skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with all technological transitions, some municipalities will see the writing on the wall and invest. Others will not, and will see their local economy contract and young people flee.

“The grid to your home can’t even provide enough power to charge your car” becomes a decent reason not to move there.
The key value proposition of facebook to me is that it makes those types of connections easier to scale up. Do I really need to call 200 people a month to see what they're up to and how they're doing? It's much better to have a constant feed of information that you can interact with as you can and want.

But it doesn't provide that value any more. It shows me ads and posts from a handle of the hundreds of people I'm friends with.

So you're right that caring is a proactive act, but that doesn't invalidate that initial value proposition at all.
Dammit. For some years now I have been pointing out to people who would listen that what we need are policy solutions rooted in mathematical analysis, my go to case being gerrymandering. It seemed quite obvious that we could use geometric smoothing to set district boundaries based on census data to remove people from the process and therefore gerrymandering. Guess I had an untested assumption which wasn’t true, which is humbling.
Does anyone think it could be a reflection or a trick of light that is dependent of the viewers position? Eg it's int he same position relative to the viewer and then suddenly "flys away" because the conditions for it to be visible have changed?
So there's a spec of dirt on each fighter's camera?
So this is not a perfect comparison but potentially a useful one.

Gasoline has about 33kWh per gallon. A typical gas pump is limited to 10 gal/min flow rate (lets say 8gpm just to be conservative).

That means your gas pump takes about a minute to dispense 250 kWh or 23 seconds to dispense 100kWh. That generates effectively no heat. To charge one electric vehicle at the equivalent rate (assuming it could tolerate it) would take a 15 megawatt power source per 'pump'.

Here is the size of a one megawatt AC to DC power substation:

"The complete ABB megawatt station
weighs only 20 tons. At 50 m3, the
container’s volume is some 15 percent
smaller than equivalent solutions."

https://library.e.abb.com/public/52d148c3c4b02ded85257e4c004...

I own an EV (hybrid really, Volt, but I'm 85% electric). I support electric vehicles enormously. But this is a huge huge problem with scaling that no one talks about. My volt can charge, slowly, at 8 amps (~1kW) while I'm at home, a rate my home power can easily take. Most vehicles in the US are static for at least 8 hours once, if not twice, during the day. Using that time to charge slower is a stopgap but I really doubt that the US grid has the excess capacity for this.
That still depends on the jurisdiction: Scotland, for example, does allow for contracts without consideration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_contract_law
And then there's stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar

So, really, its likely that any UFO is military in nature, rather than extraterrestrial.
A potential issue I see with this is the fact that some people need to get to and from work during hours that would prohibit them from charging at off-peak hours. Night-shift jobs tend to be on the lower end of the pay scale (though there may be a bonus for taking that awful shift compared to their day-time peers.) So there is an opportunity for some regressiveness in this scheme.
Ok but I wasn't saying that the UK has a small population, I think there's more to it. 8 million isn't exactly tiny either.
Isn't the object showing up on the ASA as well.

Also what is an ASA.
Little green men would seem to me like an all too convenient coverup, if I were a person of power interested in keeping secrets.
I don't remember that too precisely anymore, but are you sure that you're not thinking of the identifier? It used to be pretty cryptic by itself. Now they use the e-mail address as identifier.
Not sure how releasing this information benefits anyone. The games are sold and distributed by Konami directly, and only to licensed arcades.
It's actually (slightly) faster on it's ICE. It does feel slightly more sluggish because throttle response becomes more dependent on the ICE, but once the ICE kicks in with the batteries towards the 30-60 MPH it goes slightly faster
> Banks can accept risks to liquidity pretty readily

Depends on the size of the liquidity crunch. It's not exactly unknown to bring a financial institution to its knees for lack of liquidity.

> cryptocurrencies are hyper-liquid

How so?

> unrecoverable short of a hard fork

Which is the usual way of dealing with this. I can't think of any cryptocurrencies that are decentralised enough that a small quorum of people can't effect a substantial change.

> exchanges need to have measures in place which would be unheard-of at most other firms

What are they doing that's more than financial institutions? Startups selling coffee or whatever, sure.
Funnily, being capable of attacking America and humans rights violations on their own are not valid casus belli. The US or an ally being attacked is, so a digital attack would make for their best available case.
> but the smell?

Yes! Well admittedly, I have somewhat of a redneck past. [cue Ben Fold's Five music.] Having grown up in small-town Midwest and worked on Farms the smell of gasoline is linked to lots of boyhood memories and male-bonding experiences :)
But as common as maize, tomatoes, and turkey, IIRC.
It would be kind of hard to prevent people from posting something about my death on Facebook, unless I figured out a some way to temporarily re-animate myself.

