skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I wonder if there are social
> benefits from a transport infrastructure
> that requires us to stop for 45 minutes
> to recharge, not just the car but the
> body?

Would they be able to outweigh the social benefits (and reduced energy use) of traveling 45 minutes slower?
The growth of distributed solar + storage (i.e., zillions of residences having 10kW arrays and 25kWhr storage) is accelerating. Projections I've seen suggest that this distributed storage (which doesn't belong to the power companies) will be far larger than utility-scale storage such as discussed in the article. This presents real challenges in how to control that distributed storage and pay its owners for storage-related grid services.
Is it an insult or a plea for reasoning? No, I have a Bachelor's degree in CJ, but outside of that, if the primary issue is the determination to pursue charges, then what happens if there are no actions which precipitate charges?
If you really want to reduce the animal pain in the planet there is only a realistic way: To have less animals and more plants.
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Yes, I do, and that's why I'm laughing at what you wrote. Just how do you arrive at a numeric probability for an event for which you have no way of assessing the likelihood of occurring?
I think it's a deliberate choice on HN to not have it because it promotes hive-mind behavior/opinions. You can see your own comment's points for kicks though.
I mean, it looks a little better, but I still feel that the watch face is unnecessarily large. It doesn't look proportional. And while the rectangular face of the Apple Watch is evocative of Casio watches, it looks proportional to the band and the wearer's wrist.
Apparently you didn't.
It actually can be that price multiple. Pumped hydro is one of those fast response storage technologies that can supply power for high price premium ancillary services (transient supply/load matching, peak shaving, etc.).
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The answer, which I'm confident that you know, based upon your allowance that perhaps the attorney is making a falsified claim, is that there is nothing, at that point. Charges for different crimes require different levels of evidence. Charges for the same crimes, committed in different circumstances (motive, for example) require different evidence (and intention). Charges in different locales require different levels of evidence. All these facts, and plenty more, are far beyond the scope of an uninformed Arstechnica columnist.

Edit: the fact that someone saw fit to down vote this comment is proof of idiocy, in and of itself. Just because you don't understand how the criminal justice system works, is no fault of mine.
It's fun. I've already got one on the App Store (I think Apple has been rushing the review process on apps for the Watch). WatchKit is limited, but it's fun to push those limits. And I'm betting at WWDC we'll see a more fleshed out framework for interacting with the watch.
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And, potentially biased, from the Arstechnica side?? That's an understatement, to say the least. I can say, with a fair amount of certainty, that nearly every, if not every writer on the Arstechnica payroll, is absolutely biased toward the defense side, in this case, and just about every other one. Scrape their site and return the pro-law enforcement vs negative-law enforcement articles, and there will absolutely be an enormous bias present.
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I too would like to know this.
Yes. This is the grid owners' nightmare at the moment. Their old business model is rapidly dissolving as the price of solar + storage falls ever further and more electricity users essentially disconnect from buying grid power. That revenue loss hits grid maintenance expenditures directly.
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Well, maybe just one "really"

What is really hard is finding decent firmware engineers. Ones who care, and who can write secure code.

Even harder, finding a management chain that values security and that is willing to pay for it, and its continual upkeep (because security is a process, not a feature that you can complete and move on from).
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I'm having a hard time picturing a local police department in Arkansas having the technical skills needed to make use of this malware. But maybe they paid someone. Or it's a false flag. Who knows.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925375
If law enforcement is on average generating more negative newsworthy incidents than positive ones, then the unbiased thing to do is to publish a proportionally higher number of negative articles. You'd have to weight the incidents by importance and see if they are more likely to publish less important negative articles and less likely to publish more important positive articles.
I'm told it's already done.
That's interesting -- do you have examples somewhere?

Are you saying you write an parser-specific parser generator in Python for every problem, with the goal of producing readable C or C++? (As opposed to the sometimes unreadable output of parser generators.)
It's no surprise that cops are criminals. They're the only taxpayer-funded gang.
Discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/32jmf8/stdthreadscoped...
> The others just have to believe the Apple watch will answer a need that isn't met by any other device.

