skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nor should the power company force customers to buy the power that they generated themselves at the utility's price.

They already paid the capital costs for generating their own power. You want them to pay again? For the transmission lines and peaking plant that they aren't using?

Certainly, when the net usage is negative, the utility should pay only the wholesale cost of that portion of production in excess of local usage. When the net usage is positive, the customer should pay the retail price of that portion of usage in excess of local production. But it is nonsensical for the customer to sell the power they generate at wholesale, and immediately buy it back at retail. Immediate use should not be metered in either direction, and time-shifted use should account for peak vs. off-peak.

Otherwise, all you are doing is forcing the customer to use bigger batteries to route around your obnoxious local generation policy.

That "grid battery" is actually the natural gas fuel supply at the peaking plant that does not need to be used to supplement the baseline plant. Fuel that stays in the tank instead of being burned is the best "battery" we have right now. If you encourage people to use their own redox reaction batteries, you're lowering the efficiency of the entire system, and everyone loses.
Off the top of my head:
Solon,
Trajan,
Hadrian,
Marcus Aurelius,
Akbar,
Charlemange

There are many more examples, those are just some that come to mind right away. You can argue whether or not they were "good", but they certainly did good things for their empires.
> I read the paper's description, and still don't quite understand exactly what they mean by "memory safety". This is not referring to safer programming practices like using the STL with iterators, correct?

Memory safety generally refers to treating each region of memory as it's expected type, not over-writing or over-reading the bounds of allocated region, not reading unitialized or freed memory, and so on.

It's a correctness problem that often ends up in the news since it's usually unchecked in C and C++ meaning that errors of that type don't necessarily result in predictable exceptions or process termination, but rather all sorts of exciting exploits.

Many higher-level languages have no similar memory safety issue (absent bugs in their implementations) since they exclude features that could result in the above problems, and include explicit runtime checks in places where the compiler or runtime cannot prove that an access is safe.
I haven't. But I'm aware of their photo craze at the borders. Europe isn't much different these days.

Fortunately they're not yet automatically cross-posting those images on Facebook :)
I'm part of a group working on a similar knowledge wiki product that's open-source and self hostable, you might find it interesting: https://github.com/outline/outline
My company is undergoing huge effort to update our products (embedded devices), even old outdated ones, to comply with GDPR.

It has taken up a majority of the last year.
JavaScript without JavaScript: Intercooler.js
Forest 1.3: Upgraded developer tools, improved stability, and faster execution
Hue and IKEA have E12s. The Hue E12s are available as white or color, but they're terribly expensive and never seem to go on sale. The IKEA E12 is only $7, dimmable but not color temp, and will pair directly to a Hue hub.
Well that’s interesting... could it be the bromelain? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain

It seems likely, although you could test the theory by eating some raw papaya.
What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction
I really don't think (and I am developer, I will need to comply) that anything in GDPR is hard to understand. Treat data from others in same way as you would treat (and you are treating) yours. You are not selling your personal details to 3rd parties, you are not keeping painfull pictures of yourself climbing to garbage bin and doing diving completely drunk, you are not storing them into pastebin or unsecured databases. You edit them if they are wrong, you delete them if you don't like them. You dont photo yourself if you dont want to be. You change the passwords if you suspect someone stole them. The only thing that GDPR wants from you is to handle others data with same RESPECT as you handle yours.

Every complaint about it shows that you don't respect others and you dont care about them. And this is the reason it became legislation.
> I get piles of results for burgundy in the US.

They've had several hours to change their filters since this story went live.
So to be clear, this is a B2B thing, right? Not for end consumers.
Show HN: Tiiiny growth ideas for SaaS
This is all true.... However it should be said that time is not super slow for the particle, from the particles point of view (frame of reference) time passes as per normal for itself.

This is what allows the photon to appear to continue to travel at the speed of light from the particles frame of reference.

If the particle was carrying a clock, and we could watch it tick as it flew away from us, it would appear to be ticking super slowly, the second hand would take forever to move.

Conversely if we had a giant clock and the particle could watch it as it flew away from us, it would appear to be ticking super fast, it would look as though we were travelling far into the future.

The same is also true if an object is close to a very large gravity well. If someone could stand next to the event horizon of a black hole and hold a giant clock, from our point of view, their clock would appear to tick very slowly. From their point of view, it would tick normally, but our clock would rapidly tick far into the future. The universe around them would quickly travel into the future.

Time and space are elastic to allow the speed of light to remain constant.
Ask HN: Information Security document for an enterprise contract
We're in the process negotiating a contract with an enterprise client for a SaaS solution they are looking to implement into their existing technology.

