skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So long as cars are uniquely identifiable, car movements can be tracked.

Cars will never be allowed to not be uniquely identifiable, for hopefully-obvious reasons that have nothing to do with Big Brother.
Gmail gets encrypted, let's you tack and recall sent emails
Have you looked at Xenforo? I find it fine.
It's not practical to turn on and off any steam based power plant.

Coal and nuclear fuel are simply used to boil water. The steam created in both plants is then passed through a steam turbine, which turns a generator. The turbine is finely tuned to a specific set of steam characteristics. These are generally related to temperature and pressure. The process of getting the steam loop up to the right temperature and pressure takes a significant amount of time and energy. Once it is at steady state, it is very efficient.

Natural gas turbines work differently. There is no steam. The natural gas is burnt directly in the turbine, much like a jet engine. Thus you can throttle it just like an airplane. There is some lag, but it is relatively responsive.
Poor people are often subject to fuel poverty, especially in regions with cold winters. This is established fact, and it's shocking in a world where power can be abundantly generated and distributed that poor people suffer and even die as a result.

The cash payments for Teslas are just wrong. Subsidising the purchase of wealthy peoples cars using taxpayer money is indefensible IMO.

If I change the vehicle from a Tesla to a turbo diesel BmW SUV, is it still ethical? The X5 has lower emissions as well.
> This will show the current ad at the time of the page view, not the ad at the time the article was written.

Which is awesome. When I thumb through old BYTE magazines they have ads for companies that don't even exist any more. :-)
This is incredibly on point.
Yeah but sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), which McGee is baking up in his oven, isn't as dangerous to use and have around as sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is.
Elon Musk stars on the Simpsons
I'd love the processes to be reformed. But the fact remains that the law has no way to know your reasons for firing or not hiring someone as long as you tell them something vaguely plausible. You'd have to be an idiot.
At least with Solar City, installation and 30 years of maintenance are included in the cost of the system.
So I've actually taken a look and tried to read through Durandal's docs -- I haven't actually used it in a project though (or even kicked the tires on it in a TODO app or something)...

I found the docs really hard to follow, and they seemed really complicated (and I didn't think it should have been)... It is entirely possible (and even likely) that I didn't put in much effort. But knockout (and tools like it) hit such a sweet spot for me because they are (almost) dead-simple.
To further your point, it wasn't clear (maybe still isn't) which of solar concentrated and PV was going to be more cost efficient. It's not clear which of wind and PV is more cost efficient. These things change year by year as R&D happens. Why should we re-legislate subsidies every 12 months?
True, which is why, according to the New York Times,
Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, and Priorities USA Action Super PAC raised $80 million more than Mitt Romney, the Republican Party, and Restore Our Future Super PAC(1). Though they also claim that Romney and his peeps spent about $7 million more.

[edit] (1) http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance
The California Solar Initiative is still active and while Pacific Gas & Electric has exhausted its rebate funds, other utilities have not:

http://www.cleanenergyauthority.com/solar-rebates-and-incent...

There are plenty of other incentives and subsidies as well (http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/solar) including writing off equipment costs against property taxes (http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm).

The significant thing that is making solar installations attractive to consumers currently are the many zero down options including leasing and lease to own on a lien against your house.

It's growing! I'm personally working on sales software to reduce customer acquisition cost. The bottleneck in the future is going to be order fulfillment.

edit: formatting, new here..didn't know anchor tags are disallowed
SOLID Architecture and the Repository Pattern
Is anyone else having cognitive dissonance with the % of ingredients in so-many-grams of water?

Does 1% baking soda and 0.5% salt in 2000 grams of water mean 20 grams of baking soda and 10 grams of salt?
Glad to hear! It really weighs on me that I'd be adding yet another web framework to the already-too-large pool of them, but if it gets done at all, I will definitely be aiming for simplicity and lack-of-surprises above all.

