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You're trying to make some sense of this, but no, there is no sense and it isn't simple either.

For one because Google's Android does not qualify as a monopoly and the mere existence of Apple's iOS which has 20% of the European market is testament to that. But also because having a monopoly isn't illegal and I'm quite curious what anti-trust charges they are going to bring, because as the parent says, Android has been the most flexible mainstream mobile OS, more than iOS or Windows Phone. Android is the only one on top of which Firefox was possible, the only one admitting third-party installation sources and app stores and the only one that can have a CyanogenMod. Android is actually the only one that can be forked and Amazon has successfully forked Android.

And the reason for why it doesn't make sense is because Google charges no licence money for Android and they've been quite forthcoming about the reason why Android exists, right from the start, its existence being all about Google having a mobile platform to distribute their apps and services. Phone makers don't even have to agree to this, though no Google agreement means no Google Play, terms that again, have been there from the start. And in fact Apple and Microsoft have both used their existing position in desktop operating systems, an easily provable oligarchy, to push their mobile OSs and lock users in.

> European companies have also brought before court for the same reasons

Oh, come on, you know that ain't true. They are targeting Google specifically because they don't want to share their Search & News revenue with a dying mass-media industry. And I'm saying this as an European.
The article seems to have it arse backwards. Yes, a lot of times this is a situation of "Distributed Costs and Concentrated Benefits", but with the benefits going to the property developer, and the costs to the impacted community. NIMBY is the catchy phrase constructed by marketing to discredit serious concerns people have when they are on the receiving end of someone's 'unacounted externality'. Technology has made it marginally cheaper to organize a resistance, but it is still an uphill battle because of the natural imbalance in the cost/benefits situation.
Careful: don't apply that thinking to the "engineering shortage" or you'll never hear the end of it on HN. Engineers live in magicland, and in magicland, supply curves don't exist. People should work for passion and $60k, and if you don't, you're not a real engineer.
It seems like the actual problem is that it's painful and/or impossible to keep one conversation going across multiple channels. If you solve that it applies to tons of things, maybe starting with customer support conversations.

I'd like a way to just manage "my conversation with Bob" in one place, regardless of choosing email, voice, text, video, multimedia, etc at the moment. Then "Bob" can be swapped out for anyone else, even "Company Inc customer support".
In the air. On the ground the risk is the same.
I like 3d touch and use it often on both my phone and macbook pro.
And it is still true, wind will be never be able to compete with nuclear for the simple fact that wind blows when it blows and you need energy when you need it. Unless we develop a technology that is able to cope with the huge spikes that windmills put on the energy grid and store energy in a very efficient way (including gaining the energy back when we need it) wind will not be more than few percentage of the overall energy production with the cost of having gas turbines in the system to just to balance windmills. Solar is obviously far better, there are few things to sort out but the progress we made is definitely promising.
Sounds exciting!
OP here.

A couple of small known issues I haven't fixed up yet:

* I'm not correctly taking into account the number of coupon payments in the current year and final year for each bond, just assuming it's 4 like every other year.
* Prices are updated manually, I've got some code that scrapes the ASX to get new prices, just needs to be hooked up.

I'd be particularly interested in feedback on usability, or ease of understanding from non-finance experts. I've added a bunch of long-winded copy that tries to explain what this is for, but I'm not sure it gets the point across clearly.

Once this is a bit more polished, I'll publish a version that does the same calculations with US TIPS instead of Australian eTIBs.

Thanks!
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That hasn't stopped us digging them up for coal though.
I've heard people say they don't use it. I've recently come back to iphone after a year with a moto x. I love 3d touch. Particularly using the keyboard as a virtual trackpad on the phone (for moving the cursor around in text areas).

I also use it extensively in safari, on both the iphone and macbook pro.

I don't use the mail app, and it didn't seem helpful there... what good is a popup of a message if my thumb is blocking the view?

But the keyboard cursor and safari are pretty handy. I could see it working well with app shortcuts on the home screen too, but I guess I haven't found a need yet.
I did PhD in Cloud and Big Data (Created a Cloud and Big Data platform for crunching large scale images on satellite clusters). I spent about 10 years of my life working on nothing but Cloud and Big Data. And I rarely do comment on anything outside my area of expertise. If you find any of my comments incorrect or interesting, I will be more than happy to engage in a conversation with you. This is also third or fourth time an account has been created to reply to my comments. I find it very interesting!
Whatever the realities of the cost of solar, I tend to worry about a future in which we cover vast swaths of areas with solar panels and the impact such a thing will have on the environment. I don't know if anyone has done good studies on it.

