skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I've never seen any of those issues. Usage definitely died down after it graduated from fad status, but I stll have a busy feed.
Try searching for binary watches.

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/binary-watch

This is also a goldmine: https://www.tokyoflash.com/watches
Not the case in the UK at all.

Up to 4Kw the power distributor has to accept your connection and it is done on a post reporting basis. Over 4Kw you fill in a form and get generator permission from the distributor. I got mine in a few weeks.

Once it is grid connected, then the inverters isolate if they lose grid power. Since the UK has fairly good grid connections that rarely if ever happens.

Never a problem - except for the guns and butter brigade. Fortunately most of those who were that way inclined moved to the Americas 100 years or so ago.
if all humans on earth heeded this advice, hospitals would be half-empty and health insurance systems would be in massive surpluses.
Animated interactive of the history of the Atlantic slave trade (2015)
The entire thing is writted in FASM assembler. So maybe they thought a normal gui toolkit is too heavy weight for asm.
> I thought the concept of a punishment was reformation, not retribution.

Not in the US. We're still pretty bloody-minded toward people who somehow transgress society's rules.
That explains the comment, I mean the micro rant about "only real names get responses"
Did anyone calculate how would be the perfomance if there was no fee for the hedgefund?
How do I execute this ? npm run/build/dev didn't work.
Overall, probably one of the weakest arguments I've heard yet about Bitcoin. Despite the title the author completely failed to show any evidence, let alone the "truth", of how or why Bitcoin was worth ZERO. This is obvious click bait, because the author knows that Bitcoin is trending right now and people considering buying it will open this when doing research.

So the author wins in the ad revenue category, but the point he's trying to make basically sums up to : "Bitcoin is just a craze with no inherent value. Even though it's good money like gold, and people hang on to good money because it has inherent value. People spend bad money because they know it can lose value. But bad money is good because it's well regulated. And even though bitcoin is good money then it's worse then bad money because it's speculative. Gold is also completely speculative but it's been speculative for generations so don't worry about it. Also, Bitcoin takes a lot of electricity to mine. It's no where NEAR the amount of energy that mining and minting a tiny bar of gold takes, but I'm not going to mention that. I didn't really think about that part because I trade gold using Forex, which means that I essentially hold a digital representation of gold and don't actually physically hold any gold except my wife's jewelry. But if the government collapsed, then gold would still have value because it's physical, and digital assets like Bitcoin would be worthless.

VERY convincing.
> You think there's a large amount of potential drug users who will suddenly start abusing as soon as drugs are legalised?

The opiod crisis already is quite severe. And yet most opioids are illegal. I doubt making them legal will decrease usage. Also, if they were legal, big pharma companies would see them as business opportunities. Things could get ugly fast.
Medium runs fine on a Vive via ReVive: https://github.com/LibreVR/Revive

There's also plenty of alternative apps for 3D content creation in VR. I started to tabulate them (plus some where you create the content outside of VR) here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xwqLF3CpYWxZ6kipzWGH...

The list is a little out of date and I haven't got around to filling out most of the columns but it's probably of some use to someone.
Does his system meet code?

If so, it demonstrates that the article is, uh, not well researched.
Maybe there is a glut of average candidates then? Either way I've found no issue getting jobs - even for positions which specifically state an IT degree as a requirement. And I'm always honest about qualifications as well.

Obviously I'm not advocating people skip university. But I think it's important to remember that you can still compete in the job market without a degree.
CSS makes semantic markup work. CSS is not the issue, the issue is getting a decent graphical editor that does it well.
> download to your own heart's content in the safety of your own home

Nein.
DHCP allocation of IPv4 issue
Have a perplexing issue that I am not sure if it is an individual case versus a hardware/software issue. Layout: Comcast cable ISP, Motorola Surfboard WiFi router, Static IP from ISP, Device setting to use IPv4 only.
Issue: When using either WiFi or Ethernet to connect to router, I seem to get only IPv6 address from the router. That's fine and gets you online, but not all websites support this IP session. Renewing lease option does nothing. Only after some irritating manipulations will the IPv4 address resolve. Wireshark does not elude to any mischievous activity - or so I think.
Anyone else hear or have this issue(s)? Any solutions? Need more details or info to solve?

Thanks in advance
I actually think they're one and the same. Al Gore is literally being paid by Al Jazeera, the state media for the world's largest oil exporter pretending to be a country.

I suspect that the biggest influence big oil has had is in making overblown, unconvincing, scaremongering communications which ultimately make people more suspicious than convinced.
Florida has/had historically issues with power, especially as populations rose; the utilities were only willing to build generators if they could be guaranteed recovery. All this wasn't just about homes, but the power needs of the entire commercial, public, and safety infrastructure too.
A linter for a dynamic language has got to be the hardest thing ever to implement.

