skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm in the process of figuring out the scope of this issue and how to fix/report it

Don't bother, the merchants and card issues are well-aware of this. You're supposed to reconcile your card statement with your expected transactions, and dispute irregularities. If you attempt to fraudulently claim that you didn't perform a transaction, the issuer goes to the merchant to get a copy of the signature & uses it as proof you authorized the transaction.

If a fraudster forged your signature, you simply assert that the signature is not yours. If you attempt fraud here (sign in an unrecognisable hand), the fraud investigations will try to put you at the scene with CC TV recordings/handwriting matching/etc. Hopefully you have not signed any affidavits that the signature is not yours, because then you'll be up for perjury as well as fraud.
Or, if you have happen to have infinite money lying around, a Hublot MP-07 :)
From "Resources to get better at theoretical CS?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15281776 :

- "Open Source Society University: Path to a self-taught education in Computer Science!" https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

This is also great:

- "Coding Interview University" https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university

Neither these nor the ACM Curriculum are specifically topologically sorted.
LBOs still happen, unfortunately.
Assembly IDEs are still quite common on embedded space, and TASM back in the day had a Turbo Vision based IDE on MS-DOS.

And on the Amiga we had DevPac.
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Should a single developer working full time be able to implement an OS within a year?

The web is pretty much an operating system.
Can Cats eat Yogurt?
Won't most code bases be written by teams consisting of some or even most beginner and intermediate level developers?

My impression is that most companies experience a shortage of talent such that they take in greener members with each passing year. Ideally they should have the best conditions to turn out good quality code before they get to an advanced level. The tooling plays a big part.
You are obviously not a parent; you do not avoid trips to the toy store indefinitely.
Just finishing up my first VR game, Left-Hand Path, ready for its exit from Steam Early Access.

It's a Dark Souls-inspired full-length game (15 hours of VR gameplay) where you cast spells by drawing glyphs in the air. People seem to like it, at 85% positive reviews.

Currently I'm on the non-coding part of work mostly: I still have some bugs to clear, but after that it's beta feedback (and then more bug fixing), press relations, trailer, and similar launch prep.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760/LeftHand_Path/

I'm also working on a side project using Google Cardboard, and I'm starting testing game mechanics for my next full VR game which will probably involve melee combat.
TBH I think it makes sense that all houses should be connected to the electrical grid. Just like all houses should have proper sanitation facilities.

This is a small edge case for people who want to be self sufficient even though it makes no economic sense, as FPL does have net metering in place.

If they didn't have net metering in place I'd understand this, but considering they do and at first glance looks like a very reasonable program, is it really worth altering city and state building codes to allow it? The city/state would have to pay for very expensive specialists in off grid solar/battery/inverter setups to ensure they were at parity as a simple grid connection.
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> If the payment is <= 30 GBP, it's an offline transaction as well

It's still online (card-present check), but skips authorisation (no PIN needed).
This was a very good interview with a neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Phyllis Bonafice, who has a different opinion, https://youtu.be/W_i2mC5fAmI. I do think focusing on treatment more than punishment may be a better idea in most cases.
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Or that one newspaper¹ — not the exact same physical item obviously.

1: http://www.businessinsider.com/ed-oneill-has-been-reading-th...
This is ridiculous: you're just arguing by assertion. Give some evidence for your assertions, please!

Cars aren't necessary, of course; we could get by with horses and carts. But removing them would not "vastly improve" quality of life.

I live in Greater London, about 12 miles from where I work (35 minutes by scooter, 55 minutes by public transport if you time it perfectly, average 1h20 if you don't). My preferred supermarket is 3.9 miles away by road, about 40 minutes by bus or 12 minutes by car (though I normally go by scooter). Would my life be better without a motorised vehicle? My opinion is it definitely would not!

Either I'd need to severely reduce my choices in purchasing or commit to spending significantly more of my life on and waiting for public transport. Neither of these would vastly improve my quality of life.
link: https://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20040510/#rawsocket
All solar inverters that would meet any kind of standard synchronise to the frequency of the grid. They also cut out when they detect the grid is down.

For battery systems, they can keep going (like a UPS), but require an 'anti-islanding' switch which automatically isolates the system from the grid when it goes into that mode.

At least, this is all the case in in Australia (and Europe I believe), where we have some of the most households feeding the grid from solar in the world (as a percentage of homes).
>> And as a note, the Fed has stabilized markets very well for the last eight years

That's debatable. I'd say they prevented some much needed corrections from happening. The housing bubble is back - prices have recovered to 2006 levels or higher. People are less able to afford things at those prices. Also, home prices vary inversely with interest rates and rates are still near their lows with really only one direction to go.
Type systems aren't just about adding static type annotations to your otherwise dynamically typed code to catch a few bugs.

