skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at serious research on this (full life-cycle analysis) you find that a small electric car typically breaks even after ~ 60 000 miles, while something like a Tesla Model S breaks even after ~ 120 000 miles. Those numbers are from memory and for a European electricity mix, but I'm fairly certain they're in the ballpark.
That's 1 more call for consumers not to use US companies for IT/Web related matters.
Just one minor problem: There are no guarantees that your function will be called. So it's an alarm clock that might not work.
"levelheaded and civil ones" was clearly meant in relative terms. HN is not level headed or civil, we're just more level headed or civil.
Ahhh memories. What started as a "write a byte now put the card in any box for TV" escalated into complicated custom electronics, MITMing the stream, with a computer required to sit in the middle to lend its processing power. All the while, some unsung heroes out of the Matrix able to look in realtime at the DV-S stream flowing across their screen, able to spot a new Agent Smith barreling at the card and alert the world via IRC.
> Just curious, how do you know that your car produces less pollution?

This data is available: http://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_01.html

Even in the absolute worst case, energy generation from fossil fuels at a power plant is significantly more efficient than the internal combustion engine, even after taking transmission and charging losses into account.

In reality, EVs tend to be sold in areas with high renewable penetration. And about 40% of EV owners have rooftop solar systems.

The biggest argument for EVs in general is that they are fuel agnostic. Transitioning to EVs right now means decoupling transportation from fuel, which means the fleet automatically becomes cleaner as we continue to build renewable capacity and phase out fossil fuels.
Looking for Rails Dev
I am working with a startup porting their current mac os desktop application to the web as a rails application. I need an additional resource for 3 months (initially) to help build out the PCI compliant, credit card transactional aspects of the app (account payments, setting up recurring billing, etc) integrating with 3rd party services. Ideally SF Bay Area. Know anyone? (mention hacker news in your response)

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/101107/work-life-balance-for-a-smart-ruby-on-rails-good-dog-design?searchTerm=good+dog+design
There's plenty of people who commute towns and cities to Facebook London :)
I've, for the past couple years, had an idea for a PAC specifically for tech issues. The PAC would also monitor and rate politicians stances on tech issues (I have a list of stances that would be part of the mission: net neutrality, privacy protections, data portability, and a few others). I've just never pushed very far with it.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association#Fin... the NRA receives the majority of its funding from small donors. I don't know what you consider "unbelievable", but it seems like the lack of corporate support wouldn't stop an organization like the NRA.
1+ from me! Its so friggin frustrating. I remember back in the days I had a 14.4k modem for reading news articles. I could read the article almost immediately, even if it took minutes to load some of the images.
Just make an issue?
Well, there is the over 2 yo Rubinius X announcement:

http://x.rubini.us/

I have no idea what happened to it or if it's even still a thing.
What do "Apple's lowest earning American workers" make?

edit: About $25k a year, with benefits according to the NY Times[1]. That would be about $13 an hour, although the NYT also quotes an employee making $11.25 an hour.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/business/apple-store-worke...
"It" doesn't mean that, no. I mean, that may or may not be true, but profit share has no explanatory power here.
Note that this is an infomercial for "Our Bay on the Brink"... and who the underlying funders are.
immediately abused for DRM? If you look (somewhat) closely, it's hard to avoid the impression that this stuff was designed and built around DRM use cases.

The "Protected A/V Path" could be a neat feature for high security computers (consider the GPU driver, a horrible, buggy, complex piece of software, being unable to grab pixels of a security-labelled window) - but that's not what this was built for. SGX, the same.

Non-DRM use cases seem to be an afterthought, if possible at all (typically not).
LOL. You must be living in a pretty happy plug in bubble. Which is great for you.

There are people living in apartment buildings, with no options to plug in anything. The best they've got is 110V and probably a talking to by building management if they plug in a car regularly without paying for the extra electricity that isn't billed to their own meter.

