skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll find about 50 million people in middle class in India, who'll earn about $1k a month. Once you buy it, ship it, install it etc, I think $5k is a pretty typical cost figure.

That's quite steep. It's nearly 50% of your income. Also consider that as a rule, generally, the less affluent you are, the smaller percentage of income will be 'disposable' income. i.e. if you make $100k, you might have $60k in essential expenses, the remaining 40% of your income can be spent on savings or non-essential consumption like holidays. But if you make $5k like an average person in India might, you'll be hard pressed to not spend the vast majority on essential spending. So an investment that's 50% of a 1-year income may sound reasonable, but not when 95% of your income normally goes to essential expenses. That'd mean that you'd have to forgo 10 years of your entire disposable income to finance this.

Now how essential is it? I've traveled both in Africa and Asia and am familiar with powercuts (hell, I'd get em monthly in Montreal, too!) Generally though, it's not something I'd spend a lot of money on to fix. Cooking and heating is still gas powered. Essential lighting tops out at 100W, no need for a $3.5k battery that can deliver 20x that power. My smartphone/laptop are battery powered.

I mean, don't get me wrong, power cuts suck and nobody likes them. And for businesses (different story) they can be a disaster. (e.g. check out the World Bank 'Doing Business' reports [0], they look at power cuts affecting industry. It's a big factor)

But for homes? Most people cope just fine. You lose your TV and maybe your wifi if you don't have mobile internet, the rest can be managed.

Anyway India is obviously going to become a huge market, but that's a pretty long-term thing. You have hundreds of millions of middle class consumers in OECD countries who have the purchasing power and different motivations (environmental), backed by governments that are shifting to pro-solar, and huge profits-first industries that are seeing solar drop to super competitive prices within the next 10-20 years. India probably won't be a huge market in comparison. China perhaps, they're bigger, have more solar capacity and more purchasing power.

As for the scooter, you can buy 5-6 of them for the price of installing one of these, new, let alone second hand. And they're an essential part of transportation for which having nothing, or public transport is often not a viable alternative.

[0] http://www.doingbusiness.org/reports
Out of curiosity, why is the HN Folklore not fond of MMM? I mean, you don't have to take it religiously, but pouring over his blog made me think a lot my career plans.
Both Subsonic and the unofficial DSub can be found on F-Droid.
Addictive! Would be great to have some other success metrics, like oldest cell (rather than largest), or cell that has been through most splits.
Well, users will give you quite some important data, you should at least say who you are and what your story is on the page, no?
You didn't read the article.

The central point is that nerds don't become popular because they don't put the time in to be popular. They'd rather spend it on other things.

None of that is different to your comment. In fact you're agreeing by saying that it comes down to social awareness, which is essentially putting in the time to be popular.
This is amazing, I wish programming was more like this.
I have investigated this thing and it looks like there are lots of certificates issued by `Vodafone (Secure Networks)` for the hosts like https://vox2365476.mynet.vodafone.it/main.cgi?page=index.htm...
Public are the certs that can't be used for signing stuff, private are basically self-signed certificates (with some percent of error due to the way of detection).
Apple have always been known for excellent accessibility in their products.

There was a story that came out when Jobs died about how he'd personally intervened when a bluetooth update(?) broke the software a kid in a wheelchair was using.
With Apple at Its Side, IBM Grasps for a Shiny New Future
Not a theorem -- you only get those in pure mathematics. But a proposition with a great deal of evidence behind it.

On the face of it, the options are these. (1) Maybe minds are what brains do, and ultimately physical in origin. (2) Maybe minds are immaterial spirits of some kind, and brains are just a distraction. (3) Maybe minds are immaterial spirits of some kind, and brains are how they interface to the material world.

The clearest evidence distinguishing these -- which heavily favours #1 over #2 and #3, as it turns out -- comes from seeing what happens when a brain is permanently or temporarily impaired by physical damage, drugs, oxygen shortage, electric shock, etc.

If #2 were right, those things shouldn't affect your mind at all; but of course they do, so #2 is out. So dualists generally prefer some version of #3: the mind is no more created by the brain than a concert is created by the radio you hear it with, even though destroying the radio stops you hearing the concert.

But now imagine that you have an electronic box that plays music, and it turns out that if you damage it in one way then the violins all start playing out of tune, and if you damage it in another way then the music is all OK except that the singers go la-la-la instead of singing the right words, and if you damage it another way then every time you play sad music it stops working for a while. And another kind of damage leaves all the music kinda correct, but it's performed mechanically and boringly and emotionlessly. And another kind means that whatever you do to it it only performs sad 19th-century German songs about love and death. You'd quickly come to the conclusion that it isn't just a radio; it's somehow generating the music itself.

