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Interestingly, Japan oil consumption felt by +/- 18% since 2000 while population remained stable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_Japan

http://www.indexmundi.com/energy.aspx?country=jp&product=oil...
As a point of comparison, I live in a city in Japan (Nagoya) that's about the size (roughly) of Chicago. Bikes are very common here. Many street lamps have solar and wind generators. Fuel efficient 'kei' cars are everywhere. (Mine gets 35km/l.) The regional trains and local subways are always on time, never very crowded, and cover a huge area. The bullet train to Kyoto/Osaka is 1.5 hours, and 2 hours 45 mins to Tokyo.
Maybe it's the sequence he presented it, but something sound incredibly wrong about this line of thinking:

1) Here's my simple theory (the more charismatic wins).

2) Here's all this data to support it.

3) Here's some data that seems to contradict it (Nixon vs
Humphry) so now I'll tack on an exception so that it actually agrees with my now more complex theory (the more charismatic wins unless the other one limits their media appearances).

If you stop and exclude case where a "carefully scripted campaign spot" means the less charismatic can win, then not only do you have to investigate every other election to see if the less charismatic candidate also carefully scripted their campaign spots, but you've also data dredged to find that specific type of exception in the first place.

Sure, now your theory fits all the historical data, but if you try to use it next election and it fails, you can tack on yet another exception and still claim that it's right. "Oh, this one didn't count because of [new reason I though of after the fact]."
Does it work with seawater? Some countries have a frightful shortage of freshwater, so rather than risking loss due to evaporation, could you pump seawater uphill?
If you can pull it off, I think it's great. When I was your age, I couldn't imagine sitting in front of a computer. I couldn't imagine sitting. (I know a lot of you love it--I'm just talking about my preferences.)

As I've aged, its gotten tolerable. I put up small websites. Never considered myself a Programmer.

I have found I am interested in a lot of things, but never found any career I loved. My father never understood me. He literally loved being a union electrician. He would talk shop on his days off. I never understood why. He used to be interested in so many things, but once he got that comfortable, union job--it was all about being a electrician. I'm definitely not my father.

Good luck!
Working relationships, especially an intense mentoring-type relationship that YC is trying to set up, certainly do require strong rapport.

To put it another way, suppose the best advice YC can give is to focus on something other than pinboard (or something like that), would idlewords listen? Because if not, what's the point?

I can see this is disappointing for idlewords, but overall, this seemed fair and reasonably transparent to me.

I'm worried the overall outcome is that instead of being a fun and interesting experiment, it's going to be a 'bad and sad' in YC's minds, and any future contest is going to have a lawyer writing the rules.

So, here's to a clearer 'judge's decision is final' next time and that the three accepted applicants turn out successful.
It's expensive as f*ck I'd say, but you are right.

You pay now or you pay later for a worse result.
Try to keep an open mind. Take any chance to try the HTC Vive and judge for yourself. IMO it's not a gimmick this time around, like smart watches, Google Glass or 3D TV, this is the next big thing in computing. I think VR will change humanity more in the next 20-30 years than the telephone, TV and maybe even the internet combined.
Kevin is uncomfortable with Maciej and took his decision based on that. As it would not seem politically connect to give that as his reason, he began looking for "good reasons" to justify it.

My interpretation of events is rather different: Maciej cheated and got caught, but Dan and/or Kevin were concerned about the reaction if the submission which received the most votes was excluded based on the vote-rigging alone; so they went out of their way to try to find a way to include him anyway.
What? Managament controlling information dispersal within a company?! How can any place work that way? NDA and GAAP rules limiting discussions to third parties but within companies...?! (shudders). Either the process would need to be trivially linear or the management need to be psychics to know what information is actually needed where.
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Put more succinctly: Gresham's Law trumps Postel's Principle.
It's like these fools forgot that natural language sucks as an interface.

Look at the whole bot/messaging craze. The way people get excited by this is beyond me.

Surely, all of this is a symptom of howuch people hate software fragmentation. Fortunately, there are other ways to fix it.
Hmm - so what he says is that the charisma of US presidents can only grow?
life can be in phases - http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2722
It's closed source, has no linux client and it's not end-to-end encrypted.
https://mobile.twitter.com/thegrugq/status/54017648967774617...

Also have a look at https://wire.com/legal/#privacy
If it's the case, somebody at Apple is seriously incompetent.

- Copy files that don't belong to them without the owner's explicit permission: some people call that piracy. I believe individuals caught doing that with movies have been faced with some hefty fines.

I understand the purpose, but it needs to come with a big, massive, Allow Apple to pirate your data, trust us, it's for your own protection checkbox. Who knows, it might even initially be true.

- do you know of any good backup solution that forcefully deletes the files it's backing up? Do you think there might be a reason why not?

I find this entirely unacceptable behaviour from Apple, and I say this as someone who has been using OS X almost exclusively for 10+ years now.
There's no technical reason that the synced devices couldn't distribute the missing messages amongst themselves. :)
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I wish them luck, and the ability to hook into 3rd party APIs is good, but ordering a pizza is essentially just straight forward form filling, and quite frankly, something I could do 30 years ago. SoundHound's Hound[0] shows refinement and retargetting, which is much harder because you have to entity resolution on implied subjects / objects, pronouns. Now maybe VIv can do that too, but that's not what they demoed. What they demoed isn't actually all that interesting.

