skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A common problem seems to be fear of breaking things. That seems to be the opposite of the purpose of version control systems! I had the same experience using a CAD document management system. I wanted to not only backup the repository but also be able to extract files from it manually, both of which turned out to be very hard. I also kept local backups of files because I didn't trust the overly complicated system. Who knows what switch you might set wrong and destroy other people's work.
"We failed to secure licenses from rights holders for the vast amount of music on the service."

That's one way of putting it. I'm sad to see grooveshark go but always wondered how the hell it was legal every time I used it. I guess it turns out it wasn't. To be honest I'm shocked it lasted this long.
Hi, I'm sure many of you could probably blow this out of the water, but I'm pretty proud of this little app. This is my first app. Having graduated with a degree in Biology I decided to teach myself ruby on rails to put together a "news map" because I felt this was missing when I was looking for my first place to buy, and I wanted to get a vibe of a local area.
Struggling with dependencies on Debian Jessie via apt-get from the mono package repo. Anyone managed it yet?
mercator is so ridiculous, why not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2%80%93Peters_projection
Maybe a solar oven? Unlike Li-ion batteries and solar cells, you can make a solar oven without mass production and using materials fabrication technologies available 2000 years ago. (You can make it cheaper if you use modern mirrors instead of polished bronze.) Typical solar cells are 16% efficient; your pre-medieval-materials solar oven will be about 50% efficient.
Twitter also recently cut access to their firehose in a similar embrace, extend, extinguish manner (sort of).

Only Twitter acquired Gnip can keep using it whilst access has been cut for companies like Datasift.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/11/twitter_cuts_off_fir...

http://blog.datasift.com/2015/04/11/twitter-ends-its-partner...

https://blog.gnip.com/twitter-data-ecosystem/

I'm not in a position to say if this is as bad as the 3rd party rugpull a few years ago, as it may only mean people have to pay Gnip for the same data instead.

http://blog.datasift.com/2015/04/21/processing-twitter-data-...
Awesome project! Reminds me of something like OpenTTD (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTTD) et al. Good job!
Legacy of Messenger what would look like mercury under acids? – Tech 24 Seven
working link: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardenin...
#5 - I'm young so I think it's interesting (and super informative) that people believed in a naming convention that immediately tells you what hardware you're getting. The rise of frilly landing pages and just-look-at-the-computer-case-not-the-numbers marketing makes it frustrating for hardware-oriented shoppers like me to find what I want efficiently (basically I think #14's "pretty box" solution gained a little too much traction in the marketing aspect)
I think your parent commenter's point was, the implied other half to ending the drug war is replacing that policy with another one. What policy does it get replaced with? Just a free-for-all market that a crazy literal libertarian would like? Some sort of regulation similar to our current legal drug market? What about rehabilitation programs? How would those be implemented and what would they cost? Suddenly you've got fiscal conservatives on your back.

Ending the drug war is good, but what do we replace it with?
It is especially paradoxical since hazelnuts are a lot easier to chop...
Prisons are fantastically expensive. Just by diverting people out of the criminal justice system you save a bunch of cash that you can use for health care.

People engage in stupid stuff every day. We provide treatment for the jaywalker who didn't look before they crossed the road; we provide treatment for the clumsy window cleaner who falls off a ladder; we provide treatment for the school children injured in poorly supervised school sports; we provide treatment to people who've smoke tobacco; we provide treatment to people who are addicted to alcohol (and also the drunk people who fall over); we provide treatment to obese people; so providing treatment to people addicted to drugs fits in with providing treatment to people who've made all those other unwise choices.
Or anyone who lives on Earth with a vested interest in limiting carbon emissions.
As much as I love it, Python is far from "good enough" for writing a system library.
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I'd hope it would be PBKDF2. But then again, they could have just specified that. The lack of specificity makes me think otherwise.
Solar power, local wind turbines, , etc. We need to get off the grid and start working on isolated energy systems.
Some background on the design choices that went into creating this: https://certsimple.com/blog/recreating-unix-rosetta-stone
Luckily, we have technology that helps us translate between languages almost instantly. This allows people to communicate without completely eradicating an aspect of their cultural identity.
The customer targeted has got to be Coinbase, right? There was an email sent around a few weeks ago, clearly spam/scan but seemingly sent by legitimate coinbase.com servers. I received something like this:

subject: colin, We've got a message for You
mailed-by: em.coinbase.com
signed-by: coinbase.com
Can someone tell me why when you pair you take a photo of the watch face? I'm guessing it just connects over bluetooth, so how does the photo help?
Plus one to spacechem. Not only does it teach the basic programming elements, it goes really deep into handling concurrent operations.

