skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It kind-of-is, it's just not particularly well-formed/ambiguous linguistically.
Was it really acclaimed? I thought both the album and the tour that preceded it (I saw them in Chicago) got panned. The new album certainly wasn't in the same league as Loveless.

Hrm, Pitchfork gave mbv a 9.1. Maybe I'm misremembering, or maybe I have DeRogatis poisoning.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9043756
I tried renaming some files with "the new OS", but all I got was a 404. I had to use the one the browser was running in instead.
>This would give you Nihilism.

The Is-Ought Problem and the Open Question Argument are not so conclusive as to justify nihilism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_naturalism
I didn't want to sound too presumptuous when I wrote the comment, but I would agree the current state of things is far from ideal.
Well thats a totally click-bait and misleading title. The essence of a walled garden is that it's hard to get in, and if you're not let in then you lose out. Mozilla only require signing by them or by someone else, which given the proliferation of malware is hard to see as a bad thing, especially given the privileged access granted to addons.

If you're too stubborn to let Mozilla sign it AND too lazy to do it yourself then that's your problem - you have no inalienable right to demand that people run your code if you can't be bother to secure it. However you are never locked out of providing mozilla addons, you can still supply whatever you like.

Also, Why did this piece bother to quote the random verbal vomit of some internet commenters? What is that supposed to show? That some people online are rude and ignorant? Frankly there's quite a bit of FUD in this thing, like asking if devs can trust that moving from Dev versions to production will break their code - pretty much the whole point of Mozilla's development model in iterating and providing developer editions is to ensure that doesn't happen.
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There's more shoegaze music now then ever before. An excellent place to start is the blog When The Sun Hitshttp://whenthesunhitsblog.blogspot.be/. A good mix of "classic" shoegaze and new bands.

Shoegaze really defined my life. Taking a trip to London for an amazing Lush concert, wandering the streets of London and sleeping on the floor in a train station because I didn't have any money left for even a hostel bed (I did buy some great and rare records though). Or organizing a shoegaze party at a local bar, low attendance of course and ending up being kicked out by the manager because "this isn't music!" What's wrong with Medicine? Good times.
yup. If only I had the time :)
This has got amazing potential and will make life easier for so many people!
Ask HN: Make Pricing Information Public
My pet bugbear is companies selling products, but hiding their pricing information behind a "contact our sales team" note. Why is this acceptable?
Even Google, normally good at making life simple and with their mission statement "organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful" have this fault (i.e. "Contact Sales" on https://www.google.com/work/mapsearth/products/mapsapi.html)

How can we fix this?

My initial thoughts:

* an Open Data project
everyone buying something with hidden pricing reveals what they paid
along with any price-affecting data. e.g.
- type of license(s)
- number of licenses
- number of service requests per day
- number of vCPUs
- volume of data (GBs)

* an ISO for open operating practices:
In the same way we now have a standard for cloud privacy* we should have one for open practices.
This ISO would ensure that companies are forced to make available information which
would normally be requested and gradually uncovered via a RFI (request for information) process.
e.g.
- number of employees \
- years operating |_ used to asses whether the company may go bust soon
- annual turnover for past 3 years |
- annual profit for previous 3 years /
- price / formula to calculate price of product(s)
This wouldn't be mandatory (some companies wouldn't do well if that were the case),
but if the ISO became established could become something companies would want to opt in to.
(*ref: http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/16/azure-first-cloud-computing-platform-to-conform-to-isoiec-27018-only-international-set-of-privacy-controls-in-the-cloud/).

What are your thoughts? Would the above suggestions work, or do you have any of your own?
You'd rather we kept with outdated layouts like this[0], forever? Part of rebuilding the website is updating the layout and usability of the website. In order to keep the website usable, the people administering it have to have better tools to organise content on it (as we all know, UX isn't just design, you can't just write a new template over a site with bad UX to make it perfect).

Developers use whatever is most reasonable to use at the time with an eye on it hopefully lasting 5-10 years into the future - much of the BBC website still runs on legacy, unmaintainable Perl, and they've learned their lesson from that.

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/4/...
Something must be wrong with me, because both Slowdive (shoegaze) and Uncle Tupelo (opposite of shoegaze) say Dinosaur Jr. was a key influence, and I have in my life never been able to pick up a Dinosaur Jr. influence in anything. I think I have a Dinosaur Jr. Appreciation Deficiency.
Yes, that would be interesting data. Most companies would output reports from their HRIS systems in wildly different formats, and you'd have to adjust for industry, geo/currency, year, gender/ethnicity/language, and all sorts of things. But just getting that data and the sensitivity that goes with it would be near-impossible unless you were a salary survey company. And then, they get job-level data and not per employee. They charge serious money for the services of analyzing this data and do not make their data available.
Ensuring getting great client feedback on web design
According to the article you won't be able to do that; although not all extensions have to go through addons.mozilla.org they do all have to be digitally signed.

