skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't wait to see the first users proudly cutting their connection to the power grid, claiming they are now energy independent and free from oppressive utility companies...
That's the trouble with having a name like that. She does actually write "watch" in some places; she could possibly get away with changing a couple of the occurrences of "Apple Watch" to "watch", but changing some of them would lead to ambiguity with the other watch she was talking about.
If enough people had these in their homes then there would no longer be "peak hours" or "non-peak hours", I would think that this would normalize the grid so that pricing is always fairly consistent.
What? Is merecedes-benz cheaper than hazelnut?
A simple research showed me that a kilo of mercedes-benz is cheaper than a kilo of hazelnut.

For example, price of a mercedes-benz CLA is $33000 and 1395kg (http://www.autoguide.com/new-cars/2015/mercedes-benz/cla-class/cla250/4dr-sdn-4matic/specs.html).

So, 1 kg of mercedes-benz CLA is ~$23.

A kilo of hazelnut costs around ~$24 (http://www.walmart.com/ip/Diamond-Chopped-Hazelnuts-8-Oz/10813763).

Isn't this interesting ?
Are you emigrating from Russia and getting rid of the old stuff you are not going to be taking with you?
Finally, something that purports to have Go-style concurrency that actually provides the equivalent of select{}!

Lots of things just provide chans, which are fancy thread-safe queues and are fairly easy to implement. Getting select{} right is the tricky (and powerful) part.
Nobody is "entitled" to make a living from making music. However, everyone is entitled to say "I have created some music. In exchange for some money I will give you a copy of this music".

You say "no-one questions the business model" which is clearly false. Have you never heard of a developer being asked to work for free (or equity) on someone else's idea? IMHO that's the same as you saying musicians should be grateful to earn any money from their work.
Am I the only one who get "403 Forbidden" when loading the link?
Why was he dismissed and banned? Surly not for having suicidal thoughts. Did something else go on here that is been omitted? Did they see him as a threat to other students?

If so you can't really blame them.
Reading this makes me wonder what is being done to preserve other, more recent, and less popular systems. If the material relating to Cray-1, probably one of the most iconic computers ever made, has been preserved this poorly I don't have much hope.

Old web pages suffer from a similar fate. The fast pace of technological advancement make things difficult but we really should be doing more.
This is not about IP in the Eclipse IDE, like I was thinking.
If you go the startup route, you will likely not do your Masters anytime soon. Not saying you couldn't but I've just seen it a number of times, and you'll likely get caught up doing the startup dance (its fun). Honestly, that isn't a bad thing. In a lot of ways going through the startup process is a better education. Not discounting an advanced education but frankly I'd rather get practical experience over a Masters.

The large company you can easily complete your Masters as the amount of work and the type of work you will be doing will be the entry level work. Not that it is bad, just that it is different than a startup where you could be tasked with a critical feature or bug fix that the company really is depending on. Another factor to consider, if you do really want your Masters now, the bigCo might wind up paying for a lot of it, if you agree to stick around for 1-2 years after they pay for it. Sometimes that is worth taking less fulfilling work so you can fulfill your education, just a thought.

For my 2 cents, I'd go the startup route. But if you are a risk adverse person, don't.
A friend of mine created the board game Robot Turtles ("programming for preschoolers"), which has a bit of that goal. It's a parent-child(ren) thing rather than a solo activity, mind you.

http://www.robotturtles.com/
I mean, I can understand it, in the sense of, someone has a limited picture / a busy day / not the time & emotional resources for which to be able to also think compassionately about someone else in need. Or sometimes responsibility is diluted in institutions so an institution can act in a way that's devoid of compassion, where an individual acting face to face could not.

(I hope you did not read me as objecting to your comment, just "expanding the picture")

To understand how someone could exclude someone from campus with depression, I'd have to start positing the existence of events / information we don't have. Usually if a health care professional decides they are a danger to others, that is when people get sectioned. This is common place stuff. Virginia Tech is not common place stuff.

