skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got a family too... I was your typical city dweller/consumer until very recently. I'm not saying that you have to give up everything that comes with city life, I'm merely suggesting get creative.

For sure taxes still need to be paid... do you have a spare room? Could you AirBnB to supplement your income? Could you reduce your utilities by switching up some stuff in your house? Perhaps it would be cheaper for a gas stove than electric? Could you put solar panels on your roof to sell electricity back to the grid? Could you get a bike and ride more places to use less gas? Would having septic save money on waste? Could you hang dry your laundry instead of using a dryer?

Not saying that all or any of those are feasible for anyone/everyone, just offering some solutions that many people overlook when they think they're stuck and unable to reduce their costs any further and these things can be switched up without changing your lifestyle much/any. Some of them have a (in some cases large) up front cost, but then your monthly expenses can be reduced significantly which reduces your longer term income needs.

...and I don't know how you lived without running water, that's something I just can't give up, along with my washer and dishwasher.
See also: http://www.windytan.com/ and https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea
Note that this already happens today. Mathematicians get a prestigious appointment based on a breakthrough work, which is then proven to be a mistake.
Typical NYC based media people not getting it.

There are many many people who spend money right now on generators as emergency power sources.

My parents are a great example of a perfect use case for this product. They live in the country, and have 5-6 significant power outages a year, usually in winter. They need a way to automatically deliver power to critical house systems: furnace, well pump, fridge, freezer. Right now they use a large portable generator, but that requires maintenance and a manual engagement. You also cannot leave it unattended for long periods of time. That basically ties them to their house in the winter months, making vacations difficult.

Lots of other markets for this type of thing too. If you have a horse or hobby farm, one of these things keeps the heat on in the barn when the power goes out.
Not sure if you're being facetious or not. If you're really interested in working part time then just ask. The worst your boss can do is say no. I've been part time on and off for 4 years and I've made the permanent move to PT 6 months ago, and I'm positive that I'll never go back to full time work. I was also unsure of how the conversation would go with my boss. It went something like this.

Me: Hi boss can I work part time?

Boss: OK.

If he said "no" then life would go on.
You could argue that they don't contribute anything personally (though I disagree, but let's go with your assumption). But you can't deny that their capital doesn't. Rich people don't just hoard their money in huge vaults for swimming in. That money gets lent out, donated, spent, etc. It is constantly churning in the economic landscape, going in endless loops, while essentially staying "unused" by the actual owner.
I wish California would put traffic mitigation into its high-school driver's education classes. Knowing the rules of the road and driving safely are important, but so is reducing traffic, and some simple information could save a lot of time in traffic jams.
Working for three decades continuously for one company in the prime of your life to "retire" (scare quotes intended) at 80% hours for normal pay is a pretty half-arsed attempt at addressing the spirit of the concept.
Not really. Nowadays here in NY the delivery portion of my electric bill exceeds the supply cost.
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like the ability to store up power from home solar

Why would you want to do this when net-metering exists? Let the grid store your excess power, and buy it back from them. Run the math, you'll see which one is cheaper.

or the ability to keep your furnace running in a power outage.

A $3000 gas generator will get you 10KW of power. In contrast, you need $10,000 of Tesla's "cheap" batteries to get to 10KW (not counting installation costs... or the inverter... or any additional stuff)

In any case, a "total" solution for a 10kw gas backup power can be had for less than $7,000, including installation costs. While the 10kw battery solution is closer to $15,000+.

A Gas Generator can be wired up to either a propane tank, offering perpetual energy. (Gas lines rarely rupture). If you don't want to be hooked up to gas lines, then propane tanks are also an option.
How would you know I haven't really considered the alternatives to living cheaper?

I don't have a yard to grow vegetables. We live in an apartment. When we lived in Portland, we had a yard to grow vegetables but our monthly water bill was prohibitively expensive (we're talking hundreds of dollars every 3 months).

Costco has a yearly membership fee, which I think at a minimum, is up to $75/year.

I work full time and my wife is in school full time in another city. We have 2 children (I have 4 altogether) who are school age. How the fuck am I supposed to make bread and pasta? Our rent is just shy of $1400/month.

Buying solar panels? What do solar panels cost nowadays and how much is installation? I can't install solar panels in my apartment.

I don't have a car payment because our only car is paid off. Except for student loans, we are debt free.

