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"Short term changes in power generation" are not day-scale, what you consider to be short-term storage has very little to do with the comment I replied to, or with the original article.
When I was learning programming in my bedroom as a kid, games and animations were the key - just far and away the most interesting and engaging things you could do. And while it was impossible in BASIC to get anything approaching commercially-produced games, it was possible to easily knock up something that was playable and fun, especially if you salted it with a bit of machine code; I fondly remember my PacMan (very slow), ET (ripoff of the infamous Atari 2600 klunker) and Minesweeper-like thing that was deceptively addictive, all done for yuks in a few hundred lines.

But for kids today, I see these problems:

- Haven't seen anything that gives the simplicity and ease of use for graphics that my old Spectrum had. This is what pygame should be providing, but I agree with you that it is actually pretty disappointing in this regard; I find its API a bit cumbersome and nonintuitive, although others' mileage may vary.

- Modern 3D games set the bar very high, and it's difficult to get kids to understand that they need to aim much lower to get going. And whereas the maths required to write a 2D game is pretty basic first principles stuff, 3D is a whole discipline that needs to be learned.

- Scratch is fun, but very limiting and, if you have a lot of stuff going on, really unplayably slow. My daughter has fun doing little animations in it, but it needs a better object system IMO in order to be able to allow users to push on with it.
Created this component during the product hunt hackathon, because I felt this was very tedious to keep re-implementing. Originally our in-house solution included the flux pattern and thought this was simply too difficult for the problem. The library comes in 2 flavors, a component and two different decorators. Feel free to ask questions.
Very limited view of energy storage tech frankly. Quick list of things I am aware of (some deployed and some in labs)

- Pumped hydro, by far the most widespread

- Flywheel storage, used at grid scales for frequency regulation

- Thermal storage used in conjunction with solar power using various materials - molten salt, HTF, hot dry rock

- Many different battery chemistries:

- High temperature batteries (e.g. ZEBRA batteries specifically developed for cost effective grid scale storages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%E2%80%93sulfur_battery)

- Sodium-ion batteries

- Metal hydride batteries

- Redox flow batteries such as zinc-air systems

- Compressed air storage

- Phase change storage, including hybrid compressed/liquefied air storage

- Seasonal thermal storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...

- Water electrolysis + hydrogen fuel cell cycle

Probably missed a bunch too. All to say there are a lot more solutions then lead-acids and lithium batteries- although in fairness those are the most accessible options in small scale systems
It's not feasible because of cost and political will.
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You are wrong on one part: connectivity providers usually provide detailed information about failures to their customers [1]. The only thing is: you are not their customer — your ISP is.

Some ISPs will communicate to their own customers, i.e. you, for instance see the link NiekvdMaas posted in the thread [2]. Sadly, most ISPs do not relay any detailed info.

[1] I once saw a fully detailed report from a connectivity provider about a cable failure and repair, with pictures of scuba-divers included — the cut happened on fibers running at the bottom of a water canal.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11213555
Ask HN: Any site that coordinates boycotts and/or ethical purchasing?
Let me guess, your current site is only in English.

Without realizing it, you’ve just given up on of over 74% of all global users that speak languages other than English. You’ve also committed yourself to the most competitive market in the World.

Why not create various translations of you site? Neil Patel did it. He translated his blog to 82 languages, and saw a 47% increase in his search traffic – within just three weeks!
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If we nail VR over the next few years, it's going to change everybody's motivations. You think people are locked into their screens today? Just you wait..
I dont think we need smarter humans, i think we need more normal-intelligence humans who like working hard.
It's only much cheaper if you get it without any of the adapters. I Kickstarted it and paid $24 for one w/ an HDMI adapter and $19 for one w/ a VGA. That being said, now that I have both adapters, any proceeding purchases go back to being much cheaper if I don't need the display adapters full time.

The thing that really got me was their aim of being entirely open source. I like the Pi, but there's a lot of stuff closed off.
Brunch Weasel is great -- and I don't particularly like stout or any alcoholic beverage mixed with coffee. I get it whenever I see it for breakfast or brunch.

It's also worth visiting a Mikkeller bar. They have a number of small-run beers on tap and those get rotated frequently. I once had a pilsner that he managed to pack 10% ABV into while still making it taste good.
I'm skeptical that the NSA would do that so explicitly (although given that Snowden's entire set of revelations consisted of "they wouldn't do that ..... oh they did" perhaps I should have less confidence).

I think a far more plausible and subtle form of mental pressure is simply manipulating secrecy and technical bullshit. You don't have to know a Congressman's porn preference to manipulate him if you can instead say, "we are tracking dangerous terrorists and if you don't do exactly what we want, they will win and it'd be an awful shame if an angry analyst leaked to the press the fact that YOU, CONGRESSMAN JONES, prevented us from doing our jobs".

