skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting thing is the EROEI (energy returned on energy invested) for oil and gas has been falling for a century. I remember reading somewhere a claim that historical EROEI for crude oil.

Year EROEI
1920 125
1970 30
2010 15

Things like tar sands are less than 10.
How long until hacker news champions the next Theranos?
A magnet inside a ferromagnetic box. The box material has to have a high permeability to shield an enclosed magnet from external detection.

You can think of permeability in this instance as the ability to contain a magnetic field. As long as the shielding material doesn't saturate (too much magnetic flux), the field from an enclosed magnet can be confined within the enclosing material. No external detectable field.
Thanks, corrected it.
First hand, the atelier program can kill your joy. That said, knowing how to render is the only way to get any good at representational art.
What I've learned from Erlich Bachman?
Remembering Bill Campbell – Fortune
Bill Campbell: The Secret Coach – Fortune
Ahh I was hoping this would be an alternative to FLIR. Their tech is awesome, but I can't wait until it goes off patent. They have those monopoly prices. What should be a $20 module is $200+. I hope this "smart" camera addition doesn't give them a patent extension -- 20 years is plenty of time for monopoly pricing.
You can easily do this with StumpWM, and the process is the same: you write a config file, add it to the stumpwm.asd file, and compile every time you need to make a change.
Even worse, there's the ISIS toolkit that's been used for Paxos-like, distributed stuff for a long time. One of the early innovators.

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/Isis/
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I think the issue is that OK, say we managed to get to 100% electricity being solar when the sun is shining.

You'd still have the time the sun is not shining, which would likely be more expensive than before (a gas powered plant would only be running half the time - effectively doubling its capital/construction cost per kWh).

So you'd definitely have an improvement on some levels but I'm not sure that would really help that much.

The real big breakthrough would be somme big improvement on storage. I'm not convinced this will happen quickly (at least not in anyway similar to the declining cost of PV panels). The consumer electronics industry has been paying $$$ for decades for better batteries/battery r&d and has seen pretty poor gains.

I think Tesla and the electric car manufacturers will definitely rapidly get the price down by say 30% because of economies of scale but will then hit a brick wall as more of the cost becomes raw materials, transport, etc which will set a floor on the cost of batteries.

Happy to be proved wrong though :)
At board meetings, Campbell would appear to listen to Ev’s presentations on the state of the company. After Ev’s sermons were done, the coach would clap loudly and hug his protegee, proclaiming again to everyone in the room that Ev was “doing a fucking great job” and asking them to clap… Then, after Ev left the room, proud that his mentor thought he was doing such a great job, Campbell would shout at the group: “You gotta get rid of this fucking guy. He doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing.”

http://fortune.com/2013/11/04/6-things-we-learned-from-hatch...
Is it better that the majority who have common ailment get easy and very cheap treatment, at the cost of having a more expensive treatment for rare ailments?
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I think that people who are creative have to know the history and repertoire in order for their brain to make the new connections to make the new thing, but I think that creative leap when your brain makes those new connections is not something an artist controls directly. It comes from experience and being "into something", and random accident from experimentation.

The artist doesn't necessarily know why something is new though, even if they have a lot of experience, it's just a primal response they get to a new piece of music they are working on for example, and then they can try to analyze it after the fact. Most artists I know aren't as methodical as the way you seem to describe, it's a lot more intuition and experimentation, and then because of their vast listening experience their brains are adjusted so that they aren't satisfied with existing stuff
Jupyter C Kernel, finally
Dinosaurs Were Declining Way Before That Pesky Asteroid
Deep Inside Me
It also shows how if you're submitting your work to an algorithm, following the submission guidelines is a must.

If it was submitted according to the publishing guidelines, then removed, we could have this conversation.
Thanks Pieter for following up. I'm humbled by your words. Your reply made my day.

Although I've never got the pleasure of meeting you in person, your open-source work (and yes, the zeromq User Guide too!) has made an big impact on me and I want to say thank you for what you've done.
If I were a competitor, who wanted an honest race, is there anything my team could do to neutralize either of these techniques?
Ubuntu 16.04 will support 'Snaps' alongside Deb packages
A Practical and Fun Bicycle Car
Ditto. I also got a pair of head phones that have a mic/play/pause button on the Y of the cable. This is GREAT for quick pauses without having to reach for my phone.

(I use MEElectronics M6 PRO IEMs because of replaceable cable.)
That is in their opinion section, and is written by a columnist with an ideological bent so I would hesitate to call it a factual overview.

