skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, nosql vs sql doesnt mean much - use the right type of database for the scenario: relational, document, graph, key/value, etc.

They all have various support for transactions with relational usually the most comprehensive.
>Also, what was he going to do with one? Threaten the US with one if the internal rebellions don't stop? Threaten to nuke his own people?

prevent the US from intervening/preventing him from putting down internal rebellions. the risk of nuclear escalation gives you a much greater license to do things that fly in the face of international conventions.
I did say "if you already have a rig". For the time being, it still makes more sense to mine than liquidate cards.

The market is all over the place right now for mining altcoins. NiceHash-Cryptonight (pays out in BTC) will currently gross ~$18-20 a day with the same mentioned setup.
I would gladly pay double what I'm paying to Comcast for the same speed with almost any other company, but I have literally zero options above 25mbps.

And I live in the original home of the internet, Berkeley (which had one of the first 4 'IMPS').
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15613101
Thanks, I stand corrected. For some reason I was considering Uranium only (which also decays, but with such a long half-life).
Umm listen to the Marshall Mathers LP and then get back to me
That is of course, not what I'm saying.

My original claim, that I stand beside, is that code audit-ability for security purposes is not a reason to prefer open source software. For all the reasons this thread points out, that is just as fraught as auditing closed source software. Further, a competent audit of the software would not look much different between open and closed source projects.

Absent a competent audit, there are lots of other factors that are higher on my (and many more knowledgeable peoples) lists for importance to security and privacy than open vs closed source. Things such as documented and approved algorithms, the team involved, the amount of legal backing, the market incentives etc.

That is not to say there aren't reasons to prefer non-Google based API or to prefer open sourced software for other reasons. Just security audit-ability is a bad one.
I've been stunningly disappointed by GDAX.

to put it briefly, their support left me hanging with a nonfunctional account for 2 months now due to bugs in their site, and have simply stopped responding to tickets.

I would not recommend anyone use a financial service with that level of disregard for their customers.
Good time to remind everyone that Google Finance said they would delete everybody's portfolio's in November and if you want the data you should download it.

You don't see this unless you go to the Portfolios page: (not my screenshot) https://imgur.com/0o4Ehxe
Oh, great! I see that the separate YouTube channel's videos discuss the chemistry though the fund raising page's video doesn't. That won me over -- $100 donated. It looks like I have a bunch of videos to watch this weekend :-)
On the other hand, the US didn't launch a campaign that ended in the NK ruler's death before they had nukes, either...
There are some more obscure systems of interest for which emulators are also available -- Multics (see http://multicians.org/sim-inst.html), the Burroughs 5500 and MCP (http://retro-b5500.blogspot.com/), old mainframe environments via Hercules, and so forth.
> ... going to go 4chan and hide behind "freedom of speech" to excuse the filth their platform breeds?

I mean, I don't think 4chan is doing that at all. You give the sons-of-moot too much brainpower. It's a bathroom stall's wall, policing it is silly.

That said, when will Twitter crash over the bot stuff? Wall Street doesn't think it will crash, so it won't. When Wall Street thinks it will crash, then it will. However, Twitter is at the foundation of the ad-scam that most of the Big 4 are running. When that goes belly up, Twitter will be along for the ride, but it's more of a Haunted House than a Log-ride. Scary.

Again, this is my thought process, who knows.
But if you'd bought $6k worth of ethereum outright in march it would be worth $90k now. That's why I haven't started mining, it only seems profitable in a sideways market.
CPU's can't tolerate high temperatures so it only works for a small subset of things you need a heating element for.

Aka, you can uses them to cook with. Also, while you can use electricity to heat water it's vastly more efficient to burn natural gas to make heat than burn natural gas to make electricity to make it, ditto solar power etc.
Because both companies and citizens choose better place to work and have a house, at the cost of having to drive every day. The money you don't pay in rent, you pay in gas.

Also because the state and government doesn't plan for such things, so the result is large cities with many offices and spread out houses.

I guess gas money could be saved on a very large scale if the government would try to encourage citizens to switch houses... maybe with some sort of tax break or something...
And IMHO statistics is the all important base one needs to have to wield ML properly. For starters, one should know the difference between the using the OLS algorithm and Simple Linear Regression.
> parents should be able to choose to abort for whatever reason they want.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/opinion/missing-50-million...
"All bullshit jobs require you to be on site" is a different statement from, "all jobs that require you to be on site are bullshit."

The person you're responding to didn't say what you think they said.
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There's one just north of San Francisco on 101 (probably a little over an hour from Mountain View if not driving during rush hour), but nobody is living there. It's very crowded every night, and I've heard time limits are enforced. Truckers complain a lot about any routes through the SF Bay area, as there are very few places for them to rest or even park for a short time.

