skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be more to it than that. The article also says: "At the end of a 15-year lease term, Rutgers would purchase the facility at a fair market value – an estimated $3.6 million." And "The combined value of the SRECs and electricity savings are projected to net Rutgers $28 million over a 20-year period, exceeding all costs to the university."

So I'm guessing that about half the cost entails (re)paving the parking lots themselves --which they would have to do regardless of the solar canopy.
Exactly, which is the reason why BSDs were not affected by shellshock. And moreover, modern tcsh is quite a powerful and full-featured shell, too.

I unfortunately had to switch to Linux a few years ago (after using FreeBSD for almost a decade) and I still miss how consistent and well laid out BSDs seem in comparison.
when you define things in terms of immutable structures, the worst thing that happens is you get an _old_ answer - but not an incorrect one. the old answer comes back with a timestamp: "this is the answer to your question, as of (time)"

the CAP theorem means you either give _inconsistent_ answers (what is the state now? it's X) to two different nodes, or you sacrifice availability.
Dancesport is a thing, and its assuredly not ritualized hunting / warfare.

The main topic of conversation is the widely popular professional sports such as Football, American Football, etc. These sports have attackers, defenders, and so on.

Sports is -- and has been for quite some time -- a frequent focus of the small-scale skirmishes much the same as those you paint it as an alternative to.

I don't see that as the proximate cause of most conflicts throughout history. Mostly, it seems to be about resources, and sometimes ideology too.
YES!!! THANK YOU!
If their original prices were 20% higher, I don't think you'd be saying Digital Ocean pricing is nuts. Backups are just an easy way to get people who don't mind spending money to spend money. Everyone else can do their own backups or take free snapshots (which has an API as well).
It's fine for that to be your default assumption. But saying it, without evidence, is slander.
If they put the same coating on the anode as what they put in the vacuum-fluorescent displays, it will have more than just that warm glow. It will flicker green.

From the photo, it looks like that may be the case: what are those green squares? The form factor is like that of a VFD.

It is quite suggestive of the intent that the part will be mounted such that it is visible through a display window in the equipment's case.
That's the problem with cheap oil, like we have now with fracking, it kills all market incentive to develop clean energy. If we're ever going to get serious about climate change we need a dynamic carbon tax that keeps the price of fossil fuels stable and high.

If we had such a carbon tax right now, that kept gas price at the previous price of $4/gallon, it would be a huge windfall that could be used to spend on clean energy incentives as well as low-income energy subsidies.
Sports is a huge business. Don't make that a part of your identity.
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Kudos to this author for making an effort at establishing common ground for small talk. Watching the culture change over the past several decades, I worry that there are less and less points of common interest in American society.

Having said that, I don't like watching professional sports. I don't like watching games; I'd rather play them myself. I don't like supporting huge monopolies of multi-millionaires playing other multi-millionaires while ruining their bodies. It's just not my value system.

I watch 1 or 2 footballs games a year, usually the Superbowl, and usually for the same reason this author decided to become a fan.
why in the world would I bundle MySQL with a simple blog platform?

To make sure it actually works. (Although as others have said in this thread, it should probably use SQLite instead of MySQL.)
all this will change with the internet of things. once every "thing" is networked, then these optimization platforms won't need to wait for some human to input info about altered environments. the platform will "sense" it.
You don't need to edit a hidden config file to remove an old known_host entry, just run:

ssh-keygen -R <host>
Apparently you haven't read "The Wisdom of Psychopaths" s'good book
Hey HN,

its a "small" side Project of me, which belongs to a bigger project I am working on. The side project here is basically a Webscraper with some NLP at the moment, which is accessible via a RESTful interface and an Angular Frontend. Hope you like it. Happy to hear questions and feedback.
>Yes, because it's really critical to get home from the bar in a state of total inebriation =)

Not sure if that's sarcasm or not, but I do think this is one of the more powerful positives to Uber, keeping drunks off the road.
Can we agree that internet memes, video games, and watching sports are all not inherently harmful but are still pretty much a waste of time?
Actually you got it right the first time: Working with* not on. =)
My wording could probably have been a bit more precise.

Having worked with it for the past few months, I do agree with a lot of your sentiments on the shortcomings of the server-less application model, but in many applications where user privacy is a high priority (which is increasingly the case since the Snowden revelations), having a fully portable, standards-based storage solution that you can host on your own if you choose is incredibly compelling.

