skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree with agriculture being a disaster everywhere. Here in the midwest (Michigan, in my case) we get so much rain that there's rarely, if ever a need to artificially irrigate. Personally, the land that my horse pastures are on is so good that I threw seed on it and it just started growing. I do put a little bit of fertilizer down every few years, but mostly to replace the nutrients that are removed (baling, etc. will eventually deplete the land if you don't). Stuff grows here with very little encouragement.
>Catholics can always go the the nearest priest, confess their sins and be immediately absolved from them. They don't have to deal with their conscience.

While the first sentence is true, the second captures neither the spirit nor the fine print of the ritual. I would agree with the general statement on differing temperaments, though would phrase it differently: there is a built-in accommodation and acknowledgement that human weakness can result in failure to be the best you can be, but to nevertheless continue to strive towards that goal, even after failing.

EDIT: In theory... I willingly acknowledge it doesn't always look like this in practice.
Just a data point: this is not my experience, nor that of my many London Uber-using friends. We exclusively find it prompt, reliable, and drivers are courteous to the point that some offer to play the passenger's choice of music, give them lollies, etc.

An Uber-XL will happily carry a bicycle or large amounts of luggage. And I've not once experienced an Uber driver refusing to take me anywhere. "South of the river? Not at this time of night guv". Pffff.

Black cabs are now campaigning and many rally behind the slogan "the safest ride with the greatest guide" (from memory). This betrays how fundamentally they have failed to understand the trouble they're in.

Safety: Uber purport to address this with registrations and reviews. (This may be fallible, but no more than black cab registration).

"The greatest guide"?? Puh-lease. Nobody but nobody wants their cabby to be a guide, nor to offer their opinions on anything. Perhaps a tiny minority of tourists may feign interest for a few minutes. Perhaps.

Unfortunately for black cab drivers, it seems that the current generation have sat cosily on the monopoly they inherited, and they've been caught napping.

None of this is intended as an anti-black cab rant, I simply think they're failing to deal with the primary issue: the times they are a-changing.

Edit: typo.
Tesla will take the pain of innovation and China will just copy the IP and do it themselves.

There is simply no way the Chinese market (and it's authorities) would let a foreign company come in and become the dominant incumbent in a nascent market like electric cars.
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I assume you are looking at the table on slide 7. I think that is the percentage of all who completed relative to those who started it, so whether many CS undergrads go intro industry (which is most likely the case) or not is irrelevant. However, I can offer anecdotes from my experience (recent PhD in CS). First, it is usually easy to find good jobs in the industry while you are doing your PhD. I think half of students in my department that did machine learning and computer vision didn't finish their PhD and went off to work at Google and the likes. It is very tempting, because the hours in a PhD program are long, stress is high and money is never good. And many CS PhD end up working in the industry anyway. Second, writing a lot of code isn't necessary if you're doing pure theory --- but even then you might be making small prototypes or using proof assistants, so a no-programming research in CS is rare. Whether you need to master many new skills depends on your background and what you want to do for your dissertation.
> very few flats in my area list a size in m^2

That's really weird. It's one of the very few objective aspects to measure when comparing properties.
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i think the argument that the economics of building a career in academia have gotten worse over time is a defensible one. the data concerning tenure line trends ([0], [1]) don't necessarily tell the entire story, but it's rather compelling in and of itself.

[0] http://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/Faculty_Trends_0.pdf

[1] http://agb.org/trusteeship/2013/5/changing-academic-workforc...

as for throwing in the towel, i didn't mean that in a disparaging sense. just that, for some, leaving academia is a decision made with a measure of regret. for some, it can involve a sober reassessment of the opportunity costs involved -- sometimes these costs only unfold/show themselves along the way -- in which one simply can no longer justify (to oneself) continuing on one's current path.
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It was a direct response to the "yawn, yawn, yawn" in the parent. If someone is going to behave like a asshole, they don't deserve much better as a response IMO. Life is too short.
> Since every project is isolated, how do you handle operations that require data from multiple projects, such as the activity feed or merge requests?

Right now: Poorly.

But in a few months:
- We're adding an activity feed API to Sandstorm, so that you can get a unified feed and notifications across all apps.
- The Powerbox (https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works#powerbox) allows connecting grains to each other. We will define a git API which each of the git apps (Gitlab, Gitweb, Gogs) can implement, so that you can even do cross-app merge requests.
I found a problem with the data, at least in Copenhagen.

