skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some home owners are doing this. Charge the batteries with solar in the day and top up with offpeak if more is needed for the early morning (say if you are using electricity for heating in winter). Not entirely off the grid but minimizing costs. I have talked to one industrious hacker who has two battery installations. He charges one off offpeak and feeds it back in for a profit in peak times while charging the other on solar and doing the same thing (because providers cap the amount of current you can feed back into the system as an individual). I am looking at getting myself a solar + batteries + grid system so it doesn't seem so far fetched that investors may be planning something similar.
In this case, 'a' isn't a local variable binding though.
A Stanford professor claims to have invented a better Bitcoin-like system
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On the flip side this post comes to mind
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/10/13/be-careful-not...

How much value is being generated by the founder(s) being at events like this?
I imagine making the rocket sturdy enough to withstand falling over would be prohibitive in terms of both costs and reduced capacity, so it makes sense to them to ignore this problem completely and work on perfecting the landing so that the rocket does not fall over.
... and there's the inevitable downvote for criticising Apple. If you disagree with my assertion that Apple is providing a need for software freedom in 2015, please post it. I'd love to discuss it; voting buttons are no substitute for discourse.
Same here. tp;dr - too pushy; didn't read
That it did, and it almost succeeded.
There's a bit of science and chemistry involved, but most of the info about these nootropic supplements is simply anecdotes.

The problem with studying these supplements is not everyone reacts the same way to them and things like diet and sleep tend to have a dramatic effect on what works and how well.
And what if it's some of the many thousands of people who happen to work at Google donating money? The data you have cited is incapable of distinguishing between the two. A spot-check of the top name shows a politician who just happens to be a candidate to represent an area many Googlers would be expected to live in.
well spotted, that should have been C99, of which many features are not supported with the ms compiler. i believe that the variable array thing was pulled in C11 because so few compilers ever bothered to support it...

i see problems with it regularly where we use c code that goes through clang just fine, but cl complains. not putting declarations at the top of a file or scope is the obvious example that comes to mind and constantly snags people...

that being said there are even C++ problems, although smaller. for instance, its impossible to use the preprocessor variadic macros across cl, clang, gcc without getting warnings from at least one of them. i like to run with warnings as errors and the highest warning settings possible.

i'm not going to bother digging up references for informal conversation... but thanks for catching the mistake.
Thank you for taking the time to comment. As I make clear in the post, it's not the fact that you charge that is the problem. It's the misleading tactic of calling startups, making us present, asking us questions, then e-mailing us "Congratulations! Your company is great and we are selecting you after screening. You can now pay us $1,400." If you are not explicit when you reach out by e-mail in the first place about the fee, and if you don't mention it on the phone call - you are wasting many people's time. Please look through the comments in this thread.
> "So, if it doesn't exist, how is it making you bleed?"

> (My American friends told me that I did not handle that well. My Italian friends told me that I handled that masterfully.)

That's a great story, and thank you for sharing it. Though at the risk of getting downvoted, I think I know why your [American] friends were telling you that you didn't handle it well.

Aside from the lawsuit potential (which is real), it doesn't really advance the situation in a way that helps anybody - either you or him. Clearly he feels intimidated by you, and that's why he's mentally unwilling to acknowledge you and/or your project. But after you assaulting him[0], he's not going to suddenly change his mind and acknowledge that you beat him. Rather, he's going to double-down, and now have even more reason to believe that you're unstable/immature/unprofessional, or whatever he needs in order to convince himself that you're not worth paying attention to.

As for you, it makes you feel better, but it also doesn't really get you what you ultimately want (him admitting that he was wrong). You win the battle, but the "war" goes on, with both sides even more emotionally entrenched in their existing positions.

[0] yes, this would qualify as assault
Hilarious. Do we have enough of these to justify a pronunciate.io?
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How high did it get? Does it burn the whole way down (I assume it uses those little X-wings to 'fly down?) When does it start the descent burn? How fast is it going at this point? How much does it weigh, what sort of forces are we talking about? How hard is landing this puppy in terms of human achievement? Top 10% of tricky things humans have so far achieved?

[edit] wouldn't it be easier to hover it a few meters above land and grab it with some big robot arms?
Respectfully, I've never had a client dictate the choice of front-end framework. That seems insane to me. Has that happened to you?
hmm, what does your page look like?

For me I get three ads on the top, but then I get two regular search links to LA house cleaning on yelp before you get to the Google places block.