With the remoteStorage-based serverless app I'm working on right now, it's been quite a challenge trying to reach feature parity with existing client-server apps on the market today. But once we even get close to achieving feature parity, I believe we'll have a very compelling solution.
But aren't solar panels vastly more expensive than mere asphalt, per unit of area?
We actually don't want apps to bundle MySQL -- we'd prefer they use sqlite. :) But the point is, it's up to the app. The app gets a slice of filesystem and they can use whatever infrastructure they want to store stuff to it.

We want the experience for users to be install app, use app, without worrying about setting up databases and such. We also want to enforce isolation between apps so one app cannot access another's data, and that's a lot easier to do if they aren't sharing a database. Considering these desires, it makes sense to say that apps should simply bundle their database of choice.
RethinkDB is awesome, but to my understanding it's one of the slowest document stores out there right now. That's one reason why it hasn't seen very widespread adoption yet. For smaller projects it's not a problem, but for large projects databases can often be a major bottleneck.
unrelated aside since you linked to such an interesting web page.

this 1940 vacuum tube hearing aid used a bone-conducting transducer scheme.[1] I was stuck thinking that was a fairly new concept (at least from the 80s) for military comms, and was intrigued by the use of such tech in the recent Google Glass.

It's cool to see that the idea was much older than I realized.

[1]: http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Vacuum%20Tube/Acoust...
I don't know if its "cultivated" disinterest but I've found my self becoming less interested in sports as i've grown older. I was never a fan of football or soccer but the one or two sports I liked in my younger days do not hold my interest any longer. I just dont find them interesting any more and I don't really understand how so many people do.
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> I don't see that as the proximate cause of most conflicts throughout history.

No one said it was the proximate cause of most conflicts throughout history. Nor have conflicts in general stopped since sports became popular, nor were conflicts in general part of the discussion.

What was asserted upthread was that sports was an outlet that prevented "small-scale skirmishes". I simply pointed out that, in fact, professional sports are -- and this is true globally -- well-known as focuses of small-scale skirmishes and social violence, rather than an outlet which prevents them.
Yes. From the article: "According to Thurston’s own model, Growth Science’s own chance of survival following its current business model is about 69 percent. Adding the automated service would actually improve its chances, he says."
Aline Lerner. She used to be an engineer and she gets us. http://blog.alinelerner.com/
I should have probably made it a bit more clear that I'm only working WITH remoteStorage on one of my side projects, and am not one of its developers. =)
Here in Japan, virtually ALL parking in lots is hourly metered. You get a ticket & if you spend money in the stores, they will credit you the price of the parking (making it cheap or free for actual paying customers) on the ticket. This is actually done for reasons of space - cities are crowded & and space for parking is at a premium. The result is that it is just considered normal.

In the US, they have these massive lots that are spread out over an area often larger than the store itself. The obvious thing to do would charge for parking with the Japanese system, and use the proceeds to help offset the initial costs, just like with a toll highway or bridge.

However, the "God-given Right to Free Parking" mentality would never allow it to work, and the local governments are too weak to try to impose it. Every city has a ring of malls outside of it not just for cheaper land, but to escape any form of regulations from the city itself. This is a "risky thing", and businesses don't like risk.

It would take a very careful marketing campaign to be able to kickstart something like this. I doubt many places have the leadership required.
I've been building a mobile title for the last 6 months in my free time with a good buddy of mine. We've sunk about $10k into art/business, and have a small IOU list for the music, translation, etc. Very fun experience, but somewhat stressful not knowing if there will be any payoff or not in the end. The F2P market is also pretty hit and miss, and mobile discovery is of course horrible.

We're trying a Japanese crowd funding site at the moment, mostly for the advertising than the cash. We will be targeting Japanese and English on our first release.

http://camp-fire.jp/projects/view/1426 - kind of gives the gist of what it is about.

I can only pray we break even, let alone be as successful as Cook, Serve, Delicious! Very inspiring to see hard work like that pay off.
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Always have a beer after getting laid off.

First off, how much cushion money do you have? Are you living paycheck to paycheck? Do you live in your parent's house? Roommates? Married? Kids? House?

How strong is your network? As in, how many people in the industry do you know? If you know a lot of people go freelance.
How often do you get unsolicited job requests? If you get 1-2 a year then take some time off and work on a personal project without worrying about employment, while always keeping an ear to the ground.

Here's the thing, it's hard to give concrete advice without more info. But, in the end, as a Java programmer you're probably fine, don't sweat it, someone will hire you soon enough.
Well, prior to the writing of this article, the answer was indeed yes, as the article discusses. However, thanks to the magic of Betteridge's Law, which as we all on Hacker News know is UTTERLY UNASSAILABLE, the answer is now "No!"

