skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only reason Aunty can put solar on her roof is because she has the centralized electrical grid to back her up. Put another way, if Aunty had to choose between roof solar and centralized grid (exclusive of one another), most Aunties will choose the grid because it is much more reliable.

That's how we ended up with centralized generation and a grid in the first place--the initial roll out of electricity was highly localized, with factories, buildings, and blocks each having their own generators. Centralized + grid beat that architecture on reliability and cost.

So, the grid needs to be available with or without solar. Thus the "free market" concern is less of a differentiator than it seems on the surface.
I believe most guides/sites already the general points of interest and nearby attractions. The issue for me with those is that it's not entirely personalized to my needs and taste (comfort, luxury and convenience).

I know friends who are into street food, living in hostels and being fully immersed in the culture. For myself, I prefer living in more comfortable hotels and eating at restaurants. Seems like the guides out there are either very generic or catered to my friends who are more adventurous. But nothing for the slightly conservative, affordable luxury traveller.
Yup, it was just a patent grab.
The language was originally called the Structured English Query Language, or SEQueL for short.
> why is the town supposed to be allowed to tax non-residents?

The argument would be the same for all speed trap/tax collection stations. It's not for revenue, it's for public safety. They would be irresponsible to not enforce speed limits.

In the case of the town in the article, it would be dangerous for drivers to not suddenly slow down from 65 mph to 55 mph for the 0.2 miles that the road passes through the town.

In general, it may help to keep in mind that you and I are nothing but resources for corporations, governments, law enforcement, spy agencies and other criminal organizations. The United States is a consumer paradise, in the same way that Argentina is a beef paradise. The land of the free range citizen.
What kind of scope does the project have? (How long, how many hours per week, ...)
Working with multifolders is a little bit tricky. As soon as you open 5+ files, sidebar gets really long that it is hard to go back and forth.

Sublime has this plugin called SyncedSideBar which is kind of ok but gets too jumpy even when i preview a file.

I hope they consider this while developing the feature.
The New German Domestic Secret Service Unit to Extend Internet Surveillance
> The concern I have with civil asset forfeiture is that the seized property goes directly to the sheriff.

It usually doesn't; most state law forfeitures go to general funds, not the seizing law enforcement agency. Local agencies doing forfeitures under federal law were allowed to keep some of the proceeds directly, but these forfeitures have been curtailed (the asset sharing with agencies still exists, but the opportunities for locals to seize assets under federal law or have them "adopted" as federal seizures have been reduced.)
What happens when you hit a bill rate that nobody wants to pay? (e.g. $50k/week or something ridiculous)

There has to be a limiting factor somewhere.
I use Redis as an IPC lock for our applications, too - it's quite good at it, especially since you can have atomicity guarantees with a Lua script.
>If you're so interested in freedom, why aren't you picketing Apple Campus too?

FSF activists do literally picket Apple events: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/01-27-2010/apple-ipad-protest.jpg

As far as I know they haven't done this at any Google events, but maybe I just missed it. Either way, the idea that Google is being specially singled out for criticism by the FSF is pretty laughable and you probably need to leave your filter bubble if you genuinely believe it to be the case.
While I accept this is likely true, I still have a hard time incorporating it into my thinking.

I think I spent too much time as an employee, a relationship in which every increase in salary needs elaborate over-justification. Consulting isn't like that.
Phone and tablet manufacturers and retailers do with Android whatever they want, by virtue of it being free and open source. If they thought there was any value (greater than the UX harm) in those measures you propose, they'll do it without blinking. They already modify the hell out of any device that's not a Nexus.
Are people using Atom as their main editor now? i.e. have successfully made the switch from sublime? Just wondering how it holds up under daily use.
I am not at all hostile to criticism--I have, at a guess, seven of Kenner's books at home (and now that I think of it, wouldn't mind picking up Gnomon).
I wasn't thinking about it that way. Good perspective!

For props, I imagine this would be a fundamental difference, as they're not ejecting mass, no? They're expecting energy to pull themselves through something more fluid-like.
Chocolate and chestnut roulade
Right. They could have simply launched a new app that centralized the review data that they'd already gathered from 4sq and continued to populate this new app w/ the valuable data from 4sq, and then used the two apps to feed each other. That would have been cool and not irritated their most loyal users. Also, Brand extension almost never works: http://amzn.to/1D2J4c8

I might have even installed it. ;)
Ask HN: How many of you work for non-profits or the government?
How many of you work for non-profits or the government and what do you get from HN?

I work at a Non-profit and I was curious about people like me lurking HN.

I thought that we could probably make a group to discuss about specific topics related to NGOs or the public sector.
Yeah, it seems like a welcome evolution.