The effects on the mind of messing physically with the brain are rather like that. Injuries in particular places can cause very specific kinds of disability -- a patient who's mostly OK but can't remember the names of any vegetables, or another who has lost the use of one arm but also lost the ability to recognize that that arm doesn't work, etc., etc., etc. It's all exactly what you'd expect if mental functions are implemented by the brain and damaging particular bits of brain damage particular mental functions.

It's not a theorem; none of this is quite proof. It could be, e.g., that your mind is operated by an angel who watches for damage to your brain and interferes with the mind in just the way that the brain damage would produce if the mind were just a product of the brain. But it's that kind of hypothesis you end up needing, if you seriously attempt to reconcile the observable facts with a belief that minds are separate from brains.
>I then ask if, hypothetically, there was a drug developed which produces intense happiness for one hour but had no side effects, caused no long term damage and was totally benign, would it be morally acceptable for a person to take that substance

Being morally acceptable is just a tip of the iceberg.

Consider this: playing video games is perfectly legal, morally allowed, and the escapism and progress usually triggers some form of comfort and happiness. Still, there is a lot of people who try hard to limit their gameplay, to focus on their work, school and other activities. Procrastination (like reading Reddit/HN/Facebook several times a day) is quite similar.

My understanding is that to increase focus to the comparably unexciting work, you have to limit the activities that are easy, exciting and rewarding.

For some it is easy because they love their work so much, the work is not mentally draining, or they never tasted these easy and rewarding distractions. For others, it is a conscious effort and a life-long struggle to be productive and not spend your day on Facebook with maybe 3 hours of real work.

I believe that as drugs become easier to obtain, side-effect-free and happiness-inducing, the struggle with procrastination and escapism will be that much harder.
Awesome. Wonder how it would fare against journals with more specific fields though.
Exactly my thinking. Nice to have one thing less to install on a new Jenkins node, for example.
did u make?
Until supports for DANE and DNSSEC becomes widespread, unless it's a site for personal use, self-signed certs can't really be trusted by third parties.

(BTW, if you're not using a conventional CA, you'd best off being your own CA, and signing your certs with a CA certificate you've generated rather than simply self-signing the cert. It's a little more trouble in the short term, but it means that each time you subsequently need to generate a new cert, you don't need to put up with warnings everywhere because it'll be validated by your own CA cert. The downside of this is having to install the CA cert everywhere. That's what I do for my private stuff. There are tonnes of tutorials online on how to do it.)
Using code generation.
> There seems to be some sort of taboo on getting high for whatever reason.

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)

The second issue is the real reason - There's not a problem with the majority of these drugs in their pure forms, but you don't have any guarantee what you're taking is what you think it is. At least when I walk into a pharmacy for X or Y, there is some accountability - the pharmacy doesn't want to stock bad batches of the drugs as they'll get closed down/imprisoned; The drug companies don't want to ship bad batches - it's a legal nightmare for them if someone experiences bad side effects from the drugs. If I buy from guy X on the street, and it's 50% cocaine and 50% rat poison - what recourse do I (or someone who is dependent on me being financially/personally) have against them?
More Boeing 787 issues – Generator controls shut off after 248 days
This is my fear. The "War on Drug" really is a health issue, but most people I know that are against the war basically want to smoke more and more pot and/or Libertarians and the reply to stop the war is not and we can help more people.
Penrose Binning
Rubbish. LOC is a measure of size. How well it is put together is entirely something else.
Seeing that it is done in ada, at least it shows the system architects have a clue about large software systems.
[IANAL]

GPL comes into play if the source code of a GPL's application is modified. For example, it applies if you modified the source code for Octave.

The source code that you write for Octave to execute is typically not subject to GPL. Considering the case where you typed in code from a textbook for a course is illustrative. Typing in the code doesn't make it GPL'd and the copyright remains as before. This means that unless your thesis contains code that modifies GPL'd programs, GPL doesn't come in to play. [1]

If that's the case, I'd recommend considering something like Creative Commons unless you have a strong desire to actually enforce a more restrictive licence. However, sponsors ans/or your university may also have license requirements, so you may want to consult an attorney.

Good luck and congratulations.

[1] and in that case you are well on your way to making the modifications available.
Ubercool.

Question about nim: from looking at https://github.com/def-/nimes/blob/master/src/nes/cpu.nim , I wonder: is there way to give the no. of cycles and instruction encoding with the "op" template, so those 256 byte arrays get built automatically?
Would this be sort of like libthread on Plan 9/plan9port? But a bit nicer?
Anyway, really cool project.

