skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the electric car can be the tool to enable wider use of intermittent-supply renewable energy, like wind or solar! With some smarts, the cars can be charged at high supply/low demand times, and even feed energy back to the grid when demand is high and supply is low.

There is money to be made in making this happen, people!

Also, I did the math once on how much extra power a city will need if all cars go electric. It is not that much: take Perth, Australia, as an example. We have about 5.5 GW installed power generation capacity (there is a huge gap between this and the actual usage which peaks at less than 3.5 GW usually, but that is another story...). We have say 500,000 cars, driving 40 km/d on average... that's 20 million km driven, at 5 kwhr/km we need an extra 4 million kwhr/day. If the charging is spread over 20 hours, that is an extra 200 MW required to supply them all. A 200 MW power station is small-ish.
> If electric cars are the future, I'm going to despair that in the 21st century, we're still hauling around individual 300 pound Americans in 4,000 pound, 16 foot long cars. The trends towards young people returning to the city center and not owning cars are both better trends to encourage and more powerful trends than the trend of selling a really nice, $70,000 electric luxury car.

Fully agreed. I wish this perspective was far more prominent. There's so many sides to pick, this is certainly not a two-pole issue.
Generous severance, hilarious. At one gig I worked they gave the dead weight something like 6 months pay 4 months medical and quite a few refused it while some of the more competent employees were volunteering to take it, and being denied the opportunity. It was a SNL skit situation.
I had to lay off two people when a failed venture ran out of funding by surprise (the angel investor had committed to $x dollars per month for 6 months, but went back on the contract at month 4 - even though we had launched the product exactly on schedule.) we were launching and raising funds when our runway turned into a brick wall.

I felt mad because my team and I had worked crazy hours to pull off a miracle and the reward was everybody lost their job literally 1 week after the launch. I totally understand that raising capital has more uncontrollable variables than programming - I have to admit I was a bit angry that the other end of the company didn't meet the ass-kicking standard of the tech side.

I referred both guys to other jobs, one of whom took one of the offers. The other was a master UX guy so I was extremely bummed to not have him on a team with me anymore. He could get any gig he wanted in the blink of an eye, so it was no great loss to him.

It really does suck on both sides.
I personally think the arstechnica link should be replaced with this one.
In some parts of China, (frequently older) people routinely spend an hour or more lugging empty bottles up mountain paths to natural springs in order to gather spring water for drinking. (The character for a spring is 泉 which is water 水 beneath a 白 which means something like white/clear/plain but was allegedly originally a pictograph of an acorn!)
Perhaps it was meant from the very beginning to be nothing more than an a publicity stunt. If so, it did an excellent job at that, at relatively little cost.
yeah, isn't that hard to get the basics by reading the docs and doing some basic experiments with explicit placement and examining the resulting bitstream.

When I looked at the encryption format for the virtex 5 series it was quicker to reverse engineer it than it was to find someone within Xilinx that could explain it (just basic bit/byte order, what's covered by encryption, etc).

At the end of the day, FPGA configuration logic is just another state machine ;)
Mounting them upside-down might help with the power problem.

Another issue is the run-off, often the base of them is surrounded by muddy mess, bowls for dogs to drink out of, whatever. Proper drainage and some awareness of less common use cases would also be important.
TARP didn't just hand over $700 billion in cash. It was a financial instrument. According to Wikipedia, it actually made money -- $441 billion in revenue over $426 billion invested.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
The lesson it seems to me is that that is not the correct way to go about raising a small, $150k round. Founders should be able to round that up from friends and family.
Perhaps it was just vaporware to begin with, and the creator knew this sort of action would create more of a stir than releasing the "schematics" or delaying it constantly. Not that I really trust government, but it seems FAR more likely that it was just vaporware.
TdF 2015: Chris Froome’s ride for glory under threat in data spying storm
format all these boxes back to clean image, fully-patched and strong, production-usable, security policy state

