skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably that's a reason for Tesla's PowerWall project, to secondary use old car batteries as additional source for PowerWall.

Interestingly, Nissan has a PowerWall-like project of their own, but only for secondary use batteries (as they want to prioritize car production, being you know a car company). You don't hear it advertised because Nissan has seen a far slower trickle of secondary use batteries than they originally expected to see, and thus have had very few of their PowerWall-like systems to sell to any market.
What's the status for futures/async-await? Or, asking more generally: Where can I go to keep myself up-to-date with this topic?
So, in other words, you plagiarized your child's work -- grounds for expulsion in many universities.
I feel Google has become a company you go to work at for the fat paycheck, and no one actually works there because the work is interesting or because they have any belief the company is going to change the world for the better.
First the video about Google execs bitching about not getting Hillary elected and now this? If there has ever been a time for the government to step in a break up a monopoly that time is now.
Their competitors were not paying "living" wages. Brick and mortar retail, especially mom&pop stores, were notorious for paying low wages.

Destroying jobs is a good thing. It means that Amazon can pass on the savings to consumers. I know that Amazon is disliked in Seattle & the bay area, but if you go around the rest of the country, people love amazon.
Rio had, PMPs, I think. They had flash storage. UI was okay but managing files and transfers left a lot to be desired.
We changed the title from "Sensors that are literally 'music to one's ears'". (I think it might have been the original title on that site?)
Plenty of Windows Mobile devices had full on 640x480 screens years before the release of the iPhone. Nothing about the iPhone's resolution was revolutionary at the time. Hell, for a long time the apple cult was touting how their low resolution was really a benefit, saying that because it was easier on the GPU it led to better graphics albeit at a lower resolution.
Interesting, I always thought Android was a rip-off of iOS from the start. Didn't know it existed before iOS
If you like Calendar, you might like Fortune. It's usually in the "bsdgames" package (https://www.polyomino.org.uk/computer/software/bsd-games/). You can add it to your bashrc file to see a new fortune each time you open your shell.

~$ fortune
Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated.
~$ fortune
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even
where there is no river.
-- Nikita Khrushchev
~$ fortune
Distress, n.:
A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
~$ fortune
The Preacher, the Politician, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
Do I want one? God Forbiddie!
-- Ogden Nash
Or someone just scribbled on a rock as they sat waiting for prey to walk by.

Not to diminish this find, but it doesn't demonstrate a pattern or show intent.
Deep dive into Azure Boards
I lived in LA for about 30 years, and while it isn’t that walkable, there aren’t that many dead ends, and where there are, it is due to geography (canyons, mountains). It is also in large part gridded out.
Put your content inside of a nested node_modules folder and you won't have this problem anymore.

I don't think node_modules is perfect, and I get why it gets hate, but IMHO the algorithm is actually kinda nice for nesting packages.

If you set up your folders like so:

----

src--->node_modules--->utils--->helper.js

src--->main.js

----

You can require your helper in main.js with a simple ``require('utils/helper.js');``

What's nice is that you can't do the reverse. So your helper doesn't get the same access to your main.js. I use this a lot for testing - it means that my tests can require my components using the same syntax that I use in normal code, but those components don't have special access to the tests.

A big "aha" moment for me with node_modules was figuring out that it's an entirely separate system from npm. It's not trying to build a flat package structure; it's trying to make it easy to on-the-fly set up packages from anywhere.

Edit: example - https://gitlab.com/dormouse/dormouse/tree/master/src

I've also gotten into the habit of checking my installed packages into source for projects that I don't expect users to rebuild (ie. websites, games, etc...). That's a much longer conversation, but it mitigates a large number of issues with node_modules on long-lived projects.
Yes, but the point is surely that "complications" are not what "design", as an activity, is about.

Watch complications are about showing off technical expertise (for the maker) and wealth (for the wearer). That has very little to do with the (admittedly moralistic) consensus about what good design should be.
I'm no expert here, but is metallic mercury that much of a hazard? I thought it was the vapor that was the big risk with handling mercury.

Obviously, I'd be sure of that before I handled it :)
Firefox Nightly works just fine
Considering that other first world nations pay half or less per capita for healthcare, and have government bodies setting allowed prices for drugs, then perhaps this is a big clue to affordable healthcare in the US.
You can use BJT's. They have quite low capacitances.3pf for a typical transistor.
I had a biology professor tell us in college that both Pepsi and Dr. Pepper were very high in phosphate, which settles your stomach.

