skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine 1909-era battery technology might have been a stumbling block. Gasoline is incredibly energy-dense and while it's true that infrastructure to create it in the first place is huge, once gas is pumped into a car tank it is difficult to beat.
Is that true? My understanding is that so long as you clearly segregate GPL and non-GPL code by using wrapper classes and linking (rather than copypasta), the core application can remain non-GPL.
I keep wondering, do these trends apply even to places without walkability or public transportation?
More like Sony is trying to make the best of a bad situation by generating some free hype for a (probably shitty) movie.
John Oliver did a segment on just that a few months ago, it's worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0wKeokWUU
Sony has US businesses.
In America a vehicle is a way to display status. If you drive a "shitty" car, it is mostly likely because that is all you can afford.

I spent some time in Europe, and it seems they just do not see cars the same way (in general). Nobody is judged by the ugly car they drive.

In America, good luck showing up on your first date as a an adult in a 1997 Ford Escort. In Europe, at least in France, it just did not seem to be something they cared for.
North Korea denies it hacked Sony, demands joint inquiry with US
>They're afraid of the repercussions

There would be no repercussions for NK admitting that they did it.
It would appear to me, as a 25 year old college grad, that I and my peers are spending just about every dollar that we are able to make just to get by. That doesn't give us much opportunity to make purchases that require substantial down-payments in addition to financing, like vehicles and property.

Prices have inflated so dramatically since our parents' generation, on virtually everything, that saving up enough money to put 10-20% down on a major purchase, like a home, requires 5-10 years of savings. Then there is the job market uncertainty, where one cannot be assured that it will even be possible to remain employed in the same area more than a couple years down the road. Under such unstable conditions, tying oneself down into a home that it may not be possible to sell when circumstances dictate a change is a losing proposition.
That Verge article is perhaps what i was missing. Seems the threats were attached to a copy of previously unreleased emails from the Sony hack. Thus at least demonstrating that the threat is coming from someone that has access to the files from the hack.

Now if that is the same as the original hacker(s), never mind if they are actually attached to NK in any way, is another issue entirely.
Why doesn't 2600 defuse the threat by hacking the hackers? I realize this is just a publicity stunt for them but if they're serious about demonstrating that not all hackers are evil as they say then they could try to substantiate the other group's claim regarding Sony's data. It would be a pretty good stunt a-la Sneakers if they did.
Exactly, the speed of mobiles is limited to short bursts to preserve the battery. And sometimes even the worse code gets more CPU if it hits the right patterns.

The timings presented are also confusingly presented for my taste.
It sucks, but this is always the risk when developing on someone else's proprietary platform.
The first car to wear the name Porsche was an electric car in 1898: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner-Porsche

It also had 4 wheel drive with the motors in the wheel hubs. However it was also prohibitively expensive. (Roughly $94,930.99 in today's dollars)
Or for Saudi Arabia to bankrupt US fracking companies.
I don't think that's correct as it is most of the point of the LGPL. I think it's how QT was able to sell licenses to closed source software despite being GPL'd as well (dual license).
Agree with platz
The Baker Electric and the Model T had about the same price during their first year of production ($800ish). The Model T went down in price only with scale and manufacturing innovations during that time period.

However, a Model T is quite a bit more complex to manufacture than a Baker Electric. What you are thinking of is probably the reason for why IC cars won over steam cars.

Though the electric car existed it was never a contender for a mass adoption because of the same reasons why electric cars today aren't quite as good either, range and time to refuel.
You'd be better off reading some of Gwern's posts about Silk Road, as this NPR piece contains fundamental inaccuracies.

http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road
I can't help but think this is a classic bootleggers and baptists situation [0]. Traditional energy producers (gas, coal, etc) want to keep the price of solar energy high. Domestic and other nation's solar energy manufacturers want their competition's price to be high as well. Both groups win with high tariffs on Chinese solar panels. However, the average citizen loses.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
Not taking sides one way or the other but:

- CocoaSplit's licensing isn't anywhere BUT in the credits.rtf which is buried. It's not in any of the source headers, not in the README.md. If you aren't using the app part of CocoaSplit, you would never know it was there unless you grep'd. And who amongst us has grepped for a license?

- PeerTalk and GPUImage are permissive licenses that only require attribution

I don't see what the big deal is, to be honest.
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This statistical test for causation (X->Y) is based on the idea that X and Y each contain noise - noise present in X flows causally to Y but noise present in Y won't flow back to X.

