skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt that will be possible. Actually I think it is entirely impossible, but I'm trying to future-proof my statement :-)

The battery system will just know how much power is currently being used. It will have no way to identify which devices are currently drawing power. For that, you'd need something like this on each outlet: http://www.amazon.com/P3-P4400-Electricity-Usage-Monitor/dp/...

Maybe future smart homes will have the Kill A Watt built-in to electrical outlets for monitoring purposes.

I imagine you will be able to get metrics on current usage, peak usage periods et cetera.
Interesting. I started in hg for a year then switched to git. It took a while to get used to but once I did I never wanted to go back to hg.

I've heard hg since then has added features that make it possible to have a more git like workflow but AFAICT it's still not the "recommended" at least not the default workflow which means I have no desire to switch back.
In contrast, I never use `git stash`. Never-ever-ever-(ok-rarely). It bit me HARD early on, so I prefer to do it manually, or rebase branches.

One thing I really like about git is that it lets me be mindful of my actions in a way that hg didn't seem to encourage. In return, it gives me what feels like True Power to recover from _any_ mistake. Wrong branch? Accidentally merged (and pushed) my master branch? No problem, they're just bookmarks to commits anyways.

Mercurial, by contrast, felt Rather Convenient, with occasional chasms of despair if you strayed too far from the path. It's possible that my high opinion of Git is mainly from the fact that it forced me to learn more, but it really feels more flexible. I always have the right tool for whatever I need, and I know why and how to use them.
Reading some of the comments, I cannot but think about the book I am reading "The Expert Beginner". This platform/framework street fighting is not good for any one. If you are on LAMP stack, Ruby on Rails or Python or Go, where you code on a Mac OS X, and want to engage in a narcissistic exercise of self-validation, please do it else where. If you are curious about the other side of the tracks, there are enough knowledgeable people who can help, advice and guide in this very forum.
You should never use an external 2 factor app, use the Google app since it implements a standard and works offline. You will want this eventually.
How about a reason for nginx removal?
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Please, it is CongressGNU Hurd.
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It's hard to wrap your head around all the challenges in energy. If you're REALLY good at it you can find some incredible arbitrage opportunities...see Enron.

Consider the power output characteristics of some common energy sources:

Gas, Nuclear, Hydro, Wind, Solar

Our "sustainable" sources of power - hydro, wind, and solar - are also the ones with the most irregular and unpredictable power output. This creates a problem, because even if there was enough cumulative power output from sustainable sources today, it most likely wouldn't align with our usage schedule.

So there are two solutions: 1) find a way to map the sustainable power output to our usage 2) find a way to store energy

Today, our most readily available form of energy storage is gas. We just put it in a container and burn it when we need to. "Spin it up," if you will.

An alternative to gas is a crazy network of Powerwalls. The hope is that, eventually, instead of spinning up gas turbines during peak demand, we can just draw from our Powerwall.

There was another alternative on HN recently. Basically a super-deep hole in the ground with super heavy object falling into it, but suspended by a rope. You run a motor to lift the object during off-peak hours, then let it fall and spin a generator during peak hours. I can't find it right now but I remember thinking they had a great name.

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That said, power output is only part of the problem. If you're looking to factor the potential disappearance of arbitrage opportunities into your buying decision, you also need to consider the time until regulatory changes allow for perfect pricing, and the time until these Powerwalls have precise enough information to decide exactly when to draw from the grid versus the battery.

tl;dr: "quickly" is probably optimistic. We're a long ways away from economies of scale.
Sort of already exists, for usenet at least https://github.com/rembo10/headphones
An intercontinental round trip is in the range of 10-15k miles, right? That's a plausible mileage for 6 months of driving, sure. Would match up with my understanding that fuel use for planes per passenger-mile is about the same as for cars with just a driver.

The big difference, of course, it that it takes a lot less time to travel that many miles in a plane. But on a per-passenger-mile basis they're no worse than non-carpooling cars. Admittedly a low bar.
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Enough energy to power a single family home for 1.8 billion years or supply energy to a nuclear power plant for 2,300 years

I think I see the problem...
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I think the van bit refers to an old SNL skit https://youtube.com/watch?v=MfqIjqCbYUk
>Git won because it's workflow is so much better than mercurial's.

This is quite subjective. A more probable reason is that git is popular because of github..

And once git gained some popularity, people started viewing other DVCS as inferior because they were doing things differently from Git. For eg, the branching in Mercurial. People are appalled when they see how named branches can be done in Mercurial. Without going into any thought or reflection on how Mercurial's named branching can be useful in certain situations, they call it braindead. But actually git's branching is quite simple and less powerful than the methods offered by Mercurial. Less powerful, because Mercurial offers multiple methods to make a branch so that you can use the right one for a particular situtation. Note that this actually asks for more experience from the user. He needs to have experience with using each of these methods and should know how each of them may be useful in the future. It also stores more metadata and tools like revset which lets you to build powerful queries. So in that sense, Mercurial is also more complex than Git. But that is in a good way and unlike git's, it is not the complexity that gets in your way.

