skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 1kW system is horribly inefficient. That's 4 modules, which even in series is not going to get you to grid voltage so you will have to use costly microinverters. Plus you have all the fixed costs of installation, inspection, switchgear, etc. that has to be amortized over a tiny amount of power. Silly. For most circumstances, 4-5kW is going to be the minimum economical installation. There are many people who know how to evaluate a particular site and customer needs to figure out what is and is not economical and how to accomplish that. The mayor, and you, probably are not among them.

This is why politicians need to stay away and let the market do its job. It's too easy to let ignorance or some temporary set of circumstances lead you to impose costly and harmful regulations with far-reaching effects.
Succintly, government-sponsored VCs have a better performance until they get so much money they start to underperform.

Still, in the U.S only 4.53% of enterprises get GVC(p.20).

http://www.nber.org/papers/w16521.pdf
Many of the CDNs will let you reference a specific version of the script. If you didn't do this, and there were an update, the script wouldn't load and you'd have to update your site. My script allows callbacks to be specified for a bad hash, so you could be notified of this, and the subresource integrity draft also mentions this as a good idea.

It seems not uncommon for ad networks to dynamically load further scripts/content, which would not fall under the hash. You can just sandbox them off in an iframe, though.

An obvious extension would be signed scripts, which would re-enable trusted updates of a script in a CDN, but there is the question of how that would be implemented.
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2 years is insane. When Microsoft dropped support for XP a few months back, there was a huge clamour, and that OS was released 15 years ago. Phones seem to have reached a plateau, and there is no reason to drop expectations: my two year old phone reflashed with 5.0 GPE runs more smoothly than a galaxy s6 ffs, but is not going to get any future updates.
FWIW, minimum wage could be shown to be basically positive and not cause all the unemployment people speak of and still be problematic. The issue with minimum wage isn't that it rejects supply-and-demand (that's simplistic thinking), it's that it is means-tested. Minimum wage doesn't directly help independent contractors or self-employed folks…

We need a Universal Basic Income and then to get rid of welfare and minimum wage and such.

But seeing as that won't happen soon, there's a very interesting positive aspect to minimum wage: People working for only social reasons such as volunteers or unpaid apprenticeships have a different psychosocial relationship to their situation than those who are paid an hourly wage. It's far better to be paid nothing than to be paid 10¢ an hour. Paid nothing means everyone acknowledges that you are volunteering your time, and it doesn't mean you are worthless. Paid 10¢ means you are worth 10¢. This has been studied by folks like Dan Ariely.

So, a minimum wage requires that people's time have a dignified enough value put on it, and anything less you must work with them on a volunteer, social basis.

I still think it has problems and UBI is better, but this issue of dignified pay should be appreciated.
Real estate transaction costs can be huge, IF the rent is reasonable (apparently not this case) then paying rent on underused space is basically a real estate options market. There is a viable business model here, its like insurance that if you need an additional long term office next Monday, just walk in to "your" space. It might be cheaper to make one transaction, pay your 6% or more of commissions and fees, underuse the space, than to pay two 6% commissions and fees (and labor to do the second deal).

Several employers ago I got to learn about financial industry disaster recovery plans and you'd be surprised how many traders have an empty office squirreled away on the other side of the city as their tornado/fire recovery plan. Sure only 1/20th the employees would fit, but its only 5% the rental cost of the real office and some bean counter said that was an acceptable loss to provision an office with no people and a stack of server hardware. If they let people work from the D.R. site that would be a public admission that people don't need to work in a bullpen and could just as well work from starbucks or home, but that would not meet the emotional need to intimidate people in person and demonstrate butts-in-seats metric goals so using the D.R. space for actual work would be unthinkable unless the main office was literally on fire.

This combines with open office style, such that people can't avoid noticing unused space, although unused space is hardly a new feature of the business world. There's a small room right down the hall from me, but its behind a locked door, so no one notices. If they were not an open office company, they'd just lock a door and no one would notice. Placing their capacity on display like this is arguably an architectural design fail, they should have found an architectural way to "hide" empty space from casual visitors in an attractive and cheap manner.
When folks talk about the desire to bet against the private IPO bubble, they're thinking about a broad, significant decline that affects lots of companies, not the downfall of a specific company. Realistically, this type of broad, significant decline is unlikely to happen without a major correction in the public markets.

So long as the public markets are seen as being strong and stable, it's unlikely that the small, relatively illiquid market for private tech companies will correct itself.
I think sfconservancy sums it up pretty well with "full permission to redistribute Ubuntu as a whole remains in question."

