skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly a lot of data they say they're using is available to any bookstore. I wonder if there are small mom-and-pop chains that use Amazon ratings and sales ranks as cues for their buyer.

A tie-in to an e-reader that still makes the bookstore money is a killer feature for me as a reader. Indies still haven't gotten that totally sorted yet, and it keeps me buying more paper books than I'd like, and also buying less books at indie's than I'd like at the same time.
And yet the government is _terrified_ of raising the interest rate. Terrified.

Think about it.
The tech is pretty central in the store, and there are lots of people talking about prime, showing off selection on TV, etc. Really it's actually fulfilling the duty of a book store in U Village though, the Barnes & Noble there died a few years back and it's a huuuge shopping center. I don't think Amazon is trying to make a lot of money off it, it's kind of a lark but if it floats, they can open a few more to have brand presence next to Apple and Microsoft.
For a rather more sober -- not to say sobering -- assessment of the state of the nuclear industry, I do recommend the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Reports

http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/20151023MSC-WNISR2...
This is par for the course on the TechEmpower benchmarks. Certain technologies' benchmarks have always been relentlessly optimized while others are left to "the community" which means you can submit PRs, but they'll likely be rejected even if they reflect the usual deployment patterns for a high proportion of users of the language/framework being represented.
The testimony of any witness is admissible in court; agents aren't special here. Whether the agent's testimony is sufficient evidence depends on the jury and the context.
While we're at it, check out http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/06/thermal-efficiency-co... . I found this on the human-powered cranes article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10499228) -- and it's arguing that the developed world should go back to open cooking fires!

Admittedly, the argument isn't very strong (the grid may be dirty, but it's not _that_ dirty); but it's interesting and strange that it can be made at all.
It's a shame property taxes aren't higher. It would be a free ride from the perspective of domestic tax payers.

If one wanted to be protectionist, the increased taxes could be set to only apply to non owner-occupied residences.
How are the prices displayed? They should match the .com price, and I assume the .com price can change frequently.
It's not just about trusting the technology, it's about trusting the human processes that govern and maintain that technology. You say that Fukushima could have been prevented, and yet -- it wasn't prevented.

Humans are greedy, generally corrupt, and bad at maintenance when things are going well. To really trust nuclear, we need better humans, since the accidents can be so catastrophic.
A lot of it is managing conflicts. Those decisions that you make will change over time, often outside of your control. The changes can come from above, below, inside, outside, or from within.

No battle plan survives first contact with Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, Finance, or Upper Management.

No battle plan survives second contact either.
You might say, for example, that "in 2008, the world total of electricity production was 20,279 terawatt-hours (TWh)." You need the time period however for it to make sense. Referring to a continuous generation capacity would be measured simply in terrawatts. As in "this number corresponds to an average rate of around 2.3 terawatts continuously during the year."

The original article has an error as pointed out by the parent. Insert ironic mocking statement here.
I'm having deja vu. Isn't this how Twitter began, thus the need for character limits?
As with all such developments, it was a gradual process. The English fought with their monarchs for hundreds of years, culminating in the Magna Carta, which was the turning point in the political struggle. Being a charter, it had to be renewed every year. With an actual document to rally around, the English nobility came to expect it would be ratified by each new king and so they each dutifully did at the beginning of their reigns. Eventually a mythic cult-like element came to surround the charter, and the idea of its repeal seemed more and more remote.

The monarchy lost successively more and more powers and today mostly serves as a cultural symbol.

> How would you precisely define rule-of-law in such a way that you can judge if a particular system is rule-of-law or not?

The main lesson I learned studying history is that it's messy. Concepts take a lot of time to emerge. Eventually you have to stop calling something by one term and start calling it by another, otherwise important meaning gets lost. The Romans were really good at peaceful transfer of power, among other civic traditions. To easily refer to how they differed in that regard from the British Empire, the term at hand is 'rule of law'.

The key idea of rule of law is that it's law that functions as the force guiding human action, not humans guiding themselves. What I see is that once rule of law is settled, the power struggles happen along other lines. People agree that the acceptable way to answer the question of "who should be the ruler?" isn't to go raise an army and go fight a war against your brother. So they fight about other things, like "how much and who can I tax?" Once the whole society says, "no more dictatorial kings", then you have that important part of rule of law handled and you can move on to other aspects.

Now you have societies that never fully developed the bulwarks against tyranny that England did. They can be peaceful for awhile but at a bad moment devolve into totalitarianism. You could argue that it could happen in the UK, but the more you read about the history, the more laughable it looks. You could, with a large enough military, conquer the UK from the outside. Subvert its democracy from the inside? Never gonna happen.

