skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand. My point is broader. Even if he's comparing to last year's product, he promotes this as a bonus. He is happy that the product is in mint condition after 6 days. Not even a week. It's slightly sad.
Note 7 on the same page linked above would seem to set up the guidelines for grid tie switches.

The language here appears similar to the way the NEC is written, which can seem confusing unless you use it all the time (as I do). If one had a transfer switch, the renewable generator would no longer be grid tied.

The NEC is full of statements of this style, and often without specific references to the underlying section that defines, e.g. the times where a transfer switch is legal. The code expects you to view it as a whole, and be familiar with the interlocking sections.
I have some family in McCloud, CA. Apparently this was a big concern when Nestle came to town and wanted their water. There ended up being a big legal battle, but in the end the town won [1]. I forget all of the details, but there was some shadiness on Nestle's part. They initially told people the new water plant would bring jobs back to the town, but when residents looked into it, they discovered almost everything would be automated, and only a hand full of new jobs would be created.

[1] http://www.alternet.org/story/142645/after_6-year_battle%2C_...
This implies that there is such a thing as 'free will'.
You aren't the referee here. You're also not smart using your real name on the internet. You must be new here.
No offense but python is being eaten alive by nodejs, golang, crystal, OCaml, Julia, R, matlab etc. and Java is being eaten alive by kotlin, swift, etc.. I mean you're basically wrong about everything and making totally arbitrary baseless claims.
Specifically, he removed the brakes from his bike and was proud of doing so.
Cape Town, South Africa. SABMiller, which was recently bought for £69 billion by Anheuser-Busch InBev.
is synonymous with hardware

Wait, no it isn't. It's about the representation (in contrast to 'fixed point'), the hardware is an implementation detail.
I don't know about everywhere. But in my country, when the terminal fails to read the chip, it asks you to swipe the magstripe. Then it realises "oh this card should have a chip" and forces you to insert again.

After about 3 cycles, it gives up and accepts the magstripe (plus the pin)
People who want a great phone buy the 8. People who are Apple fanatics and/or too rich and/or need a status symbol buy the X.
On This Fourth-Century Map, All Roads Really Do Lead to Rome
eat what your ancestors ate.

in america, there is almost a shaming done if you do not eat other cultures foods, but other cultures mostly stick to their own food (and there is a good reason for that).
You're pigeonholing. Facebook is only part of the tapestry of social media poison.
We have been conditioned to prefer style over substance.
> some outdated payment terminal that only used the magnetic strip of the card

Sadly, this isn't all that "outdated" here. There are still lots of places in the U.S. that don't use the chip and basically none -- does anywhere? -- use a PIN with it. I don't even know if I have a PIN on any of my credit cards, much less what it is.
Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, says 'Bitcoin is a bubble'
This reminds me of when I used Trillian IM/Pidgin/Meebo back in the day. Everything old is new again!
President Obama Pledges Continued Support for K-12 CS Education
If anyone's still checking a thread a few days old, I was talking about things like Florida's requirement that even if you're capable of being fully independent you be connected to the grid: http://www.wftv.com/news/local/want-solar-panels-you-still-h...

A side effect of that is that if the grid is down, you're also required to shut down your solar system (which makes complete sense, it's a safety thing to not have power sources connected while there's work being done) except that you're apparently not allowed to disconnect.

Discussion on [1] notes that disconnectable systems can be quite a bit more expensive, but it sounds like that's not even a legal option - no connection, no occupancy.

[1] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/18/1699490/-Solar-Po...
Some people are probably addicted to facebook, but for the vast majority I don't think your comparison is very good. In almost all cases you can switch to something different than facebook.
> Mark Zuckerberg is a good boy, but he wanted to be bad, or maybe just a little bit naughty.

K thanks Guardian
I really don't think you can put Hugh Chávez into any argument about making the world a better place. Venezuela is a disaster, and the human suffering is inexcusable.
Which may be a good reason to not legalize drugs. My meager understanding of the issue is that happy people are less likely to grow dependent upon drugs.

(Don't take this the wrong way. I support legalizing drugs. The social costs of the war on drugs are to high to believe that there is a net benefit.)
Why doesn't React (and similar libraries) support async rendering
In my work I frequently encounter situation where an async render methods would be the cleanest way to solve an architectural challenge.

I have looked at the source code of React and Preact, and it would seem to be pretty straightforward to provide this feature

Is there any deep, intractable technical reason why async rendering hasn't been (or cannot be) implemented?
>there's no evidence presented to support the assertion that they lobbied to prevent solar.

Oh FPL 100% did that. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election...

With that said, this article is fucking bonkers. It makes almost no sense and as you noted, the sources don't even line up with what they suggest they do. IFLS is bullshit.