Maybe the people at Virginia Tech were depressed or something, I don't know. But, so what?

Hitler was an artist.

There's always the "historical psycho" exception to every rule.

Mathematics causes Unabombers?

These events are in the popular imagination, but it's a reaction coming from fear. In cases like depression it's particularly important for people around a person to act from compassion, open-ness etc. Just "being there" is enough.

Saying "I'm here..." is enough, you have no idea how a small thing like that can make a world of difference without you feeling like it's even a thing you had to give.
@pg on Twitter in 2009: http://www.paulgraham.com/twitter.html
First results from psychology’s largest reproducibility test
100 developers @ 10 LOC/day @ 200 day/year @ 10 years = 2,000,000 LOC.
In my experience and if I'm remembering correctly, hehe and haha were equally common on the dial up BBSs. I've used both all these years.

I don't think the connotations have changed!
And how would they possibly create a good game without playing one?
I got that too. It's cached by google already though :

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8jwimQ6...
Right, that's one of the main points. The other one is calling invoking C functions as coroutines.
Don't downvote without saying why. This isn't how conversations are made or stopped.

Here is RMS fiurst post on Mono and C# - https://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono

“[...] we know that Microsoft is getting patents on some features of C#. So I think it’s dangerous to use C#, and it may be dangerous to use Mono.”

–Richard Stallman

I am glad that RMS is an advocate for Free Software and we certainly have been helped by his strong convictions. I think he was wrong with Mono and hurt specifically GNU/Linux (For RMS' sake) by limiting the use of a language due to pressure against developers using it. The fight was won and mono projects were dropped by distros.

P.S. Long time OpenSUSE user which was also strongly discouraged by the community due to Novell's and Microsoft's relationship and agreements.
Wait, you talking about Neon Liger? They shut down?
It does not make any practical difference, if there is true randomness, or just something sufficiently complicated to be effectively random. In practice, it is appropriate to act like you have free will, because if you think you do not _and_ change your behaviour accordingly, then, of course, you rob yourself of the possibility to positively affect your life and that of others _on that level of abstraction_. It does not matter, if there is any determinism some layers further down (and, btw, there probably isn't), that actually _looks_ completely random.

I know this sounds complicated, but the idea is actually pretty simple.
Largely because I've yet to use a streaming service that handles intermittent connectivity well enough

If you have an Android phone: Google Play All Access.

You can offline content to your phone as if you own the music, but you get full access to their complete library. It's pretty brilliant, IMO.

Edit: though that doesn't help you if you're looking for a radio-like service... I tend to listen to albums at a time, and discover artists through third party services (e.g., Rate Your Music) that then drive me to sample stuff on Play. So it works well for me.
Nope, getting it now as well (for the entire site)
Yeah I'm getting it too, it doesn't like favicon.ico and main.css.
If they want you, and they know they have competition. They're probably send you a bigger offer than otherwise.
Is the world preparing for war?
I think identi.ca is one of the more important ones (which doesn't say much, I tried to figure out that ecosystem a while back and found it pretty hard to get into for outsiders)
> Finally, something that purports to have Go-style concurrency that actually provides the equivalent of select{}!

About a week ago I released a library to access Go's channels and goroutines (as implemented by gccgo) from C: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/golib

It has Go's runtime select.
It is a brilliant, sometimes harrowing first hand account of the effects of the drug war.
Feedhuddler – Send RSS feeds to your pocket account
Someone who is alcoholic will be drinking vast quantities of alcohol everyday.

A person can drink far far less than that and suffer ill effects because of alcohol.
Programming a Perceptron in Python (2013)
Could Bitcoin save Argentina?
A service for 2FA?

I prefer a stand alone app or device for that. Why would Authy demand that I give them a phone number and an email address if not for monetizing (as in selling to anyone) my personal information?
Haxeflixel is cool
BEST (employment rate, compensation, prestige) careers - It really isn't...