Whether the terrorists really exist or not doesn't matter when you are effectively unauditable, and can easily imply that anyone who gets in your way is directly responsible for the deaths of innocents.
The Vive's entire ecosystem is set up for moving around, using your hands, and really being 'VR' like we've all imagined. The oculus is your head as a camera in comparison.
This is by far probably the biggest motivating factor for me to buy one of these latest gen VR headsets. Everyone else seems largely preoccupied with trying to get into VR filmmaking or slapping VR onto just any old game, but this really unleashes a lot of the potential of VR.

Admittedly I'm a little disappointed to see nothing about the old company's story on the website. The founders must seem truly remarkable, yet the landing page gives no clue as to who they are. We just know that it's by Google, which technically isn't wrong.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK8V9jG7Wjg

This one gives it to me every time.
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Have you watched CNN lately? I don't think so.
This sounds like the back-story of some sort of post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
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So I guess the question is if this is organic and these are real users or if they are bots controlled by someone with an agenda.

BTW you don't see [flagged] on your own posts. They look normal but are simply absent if not logged in. Similar to hell-banning.
I'm a hacker and I find this interesting.
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Yes.

But don't let that ruin a good open-source vs free-software debate...
So it is visual pollution.
I didn't even bother trying to disable my ad blocker, I just closed the tab.

I don't want to look at websites with ads. If the only way to view a website is with ads, I'd rather not view the website at all.
Hopefully to a higher standard then demonstrated in this headline.
>normal-intelligence humans who like working hard

Because working hard is a virtue, right?
Not really. That's a very good reason for going ahead when told to go ahead (instead of the ethical refusal to go through with the project).
Yeah, I was hesitant to click on the article based on the title. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
This is the bigger version of the Vajont Dam's tragedy of the '60s that killed two thousand people and wrecked an entire province. [1]

> At 10:39 P.M., a massive landslide of about 260,000,000 cubic metres (340,000,000 cu yd) of forest, earth, and rock fell into the reservoir at up to 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph), completely filling the narrow reservoir behind the dam. The landslide was complete in just 45 seconds, much faster than predicted, and the resulting displacement of water caused 50,000,000 cubic metres (65,000,000 cu yd) of water to overtop the dam in a 250-metre (820 ft) high wave.

> This event occurred when the company and the Italian government dismissed evidence and concealed reports describing the geological instability of Monte Toc on the southern side of the basin, and other early warning signs reported prior to the disaster.

> Numerous warnings, signs of danger, and negative appraisals had been disregarded, and the eventual attempt to safely control the landslide into the lake by lowering its level came when the landslide was almost imminent and was too late to prevent it.

and also

> On 12 February 2008, while launching the International Year of Planet Earth, UNESCO cited the Vajont Dam tragedy as one of five "cautionary tales", caused by "the failure of engineers and geologists".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
The material doesn't need to be hidden from the world (ISP at most) because it's already public material. It includes checksums in the protocol at a more appropriate frequency.

Plus (some) SSL has only just become hardware accelerated. It's only now or in the next few years that someone would consider SSL in torrents - just for hiding from ISPs. Still too many other problems. MPAA are known to download films for the peer list. You'd still be on that.
The concept of combining many values to get another value of the same type is the heart of FP - function composition is just the most prominent example of it. That definition of IntSet is effectively a cons list, a very FP-oriented data structure. It's not an example of OOP needing tail calls because it's not an example of OOP style (at least, if we believe that's something disjoint from functional style) at all.
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Unrelated to the article but the design of that website is so nice
:( Damn.
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The temperature would be a nice addition -- it may be a sunny morning where I am, but it's also 21 degrees (-6 C).
The same as saying one deserves less recognition because their research was done in secret.
And what will they do, when robots take all their jobs in some time?
Sure. But I think it's fair to say that a structure that's part of the ABI is more distinguished/fundamental than an ordinary datastructure defined in the language.
Another interesting app/site that I'm using to help me get out of bed is EarlyRisersHub . You check in every day and earn points, and compete with others this way. http://www.earlyrisershub.com
IF you're sitting in bed reading HN, then yes, you should get up.
Tldr? Title seems clickbaity and I don't want to reward that.
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It all depends what is your market. English is international language so... Fun fact: China has more people that speak English than US+UK combined ...
I respectfully disagree. We need a society of people who hate working hard but, very importantly, are deeply empathic so they won't just leave the hard work for other people. Those are the people who automate the hard things away and share their work so other people can do the same, to leave time for science, abstract creative pursuits, recreation, etc.
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I should tell my wife who's currently working on an MBA.