The squares in the centre of the city have about 5-40 data points in each one, except for the very middle square, which has over 3000. That square has the central post office, and therefore postcode 1000. Perhaps where all the "unknown, Copenhagen" data was allocated.
Don't try to port a pattern-matching approach, use the native stuff you've actually got.

What you just said has got this old Smalltalker starting to think of pattern matching as "polymorphism on steroids." Is that what it actually is?
Biggest power hog? Yes.

But not the only thing. My point is that its way too idealistic to assume that 100% of the costs will be covered.

I mean, yes, the laws as written seem to encourage a 1-to-1 transmission of energy. "Net Metering" is a law that subsidizes decentralized solar energy.

But in the future, when the subsidies run out and the laws are written to be FAIR (instead of written to encourage solar, as they are right now), you will not be allowed to purchase electricity and sell electricity back at the same prices.

All markets have a bid-ask spread. Wholesale prices are always going to be cheaper than retail prices.
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I like it. The blog site that hosts it has a slightly strange menu, when at 'home' there are three links 'Blog', 'Apps', and 'Contact', when at Apps, there appears to be only 'Blog' and 'Contact', when at 'Blog', there appears to only be 'Contact'.

But the actual app, is great. I like the output, but I would consider sorting them into those dependencies which are up to date and those which are not.

If you really want some extra user-friendlyness and learn a bit of the github API, that would be a cool way to accept input. Instead of copy&pasting the pip-freeze output, how about just your github repository link, you could then search for a requirements.txt (or similar), OR a first effort at this would be to allow users to link to a requirements.txt file, for example one hosted on github.

Finally, what about a spin-off pypi library to do this? I'd love to be able to do this from the command-line inside my project's directory.
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Usually, it's a more complicated issue, something like: "Historically, grid maintenance costs are amortized over electricity consumption, but when some people become net contributors, that breaks the model, since usage isn't high enough to pay for maintenance."

Of course, the correct solution isn't to compound one perverse incentive (out-of-sync fixed vs variable pricing) with another (ban on solar or refusal to buy); it's to change to a system of decoupled maintenance and power pricing.
At some point the price for the panels will drop below the price (and losses) of the transmission lines to transmit the energy from the large-scale project to your house. This happened long ago if you live in certain parts of the Rocky Mountains, and it will happen in areas of progressively greater population density.

Rooftop solar only needs roof-workers and their insurance until you have a cherry-picker-style robot arm to stick the panels up there with.
Unfortunately the price of solar hasn't dropped that much in California, and may take some time.

If you get a bid from a solar company they almost never give you the cost per watt (at least for the 5 companies I got bids from), but you should do that calculation yourself and then compare against the average in California to see if they are ripping you off:

https://www.californiasolarstatistics.ca.gov/
Pro tip you can spam click and it'll stop when you get to the point where you enter your rent. Holy damn the way this is presented is annoying!

You're not missing anything by skipping the fluff.
edit: reread your question, probably not. Most chromebooks can't have the ROM totally overwritten.

most Chromebooks can run Linux by writing by writing over a sector of the ROM. Most (and probably this laptop) unfortunately can only write to the RW_LEGACY or BOOT_STUB which introduce significant problems. I'd definitely just run crouton for these.

https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download...
I see where you're coming from, but I doubt the finance industry is worried that they're going to be put out of business - if anything, right now they view Bitcoin as another source of revenue. There have been a lot of inventors that have killed off much bigger businesses, and I can't think of any that wanted to stay anonymous.
Utilities have a lot of capital tied in their existing fossil fuel plants, and their economics are probably tied into running these at capacity for their remaining lives.

So from their perspective it makes sense to lobby politicians to stall residential solar as long as possible, the environment be damned.
> I believe in compensating creators for their content and would rather compensate them with my time than my money.

But there is money involved, a lot of 3rd parties inserting themselves between you and the creators are getting paid real money (Eyeo, through its "acceptable ads" campaign, is such a 3rd-party).

Surely that money is not created out of thin air, hence the question: where is this money coming from ultimately?
What's the difference between this and Nature having a full page ad for a Homeopathy clinic?
Boston is not the best place to generate solar PV energy. Nor is it a good place to live in a suburban style (town)house, considering how much more efficient condos are in terms of heating and efficiency.

When you start with one of the worst possible use cases of solar, you can't expect great results.

