skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest obstacle, in my opinion, to vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications is distribution utilities. All utilities have comprehensive procedures for studying and approving connection of distribution generation resources to their networks (rooftop PV, small CCGT, etc.). These take in account the maximum possible output of the generation asset as well as how they will behave under fault conditions.

They're already quite stingy about approving customer-owned DGs (because there is little or no financial benefit to the utility) - I can only imagine how they'll feel about people connecting a generator they don't control, at locations and times they can't predict, with the ability to disconnect them arbitrarily and drive away.

In order for V2G to become a reality, utilities will need far more advanced software and metering infrastructure to perform real-time load-flow analysis of their systems and determine if/how to dispatch connected EVs. At present few utilities even have the metering infrastructure to enable that kind of intelligent control, let alone the supervisory control software.
Constant fear is a nice breeding ground for resentment and creating extremists.
You are correct:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/google...
> Imagine if the resources being used to develop drones and bombs and other killing robots were instead being used to develop tools that would improve the lives of your average Afghani child

The improvements would very likely violate Taliban law and the improved children and their parents would be targeted for accepting the improvements.

Humans do not work the way you think they do.
I didn't launch, unless you count making it available on the internet a launch.

As several others have mentioned here, I was not focused on "launching the product". I was persistent about creating a solid and valuable product, and making it available for the entire world. I researched everything I could about building websites, particularly performance and SEO. The project was a learning project for me - it was technically "launched" since the moment I bought the domain. I continually iterated after learning new things about the web, and after coming up with new ideas. The growth came from a steadily increasing SEO presence and Social Network presence. I never once saw a code or feature iteration cause an immediate flood of attention, even when I gave them a little nudge on social networks. I will admit though, that I never attempted an all out launch of anything.

The project is mainly a fun site, but it has become one of the best tools for creating animated GIFs and memes on the internet. There have been a few big spikes from various press events, or Reddit frontpagers, but the true value has come from continually making the product better and slowly gaining the trust of the internet.

I'm certainly much newer to this than many people here, but my first big project now makes enough profit to support me fulltime, if I were to choose that (I work at another company as well). The site is imgflip.com if you're wondering.
Where I live, I only have one choice for internet provider (Comcast). One choice. And I should trust them with content censorship? I would be in idiot to believe this is anything but a terrible idea.
So this affects people's lives and involves politics, but I can't help but feel like it's an engineering problem that could be solved. Measure how accurate information is from drones and how confident they are, calculate (even if roughly) how much is gained or lost by taking action. And then do whatever maximizes expected utility.

I feel like merely having access to another tool should never make things worse unless the leaders are incompetent.
Simply calculating how long it will take to read an article
Trying to turn a language into a totally and completely different language is dumb. This is not complicated. Civil discourse also requires that you take the time to read and comprehend words before you reply to them with crap.
It's not a "problem." I'm just incredibly lazy when it comes to looking up rap lyrics and it works for me.
QCD's strong coupling makes it hard to imagine how one could create programs for quarks with bounded errors. The linked article seems to suggest using gluons/interactions as gates for the colors on the quarks. This is so totally bonkers it is hard to know where to start, but perhaps an easy place is: how would you go about isolating a single quark and a single gluon in the horrible nonperturbative mess that is the QCD vacuum[0].

If you want to program the nucleons in the nucleus, you can switch your description to chiral perturbation theory[1], which is weakly coupled, but you need to be able to shoot individual pions at individual nuclei, which would be extremely difficult, and might require enough energy to liberate the target nucleon from the rest of the nucleus, anyway, destroying your "computer".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QCD_vacuum

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral_perturbation_theory
Public school teacher compensation is totally unrelated to their productivity. Measurement is haphazard and terrible, outcomes are universally ignored, and generally pay depends on the the tax assessment of the surrounding real estate.

There are professions where that's a good model, but it seems remarkably unrelated to the dynamics of the teaching market.
If the attacker knows the structure of the reply, `__defineSetter__` can be used to extract the JSON content as well. From [0]:

<script type="text/javascript">
Object.prototype.__defineSetter__('Id', function(obj){alert(obj);});
</script>
<script src="http://example.com/Home/AdminBalances">/*Boom*/</script>

[0]: http://haacked.com/archive/2009/06/25/json-hijacking.aspx/
My wife's take: "Not just a misrepresentation of the opinion, but a misrepresentation of Kafka (which I've read in the original German). Kafka's bureaucracy was absurd. The implication the WaPo author intended was more akin to the self-serving, ostensibly just but not actually, circular laws of Heller's Catch-22."
That is not the point of the Tor browser, though it is at times a goal.

