skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you design it in such a way, that people can evacuate similar to airplanes? Basically every floor becomes a slide to safety outside?

Also it doesent have to become slumy if its well organized. See the various capsule hotels in japan. If you up it to 300 $ you could have comon "living rooms".

More interesting is, how would hide this from the neighbours?

My suggestion: Have somebody drive a big truck into a garage regularly and basically be the shuttle service. Provide a set of two rooms near the front door - and a concierge actor using racism to provide a cover.
Finally, a faked daily lightshow, behind the windows to provide the ilusion of ongoing normal life.

This stealth hotel really would be a "hacking" -challenge:
Next problems would be water and sewer system.

Power supply and noiseless ventilation.

My suggestion- create many false positives, to desensitize residents eveywhere to loud air conditioning.

So for the hacked hostel to exist, one would need neighbours nearby who for money would allow a loudly humming installation (wifi-antenna) on there roof to exist.
Privacy group challenge to voter data collection fails
The point isn't that they're "doing well". It's that the coursework they're assigned is rigorous. You could also have students doing poorly on such coursework, but that would also contradict the anecdata in the main article.
On the Internet no one cares about punctuation or grammar.
Ponzy scheme has a technical meaning, and Bitcoin is not it. Bubble is the word you are looking for.

>but distributed equally among the population.

I am aware of no blockchain based technology that offers a solution to this problem. Central to the problem that blockchains are intended to solve is that there is no good way of identifying individuals. That is to say, there is nothing to stop me from opening a million accounts in the system and acting as if I was a million different people. The insight behind POW style blockchains is that it does not matter if I claim to be a million people, because that would not give me any more compute power, and so will not allow for an attack on the system.

If we could come up with a way of providing some sort of proof of individuality we would solve alot of problems.
Configuration-free build system for C++17
I think that for things to truly change we need to do more than just vote. Most local elections in SV are a joke. We need some of the smart people that we all know to start running for public offices.
Sounds to me like spending a lot of time on meaningless semantics.
starting to believe that homeless camps are our a logical outcome of the legal/governance system. If cities build housing for the homeless they become responsible (assume civil liability) for their health, well-being, property, safety and civil rights to a much greater degree. In addition to the actual service costs they have to deal with nitpicky lawsuits. Suddenly every 1000 homeless you house is 100m/year budget item. No voters/donors want the city budget slashed or to build a lot of poverty-level housing. So whats the rational thing for local politicians to do ... given nobody dies from exposure in California, easier and cheaper to let the homeless fester on some side streets or little-visited skid row neighborhoods, provide some token services without taking responsibility. sad truth.
The D in CDR already corresponds to "dexter-" (right); we just need "L" for "levo-":

CLR: cell levo/left reference.

CDR: cell dexter reference.

Organic chemistry uses these letters and prefixes. E.g. "L-glutamine", "D-glucose" (a.k.a "dextrose").

The H and S (hand side) don't really contribute anything. (Yes, left is side and a hand).
This was what I was targeting. A fully automated solar harvesting manufacturing assembly. Energy and mass go in, out comes panels that are shipped on autonomous semi trucks to a nearby facility for automated install (automated utility scale install robotics already exist).
NIMBY.
I think his understanding of the technology is fine, he's just referring to transaction outputs as coins.
This is my first stab at a configuration-free build system for C++17. Tested on macOS, Arch Linux and Ubuntu 17.10. The idea is to make something that is as easy as go build for building executables.

It takes a lot of hassle away from building or starting small C++17 projects, and it auto-detects libraries.

It uses `pkg-config` and pacman/apt/homebrew for finding compilation flags only based on included headers. Examples for configuration-free use of GTK+3 and SDL2 are included in the project.

Of course, some projects need additional configuration, but the idea is that compliant projects may advertise themselves as "configuration free".

Feedback is welcome.
Come up with the worst, most ridiculous and outrageous approaches possible for solving the problem and turn those "bad" ideas into "good" ones.

Beyond the straightforward approaches of chunking the problem to sub-problems or what have you, which you will apply anyway, sometimes a little brainstorming can surprisingly help you with that "spark."
Recently bought one myself, and it’s the best phone I’ve ever had. I have zero interest in having a status symbol, but for a nicer screen, camera etc. it’s worth the premium over the other models for me.

You should be a bit more open-minded and realise that it’s not the case that everyone who makes a different assessment of value from you is merely status-seeking.
Imagine if the prices on bananas went negative because grocers ordered too much and couldn’t deal with a bunch of rotting bananas in their warehouses. Nobody would say “bananas are free,” or that “it’s a good thing for consumers.” It’s simply a signal we’ve made too much of something and are now paying people to haul it away.
does this stuff work with walls?