[0] http://www.soundhound.com/hound
Charisma is the cause, popularity the effect.
It's possible because chats are not end-to-end encrypted.
Wheymen!

https://reddit.com/r/swoleacceptance

The pain is real.
Also on the front page, 4chan in-jokes and donald trump's face. I somehow doubt most of the posters actually live in Europe, as opposed to the typical /pol crowd latching onto a convenient issue.
Python's SimpleHTTPServer is for when you have some directory on your computer and you want to test it locally in the browser. That's all.

That is however, the same intended purpose as this tool.

So, there's no reason to use GZIP or HTTP2 with a SimpleHTTPServer replacement. If you need those features, it's because you're doing things _in production_

Call me old fashioned, but I find it useful to know what a request would look like served from a production setting, without actually having to get it from production.

If you're optimising for load times, the final size of a gzipped request matters greatly. It's nice to know if you're within the 14kb boundary before pushing out.

HTTP/2 is a completely different beast as well. Since this is mostly for working on static sites, odds are you might host on a CDN with static file caches. If you've optimised your site for HTTP/1.1, bundling, inlining etc., but the the edge of the CDN actually serves these files as HTTP/2, you're very likely to have worked against the performance improvements given to you by HTTP/2.
Your point about the diversity of the router hardware ecosystem is an important one, and from what I can tell, makes up a significant portion of the OpenWRT project.

I think though that the "industry" work on QoS and rate control has been pretty dismal and counter-productive. The major improvements in QoS in OpenWRT didn't come from the router industry, and the router industry hasn't been speedy about incorporating it. Fixes for queuing and rate control in the WiFi stack are also coming from outside (when they come), and who knows how long they will take to get mainstreamed.
I have a strong sense that you're vastly over-engineering something.

The solved problem is called an object store. Just use S3 or Azure Storage or Google Cloud Storage - they all have options for geo-replication and it'll be just as fast or faster than any database replication you set up, while being far more 9's of availability and reliability.

Storing a tiny bit of text for the filename is trivial and you can use any durable database for that.
> Seriously, what makes high speed internet so special that rural areas should not have it?

Internet is not considered a utility in the same way that power and phone lines are. If this is the change you are suggesting, the ongoing debates about net neutrality, as well as rather confusing bandwidth monetization by telecom companies, are big issues in the way of commoditizing the Internet.
Hey its all good mate. I realized I was a bit abrasive too. Maybe I was wrong, people seem to have some strong commentary some agreeing, others disagreeing.
MemSQL does distributed joins really well, using a combination of in-memory rowstore + disk columnstore and the ability to have certain tables replicated to every node for faster joining.
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No, I totally get that it is a German variant of the English expression "Modern C++", but you have a fair bit of overlap with a very well established brand in the C++ community...
The article includes home chargers in its calculations. Even if everybody with an EV has their own private charger at home, some quick mental math indicates 1000 times more chargers (public + private) than gas stations.
I don't think I would quite describe the comments as a complaint fest, it seems like a fairly civil and thought out discussion.
I have to disagree. Mostly your right, but I have a very specific fail case that happens every time with Siri. I can't call my wife by name. I have to always call her "wife", because it thinks I want to change my name. Now it's a name in the address book, but it never matches against it.

I can also use it dictate an email or search the web, and occasionally it fails (maybe 10% of the time?), but it almost never gets my wife's name.
And then people would find out just how locked in they can become. And hopefully demand something else.
I think I agree with you. The key thing to note is the speed at which new technologies are adopted, rather than the question of adopting as private vs public. I suspect someone with the right connections and resources could invest in the Yen, then strategize to put Japan as a frontrunner for electric car technologies (thus revitalizing its economy) and make a lot of money.
Err, what do you mean? I once wrote the embryo of a game with Qt, it ran on 3 environments (GNU/Linux, Windows, Android). What to I care that I write for "none" of those platforms if it "happens" to run on all 3?
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But still, the needed breakthrough requires the companies to add their charging infrastructure, and connect those to the backends to allow the grid to take out spikes.

The majority of e-car owners would be comfortable to charge the car at the company parking lot (for cheap), and then even allow the grid to unload some power in case of spikes, when they can offer good incentives, like promises to keep them at 95% at the end of the workday and monetary incentives for taking out power when needed in the city.

The big problem are still expensive spikes, and with all those batteries it would be much cheaper to handle them. The best strategy is to arrange that with the parking lots of the big companies.
One further (possible) correction: a "discussion" was had in the past whether to fix this, dev wanted to fix and PM didn't, or vice versa - whoever is the most politically powerful wins, regardless of metrics impact (all relevant facts aren't reported to senior management so sanity could prevail).
I would be more interested in statistics about Norway as 30% of new cars are electric there.
Of course Trump wins on the charisma level. Not over Sanders, but over Clinton for sure, and it looks like Sanders has no chance.