But, even if true, it isn't clear that this makes for a good test. For example, it's plausible that Y could have a damping effect and remove noise, which would reverse the results of the test.

"They say the additive noise model is up to 80 per cent accurate in correctly determining cause-and-effect."
This has been exaggerated by Medium from "accuracies between 65% and 80%" in the original article.

But a coin-flip model should be 50% accurate. 65% accuracy is unconvincing. The journal article's conclusion admits that their results are not statistically significant in any sense. As such, the results do not even meet the weakest possible scientific standard. They couldn't reproduce earlier published results in this field (typical of publication bias).

Their final paragraph concludes that there is surely a method of doing this, but they just haven't found that method here.

In my opinion, the results do not support that conclusion.
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Usually, the litmus test is: Does the software work at all without the GPL'd parts? If not, it doesn't matter how segregated you think it is, because it's still dependent on that GPL'd code.
I am unable to copy and paste, but the article quotes a comment from reddit where someone pointed out that when someone included "I'm a male dog groomer" in their AMA, no one asked "Why does your gender matter?" So I think that is evidence that there is a double standard here.

As a woman who spends some time on HN, my experience is that, yeah, my gender is a problem here. Most men do not want to network with me. If I try to network, it seems to be interpreted as me hitting on them or threatening their relationship or something. Maybe I just do not know how to network. That's entirely possible. But I have done some of the same things that I have seen men here comment positively on that other men have done -- such as try to be emotionally supportive when someone is having a bad day -- and, coming from me, it is apparently interpreted completely differently. So far, Hacker News has essentially failed as a networking opportunity for me. I know for a fact other people have used it successfully that way. So I know it is not simply me wildly misunderstanding what the site is good for or something like that.

I am willing to consider the possibility that I am simply doing something wrong that compounds the problem. But I have had people try to tell me that my gender is not relevant to my failure in that regard and I am not buying it. I have been a member for more than 5 years. By now, I should have a few contacts from here, even after accounting for this, that and the other obstacle. But, I don't.
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On MacRumors [1], the developer responded in a thread and mentioned that its just him, no big team. So, perhaps he's just overwhelmed with customer queries?

That said, Duet works well on my 13" Early 2011 MBP and a iPad Mini Retina, normal resolution. Retina resolution bumps up the cpu utilization. Duet does not work so well with the same machine connected to an iPad 3, but still usable. Duet does NOT work with 10.10.2 BETA according to the MacRumors thread. Hoping for updates.

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2014/12/18/duet-display-ipad-tether...
I learned as I went. I actually do more than web dev: maps, web maps, data analysis, GIS, so the projects from month to month can be diverse and interesting. I always bite off more than I can chew and it works, otherwise you stagnate. In the early years I tried adwords and other forms of passive advertising to some success. What really works is making connections. I think people make a big thing out of word of mouth, but this is not a business plan, so don't count on that. Instead you do great work, have a solid/simple web portfolio of what you do/work examples/contact and be seen/heard as much as possible. Eventually you will come across a project or problem that you can provide a consistent solution/tool for. I think that is a great benefit of consulting - exposure to the world of real-world needs, not imaginary. Last point - don't sell yourself short; don't undercharge for your service. Have a good excuse/reason as to why you charge what you do: great work, great support, no tricks or gimmicks, etc. Your dream is a good one. I wish you well in 2015!
Most people in Gitmo were not captured by US forces on the battlefield (only 5% were captured by American forces) - the rest were captured by Afghan forces and handed over in return for money.

The intelligence that you get from someone being tortured is worthless - people say whatever you want to hear in oder to make the torture stop.

There is never a situation where there's some ticking bomb.

Finally, torture is prohibited under a wide number of international treaties. Even the US uses phrases like "Enhanced Interogation Techniques" because they accept that torture is wrong.
No need to invoke hidden conspiracies trying to fight clean energy when the public conspiracies are sufficient explanation. Public Choice Thoery[1] says that when a potential regulation provides great benefit to a small group of people and a small detriment to everyone else it will tend to be adopted. The Solar Energy Industries Association's members and employees will vote against the reelection of politicians who allow their livelihood to be destroyed but the vast majority of the millions of people who see their electric bills go up won't even know why and those who do probably have issues they consider more important to base their votes on. Of course maybe the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy will be able to convince enough people that they should care to influence policy but the odds are stacked against them. Especially since the default is that we protect every industry against "unfair competition" unless a special exception is made.

