skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many reasons it hasn't been done besides technical practicality. Besides the obvious issues of market manipulation (ala Enron) and information security (sending false prices to cause blackouts), there is a giant problem with customer acceptance. Most people don't like bills that are unpredictable, they don't like bills that are hard to understand, and they don't like change. I'm a big fan of real-time energy pricing but you have to understand that the technical problems are really quite minor compared to the market design and consumer acceptance problems.

I'm also somewhat skeptical of personal batteries being used to save on your electric bill. If it's worth it to peak-shave with batteries, it's almost certainly going to be more effective for companies to do it at scale and with expertise. The only reason it might make sense for consumers to do it is because of the retail-wholesale pricing difference, but if home batteries become popular, you can bet that loophole will be closed.

Source: I used to work at a utility

P.S. Another big problem is systems control. It is very hard to predict how decentralized actors will work side by side. For example, you don't want to change the price of electricity by a cent and then have 10 MW of demand instantly come on across the state just because everyone's Nest price threshold was hit. There are many plausible sounding solutions to this problem (price fuzzing, delays, subpenny pricing), but they have difficult edge cases as well.
The marginal price may go up but 90+% of load is still being generated by non peaking power plants.
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As an American, I have no in-depth knowledge of UK law.

Which law mandated this? (I'm actually asking for chapter and verse of the lawbook).
Every time I try this, my scalp itches like crazy. I'm not sure if it is dead skin cells that I normally remove with shampoo, or the excess oils.
I don't think you can make enough rules to stop the wrong sort of people. I guess I would prefer amending the overall process to make it less interesting to even try to exploit (rather than enumerating and banning a bunch of different ways of collecting the reward).

Also, a 10 year ban is worth negative hundreds of thousands of dollars to the sort of person that is competent and understands the field they are working in. That's a pretty big disincentive, never mind that 'government job' already sort of has a negative association for lots of motivated people.
This might be even more information than you want to give but do you have any Asian ancestry? I too have minimal BO, to the point of frustration to my SO, and wonder if it is due to partial EA ancestry.

"East Asians have fewer such glands than Europeans and people of Sub-Saharan African descent, which decreases their susceptibility to body odor.[28][30] Individuals of Sub-Saharan African ancestry have the largest and most active apocrine glands.[31] Racial differences also exist in the cerumen glands: apocrine sweat glands which produce earwax.[3] East Asians have predominantly dry earwax, as opposed to sticky; the gene encoding for this is strongly linked to reduced body odor, whereas those with wet, sticky earwax (Europeans and Africans) are prone to more body odor.[32]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrine_sweat_gland
I've been trying to follow NBN Co since I first heard about it 2-3 years ago, but it's tough not being in AU. Thanks for giving me more to think about, and some more links to read.

It sounds like the NBN that was planned is not the NBN that you guys are getting, and that sucks.
Plus the dead skin cells & dirt. You can get much of that with a rough brush, but I find I can really never get all of it without the help of SOME kind of soap.
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I actually can't downvote you. And I wouldn't. Downvoting without responding is cowardly, or at least not conducive to the aim of a civilized discussion. Its the Hacker News equivalent to anonymous hate mail. They are like rumors, and lead to distrust and aversion to frank debate, everything we should try and avoid. If someone downvotes a comment that is ultimately upvoted, the downvotes should be reassessed against themselves or something. If Wikipedia had such a mechanism the whole community would break down. Its a bad feature.

School spending is not the only spending involved. A large cost, roughly equivalent to spending, of the family is that which is spent on providing a loving, supportive, positive, non-absent relationship within the family. This costs time away from work. This costs money cultivating relationships with intelligent people. This provides affluent children with more positive influences, positive role models, and less stress that lends to more focus on learning. They tend to invest more in their children, but its not to say that a wealthy family will invest as much as a poor family with more of a focus on education. The list goes on and on. Its not as if you need to be affluent to provide or invest in these things, its just more conducive.
I'm not gonna read this..

R is a bit faster? and so? If i was really concerned about performance i wouldn't use R in The first place.

R is relatively fast when it uses libraries written in c or fortran, like Python.
You can do arbitrary computations, but you only get the encrypted result. So you can't actually tell whether x == y unless you have the key.
Well, you are talking about over a million people in that area. I'd say that's a reasonable sample size. Also, not sure we know who their clientele are. We use doordash for the office, but I also use it at home. Because of their level of service it has also become a destination site, where I go to see what they offer first rather than choosing the restaurant I want first. I imagine I am not alone.
You should talk to https://twitter.com/pfinette he loves to help people like you!
I think your Google ads could be deemed wrongful. They are blended into the content with your social network thingies underneath. An ad is supposed to clearly be an ad. You are going against that in two ways and I don't think it serves you, Google, the advertisers, the social networking thingies or the random site visitor to do it like that.
I was a little surprised to see Gorilla get kicked out. My understanding is that among Go developers, stdlib net/http + the Gorilla toolkit was the de facto standard approach.