There are people who gasp work in buildings that don't have plug in infrastructure. We used to have a building that had posts to plug in hybrids and such, with a prioritized parking space, but we're not at that building anymore, and no one could use them anymore. They weren't 220V either, so it's more of a maintenance charge.

To get a 400 mile / 640km range, you're pretty much driving a Tesla. Not everyone could cough up the money, or even finance one that easily. And to charge up 400 mi on the mobile 110V on the NEMA 5-15 is a pathetic 133 hours. http://www.teslamotors.com/models-charging#/outlet

Or some of us live at places that has actual winters, where temperatures averages -20C, and can feel like worse than -40. Your charge drops like a stone in those situation, when you're out of that temperature ban. Not my words, this is from my friend who don't just own a plug in hybrid (which every weekend he has to find a free charging plug in the city to top up), but also a Li-ion battery engineer.

So yeah, you're right, a plug in electric car is a real car, if you're rich enough to at least finance it, rich enough to own a house to put in the wall charger, working in a good comfy job that has the luxury to consider green technology and weather that is basically never cold. i.e. Silicon Valley.

Some of us have friends that are 200km or 500km away. Last thing I'd want to do is to push a couple tons of metal and batteries out of the way on a highway.
Does the final version produced by the conference committee require revotes in the House and Senate again before heading to the President for signature?

The gap between US lawmakers and the EU is only widening when it comes to Privacy matters. This vote only lends more credence to the EU's decision earlier this month to scrap Safe Harbor [1].

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/10/european_cour...
When I was in high school, the general attitude was that an hour of homework per night was reasonable. Your English teacher agreed with this idea, so you'd get an hour of English homework. Your math teacher agreed with this idea, so you'd get an hour of math homework. Your science teacher agreed with this idea, so you'd get an hour of science homework. Your social sciences teacher agreed with this idea, so you'd get an hour of social sciences homework. And so on. I knew a lot of caffeine addicts in high school.

So I generally didn't finish it all in the 90 minutes or so between arriving at home and dinner time.
WalMart has a pretty significant investment in technology. It's not the same technology Amazon uses. It's more classic logistics, POS and backroom stuff. I've seen their job ads. They execute. WalMart grew primarily through technology - to be sure your Dad's technology, but Mr. Sam had a comprehensive printout for the day on his desk every day.

WalMart is significantly bigger than Amazon. WM - 485.65B v Amazon @ 88.99B. Call it 6x.

I shop at WalMart, and I will quite frequently take their "in store pickup" option. I also have amazon Prime and the goods I pick for those are different, it seems.
As a SCRUM teacher, I do 2 hours of talking, with Q&A, and then 3 hours of practical where we put the LEGO version of the Daily Bugle together.

I learned LONG ago that my students learned so much more by DOING than by lecture. As children, why would it be reversed with homework? If anything, I should reduce the talking and add more Lego fun for kids.
Push forward with it so the tech community can have a more full throated voice on issues involving the tech community. Politicians need to be afraid of losing elections.
The creator of carrierwave started the new project refile [1] as a better alternative. Is there a comparison between the two approaches, i.e, refile vs shrine?

[1]: https://github.com/refile/refile
Personally, I don't find the library gap between ruby/rails and elixir/phoenix for simple web applications to be particularly onerous already, and it will only get better.
Uber primed to launch operations in Pakistan
not just fiber, also how complex of a polymer it is.
Not totally sure what you mean. Elixir will never run rails, but the phoenix framework has some similarities to rails.
What impact did Facebook's lobbying have on this?
> And besides - what are they going to do with all that money?

The consensus seems to be that they will enter larger markets, like automobiles. Cars cost billions to research and develop and are therefore a difficult and expensive market to enter. If Apple does enter and dominate this market, that would cost them a huge amount of their cash store but would open up additional revenue streams similar or greater than they currently enjoy.
The only reasonable answer to you is: No, of course I won't try to justify why market share is a meaningful metric, and I particularly won't try to justify why this utterly standard metric is meaningful in the context of someone coming up with a ridiculous vanity metric and asserting that it has some value utterly divorced from any argumentation.

