skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very narrow way of looking at the problem. It isn't as simple as that.

Our electric infrastructure is sized for the peak load. All the power plants, the transmission lines, the substations, the transformers, etc. To the extent that renewable energy can displace peak load, it does reduce the need to upgrade the grid.

Thus, a west-facing solar panel can be good for the grid. Because peak load is usually at sunset, the solar panel feeds power into the grid just when it needs it. (A south-facing solar panel maxes out at solar noon, so it doesn't coincide with peak load.)

However, this only works if the power source can be counted on absolutely reliably, each day, every day. What if it sometimes rains at sunset?

Then all the infrastructure still needs to be sized for the peak load anyway, as though the solar generation didn't exist. But when the sun shines, all that investment is just sitting there doing nothing, not earning any money. You have the same capital costs, but you're now amortizing it over fewer kilowatt-hours.

At least solar panels produce next to no power at night, during baseload. Wind doesn't have this nice property.
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We can carpool. Please post if you are have ride available. Thx
Thanks, I've let the webmaster know.
That's not what he's saying. To put wmeredith's point another way:

The government and the people aren't governed by the exact same laws. The government can tax people, while you can't, for instance. He isn't saying that what's happening isn't wrong or horrible, he's just saying that "I can't do it so the government can't either" is not a valid argument, because there are TONS of things the government can do that you can't. What they did is wrong, but a3n's standard isn't one that's applicable here.

I hope that made sense.
the player is relatively small piece of JS code and most of the time there is only one developer working on it. on the other hand the editor is quite large application and the team is 9 developers. developing this kind of app in Java with the help of excellent java tools is just much easier and maintainable than in JS.
Not the case. For chip-and-PIN cards, the entire part of the card containing the chip needs to be inserted into a reader, as in this example: https://i.imgur.com/0nn5lpo.jpg
> “There are only three jobs a Chinese immigrant can get without papers,” a woman from Beijing told me. “You can work at a massage parlor, you can work doing nails, or you can work in a restaurant.”

Curiously, Chinese laundries are not mentioned, and are ubiquitous here in NYC. I wonder it the omission is a mistake, or if there's some reason laundries don't fit in this list.
I think it was FrameMaker, on an SGI Indigo. It was the most amazing example of "progressive disclosure" that I've ever seen. It was amazing how easy it was to find what you wanted, and yet how uncluttered it was.
I like your site's design but you mention you didn't hire a designer. Is that a theme I can purchase (boostrap? wp?)

What separates you from myriad other staffing agencies? Is it backend tech to reduce overhead? I know you have a great welcoming design etc but could you expand on new tech or other innovations you've made to beat out the "dinosaurs"?
2014 West African Ebola Outbreak
Fwiw, they don't actually think this.
Aren't you forgetting about the keel/center board? The keel only produces lift when in motion, thus it is very important, as you can only start sailing upwind once you have a bit of speed. It's not the projection of sail force in direction of the boat that causes forward motion, but the addition of sail and keel forces.
25x (or 4%) is widely accepted as a safe withdrawal rate for retirement assets. It leaves enough that your investments can still grow over the long term to keep pace with inflation. If your investments have been doing better than that in the short term then bully for you. I wouldn't count on it in the long term however.
> You can't break into my house from another country.

An attacker could certainly pay someone to break into your house from another country in much the same way as they pay their ISP to deliver malicious packets to your computer.

> Moreover, my computer is also a physical thing in my house, so it cannot easily be more secure than the house itself.

That isn't strictly true. If your device has full disk encryption using a strong password, physical access doesn't get you much in the way of accessing the data.

It's easy to confuse this with the explanation of why DRM can't work, but they aren't the same thing. To access data you need either the plaintext, or the ciphertext and the key. DRM fails because you need one or the other in order to watch the content, which means an attacker inherently has in his possession what is necessary to get the data. But a locked or turned off device with disk encryption only gives the attacker the ciphertext without the key, which is an entirely different situation.

> The patching of possible security breaches has become a weekly ritual.

That's kind of my point. Nobody recalls your car windows when they're discovered to be vulnerable to the "blunt force with heavy object" attack.

> And there are hundreds of thousands of unpatched compromised computers sloshing around in botnets.

Hundreds of thousands out of billions is what, 0.01%?
Savings are useless now because interest rates are low. Investment is the key, real estate investment is one type of investment, which carries both high risk and high reward potential. There are many other investment vehicles available, and most people should pursue a diversified portfolio of investments.
Ask HN: Would you leave a well paid job to start a PhD?
Hello,

Imagine that you have a well paid job (that you like) and a stablished carrer with potential to evolve and suddenly an opportunity to enter on a PhD program (in a field of study that you have interest) with grant support arise.