No. You can't do that. Maybe in 1995. These days you have to throw out the hardware, due to the plethora of firmware rootkits: IPMI BMCs, network cards, hard disk controllers, etc.
For 10K (+3) if you live in USA, you can buy a Nissan Leaf that came out the 3 year lease, and it is a decent car that seats 5 people with a range of about 80+ miles. Batteries are expensive and will continue to be till the turn of this decade and not a whole lot can be done. The better analogy would be laptops vs desktops, laptops gave mobility but they were heavy did not have the power etc. but by 2004 - 2006 they started to eclipse the desktops, EVs will slowly eclipse, they are expensive with range limitations but as they mature over couple of generations the efficiency gains coupled with economy of scale would make them eclipse ICE. 10 years from now, you will not find a Pure ICE vehicle in new cars, every car will have battery of some meaningful size.
> probably because the device wasn't what it was hyped to be

No reason to not release the schematics, unless they were embarassingly bad.
Ugh, that time window.

I once had to work with a hardware team to debug a "boot issue" where we were right on the margin due to a two-phase boot process (boot initial bitstream, check journal in flash, load active bitstream) and didn't even realize going into the debugging that we were close to the margin.

It's nice to be doing plain-old software again...
Also, the on-land lithium deposits considered commercial already have enough lithium to make every car in the world electric, plus provide battery storage (like tesla power wall) for every home in the world. See:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/m4r/stupid_questions_may_2015/cbjf
Ask HN: Help me find a blog post on recruiting?
A great blog post was written earlier this year in which the key point was that companies are all trying to hire clones of the same people, creating a monoculture.

I can't find it or think of keywords that would dig that article up for me.

Can anyone help me to recall which one it is please?
These are the proverbial last straws that led me unsubscribe to Rolling Stone this evening: The publishing of a fake rape story at the University of Virginia. (Their mea culpa was was nothing short of an apology watered down by excuses) and Kim Khardasian on the cover. Done!

Here is the link to unsubscribe: https://secure.customersvc.com/servlet/Show?WESPAGE=am/home....
What would be considered "security critical"? SSH? IPTables? Linux kernel?
I agree. I used Inkscape for a while, then decided I needed "pro" tools, so bought Adobe CS, and learned Illustrator. Inkscape is just more obvious, to me. There's certainly some bias for me paused on having used Inkscape before Illustrator, but I used Corel Draw for longer than either and never was as comfortable with it as Inkscape. There were others along the way, as well, but Inkscape just stands out as the most usable for me.

Certainly, Illustrator is more powerful and complex, but many aspects are just utterly opaque and require a lot of googling to figure out. I regularly choose Inkscape over Illustrator, despite having ready access to both. Unless I need to share my work with someone who only has Illustrator I just tend to get more work done faster.
Microsoft Launches Cortana Analytics Suite
I agree, it's really unfair. I've had countless friends who ha d to stay local, since they couldn't afford dishing an additional $10k in living expenses elsewhere.
For those reading this and thinking that it's "not much cheaper than America" are missing a major point - student loans work differently there.

This article is about the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Ontario student loans are need-based, and each academic year any loan amount beyond $7,300 is forgiven.

See also https://osap.gov.on.ca/OSAPPortal/en/A-ZListofAid/PRDR008169...
Literally the very next sentence after the words "behavior not ideas" was "Today we are removing five subreddits that break our reddit rules based on their harassment of individuals," later followed by "When we are using the word 'harass', we're not talking about 'being annoying' or vote manipulation or anything. We're talking about men and women whose lives are being affected and worry for their safety every day, because people from a certain community on reddit have decided to actually threaten them, online and off, every day." Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/remov...

