skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bottomline is that in this day and age, if someone wants to hack a server and steal passwords, they can so it probably doesn't matter.
Actually he has a plant "under test", he is self reporting it here: http://www.e-catworld.com/rossis-1mw-plant-performance-updat...

But with the caveat: This is of course not verified scientific data, but it’s about as good as we are going to get until the test is concluded and data published, and it might help paint something of a picture of how things are going with the plant.

Any plant that generates 1MW net power can earn $54,000 a month in revenue. A bit more than 1/2 million dollars a year. If it costs less than that per year to run, then he just has to wait for it to generate enough cash to build a second one, and then a third one. At which point he will become exponentially rich without anyone's help.

Except that isn't the way its working out. I wish him the best of luck but he seems to have this century's version of the Moeller Air Car.
However, according to math.pi in python3.3 the second number (with higher number of iterations) is closer to pi than the lower iteration number.

So is it possible that the algorithm doesn't converge to correct digits for so "few" iterations?
> "train everyone to be a doctor, lawyer, or CEO"

Or chef, or plumber, or auto mechanic, or teacher, or construction worker, ...

Don't worry, we haven't run out of things that people do better than machines yet!
It drives me nuts as well that the two key features I think of when I think of a phone -- long battery life and HAND HELD (singular) -- seem to be incompatible with anything like stock android. The original Moto X was pretty close, but it just feels like we're going backwards now. I do not understand what market pressure is causing this.
I wonder if this is a prelude to some acquisition or merger to make the company more sellable.
i don't trust them with my notes after google notebook went away.
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...and there's still long blocks of text censored. What could've happened in 1950 that's still "top secret" in 2000?
I learned my geography in Indiana!

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https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/3mt50s/a9_chip_sour...
>If the solution were as simple as getting a bus ticket out of town, don't you think more people would do that? (Hint: it's not that simple.)

Yes, the solution is really that simple. Why don't they do it? Moving sucks. You only move when you have to. Note here I don't have a problem with it. Move or not move, that's up to them.

>The evidence shows that poor people spend less on entertainment than rich people.

Well, good. Poor people should spend less money on entertainment. They're poor. The question isn't whether they spend more or less money on entertainment; the question is whether or not it's reasonable to expect people to cough up $24 for a Greyhound bus ticket to Chicago. In California twenty four bucks buys about half a carton of cigs.

>Have you ever been to a rich neighborhood? Every other shop is a Starbucks or Gucci. The owners of those stores aren't keeping them open as a charity. (This statement, like yours, is a non-sequitir.

No, mine was not a non sequitur. We were talking about poor people. I have no idea what you're trying to say here. Some kind of free association?

>I think what you are trying to get at is basically, "poor people are already disproportionately affected by addiction, so we should take away social services (i.e., where your taxes dollars go) that help them escape said addiction."

I suggest you reread the thread here, since there's no way you could have gotten that impression by reading what I actually wrote.

Nobody is trapped in Detroit. As a taxpayer I have no obligation to shower money on the city in an effort to make it a nice place. The people who live there have two options - either they can make it a nice place through their own efforts or they can go somewhere else. If they're waiting for the rest of us to pick up the tab, well, they can keep waiting.
Author here. I'm not sure it's directly a sense of entitlement, though you could certainly argue that it's in play whether or not the author seems to notice. There's a sense that you found out the truth, and people want to know the truth. That's where Gawker got stuck; when one of your mottos/mantras is something like "we put truths on the internet," you feel like it's your job to go through with it. You feel like people are entitled to know. This is certainly borderline, and I feel like I could have defended either call, but I think we made the right decision.
I have this on the shelf. Excellent scholarship, through and through.
It tends to lead to a fragmented government (which is usually bad).

Already the case.

It also privileges party over individual candidates

Distinction without a difference. Even if the focus is on the candidates, they're all firmly partisan with little variation.

Most (in)famously, the Weimar Republic used PR. That didn't end well.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlerAteSugar
Deferred annuities are, unfortunately a bit of a minefield for consumers - usually sold with high annual expenses, high commissions, and the insurance company takes the other side of the mortality bet: if people die earlier than expected the insurance company gets a windfall, if they die much later the insurance company takes a loss, and the annuity buyer is potentially exposed to credit risk if the insurance company fails (seems unlikely but a lot can happen over a 50-year accumulation and withdrawal period).

In my opinion, this is an example of regulation and taxation allowing gimmicky and expensive products and sometimes downright shenanigans, while blocking a simple, inexpensive solution to a universal problem.

What is insurance if not a pool of people coming together to share risks? What better sharing economy product than a crowd-sourced, peer-to-peer, life insurance solution.