I know a lot of people. Many of those people unfortunately use Facebook. There's a good chance that at least one of them will be posting something about it, regardless of my wishes.
I'm not sure the holocaust did anything good for science.
If memory serves, XMPP is pretty battery intensive on mobile because one has to maintain a consistent connection to the server to receive messages
I would say there is absolutely a use for imagery - I wouldn’t advise learning real or complex analysis of without visual aids :). I just think they are easily abused and used to mask gaps in formal knowledge.
Possibly related?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/boeing-unveils-new-pl...
It changes a lot depending on your jurisdiction, but is generally:

> A valid contract needs the following elements: People entering the contract must intend the contract to be binding. An offer is made by one person and is freely accepted by another. Some price (money, right or benefit) is paid in return for a promise. [0]

So the fact WhatsApp is providing a service, means some price has been "exchanged" (for lack of a more precise term). The price does not need to be financial, any benefit can be viewed that way.

So yes, it does appear that a legal contract was formed. Even in the US. [1]

(A financial benefit is not required, but it makes it more clear that the contract was valid. Hence the habit of ridiculous $1 contracts.)

[0] https://www.legalaid.vic.gov.au/find-legal-answers/consumer-...

[1] See under Consideration: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/175238
Interesting (and probably by design) I had to opt out of such a plan when I signed up for "100% renewable energy" with my plan.
Viktor Frankl, a concentration camp survivor, would agree with your last point. He wrote Man's Search for Meaning, and one of his main points is that sometimes you can't control what happens in life, only how you choose to act while enduring it.

It's a pretty amazing book. And really brings things into sharp contrast. You might be struggling with work (and I've been in that struggle myself, it's not fun, and hard to escape from), but this man managed to to make it through one of the worst atrocities ever committed against fellow humans, and not fall to pieces as a result of it.

http://benjaminmcevoy.com/7-lessons-learned-mans-search-mean...
Vehicle-to-grid technology is already being piloted in the UK and will be available to consumers in Q2/Q3 2018. There is an industry-wide roadmap for the development of local electricity markets with real-time pricing. Any customer can choose to have a smart meter installed free of charge; the goal is to have full deployment of smart metering by 2020. These meters use Zigbee to provide real-time consumption data to a wireless display unit. With future firmware upgrades, they will be capable of providing real-time pricing information to smart appliances.

The grid is already perfectly capable of consumer feed-in, hence the huge deployment of photovoltaic solar systems. The metering is not particularly difficult. There is an emerging standard for smart grid communications (LTE on the 450MHz band) that is already in widespread use across the EU.

Completing this transition won't be cheap, but there are no significant roadblocks. We know what needs to be done and we have the technology to do it.

https://www.drive-electric.co.uk/driveelectric-launches-vehi...

http://www.energynetworks.org/assets/files/electricity/futur...

http://450alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/WhitePaper...
Seems like the only reason Salt Iodization doesn't make the list of "top" charities is because it is much harder to prove benefits back to the charity level. If a charity lobbies the local supermarket to label iodized salt which people want which causes better health, it is nearly impossible to prove that it was the charity that caused the better health. Malaria nets are much easier: How many nets went out, did the nets make it to the people we intended, how many fewer people got malaria? Iodization is much more difficult to track because so much money needs to be spent at the lobbying level instead of the "buying iodine" level.

Malaria nets also score extremely well in their ranking system because those charities can accept a TON of money before diminishing returns start to kick in. Against Malaria has said "we could easily accept >$50 million in donations" where the two Iodization organizations GiveWell tracks have said they could probably only accept $2-5 million without major changes (even though both of them lost their primary funding sources in the past few years and are thus decreasing their programming).

This all doesn't mean GiveWell is wrong in their current recommendations. They are up front about disclosing the problems with their methodology, but you should keep it in mind when choosing which charities to donate to.
Interesting emphasis upon 3D stacking, do they plan to use TSVs?
Leaving Apple and Google: My Eelo Odyssey. Bootstrap on Kickstarter
I bought a used 2015 Leaf in 1/17 for $8,500 at 19k miles. I thought that was a good deal. I like the BMW, but the BMW heritage of expensive repairs is what steered me away. Hopefully all that will change with EV, though the i3 still has a gas motor. Any issues with yours?
It would be easier for me to use Chrome. All of my coworkers use Chrome. Before Quantum, Chrome had better performance [1]. Chrome is everywhere. I have to test my web apps on Chrome regardless of whether it is my primary browser or not.

I'm not saying I'm leaving Firefox, but I am going to reevaluate which browser I choose. Mozilla lost a lot of trust from me and I am going to reevaluate how I interact with their products.

If supported, mainstream, and clean of spyware are the three boxes you are trying to check and you still feel Firefox checks them, great. But, now is as good of a time as any to reevaluate why you are using a browser and if the browser really meets what you are looking for.