There are exceptions - something about "in house, corporate" (whatever that means), developer editions of Firefox and nightly builds. But if I read correctly users of the current, stock Firefox will not be able to suppress the signature check when installing addons.
Your interpretation seems like a reasonable scale - however, it is a very vague definition of "0". I'm sure some people want a 0 to mean an actual 0, like a blind developer asked to do UI development.
Seems about a quarter of what you'd expect given my home town stats, but the people probably tended toward young age, which the released death figures do show. Safer to be a young dude at Los Alamos than an average age dude in the midwest.

Interesting anecdote, the carpenter died the morning after Hiroshima. Most real world cover ups are not x-files show material but tend toward "the driver was up really late at the party last night". And it is interesting given the modern puritan attitude toward drunk driving that this was the only accident where blame was assigned. I would not be surprised if the driver had been out late the night before celebrating and the foreman did not take that into account thus getting recommended for firing. Or it was the foreman who was still drunk from the night before, leading directly to the carpenters death and destruction of .gov property.
It sucks that we are so three-dimensional in our thinking. This "Workshape" is really a 10-dimensional world where we "wander" in our careers by spending time/energy along some axis. Sometimes we actively pursue a direction, "developing my back-end-skills/archictecture" and sometimes we are more/less forced in a direction "this needs testing/documentation". The result is a traveled path which is "my experience", and a direction which is my "desired trajectory forward".

Matching would then be a spatial questions: Have you been [here]? Where are you heading?

Stupid physical world.
I've always been wondering why there have never been affordable local power storage solutions on the market.

I'd love to have a battery like this to store excess power from solar panels. Returning power to the grid is a waste in both efficiency and money (you just make the power company richer).

Unless you live in Germany (where there are laws forcing power companies to buy excess energy back against peak price), a battery should be the way to go.
Why the downvote of a friendly suggestion? Honest question.
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It looks like Elon wants to ramp up production in the new Gigafactory right away, and create home batteries from the excess capacity. A Gigafactory running at full capacity should bring the cost of lithium ion batteries way down. Electric cars haven't hit the mainstream yet, so he has to do something with the excess capacity, and this looks pretty straightforward.

So even if he sells these batteries at the break even point, he'll still get much closer to an economically viable Model 3, because the battery is such an expensive part in an electric car and this will bring the price of batteries down.

(I'm not sure if my reasoning makes sense though, because the Gigafactory isn't anywhere near finished yet, and according to wikipedia it won't hit full capacity until 2020.)
Wow, that looks like COBOL.
We're in the process of considering a number of new input fields for both organisations and users. This is one that we intend to add in the next few days.
The problem here is not the signing.

It is a perfectly valid reasoning: Addons can be like malware, and that is something Mozilla should protect its users from. Reviewing and then signing extensions is an ok way to do that. But the focus here is not the signing, it is the reviewing.

The problem is not the reviewing either. That may take time and is unpleasant, but it offers something good in return. The problem is the "we will do it this way and make it not configurable". There is no need for that. Users don't change defaults, it would be perfectly valid to go the android route: Disallow the installation of unreviewed addons by default, but add an option in the settings to override this behaviour for users who know what they are doing.

That way, you still protect users in general, and you don't anger the other users who want to install addons from github or whatever. It was completely unnecessary to make it this controversial by forcing it on all users, by taking freedom away.
Without a safe lab how do you propose those running the operation won't kill themselves?
Some men shave their head, even with a full head of hair. For the look.

Others prefer a very close buzz. A guy I work with has no hair problems, but just buzzes it all off.

Don't sweat it, men have an easy time in our society with regards to looks. And you'll soon find that getting women has more to do with your job/car/house/personality than it does with your hair.
No, but I was using Turbo Pascal followed by Delphi. Also played with C++ Builder, but by then Visual C++ had taken over as Borland was going through their Inprise phase.
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This immediately identified a very good match for me. It's brilliantly built, I'm very impressed.

They could do with a little bit of narrative to explain that you're now free to converse with the potential employer, at the point where the conversation thread opens up.