Maybe things will change under the next administration? You might remember Obama making a lot of noise about "green jobs" for Americans so a future Republican president might feel that American solar manufacturers are going to be against him no matter what and so remove the import barriers. But then again the people who care about lowering the barriers are also traditionally aligned against the Republicans so I'm not sure the politics works out.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice
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Looks interesting. This is something really matches my needs.
What?? Aren't we supposed to be committed to reducing carbon emissions? Why is the government forcing me to pay more to do the right thing for the environment? If someone is willing to give us solar panels for super cheap why are we upset?

Many of the Chinese solar manufacturers are again making a profit. I find evidence that people are intentionally making panels below cost to be dubious. There was a war for market share and a lot of companies like Suntech Power went bankrupt. Seems like the market is working.
Related: Does anyone know of an html / epub / mobi link to the original paper (I could find only the pdf)?
You should definitely check out Pixie: https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie
Have they done that?
> Is that true? My understanding is that so long as you clearly segregate GPL and non-GPL code by using wrapper classes and linking (rather than copypasta), the core application can remain non-GPL.

Sort of. If you license your main source code under, say, the MIT license, you can distribute that source code, and any object code compiled from it, under the terms of the MIT license.

However, once you distribute a binary containing that source code and some GPLed source code linked together, you have to distribute all that source code (including any other libraries) under GPL-compatible licenses, such that the user can compile and distribute the application themselves.

The LGPL allows you to keep your main source code closed-source while using an LGPLed shared library, so long as a user can replace the shared library with their own version.
Except that oil accounts for all of 1% of US electricity generation.

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3
Agreed. We must also consider what a pain in the ass it was to set up the toolchains and/or runtimes for several of the tested languages.

I'm willing to trade a little performance and do a little extra error checking if it means I can just do:

GOARCH=arm go build

and then copy the binary over.
Create and transport. Electricity can be moved at zero cost once the infrastructure is in place. If we could get 100 mile range from batteries back in 1909, I wonder how far we were from reaching today's standards.
> The Dread Pirate believed in total economic freedom, but in order to make his market work, he had to do some very bad things.

WTF. As if unsubstantiated, increasingly dubious allegations were actual established fact.

Read some quality reporting from Patrick Howell O'Neill instead: http://www.dailydot.com/authors/patrick-howell-oneill/
Too much NK bashing. Just because a state is recluse and has barely any relation with other states doesn't mean we can just speculate and blame them for everything without real proof.
You should allow people to try it before actually registering for the service. Your idea is different but I think that ppl will want to see the coolness and not the reg screen first.

If you take me through some cool experience I will be more inclined to actually give you my info details.
Although you've answered twice, you're still avoiding the question.

He asked you if you prefer war over script kiddies, and said he's disgusted that you seem to. I agree.

Do you or don't you prefer actual war (including torture, rape, cluster bombs, starvation, etc) over "cyber warfare" (including script kiddies, copyright violation, web site graffiti and defacement, leaked email and photos, cyber bullying, doxing, inappropriate use of apostrophes, etc)?
Here's a tool Google built called CausalImpact to go beyond correlation and get at cause and effect in time-series data.

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/09/causalimpact-n...

And their related research into using Bayesian structural time-series models to infer cause and effect.

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41854.html
Happy to chat about how we made this and what our stack is. We were able to get this out just in time for the holidays. A great way to capture the holidays collaboratively with your family
A few of the companies might get shaken out, the ones stuck with use-it-or-lose-it land rights, but the rest can shut in production easily enough and wait for prices to rise again. Drilling a well with fracking is really cheap and incredibly fast which makes the industry fairly resilient to changing prices.
Is the torque figure for the Doble Steamer correct? 1000 lb-ft is quite a bit more than the 687 in Tesla's top performance model. That car would fly like a rocket.
If it really was North Korea, why would they deny it? Doesn't an act of retaliation require the perpetrator to take credit in order for it to have any benefit to them? Or could it be that North Korea is publicly denying it with the understanding that everyone really knows it's them?
Ask HN: Well followed hardcore android users?
For a launch of my Android ONLY based app. I want to craft a list of 50 well followed hardcore android users.
Means people who are influencers and use android.
I think with science that can be a dangerous preference, because of the tendency of the general-interest articles to overstate (and/or incorrectly state) the results. This one is better than most, especially compared to the junk that comes out of university press offices. But it still somewhat oversells the result compared to the more modest claims of the paper. The paper's introduction and conclusion are pretty accessible, imo, and a better representation of the findings than the Medium blogpost is.
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Yes, it was an odd article that seemed to imply that "Gen Y" doesn't want new cars, rather than they simply can't afford the luxury of a new car.

