skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all relative. From Wikipedia[1]:

In 2013 the plant generated a record 98.6 TWh,
supplying approximately 75% of the electricity
consumed by Paraguay and 17% of that consumed
by Brazil.

I'm sure that most of the citizens of Paraguay and Brazil will gladly accept this inexpensive hydro power, even at the loss of a few flooded canyons.

It's nice to sit in ivory towers and criticize. In the real world, many many people's lives are made much easier and more productive by harnessing this inexpensive hydro power.

You want to solve some real problems in Brazil, figure out how to stop the destruction of the Amazon rain forest. That, there, is a world scale tragedy. Not so the beautiful Itaipu Dam, which I've toured, and which helps so many Brazilians.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam
this is how science article should be written in popular science journals. with limited popular physics knowledge you can still extract useful information with being knowledgeable in physics or chemistry. ie know about magnetism and spectral analysis you can get the gist of what discovery was about and how it is important.
I agree.

Darwinia was a shooter/strategy game set inside virtual world.

Even Defcon is unconventional. A game about nuclear war and mutual assured destruction with a retro asthetic.
Take a look at vim-pandoc

https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc-syntax/blob/master/...

It uses conceal to show bold/italic text and plain markdown on your editing line
> We need more of these freeform interactive management sandboxes.

If you haven't checked it out yet: Rimworld. You manage a group of people who crashed their spaceship on a planet, and they found a colony. The game has a storyteller AI that tries to make your struggle for survival interesting and entertaining. I love(d) it.
I think this is the future of AI services. 100% automated is hard, but 90% is easy and 99% is doable with investment[1].

If you can build a system that is good at knowing the things it doesn't understandand, and can hand them off to humans, if the system can handle a large (and increasing) proportion of the work automatically then you've got yourself a potentially very profitable service business.

This is how Magic (https://getmagicnow.com/) operates as I understant it.

[1] Completely made up numbers to support my argument.
You could also just get people to give up the TLDs they're not using.

I find it somewhat depressing that emailing folks about domain names they're not using results in either a) being ignored or b) being asked to pay $40,000.

I'm of the view if you're sitting on names that you're keeping around exclusively because you think they could net you a windfall in the future then you're a bit of an internet twat.
Ractive uses mustache templates, which I prefer as

- nearly every web developer already knows mustache

- mustache distinguishes what's HTML and what's not

I also like ractive because it has two way bindings, and promises for when DOM changes, but maybe Vue also has those.
Make the transition? Maybe. Make it now? No.

Wait for version 2.0, at least.

Read Joanna Stern's review for the WSJ.
Exactly. If I run a business at `10 High Street` I don't set up shop in every town and city on every road called `High Street`. If people go to number 10 in their town, they'll search again if they can't find my shop if that's what they're looking for.
I worked with a friend of mine to write a documentation generator for assembly code. It lets you write your docs with markdown, and has "[[syscall]]" syntax to link to another syscall from your docs. Example:

http://www.knightos.org/documentation/reference/threading.ht...

https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel/blob/06aeba5442a073d02338...
Slow down: Unicorns take a lot of time (and capital) to breed
what about flying balloons with wifi antennae - Seen a working version yet?
More like low-resource networks, or maybe hobby-grade infrastructure?
> many of the 'people who work with the homeless' are often part of the problem.

How so?
Does the term "example attack site" not mollify that a bit? I tried to be clear that its not a real attack site (or my comment we be much more alarming) but something that executed malicious behavior, even if it wasnt from a malicious actor.

Wasnt looking to castigate the author, just looking for a title with a warning.
>>> Even Defcon is unconventional. A game about nuclear war and mutual assured destruction with a retro asthetic

Don't forget the soundtrack! It added a lot to the game atmosphere :)
No, not at all, because a donation generally doesn't get you something in return (say, citizenship or the right to vote).

Imagine a country run entirely on a voluntary poll tax. You literally pay in order to vote. The last time I ran the numbers (along with the now-defunct Libertarianz party), it'd cost around $2.5k per working person to run core Govt. services in New Zealand on that basis, assuming 100% buy-in.

That's not a donation, exactly, but it's not compulsory taxation either.
Luckily I have taken out entire classes of attacks against the browser (this one included) using simple, baseline configs that harden the browser. I am unsure how many people take these measures and I don't know the stats for how many people are hardening their browser in some way, but I suspect large swathes of web users are at risk here.

Since this is Hackernews, my efforts to educate the masses on weaponized browser attacks like this would be futile, and I am sure many have configured their browser in some rudimentary way to merry away the assholes.

