skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed on both points.

With planning restrictions, I hope that something small and noise-free could please the nimbyists. Something(s) the size of a Dyson fan on the roof-line would look cool.

With regards efficiency, I think it's not about replacing the large centralised turbines but augmenting the house's existing solar. A typical single solar panel that generates 200w peak makes about 500Wh/day (on sunny days). If (big if) a turbine can generate 20w average over 24 hours, that's 480Wh extra.

But as @desdiv correctly points out - the idea is nothing new. Here's a good looking 20w turbine that I would be happy to have on my roof:

http://wind-kinetic.com/index.php/other-products/polar-20w-3...
Indeed! Although I'd argue that probably is what it's supposed to mean.

A "leather horse saddle" and a "horse leather saddle" are very different things, and no native English speaker would mix them up. You know which they mean.
Bet I can force you to look at this reply
> If this was a pure love of fucking with people, men and women would get equal levels of this. But that's definitely not the case.

Women in tech and gaming are targeted because they are juicy targets. They have a high reward/effort ratio. It's easy to get hooks into a woman in tech/gaming. Vigorously opposing them is a means to the end of getting a reaction. It's relatively much harder to get a reaction from a man for being in tech or gaming. So, the trolls go for the low-hanging fruit.

> I'm all for that. But it's tricky.

Definitely. If this was easy, it would have been solved long ago. This is a problem as old as the internet. I'm just trying to direct attention to the actual problem. Indictments of whole industries are worse than distractions. The confused, heated, misguided, highly emotional arguments are troll dessert! Watching people in this discussion get angry at each other is the cherry on top of all the effort they put into Jessi.
async function foo() {
try {
const valueOne = await promiseReturningFunction();
const valueTwo = await anotherAsyncFunction(valueOne);

return valueTwo;
} catch (err) {
alert(err);
}
}

foo(); //Returns a Promise.

----

In this example, I've sequenced the resolution of two promises (async functions return Promises when invoked)

If either of these Promises reject or throw an error, or if any of the code within the try {} block throws an error, the error will be caught inline in the catch block (one area only).

You can also see that both Promise's return values are in-scope and continually usable (vs. losing scope with 'then' chains).
Ask HN: Advice? Grad student considering dropping out to pursue a startup idea?
Say, for example, when would you say, objectively, it makes sense? When you have the first customer and interest? When you have the idea, so you can be faster to market? Etc..
Ugh - yes, ignore my comment. I misread your intent completely.

FWIW, I know someone who takes a very public stand online with a few feminist issues and she cops brutal reactions on the net. I think many people simply cannot contain their natural reaction to beat down someone (especially a woman) who they perceive as being successful, or not deserving success by some metric (beauty, body, etc) unrelated to the point.
Which superpower is being held to a higher standard right now?
Not with the same precision of targeting weak areas and optimizing your review time.
That's a great example - is it in a particularly windy area? I will look into installing something like that.
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=story&query=don%27t...
Men can get harassed too, but threats of sexual violence understandably create a much more visceral reaction in women.

Because men usually don't feel as vulnerable they can to a greater extent disregard certain types of threats or not get exposed to them (especially the sexual ones).

Unfortunately the abusers/bullies have a larger more powerful arsenal for attacking women than men.
CppCast [0] is a pretty good C++-focused podcast. Starts with a summary of recent C++ news (and related topics), followed by an interview with excellent guests (usually luminaries from the C++ community).

[0] http://cppcast.com/
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Facebook's chinese nickname
how about liandan(a funnier way to call "face" in Chinese)? it's not so formal and it would be easier to be remembered
Amazing post-game experience for recreational athletes.

I play soccer recreationally. I've easily played more than 1,000 games and all I have post-game are memories ( which are nice ), but I feel we could do much better.

I have a vague idea for a solution - but it would involve drone-filming all my recreational soccer games, and then have the content edited/produced - so I could see al my plays, everyone else's best plays, and so on and so forth.

It would be really interesting because it would also augment the social in-pitch experience with post-game online socialization.

What do you think?
Everyone says AirBnB was a bad idea, but only the original idea was bad. Once you realise that the business is really about running illegal hotels where the risk is outsourced then it becomes a very good idea.
incredibly impressive research article you've posted!
Not only voting, posting articles too. When you receive a tip you can convert it to cash so this is a real ($$$) connection between the virtual and real world.
You didn't answer a key question:

The thing is, the harassment that Jessie is facing could literally be one person, right? Do you deny that?
They're determiners (part of determiner phrases, like "the", "some", "a", "all", "many", "most", "85% of", "at least seven", etc). They don't function exactly like adjectives. Noun phrases need determiners on them or they feel ungrammatical.

"Dog kicked ball" is ungrammatical whereas "the dog kicked a ball" is fine.