People are experimenting with new frameworks, e.g., beego, revel, martini, etc, but I don't think any of them are stable enough to meet your stringent criteria in that regard.

It seems to me (as an outsider looking in) that the Go community is relatively "anti-framework", instead preferring libraries, like Gorilla, for special oomph in routing or sessions or what have you.

I also think it's worth determining what you think the next decade's high level architecture will be: JSON api backends with fancy JS frontends, or more along the lines of standard Rails, Yii, etc? That will drastically change the type of web framework to choose.
Thanks for posting this again. I forgot to save this site the first time I came across it, and I couldn't find anything useful by searching for "ipv6 only VPS."
Nice try. But it was just an example of how groups protect themselves. Cops and Catholics are good people who protected a more corrupt version of themselves within their group. I compared Liberals with Cops and Catholics. Interesting seeing how you're trying to twist the meaning of my words.

Second, I'm not right-wing nor is "critisizing extremeist liberalism" right-wing propaganda. The real propaganda is you assuming "the other side is attacking" when someone constructively criticizes a group you belong to.

Third, "It cannot get extremely left-wing no matter what." you obviously know nothing about Reddit and Digg and what happened there. You are the perfect example of what I was talking about. Groups that protect the extremist sub groups within them. Denial, is almost always the first defensive method used to prevent discussion over what might be wrong with a group.
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This time I'm going to continue describing the core updates that the library has seen in the second major release.
It's a good idea if the money you're paid outweighs the discomfort you feel.

This is an attempt to find a consensual market solution to the problem of building expensive peaker plants that operate perhaps a day a year. The marginal cost of electricity generation capacity is astoundingly high.

Part of Nest's angle is that Nest can learn and detect whether you are home. This lets the thermostat save you money when you're not home - and this is the key - it does so without any thought or input or effort by the customer.
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> When managing a complex, JS-heavy application, it is infinitely more developer friendly to be able to look at an element and figure out what the lifecycle of that object might look like.

Except that what you see in your html is not your element. It's just a forced structure required by w3c (described with xml syntax) for some aspects of visual representation of your element.

Your element should be described in js where it can be fairly easily separated out to a single file, and where binding configuration (as well as other concerns such as communication with backend or other app components for example) might be in one place instead of being interspersed with html tags unrelated to that behavior. See how backbone does event binding in views to understand what I'm talking about.

> So yes, let's please reinvent HTML

HTML is not so much an invention as result of glacial (or w3c-ish in other words) process of semi-(mis)directed evolution.

I'm guessing you never had to implement a layout using tables and 1px transparent gifs. I encourage you to try. It might make you understand how rigid and misaligned with the goal HTML in its spirit is. It got some improvements over the years but there was nothing revolutionary in its development even for fairly mild definitions of "revolutionary". Flexbox might become one such mini-revolution when few generations of IE do world a favor and die already.

JavaScript is far from being perfect and you can make a horrible mess of it as well, but at least it's general purpose language that supports various mechanisms for abstracting and organizing things and fairly minimalist syntax (as compared to xml, html) for declaring/organizing things that got wide appreciation as JSON.
There are very valid arguments to be made about exclusionary practices. There are also a lot of people who bandy about "checking your privilege" and "cis scum" and whatnot, and hence make it very hard to take their (usually legitimate) grievances seriously.

I'm not trying to blame a group for her comment--I'm point out that the comment made her group (by her voluntary self-association) look bad.
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Chris Wanstrath was not hired by Yahoo before starting GitHub
https://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/cloud-providers/googl...

gce is one of the providers listed in the official docs, and I assume the CoreOS guys have had some interaction with gce people.
I generally refrain from the Balanced vs Stripe debates because I use and like them both, but this comment is unfair, so much so that if I didn't know any better, I'd guess it were from someone with an interest in Stripe.
For those who aren't sure of how to use this:

Install using homebrew cask, then once it's all gravy, start adding bindings (in your ~/.phoenix.js file). The example they've got on the github page will move the resize and move the active window 10 pixels.
Impressive. Does each restaurant have a DoorDash tablet, or do the orders get transmitted via phone/fax?
Wow this is awesome. I recently decided to go with Stripe, and this news is only adding on to the positive experience I've had so far. Great work Stripe team, keep it up!
The issue is that (as shown by Level3 [1]) the congestion isn't really at the intranet but within regional ISP networks. The regional ISPs (Comcast/TWC etc) realized that actually not spending money to augment their networks to accommodate for the traffic can be more profitable than actually providing a better service to their customers.