If you embrace the type system and start modeling your domain types with the natural invariants in mind you start seeing the real benefit. Once you enforce the invariants of your data in the types you'll notice entire categories of bugs will impossible to introduce. Abstraction barriers between different parts of your codebase will become more clear and impossible to break. Otherwise complicated architectures will become easy to express.

Types change everything.
Delivery services means delegating your choice of fresh produce. Incentives are not aligned; the lowest bidder will not do as good a job as the consumer.

From direct experience: food delivery works well enough for branded, processed and other long shelf life products. It's not bad for meat, as long as you're ordering from a specialist and not a supermarket (and of course there is a price premium). It's not good at all for fruit or vegetables, with current suppliers. Goods are bruised, mouldy, unripe, overripe, etc. It's also useless for bread; you always get yesterday's bread.
Chargrams from the email address would be an excellent feature.
Or try muLinux that boots on a single floppy
Lots of code to show that. How 'bout this: ;-)

>>> {**{'a': 'first'}, **{'a': 'second'}}
{'a': 'second'}
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>Electron

Absolutely disgusting.
So say you're going to pump $100 worth of fuel, and stop when the tank is full? You'll only be charged for what you pump.
Because of the effect of politics on intellectual honesty.

Once a debate triggers our "political" brain, it seems to scramble the kind of intellectual honesty science requires. An even more insiduous cousin of the maxim:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

I think the use of the phrase: "scientific consensus" indicates to jeff (it does to me) that we are having that kind of a conversation, and its likely to be quickly misused to the point where it makes reaching a political/societal "consensus" even more difficult.

I don't think it's possible to seperate science and politics either, but I think "Science" needs to be wary of speaking for science, instead of speaking as well informed and interested individuals.

It's fine to speak for science on purely scientific matters. When it comes to policy, especially social policy like this, it's preferable if they don't push the boundary towards rhetorical cheating.

For the record, I agree with this article and most others on the "scientific consensus" side.
Ahh, that explains a lot. Thanks.
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http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=The_Internet_Movie_Plan...

I used to contribute to the 'mystery planes identification parade', I really should make time again to do so.
Is there any sort of metaheuristic a good password cracker can follow for juggling between rounds of dictionary iteration, character substitution, brute force suffixing, etc?

In other words, how do you most effectively combine different strategies?
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>I'm more interested in the reality than the theory.

Reality requires theory; you simply can't claim to make a comment on modern Socialism without reading about what theories modern Socialists have created as to how the economy should be run. I provided counterexamples to the idea that it "never worked", too. Though even if you choose to dismiss 20th century Communism, I hope you realise how ignorant it is of you to dismiss modern innovations in theory, which has not yet been put to the test. Do you see how silly it is to dismiss a theory you haven't even read about?

At the moment you appear to be the monarch who says that civil liberties for the populace look great in book form, but implementation of liberties has never worked. What of Lockean liberalism or even capitalism, which has thus far had disastrous consequences and foundations in terrible subjugation and enclosure in Western Europe?
What else could they possibly mean? No elaboration is necessary…
Especially since it's not available on appstores (either Android or Apple) in France apparently. I've seen french crypto import regulations by the ANSSI cited as a reason, but nothing official from keybase.
7kw? Amazing! How large is the array? (sq ft) How much did that set him back?
More subpar click bait from this website. No references or citations, poorly written and possessing that indignant IFLS attitude.
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You should check out vega - https://vega.github.io/vega/

It is an extensive grammar for visualization.

Also - https://github.com/vega/voyager
More subpar click bait from this website. No references or citations, poorly written and displaying the standard IFLS indignance.
That book is a must-read for anybody in tech. I used to order it by the stack to give them away.
> If brick-n-mortar want to compete with Amazon, they need to compete with their prices. However, they also have a lot of additional overhead that makes it untenable.

Seems like a contradictory statement.

The economic message you're sending is that you gain no value from being able to see a book in person. The market will respond in kind.
It's frustrating that there are now so many "secure messengers" but none of them is so much better than the others to cause consolidation. I end up needing to communicate over 20-30 of them with different people.

Signal has the worst app (on iOS) and worst UX of anything I regularly use. There's unlikely to be a desktop client which is actually usable (doesn't depend on a phone, works on platforms I care about). The app is less buggy on iOS than it used to be, but it's still not great. Also doesn't work well with groups. And tied to PSTN identities, and the "talk to a new person on the street" interaction sucks. But, the most widely audited crypto, a good development model, and good adoption within some activist communities.

Wire is great, although it's a little "game-like" vs. professional for certain UX. I know the developers and really like it, and it's great for group chat and desktop, but doesn't have much adoption. But, one big global system, too.