They asked for a document outlining information security. Is there a specific format for completing one of those? Has anyone done one before?
Better streetlights are OK to a point. Endlessly upgrading lighting such as has happened here seems pointless. I miss the stars. I don't even live in a major city any more.

I don't need major road level lighting if one of a tiny number walking at 3am. I don't mind some gloom between lights. I don't mind in the car either when there's few around. I have lights on the car. If I feel unsafe at 3am, chances are I will with or without floodlighting and get a cab anyway.

Sure illuminate the city centre around where clubs and restaurants are kicking out, or during winter rush hour, but the rest seems light for the sake of light.
If you're trusting on first use, and have been man-in-the-middled, then the true source won't have the original key to revoke the false key with.
How the Godfather of Cyberpunk would write software
isn't Thunderbolt for Apple devices?
Thief with cash on a string steals thousands from car washes
> Imagine the EU made a law requiring every country in the world follow their building codes whenever an EU citizen enters one of their buildings

You are reaching. I give you a better example: it does not matter where a building part is being produced, if it ends up in a building in Europe it needs to be up to the local building codes and to the regulations of the single market.
When strongman-based cults of personality (real or wannabe) appoint themselves ruler for life, policy can go off the rails. Wars, purges, persecution of minority groups, and civil unrest are more likely. Corrupt systems of checks and balances, which may have already been weak, slide ever further.

Mao, Stalin, Chavez, Castro, Hitler, Mussolini, Chiang Kai-Shek ... a few of these strongmen presided over brief periods of spectacular economic growth, but always under unsustainable conditions. Many citizens (and the citizens of neighboring countries) paid a terrible price.
I can think of a number of first world nations sufferings from the same issues.
What scares me more is the cheerleading and defense of this in the West, and the way this is voluntarily happening here.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J24C0TI

This is a telescreen.
I hope they make a new function:

* Join the group of people that looks like me
JS Harel Statecharts: https://github.com/burrows/statechart.js
> Not to mention latency is much higher.

One of the primary focuses of 5G is to reduce latency and LTE has reduced latency tremendously.

My personal experience looking over test logs on my phone is that LTE averages ~40ms with a low of 25ms and a high of 80ms. My home internet averages ~16ms with a low of 12ms and a high of 44ms.

Gaming is one of the few things where you can really tell the differences between sub 100ms latencies and so for most people wireless internet is more than sufficient.
The GDPR does not require deletion of all user data on request. There’s still data that can and must be preserved, for example business records, thus records of sale. A recall should be possible with those records. The customer might request that these records cannot be used for unrelated purposes, though.
>Higher speeds results in lower capacity.

The car in front is not going to instantaneously stop. If it could then you can prove by induction why this conversation is irrelevant ;)

The effective road space occupied by a car is the car plus the distance in front of it. The distance in front increases with reaction distance, not stopping distance. Assuming everyone is (on average) always following at the safe minimum following distance for that speed then you get the same capacity and less travel time.

However, at lower speeds people (on average) tend to follow at greater than the theoretical safe minimum so as speed increases the average following distance gets closer to the safe minimum so higher speed = higher capacity. This is basically a long winded way of saying that following distance is determined by reaction time, not stopping distance and high speed traffic negates the outliers who use high speed following distances at low speed.
The current attitude stems from a desire for civility and public safety. Why would that scare you?

Regardless of the specific topic, lots of terrible things have been done "with the best of intentions". It's hardly a reason not to be scared.
Live musical performances are the only thing in music that nobody can fake or pirate. Even the video recordings of a concert is nothing near the actual experience. Maybe the music business will move towards such a setting where internet is the place to show off your work, and the concert venue is where you earn money. More publicity, more fame, more venues, more tickets. Add to that maybe a combined use of say Bandcamp, Patreon et al, Youtube, and streaming services, and about everybody who wants to do music can find a niche there for themselves.

Also, the Dubioza guys are really cool, thanks for the links!
Flutter has a concept called "plugins" that specifically is intended to let you use existing platform libraries. That's how we implement things like notifications. Dart code talks to the OEM side that is implemented using the native library. See https://flutter.io/platform-channels/
democracy, to begin with... at least American style of democracy
I actually found just two options: monthly and annual provide the best conversion.

I've done it across multiple websites, and combined with a half-decent call to action and a quick signup (just 3 fields) you can convert pretty easily.

Personally, my website conversion is ~2% which is pretty good:

https://projectpiglet.com/

Prior, when I had two options the conversion rate was ~1.5%. Now the sample size is only ~25k (12k for each) so take from it what you will...
There's a reason why it looks like he's doing a great job from the outside. Same with why there aren't really any viable alternatives. His political rivals have been punished with corruption charges[1], and he's ruled China with a calculated level of control that hasn't been seen in decades[2].