5 thumbs up.
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I have to open CSV files all the time that can easily be hundreds of MB. I'm not doing anything wrong, it's a dataset.
For example, I don't want to spend my time testing, but I have to do it if I want to write high quality software.

Why?

Someone has to do the testing, obviously, but why does it have to be you just because you want to write good quality software? Why can't you work with a brilliant QA[1] team who can generate an awesome set of processes and tests based on your specifications? You don't have to do the bit you find boring if there's someone else around who loves doing it and will do a better job of it because they don't find it boring.

Giving up parts of the development process is part of being in a team. A very important part.

Using the idea in the article along with good knowledge of what's needed in the particular problem domain, it should be possible to use 'workshapes' to put together a very suitable team of people for a project.

[1] Important note for the unfamiliar: Most QA teams are actually QC teams. QA (quality assurance) has to happen from the very first stages of a project, putting in processes that assure the right level of quality will be met. QC (quality checking) happens at the end where someone goes through a project and makes sure it's been done well. If your "QA" only happens at the end then it's QC, and it's probably not helping you build the best product you're capable of building.
I have to ask, how is this on the front page when it's nothing but a signup page, with less content than any of the 'Show HN' posts in the queue?
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I have a small and cheap kettle (1L), which I just fill with the amount of water that the cup has. Problem solved.
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I never once mentioned your books Kyle. I actually enjoy the parts that I've read. I was making a broader point that I have witnessed with the JS community: using technical arcana in production code as if it was a good thing. Just one example: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057
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I think Memcached is currently better in some specific cluster scenarios, which would hopefully be researched in more depth than "Ask HN" before planning. Otherwise, anything you can do with Memcached, you can do with Redis, but without keys arbitrarily falling out the bottom. Also unless you're bigger than StackOverflow, most of those scenarios can be solved by "throw more RAM in it."

Memcached isn't bad or anything like that. There are many algorithms where "let old stuff fall off the page" is perfectly healthy. I just don't see a need to use both, and I prefer explicitly designed expiry behavior vs. letting stuff fall out of memory, and I find Redis easier to work with.

$0.02, YMMV. If your engineers are used to working with both, having both available costs way less than making them do mental gymnastics to get around not having it, although that might take itself out in onboarding time or code complexity or whatever. But mostly not, if you have good interfaces set up like Patrick.

P.S. - Don't put sessions in Memcached, ever. Having users sessions die randomly because you used too much RAM is terrible design. Putting them in Redis is fine, in which case you probably want to set an expires property when they're created & update it when they're read. Or issue a rename if you're doing one-request-per-key, whichever.
Have a look at David Beazley's video for a real life example: http://www.pyvideo.org/video/2645/discovering-python
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Seems like a deep exploration of visualizing math. However, I'm not able to quickly deduce whether any of this is useful to real world problems. Does anyone know?
Can someone explain to me why being able to build off the electrical grid is worth all this effort since you're still going to need running water, sewage, bins collecting, broadband and a number of other things?
I'd say that it is a trivially answerable question - "no, we cannot recognize arbitrary infinite loops" is the answer. It is easy to encode difficult-to-prove statements about number theory into loops. Consider a program that searched for a counterexample to the Collatz conjecture, or the Riemann Hypothesis.
Could someone please fix the truncated title? My editorial advice would be to just cut from the semicolon.
Yeah, sounds like a joke. But I worked at a company where the tech writer was legally blind, the marketing guy was shy and the spokesperson (CEO) stuttered. Weird place.
The UK also pays domestic solar producers for feeding in to the grid - it also pays for the generation as well.
It will be interesting to see the market reaction to this regarding the value of electricity generation companies.

Governments that lean too heavily on taxes or state run monopolies for energy generation should also be concerned. There are places that tax generation from sources like the wind (for example, Nova Scotia), so I wouldn't be surprised if we see solar tax appear.
I am just delighted to have sparked a Speccy/C=64 'which is best' fight, on hacker news, in 2015. Keep that flame alive!