For those wondering why the US health care system is so much more expensive than any other country, I recommend this nice series of posts from Dr. Aaron Carroll: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/what-makes-the-u...
Venmo is probably just following what banks and other fintech companies are doing already. They don't even have to write anything themselves, there are commonly used third-party OFAC services like LexisNexis where you throw your transaction data over the wall, they come back with the verdict, you then just follow instructions and cross compliance off your list of things to worry about.
If you run the numbers pumped heat storage can likely do the job of time shifting electric power from daylight hours to night time.

The pricing structure will flip though, electricity at night costing probably 2-3 times peek daytime rates. One would expect industrial users would adjust and avoid using power at night[1]. That would reduce demand.

[1] Think of a mini-mill (steel) that currently runs its electric furnaces at night when rates are cheap. If rates are cheaper in the day they'll switch to daytime operation.
"Single Payer would be great if you can trust the uh, payer. But our government is delightfully corrupt"

Lucky for us the health insurance industry we have is a paragon of virtue whose integrity is beyond reproach!
I deleted my old twitter account because it twitter became less useful for me. It's a big reason why I don't think that people saying "See? (this) exists, I got death threats on Twitter!" is very useful, because it seems like pretty much everyone gets rape & death threats on Twitter nowadays. it's become a huge loud out of control cesspool. Spam followers, URL shorteners spreading malware, disagreeing with someone gets you called all kinds of names.. it's worse than online gaming ever was. It gave a very loud voice to some that don't know how to handle it.

I don't miss it.
In the clinic the most common testing is metabolic paneling (levels of various salts, urea, glucose, creatine, etc.), serology (for circulating antibodies), or cell counts (which they weren't doing, as far as I know).
Happiness Is About Living the Good Life–However You Define It
That's from the other Twitter history by Nick Bilton but both agree as to the nature of "coach" as betrayer.
I think the truly sad thing about dying is that you become an archetype and no longer a real human being. It makes me think of Dr Seuss and all those terrible racist cartoons he used to draw. You dont hear about that do you? It's because he's no longer Theodore Geisel, but rather just some myth we all remember.

I'm sure otherwise well meaning people are doing pretty much the same thing to Bill Campbell right now. It's not just his body that is dead, but pretty soon the entirety of his existence.
It's a travesty Jackson was ever on in the first place.
I'm not sure you understand his comment.
Routine metabolic paneling and serology does test for molecules that are uniformly distributed in blood. I can't say it any plainer than that. Of course many possible testing targets are inside cells, but these tests were not claiming to look at any intracellular targets, at least as far as I know.
If the whole world could get their s* together, we can perhaps have a worldwide grid.
Am I the only cyclist here? I can't imagine voluntarily putting batteries in my bike on a long, mountainous stage. There's no way the batteries will last, and then I'm stuck with dead weight. And, looking through the actual documentary, I didn't see any incontrovertable thermal proof of a battery in any racer. In the guy posing for a shot, yes, but not in the cyclists laboring up the hill.
I imagined a mandatory thorough backscatter scanning through a special path just before starting point on the race day.
> I'm glad this person isn't leading me because they clearly don't care about their employees.

That's beyond uncharitable and into personal attack. Comments like this are not allowed here, so please don't post any more of them.
In pro races bikes have a minimum weight and it's quite easy to make a bike under that weight using modern materials. So you just make a really light bike and have the batteries and motor make up the difference.
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There is actually now a LOT of interest in the biomedical community for circulating tumor DNA - a quick Pubmed search yields 3317 results and Illumina is practically throwing money at the field. You have to keep in mind that the sequencing technology has only recently become cheap and sophisticated enough for this kind of highly sensitive testing to be possible.
Another one, awesomewm - uses Lua - https://awesome.naquadah.org
I think you have an interesting line of thought here, but don't underestimate the dramatic emotional power that great works of art and architecture can have on us. Such stunning displays of human achievement at once connect us with the present, past, and future (reflecting on what great works you might leave behind) all at once.

I know that when I visited the Louvre, for instance, I was inspired at the sheer grandiosity of the works within. Whether or not experts said it was a great place to go was irrelevant, I was awestruck either way.
Seems to me that cycling has gotten so competitive that virtually all of the top performers are on some sort of drugs, like it's a culture there. If everyone is mostly clean and one guy is using special drugs, than it's easy to say that the one guy is a cheating asshole. But if everybody is using drugs and you basically have to to be competitive, then it's harder to judge.
I volunteer at a CoderDojo in Istanbul. We currently teach 7-11 year olds, though we had a 6-year-old for a few months and she fit in nicely.

Actually, ours is more of a Maker dojo; we do electronics and more classical kids' activities as well, depending on their interests at the time.

For all its shortcomings, Scratch has been the cornerstone of our program. I strongly recommend giving it a try and see where it takes your kid.