Riot/Matrix and Mattermost are nice because you can run them on private networks. Nice apps. I've not seen as much analysis of their security as Signal.

Whatsapp, Telegram, etc. have massive adoption. Whatsapp is now solid security for user to user.

Apple's stuff is great but is Apple-only, and I'm wary, even if I trust the security model, to let a single company own my OS (and update whenever, without really auditing it) and my "end to end encrypted" apps -- way too easy to slip in any kind of backdoor there if they want.

etc. I'd happily trade in 50 ok to good systems for one great standard and then OS/other-application integration -- but it seems like we don't do standards anymore.
> base 60 = 2^2 5 * 3, has advantages of working in base 2, base 5, and base 3.*

... and 4 and 6 and 10. (and 12, 15, 30, 60)
I actually really like slack for casual conversation, for non-blocking work comms, and for general info, I only dislike when folks expect urgent responses via slack. So I've adjusted my slack config to make it work wonderfully for the use case I prefer, and to work around the use case I don't.
I recently traveled to the US, and stayed in a hotel of a major brand which had some outdated payment terminal that only used the magnetic strip of the card (without even a possibility to enter the PIN). The transaction was over a thousand USD. I had cards from two different banks: one failed because the PIN wasn't entered, and the second one got through. But after several months the second bank somehow freaked out and charged back about a third of the amount (probably flagging the transaction as fishy or something). I tried to contact the hotel to somehow return them the money that were mistakenly returned to me, but apparently there is no mechanism to do that.
I wish this thing had made it out of crowd-funding hell:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/920064946/oscilloscope-...

Sure would love to wear it!
I bought a $80 item from a toy store this week, the price was the same as Amazon and I was glad not to deal with delivery, boxes and packaging. At another toy store i picked up a llama llama book, but it was $17 in store, and only $10 on Amazon. I didn't get the book. $7 is worth waiting and dealing with boxes
As we have recently adopted TypeScript, this is a nice affirmation, but preventing bugs is only part of the benefit and I'm not sure it's the most important part.

TypeScript, in conjunction with a code editor that supports it, significantly improves the code editing experience. Sometimes I still have to chase down documentation, examples, etc. to figure out how to use something, but it happens far less often. In general, I feel like I can code faster and with more confidence.

I assume all this is also true of Flow, though I've never used it.
My team is in the process of switching a React app to TypeScript and an interesting issue popped up just today.

I was refactoring some component to be able to implement a new feature. At some point of the process I managed to break the component so that it would not render, only complained about an object not being a proper React component and that I was probably trying to render a bunch of items that should be put in an array. The error was reported by something deep inside React so I couldn't tell from the stack trace where the issue was. After trying to find the problematic bit by trial and error (lots of undo/redo there) I finally decided to just move the whole file to TypeScript. 20 minutes later I was done and the error was gone. I don't even know what I did to fix it but obviously I had to change quite a few things here and there to get the file to compile cleanly with decent typing and one of those type errors must have been the key.
So far it's just been technical reasons that would be a problem if pretty much all standards-compliant inverters didn't already have safety features to mitigate them...
This. I think people forget that just because big companies are pushing it doesn't mean everyone who creates and wants limited protections is working under a big company's banner.

For me, streaming is a concession to people who prefer it to owning their music. I don't want them ripping a stream I made $0.004 on (at best) thinking it's a fair exchange of value. My focus is on Bandcamp and other stores that offer DRM-free downloads. Without some kind of friction for copying off streaming sites, if you could just click "download" and not pay me anything, I just wouldn't put my music there.

My belief is someone who goes and pays a fair amount for the music understands it costs money to create, and will encourage the people they share it with under the CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license to help me make more by buying their own copy (or a subscription).
> Knock offs are $20 on Amazon, they're very simple devices.

And that goes right into cstross' second point...
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I don't see why these webpages need to be so huge. If websites used HTML5 properly and used CSS more extensively, a lot of the crap I feel could be removed.

Seriously, aside from graphics and video, what is taking up the size of these pages? Mountains of JavaScript?
You could plug your freezer or microwave into your battery backup.
Training for most fine art is a surprising amount of mechanical/physical knowledge about the various materials & tools. For example, creating a bronze cast is like a 18-step process[0], of which one step is 'make it look like the thing you want'.

> Actual materials to sculpt with are not cheap as far as I know

You learn how to sculpt with clay, which is pretty affordable. Some computer 3D models are sculpted in clay first, and 3D scanned for cleanup![1]

0: http://www.laurencebroderick.co.uk/casting_1.html
1: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Models
I don't know why, but my kids do really well in this situation. We often say "maybe for your birthday" or "we'll add that to Santa's list" or "we're not buying toys today". They might make a little fuss, but so far it's been pretty easy. We also do the thing where you repeat back what they said to them, like "oh you want that don't you? I know, but not today".