There is a certain sigh of relief and 'ha catch me if you can' that coats me when I see PoCs like this rendered obsolete and inert.
I know this but I can never get my code to compile when doing this. I always seem to get huge type errors even when I know the code is correct.

map(|x|foo(x)) //clean compile
map(foo) //type error

The number of times I've had this happen has just lead to me giving up on simply just passing the lambda as a variable instead of wrapping it in another.
> You can probably blame Apple for this,

Amiga fans the original Apple haters. I loved running the Mac OS emulator and getting fast performance with a slower chip.
I've been both an employee and a contractor for various companies.

I found that being a contractor is usually easier, the work hours are shorter, the pay is MUCH better and 'job' security is actually higher (which really surprised me - I've never been fired from a contract job).

From a company's point of view; contractors are not good value. Sure, it's better to hire independent contractors than to outsource everything to an outside company, but a contractor is nowhere near as productive as a full-time employee.

The kinds of companies which hire contractors instead of full-time staff are often interesting companies...
Some of Decathlon stuff is excellent, especially their backpacks. When my Osprey day bag had worn through, I nearly bought another for ~£40 but then thought I'd try a £10 bag from Decathlon.

I absolutely can't fault the quality of it. As an added bonus, it seems to be waterproof even though this wasn't advertised.
Indeed great explanation, but the Flux one seemed a little easier for me. This is the first time I read about redux, and even with the cartoon it feels complicated.
Not really. You could jam it into the data model, but it isn't meant to be a clearinghouse for arbitrary data sets where an update is making another sensor pass.

A simple rubric is whether someone standing in the street can reasonably improve the data there, another is to what extent each individual piece of data is interesting in isolation.

That doesn't mean you can't do interesting things with such data:

http://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2015/09/extracting-building-he...

(I realize that someone could reasonably fix some error in some lidar data, but I think the most likely outcome of storing such data in the OSM database is that the cumulative edits would frustrate anyone looking to use the data, to the extent that they would go to the source)
You can run MorphOS on some PPC Macs.

What's MorphOS? That's a long story. To save you the convoluted history, let's just say it's an Amiga-like operating system from the Amiga community.

According to the FAQ on the website, MorphOS runs on 'Powerbook G4, iBook G4, Mac mini G4, eMac, Power Mac G5, and Power Mac as well as on computers and systems based on EFIKA, Pegasos I, Pegasos II and Sam460 mainboards.'

http://www.morphos.de/faq

Here's a video of MorphOS booting on a PPC Mac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2pT7QiNr4
There is no way I can get away with it on HN, but in my mind, I call it Neoliberal Personality Disorder (not because it is a personality disorder, I mean it as a pun on Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which in turn is a placeholder for itself plus related disorders). A set of soundbites and rationalizations that lead people to talk and behave (about and towards not directly present people) as if they were devoid of empathy, while considering the expression of suffering (especially suffering they are made in some way made indirectly and partially responsible for), as an affront in itself, and the only problem to be solved (or ignored). Certain ideas are so deeply ingrained that they don't even need to be articulated or seriously defended, and poking under the facade is met with aggression or silence (or flowery explanations of why it's pointless to communicate, shallow non-communication etc., which are the same thing in effect).

The problem isn't that corporations, political parties, fan clubs etc. aren't fully developed people, how could they, they're groups of people; it's that they in some weird way sometimes tend to "think" they are, and think their lack of empathy and unwillingness to self-criticize is strength, just like a damaged person might. How those then train and filter people reflects that, which creates feedback. Also note that I don't mean to say that "all corporations are X" or "all neoliberals think Y" - calling corporations or capitalism sociopathic is overused anyway, I know, but I really think there is something there, and just like personality disorders and related traits in humans, it's not black and white but rather on a spectrum.

Put differently and rephrasing what many people said before in the last 100 years, it's the pathology of a "system", not (just) that of the people in it. Though I wonder how long it takes to rub off, and where the lines blur, how it affects language which in turn affects thought and our ability to even see it. Take it as food for thought more than a claim, and sorry for rambling.
ICANN, the FIFA of the internet.
I need a handheld app for that, with disabling of the alarms :-)
19 million? For a game developed by just two guys (iirc) over the span of two years, that's hitting the jackpot. I'm seeing several projects that make a lot of money for a little effort - DayZ comes to mind, an early access game that costs $35 and has sold millions of copies already, but still feels like a rather bad mod, with little development effort going into it (seemingly).

I'm still on the fence about Star Citizen; the demos they've shown so far are promising, but I'm going to wait until there's an actual game.

In contrast, there's Elite: Dangerous, which had a successful kickstarter at about 1.5 million, was built and released, and is still under active development, with few bugs to speak of (atm, experiences from retail version over half a year after first release)
I use mainly two tools: The vim notes plugin (https://github.com/xolox/vim-notes) and zim wiki (http://zim-wiki.org).

vim notes is very good at quickly jotting down and bringing up things from vim; much better than vim-wiki, in my experience. While it can export to html, since the main interface is vim it is not that nice for embedding images and such. Therefore I use vim notes mostly for stuff related to coding, which is naturally text-friendly.

