skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost has nothing to do with this argument. He is talking about energy density.
>Some pages on google.com contain deceptive content right now.
Talk about being honest about oneself..
Another cool one https://github.com/fruxo/turbobadger
If anyone is looking for these as usable fonts I found this french designer Gilles Le Corre - http://www.gilleslecorre.com/pages/fonts.html - who makes a lot of fonts based of old manuscripts and books.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/glc/1467-pannartz-latin/
Fortunately, since then, someone spotted that causation and correlation occasionally differ. Phew. Bullet dodged.
What are you proposing is to cut out money from the sport.
That's 3.5% per year growth. Not bad.
or, even better, AI competing.
Bit of a clickbait title, the article mentions only one case where solar was traded at a lower price than coal, which is still not lower than coal's average price. For a better comparison we should include the cost of manufacturing panels vs building coal plants and the money spent on r&d and pr. Also, afaik solar panels are not exactly eco friendly. I believe it is up to personal taste which power lobby agenda one buys in, for one, I see the most value in fission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor
I really really dislike this. Why does google get to decide which websites are good and which are not. Unless someone subscribes to this service google should do what it does best, search.

One day they decide everyone should be mobile friendly, the next day they decide which sites are bad and which are not, what more?

Every single day, google is giving me more reason to use alternative search engines.
They are utterly dominant in the one metric Apple boosters usually claim is the one that counts. So why is that metric suddenly irrelevant now? I realize that as the law is written this may not matter but if we're discussing whether the government should intervene here it's perfectly relevant.

I'm an iOS developer by the way so I'm not anti Apple. I just think there is already healthy competition in mobile and government intervention is going to hurt consumers in this case. Apple can regain market share any time it chooses to by lowering its unprecedented profit margins.
You can always use gccgo, which supports dynamic linking of the go stdlib
To your point, there were many wars with gold/oil being the main motive.

However, I hardly can remember any wars where coal resources was the main motive.

Both are fossil fuels, but one is more precious than the other.
They've also really made emacs a very viable IDE using rtags/irony + cmake. It's a real shame the GNU ecosystem has fallen behind b/c it's really mature, integrated with system tools and also modular (just not as module) - and I'm stuck using it if I want to target embedded =(
It makes sense to weigh up your options. I'll propose one you may want to consider.

By hosting on Heroku (or any other cloud hosting provider) you're saving on devops, but you're also paying over the odds for your hosting. However, if you had an option that retained most of the devops simplicity of Heroku, but also cut costs, evaluating this would make sense.

I would suggest that this option exists, and that option is application containers (Docker, etc...). If you can build your infrastructure around application containers, not only do you have the option of using dedicated hosting when you have access to the processing capacity to do so (and thereby save money), but you also have option to scale into the cloud if/when the local capacity is exceeded. A number of the cloud hosts support Docker, including but not limited to OpenShift:

https://blog.openshift.com/openshift-v3-platform-combines-do...

Furthermore, it's a change you can make gradually. Developers can start using application containers as development environments, and you can roll them out more broadly once the implementation issues have been ironed out.

Does this sound like something you would consider?

EDIT: Worth noting that Heroku also supports deploying using Docker containers:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/docker
Related: The blog that announces their new security suite for Chrome, fails the security suite for Chrome. See screenshot https://twitter.com/lrvick/status/692282829619777537
They're actually awesome, it takes them to build four lines as a new system the same time as it takes to build four-stations existing system expansion in cities outside China.

Moscow metro expansion plan is comparably bold but I doubt they'll deliver.
Another one in the same vein, albeit implemented and presented quite differently: http://wttr.in/paris

(Posted most recently last week, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11494799 )
I wouldn't mind hearing about the pain points you encountered when hosting your own images...
Please no. I don't want people attempting to legislate morals. OP's personal outrage is preferable to lobbying for legal enshrinement of their morals.
To hanyoddha: consider drawing comics, even if it's just as a side-hobby. You have a signature style that looks fresh. And some people actually make a lot of money doing that.
I want to argue that "similar" is irrelevant to the topic.
They are similar as both built in C/C++ with performance in mind.
They are very different as Aerospike is a Key Value store, while Scylla, like Cassandra is Columnar (Key, Key, Value). This gives Scylla a much richer semantic.