When the traffic on their network is congested, they can force companies like Netflix to actually run a fiber directly to their data center not only they can have Netflix pay for it (and therefore they don't have to pay anything to their uplink (such as Level3 and others), they also will receive money from these companies in order to not throttle their traffic.

And they can do all that only because they have regional monopoly, and users don't have anywhere else to go.

[1] http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-inte...
I like how images are written:

{{/path/to/img.png}} vs. Markdown's ![](/path/to/img.png)

List syntax is nice and reminds me of wiki syntax. I've always favored that style over Markdown's list syntax. Actually a lot of it reminds of wiki syntax. Tables also looks like a breeze to remember how to write.

I like this.
Is "extremely greasy and nasty looking" just a self evaluation or is it shared by others? It could be that it just violates your self image and because of that you are repelled by it.
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Almost certainly, considering 'you must “Use mobile application to upgrade device”)'.

Security through obscurity is pretty common in these types of devices, where they know they're insecure and don't want to get hamstrung by the press again. (And don't want to shell out for better programmers, of course...)
I appreciate the clarification of Jeff's position and rationale. The only point I was making is that the non-linking struck me as a reference to Jeff not linking to Shanley.
I will check these out. Thanks!
cus he still can't go home, or see his family, friends or anyone, and is in a precarious position with another super power and occasionally has to pawn along basically for his survival now. I doubt too many other people want to sacrifice their entire lives. He has shown us how it's down, and the price and I don't think anyone else wants to pay (and that's if they are lucky, there is still large risk it could go much worse)
And how much better off Danger would've been!
In the scenario I modeled, I was assuming around ~3% growth.

Rent control definitely favors renting in a lot of situations. If you were at the whim of your landlord, then I could see buying being more attractive, especially in a market where housing prices are going up.

The real kicker about owning a house is that housing prices never go up a nice steady 2% or 3% per year. They go up 5% one year, then down 5% the next. If you don't have control over when you sell (loss of a job, etc), that can really hammer you.
It's an interesting question. I think most people wouldn't have the combination of courage, access to sensitive info, and be able to uproot their life potentially forever.
Well, look at Seamless. It's quite possible to just have a business that focuses on these major metro areas.

That said, I'd still be dubious of a company that only operates in California. Markets like Chicago and NYC are quite different.
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CoreOS' most noteable feature is the fact that it is incredibly light weight and fosters a modular enviornment that (IMO) is less likely to be plagued by dependency hell related issues that you might tolerate from other distros' package management system (Not talking about you Portage, your still coooo).

CoreOS does this by utilizing Linux containers via Docker to easy–bake applications through individual containers of which are explictly isolated from eachother, aiding in the problem of static/dynamic shared libraries causing dependency issues.

Now you can of course utilize all of this on a distro like Debian, and even borrow the best of CoreOS like etcd (for one example).

TL;DR; CoreOS features awesome concepts and services like etcd, and fleet, and more that doesn't mean you cannot do the same with Debian, but it won't be native, and it would not be very light weight out-of-the-box compared to CoreOS.
Greenwald et al haven't finished their run yet, and have done a good job of keeping the story in the news. A second leaker probably wouldn't change the trajectory of the story right now. They may want to stay and see if things change. If real reforms happen, there's plenty of fun stuff to work on at NSA. If some programs are continued despite those reforms, then it's time to blow the whistle.

And if only bogus reforms happen, then they would be in a good position to leak Feinstein's phone calls from last week.
Did you watch the video linked right up at the top of the article?
Most of that $300 million was spent on salaries for employees.
I am actually working on this. It's going to be an awesome solution... wait and see :D
EDIT: Experience with Fab is based on December 2012 - March 2013.

When I sold through them as a vendor I remember Fab being extremely inefficient in nearly everything they did. I had to email a good 3-5 people to get anything done because nothing was automated. From shipments to payments to setting up the sale to uploading media and printing out orders and postage. Everything was done manually by emailing someone and yes there were mistakes.

I had to use excel, save the file they emailed, and email it back to them just to set up a proposal for a sale. Yes, Microsoft Excel. And they sent any type of instructions in PDF formats.

They also used some really expensive shipping options even though I had cheaper alternatives and was doing fulfillment myself. I had to manually sign up for a UPS account and get approved to have them charged and all sorts of nonsense. They also wanted me to set up a UPS pick up ($8) every day. With their margins I just don't understand how they made money. Apparently they weren't which is why things got bad.

And their marketing was just such a waste at times. They'd mail a 3 sided folded postcard on extremely thick paper with only 3 random items on it (that weren't even interesting) and their "Fab, Smile, you're designed to" logo. They did a terrible job advertising and it all lacked thoughtfulness.