And even then, the second Google place in that block is Homejoy, and all the links for the places go to direct sites...you have to click the explicit link below each for the "Google+ page" to get to those pages.
That destroyed two Space Shuttles and killed their crews.

Both the failing field joints ("O-rings") and detaching external tank insulation weren't quite bad enough to kill a Shuttle, were all but ignored, until of course they couldn't be ignored.
That's straight from Banks. As is the other barge, that is to be named "Of Course I Still Love You".

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/01/elon-musk-iain-m-banks-just...
That's good advice, but the problem is that the ??? comes at the point where your only sources of prospects are morally equivalent to oDesk. No matter how good you are at qualifying and closing deals, it does no good if deals.filter(:is_qualified?) == []. Based on Patrick's account, it sounds like good consulting work mostly just came to him — he commented late in his consulting career how strange it was having to actually go out and hit people up for work lately. You do need to close the deal when you find a good prospect, but we're still jumping over the ???, which is where you get that steady stream of good prospects in the first place.

That's why my best guess is "luck" — because I've never heard anyone say anything about what they did beyond, "Eh, I found good clients and became a successful consultant" or "I did not find good clients and struggled in my consulting career."
I'm hoping it does or I'm firing myself. The last few months dealing with the BCC acquisition and getting SF running and AR settled down simultaneously have been rather rough (a combination of raw hours and how many were between 1 AM and 7 AM due to time zones).
Which person are you projecting yourself onto here?

The CEO doesn't have that choice. He'll get replaced by the investors.

The VC investors don't have that choice. It's not their money they're working with. They've promised their investors, the limited partners, that they'll go after high risk, high reward scenarios. If they don't make those gambles, they won't get the capital needed to run.

The limited partners also don't generally have that choice with this money. They are people who manage large pools of cash, and part of what they need is long-term, high-reward investments, which are necessarily high risk. [1] They have other money in safe, low-return investments. This money is for go-big-or-go-home bets.

This is the devil's bargain people make when they take VC money. There are other ways to build businesses, but they aren't the kind that will let you spend $100m-2b before you get to break-even, which is apparently what it takes to build a social network.

[1] http://www.theequitykicker.com/2010/12/01/where-do-vcs-get-t...
Well it seems I don't use 'distro' properly. I guess it only concerns Linux, but I personally don't see any reason it can't be used for OS flavors in general. Hell, the website distrowatch includes BSD and everything in between. Is there a similar phrase for BSD variants?

And ZFS is on a lot more than just FreeBSD, even if it's not official. ZFS started on OpenSolaris, not on FreeBSD. OS X has a port. Then FreeBSD got it's port. Linux has a stable port. And there are NAS OS's shipping with it like FreeNAS, TrueNAS, and a device called ReadyDATA by Netgear that has it.

I was mostly surprised at this: "The good stuff that probably won’t make it to NetBSD 7: Stable ZFS." So you're telling me ZFS isn't considered stable on NetBSD? It seems to be that it's pretty stable on quite a few other platforms, some mentioned above.
good point...

i do think it is pretty hard to stop caring though, what happens generally is that if you start to get that demoralised you will leave and find something else. :)
err... oh. :)
How do you want me to describe founder burnout? Like it was my call? He was the founder, not me. Heck, I'd like to know the stats on how many founders DONT burn out.
How much memory is sufficient these days. I mean with all the development work, I can max out my 8 gigs of ram.

I understand that it would be difficult to fit 16 gigs or 12 gigs of ram in an 13in laptop.
I don't see anything wrong with this. No one complains when programmer only teams turn in something ridiculously ugly and complex that could never achieve consumer adoption. So why should we complain when design/ux/business/beginners turn in the other side of a project? Just laying things out and producing content and thinking about the user experience. Both sides of talent are needed to make quality entries anyway, so railing against this is just going to drive off the designer, artist, and other fields that are needed to produce good work.
ha, I couldn't help myself, and I always get a chuckle out of Apples failed attempt to call it "sexy", I mean thats not even close.

But yeah, probably on the pronunciate.io, only need a half dozen for MVP right? :)
I prefer a salary as a full-time remote developer. No one looking over my shoulder and checking to see if I'm at my desk. My cumulative hours do not matter--only the quality of my work and meeting deadlines. I've been working remotely for five years and work less than 30 hours per week.
They are planning for when things go wrong, which is why the landing ship is unmanned and in the middle of a big exclusion zone in the ocean.
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Even cooler is how they're pulling off these tests on production flights.
I suppose they haven't ruled out ritualistic cannibalism, even if it sounds like they have.
To each his own. I prefer drugs typically associated with decreased work ability and increased aptitude for fun.
You could probably do a lot of good on a small scale just by naming the one you're talking about, even if that reaction is rare.
If it's slow motion, I suggest changing the YouTube setting to 1.25x and watching it at that speed. It seems quite natural actually.