Unless I'm missing something, the law doesn't require renewable energy generators to be hooked up to the grid. It just establishes some rules requiring you to safely connect to the grid if you are going to offset your power supply from the utility company with a renewable energy source. That's absolutely reasonable. Beyond that, anyone who has bought a house would also want some guidelines and code inspections to be done on something as complicated as a solar install, which this rule also requires if you are going to get your install certified to be interconnected with the power grid and receive excess generation credits.

https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?ID=25-6.065
Yep, looks like during the Revolutionary War the British stopped shipping slaves to the Americans.
Depends on what you mean by type errors. For example, NPEs in Java are technically a "type error", in that your code is mishandling data due to insufficiently specified types, and I'd have no trouble believing that 15% of Java bugs are NPEs or otherwise null-related.

If you extend the definition of type errors to include nulling issues, I'd have no trouble believing that TS reduces the bug rate by that much or more, since TypeScript lets you have non-nullable types.

Of course, you could argue that Java devs are just as lacking in quality and experience as JS/TS devs, but that starts to sound suspiciously like No True Scotsman/"real programmers do it in x86 assembly".
I haven't found a single place so far that supported the chip+pin transaction. Everyone has the terminals but they are either set to not do the pin transaction or they are tapped off with a "broken" sign.
There is literally zero configuration required for HAProxy. You just store .ocsp files alongside the .pem's

Yes you need to fetch them regularly. I use the aforementioned shell script to do this.

Why do you people keep up this weird narrative that only caddy renews certificates automatically?

The native ocsp handling in HAProxy isn't broken: it just expects to have TLS material provided to it.

If someone setting up HAProxy on a server can't install a shell script calling two OpenSSL commands and setup cron to call it regularly, I don't think your big problem is "HAProxy doesn't handle ocsp". It's PEBKAC.
If all your friends are on Facebook: no, you really can't.
I doubt an EMP torpedo would exist targeting submarines underwater. Water is just crazy good at dampening electromagnetic waves. And if you can score a direct hit, the EMP device's weight in extra explosives is cheaper and more destructive.
I see the point you're trying to make but I think it fails because political views are a choice while being gay is not. It's fine to refuse to do business with someone just because you think they're an asshole. They could not be an asshole if they wanted to, but they could not change the color of their skin or sexual orientation.

One could argue religion is a choice too, and I'd agree with you on that, but that's not a battle we're going to win today.
This was written so disrespectfully and dismissively of programmers, hackers and engineers that I have a hard time reading it, despite my extreme distaste for Facebook.

>In the labs of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the 60s and 70s, they broke any rule that interfered with building the stuff of early computing, such marvels as the first video games and word processors.

Also, Calling a 33 year old billionaire that has helmed the construction of one of the largest companies the world has ever seen a (paraphrasing) 'good boy that wanted to be a bit naughty' is just stupid. I understand why Foer did it - he hates Silicon Valley for ruining his life at the helm of a magazine formerly supported by more hands-off rich patrons. It makes his arguments worse, though.
I think Gruber's pieces about Apple are mostly useless, because he always seems heavily biased. Compare that to e.g. the ATP podcast, which is hosted by Apple fans but seems to contain more criticism and less apologism.
> They initially told people the new water plant would bring jobs back to the town, but when residents looked into it, they discovered almost everything would be automated, and only a hand full of new jobs would be created.

Why didn't they just make it part of the contract?
Neither does stopping gambling.
The Zebra Raises $40M, Taps New CEO to Expand Beyond Car Insurance
Quiet, Please: The Search for Silence in a Noisy World
Specifically this brewery, I'm guessing: http://www.sab.co.za/the-sab-story/the-story-of-newlands-bre...
http://www.702.co.za/articles/250909/sab-urges-members-of-th...
Asthma drugs hold potential for Parkinson's disease
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What about code maintainability and readability - I'm guessing that must be worse when compared to a HLL? Also, what made you get into writing complex programs in assembly - was it just the extra control? I've used assembly when I needed to optimise my C code, but it was a slow and difficult process! I would not really choose it for complex stuff, but I'm really interested to hear your point of view.
US too, though not the expensive, well-known ones. I flew an experimental drone for the USAF a few years back and we used PS3 controllers.
Gambling can be an addiction, but does not result in physical illness or death upon termination. Still, it can be highly addictive. Same goes for Facebook.
Please add (2015) to the title.
This is an issue on which self-serving opinion, on both sides, predominates, so this study is very welcome. If you think it is flawed, do your own study.
No it's pretty simple.
IPFS solves the addressability, availability and decentralized storage for this kind of thing.
I'm working on https://pupkeep.com/, it is cloud based kennel software. For places that do pet boarding and grooming.