While I'm happy that there is full GPL compliance, there are other parts of the stack such as X11 which are not GPL and don't mention anything about not adding additional restrictions ontop of the binaries.
Thanks for taking the time to think this through and write it up, Mr. Tomescu. It's good stuff! All the grumbling notwithstanding.
They might be - it will presumably depend on their contract (or possibly another lawsuit). This was purely a ruling on group A's application for appraisal.
Better accuracy and low battery drain. Thanks Locationkit. Needed this.
I'm working on a small visualization article about the different methods of generating normally-distributed random numbers, given only a stream of bytes. It's been somewhat hampered by the fact that one small aspect of the Box-Mueller Transform still eludes me. :)
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Paylocity-Software-Developer...
TechCrunch spammed on Facebook
Techcrunch.com spammed on Facebook. Shows security check on clicking/sharing.
Reusing LCDs from iPhone 5 stock, perhaps?
Acquihire is when a company buys a startup for the execution team and bins the product - but you're talking about the product still being valuable to the acquiring party. Sounds like an acquisition not acquihire.

So I know I need to get out in front of my management team before they make a deal I'll walk away from, but this is new territory for me and I have no idea what would be reasonable to ask for and what would get me laughed out of the room.

I'm also confused about this - the terms of the sale will ultimately be negotiated by the founders and the board, I doubt you will be involved. What you will get out of the sale will be based on your vesting schedule - there's no negotiation there you will just be told what has been agreed, and what your vest %age works out as (which could be cash, stock in acquiring party or both). And if the sale amount was low and there were liquidation preferences for the preferred holders, you might get nothing other than a job offer. Which brings me onto the part you can negotiate.

The acquiring party will want to meet with you to go over their individual retainment package with you as you join their company. They normally play it as a renegotiated continuation of your vest at the startup.

However, If it is an acquihire a key piece of information to try to find out is what your equity package would be if you joined off the street rather than through the acquihire. I've seen examples where the package isn't much better than off the street.

You should also go interview at another big company to find out what their offer would be. The reason is you want to try to negotiate a package that reflects both your labor going forward AND the rest of the value of the startup they purchased and so these data points are important to know you are getting a better deal than if you just walked off the street and applied.

Honestly, they often are not and so you might be better off working somewhere else than for a dead-end employer like Yahoo etc.
...must be managed according to the rules for human subjects research

I think applying the directive for human subjects research does not imply the humans involved are "human subjects" in the way nuremberg uses the term, because those rules don't appear say anything about being notified or opting out [1].

Correct my history if I'm mistaken, but I think Nuremberg was a result of direct experimentation on humans. It is using the still common definition of "experimental subject", which is the entity which is being studied, i.e. the properties of which are being measured.

I don't think it's practical to say the DoE or DHS cannot study air movement through a city without getting every occupant's approval. And how would that reasoning apply to a new radar dish design at an airport?

1. https://www.directives.doe.gov/directives-documents/400-seri...
Goat Simulator lands on PS3 and PS4 next month
Is the issue that "statistical relevance" is relative to measurements of radiation and "clinical relevance" is relative to impact on human health? Tiny amounts of radiation can be statistically relevant in environments that get no radiation, and yet have no impact on health.
Yes. Luhn checksum detects adjacent digit transposition errors, which I'd tend to believe are the most common, and it will detect a single wrong digit, which might be most or second most common. It's a simple check, although all the example code I've seen is grotesque.

The lesson here is that when you're dealing with those pirates that do the "Rachel from Account Services" scam cold calling, transpose two digits seperated by another digit. Don't monkey with the first 7 digits or the final digit. You can get those idiots to go all the way through verifying your (incorrect) card number, as the BIN/IIN is correct and Luhn check passes. Waste some time on double checking your card number before spewing vitriol and profanity on them.
I want 160gb classic back!
The implementation is up to the bank. My banks use 2-factor authentication solutions for 3DSecure (one has you put the chip in a special reader, the other uses a mobile app)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2486214902
Frankly, that sounds pretty creepy --- it looks to me like an outright indoctrination session.

I couldn't imagine my school in Scotland doing anything similar (and we were a very sporty school, with compulsory attendance at a lot of inter-school games, which I mostly sneaked away from).
I don't think the article claiming 10x benefit from remote. That's really not true. 1.25x, possibly, but definitely not 10x.
But his analysis applies even to highly technical users, for whom the problem is clearly not understanding.

The reality is I had an argument about why we should be writing down passwords at work, because the projected security benefit of preventing a full breach is still less than the expected benefit of not losing our data all the time.