That goal is absolutely impossible if you don't use NoScript, though. Tor browser includes NoScript by default, as well as many other extensions, but NoScript is initially set in "globally allow" mode which means it won't block any JS or Flash.
This has nothing to do with jurisdiction stripping or the primary constitutional argument. Its about the secondary statutory argument.
The cable itself is a whole nother story(and actually shared between the 30 pin.). Your post implies the connector sucks, when infact its probably one of the best connectors I have ever seen IMO.
Piggybacking off of this, have you observed unnecessary blame put on the intern(s)?
A few people have mentioned this but if your using a web based email service, then simple mark the email as spam. This will cause an Abuse Feedback Report to be sent to citibank, which should cause their server to automatically unsubscribe you from the email stream.

If your sending bulk email, your not going to be getting delivery unless your process these messages from the large web mail providers.

I am actually surprised that they aren't required by law to have either a 1 click unsubscribe or at the very worst, require you to enter your email address into the form and click a button. This is the way that the us CANSPAM act and the australian spam act work.
Number 7 is why I like programming so much
>Surely the most common source of memory corruption is bounds violations.

Surely the most common source of oranges is orange trees.

>Even reconciling our disagreement on terminology

You aren't reconciling it, you are just repeating "I don't like the real definition of type system in regards to computer science". That's great for you and all, but it has nothing to do with me. If you want to learn about it I can recommend some material, but if you just want to argue "I don't understand X therefore using the correct terminology for X is wrong" then there's no need to continue.
Maybe I'm being too dramatic, but I see the concept of "cultural fit" as highly toxic and counterproductive, and that's without taking into account that (IMHO) it reflects some kind of fear and insecurity on those who promote it, who seem to be wary of being surrounded by different kinds of people. The effect on women who could potentially get into coding is just one of the multiple effects (although maybe the most prominent).
Unfortunately, Oracle's documentation document Oracle's product. That's reason enough to prefer PostgreSQL's documentation.

That was a bit tongue-in-cheek... Oracle makes an exceptionally solid RDBMS and deserves credit for that. It's just that it hurts every time I write VARCHAR2.
When the only thing the 'company' has to offer you is:

A corner office with two windows

A private toilet/shower

A wet bar

A kitchenette

Because you already have all the money.
I wouldn't like that, indeed. I'd want my participation real-time controllable, real-time voluntary, and real-time limited.

That said, my uncertainty about vehicle use isn't as bad upon return to home, at which time I'd be more amenable to allow discharge -- and this is right when my local leg of the grid needs a bump in supply: I'm about to switch on lights, TV, microwave, heat or A/C; things I'd leave off whilst at work.
>They are not well represented in computer software

Are they "well represented" in any skilled trade? Why is this one specific skilled trade such a unique cause for concern and inventing crazy reasons to blame the people in the trade?
Who decided that the automobile would replace the horse and buggy for most modes of personal transportation?

Consumers.
I don't know but the more billion dollar businesses that are complaining the more likely something is going to be done (let's not forget who funds elections). Maybe they gamed Google and Yahoo so well cause their "new" computers from Apple, Dell or whoever are being routed by UPS or Fedex to them first. Nothing would be too surprising at this point. Either way they should and hopefully will get a proper outing and when their names start getting ran through the press that's going to be xx more pissed off corporations.
What to tell noobs who want to "learn coding"?
I get a lot of people genuinely interested in learning. In my opinion code academy sucks cause of the false sense of accomplishment it gives. Thoughts? Strategies?
This is awesome, but I think this is more likely charity rather than investing.
After some googling, I've concluded that the ruling hasn't happened yet. Every other source on this topic is from around the same time, and some of them mention that the ruling is expected sometime between then and early 2014.
Unfortunately, we have a bunch of experience with statistically-based bias measures, and it often turns out to be exactly "prove you're not a witch" scenario. While in this particular case failure to prove probably leads to nothing but a blog post or a comment or two, in many other cases it leads to regulations and enforcement actions that can be very unpleasant for the target.

It can have some justifications where we know the bias exists. However, in this case we do not know it, so when people feel the onus of the proof put on them, they don't like it.
The premise that "venture capital and growth hacking go hand in hand" seems like author's personal opinion and not a widespread maxim. Would the tactics have changed if RapGenius' funding came from a private equity group, friends and family, or an old-school bank? Unlikely, since it was business requirement, not requirement spelled out in terms of financing.

In fact, someone using far more egregious and manipulative "growth hacks" has been self- and customer-funded http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/the-dark...
But there is no reason it has to be that way. For most of human history we lived in small tribes of a hundred people or so, and everyone pretty much cared only for the people in their own tribe. But then we moved on to entire cities of thousands, where you likely didn't know everyone else, but it was still possible to care for strangers because they were still part of your "tribe". Then we moved on to nations with millions of people, and nationalism still proved to be effective.