I blogged a bit more on the subject here -

http://blog.streeteye.com/blog/2015/09/tontines-strange-name...
Your thesis is correct (single purpose app can survive in a world full of multi-featured competitors by being insanely good at one thing). But I disagree with your interpretation. Evernote is THE multi-featured competitor in notetaking arena. It does too many things, each of them in mediocre manner. Then comes all the "single-purpose apps that are insanely good at one thing only" which disrupt Evernote. Think of Instapaper (Saving webpages), Simplenote (Text syncing), All kinds of TODO apps, they all are good at one thing and do it well. That's why Evernote is not doing well.
Another vote for E-Myth Revisited. I went in with fairly low expectations (since most business books tend to disappoint, in my experience) and came out with some fresh perspectives on building businesses.
I wonder if part of it is that it's easier and easier for young people to start companies. 15 years ago, you needed to raise millions of dollars and buy a bunch of hardware, and (I think) founders tended to skew a bit older. Now that lots of founders are in their 20s, the tech center has shifted a lot toward the places they want to live -- and San Jose is not where the cool kids want to be. To be honest, neither is Mountain View, which is why SF has gotten so much startup mind share over the last 10 years.
Tip is optional and you can change your tip amount within 48 hours of delivery. I'm not sure if drivers can see what the customer tipped during the delivery but in case you feel that they might do a shitty job because of no tip you can just add a tip and then change it to 0.

With that being said I'm also not feeling the whole tip thing because the wages should cover all that.
This describes it quite well.
+1 on writing up a blog post on c++ vs java. I suspect given your background in java, people may heed your words a bit more than usual. There's definitely a lot of outdated thinking in java land with regards to (modern) c++ and accompanying toolchain. Many big data projects could benefit from being written in c++ rather than java (or another jvm language).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUS9uvYyn3A

this explains it quite well.
Completely agree with this and I think the model of an application that accesses data is the only one I will trust going forward. Great example of this is Scrivener. I can have my files locally stored or in the cloud, but Scrivener just accesses, not owns the files.
I think this is fascinating even if it will never happen. It's important to keep in mind the nominal and actual result of human drawn district boundaries ("gerrymandering" is a pejorative).

In theory, human drawn district boundaries can create districts which are more homogenous so that, for example, a state with a few representatives and a few defined geographic or political divisions can divide things up in a way that makes sense. For example, it would seem odd for Las Vegas to be split into multiple districts in vast barren Nevada (it isn't -- LV is the smallest district).

What happens in practice is: "Contrary to one popular misconception about the practice, the point of gerrymandering isn't to draw yourself a collection of overwhelmingly safe seats. Rather, it's to give your opponents a small number of safe seats, while drawing yourself a larger number of seats that are not quite as safe, but that you can expect to win comfortably." http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/15/am...
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More like, why is it morally correct that America should interfere in the free market to maintain its lead over poor foreigners?
The author of this site seems to think that in the ideal world, districts would be decided up with clear straight lines.

This is not the case. Districts should represent distinct groups of people. Ideally, with well drawn districts, political representation will be accurate to the popular vote.

I'd recommend you all read the following article if you haven't yet.

I think if you wanted to solve districts algorithmically, you would need a neural network.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/01/th...
The European Union, Ireland and Scottish local elections elections use a PR voting system.

Germany and New Zealand use MMR in some of their elections.
I am by no means an expert, in fact, it was really that having no expertise led me to dismiss it from what I ended up doing. I still wanted to mention it because (1) it's super interesting, (2) I think that it's not well known about, and (3) maybe I could catch someone who is only sort of tangentially into code or engineering, and hook them in with this sort of use case. Probably asking for a little too much on the last part ;)
i hated that - one of the main reasons I don't use dropbox. Early on I had a bunch of clients all raving about how cool dropbox was - each sharing 200-500meg projects with me. Within days I'm hitting a 2gig limit, being encouraged to upgrade my account just to use a service someone else was forcing me to use. I use DB as little as possible.
One big false generalization.

I mean Netflix's interface sucks for discovery, and the suggested improvement in the article is to force me to look at one suggested movie at a time? Seriously!?
Although I don't necessarily disagree with this concept, I am not sure it is well refined. I noticed, looking at a certain city, that even with this shortest splitline the city was still rather split by more or less ethnically demographic lines.
Great, but - is there much, you know, traffic?
It is pretty... but vastly oversimplifies the problem. If we are ever going to get something for real it needs to take into account real problems. Talking about things like actual operation of elections, not producing high numbers of different ballots because of splitting of districts.

For something to really work it is going to need to take into account things like existing political, and probably some physical, boundaries.
My account once decided to throw away several dozen notes for no good reason (I had deleted a bunch of conflicting changes over several months, and when I emptied the trash, it wiped all the corresponding current notes on the server and all three of my devices). Evernote support couldn't do anything about it.