But the experience from this article sounds very different from what my wife is going through. You can't do her MBA while working at a bar; you need to have a job at a significant company where you have access to financial data and other stuff. She does the assignments on her own, because she's got to do it in her spare time between job and family. I suppose her course is explicitly not aimed at regular just-after-highschool students, but at working professionals who need some extra theoretical foundation.

Whether any specific class has new information for her varies wildly. The challenge seems to be more in the right way to write a research paper than in the actual subject matter, though translating financial and bookkeeping between English (from the books) and Dutch (everywhere else) can also be a challengen.
If I understand correctly, techniques like CRISPR might allow for for gene editing in adult humans.

If so, how much would you be willing to pay to have your IQ increased by say 10 points?
I think I would be willing to pay $10,000 if the risks of something bad happening because of the treatment would be low.
And you didn't miss anything. A useless fluff piece promoting their social network builder.
Attention span varies considerably from one child to another.

The 'How to Train your Robot' game appears to be aimed at a 2.5 year old and as the mother of a 2.5 year old myself, it seems ludicrous to try to get a child that age into programming.

On the other hand, my 5 year old needs something more than directing robots around - Robot Turtles is too easy now for example, but he does enjoy playing with ScratchJr on the iPad, sometimes for quite long periods of time. It also of course has the big advantage at this age of not requiring literacy.
That must be a somewhat daunting procedure for scientists in the genetic field; creating humans that are much, much smarter than themselves, likely rendering themselves obsolete very quickly.
Übermensch!

Haven't we heard this before?
Article seems to speak out both sides of its mouth, that robots are going away for Mercedes, and also that tons of small robots are being added. Anybody else get that takeaway?
Yeah I very rarely see crawler cranes here in London. The only times I see them are to disassemble tower cranes. I wonder if this has to do with the size of streets in New York vs London. In New York most streets are wide enough to accommodate a crawler crane while in London big crawler cranes have to be disassembled and brought to the building site in pieces and can't site in the street beside usually.
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Whilst the BBC is supposed to be non-biased, it is funded by public money. The BBC has to tred carefully around the government and make sure it doesn't upset whoever is currently in power.

http://rightdishonourable.com/2015/10/peter-capaldi-the-bbc-...
NaN mm/hour - not interested
It's real users. I frequent the new submissions page a lot and I would've flagged all three submission (I wasn't online then).

My reasoning is that Drumpf is not HN material. Same with Leonardo not winning an Oscar, Kane tweeting about his new studio album or the superbowl. Even with school shootings and terrorist attacks only very few articles make the frontpage.

It's not disagreement with the campaign (I enjoyed the show on youtube) or political agenda, just trying to keep quality up. My guide is https://news.ycombinator.com/best

[edit: on slow work day (weekend) I probably look at 75% of submissions and flag 5 maximum. Flagging comments is very very rare. It needs several users to flag to become active, I don't know personally or collaborate with others users on flagging.]
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Some Soviet engineers ended up having a particularly nasty end when they were captured while working on the infamous Kajaki dam in Afghanistan.
That was my thought exactly. Wouldn't it be cool to model Blender (or whatever tool you use) stuff in VR. I'm horrible at 3d modeling but something like TiltBrush could make it fun and engaging and motivate me enough to explore in new ways.
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Doesn't go compile itself now?
If we an AI that was capable of carrying on human level conversation it's probably fall into the uncanny valley because of how fast it could respond with fully formed sentences, without all the filler and pausing that humans are used to and filter out as white noise. Unless it was programmed to add in unnecessary noise, of course.
You should try augmenting NoScript with RequestPolicy.
aria2 is much more reliable when downloading stuff, especially for links which involve redirections.

For example here's a link to download 7zip for windows from filehippo.com.

Results:

* Curl doesn't download it at all.

curl -O 'http://filehippo.com/download/file/bf0c7e39c244b0910cfcfaef2af45de88d8cae8cc0f55350074bf1664fbb698d/'

gives:

curl: Remote file name has no length!

* Wget manages to download the file, but with the wrong name.

wget 'http://filehippo.com/download/file/bf0c7e39c244b0910cfcfaef2af45de88d8cae8cc0f55350074bf1664fbb698d/'

gives:

2016-03-03 18:08:21 (75.9 KB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [1371668/1371668]

* aria2 manages to download the file with the correct name with no additional switches.

aria2c 'http://filehippo.com/download/file/bf0c7e39c244b0910cfcfaef2af45de88d8cae8cc0f55350074bf1664fbb698d/'

gives:

03/03 18:08:45 [NOTICE] Download complete: /tmp/7z1514-x64.exe
It is working something in background but nothing is happening.
Maybe if you decide not to do an MBA because of a thorough cost-benefit analysis, you should get the MBA anyway.
Is your house 100 feet tall or taller, and I hope your whole house is made out of structural steel.
Y modifying genes of a living creature is obviously going to be a low risk procedure.
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You may have said that sarcastically, but there is hard work other than manual labor. I think 99% of what we call "intelligence" can be improved with hard work directed toward learning and practice.
There are 9 Trump-related submissions in the last 24 hours alone that haven't been flagged. And at least for the flags I set (I flagged some drumpf-browser-extension at least once), I can tell you that I'm not a bot and don't have a particular agenda ;) I don't think there is any reason to believe those to be not organic.
malloc almost certainly isn't a system call. It's a library call (provided by libc), and you can have different malloc functions (different allocators).

The underlying OS call is VirtualAlloc on Windows and brk/sbrk/mmap on Linux.
Stability and security comes first. So, let's ship an X years old curl release + patches ;)
If you're up and reading in bed the answer is almost always yes. You never want your brain to associated laying in bed with anything other than sleep or sex.
The documentation (once you've read about pacman, and makepkg on the wiki or on Arch Linux's wiki) is in the PKGBUILD files. Building all packages should be done with the exact same command, so there's not really any different documentation for "complicated" packages. Just emit:

makepkg-mingw -s (*)

.. the complication is in the recipes and patches (which hopefully end up being upstreamed, but not often enough).

Darktable won't work without a good amount of effort as AFAICT, no one's built it for Windows. We have most of the dependencies though.

You'd install MSYS2, then pacman -S base-devel and mingw-w64-{x86_64,i686}-toolchain, then not install anything else (*). The -s here means "sync dependencies", sync is pacman speak for install, more or less. By setting up the dependencies in the PKGBUILD correctly, and adding -s to the makepkg-mingw command, you guarantee that you've got it correct for when people install the binaries when it gets to that stage, and that the CI systems fetch the right dependencies when they try to build darktable.

Don't add anything to your Windows PATH. Ever. Why would you break other software by having it run MSYS2 software by mistake? I've never understood software that presumes to add itself to the Windows PATH. Particularly without asking. Really, just what? We don't even ask. When you run our shells we add you to the PATH during that session.

Anyway, that's my global Windows PATH rant over.

I guess that's the bit you didn't get. To use MSYS2, don't use cmd.exe or powershell. Instead, run msys2_shell.bat (to use makepkg_mingw or makepkg), mingw64_shell.bat or mingw32_shell.bat, accept the ways of and use the mintty terminal.

Next you would convert the following PKGBUILD from Arch Linux:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=darkt...

.. to MSYS2/mingw-w64 form (look at the roughly 1000 references in MINGW-packages), use pacman -Ss to find the equivalent package name, use makepkg-mingw -s to test.

Good luck. Join #msys2 on OFTC to ask for help.
That would be nice - I'd definitely be out and about if it was that warm.
The importance of reliable and dynamic communication channels is absolute.

Having to wait for a developer to make code changes to existing message flows takes hours, even days.

By using the Upwire platform you can have complex Voice IVR's, Two Way SMS and Business Critical Email channels setup in minutes. Better still you can change the content of your campaigns in real time with zero impact on connecting to your customers.

Take the load off your developers and get them working on the important stuff.

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Just increase light pollution enough and the problem is solved :)
Wouldn't this decision heavily depend on whether, and when I have to go to work today?
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interesting study .. but it seems to be heading to a rather narrow direction .. humans are multifaceted beings that are far beyond what IQ can describe .. I wonder if the authors could conduct a study to measure IBM's Watson and see conclusion one could arrive at .. Have fun!
Can you explain why a syphon won't work over 30ft?
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The uncanny valley was (I think) first observed in graphical rendering for movies and games, and has since been generalized to many artificial constructs that approach but don't quite hit the real thing they are attempting to mimic. It absolutely is real, but may not always apply.
>but if it leads to growth it's money well spent.

...provided that the growth leads to more profit at some point in the future.
That's just a claim you make. And I doubt people like assertive men so much. In what context, anyway? So if you have an assertive male boss, you go "thank god I don't have to make decisions myself, he is so great", if you have an assertive female boss you go "what a bitch"? Seems very unlikely to me - more likely, your opinion is based on lots of one-sided anecdotes by women who only noticed themselves. (Meaning they noticed a backlash against their assertiveness and assumed it must be a woman problem, never noticing any backlash against men because of confirmation bias).
Superhuman intelligence needs to have the corresponding nurturing factor as well. It won't do much good if you are born super-smart but are trapped in poverty or circumstances which limit your potential.

Plus there is also the EQ (emotional) quotient. Not many people are going to want your company if you are a super-intelligent asshole either.
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