Edited to add: The other huge expense for us now is healthcare. The cost of healthcare for a family of 4 is astronomical.
Honestly, I didn't know about it. I usually don't store anything critical on the phone so I am generally not as paranoid as I should be. I just Googled they've admitted they screwed up badly. But the point is, anything can be instead of that Lenovo - iPhone isn't doing it for me anymore as a premium phone, and by premium I mean having outstanding features or UI.
That's no different from how regular math works. The whole point of this article is that mathematics is not formally verified today -- mathematicians just spot check and probe suspicious parts using informal analysis.
A diner or bar drinking soda water. Definitely NOT a coffee shop. I don't know why, although I suspect it's the background noise of motion. In any care, it just works out that way for me.
> The system only allows a single login per user, so if you have initiated the request first, somebody else would have to wait for you to finish the request until they can initiate it

sounds like an easy DoS vector if the person knows your phone number as well
The people who own the machines still charge for the products those machines produce for profit. Their profits have gone up, the retail cost of the products they produce hasn't gone down. Consumers still need to find the same money to purchase those products and so they still have to work to make that money.

Having machines doing most of the work helps nobody reduce their workload. All it does is make those that can afford to buy the machines to do their jobs have more time and/or long term profit. If you can't afford to buy a machine to do your job, there is no opportunity to reduce your income needs without reducing or finding more creative ways to provide for your material needs.
Right, that makes sense. It may not be an issue depending on which conflicting piece of information you go with.[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9582304
You don't have too. This strange notion that everyone has to be "educated" about things, is propagated for the wrong reasons mostly for the benefit of a few. Those that are interested will find the info they seek. The barriers are very low these days. And if others "don't get" your interests find those that do. It's not too hard.
> "what I see is what I have"

I guess you have not yet seen too much UB or compiler specific semantics then.
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Not sure if you factored this in but don't forget about the federal renewable energy credit[0]. For the solar panels alone, it's a $6051.6 credit.

[0] http://energy.gov/savings/residential-renewable-energy-tax-c...
But then those companies wouldn't be as profitable and he'd slip to being the world's 5th or 6th richest man... so why would he do that? Unless he replaced all his workers with robots reducing everyone to 3 days a week, and reducing their salaries accordingly.
>How can someone deserving (or not deserving) something possibly be a fact? Who decides who deserves something and who doesn't? Or is there an objective measure of deserving something, so that it may be a fact?

Maybe it's not strictly a objective fact because their is no quantitative measure, if this is how my statement is interpreted by most people then it is my mistake.

This does not mean that that the entire argument makes no sense. Many things in life cannot be objectively measured or strictly defined. We all as human beings have the intuition to judge whether or not someone "deserves" something or not even when I don't explicitly mention who does the judging. If I had said that "a murderer deserves to be punished, this is fact" would the argument still make "no sense"? No. It wouldn't.

Let me put it this way, unless you're a psychopath, I assume we all have the ability to judge who deserves and doesn't deserve something and that ALL our judgements will be remarkably similar if viewed from an unbiased perspective. That is why I can say such statements without explicitly stating objective measures.

If you're rich yourself I would say your judgement is remarkably biased and that you will take a more opposed or ambiguous view towards my statement about what rich people deserve. This occurs because people tend to almost always justify their own situation. This is a fact. Do I have an objective measure of this? No. Do I expect the average reader to be able to understand what I said despite lacking an objective measure? Yes.
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httrack is also very nice! I found it more comprehensive than wget's recursive mode, but I haven't compared it to rsync --link-dest.
Until people can agree to let strangers benefit from their bounty, society will demand people work for their bread.
I love how the echo chamber keeps talking about the Powerwall as if it were the first battery system ever made.

You can buy batteries for your home, today, at a retail price half that of the Powerwall. With equal or greater energy storage, power output, and lifetime. There's no need to wait for Li-ion to become "within reach". It's a needlessly expensive technology and product attempting to displace cheaper, more capable solutions that have been available for years.

Their marketing sure is clever, though; they're already the only battery system that 98% of Americans have ever heard of! This is going to be a fascinating B-school case study in a year or two. It's one thing for Apple to convince people to pay a huge premium for its design, another entirely to convince people to pay twice as much for a noninteractive energy-storage device that sits in a basement or closet. I'm in awe. Luxury product indeed.
> If getting C++ code correct in the face of exceptions is that bloody hard, then the language is broken.

Blame C, as they are that way to keep C++ exception behaviors compatible with C semantics.
also we can't all work 3 days a week because productivity improvements have not been passed on to workers by corporations. Which is how we come to have really rich people.
Not disputing the hard work, but at key points in Microsoft's history, they've held and exercised tremendous monopoly power, generating large margin at the expense of their customers.. Just like Slim's companies in some respects.
When you are starting your career, it's quite hard to work part time because of the lower wages and the peer pressure. With more experience, it's really worth reconsidering the balance between work and money.

The problem is that money is currently the universal standard for measuring success. There are many more dimensions to success and in fact, everyone should build their own model of what constitutes success, including things like spending time with your family, reading a good books and so on.
Been doing something similar, mostly because i have a featurephone that can do HSPA and i can't be assed to get a smaller sim to fit in the smartphone.