Like being a smartwatch that is designed to interface with the iPhone? I'd love to get a Pebble, but I've heard they can be buggy with iPhones.
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Turn your snark and shitty attitude down, please.
1. Open JS Console.
2. Copy and paste the following, but don't submit:
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3. Wait for the timer to hit a time you like and hit ENTER to record the timer seconds and tic MAC.
4. Repeat until you're happy with the score.
5. Paste the following into your console and hit ENTER:
$.request("press_button", n, function(e) {
console.log(e)
});
> If you read the prior article, linked in this one, the original author of Nginx is allowed to expound on this himself. An experienced Ops team can assemble a number of open-source components and custom code to accomplish some of the more advanced functionality in Nginx Plus, but I think it's saving more than a couple hours of customization. :)

Can you elaborate? I'm able to do almost everything with haproxy, including hot reloads, client-based SOA, frontend/backend traffic. I'm not sure what Nginx Plus gets me on top of that.

Disclaimer: From an ops team.
I actually wrote a tool[0] to attack gorilla sessions that are mentioned at the bottom of this, and gave a talk on some security functions in Go.

The big take-aways from my talk. Go doesn't have a lot of unsafe functions.

HTMLTemplates package and exec package are very resistant to common web attacks, so much so that I had trouble writing vulnerable code to XSS and RCE

As for the tool that attacks Gorilla Sessions, I found a lot of people on github who were not initializing their session securely. Most people in the first 30 pages of github search were doing it wrong. This is most likely a pretty widespread issue. It seems they didn't realize this was an AES key...The blog post is not completely correct saying it will be used for an HMAC. It will...but it is also used as an AES key.

[0] https://github.com/steakejjs/G2B2
I don't see any details about breaking the stack (just the HTTP stack). Maybe you can request arbitrary ranges of files and they get cached in a way that lets you reference them as ISAPI filters. I'm grasping at straws but I'm not feeling particularly creative right now.

I was also being slightly sarcastic. I'd take the bet this is a memory safety issue, but there's a chance it isn't.
As far as experimentation goes... I think I'd probably go gay for a bit after 300 years. Might as well right?
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I love how they use such fancy language to describe sandwiches.
I agree with sandboxing, but a problem is that by using something like seccomp-bpf, you're turning highly portable C code into a highly platform-specific and even architecture-specific system. (Well, it won't be architecture-specific if you use the old plain seccomp, which is probably all you need.)

You also need to deal with serialization and deserialization of the parse tree, which isn't super hard, but people still get it wrong.

Writing parsers is already hard, but writing secure parsers is at least 2x harder than that, or maybe 4x if you have to port it to 3 platforms. There really needs to be some kind of "libsandbox" for parsers.
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If you haven't read Ramez's books, you're missing out. Check out Nexus, and then the sequels. Without a doubt, the best sci-fi I've read in a long time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_%28Ramez_Naam_novel%29
One thing a few countries do (at least Denmark, not sure where else) to cut out most instances of direct-debit fraud is requiring that the first debit from a new merchant is approved by the account owner. This might not technically be a direct debit, though, but is the electronic adaptation of the old "giro" system to function mostly through the direct-debit machinery. When a merchant wants to set up a new client's payments, they send a "giro" request, which is basically a bill with some codes. The client could pay this in the old-fashioned way by taking it to a post office and paying it there in cash; the post office then transfers the payment to the merchant. But what most people do nowadays is log into their online banking, enter the giro #, and say they want to pay it with direct debit. That authorizes all subsequent bills in the same series (i.e. for the same product or recurring subscription) to get direct-debited automatically. But merchants can't normally just pull directly without this initial authorization.
This, too, begins with a false premise: that journalists are equally likely to seek out positive and negative stories, and to give both of them equal importance. That is a naive assumption, unfortunately, and the facts of reporting - bad events make for good copy - prove it entirely false.
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Reminds me of Paganitzu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganitzu)
I think it's a childish and nonacademic worldview if you think the only value in another post is if you agree or not.
>controlling aspects of other people's lives that don't affect others[...]opposition to two people of the same sex being married, which is purely their business.

It is blowing my mind that you can write this immediately following a massive national controversy over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the ability of religious businesses to decline service to same-sex marriages.

>some moralists simply oppose change as a kind of moral.

Conservatives argue that a working society is an accumulation of attributes that have stood the test of time and reached a stable equilibrium with each other, and that making even small changes have to be carefully examined because small changes can have large repercussions. There are congenital flaws in conservative thinking with regard to how and when you recognize change is finally needed, but the principle is a lot more sane than the other extreme.
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Technologies also have risks.
If the risk of a technology is the vast devastation of life it should not be used.
You have said multiple times that the outer wrapper was CC, and the offline, inner wrapper was KC. All they need to do is infer it is CC output, either through online attacks, anomalies in its statistical distribution, block size, etc. Also, certain modes like ECB have watermarking attacks, which inherently reveal that ECB was used.