Back in the old days far too many companies had very poor processes for dealing with security issues. Either it was impossible to give the report (stuck in CS hell), you'd never hear feedback (e.g. fixed, WONTFIX, etc), you may be threatened with criminal/civil prosecution, and you most certainly wouldn't be credited or acknowledged.

Now, if nothing else, at least the process is well documented end-to-end. Even if we ignore the "debate" over compensation, at least all the other problems are now solved. If you throw on top of that a small "thanks" payment for finding the bug, you now not only solve the old problems but you give people a legitimate reason for responsible disclosure beyond morals.

That's really the core of this, doing the right thing should make rational sense as well as moral sense. Then the bug finder has no real reason to do anything except the right thing. The only reason not to disclose responsibly now is spite (or in Google's case a strict adherence to policy no matter how little sense it makes).
Daniel @ RethinkDB here.
We'll release the details shortly.
This was running on 12 core Xeon servers with 2 SSDs each in software RAID 0.
There were also additional read queries running at the same time as the write queries, and the read throughput that coffeemug posted is the sustainable increase in reads/s that you get when adding an additional server to a cluster. Single-server performance is much higher due to missing network / message encoding overhead.

I realize these numbers alone are still not very meaningful and there are many remaining questions (size and structure of the data set, exact queries performed etc). Rest assured that all of these details will be mentioned in the actual performance report that should be up soon.
You neglect that Samsung is also a huge player in the mobile networks equipment business.
I wasn't getting the page itself to load - here is a cached version of the page http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jj45GHq...
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We’ve all been there.

You go out with friends and by then end of the night find yourself drunk in the back of a taxi, searching for $10 to pay the driver. For those who stumble home, singing Sweet Caroline, we applaud you.

This is where Uber took initiative.

The popular ride sharing app is often at the center of global debate as it attempts to disrupt traditional taxis while battling employee wage suits and suppressing customer safety concerns.

However, recently the service has introduced free rides for anyone who passes a breathalyzer test. The concept is called Uber Safe, their attempt to suppress drunk driving. it consists of a massive breathalyzer machine on on a sidewalk. All you have to do is take a straw, from the machine, and see if you blow over the legal limit.

If you do pass, you’re too drunk to drive. Uber will hail you a car for a free ride home.

A site has appeared in Toronto as a marketing stunt, so don’t get excited. However, with the massive turnout Uber has told users to “stay tuned” for more kiosks in more areas.

Our only concern will be the lines at any NYC kiosk when at that point, drunks will have to decide between waiting for a possible free ride or taking their chances.
ProductHunt voting activities (for 13 months) crunched and analyzed
This has a few advantages that are not apparent immediately:

1) Rocket engines work a lot better at low ambient pressure. You get more thrust for the same fuel flow. You can fly with a bigger nozzle, increasing this benefit. This is probably bigger than the altitude and speed benefits in subsonic airlaunch.

2) Air launch is flexible since you can fly a long distance to a secluded spot over the ocean and can launch in any direction. You could fly polar flights from Florida. Or low inclination orbits from California. Both of which are impossible for fixed launchers. You can fly towards an orbit's ground track to get flexibility in launch time as well.

3) If you have a problem with the early rocket flight stage, you have enough altitude that gives you more emergency options. For a ground takeoff rocket, the early part of the flight is very dangerous.

Reaching orbit is really hard. It is extremely hard with a single stage vehicle. The problem is exponential in nature.
The required mass ratio is proportional to e^(required delta vee / exhaust velocity)

For a reference design, with 3500 m/s exhaust velocity and mission delta vee of 10 km/s, you'd need a mass ratio of 17. That means the vehicle is 16 parts fuel and 1 part rocket and payload.

Helping a single stage with an aerotow to 0.3 bar ambient pressure, 10 km altitude and 300 m/s speed might just help it enough. Say if delta vee is reduced 10% and average exhaust 10% as well, the required mass ratio suddenly drops to 10!

To demonstrate what that means: if you could make the ground launched reference rocket plane to fly to orbit with a 3,5 ton empty weight and 0,6 ton payload, (70 ton wet mass), the aerotow version could replace 2,9 tons of propellant with payload, meaning 6 times the useful payload.

These calculations are not very accurate, and are very sensitive to the reference design's payload but they give you an idea of the nonlinearity.
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This implies that a programmer has zero desire to program on their own time - and anecdotally, I don't know a single person like that.

Actually, now that I think about it, I don't know a single person in the tech field, period, that treats it the same way they'd treat flipping burgers. Every single person has a (cliché alert) passion for it that extends outside the workday.
"Range Rover"
I don't see anything wrong with this at all. I certainly don't think we're dragging anyone down, considering that it's just one company's policy and people who don't like it are free to work elsewhere. It's hardly coercive, like there's some legislation banning the practice of negotiating salaries. This is a choice made by the CEO of a company. It may turn out to be a competitive advantage, it may turn out to be the opposite.