So instead i pair one with the other via bluetooth if i can't find some wifi to use and the data itch gets me.
>> What's more, is that I feel like I'm in some sort of Escherian loop here

Indeed. More to the point, what I'm implying is similar to the Allegory of the Cave. Thoughts are not constrained by time, space, or physics. I can build whatever structures in my mind, create, theorize, hypothesize, but if I can't communicate that to others, what have I done? Navel gazing I wager. Example, Einstein was really good at communicating his ideas thru writing and mathematics. But whatever one communicates is a projection, a shadow on the wall of the real content of the thoughts within. The point being physical media of any sort is a poor substitute for the canvas of the mind.
You might be interested to know that the OnePlus Two is supposed to come out in the next few months.
I have never found a good solution to the trade-off of protection against brute-force vs availability.

If I disallow X requests per second then I might enable DOS attacks on a user.

What if a cluster of zombie machines around the world is attempting to log in as a politician to gmail at their publicly known address? How would the politician ever get in, if login attempts are rate limited?
For battery life: why not just bought an external battery like this: http://www.aukey.com/product/dual-usb-external-battery-pb014...?

Problem solved...
I seem to remember a lot of very similar articles arguing the economics of the iPhone didn't make any sense when it first arrived as well. Not trying to say the result here will be the same, just running hard numbers doesn't always tell the whole story.
Mostly inherited from C, actually.
When I'm making a larger purchasing decision, I like to base it on my net worth. It makes things very clear.

Let's say you have a net worth of 25k, which seems about median for a 30 year old in the US.

So you're saying, I gotta spend 2% of my financial existence on a stinkin telephone? A nearly-guaranteed depreciating asset, at that!

For some of you, that might make a lot of sense - you spend 99% of your waking lives on those things. But for me, not so much. I'll opt for the $80 Android I found on Amazon.

I personally rather spend higher percentages of my net worth building businesses and memories/experiences, not things.
Carlos already made his money and now he just wants to enjoy it. There's nothing wrong with that. But that reality is not true for most people.

I am truly jealous of the people that have enough just to get by, spending most of their time outdoors, traveling and getting to know new people and cultures.
I ran some back-of-the-envelope calculations based on Tom "Do the Math" Murphy's nation-sized battery, 336 TWh, sufficient for two weeks' reserve power.

Tesla's Superfactory could produce that. In about 12,000 years.

Even if the capacity's excessive by a few orders of magnitude, that's a hell of a lot of battery.

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/08/nation-sized-bat...

Assuming 56 kWh Tesla batteries. Half a million battery packs is 28 GWh of total storage capacity. That's the energy equivalent of 16,000 barrels of oil. Assuming a modest 30% Carnot thermal generation efficiency, you'd need 55,000 bbl of oil to actually generate that electricity.

Yeah, batteries are a hard sell.

If each battery is 2m x 3m or 6m in area, the Nation Sized Tesla Battery would cover 36,000 km^2, or an area 190 km on a side. Maybe we'll stack them.

(The actual measurements are smaller, around 1.5 x 2.5 m or so, so that's an overstatement.)

A buddy of mine working at ORNL claims there's interesting stuff on the storage front that's competitive with pumped storage, but can't say just what yet. I'm highly curious myself.
This post is the reason why Apple is doomed on the longer run. Yes, expensive cute phones sell a lot early on. But no one sees value in spending that kind of cash every two years, for very little value in return.

This is basically the repeat of the desktop market in the 90's and early 2000s. Except that we now have Android instead of Windows as the dominant alternative.
For battery life: why not buy an external battery like this: http://www.aukey.com/product/dual-usb-external-battery-pb014...?

Problem solved...
If you have to clock out for lunch and are only paid for the hours you're working, who cares if you take more than an hour?
Whenever I see an article about traffic patterns, I inevitably see this exchange:

Person 1: You can fix traffic waves by smoothing!

Person 2: Smoothing traffic waves makes no sense!

It's frustrating. I don't know what to believe. Is there any peer-reviewed, simulation- and data-backed research that puts this issue to bed for good?
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Are journalists dripfeeding us Snowden revelations? Why are these revelations news now, long after the initial disclosure? The same question could apply to any new disclosure.
Hmmm. I like the output better than wrk and wrk2, however, it doesn't seem particularly efficient at generating high enough load in comparison to wrk:

(trent@imac:ttys003) (Thu/09:54) .. (~s/gopath/bin)
% time ./boom -cpus 8 -n 10000 http://panther:8080/plaintext
10000 / 10000 Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! 100.00 %

Summary:
Total:	8.4509 secs.
Slowest:	1.1200 secs.
Fastest:	0.0007 secs.
Average:	0.0359 secs.
Requests/sec:	1092.3152
Total Data Received:	138465 bytes.
Response Size per Request:	15 bytes.