Plently of other middle class careers are better compensation. Prestige wise, its pretty low.
The competition doesn't sleep:
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sungevity-and-so...

In fact they seem to be ahead. Sonnenbattery offers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery since 2011 in Germany.

For technical details see http://www.sonnenbattery.com/strom-energie-speicher/sonnenba...
Music streaming service Grooveshark shuts down after years of legal troubles
Interesting reading about the haptic notifications for navigation (different vibration patterns to turn left/right). Was something I worked on as a research project 4 years ago so it's neat to see being used for real.
Apropos of nothing but that product page has a lovely clean design.
I worked in Student Life as a Resident Director. The power of Lawyer is extremely strong and the fear of litigation is very high.

Our college handled this differently and perhaps it was due to my strong advocate since my brother took his own life when I was a kid. We required hospitalization for the hospital to evaluate and than we would work one on one to make sure they were following doctor's orders in terms of counseling and medications. This all had to be done secretly so that students privacy wasn't stolen and that students would know it was a safe place.

As a Resident Director we would directly contact the professors and arrange a way for the student to make up their work and to complete the classes. usually the students would have a lot of abstinence and this would cause an issue, but we would always try our best and set up things in place for the next semester if need be and with financial assistance (AKA not charge them for the class credits a second time).
How does this affect personal websites?
How to Ask for a Favor: A Case Study on the Success of Altruistic Requests
I think researchers have glimmers. There was a TED talk about the difference between ape brains and ours, researchers kinda understand ape brains. The difference between ape and human in terms of evolution is a few millions of years, they seem to think that evolution won't have made a massive leap in that time. So ape brain isn't too different from human brain.
The difference is that the vast majority of people use alcohol. That was really a situation where the minority managed to impose its social mores on the majority. Drug users are in contrast a distinct minority group.
I love this game, this is great!
I can see how https is technically better than http. But wouldn't a https-only web put too much trust in companies who create certificates? I can't think of a concrete danger but it sounds dangerous that the degree of security depends on monetary interests.
They probably would be held liable, hence why they immediately kicked him off campus. Their response isn't just covering their asses, they make no attempt to even justify their actions, nor to deny them. They only say how good they are and then blame the family!
am i the only one getting a malware-warning when hitting the page? Might be avast though
The title makes it out that counseling he received was what harmed him making it appear that getting help was a bad idea.
Mental illness is also a health issue, but our reaction to it is to criminalize homelessness, put people in prison, etc.
So How Do You Pronounce “R'lyeh”, Anyway?
Enterprises that are serious about security have been requiring their employees to use security tokens for years. It's not an unreasonable burden to maintain control over account access.
I have personally found Spotify's Browse>Discover feature to be be useful and worthy, I've found a lot of interesting music in there.

My use case though is that I most often go on Spotify to listen to a specific album I had in mind, either I knew already or heard of it from a friend, blog, local gig, etc. But those times (20% maybe?) I feel like trying something new, I always find something good on Discover.

I wish their UI was better though. The desktop app spawns 7 SpotifyHelper processes that each eat 40mb of RAM and the whole thing feels way slow on my 10ish year laptop. The web app uses flash, and while it consumes less ram, the playback is choppy on my pc. At least the desktop app plays fine once it's started.
poor kids
The rule excludes video games at the childrens house. The rule says nothing about playing video games at a friends house or board games etc. at home.
Spacechem
http://www.zachtronics.com/spacechem/

It's not intended at all as a programming education product but I think that's what's so great about it.
Show HN: Reddit on a map
Replacing Django's ORM with SQLAlchemy (2008)
Does it really matter why someone is against the current failed policies? There are any number of paths that could lead someone to desire change, and none is more legitimate than any other.
The paper doesn't even mention ungit tool.
Selecting best mutual funds can be a confusing and mind boggling task
In a free market cocain and heroin should cost about the same as OTC generic drugs. That means your 1000 usd/day heroin habit is now a lot less than a coffee run to starbucks.
If your air conditioner actually draws 52 amps at 230 volts (or 110 @ 110 if you're in the US), you must be air conditioning a gym hall with a black, tin roof somewhere in a desert.

