skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to agree with this, and I do agree with it, but the concept also scares me. It feels like rule-mongering, like winning on a technicality alone.

Occupy Wall Street failed to express any unified goals and demonstrated a lack of understanding of specific reasons why they felt grievance was justified. In many ways it was more of a mob and its message was lost.

But it's also difficult to claim that it does not represent a growing fear and pain felt by a fairly large number of people. An emotional plea if not a logical one. A representative government should have an ear to such things and the fact that it appears not to is about as clear a statement of purpose for OWS as I think history will ever have.

This is often the case with civil unrest of any kind. When a system for representing the needs of citizens fails to do so---whatever the reason---then by the notion that the powers of government are given by its citizenry it becomes important to create a message to show the extent and damage of this failure. There are a lot of ways to do this and people will find the ones that they feel might work. They might fail and pick methods which do not work (riots, e.g., which invite pollution of message, judgement, loss of support, and legitimate reason to oppose) and they might be forced into methods which are poor.

But I fear to live in a place where the government fails to hear these things for too long. Not individuals in government, either, but government.

Voting is not the only tool of civil will. It's supposed to be designed well enough to keep civil will from turning to less constructive tools, though.
It sorta sickens me that those on the pro-war side of this debate always ignore what happens in South America and parts of Africa. The rhetoric is always about preventing addiction at home, stopping a few American (or British or Australian or whatever) kids from getting hooked and having a tough life.

Never mind the destabilised countries, the thousands slaughtered, that's far away and not our problem. Jim-bob having a reduced bank-balance, a hole in his septum or a heart condition from cocaine abuse is far worse, somehow. To the outside world our countries are schizophrenic or just plain hypocritical - buying massive quantities of drugs and at the same time sending out military and quasi-military forces around the world to stop them.

The whole thing is crazy and pushes our demand-side problem out to the poorer places on the supply side.
There also wind... But solar already provides quite a substantial contribution in Germany. See this live chart: https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm.

Considering the rate at which solar power is getting cheaper, I'd say a solar power based economy is within reach.
I assume the Powerwall includes an inverter, what do they run?
"Different issues over the pond"

Well depending on which pond you're talking about, we're actually on the same side :)

" my kettle can draw 3kW :)"

True, you have some special circumstances in your country. You'd still be better off with a boiling water tap, the cost of which (even when amortized over only a few years) is the same as using a kettle (when accounting for all costs - lost energy, water, installation costs etc). So for somebody implementing this in the UK, they'd have to budget for an additional 1500 pound up front cost - which has the potential to turn into a cost saver after 5-10 years (probably closer to 5, depending on how fast energy costs will rise - which I think is fair to expect will be at a higher-than-linear rate).
I created a hologram on Microsoft HoloLens
I've played around with typography in the programming environment I'm building, here are some of the experiments I ran:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/liveprogramming...

That was about a year ago, what I have now is a bit more tame.
^ This. I have family that homeschools and it's for this reason, unfortunately. I also come from a fundamentalist background and almost all the families I know who homeschool do so to keep their kids away from the "ways of the world."

A lot of these kids (anecdotally) ended up seeming pretty weird to me. I've always wondered though if it was the homeschooling or religious schooling that was the reason, though I'm inclined to believe the latter.
Well given these are crimes against another person, rather than 'crimes' against oneself, that argument is a load of bollocks!
Yes talk to telco Engineers from the power side of the biz and they will have war stories about accidents and close misses with the Central Offices (Exchanges) DC power.

High Voltage/Amperage DC is quiet different to AC power and i suspect that building/wiring codes are going to need to be updated if this local storage takes off.
Oh but they could. Are programmers condemned to an eternity monospace typewriter hell because we are too lazy to build better editors? Will we be able to upgrade to proportional fonts before the singularity occurs and programming becomes obsolete anyways?

I've been proportional for about 3 years now; once you go with better typography you can't really go back.
Is the possibility of human level AI a highly accepted Conjecture? Why does almost everyone use that term so loosely?
> People who have hope, don't riot.

This. Riots happen because the system is broken and can't be reasonably changed. (Or at least that is the perception.)
I'm left puzzled after reading this. So riots can be effective, but the response to the last riots sowed the seeds that led to these riots. Doesn't that imply rioting is indeed a bad way of making positive change?
Freight costs are so cheap they're essentially negligible. There's a reason why it's cost-effective to make stuff in China, and ship it all the way across the Pacific to the US, instead of just making them in the US.
Utilities with electricity production are more conservative because they have technical limitation due to the infrastructure they run.

However, there is a bunch of companies that buy and sell electricity on the open market, so they have a direct financial interest to play with this arbitrage.