This is exactly what I was talking about. The truth is right there, up front and easy to access, but you'd rather uncritically believe the voice of the mob.
I used to live in Seattle — I used to bike up Yesler to go home from work — but I was talking about tsunami zones in general, especially the Pacific Northwest mentioned in the New Yorker article, not just Seattle. Maybe you replied to the wrong thread by mistake.
Well, I think that the moon wouldn't be too feasible since it does rotate. If you land telescopes on the moon, you wouldn't be able to observe the sky for a long period of time, like the hubble did with the deep field (50 days of time).

It also doesn't make sense to geosync the telescope behind the "dark side" of the earth for the same reason. Long exposures wouldn't be easy since the earth does move around the sun, so the sky moves with it. Eventually you will have to face the sun to get the same shot of the sky.

So, the only way would to be to have the orbit around the sun so the telescope can always face away from the sun. that way you can at least create the long exposures they need.
Law enforcement officers appreciate the assistance.

The reason I discuss the Challenger Disaster was to explain my ethical stance on who is really to blame when something bad happens. When a bad person does a bad thing I regard them as doing what comes naturally; those who I regard as morally reprehensible are the ones who were in a position to prevent the problem, or to fix it afterward yet chose not to.
As electric cars become more and more popular, more and more apartment buildings will start offering charging stations. My condo building added them about 2 years ago.
Beijing airport had water fountains despite the water not being good to drink and traditional Chinese culture having a stigma against drinking cold water.
No worries. I totally earned that one.
Micron: China’s Tsinghua to Bid $21/Sh
The brokerage model failed because the brokerage model itself is inherently flawed as a business model. Nowhere does this become more apparent than in the real estate industry. Its natural inclination is toward Bernie Madoff-like pyramid, where consolidation and cartel-like cooperation among "a few" (the Brokers and Agents) hurts "the many". Agents are forced into paying brokers for the "privilege" of association and access to the MLS... agents pass those costs on to clients by forcing those clients to sign on the dotted lines ("closing the deal"). Clients end up paying inflated commissions, as each person (or entity) up the chain takes their cut in larger and larger portions.

42Floors was trying to be the Redfin of commercial real estate? Well of course that doesn't solve the problems created by the existence of brokerages, especially when we're talking about renting or leasing a space, where ROI is already ridiculously negative from the get-go. Where commissions are just unnecessary garbage expenses. Why would it ever have been a good idea to involve brokerages at all?

We’re going to step decisively away from that model now and focus only on providing a great search experience. We’ll leave the deal closing to the professionals.

Over time, we’ll develop our new business model, which will be based around premium listing opportunities for those that want greater exposure to tenants

So the idea is to package the potential client list from a "better search engine" and sell it to those poor, struggling brokerages like it's insider information? Sounds like the MLS on steroids. Doesn't make much sense.
I watched one of these a few days ago get stuck at a 4 way stop near Castro St. I think the human driver had to take over.
I kind of figured as much... and that was my point actually... that writing and whining about it useless, and that if they actually do start misbehaving the community has the capability to take real action.
Yes.

The reason that American Civil Engineers require a Professional Engineer license is that an incompetently designed gas pipe exploded and killed three hundred people. There are other kinds of PEs as well - aerospace, mechanical, chemical engineers and so on.

In Canada, one must have the Canadian equivalent of a PE to practice as an engineer of any sort. That includes MCSEs; the Ontario Society of Engineers just loves to sue MCSEs and their exam "preparation" schools - and the OSE always wins its cases.

Here is my take:

Every Engineer's Solemn Duty

http://www.warplife.com/ethics/duty.html
You don't intend to work on this startup full-time? I'd say the current deal you have (10% for you, presumably 90% for the full time co-founder) sounds fair to me.

I have advised many founders in how to split equity. Think of it this way: if you had started at 50/50 each with the standard vesting, and you had quit early on (6 months to a year later), your 50% would turn into 6.25% to 12%. Pretty much exactly where you are now.

I don't think you need to re-negotiate. Once your founder raises more money, you'll soon be diluted closer to 5%. Nothing that an outside investor would worry much about, unless they are not seasoned investors.