Right now I see the MV* web framework landscape (from lightest to heaviest) as:

knockout---mithril------angular-----backbone+marionette-----ember

I'm aiming for chainmail to fit inbetween knockout and mithril (I consider it less than mithril because it will not include a JS-based dom structure, and will be using templating from knockout.
It's kind of remarkable how little we know about the most basic functions of our bodies.

It's also interesting how much stigma there is attached to a disorder like this, because of how it presents. Obviously, if a person can't wake up, they're lazy or malingering, or their diet is off, or something. As much as anything, the social aspects around the disease make the identification and treatment very difficult.
What made me abandon all hope was when Glenn Greenwald, presumably an expert journalist when it comes to surveillance, said he was reluctant at first to install a cryptography software to communicate with Snowden.
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex:

http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
As you're no doubt aware, "tax" is a dirty word in the current U.S. political climate, certainly much more so than "subsidy". I suspect that goes a long way towards explaining why we have a number of different subsidies related to renewable energy but not a single carbon tax.
I'm married into a South Korean family, and from my observation Korean society has less intense version of Japan's social collective mood (IIR it's written as '情' in both countries)

It's really difficult to read about this kind of thing and maintain an appropriate feeling of cultural relativism without wanting go "oh Japan" or in my case "oh Korea". There's been many times with my family and friends a seemingly intractable situation will come up that a Westerner would simply resolve with a bit of a Western Rock'n'Roll "well fuck 'em" attitude and get on with life. As a Westerner, I find it incredibly frustrating at times. But obviously it's more complicated then that and when I try to see things through my family and friend's cultural lens it all makes a kind of sense.

On the flip side, I think lots of Western behavior is explained by an insatiable desire for group membership -- despite social expectations of individuality (especially for Americans).

People do all kinds of weird behaviors, bizarre clique joinerisms like wearing crazy fashions, or obsess over the moment they turn old enough to join the Marines or take on group-specific behavior patterns, and just like with 情 this mood and desire seems indescribable to them (I don't know of any satisfactory word in English for it). But you can go to any public place and look at groups of people who all dress, act and try to be as "the same" as possible as their clique-mates.

And then you end up with the strangest of all joiner group identities, the ones made up of "individuals" who strive obsessively to be "individuals" just exactly like all the rest of their clique-mates. Hipsterism seems to be a particularly well known variant of this, but there are others.

I suspect a similar psychological mechanism is at play, but just on opposite ends of the spectrum.
I don't want to be a dick, but have you actually had a real sword fight? Have you pierced someone's armor and make him bleed? Of course you haven't.

The Mountain is a fictitious character from the popular TV series Game of Thrones. He uses a huge sword that you wouldn't be able to stop the same way you stop your fake swords brandished by girls. And I only dared to use him as an example because all of this is basically just that: a game, a fantasy.

If I had to pick a guardian, I would choose a newbie sword man from the middle ages over your instructor (who has never had a real fight) any day.

If you think Kendo is real, see what the guys from Iaido have to say about them: When they pick a real sword, they simply can't handle the weight, and the ones that can don't know how to actually cut stuff, because all they have learned is to win points in a game similar to tag.
How do you do that if they're embedded in the rubber material?
There's a reason we say that the current American population has an obesity epidemic...
To put it even more bluntly, automatic license plate scanning doesn't really seem to have been bad for anybody, aside from people on the lam.

Though I am open to examples to the contrary.
Attorney General Holder Announces Charges Against Russian Spy Ring in NYC
Can we please stop acting like the USA is somehow a "good guy" anymore? We have to realize that the authoritarian demons have the battering ram at the door and I really don't want to find out what happens when the USA turns into an authoritarian militaristic regime. We're way more than half way there already and people support it. Our very own government is a threat to us all, or at least those who will find themselves on the wrong site of the inner circle.
It's pretty well documented that over the counter pain killers such as acetaminophen, aspirin, and ibuprofen can have long term negative consequences with long term use. Allergy meds appear to be joining this group. In many cases the threshold for harm is fairly low in terms of lifetime cumulative dose. In some cases there are long-term benefits to these drugs(aspirin for instance) but there are definitely downsides. That isn't to say that pursuing alternative treatments to colds and allergies makes sense.
Thx...thats correct.
Also relevant, and by the same author: http://www.slideshare.net/grugq/opsec-for-hackers
This error message in the console looks like it indicates the problem:
TypeError: Not enough arguments to mozRTCPeerConnection.setLocalDescription. webrtc-ips:72:20