But you're probably not, and that was my whole point - my stove top is rated at 10kW, too, yet even when using alongside all other appliances in my house I have never gone above 4kW actual use. Actual need != summing all the nominal maximum rated loads of all appliances. In other words, it's not because your AC is rated 12kW, that you'd need 3 of these battery packs just for the AC. You might need 2, or maybe 3, I'm not saying that 2 (or 4) kW is enough always, everywhere for everybody - but there is no 'normal' (middle to upper middle class) home anywhere that would need 5 or 10 of these units, as is suggested at various places in this thread.
> People consume heroin like crazy in hospitals and very few become addicted.

That's a poor argument. People consume heroin and opiate medication like crazy outside hospital, and quite. Few of them become addicted.

The problem here is with inappropriate prescribing of increasing amounts of opiates for long term pain instead of better access to pain management clinics.
I question how genuinely accurate that is.

Drug use _started_ as illegal, and so many who have experimented and might have continued to casually use instead later on shied away.

Alcohol started as a perfectly normal thing (until modern times, beer was considered a safer drink than water and no one ever considered restricting it to _anyone_)

So, I'm not saying you are wrong - only that "Drug users are in contrast a distinct minority group" is not painting a fully accurate picture of America, and so you _could_ be wrong.
Most investors in India simply don’t have the knowledge or time for investments. This is one reason why mutual funds in India have become an emerging trend.
> Maybe if you plan on doing time in prison? (I'm only half joking)

This is the exact analogy I'm making when someone says that school prepares you socially for "real life". The only part of "real life" school socially prepares you for is prison, with pecking orders based on "popularity", physical traits and meanness of character.
>> Though I'm kind of bummed that libthread is as obscure as it is...

I am as well. That's the coolest thing about Go imo, Go basically distills down a lot of the coolest stuff from Plan 9, and took it to the 'masses'. Edit; that just my impression, I'm not a Go user.

It would be very useful to have syntactic sugar over coroutines and channels in C. There are quiet a few coroutine libs around, but having it in the language would be compelling.
True, and also it would have to compete with a typical generator using petrol.
Is that the output or the input? If it's the output (i.e. the amount of heat coming out of the condenser outside your house), the input might be only 5kW or even less.

(Probably some jackass is going to downvote me because they think this violates conservation of energy, but no — those 12kW coming out of the heat exchanger include the 5kW of electrical energy that went in, plus another 7kW of heat that’s being extracted from the air being conditioned; and if you were to try to run a heat engine off that 7kW of heat difference, you wouldn't be able to recover the original 5kW. All perfectly thermodynamically copacetic.)
Is that the output or the input? If it's the output (i.e. the amount of heat coming out of the condenser outside your house), the input might be only 5kW or even less.

(Probably some jackass is going to downvote me because they think this violates conservation of energy, but no — those 12kW coming out of the heat exchanger include the 5kW of electrical energy that went in, plus another 7kW of heat that’s being extracted from the air being conditioned; and if you were to try to run a heat engine off that 7kW of heat difference, you wouldn't be able to recover the original 5kW. All perfectly thermodynamically copacetic.)

Either way: have you thought about insulating your house or tinting the windows instead of using 120 energy slaves to desperately battle against the sun on your behalf?
>> I'm sure that number of C# developers in the world who develop open source stuff is even smaller.

