skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Natural gas is a pretty good option in much of the US (particularly for peaking), combined with existing nuclear, plus hydro (largely maxed out in the US), and expanding solar and wind.

Replacing coal with natural gas is a win overall, particularly for pollution other than CO2.
For some reason I am reminded of Feds in Snow Crash. Unfortunately, in real life, we can not opt out of states so easily.
It is only for cars manufactured in such a limited time frame. This is part of what it means to be a responsible auto maker. Tesla is growing up, and this is par for the course. I seriously doubt this will have any long-term significance in terms of its stock price.
Wow, that's interesting if the SQL constraints are all completely ignored.. seems doubtful.

My experience with Oracle's query optimization was that it was non-intuitive to configure to work correctly especially with the way that the optimizer statistics config works.

MySQL will do quite useful query optimization (for joins) if you have appropriate indexes. So I think that in 80% of cases that is what matters in both Oracle and MySQL -- creating appropriate indexes.

Honestly I don't think you know what MySQL is capable of.
Agreed. I took particular objection to the following passage: "Now that you've cleaned up the coffee spills and finished laughing"

That aside, it does still make an interesting read if just to learn what systems some nuclear power plants are running. I'd love to have seen pictures of the PDP's in action though.
The Model S does not need to be brought to our
service center by the owner. Tesla will pick up
the car at a location of the owner’s convenience,
provide a Model S loaner if needed, perform the
work and bring the car back to the owner a few
hours later.

Does anybody else offer service like this?
This seems like a great idea. Build some sort of universal bridge for media keys that any compatible app can hook into? Or would the OS X sandbox prevent that, too?
> Apple refused to update to any GPL-3 software, including GCC and GDB. Clang/LLVM is great

To be fair the problem with GCC isn't just GPL, v3 or otherwise. Apparently its design is deliberately convoluted to reduce modularity, making it harder for people to use parts rather than the whole, and the architecture also makes dynamic compilation much more difficult to implement than LLVM's tool chain (this was one of the key drivers, rather than the GPL thing).
hi, thanks for your interest, the source code is here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/seeks/code/ci/experimental/tree/
I remember working, ~20 years ago, on a research project that involved creating a simulation of the device that was used at UK AGR nuclear plants to automatically shutdown plants in an emergency (I think it was called the RSSSE - Reactor Safety Shutdown Sequencing Equipment).

The plants were designed in the 1960s and, for such a critical task, they wanted to be very conservative about the designs. So they didn't even use electronics - it was all relays and mechanical gearing!
>I have used MySQL and Oracle and I have found MySQL to be more reliable, more performant, easier to configure, and easier to develop against.

Then you're simply not an enterprise level developer. Oracle is, to this day, one of the most powerful databases out there. Granted, they have absolutely awful interface tools (which is why most people are reduced to using a buggy 3rd party app to do common DB work on Oracle), but the Database itself is world class. MySQL isn't really a competitor. It competes better with things like SQLight.
This kind of recall happens all the time. Critically, it has absolutely nothing to do with the electrical/drivetrain systems, a similar (if not virtually identical) problem could have happened with any car at any manufacturer.

Tesla's going to spend a little money fixing ~1000-2000[1] brackets and that'll be the end of it.

[1](Last I heard, they're building about 2000 cars/month.)
Learn javascript then coffeescript. If you already know javascript very well then it's your choice. I have stayed with javascript myself.
That paragraph just made me want a Model S even more. :-)
The people I know who finance their car have no cash for emergencies, either, because their money goes to the finance company.
It worries me that Facebook is not deliberately blocking Tor.

Suppose an oppressive regime wants to block its people from anonymously accessing a service: Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc. They have traditionally been locked in an arms race of sorts with Tor developers: the regime will identify Tor relays and filter connections to them; Tor developers step up with bridges. The regime uses DPI to attempt to identify Tor connections, and Tor developers put out Obfsproxy. And so on, and so on.

Now it's clear to everybody that their best option is not to prevent outbound connections to Tor, it's to prevent inbound connections from Tor on the services they don't want their people to use anonymously. All they have to do is ensure they inflict maximum abuse on the targeted service from Tor, and in this way give that service the incentive to cut off the users most in need.

I'm not suggesting abuse on the Tor network comes largely from intentional government 'territory denial'. However, it's frightening that there is such an easy way for them to deny the services which are in practice essential to the universal free exercise of speech on the Web.
Lobster, a game programming language
Programming the PDP-11:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV-7J5y1TQc
JUnit code history
The problem with fusion is that in the form accessible to us here on Earth (deuterium-tritium), it still creates radioactive waste. It is not the sort of long lived waste you would see from Uranium based nuclear fission, it is more comparable to Thorium based fission reactors. In other words we already have a pretty decent alternative.