The move to remove term limits means he will be an absolute dictator for life. One of the only "good" things about the Chinese political system was the 10 year limit, and governance through an oligarchy, so there wouldn't be another cult of Mao type scenario. Since taking office Xi has slowing consolidated power for himself alone, and now with the removal of term limits, I think his control over China is complete.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-corruption-xi-insig...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/china... - There's a better video report of surveillance on Bloomberg I think (I remember it was on a business news site)? but I can't find the link right now.
Honestly the only way to do it is to make yourself wake up when you need to wake up. You deal with sleep deprivation for a few days until you "learn" to fall asleep when you need to.

A lot of experts suggest waking up at close to the same time every day (in other words, also on weekends) to help manage a proper sleep schedule. I can say it works for me!
This is too real. Every beautiful woman I know actively fights to keep their images offline, because of these clueless assholes.
Even the Dart team themselves stopped arguing it's a productive approach. Dart is going all strongly typed, after seven years of feet dragging.

Dynamically typed languages are a thing of the past.
Is it just me or does this article manage to give advice while saying nothing at all about what is required?

For example:

> The first half is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which becomes enforceable across Europe on 25 May 2018. This is an overhaul, modernization, and replacement of the existing framework, the Data Protection Directive of 1995 (yes, 1995.)

> All of the existing principles from the original Directive stay with us under GDPR. What GDPR adds is new definitions and requirements to reflect changes in technology which simply did not exist in the dialup era. It also tightens up requirements for transparency, disclosure, and process: lessons learned from 23 years of experience.

It's talking about the new definitions and requirements, but says nothing about what they are!
If you have ever opened a bank account in Europe, you have come across a checkbox, where you have to specify that you are not an American citizen. The US pushes their regulations on companies outside their jurisdiction, too.
The domestic airline industry is one of the most flaunted examples of a non-competitive, stagnate industry. High barriers to entry, heavy regulations, limited supply chains are all factors that limit competition. It's problems are frequently written about:

* https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721201-americans-ar...

* http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-airlines-invest-in-for...

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-26/american-...

* https://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2018/01/stretched-b...

* https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/travel-transport-and-log...

Competition isn't a binary thing where either a market is competitive or it isn't, but rather a gradient scale. The airline industry is one of the least competitive industries, especially in the US (my frame of reference), even if it isn't completely without competition.
It's energy that is dissipated without providing energy services. For example, electrical transmission line losses and the less-than-100% efficiency of heat engine electrical generators both contribute to rejected energy. Those numbers can't be directly compared between the 2007 and 2016 charts. LLNL changed methodology for reporting them in recent years. The input primary energy numbers can be compared across the whole time frame, though.
There is already a "sesame" score built in Sesame Credit by Alibaba (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Credit)

The Wired article is a little more exaggerating (https://www.wired.com/story/age-of-social-credit/) but here is the rough breakdown of your score according to
https://www.zhihu.com/question/27844479

1. Identity Characteristics (15%) Public Security Real Name Authentication Identity Information Information Stability ... 2. Credit History (35%) Credit Card Repayment History Micronesia Repayment Record Utilities Fee Ticket ... 3. Compliance Capability (20%) Payment Account balance balance balance balance car information real estate information ...... 4. Personal connections (5%) relationship circle circle of friends credit level of social influence ... ... 5. behavior preferences (25%) account activity level consumer level payment level consumer preferences ...
That's a super interesting point and I fully agree those examples are not well suited for all teams, especially not for larger ones.

I still think having all the information compartmentalized is a waste of time. The integrations that we are developing aim at solving this : Slite will integrate with your github documentation and your Greenhouse pipe so that the members that need the information but don't use the tool everyday (typical in an hiring process) can see the information while those whom it's the job will keep using it as usual.
I was going to say the same thing, but I would go a step further and say why the heck would you want a static site for a blog in 2018? WordPress is fast, secure, and sooooo easy to use. I'm a professional web developer with 20 years experience and I still use WordPress for my personal blog because it's so simple it saves a ton of time and effort.

There's really no value in "static" websites, if by static you mean pure HTML and CSS. a 512MB server from vultr for $2.50/mo can host dozens of simultaneous visitors on a well-built WordPress site without any slowdown at all.
I have lived both places (SF in the dotcom period) and now live in New York.