Could we have set up a better, more technical PKI than notes in the safe? Probably. But I'm not sure it would get us ahead on the cost/benefit curve.

Real security is about separating your porn watching from your banking; not about doing your porn watching to the security standards of your banking.

tl;dr: No, dancing pigs are always more amusing. No one wants to live in a perfectly safe box.
It could also have the whiff of an "Agile" team that has a crisis every 2 or 3 weeks, due to routinely setting unrealistic sprint goals. No, this isn't supposed to happen, but I've seen it at more than one shop, that's for sure.
Show HN: Belle – Configurable React Components with Great UX
Interesting that the landing page describes colours, screen resolution, even the CPU architecture and speed - but not the storage capacity. I have >100GB of music on on old iPod Classic and capacity is the most important factor for me.
The "mean household income" is way off on the map. For example, Sioux County ND on the map has a mean household income of $80,540. Looking at Census.gov 2013 data we get a "Mean household income" of $56,657.

// interestingly the "Median household income" is listed at $36,111.
This guy is outsourcing his memory to the cloud
If I make a typo when using a value parameter in a function definition, can I accidentally introduce an extra value parameter?

If I make a typo when using a type parameter in a function definition, can I accidentally introduce an extra type parameter?
I'm curious as to how companies that have many remote workers (developers, more specifically) achieve some of the benefits that come with in-person communication and co-working in the same space? For instance, in our experience, a lot of the times our developers will get together in a conference room and work together and we've had remarkable success with it. Problems get solved quicker, there is more coordination, and just good motivating camaraderie. It becomes sort of a war room, especially around critical projects.

How do you emulate this in a remote working scenario?
This is a bizarre web page. What does it do? I wouldn't know without reading comments here.
The biggest problem with Remote culture is lack of exceedingly reliable communication. It's improved a little bit by things like Zoom lately, but we still need to work on integrated whiteboarding. Crazy, I know..

Also, mixing remote / onsite is hard because of politics. I think to be effective in remote, it has to be all remote and everyone has to be mature. Like netflix mature. You know, if you don't start producing at high velocity continuously and immediately, you get let go immediately. This is because unless you are mature, you generally goof off when you don't visibly see other people working hard.
Show HN: HomeControl – HomeKit implementation in Go
Thanks for the links, I was thinking about getting into Solar Energy Industry for a while now.
Sorry, but as an Iraq veteran myself I am getting tired of Veteran whining. Yes, we have significant issues and yes the VA and all the parties need to do a better job taking care of us. It took me 9 months alone to get my disability rating and VA benefits card - and many wait much longer - which is time that they aren't getting treatment.

The broader population only know about these issues through Jon Stewart or from recent press, but have no connection with it otherwise nor could they really care. Should they? I don't know, probably, but not necessarily.

Even within the military only those who are have been in the Army, or were deployed to a combat zone, really understand the significance of a CIB. So expecting anyone to recognize it, let alone start a conversation around it would be unexpected at the least - I know I wouldn't start a conversation around it. Putting it on display is hack and is looking for attention.

I don't think that the US population owes us anything, but many veterans don't agree. This is part of a broader conversation about how the US public sees and interacts with it's veterans and the military more broadly. At the end of the day though the Stolen Valor shaming, demanding veteran/military discounts just reeks of entitlement. Given that we have been an all-volunteer force over the past 40 years I don't think anyone can claim they didn't know what they were getting into, granting that there are shady practices with recruiting that go on.

In the end, I feel like stories like this just isolate veterans further. Rather than bring us more into the community as someone who has a unique experience and valuable point of view, it keeps the division between "civilian" and "military/veterans" alive and I think that is damaging on the whole.
Although not 100% required, a lot of this applies to Europe and to the UK in particular.

What's a paper cheque?
I think they mean the new app is "aimed at [surpassing] WhatsApp", not that they're building a clone that runs on the WhatsApp network.
I must have done something wrong, but I tried the basic C implementation (https://github.com/imneme/pcg-c-basic) on a quick Diehard-like test and it failed. I'm still trying to understand why. Probably not its fault, just that the code is not as forgiving and ready-to-consume as I had expected.
It's really a mix.

The benefit is flex - when you need more time with family, you have it. When you need some extra time for a project, you have it too.
Sweet glad to finally see iPod Touch getting some modern love, just wished they came with bigger screens.

Does Android have a comparable device? i.e. Internet/Music sans-phone in your pocket that's great at capturing quality vids/pics?