I've actually tried it on several occasions when I was sick or nauseous for one reason or another and it really does work well. Just keep the bottle around and take a quick sip when you need some relief.

For me it works a lot better than ginger ale, even though that's supposed to help too.
He could have been grilled, sure. But I don't think that was the reason as Google was arranging someone else to show up before this leaked.

Nothing in this video is surprising though. It has always been clear that the value system of people in Silicon Valley is completely different from Republican values. Their despise for Trump or his base is the most obvious connection anyone can make.
That I probably could pull off. For some loose definitions of "learn" at least :)
That doesn't work for me but http://archive.is/xKX1T does.
It is a much bigger deal if a VP or a CEO resigns over something than if a janitor does, even if they do so for the same reason.
It doesn't change the message he's sending, but it does change how the reader should perceive it. Being at the company longer and in a higher position implies that he has more at stake, and so would require a significant change to be worth leaving. It also would mean he's had longer "indoctrination" into the common Google Culture and that this could be the harbinger of further similar reactions from other long-time Google employees.
Bezos owns 16.4% of Amazon. Donating $ 2 Billions of his own money costs him about as much as donating $ 12 Billions of Amazon's money, which would likely result in him getting replaced.
For me, this was the introduction to ECS that made me "get it" and I'm slowly morphing my Rust implementation of the Liquid template language over to an ECS architecture.
Oh, do I have a bit of linguistic fun for you! English disagrees with you. Literally is a contronym and depending on which linguist you ask, it's actually two words that happen to be spelled and sound the same but each has their own meaning - a homonym. Whether literally is a contronym or a homonym is up to the linguist you ask - some might happily say it is both!

When you clip something - are you attaching it or cutting it off? When you scan something are you reading word for word or are you skim reading? When you set an argument on the table are you presenting it or shelving it for later? If your actions are transparent - are they invisible or obvious?

When you puzzle over a puzzle you're solving a problem.

The most wonderful thing about languages, from a linguistic anthropological view, is precisely how they change over time as the living generations shape and mold language to their liking.
I don't think it was about CA capabilities per se, but the privacy blowback which followed.

The issue became mainstream and gave rise to the "Delete Facebook" movement which regular folks as well as celebrities[1] piled onto. It's fair to discuss the faddish nature of the #delete movements, but I don't see any positive angle in it for FB.

It also forced FB to overhaul their platform, most notably applying larger restrictions[2] to the amount of data available via APIs. This wasn't grandstanding, it cut revenue streams for many advertising and data companies. I'm not sure this had a direct effect on FB's revenue, but indirectly it makes FB less attractive as a platform for hyper-targeted advertising. This can eventually lead to a lower ROI on FB ads vs. other channels and thus, lower share of a marketing budget.

[1] https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/will-ferrell-delete-fa...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/04/facebook-instagram-api-shu...
> Usually the pretense is dropped when the chance to advance self interest like money comes up

When money is also the means to survival, it warrants a little more nuance than to wholly dismiss someone compromising in some way in order to live to fight another day.

From my perspective, most people who "stand up for whats right" have enough money to do so.
The chronically street homeless, are very different, and far more visible than those who experience homelessness and housing insecurity that have the mental stability to either find someone to stay with temporarily or take advantage of shelter services.

This fund targets homeless families, these aren't groups of people you see shooting heroin on the street corner yet they make up a sizable part of the homeless population.
Show HN: Ribosome: A Very Lightweight PHP Framework. Authentication, Routing
How can you presume to know his thought process, intentions, and goals?
1) was because no one needed to. Old flip phones lasted several days on a single charge - mine could go two weeks if I avoided using it.
That would just incentivize people to pile onto the perceived high value programs like when everyone got into CS during the first dotcom bubble. Not a fitting solution for an institution intended to develop capable members of society rather than just making money.
The multi-syntax support is really interesting. https://www.luna-lang.org/ is another language with a similar concept, with both a visual and a textual representation of the same code.

Would love to read more about the immutable data structures it supports. Rich Hickey has some great talks on efficient immutability in Clojure.

I really believe we're going to see a lot more new languages targeting web assembly. I wish it supported a standard, pluggable garbage collection system that could be easily adopted.
Emacs/Org aren't a trap per se, but if you find yourself using Org to blog about how you use Org for your blog, that seems a) funnily meta, and b) and indicator that you may have fallen in the 'trap' of investing far too much time in tooling, defeating the initial productivity intent.

