skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The excuse was that the Chinese were dumping and local solar industry in the US/EU needed protection. The likely actual reason was that fossil fuel companies demanded it and Obama/EU thought he/they could sell it to the public.
Ask HN: Current state of rural internet delivery
I am researching a small project involving bringing high speed internet access to a village in Eastern Europe. The nearest place with reliable high speed internet access is ~4km away, and while there have been actual wires run that distance in the mountains, the connections are not reliable.

We don't have a huge budget, but we're not limited to pringles cans either. I'm wondering what the current options are for throwing high speed wifi this far? I have access to the mountain and I believe we can get line of sight to the village and the town if necessary.
In Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, I'm a SpWz of Gozag.

In D&D, I'm a utility/crowd control generalist Elf Wizard.

In real life I never bothered to check. It's not like I'll get any free spell out of it.
Energy consumption of the microwave generator is the first thing that comes to mind - any 'cheap' sources of microwaves?
I really DO NOT want to be an entrepreneur. I've realised that now. But I'm currently jobless and have no intention of getting one soon. Sort of like a sabbatical. So I'm dabbling with writing and basically, experimenting for now.
Your cheater-bike-build sounds pretty interesting. Did you describe the build-process in detail somewhere? Or would you care to write it up?
Glad they didn't impose a 5000 year copyright period back then.
You are presumably trying to make some kind of point out of the books scanned from libraries. But unless you're claiming that the libraries stole the books... $20 is $20.
What was your personal solution if I may ask?
I personally preferred the editorial version, after having peeked at both.
> Value Deflation.

When enough of the worlds billionaires and other powerful riffraff get spooked by climate change, you'll see carbon taxes imposed. And countries like China and India will simply phase out burning coal.
Building a product whose price tag, contract and purpose has been clear from day one and that had organic growth can't be against the law. The first Android phone in the world, with version 1.0, the HTC Dream released in 2008, was delivered with Google's apps, including Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Talk, Contacts, Calendar and Android Market (now Google Play). And from a timid version 1 to reach a dominant market position, that's not breaking the law either. Unless we live in some twisted parallel universe.

And yes, I am accusing the state attorneys of being either malevolent, incompetent or crooks, especially since they are doing it on (my) taxpayer's money.
Krishna Run
These seem so similar in shape to Native American totem poles, could there be a stylistic influence, or a tradition of coastline mapping in the Americas ?
Right. I don't agree with the NSA's position. Not that anyone cares. But it is the same human vs machine distinction. AI will mess that up, for sure.
> We did. We do.

What a completely useless response. Why even bother commenting? Four words?

Since you can't be bothered to come up with a source, see pages 3-10 of the following document from the Congressional Budget Office. [1]

Renewables get the large majority of the cash, and nuclear isn't even close.

[1]: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/...
I knew some people who took the DnD ability score classification seriously, and had trouble accepting anything different (some other tabletop RPGs who dared to have different list of abilities...) because they were not "real".

(Okay that "some people" was actually me as kid.)
Rhetorical question: is eye color scientific? Do you believe in eye colors?

Saying that MB is "not scientific" is laughable. It is a measure. Probably more scientific than deriving a measure called QI from 20 random questions

You can of course question if conclusions based on each MB type are scientific.

The personality descriptions for the most part are just concluded from the measure (which of course have some variance between people, it's not a cookie cutter approach) and of course some people have a different measure in each axis.

If the descriptions fit you you're probably in the middle, because some of them certainly don't fit me

From the link you quoted: "The characteristics measured by the test have almost no predictive power on how happy you'll be in a situation, how you'll perform at your job, or how happy you'll be in your marriage."

Apart from the 1st measure, I wholeheartedly agree. But that's not how it should be used

"Actual data tells psychologists that these traits do not have a bimodal distribution. Tracking a group of people's interactions with others, for instance, shows that as Jung noted, there aren't really pure extroverts and introverts, but mostly people who fall somewhere in between."

Correct. And people may be more introverted or extroverted in some situations.

But it still measures if a certain person is more introverted than extroverted

Now the warning about taking it as a clear-cut indicator of performance in a certain job or position is definitely correct
ENFP or not, INTJ or not. The biggest comforting aspect for me from that test was to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way or has the same problem. I've spent many years feeling totally aimless after having dabbled in one two many careers.
Solar is nuclear energy as Elon Musk has put it we have a reactor in the sky we can harness
I don't see a problem with not testing the wheels - you can't really hide batteries inside the tube.
It's already about which country/team/city can spend the most money scouting the best talent, or poaching them from ever-expanding pools.

Then there's the matter of paying the most for the best coaches, best data analytics to optimize the bio performance of the human individual, etc.