They also took like two weeks to respond to my problem ticket. I'd submitted it on New Year's Eve, so I anticipated having to wait a day or two, but that was pretty ridiculous.
When I post I may be putting it out there, but if anyone replies, I'd like to think we are having a conversation. Or like now, I'd like to think this reply is to you, and not to a million people. More people may be reading, but we're not really talking until they join the conversation.

In real life, I would never throw a tomato at someone I overheard saying something I disagree with to someone else -- but that is HN. By design, I assume, but still.
"Carl Sagan famously mused that if life is ever found on the fourth rock from the sun, “Mars then belongs to the Martians, even if the Martians are only microbes.” In this view the planet would become a sacrosanct sanctuary, forever off-limits to encroaching humans."

What sort of broken understanding of ownership must one have in order to posit the idea of microbes owning anything?
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Right. Could you POSSIBLY design a less-helpful, less-informative page?Maybe one with even more annoying keyhole-cropped images? Maybe! But you could not possibly under-improve on the random little rainbow bug bottom right that does nothing and says nothing.
> We're living in a lite version of that utopian world today, actually. It's pretty damn cheap to live in Canada or the US

Well, this is a prime example of why our trajectory is not converging to utopia. 'Things' are cheap, yet income inequality is extremely high in the countries. 'Things' will always come at a cost. Those who profit in the absence of labor will be a small subset of the population. The land owners, the farmers, those with political control. Sound familiar?

Welfare may be good enough in socialist democratic countries to live in relative comfort, but that is being subsidized by those who work (and I agree with this strategy). The assumption you are making is that if labor were removed from the equation, these countries would continue to exist as they are. I disagree with this premise.

We have always found new things to work on. But at the same time, jobs have become more monotonous as they are minified. The rate of automation is exponential, which hasn't been seen before. The assumption that we will all move into knowledge work is a poor assumption. Bob the builder wants to use his hands, not his brain. And good on him for being him.
Contrary to one popular misconception about the practice, the point of gerrymandering isn't to draw yourself a collection of overwhelmingly safe seats. Rather, it's to give your opponents a small number of safe seats, while drawing yourself a larger number of seats that are not quite as safe, but that you can expect to win comfortably.

That almost sounds like a tautology.
I think BTLE wasn't there the last time I looked. Awesome, I'll have a play with this soon. Thanks for the info.
If only it had an ESC key (vim), and backtick (markdown) above the Tab key. I don't get it.. they had me for a second, but then that kind of ruins using it for anything "serious". I know, I know.. I'm probably not the target market...
Well, I see your point.

But you can at least argue that the executives and hedge fund managers 'earned' their wealth and shouldn't have it taken away from them. Nobody can argue that there was any kind of personal merit in the fact that oil happened to be found within their national boundaries. It's much easier politically to create a national wealth fund from a windfall like that.
A bit surprised no one has mentioned SimpleNote (www.simplenote.com) - a stripped down note taking service.
I mean can the code generation be run as part of the rust compiler ?

D seems to make this sort of thing possible using a number of methods including mixins [1].

[1] http://dlang.org/mixin.html
Has anyone here shipped anything production worthy with dependently typed languages? I'm serious. There are like 10 PhDs in France working on a certified compiler toolchain for C and that's it. Meanwhile Go and JavaScript are taking over the world and they're anything but dependently typed. Maybe there's a reason for that? Maybe the reason is that after a certain point the validation overhead of advanced type systems is just not worth it.

Yes, I know the article isn't about dependent types per se but many of the features he wants get pretty close to dependent types since that is pretty much the state of the art when it comes to advanced type systems with lawful abstractions and whatnot.
If only this venue thing you speak of hadn't been cutting off heads and burning at stakes and filling the pockets of fraudsters and promoting outrageous superstitions and unjust persecutions for the past several thousand years it might be worth investigating. As it is... it does indeed have a bad rap. Deservedly.
Exactly. A big part of Evernote's appeal to me was that, synced across three devices and the cloud, my data would be safe even if my house burned down.

Then Evernote decided to delete several dozen of my notes from their server, and helpfully synced that change to all my devices.

I'm currently looking for a replacement that suits my needs. Microsoft OneNote looks promising, now that it has Mac/Android support.
I think the algorithm for story ranking is a bit more complicated than that...
It'd be linkbait / misleading because the interview is not about the one quote, that quote was selected to attract attention.

Thus it seems more helpful to call this an interview without the editorialized quote.
> This is because royal financing in the late Middle Ages was a tricky thing.

