skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, also need to keep in mind that "power utility" can describe 3 discrete agents in electricity markets: the generator, distributor and retailer. The distributors may find themselves with a more active role to play as everyone becomes a sporadic generator.
New apartments (and single family homes) where I live are required to provide hookups in their garages, and as a dweller in an older apartment block, I get along fine charging overnight at a nearby parking garage. But really, it's not about you and me or your friends, it's about the % of the market that can be served by EVs. And that's plenty big for the size of today's EV industry.

We have the same discussion every time EVs come up on HN.
Please don't move to LA. Housing is already too expensive.
Just a heads up here. At the end of the 'free' tutorials they do offer a paid, extended version that pulls the whole process together.

So even though it's commercial-ish, I think if you make it to the end you'll be like me and see the obvious value in what they're doing, and even if you're not interested in watching the final video you'll probably want to donate to their project.
At the scale where you run your own dc you can save just as much by owning the hardware and using smart virtualisation to put unused physical resources into standby/low power mode.

Amazon didn't invent virtual infrastructure that adjusts dynamically based on load.
I don't defend asset forfeiture for simply making large cash deposits, but on the other hand there is no way a guy selling sandwiches for $2.75 is taking in more than $10,000/day in cash. We aren't getting the full story here.

Making a daily bank deposit is not "structuring" it's a common (and a best) practice. So if he was accumulating cash for a week or more and making large deposits, he was being stupid. Not that it justifies forfeiture, if that's all it was. But something isn't making sense here.
Sure, but everything can be interpreted as pro/anti-semitic if it happens to affect Jews. I think this question becomes more logical and less emotional if you ask this about a made up group:

Joesons say that if your father was named Joe you belong to this group by default and whatever rules the group has written down apply to you and you should follow them. You'll be judged by them as a bad person if you don't. If you question your belonging to Joesons it will be interpreted as anti-joesonic.

Does it bother you that's you're labeled anti-joesonic in that case? Why would the situation be different for anti-semitic? Because of current number of Jews? Their history? Other reasons?
Standups are one of those things that 15 years ago sounded great on paper.

"Yeah, everybody is communicating every morning. Our communication problems are solved!"

The reality is that 90% of my standups are pointless and more importantly interrupt my most productive time of the day.
According to the WSJ article that the Verge shamelessly mis-re-reported, "Apple doesn’t plan a recall, because there’s no indication that Apple shipped any watches with the defective part to customers." (Emphasis mine.)
Dead Zones Found in Atlantic Ocean
I don't understand your comment. The death of coal is not a single step. It's already been happening because of cheap natural gas.

Look at this chart for a coal company[1]. It's already been almost dead and a major chunk of the coal GHG emissions are already cut way back (albeit at the expense of natural gas emissions).

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=ACI+Interactive#{"range":...
Not all electricity is consumed by homes or properties where "the amount of local energy resources" is within an order of magnitude of "the amount of power used by the facility". "Companies who provide lots and lots of electricity" aren't going anywhere; you're not going to run an aluminum smelting plant off of a local, plant-owned installation of solar panels, if for no other reason that it is a poor use of capital as a plant would not be able to invest to keep up in the changing landscape of energy generation.

While change is happening and change in inevitable I think you're greatly overestimating the rate of the change and badly misunderstanding the quality.
> Really? I always thought that was not possible in LA. I like living without a car and having a semi-urban house with a backyard. Is that possible in LA?

It's a rumor we spread to keep people from moving here. :-)

In LA, if you're going to live on side of the city & work on the other, you definitely need a car.

However, if you live near were you work, you definitely can get away without one. I've lived in Santa Monica, West Hollywood, & Pasadena (each for different jobs). I still had a car, but I tend to use it 1-2 a month, to do things like pick up friends from the airport, roadtrips to Vegas & what not.

It's definitely possible.
> personal cloud

You're talking about Urbit, right
Good:
4) there's 20 different apps that need access to the same data over the network. This is the core strength of days oriented programming. Using a shared database will work very well for that.

This is generally how erp applications are implemented.
Hip-Hop theater aims to spark dialogue on damaging racial stereotypes
But the facts support that torture does not produce useful information.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/senate-commit...

"The report finds that CIA detainees subjected to what were then called “enhanced interrogation techniques” either produced no intelligence, or they “fabricated information, resulting in faulty intelligence”. It says that the CIA’s own interrogators “assessed that the most effective method for acquiring intelligence from detainees, including from detainees the CIA considered to be the most ‘high-value’, was to confront the detainees with information already acquired by the intelligence community”."