I'd argue that you can't really say that money is the reason for not include or limiting technology. If it's about a level playing field, then money should be the first thing to remove.

How about a random sampling of a country/city's population? Have them compete against each-other. Otherwise, it'll always be about money as it's integral to sport.
That makes a lot of sense but just to play devil's advocate are we considering the OS/App market separate from the hardware market? If so, and considering Apple makes a not insignificant amount from the App Store and doesn't allow competing stores on iPhone hardware, wouldn't that be an example of trying to dominate another market?

Again, I don't want to come off as needlessly argumentative, I'm just trying to get a better understanding of this topic.
Wind actually provides power at night. Currently at night wind has to compete against cheap base load power which tends to be subsidized. If coal and nuclear plants are phased out the economics of wind is very attractive.
Just chiming in here to help bring attention to the Express Scripts near-monopoly. Their market position and it's implications are surprisingly under-reported.

Surprised the HN crowd doesn't get more riled up about this, given the implications for science, opiate abuse, and other opportunities missed for improving the health system.
Sincerity varies. There can be economic advantages in moving towards renewables if you do it right as you develop new companies and technologies. One thing is for sure though, every oligarchy puts their mates before others.

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2016/coalition-wants-to-build-1-2...
The fact that these personality profiles can help people realise both that there are others like them and that different people may have different motivations and challenges is enormously useful and a valid insight. That does not mean that the profile itself is not pseudoscience though.
I suspect one part of the rationale behind this is that as Android has gained dominance Google has moved some core API functions out of the generic AOSP source-code (which everyone can use) and into the Google Play services which require the device manufacturer to sign a contract for, which apparently also includes terms that have - at least in the past as I understand it - required pre-installation (possibly in prominent positions) of Google applications.

On that basis there is a strong correlation with the anti-trust convictions of Microsoft over bundling Internet Explorer into the Windows OS which effectively destroyed the paid-application model for web browsers (Netscape - which had 90% market share - could no longer succeed whilst charging ~US$20 (UK£15) and (AOL/Netscape) transferred the code to the Mozilla Foundation).

apologies for glossing over fine-detail but I ran out of my daily parenthesis allowance.
You come across to me as a nice, honest guy. However, I believe that making statements like this, then asking people to fund [0] your unemployment whilst you pursue hobbies will rub many people the wrong way.

[0] https://www.patreon.com/onescientist?ty=h
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The app store story is longer and thornier than that.

It starts back with the iPod, a device that was at first wedded to Mac by software and hardware (first model used FireWire, not USB).

Only with the release of a USB model, and subsequently iTunes on Windows do it pick up steam.

Then came the music store, and Apple got in hot water on multiple front over that one.

The first iPhone was bootstrapped on top of that, and the App Store only came about after jailbreakers started building a third party ecosystem of apps.

And more recently Apple got into trouble over ebook price fixing, iirc.
I know some adults who often say something and then continue "But I can't lie, I'm a paladin".
Here is a reference to the original mesos (core of DC/OS) paper by Ben Hindman, Matei Zaharia and Andy Konwinsky: https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~alig/papers/mesos.pdf
JSON Management Patterns in Go
Odd seeing that in this day and age. I though everyone was hot and bothered about Wayland...
1. Excellent

2. Significant costs now are building plants. Next cost dropping wave will be with robotic solar plant building (Also liked that rollable solar panel for the military)
I don't know about homebrew, but macports has clang and other toolchain stuff, so I think it might be possible to uninstall Xcode after installing all necessary tools through macports?
Very interesting, unfortunately he doesn't say if he has submitted these improvements to the upstream developers so that other users of zopfli will benefit from them.
You are right, I've been blessed, in the sense that I have no responsibilities or children or old parents to take care of and I feel even more lucky that my parents have always been extremely supportive in whatever career or profession I chose to take. But I do take solace in the fact that I've never been dependent on anyone financially or otherwise, since I've saved up quite a bit all these years.
There do seem to be patterns in personality, and I have found MB to be very helpful in getting a high-level overview of another person's general approach to the world. Reading the descriptions and discussing it with people led to a lot of "you think that way?" sort of moments from both sides. Very informative.

I've found almost no helpful science on personality categorization (Big 5 is minimally helpful), so until there is I find this a useful starting tool.