Electric heating is great for individual rooms, not for whole house heating.
> To me the above ranks with the (admittedly apocryphal) "let them eat cake". Technically, yes, he "could" have done many things

No, hell no. Its not let them eat cake. Its there were other ways to save yourself and not cause pain to others.
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CBOR (RFC-7049) comes to mind.
Perhaps what we need is to better understand how to make effective fire breaks and better manage planned fires. The reason people fight forest fires is to stop them from burning down homes and businesses, not just out of an anti-fire aesthetic. Letting a fire rage and then saying, oh we'll just stop the fire from burning this gas station, hotel, and town that is here, is damned hard to do.

Sure, people built close to forests. People also built close to fault lines, flood plains, tsunami zones, unstable soil, on top of limestone, near industrial areas, in hurricane, tornado, ice storm, or "lake effect" zones, etc. There are precious few places that are devoid of some periodic natural ravaging. We can't just say, ah well, let it all happen and don't do anything about it.
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> You get $700 / month from the government for basic income. Your social security, welfare, unemployment, disability, etc is reduced by $700 / month.

What happens to Medicare under that scenario? Some medical procedures, particularly for old people, can exceed that.

Current federal government revenues top out at $3 trillion. Dividing it by a rough population number of 300 million (and ignoring the fact that portion of it comes from corporate income tax, excise taxes, etc.), the revenues collected stand at $10,000 a year a citizen. Distributing $8,400 a year back requires rather deep cuts to every single entitlement program and then some (defense, USPS, air traffic controllers, national parks, etc.)
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Do some form of local caching and p2p distribution.

I don't see this kind of software needing to be managed by a third party. This is easily something doable with a p2p protocol.
That's a red herring, unless you're going to do a full EROEI and compare the cost of petroleum extraction and delivery with the power generated from a power plant.

Electric cars are simply cleaner - and by far. It gets far more interesting once you add in externalities like wars for oil or the nascent pervasiveness of solar power.
What, like the EFF is a special-interest group that lobbies Washington to do things? You don't say. Just because they happen to cater to us doesn't change the fact that they're politics as usual.

And note: I've got nothing against politics as usual actually. Its unusual politics (see the government shutdown crisis, the lack of a budget since 2012, etc. etc.) that has me stressed out. Naturally, special interest groups represent the small niche communities of America (from NAACP, NRA, EFF, ACLU, and so forth) and then lobby our ideas to our politicians.

Its what they do, its their purpose.
A replacement HEPA filter for my room air filter is ~$10, so I'd be surprised if it was even $100 with labor.
Doesn't every car maintain positive pressure? I've never seen a car that doesn't only have fans on the air inlets.
Core m. The case is a big difference. Big M was Broadwell, little m is Skylake. So these procs are on a modern node.
I was curious how much more efficient, and it seems that a good measure is "well-to-wheels" efficiency, which encompasses the full cycle of fuel production through consumption. It turns out it depends a lot on how dirty energy production is, and the article I found [0] (from 2012) argues that for greenhouse gas emissions for the U.S. population:

- 18% will have lower impact with an efficient gasoline car

- 37% will have about the same impact with EVs or efficient gasoline cars

- 45% will be better off with EVs

So, if you live in an area that uses a lot of coal for production, the benefit is not likely to be large on greenhouse gas emissions, but localized pollution becomes less of a problem, though in many countries (like China) large populations live near power plants anyways. However,

> power production can be slowly transitioned to cleaner

This is an important argument, since the impact of cleaner generation is further leveraged by the amount of EVs out there.

[0]: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/automobiles/how-green-are-...
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Even with recent developments, being totally off-grid only makes sense when it's your only option (remote rural cabin, etc).

Solar panels with enough battery backup, plus an alternate generator (gas or diesel) for times when it's overcast for longer than your battery reserve are still going to have a very long payback time if utility power is an option.

There's a reason utilities exist, after all. It's always been possible to have your own electrical generator, it's just way more cost-efficient to do that at utility scale. That will likely continue to be the case with solar and batteries.
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http://cleantechnica.com/2015/08/10/adding-energy-storage-to...

You can add a battery backup system to cover night-time usage on your own home. The $10k battery system basically doubles the price. But since the solar panel's price just dropped by 50%... Cloudy days you might still be in a deficit.

What is so wrong with a mixed system that uses renewables where it makes sense and relies on other sources to fill in whatever gaps appear?
May I ask where you got your 3% because that number is very low compared to any number I have ever read? This Wikipedia chart shows annualized returns to be 10.47%. That is >3x your 3%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500_Index#Annual_returns
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> How long until you start seeing a return on investment?

Why can't the utility companies do the financing (upfront investment), place them on our roofs, and get a little bit of the profit? Seems like a win-win situation.