Edit oh and they are pulled out of the store if they don't behave, so there's that too.
In Australia 5kw is extremely common (20 250 watt panels) - out of pocket it's ~$5000 AUD.

Now that 280 watt panels are becoming common, up to 7kw is a "standard" install.
Correct. This is called orthogonality. I just used it now to discover that this same syntax works for both sets and lists (using * instead of )

>>> s1 = {'a', 'b', 'c'}
>>> s2 = {1, 2, 3}
>>> {*s1, *s2}
{'b', 1, 2, 3, 'c', 'a'}

>>> l1 = ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> l2 = [1, 2, 3]
>>> [*l1, *l2]
['a', 'b', 'c', 1, 2, 3]
Rather, thanks to regulation it is illegal to power your home with solar panels in Florida. Lobbyists are not legislators.

That said, power grids are incredibly difficult to coordinate, there is almost no describing it. You need extra installed capacity if some endpoints are also generating stations.

Personally I would not really want to backfeed to the grid anyway, so if this regulation applies even when you don't hook up to the grid, that seems pretty ridiculous.

Either way it doesn't seem like you'd need laws to keep people from hooking up their panels to the grid, unless they need to cancel out a law that says they must be able to hook up their solar arrays to a grid.
The K:Na balance is very interesting, especially because pre-agriculture societies usually have very low levels of hypertension, and this is probably the cause. Na+ and K+ balance does have something to do with acid-base regulation, because of urinary excretion of HCO3- and H+, but the benefits of a low sodium diet seem to be related to hypertension and not to acid-base regulation.

I haven't read the study, and I don't want to claim that Alkaline diets have zero supporting evidence. I just wanted to argue against the claim that your pH is "too acidic" or "too alkaline" or whatever. Any potential benefits of an alkaline diet are surely independent of the pH variation they induce, because the variation will be close to 0 in any case, if your body's working properly. The stress hypothesis is interesting (I'm not saying it's even remotely correct! only that it's an interesting twist on the crackpot claims I've heard elsewhere), but you'll never be able to gauge how stressed your regulation mechanisms are just by measuring the blood's pH. You'll have to find some upstream biomarker that measures "stress" directly.
Is there some guidance from the state somewhere that makes [2] clear?

Would be more informative than the link.
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That's incorrect. To install a generator, which is legal, you are required to have and to use a manual transfer switch.

I don't know where the full building code which would require this is, but this describes it in part:

> Florida State Generator Law 526.143
> Alternate generated power capacity for motor fuel dispensing facilities

> As of June 1, 2007, all retail outlets selling motor fuel must be able to operate its distribution loading racks using an alternate generated power source ... Installation of appropriate wiring, including a transfer switch shall be performed by a certified electrical contractor.
> I would think a doctor would say there isn't a consensus on whether coffee is holistically healthy.

Not even one doctor I've talked to has said this to me about coffee. Several have remarked on the interesting results of recent large studies. (See moozilla's comments here, in particular one study said: "Moderate coffee consumption was inversely significantly associated with CVD [cardio-vascular disease] risk, with the lowest CVD risk at 3 to 5 cups per day.")
Blame in itself doesn't have a great deal of use, and is usually not a solvable problem. You'll always face some contributor or condition that came before which, had it been different, feels like it could have changed things. Would Hitler have gotten widely known and ended up elected if Germany had not banned the Nazi newsletter after the Beer Hall Putsch which led most Germans to seek out the newsletters? Probably not, but that can only be a guess. Blame as such is mostly just an emotional thing, something that our brains want to make situations easier to understand due to how our brains process everything as associations.

BUT, blame does have an important side as well. Recognizing the possible or likely contribution of Nixon's actions, for example, informs us of the possible dangerous consequences of authoritarian approaches to drug policy. While it can't definitely establish a causal link, it can serve at least as a basic 'this approach can lead to X' or 'this approach was tried and did not prevent X' lesson. Hopefully, it can enable us to have a better discussion and teach us about the realities of the situations involved. Often things can look great on paper, but when implemented on large numbers of varied people they fall apart. Learning what works on those large groups of varied people can really only be done phenomenologically. You have to try things and observe the result. If the result is bad, but the 'on paper' form looked (or felt) really good, it's always a fight to change things. We see this with drug policy, supply-side economics, anti-sex moralism born with the Industrial Revolution, all kinds of things. Knowing where it started, and how people were convinced of things can be useful to show how people might be convinced differently or at least what to be afraid of when you see similar tactics being used in other arenas.
I love it when manufacturers choose to use common and inexpensive connectors/components, rather than choosing to make their own proprietary one. Using the iec 320 c13/14, usb micro, and other "standard" connectors is laudable.