As a side note: The most misunderstood aspect of MBTI is that it's purely a system for categorizing high-level approach toward action and information in life. It's not what you must do, will do, can do, can't do, etc. It's only about certain aspects of outlook on life.
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Similar dynamics arose in late 60s in the USSR and 20 years later it disintegrated.
the author has a very varied bio, but i've never heard of him

In a world of 7 billion people you've heard of everyone worth knowing about?
You are thinking of Ricardo's Comparative Advantage; and it is a little more complex than that they got machines: they traded for cloth, which was made with machines that the British then spent the time to improve and learn from, giving them eventual advantages in numerous other fields.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/free-trade-us-unemployment_b_...
Underneath the original "wow factor", I think bots have a glaring UX problem. Developers just haven't figured out the real use-case for bots. In some ways, I think this current bot-craze is very similar to what happened with smartwatches 2 years ago. Simply cramming a phone app into a watch doesn't make it magically awesome or useful.

I think a lot of developers seem to be taking the same approach with bots. They are trying to create alternative UIs for their already existing mobile apps through bots. Mobile / web apps do a lot of the same stuff as bots in a much more user-friendly way. Take a look at https://storebot.me/ and tell me if there's one bot that can do something better than a mobile app.

I'm not anti-bot but I just think the bot-frenzy is premature,
Presumably they are more useful than not having a map, else the inuit wouldn't have bothered making and using them?
>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

A) The spikes aren't actually that huge (fossil fuel companies exaggerate, who knew?).

B) It's a problem that's relatively easily dealt with by overproducing and variable pricing. After years of championing free markets, fossil fuel companies 'forgot' that they are efficient mechanisms for mediating fluctuating demand and supply.
That's right, since it is based on the global load balancing tech, you get a single IP for all edge locations which means you can use your own custom SSL (without the need for SNI) at no extra cost (which would cost you $500/month on AWS CloudFront).
Short version: Agriculture is one of the classic areas where countries usually said "no, we want to be independent, all the talk about free markets aside" .. That was the case when GATT[1] was still active (a framework, which built the base of the WTO), then came the Uruquay round[2] which established the WTO and stated that we now really, really have to find a way to include agriculture, which lead to the Doha round that ran since 2001 and more or less broke down in 2007/2008 - mainly over the issue of agricultural protection. Since then, nothing happened[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Agreement_on_Tariffs_a...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay_Round / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_on_Agriculture
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha_Development_Round
I never used zeromq but you were a cool guy last year at Pygrunn + at the bar after the event!
Great job for open sourcing this Florian. You guys have been doing great stuff there at mesosphere.
Interestingly enough, he also reportedly said: “Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?”
hehe thank you!
Neat with your distractional words.

But your claim is what Google has offered reasoable?
The Patreon thing is totally an experiment. I find it funny putting it in there myself since for now I have nothing to show for except the book I plan to publish. But, I do dream of writing interesting articles, a lot of science fiction, and other interesting things. So, it's just an experiment for now. I definitely do not expect ANYONE to support me as of now.
We have planning at the county level. All that does is place power in the hands of the powerful realtor/developer group.

As a result, local imbalances abound. If you live in an area where those sorts of folks also live, it's really nice. If not, you get prison, dumps, subsidized housing, etc built right next to you.

I can only imagine what this would look like if this was done at the state level. Our state is solidly one party...
"NIMBY" has become like "PC" and other catchy terms of its ilk. On the one hand, they refer to principles/values that can often be legitimately criticized--at least up to a point. On the other hand, they've become these reflexively applied dismissive labels that imply nothing about the opposing side's arguments have any legitimacy whatsoever because NIMBY or because PC.
Of course not! Only the digital robber barons moving content from place A to place B have a right to be paid!

Actually creative people can go back to being underpaid servants like Mozart and Abel.
I used to be an enthusiastic bicycle racing spectator. I would watch hours of the Tour De France everyday if I had the chance and pay close attention to other races.

No longer.

I have long since stopped watching, or caring what happens in bicycle racing. As far as I am concerned, the winner is the best cheat who has not been caught yet. I would not be the slightest bit surprised if half these guys had induction motors in their seats and batteries inserted up their backsides.

This is deeply unfair to those who do not cheat, but I am so tired of being disappointed by endless drug and cheating scandals in cycling that I would rather spend my time watching golf or something that does not involve a lot of cheating.
The courts seem to think so.
How to split equity among co-founders
So to have something removed from Google's search engine you ask Google to remove it. How does that make Google a watchdog?

This article makes it appear as if something unusual were happening, but I don't see that at all.

If everyone goes straight to the government or to the courts for every single minor dispute, then I know already who we will all be working for pretty soon.
I tend to agree. From what I've read about her (and not in the puff-pieces at the height of the Theranos hype) she was indeed a much smarter than average young lady - but probably the team was not able to deliver on the original vision/ idea, and rather than admit defeat, they tried to cling on it for as long as possible.
In my country, we have a single payer - the NHS - and we also have private insurance which people can buy, or more commonly be given as a perk by their company, on top of that.