The real holy grail would be Hellium 3 fusion, but first we have to figure out how to import the fuel back to Earth from places like the surface of the Moon or from Jupiter.
SAAS has grown quickly, but is simply the age old concept of renting applied to software, with businesses simply trying to make more money, and that's it.

Any incentives due to this 'new' pricing model are incidental.

> I was trying to suggest if the car manufacturing business had a vested (client based) interest in the full lifetime of the car they may design for longevity and upgradeability rather than simply sales and parts.

Structure it how you will, manufacturer's need a financial incentive before optimizing for longer rather than shorter lifetimes. They sell more if cars have shorter lifetimes - 'planned obsolescence' as noted by btilly.

Charging companies directly and creating the financial incentives is one way of causing businesses to have a vested interest in the long-term viability of a product. It may not be what you intended when you wrote it, but a mandatory fee structure is absolutely one way to aligning usage goals.

If there's a pragmatic way to incentivize increasing car and parts duration that doesn't involve some mandatory fee structure and somehow mimics SAAS, for cars, I haven't come up with it.

Culturally, the fetishization of cars is simply a larger symptom of excessive consumerism which isn't something likely to change any time soon (nor will it be easy to change).

Thanks for the response - it's clear we have a difference of opinion on the implications of SAAS, among other things, though I think we can both agree that Tesla shaking up the industry is a good thing. :)
Programming for Intel Xeon Phi (MIC)
Which means Monty has screwed everyone again. He should have let MySQL die in Oracle's cradle so the open source world could move over to a better database: PostgreSQL.
No? And not just in the automotive industry.

Apple comes close, but from stories like smoke being considered a biohazard, I'd say no (they did offer replacement if you broke your screen on iPad IIRC). That said I don't consider that Tesla won't ever have a gaffe, but they are doing things perfectly so far.
I think you've miss read the question

> I have 1-2 hours daily that I can spend on any project/activity that will, after some work, generate $1000/per month net in passive income.

$1000/28days at lets say 1.5hours = $23 per hour.

So I'm guessing they are not wanting to do the 1-2 hours per day once it's up and running, because $23/hour is not passive income.
Learning about the politics of a privacy plan
How does this compare to a the typical branch-and-bound or dynamic programming solution?
Also check out my fork of Markdown live, which is exactly this + open-source + bugs + shitty syntax highlighting.

https://github.com/vojto/markdownlive
At the risk of being trite, it's down to the order of evaluation.

You know that a for comprehension expands into calls to flatMap and map? So

for {
a <- forA
b <- forB
} yield a + b

expands to

forA flatMap { a => forB map { b => a + b } }

Remember that forB creates and returns a future. Only when this future has been created will it start running.

It should be apparent that forB is not evaluated till forA's future delivers a value, and thus the future returned by forB will run in serial with the future returned by forA.

In the other example the futures are created outside of the for comprehension, and thus start running in parallel.
This could increase the competition in the right way, i.e. without further fragmenting APIs / ABIs.
If you're going to switch away from MySQL anyway, I would suggest taking the hit and moving to PostgreSQL.
In small towns any car dealer will do that.
That criminal of a captain was sitting under a documented air route and threatened other planes. He knew perfectly well that plenty of airliners flew there. Like the great grandparent said - imaging if the Iranians did this to the US. There would be a large regional war at a minimum.
How many of these "mirror bees" would you need? How much momentum does light have?
"We've been told..." Yes. Yes, we have.
You can say it's silly, but I know many people who live below their income and invest the difference in stocks. Over 20-30 years, yes they do build up enough to generate significant passive income, and many of them have become millionaires in the process.

It's not a quick way to wealth, but it works, and does not require any particular cleverness nor much of any work.
Yeah that's what I do, but I use application called Marked to preview it.

Marked is a smart idea, because people love their text editors.
Until we figure out how to make large scale energy storage economical, we are still going to be stuck with the problem of providing a base-load for the grid. As far as environmental impact, nuclear fission still seems like the best option to me to fill that need. If his analysis is correct it certainly does indicate there's a place for both renewable and nuclear to coëxist in the short term.
Just because the architecture at this point is over 43 years old doesn't mean the individual hardware components are. There are still companies that fab pdp-11 cores, because there are a lot of places where testing and certifying new designs is more expensive than training and getting one-offs made.
What I dont like about scala is its "syntaxtic flexibility". Or how I would call it, non consistent syntax.