You can attempt to ignore this fact and argue whether we should or shouldn't torture people, but at that point you are arguing whether we should or should not submit people to gruesome deaths because we think they may have done something wrong (with little to no evidence.)
Is this actually valuable in some fashion to humanity? (not hating, serious question). It seems more efficient to store every book than to predict every book ever by holding GB's of nonsensical sequences. Or is this just a for fun thing?
> For sake of comparison, it takes Twitter roughly 10 minutes to accumulate that many Tweets.

That is not a fair comparison at all. You could as well compare twitter to number of google queries (or number of some other number that dwarfs it).

It should also not be compared against early stage of facebook as well (a private enterprise with slush funds for marketing , pr, buzz and developers). May be compare it against the early stage of popular GNU tools or other free/open source community projects that are dealing with tough problems to crack.

Given the nature of problem involved, diaspora may be the first step to the next few steps in realising the goal of distributed social network. It needs to be pursued to that end.
Yeah I was about to quote & comment on that same part. Who cares about your stupid feelings? This is a legal case, that's not how it's supposed to work.
FORTRAN was my language of choice back then. Oh the memories. I'd still be using it if I stayed in the infrastructure industry.
Polygraphs are about as useful and effective a tool as water-dowsing rods.
You're really providing further evidence for my pet theory that anybody who seriously uses the word "transpiler" has no clue how compilers work, or what they can and can not do. (This is on the theory that anybody who does have that understanding also understands that "transpiler" is a etymological solution to a problem that didn't exist... the word "compiler" already covered the bases completely and totally... if you actually understand them.)
You know dragging Rajiv Malhotra, Koenraad Elst, and for all I know Subramanian Swamy into this thread is not going to lead to a constructive debate. This is not the JNU tea room here where you're upsetting the applecart or something.
The MCU guy's introduction to FPGAs
> i'm so very sorry stating an obvious observable fact hurt your fragile moral sensibilities.

Why the patronizing? Asking why you don't prefer the bus when you deem it the best in the world was actually a great question. Using your personal car also makes you move at the same speed as traffic (duh) and obviously it costs you more than a dollar.
In the following commit, the IPv6 probe is changed from Google Public DNS's IPv6 address to that of iridiumbrowser.de:

https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/commi...

To be fair, that's a very tiny leak: it only indicates (maybe) that someone is running your browser at the source IPv6 address. But if it's tiny, it might as well continue going to Google Public DNS, since it's much more likely to get lost in the noise there (Google Public DNS probably gets a fair bit of IPv6 traffic from users, not to mention all the existing Chrome / Chromium users).
The platform was designed and built by me. We had 2 MBAs working on the biz case and a data scientist scouring the internet for content.
I found this a very nice introduction, not only for embedded-system people who are used with MCUs, but also for higher-level programmers (as I think the HN crowd mostly is).

Also, the software part of the review is very interesting: http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/max-unleashed-and-...
> * assuming not poor shape (at least dishwasher) *

Everyone's definition of "poor shape" is different. I do not mind washing dishes at all; I'd rather save a hundred bucks a month in rent than have a dishwasher.
If everybody hosted their diaspora nodes with you... Would that be centralization?
In other words, it's all your own fault!
All this started with General Electric and Chakrabarty winning the patent case against the Patent Office over patenting life forms.

If it wasn't for SCOTUS going in favor of Chakrabarty, we would not be in this mess.
But OWS wasn't representative of a very large portion of the population. That's the issue with not having a message. Other than acting as a way for people currently pissed off about something to get together, it provided no message for the broader population (e.g. baby boomers with collapsed retirement accounts, etc) to get behind. Every time I asked someone about OWS that wasn't an early twenties reddit user, they would just mention that they were the modern 'hippies protesting the system'.

Successful protests have leaders are not nearly as organic as they initially appear. OWS participants failed to realize this and instead sat around empathizing with each other.
Those LEOs are deceiving themselves (to put it gently). They can plausibly believe that the perverse incentives aren't bad enough to be scrapped for other allocation policies, or that the police recruit only those who can resist those incentives, but there's no basis to object that the incentives themselves don't exist.

The fact that downside X can be overcome does not mean X does not exist.

Are the perverse incentives actually problematic in practice? Okay, that claim can be the sole province of "critics", but not the one about whether they exist.
they don't necessarily have to 'join', but exchange data from their network/app to yours.

we've been sending email with user@domain between disparate email servers running on disparate OS for years - allowing for addressing and exchange of structured data with similar style shouldn't be that hard.
I'd add that some programmers wish to build their exciting new technology upon a strong foundation rather than sand. Sometimes bleeding edge technology requires a non-trivial amount of work to keep up with breaking changes in return for something that can be obtained another way (isolation via docker vs traditional virtualization).