"Red dog kicked blue ball" is plausible only when "red dog" and "blue ball" are considered proper nouns (meaning the phrase "red dog" denotes a particular dog in the context).

Proper nouns like George Washington don't need a determiner.
Podcasts: Twit, the Linux Action Show and (non-tech) No Agenda. Blogs: The Dutch Tweakers.net and Slashdot from time to time.
If you want to submit comment directly to ICANN, you do so here.

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ppsai-initial-2015-05-...

Scroll down to "Template for Responses (if desired)." (Direct link: https://s.zoomerang.com/s/VTLNGF5 )

The form asks you to comment on a dozen or so specific parts of the report and the working group proposal. I imagine comments submitted this way will have more impact than a plain letter since you will be guided to address all of the contentious parts.
I know this is just pissing in the wind (and you just used the term from the article), but "gun safety" already means something. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_safety> This type of language engineering annoys me.
Cirque des Légumes: 2 semaines de plaisir pour les enfants
Not quite; you can escape the northbound Market-10th St right turn by changing lanes at the Polk-Fell crosswalk across Market just before 10th. After that crosswalk, the streetcar track lane is no longer bus-taxi only, and you can cross 10th in it. Then you're forced out of the track lane again into the right hand lane as you pass the Twitter building.

However, at 6th St, you're now forced to make a right turn.
Sad to hear that trash is accumulating.

I think maybe a small number of first-come, first-serve or lottery-type reservations would be preferable to a fee-based way of limiting access. Outdoor access is expensive enough in Washington as it is.
Looks like this story supersedes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9834278, which was on the front page most of today.
The main command and data handling processor runs code written in C, as does the guidance and control computer. However, the G&C algorithms were 'written' in Simulink, and autocoded to C. I believe the instruments also use C, unless they are too resource constrained even for that, in which case, I'd guess Forth.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8899353/The-spies-behi...
The areas that are suitable is a function of the price. If the Californian Almond industry runs out of water then other more marginal areas will become viable.
Reading posts like this leaves me feeling angry (that it happens at all, this day and age), bewildered (what kind of callous jerkwad sends death/rape threats to a stranger over editorial content) and helpless (what can I do to help or prevent this from happening further?)

I give credit that there is a problem. I genuinely want to help improve things (my daughter might want to follow her old man into this field one day). What can an unassuming white developer do beyond publicly stating "This is unacceptable", and setting the right example of personal behaviour?
> Once you realise that the business is really about running illegal hotels where the risk is outsourced then it becomes a very good idea.

No, thats exactly why I'd say it was a bad idea, because who would accept that outsourced risk?!

(It turns out a lot of people did)
Other stuff:

- All text editors on android suck. My god they suck so much. Create something like Editorial, and you have my money.

- Not sure of it exists - betting website. Allow people to deposit money and make small bets. Make it convenient for reddit users, so when 2 people are arguing they could bet on a thing and see what will happen. Or target it to fanfiction readers, to bet on what will happen in the following chapters(would be super useful for /r/HPMOR)

- Website - a collection of ways to make people's lives weirder. Something like pranks, or ways to mess with people's heads, but harmless, funny, and innocent. Stuff that Harry from HPMOR does.

- Use ML and CV and image recognition to do something cool with google maps. It's just an interesting idea, use CV to analyze google maps data.

- Subreddit recommendation engine. Based on your likes and subscriptions. Like on imdb.

- gitter for subreddits. Connect a subreddit to a chat.

- HN-lore. There are some links that are submitted to HN regularly, and every 6 months new people discover them. Great stories people here like sharing, articles, books, etc. Create a ranked list of HN folklore and traditions.

- Automatically compile my HN, reddit, other social media posts into a blog-like post feed.

- Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding for movies and animation projects. It would be a big kill-Hollywood kind of startup, not sure about how to make this at all, but we should turn movie industry into a github/reddit-like thing. Just a dream I guess.
Private creditors took a haircut. Government owned entities, including the German and French national banks did not take any kind of haircut at all. And at that time, it was clear that the debt write down wasn't enough --- but for political reasons, the German and French national banks didn't take a writedown, but instead pushed the Troika to play a game of "extend and pretend". (i.e., let's pretend Greece will eventually be able to make the German and French banks whole, no matter what the cost to Greece.)
Ask HN: I knocked my housemate's iPad on the floor. Should I tell her?
The iPad was resting on a coffee table, which is around 50cm (1.6 foot) high. It was connected to a speaker cable via headphone jack and when I moved the speaker, the iPad was knocked onto the floor.

No screen damage and the iPad works.

Should I tell her?

I am concerned that I would automatically be blamed if anything were to happen to the iPad in the future.
That ship has sailed. It's 06:40 and the sun has been pouring through my windows for more than an hour :/
The part of my body that has synched up with the daylight refuses to listen to the part that needs sleep.