Too much features: Scala has everything, it seems like the language designers coudn't make a choice about what is best. "Whoo this is cool, lets add it". One word: implicits, arrgh

Also the fact that is built on top of java... When you design a good language, you should try to do it right, and leave all other out. However this is a design choice of Scala. And I think this choice makes the language a short term language, just as a stepping stone for java programmers to better languages.

- end of rant -
My biggest use-case for maps on web-sites is to simply communicate a location.

Not to navigate by car, by bike, by foot. Not to show advertiser bubbles, or utilities.

Just a clear communication of "The point in question is in this neighbourhood, at that point.".

For me, that's the beauty in MapBox's Streets style... it does that one thing really well. Retaining enough countryside detail to make location recognition very good, and it works brilliantly in a city. Yet at the same time it's neutral enough to look great no matter how bad the design of the web-site it appears on.

I definitely prefer non-US, and non-giant mapping providers, but there's a lot to be said for cartographers who design maps to be useful generically for location recognition rather than anything else. I strongly feel that this is what Google Maps got so right, and is also why MapBox will do very well.

More than the tech, design matters.
Do you know how to benchmark your Ruby code?
I'd be surprised if the actual hardware units in use resemble what most people think when they hear "PDP-11". Later models were basically microcomputers and could fit comfortably on a desk.
Actually, I'm pretty sure he's spot on.

And on your second point, fine: let's make operators post bonds, and watch as they scramble not to build new nuclear plants even faster than before.

The general run of things in the UK as I understand it seems to be:

0. Many billions are invested in public nuclear R&D. Electricity market is then privatised.

1. Nobody builds new nuclear (and nobody wants it on their doorstep either, especially in a country this small).

2. Government skews market in favour of nuclear by taking on liabilities for decommissioning (and de facto also disasters, which although rare are catastrophically expensive).

3. Operators/investors still aren't sure they can make a profit.

4. Government skews market further by offering a floor price for nuclear-generated electricity (additional public subsidy).

5. Operators/investors are still somewhat uncomfortable regarding risks and public opinion, so government gets into protracted negotiations to give them whatever the hell they want.

So nuclear here is essentially being subsidised three ways, and is still struggling to secure an investor.
First of all, it doesn't really matter what Google says because they could be lying. Second of all, there are trivial ways around "direct access". Google will have world class mirroring capabilities, so they need only mirror to a government server. They could do this manually (per request) or automatically. This would fit within "no direct access".
High-end luxury car dealerships frequently offer loaner cars, often times nicer than the car that needed servicing, and some of them definitely do pick-ups.
A bit OT financial advice: it's almost never worth it to buy a single share. The reason is the commission will eat you up. Assume a low $7/trade commission. That could possibly cost you $14 round trip (purchase/exit).

With Tesla ~$100/share, It'll have to go up 14% just to break even on the trade. Even if you just buy in single shares but exit in multiple shares to spread the commission, you still have to fade 7% commission. Not worth it.

If you're investing in the hundreds of dollars, you should look for low commission options such as CDs.

Edit: I accidentally replied to the post. My comment was meant in response to this comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5904397
Not only that, their all developer documentation and tooling for tracking down graphics performance focus mainly on DirectX and Windows.
... And a great way to create enemies and foster hatred.
The Pastry Box Project - Sugar for the Mind
Nothing new at all, even my stockbroker had similar kind of bug. There should be only one function which handles usernames. When same thing is implemented differently all over the source, this is exactly what happens.

I have seen also much worse solutions. Where actually giving username, logs you in (sets logged in session cookie) and then prompts for password. When you enter invalid password you're logged out. If you give username, and then change url, you're in. Business as usual. When you test it, it works. Username + right password = ok, Username + wrong password != ok. Tests passed, and that's it.
IIyama, twice I've had an IIyama screen die on me, once within warranty (due to the high volume of electric devices dying I installed a surge protector, since then no problems) and once outside of warranty. Both times they send a courier service to pick up the screen at my house and deliver me a replacement one at no charge.
When I had a high end BMW the dealer did that on a couple of occasions.
I've recently started to compose music, and nothing beats the simple notation software like TuxGuitar. I don't even attempt to use any other complicated software. Note I'm only talking about composing, not effects and mixing.

But a very impressive looking software and very cool introduction video. And a good composition too!
Good hack, yep that's a interesting question.

Edit: Weakness - language. Solution get a bi-lingual friend who can suggest a non English success story. This in reverse http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-02-29/the-germany-...
Maybe Intel could license them and finally provide proper GPUs.
I wonder if another kind of costs of wind and solar (and hydro!) is included? In Germany, we have to spend billions to build additional transmission lines. Since wind/solar/hydro energy is a lot more unstable in its output, a lot more energy has to be moved around the country. Also it cannot be produced near the heavy consumers (e.g. hydro energy from the north sea to heavy industry the Ruhr area). The instability of output also leads to more activity for coal-fired power plants, because they can bridge short solar energy lows (nuclear plants are too slow).