So maybe we can someday go to globalism. Putting the whole of humanity inside your circle of concern, not just your friends and members of your tribe.
Well actually, for all of the places in question I was an intern myself. Most of the places I worked were small startups, so there weren't any intern predecessors (I was usually their first). Rather it was mostly the guy who hacked up version 1 of the code base who usually got the blame. Although who knows what happened when I left!
Most that I know seem to be trapped in academia. Are you yourself a hardware hacker, or a business guy with an idea?
Fixing problematic iTunes Match uploads
Why do you think it's more viable than Bitcoin? I'm curious to know.
It looks like modern Chrome doesn't trigger setters when constructing from literals, so that's encouraging. http://jsfiddle.net/KY4Sa/
Yeah, I'm not going to play Calvinball with you. Sorry!
Does anyone use music collaboration sites like Splice or Blend?
20 million. This will cover any accidental losses.
Radiation in the ocean and Fukushima
I am privileged and realize I am privileged. What are you talking about? Mantra?
The more important aspect was the social and government structures pre-WWI. Europe was still dominated by an aristocratic elite and a very class based society. That elite drove public opinion and policy. It served as the officer corps. It served in government and in civil service. It's very difficult today to imagine a world so different from today, especially with regard to class.

Ultimately what all that meant was that the bad old ways that European aristocracy had always worked continued apace. Empire was an extension of national pride, and primarily extractive and selfish. Foreign policy was also selfish and dominated not by the thought of maintaining order by by the idea of gaining advantage. And only moderated by the fear of a foreign hegemon and the desire to team up to prevent such in order to maintain the conditions that allowed everyone to scuttle about and get up to geopolitical hijinx for the benefit of their own country.

These patterns of behavior had led to a great number of wars in Europe's past, it was a strong pattern. Wars fought for territorial or trade advantage: Wars fought to reign in a hegemon. Etc. That was how things were, even going back to the hundred years war and earlier. In the 19th century you had the Napoleonic wars, the wars of German/Italian unification, various imperial skirmishes, the Franco-Prussian war, etc.

The point being, wars were seen as being an opportunity for advantage and positive change. And the powerful elite at the time very much had a fascination and lust for war due to its glorification as well as the immediate financial gain of being an officer. The concept of an existential war, the concept of wars that took millions of lives, the concept of a war where bullets and bombs were putting troops on the front lines in danger of death every day for years was not a concept Europe at the time could understand.

And in the shock of the war a lot of the old ways of Europe broke apart and were destroyed. Post WWI Europe was much different than it was before the war, and you can see this culturally. Post WWI cultural artifacts tend to seem much more modern and tend to more easily resonate with modern sensibilities than pre-war stuff does.

The point being, it wasn't just the alliances and weapon buildup that brought about WWI. More than anything it was a culture that saw war as a tool for gaining advantage, a culture that tended to fall into a war between great powers at least once a generation. That sort of culture doesn't exist anymore in the great powers. Even in countries that see geopolitics as a realm for gaining selfish benefits generally there just aren't a lot of folks who are eager to go to war. At best there are folks who think that it's wise to go to war in order to take out an enemy that's a threat, but that's a very different proposition than the pre-WWI situation.
What happens when you visit a malicious website and your computer gets stuck on `while(1)`? Syntax error would be better?
Setup a production aws server, with domain name: http://partyshuffle.us/
You have to throw out your computer and buy a new one.
Source (link) please, or I'll proclaim that the tin foil hat brigade has now thorougly infiltrated HN.
On some level I am quite glad that china, its neighbors and the US are arguing over some rocks and some identification zone.

It looks more like an ritualistic show fight you sometimes see in the animal kingdom than an eve of war.

For that matter I am quite glad that they are not rattling their sabers about Taiwan...

Nothing about the disputed island would be worth even a very small scale war, much less the risk of a bigger one. There's just no profit in it. On the other hand, battles about islands (like the Falklands War) tend to cost a lot less lives, especially civilian, than any land-based war.

No, this is more about China trying to harness nationalistic emotions on the one hand and their "opponents" not wanting to present China with an opportunity for actually profitable wars or threats.

If for example the US and Japan would back down, China might "negotiate" the annexation of Taiwan in the near future, which would be profitable. There have been rumors of such attempts already, and China's military buildup makes this ever more realistic.
Here's a quick fiddle to check. This trick doesn't seem to work on Chrome 31. http://jsfiddle.net/g9R5s/
ES4 requires using the original, unmodified bindings. From a comment: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16289894/is-json-hijackin...
Because the script is useless, malicious websites won't bother including it, so the folks at Google don't really care what it actually does. Or, if the site wants to be malicious by just giving you a while(1), they can do that without Google's help.
iPad == anonymous.
I do not think this particular attack works in any modern browser anymore.

However, the while (1); (or similar tricks) is an easy defense-in-depth measure in case browsers regress in this area or new attacks are found.
Without venture capital RapGenius "growth hacking" tactics would never attract as much scrutiny.