Edit:

The Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 looks close: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-camera-2
Yes, indeed. "Agile" can have its share of manufactured crises, too.
Ask HN: Browser/connection fingerprint
What is a good summary of the fingerprint left when loading a page?

-all header values in the request (http headers at application level)
-the page can request the "navigator" object which has plugins details (details that can be sent to the server separately)
-all values of headers at transport and internet layer

In particular about the latter, is there anyway I can get some info in nodejs? I think not, since nodejs is working at application layer so has no idea of the underlying layers, correct?
Not that I don't think it sucks but use it myself judiciously when necessary, but where is PHP in IEEE's language popularity index? Is it really not in the top 20, less popular that COBOL and Processing? Or does IEEE just not consider PHP a programming language?
I'm totally Google free save whatever traces of Google tech are in CyanogenMod on my phone and I can't say my life has been negatively affected by going this route.

There are alternatives for everything out there.
Hmm, while your statement is technically correct it is also ignoring all of the hype around Tesla's "whole house battery" technology which is, as part of its positioning in the market, turning grid tied installations into more stand alone installations. And yes, it is "thousands of dollars" cheaper to do a grid tie system, and yet the regulatory changes are making it harder on home solar systems to recover costs (mostly because it shifts peak load costs toward the utility and away from the individual rate payer, the utilities are trying to avoid that).

And the article is discussing a "future" world where almost all individual houses are not grid tied, rather they are perhaps grid backed up, in the event that there isn't enough solar or wind to keep their house batteries up.

So in that world, where folks are converting their "old" grid tied system to the "new" grid independent systems, it is going to change other parts of the community that break when external events disrupt the grid. That will mean that communities will be less impacted by the "grid" getting knocked off line by a hurricane because their normal mode will be to not be on that grid. And that has some positive implications for community planners.
Great, wish you well!
I wonder if they will ever put the GPS in the iPod, or if they consider that a big differentiator for the iPhone.
Socket.IO P2P
Is that article for real, or trolling?
"It's actually possible for people to take actions which they don't prefer to take." -- ??!!

Perhaps you might mean that a person's preferences might change over time and depending on the situation (e.g. I might prefer today that I save more money tomorrow than I would actually feel like saving tomorrow, or I would prefer not to become a heroin addict, etc.) -- but I can't see how a person can take a decision that is not preferred at the moment s/he is taking it (except perhaps in the case of being indifferent and picking a decision at random)?
Can you clarify this:

> deducting $450 a month every 2 weeks

That is confusing/doesn't make sense.
"We have a new goal: to bring public key crypto to everyone in the world, even people who don't understand it."

Love the vision, guys. Huge congrats! Looking forward to seeing this one unfold.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/compare-ipod-models/

16 - 128GB in price ranges of $199 to $399
Computing actually has a very chaotic evolution compared to other fields. Where most can be seen as linear progressions, computing is heavily prone to stasis and regressions.

Revisiting ancestral ground in programming actually makes you think how little we've come, not how far.
Hey, I'm one of the creators of Belle. Feel free to reach out in this thread in case you have any questions :)
It is possible that you are getting visitors from China, but this would not be clear from your logs due to the use of proxies as a precaution.

The language barrier creates a great divide. It takes more effort to browse a foreign language site (even if one competent in that language). If one is browsing for leisure, or just following idle curiosity, this is enough to tip the scales against you. Added to that, distance makes browsing the web frustrating and flaky.

This also affects SEO. It is not necessarily clear which search terms will gain you a favourable ranking on Baidu, or how to spell them, or which system of writing will make your site visible to someone searching from China on your subject matter. Web dev (and programming in general) is an important topic in China, but web culture is very different in China in terms of page design and user interaction. Most of those issues will be already addressed in a more relevant and immediately practical way already by the Chinese competition.

You cannot rely on a 'build it and they will come' position. Right now China is in the exciting process of discovering itself through the mass communication of the web as it becomes available to the population in general, and not just the elite. It is like the wild west times at the inception of the world wide web in the West. They are forging a common culture of shared understanding, points of reference and even a distinct lingua-franca to facilitate communication between the different regions of China.

In short, the Chinese are not looking to the West right now because it is far more interesting and engaging to focus 'inwards' in what is happening in China. If you wish to draw a Chinese audience to your blog, you will have to immerse yourself in this emerging culture, discover which topics are of interest there, and learn how to communicate in the evolving local idiom. In short, you will have to grapple with the same barrier that keeps the Chinese from visiting your site.

I suspect that there are Chinese bloggers wondering as you are, why there are so few visitors from the West.