I found that article encouraging that wind/solar/hydro energy might hit break even, but I am not convinced that we are already at that point.

Polluting nice landscape with windmills is another downside. Although that is probably not that big of a problem in the US, since you have a lot more uninhabited space there compared to Germany.
Very impressive service for what sounds like a blown weld.

I wonder if this will result in a robot getting reprogrammed or welder getting retrained (or fired).
Perfectly executed. But for home use I would have just screwed an RC servo motor on the front to press the button :)
IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!

I feel this is especially true for nuclear power plants.
> The thing is maybe those groups aren't willing to pay for such a solution?

Actually I think they want to pay more. At least I do. HipChat charges $2/user; I would pay $5 or $10.

The real problem is that tools designed for companies consolidate the billing. If I start a chat for my local user group then I am on the hook socially to upgrade my plan to let new people join. If I am successful in cultivating a useful chat then essentially I am punished for it, and the punishment grows without bound. One of the groups I participate in has over a thousand members.

Meanwhile I would be happy to pay for a friend or three, with the understanding that the other 997 people who may want to join need to pay their own way. And with mostly individual accounts you can probably ask for significantly more per user than HipChat can.

And the effort to get people to sign up might be effectively free if you funnel part of the license fee back to the organization who no longer needs to pass the hat around for pizza money or whatever. This may create regulatory problems, but if we're just talking about the customer acquisition equation, there are a lot of awkward situations where somebody forgot to bring cash that I would very happily roll into a monthly debit to forget about.
http://maps.yandex.com?
Beijing Food - What to Eat & Where to Eat in Beijing
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Unless it's BRK.A ;)
For this I use grunt-markdown and grunt-watch (that integrates LiveReload).
I live in Hollywood, CA. My local BMW dealership won't pick up my car but they'll give me a round trip complimentary shuttle service. I'll get a loaner if the service will take a few days.
> This is, I think, the only way for these tech giants to come out of this scandal better off than they went in -- to take a stand, and take the fight to the feds, hard.

This is a PR-stunt, nothing more. Google could have "challenged" any and all gag-orders even before PRISM was leaked.

Was giving NSA wholesale access to user data bad in 2009? -Why not challenge that shit in 2009? Gag-orders getting in the way? -Well why not challenge those in 2009 then?

I guess they were too busy extolling the virtues of being Open and Transparent: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html - that's December 2009, with PRISM in place for almost a year. Fucking scumbags.
The Economist provides a brief summary of seemingly everything. It is a bit of a struggle to get through it each week though. Sometimes I question how much I really care about China's economic policy. Sometimes they publish some really fantastic articles though. Much less chaff than most online news sources.

I'd recommend that everyone reads at least a few issues of the New Yorker. Some of the long-form reports in there are absolutely fantastic - the kind of article that you still think about months or years after reading. A subscription might just result in mountains of unread magazines though.

Not really start up related...
This point was brought up in the hearing: the reasons or articulate suspicion are rarely made back to the FISA court. A congressman proposed having more oversight on this element.
Feel like the next logical step. They're already customizing chips for PC constructors (I remember not being able not being able to install a linux on an HP laptop because the customized chip wasn't compatible with drivers). So the next step is just delegating the chip manufacturing.
The nigger wake-up-call
I really don't understand why banknotes aren't imaged (or just serial numbers recorded) at more points of distribution. Making it an ABA or merchant-security requirement and integrating it into PoS, then requiring that those records be turned over for AML purposes (under existing laws, just as regulations), and then those records (secretly?) turned over to FinCEN and NSA, would seem productive.
Maybe you'd want to write a super-fast template language evaluator. And give it the ability to call database queries.
Not necessarily, there are cheap $1 brokers like Interactive Brokers. I've used them, they get the job done.

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=commission
They use cartography from Navteq, a Chicago-based Nokia subsidiary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navteq
Indeed it is to get latest stations. I will update to SSL.
The US fascination with war is kind of mind blowing when you first visit. The number of servicemen/women, the number of military related things (ships, planes etc), the papers, the news. Its much less militaristic down here on our tiny island - New Zealand.
Very few exceptions. Even Google, at $900/share, is not worth the $14 round trip commission. And if your investing in hundreds, you're likely doing it through a bank or some other service will probably costs >= $20/trade. Ouch OP.