Would you leave your job to follow the PhD?

Imagine that at least 4 to 6 years will be needed to complete the PhD and during this time, the only money that you´ll be able to get will be from your PhD grant.

What are your opinions about?
4% interest is about what one can reliably get through all scenarios. Sure, a hot stock may give you 20% this year; but it could also give -20% next. No one wants to take that much risk.
Probably about six months.
Even more fascinating. Thanks for the correction and link.
why not just use a big metal case then? That way when you want to go super-light, you can.
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It is. It's easy to see there are ways that cards and terminals can be set up badly. It also looks like there are ways that both ends can be set up correctly to get around most of the problems.

And cloning is still almost impossible. The largest risk appears to be copying card details which allows the fraudster to use cards online or in countries that don't yet have Chip and PIN. Personally I would like to see separate account numbers and details on the Chip compared to the main card number - i.e. you could copy some of the chip details but this wouldn't actually let you get anywhere because the number would immediately be flagged if it was found anywhere else. You'd then have another card number (maybe the one actually printed on the card) that you could use online.

Or perhaps we could just scrap the whole card thing for non-physical use...

(And I'm saying this as a guy who makes some of his money at this game)
took me quite a while to work out how to tack, with controls being so different to an actual sailing boat (mast pivot at centre rather than leading edge, and spinning the whole boat rather than the blue thing being the rudder.)

However, I did manage to get a small resultant to the left, so woot! :)
"proceeds to live on a boat"

This fits you perfectly ;)

Actually, I've been designing my own small cabin[1]; nothing fancy, solar panels, a decent cooker, pellet stove heat etc... And it occurred to me that the thing would fit perfectly atop an old steel work barge. I never thought about living in a houseboat, but considering how little I'd have to spend for land use, it seems like a good idea.

I just need a bit of extra space for supplies and I'm good to go already.

[1] http://eksith.wordpress.com/2014/08/02/cabin-progress/
First, realizing that your reactions (usually an expression of anger) are resulting from stress and not from the behaviour of the other person.

Second, inserting a pause between your immediate reaction and your response allowing yourself time to moderate and change it.

Finally, recognizing that your reaction is an indicator of stress and then doing whatever it is that makes you less stressed. Exercise, vacation, reading, etc.
As a student (albeit a CS major), I immediately signed up and will be using many of these services. My friends and I have been looking at creating an app and these will def get us started for no money which is huge for us (especially the domain name, hosting services, and private repos).

While I don't feel overwhelmed by all the services, there are some of these I couldn't see how we would immediately use such as data analytics.

I just wish HipChat was on there too :)
Outside of the tech field everything but a .com is viewed negatively.

When I worked for clients they used to really push hard for a .com. They'd rather have a 25 character .com than use anything else. My guess is that they only trust .com.
Both my parents have had strokes and this is definitely on my mind a lot these days. My mom when she was in her 50's, my dad early 60's. My mom made a near total recovery, fairly incredible given the state she was in at one point.
I feel like a major problem is that companies blame security researchers when their stock price inevitably takes a fall after a major breach. When you start messing with big money, the Feds come calling.
They may just be buying them:

http://peopleinfofind.com/find-social-security-number/

(and I'm sure others, that's just the first I quickly found)

I have no idea how reasonable their verification of purchasers is.
>If this story were about something else, it would be about something else.

Wow. Can't say that I thought of that.
Could you ask for either public or private scope?
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I think r/w access is due to a limitation in the permissions from Github. Hopefully they will make this more fine-grained soon.

https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201824286-Why-do...
your hunch is correct. as engineers we're attached to .io ourselves, but outside the developer community .io invites confusion -- as we grow, .com is simpler.

we spent 10.5k :)
This is a good wake-up call for all those "companies shouldn't have the same first amendment rights as people" folks out there.
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If an adversary has physical access to a computer, they can get basically anything. In unencrypted scenarios they can pull out drives and mount them in their own run time (OS). If the device is also running then coldboot attacks can allow the encryption to be attacked.

Finally, there is the eventual cracking of many encryption algorithms via cryptanalysis and moores law.

[1]: Answer about moore's law effects on bits of security http://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/1828
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
Congratulations on the success. Nothing in business makes me as happy as folks telling me that what I wrote/did/etc helped them out.