Sometimes boring technology choices are a sign that the programmers are innovating in their actual technology rather than blindly adopting whatever they see in blog posts.
Apart from the obvious (it's branched off Chromium 41, whereas stable is 42 and contains security fixes), they turn off automatic updates, so it certainly doesn't seem like it could be a "secure browser". I agree with your other comment that it could be a "private browser", although (of course) those are not entirely orthogonal.

https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/commi...

https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/commi...
If it's as successful as you seem to believe, what useful action resulted from it?

>But if you read analyses of people in it (take for example "The Democracy Project" by Graeber), the goal was direct action

Of course people that participated are going to claim that action was their goal. However, the fact that they had no experience organizing people (or chose not to organize people through leadership) led them absolutely nowhere.
"Boeing found that if the four engine generators were left on continuously for about eight months, a software internal counter would overflow and cause the control units to enter a fail-safe mode. The FAA warned that this could result in a loss of all electrical power, regardless of whether the plane was in flight."
I've lived in NYC since 2003, including in the UES, EV, Harlem, Lefferts Gardens, and now Woodside.

I have absolutely no idea how I'd go about finding a $1500 studio anywhere in Manhattan south of 96th street, much less in the 20s. Maybe you can find an illegal apartment in a basement with a hot plate instead of a stove or something, but that's about it.

There are people are grandfathered in to all kinds of sweetheart rent stabilized / mitchell lama / etc. deals but that takes more than having a group of friends and keeping your ears to the ground. That's the equivalent to winning the lotto.
There's a lot of advantages to working in tech in Los Angeles.

- If you do need to meet with people in the bay area, it's a short flight. You can even do a day trip, flying up in the morning & flying back in the evening. (It's a long day, but worth it if you have a family.) I do that probably 1-2 times a month.

- Being in the same time zone as the bay area is big boon as well.

- There's a fairly solid tech community in LA. We've hosted various meetups at the Google LA office and always gotten fairly solid attendance, from a pretty wide range audience.

- In a similar vein, we've also done things like hosting art walks on the campus & so on.

- The weather is pretty great year-round.

- It's easy to escape the tech bubble. In fact, most people you meet are not in tech. I actually find that pretty helpful to understand better how various technical issues are perceived by the non-technical public.

- There's a growing "maker" culture, with make spaces popping up. There are also events like Glow (http://glowsantamonica.org/) which fuse the tech & arts.

- The people here are actually pretty great & down to earth, yes, even the "Hollywood" types. I'm friends with the screenwriter of an ongoing movie franchise and the creator of fairly popular TV series. I knew both before there work became popular. Yes, they're very rich. No, they have not had major personality changes. No, they're not assholes. In fact, until you visit their houses, you'd think they were just regular guys.

That said, no place is perfect. We share some of the same housing pains at the bay area (esp. on the westside). Likewise, homelessness is a significant problem in parts of the city, including places like Venice.

ObRecuriting:

We're also looking to add great people to our office.

https://www.google.com/about/careers/locations/los-angeles/
He didn't say he learned it when you posted it, did he?

And even so, the contextual value of the word would be obvious in context.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476139
I'm not sure it's even possible to sell a good percentage of managers on the needs of a refactor no matter how good your arguments are. Many of them either don't have the technical chops to even understand the need for major refactorings (no matter how much you "educate" them), or consider the technical debt accumulation an acceptable risk vs a perceived low ROI with refactoring.

My advice: Don't tell them unless you think you have to rewrite the whole thing or huge chunks of it. Refactor as you go, and adjust your estimates accordingly.
Oh, I'm sure. It was just weird that I can fly to Europe or even next door Bali (since Indonesia has VOA) on a whim, but not Australia. I totally get that the US requires this also, and it is all probably retaliatory.
The problem I notice is that anything other than _very_ slightly greyed font appears blurry to me. #330 is as far as I'll take it.

Rather than lighten the text, darken the background lightly. #fffff8 is a good start.
Sorry, I should have clarified. Lower income people could not afford the cost of sending the children to daycare if schools actually sent students home after 3 hours each day.

Where I grew up, school became the social safety net for children from low income backgrounds. If the temperature dropped to -10F, they would still not cancel school because the low income kids received better heat and better meals from the school.

My point is that in many cases, school isn't nearly as much about learning as it is to have a safe and stable place for children from unstable households.
(Late to the reply, sorry.) COLA is addressed on a per office basis. Our headquarters is in a relatively inexpensive large city, and so other offices in pricier places like SF or DC get a blanket COLA adjustment, with the percentage bump based on some particular survey's index or something.
Crystal seems to offer us a preview of what life might be like with a typed Ruby. Types in Crystal are mostly unobtrusive. Performance is nice too. I'm really liking what I see. It's not yet mature and lacks a REPL still but Crystal offers a serious Rubyesque option that I could see gaining some steam.
The idea is that you'd have a Sandstorm installation on your own server or hosting service. At that point, installing something like Diaspora would be a point-and-click endeavor.
I swap the margin and main-body colors of HN:

http://stylebot.me/styles/2945
Great post, and dead on.