Edit: Or maybe 1.5 or 2x! I don't know..
As if this weren't impressive enough already, according to a comment made by Scott Manley[1] it sounds like the final maneuver (where it appears the rocket is making a fairly strong lateral correction) is entirely intentional. Not sure if anyone here can confirm or deny the claim, but apparently the trajectory prior to landing is not supposed to be exactly above the barge as one would expect - I understand it may be an attempt to limit exposure/damage to the barge in case of failure.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9I55o8hQgs
So what you want me to believe, is that the list of Congresspeople going outside of their duties to citizens and asking other governments to not regulate against Google, who also happen to have all collected substantial donations from Google employees are doing that completely objectively and coincidentally?
What I hope actually kills all these products is a decentralized p2p open source system which lets humans find and rate other humans for whatever goods or services they may be selling.

The payment system is getting there (e.g. Bitcoin). The consensus algorithms are being worked out, the distributed trust systems are coming into place (e.g. Stellar). The scalable p2p discovery and mesh is pretty much already working (e.g. BitTorrent).

Why do we need to pay a 10% tax to companies to do this? I mean, as a civilization. To think the algorithms could never exist that would let me find a professional ______ near me which is, a) an actual person, b) someone who actually does this work for a living, and c) has real-life honest reviews from people who have actually paid that person to provide that service... it just doesn't seem like an intractable problem.

If you add up all the expert help, trusted reviews, on-demand this, cloud assistant that, we're talking what, at least 100 billion dollars of rent seeking?

Whether or not such a system has an optional secure anonymity layer (a la OpenBazaar) is just a matter of how you want to boot-strap the initial user base. Needless to say, "50% of the world's drug trade also happens to be conducted on the same code-base" may or may not be a great answer to the "how did you hack this system" question.

I think the "1099 Economy" is actually a great thing, I just think we could do without the gatekeepers.
On the scale of the individual it doesn't make much difference if the impact is via placebo or not. To extrapolate from the experience would be unwise. Yet for any one person to live only through population-wide statistical significance robs that person's life of the joy of figuring out what works, even if sometimes it only works for them.
people who want to get ahead will do their best to cheat without getting caught, and will take unreasonable risks... doing whatever it takes to succeed. this is not new.

personally i prefer to dumb myself down with a bit of weed... :)
If you think that was dramatic, look up on YouTube some rocket explosions on the launchpad when the tanks are full.
I had to read your statement a couple of times to understand it. You're saying that the old syntax is totally incompatible with the new syntax? It's a shame, but I'm sure it was necessary.

The various other improvements are all things I've made use of in real code. Format is now a tool that you can reach for before you need to go to a more heavyweight templating lib (like Jinja2).

'{p.type}: {p.kinds[0][name]}'.format(p=Plant())
"I don't want to live in a world where someone makes the world a better place better than we do!"
They could put data caps. They could support it with ads. Both of which give neutral access to full open internet. If it has to be _few_ domains only, they could let the user chose his preferred domains on the 1st of every month.

But no, they want to sell the poor out to the highest bidders.
This reminds me a whole lot of those "modeling agencies" that charge reasonably attractive young women with no hope of making it as a model for photo shoots.
Its tail is wagging way to much. Landing will always be a crap shoot if they don't get that stabilized.
Unless your post is blasted into oblivion it could just as well be fat-fingering an upvote on mobile.
Clearly, you also did not read the comment you were responding to, because it was not about the Fire Phone. :)

That being said, it is interesting that Foxconn built the Fire Phone.
This thing is sweet!!!
I find that I tend to use SingleOrDefault/FirstOrDefault, combined with an immediate null check, so that I can throw an exception with a more meaningful error message than "Sequence contains no elements" or "Sequence contains more than one matching element", particularly in Release builds that strip line numbers from log messages.
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I really expected to see nyan cat bouncing across the screen while waiting for that site to load. I'm not sure if that would have been better or worse.
I often use my family bible when going across borders. it's always worked as proper identification, and is always accepted.
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I'm saying that if you want to make the case that a couple of rich people are buying influence, you need to so better than "BIG NUMBER!". Like evidence on how many people that big amount of money came from. If it all came from two people, you'd have a case. If $85k came from 10000 people, your case might be a lot weaker.