For a 6 year old and as a mobile app, Scratch Jr. might be more appropriate. It's usually what we suggest younger siblings (4-6) to try. We've also used it successfully in the past as a stepping stone.

Then there's App Inventor, block based and very similar to Scratch, which lets you create Android applications. We have some older kids (12, 13) making money off Play Store :)

Consider joining a Coder Dojo. Also consider founding one yourself.

(Sorry if this is too concise. I'm tired and on mobile)
>If they were designed to be beautiful as well as functional, they might well see a bump in transactions.

They might also see a drop. Existing users might be confused or upset and leave. The site's performance may suffer. Blind people might hate it. Bugs might surface. Tools might fail.
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I think this is the crux of it. Spam is a lot harder to track than most people realize. Written spam is still a thing in email 30 years later. There's a solution to this but I assume it's a cat and mouse game. To think Amazon just doesn't care about the authors getting scammed is foolish. Without a lot of human involvement this is a very big problem space. One could accuse the program of being poorly thought out but I think that the idea that no one cares about the issue is disingenuous.
While I'm sure there is some of this mentality among unpolished artists, I think you're wrongly conflating reproducibility of quality with creativity itself. A creative solution is often arrived at by the ability to generate a large number of ideas, iterating upon each or combining them in a novel fashion. The simplicity or lack of inhibition in the approach of an amateur can allow for this volume, because the amateur is not limited by the constraints of a more formal practice. These purposely hem in what is possible in exchange for useful constraints that result in work of a reliable quality. Successful artists have to learn balance the pursuit of technique without being stifled by its preciousness, in the same way that amateurs have to balance novelty with reproducibility. Excess in either case tends to result in poor work.
There is a serious sociopathic bent to both DF and its community. I wouldn't recommend it to your kids unless you had played it enough to know what you are getting them in to. Maybe start by reading http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=91093.0

Its a fun game, but not that kid friendly IMO.

KSP and Factorio are both better options.
For those you just need a car.
How is this different to bit.ly etc?
It would be more interesting if it was legal with some reasonable limitations. It could be one more reason for boosting the battery technology.
Sense.io exits
Regulations sometimes pretty minimal. Theres little to stop anyone from making a better Uber.

Careful, there. Various jurisdictions are getting smart and coming at Uber and Lyft in ways that aren't easily dismissed by the "we're just disrupting, bro" or "rent-seeking rent-seekers gonna rent-seek" arguments that typically are brought out. Specifically, they're acting in ways which follow logically from taking claims at face value. Uber claims its drivers aren't employees, so SF is saying they need to pay the same registration fees as every other sole proprietor operating in the city, and on the other side of the country in NY there's a suit pointing out that a bunch of "independent" contractors who all somehow perfectly coordinate changes to the fares they charge are a perfectly obvious violation of antitrust law.
Pycraft: Minecraft engine in Python
Colégio Sesi Em Curitiba – Santa Cândida – Sesi – Colégio SESI PR – Unidades
Among Travelers and Commuters, the Homeless Stop in and Stay
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Actually, that paper states that the standard deviation from finger pinpricks is about 5% of the mean value of, for example, platelets. The normal range has a standard deviation of about 25-50% of the mean https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003647.htm. So, if anything, this study supports the conclusion that fingerprick tests have clinical utility.
Just a Rather Very Intelligent System, Now on Messenger
I'm aiming for a community-driven JARVIS bot.
I've set it up in such a way (module-based) that even with a decent knowledge of Python, anyone can contribute to it.
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/J.A.R.V.I.S.on.Messenger
If you'd like to be a tester, kindly post here: https://www.facebook.com/J.A.R.V.I.S.on.Messenger/posts/551338921704902
Take a look at its GitHub repo: https://github.com/swapagarwal/JARVIS-on-Messenger
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WHO Approves World’s First-Ever Dengue Vaccine
The appeal Dwarf Fortress has over Minecraft is its depth, detail, and propensity for interactive story telling. If you just want to futz around and build things, Minecraft is probably much better.
After I made a popular post on Hacker News last year about funding for SageMath, the cofounder Tristan of the VC-backed company https://sense.io/ kindly talked with me via video chat about his experiences with funding that company (thanks Tristan!). I asked him about open source, since SageMath is completely open source. It seemed like there was just no possible way at that point (last year) that they could even consider open sourcing anything in sense.io due to the funding strings that were attached. And it makes sense given the motivations of VC, which is to maximize the resale value of a company, which is largely based on what the company owns, which is partly their IP.