Don't change anything.
Not with official workflows at least, and even then, you would somehow have to keep the PCIe block up during reconfiguration for compliance. I think it would be difficult to reverse engineer to that level.

The easier thing to do would be to delay enumeration.
If you're not in an environment where you have mentors, or if you find yourself easily distracted, sign up to a course at a school with proper in person training and testing or you're just going to keep procrastinating.
Starfighter, Summer 2015
Looks promising. Can anyone experienced in Aspect-Oriented Programming say how complete/useful this implementation is?
Type-agnostic partitioning for Go
No Code of Conduct – We are all adults, after all, aren't we?
I'm pretty shocked by the comments. I was expecting that the majority would be in favor of such an obvious move.

Yet, I had to scroll 3 pages till I found a positive comment. It's sad to think that officials from the Pentagon are more forward-thinkers than the readers of the NYT.
You could also argue the opposite: Having a job this week is no indication that you will have a job next week, and that without a specific contract with a specific term in it (good luck), the "at will" clause in your contract or state law means that you should always plan to be laid off at any time and have a few months of savings on hand.
I want a Tesla, but you are far and away more dedicated to the idea that I am.
"Friends and family round" has to be one of the worst concepts I've ever heard.

Great way to destroy your most precious and important relationships.
Is google down?
Well, whether he expected it or not - he did actually get one.
reminds me of the shitty email filter the school I taught at back in the late 90s used. It would filter out curse words but it ignored spaces so if you typed something like "push it" is would see "sh it" and delete those letters. It rendered your emails basically unreadable.
Sadly, being well prepared with clean water, food, medicine and shelter does you no good if someone else takes it from you. The very first item on your list should be a powerful firearm & sufficient ammo.

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle has a pretty good take on the post-apocalyptic chaos & breakdown in society that will likely ensue.
The Ontario student loans program are pretty decent. Though, there's always that scenario where your family income is high, so your loan amount isn't forgiven.
Inscapes issues are not with its UI, but in some of its concepts, ie knowing the difference between an object and a path, perhaps making that more obvious, ie making the menues context sensative depending on what is selected. Too many menu options silently do nothing wjen tne wrong kind of item is selected. For a new user it makes discoverability slower as they often cant tell from the visuals what the item is.
Even better, ride a bike.

It's OK to own nice cars. If the company is doing well, drive it to work.

If things are not good, it would be good form to at least drive a camry to the office.
The guy behind this just hooked together two Ubiquiti 900 MHz bridges. Unless Ubiquiti wants to share their schematics, I doubt there's much to show on the hardware side.
Meanwhile the barrier to a proper early warning system for the west coast is a whopping $15.6 million a year, of which California has managed to get a whole $5 million from Congress so far - http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-quake-early-wa...

Honestly, I'm a little unclear as to why we are even going to Congress for this, instead of the governments of CA, WA and OR agreeing to divide up the sum based on population or state GDP or some other obvious metric. The sums involved are so small in budgetary terms as to seem less than the cost of conducting studies and federal lobbying activities.
People in NYC use water fountains as bidets for their dogs so

http://gothamist.com/2014/06/12/water_fountain_or_dog_bidet....
Don't know about the CFAA as a whole, but it's perfectly sensible for placing a repeater on someone else's network without permission to be illegal.
Indeed, the fact that phone contracts effectively force most people to upgrade every two years is an unusual, important, and often-overlooked characteristic of the smartphone market.

It's a big part of why Apple makes such incredible amounts of money from iPhones, but their iPad revenue has dropped off significant.
Why I Favour the Night
Kato.im is shutting down
Server rooms: totally eclipsed by the cloud
Lol the best part?
You'll never find the guy ;p
(Because he has the device)
This would be really easy by correlating signal strength measurements from several towers. Then, an analysis of these data would reveal unusual patterns that differ from what would result with the common isotropic antenna.