Been there.
Values can be an excuse though. I know a guy who quits his job (or does something to get him fired) about every 9 - 18 months, and his reasons are always along the lines of "my boss was liar, and I can't compromise my values" when really I think he's some combination of lazy and/or afraid to assume any real responsibility at work.
Thanks for this! I've been looking for something like this for a while now. I've made a couple ambient music generators that utilize webaudio and have been looking for something like this to generate new timbres. If you're interested my 2 generators can be found here...

https://madmonk13.github.io/relax/

https://madmonk13.github.io/musicforspaceports/

The first one is more of a proof of concept where as music for spaceports is much more feature complete.

Thanks again!
The biggest one, IMHO, was a business model shift. Apple treated the end-user (not the carrier) as their customer, and used their clout to put their boot on the carrier's neck in enforcement of this. No longer were you buying the carrier's phone offering. You were buying Apple's phone (even if from the carrier).

Because of this, Apple was able to develop products the end-user wanted to buy, rather than the products the carriers wanted to sell.
Do you have any examples? I watch almost all of their public hearings and it's rarely ever grandstanding. Again, you might have a couple of people take quick jabs but if you watch the actual hearings (don't watch reporters take parts of them out of context) it's usually very straight forward and constructive.

Part of it is also to function as a communication channel to the people. It shows their constituents that they're asking the questions people want them to ask and it would give Google's leaders a chance to explain their company-wide position on issues in this case. But they have to care enough to show up.
Is there a list of well-known studies that have been overturned because they haven't been reproducible? I'm wondering how much "common knowledge" that has come from those studies is actually true or not.
because they would be supported by a strong community making democratic decisions

And close enough to zero top-tier developer hours as to make no odds, so the "democratic decisions" would make no actual difference to an app that would be suddenly dead in the water.

Yeah, I would love to see a fierce, wholly independent Mozilla both doing the technical ass-kicking it's been doing, and with a much freer hand in user advocacy. But if Mozilla's income were to be cut off, everyone would suffer: they would suddenly have zero momentum with which to continue either their technical excellence or their existing, worthwhile advocacy efforts.
And because people are mentally ill or addicted means you can just ignore them?
LA gets vilified for being sprawling and car-centric, as if its love of cars is why it sprawls. This is not true. It sprawled from the beginning before cars were the norm. It is rooted in the high cost of building infrastructure in a desert and how that necessitates building large tracts in one fell swoop to make the financing make sense.
article is paywalled but maybe the existence of the red ochre crayon is more important than the particular drawing -- the crayon implies intent
I don't think this chart bears our your thesis very well:

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/05/07/huge-gap-tesla-model-3-...
It's gettin' there!
$2B represents the tiniest fraction of Bezos worth. (1.1%)

As another said, "color me unimpressed". He could double that and still be the richest man alive. He could triple that. He could quadruple that...
If only HTTP supported SRV records so people could use bare domain (google.com) in the UI while serving content transparently from other hosts. Many protocols use that (e.g. XMPP). But no, it seems to be easier to stick to www CNAME "hack" and fix it by introducing even more hacks like this "www elision".
Thanks, just posted there as well
"...but if this fund goes and actually help and make a real life impact on the lives of homeless people, then I am fine and I will hold back my criticism of Amazon."

That's precisely what Bezos is going for here.

I feel you though... I'm glad something is being done.

But let's keep criticizing Amazon as an exploitative enterprise.

And let's keep criticizing the homelessness crisis as a systemic issue which needs a systemic solution, not just a bone thrown from the table of the world's richest person.
We should absolutely ensure that people get a quality education and that the rigor of the programs are aligned with the difficulty of the field of study. There's nothing wrong with having 'weeder' courses early on to ensure that people are capable of completing the program they are in.

That is different from "competitive" admissions. Which, in my interpretation, is artificially limiting the number of admissions such that perfectly qualified (or overqualified) people are rejected for nebulous reasons (i.e., not a "good fit") in an effort to maintain prestige.

> It's worth noting that many colleges have even more remedial mathematics courses, which (no joke) cover elementary school stuff. E.g. the standard algorithm for division...

Mathematics education sucks in most of the US. In large parts of the country, how far you're able to go is determined by how well you do in your math classes at like 10 years old. If you do poorly, then it's very likely you'll be stuck on a tract that will never teach you to solve linear equations. Those that do well end up learning integral calculus before college.