Perhaps people are responding to this in the context of gender equity. That makes sense, especially considering that this is the context Ms Pao chose to use to present the policy.

But consider this

http://www.salary.com/why-women-don-t-negotiate/

Now, that's just a link on the web, I do need to dig into this more. But here's the quote:

"Forty-six percent of men always negotiate salary following a job offer, compared to just 30% of women. And while 39% of men are apprehensive about negotiating, that number jumps to 55% for women."

So a small minority of men sometimes accept an offer without negotiating, a slightly larger minority of women do the same. Similarly, a narrow majority of women are nervous about negotiating, whereas a very large minority of men are. There is a huge amount of overlap here. Things like this really shouldn't be presented as "men do this, women do that", but they almost always are.

Truth is, there are probably a lot of men who would be attracted to a company policy like the one Ms Pao has proposed, and there are probably a lot of women who wouldn't be. It may turn out that there is a large pool of highly talented people who aren't good at negotiating salary but don't like getting paid less than their comparably talented coworkers, and that Ms Pao will get them to work for her. Other companies will get the people who are talented at getting paid more than their coworkers.

Or not. It's up to her to decide if this is worth a try.
No. Many of the remote unlock by pressing a button on a keyfob systems are vulnerable to brute force and replay attacks. The news is out there, take a look if you are concerned.
Yeah, that was canned.
Great to see this article about Neil, a warm and brilliant guy - I had the chance to meet him personally the last time the joint AMS meetings were in San Francisco.

Also, when I submitted a simple integer sequence[1] to OEIS on Thanksgiving Day a few years ago, he took the time that day to respond and educate me about some delightful related math.

[1] https://oeis.org/A168521
I would bet money a network server in Scala can run circles around Go.
Wunderground transmits user passwords in plaintext over http
seems strange. what about people who do not have passports? are they out of luck? any reasons provided why they needed a passport explicitly?
Thanks for the info. I'll look into this. The fact that we are running out of memory suggests that we're doing something wrong for this query.
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Your trolling has ruined this thread of a lively debate.
Very few people oppose nuclear power for Iran on principle. Opposition to development so far has been based on the obvious evidence that in Iran, "nuclear power" has so far been a fig leaf for developing a nuclear weapon.

The framework that the U.S. is negotiating with Iran right now will allow them to continue nuclear activities that legitimately lead toward peaceful nuclear power.
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Introducing T3: Enabling Large Scale JavaScript Applications
> In Java, you can take this a stop further, and use enums basically as enumerated instances of a class.

Isn't it half the point of java's enums? (the other half being type-safe enums).
I've had four of these drives in my home server for several months. Until I completely disabled their built-in power management, they would park the heads every few minutes. The relevant SMART indicator was on track for them to exhaust their specified rating for load/unload cycles in about a year. I haven't noticed any other problems with them yet, but I'm making sure to scrub the disks weekly and I have some other drives as hot spares to pick up the slack when the first one fails.
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This publicity stunt by Uber actually creates a perverse incentive for drinkers to increase their blood alcohol level.

If cab fare home is more expensive than the cost of the drinks needed to get you over the limit, then it makes (financial) sense to drink up.

Which sounds harmless, since Uber's agreeing to drive you home.

But if your blood alcohol level is high enough to impair your ability to drive safely, who's to say what other abilities it might impair?

And does Uber really want to assume moral liability, if not legal liability, if something goes wrong?
Judging by the commit logs I'm guessing there is at least 1 or 2 people working on Atom full-time. I'm surprised a company of GitHub's size can pull off what is essentially a skunk works project with no revenue potential and have people working on it full or near-full time and the investors are ok with that.
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Zuckerberg's sly attempt to sneak in free Facebook through Internet.org not gonna work in India.
Should Our Brains Count as Courtroom Evidence?
Just commenting to add more graphs:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/28/359419934/who-stud...

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/15/the-double-edged-sword...
"Would love to read more about how that worked. I thought my $180/hour with $1k per diem for on-site was phenomenal. Jeez, I need to charge more."

Maybe not so fast.

To me the 30k is (most likely) editorial hyperbole which is not to say Patrick didn't make $30k on some weeks.

If you can make (repeatedly) 30k per week (or even 15k per week) that's a boatload of money on a yearly basis. So I would imagine that while Patrick had 1 or 5 jobs that might have paid that much, he determined that there would not be a continuing stream of work at that rate. Multiply that by 52 and see what you come up with.

If you could continue to charge that kind of money (and perceived a continuing demand) you could most certainly afford to hire someone to offload some of the work that is done (both admin, sales and actual consulting) to less qualified people that you could then oversee. After all not everything that a consultant like Patrick does needs to be done by Patrick. Similar to what attorneys do and other consulting firms do.