Though I'm kind of bummed that libthread is as obscure as it is...
The world's thinnest transistor is just three atoms thick
In a strange way I'm sort of hopeful the MBAs of the world continue to make these mistakes. In today's world of technology they are out of their depth and in my opinion in most cases are no longer qualified to be in the positions they've traditionally held.
That's an interesting use-case for small-group tap messaging that I hadn't even considered. Time to write something for Wear!
> I'm surprised they don't also cite the first war
> against drugs

Being a British publication, presumably they'd consider the Opium Wars - where the Brits fought to be allowed to sell the Chinese junk - as the first drug war.
I fully agree with #1, but how do you go from a currently-imperfect solution (which could be improved over the years, moving towards a self-signed cert default solution which by the way we are looking at in http/2) to "the goal is to reduce competition"?

Mozilla is one of the most consumer-friendly companies in the world, and all I can see is you trying to undermine their efforts. Are there issues with the current state of affairs? Sure. Are they at fault?

You've been downvoted because your comment reeks of gratuitous negativity, not because a debate is not welcome.
Single sentence extract:

> He goes to the counselling centre but instead of offering any help, they call my mom to come down and then at 5 p.m. that day, hold a meeting with a dean and five other staff where they promptly dismiss my brother from William and Mary and ban him from College grounds.
I Heart Portugal. It is my understanding that Portugal couldn't go as far as they would have liked due to trade agreements with the U.S. Do you know if that is true?
This was a fascinating read for a view into a world I know all too little about. But an equally big takeaway for me is the idea that haptic feedback may end up being the biggest change that successful wearable products bring to our lives. The potential is there for nearly everyone. Great post.
UB Canaries (Undefined Behaviour)
Such a HORRIBLE TITLE. It was not to counseling at the College. The college threw him out of the college grounds with a meeting with a dean and 5 staff and the students mother.

My brother killed himself 35 years ago last week. GO GET HELP! Go speak with someone and go to a doctor or counselor. I love my brother and miss him everyday, but suicide is the biggest middle finger to everyone you know and love. It hurts the people you never wanted to hurt. Please get help not just for yourself but for those who love you.
This is brilliant. My kids at 7 and 5 loved it.
This is where one is wise to use accountants and lawyers experienced in these matters.
In Russia drug addicts were (and still are, to lesser extent) responsible for very large if not largest portion of crime, especially burglary and theft. <snip> And usage isn't punishable here, only distribution. So, don't dismiss parent comment so easily.

This would likely not be the case if cocaine cost about the same, or even ten times as much as sugar. The high price of drugs is a direct result of laws against their production and distribution. I expect addicts stealing to support their habits would be much less of an issue with legal drugs, even if there were moderately high taxes on them to offset the costs of treating addicts.
>>The article I linked to has a lot of arguments against legalization, which, judging by the comments, the commenters didn't bother to skim through.

It's a long article, and it contains ungrounded assertions like this -

"Addiction to, or regular use of, most currently prohibited drugs cannot affect only the person who takes them—and not his spouse, children, neighbors, or employers."

This is ... well it's just wrong. Many people regularly use alcohol in moderation, there's no reason to think that regular, moderate use of cannabis and various other currently illegal drugs would be any worse when alcohol has one of the worst harm and addiction profiles of any drug.

So I'm not convinced I want to take the time to answer it, as it's not really honest.

--edit-- I've read more of it now, it's full of preconceptions and assertions like this one, no grounding in facts. It's not a good set of objections.
Normal alcohol dosage doesn't lead to massive loss of control
I assumed it was big to allow easy tactile reading.
Encryption won't work if it has a back door only the 'good guys' have keys to
That was the bit that really stood out for me. Even if one could argue that they sent him off in order to take a break and recover before continuing his studies, this

> and ban him from College grounds

is ridiculous.
While freelancing I’ve seen team members being oblivious to how much work would be involved in actually making an area of their product good and not realizing how badly techdebt can compound in the weeks and months ahead when not solved early (usually because “we need to move fast”).

An example would be CSS. Many developers hate writing it and think it’s a trivial toy that even a monkey can write properly. Sure, to get something up and running it takes little effort to get the presentation right in CSS. But making something maintainable that won’t slow down your velocity after a month of adding/removing/modifying rules and class names is an entirely different thing. Yet I’ve rarely met a client that didn’t have a severe tech debt with their CSS – I’m usually not called in to fix that – even those with refined testing and devops processes. Though they usually believe that their CSS is fine.
Buy a t-shirt. That's the most direct route to actually help them out with as few middlemen as possible.
They are working just fine for the people that profit from them, drug cartels and the law-prison complex. Thanks!
My air conditioner is 12 kW. No chance.
Didn't it multiply by more like 210x since then? So your 10k should be worth $2,100,000.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL
Do they still play it or have they outgrown it now?
How's it work under the hood?
It's fantastic. Good accessibility support can make products better for everyone, even people with no particular disability can make use of them in certain situations.
Nice to see that accessibility is still being thought of, a lot of developers and designers take this type of stuff for granted.