I love SV for many things and there are many great people there, but at the end of the day, New York is my city because its more human, honest, candid and less tribal.
Air – Record and store unlimited Ultra HD video with your phone
Great! Thanks for the questions. The Dhalion repo (https://github.com/Microsoft/Dhalion) contains only the general Dhalion APIs. These are not Heron specific, that's why they are not part of Heron. In Heron, the healthmgr module essentially integrates these Dhalion APIs with Heron. Currently, Heron contains two Dhalion policies. The first one automatically restarts instances that exhibit backpressure. The second one scales up or restarts instances depending on some topology characteristics. Please join slack and we can show you how to use/modify the appropriate Heron yaml files so that you can use Dhalion. Dhalion does not require a separate installation -- it is already integrated with Heron and just needs to be configured depending on your use case. We are currently working on more aggressive autoscaling policies which should be part of the code base soon. Please let us know if you have other questions.
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It's a lot harder to carjack someone than to mug, to be honest. Colleges in particular tend to be pretty serious about the risks of danger of being accosted,to the point of littering the campus with callboxes and maintaining a security staff. My point though is that it's not always a one to one comparison; walking has unique dangers to it.
I've looked a bit in your posting history and can't say with confidence that you are shill, but a certain patern is clearly emerging: the Chinese government is always right, it serves the people and listens to them, in fact it knows what people want; there is certainly no need for those pesky elections and wasted energy voting. Oligarchy ad infinitum.

In the off chance that you are a real person, I'm sorry to say but you have the gullibility and critical thinking of a child and I mean that in the most non-ofensive way. It's troubling that propaganda could be so effective.
You set up a strawman and then eloquently argue against it.

No, I don't think digital privacy is an absolute right. Obviously some level of online interaction is ok with me otherwise we would not be having this conversation. But I do believe that individuals should have some control over what data of their ends up online and that simply exercising that control should be possible without getting accused of being afraid of specific use cases of that data.

Value creation to society doesn't interest me one bit without an actual example of such value created. The only value FB cares about is the value of their stock and since I'm not a stockholder it doesn't create value for me.

The fact that there is potential for harm would be enough reason for me to be considerate but if even if it weren't I'd still be within my rights to limit which bits of me are online and which are not, it is you that rejects stuff without consideration and it is you that puts the onus on the people exercising their consideration to prove to you beyond some nebulous standard of doubt that those people are not afraid of something when in fact this was never the case to begin with.
To be fair, you can learn the majority of Dart in a a day or two if you're familiar with JS and Java. It's essentially the best parts of both.
They had one. It was called the Umweltprämie, and was around the same time as "cash for clunkers"

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umweltpr%C3%A4mie
But they haven't done anything to lots of the other exclusions people have noted, or to the fact that misspellings that still correct to the banned term (“pistil”, “rifel”) evade the filter entirely. It's kind of odd that they would correct it to let “burgundy” work but not address any of the other issues.

So, if nothing else, the nature and priority of their corrections (if that is what it is) is noteworthy.
Diesels have better torque, which is mostly what feels like "power." Few people travel at top speed, so lower horsepower does not have the same feeling to the driver as high torque.
It also applies to users that are not EU citizens, but are located in the EU.
I too yearn for the good old days of the Massacre of Verden, and forced religious conversion under penalty of death.

...and a bunch of Roman emperors. I prefer modern politics to that of imperial Rome, thanks.

Oh, and Solon. Arguably a truly great man, but um...

After completing his work of reform, Solon surrendered his extraordinary authority and left the country. According to Herodotus[123] the country was bound by Solon to maintain his reforms for 10 years, whereas according to Plutarch[59] and the author of the Athenian Constitution[124] (reputedly Aristotle) the contracted period was instead 100 years. A modern scholar[125] considers the time-span given by Herodotus to be historically accurate because it fits the 10 years that Solon was said to have been absent from the country.[126] Within 4 years of Solon's departure, the old social rifts re-appeared, but with some new complications. There were irregularities in the new governmental procedures, elected officials sometimes refused to stand down from their posts and occasionally important posts were left vacant. It has even been said that some people blamed Solon for their troubles.[127] Eventually one of Solon's relatives, Peisistratos, ended the factionalism by force, thus instituting an unconstitutionally gained tyranny. In Plutarch's account, Solon accused Athenians of stupidity and cowardice for allowing this to happen.[128]

I’ll argue that off the top of your head is what’s getting you into so much trouble with sweeping generalizations.
I wasn't able to read the article. It was completely blank in my browser.

Could you say who is saying that we should remove cars from a city, even to the point that it would kill the city?

Because I've not heard anyone propose that. I've heard of car-free regions of a city, and cities like Venice which effectively had no private cars, and bans on some cars (like gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles in favor of electric).

But never to the point that it would kill a city.