So in short, I think git is actually quite simple than Mercurial, but hides that simplicity behind a complex interface with non-intuitive naming and weird combination of flags and stuff. This causes the 'Aha' moments when one can finally see the simplicity that hides behind that interface, which trigger a huge release of Dopamine and prompts the user to write his own set of Git revelations that (used to) flood the internet, which in turn increases the popularity of Git...
This is pretty cool! It's going to get even more interesting once ES6 features are implemented :). However, i feel like javascript by itself is such a great language (has some weird parts but eh) that i would never use this. Cool project though!
It's just one of the components. For EPIC game you need some extraordinary game mechanics or graphics or story. Well, probably a combination of at least two of those three.
Hacked Chris Coyier's GitHub Contributions Graph
It is waperware. Plus it requires you to run special software on your servers (not possible in a shared hosting environment).
We spend less than that for a family of 5.

But that's not impressive at all; all these numbers really depend on what that electricity is being used for. Our heat and hot water are not electric. AC doesn't get used much, since we're far enough north (Massachusetts) that it's not a big deal. So that leaves lights, electronics, and the stove/microwave/vacuum...

My parents, on the other hand, are in the DC area, electric AC, heat, hot water. They're spending probably triple what you are on electricity.

Anyway, point is counting just electricity spending is typically comparing apples and oranges. You want to include the natural gas or oil or whatever else people are using for heat if you want to get numbers that are even remotely comparable.
Do these green numbers take into consideration the energy expended on producing the Li-ion batteries? Surely that must be a messy mining operation.
If I told you to buy $10,000 of Blackberry stock today, would you do it?

Buying AAPL in 1997 is as crazy as buying Blackberry today. The difference is Steve Jobs, but some people thought he was nuts too back in 1997.
Telus gets OK to launch free Wi-Fi in Vancouver
$2500 on an Apple //e in 1983. Monochrome screen, 1 floppy drive. No printer, no modem, no 80 column card.
man that sucks...I liked Grooveshark.
Man that sucks...I liked Grooveshark !
What you say is "Tick tock" was actually "flop, recover".

The VP of Vista fled to Amazon before it was publicly released.
Less storage than a Nomad.
Meanwhile, OpenBSD 5.7 came out today, with the following security fixes in LibreSSL (arguably the most secure SSL library so far):

"Multiple CVEs fixed including CVE-2014-3506, CVE-2014-3507, CVE-2014-3508, CVE-2014-3509, CVE-2014-3510, CVE-2014-3511, CVE-2014-3570, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2014-8275, CVE-2015-0205 and CVE-2015-0206."

So if I were running a TLS-enabled site using LibreSSL from OpenBSD 5.6, I'd have been exposed to potentially 11+ CVEs. A little sooner with OpenSSL, and I would have been exposed to Heartbleed. And who knows how many CVEs will arise before 5.8 is released?

Why is it so impossible to write a secure TLS library? Why should I put my entire server at risk to appease the attempts of Mozilla and Google to prop up the CA business? Sorry, but I'll stick to parsing lines of text.

Let 'em remove HTTP completely. Hopefully after they break 90% of the web, we'll get some real user revolt, and some real competitors in the web browser space might emerge. Maybe from some people who actually listen to what their users are asking for.

I guess now we know what that "signed extensions only" change was for: what do you think they're going to do when someone submits a "Restore HTTP Functionality" add-on in the future?
I don't know what the wins of hg are. Used it for a year

Git has git style branches which make it really easy to work on different things. Apparently hg added some of that later but it's not the main workflow

git also has a "staging area". You put things into the staging area and then commit. So for example the equivalent of "hg commit" in git is "git commit -a". The -a means "copy everything that's changed to the staging area".

The advantage of the staging area is it's easy to commit just a few files even if many have changed. It's even easy to commit just a few changed lines from a file and leave the other lines un-commmited.

There are other advantages I'm sure and I'm sure I didn't explain the branching one well. I can point out that I have repos with completely unrelated branches. One branch is the website, another branch is the docs, another branch is the source code, branches in hg, at least the default ones, are assumed to be something that will eventually be merged back. hg complains forever until you merge the branch back. git branches are effectively unrelated to each other, although by default git will track where it branched and if you happen to merge them where they merged. branches can be pushed and pulled to other repos or not, it's up to you.

Someone above said hg has bookmarks that are similar to git branches but I'd be curious if they're actually the same.
Where they are really spot on is in suggesting repeatedly to pile in on newton. Fundamentally an iphone is a better newton and this is the only fundamental change that really saved the company.
Language is a barrier, and barriers have had a huge part in developing and maintaining cultures (Think mountains/laws/etc). Language keeps many cultural thoughts, perceptions, artifacts, and philosophies from both entering and leaving.