We aren't god damn unicorns.
Mono are harvesting classes left right and center from MSFT source: https://trello.com/b/vRPTMfdz/net-framework-integration-into... :-)

Check out each card for hints as to what is yet to come: "The Mono Core Runtime basically will implement the same interface that the .NET Core runtime will. Allowing Mono to be deployed alongside the application and shipping only with a very limited set of assemblies that integrate the VM with the operating system."
GNUSocial (eg Quitter.se) and Pumpio (eg Identi.ca*) are functional replacements with thriving communities.
If you get 90% charge/discharge efficiency, you're multiplying the economy 7 tariff by 1/0.81 = 1.23456790 (so close) so it's more like 12.5 years, and a bit less compelling.
>We need an open alternative to Twitter

Like GNUSocial and Pumpio? What's your handle?
I don't see how it's immediately beneficial for just about everyone. I currently have a flat rate for kWh and no solar panel... and moving soon. It's not worth the $. In 6 months I'll be renting for a year, still not beneficial. Perhaps in a couple years I can purchase solar, a battery, and an energy system that can automate some demand shedding but we're talking about 1%ers here.

In fact, I'd say it's only immediately beneficial to a minority.
The problems with ‘simple markup’
All aboard the bug train
Looks like Rand Paul, a Republican surprisingly, is the only candidate running from either side is taking the correct stance on the "War on Drugs".

http://www.ontheissues.org/domestic/Rand_Paul_Drugs.htm
Does this build and run on anything besides Windows? If so, on what, and how do I build it there? If not, a note mentioning this would be nice.
I craft a playlist of new tracks that I like and then hit 'start playlist radio' to let Spotify find me other emerging bands that sound like this.

This is a pretty solid way to discover new music, but you do need that jumping off point to enable you to say to it 'find me stuff like this'.
The content is not illegal. Illegal content would be stuff like child pornography.
get a 403 forbidden
I and some friends built a federated Twitter alternative a few years back. It used OStatus, so we inter-operated with Identi.ca and friends too.

Long story short: network effects are hard.
> Batteries are not clean; lithium mines are one ugly slight and recycling is difficult:

You are conflating two senses of "clean" that are radically different in meaning and importance.

-- Fossil fuels are !clean in that they may destroy all life on earth via catastrophic climate change.

-- Lithium mines are !clean in that they present waste disposal challenges and some people find them "ugly".

It's like saying "your non–blood diamond is still a blood diamond because the jeweler got a papercut while handling the documentation".
im starting my own grooveshark website... the competitor is no more! yay
>> However the proportion of drug users who are addicts is small and the proportion of addicts that steal is small so saying that drugs and theft

Probably we have different view on who is a drug addict. Hard drugs addicts (like heroin, ketamin, etc) have very large criminality involvement, because those drugs make them fall very fast.

>> Again, a tiny proportion of drinkers may cause a problem

Maybe small proportion of drinkers, but huge proportion of _drunk_ people cause problems. More than half domestic murders are caused by alcohol in Russia. Whole villiages die out because if alcohol, you can hear sometimes in some village there's no one who can work, because all men became total drunks. I think magical removing of alcohol would be single most positive thing crime-wise you can do in Russia. But of course it's impossible.

>> Switzerland basically killed this stuff and proved that heroin addicts could lead quite a normal life if they knew where the next dose was coming from - a government clinic in this case.

Yes, that's what I was talking about - using should be controllable. Special clinics etc. But Switzerland experience can be hard to reproduce elsewhere, this country just has different social structure. So it should be applied carefully.
Music streaming service Grooveshark shuts down in the face of $736mn fines
One example, is that even with CSS Animations, CSS Transitions, Web Animations and the Motion Path module, we still couldn’t create a font using SVG-in-OpenType where the outlines of the glyphs wiggle.

Uh... I don't think you're helping your case...
Why just "lower income". Why do you think pretty much every working couple of parents sends their kids to school with afternoon activities until 5 PM. AFAIK this is extremely common in the bay area.
Those would be crap lead acid batteries at $100.

I have 500 Ah in 4 AGM batteries that cost me $1200. If all that 835 is usable I'd have to spend $3600 to come close with the same AGM's I'm using now.
To make it even worse, they're running Windows XP...
A better way of looking at it is that it's immediately beneficial to anyone who owns real estate.