Their in-house fulfillment team used custom boxes that were printed in all BLACK ink and on top of that had printing on the inside with their logos and catch phrase on the inside and out. I have never in my life seen shipping boxes that expensive used to ship an item.

EDIT: I'm not saying they weren't nice to work with, they were all extremely pleasant, just the system of doing things was very inefficient. Rather than emailing me so many different forms and PDF instructions they could have linked to them on the FAB control panel. It's the CEOs job of ensuring the systems a business uses are efficient and it seems that's what destroyed them. Wasting money.
"Ultimately, if your goal is to build a great company — and that is our goal — you have to figure out your sustainable customer value proposition (your product differentiation) and your business model. Growth without solving for the USP and equation of the business only gets you so far."

So the way to rally the troops is to spout a bunch of talking points from the VC pitch deck?

Source: http://www.thesups.com/news/its-a-fuing-startup-why-are-you-...
That sentence sounds bad in any context, don't try to weasel out of it.
My provider (Suddenlink) support rep responded to my question about IPv6 support with "No, we do not support it since almost no one uses it currently." S
Reasonably versed mobile dev ( iOS ). If you need some help/mentoring, give me a shout at "me at nicolasgoles.com"

I'm looking to learn interesting or advanced iOS (low level stuff, interesting UX concepts). Also interested in server side coding with Go.

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Better than just seeing Markdown/reStructuredText/AsciiDoc/Textile/... there. I'm designing a new markup language, too. Happy to draw inspiration from Skriv.

Not all markup languages are good for blogging, especially for different spoken languages. At least, both Markdown and reStructuredText are not very good for Chinese writings.
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The details are more complicated, but he/she might be talking about http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/229.pdf
The way I speak and the way I write are different. Avoiding slang like 'wanna' when writing is good.
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Your petty insult is matched only by your willful ignorance of and refusal to address the substance of my argument:

> I'm pretty sure a computer could be used to solve most International Mathematical Olympiad problems quicker and more reliably.

Case in point:

http://www.imo-official.org/problems/IMO2010SL.pdf

> A1. Determine all functions f : R -> R such that the equality f([x]y) = f(x)[f(y)] holds for all x,y in R. Here, by [x] we denote the greatest integer not exceeding x.

Can Mathematica or another computer program solve that? I am betting it can. And very quickly. And I also reject that such a problem is open ended.

The most that the Wikipedia article speaks on the topic related to the above mentioned partial quote is

> extensive knowledge of theorems

Which does not mention actually proving any theorems. Although I may misunderstand the difference between proving a theorem and proving a solution to a given problem.

I await your lack of substantive response.
But how well does RMS' model scale to our modern, global and interconnected society? Free software assumes the right to validate, and modify, source code - which is great if you can. Most users of free software, however, don't have the time or even the ability to do anything but blindly trust that someone else has it covered (and obviously, users of non-free software don't have a choice in the matter.)
For someone who lives in China I thought you would be more informed, anyway the house leases in China are 70 years, and also some big cities in China (Chongqing and Shanghai) have already started implementing property taxes.
Enough moves like this and nobody is going to want to work for this company. Enough moves like this and the CEO (Jason), a huge pre-madonna and drama queen, is going to have a tough time getting money from investors for his next "venture". Kudos for him for trying, but he certainly strikes me as a CEO I wouldn't want to work for.
Sounds like almost every SEO blog I've ever read.
that's a good point. other similar sites seem to all have a huge "ADVERTISEMENT" text above the ad. will look in to that.
I don't get this. How often do people order-in from places that don't deliver? Is this a Bay-area phenomenon? Or is this more of a replacement for the restaurant owner's teenager?
So this (with specialized lib, and fairly large unintuitive js code to set whole thing up):

<div id="foo" jsaction="leftNav.clickAction;
dblclick:leftNav.doubleClickAction">

is pretty much the same as this:

<div id="foo"
onclick="Actions.leftNav.clickAction()"
ondblclick="Actions.leftNav.doubleClickAction()">

without any abusing or manipulating of html and dom and with setup as simple and understandable as this:

window.Actions = {
leftNav: {
clickAction: function() {
myApp.LeftNav.doSomeSeriousStuff();
},
doubleClickAction: function() {
// very late loading of implementation
require("LeftNavActions", function(LeftNavActions) {
LeftNavActions.doSomeOtherSeriousStuff();
})
},
// if you want add handlers from other places
// with Actions.leftNav._anotherAction.push()
_anotherAction: [],
anotherAction: function() {
this._anotherAction.forEach(function(a) { a(); });
}

}
}

Actions is a good idea that I remember from Delphi 4. It is just one additional layer of indirection that enables you to attach same behavior for example to menu option and toolbar button.
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