It is no secret to anyone who is in business that there is elasticity in pricing such that you can jack up prices on some occasions and some people will pay those rates. As such it's possible that you (the parent comment) are charging (at the rates you are charging) less than your value. But it's also possible that you would get drastically less work if you charged more than your per diem offsite. Even if a large consulting firm is able to charge 5x as much. (Or Patrick).

As a general rule, what I have found with pricing, is that it often pays to charge on a per project basis as opposed to a time basis. I find this to be true in both how I charge (I do a small amount of consulting on the side (not the main thing I do, but close to 6 figures last year)) and how I buy consulting.

If I need something done and the person says "$5000 for the project" that is easier to spend to "solve a problem" then $750 per hour or "$1000 per hour and it will take me 5 hours". See the difference? On the other hand if you perceive the total cost of the project is many hours and you are willing to sell those hours for $100 per hour it may pay to price like that. It all depends on the circumstance.
Why would you hide it from your timelog? Reading a tutorial, if relevant for work is work. It's a large part of what we do as programmers. I never had any problems getting paid for a couple of hours spent in the evening or over the weekend on work. Well, to be honest there were clients who wouldn't like it, but those were the ones which didn't want to pay me at all in the first place.
I use it for Go exclusively because of go-plus but I would never use it for anything else. Those extra 20ms when scrolling, typing, etc are very distracting to me.
Did you read the article? It wouldn't be effective against this attack unless you are required to take some action to open the door.
topic has been covered in wired recently: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/stealing-data-computers-using-h...
But what happens when you want to start associating them on when they appeared together or fought each other? What about the different iterations of an individual character in different continuities? (Captain America was like six different dudes right?)

I think a document store is the worst way to store this kind of stuff.

imho, ymmv.
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The initial franchise agreement will cover the costs and fees associated with the initial installation of getting the wires in the ground. It's illegal for municipalities to grant any sort of exclusive telecommunication franchise.

I'm not sure what your point is, but nowhere[1] in America is Comcast legally protected from competition. You can build a new cable network, a new fiber network, or even wireless.

[1]maybe some super old franchise agreement that has been in tact since 1992 still exists but I doubt it. They are usually about 10 years.

>Marketshare isn't comparable here. You're trying to compare an (arguable) utility versus an online service. The entire analogy if flawed; stop trying to force it.

I don't see why categorizing the company as a utility really has anything to do with it. If you want to get technical, ISPs haven't been treated as utilities (and despite what journalists say that really isn't what Title II is about).

I don't see why providing internet access and internet search results are so wildly different that a comparison can't be made.
Most non-violent independentists in western countries pay taxes. Actually, even most violent independentists pay taxes as well so they can conduct their activities without attracting attention from the government.
Yeah, I completely missed that in order for kernel caching to work, HTTP has to be parsed within the kernel, and so I was making an invalid point. It happens.
Unlikely, assuming a lithium cell.
I just tried it on stock Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint, and a CentOS box, and it worked fine.
It handles relocations somewhat differently: http://www.mindfruit.co.uk/2012/06/relocations-relocations.h...

Basically, it has a new addressing mode so that you can access things relative to the program counter: RIP-relative addressing.
Is it really that dark a road to have the IRS pass a simple rule that simplifies tax filing and brings it closer to people's lived experience of keeping their finances as a family unit? They wanted to save themselves some paperwork by allowing people who cohabit as a family unit to file taxes as a family unit. How is that a long, dark road to having the IRS tell everyone how to live?
Flow Hive blows past $10M
It was emphasized as such to shareholders because they are rightly concerned that having just essentially exited the market for consumer electronics, the company should not go re-entering the market exactly as before. And so you have this arrangement with a manufacturing partner which greatly reduces the risks Nokia assumes in re-entering the consumer market.
I'd argue that the networks business is and always has had more long term value than handsets.
I've used https://github.com/chrisallenlane/cheat for something similar to this as well. Do you know how the work flow differs?
I bet somewhere in the source there is a line which looks like:

if (inclusiveEnd + 1 > size) {
return ERR_INVALID;
}

HTTP ranges are inclusive, and most likely implemented here with unsigned 64 bit integers. My guess is the author converted to exclusive range, then compared with size, as a form of validation. It passes the check, because 18446744073709551615 + 1 results in wraparound to 0.

The general solution is instead to use something like:

if (size < offset || start > size - offset) {
... // range violated
}

But you hardly ever see people do that.
On a swiping keyboard, the pattern for "Waiter" is pretty close to the pattern for "Easier", which is likely what was intended.
attenuation is related to both. Once the holes are much smaller than the wavelength though, only the thickness matters.