Attempting a coup in any state, especially a modern one, is not the work of one man, but is an act of violence against the entire legal and political system. The UK has the most robust laws and procedures of anywhere that decide what happens. If you slaughtered all of Parliament, they'd kill you and then go about electing a new one. Anything you'd try to subvert the UK political process would be met with an appropriate response by the appropriate people whose job it is is to protect the political process.

It's the combination of all these factors that makes for rule of law. All these factors are required to protect a people from the people that hold power over them.
I doubt the pro-Republic view folds quite so easily.
It is a step in the right direction, but it still half-baked.

We all want the revolution overnight but it takes careful and calculated steps to make progress. Consider Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) when accosted by a Republican Rep who claimed the States' Rights to Medical Marijuana Act was a sly step towards the process of legalizing marijuana outright. Barney's (paraphrased) answer: Yep, you got me. That is our goal.

And of course once you've legalized the selling of marijuana, you're potentially opening the doors for other substances. But they come with their own set of problems and taboos so it will take time.

Initiatives have to start somewhere and demonstrate their utility with minimal fuss. Baby steps, but in the right direction.
Margaret Hamilton's Apollo code stack
Would the ethanol generated here be conventional alcohol, more or less safe for humans to drink? This isn't meant as a leading question, it's genuine curiosity: regulations permitting, can you really brew alcoholic drinks from cattails?

If so, this has fascinating implications; apparently much more of the plant world is edible than anyone has made use of so far. Not directly edible, of course, and the calories in alcohol are empty; but still, an interesting thought.
I don't want a heart or fav a tweet but there are times i do wanna Bookmark one to read a link later.
Fedora 23 released
I like the idea of an assistant in your ear, but this thing is vaporwear. They do not have the hardware expertise to build it, and they didn't even try to write the software in-house. "It is tough to make hardware, [...] when you ship it, it has to be right." Yes, very much this. It's hard to overestimate just how difficult shipping a quality hardware/software integration is, especially something this complex.
Here in Sydney and Melbourne, 1/4 of all apartments are sold to Chinese, even Chinese government owned corporations.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-12/selling-the-australian...
Yes this Blue Lion is made by a second OEM to license OS/2 from IBM.
> Can't you do this at any library or book store?

Swap Kindle for Nook, and you definitely can in B&N.
The sad reality is that nobody cares in spanish speaking countries how is pronounced in other countries, specially when you are using Newspapers and Posters to reach your target. And the subsequent try to fix it leads to a pedantic "It's Frankensteen effect" that is even worse. Lots of companies fall in this trap all the time. "Laputa" and "La puta" are the same for a spanish speaker.

Good luck trying to convince women or young couples to buy a car with something not much different to "madge theprostitute" written in fancy letters on a side. Or telling your clients that drive "thebitch" is more safe, or that refill "thewhore" deposit is cheaper and there is capacity for lots of people and tools.

"Puta" is a complicated word in spanish that not always have negative connotations, but is too colloquial, never elegant, and a big minefield for non spanish speakers. In this case it almost worked... but not. Is not even funny. Is a huge and really strange marketing mistake.
Even if I accept your interpretation, it still doesn't justify the description "you're not the user, you're the product" In the case of the private highway example, even if the customers are the advertisers, the product being sold isn't the drivers, it's the billboard space.

Google's users are not its products. You might claim its users are not its customers (users != customers), but that does not imply the users ARE the products. Just like the New York Times readers are not the real business customers, the advertisers are, however no one has ever exclaimed "The New York Times Readers are the Products!"

The Product is the New York Times, because that is the thing _Being Produced_. It is the work product of the journalists.

Likewise, the work product of the engineers, SREs, PMs, managers, ops and support for Gmail is the Gmail Service. That is what is created out of the hours they put in. There is an ancillary product that leverages externalities produced those products (virtual real estate to auction off), but it is not people's data as the product being sold.

This meme is really tiresome because it doesn't get to the root of the matter, which is, are the incentives of those working on Google's products aligned with the incentives of the business operations which have to derive a return on those investments.

There are two ways to look at this depending on your level of cynicism:

1. Google is a smart company that looks at the long term and realizes value by the creation of positive externalities. That is, it works from the premise that if you make good products that please your users, you will retain and get more of them, and there will be opportunities to monetize that. That is, retaining users is paramount, ergo, user trust, branding, and generally not pissing off users is very important.

2. Google is a short sighted company that looks at what is currently has, lets bean counters manipulate its products purely to increase the bottom line by maximizing the amount of stuff they can sell. This means, they only consider the wishes of advertisers, and act to increase purely the amount of ads that can be shown, regardless of how much it annoys users.