There's also a couple on I-5, but they might be a 1.5 hour drive from Mountain View.
OCaml 4.06.0 released
I think the main takeaway is that it all comes down to expectations. If the expectation of the team and the communication medium is rapid response (minutes vs. hours/days), and that expectation is not clearly communicated and agreed upon, you're going to have trouble.

Likewise, if everyone knows that due to people's different time zones, schedules, etc. that 24hrs is a typical response window via email, there should be no complaints if responses aren't received more immediately.
I actually think GitHub is a competitor. More and more often I find myself getting answers by reviewing discussion about issues on GH. Also, places like Discord I've ended up in commmunities where I can get answers to my programming questions. It's anecdotal, but it has caused my usage of SO to drop over the last year and a half or so.
Remember those requirement we talked about last month? Writing it down or having a log of conversation helps so much. When in person it is harder to take notes and be part of the converdation.
What would you do if confused by the road signs?
A car could
1) see what other drivers doing
2) ask them - and this is easies with v2v
3) ask some central authority owe the air
Very few of the comments here suggest that the commenter read any further than the title of this article. I can find two comments that mention VR.
I mean, relative to the competition, the original iPhone was certainly rather "full panel"!

http://www.techpavan.com/wp-content/uploads/mobile-phone-mar...

Devoting the majority of the vertical dimension of the profile of the phone to display was definitely not a priority of the market at the time.
> Can I use just a single board to control each of the LED lights to light up independantly?

Arduinos typically have a few GPIO ports (ON OFF) that you can control using a c-like language.

If you need more LEDs than the board supplies, you can extend your board with for example a shift register or something.
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That's the "battolyser" concept -- store and use the hydrogen from nickel-iron unit charging instead of wasting it. But round-trip storage efficiency is lower via hydrogen (if you want electricity as the end form of energy) and it increases complexity/cost to add systems for hydrogen. So the economics may not be improved even though the energetic efficiency would be.
Basically, yeah, they don't make the OS. I think the parent comment was more aimed at software companies. Though, you could look at it from the opposite point of view as well.
Is there another reason than space-saving for the two batteries instead of one bigger one but L-shaped?
I wonder if this sort of technology could become a standard for evaluating towns and quality of life. For instance, a drone or fixed cameras mounted throughout a town could provide an aerial view of how "green" that town is, both in terms of literal greenery and how much CO2 is being absorbed.

My personal belief is that towns/suburban life is dying by the very thing that made it: cars. Not only is pollution a huge problem, but at least with the towns that I've lived in, greenery is being torn down entirely and being replaced with a sea of cement, asphalt, shopping plazas, highways, etc. I'd love to use a tool like mentioned in the article to actually quantify and grade/score a town on this matter. Then codify in law certain "greenery standards".

We know that seeing nature reduces stress, cleans the air, etc., so this truly is a matter of quality of life as much as it is about our environment.
Easiest, quickest and most flexible way is with www.parkmycloud.com or similar tools.
Also Phil Knight's film studio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika_(company) which made Coraline and Kubo.
Comcast and CenturyLink: You've shown you do not want to invest in fiber to the home, so you don't have any right to stop the city from doing it.

I don't hate Comcast as much as others, but I'm really looking forward to Fort Collins starting the process of doing municipal fiber.

Comcast and CenturyLink have neglected upgrading infrastructure for decades, and so if they aren't going to do it I don't see why the city shouldn't. Comcast at least has a reasonable service, CenturyLink tops out at 40Mbps at my home.

CenturyLink is particularly culpable because they received $2B in taxes to roll out fiber to the home by the year 2000, and did little if anything for that money. I've never even known anyone who has QWest/CenturyLink FTTH.

They are just sitting on a bunch of copper twisted pair, hoping to get as much money as they can without any investment in new technology.

Even back in the last '90s they had that attitude. They refused to deploy DSL concentrators in neighborhoods, because that would open the pedestals to CLECs to put gear into. So instead they required all DSL runs to go to one of the two Fort Collins Central Offices. A huge amount of the city was un-served because they were more than 18K feet from a CO.
For us to consider it, it has to be a web app. I don't have time to manage installs on laptops. Also, it's a cool idea to create a virtual cloud engineer, but you're asking people to take on the pain of managing desktop apps for a benefit they don't even see right now.
There is a startup which installs their servers in private homes and other buildings where they are used for heating. They essentially connect the market of server computing and heat.

[1] https://cloudandheat.com

[2] https://www.informationweek.com/cloud/heating-your-house-wit...
Unless you want more than 10 minutes, then you have to press a different button and then type in the time. Fortunately, there are only something like 20 buttons...a big improvement over a knob and a button that is immediately usable by anyone.
> An interesting project would be to create a single environment which can be used for both education and research.