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-browser-interne...
Top digitized archives of 2017
The author is not in any 'private circle', he just happened to come across data and started poking at it.
"SRA in the halls of power", is the going theory for why this story is making its rounds.
"rate its citizens": The 'that black mirror episode!' clickbait

"The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents": The more accurate subtitle, which you can now see since you gave us your click. Gotcha!

Credit rating is nothing new, be it for people, corporations or even countries.
I hadn't heard of this before this thread.

This is actually almost tit-for-tat the MO of digital media corps publication and delivery roadmaps (well, the outward facing side). I've heard plenty of this in the media world, and no reference to the Indie Web group.

In hindsight the general design of said system is obvious, but I wonder if their plans originated with IW, or developed beside it.
> I don't know of any programs that are distributed as C to be run directly like javascript.

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten
Sulolive: 30k LOC full-stack Clojure online marketplace open sourced
Here (in Estonia) the pricing changes every full hour. We get pricing for the next day (24h) a day before by 14 (2 pm). This is calculated from weather forecast, expected consumption and available generation resources. This is for residential use. For industrial applications you can buy electrical energy from the grid based on 15 minute pricing slots. Almost all the houses are equiped with online readable power meters.

I think this is the way things are moving in other jurisdictiins as well. In case of Germany and France one of the reasons why the systems have mot been upgraded lies in the privacy rules for the power consumption data according to one smart meter manufacturer.
(Retracted)

The theory of comparative advantage assumes that capital cannot move between countries. That's the key assumption, without it the theory falls completely. And in the modern world it's very far from true. I'm reminded of John von Neumann's remark about physicists studying "dry water" (a mathematical model of water that assumes zero viscosity but is oh so beautiful).
Wow, gaspunk is the perfect term for it. TIL.
The store shutdown date is more than 2 years away and devices that use it are all more than 2 years old right now, no one is getting a refund.
There's a picture which Google's Vision API returned Goo\u011fle

I was wondering why there's a unicode char in the middle:

In [5]: c = '\u011f'

In [6]: c
Out[6]: 'ğ'

This does closely resemble the characters in the picture :-)
That attitude sure turned out well for Opera.
But the consideration does not have to in the form of money, it just has to be "worth" something. The considerations in question here are personal information on the users' side and the Whatsapp app+service on the company's side.
prev discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10130341
>Hidden information is a big problem, the classic benchmark for that is poker. The latest breakthrough I'm aware of was for heads-up limit Texas hold'em http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6218/145 That may be a difficult game, but it has vastly fewer possible states. The same approach as used in the paper would almost certainly not scale for MTG.

I'm a big AI poker fan (and a big fan in general). The current state of the art is now a bot that can consistently beat the very best heads-up no limit (i.e. there are a very large number of possible legal bets) players in real money games.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/12/15/scien... - note the date was yesterday :)
I you want something for Windows check out https://www.foobar2000.org/
I hold Mozilla to a much higher standard than other large tech organizations.

This particular incident shows either massive process failure (allowing marketing to auto-deploy code without sufficient review), or that no one in the review process recognized the issues with using development and debugging tools to push marketing software.

Either version is (yet another) blow to the trust I want to have in an organization that I still care very deeply about.
Beautiful.

An attempt at a technical explanation of why they simply cannot treat traffic equal as a business.

Hahah, they're doing the QoS/shaping === neutrality argument.

Absolute bullshit.

Net Neutrality is about treating packets equal regardless of WHO asks and WHERE THEY GO, not about WHAT TYPE/PRIORITIZATION.

Want to be prioritize webcam streams to be lower than SMS text? NOT NET NEUTRALITY.

Want to prioritize HTTPS lower than VOIP? NOT NET NEUTRALITY.

Want to prioritize sending this video since COMPANY A sent us payola but COMPANY B didn't? THAT'S NET NEUTRALITY.
This: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/your-phone-metadata-is-...

Facebook, for example, can probably establish who my wife is, even if I don't explicitly put her in my profile, and who effectively are my affinity groups (friends/family/etc).
how ? the link that you provide is from 2k17, while the article is from 2k4...
Credit rating is nothing new, be it for people, corporations or even countries

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbun
> In case of Germany and France one of the reasons why the systems have mot been upgraded lies in the privacy rules for the power consumption data according to one smart meter manufacturer.

Not just that, in addition the smart meters cost a bunch of money to install... people don't like paying anything very much.
My pet peeve is progress bars that increment based on the units of work, rather than extrapolating to an estimated time remaining. When there is no real correlation between how long different segments of the progress bar will take to complete, it basically becomes useless to me.

My general perception is that most commercial software is putting in the effort to calculate time remaining these days. Are there any open-source tools that help with this? It would be awesome to collect analytics during development (opt-in in production) and apply it to calculate more and more accurate time estimates.
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Here's another question that bugs me:

"Why do you want to work for Acme Corp?"