Now, you can decide to believe #2 or #1 depending on how harshly you view the trajectory of Google products over the years. To be sure, they have done things that have annoyed users. But I believe, based on evidence of actually working here, that the primary impetus of engineers and product managers who guard the high level product features, that the focus is tipped towards user concerns.
This is hilarious. I mean in the absence of actual substantive things to do they are just doing fluffy things. How does this make their developer relations better in any way? Wasn't that something that was supposed to be coming? In the meantime we get a heart instead of a star? I mean what the hell? Are they taking the playbook from yahoo? Maybe they should make their logo more "showy" while they're at it.
Twitch Installs Arch Linux: They Installed Xorg
Mapillary now supports 360 panoramas
It's available online: http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
Agreed.

Lack of native Linux support (even just for an Ubuntu LTS) is holding back usage in both personal and professional use for me.

That there is an Android app makes the lack of a Linux implementation the more baffling.
Chances are, the window you want is the window the view is in (which is probably the same as your app's window), UIView has a handy property for that.

[self.view convertPoint:apoint toView:self.view.window];
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How DMCA Rulemaking Has a Chilling Effect on Security Research
Only CO2 emissions being different from originally claimed.
Which is, ironically, only possible because of radioactive heat generated by the Earth.

Without radioactivity, there would be no continent to die in the first place.
New accelerator pairs startups with mentors and $80K in seed funding
Good point. Maybe there is digital signage like at Kohls?
a) How is "put it in Yucca Mountain" not satisfactory?
b) Do you demand similar levels of safe storage for all of the hazardous materials, many of which are far more dangerous than nuclear waste, produced by other industries, including those involved in renewables technologies?
There was some discussion about Irmin just over a year ago [1] and it's been steadily improving ever since. The Readme on the repo [2] lists the bleeding-edge users too, so you can see examples of how it's been applied -- (note to self: we should probably write an update about the progress to date).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8053687

[2] https://github.com/mirage/irmin/blob/master/README.md#use-ca...
I always wondered if this ever happened naturally... Guess I now haev a confirmation. Nice... I suppose.
Mark,

You should prototype it in Lisp :-)
Hastelloy-N, it's expensive stuff but it works. Corrosion is one of the difficulties of molten salt reactor designs, but it's manageable with the right materials. And the tradeoff is that you don't need an enormous high-strength containment vessel (because everything radiological is at 1 atm), you don't need to pump water into the thing constantly to avoid "really bad things" happening (Fukushima), etc, etc.
The main problem is that cloud storage has become a necessity - you NEED to sync things like music, pictures (important ones atleast) and documents across devices if you want to save time. There is no clear solution to this at this moment - you either trust a cloud provider who can screw you like MS anytime, or you host it yourself paying exorbitant hosting fees. It does not help that hard drive quality has been falling with failures being more common even on "power saving" drives like WD Green.
Right, I don't mean to imply that technical knowledge isn't central to the job. It is. But it can be learned.

A lot of engineers on this thread might not realize that within MBA programs, the word is out -- "don't even try to be a PM, you need a technical background." As if "coding" is something ultra-intimidating and therefore if you can't already do it, you can't be a PM.

My company has a reputation for this constraint, like we only hire people who were full-time SWEs in a past life. It's simply not true.

Once you get here, though, you have to understand the technical architecture, for sure. But being a PM isn't alone among careers, here -- most careers have a steep learning curve when you're starting out.
I tried sending at e-mail and got a connection timed out response from hello at carsen dot io
So what about the millions of years of human social interaction before church?
>>But I've also seen a lot of children who grew up a confident person because their parents praised them a lot.

As long as things are going your way, confidence is good. When they are not, fake confidence leaves you completely blind to your own problems. And it kind of amplifies a negative feed back loop.

Almost every person I meet this days talks of 'optimism', 'hope' and 'confidence', often confusing that with laziness and inaction.

Reality doesn't care about our feelings. Taking a true stock of the situation and performing per it, will help us a lot more than textbook contextless confidence lessons personality development books teach us.
Most importantly, IMHO, they completely ignore the learning curve for solar & wind. This is a proven trend, over last decades, appears to be set to continue, and completely changes the discussion.

By 'learning curve,' I guess you mean the rapidly increasing efficiency curves these technologies are on, and in the case of solar(maybe wind as well, not sure) exponentially so.

I certainly agree with you, this is the most important factor in any discussion of current and future energy generation, and carries great weight for why we should all be highly skeptical and indeed hostile towards any thing like future developments of highly destructive energy projects like fracking, or potentially highly destructive like nuclear.