According to the docs, the error callback is not optional.
relavent music? https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/child-psychology/id6959497...
The Power Trip (2010)
> Externalities don't invalidate the entire theory, they just mean that adjustments have to be made in the cases where there are externalities.

Are your adjustments the epicycles upon epicycles hammered onto ancient astronomy's theory of mechanics to make the orbits of the planets appear to work? Or are they like the relatively slight adjustments to Newton brought about by Einstein?

I personally feel that any discussion of sociological issues cannot be reduced simply to linear optimization problems, which implies the former view for me.
I would like it if that were a tenable position, but it's really not IMO. There's too much cross-site tracking, and most importantly, too much malware distributed as advertising.
This was practically my brother and me for a couple years. Eventually it got labelled "chronic fatigue" (one of the biggest umbrella terms ever). I have no idea if it's at all the same thing, but I can absolutely attest to fighting the same stigmas.

We went through a couple doctors who were convinced we were faking everything because the standard (and plenty of non-standard) tests didn't show anything they learned in school. We had fights with the school system (eventually switching to homeschooling (which is far from stigma-free itself)). There was plenty of family stress, as you can imagine. It's infuriating and depressing and ludicrously hard to find anyone who's willing to work with you.

At least we have the internet now, so the crazies can find each other. Obviously a double-edged sword, but otherwise things like this never get noticed.
If you are stating that current poverty should be made worse so that the currently ineffectual emissions reductions through the use of solar panels might benefit their grandchildren by changing the arrival date of spring by one day, then that's a completely bankrupt argument.

'Very slightly higher electricity rates', 'fair share of contribution to solution of climate change'

The fact is, household solar panels has - rounded off to the nearest whole number - 0% changed the amount of co2 emitted in countries like the United States. This is because there has been no change in gas or coal power generation as a result of solar panels. The entire contribution of solar is still less than 1%.

Meanwhile the UK government started collecting statistics on fuel poverty and some areas had 15% fuel poverty - mainly in unemployed households in rented accommodation. This number has doubled since 2005, when 'fight global warming' policies by interfering in the energy market became popular and energy prices have doubled or more.

It's incomprehensible to me that anyone can say 'pay more, suckers, I got mine!' when we are talking about energy for people to keep their homes habitable. And all this for an ineffective response to a far-off problem.

I cannot fathom the popularity of such thinking, when the same people, if presented with any other taxation or cost increase on poor people to subsidise consumption of rich people - would say that it is unthinkable.

It takes 'suffer in silence, it's for your own good' thinking too far.
nice work! I'm liking the naming of the colors :)

I'm slowly building something similar in my spare time. It's a multi-color search engine for street wear (and perhaps other stuff)

http://www.inthatstyle.com/
This is cute, but it's also just a bunch of noise. Makes a lot of speculative claims without proof or citation. Reads like an overly verbose front page junk article of some non-existent cyberpunk gossip magazine.
Please stop submitting sites with paywalls.
Surface blossoms into a billion dollar business for Microsoft
Sometimes I get upset when I encounter a gum on the street, but I stop short of calling for more gum control. And, I don't have any idea where any person gets the idea that they have the right to tell another person whether or not to shave their arms.

As for the second thing you said, sounds like you probably just need a little more soma.
YMMV, but having seen both the Japanese and Korean sides of the coin, I'd generalize Korea as being more "intense" on all counts: studying even harder, working even longer, endurance being prized even more as a virtue. Although I think both societies are slowly evolving out of this, Japan is just a bit further down the path.