Like you said, the idea of everyone speaking the same language could never result in total homogeneity. However, you could lose out on some of the deeper insights and developments without language to filter out the noise. I believe that it would be a huge step backwards, but obviously you may disagree.
Hey, I am 26 too. To be honest, I never had the rush while playing Minecraft, but I get it why children would love to play Minecraft.

Nowadays I am more into stories and narratives. Building games. Stories that transform our lives.
Vim

The Linux kernel perf and inotify

Tmux

IPython

Haskell

Netcat

The gnu tools
10 kWh is good spec. But $3500 is around Rs. 2.1 lakhs. That's a way too costly UPS(inverters) considering a 1kWh one costs within Rs. 25k and bumping it two more car batteries.
at my workplace there're many fans of the surface pro 3.. enough muscle to run a few VMs in vmware workstation and portable..easier to carry around to different customers' sites.. but i guess most tablets aren't like that.
Take a loot at some open source projects. The Battle For Wesnoth (c++) has many more contributors than FreeCol (Java). I'm sure that number of C# developers in the world who develop open source stuff is even smaller.

If your main goal is to get as many contributors as possible, perhaps JavaScript would be the best choice.

And I'm still not convinced that Java is the main cause the original Minecraft was bad.

Although I write all my games in C++ (native) and JavaScript (web) I did some Java games for Android and the language is rarely the bottleneck if you are careful about object life-cycles. The main bottleneck is usually the graphics hardware.

I'm not saying that C# is bad choice. Actually I think it is a good choice, just not for the reasons you state.
I particularly love the ones that are both right and wrong:

72. Try the industry-standard serial port plug. RS-422 should be a last resort.

(They replaced RS-422 not with RS-232, but USB)

14. Do something creative with the design of the box and separate yourselves from the pack. [...] We'd all feel better about shelling out the bucks for a Power Mac 9600 if we could get a tower with leopard spots.

(Obviously Wired shouldn't be handing out design advice.)

28. Don't lose your sense of humor. Build a very large life preserver and display it in front of your Cupertino, California, headquarters.

(Their new headquarters is the life preserver.)

44. Continue your research in voice recognition. It's the only way you're going to compete in videoconferencing and remote access.

(That's totally not what Siri is for.)

76. Make damn sure that Rhapsody runs on an Intel chip. Write a Windows NT emulator for Rhapsody's Intel version.

(They switched to Intel purely for the sake of Intel, and never made that Windows emulator.)
Hi.. yes.. good guess on the email :).
Feel free to reach out.
But no Windows computers before Surface.
R&D gets favorable tax treatment. Maintaining an OS, whatever it costs, is R&D.
I'm not looking for a bunch of contributors, for what it's worth. I specifically alienate a large group of potential contributors by forbidding anyone who's read decompiled source from contributing.
What is even more impressive (in my view) is that LHL was a Senior Wrangler! How many other Prime Ministers have topped what is (arguably, at that time) the hardest undergraduate course in the world?
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Getting downvoted but my opinion stands: being a musician is not a job and you can't expect to get paid for it. It would be like expecting to get paid for playing video games. Making music is a leisure activity and a very rewarding one. Thinking you should make a living on it is just greedy. Get a normal job and create music for its own sake.
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The only thing that makes me feel this way is that 2020 is only 5 years away and Los Angeles 2013 took place 2 years ago...
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But its hardware production, not design... So, it was accurate.
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No eligible for contribution, sadly, but I really look forward to seeing how far you guys go! I too miss the "glory days" of minecraft. Good luck!
TOTP is fairly weak. Convenient, but weak, due to the shared secret. I've seen proofs of concept that trivially lift the secrets from Google Authenticator. On the server side, the service is probably storing your TOTP secret one column adjacent to your hashed password. When done poorly (and most are), TOTP is basically no additional factor. Also backup codes, app specific passwords, etc, etc.

Certain classes of non-shared-secret hardware token are waaaaaaaaay better. Just less convenient. You should look into DoD CAC, for example. Google Authenticator is nice but will never protect Secret information. I know this sounds way out of startup league, but it shouldn't; we should instead study what we can learn from such things instead of blanket advice like yours.

Reiterating: none = bad, TOTP = better, strong tokens/biometric/etc = best.
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I think it depends on your house size and whether you have a pool, etc. When we lived in an apartment, we spent $40-50/mo on utilities total.

I have a family of 5 in a small home and we spend $1200/yr in pricey CA (rates start at 16c/kWh going up to 35c). We don't run AC (whole house fans/attic fans), and use room heaters in winter.
Most of the power in the US comes from coal. Solar is 0.4%: http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3

What do you do with the batteries and the toxic materials inside when you're done with them (and how long do they last)?