This does happen sometimes, by accident. I wrote Quirk [1] as an educational tool for learning about quantum circuits. But then I started finding it useful as a tool for optimizing circuits to use fewer gates, just by dragging things around and seeing what happens (there's still enough low-hanging fruit for that to be viable). The paper "Halving the cost of quantum addition" [2] only exists because of a "that's strange..." moment while I was messing around with a decomposition of the Toffoli gate in Quirk.

(I bet Michael Nielsen, the author of the linked article, gets a particular kick out of this example. He's also the co-author of the de-facto standard textbook for quantum computing.)

1: http://algassert.com/quirk

2: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06648
But that’s also survivorship bias. If you buy a rig, you can always have the flexibility of mining whatever’s profitable, and even potentially not mining when there’s no profit to be made.
For us left handed people it means blocking the board while I write.

You can draw things in different sizes through remote whiteboard, you can add helpful icons and your voice can get louder or quieter for effect.
IBM acquired Vivant Digital business, an Australia based boutique digital agency
I have a Pixel XL (first gen) on Google Project Fi. Do I need LineageOS?
Maryland takes digital driver's licenses for a spin
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I think the main issue with hydrogen is just that it's crazy dangerous and sort of hard to work with safely. It's highly flammable, and becomes violently explosive when mixed with oxygen.

It's easy to make - just pass current through water - but while all batteries are basically bombs, a key factor in their design is that they should go off very slowly.
That's closer ;-)

Still, sounds more like a daily walk that happens to be to the job than a commute.
Yeah but Teen Titans Go? Fart jokes indeed.

I liked Ultimate Spider Man; that was not as good as the one in the 90's but better than a lot of other cartoons from recent years.

In general though I agree, I especially think DC does a good job with their animated movies.
We know that seeing nature reduces stress, cleans the air, etc., so this truly is a matter of quality of life as much as it is about our environment. If more people cared about the earth we would all be in better health.
I don't think you could practically power a display + processor combo with the heat from your hands. The best I can find on the power radiated by your hands is this article

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-flashlight-is...

That article says you can get about 5 milliwatts using a Peltier converter, so working backwards based on Peltier converters being ~10% efficient that's only 50 milliwatts radiated by your hands. Even with an ideal 100% efficient converter that turns 100% of that energy into electricity, combined with a 100% efficient step up converter to raise the voltage that's not a lot to work with, that's barely enough power to light a couple of blue LEDs, much less a display and a microcontroller capable of rendering 3D graphics.
This is terrible advice. OP asks for concrete ideas and your answer is "the sky is falling."
Only if you conveniently ignore the word "enlightened," which also happens to be the most important word there.

More like a meritocratic oligarchy?
> The entire industry is ripe for a complete disruption. The in efficiencies, useless staff, incompetence, crazy contract terms would mean there is no way for these cumbersome oafs to complete with an even remotely agile organisation.

SimpleBank tried to do this in the US, and ended up with a lackluster acquisition by BBVA [1]. Standard Treasury also tried this at the institution level, and also ended up with a poor acqui-hire outcome [2]. Without being able to be a technology company first, and a financial institution second, these efforts are doomed to fail. I hate to say it, but the best companies to attack this are Amazon, Google, and Walmart (companies that are either Agile or ruthlessly efficient).

With that said, I feel your pain. I work in security for a financial utility in the US, and some days, its impossible to get anything done. Use opportunities like this to sharpen your bureaucracy hacking skills (and the money isn't bad either). Failures are only lessons you don't learn from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_(bank)

[2] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/08/s...
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Apple Says 'Face with Tears of Joy' Is Most Popular Emoji in the U.S
Splitting a battery into two cells might mean it can charge twice as fast in parallel.
Interesting point about on-site combustion heating.

Assuming that the fossil fuel to electricity conversion is about 1/3 efficient and the heat pump CoP is 3, then on-site combustion heating is effectively as "efficient" as a heat pump.

I guess the main point is that "fossil fuel -> electricity -> grid -> heat pump" cycle seems crazily inefficient in terms of losses, especially when heating is a large portion of electricity consumption in many households.
I don't understand : we are in the middle of the biggest population explosion in the history of the world and at the back end of a century of government programs aimed at reducing childbearing...
Ah, I get it. The "my leaders should have more integrity than me" mentality. Well guess what? One day you may be a leader...and you'll still have your crap, anti-social mentality.
Show HN: Simple starter kit to build Pardot landing pages easier
This was really a big deal
I've had to convert 500+ CSV files into graphs... Pandas + seaborn were the most effective solution!
I am now picturing a mile-long phalanx of self-driving cars gaily careening off the end of a destroyed bridge because the map and road signs disagree and they're all "going with the flow". Or to put it another way, if all your friends drove off a bridge, would you?
Blocks did have names in some American cities. I have to say that I know this only from novels, which would probably put the practice back about the late 1940s.
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Do you really need to hold it up to your face like I've been seeing? The reviewers look so awkward and uncomfortable. I was hoping it would see your face laying on the desk and whatnot.
True, but look at the change phones from ten years pre-iphone vs iPhone.

