamically typed language there is very little 'modern'. If you read the language deltas, they are not THAT impressive.

> "Modern" tends to mean "under active work today"

Not for me. See for example in a dictionary: 'involving recent techniques, methods, or ideas'. Much of the stuff in Scheme is decades old and has been provided incompatible in multiple ways, none really satisfying. See 'Error handling'.

> I have no idea where you're pulling that from.

Just look at the table of contents:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/guile.html#SEC_Con...

> I don't see how that's a problem.

Several error handling libraries, none really good and all not well integrated into the rest of the language. That's really basic stuff which hurts. Instead of at least an attempt at a coherent language it is a patchwork of tiny stuff.

> In fact, what about SBCL? [1]

What about it?

> More detailed and just as straight-forward as SBCL's.

SBCL has already the core language defined in detail. Example from above: there is one error handling mechanism (the Condition System) and it is used everywhere and it is well integrated.
really cool but I dont understand what the commercial implementations may be
I wear http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ivsp/
Open source software can never be completely "gone".

The "OMG EVERYTHING WILL BE DRM" panic is not new. We've had widely available DRM back when Flash was super popular. And still, to this day, the only DRM'd thing is movies.
I suggest to research the Wahls protocol. Prof Terry Wahls was in a wheelchair with MS and cured herself. Now she is heading a department at a hospital where patients are cured of MS.
Well, I mean, let's say, for the sake of argument, solar panels had a tendency to burst into flames and cause not only the house they were installed in but also neighboring houses to go up in flames. Would it still be unreasonable to ban them? If not then you've conceded the principle and we're back to arguing about the specifics of each case.
How flying seriously messes with your mind
As a kid I cried for years and finally got this https://www.casio.com/products/watches/databank/cmd30b-1t
They don't need to backdoor it. The re-transmission with a different key feature is the very definition of a vulnerability. For as long any encryption protocol allows for it to happen, one can trigger a key renegotiation that can be taped.

And it was used few times already. Some of such occurrences were well documented.

In 2015, in a lobby discussion on DEFCON two people confronted Marlinspike about the retransmission vulnerability in the Signal. He was asked to give a _yes or no answer_ to whether the central server can trigger the key renegotiation by sending the "I lost my phone" command to both parties. And he answered this question _no_. This was long before the Guardian lashed at FB with the backdoor article.

I personally verified this account with 2 people.

Marlinspike Moxie is a liar.
The future buyer of your home would like to ensure the safety and correctness of the wiring. The future buyer also needs to know what the limits of the system are, so that they don't accidentally overload it, and if it is overloaded that it performs appropriately (i.e. stop instead of catching fire).

A future buyer may, thinking the house is to code, attempt to connect the house to the grid. If it is not wired appropriately that can also cause risks to the occupants.

Future contractors also need to know the set up of the system. Being done differently could possibly very real safety risks.

Neighbors would like to ensure that your house does not catch fire, risking their houses.
For an insight into how unregulated electrical grids work, google 'favela electrical wiring'.
Does anyone remember Timex Datalink? You held it up to a CRT (only works with CRT!) and the screen would flash some kind of coded lines which the watch would read to transfer your data.
The drug system in the UK is quite funny - the politicians pretend drug use needs to be treated criminally, the police pretend to enforce drug laws, and the voting public are satisfied with the status quo because if they dislike drugs they can buy into the pretense, if they like drugs they can mostly use them without much bother, and if they are indifferent to drugs they have better things to worry about.
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You kids can keep your integrated circuits.

http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/
Appreciate your help! Not sure how to calculate this; I'll look into it, this[0] looks like a good start. I can say there are annual payment plans based on seats, with reduced pricing for continued patronage. ARR for each customer is (I'm eyeballing it) roughly 700 USD for smaller customers and 4000 per year for the larger ones, and they buy 1- or sometimes 3-year licenses.

Most growth has come from customers that have just bought licenses with no or little questions. Some I have interacted with and arrived at a sale or a rejection that I can act on. And the rest slip through my fingers, like sand...

0. Referring to https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-calculate-the-LTV-in-a-subs...
The article also mentions (LTV / CAC) > 3 "is good" which I've seen elsewhere, like First Round Review IIRC. Is this what you might have in mind?
Warpaint
> And yet you can't create your own small phone network, assign whatever numbers you want to your users, and expect others to interconnect with you or honor your numbers.

Actually you can quite easily, and quite a few people have done so. Including hacker clubs for events (the CCC operating a local custom GSM network with their own SIMs, and working numbers a few years back for their congress comes to mind), small ISPs with only a few hundred or thousand customers, and more.

It’s definitely possible, easy, and cheap.
But that case shows the limits in the law. He was charged with manslaughter (a charge that was never going to work even in this case) and with a Victorian law - "wanton and furious driving" - a law which doesn't mention death.
I'm going to be working on some UX improvements to Matrix/Riot and agree with you on feature bloat, or at least hiding complexity for most users.

Would love to have a chat with you about the issues the people you train have come across with Matrix
It is very much alive and kicking in the EDA industry, all the tools use it as their command language.
As what another redditor has said.