In the UK, another reader has calculated the best case scenario was profitability in about 10 years. (his numbers ring true to me, I calculated recently that there was no reason to take an economy 7 contract for my electricity usage using similar data) That's a lot of time even in the utility market. So if batteries not attached to solar panel are going to be profitable (in the UK), that would be a future generation.
Effective!
I didn't know about groovebackup.com

Regarding shutdown - I saw that coming - put a few favourite songs into a text file :/
It's a little bit more nuanced than that.

It's easy to argue that 'democracy is the answer' when you are comfortable and enfranchised. But flip that around – put yourself in the place of someone who is poor, continually subject to discrimination, and does not have the same influence on democracy.

The natural response of people in that situation is to say "fuck it". From their view, what's the point of engaging with a system that is comprehensively biased against them?

Now, I won't defend property destruction and looting. But I do understand how it can happen. If you feel completely alienated from society, then the advice to 'solve problem peacefully using democracy' is less than useless.
We already had 3rd party emulators running VMs on PowerPC (and they were slow as molasses), what Intel allowed was 3rd party VMs to run FAST!
Алоха / Aloha
It may be possible to use non-intrusive load monitoring to determine the devices. However, I'm not aware of any products on the market using this tech.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonintrusive_load_monitoring
The big difference is that the map in Minecraft is constantly changing which can in turn change players position and potential actions - Quake 3 was comparitively much simpler, more or less just a coordinate and velocity vector.

But I agree, there is no reason for Minecraft performance to be so bad when there are only 2 people on a server just mining one brick at a time!
There have been some pools in the past around this. You should notice that this is highly subjective depending on which country you are in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5802295

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804134
> The whole point of a democracy is disagreements are solved peacefully without resorting to violence.

Your little country would still be a British colony of peasants and slave holders.
> If I wanted to brag I'd tell you who I am and who I actually know, rather than an anecdote about a passing encounter!

Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't.

Experiments in psychology and neuroscience show how little we know ourselves; how we retrospectively justify our decisions to ourselves and others, and how we are experts in self deception. So it's entirely possible that some part of you was driven by the primitive urge to publicly align yourself with high status people, but finding that disagreeable, you then seemlessly deceived yourself with a different purpose, because of course you aren't so egotistical.

Now I'm not saying that that is what happened, and no one can ever know. I am saying it is a pattern of human behaviour.

> Actually thought twice about posting for this precise reason.

That's kind of strange isn't it, when you think about it? I assume you mean that you thought twice about posting - in case people you'll never meet might think you were bragging - instead of thinking about posting your name? That doesn't really seem to make any sense to me. I mean, why should you care what people you don't know, and in all likelihood will never meet, think about you? From a logical stance, it doesn't make any sense. But then we aren't driven by our logical brains. It's been really fascinating for me to learn about this and then to see the walls of my logical reality crumble and realise how much emotion dictates my life and how little we actually know ourselves.

Don't make the mistake that people are a) logical, or b) that you really know yourself (unless you're superhumanly gifted) and your reasons for doing what you do.

Of course I don't expect you to like this post either, since this challenges our assumptions about ourselves at the most fundamental of levels :-)...
> Doesn't that imply rioting is indeed a bad way of making positive change?

No. Nothing changed since the last riots systemically, so of course there are more riots. We are now however raising public awareness of previously unheard injustices, and by doing so (hopefully, if our system works correctly), inducing positive change.

Riots are happening because people literally don't know what else to do. The system has failed them. The system has decided it's OK for white cops to kill and imprison and mistreat black men en masse. Very public trials aren't yielding change, poor blacks continue to be terrorized, prejudiced tickets and arrests further amplify vicious cycles of poverty. Riots are acts of desperation that get a lot of attention (for better or for worse, depends on the system, many variables are unknown).

When the system moves in response (to correct in injustice at hand) that is when the riots will stop.

(Unfortunately that means either oppression will reign or true social change will be effected.)
Am i the only one who thought of Interstellar after reading the abstract ?
I hold the opinion you should not be paid to make software, in most cases, in this era. It tends to be an instrument for control and manipulation.

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>Google Maps is optimized to a T

example image used in the article shows most countries with their capitals, and others with some random cities highlighted, truly to the T!
Trapper Keeper
Apple Sales Trends
There's a good few lines about that here

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/4.0.0/#...

of note (to me) is the replacement of significant mono modules with the MS equivalents; Decimal, LINQ, Threading.Tasks, and on - a list that looks like what some people might call the 'tricky bits' ...
Sounds similar to hurd. 32bit only, graphical ui, bsd applications. Theoretically usable as a daily driver.
Practice. That’s the only way.
he didnt, he just printed what google showed him
We had emulators, not VMs.
Technical Debt and Software Craftsmanship [pdf]
When convenience trumps the Code of Conduct. A true story
Except that reading the claims... it really is that broad. Stupid Patent of the Month is going far too easy on this one.