A bunch other sustainable forms of energy have environmental problems. Wind generators cause harm to birds, geothermal electricity sources like in Hawai'i raise the temperature of bodies of water disrupting wildlife. Nuclear power comes with great risks of radiation leakage. Biofuel is hugely inefficient. It seems any solution comes with problems.
Compressed air storage rings of a scam to me. They never mention how efficient it is to compress the air and turn the air back into electricity. It's always how efficient their storage tank is, which on paper gives batteries a run for their money.

When sizing an industrial air system a rule of thumb is to budget 7-8hp of compressor for 1 hp of air motor. That is 12% efficiency, or only worth it if you had no other source of power. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume a tightly integrated system you could do 3x better, but it still doesn't come close to batteries.

If someone has plug-plug numbers that are better, let me know.
Does that make sense?

I fear it doesn't.

It wasn't your best attempt at moderating. Just my direct perception.
That's only half of the equation. They can't get more pilots by paying more, because the requirements to become a pilot are so arduous. According to the article, trainee pilots have to pony up ~$150k in training costs, as well as spend many years working in scarce non-commercial-carrier jobs. So in part, the solution would be to create more non-commercial-carrier pilot jobs, and/or for airlines to start sponsoring trainee pilots to make it more attractive (or even possible) for them to get qualified.
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Trust issues with the founders (Skype hardly had a great privacy record); inability to build own APK (because only the crypto is open source) means you can't be sure the code on GitHub is what you're really running.
It's ironic that a couple of sentences after "accusing rich countries of charging too much" he's complaining about the WTO ruling "India was illegally supporting domestic over international solar producers." Either the evil foreigners are too expensive or too cheap requiring protection for local producers. Or both at the same time maybe.
No! Solar is solar; depends on available sunlight. India is not going to shut any nuclear power plant and is working on new one or next phase of existing ones.
This price breakdown, particularly the CDN costs, reminds me of how fascinating it is that Cloudflare can compete in content delivery at scale without billing by bandwidth.
It's the lowest bid that the government got for generating power from third party vendors.
It'll happen better with feed-in tariffs though.
> India can develop its solar energy sector by itself.

Until the US sues them and the WTO rules against them. http://in.reuters.com/article/usa-india-solar-idINKCN0QV2FD2...
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Didn't the nytimes run an article about pilots having to work in starbucks to supplement their starting income?
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India has made huge investments in Solar and is gradually paying off.

1.World's first solar power airport is in India
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/14/technology/india-cochin-sola...

2.Solar power from dams
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-11-10/news...
Nope - that was aimed at me not them - but I'm happy to let the stereotype burn stand ;-)

I will say to a first approximation, 100% of the RadioShack lycra liveried carbon fibre Trek riders I see riding through Sydney traffic on a weekday morning are _not_ Lance Armstrong class riders.

(Not any more than I'm a Carl Fogarty or Troy Bayliss class motorcycle racer when I put my racing leathers on and fire up my Ducati Monster...).

It's mostly posing and toys, with an unhealthy dose of brand snobbery and wealth signalling (and being brutally honest, I'm guilty of a little bit of both of those myself - no matter how much I protest that "My Ducati is just a fun toy! I;m not a brand conscious poser! Not like those _other_ Ducati riders...")
Google Cloud is by far the best Cloud.

Any reference for this claim?
The existence of Android, a platform for Google to push their apps and services, has been clear from the start, along with the terms by which a phone maker is able to distribute Google Play.

> Google has a ridiculous amount of power, and if they say jump, everyone in the industry has to ask how high

That's not an anti-trust violation. I hope they come up with something much better than that.
I don't think it was intended to be a scam. The founder raised too much capital on the back of massively inflated expectations.
They couldn't deliver (didn't one of the technical team commit suicide in despair over this?) and rather than doing the honest thing and returning the capital, they've ended up creating a Kafkaesque web of shadows and lies.
The fundamental issue is overfunding, and it is not limited to this one company, which is why we're in bubble territory once again.
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The headline's accurate in that India energy minister said "solar is now cheaper than coal." Doesn't necessarily mean solar is actually cheaper than coal.
They certainly are not. Here in the Netherlands we are mostly coal and gas based for electricity yet we want to (unrealistically) ban sales of fossil fuel powered cars. We also raised import taxes on Chinese solar panels, raising the price of solar installations significantly here. It's all for show.
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So probably needs in excess of 750 ton. And more likely twice as a house would more likely have a 5m 'chimney'. Clearly not viable. Thanks.
I think we are more talking about hourly prices. You should take a look at the electric market, prices fluctuate heavy. So heavy even in some countries, that you are PAYING when you put electricity on the net: http://www.elia.be/nl/grid-data/balancing/onevenwichtsprijs
I consider myself fairly good at roguelikes, but surprisingly I only have one Nethack ascension. For some reason I'm just not as motivated with that game as I am with DCSS or Ragnarok/Valhalla.