But yes, the let's-all-be-individuals-together cliques are still going strong. Japanese Halloween illustrates this nicely: virtually everybody who dresses up does so in matching groups.

http://tokyofashion.com/halloween-in-japan-shibuya-costumes/
Here are the first hardware specs for Microsoft's new Surface Hub
It appears that I incorrectly assumed most Senior Engineers will eventually become/strive to be VPs of Eng or IT Directors.

Greenyoda, if you don't mind me asking, how many years were you a director before switching back to being a developer? Also, did you find it was a pretty seamless transition back to a hands-on coding, or were you playing catch up for a bit? Thx.
It seems to tap into some kind of deep sub-cultural emotion. I mean, we are social animals and all, but sometimes it gets weird.

https://wedatenerds.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/frat-guys.pn...

I don't disagree at all with Koreans doing things in a particularly intense way. Based on my readings of ancient to modern Korean history it seems to definitely be a fairly modern cultural trait (at least not much older than the occupation).

However, Japan seems to have a very intense cultural relationship with this particular mood. I can't really think of a single k-drama that will spend half the episode with a character fretting about how they may be threatening the social harmony of their group, but I could probably pick a j-drama, anime or manga that does at random. It seems to be an issue Japanese people spend an extraordinary amount of time contemplating, expressing, acting upon, reacting to, watching, evaluating, teaching and thinking about.

It can make consumption of some Japanese media quite interminable for people who don't care.
FWIW this is the talk that got them (Ben Nagy and The Grugq) thrown out of Kiwicon (http://kiwicon.org/) for being transphobic, sexist and otherwise disrespectful to women and trans people.

See http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Kiwicon_2014_expulsion

IMO it was justified, but guess you had to be there.
All correct, all down voted for being unfashionably true.

Dumping lots of solar power during the day makes usually efficient power generation inefficient.

When dealing with countries with a majority of coal-generation (like mine), it's even worse because they can't idle a coal plant, so they just keep it spinning and sell the power at a loss. This drives up the cost of the power for other times to subsidise the loss, and makes the overall market distorted. This then makes large scale capital investment for base load stations risky, meaning that grid instability is a given issue for the future.

The hand-wavers will say 'just use grid storage' - but the truth is that this is an order-of-magnitude more expensive than conventional generation.

When the push for design of energy generation stopped being an electrical engineering issue and became a social engineering issue, the seeds of the problem were sown.

The day when extreme cold or extreme heat shuts down a grid because of insufficient conventional generation will be the day people will realise.
>The inclusion in a tire is most likely innocuous and doesn't seem that unusual to me.

Its intended purpose being innocuous wouldn't stop someone from abusing it.
Idk if it's just because I am used to it or what, but I love the old forums. They don't look the best but I enjoy using t hem. When I try to use discourse or something similar I have no idea what I am doing.
Debian appears to be doing some work on that too:

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls
And if you asked those people, they'd probably prefer a regular grid so they could use power at night, when domestic consumption is highest.
You van insult my post all you want, but you're blind if you honestly think your reply wasn't a misrepresentation of my original statement, unless you can prove that I said exactly what you said I did in the post before I pointed out the straw man.

But you can't, so you won't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g91xkISmp2g
You nailed it. My upvote is not enough, and you will probably get fewer than you deserve for this post.
I think it's also naive to think of the government as the "bad guy" as well. Classifying the government as bad or good is basically trying to assign a singular attribute to the aggregate actions of thousands of people in politics and government agencies. The truth is neither black or white, and extremely complicated.
Beat to the punch yet again
Biofuels are a blight on the world.
The Top Startup Tools from 19-25 Jan
I can't relate to the way this guy feels in traffic or in crowded supermarkets.
The Parachute That Saved a Plane
INFOGRAPHIC: WHY CULTURE MATTERS AND HOW IT MAKES CHANGE STICK
No. That would be like saying a locked door is security through obscurity, because the cuts of the key unlock the door - not the physical key. The concept requires a great deal of torturing to get there :)