Though I don't know if I'd describe my lifestyle as "never having to actually work another day in my life." It feels less like work some days and more like work others. For example, it is 1:30 AM and while I could be snug in my bed I am instead clearing out the AR support inbox. (Poor planning earlier today, but still.)
My understanding is that his goal is to show consumerism is overblown. He does so by taking it to extremes. You need one for such causes (like stallman who takes a completely overblown stance by not using anything non-free). And not that his way of life is what everyone should follow.
The whole 'immigrants coming here to freeload' thing is a ruse capitalizing on fear of the other in order to gain political power. If the immigrants would stop their work collectively and move back to their countries of origin the bottom would drop out of the economy within 90 days.
What exactly am I going to learn in a PhD that I haven't already learned in industry, or that I couldn't learn in industry? Especially if it's a PhD in an applied sciences field?

If I just want to do research, I can do that anywhere. If I just want to talk to leaders in my field, that's what email is for. If I just want to deal with soul-crushing bureaucracy and depressed co-workers, I can get paid better for it elsewhere.

I might still consider it, but honestly I've found that doing teaching gigs on the side and pursuing my own research with friends in academia works just as well for my needs.
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I don't think Stallmans stance is all that overblown. And his would definitely scale.
The flaw is in the same vein but not as widely exposed to exploitation. It requires human intervention of sorts to browse to an insecure script. Most interesting detail is that Microsoft is sticking by their design and recommending scripts be altered by the authors. This trick will hang around for a while.
First, NYC is also kind of a clusterfuck; rents there are terrible. But while NYC needs to continue building more, it at least has the excuse that it's built up a lot already, and its mayor is actively encouraging more development.

People don't cram into arbitrarily small spaces, so one thing to remember is the cause and effect: way more than 840K people want to live in SF proper, but there's no room. So 376K housing units effectively sets the population cap. But because a larger pool of people want to live there, the prices all go up. Rent control fixes that for incumbent residents but worsens the problem for everyone else. The only way to alleviate that is to create more houses so that a larger percentage of the people who want to live there actually can.
It depends on just how interested I am in the research topic, I think, relative to the work I would be doing otherwise.
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I didnt disagree with you.
And also you are right about the fact that we need to better communicate our policy regarding upvote requests.

So far we have had the upper hand with ranking adjustment. But the fact that you believe it's mainly gamed - shows that we have to do a lot of work in improving our communication.
Why a linked list always come between me and a great job offer
Recently I interviewed at a big company in bay area and everything went well except I can't FINISH (but explain the approach and half coding done) coding a version of reverse a linked list in 20 minutes. I am coding in java for last 4+ years. Why all of my great work experience and coding and design skills + good performance in other 4.5 interviews are escaped by a single linked list question?? Is this the trend in all over bay area technology companies????
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There's a vast difference between being harassed by, say, people who are mentally barely able to care for themselves and being harassed by the guy who lives next door.

Perhaps in terms of how that harassment should be dealt with, but not really in terms of how it affects the harassed.
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I am always reminded of Branson being asked about how to become a millionaire to which he replied "You start as a billionaire and then buy an airline"

I think Theils point was that even those airlines that do survive makes no profit.
This is isomorphic to "Would you leave a well-paid job to start a career as a ballet dancer?" To which my answer depends: a) am I already rich? and b) do I really, really want to become a ballet dancer? If I am not already rich and I do not want to be a ballet dancer like I want to breathe, that would be a really poor decision.

Most particularly, if I like watching ballet and would be happy to see more of ballet in the world but I have a foggy idea of what ballet dancing professionally looks like outside of public performances, I would think that I'm probably overly romanticizing the ballet dancing option and, at the very minimum, speak to three practicing ballet dancers to get their opinion on the career prior to investigating it further. I would make special effort not to speak to ballet dancers who achieve the level of success which allows them to attempt to hire me to join their dance company. Those might be comparatively few in number but disproportionately happy with the career path, since after all they get to have beautiful young people prancing about all day on their whim and don't need to pay anyone anything to make it happen.
Will the physical card have a number embossed on it, similar to other cards? Or can the physical card number be changed in some way (e.g. Plastc's demo supposedly leveraging e-ink display on the card[1])?

Also, does Final aim to become a credit card payments processor similar to Visa, Mastercard, et. al., or will you be leveraging a banking/credit institution in the backend to start with?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8422928
For those of you stating you'd like something a bit more realistic, try:

http://www.thepirateking.com/ships/sail_simulator.htm

@imakesnowflake, great work btw.
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> Then I'm not sure what you mean. That you don't like standard representational democracy, whereby voters grant power to politicians for a limited timeframe but cannot control directly what they do during this time?