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"Grain silo" and "fish pond" are exactly-precisely compound nouns. It's just that English refuses to accept that it's a Germanic language and instead puts on airs. Honest languages would of course never dream of inserting pretentious spaces between the constituent parts.

I actually thought of "stone chimney" as a compound noun instead of adjective + noun when I wrote it, precisely because I wanted to mock that and really hammer home the point. Unfortunately, the two look the same in English (but not in Danish) -- and I was tired -- so I didn't catch it and replace it with a better example.
I used Pimsleur to learn Japanese. They use a kind of SRS where words don't get quizzed directly, but embedded in small phrases. Using words in context made me more sure of myself and I was immediately able to use them in conversations or understand them in videos. With each phrase more than one concept could be refreshed. I think it is essential to put small phrases in order to develop the vocabulary.

Also, for absolute beginners this method has the advantage of forming a solid understanding of the core of the language (those 1000 words that see over 50% usage in regular conversation) and also learn accent really well - cards being in audio format. It feels as if I were a small child learning his native language.
I don't see any previous discussion there. We only bury posts as dupes if the story has had significant attention in the last year or so. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

We merge threads when two or more are active at the same time, but not when one is months old or more.
re: Dr. Dobbs: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/farewell-dr-d...
Hey, original author here.

The moral obligation is real, and I personally feel quite strongly about it and I know most of my coworkers feel the same. Morality is relevant because it's a human feeling. It's easy to forget that even big companies like Facebook make decisions by the hands of single individuals.

Facebook was built on the LAMP stack >10 years ago. Without open source, Facebook wouldn't exist and we all know that.

I personally find satisfaction in sharing as much of the stuff we build as possible as open source in the hopes that others will be able to build something great.
> WW2 was caused in no small part by the Wall St Crash, which was a direct cause of hyperinflation in Germany

Could you please clarify how the Crash of '29 caused hyperinflation in Germany in the early 1920's?

Or do you mean the August 1919 to December 1920 slide? That doesn't suffer from violations of the law of causality, but nor is there any evidence that it caused the Weimar government to print ever increasing amounts of money in higher and higher denominations, which started in June 1921, six months after Wall Street had started to recover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...
1) A lightweight CRM for friends. I'd love a tool that takes the teachings of someone like Keith Ferrazzi and builds a simple tool around making it much easier for me to be a better networker. Facebook doesn't quite get the use cases right, and neither does linkedin, and other CRMs are too heavy weight to be practical. Maybe with tips on managing my professional networking life in addition to my individual relationships (eg, suggest among my network a group of 4 that would make a good dinner party, and see that I haven't done a dinner party in a while and suggest to send an invite to the group). Or, tell it a handful of aspirational goals (work at Google, start a company, go to YC) and have it suggest a path to get closer to that goal by probing my network, discreetly connect me to others with similar or complimentary goals, suggest when I can help someone that has a goal that's close to my expertise, etc.

2) It would be really cool to get the 'magic' of the command line into the hands of everyday people that don't even know what it is. Magic sort of does with with SMS. I'd love to see an app toy that you totally interact with by emailing it. Then you could email it for all sorts of automated things -- :bcc the app to log data, send it an email for reminders, simple commands could be parsed and understood. It wouldn't have to do a bunch of NLP at first, you could be strict about how the data needs to be formatted for it to work.

3) This one is nebulous, but I think software discovery for the enterprise is really broken right now. There is still WAY too much outbound phone sales and old fashion 'network' selling going on. There should be some place I could go as, say, a sales ops manager to check out the best software eating the uses cases for sales operations (Ambition, BaseCRM, Yesware, etc etc). Maybe it's product hunt style group voting. Maybe it's a curated, impartial look into the 'stacks' of the industry companies that are considered 'best in class'. Maybe it's something looking at Google trend data and finding 'momentum' sort of like Mattermark. Maybe it's a 'pagerank' style connection map by looking at VC investors and the 'client' pages of startups. I dunno the best way to get good information that scales and nimbly identifies new ideas when they emerge, but if you figured out that problem you'd be solving a huge, very real problem and be in the middle of what will be billions of dollars in $ shifting around in the next 10-20 years. Search like Google works when you already know what you want, but it's really hard to distinguish the signal and noise with all the new tech and tools and toys emerging to take over different use cases for large companies. And the people in the large companies that need to know this information often don't have enough time to do the research or even where to begin.
That was an awesome read. Cool idea.
Many business travellers have a per-night cap on the amount they can spend on a hotel, but no cap for wifi expenses. Unbundling the wifi from the room charge means the hotel can capture customers for whom the rate would otherwise be 'over cap'.