Result? Everyone gets generally great healthcare, nobody has to worry about bills if they get in an accident or fall seriously ill, and people who fetishize "great customer service" (mostly shorter wait times for certain things, though they don't have facilities to handle nearly as much as the NHS does) can get what they want too.
I am pretty happy that I am a generalist. I have been passionate about lots of things from front-end development, linux kernel internals to online marketing (although, I am pretty bad at that) and I believe, that's the reason I can suggest ideas to marketing people who don't know enough technology and to programmers who don't know enough marketing.

However, I have learnt to separate facts from knowledge. Reading books about marketing will mostly give you facts without context but if you to talk to people who do marketing or try to raise a blog to several thousand subscribers, you will gain a lot of knowledge.

Doing a lot of things, in my experience will give you more perspective and experience than anything else and frankly, there is enough time in the world to do that.
A lesson I teach myself everyday now. Persistence and hard work. Thank you for sharing.
What's your hourly rate? Could you please do that in 25 minutes for me? I'll pay for that.

It would take me hours if not days to work out all the details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_National_Sola...
I don't know anyone who really cares what is inside the computer. They care that office works quicker, they can browse the web and for schools that the computer will run minecraft.
Yes, eye color is scientific.
No, MB is not scientific.
US auto sales in 2015 were 17,470,000.

US EV sales in 2015 were 116,000.

That's 0.66% of total unit auto sales.

EV sales compares with 122,000 units in 2014, or negative growth in 2015 by 6,000 units, or about 5%.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20160105/RETAIL01/160109995/...

http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/﻿

(I'd happened to have looked this up a day or so back in another discussion.)
I think it's that genuine side that makes it OK to post the link. I also thought the piece was quite an elegant piece of literature. I'd go so far as to say it bordered on art. This writing deserves a leg-up, just to see where it can go. Of course if the author can support it through his own endeavours, yet still release it to the commons, all the better. But no harm in putting the request and support structures out there just in case it really resonates with some.
I was just thinking of a use for bulk geoip today. I don't suppose you know of any good background reading?

PS
The link is to your list of repositories instead of GICO specifically.
I know that contractual conditions for Google Play aren't so easy on phone makers, but then again phone makers are free to build their own marketplace and ecosystem. I know at least Samsung tried it, their Galaxy phones shipping with a parallel marketplace, in addition with Google Play. Didn't work out.

I don't know specifics of things moved out of AOSP. If that's true, then there's some logic to it. But I did use CianogenMod without Google Play on it. It's still usable. Though certain things like Android's push notification system cannot happen without Google's infrastructure and that can't simply be free, even if the integration would be in AOSP. There might be truth to this, not saying otherwise.

On Microsoft, I blame them for many things, like for killing BeOS or for fueling SCO's lawsuit against Linux or now for racketeering in the mobile industry, but bringing anti-trust charges because of Internet Explorer and splitting them up (as was the plan) would have been a terrible and unjust ruling. Netscape killed themselves and sorry to say it, but Internet Explorer was not only free and bundled, but technically superior. And that was fine IMHO, because in its place Mozilla was born and the rest is history. Regardless, compare Microsoft of the nineties to what Apple is doing now with iOS. Makes Microsoft of the nineties look quite open by comparison, doesn't it? And can you imagine a phone or a computer not shipping with a browser included by default?

Speaking of browsers, Android is the only mainstream mobile OS that allows third-party browsers. Firefox is currently only possible for Android.
> I am sorry but there is no reason to believe how a particular trait which troubles almost everyone can be based on a certain personality type.

Not everyone struggles with this, though. Given that it isn't an evenly-distributed problem, there is possibly a pattern between those who do struggle with it.
To some extent I believe that clustering of good (and bad) things is inevitable when there is a central decision marker (or decision making body).

What I mena to say is once an area is nice (or has been designated as the next "growth" area), then nice properties/malls/services etc are going to go there. Industry buildings will cluster somewhere else, office buildings will cluster in a 3rd area.

Of course, it sucks to be a resident in area that ends up being the low-value one, but someone will end up having to get the short stick.
These stories or production cuts come out every year and every year they are debunked.
The great mobile rebundling
My understanding is that the grid-scale stuff will be using natural geological reservoirs -- basically re-filling old gas wells with air.

My understanding isn't particularly deep, and I'd like to run numbers on storage, volume, pressure, etc. But I suspect this'll have to be big enough that constructing cans really isn't viable.
That is in no way "clear evidence", the opinions of all the Youtube commenters notwithstanding. It can just as well be explained by the rotation of the rear wheel, see for example https://youtu.be/aN7HjwZI-k0?t=32.
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