I have a basement with thick walls.
Is your argument that a name can be a DNS FQDN even if it is not in DNS?

A non-DNS hostname can be treated as fully-qualified since there's no organizational structure to qualify it in.

> What was the name type in the certificate?

The CN? Is the IP address, as specified at cert generation.

> That sounds like a bug in the client, and possibly in the server as well.

Perhaps. I'm not a standards adjudicator.

Nevertheless, it works in the web we have. Tested in nginx, OpenSSL, curl, Firefox.
> Do you still use it?

Paid work has been absolutely insane the 2nd half of 2017, we are barely managing to recover before the next all-out job is landed so unfortunately no time to mess around with other stuff. I have a few more fun projects lined up, one of which has to be ready for next summer so I will definitely be making some time for play besides more work. Can't complain though.
http://archive.is/qQrgh
There was a proposal for a super/inherited keyword in C++. It was immediately killed when Michael Tiemann demonstrated this technique of adding it manually via typedef in the base class.

As others have pointed out, putting the keyword in the base class is Highly Questionable.
I was merely illustrating that gold has high value and high density.

The hypothetical "1kg gold bar" would be the size of a highlighter more or less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlighter
How do you identify a natural person?

Because you'd need to do that to replace the proof of work and assign coins to natural persons.

Bitcoin doesn't identify natural persons, it just knows public keys. There might be thousands of them belonging to the same entity.
> If only those clowns could focus on making the absurd bit of theater they currently have even just the slightest bit more efficient.

Maybe efficiency is not the goal. Cui bono? We got all those nifty body scanners in part because Michael Chertoff, right after serving as director of DHS, went around promoting scanners on behalf of his consulting client, body scanner manufacturer Rapiscan[1].

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/airport-scanner-...
You are willing to spend money on the best. I can nto believe that you evaluated the difference between best and second best and decided the best was sufficiently better to justify spending 10$ a month on.

You wanted the best and it wasn't to expensive for you. It might not be a status symbol in the sense that you want others to know you're rich, but it's really hard to justify spending more than 500$ max on a phone these days unless you want something essentially useless (like it being "the best" in some measure).

My Nexus 5x is a few years old by now, but it's still hard to see the utility of upgrading it to something flashier for me.
Thanks. Corresponding HN thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15995240.
Me too. However, the board is cheap and properly supported and conforms to a lot of standards. If you stick to branded stuff then for less than £100 you get a thin client capable of 1080p in a decent case that can be bungeed to the back of a monitor with a power supply that wont blow up and a decent HDMI cable. The wifi and ethernet are good enough for 1080p streaming and good enough for good quality RDP. Modern low cost SD cards are pretty quick as well.

I have rather a lot of them, at home and work. For me, quality and standards count.

Nowadays Pis are made in Wales (by Sony). They are designed by a British foundation. To all intents and purposes they are a British computer that fulfils a particular niche rather well. No, the Pi3 does not have GBE or SATA but it is (in my opinion) a piece of kit that you can trust to not set fire to your cat.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar hell.
That’s how Nest thermostats generate revenue for Google (utility pays Google for the ability to shed AC loads across their customer base during peak demand [“rush hour” voluntary program]).

Tesla’s backend also supports this functionality (although its only deployed in a few geographic areas).
When you are burned out - it's not possible to properly give yourself to even the most interesting opportunities. Trying to find something new is still ignoring the actual problem.

You need to relax for a while (not the same as doing nothing)

The point of burnout is that your mind & body has had enough of doing what you are doing and desperately needs a break where nothing is planned, commitments are limited and you can do (or not do) whatever takes you in the moment.

Currently your burnout is affecting your work day, if left unchecked it will invade your home life to - until you don't want to do even the most basic of daily tasks.

Take note now and put an firm date in the calendar. At the very least a date for a a long break. Go back after the holiday break and let people know your plans for 2018. Start winding down to that date.

Try not to expect yourself to be 'better' in 2-3 months. It has taken you 6 years of working to get to this point.

Just give yourself the breathing space your mind is telling you it needs.
Totally different form factor but software wise I would expect them to do the same thing. The passport photographs taken here are definitely spec'd with biometric intent, the list of what to do and what not to do runs to 15 items or so.
As Leibniz put it, it's a goal of logic to be able to say "well, let's calculate" when you have a dispute. Truth tables are about the simplest way to calculate logic, but they don't scale. I think a good intro course could be made starting there and working up to fancier methods, explaining logic and computing together. My article https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/four/the-language-of-ch... aimed in that general direction, though it's for people who can already program, because I wasn't ready to tackle anything more ambitious.
Over on reddit, a lot of speculation in https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/43opxy/does_anyone... suggesting partnerships / kickbacks. That said, the entire thread is speculation without a single sourced link.