Employers need to remind themselves that the interview is a date - the company needs to let the candidate know why they might want to work for ("marry") Acme Corp, not the other way around. What would you think if you were on a real date and the other person said:

"Why do you want to marry me?"
I don't particularly disagree but this theme of ehrmagerd-they-took-err-open-software comments under WASM posts is beginning to look like a meme.

> Give me the sources and I'll use my package manager to build the JavaScript applications I want my browser to execute for particular online services.

The vast majority of people do not understand or want that. It's mostly a nerd fetish (and I count myself in).

> Give me the sources and I'll use my package manager to build the JavaScript applications I want my browser to execute for particular online services.

This openness is also a double edged sword. People focus on the warm fuzzy side of it and forget the mess that it tends to create for a platform because no one can ever rely on some features being available for everyone.

You will need a never ending amount of feature detection, polyfills, polyfills for your polyfills, transpiling, blah blah blah because oh look someone wanted to exercise their freedom to disable textboxes on their browser. And now they are demanding that you make your application gracefully fallback to handle the case where a textbox is not available. IT'S THEIR RIGHT!

Eventually someone will show up with a baked sweet potato and demand that your application must work on their potato because they have disabled all features but still want the functionality.

You can't realistically cherry pick underlying software pieces like that.

Rather than delivering a buggy software that works under a million different combinations of features and settings I will deliver a package of software that run predictably well on one or more predictable platforms. That is "the atom". You either take it all, or not at all.

From my experience the average users tend to be perfectly happy and satisfied with that. They are almost always running with default options everywhere anyway. It's the GNU-enthusiast hacker-types (and I count myself in) that tend to throw a tantrum about their custom preferences and philosophical and technical objections.
That would be the simplest explanation. Given the huge amount of money spent on US military, the value of having advanced military aircraft in their inventory, and the desire to keep the technology secret and out of enemy hands - military based UFOs seems like a reasonable conclusion.

The fact that the aircraft is moving at G forces unsustainable by biological life isn't surprising either given advances in drone tech.

It would also make sense to shut the UFO program down as well if it was ending up with these secret programs getting accidentally revealed.
The video quality is terrible, so who knows, but I've never seen any UFO footage that had any kind of decent quality video. Hell, a 2004 camera phone would be almost as good as this video. Yes, yes, its in the dark and moving fast and whatnot, but I thought that the military would have had much better imaging tech, even back in 2004, than this grainy low res thing. May as well be someones camcorder.

The only thing it has going for it, in my opinion, is that the pilots would have been pretty used to seeing stuff in their cameras and would know the difference between something ordinary and something extraordinary. I do think its more likely that it was some military test plane than something extraterrestrial though, personally.
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> Flash pushed the web forward and demonstrated that it could be used to deliver real desktop like applications,videos and games, not just text and images.

Java (and RealMedia) did that first. The thing that Flash brought was good tooling for creators and not just programmers.
This is a common retort (in my view, to make people feel better and not have to consider the implications otherwise) -- here's the pentagon official in charge of the program stating unequivocally that these are almost certainly not related to any aircraft in any national inventory

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/19/571868263/secret-program-at-t...

The thing that makes these interesting is the fact that they exhibit aeronautic behavior, while tracked by multiple computers and witnesses, that is not physically possible with known methods of propulsion, not because they look like shiny discs.
Advanced anti-viral nanoparticles target and destroy a range of viruses
In my experience it almost always means "I expect you to work 14 hour days like I do even though I have 40x the equity you do."
> However, 'ball' is from geometry, while 'neighborhood' is from analysis. They overlap, but they're not to be confused, because 'neighborhood' is used to emphasize that one should not visualize it.

You’re right, but in fairness I’ve seen multiple analysis textbook authors use terms like “circle” and “ball” to describe a neighborhood in topology. This is usually in the fashion, “...(in other words, E is a ball.”

This is precisely the sort of thing I dislike, because aside from being technically incorrect like you say, it can (for that section) encourage a student to think, “Oh, why didn’t he just say that?” and skip the heavier definition -> theorem -> proof sequence preceding it, to the detriment of understanding later material.
Google was mostly compliant with the GDPR already. When you delete your account on Google, it really does delete all data from all services and all backup records etc.

They implemented it like 3 or 4 years ago. Yes, it was a lot of work for a lot of engineers.

Arguably, it's much harder for smaller companies to comply.
We need a return to primitive values. Money is the problem, it is the driving factor in virtually every problem we have today directly and indirectly
In civil law consideration is not required.
Even codeacademy and freecodecamp are fairly advanced.

For actual beginners, there are even simpler tools. At school, my kids were started in Scratch. They showed it to me a few weeks ago and it's very good.