Most of the time though I just play Brogue. Item identification through use and the game trying to provide everything you need to win let's me optimize around the items I get and not optimize around some set strategy.
And if it doesn't happen at all?
Many of the pre-Beeching lines cannot be re-opened, as they have been built over with roads and housing, especially in the South East.
The closest you will get to experiencing pre-Beeching railways is the Hogwarts Express in Florida, I'm afraid.
It's a bit strange to say that "rich countries" are "charging too much for clean technology".

The countries generally don't own, operate or even develop the technology. The countries don't charge for it.

Individual companies, people, innovators make new technology, and they charge as much as they can, as much as the technology is worth to buyers.

If "rich countries" mess things up, it's through subsidies to solar, wind etc. which is suposedly bringing the price down, not up (though this may be inefficient).

Many countries in the so-called "developing" world, particularly those with oil-based economies such as Malaysia, Saudi-Arabia or Venezuela, are subsidising oil and coal based fuels to their population.
He said that? Can you please provide the quote?
I'd love to see an autonomous F1 series!
That's a revamped version of what I had (newer case). Mine was an older version with the same parts.
Yeah, I'm not particularly well-versed in this, but I'm inclined to agree. As others have mentioned they were probably just believing there own hype.

There is the question though of at what point did they realize what they were attempting was pushing up against some fundamental limits and just wasn't going to work? Did they think they were going to pivot?

At some point a 'web of shadows and lies' would have to be construed as a scam, wouldn't it? Even if that wasn't the initial intent.
rajeevk, I can not reply to your comment, so posting here. Just take a look at my comments on hn. I compared Aws and Google cloud in terms of ease of use, pricing, open source friendliness, scalability, security, performance etc .. You can find a detail answer as to why I came to this conclusion.
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Yet they are propped up by a lot of smart people.

It's quite obvious that very few are disproportionally benefiting from modern tech. Unlikely to sustain much longer.
Doug Rushkoff has a good talk on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87TSoqnZass
There is a shorter version on BigThink.
It will probably be less worrysome than what we do today, covering a lot of the earth with animals that is horrible for the environment.
So many negative comments, would like to see what happens if exact same title would be with Facebook, considering their scale lets say 'Facebook: $10Mln to Bot Developers. For free.'.

Do not forget, they may have some issues with security or user growth, but founder generally tries to promote his own product, everyone will behave like he does (promote in product in any legal way), when they have enough resources.
I think I get the idea and it seems reasonable. I'm curious about the use cases. It's basically a remote interface for a spreadsheet or, more abstractly, an array of key:value pairs.

The thing is, that's kind of a constrained interface. It's rare to track only one value at a time. Normally you want to track either sets of values (EX: how many grams protein, fat, carbs) or at least multiple individual values (EX: calories, weight, sleep).

So if there's nothing new about the data store (IE: just a spreadsheet on a server) and there's nothing new about the data (IE: just calories or mood or whatever) then the new part is the interface. Instead of firing up an entire application you do the exact opposite; ping one or two simple codes.

But, like, what do YOU add? Is there no other service that accepts brief messages from any registered phone/email and tracks the values over time? Is that filling a hole? Maybe if there is a hole you could build a platform that performs that function for anything. Individuals could use it for data like weight, businesses could use it for logging business things.

For example, I currently use google docs to track this kind of information. I just open a spreadsheet, plug in my values, and they're automatically saved "to the cloud." Normally I don't even close the sheet; I just leave it open for weeks at a stretch. I doubt it takes fewer clicks to enter a single value into an already-open sheet than to send a text message. However, it does mean if I want to review the data, or rearrange it, or add another column, or backdate something, I've already got the appropriate interface open.