I've noticed this most at mid-range places, rather than the upper or lower end of the market, which seems to treat wifi as a necessity.
As usual, some of the most frank moralistic discussion on this topic can be found in the Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0608nlb (I think that's available worldwide).
My memory is a bit hazy on this, but I think that turbines place a lot of stress on buildings that they were not designed to handle. Retrofitting the required strength into the building will be expensive given what our tradies charge.
Not to mention what is actually happening here -- publicizing private debts. Why should European taxpayers be on the hook for risky bets made by Deutschebank et al? That's what's really going on here. Nearly all of the bail out funds received by Greece have gone to paying back debt. Which sounds like a good, moral thing. But what that actually means is that public money (IMF or ECB loans, backed by governments and therefore taxpayers) is used to pay off the mainly private debt holders which hold Greek national debt. The banks which made the risky bets in the first place are getting their money back -- with interest* -- and the risk is being entirely taken on by taxpayers. So that when Greece does default -- and austerity is making that inevitable -- the bankers which made those stupid loans will have long since skipped the country, cash in hand.

TL;DR - the European bail out of greek debt is really a public bail out of the private banks -- Deutschebank, Goldman Sachs, etc. -- who made the stupidly risky bets in the first place. DB and GS are getting face value* for their worthless greek bonds, and the taxpayers are left on the hook.

But good luck getting that side of the story ever told in the media. DB and GS shareholders need their profits.

* There was a haircut by the private debt holders at one point in time, but interest on that debt has basically made up for it. It was still a profitable investment.

(Lesson for anyone aspiring for a profitable career in international finance: find the weakest member of an organization like the Eurozone, and offer them as much debt as you can get them to take. It will have stupidly high interest rates (e.g. >7%) because it will be so risky. But importantly, make sure that you take on so much debt that a default would ruin you. This is vitally important. Now wait for the inevitable to happen and your own government to bail you out because you are Too Big To Fail. Be sure to have a golden parachute in place in case a socialist is in power when it happens, but don't worry at worst you might lose one year's bonus. You will never go to jail.)
This, one thousand times. I majored in biological sciences thinking the work would be interesting and the money would be good. During a summer internship doing research I realized how boring most of the lab work was, and after learning how poorly you were paid even with a masters or a Phd I decided it was not the career for me.
Samsung's see-through truck
An exercise in profiling a Go program
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, especially dismissive unsubstantive comments. Thoughtful criticism is welcome, but glib sarcasm degrades the threads.
JavaScript Closures in One Sentence
From MDN:

"Closures are functions that refer to independent (free) variables. In other words, the function defined in the closure 'remembers' the environment in which it was created."

Wow!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Closures
[I'm going to apologize in advance for the chaos of this comment; there's a lot of moving parts and - as the expression goes - sorry this is so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter. And holy fuck I wish HN had a markup language with more than 3 modes]

Funny you should mention that, as I just had a scratch at it this weekend. Although OpenDarwin has ceased operations as of 2004 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29#...), the PureDarwin project has some flickering signs of life but just barely: http://www.puredarwin.org/ and https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/puredarwi...

While I was roaming around trying to see if anyone was trying to get such a beast to run in modern VirtualBox setups, I discovered that Apple used to publish ISOs of Darwin (https://opensource.apple.com/static/iso/) but I was not lucky enough to have the CD boot in VBox, and I didn't get very far with qemu, either: http://althenia.net/notes/darwin

My interest is almost solely in getting PureDarwin up and running in Vagrant/VBox with some networking support, so making headless OSX build boxes will stop being a ginormous technical and licensing clusterfuck. I have a mild interest in ReactOS for the same end game, but at this moment I will benefit from OSX toys more.

Probably our best shot is to tag along on the coattails of the development that goes into making the hackintoshes run and support crazy hardware.

Separately, Catherine (of opensn0w fame) is porting XNU to ARM https://github.com/darwin-on-arm/xnu and https://github.com/darwin-on-arm/wiki/wiki/Building-Darwin so that should be interesting, too, in a qemu kind of way. If nothing else, at least the kernel is receiving some attention outside of Infinite Loop.
The 'Black Route' to Europe, and the story of a Syrian family who braved it
I think shoeluckpotland's original post was wrong to to call those involved in the posited conspiracy, faking both sides, SJWs. The giveaway there being 'faking both sides'. That's how I would see it. It doesn't make it any less horrible for a woman like Jessie being verbally attacked of course.

I thought the post was otherwise great, floating what I feel is an important idea to consider. I've never tried to write on HN before and I've never seen a post replaced with [flagged] before. How does that arise? Is it ever reversed?
They require a certain climate. That's why they aren't already being commercially planted in other places which they would be at current high prices if commercial production in those places were viable.

The media like to beat up on California nuts. But really, the largest and most unnecessary user of California water is Alfalfa. That is the low hanging fruit (no pun intended) in water savings.