Thanks for solving this problem so handily, New York Times! May you use your powers only for the force of good.
It's because of Sandstorm's security as a platform. Apps cannot see each other's files on disk, because each one runs in a container with only their own subdirectory mapped in.
The Verge wasn't founded as a tech news site. It was founded as a culture site, with a slant towards tech (because technology is a part of everyday culture).

This has been their message since the very beginning.

That sports article currently featured on the front page? About how tech and social media is changing sports. Just because there's a football doesn't mean its off topic for a 'tech' website. http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/28/7878051/espn-sportscenter-...

The very first long form article they published back in 2011 was about "A new breed of survivalist is wealthy, educated, and plans to ride out 2012 in style". http://www.theverge.com/culture/2011/11/1/2525857/2012-survi...

The Verge has changed in the three years since it launched (everything has) - but it's still the type of site it launched as.
English version of parent: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/HTML/Element/keyge...
This is exactly why I don't blink at purchasing Sublime, and I won't think twice about it when I have to do it again. These are the types of projects we need to support!
You said Nuremberg, not me. ;) That's an extreme case.

It's more that when I see that effect, I have an uneasy feeling that a trigger could set things off the rails or shut off critical thinking or modify social standards for certain acts. I'm a bit of a contrarian at heart, so it's something of a non-specific mental immune response.

In fact, at (EU) football events, soccer hooligans are widely known for being violent. In the US, commercial and government propaganda are often dispensed in a socially validated environment. An alarming trigger (or a home-run that lands in the stands) can cause a stampede at stadia. I recognize that the more extreme examples are relatively rare occurrences, but they are more common than on say the street per square foot.

The irrationality of the crowd is something that unnerves me. I've been to games, so it's not like it's some paralyzing anxiety, but I feel some creepy crawlies at times.

Let me give you an example of a cohesive social situation that wouldn't creep me out: A town coming together for disaster recovery, where the people signaling cohesiveness are actually directly affected or are participating in the recovery effort. On the contrary, when people that are totally unaffected come together, it feels more uneasy to me because they are responding to a story being told on the news and are in a condition where simple manipulation is possible as they are not responding to advance their own interests (so certain sanity checks are disabled) and they do not have a good way to verify the story they heard.
> You misunderstand my argument.

Apparently. I have no idea why JavaScript's position in the browser is relevant at all to the point that being able to ship in a language isn't evidence that its featureset is ideal.

I do invite you to argue the point further, though. And please continue to ask questions like this again:

"Why are you using Go? Are you solving a real problem?"

Yes, please do imagine out loud that everyone who's critical of Go is just not building real software in it. Hell, follow your "argument" to its natural consequence: anyone not using your personal flavor of Blub is probably just farting around.
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Very cool project. I've played around with this same idea, but as a CLI package manager, rather than a webapp.

I think it would be cool to have custom VPS image, where you can install webapps to it from the CLI out of the box easily. Sort of like homebrew, but for your personal servers.

Congrats!
Oh I like that definition. Means that you'd count the Gold Coast and Brisbane (and Ipswich) together as a megacity, which is kinda true, as "South East QLD".
> What I heard was that college football tends to pay for all of the other sports at a school.

Yeah, at the most successful football schools. That's a minority among schools that have football programs. [1] [2]

>If anything sports creates a lot of opportunities for students that otherwise could be done due to budgets.

No, sports diverts scholarship funds from scholars to athletes, and the athletes rarely take full advantage of the academics in college, going for easy classes and easy majors. It actually destroys a lot of opportunities, particularly at schools that are losing money on their sports programs.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/sportsmoney/2011/05/05/does-foot...

[2] http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Myth-College-Sports-Ar...
Sounds like you need a vacation. Pick one of the next three weekends, reserve a hotel, pack a bag (and family, if appropriate) and just drive off.

When you get back, start writing integration tests for your project's "happy path" to catch those kinds of mistakes.
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"Just as cryptographers have perfected ways to transform a seemingly arbitrary message into a “hash code,” a sequence that can only be interpreted in one valid way,"
Does anybody have a read about the approach and software stack that they use to make this "recommender" system work ?
Then you can do this:

fmap (either id id) (both ...)

... which is equivalent to:

x <- both ...
return (case x of
Left txt -> txt
Right txt -> txt)

That removes the `Either` tag and fuses them into a single stream.
Without googling around I found this link at the end of the story that validates, in my opinion, your misplaced concerns.
http://icant.co.uk/
http://developer-evangelism.com/
Doing Data Science is a pretty good intro.
http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Data-Science-Straight-Frontline/...
As a person who has played many sports and specifically basketball to a college D1 level I find this article both true and troubling. This is because I also enjoy discussing things at a high level. I enjoy the fact that I can talk to a person about Turing tests (or any CS related topic) and then turn the conversation right into how the Baltimore Ravens need better defensive backs for next season (Baltimore/DC fan here).

