skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. It's different universities, including ones that don't directly fund research, and so more money in their pocket won't directly lead to more science funding. Also libraries.

2. There are many places to put extra money in a university (add to endowment, expand, etc).

>It would be more than fully outweighed because the universities would no longer have to pay the publishers the amount that constitutes the monopoly rent from the copyright.

Why do you think profit margins would go down? The "rent", to the extent a 30% margin is rent, is from the need to publish in prestigious journals. Copyright just affects how that rent is collected, but it's not clear to me how that would reduce the rent. (It may go down because people become more hesitant to publish due to the increased cost which forces them to lower their price to get more papers. But that wouldn't be such a good thing.)
The problem is that it costs lots of energy to cool things so it's difficult to end up ahead unless we make dramatic advances in high temperature superconductors.
So..., every industrial country in the world?...

I wish I lived in an alternate reality where the hippies and greens didn't effectively scuttle nuclear power development.
It doesn't solve any of these problems.

But it solves the problem of "ups, something destroyed humankind".
We had research show that you can offset storage with capacity to some degree. [0]

Some numbers: 100% renewable energy with a capacity of 340% would require 8% storage just for Germany, 3.8% for Europe (due to larger area which means more diverse weather). Also 8% for Europe using no solar and more wind instead.

The 340% capacity is needed to get to the 100% coverage since there is more downtime compared to old energy which had 180% in 2007.

If we go to 390% capacity (which corresponds to 170 GW additional production as calculated for Germany) we only need 0.9% storage.

Depending on the relative pricing of additional capacity and storage, the price for building the whole infrastructure can go down by half. (The upper limit given in numbers is of the same order of magnitude as Europe's GDP in 2009, 12·10^12 €)

[0] (German) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/piuz.201201301/ab...
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In metro, no one (if not many) is carrying cell phones! That is (just one of) something our eyes are not used to. (In Singapore, nearly every one in metro is hooked to their phones)

This is too much:
"North Korea doesn’t use the traditional Gregorian calendar, they use the ‘Juche’ calendar, beginning on the date of Kim Il-Sung’s birth, Juche 1. "
Maybe it's just too hard to navigate public opinion and regulation for things involving multiple governments? That would not bode well for space mining...

Also yes if there were space penguins: no chance
You make it sound as if people who do not want to use Play Services are the only power users. That is simply false, many power users don't care about using Play Services.
There may be some reverse causation--in a country where devastating and chronic illness frequently bankrupts people, it's not too surprising that at least this subset of poor people would be living quite a bit shorter than the average citizen.
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This is big news.

Great move and necessary to compete in the fast growing market of data-center automation. I hope that DC/OS gets as much attention in the open-source community as Kubernetes already does.
This code is great, I just wish you guys could see it!
> our oceans are dying due to overfishing and pollution, rainforests are cut to make room for more agricultural land, existing agricultural land is acidified due to overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, potable water sources are vanishing

So you think rain-forests and clean water exists on space ??

We can solve those problems withing sending more rockets to space - which ends up burning more fossil fuel. Remember, every day that you are alive ( assuming you are living a developed country ) you are emitting huge amount of carbon.

Just keeping you alive is making the earth more inhospitable - dont talk about sending rockets to space ( with other people's money ) as a method to combat climate change and solving the resource constraint on planet earth.
More great news from the world of communication, but yet again I'm wondering how we can trust the encryption to really be end-to-end without access to the code. Are the messages still traveling through Vibers servers? Is there any way to know?
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"a place of lies, indoctrination and personality cult" - which leader, country, company is not trying to achieve the same? That is the living nightmare.

Of course, there are exceptions. Sometimes. A few.
How crazy - I always thought that was a spammy site like Yahoo Answers. I have to take a second look.

Can you show me an interesting conversation?

(Only 369 programming posts?? http://www.metafilter.com/tags/programming)
I guess the main point is that it is Google who decides whether something is removed or not. And this is arguably the task of a watchdog.
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OK, I'm convinced.
Magic Leap technology is the next big thing.
You need to be a pretty big country with a wide variety of natural resources to be truly independent (for instance, your "independent" agriculture is only independent if you have domestically produced fuel, fertilizer and machinery, etc. etc.) In today's world I think it's pretty tough (how many countries have their own chip fabs and how many don't? Chips go into a whole lot of products indirectly, etc.)

Of course having to protect this very wide range of domestic industries to maintain true independence will result in a huge loss of economic efficiency; so even if it is done right (without an "oops, we forgot the bit about the fertilizer" issue), not only do you have to be a rather large country with a lot of resources, you also have to accept a significantly lower standard of living and a degree of backwardness.