There are more differences, like Aerospike holding all keys in memory, while Scylla does not have such limitation. I'm sure there are more differences in tunable consistency, HA and multi DC, but I'm not an Aerospike expert.
Chrome blog fails the security suite for Chrome
Now that would be amazing in the USA if they could stop blowing up mountains and polluting the entire area, or dig filthy toxic mines just to extract coal, which is a horrible, horrible job for any human being (who will resist changing their job until the early day they die).

Too bad there is no "sexy" equivalent like a Tesla to make USA change from coal to solar/wind.
Indeed. The HN hive mind is strong. Post oatmeal commentary about favorite subjects and receive up votes.
C# Developer here, I think C# is an incredibly good language and the Microsoft ecosystem is moving in a much better direction.

You have way more options for OSS nowadays and you don't have to be as reliant on Microsoft's black-box frameworks. I think these changes could improve the popularity of C# in the coming years.
The article also completely ignores the effects of "easy money" in the price inflation of housing costs.

By "easy money" I mean the period there where the banks would give almost anyone with a pulse a huge size loan for a house purchase. Because everyone was running around with an outsized "money press" in the form of their approved bank loan value, they were quite capable of bidding prices up, which is exactly what they did. Therefore, as to this cause of the price inflation, it somewhat inverted the supply/demand curve in that prices rose to accommodate greater supply of money in the hands of prospective purchasers.

Yes, building restrictions do play a part, but fully ignoring the effects of using very cheap "other peoples money" for bidding on houses ignores another significant factor in the inflation effect.
It crosses the border between using human muscles' energy output (and optimising the mechanical efficiency of that) and using some other energy source. Which is a fairly clear barrier for anyone to understand.
Can't the same be said for local nuclear?
US congressman calls for investigation into phone network vulnerability
What country writes those regulations? Whose claim is valid?

I think that's where things get interesting and earth politics get involved. Who should have a say? Spacefaring nations or all of earth? [I think this is your point, just being explicit I guess].
Wind pioneer and former CTO of Siemens Wind Power is currently working on energy storage using rocks instead of a molten salt - he's blogging about it in the Danish engineering news site ing.dk.

Molten salt is efficient because of the phase change, but also much more difficult and expensive to handle than a big (well enormous) bunch of hot rocks. Last thing I heard, he's currently trying to get demonstration plant up and running - it sounded like they'd already done some experiments at Siemens before he left.

Anyway, nowhere near ready, but just to show that there are still low-tech options out there being examined.

Another low-tech option is biomass, either wood chips/pills or other stuff processed into methane.

Yeah, it's not as cheap as coal, but with good grid connections we need less storage than people seem to think, at least according to the research papers I've seen.
There is a time-to-market distortion with this excitement over bot platforms.

On the one hand major messaging actors (Facebook, Slack, Kik, WeChat and Line) are competing over their IM platforms. On the other hand, they are competing over who gets the best bots (thus, the developer market). No unsupervised AI is reliable, yet everyone is fighting over who gets there first.