I'm going to focus on this one. Most european so-called democracies lack representation of the elector, and we can thank the proportional list system for this.

This lack of representation, in combination with the imperative mandate to the party instead of to the electors in Spain causes that we have, lets say, 150 legislators from party X, 75 from party Y, and 30 from party Z. The leader of the X party is going to be PM, which means it's going to execute the law. Law that he is going to decide(his legislators that he did put on the list).

In the spanish system we can get rid of the
Parliament and the system wouldn't be affected, I'll prove it to you.

When the leader of party X votes Yes to one proposal, all of the X representatives vote always in the same direction. The same happens with the opposition. What this means is that we can get rid of all the legislators apart from the leader of X, Y and Z. The vote of X leader would value 150, vote of leader Y 75 and so on, and both us and the system wouldn't notice.

We don't need almost 500 representatives of their respectives leaders because their leaders are already present. There is no need to represent someone who is present, right?
If you're ahead of the market for a short time then that's great but it usually means you just simply haven't been running your program long enough to average out the ups and downs. The guy running mr Moneymustache is pretty savvy and has already weathered a couple of fairly bad storms in his personal finances without losing too much speed.

If you're consistently earning on the order of 10% after inflation then you're doing spectacularly well, way better than the 5% that most people assume.

This means you're investing either in a high risk high return asset classes or you have an error in your math somewhere, in that case better be careful!
But New Relic isn't necessarily designed to be a tool to save you hosting $ (although I suppose it could). What about as a tool to save engineering hours, and increase conversion rates by reducing error rates and improving performance? Maybe the "worth it" changes then -- especially when you consider that we have a Lite product that's absolutely free for unlimited apps, servers, and request volume -- just limited to 24 hour data retention and missing some of our more advanced/in-depth features.

I work for New Relic, obviously :)
You spend a total of 500 dollars a month and you don't live somewhere cheap?
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A statement from the WHO, which I don't have a lot of respect for, but unlike the US CDC, I haven't yet caught them lying about Ebola (as opposed to arguably necessary optimism, they're not about to state they've written West Africa off, at least at this stage). Most of it is correct from my knowledge of things, and the statements about saliva, tears and sweat sound plausible:

http://who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/06-october-2014/en/
Algebraic effects system.
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I've heard the rule of thumb is that a withdrawal rate of 4% is as likely as not to last 30 years, and a withdrawal rate of 3% is likely to last longer than a lifetime.
I actually tried it on Docker 1.2.0 with the ubuntu:14.04 image.

/sys is already mounted and it is read-only, and it cannot be mounted manually:

root@07ba8c752195:/# mkdir sys2
root@07ba8c752195:/# mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys2
mount: block device sysfs is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: cannot mount block device sysfs read-only
That is a fabulous deal. Whomever handled that negotiation/purchase deserves some donuts.
Why does SSA.gov need a bunch of personal information, then ask how much you made last year and base its estimate entirely on that single number?
Having panned Plastc yesterday, this is like night and day - where Plastc is trying to solve "I have too many credit cards in my wallet" with an overdose of technology, Final is solving an actual real problem (credit card fraud) with an intelligent use of technology.

In fact, I don't even want a physical card (chip and pin will make that difficult anyway), I just want an online service that will generate a new credit card number for me on demand.

The budget tracking etc. is nice (and I understand why you want to add it for customer engagement and blah) but I'd love a totally stripped down service that gives me card numbers and pings me when they're used - and I would happily pay for it.
Thanks for sharing the cost.
Its not completely unreasonable to break the law to protest it when you find it unreasonable. On the other hand, you need to understand that, in doing so, you may be fined or do jail time for your actions.
"Unpermitted" wiring doesn't mean that it is unsafe, wrong, or even illegal. And unless you're remodeling, lead paint is just a scare story.

I agree that when commercial activity takes place, inspections are necessary so that people don't have their implicit expectations violated. But your comment demonstrates a big problem with how this ends up being implemented - people cut wide swaths through subjects they know little about (driven by fear of the unknown), leaving mandatory onerous regulations in their wake. And obviously once the regulatory bodies obtain power, they will work to expand their scope like any organism.

Take for instance the recent addition of mandatory AFCIs in the NEC. Yes, modern circuit breakers are now running unauditable and unupgradeable software! In addition, the prohibitive cost of these devices actually causes fewer circuits to be built out in new construction. The simpler solution would have been to stop running plastic-covered wires through wood-framed structures, but presumably the AFCI patent holders lobbied for such circuits not being exempt.

(Don't get me started on California title 24, user-hostile shutoff timers, and sickly GU24)
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