http://www.mobilephonehistory.co.uk/lists/by_year.html

Huge change. But after Apple nailed the modern smartphone design on the first try, ten years later it is remarkably unchanged.
It is not an externality, as an externality is strictly a cost that is borne primarily by parties outside of the transaction. The cost of a commute is external to the Company, but the labor market is two sided (employee/company) and the costs are therefore priced into the transaction appropriately.
They couldn't launch them anyway, its the same as US nukes in Turkey.
> The conflict was low intensity warfare, which nukes are not particularly well suited for.

Firstly "was" is not the right word, the war is ongoing: http://tass.com/world/965974

Secondly, imo the nature of the conflict is less important than whether a concentrated population of the adversary's citizens are within range of the weapon as far as determining the effectiveness of nuclear deterrent.

> Even if Ukraine had nukes, would it have threatened and actually have the will to use it over the lost of the Crimea?

Would those that made the decision to invade have accepted the risk of even the most minute possibility? No leader has done that so far.
hmm, wasn't aware of that, thanks.
Comcast needs to update their systems before they even think about doing anything else. Their customers have been complaining for years.
My personal view is that redundancy on stupid things is okay. That is, things that are very simple, you should be okay with doing over and over in multiple modules if you need it.

The experience that lead me to this was a particular team I was on where a previous developer had said "aha! All of these pieces of code relate to the same domain model, so we should build a common package of domain model objects and have all the modules share those objects! That way, we don't have to write them all over and over again!"

These weren't just model objects for data passing, but actual business logic inside these models. Usually very simple stuff, but occasionally a particular module would need some special logic on those objects, so in it went.

The problem was that over time, there modules started drifting. Their domains became different ever so slightly and the owners of those modules became different teams. Now if you wanted to modify the domain object, you had to check it wouldn't break code the other teams were developing.

It became a real mess. And all to avoid writing the same simple pojo classes more than once.
Renewables are already cheaper than coal:

https://www.google.com/search?q=wind+solar+cheaper+than+coal...

I saw a chart a decade ago that projected when the cost of rooftop photovoltaic panels would be be less than the install cost, and it was before now. Looks like that happened around last year ($3 per watt for panel, $3 per watt for install cost):

https://www.solarpowerauthority.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to...

With free energy all around us from the sun, the difficulty is no longer in collection. The next big opportunities from a profit vs effort descending perspective will be in areas that are causing friction in adopting renewables:

* legalities

* inverters (currently priced 2-10x higher than they should be for non-technical reasons)

* storage (batteries, compressed air, gravity etc)

* conversion (electrolysis and methane production)

* distribution
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For networking, if necessary, one can use slirp.

"Another alternative to direct pcap and tun/tap networking on all environments is NAT (SLiRP) networking. NAT networking is limited to only IP network protocols so DECnet, LAT and Clusting can't work on a NAT connected interface, but this may be the easiest solution for many folks."

source: https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/0readme_ethernet.tx...

https://virtuallyfun.com/category/slirp/
The Nikon CoolPix S80 line of cameras were full-panel displays. That was probably the first full-panel device.
This turned out to be less than useful. It's hard to hold the thing stable when taking a picture without touching the touch screen.
Ask HN: Suggestions interactive tool for Git history
I have found an undocumented repository (mostly code) that is sufficiently complex; including multiple languages, non-informative directories, no access to original authors, and inconsistent file extensions. It is unclear what the intended scope of the repository is.

Lucky enough, the code base isn't enormous.

I would like to see the git-diff history, as a step by step interface (without getting lost) in an intelligible way.

Does anyone have tool-tips on this?

Also, what other tools do you use to understand such a code base?
Quite true. Though western countries didn't attack Gaddafi before he gave up nuke either.

The speculation I've heard (on radio, so I cannot paste a link) is that NK analysis is roughly: NK's regime is safe as long as China sees it as useful (probably using NK as some sort of buffer state against US), but sooner or later that support will end. Then only nuclear weapons will ensure NK's regime survival. It's rational, though again just speculation.

The contradiction, or maybe unintended side effect, is that the developing of nuclear weapons itself is causing China to rethink its support of NK regime...
I don't understand. Isn't jerking off about the 'free market' America's thing?
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Just smaller and faster with new technology, never before seen delivered at this size, capability or scale.

What does Apple have to do to impress people? Do all this then give the phones away for free?
> Repairability 6 out of 10

That's a big surprise to me!