I think the company that will seize this market has not been born yet. Thoughts ?
You're ruining the narrative.
Can satellites help save the world’s rainforests?
But I think the US has their launch codes
Dlite makes it easy to start with docker on Mac
Run your tests against clang (as well as gcc) and then ship with gcc. Last I heard, gcc still had the speed advantage for optimized code anyway.
pretty cool. I dont know if you applied for YC this time, but I encourage you to do this for the next batch. Contact me if you need any gyaan.
I was actually implying two non-interrelated casuations of same trend.
The biggest challenge is aerodynamics. If you're over 6'3" and want to be at all comfortable you're going to present a much larger frontal area than someone shorter.
Show HN: Utilities for making lightweight persistent objects in JS
Thanks! I do love creating comics. Just not been very consistent. I'll probably be more inclined to create an entire Graphic Novel. I do have a few planned. Hopefully, I will complete it!
also microsoft.com, yahoo.com, cnet.com (no surprise there!)
Results of Pair Programming Experiment
Great list! Insights and reports are analyzed very appropriately.
"Solar energy prices hit a new record low in January with the auction of 420 megawatts in Rajasthan at 4.34 rupees a kilowatt-hour. In comparison coal tariffs range between 3-5 rupees/kWh."

So the headline here is, as is usually the case with articles in this space, misleading at best. It's slightly cheaper than the highest-end coal, but dramatically more expensive - nearly 1.5X more - than the lower end. Overall, it's still more expensive, and that doesn't include the cost of batteries to deal with the fact that the sun sets each day.

To be sure, advances are being made in this space. But this headline is nothing more than clickbait.
Nobody is being forced to any attention to their pronouncements. The only reason they are of any relevance is that a lot of people freely choose to use services and software that incorporate them.
> No, stop that line of thinking. Please.

Caution, Thought Police patrol this area. Please stop thinking. Freedom Of Thought is not allowed.

I'll think whatever I like, thank you very much. I reserve the right to have opinions that differ from yours. I respect the idea that my opinions ought not impinge on your freedoms. I don't have to like a thing to see the sense in it. Yes, we shouldn't go around calling each other names, it might affect a person in a negative way.

I certainly don't have a habit of going around labeling people ... well, actually, I guess I do: we all make internal judgments about people and things we experience. What I mean to say is I tend not to go around calling people words, because who knows how that might affect the other.

Relating to that quote you provided from r/bipolar, what I really want to see is us crazies, I say 'us', because that quote fits me well too. I want to see us crazies "come out"! I'm crazy and I'm proud! We could have a bumper sticker too: I have Mental Health Issues and I vote.

And anyway, to be well-adjusted to an insane society is no measure of health.

In 2014, there were an estimated 43.6 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with AMI (Any Mental Illness) in the past year. This number represented 18.1% of all U.S. adults.[1]

One in five of the adult population of the US with AMI. Mental Illness is the new normal. I think there's more to this than "illness". In a similar way to how homosexuality used to be labelled an illness, I look forward to a future where we are no longer labelled "ill" but where society acknowledges that we have some pretty serious issues going on on this planet and our individual and collecting stress-coping mechanisms aren't coping. We are a sick society that has been doing a darn good job of wrecking the biosphere, and through profit-driven motives been working to isolate people so they'll buy more. How anyone can think that isn't going to affect our mental health is beyond me.

I believe a lot of the lower-grade chronic mental illness people suffer is a symptom, like a blocked nose is a symptom of a cold virus, mental health issues are a symptom of failing stress-coping systems. And the stressors are real. Modern life is stressful, it's alienating, it's under slept, over worked, it's underpaid, it's in too much debt.

We're overdue for a societal colonic. Nothing like a good shit to help clear the mind.

1. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/prevalence/any-men...
How game theory will solve the problems of the Euro Bloc and stop Iranian nukes
Google is entitled to their opinion. Its upto users to see whether they want to consume that opinion or not.
Just some context on how this developed ('rare' is not so rare anymore).

http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-chinas-rare-earth-weapon-went-fro...
> MS cannot prevent you from profiting from the word documents you create

Hypothetically, could Microsoft legally do that if it wanted to? I'm guessing something like that could be part of EULA.
Groningen is a fun place and Pygrunn a unique and good event. I loved being part of it.
There is also ScriptCraft - https://github.com/walterhiggins/ScriptCraft
Here you can hook JavaScript code into Minecraft events.
Apple's Penchant for Consumer Security
this is a curious case of "copy-cat stabbing syndrome" from the recent "I just deleted my entire company" hoax http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/04/17/turns-dude-didnt-de...
Mining on Earth leads to conflicts on Earth, so what's the difference?