But what the hell, I'm feeling unreasonable today:

Market share is meaningful because it demonstrates the size of the market that Apple could potentially reach.

Market share is meaningful because if Apple's market share falls below a critical percentage, people will not target the iPhone for app development (as happened with the Mac and is currently happening with, say, Windows Phone).
I'd like to see Apple drop its margin requirements a bit and really work to get its product in more hands.

I think ultimately getting your product in more hands is a more worthy objective than "just" making the best products.
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-car-emissions

Places like Detroit has coal fired plants.
On may day job, I'm a senior software architect for the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways).

On my free time, I work on a number of open-source projects (see https://github.com/highsource). For instance:

* https://github.com/highsource/maven-jaxb2-plugin - probably the most advanced Maven plugin for JAXB

* https://github.com/highsource/jsonix - Powerful XML<->JS mapping library in pure JS

* https://github.com/highsource/jsonix-schema-compiler - XML Schema->Jsonix mappings compiler, also XML Schema->JSON Schema converter

* https://github.com/highsource/jaxb2-basics - a set of plugin for JAXB (like equals/hashCode/toString generation and more)

* https://github.com/highsource/ogc-schemas - compiled GIS XML Schemas

And a few more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell#Efficiency_of_leadin...

"According to the U.S. Department of Energy, fuel cells are generally between 40–60% energy efficient."

I feel like I'm reading a beauty contest gossip :) . Strong opinions, weak arguments...
> I feel bringing concurrency to Ruby (what Rubinius is trying to do) is going to be harder than bringing Ruby to concurrency (what Elixir is trying to do).

I don't really feel like the second of those is a good description, since it presents a false symmetry. Rubinius is trying to have solid support for good concurrency models in something that is actually Ruby.

Elixir is trying to have something vaguely Ruby-like that builds on existing support for strong concurrency models on the BEAM VM.

Obviously, the latter is an easier task, as it is less constrained (both seek strong support for concurrency, the former seeks being Ruby, the latter seeks only weak resemblance to Ruby), but the former leverages a greater subset of Ruby's existing strengths, including its existing ecosystem.
Bingo! You could implement, for instance, a verifiable, safe Bitcoin mixer with it. (I pick this as a nice example, because it's something that is in demand (for better or worse) and is impossible to do at the moment.)
Northrop Grumman Wins Long Range Strike Bomber Contract
I remember being somewhat surprised by the regional success of the various Pirate Parties, which seem to be close to single-issue parties, at least if you consider the constellation of things around copyright/privacy/patents to be one issue. In fact their main problem seemed to be that they tried to turn into more than single-issue parties, at which point they collapsed into in-fighting because they didn't agree on anything else. But it suggests that, at least in some regions, there's a significant minority of people willing to single-issue vote on those issues. The U.S. so far doesn't seem to be one of them, but I'm not 100% confident that an organization rating candidates on EFF issues in a scorecard-style way couldn't have at least some influence, if it got enough recognition/PR, even if obviously not as big as the NRA's.
Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession
It's even more dead because electric vehicles have a huge lead at this point. Tesla has released several working vehicles that are plenty capable enough for most people and has its network of superchargers in place. Other companies have already started developing competing options.

At this point, battery capacity will keep going up, price will keep going down and electric infrastructure will keep improving. I don't see hydrogen vehicles standing much of a chance now, in a few years even less so.
They are really beautiful, elusive and, probably, a very smart superpredator also, yes. We almost do not know nothing about this or many other similar, although not so famous, animals.

Is a great video. I understand perfectly the excitation of all people involved in this recording.
Here's a performance test of Levenshtein vs Sift4 using UTF-8 strings for anyone interested:

http://jsperf.com/levenshtein-perf
> Hydrogen storage tanks tend to leak slowly.