How much it helps I'm not sure; Britain for instance managed to feed itself during WWII even though it relied on its navy for food shipments and of course its cargo ships were constantly attacked. Certainly it did better than it would without a strong navy but with an independent domestic agriculture, since it would have been invaded.

On the other hand, presumably importing vitally important things without exporting vitally important things in return might put you in a bad bargaining position in international politics in times of peace, and maybe then domestic industries making sure that you can survive without imports are helpful; though even that doesn't seem like a huge problem unless you're importing from a cartel (and even very powerful cartels sometimes break down, the way OPEC did recently.)

As to agriculture - I sincerely think it's protected because producers simply bribe the people in the government; there was even research that the more concentrated and bigger ag producers are in a country, the more protected they are (even though a lot of the nominal arguments for protection are much stronger with many small producers than with few large ones typically employing fewer people), though I didn't look deeply into it and perhaps the researcher was biased by expecting this conclusion.
I'm struck by how hopeless the average person appears to be in these pictures. You can see only sadness and despair in their eyes, it is truly quite tragic.
This looks like spam.
Ok - it seems he tweeted rather than said it:

>“Through transparent auctions with a ready provision of land, transmission and the like, solar tariffs have come down below thermal power cost,” Goyal said in a tweet.

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/01/22/solar-power-now-cheaper-...
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There's many ways we could generate revenue, but for now we're focusing on improving our design and algorithm.

Prototype: https://nickelhq.com/nickel

About Us: Dan and I have been friends since college at New York University. Dan is a certified financial planner and has advised families for over ten years. I'm a product designer with FinTech experience and recently designed an insurance sales web app for MetLife. We met Ashish, a full-stack JavaScript engineer, right here on HN!

Why YC? We've bootstrapped our way to our tenth prototype and feel confident we have something people want. We need some money to work on this full-time and guidance to turn this into a proper company.
Well the Silesian region was a major (coal) mining centre in Poland, both before and after the war.
Was there not a tech demo video right on the linked article?
This is true for any "culture" - N.Korea is just not very good at it.
It's true of every society to some extent. The West's less overt tactics are arguably more effective than Soviet-style propaganda because they're less obvious.
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Wait until they try American fuzzy lop :p

Then they'll find the stack trace of a universe crash when someone wiggles the konami code
i3 = If your into text based setting with no programming for setup and sane defaults.
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>water in space

Very much yes.
"Along with the encryption, there are some other privacy features getting added into the latest version of the app. Hidden chats will give users the ability to essentially “hide” certain conversations from their usage log, accessible only if you know a specified four-digit PIN"

Can anyone with Viber describe what happens when you get a new message from a hidden chat partner? Does a notification show? how does that notification look?
As a result of that good intention glibc must now be compiled into each and every program that wants to allow a customization complicating life for anybody who writes system software in anything but C/C++. I would rather preferred for NSS to never happen and instead Linux defined a set of services available over unix sockets for things like DNS resolution or user/group databases.
Local nuclear is not going to happen in the lifetime of anyone who remembers Chernobyl's fallout across half of western Europe.
I gave it a go but stow seems to be ignoring files that start with a dot.

Uninstalled and stuck with my 5 line shell script.
That's great and all, but if he could push the battery technology forward, it would not only benefit his car company, but as well all the other industries that are relying heavily on batteries. I mean 200 miles range (last quote I heard) is nice. I however doubt the premium asked for this will warrant a purchase for most buyers in the market for new car (regardless of power source), specially in places where Tesla has no fast charging facilities and the other car manufacturers are still lagging behind in the infrastructures.
That journal appears to be owned by a non profit.
Ask HN: When will be linux become desktop of the year?
Have bought USB3 attached to mSATA works win windows, working in fedora as USB2 but USB won't be detected. I wish when there would be a time when it can detect latest devices...
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If we get access to infinite energy and resources, then the answer to all your questions is YES.

But space.time is not infinite, far from it. We can easily imagine, eg. computational problems (ie. computer programs that can easily be written) that would require more memory than the number of particule in the universe would allow, or more time than the life expectancy of the universe would allow. So unless we are able within this space.time left to invent a way to create new universe or survive a big crunch/big bang event, or a cold death, no, there's no infinite energy and no infinite resources to be taped, and therefore:

- world hunger is not a problem of resources, but a political problem. The question is whether we're ready to gather in a concentration camp the psychopaths of the world, and exterminate them once for all.