Of course, it goes without saying that the spectrum was best.
Like that you have picked on the team aspect. We have a very exciting new feature in the works which focuses on presenting the team that you would be joining and how you will compliment each other in terms of how you collectively want to spend time.
Iran signed the NPT as well, meaning they are supposed to abide by its rules.
Yeah until the current generation in power grows old and dies, we'll continue to consider 'joblessness' a problem. Remember the golden age of science fiction, where the goal was to get everybody out of work in a society run by robots? Well, the closer we get, the more we resist it seems.
Interfaces aren't only visual - blind users still have to interact with something.
I actually need to update my CV, glad I came across this. Think I'll add one for work experience and another for current perception of 'How do you want to spend your time'.
If we were able to create individual or community power grids; imagine how much infrastructure could just be removed. Maintained by the individuals owning it, instead of these stupid power companies and the way they work now.
Not sure most of those need physical connections. We can drive our garbage to the dump and also compost. We could dig a well, and we have a septic tank. We could get satellite internet. Physical connections for electricity is about the only absolute, unless you go solar, but then there's not a good storage mechanism for cloudy days (from what I can tell).
Home batteries have arguably fewer cycle times than a battery in a Tesla. By selling these, Tesla is essentially selling beta models to figure out kinks in the factory, in the batteries, etc, before putting them into their mainstream vehicles that have to suffer huge temperature gradients, lots of recharge cycles, etc.
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Seems fine to me, if only there was a different site for you to visit
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Some people will see walled garden as one with few gates and a sentry controlling who can enter, e.g. Ios app store is not very difficult to enter in as a million apps have entered, but if apple does not agree, you cannot publish the app.
I think this refers to the apple practice of having vague rules and arbitrarily classify apps one way or another with no reliable explanation reaching the outside. So not bureaucratic in a literal sense, but rather in the sense of an opaque apparently rule-driven organization that produces incomprehensible decisions.

Sometimes apps containing things like pictures of old paintings with nude ladies are fine, sometimes not.

Often updates to something published will get stuck because some rule is supposedly being broken by the update, but of course the original, accepted, app contained the exact same thing.
I've been thinking of giving Elm a go, and this walk-through is very helpful in breaking the initial barrier. Exciting to see these ideas finally giving us answers on how to do user interfaces on the web right.

ReactJS has also converged into the ideas proposed by Elm: the Model is explicitly defined (props and state); view is always a function of the Model; and the Model is mutated only through Signals (one-way bound callbacks in plain React, Actions when using Flux).

I have a question for anyone who've worked with both Elm and React. It seems to me that these ideas (component model, well-defined mutation point for state, composability, one-way binding etc.) are what matters more than the language itself. Granted that the language can influence how code is written (immutability, pure functions, ..), but does Elm (or ClojureScript for that matter), drastically improve creation of typical user interfaces just by virtue of the language?
... and those inspections aren't free.
If they bring back the 10/12 cylinder engine I could care less what it looks like..
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In addition to doing things like storing any excess solar power you might have, it could also be used to charge up at night on off-peak rates ("Economy 7" in the UK) and release during the day to reduce your peak rate electricity consumption - whether it would be financially worthwhile to do so would depend on a number of factors.
I get water from my well, have a septic tank in my backyard and use a 3G connection (there is no landline connection available where I chose to live). Getting off the electric grid would be nice, not to mention it would be cheaper too!
Water and sewage -- Most people in rural america and even in semi-suburban america already use their own wells and septic systems for water and sewage. Likewise with trash, many people drop their trash off at the dump/recycling center themselves.
Broadband, yep, no DIY solution there but various forms of wireless internet are available that make it quite feasible to have a completely unwired home if not disconnected.
Yes of course. It is not a technical concept for sure.
> Unless you live in Germany

Not anymore. The price you get from your power company has been consistently lowered over the last years, now you only get about half of what you pay the power company for the electricity you use.
I join the question :-)
Bhutan *requires* you to spend US$200 a day as a tourist, minimum
I guess the big questions are,

- How do battery charge/store/discharge efficiencies compare to transmission losses?

- How do capital investments to support returning power to the grid compare to the cost of batteries?

One thing I'm fairly confident of is that just having batteries (without solar panels) to do peak-flattening temporal "arbitrage" can't make economic sense. If it did, power companies would do it themselves and keep the profit.
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If there were no rules does anyone know if it would make sense to remove the driver and make it remote-controlled? Would lag in something so high end as f1 be a factor (what is the minimum lag that can be achieved, money almost no object)? The car could be way lighter, with much better weight distribution, etc. Only downside I can think of is lag, plus having extra motors to power the steering, pedals, etc, but that would be almost negligible, I think? Oh, and the reliability of the signals being transmitted/received.

In December 2003 there was an article on a f1 magazine where they asked Williams to design a car if there were no rules. It was an ugly (maybe it would look better after a while, don't know), six wheeled thing, but it looked more playsible than this one, which just seems made to look cool, like a vide-game sports car, or a commercial one.

edit: forgot to say I don't have links for the pdf, and couldn't find it via google. It used to be on the web somewhere.