I can't recommend it enough to help explain programming concepts, and as a brain teaser for my colleagues.
Well, the flip side is that we on the pro-gun side can make a solid case that guns also aid those who others try to rape, assault or even kill (but of course not defraud) by, for example, providing an equalizer to the physically weaker. E.g. I couldn't help but notice that the members of the mandatory class for my state's concealed carry permit where strongly weighted towards the older.

Encryption backdoors at best do nothing to help against private actors wishing physical harm on people, and the death toll of those killed by governments and government aided private actors (for the US, include KKK types including or aided by local law enforcement) suggests we don't want to give this sort of power to governments.
Are you satirizing some hypothetical ignorant anti-solar activism movement I've never heard of?
ScratchJr for tablets (iOS, Android). It is much better than Scratch for young kids (the mouse and keyboard are from the 20th century): http://www.scratchjr.org/
> If you look at Apple's trajectory over the last 15 years, you can see the vision was consistently outlined from the very beginning—the Digital Hub strategy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9046oXrm7f8).

That's not really the case though. As Jobs outlined it in that video, the Digital Hub strategy was to sell Macintoshes by positioning them as something you could dock your consumer-electronics gadgets, mostly from third parties, into. It was a plan to sell hubs, not spokes. This strategy had limited viability for Apple, because a typical consumer wasn't likely to think "I've just bought this $500 camcorder, so now I need to spend twice that or more on a Mac in order to offload and edit the video". If they were going to use any computer as the digital hub for their camcorder, it was probably going to be their Windows PC. That's probably why iTunes for Windows was such a difficult and long-drawn-out decision for Jobs: because it was a decision to mostly abandon the Digital Hub approach in favour of selling more of the spokes. Then Apple's slow and initially reluctant embrace of the "post-PC era" with over-the-air iDevice updates and cloud storage to partly displace iTunes means that it's increasingly taking nearly the opposite of Jobs' 2001 stance: "We're clearly migrating away from the PC as the centrepiece" and "We don't think of it in terms of the PC business anymore" are things that Tim Cook could say today without really startling anyone.
Can i have Atlas?
I wasted most of my youth sitting in front of the TV, I don't want that to happen to my own children. I'd rather them do something more constructive with their time.
> power during cheaper off-peak times

Pretty sure my rate is the same all the time. I wonder what percentage of electricity customers have variable rate pricing.
For Instapaper users: I'm doing the same thing with the help of IFTTT.
There is no every-day use case where the difference in light perception from an incandescent bulb is different, or even distinguishable without measurement, from an LED bulb. Feel free to try it yourself in a light studio, or otherwise, please cite any studies with modern lamps that conclude that the 'light quality' (by whatever metric) of an incandescent bulb is higher (that is, 'higher' as in 'makes a material difference for normal use cases', not 'in the lab using our spectrometer we measured a difference').

As always, there are people (analogous to 'vinyl produce a richer sound' idiots) who have 'opinions' on light quality, but well, we all know what they say about 'opinions'. In 2015, it's plain nonsense to take 'light quality' as a reason not to use LED light for domestic purposes, full stop.
I'm surprised A-GPS didn't get a mention. There must be data leaked when your phone uses MSA to obtain higher resolution for the rough GPS location that it has. (less so with MSB)
Tell that to Bernie Sanders:

http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/bernie_sanders.htm
Redesigning CloudFlare
As a first approximation, replace it with the system in Portugal. That's how ukigumo kicked off this thread.
As I've learned more about heat pumps I've been wondering why we all use air-source cooling for central A/C. We are cooling our condensers with hot summer time air when the temperature is much lower just four feet under the yard.

The energy requirements would drop way down by cooling the condenser with a water ground loop.

Ground loops are seen as expensive for installation, but I don't understand why. It's just plastic tubing buried in the yard. I've been wondering if a hole digging robot could lower the price. The carbon and money savings would be huge if we could bring down the cost of ground loop installation.
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It's odd. On the one hand, what dlss said. On the other hand, we keep moving the goalposts. AI always seems to be defined as "a computer doing something a human can but a computer cannot", with the obvious recursion.

A better question would be how powerful would a human level AI actually be. Personally, not very. Or rather, it'd be fragile as all get out. But that is another matter...
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> only 2kW? 2kW is enough to power any residential, single-family house for 95-98% of the time

You obviously don't live where it's hot. I live in Houston, TX and while I rarely run the A/C right now, in another month it's going to run on average 15 minutes per hour, every hour, for 3-4 months straight. Highs in the low 90s to high 100s and lows in the 80s (F).

I have 2.5 tons of A/C which is pretty moderate. The condenser draws something like 3kW with an 8kW surge and the furnace fan is another 500 watts. I live in a fairly modest house compared to a lot of people, I'm sure there are places that 5 tons is more common.