The market has a lot of competition, but it seems most solutions are just too bulky and slow. We recently went on a trip to various boarding places around us and received good feedback about our product. I'm very excited to see what happens next.
> The rigidity and hard ceiling on liquidity of Bitcoin is a major weakness of the currency [..]

How do you arrive at a ceiling on liquidity from a ceiling on stock/supply (number of coins in existence)? Or are you referring to the limited number of transactions the Bitcoin blockchain can handle over a given time period?

As far as I can see, neither of these two limit the liquidity of Bitcoin. Transaction speed at the exchanges is not limited by the Bitcoin blockchain, since bitcoins exist as credit on each exchange (which can be redeemed into actual, on-blockchain Bitcoins through withdrawal). And I don't see how limited supply limits liquidity, since gold is highly liquid as well as strictly limited in supply.
Is this done via computer vision or manually ? Either way it's impressive.
Too Big to Fail Banks: “The Robotics Are Coming” Really?
As someone who grew up on Python and Javascript, I was never really that sold on typing, until I refactored something by changing a field on the model and Flow showed me all the places in the code that needed to be updated.

Granted, other more mature type systems/IDE will automatically refactor, but this was a really big obvious win for me :)
This isn't a Florida-specific thing. It's a requirement of the National Electrical Code (NEC) that grid-tie inverters shut down on grid power loss, for exactly the stated reason. Every commercially produced grid-tie inverter has that feature built in.
Yes. I'm getting tired of these articles complaining about Facebook when you can stop using it literally any minute.

Also, Grauniad is a terrible source of tech news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14179497
Linus Torvalds Wants Attackers to Join Linux Kernel Development
Predicting the future of coffee in New York City with data
Some measure of blame and exposing the dark motives is useful if only to counteract lots of Drug War propaganda.
You could take a year-long class on the psychological influence (some call it social engineering) of Facebook and you'd barely scratch the surface.

One example I find particularly interesting is how Facebook slowly expanded what would trigger a notification, keeping people fixated on that red box like rats to sugar water.
The hikes already started, apparently: https://flaglerlive.com/102278/fpl-rate-increase-settlement/
You're right but I still wonder what will ever become of the idea of a "true" online social network.

Why do we have to hand over so much of ourselves in order to obtain social connection as a "side-effect" of the true business of social media operators like Facebook and Google? Are these companies the only way to have meaningful online social networks? I don't think it has to be that way, but I also can't fathom how a non-toxic social network can keep the lights on without selling stuff.
Show HN: Let's create our own image dataset
High Velocity Data Ingestion: Lessons We Learnt
Speaking of Nestle and water, I'm reminded of this old interview with their (then) CEO Peter Brabeck:

https://youtu.be/GmOZL-jNH-s?t=124 (english subs)
This makes an enormous amount of sense
Typo on the 20% chance (that's actually the percentage it lost). The actual probability is about 1/(2^13).
Some Corporations Pay a Lot More Taxes Than Others
Yup I relate a lot more to ATP than The Talk Show because of the amazing mental gymnastics Gruber goes through to justify all kinds of things that are objectively issues I have with my Apple gear.

It's no surprise that Apple executives give him all kinds of exclusives.
True, but the vast majority of cloud computing is still just VMs.
Turkey's new school year: Jihad in, evolution out
Human-editable, plain text database: Recutils
Yes you can, I have friends whom for various reason don't have a Facebook or stopped using it/deleted it. People will adjust and instead we contact them by mail or phone. Perhaps it's a bit of a annoyance, but you are not kept prisoner.
Hayek's currencies were backed by the issuer. They're more analogous to frequent flyer miles than cryptocurrencies.
China bans drugs because the US exported their drug laws via the UN. Perhaps you could find a better example.
If we are going to make the argument that updating all servers and clients on a federated network to follow the latest and securest crypto is a big issue, we also have to pull the argument that the crypto of a non-federated network can be manipulated at any time without your consent.

In other words, you are at the mercy of whoever owns the chat platform. To me, this is a bigger privacy issue than the issue with updating servers/clients on a non-federated network.
Something tells me that doing so would raise eyebrows and require you to explain yourself. While it would be easy to say, hey I read this article and I figured I would help out. I cant help but thinking the bank would still press charges because you are in possession of stolen credit card information.

Additionally, while you can tell what kind of card it is from the CC#(3-AMEX/Diners club,4-Visa, 5-Mastercard, 6-Discover, etc) you cant always tell what the issuing bank is. Is it a capital one visa? is it a chase visa? do you want to do all that legwork, white hat or not?
This is not the aspect that is considered to be probablistic. The problem is that forks can happen by design -- blocks can be orphaned and the tree can be reorganized. So a transaction is only final so long as it is on the main chain; if the main chain switches to a forked chain that does not contain your transaction, then it is not settled; the resulting coins cannot be spent.