I think that people who engage in elitism are extremely petty and self-centered and I have told the few that I come across so. No one is better than any other person based on their passions or interests.

I just want everyone to be friends. Is that so hard to ask?
RethinkDB performance has improved dramatically in the last year. We'll be posting benchmarks for the 2.0 release, which should dispel any performance concerns.
I agree with this, mostly, but I am also optimistic about what we'll see in the future. There are lots more little studios making niche games and trying out new ideas than there were just a few years ago. I bet we'll see some RPGs with less spoonfed choices in them.
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Is it safe to assume that the $10 closed-source license includes all updates through a 1.x release?
Or the disingenuous "oh, is there a football game this week" - which they are only saying as a response to hearing people talk about the game all week.
It's pointless in the case that you mention, where you're going for a hard clipped metal distortion tone. I was envisioning more of an overdrive sort of application where hitting the rails is NOT the desired effect. The 5mV hard clipper was an extreme example, but you could conceivably use it for soft overdrive/compression with a small enough input signal which was what I had in mind.
I remember that site from years ago but it seems awfully out of date at this point.

Even the Ubuntu distro's opt-in share-my-desktop-stats system likely contains multiple times what Linux Counter is counting.
This is Steven Pinker's sister, if anyone was wondering.
Regarding changefeeds - is there a way to tell when you've consumed all the initial data and are now receiving update diffs?
I don't think it sounds cheesy, in fact there are tons of people who play golf (or at least only get into it) for the business and networking aspects of it. The difference is that building rapport with the upper class is probably seen as self-serving while building rapport with the lower class is maybe construed as altruistic, noble, self-sacrificing? It really comes down to common courtesy; if you are pleasant to rich upper class people it can be dismissed as sucking up; if you treat people in the lower class the same way, there's less room to dismiss it as anything but genuine niceness.
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Swift has no original or new features at all.

I don't want to spend too much time discussing this, but I read Swift guide[1] and even played with it in Playground, and I'm 97% sure that every single Swift feature is borrowed from currently mainstream languages.

There's a difference between "oh, it's like feature X in C#" and "well, didn't Common Lisp implement Y 30 years ago?". Feature X will be perceived as nothing new, merely catching up; Y will be seen as new, dangerous, cryptic and best avoided. I think Swift designers intentionally packed their language with Xes and added almost no Ys, exactly because they didn't want it to seem as "too new, esoteric, unproven" and so on so forth. This is a sane business decision, by the way, I just happen to dislike it.
I feel the same way. I've absolutely no interest in football even after trying a couple of times. I've also lost interest in other sports over time. It may be something to do with growing older and having other priorities.
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I think one solution would be for the browser (or an extension) to expose an SSH agent API through the DOM, but gate access to that agent with local UI that confirms operations. "Facebook.com would like to view your public identity information. Continue?" with an "always allow for this site" option. "Facebook.com is requesting a signing challenge to verify your public identity. Allow?" etc. It could even include an identity manager which would allow you to generate different identities to present to different sites on the fly. You could have the option of having the requests pass through to your SSH_AGENT_SOCK (still gated by UI though) if you want, or you could just let the browser maintain its own independent agent (or potentially a combination).
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Honestly, if I need a vacation after 6 months, I don't think I'm cut out for this work/this company.
Generally you want to avoid noise early on in the gain chain just because it gets amplified later on. Headroom is entirely relative, you just need to design your gain stages such that the power amp isn't railing when you turn your guitar up halfway.
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And how many rich people pay their fair share of taxes in the US?

I think the issue is deeper than just not paying taxes. But that's just me.
The title is misleading - the title of the article is actually "YouTube Reaffirms Zoe Keating’s Understanding of Its Contract Is Incorrect"
The lots are privately owned by the malls, shopping centers, or stores. The "city" is in no position to impose paid parking on private property. Where parking is scarce, private parking is generally not free. Where parking is provided on public property (e.g. city streets) it is often metered, though certainly not always.
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Could be good, could be bad. They might have already decided they want to hire you, they might be on the fence, they might have already decided against you.
In the end getting hired is mostly a black box. Hundreds of resumes go in one end and a single employe comes out the other.
Typing and using a mouse on an operating system are still useful. I work with students aged 16-21. By and large they hardly know how to operate computers. Typing speeds are very low.

A common occurrence. I see them do a search on chrome. The search bar sends them to spam search site "yeblorsk". I ask why it does that. They shrug and say "isn't that what it's supposed to do?"

They don't even know their browser has been hijacks. And these are university or university track students.