- yes, we have already more than enough food.

- all hints are that cancer is a man-made illness. Once you've removed the psychopaths who build poluting processes to earn more $money or more power, we should revert to a more natural and canceless world.

- nope. It is not an economical crisis, it is an economical system set up by those psychopaths to keep accumulating money and power. They already own 99% of the money and of the power, but they still need to acrrue it at a significant percentage each year.

I should also mention, that assuming a population growth such as we double the population every 20 years, going to space would not solve any "overpopulation" problem if it was any more real than human-made climate change, since that would just mean that you would have to colonize new planets every 20 years. Very soon, the whole galaxy would be "overpopulated", and then soon enough the whole universe.

So going to space, offers no solution to "we".

However, having a space ship, and being able to leave this planet of psychopaths, crazy people, and savages, would solve "MY" problem! I would at least escape from this asylum-prison!

And there's hope the galaxy is big enough that if you escape, the US government and the banksters won't be able to catch you up to make you pay taxes and interests on the debt.

Healthy and educated people are looking for a way out, space mining serves only to build bigger, faster and better space ships to go farther, until we can get out of the reach of the psychopaths. And THIS would be the BEST solution, if you don't like the concentration camp/final solution.
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It’s quite interesting to see Russian or American propaganda when you’re not from either – the patriotism, nationalism, corporatism and anti-intellectualism in the US seems so weird. Almost as weird as Russia.

I mean, doesn’t kids singing the national anthem in the morning before school seem a bit weird to you, too?
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It says Minneapolis on his profile
From the article (emphasis mine):

> “We have historically been contracted with Express Scripts as a retail pharmacy, which is what we’re licensed as in the state of New Hampshire”–where the physical pharmacy is located–”and they want us to contract as a mail-order pharmacy,” he explains. Though the retail-vs.-mail order question isn’t a legal one, traditionally pharmacies that dispense 30-day prescriptions with typical copays are considered retail, and those with 90-day prescriptions and discounted copays are mail-order. Although PillPack does mail its medications to patients (that’s a major selling point), everything else about the business model hews closer to the definition of a retail pharmacy.

I would think mailing the meds to the customer is the defining characteristic of a mail order pharmacy.
"Originally we wanted to integrate Axolotl/OMEMO but we haven’t been able to acquire a license from Open Whisper Systems."

WTF?
> In the long run, the ruling could inspire other large-scale digitization projects.

This is, for me, the important bit. Previously, Google was alone in having done this, and had an effective monopoly on all the information in the whole world's books. This was (and still is) not a good situation for the rest of us to be in. Now, I would hope for Wikimedia and/or the Internet Archive to ramp up similar book scanning projects.
The past doesn't imply future success but Rony's was formerly CTO and cofounder of MAKO Surgical (robotic surgery), which was acquired by Stryker for $1.65BN. He has relevant domain experience and a track record. I'd bet on him.

He also seems like a very genuine guy to work with based on the interviews I've seen. If you're going to invest as much money as they've raised, you better like spending time with the person putting it to work.
Monkey+And+Bare+Buttocks
On Google? If I enter "Chrome download" there, I get Google's own page as top result. However if you were to do the same with Bing (such as you probably would if you used Microsoft's browser downloader (Internet Explorer), which has Bing as default) you get the typical spam adverts at the top.
I found the calendar thing funny too. Then I remembered we're all counting from the birth of Jesus.
> So you think rain-forests and clean water exists on space ??

The point was that they (in the "all around us" / Earth sense) do not, so it is therefore more difficult to pollute them via space industry.

There's something to be said for an environment where you can run an unshielded nuclear reactor without causing any particular damage around your craft...
I found flights to Innsbruck on flychecker at € 58
Given how much electricity is burned in hot countries for airconditioning, electricity that works during the day is no bad thing.
Because it's Pavel Durov's money that's paying for this.
Actually, North Korea bought subway train carriages that were in use in western berlin as well. I recognize those in the pictures - during my time in university, I used them all the time - in west berlin.
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Many Indians already have backup battery systems because the grid, even in big cities, is so unreliable. This may make the switch to solar less burdensome, at least from a cogmitive point of view.
Every year is :)

It sounds like you indirectly ask for support? Have you checked for updates? AFAIK fedora is not known to have very recent drivers but is a rather "stable" distro. Have you considered trying a more up do date distro or looking for backported drivers?
Well it was argued and the courts decided with Google. So it is no longer arguable.
"I'm wondering how we can trust the encryption"
You can't.
Not unless the company employees security experts, has a significant bug bounty program (with significant rewards), is open to a degree about their securit architecture, and is popular enough for white hats to actively seek out bugs.