And otherwise government, or specialized banks?
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Confusing. On the one hand, they state "the salary of every employee is published and shared with every other employee"...

Then, later..."We decided not to reveal the existing salaries of our people. Only the newly revised self-determined would be open to everyone."

That seems counter to their view that they didn't want "Higher pay for those with higher influence and negotiation skills"

Starting with an open view only of "what I think I deserve" certainly favors the better poker players in the group.
It doesn't have to look bad.

rMBP13 has physical resolution 2540x1600 (i.e. 1280x800 x 2). The control panel offers resolutions 2880x1800 (1440x900 x 2) and 3360x2100 (1680x1050 x 2), that the GPU will scale down to 2540x1600. And these resolutions look good and sharp.

In fact so good, that the final resolution depends only on what physical size / working space you prefer, not which one looks good and which one doesn't.
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You might—I do. Your inverter won't power the house when the grid supply is down. Why? Well, because if the grid supply's down, it's probably because there's a line down somewhere. Therefore there's a lineman trying to pick that line up somewhere. He's going to be handling both ends of a broken, downed line. The generator-side line is tagged out, that's safe. The house-side line? Well, that's up to you—and so your equipment will deactivate to avoid creating a safety hazard for grid maintenance staff.
So "let them eat cake."

In other words: You still don't understand what I wrote above, and you're still talking from privilege.
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Why not replace your current panels with new ones? If you can generate nearly 3 times as much electricity with the same roof footprint and be able to reuse your racks and electrical installation, you should be able to be in the black in no time.
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this argument kind of annoys me.

"yeah, but how long before you see a return on investment?"

how about instantly?

this is what we did:

1) calculated our monthly electricity payment: $160 or so a month.

2) priced out solar to push our payment to net-zero-ish: the savings really start multiplying once you get down into the regulated tiers.

3) replaced our electricity bill with a solar installation loan.

what did we get in return?

instant insulation from rate hikes:
http://business.time.com/2011/12/16/plugged-in-then-pay-up-e...

instant equity on our house.

oh, and look! i can now have a solar-powered car!

but yeah, if i happen to still live in this house in 15 years, sure, no electricity bill. and, i'm sure somewhere along the line i'll end up "making all my money back".
>For someone who wrote an entire blogpost about the benefits of troublemakers and how to integrate them, she doesn't seem very willing to actually work with them, just to make them work for her.

That's kind of the point. You don't want to be working with someone who can't work with other people. If you're a "troublemaker" and refuse to change and adapt to the way the company you work for does things, go ahead and found your own and do it your way, and see if others are willing to work for you in the long term, or find another company with the culture you're after. When it comes to tech there's plenty of companies out there who hire for different personalities and abilities.
Hey! Relax creator here. You're absolutely right, although Relax stays in between that problem. Each component can have styles, and these styles will come alongside a theme. Which means if the end user is using a theme, he'll just have to drag and drop components, and select the style from the ones the theme has. Makes sense?

We'll also have a templates feature which users can use to not start a page from scratch :-)
How many potential innovators and inventors are currently slaving away at menial jobs instead of pursuing their passions? The idea that innovation is driven purely by investment is an oversimplification.
Two Broke Girls would have been a better example, but there isn't all that much like it. (Then again, some of this reflects how much scripted shows of all kinds are getting pushed aside by reality shows of one kind or another...)
It's a bit more precise than that because of the examples given, but also the interesting bit is that it does it with only general guidance from the programmer, on a set of x which is not previously known. Up to now algorithms have encoded domain knowledge, but that's about to change if deep learning lives up to its promise.
US$40K was the cost when Chuck did it in 2003. Now we're talking about US$7000 over 25 years, which is US$23 a month. US$23 a month is not "well outside of the typical person's price range" in the US.

If you want to "save up for your kids", the way to do it is to invest your money in the investments that have the highest ROI, as long as you have enough liquidity to weather emergencies. Pay off your 23% credit card before your 17% credit card, pay off your 17% credit card before you start putting up solar panels that will have a 16% internal rate of return, and put up the solar panels before you buy the cold can of beer with its 0% ROI.

Twenty years from now, you'll be drinking your beer on the porch and sending your kids to college, while your typical American loser neighbors are whining about their credit card and electric bills.
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Solar panels don't have to be replaced annually. They have 30 year warranties as standard, and are likely to last at least 40 years. Spending $100 per month to eliminate your $110 (the us average) and rising electric bill makes sense even if you don't value renewable energy on principle. This isn't even considering the fact that you can sell renewable energy credits for the energy you sell back to the grid.