This used to be a problem in the past, but from what I understand it's currently a solved problem. See e.g. https://www.google.com.ar/patents/US6787007
Skepticism can be nullified from the big-picture point-of-view. Look at any one subject in isolation and it will get confusing fast. Look at everything as a highly-connected orchestra or puzzle and things may come into focus.
That perl comment is possibly my favourite thing on this site so far.
> This does not mean these titles can be redistributed, only that they can be modified for the sake of preservation.

But once the copyright expires on the disks, they may then be redistributed?
Sonic tractor beams that can lift and move objects using soundwaves
> I think the task "concurrency to Ruby" could be made a lot easier if compatibility with MRI wasnt on the table

If compatibility with MRI isn't on the table, its not really "concurrency to Ruby", its "concurrency to something that is not entirely unlike Ruby", which is a different thing, and at that point, why even consider Ruby as a touchstone at all, rather than an inspiration (the way Elixir does) since you aren't going to be able leverage the existing ecosystem?
I never did homework in school.

Got a lot of hate from the teachers, but it only lowered my grades one mark.

Finished school with C+ so with homework I'd probably got B+

When I got home I played video games and later surfed the Internet and chatted all day.

This changed massively when I started my undergrad studies. I didn't have to come to university, like I had to go to school, so I stayed at home. After I failed all my Math classes in the first semester I started working at home really hard in the second semester to get all the Math done. After the first year I knew how to find out what was expected in the exams, something I was missing in school. I stopped showing up at classes and just created a list of stuff that was needed for the exams. I learned this at home a month or a week before the exam and kept working/partying the rest of the semester.

For my post-grad studies I switched to a remote university entirely and saved a bunch of time and money with this.

Since I had to work with remote teams on group projects in the post-grad studies, I also decided that I wanted to work remote in my 'regular' job also.

Long story short, I hated homework as a kid, now I only do "homework".
The NRA is a good model for EFF in that the EFF really needs to grow their rank and file membership. Right now, not enough non-techie people care, or even know what EFF is. It is why what Snowden did was important (agree with it or not), because it pushed the tech privacy issues into mainstream awareness.
Honestly, at this point they should just start showing old ones and claim they are new. There's so many I bet most people wouldn't even notice!
> The hopping sequences are well-known, there is actually no PRNG involved.

For NATO kit it's actually the opposite; we know the frequency tables but not the switching sequence which is PRNG-generated.
BPG Image Format
No demo?!
The two can be mutually exclusive.

Good phone... still greedy.
AROS is basically so much like an Amiga that one doesn't need to buy an Expensive Amiga One system to have the Amiga GUI.

For hackers who are into crosscompiling programs there is a bounty system for people to port code to AROS. http://www.power2people.org/projects/overview/

I should add they already made a Kickstart ROM replacement for the Amiga series of computers so they can run AROS and use the Kickstart replacement in emulators for the Amiga as it should also run AmigaOS/AmigaDOS as well. Giving new life to 68K based Amiga systems and the PowerPC upgrades as well.
Is this because of the unknown cost at the time?
The thing that sucked about homework wasn't the fact that it was doing 'work' at 'home'... it was that it was often rote, boring, and time consuming work that did little to stimulate the brain.
I wonder why they're using hydrogen instead of ammonia, which is like hydrogen except better in every way? Ammonia has hydrogen's good properties: not a greenhouse gas and doesn't produce greenhouse gases, doesn't cause smog, numerous production methods including electrolysis, easily transported in liquid form, can be used in fuel cells or in ICEs. However it doesn't embrittle, in liquid form it's actually denser in hydrogen atoms than liquid hydrogen is, and due to its agricultural applications there is already an established distribution infrastructure (in the Midwest, at least).
Profit share means that when you total up all the money that's been made as profits for the industry, 92% of that money went to Apple and 8% went to "other." If Apple where to wipe out the competition as you suggest, then they would gain that final 8% of profits[1]. But if they had to, say, lower their prices by 20% to achieve that, then they wouldn't come out ahead. And that's ignoring the anti-trust issues that would spring up. Thus, that's why I'm saying they are doing the right thing and pursuing a "scorched Earth" policy would be ill advised.