The patent is rooted in a provisional dated 2003. Even in 1953 it would be a stretch to call this novel. Filing a patent like this should be considered defrauding the patent office and should carry criminal penalties.
Its a bit like the ipv6 band wagon 20 years ago I or anyone with a trivial knowledge of the internet/networking, could have pointed out that developing a new standard with NO thought to inter operation would not work.

Also having it developed by 19 university types and one guy from Bell labs was asking for trouble
Thanks for the reply: i added HTTPS and donate/license info.
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Everyone here seems to be flagging this to hell now, so I'm guessing not very well.
Prosecuting theft and jailing thieves leads to a safer society with a lower incidence of theft. There is no indication that drug prohibition causes a significant reduction in use, and many indications that it leads to a society that is far less safe.
Now Fossdroid in on HTTPS
That you (and "most people") would prioritize being late for work over the livelihoods and suffering of others is why the system isn't being changed.

Instead of just seeing "riots are happening" the goal is for more people to ask "why are riots happening" -- with hopes of unveiling blatant injustices within our system.

That said, engaging in the conversation here is exactly a product of the riots, and exactly what is needed to effect change.
LED's are available in various color temperatures, including 2700K (commonly referred to as 'warm white' which is basically the temperature of incandescent). It's true that the dollar-bin Chinese LED's have all sorts of bad characteristics that used to be associated with all things LED - pale color, bad spread, bad (or no) dimming capabilities, etc.

It's 2015 though - take a 20$ Philips Master LED for example (I decided upon those for myself so I looked into them more heavily; I have about 20 in use now, with another few boxes in my basement awaiting installation). The GU10 socket halogen-replacement version is available in 3 temperatures and 3 spread bundles, has a 20k burn hour rating (vs 1-2k for incandescent!) and can be dimmed very well using a 50$ leading edge electronic dimmer.

I'm no tree hugger - even purely economical (apart from the convenience of not having to replace lamps every year), in 2015 it doesn't make any economic sense to buy incandescent (in those places where it's possible to buy them at all...) for all purposes where the light is used on a 'regular' basis (more than an hour a day or so).

Of course it does require an initial 'investment'. But one that would be spread over 1 or 2 years - the normal replacement cycle of incandescent bulbs. Throwing out working incandescent bulbs to replace them with LED is not rational either, of course.
I guess it comes back to a very basic legal and moral issue. I.e. should the law assume that everything that hasn't been specifically legislated for is illegal or assume that everything that hasn't been specifically legislated against is legal?

Or to put it more simply should we whitelist or blacklist?

In the whitelist scenario one has to condone drug taking to legalize it. Meanwhile in the blacklist scenario one has to merely not condemn it.

Personally I prefer a blacklist situation.
Twitter’s multibillion-dollar mistake happened five years ago
"A riot is the language of the unheard".
Well, if cost is your main priority, then startssl.com is the obvious way to go, since it provides free certificates.

This "certificates are expensive" argument was only valid a decade ago, we have free certs now.
>>Our social contract is about protecting ourselves from each other, not from ourselves. Drug use that negatively impacts the lives of someone other than the user should be illegal

I kind of agree with you there, but where do you factor in healthcare and other costs that need to paid by all due to addicition? How should they pay for their treatment?
This thread from a couple of days ago should be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9458082
Would they ever have done so?
“Argument list too long”: Beyond Arguments and Limitations
It has often been pointed out that taking prohibited drugs is a victimless crime. Your examples of theft, burglary, robbery and fraud are not.
I highly doubt it would have happened. The British government abolished slavery when it was easy to do so, but they looked the other way in regard to slavery routinely. And they actively maintained the nearly equally horrific caste and zamindar system in India. With money rolling in from plantations it's highly questionable whether the UK would have abolished slavery until perhaps the 20th century.
Yes, it's really exciting. I'm convinced that this kind of storage will open big new markets.
That site forwards me to a 407 error in chinese. Dead end for me.
> I know I can't tell an oppressed person how to respond to their oppression.

Actually, it sounds like you understand it quite well.
Google to fully encrypt ad services
Thanks, I had been searching but completely missed that
I come from a school where courses are few but practices are many, you have to be active in your learning to keep youself from forgetting.
With practice your courses become mechanical applications and can't be forgotten, just like riding a bike.
support any effort to get rid of them as a nuisance.

How many people are you prepared to have killed on your behalf to achieve this?

The current situation with National Guard deployment is reminiscent of the setup to the Kent State shootings, almost exactly 45 years ago.
So you handle deployment of apps inside a corporate network, and have no idea on how to manage you own CA?