What do you do with all the toxic materials produced during mining, refining, and production of batteries and materials?

How do you deal with these same issues as they affect solar panels, which are made of silicon?
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Wow. That is legally questionable.
Really? According to wiki, India's middle-class makes anywhere from $10 to $50 per day. When you factor in that this will cost a lot more than $3500, would these really sell like crazy?
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Conley at one point argued that companies like Apple are protecting "those who rape, defraud, assault, or even kill" with their encryption policies.

Isn't this is sort of like saying laws are protecting those who rape, defraud, assault, or even kill?
I don't think it's possible to understand FW unless you're Irish, to the point of knowing different regional accents and so on. For me it's almost unmanageable on the page, i have to read it out loud and then I can make phonetic inferences, but even with that I feel like I'm missing a good deal because of how times have changed since it was written.
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certainly there will always be alternative browsers, but since they would be used by a small minority the censors would effectively have the ability to determine which publishers are "cleared" to reach out to the most broad demographics. That alone would be enough if your censorship goal was to be able to sway public sentiment.
Obviously you can't go off grid without a solar system, what would charge the batteries?

To quote from the original post:

"Solar panels are cheap enough you only need batteries to last one night, as you can size the array to operate your loads even on cloudy days."
To look at the history and charter of the EFF and say you don't trust them "in the slightest" is a bit ridiculous. It's hard to take that kind of remark seriously. Look at who's involved and what they've done, and dismiss that under the broad strokes of "no such organization is worthy of trust"? Nonsense.
I hope we can build something that brings those good old days back for you. Thanks for your support.
In 2001 I sold a closed-source commercial product that ran on Linux and used LGPL librsries.
Fair enough, though I didn't mean to imply those were the only good reasons.

I didn't mean to say C++ would have been a bad choice, I was mocking the recurring mentality that a project is only good if it's in C (or even lower-level languages). It's quite tiresome to deal with it, I'm sorry it didn't quite get through.

Java was definitely one of the reasons the original Minecraft was bad though. It (along with bad architecture) was the reason behind the massive server footprint and why hosting minecraft servers is extremely expensive and completely unscalable.

Hey, remember when Notch said he'd open source Minecraft once he was done with it? I remember...
I have two friends in your position, who both picked the big giant (a multinational company). They both are in their early 20's. They both are fixing bugs. They both have regrets.

Not saying that fixing bugs is a bad thing, but in six months they hardly did anything else but this.
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There are structural similarities between Finnegan's Wake and Dhalgren because both are circular stories where the end joins up with the beginning.
"Republished" ?

More like ripped off and smothered with ads. Techdirt is miserable.
Perhaps the folks in a van down by the bay are more likely to be interested in surfboards?

... and the folks in a van in a suburban street are more likely to be doing government surveillance?
I've been using them for the last 2 years and had a huge playlist. Is there any way to retrieve the playlist? groovebackup.com just returns "Missing data for playlist"
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Wow, I have a deja vu - it's like reading comments about Apple announcing a new product :)
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9202522
So why a picture of text rather than just text?
Https will prevent that keylogger from getting onto the users computer in the first place.
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Was it the Intel switch that enabled bootcamp though? That's clearly a better solution than maintaining a windows emulator, but does it meet the same point?
> Two Factor Authentication. Please

My understanding is that Sendgrid isn't too keen on dongles.
> "cycle_often" and "cycle_of_ten".

Such an error is caught by the compiler.

const cycle_often = 10
var cycle_of_ten : float

ambig.nim:2:5: Error: redefinition of 'cycle_of_ten'
Awesome! Stumbling on QBasic Gorillas was my first programming experience, too!

I had an extremely similar experience, right down to the ages. My father's coworker hooked me up with Visual Basic when I was nine, and I also made a tile-based RPG, although I think I had the keyboard working. I even had multiplayer---you would select a text file on the other computer over a network share, and you would both read/write your coordinates there. It actually worked most of the time!

And then Borland C++, and up, and up :) Great memories!
Mozilla going nonprofit opem source was the best thing that happened to it.
Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff on this:

"Ignore Company Size

Great engineering mentors reside at companies of all sizes. Coding best practices are broadly similar between both large and small companies, provided both are on the leading edge. That should come as no surprise because engineers need to solve many of the same root problems, no matter what the size of the company.

Failure at a small company with a great engineering team is not as risky as you might think. Even if your employer fails, recruiters are quite knowledgeable about which companies have recruited great technical leaders and are desperate to hire their disciples. Perhaps even more surprising is engineers from failed companies with great technical reputations are far more vigorously pursued than engineers from successful companies that lack killer technical reputations.

Once again, the most important consideration is the quality of people from whom you can learn."

http://eng.wealthfront.com/2014/02/career-planning-for-new-g...