In California where humidity isn't really a problem and it tends to cool off more at night and there's nearly always great solar, this seems like a great solution. But don't forget that not everywhere in the world is the target market. There are some places that are very different in terms of electrical consumption.
I know someone has already posted a google cache copy of the page (because 403) but archive.is has a properly formatted archive of the page which is nicer on the eye:

https://archive.is/CkEn8
I don't know, making hard drugs easily available in the country with large number of people living in poverty could end up not too good... I think we should dig history more on that, China and opium comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China

I agree that war on drugs can't be won because of economical reasons, though.
well that is somewhat inaccurate, there are EU wide laws and regulations.
Yea my rate is the same too. I've lived in many places, and only in Canada I had variable rate.
Alcohol is drug like any other. I guess everybody seen some people get aggressive even on moderate alcohol high. Tobacco is probably the worst drug ever consumed by man, considering amount of death and suffering it causes...

None of drugs are a blessing to mankind, but to consider A OK and even promote it, and destroy people's lives and promote drug cartels for B, where many times B is not more harmful then A is... stupid. And we as society want to evolve and get better, right?
I thought so too until I discovered the Philips Corepro bulbs. I replaced every single bulb in my house with them last year. They're a massive improvement on the CFLs we had before. The only thing that took some getting used to was the lack of light shining upwards - ie illuminating the ceilings.

(I know this reads like a sales pitch but I am genuinely just a fan)
I've been on ComEd RRTP for 6 years now and I've been wanting a nicer way to shift load or arbitrage price drops.

The Telsa device, as others have mentioned, seems like a rebranded solar storage device. I suppose the intelligence would be in the inverter/grid cutout mechanism anyway.

This system would run my home for about 8 hours in the winter and 4 in the summer before emptying, so I would need a lot more smarts in the box to try and anticipate price spikes without running out.
Except this won't work with files bigger than 5gb. It might be worth the time to do it right.
Unfortunately, the "war on drugs" is really a social control issue. Look at what it's successful at, and what it doesn't care about being successful at.

Experiment 1: Imagine what you'd think if an enemy nation had a "war on drugs" with similar results. (Highest incarceration in the world, strangling/shooting even children of a formerly enslaved ethnic minority in broad daylight, etc.)

Experiment 2: Ask yourself if you think that politicians systematically use rhetoric to basically lie about a policy's true intentions. (Without necessarily being aware of lying; powerful interests may support oblivious people who act properly.)

Experiment 3: If the "war on drugs" were really about health, what policies would be implemented? (No need to assume a supernaturally effective government; just one which makes reasonable errors but moves towards accomplishing the goal. For example, consider three policy types: prevention, treatment and punishment. How would you rate them in terms of priority, given abundant studies of their effectiveness and cost?)
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As someone who rents an apartment with no garage and has a traditional gas-powered car, I can echo your sentiment and claim that Tesla has had zero impact on my life and that this announcement doesn't change that. I sincerely hope that Tesla's many innovative business efforts improve society in some major way, but right now they're still just a high-end automative company that's exploring the renewable energy space.

I'm not trying to discount anything they've done, because it's forward-thinking and technologically impressive, but it's not like Elon Musk has saved the world just yet.
I always felt like Twitter was the Mosaic browser who tried to turn itself into AOL.
Ni-Cd batteries are so bad for the environment that the EU is forcing companies to phase out their use. Saying that Lithium Ion batteries are better than something that's been banned for most purposes because it's so toxic is not exactly high praise.
To read a QR Code with configuration in it?
Thanks! I take pride in the quality of my code.

Pick some logic you'd like to see work (example: right clicking a door will toggle the door state) and just implement it. Stop by the IRC channel to chat and we can find more things for you to do, too.
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1) Slightly faster than requesting to pair with a BT device and entering a passcode.

2) Security benefits. Nobody can pair without being pretty obvious.

3) It’s a slick user experience. Feels like sci-fi when you do it. They could have used a QR code, but it’s like a swirling dots animation thing…
Bluetooth pairing involves a four digit code (though many accessories just use 0000), so this eliminates the need for user interaction.
I've always heard it in my head as Urrr LllYeh (sounds a bit like you are saying "oh yeah," except in a guttural voice, with your mouth full of blood)
Shopify makes their money on the transactions and their pricing model scales up to $180 per month.

I honestly believe that this is an MVP and the "Pay Boost" might being interest free after they figure out how to conquer the regulator hurdle of loaning money.
I'll fix it when my game requires update files of >5GB :)
The OP just tweeted that his site has been 'slashdotted'. https://twitter.com/mathewi/status/594120911684534272

He has reposted it on medium: https://medium.com/@mathewi/twitter-s-multi-billion-dollar-m...

Could someone update the URL to that please?
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A new payment network for the internet
How often are DNS caches configured to ignore TTLs? That sounds awful.