In PyCharm if you return from within a contextlib.suppress context it'll think any code following it is unreachable code.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-25809
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-16419
Yeah, yeah, the world is going to shit and nobody cares. How about doing something about it instead of telling everybody it can't possibly work? And why do we need the rest of the world on the bandwagon for it to work? The web was built without the masses, and still is. The open web still vastly outweighs the closed parts in amount of content. A bunch of freedom stealing technologies have died silently over the years despite often resulting in "cool" UX wholly different from plain HTML, such as Flash, Silverlight, and Java applets. EME is a fundamentally different wedge inserted between users and their machines by evil corporations, but not one that is in any way unbeatable. So screw 'em, and let's fork the web!
There only appears to be a single state (Colorado) where collecting rainwater is strictly regulated,[0] and in most states (31) it is not illegal/no regulation/even encouraged. A further 9 states regulate and encourage rainwater collection, and then Texas provides incentives to do so. The remaining 5 states simply have regulations around rainwater collection.

[0]https://energy.gov/eere/femp/rainwater-harvesting-regulation...
The ability to lock it is almost certainly for lock-out, tag-out reasons. They will come ensure you're disconnected and then just one person has the key to the lock they put on it. That one person isn't the supervisor, but the person doing the work. If more than one person work on it, they will all put locks on it.
I am working on a Lead generation product

https://www.leadmine.net
of course you are downvoted by the cubicle victims here. but bottom line you are right. even alcoholism and liver zirrosis is considered socially more acceptable than admitting you are vaping a bud once a week.
There's an uncanny valley in VR - less realistic and more stylised apps can in many cases be much more immersive than flawed attempts at photorealism.

Resolution is a "nice to have" but it's less critical than you would think. A high refresh rate is the most important factor.

The biggest weakness with the current generation of headsets is probably field of view. Second I would place comfort.

The resolution really doesn't bother me any more. If the content is compelling enough you tend to "look past" the pixels.
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Currently on IndieGoGo which I am totally rooting for: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/watchx-wearable-developme...
Optimize your New AWS ELB Network Load Balancer for maximum scalability
Wow. I have been using OS X for quite a long time and this is the first i'm hearing of it! Thanks!
25 and 50 minutes are more natural than 20 minutes from decimal POV. How often do you talk about them vs 20 and 30 minutes?

I'd say the fact that 15, 20 and 30 fit nicely into an hour plays a role in their popularity, even if you don't realize you use them for that reason.
In today's news: USA being USA
It's a deep issue with software careers.

Why are people upset with a music major being "chief of security?" I think it is because people working in software don't get many chances for advancement and they ultimately get bossed around by business people who often don't seem that good at business.

I quit my membership in the ACM because I got tired of the endless handwringing articles about the roller-coaster enrollments in CS programs (and the related lack of female students.)

Something they never talk about is what happens when their students enter the workforce and stay in it. Prospective students hear stories from veterans and they stay away. (Females stay away because they are "smarter" when it comes to maximizing their utility functions)

Any answer for somebody in your shoes is going to come down to taking more risk.
Ah, that makes sense. Is this the case everywhere in the US?
IFLScience is not "journalism in general." The acronym stands for "I F*%ing Love Science" and it got started as a Facebook page made popular for posting science-joke memes. The site and FB page, both run by Elise Andrew, are both fairly disliked in the Science Online community for misrepresenting studies, disseminating false information, and chronic copyright violations as she blatantly steals photos and art from others and fails to give credit.

This wikipedia article covers just a little of what Elise Andrew is guilty of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elise_Andrew#Criticism_and_acc...

Links to this site have no business on HN.
I think, as others above, parent meant to say "simple to write but not to use".
My father worked in Mongolia and observed how local people in remote rural areas ate. Calories came only from meat of horses, sheep, camels and some small game plus fermented camel milk. There were no vegetables or any other plants besides few herbs that they used for tea. This is not surprising as it is very difficult to grow there anything but local grass, so one can survive only from animals that can eat that.

My father does not remember that locals got some particular health problems from that. Old people looked healthy and worked pretty much until the dearth. What is especially interesting that it was also true for descendants of Russian emigrants there from 100 years ago, but they did grow some vegetables and cereals.

Of cause, that does not prove that meat is healthy. But it does show that in a particular climate eating only meat is not harmful when the meat is from animals that was treated by locals with extreme respect and that were fed on grass that was either fresh or covered with snow at winter.
To be clear, I'm a proponent of full legalization, not just decriminalization.
Hysterical article is hysterical?

The actual laws are more reasonable:

"Renewable generator systems connected to the grid without batteries are not a standby power source during an FPL outage. The system must shut down when FPL's grid shuts down in order to prevent dangerous back feed on FPL's grid. This is required to protect FPL employees who may be working on the grid."