Also, many people would consider advocating for the interests of their constituents to be exactly what the duties of a Congresscritter are.
I recently spoke to a few people who have worked on these large scale municipal projects. We think we have a hard time managing active software projects. These projects have change orders alone worth well into the 10s of millions. There are so many moving parts, literally, that it is a miracle they get completed at all.

I don't find the choice of photos particularly inspiring, from an artistic sense, but it is nice to have a peak into that world.
Confirmed: I couldn't force a BS using the originally supplied range numbers, but changing it as per above to 100 did the trick (windows 2008 non R2 & 2012 R2)
I can't figure it out either. It's really difficult to determine the speed because of the scale involved here.
> And there are the illegal ones like amphetamines that have a significant effect, but will also cause a great deal of harm the more you use them. So, there seems to be a clear correlation between the size of the effect and the harm done.

There's definitely legal amphetamines, non-amphetamine stimulants (modafanil, methylphenidate if you want to put it there), and lots of literature statistics about what is and isn't a dose which can perform harm, and often a classification for the older drugs as GRAS. There's things which may behave like a stimulant or can replace a stimulant, but aren't really stimulants (bupropion, atomoxetine).

If you're talking about Meth, well, then, yeah. It's illegal and often harmful. It's also not likely to be pure.

For the most part, anything which people consider a performance enhancing brain drug has probably been used or posited as a treatment for ADHD or Narcolepsy. It's often a stimulant or a reuptake inhibitor, usually relating to dopamine in some way. There's a ton of FDA-approved drugs out there that meet this description.
You mean thrust vectoring? It's intentional, it's how the rocket steers itself.
Yeah, that guy sounds like an asshole, but the GP sounds like an unstable violent person. Bringing it up now to apparently brag about the situation doesn't help but reinforce that...

You just beat the crap out of his robot. I don't see how trying to stab him with solder spikes is handling anything "masterfully".
https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-atom/issues/24
Startups are hard. Very very hard. Every step. Every day. Rewarding but hard. Building, funding, traction, revenue - each one more impossible to attain than the previous. Burnout of the founder is the norm.

Hence my anger at the parasites who waste the time we already don't have.
I'm now very fond to see old ambitious project being alive without trendy interest and funding. I don't even think HURD is as revolutionary as it was when it started, but still a very (very very) nice contribution to biodiversity. And, of course, the OSS spirit embedded within.

I suggest people to look for Samuel Thibault past talks about HURD to see how different layering of components open for fine usages (mounting remote .isos from FTP without suffering too much).
Argh this has been annoying me for so long. You sir are a godsend
Sane people would disapprove of spiritplumber's actions because it's not ok to physically assault someone just because they're being a dick. The potential for lawsuits shouldn't have anything to do with it.
Judging from the ensuing explosion there was still fuel left over.
i'm chuckling a bit. but then the whole GNU ecosystem is about catering to a tiny minority with special priorities... inside of an even tinier minority of users of open source OSes. I'm sure I am just an outsider who doesn't really understand the needs or the motivations...

Linux does well in the server world, and Apple get a lot of attention, but even then, between them, they account for something like 4% of OS installs.

I'm also not sure there is much need for GNU. The licenses are absolutely awful for things that claim to be free... sometimes if something is using LGPL with exceptions it will see some serious reuse (Qt as an example) but the GPL license is a great way to stop a project ever reaching its full potential due to its viral nature.
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I agree, and this works with our current level of technology. The problem is when the technology advances far beyond what we have today.

For the sake of argument, assume we have the technology to read someone's thoughts beyond any shadow of a doubt. Innocent people are no longer convicted as a result. Great, right? Well, not exactly.

Even if such technology was used only to acquit, the very fact that a defendant was still undergoing proceedings would be an implicit form of guilt.
Pretty sure this is the only reason "gay" people get married.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_driver
> I wouldn't be suspicious until I read ".. fine of 6.4 billion .."

EU fines for anticompetitive behavior are assessed as a percentage of turnover. As a basic rule, it is set at up to 30% of annual sales related to the infringement (modified by aggravating and mitigating factors) multiplied by the duration of the infringement, plus a base amount of 15%-25%, and capped at 10% of annual turnover.
I replied to Elon's tweet asking for full-speed video.

Fingers crossed :)
Heartattack.
"Scuzzy", always. Anyone who tried pronouncing it letter-by-letter would sound hopelessly uninformed.

(I had been familiar with the SCSI interface for many years before I ever heard of the term "scuzzy", so the joke was entirely lost.)