However, I found this to be quite a "jarring" read, with "Apple Watch" being constantly written as such, seemed like an advertisement or at the very least just some SEO trickery. Disrupted my reading flow quite a bit
How startups are succesfully using Java EE to build high performance websites
This title is terrible.

The real point is that the policies of William and Mary might lack a certain degree of humanity, and that, as a human being, Ian Smith-Christmas was utterly unsupported by an institution whose mission is helping young adults develop into well-rounded individuals.

After reading the reply from the VP of student affairs, I am fairly willing to believe it. Rather than acknowledge the core point of the narrative, the VP replies with "people are complicated; here are some numbers" that might or might not mean anything.
My thoughts as well.

The final response of the school to Cassie is also saddening and revealing of a culture devoid of any empathy.
Pull requests are welcome ;)
vinny, Symantec has passed years in the industry and also offers huge warranty against any fraud on their certs. you should also take at look at cheap ssl shop (symantec's auxiliary company). they sell pro ev from symantec at $1129 https://www.cheapsslshop.com/symantec-secure-site-pro-ev you can save around 250 bucks.
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Goldman Sachs Just Dropped $50M into a Bitcoin Startup
Is there something like this but for code?

I can imagine having some visual blocks and wires to get a wanted output image, and then gradually it could use symbols or function names instead of the pictures, or you could even go deeper into the blocks to get down to more lower level instructions...

Like Blueprints in UE4 : https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Blueprints/G...
The funcionality is more or less the same, however, the API is much more user-friendly than in plan 9. It's stolen from Go after all.
Getcontext/setcontext has always allowed for coroutines in C. This just adds a sugar layer of nonblocking functions that allows a runtime layer to switch between contexts (coroutines), just like Go.
You don't need root to install Python packages with pip. You can install them just for your user. See https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/user_guide.html#user-i...
Here's a short toy implementation of the same principle: http://250bpm.com/blog:48
Thanks. I hope to release an OSS version by the end of this summer.
Mono was the worst witch hunt in the Open Source Free Software movement. I think the whole it is Microsoft so even though it is an open standard and that Microsoft is flying people in from the mono project and publicly helping mono you are setting yourself up for a lawsuit.

So many projects in Linux we abandoned by users and people made clones of working software. Such wasted time and such a negative turn in our community.
Quite ironic, having the founder of medium write in favour of openness. Take WordPress and walk towards the path of the walled garden and you get medium.com.
I thought about boats as well.

Do you know the weight and dimensions of this?

It looks like it is equivalent to 835 Ah @ 12V. That is 10 lead batteries. You probably can buy more than 3 lead batteries for 300 dollars, but the weight and 10 year warranty does look attractive.
Was in your exact position a few weeks ago. Useful advice that I had was, pick the company that loves the same stuff as you.

If you love tech and want to learn and try new stuff, make sure the company feels the same way. If you're crazy about shipping cool stuff, does the company share that? This is irrespective of the size of the company.

Failing that, I'd go for the risky option.
Admirably, tesla is the only premium car company that is not gouging Autralians on price.

The gouging done by BMW and Mercedes is shocking. I expect Tesla to really start to cut into their sales.
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I find that interesting because I mostly use streaming services to find music I buy. Largely because I've yet to use a streaming service that handles intermittent connectivity well enough (you'd think that my commute from a densely populated London suburb, along one of the highest density commuter routes in Europe, in to Central London would have decent mobile data coverage, wouldn't you... But you'd be sadly mistaken) to be worth using most of the time. Also because most of them are really quite horrible at picking tracks I want to listen to at any given time overall....

I couldn't imagine relying on those services for most of my listening.
Last time I tried, their site had JavaScript bugs and their email validation procedure didn't pass greylisting. I didn't want to place my web server security in the hands of a company with such low quality standards.
I don't see how W&M did anything wrong here. It is very common for students to take time off because of mental health issues. Especially if he was at risk of committing suicide. I know several students at my college who were forced to take time off and it ultimately helped them. They didn't have to worry about the stress of school.

The school didn't call to see how he was doing? I have never heard any school doing that. He was only out of school for less than 2 months.

The last suggestion that he killed himself because he was not readmitted in a timely matter. Remember, de was admitted less than a month later. This wasn't some year long process.

It is a very sad story and the sister is looking for someone to blame, but I see the school did nothing wrong here. The implication that you shouldn't seek college counseling for fear of taking time off is very dangerous. It is important for people to seek counseling as soon as they feel they need it.
> Not everyone is ... working on mobile apps

http://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-passes-1-million-developer-m...
Didn't Steve jobs sell 1.5 million shares in 1997? It caused a 12 year low in the company's stock price..

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Steve-Jobs-Confirms-A...
Hacking Blu-ray players with Java