What FPL has done is require that solar installations get signed off by their electricians. And they delay, delay and delay that certification process. Meanwhile, you are paying for the cells and installation and it sits unused indefinitely.

If they can delay the process long enough, it effectively becomes illegal.
This is not the same as what you want, but I'm mentioning it here because it is about watches, and a bit cool (IMO):

A while ago I needed a new watch, walked into a Tata Titan showroom (India) and saw some kids watches of a Titan brand or line called Zoop. Liked the bright colors and the simple designs of some of them (they have more complex ones too), and bought a couple of them to use.

Googling for "Titan Zoop watch" and clicking the Images tab will show some examples.

Might be able to get them outside India too, via Amazon etc.
Or the ability to see through the hoodie the guy's wearing.
You don't need inverters, strictly speaking. For some applications the battery voltage is just fine.
My argument is against online price-matching being a suitable way of shopping for parents with young children, not against visiting toy stores. I see I wasn't clear that: taking your attention off your children to focus on your phone in an area with a high number of distracting items will likely lead to a situation where you need to reassert parental control.

Did you know? The 2-year-old will tantrum regardless where you are, and buying online means you don't have a quick out on hand (either getting the toy almost immediately after calming down and ensuring enough separation between the tantrum and getting the toy, or some stopgap alternative toy that's a tenth of the price).
I may be wrong, but isn't connecting to a web server by lynx illegal (considered "hacking") in some countries? I remember a case in the UK around the time of the London olympic games.
I used to have the Casio Flip-Top Database watch (first entry on the pcmag list). The flip mechanism wore out after a couple of months so I wouldn't recommend such a mechanism.
"There is hardly a thing, like a wasted hardware in the military." Care to share what hollywood movie this is coming from?

[*] https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
There have been third-party Xbox controllers almost since the console came out. No doubt ONE of them will gobble up a DoD contract to continue production if it's offered. (Former Submarine FT)
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The stuff about the bi-directional meter is warblegarble.

What the requirement is talking about is operating a grid tie system before FPL upgrades the meter to one that measures in both directions in a way that meets their requirements. This is a sensible requirement, not a ginned up excuse.

(all the quotes are coming from a linked grid interconnection guideline https://www.fpl.com/clean-energy/net-metering/guidelines.htm... )

I wonder if there is actually any legal requirement to have a grid interconnection. The article isn't real convincing.
From my point of view, it would be a nice added value to the menu in the restaurants. So you can see what you order and you don't have nasty surprises!
> I did not really follow the whole political discussion about why moxie refuses to cooperate, but at least I can use signal again after some years without gapps.

F-Droid offers two options (a) they build your app, or (b) you use reproducible builds, they rebuild your app, and verify that it produces the same result.

Moxie raged that people should trust him instead of F-Droid for builds, so (a) wouldn’t be an option, and was awfully silent about (b), especially considering that Signal now has reproducible builds, but he refuses to allow that option, too.
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It doesn't sound like nonsense to me. It could definitely be dangerous to feed high voltages back into the powered-down grid.

And your home isn't your home forever. One day you will die and someone will inherit your shoddy home grid system. Electrical wiring regulations exist for a reason.
juicing makes nutrients in vegetables more bio-available. Cooking destroys vitamins.
No currently existing company in the world is worth $1T. You claim your company should be worth a trillion "relatively soon."

Now, imagine what your priors are as a VC. Do you (a) believe this person's claim that he's capable of making a trillion dollar company soon, or (b) think he's a supreme bullshit artist, delete the email, and never think about it again?
All directly grid-connected inverters have backfeed protection built-in.

Bigger installations can have automatic switching from the grid to the inverter, much like an uninterruptible power supply. (This is technically possible with smaller installations as well, just uncommon, since it doesn't make a lot of sense)
Maybe if that someone was just smoking pot and otherwise paid taxes. This particular group of drug users are not the central point of concern of the UN Special Assembly, even though its part of the wider problem. They are not dying in the streets and they are not socially marginalized. Allthough (anecdotally) i've known several fumb pot-smoking ducks who thought they could finance their proclivity through distribution and wound up several thousand dollars in debt to people who take names and chew bubble-gum.
"lower quality"?

You can download entire BluRay disks, about 40GB, 4K shows, 10GB IIRC.

You are wrong. Pirates have the same or HIGHER quality video in most cases.
The chain of events is not that EME has enabled Netflix to exist. Netflix and flash came first, and EME came afterward.

Lets be honest here. The argument being presented is that Netflix might create a new form of DRM without EME. We might get something worse then flash. There might even be a bad argument that Netflix and the content creator will abandon the market and millions in revenue if they can't get DRM.

A bunch of things that could happen, but not things that have happened. Flash have decline in used and Netflix was created in time before EME. To claim that EME was a requisite for those events is a logical impossibility.
Well, I am pretty average programmer. Not the worst, not the best.

The code reliability of assembly programs is better because programming algorithms in low level, the programmer controls every aspect of the execution. Notice, that excessive use of code generation macros will cancel this advantage.

Another advantage is that the bugs in assembly programs usually cause immediate crash of the program and this making the fixing easy.

Defer crashes and strange/random/undefined behavior of bugs in assembly programs is rare. IMO, this is because of reduced count of abstraction layers.
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