Additionally, you have to consider that returning students may have not had a math class in a decade+ and it's hard to know where to start everyone. So it makes sense to start people from arithmetic. My mother went for her degree in her 50s and literally started at Kindergarten math and worked her way up from there.
Hah. And here I am loving my BlackBerry KEYone - Android with a hardware keyboard.
Seems weird that yarn.lock is not hidden but pnp.js is.
I can't imagine the EU and US antitrust regulators being very happy about this, if it ever becomes widely deployed.
Under HUD’s definition, a car is not a place suitable for human habitation, so that’s clearly someone who’s homeless. An RV dweller may be considered homeless if they are in an “unstable” living situation (moved twice or more within the past 60 days), or if the RV is in such disrepair to not be suitable for habitation.

Edit: see https://www.urban-initiatives.org/reports/are-all-persons-sl...
Show HN: Design and Simulate Molecules in Virtual Reality
We started Nanome in 2015 as a basic molecular builder for modern VR hardware. Since then, we’ve integrated a variety of features for educators, researchers, and drug designers. Today, Nanome users can import, visualize, and modify macromolecular and protein structures via intuitive 3D interaction. Nanome is free on Steam, Oculus, and VivePort.

A few months ago, we shared CalcFlow, our open source VR graphing calculator, with HN. We received a lot of valuable criticism and are looking for more of the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15289766

Nanome is used at big-three Pharma companies and in classrooms in the University of California system. We also recently announced a partnership with the RCSB Protein Data Bank.

Nanome does not replace industry standard drug design tools like PyMol and MOE. Soon, Nanome will integrate with these tools via a plugin system, letting professionals bring VR interfaces into their established workflows.

http://nanome.ai
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Neutrality is different than support for the status quo. The status quo actually requires constant political activity to maintain. It's changed dramatically in the past decade. To support the status quo you would have had to restrict politics to e.g. Hillary Clinton on one side Marco Rubio on the other. You might consider that "neutrality" but I think what GP meant was rather that they prefer colleagues and management not to talk politics at all.
Status is, there's an initial, incomplete implementation in nightly. It's not going to land in stable until early next year.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/50547 is the tracking issue.
Yeah, this is true.

We do the equivalent of telling the compiler that things don't alias at function boundaries (i.e. restrict) and not much more.

Nobody writes C code with restrict all over the place, which means that not only is this the finest grained level we can give this info to LLVM, it doesn't even necessarily support it well! We had to turn it off for &mut for a long time because of a bunch of bugs.

The weird thing is, to be able to do most optimizations LLVM does its own alias analysis anyway! (I don't know the details).

A lot of program analysis research is focused on improving alias analyses which are usually slow, imperfect, and global. Rust's aliasing info is "free" (you don't need to compute anything extra to get it), local, and perfect (ish). We really could get a lot of wins from doing our own aliasing-aware analyses, or by reordering the code in such a way so as to make it easier for LLVM (e.g., hoisting reads and writes to function boundaries so llvm just sees a bunch of locals)
> It is a global phenomenon.

Maybe now, but as I already said in my comment. It was not so when I grew up, and I would dare to claim that much of what you mention is based on aping Hollywood success, especially as a business model.

As for the wars, what exactly is the connection to the phenomenon we discussed? Those were state-sponsored wars. Not that it changes anything, I stand by my gut-feeling based claims that I trust civil society in Europe more - not if war(!) breaks out, not sure why you try to change the topic - but when society breaks down as in those mentioned stories and people are left on their own. Also, since you want to go after who has done more wars, did you compare Europe's wars and the US's wars since WWII too? Statistics that selects only the data that happens to support what you would like to show is dishonest at best. Let's not even mention the story of how the US was made - with guns, by individuals as well as the state.

Not that I have anything to criticize, I would not have mentioned any of that because it is not relevant to what I said. It's just that you brought it up for whatever reason, being very selective.
For the record blogging and how Mozilla could help
Nitpick: Dave Drummond is, or at least was, Kent Walker's boss, board member and the top lawyer. He focused on business, though.

Kent Walker was the policy guy. Ironically, this article from six weeks ago makes the point that he's the new Eric Schmidt when it comes to governments:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/30/google-kent-walker-svp-of-gl...
It's really quite a bit bigger. Here's a side-by-side of the 4" SE and 5.5" X

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/59dcdd8c6d80adae008b5...
This is only an estimate yea? Since the hurricane has already passed, what is the official toll?
this sounds like really anecdotal evidence. do you have any reliable sources to back up your claim?
Isn't that what so much of what programming is about? Invest all the work once up-front so that the next iterations are trivial?
> they also have big corps behind them: TypeScript, Dart, Go, Flow, Kotlin, etc.

I talked about just that, no? About two of that list specifically, even.