If RapGenius were not a company going out of the way to promote their "VC pedigree" (even if this is what happened indirectly, because that's what the people / press / bloggers wanted to talk about), they would be a lot more likely to fly under the radar.

Even if someone were to write the same kind of post about their "growth hacking" that started the whole "scandal", it would be less likely to make the top of HN and attract a close look from Matt Cutts...

They were trying to have it both ways - generate huge publicity and do something that does not go well with increased scrutiny. Live by PR, die by PR.
Biology does not do atomically-precise manufacturing.

It gets pretty damned close, no?

What's gene reading and writing then? If not atomic level, small molecules. Base pairs are 13-15 atom molecules.
Yes, sorry. Auto-correct kinda mutated my post.
> disgustingly ignorant[....] sheer obliviousness[...] privilege[....] awful.

Do not expect shaming attempts to substitute for an argument here. Taking offense can't make you right.

There's the industry and then there's the calling. If they share my obsession, where is their mountain of hobby projects for getting it out of their system when their day jobs do not?
It's just the viral nature of the internet, especially a meme. I spoke a to a few people that have no idea about Bitcoin, but they knew of Dogecoin and the meme. Plus it has over 20k subscribers to it's subreddit in a little over two weeks, which is 5+k than litecoin.
It’s Not “Too Late” for Female Hackers
it depends: http://goo.gl/KFmPeu
"Steve Jobs” Biographer Puts Draft Of New Book Online To Crowdsource Ideas
Enquiries into how the Web is Weaved into Everyday Life
Right.

Rural areas and complicit ISPs suck for internet service.

My statement only makes sense if you would actually go through with the threat if they didn't reduce your bill
> Today if we make a mistake we bomb the wrong home and kill everyone. 25 years ago we bombed the entire village.

The (supposed) ability to make surgical strikes leads to different decision-making than when dropping bombs meant wiping a while village off the map. It makes it easier to call for more bombings increasing the likelihood of more false-positives (i.e. bombing the wrong house). Hell, SWAT teams have a horrific record of storming into the wrong house guns-blazing, and they are not in life or death situations (i.e. they have enough time to plan / make sure that the address is correct).
React internals support being used in a web worker. It should be easy to send it via XHR.

Now, synchronizing two clients is going to be more tricky. The diff algorithm works on the virtual DOM which is the result of an arbitrary javascript execution.

So while it's certainly possible to synchronize and merge the virtual DOM. You'll need to also feed this result back to the javascript program that generates this virtual DOM. The next time you call render, it should return the new merged virtual DOM.

This would be a pretty exciting thing to be able to do, i'd love to see a demo :)
Umm, the only way you would have access to there infrastructure is with heavy regulation so no there is no access to any of it. Suggesting otherwise is seriously ignoring the question.

PS: 1 billion in capital no regulation no access to any existing infrastructure no magic wand and the only way you can dig is to convince the local government or individuals that there is so reason to let you dig aka spend money. Which is clearly harder where there is already existing high speed internet. So what do you do you find city's without FIOS (etc) and build there at which point there yours and everyone else leaves them alone more or less. (Though if there is no natural monopoly then fighting in existing markets should be easy...)
I recently read a fabulous history of WWI (G.J. Meyer's _The World Undone_). What struck me is that if you modeled Europe in 1914 as a distributed system, you'd see incredible latencies between decisions being made and decisions being carried out. Kaiser Wilhelm and King George (first cousins!) were negotiating to stave off the war long after Germany's decision to mobilize, and might very well have succeeded were it possible to reverse the mobilization decision. The German generals insisted it wasn't. And even before then, Germany's decision to mobilize was based on reports of Russia's decision to mobilize, which also took weeks to carry out. If communication and military latencies were shorter, maybe the war could have been avoided. It was like the world's worst race condition.
Scary as current drones are, they are nothing compared to how crazy things are going to get very quickly.

Think of completely power-autonomous drones, the size of a wasp, swarming by the millions in the sky. The swarming feature alone would render most people helpless against an attack, or their sheer presence. To this, add distributed intelligence features, and networked control. The swarm becomes something akin to an intelligent, flying, all-seeing liquid.

Then think of the drop in price that will enable this to become the dominant method of surveillance, policing, and military operations. There will quickly be nothing stopping dictatorships from buying billions of them, making them ubiquitous and all-pervasive. Killing, threatening and controlling billions of people suddenly becomes quite cheap, efficient, easy and cost-effective. Don't like those people demonstrating in your city? Send the swarms.
You make the assumption that his 'attack' on the Guardian's reporting is in essence support of the American military's / White House's position.

To use a loaded example, would you say that someone railing against Stalin was a supporter of Hitler? Probably not.