For some actual numbers, http://www.theenergycollective.com/lindsay-wilson/279126/ave... shows the cost of electricity around the world... though thats over the entire country (Pacific northwest is cheaper than other places). I would expect that the Three Gorges dam (22 MW capacity - for comparison the Grand Coulee Dam is 6.8 MW and is the largest hydroelectric power in the US (Hoover is 2 MW)- the run of the river dams on the Columbia are in the 2 MW to 1 MW range). Historically, Pacific Northwest power has been as low as $0.0308 and $0.0245 / kWh. Its a bit more now, but still lower than the national average.

From http://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/isi-wAssets/docs/x/de/publs-mit... it appears that if you use enough, you're at wholesale rather than retail or commercial rates.

If its not free (the implications of corruption in Chinese government are made here), the retail power cost is going to be low, commercial is lower, wholesale is going to be lower still. Its probably a bit cheaper than the historic Pacific Northwest rates.
> People like you

Taking HN threads into personal attack is a sure way to make a flamewar worse. Please have the self-control to resist this when commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>One step closer to our amazing future. This is really getting out of hand...

It was already well out of hand when congress approved the patriot act as a knee jerk reaction to terrorism. That was the proverbial straw and everything since has just been gravy for the MIC and other companies milking the government teat.
They do pay, both in code and donations.
This sort of throwaway flamebait is exactly what we don't need here, so please don't post it.
A Midnight Swim in Novakian Capitalism
There is quite a bit of data in the linked article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-c...
It would mostly depend on what is in the walls
What in blazes is this "riser" stuff? Is this a x1 PCIe lane routed over a (totally non standard) USB3-A-to-A cable? Or is it an actual way to "extend" PCIe over USB3?
This is the first real potential application I've ever seen for connected appliances.
It's in the gathering-signatures stage.

There's a quiet a lot of, ehm, "interesting" ballot initiatives here.

Legalized psilocybin anyone?

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/initiative-a...

As they saying goes, democracy is perfect but it has one fatal flaw... the people.
> It doesn't take much experience (a week?) for the words car and cdr to mean the left and right halves of a cons cell to you.

A long forgotten five minutes sometime in Y2000 in my case.
Fantastic! One possible way to get around critics maybe to make all the town roads toll roads with a toll of $200 except for card holders. And only residents can get cards.
> No regulatory issues. The aluminum acts to increase the antenna gain (i.e. concentrate the signal in a particular direction).

AFAIK, many countries limit the EIRP, which increases with the antenna gain.
Could you tell me where the /4 comes from, please?
Regrettably not. Note also that ti's a constitutional amendment, meaning it won't be able to be overturned by the legislature in the (admittedly unlikely) event that it passes. This is a simple money grab by established interests, although it will be sold as protection for the most vulnerable - with the unspoken provise that those who don't own property or have significant taxable income don't matter. A previous initiative which limited growth in property taxes, prop. 13, did a lot to shape the development of housing in the state and arguably has contributed to the housing crisis, since it creates significant disincentives to sell if a property has gained significantly in value. I'm not a big fan of property taxes to start with, but prop 13 means that people living in otherwise identical properties on the same block can be paying wildly different rates of tax depending on when they purchased their home, which is rather inequitable. I'd be somewhat worse off if it were abolished but I don't think it's been good for California.
> If we could come up with a way of providing some sort of proof of individuality we would solve alot of problems.

I've been thinking about this in the past weeks because I find the energy consumption hard to justify.

Proof of individuality still would allow people of power to use an army of identity soldiers... but the same people can buy hash rate today, so that would not be a regression.
This should come as no surprise. With a software engineer salary it's barely enough to support 2 people. Can't imagine what it must be for the lower income brackets... When rent is 33%+ of a six figure salary for a 1 bedroom built in the fifties and looking like it, you can start wondering how the heck did we get there.
Was thinking the same thing. What about (rampant!) misdeeds from manufacturing company email addresses!
You'd effectively creating a multipath generator with this setup, which means you have the primary signal, then a couple microseconds later, a reflection that is probably 20db under the main signal.

No disagreement that the yagi thing you pointed out would work better.

That said, this is a MIMO router, so that may change the modulus on the multipath problem.
When I was in California in the 00-09 timeframe I recall the facilities manager had an ambient orb at their desk that was provided by PG&E ( http://www.ambientdevices.com/technology/utility-deployment ). It would change color based on the grid demand hinting to people who had co-generation ability to turn on power if its needed and would start flashing if a rolling blackout was going to occur in the near future. The ambient orb (IIRC) utilizes the pager network - so the information is there if you can subscribe to it.