Additionally, the '67 Outer Space Treaty was specifically written with open-ended provisions to allow for the commercial exploitation of space - at the time, they quite honestly thought that Hilton and Pan Am (yes, 2001 did it) would be operating in space within decades. They even thought so as far back as '58, before man had even been to space. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120712-where-is-hiltons-lu...
Sure is a nice way to stand out in the crowd when looking for a job, but certainly not the most practical way to present information. Dunno if I'm doing something wrong, but I'm still waiting for a reply in fb messenger.

At least for now bots are pretty much just a gimmick and "just because we can" thing, but then again, most of the cool stuff we have today began from that. I definitely do not see much value added in receiving information this way, such as getting weather updates or headlines. Bots will have to get a lot smarter and autonomous/proactive to be actually helpful. I do not want to chat with machine, I want it to do stuff for me with minimal interaction. Let me know when I can pay for utilities through messenger :).

Platforms are sexy and everyone wants one, I get it. But the real value will come from getting other businesses/services on board. That's dirty work that does not scale well, so yeah, let's just build a platform instead and hope "they" come :)
Please share any other tool that you have in your mind that can automate web services testing.
> Australia ... the perfect society

Hahaha
I am very likely biased by my love of the sci-fi (dystopia) genre... :)

Regardless, if there is something of worth, people will kill to have it.
Viber adds end-to-end encryption
I liked the alignments.

Never played DnD, but after reading the definitions, I and my friends found myself to be "chaotic neutral" :D
Prognosis is so shitty my spell checker can't deal with it. Chances are I've less than a month. I'll slowly choke to death. Happily Belgium has euthanasia and I've already told my doctors to plan for that.
I can't see the content & the link asks me to turn off my anti virus.
There are patents regarding ultrasonic cleaning of panels[1]. Not sure about actual products yet.

[1]: http://www.google.com/patents/US20120285516
Isn't the lack of ability to negotiate better prices under obamacare a much much bigger abuse of health care?

The lack of ability to (legally) import from Canada too?

And the fact all prices are becoming geared only for people with insurance to milk the system.

I don't have insurance and my script went from $4 to $80 when Target cancelled support for people without insurance. Walmart is the last place now and how long will that last when they figure out there is no competition.
You dislike it just because you dislike it. Your argument is as good (/bad?) as saying "Why does government get to make laws and decide what's good and what's bad?" In any society, we have some basic rules of 'good' and 'bad', and it's totally ok to test a website on those measures. Like a website secretively installing malware on your machine is bad. In a parallel world, that might be a good thing.
> Your either..

false dichotomy. The context of this thread is not the authors harassment; and your example is not a benign usage, but that does not contradict the statement "people in this thread use the word in a way they believe to be benign".

I also believe your post breaks HN guidelines.
> There were a surprising number of people from the medical field expressing doubts about the technology.

And were dismissed because their industry was being "disrupted".
The Story of Magic Leap
I share the Rubinstein's reservations about the usefulness of Game Theory.

To give some context, he is one the 100 most cited economists in the world, coauthor of the most popular graduate Game Theory textbook and probably has a reasonable chance of winning a Nobel over the next couple of decades for his work on areas such as bargaining theory.
They won't let me in even with a fresh Chrome without any plugins at all. They still tell me to disable adblock.