Note the "without batteries" exclusion a similar exclusion applies to the cutoff switch when the grid is down, to protect line workers.

https://www.fpl.com/clean-energy/net-metering/guidelines.htm...
I don't understand why it being a cooperative makes for wide variance in staff quality. Do US Americans not like working in co-ops? What is it about profit sharing that causes the variation, in UK cooperatives seem to be more liberal and offer better working conditions but their recruitment seems pretty much inline with other forms of corporation.

Can you offer any further insight?

Perhaps the demise of this particular store (chain) is orthogonal to their cooperative status but you're assuming a causality?
Ask HN: How to freelance as an electronics engineer?
I am curious as to how one can make profit using electronics skills acquired, from any location globally.
Big fan of standardization as a principle over here. Even if the technology in question isn't the best, if its adequate I become an advocate as soon as its near being a standard. More use of common and inexpensive things and more standards just makes everything more modular and easier to fix in general.
Casio Gshock solar powered watch with an actual GPS chip and radio receiver.
http://www.casio-intl.com/asia/en/wat/watch_detail/GPW-1000-...
I live in a place where the government had a monopoly on alcohol retail until recently (Ontario, Canada). I don't think it had any impact on sales. The biggest factor was price, the government fixed the prices fairly high (but those prices were the same for the retail exceptions, such as brewers' own premises).

> Personally I believe even drugs like heroin should be legal, on the basis of harm reduction, but at the same time, I don't see a problem with e.g. restricting where it can be sold

Well, if you nationalize heroin retail, then you will need to have a heroin shop in every hamlet, town, and neighbourhood. It hardly seems practical. You'll just end up with a somewhat smaller black market, instead of eliminating it.
I see the complaint over abusing currying, currying comes from a world where things are reduced (npi) into binary and unary operations as much as possible. I don't think FP/ML guys would like having wild arguments counts too.
This is tricky. Depending on your churn you are right on the border of a direct sales model being viable. The rough rule of thumb is you need a CLV of $2000 for direct sales to be viable. Below this number and you need to rely on marketing to drive inbound sales.

My best guess is you are sitting in the sales valley of death. You have two ways to go - figure out how to increase your CLV so that direct selling (i.e. sales people on the phone) is viable, or decreasing your true CAC so that you can avoid the need for sales people.

There is an alternative which I suspect you don’t want to hear - stay small and handle all the sales yourself. If you do this you can make money with a CLV well below $1000 and still do OK (it will be a ton of work). You are not going to be a billionaire, but you might be a millionaire.
And it prevents 100% of the time wasted on testing something in a browser (or generally at runtime) only for it to fail for some trivial type mismatch.

These things don't typically make it as bugs into production code but are a big time sink with dynamic languages.
For the complete list, look for occurrances of "HTTP/1.1" in the source:

https://2ton.com.au/library_as_html/webserver.inc.html
Multiple Monitors? You Should Buy VMWare Fusion Instead of Parallels Desktop
Working on Micro https://micro.mu. Basically microservices toolkit and framework. It's pure OSS and sponsored by a big enterprise company.
You could take the approach that my wife and I do. We both have 1 card each linked to our checking account. We have a 3rd card that is signed up to all of our reoccurring payments (electric, cable, water, sewage, trash, netflix, etc) that card is stored in a safe deposit box.

The thinking is if either one of our cards get compromised we will can just replace that card, the third card will remain safe while locked up. That is unless the company or payment processor gets breached which is a larger issue in itself.
Then use canvas.toDataURL() to convert canvas to PNG image and you can watch it everywhere
AI-Produced Journalism – How WaPo's robo reporter published 850 articles
I know that I could find a supplier of marijuana if I wanted. I'd just need to walk 100m down the street and ask the school kids hanging around in the park. Easy.

But I also know that I would be risking various legal and social consequences. A conviction for possession of drugs would affect my employment options, it would affect my travel options (visa forms often ask about such convictions), it may cause issues in the future if I ever got into a custody battle for my kids.

Given all of that, I have no plans to walk down the street and buy some weed from my friends' kids.

But I do have a collection of cigars in my house which I enjoy on occasion.

If it were possible to buy marijuana in the same way I can buy cigars, with the same legality, for a comparable price, then I might do so.

Now, I don't really see why society should care if I were to substitute some of my tobacco consumption with marijuana consumption, but there's a reasonable probability that this would be one of the outcomes if marijuana were totally legalised.
US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman
My own bullet point:

7. The market is moving forward despite the law, so
current [and likely future] laws are largely irrelevant
(save for a small and shrinking premium in price).