How does you corporation handle actually important corporate sites that nobody must access?

It sound to my like your corp has some issues on this side.
Can grid arbitrage and time-shifting solar co-exist? Some clever software might be able to predict your energy demand (e.g. based on seasons and past usage patterns) and your likely solar output (this time based on seasons and weather forecasts) and make the maximum use out of the battery.

I'm also wondering if the same software is going to be rolled out to Tesla's cars so that they act like Tesla Energy when plugged in overnight.
The codebase looks beautiful! Is there a list of features that you're looking to implement, for anyone who'd like to contribute?
I suppose this must be better than storage heaters. Not sure how big these are outside the UK, but basically they use off-peak electricity to heat bricks that then slowly release the heat the next day. We had them when we were a kid and they were rubbish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_heater
Yes. Democracy is also just a decision-making mechanism, the spirit of which is a hope: that by giving everyone voice, we can grant everyone their deserved human rights and dignity.

Democracy fails when it is manipulated for abuse and harm.
In your idiolect. They're synonyms.
Yes, it would be interesting to know if there's an advantage of connecting so many cells in series

Most systems limit themselves to something like 48v as you said (I think 48v is the threshold of "being dangerous")
A certificate given by the domain registrar makes a lot of sense to me. My registrar holds my data and indeed can certify the identity of the domain.
Also interestingly, how much money you need to have to be able to invest 10K into a single risky investment. Realistically you would either have to be irresponsible or be quite comfortable already.

500K today is a very nice sum, but it is only life changing if you are in the category that would not have had the 10K to invest in the first place.
Well, I can only relate to this from my own perspective.
In my own home town, there were massive protests over closing of a local coal mine, just last year. The problem is, that in my opinion miners are already the most privileged group of workers in the whole country - they are paid well above the average, they get to retire after only 15 years of work, they are all unionized and impossible to fire no matter what they do, they pay themselves huge bonuses 3 times a year, and closing the mine would result in them getting a years-worth of salary as a severance pay.

That's all despite the fact that our local coal mine has been bleeding money for years. There was no profit shown for almost a decade, they have resisted any plans for reforms or plans to sell the mine to private investors. Not to even mention that the management was hugely corrupt, consisting of family of family and friends of friends, where you could get a great position just by knowing the right people.

When it has finally reached the point where the mine could not possibly operate any further and had to be closed down, hundreds of those miners went on the streets, blocking traffic, burning tires, destroying local shops and tipping cars. As someone who lives in the same city - I cannot possibly sympathize with those people. They behaved like the worst mob, holding everyone else hostage just so they could remain in their comfy job with huge benefits.

I do understand that Baltimore is not the same. Not even remotely. But rioters who destroy other people's property are not gaining themselves any favours.
Is there anyway to model the energy saving costs of these in like a small town?

I mean if power stations only had to produce N/kW/h at a constant rate to power every home in the region then would there be any energy savings? Instead of the typical, scale back at night, boost up during the day system?

If we could calculate the energy usage of every home down to the Watt then surely there wouldn't be any waste?
Thought exactly the same, they lost me as a customer over the wording on their released statement and email.

Hell it wasn't instantly clear why you needed to reset your password and the link to make it clear was way smaller than the link to do anything else, pretty dirty pool.
What Happens When a Photographer Is Made an Inspector of Prisons?
I feel the idea of riots is to say "Hey neofeudal overlords, this is over the line. Get you dogs to behave, or the city you own will burn down."

Of course it will not make the moderates agree. But the moderates were okay with people being tortured or murdered by police for fun.
Here are more things riots accomplish:

1) They make us talk about motives and where the reaction is coming from.

2) They inspire empathy. They often start out as peaceful protests that go ignored -- they can be understood as the suffering going unheard.

3) They require urgent response. They are an extreme reaction, so they must have an extreme reason. And in some cases the reasons are valid (mass oppression & living in terror qualifies, I'd say). Invalid cases: Sporting events, bigotry.

In re #6:

> 6) They end up costing a lot of money, on the order of 10s to 100s of millions of dollars. Legal fees, fees paid for civil rights abuse, property destruction, hospitalization fees, and more. Most of which tax payers foot the bill for. A drop in the bucket, maybe, but this money could do a lot to improve a community instead of repair it.

You could just as easily count the number of incarcerated blacks, lives taken by cops, time caged for crimes as simple as not being able to pay a fine for "manner of walking in the street." Looking at this money in isolation without considering the poverty on the other side is myopic.
Drug usage goes hand in hand with theft. Once you're addicted to drugs, you have to steal to pay for that habit. It's hardly a victimless crime.