Their adblock-checking seems very broken.
Well I tried to download chrome yesterday, and you STILL get www.downloadchromenow.com and other spam site adverts at the top of the results, which absolutely serve malware/spyware

Until they sort out their ads it's true, it is a dangerous site
The comparison is between the cost of new installations - coal power is very cheap because the facilities are old and the capital expenses were sunk a long time ago. New solar power is now cheaper to build out than new coal plants, which is reasonable enough given the cost of both raw materials and production processes for solar had plummeted over the last decade whereas coal is a very mature technology that is effectively at the end of its efficiency curve (and getting worse over time as the cost of extraction grows).
> many western countries also subsidize markets they want to stimulate

Subsidizing markets is different to favouring local suppliers. For instance, Germany's feed in tariffs subsidized solar, but it didn't distinguish between German, American and Chinese manufacturers, and that policy is a major reason why solar prices have come down so much - Germany almost single-handedly supported the scaling up of capacity, and scaling down of cost of the global solar industry, from about $20/W down to $2/W.
So I guess the electricity companies also get most of their margins during daytime? Of that's the case, solar might screw up traditional electricity's business model much earlier, even without storage and feed-in laws.
It would be almost impossible to regulate space. These satellites are tiny and millions of miles away.

You should see the problems we have with illegal fishing about 10 miles off our coast.

I don't disagree with you, I just think the practicalities of monitoring and enforcement would be almost impossible.
You mean the very best thing that ever happened in rally sport? My first memory of watching TV was following WRC season 85 while holding in my 6 year old hands model of Ari Vananens Peugeot 205.
Unsurprisingly, PNGOut, ZopfliPNG and AdvanceCOMP all use non-zlib DEFLATE implementations (respectively pkzip, zopfli, and 7zip or zopfli depending on setting).

Interestingly, as far as I know OptiPNG uses the standard zlib DEFLATE and still closes in on the lead optimisers for all but picture 3.

Although it would be good to include more information about your compression parameters: while OptiPNG -o7 doesn't do anything to picture 3, a complete exhaustive search (-o7 -zm1-9) does manage to compress it down to 8724 bytes (8471 IDAT)

edit: in fact, despite the help text's claim, optipng shows a very slight improvement on the first three pictures by using the strongest most exhaustive search parameters (compared to those you list, using optipng 0.7.6):

* Picture 1 9787 bytes (51.80%) versus 9979 (50.85%)

* Picture 2 20513 bytes (10.63%) versus 20671 (9.94%)

* Picture 3 8724 bytes (10.09%) versus 9703 (0%)

Pictures 4 and 5 compress to the sizes you listed even using exhaustive searching.
The minister being quoted explicitly compared cost of new solar installs versus cost of new coal installs - that's where the "cheaper than coal" quote was taken from, it's not about spot prices for solar energy (which are a senseless comparison anyway, as they go to zero and even negative in times of low demand)

EDIT: low demand, not high demand, of course
It's often a bit confusing.

I get a job offer from people who say "We are a start-up" and then they are just another dumb agency. If I want agency work, I freelance.
The scale of the capital enterprise required to pull this off in the next 50 years practically guarantees it will be a political issue if it happens in our lifetime.

You can't sweep space mining under the rug.

We're a long way off freebooters with fusion drives. And when we have those, AI will see you from 5 AUs out
It seems that Express Scripts is simply reluctant to continue their business relationship with PillPack since they got too big and now pose a serious threat to their own business model (which probably relies on mail orders as well). It's of course understandable that they don't want to let a startup take away a profitable market segment from them, but it seems that they do this by making use of their market-controlling position, which is probably illegal (IMHO).

Reading the article it's really hard to say what is really going on though as the journalist makes very little effort to uncover the real motivations behind the actions of the two companies.
> Wind generators cause harm to birds

This is an often repeated exaggeration.

The Australian government did a study on this[1] as it was claimed that the Orange-bellied Parrot (an endangered species) was at risk from wind farm developments. They concluded:

"The potential threat that wind farm developments in Tasmania, western Victoria and south-eastern South Australia pose to the Orange-bellied Parrot has been quantified in the Wind farm Birdstrike Cumulative Risk Assessment Report (Smales et al. 2005). The assessment report concluded that the predicted annual cumulative mortality rate from all the wind farms modelled corresponds to an additional Orange-bellied Parrot mortality of around one bird per year."

The full study. "Wind farm collision risk for birds" can be found at [2].

[1]: http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspe...

[2]: http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/2d42fcb...