There are attack scenarios, but even without those it is possible for forks to occur; single-block forks are common (so-called "orphaned blocks") due to some combination of network latencies and chance. Longer forks may be possible if there are more dramatic breaks in network connectivity. The original whitepaper originally advocated waiting for six blocks before a transaction is considered "settled". That's probably high, but the guarantees are strictly probablistic; any software dealing with bitcoins has to be aware of the possibility of reorganizations.
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Lots of capitalistic countrys have suffering citizens, but there is there private fault, because they dont work hard enough. We all know the various ideologys immunity declarations. I wish there was a downvote for boring.
I agree, and if it became commonplace, I suspect people would offer templates that would help homogenize things.
I work in the solar industry and can confirm that this is standard safety practice in my state as well. When grid power goes down the inverter is required to shutdown and remain off until a few minutes after normal grid conditions are restored. This is to ensure that the grid equipment is actually de-energized so it can be worked on safely. It's such a ubiquitous policy that all inverters need to be UL Certified to prove that they do this.

Utility companies pull a lot of bullshit, but this policy is actually pretty sound.

If you want to use your PV as backup power, you need to treat is as you would a conventional backup generator and install a manual transfer switch that that isolates disconnects the electrical service as the backup power is engaged. This can nearly double the cost of the solar project, so most people don't do it.
This kind of makes me wonder if there are museums or memorials in Europe and central/south America dedicated to their role in the slave trade, the way we have them here in the states.
Explain then why our f35 program costs $1.5 trillion and counting.
Setting limits to zero is kind of defeating the purpose of having a card in the first place.

The better solution is to have a bank with good reputation that expends effort in making your transactions safer.

My bank:

- has their cards well issued (and I know this since I have worked as credit card terminal developer for many years and I know every detail of how cards are personalized and designed actual security systems),

- sends me a code to verify my internet transactions (remember not to use your phone to do internet transactions!),

- processes chargebacks without fuss unless there is a reason to suspect cardholder is trying to defraud the merchant.
> If the social contract for DRM was "subscribe to a growing library of content for an inflation-adjusted rate", that'd be fine. Instead, the contract is "cede all your rights until there are no technological alternatives and a few monopolies own the whole market".

Hacker News everyone, where one week the film companies are evil because they won't give Netflix all their content so people can have one streaming service and the next we have "monopolies own<ing> the whole market.
> It's very hard to really know this. We can't experiment, and we are a really long way off from accurately simulating the real world mathematically.

Agreed.

> The Fed, at face value, tells us it can pull some levers and create an alchemy where it produces more real value in the economy.

Strawman. Nobody relevant actually claims that.

What many claimed was that QE would increase lending in the real economy, which would obviously boost the economy (because more real economy lending = more spending = more demand = more economic activity). That hasn't really happened, and I hope economists learned the lesson.

> There is the Keynesian argument that the Fed needs to mamage aggregate demand

That's monetarism, not Keynesianism -- the main message of Keynes is for the government to manage aggregate demand via its fiscal policy and budget. Though I grant you that for whatever reason, there's substantial overlap when it comes to what individuals believe.

> Personally, I'd much rather take a money supply controlled by a k-percent rule, get rid of the Fed, and make all those "smartest guys in the room" working in finance go do something useful instead.

The funny part about statements like this is that the money supply that matters for the real economy is managed by commercial banks anyway.

And you do need an institution that acts as a firewall to prevent temporary liquidity issues from turning into full insolvencies via self-fulfilling prophecy (aka bank runs). That institution happens to be the Fed in the US. You can argue about the more political, monetary policy side of things, but having that firewall is really, really critical.

Totally agree on the "doing something useful instead" part, though :)
Difference in this case being that government officials in Chiapas are corrupt as f, and there is basicly no recourse for the public. Chiapas also head to head with Oaxaca in the race to be the poorest state in Mexico,. Some of the towns most affected by the disaster are being described to me as "looking like it's been shelled to shit" by my doctor friend who travelled there to help out however she could.

I will probably head over there next week with provisions, as there is no government help at all.
The last item in the link I provided requires:

"All renewable energy systems that do not utilize a U.L. 1741 listed inverter to feed power to FPL require a manual, visual load break disconnect switch"

The UL 1741 specification describes inverters that do precisely that switching function (https://www.homepower.com/articles/solar-electricity/equipme...)

So basically, "You have to install a safe system that won't fry our workers when they're trying to restore power."

I support that.