I assumed the grandparent simply didn't understand the need to lower his TTLs.
I have a friend currently struggling hard with this. They know that going to the school for help is not an option for this exact reason. They are going to be looking out for the school first and the student second. That's really unfortunate because the school has everything in place to be able to help the most.

I'm at a loss for how to help, beyond just being there as much as possible. They are doing all they can to get better, seeing a psychiatrist, taking medications etc -- but they are still having suicidal thoughts on a daily basis.
Tesla doesn't own most of the patents related to the Gigafactory. They're licensing the battery technology and manufacturing techniques from Panasonic.
This will cause people to suffer in silence rather than seek help. Her brother may not even be the only casualty.
It runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, and BSD, and probably more platforms if you tried hard enough. Build instructions are in the README. I do most of my development on Linux.
Meet Ted Lieu, the new privacy pit bull in Congress
Rather than banning it completely, why not set some limits? Also kids learn by modding existing games, see the recent Minecraft / Visual Studio news.

I agree, wasting time on shooters probably isn't a good idea, but there are very good story driven games (monkey island type of games) or strategy games (sim city etc) that kids could get inspired by.
"I'm ... passionate about text-mode in general."
Grooveshark shut down by music industry
>> Probably we have different view on who is a drug addict.

Maybe we have. One of the reasons I was hacked off at the first comment on this was that it's not even talking about addicts - "drug use goes hand in hand with theft". This is just not true.

>> Hard drugs addicts (like heroin, ketamin, etc) have very large criminality involvement, because those drugs make them fall very fast.

I've never heard of anyone stealing to support their Ketamine habit either!?! K causes various bladder problems, and while it does seem to be a little addictive isn't really very high up the scale I don't think.

>> Maybe small proportion of drinkers, but huge proportion of _drunk_ people cause problems.

I will defer to your knowledge. I know we have problems with alcohol in the UK but I get the impression Russia is more familiar with this problem! I agree actually, that decreasing use of alcohol in our societies would probably be a really positive thing. And that it would be next to impossible. Perhaps if everyone had access to some cannabis they might not bother so much? (I'm only half-kidding there).

In general I don't think addiction is a good thing, and I don't think anyone should be encouraged to take drugs of any sort, let alone the really nasty ones. I'm very pro-legalisation but that doesn't mean I want to hide the damage drugs do to people and to society.

I just think it's way off-mark to say "all drug users are thieves" !!
I'm just excited about maybe having a relatively cheap way to do whole house backup. Living in Florida we experience many power outages a year.
That's a bad ass looking watch too! I want one!
>My two problems with this is - 1) A number of people who recreationally use the substances keep telling me "You've gotta try this" - Its none of your business what I decide I want to take or not take. (Note this also applies to alcohol)

Does it also apply to board games, computer languages and wood varnish? Why not?
Do you ever select an artist or song and make a "Radio Station" from it? I find that to be a great way of finding new artists to enjoy.
NYC has it now, but I think as generation/fuel prices rise (in the long-term) and utilities get slightly more sophisticated, we're going to see more on-demand pricing as utilities seek to apply the same price changes they pay generators for peak-demand supply to consumers.

In a situation where many people were doing load shifting, I think this could even benefit those who aren't doing load shifting themselves (by reducing peak demand across the network).
...Why would a company need to run their own CA to do this?
You still don't get it. It's NOT a 'shame'; it's not about you. The watch is too 'big' or you have 'small' wrists, doesn't matter. What's the size of your wrist? What do you think is the size of Molly's wrist? Have you even seen the Bradley watch in the wild or tried one on?

I've seen it thrice and the second time was on the wrist of a very short blind lady, a lady I presume is smaller than you. She didn't care that the watch might look too big because it was still comfortable on her wrist and the size enabled her to quickly tell the time.

I apologize if I'm coming across too harsh but think about what wrote for a second: you are complaining about how a tool for the blind might look on your wrist! The 'suitable' size of a watch changes with the times, and by the way 'big' watches are in fashion right now (1), but that's not the prerogative of the blind...

(1)https://medium.com/@flyosity/inconvenient-truths-about-the-a...
"Drug use _started_ as illegal"

Sherlock Holmes was portrayed as a regular cocaine user, and occasional user of morphine.

At the time in Britain these were legal.

BTW, the "beer was considered a safer drink than water" appears to be a modern myth. See http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-wate... for a summary. It may be that beer was considered more fortifying than water.
In my experience, at least in the midwest USA, electric companies give you a choice between a flat rate or "time of use" pricing. You can pick whichever you prefer, and switch between them if you want to try a different one.

"Time of use" charges more for kWh use during peak hours and less during off-peak. Depending on your usage patterns it can be cheaper to do time of use pricing.