Ambient also has http://www.ambientdevices.com/about/energy-devices which again has the power information (including cost/kWh) that one could tap into... if the local power company supplies the information.
Wouldn't searching for * * * * * * * yield more than 4 matches?
Sure, but I'd have expected at least some analysis of what happened - where it got reviewed, or what the growth pattern leading up to the sudden spike was like, or anything really.
https://github.com/bitfunnel/bitfunnel

This was his second MSFT team, as I recall - I don't know that he ever publicly identified the first.
Allocating among real humans in a distributed, privacy-preserving way would be an even bigger technical innovation than the blockchain.
Especially density that's cheap and high quality == manufactured...like cars.
> I'm ok with the idea of an opt-in program like GE.

It isn't "opt-in" for non-US Americans, one of the reasons why I will probably never visit the US.

> This kind of thing really makes you wonder when the American people became enemy combatants. (This has been happening for years)

As opposed to everybody who just wants to visit the country?
At this rate, I wouldn't be too surprised if 10 years from now they gonna require the full biometric program from foreign visitors: DNA, retina, face, fingerprints, speech samples and whatnot.

I do understand the need for security and proper authentification, I just think these are often used as an excuse for building some kind of police state with a vast database of people with all their attributes from physical (biometrics) to mental (crawling social media).

The last part might seem quite "out there", but it's quite real [0] and has already been for a while [1].

Also doesn't help that all of this reminds me way too much about biometric data programs the US military conducted in Iraq, still sitting on that data and using it [2].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/us-approves-social-media-b...

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16810312

[2] https://www.wired.com/2011/12/iraq-biometrics-database/
You should mention it. Suggest alternate color schemes - at least at work. There are probably other color blind people that struggle and say nothing.
For boardgames and to generally help you in day to day life - perhaps consider a pair of these > http://enchroma.com

Even a pair of the sunglasses could make a nice walk on a sunny day a much more enjoyable experience and everyone deserves that.
Its called "学歴主義" in Japan, and talked about a lot here (565,000 hits on Google vs 9,000 for "Educationism")

One of the most egregious example is that when scheduling for a job interview via Web form, when you graduated from a low-ranked university its always "schedule full". This is called "学歴フィルター(filter)."
> " Name a composer from 1300s or 1100s."
> There were no composers then ...

Of course there were. There was music, so someone had to compose it.

But since the bulk of the mankind was struggling somewhere at the bottom of the Maslow hierarchy, nobody really cared about the nice sounds.

> Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes - not Scientists

Every encyclopaedia calls them scientists and, quite frankly, there is no reason to claim they aren't. Although Plato might be an exception.

> There are 1000x more Scientists alive today than ever before, and the only one we're going to remember is from 300 years ago?

The titular question is, who will be remembered in 1,000 years. I'm saying, those who have things named after them.
Many people perceive class based on salary/occupation and dollar values rather than what those dollars actually buy in context. The Bay Area is considered rich, even if the median person’s standard of living is below national standards, because salaries are so high.
Onsen UI 2: HTML5 Hybrid Mobile App Framework and Tools
In the U.S., the main reason prices go negative is because of the production tax credit. Wind producers get a subsidy per MWh produced. Since the unsubsidized marginal cost of production is zero, the result is a negative effective production cost. So if wind is the marginal energy producer, the clearing price goes negative.

I don't know how things work in Germany, but I'd be surprised if the negative prices there had much to do with the costs of starting/stopping conventional units. In most electricity markets, participants have to bid in their marginal cost. Even if you're an inflexible nuke, your marginal cost is positive. You usually need genuinely negative marginal cost units to drive the clearing price negative. That only really happens when subsidies are part of the picture.
With either reflection or go:generate.

Just need to search for them on Github.
Which is precisely what we want to do. As mentioned elsewhere, negative prices happen when load is too low and artificially creating load is cheaper than making generators shut down.

It's an uncommon situation, because if it keeps happening then the power plant will indeed invest in giant heaters.
Most people have strong attachment to places. Also job portability isn't always very easy, depending on what field you are in. I could see lower wager workers finding it hard to get a job in areas where cost of living is cheap but can't afford living where there is work but it pays shit. Must be a real dilemma with probably very few winning scenarios.
My kids are in public school, not Catholic school. I was comparing a system that was designed specifically to produce college students to the default for people in my area of Chicagoland, and finding that the default was if anything more rigorous than the selective private school.
That is a problem. Thankfully, the language in Github's terms of service mitigates this a bit, although it'd be still ideal for the author to add a license too:

"If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking)."

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#4-...
+1

Sales and marketing is as important as the software. They can't exist without each other.
Or aren't allowed to leave the country for "safety" reasons.