RC4 is a common stream encryption which can definitely be detected. In contrast AES seems much harder.

It is called a Distinguishing attack. See:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/176.pdf
http://www.security.iitk.ac.in/hack.in/2009/repository/bimal...
http://elligator.cr.yp.to/elligator-20130828.pdf
http://cr.yp.to/streamciphers/mag/053.pdf
http://christina-boura.info/sites/default/files/KeyDifferenc...
Surely Elon Musk has the cash to buy an island?

Or lease one?
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What happend to/at redhat?
My knowledge of this comes from the dot com crash 15 years ago. I'm pleased that the employees now come ahead of the tax man.
Not office space so much as housing.

"But for the tight limits on construction in California’s Bay Area, they reckon, employment there would be about five times larger than it is. In work that has yet to be published they tot up similar distortions across the whole economy from 1964 on and find that American GDP in 2009 was as much as 13.5% lower than it otherwise could have been. At current levels of output that is a cost of more than $2 trillion a year, or nearly $10,000 per person."

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21647622-land-centre-...
I just realized that my wording was pretty vague. I would err on the side of not changing your attitude. I say this primarily because using one persons reaction (or even a few peoples reactions) to something you do as a test for deciding if you should reevaluate yourself would make you chase your tail like a dog: there would be no end to it. But yeah it is mostly about intent, in my mind. Disagreement is necessary but not sufficient for change.
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For comparison: Manhattan issued permits for 4,856 new housing units in 2013 [1], despite having half the land area of SF and already supporting 4 times the population density.

[1] http://www.nycrgb.org/downloads/research/pdf_reports/14HSR.p...
My game theory teacher wrote a book, Global Collective Action, where he modeled global warming as a game between n countries and came out with a n-person prisoner's dilemma. the game is essentially the same.

And I think this belies the problem of global warming: it's far enough away that the actual consequences are distant, but emitting carbon is easy now, and each person's footprint is small enough. Denialism is a symptom, rather than the problem itself: a rationalization of our actions to justify the now.

So, I guess the problem with the eigendemocracy system is that it has no protection against mass self-delusion, though I think the same could be said of any system. Could the eigendemocracy also break people into completely unconnected networks, each thinking the other n networks are evil?
Does anyone know the details of the deal? Equity of Founders Vs VCs at acquisition? How many rounds of funding did the company take? How much did the founders make?
One thing to add: Electric cars. They come with energy storage in-built.

By rough calculation, if 10% of cars in my city (Perth, Australia) were electric, their batteries could supply the entire city's demand for duration of about 2 hours (or 10% of demand for 20 hours etc). This could work really well for demand balancing and peak shaving - overcapacity (which in Perth is massive, since the policy is to maintain supply even on extremely hot days, when demand shoots up and generation capacity goes down) and spinning reserve could be tremendously reduced.

I suspect some good software and a little hardware will be needed to account for the owners' needs optimally.
If you have Windows Media Player then you have DLNA and everything and there you have to use HTTP.sys to listen on a http port.

That's called Home Sharing IIRC
I wonder if codifying this in law specifically would counteract what happens in reality (DA's operating by creationist logic when the perp is of Blue ethnicity).
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I'm with the Raspberry Pi Foundation (who are dropping Python 2 and moving completely to Python 3 in all their educational materials).
Interesting to see how many of these sandwiches I (a Canadian) have absolutely no experience with, and which ones are super familiar. (Anecdotally: most of the sliced bread ones are familiar, a lot of the hard & soft roll ones are new.) Cool!
I was at KeenCon when Kyle did the opening talk in front of the audience and I remembered thinking how well-spoken Kyle was and how awesome could be if I could pull it off as well.

How funny it is to look at the Startup School video now - a great story about Keen IO not getting into YC and then raised $11M+ from Sequoia!
Exactly. ;-)
+1 for the Strang videos. He's an amazing lecturer. e.g. in Lecture 1 explains very clearly matrix multiplication in the "column picture" and the "row picture". More intuition than you can shake a stick at:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...

This tutorial is also pretty good for geometrical intuition: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~eero/NOTES/geomLinAlg.pdf
Do a web search for unconscious bias.