Things like fracking and nuclear carry huge unaccounted for costs that are totally absent from the bottom lines of the companies developing them. It is absolutely absurd and criminal that fracking companies in particular are allowed to run roughshod over our shared environmental heritage creating negative effects that may last for generations. And it is all the more tragic when one looks at the development curve of renewables and applies a little foresight.

Fracking's huge costs in the form of negative externalities are quite apparent to anyone wanting to look for them today, but nuclear fits quite well into this line of thinking as well. Why would we want to burden our grandchildren with the hassle of nuclear waste?

If we don't clean up our act, it's hard to see how future generations aren't going to look back on us as party guests that showed up on this planet, made a huge mess, poured rum in the aquarium and killed the fish, and left without cleaning it all up.

It may sound a little pollyanna-ish, but as you say, the evidence bears it out, if everybody can just chill for a minute or two and maybe look for ways to make their current energy use more efficient, we're on the cusp of having more than enough energy supplied from sources that are harmonious with our environment rather than destructive of it.
Haha, yep.

Textingway - Twitter 2007
Here is the OEM website link with more details:
https://www.arcanoae.com/blue-lion-go/
It is a shame this work is relegated to mainly niche. Am i wrong for saying this?
I suspect you'll be happy with our future updates. It should feel more like an Android application. There's a small preview you can find here:

https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/05/28/fingerprint-unlock-com...

That's fairly old, from May, but it does give a bit of a tease if you're familiar with Android and the look and feel of things.

Kyle

AgileBits
I'm actually a huge 1Password fan - my comment was joking but accurate to the point that no-one can guarantee data security in the current climate. How are we to know that any provider has not been coerced by their nation's security services into weakening their own security protocols - and then been slapped with an order forbidding them to discuss said changes (all within known current NSA practices).

None of this is directed at you guys, as I said, big fan. But at a climate that has left consumers concerned, cynical and distrustful of the safety of any of their data.

Remember my credit cards, alarm codes and personal data is within 1Password - the most precious of my data.

I have read the link and the other I have been sent and I will definitely continue using 1Password and I trust you guys as much as I anyone can be trusted at the moment. Certainly it's more safe than writing it down on a pieces of paper right now :-)

Of course one way to being even more transparent (but not necessarily more secure) is to open source your means of securing, transmitting and remote storage; not the whole product of course.

But with a highly funded secretive agency weakening protocols and strong arming companies, what are we to do :-)

Again great product!
> Germany (~80 million), the country where the modern welfare state was born

When discussing social services, it's also important to discuss borders, because of the real-or-imagined threat of people doing all their tax-paying years in one jurisdiction and all their benefit-drawing years in another.

The various US states have been dealing with tenuous internal boundaries for 200 years, and it has affected the evolution of their various tax/benefit systems.

In contrast, Germany--as part of the EU--has done the same for only about 20 years, and is even now poised to break/bend the agreement to deter an influx of migrants.

TLDR: It much easier to maintain a high-welfare state when you have strong border-controls or are geographically remote from waves of immigration.
The price isn't displayed - you see the standard/printed price on the book itself (i.e. $25 in usa) and then take it to one of several little stations that tells you the current price on Amazon ($16.94 or whatever, you save X amount). You can also scan barcodes on each little review placard with the app and it'll pull up the price.

Not ideal, I'll allow, but since the prices fluctuate there's not an easy way to do it without looooots of digital signage.
Website brokers typically charge 5-15% on deals like this so you can estimate the deal size based on their 20-30k estimated savings. Congratulations to everyone
A friend of mine gave me guff about my kindle -- his parents had a book store, but couldnt keep it open. I started to think about how an indie book store could work in an ereader world; my ideas:

You'd need an ereader with a small nfc reader or barcode scanner. Customers browsing the paper books in store could elect to buy the same book for the ereader in store if they wanted by just scanning the book with their ereader, then taking it up to the front and pressing a 'show cart' feature that would give a barcode for the cashier to scan, bringing up the cart total payable. Upon that payment finishing, the ereader would get a ping from a server and instruct it to download the ebooks just purchased. The store would get a majority of the cut of the vendor side of the sale (if amazon takes 30%, a bookstore would get 25% and the service provider/ebook mfg would get 5$).

This would allow people to support indie stores, continue to buy both ebooks and regular books, and do them both at the same time.

It's not a complete or foolproof plan, just an idea I had that could help batter down the hatches.
Where would you like your money - in a country with tight capital controls, an unstable political hierarchy, unclear or unreliable economic data and lack of "institutions" or ... China

:-)
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