I don't think anyone can credibly suggest that more enforcement is a practical solution to detrimental habitual use of marijuana. As far as I can tell, it is effectively a demand-side problem.

I also think there is a greater societal cost to somebody in prison for weed because they had too much on stock, than there to somebody who is at home and stoned all the time.
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Counts as experience :)
{lambda talk} doesn't know closures but accepts de facto partial application:

1) just define function as usual:

{def add
{lambda {:a :b :c}
{+ :a :b :c}
}} - > add

2) and use it:

{add 1 2 3} -> 6
{{add 1} 2 3} -> 6
{{add 1 2} 3} -> 6
{{{add 1} 2} 3} -> 6

More to see in http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=curry
I greatly appreciate the fact that he made a stand, but he may have rendered himself less effective in doing that by forwarding the message to someone whose judgement he thought he could trust. Maybe the leak turned out to be the best outcome anyway, given the New Republic is still publishing.
I understand the point the EFF is making, but I'm not sure if leaving the body that influences web standards is the right way to get your voice heard on web standards.
Permissionless Innovation
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That's a fair point, currying is the main offender here, partial application is just making a new function. With the right name it's not harder to understand. It does add complexity because you have layers of dependencies instead of everything being in the same place. The example is always some simple math, but usually functions are doing more, and when they get changed it isn't always obvious that the things that rely on partial applications of those functions are also affected.

But that is true of anything that uses any dependencies, and a fundamental part of how we usually code. I prefer to reasonably minimize the number of dependencies, and then of course good tests protect you against this problem.
Microsoft could surpass AWS in cloud revenue this year
I couldn't agree more. Engineers are often so far (physically and metaphorically) from the actual impact of what they work on, it can be really easy to miss the damage it does.

People who work for Facebook must have to work very hard to remember the people they are experimenting on are people, not just "users", and that they don't have cart-blanch with how they treat them. Especially if they are building addiction into their service!

Also, Weapons of Math Destruction is a fantastic book.
Side bar: is anyone buying insurance from them in the wake of this hack? They seem to be giving it for free for a year.
Well I am a few zeros short of infinite, but my hamilton does come with a 120 day power reserve :)
In Africa we've built small home/lab/datacenter power systems that charge a battery bank off utility mains plus on-site generation. It's basically a gigantic UPS that can automatically switch among a variety of power inputs. What's stopping someone from building something like that here in the U.S.? Charge batteries from solar, supplement with mains power, maybe even add a diesel generator for extreme emergencies, and use an automatic transfer switch to prevent backfeeding the utility mains (which is super dangerous to line workers and probably the reason for Florida's regulation). Not being a power systems guy myself, I don't see where the flaws in such a design are. Any EEs out there who care to comment?
Wow really explains why China bans drugs. This kind of reductive reasoning is a mere rationalization of a complex socio-political issue.
Photorealism is the wrong goal
This is why I used Fritzing, not KiCad to design my first board. KiCad's interface was hard to get used to, even though I understand that KiCad is more powerful. It would be awesome, however, if either KiCad became more beginner user-friendly or if Fritzing became more powerful.
How SaaS tools are helping small business employees increase productivity
I believe there is already a startup attempting to fill a similar niche called "Dead Mans Switch"[1]

[1] https://www.deadmansswitch.net/help/
Looks awesome for hackers, specially if you add some decent case and protective glass to it.
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That page even links technical documents about collecting rainwater for household use:

https://extension.psu.edu/rainwater-cisterns-design-construc...
Toys R Us is a place to look at toys mainly though IMO. They're all boxed with wire and plastic holding them in place. Lots of expensive stuff in plastic with a "try me" button. Not really instant gratification like a traditional toy store (Hamleys, say) where you can play with lots of the toys before you choose.
Show HN: Timber – Structured Logging for Elixir, Ruby and Node
It sounds reasonable but the way to do this is with a device called a transfer switch. It's used on any proper installation of local power such as a home generator. When the utility power is out, the transfer switch cuts over to local power. There is no feedback to the outside power lines; the transfer switch disconnects them. Are home generators illegal also?
As it turns out... http://watchesinmovies.info/ And if you want to see what the celebs choose in real life and compare to what they chose in the move, sometimes http://www.watch-id.com/ has the info.
This reddit comment thread [1] explains the issue well.

In short: most households get grid-tied solar power setups with no batteries. If the main grid is off, it creates islands of power where the units can't safely backfeed to the grid. However, you can legally get a battery setup which costs more money and use that when the grid is down.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/70oz3k/due_to_e...
Thanks! This is much better.
The new Microsoft VR displays are even clearer. Higher pixel count. Also slightly narrower FOV, which is a double-edged sword. But I've definitely appreciated the greater readability of text. I have the HP version. It's also very comfortable, and the easiest to setup of any of the PC headsets.
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