[1] Unless people won't buy from Apple even if they're the only game in town. But I doubt there's enough of those people to make a difference.

edit: formatting.
I believe the reference is coming from http://docs.ethereum-alarm-clock.com/en/latest/overview.html...:

Guarantees - Will the call happen?

There are no guarantees that your function will be called. The design of this service is meant to provide the proper motivation for calls to be executed, but it is entirely possible that certain calls will be missed due to unforseen circumstances.
In France, TMO free international was phenomenally useful even at 128Kb/s. You can't stream video, but I was able to get some data in the most remote places.
if only i could see the results.
I don't think worse is better applies here. There's also JRuby and rubinius is in a weird limbo state where it's not quite Ruby like JRuby and it's not quite another language like Elixir. Similar thing happened to Dart I think. It was stuck in limbo and never got adoption.

So between JRuby and Rubinius I choose JRuby because I've used it in the past and it's great. The fact that JRuby folks try super hard to maintain compatibility is also really nice. I want to know who is actually using Rubinius and in what capacity and why.
Go even further and be a GOA, perhaps in addition to an NRA equivalent just to push the Overton window.
there's a link at the top of the repo page: http://una.im/CSSgram/
Detroit: Giving Data Empathy
I don't recall ever having a problem with any actual reporting.

My objection is with the editorials. I've all but stopped reading "the news" (NYT, WSJ, Economist, my local paper, etc) as a result.
Why Tesla's Autopilot and Google's car are entirely different animals
As a current high school student (at a private high school that is consistently ranked as one of the top in the country, so AMA if you want), homework sucks. That is true.

But the benefit to homework is that it teaches time management skills. Thanks to having hours of homework every night, I have learned to manage my time very well. For example, I spent the summer working in a University Lab. While there I spent ~10 hours a day at work, yet this still felt like a vacation to me. So yes, being busy sucks--but it ensures that students will learn how to manage their time effectively.
You guys just love arguing about semantics.

We can't convince others with an aggressive tone. Like I'm doing. But we can definitely win over an audience.
Apple is the premium seller with highest customer satisfaction, but looking forward the following risks exist; iPod disappeared as a story and iPad doesn't seem to be a growth area. IWatch doesn't seem becoming as big as iPhone. On the iPhone, more focus is needed as 63% of revenue comes from phones and there all bullets seem to be fired: China expension, large screens.

IPhone market share peaked long time ago and iPhone isnt growing as fast as the smartphone industry overall. Due to 3M sales from China moving to Q4 we didn't see sales peak but Christmas quarter seems to be a sales peak for YoY growth. Initial activation nunbers from China suggest a YoY decrease in units sold as well as some providers suggest Apple cut orders.

Let's see what Tim Cook can do as he has to use some actions beyond calendar tricks in next 4 quarters. Investors will hate a YoY revenue and iphone sales drop.
This comment thread makes me feel spoiled - I used to live in Sweden where my operator (Three) didn't have a 2G network, now I live in Japan where all the 2G networks are long-gone. Right now I'm visiting Australia where by far the best coverage is on Telstra's NextG 3G network (I'm 80 km away from the nearest supermarket yet am getting 6 MBit down on NextG with an antenna on the roof).

I haven't seen 2G in a LONG time
Historic high tides from supermoon and sea level rise flood the Southeast coast
Assassin’s Creed Creator Talks Life After Ubisoft, Again
Then they would enter public domain. Copyright, however, lasts a very, very long time. Longer than the history of computing.
So often Ethereum straddles the line between brilliant and terrible idea.

Outsourcing function calls to 'trusted' providers is brilliantly interesting, and a terrible, terrible idea.

What if this used for trading purposes, e.g. price reports from an exchange?
The average investment will achieve average returns (== the interest rate to use for this calculation) and as a result one loses NPV(consumption) by investing.

Only a tiny fraction of Individual 2's actually manage to do what you are describing.
Because ordinary voters care about "safety" than privacy.