Also, previous discussion on Hacker News of Sense.io: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226717
Is "number of species" really the metric of interest? I'd think that the best metric to measure the success of a clade would be something like "percentage of total biomass". After all, humanity is one species, yet few people would say primates are unsuccessful and in decline because humanity is taking over the globe and causing mass extinctions.
If you narrow your scope enough then almost anything can be seen as doing the right thing.
moreover, it's not rare when the bikes carry additional weight to be UCI-legal in terms of minimum weight.
Forbes went the same way, and same with Computerworld. They think that they're being slick, but they've just lost readers instead.
New sophistication in marketplace lending
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John Baini, TruePillars’ co-founder and CEO told the launch gathering “This means there's a genuine marketplace lender in small business finance operating now. The evolution in FinTech is fantastic, proving a lot of options for different purposes. TruePillars provides a real opportunity for small businesses to obtain growth finance through a transparent marketplace where they can get a 5-year loan with hundreds of different investors contributing.”

“It has a stunning impact for communities in Australia. It’s an opportunity for local communities to get behind businesses in their area. The statistics from overseas is that this type of lending really does help create jobs and promote economic growth.

“Our platform empowers the investor to make choices and manage their investments according to their values because they can choose where their money goes, rather than into a pool with decisions made by fund managers.”

TruePillars provides a platform through which small businesses can apply for loans of $5000 to $250,000, which are funded by multiple investors. The loan applications are assessed by an experienced team of former bankers. Using a state of the art real time auction system designed and built in Australia, investors can create a portfolio by investing in as many businesses as they choose, from as little as $50.

For more information please contact:
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Voting systems are probably the worst option, since it just encourages negative group behavior. The entirety of Reddit is a good example.

The best thing is to just shut down the comments, and encourage trolls to move elsewhere. Remember that advertisers don't want all audiences - they want quality audiences. No advertiser is interested in placing their ads on a train wreck, even though a lot of people are looking at it. It just doesn't help their branding.
Not bad, but why did you make the Holmes character an English PhD when part of her story is the whole founder-dropout thing?
I'm starting to think that all major sports are fake.
Addressing a US Black, "boy" is always an insult. Since growing up, I've seen a lot of the US: Addressing a woman in distress, e.g., "constant nightmares", affectionately, "honey" is quite appropriate with nothing wrong at all.

I think that's the point of disagreement. Is it ever appropriate to address an adult "woman in distress" as "honey" if you are an older male and not in a relationship with her? Similar to "boy", whether correct or not, many (most?) Americans, particularly younger, currently feel that it is never appropriate.

If your parents and grandparents were also from the Deep South, there is some likelihood that they would call a young black man "boy" without necessarily intending offense. The argument that eventually won out is that regardless of intent, such language is belittling and inappropriate. I think the change was for the better, while also accepting that often no harm was intended.

I was in elementary school in North Carolina in the late 70's, and there was still an "unreconstructed" older generation who proudly clung to an "outdated racial terminology" -- some in spite, and some on the theory that they meant nothing wrong by it. Perhaps at the time they were right, perhaps they weren't, but clearly current society would argue against such usage.

I'm asserting that regardless of your intent, your use of "honey" (and defense thereof, particularly the "protective" aspect) is parallel to the way that "boy" (presumably, depending on your age and culture) strikes you. A web search for "honey sexist" will give you a summary of the current consensus.

The attacks were personal, against my person, and not against the content of my post.

To the extent that your choice of phrasing is part of the content, I think it was mostly about the content. I'd guess that 'ksenzee' (who from other posts I think is female) was genuinely asking if your post was parody. You are probably right that the implication was "if you think that's socially acceptable you would be a bad person", but I think it really was in the context of "but surely you can't think that".

(I personally agree with much of your rant about the inconsistencies of "equality", but this may be because I'm probably midway in age between you and much of the rest of the HN audience. I will note though that your wife's opinion on whether 'gender equality' would have been a "big step down" is an important factor to consider.)
I think they should allow it, but only with capacitors that are shorted prior to start. This way, it can only be used to improve efficiency.
I'm a bit confused, how is this any different then the next iteration on the Atom line? Is it a significant improvement?
Almost all single-player games are easy once you've had sufficient practice. That doesn't mean they're actually easy by any normal standard.
In your second example the shipping container is a Fairday cage.
Yeah, the thing to remember IMO is that within the company, you have access to privileged information and [typically] better deals on equity if you choose to take it. Given the choice between that or taking the cash and putting it into mutual funds or something, it seems like a much better gamble to try your luck. I think of it as a lottery ticket with great odds, and I don't invest more than I'm willing to lose :)
Fine. It's scary that browsers allow for so much fingerprinting. This toy webapp is an example of a larger picture of "things that we really shouldn't allow to happen". So "really scary" was referring to the issue of browser fingerprinting as a whole, not just one toy webapp.
This is exactly how market works: when there is an oversupply of X the price of X drops and X suppliers move on to something more profitable.