The funny thing is that this is a tragedy for car makers; but for the rest of us, even Gen Y, is it really all that bad? Isn't this just a natural way of reducing consumerism, and reducing impact on the planet? What if this article was lamenting a drop in fast food consumption by Gen Y, would that be tragic to anyone other than fast food companies?
So when Pakistanis and other folks from the region burn US flags, THAT'S ok, but burning a Koran isn't? They're almost one and the same. I can't be responsible for the actions of others based on their own irrational and disproportionate response to a book burning. If burning a Koran is "yelling fire" territory, then that reveals more about the offended rather than serving as a condemnation of the offender. A rational response to someone yelling fire is for people to run and take appropriate life-preserving action because of the thought that there is imminent danger. Burning someone's book (or flag) is an expression of an idea, not a call to any particular, expected rational action. Of course if burning a Koran is the same as yelling fire, then that offended community is the problem, not the person committing the act. If you burn a bible, I have yet the hear of Christians partaking in retaliatory bombings, maybe in the 12th century, but not now. Funny because if we accept the official U.S. government premise that Benghazi was the result of a YouTube video, then, in my opinion the whole lot of that subset of the Religion of Peace are beyond redemption and should be marginalized savages.

As far as hate speech, in the U.S. hate speech is legal -- as it should be. Being able to express ideas, no matter how repugnant, is the very foundation of the United States. Besides, who determines hate speech? If I say white people are less intelligent than Asians-- is that hate, or my own (distorted) view of the world? It's a very slippery slope to start classifying ideas and banning ideas based in some social norm or the moment.
Why is this Fishy? I suspect the author didn't feel comfortable dealing with this controversial topic on his main account so he made a throwaway.
Reasons for pretending that North Korea did it rather than a disgruntled ex-employee:

Sony executives:

* Sony gets tons of free publicity for its new movie.

* It diverts attention away from those emails that were starting to make certain Sony execs look really bad.

* They don't look quite so hopeless and incompetent if they're getting hacked by a nation state.

FBI/CIA/NSA/DOD:

* It's something that can be used to deflect heavy criticism of their all-pervasive surveillance.

* It's something they can use to wangle more money - to face the exciting new "cyberwar" threat.

Reasons for North Korea denying involvement if they actually did it:

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Great, everyone's gone apeshit insane w/ false flag ops just to bury the senate report on CIA torture.
Many others were able to send pull requests. What's you're issue?
Ed,
I might just steal your robotic bug eating idea. Here in South FL. bugs are a major problem compared to where I grew up in the midwest.
It's not as simple as "if they ask" - if you choose not to distribute the source code with the binary or provide it for download, you must explicitly provide a written offer valid for 3 years for the source code.
Sony is the epitome of why we should not equate money with technological security. Additionally, the methods used to gain access to their systems necessitated little if any capital expenditure on the part of the attackers. Granted, that is not to say that no capital was expended, but simply that little expenditure was necessitated by the alleged methods.
Well, at least some of us haven't forgotten it. Not yet.
Some background: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140624-fluid-tests-hint-at-...
It seems strange the the author implies us to do some searching through the findings, but really, he has already given away most of what you can find...

EDIT: where did I imply that this is about SONY? Have any of you who commented back on this, have actually checked the actual findings? They're yearly dated records, it seems very hard to believe that he only observed them prior to writing his piece.

P.S. - I do think it's a very good technical report, though I don't recall saying it's not.
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Death of a President and Vantage Point come to mind. There're many many films that talk about killing the president of the US of A, some using real presidents and in at least one case already mentioned, while that president was in office. You can find it tactless, and I this case painfully unfunny, but that should never stop anyone from doing anything. Specially bit a film. Otherwise there're large swaths of our public libraries that would have to be burned.
It wouldn't be entirely outside of North Korea's MO to deny the attack even if they launched it. For example, after (very probably) being the actor behind the sinking of the Cheonan they aggressively denied being involved.
https://github.com/rsms/peertalk/commit/5973b1722d3330340c08...

PeerTalk's README was just updated with a note about DuetDisplay.