This isn't about trusting that the company isn't try to dupe you. It's about trusting that the company can implement security properly, and that enough "good" people will find security flaws before the "bad" guys do.
Yes, I'll be home for a while at least until I need oxygen and morphine again.
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Your new internet identity
With that kind of reasoning - unless you steal from the publisher right off the press somebody has already paid for the book, no? Even bookshops can only get refunds if they at least return the cover page, afaik.

Additionally, if you steal from the right person, they might just go and buy another copy.
Hi there, funny enough this idea came up helping my wife with her online store.
Yes, it is a hard problem and we are up for the challenge. Initially will be a hybrid of manual answers and automatic while we train the algorithms But with enough questions and multiple stores we should be able to have a very good knowledge base.
Many Indians already have backup battery systems because the grid, even in big cities, is so unreliable. This may make the switch to solar less burdensome, at least cognitively, if not practically.
Have you ever travelled any metro at rush hour?
Another step to self-sufficient AI I guess. At some point along the way we will have to stop and think about what we're doing there.
Just for the record, I quickly tried duckduckgo and bing (using !bang) and the first result I got from both the official chrome webpage.
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There's a promotional demo, yes.
Here's two videos from a guided tour to Nvidia's labs.

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRz_CG3DZb4 Nvidia FAILURE… Lab - AMAZING Behind The Scenes Tour
As a non-American (I'm British, arguably), the whole American flag saluting/pledge of allegiance/national anthem thing has always seemed excessively patriotic. I doubt many people in the UK could remember the national anthem beyond the first verse, and if required to make a pledge of allegiance, I imagine many would refuse.

But that's probably because it's a less important identity to people in the UK. It's not a country of immigrants, there is more than just national identity to hold people together.
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I won't say there is nothing that can be concluded but the classification itself is problematic since there is definitely some spillage over common traits of the personalities. I can have more belief if the assertion is more alone the lines that you are xx% "abc" type.
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because the danger googles YOU!

(sorry, couldn't resist)
End-to-end (E2E) code needs to be open source and venders that don't agree to an audit should be considered insecure; holds true for What's App, which declined to allow their E2E code to be audited.

Also, message metadata is still being leaked by all of these E2E implementations and needs to be fixed.
Yeah, there's both former West and East Berlin trains:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Metro#Rolling_stock

Which makes sense given they would both run on the same kind of track.
That is false. You wouldn't notice in the metro (and in the streets, same) any especially negative feeling, in any way different from any other part of the world (except that, like somebody else pointed, in the latter place, the eyes are generally on mobile phone screens).

I know because I just came back from North Korea.

The western media like to portray authoritarian regimes as hell-like places where people is sad and militaries are all over, ready to shoot anybody at the minimum misstep.

In reality, within a certain frame, daily life is quite regular; everybody is busy with their own lives, not especially happy or sad.
I stress "within a certain frame" - inner perception works within a frame, and of course, people needs to pay attention to the restrictive culture.

I'd rather say "tired", as most of the people are hardworking farmers, without access to any transportation mean except the bike.
Why not have the interface scale the image to the required size, as HTML/CSS can do?
In the age of global terrorism, local nuclear is a no-go from the start.

Dirty bombs hardly make sense in terms of headcount, but their psychological effects would be tremendous. Therefore, security around nuclear installations will remain high - and that's easier to organize and cheaper around big, centralized stations.
>The comparison is between the cost of new installations

That may be, but that isn't what the headline says. It simply says that solar is cheaper than coal, which of course is not the case right now.
Nearly all of the riders in the pro tour lose for the exact same reason that nearly all of the players in a football match don’t score a goal.
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Rajasthan is mostly an arid desert with huge amount of area where nothing can grow. Solar power is an ideal fit for amount unused land available.
Even though "Some pages on this website install malware on visitors' computers."

Doesn't seem to work very well
Who would have thought that India outdoes all the west when it comes to making sustainable growth.

Google CEO Indian. Microsoft CEO Indian.

Watch out all you fox news watching Americans.
Why coding style matters?
Wasn't there some WTO ruling against India just recently that will make solar more expensive there?
I could mention a few (few?) wars caused by western countries' lies and indoctrination.

Personality cult, definitely, although that's the part of the propaganda style.
Various sci-fi authors wrote about that long before E. Musk was even born. I. Asimov is one for example.