For research notes and results, I've been using zim-wiki.
While it has a GUI, it is a text-based format. Whenever I feel the need for vim shortcuts I just open the page in an external editor (vim), which is even supported in the GUI.
The markup is not markdown but something similar to mediawiki, which is annoying but not a deal breaker. It can embed images, tables and latex equations (though the UI for this could be better; instead of a directly using $$ in the markup, there's a dialog). Since you mention screenshots, it also has a "embed screenshot" plugin which I've been using a lot more than I thought I would. It's also open source and has what seems like a healthy community.
I felt that the article missed an important factor: People mimic styles and conventions of a group they want to belong to. It starts in college when students get their first taste of journal articles and scholarly books, which comes with an implicit message: If you want to join the club & be taken seriously, this is what you should strive for in your own writing.
Assumes fact visible to the naked eye if you just go out and took to normal people.

Well, no, which was the point. Some normal people, absolutely. Others, not at all. To characterize this as "society" is inept. One of the problems with making sense of society as a concept is that these sort of generalizations tend to have little value as they occlude more than they illuminate.
The pricing applies just to the web version or it has something to do with the desktop version too?
Great website. Most websites are full of BS. This one works like a charm. Thanks for posting it.
Solar: An Outside Perspective
The people doing advocacy work at EFF are generally not technologists, from what I can tell.
Great quote from the article, "The internet as we know it in the industrialized world is a product of an abundant energy supply, a robust electricity infrastructure, and sustained economic growth. It cannot survive if these conditions change."

Sort of like sending Morse Code over a radio hooked to a 9 volt battery. Twenty words per minute seems slow until that's all you have.

The other important point to take away from the article is that most of humanity is in slow/no internet regions.
This looks like the same thing that was announced over a week ago? What's changed?
2Polyglot is a site for freelancers. Looking for a few second opinions
There's a beta client now.
haha that would be awesome!
From your comment I just tried it out and immediately fell in love, it's exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you.
It seems a lot emphasis with Let's Encrypt is on the automated cert registration/installation tools.

Am I missing something when all I really want are the free certs?
You're not legally allowed to live off the land in many places, but no one is going to stop you either. Especially if you're not uprooting native plants or whatever. If you go into someone's garden and start eating their hostas then that might be a different story.
What I always worry about is not the ease-of-getting-started, but more the ease-of-scaling-modification-and-extending :)
Dear REI,

When I need something "outdoor-sy", I come to your store. The staff can always answer my questions, they do it wirh respect and passion. You are a little more expensive than ordering online, but I pay the extra money for the detailed service I always receive.

I applaud closing on Black Friday and having the employees go outside. I mean, you sell outdoor gear, this lets your employees get a no stress day to enjoy what they sell. This gesture and demonstration of your core beliefs will continue my dedication to shop at your locations.

Thank You,

A Customer.
Don't forget minecraft which finally sold to microsoft for 2b. Developed by one guy (then he added employees after the game took off).

These are all exceptions to the brutal world of indie game development.

Mostly, these developers don't make anything. They spend months and years in almost solitude making something no one will play. Games take a huge time investment to make before anyone is at all interested.

It's the starving artist profession of the nerd world.
Deflation is defined as a fall in prices. Economists theorise that this leads to a drop in wages and a downward spiral that ends in depression, but actual evidence to support this theory is (as I posted above) lacking.

In practice, Switzerland shows that you can have zero percent inflation for many years (Swiss deflation is recent but lack of inflation isn't) and yet still have sky high wages. Obviously the theory is wrong, as reality contradicts it.
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Don't understand the question. Om.Next allows you to have a single root component, that component is responsible for building a query for every sub-component. So you really only have a single query, then render based on the results of that query. Whenever data that is touched by the query changes, affected components are re-rendered. I would also assume that the time it takes to render the view is much greater than the time it takes to run a query, although that depends on your app/query.
the root directive is wrong in the nginx.conf file.

You must move the root <path>; directive outside the location sections to the server section. Otherwise nothing works.
Show HN: Lean – Clean Up Live Photos – Aka Make Them Dead Photos
I made this little app to help you remove unwanted video component in your Live Photos on iPhone 6s/6s Plus, thus let you have Live Photo to all the time to capture every possible moment. Super simple and free (as in free space)!
Search All – One Click to Search Across Various Search Engines
(Im not a lawyer, but going from my experience and reading about this), it doesnt matter how you acquire a work, if its copyrighted and not authorised to share, your liable.

Just luke those mp3 services my fsther keeps getting which say their legal, yes they are, the works you acquire via them are not.

There is no logical badis to strip ownership frim a work if its transferred.

(While in the case of scientific works im not always in agreement with how their licensed, im not going to pretend their not covered by copyright).
I though this was about Metro 2033.