This kind of correlation is already in use by mobile networks to narrow the location of emergency calls from handsets that are not sending GPS or other positional data.
Which he keeps fucking tweeting about: https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status/620486708233129984
IIRC hams call it a "fox hunt"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter_hunting
Sure. Unsafe in terms of program correctness. By that measure, new Thread() is unsafe.

But that's not a reasonable definition of "unsafe". This could crash the JVM is a reasonable definition. And fences and ordered instructions cannot.
Best+Mobile+Frameworks+and+Platforms+for+Hybrid+HTML5+Apps+|+TechSlides
Awesome idea. I hope you guys get to production. It would be a fun challenge with my son to see what we can make each month.
Yeah, you're right. I apologize.
By intrusive data structures, I mean data structures where the per node metadata is stored within the struct of the data rather than externally. Linux's list_head is a good example of this. Having one less pointer indirection can make it a bit more cache friendly.

And yes, Rust can handle non tree graphs as well as any other unmanaged languages, but the heavy use of 'unsafe' makes me feel icky. : )
Link doesn't work for me on iOS. I just get a blank page?
I think there's a place for Codes of Conduct, and there's places where they don't make sense.

In a large organizational ecosystem, you probably need them. In a close group of friends, you can probably discuss religion and politics, and even display your favorite type of bigotry, without getting anyone mad.

In communities where people can build reputations, whether quantified (like online social network "karma") or unquantified (like real-life networks or facebook), people with stronger reputations tend to be better behaved.

You don't really want a code of conduct. It's just that some communities aren't well insulated from jerks, so in some cases, you need those rules to get jerks to either behave or leave.

What you really want is a community where people act like mature adults.
If you are interested in this sort of thing you can also have a look at HIP/SLEEK Verification System - http://loris-7.ddns.comp.nus.edu.sg/~project/TeachHIP/

It uses separation logic which is an extension of Hoare logic for programs that manipulate the heap.
The 1938 Aircraft That Came from the Future
I think this device is way, way overhyped. If you are at the point where you need a device like this to get away from some government agency (or terrorists, or whomever) you expose yourself to so much risk just planting a 802.11 to 900 MHz bridge it's not even funny, and then if you have someone who is remotely competent is tracking you, I would imagine they'd having something like some SDRs or a couple of spectrum analyzers and notice unusual traffic on one of the few unregulated frequency bands, and would have no trouble at all triangulating you (believe me, the FCC is excellent at this). Would your normal law enforcement officer/agent from $THREE_LETTER_AGENCY always do this? Probably not, but if they're not going that far, you're probably safer just connecting in a normal fashion and doing things like MAC spoofing, or for added distance, just using a good 802.11 transciever with a excellent dish or yagi antenna. The 900 MHz bridge planted at the WiFi AP just screams "I'm doing something probably really bad", and the name of the game here is "keep a low profile."
I don't know anyone who can write proper, secure, bug free C code in multithreaded environment. Some people, such as DJB [1] do get pretty close, though.

Much less those who can do same with C++.

But when you have larger teams, it gets even harder. People just think so differently and misunderstand intentions without realizing.

I did think I could do that in my twenties. 15+ years later I have a lot more respect for C.

[1]: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html
I like the idea, though. I proposed something similar in another earthquake-related HN thread a while back. If you can't stop or predict natural disasters, make them predictable by causing them yourself!

We already do a certain measure of that in terms of wildfires. Regular "controlled burns" to reduce fuel load (among other reasons) are a routine part of forest management practices. See, for example: http://ncprescribedfirecouncil.org/newsletter_stories/Spring...
"For those of you who choose to take it, the severance package will be...."

"Wow. Can I take it?" says I.

"No, you're a co-op."
You haven't been paying attention, I see.

It used to be effectively "just a rebrand of the ESR releases", but as time goes on its diverged further and further from them.
Facebook is testing a Magic-like service code-named Moneypenny
< I've driven a lot of electric cars in the $5,000 to $10,000 range

Bumper cars at an amusement park?