Google has been doing a bunch of research on this lately.
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The interesting projects I've been keeping an eye on are the port of Emacs to Guile and the Haskell-based Yi editor. Guilemacs will be an incremental improvement to Emacs, whereas Yi could be something entirely new.
Good point. What I really wanted to say was "American" in terms of cultural bias, but "developed" in terms of social structure. Got neither right, I suppose.
If I say that an inanimate object is "sexy" and the woman nearby me feels offended by it, certainly I don't want her to feel bad, but I have to be entirely honest and feel entirely blindsided by her state of mind. If I talk about night being dangerous because it is dark and visibility is low and a dark skinned person nearby gets offended, I really have to wonder. I mean as a white guy I guess I have to assume that everybody around me is assuming the worst of me? You don't have to answer that. And I would hope that the person who feels offended would try to meet me in the middle, as it were, by evaluating their overreaction to the situation while I would try to evaluate the language I use, but seriously we are really going down a rabbit hole here.
Eh, I'm no Bush fan, and the historians will sort it out 20 or so years from now anyways. There were plenty of bad presidents in the 19th century to compete with.

Hyperboles are almost always inaccurate.
I haven't used RethinkDB, but I would assume the answer is no. Choosing to use map/reduce is basically a declaration that performance is your lowest priority.
For me the TS is a tool to ensure my code is not using deprecated API. This is a partly reason why Facebook is also pushing typing to JS with Flow.

Edit: And Guido is pushing it to Python with PEP 484: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/

It's inherent problem with dynamic languages, you have to read all new release documents and migrate your code. With typed code I at least can be somewhat sure I'm not using deprecated calls and such just by compiling.
I'm neither pro- nor anti-nuclear. I'm not afraid of it and recognize that it has value (I really like the idea of using it for base load generation with wind/solar), but I also think it's a very limited solution, due to its expense, complexity, and political difficulties. If we can build a purely solar/wind/storage model that is inexpensive, safe, and uncontroversial, I'd much prefer that.
Even Paris, a city that has banned high-rises, has a population density about 2.5x that of San Francisco. I realize SF doesn't want Miami-style condo towers everywhere, but there's a lot of room to densify just by putting in more mid-rise buildings in the 5-6 story range, rather than having so much of the city be low-rise.
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The problem is, where is the line between empathy and anthropomorphism? How can you tell if the animal is actually feeling the way you think it is feeling, and that you are not just projection your own emotions and assumptions onto it?
Compared with the vast devastation of life which is already taking place as a result of climate change? I'll take my chances with the nukes.
LT didn't bring any new inventions, emacs, self, morphic, CL, they've all done some aspect of it 30 years earlier.

LT has shown however that you can make a load of money of kickstarter without delivering a product, but people will still throw money at you for building the next big unfinished thing (see their new pet project with a broken architecture called EVE).
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Actually I think it's quite common, it applies to any site not busy enough to justify a dedicated server. By the long tail principle that will be the majority of sites on the internet.
First, ciphertext is ciphertext. They'd probably be able to determine it's a block cipher and what the block size is, but that's about it.

You can tell mode somewhat reliably (I've hit 75% confidence or so) by the entropy content of the ciphertext, and I've never done a Markov chain longer than a native word so I'd assume that gets better the longer your chain is. I would also assume people much smarter than me have compiled heuristics that are more useful than just determining the mode.
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Someone care to explain the downvotes? I refuted and/or clarified an unhelpful comment. And I'm correct.
established sites with good content go out of business day in and day out... that happens when they don't have a good functional design and when better options come along.

If they are the only game in town, then I will put up with bad functional design and if needed crawl on my knees to solve a problem of mine.

I remember years back trawling through multiple expertsexchange pages to solve some coding issues.. Now I don't as better options have come along...

Why is the same not happening with craigslist, cause they do the basic job well.. have a functional designed site which solves peoples problem easily.
No, I'm not arguing that Westerners should adopt solar as a form of aid for Africa. I don't see how you could have concluded that from what I said.

And narrowly measuring "cheap" in cost per kwh does not address my point - that the up-front cost to get power at all is far cheaper for solar/wind + storage. A village is not a city. It doesn't need a gigantic power plant, and can't afford one. Look at it this way - I could buy myself a can of soda for a buck, or I could buy a bottling plant for a million bucks. In terms of cost-per-liter, the bottling plant is a huge bargain. But I don't need a bottling plant! It's actually useless to me. A can of soda? That's useful, and scaled correctly for my budget and needs.

I don't think this is hard to understand.
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I often miss the Chicago food scene as I lived there for about 2 years.

That town really takes it to the next level in so many different ways.

FULL DISCLOSURE: It's also where I discovered my heroin habit.