Status code distribution:
[200]	9231 responses

Response time histogram:
0.001 [1]	|
0.113 [9009]	|∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
0.225 [0]	|
0.336 [0]	|
0.448 [0]	|
0.560 [0]	|
0.672 [0]	|
0.784 [0]	|
0.896 [0]	|
1.008 [39]	|
1.120 [182]	|

Latency distribution:
10% in 0.0023 secs.
25% in 0.0053 secs.
50% in 0.0100 secs.
75% in 0.0161 secs.
90% in 0.0255 secs.
95% in 0.0343 secs.
99% in 1.0158 secs.

Error distribution:
[769]	Get http://192.168.1.244:8080/plaintext: dial tcp 192.168.1.244:8080: can't assign requested address
./boom -cpus 8 -n 10000 http://panther:8080/plaintext 0.88s user 2.40s system 38% cpu 8.463 total

Ok, so, that took ~9 seconds to run 10,000 requests. Let's run wrk for 9 seconds and compare:

(trent@imac:ttys003) (Thu/09:55) .. (~s/wrk)
% ./wrk --latency -d 9 -t 8 -c 8 http://panther:8080/plaintext
Running 9s test @ http://panther:8080/plaintext
8 threads and 8 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 459.03us 263.24us 6.84ms 90.59%
Req/Sec 2.27k 285.87 3.22k 76.54%
Latency Distribution
50% 407.00us
75% 520.00us
90% 675.00us
99% 1.43ms
153940 requests in 9.00s, 27.60MB read
Requests/sec: 17111.78
Transfer/sec: 3.07MB

That served 15x more requests?
Wow this article is annoying.

> rising productivity would make part-time work an option for all of mankind. We haven’t got there yet

Yes we have but corporations are not passing this on. Plus the other side of the coin is land prices are set by income after food/heating/clothing so any rise in productivity is immediately captured by land owners.

If LA became 20% more productive and it were passed on to workers it would be passed on to landlords. We need full land reform.

I agree we should work less but this guy should spend less time dreaming and some time acquainting himself with Henry George.
I followed the links to the CMS, Atlas and other detectors that the images appear to be from but couldn't find any information on what these images actually mean. By reading the layman's descriptions (which I most certainly am) I assume that the images show where along the "surface", if there is such a thing, of the detector various particles were detected and the length of the bars show either how much energy the particle(s) have or the density of particles at that point.

Is there anywhere I can go to get a more detailed description of these without delving into academic papers that I have no hope of understanding?
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It depends on what I am doing. I prefer working at night between 10pm and 3am. This is the most quiet and solitary part of my day. Of course there are tradeoffs for fatigue but beer tends to make it all better. You have to try different things to find out what works for you. It just takes time.
Except decentralized power are an expensive luxury product. If you build a 1GW pumped hydro plant with 10-hours of storage (10GW-hr plants cost roughly $3 Billion), then everyone benefits, including those in poverty who are unable to buy batteries for themselves.

Net-Metering from those who can afford rooftop panels can then store the energy centrally, and then offset the costs for the non-solar users in the rest of the neighborhood.
So let him. What's the harm? If he's gaining an insignificant amount of time, then you're losing an insignificant amount of time.
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5,239, although I employed a lot of white space–it was my first spacecraft simulator–to make it easier for me to read even years later. And no, I never did that again.
It may not affect the legal definition of hourly rate for the purposes of overtime, but there is a clear difference between working 12 * 52 * 40 hours for X money, and working 12 * 47 * 40 hours for X money.
"The case raises questions about whether government agencies, even covert ones, should carry some responsibility for informing citizens of weaknesses they've unearthed in devices, operating systems and online infrastructure"

It should be legislation that any government agency discovers a security issue that it must be disclosed, promptly to software vendors, then after patched, it must also disclose to the public. Accountability is the keyword here. A major security agency must be accountable to security issues it finds, crazy right? After all, these agencies are suppose to be protecting their own citizens, or one would hope so...
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Time on the computer
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That IS interesting, but unfortunately the OnePlus One was riddled with (software) issues in the beginning as well (aka: Early adopters suffered) and .. what's the CM status? I guess the next phone won't be an 'official' CM Inc phone anymore? If that's the case, I'd first want to see if the CM project will support that device.

I miss CM (the 'free one' - even my OnePlus One ran on CM Nightlies vs. the Cyanogen OS thing) a lot. My next device will be picked based on http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Devices
you could implement them in a portion of your application and see how things work out. For instance, have them as the search provider for a couple of your more popular products categories or something and fall back to your current solution for everything else (a little A/B testing if you will). by doing so, you can avoid hitting the limits and see if your ROI increases before implementing or dumping them.
... for PostgreSQL developers, not users.
I used to think the same way. In fact, I would reference this article to reinforce my beliefs. But then I actually took the time to relearn C++14 the right way using Stroustrup's Programming Principles book. A project that was horrific in C became ridiculously easy in C++. And I didn't use a single malloc.