I lived in the South Bay for 6 years, and they were the best years of my life. I definitely plan to own there in the future (and likely AirBnB it out and surf there as I please), but decided to move for the expense reasons you mention.

Anyway, my initial thought behind this article was, "If you're gonna be poor, you might as well do it in LA". Weather is great, and the ocean can do you wonders.
Considering DB was one of the inv. banks involved in the IPO, I would most likely take what they say with a pinch of salt. A little more research into the price difference "claimed" between Tesla and other industry competitors shows that actually between 2007-2014 USD1000 per kWH to USD 410 kWh (study- http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n4/full/nclimate25...) and even to USD300 kWh for some industry leaders. Even with installation costs and inverter costs excluded from these figures, I am not sure that Tesla has done something absolutely "staggering" as claimed in the article (although I absolutely enjoyed Elon's keynote!)
This is the whole problem with federation in a nutshell.
As with many projects, there are people who use the code in production. What do you mean by "production ready"?
This. The number one influencer of grid tech investment is energy prices before politics (not going to discuss nuclear). Cheap gas -> we build more gas generators. Expensive gas -> we build fewer generators and even try to schedule less use of the ones we've already built, and bring online cheaper fuel sources (ie coal), etc.
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"Others, inversely, believed that it was fundamental to eliminate useless works. They invaded the hexagons, showed credentials which were not always false, leafed through a volume with displeasure and condemned whole shelves: their hygienic, ascetic furor caused the senseless perdition of millions of books."
There are a bunch of things I don't understand in the patches. I wish they'd link to a bugtracker or something. (Incidentally, Chrome/Chromium has a public bugtracker: Iridium seems to have a Trac that nobody used apart from creating two tickets.)

* Enabling Do-Not-Track by default: https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/commi...

This is widely considered to be a questionable plan, and violates the Internet-Draft (section 6.3: "It MUST NOT transmit OPT-IN without explicit user consent."). Are they asserting that merely having Iridium over Chromium is explicit user consent?

* Disabling hyperlink auditing: https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/commi...

As the HTML spec (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#hyperl...) points out, the behavior of hyperlink auditing in terms of privacy impact is already achievable in several ways, like server-side redirects, JavaScript, etc. The goal with the feature was to make performance and user experience better, while not changing the privacy standard. Is it being changed in Iridium for privacy reasons or for other reasons?

* Increasing the default client certificate (?) length to 2048 bits from 1024 bits: https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/commi...

Given how much Google's been yelling about 1024-bit server certs, this seems like an obvious thing to change upstream. Has it been submitted / is there a reason they haven't changed it in Chromium?

* Disabling globally-installed NPAPI plugins on OS X, but still allowing those installed in your homedir: https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/commi...

Why? (There's probably a reason, I just have no idea what it might be.)

* Emptying the list of CAs allowed to sign EV certs: https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/commi...

Why? As far as I can tell, the only effect is that EV certs will show up as normal certs (green lock, instead of bar showing the organization name). What does this have to do with improving security or privacy?
How our 24 hour mini project got to #1 on Product Hunt
After reading the doc, I am curious if the language has type constructor/support higher kinder type.
I doubt this. I surmise (and I'm imagining my LEO friends talking to me in my head) that they might say, "there are safeguards in place" or "I didn't take this job to go around stealing things from honest people," but I think that they will acknowledge that these (and other similar) measures are just counter-incentives.

Regardless of how well they work, and the success or failure of the policy generally, this particular configuration (law enforcement receiving the proceeds) is indeed an incentive for them to do the wrong thing (ie, "perverse"). I really don't think anybody disputes that.
Everything you say is true and good.

And I'm not saying either that I disagree with the policy or that I view it as likely to fail in an empirical sense (although both are true).

Instead, I'm pointing out that the fact that allowing law enforcement to keep the proceeds does indeed create an incentive for LEOs to do the wrong thing.

I think everybody agrees on that point. LEOs can point to a number of counter-incentives, as well as their own good intentions, as measures that can ameliorate this bad incentive, but I don't think anybody will disagree that it exists.
But how did they deal with the fact that personal workstations and especially laptops aren't always on and connected to the internet?
Quoting some person (or a scientific study) or whatever is indeed safer. However, "critics say" adds nothing whatsoever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYA9ufivbDw
Looks like youve got some good feedback here already on some minor improvements to fix up.

Overall you've got a nice looking site and an attractive way to introduce yourself. Looks good!