I'd just like to point out that no part of this story has anything to do with the Middle Ages. De Tonti and Louis XIV lived in the Modern age.
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Wow, blast from the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar
I'm shipping massive amounts of code written in Haskell - production worthy for a real product - and the benefits of using Haskell over any other mainstream imperative language have been fairly significant.
I made the switch to Simplenote, and I've had a great experience so far. The main "sacrifice" is that you can only store plain next.

It was created by Automattic, Matt Mullenweg's company.
> silently shadowbanned for something

This "feature" needs to crawl into a hole and die anyway.
Perhaps you've stopped writing them, but I still associate your username with high quality comments. Try not to care too much about the random downvotes, and please keep writing extensive well-footnoted comments about the issues you care about. It's probably a small audience, but we are appreciative.
It's me. I fucking love my iPhone 6s test device form factor and a bigger, 64-bit Nexus is exactly what I was hoping for.
You can change your code. The fingerprint is a bit more difficult. That's my main issue with biometric security, revocation of compromised credentials (e.g. fingerprints) is difficult or impossible.
Dropbox with Markdown editors ? They exist on all platforms.
Can't take you seriously when you say Github is highly replaceable. Try and go hosting your open source project on some obscure hosted code repository, let me know when you get lots of contributors.
The value proposition I've always read is related to gains in expressiveness and correctness. Programming is eventually going to become like Advanced Chess (human+computer team) and entire classes of mistakes will cease to exist.

I don't think I can be convinced that correct-by-construction methods are wrongheaded. I am convinced that humans aren't very good at wrangling precise and complex and large ideas without failure.
how are they off? straight out of a car and driver report, google it.

but i guess even this will get downvoted, rather than PROVEN wrong. why even bother debating anything on HN anymore?
Does selling CompCert to Airbus count as begin "production worthy" ? I would (not) be amused when people try to put javascript in plane navigation systems.

Do not forget that most dependently type languages (and Coq the first) are proof languages. The goal is not (only) to write programs, but to prove things and a rather large
number of theorem have been proven that way.

Dependently types languages for programming (as opposed to proving) are very much cutting edge research. Is it so surprising that they are not used in the wild ?

Edit: woops, missed the "here" in parent's comment. No, I don't work on compcert. :)
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I have a trackpad and scrollbars hidden by default. It still sucks that I don't get the thumb showing up when I scroll. I have no way of knowing how far along I am.
Nitpicking on tiny details is probably an accepted way of advancing UI affordances. Pointless it may be, but perhaps the author just needed to vent? And really, it's this attention to tiny tiny details that can sometimes make or break a design.
Hell yes, takin' it to 141. It'll be like the "11" of our generation... Oh, wait.

This is just increasing the tokenization (?) of tweets to waste less characters on tokens.

tldr; 140 characters, just less wasted characters.
Great Happy to see the project is starting! Hope it will develop on other countries too :)
Haskell is not a real dependently type language. It may tries to quack like one, but compared to Idris/Agda, it's doing a very bad job at it.

I'm pretty sure Parent didn't included Haskell.
details about the hack:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair
Here's the Hyundai SDC test last year on a rainy day. It's fascinating to see where it succeeds and where it fails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs9Gr9V2mOE
And that's fine. Those individuals are well aware of the risks and their numbers are small enough to not warrant the attention of regulation. But for the general public? This is just asking for trouble.
> It just means over time you'll lose Android users as they get fed up with the huge speed disparity (if they care, or notice) but you'll retain and grow iOS users.

> If Apple's overall market share keeps increasing, this wouldn't necessarily be a bad strategy. Not my favorite, and not really in harmony with the original vision for Discourse, but I'm limited in what we can do with the resources that we have. We can't build two distinct applications (web, for iOS, and native, for Android) without destroying the company in the process.

>It could also be that over a long time scale (e.g. five years out) Android will fix this. But it clearly will not be fixed in a year or two.

Sigh. I wonder if Android M has been benched.
I'm a long-time evernote premium customer who is saddened but not even slightly surprised by this.

I firmly believe that Evernote raised too much money, at far too high of a valuation, and they fucked themselves. They did not have the product and market to justify a $1B valuation. They just didn't. They bet huge on their ability to invent whole new markets that sound like they're related to evernote, but aren't, really. And unsurprisingly, that didn't pan out.

Now the core product has been stagnant for years; gaining "features" like work chat which were clearly dreamt up in a silo, completely disconnected from the market's needs. And now the troops will pay for management's complete and total fucking incompetence. And yes, I know one CEO is gone, but the new CEO is an absolute fucking joke as well.

And long-time customers like me... we keep hoping that OneNote or some similar product will add an "Import from Evernote" button. So that we can escape this mismanaged, formerly great product.