IoQS would work for people who don't have a smartphone...but is there a lot of overlap between people who have an old phone and people who want to track quantified self data?
So how does this compare to Vagrant?
Those problems you cited all pale in comparison to global warming. It's a disingenuous comparison.
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Figushki, you're absolutely wrong about Brownsville being the highest concentrated area of crime in the ENY area.For at least 25 yrs, every year, ENY has had the highest,by far, number of assaults, rapes, murders,felonies, robberies. In misdemeanors they lead all 76 precincts by an astronomical rate There has been more arrests in the 75th for weed possession than in 20 NYPD precincts combined.They have the most homeless residents in the city, the most shelters; the highest number of food pantries, drug-+mental health clinics. The most # of ACS abuse cases, the highest number of stop and crisis, the highest # of abuse and misconduct police complaints, the highest HIV rate in the city, the highest rate of cirrhosis; the highest incarceration rate for juveniles and adults, the most number of children in foster care. The highest number of gun arrests. 75th is the largest precinct in NYC. Four L train stations are dangerously contaminated with lead. Hazardous chemical spills are regular occurrencea. Jamaica Bay is poisoned beyond belief, so is Hendrix Creek.The 26th ward wastewater facility spilled 83 million gallons of wastewater in 2102. In 2008 the same plant spilled almost 2 million gallons of raw sewage. There are at least 5 Superfund! sites in this 5.6 square mile area. There are about 33 failing schools, virtual death traps with no working fire alarms, a boiler installed in 1939, collapsing ceilings, PCB caulk, falling debris.
ENY has the highest population of arrested and released sex offenders housed in all NYC
This week there was a spill of jet fuel and a man got stabbed in a group home for the mentally ill.Brookdale Hospital, ENYs main is in serious EPA violation. ENY has the largest residential facility in NY State for the developmentally disabled recently closed for repeated violations.

I know hate is par for the course for internet forums but to hate on this subject?
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To an extent, and seemingly always with frames. But pro riders often use parts that aren't "sponsership approved" - they just make them all black or similar (rather than have another manfacturer's logo on them)
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I've been watching this government-made crisis develop over the last 24 months.

Currently, you need 1,200 hours experience from a designated aviation college or 1,500 hours experience from GA.

I believe airlines will lobby Congress to halve the number of hours in the very near future as they get data on the massive pilot shortage.
The article mentions JetBlue is running a so-called ab initio program where they train pilots directly for the low sum of $125k! That's right -- pay $125k to (maybe) get a good job in 15 years.

As long as they charge 6 figures, there isn't a real pilot shortage. This is just the industry whining in the hope of finding a sucker (US taxpayers) to subsidize a training program for them.
Add this as fdroid repo:
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In fact looking at them as a diodes can let you use some bjts to get a fast low leakage diode in a pinch.

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/16966/transis...
how does subsidy vs no-subsidy matter here?
That, and the integrated gifbot. My teenage sister went crazy when I showed her how to search for stickers.
If a public body were to rule on this volume of cases, I assume it would be overwhelmed and expensive.
I work on a team that designed two electric motorcycles for the IOM TT Zero. Yes, it's a very different game from the gas races. Aero and energy storage on board are the primary concerns - the top team for the past several years has been successful primarily by packing on ~20-30% more energy than their competitors, so that they can go faster, for longer.

The TT is really an edge case, though, since it is such a long (38mi) and high speed course.
> abusing a dominant position in mobile operating systems to pre-install its own applications and services in smartphones

So Google made Android specifically for distributing their apps and services and everybody knew this and agreed with it. It wasn't even in fine print, it was written all over it. Everybody knew what they were getting into. I don't understand how can they abuse their "position in mobile operating systems" to pre-install their apps when that has been the only reason Android exists.

Is that the sound of incompetence or that of malevolence? Are they aiming for extortion? Is that it?
I always have an idea in my mind that we should scale / show the interface based on font-size, adjusting borders / button accordingly

p/s: obviously I have NO idea how easy / complex this would be, just an idea given that sometimes text contained in an element bleeds / overflows / outright missing
This dude co-created Firefox and was director of product at FB for a while...definitely not a screenwriting background but smart man nonetheless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Ross
$ micro/micro
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A lot of people don't even know what Pentium or Celeron is.. And the ones who do will propably check online reviews ;)
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A much better and denser option for storing energy mechanically is flywheels. I haven't researched what happened to this option since but when I was looking into it 15 years ago it seemed like a good option that needed more R&D into frictionless axles and vacuum chambers.
Indeed - and I also fail to see what was so "insightful"/"good"/"fascinating" about it either, just some relatively old stats and some copy badly in need of an edit. Clearly a voting ring.
I very likely am biased as my primary income doesn't come from my written literary works, but as a published author, I simply don't get the PoV of the publishing/music/movie industry. Just because you published something doesn't mean you should be paid for every single possible usage of it for the rest of your life.

I know this isn't an Apples to Apples comparison, but imagine where tech would be today if you were paid a royalty every time something you produced was used in any form. Every time that header bar you wrote for Google back in 2006 is reused, adapted, extended, whatever, you got a >1% royalty on. It's simply not sustainable and I feel is why these "content" industries will ultimately fail.

I'm pretty vocally negative about many things Google does, but as a long as the continue their current course with this platform, I simply can't support the author's guild's "sky falling" hyperbole.