It certainly made me think differently about that novel until I realised it was a totally different book.
The article doesn't mention gluten which you'd normally find in beer, and which itself might affect your health.
The Chinese authorities are preventing their citizens from reading things they find counter to their aims. You don't have to create this false equivalence to find both actions undesirable.
Security features (like any software features in general) are additional vulnerability vectors prone to implementation flaws.
why successor to pybrain ? is it developed by the same devs ?
A big part of the reason is that free certs exists already (startssl), but it takes A LOT extra work to set it up.

The whole point here is that eventually the deployment tool can be integrated in existing server software, such that when you set up your server on your domain, requesting a certificate can be an automatic step that the sysadmin and web developer don't even have to think about.

This makes sure encryption will eventually be deployed by default everywhere, because it is literally easier than not to.
Yes. There are free certs already. Like, for ages. Startssl is one of the CAs issuing them.
> However, I think that embedding images from clipboard is tricky using vim, at least to my knowledge.

Yes. In general you'd want either a full URL or a local, relative URL, in order to source images from "the clipboard" to vim. Perhaps there are some plug-ins that allow drag-n-drop? There certainly must be some plug-ins for vim that could watch a folder(tree) and auto-complete (so you could have your blog.git/images-folder, and paste an image there, then link that via an image-tag in markdown, and have vim auto-/omni-complete the name, so you could easily link to images/filename-of-pasted-image.jpg).

Generally, most mature markdown-blogging solutions will have some form of live-relaod -- so all you need is to trigger a write to disk in order to see an update in the browser. Not quite as-you-type -- but probably good enough.
Yep, you're probably missing the 3 month validity period.
It appears stackEdit has a link where they advertise the classeur beta so I think they'll be moving to that platform. They appear very similar
Anyone upset about academic writing would also enjoy Fred Rodell's "Goodbye to Law Reviews", in which he pillories the writing in law review articles:

> There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content. That, I think, about covers the ground.

http://www.refsmmat.com/files/goodbye.pdf
I have this poster (from Tufte) - it's an extremely high quality print for the price.
Telstra tiptoes along 'freak line' with Lithium's big data tool
The DOG file type is primarily associated with 'Dogz' by Ubisoft Entertainment. Holds the graphics and functions of the pet.

http://filext.com/file-extension/DOG
If anyone want to see Vue.js 0.12 real world app as example, you can look at my projects:
https://github.com/aimpanel/frontend
https://github.com/lvlup-pro/labtech
Convoy raises $2.5M for on-demand trucking
Let’s Debunk the Code Ownership Myth
Contributions are under a contributor agreement, the OpenStreetMap Foundation controls the data and can change the license.

The previous license change was a lesson learned.
If you use re-frame with reagent (and you should) then the ideas aren't that difficult to grasp. Om.next is more oppinionated regarding where you're allowed to run queries (subscriptions in re-frame) and transactions (handlers in re-frame), and forces you to build a single large query from the root component (wheras re-frame allows you to run several queries from every component).
Japan's economy isn't actually in depression, it's merely not growing: GDP growth moves up and down around the zero mark since the popping of their massive asset bubble. Some years their GDP grows a bit, other years it shrinks a bit. So they haven't been growing but they haven't been in depression either.

There's a simple explanation for that. The very best developed economies struggle in these times to grow even at 2%, with most managing more like 1%. Since the start of the 90's the UK, for example, has managed only 1%. That's not totally surprising: GDP growth is cumulative. Each year repeating a 2% growth gets harder and harder because you have to add even more than you did last year to sustain it in percentage terms.

But Japan is in no way the very best of economies. Instead it has an economy seriously constrained by multiple factors, like an almost total lack of immigration (no new ideas) and a job-for-life culture that makes it practically impossible to fire people. Read up on "banishment rooms" to see how extreme that can really get. When was the last time Japan had a brand new, breakout product that the world swooned over? Since Nintendo lost their mojo I'm struggling to think of any. It's very rare that I interact with any company from Japan or hear "I went to Japan on a business trip".

Japan's economic woes have multiple causes: I think a far simpler explanation than "zomg deflation" is that when even the best struggle to manage 1% compounding growth Japan has no chance.
They have started sending out invites to people who wanted to join their beta program. So now they are actually issuing certs.
The jury remains out on that one too. Om is a bit marmite. :)
For which?
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Medium Publications need there own apps
Reagent is very nice and by itself very easy to get started with.

That said, I think Om Next is more comparable to Re-frame (https://github.com/Day8/re-frame) as far as being more opinionated about handling data flow.

In that comparison, I don't think it involves any more complex abstractions or deep thought. In both cases, there is some of that, but both cases are also shining examples of explanatory documentation, which to me were edifying to read because they turn those abstractions into concrete implementations, with examples, and explain the deep thought in a clear manner.
Orwell Estate Sends Copyright Takedown Over the Number “1984”