Anyway, the whole idea that the state needs to operate in secret to perform its duties is ridiculous and only serves bad actors. Who would seriously wish for a secret police force anyway? Maybe we should be focusing on preventing and deescalating, through systemic and scalable solutions, instead of masked weekend warriors kicking down doors and shooting people. Also, if you want a laugh - here is a funny story about what happens when you allow the DEA to operate in secret: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/540/a...
If I can hear my own inner-monologue then I can concentrate.

Similarly, if somebody else's voice is talking over the voice in my head, then I'm screwed. I don't mind traffic, or music, or white-noise or even crowds. But a single solitary voice (like a person at a cafe talking on the phone 10 feet away) can completely upend my concentration.

Earbuds help, but there's something strange and pervasive about the human voice. I'd have to have my earbuds at deafening levels to drown out a voice nearby.
Just buy a silver camry. Let them try to track them all.
Haha.sh: generate hearty laughter at the command line
Right, because they have the physical capacity to compete. In the NFL, the NBA, the MLB, etc., they don't. They just plain don't. If that confuses you then go take it out on God or biology.
In the spectrum graph (near the bottom) there are ¿two? light band at 4500-4600A but there is no spike in the graphic. All the other light bands have spikes and all the dark bands have valleys. Do you know what happened there?
Thank you for this. I've tried to use a similar metaphor with profs in law school back in the day, but never this well. When you experience this many edge cases, it's time to refractor the code.
Yeah, I'd really miss SMS & GSM phone calls. They both have their place.

Both perform dramatically better than data in poor reception, and save power.
That's not what cognitive dissonance means.
They don't have to be uniquely identifiable to everyone. A better system would be an rfid tag that recorded each access, thus allowing the owner to know when they were tracked.
I am genuinely impressed with first few paragraphs, where they explain motivation for doing this, rarely in todays world you will see such noble intentions, I think this is one of the most beautiful things I read in a long time.
List of genetic algorithm applications
I read the thread on bleeping computer and he seems legit. Someone else in the thread said they only paid after he recovered the files, so it's probably worth it in your case.
1. 70% loss is incorrect as others have pointed out.
2. What 'catastrophic runaway warming'? The latest IPCC report says 1.5 degrees by 2100. Neither catastrophic nor runaway. That is business as usual scenario, which doesn't factor in the development of new generation methods in the next 80 years, which is a virtual certainty.
It's a distro/downstream stable version of OE, used in automotive, http://www.genivi.org/. There are several OE "distros", e.g. Angstrom, http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ . There's also Yocto, the overall build system, https://www.yoctoproject.org/
Let's hope it's not HTTP & JSON
The part about how they are a complete scam? http://blog.motorists.org/illinois-red-light-cameras-scam/
> If you can put $10 in an account at 3% interest and wait 200 years, you can take $3693.56 out.

Yes, but how much is that $3693.56 worth in 200-years-ago dollars? Chances are, the number is less than $10.
No, the country of China does not want to buy AMD.
Drone view of Auschwitz concentration camp
It's a pretty obvious evolution to their core business of advertising.

Step One: Advertise

Step Two: Target advertisement with history on the computer

Step Three: Target advertisement even better with history across several computers

It's a natural progression without any mental gymnastics, and "They were making enough money at Step Two, why would they need to go to Step Three?" seems like a very silly argument to me.
Priceonomics: We help companies crawl data from the web. Well, the article itself is indeed interesting, but I am just curious why they post these kind of content on their blog, is it related?
One of my favorite essays! Anyone interested in the topic should find themselves a copy of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's book "On Growth and Form" and give it a read. Fascinating discussion of the sizes & shapes of living creatures from physical principles.
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