This is now the perfect time that this theory can be disproved.
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What was his motive for lying?
Zooming is a bit counter intuitive. I press and it zooms but not to the exact click location and when I press again to go there it zooms out.
Personally? Probably 40 minutes out of those 46. Every acceleration is a thrill, I enjoy every second of driving.
In Scotland, most* Degrees are 4-year courses.

*technically, the 4th is an 'honours' year, and you can graduate without honours after 3 years. This isn't that common for people who aren't struggling.
Happens more than you would think... Key phrase is usually "on a need-to-know basis". It is difficult to argue with such phrase as it seems completely reasonable on the surface, but what happens is that someone has to decide which information someone needs to know. Such decisions are not without mistakes, and to top it off, there is even incentive to keep people out of the loop because information gives the holder some power. So it often happens that people do not get the whole picture and operate on limited knowledge, leading to bad decisions.
Thanks. We're Ukrainians. Getting a long-term U.S. visa is a complete quantum chromodynamics for us, a once in a lifetime decision, perhaps. We're going to go for 3 weeks, probably this summer, to try it out (planning 2 weeks in Oakland, then 1 week in Ocean Park/Venice area.)
Matches my experience. And it's the same for Android tablets: the form factor is barely an afterthought.

I think one of the reasons is the "phablet" convergence. When the iPad came out as a 10" device, the iPhone was a 3.5" device. Today you can get an iPhone in a 5.5" size or an iPad in an 8" size.

The physical difference has blurred, but the use case difference is clear. The phone is the personal device that you use by default for everything. The tablet is a media consumption device at home, or a specialized data entry tool. There doesn't seem to be much market for apps between those extremes.
Apologies - as stated elsewhere, "Can I ask people to upvote my submission? No." was never a written rule. Perhaps it was intended to be implied by virtue of this being HN and voting rings being frowned upon, but this is decidedly not the same situation as any other HN submission.

The /specific/ rule here should have been made clearer.
You can ask why that anesthesiologist didn't ask for help. Or you can ask why a clearly inexperienced anesthesiologist was assigned to perform a dangerous procedure with no supervision.
"So you're asking me to pay for something we can get for free" said every Finance Officer ever...
Who is not authorised to access what?
Signal Desktop has a standalone registration UI that works perfectly fine in the source (https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop), but this hidden feature has been entirely removed from this version.

Here is a convoluted process that will allow you to register with any SMS-capable phone number, no Android app required:

First, install the Signal GitHub repo (unzip https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/archive/mas...) unpacked in Chrome, inspect the background page and enter `extension.install("standalone")` in your console. Enter a phone number to get your verification code. Do not submit your registration using the standalone UI! Keep your verification code for use with the official app.

Next, uninstall the source app and install the official app. Inspect the background page and type this in your console: `getAccountManager().registerSingleDevice("your phone number", "verification code")`. Don't forget to include your country code in your phone number (+...) and remove the dashes from your verification code, or you will probably get an error.

No idea why Open Whisper Systems felt that it was necessary to entirely remove this hidden UI, when it wasn't accessible through any of the standard UI anyways. The feature works completely fine (and has for months). The only purpose this removal seems to serve is to force users to install their mobile app.
Most of those design issues could be solved if they used (designer and dev) Sketch or Paintcode
The RPi is tied to the 12-24 month product cycles of consumer electronics devices.

That's great in that it means relatively frequent upgrades. Though at this point, the RPi3 is a very unbalanced system. Particlarly, as others have noted, with regards to network I/O.

Router platforms are tied to the lifecycles of networking standards. The underlying standards change much more slowly, roughly ~5-10 years for major changes. The router SoCs and WiFi chips change somewhat more quickly, but not as quickly as consumer electronics SoCs.

This slow rate of change is probably a good thing for OpenWRT/LEDE, because it means that there is more time for software support to mature for each hardware generation.
I wonder if Universal Basic Income would also solve the copyright problem? You know, in the old analog world (with printing presses etc.), copyright worked pretty well, but in a digital world, it has many problems.

Personally, I'm not terribly keen on living in a world where every single book I read (and how much time I spend on each page, where I stop reading etc.), every single song I listen to, every single movie I watch, every single computer game I play (and how long I play etc.) are stored forever in some central database.

However, with Universal Basic Income, people would be able to write books, create art etc. and simply release it for free.
So in a multiuser environment, the "first" client to upload an encrypted chunk and lie about it's plaintext-hash... Which would poison the well and anybody else gets a nasty surprise when their "backup" is always corrupted.
I'd would say that even in German, the brand was pretty well established: http://www.amazon.de/Modernes-Design-Programmierung-Entwurfs...
>> I dump them on the market,

I'm sorry, that's an invalid assumption. Especially in a world with only passive investors.

GM has been losing $1 billion a quarter for 10 quarters. GM's stock price is $30 as it has been since 10 quarters ago, market capitalisation $40B. It is running out of cash building unprofitable products. The underwriter calls various index funds, telling them there will be a capital raising of $10B, at $28 per share, representing a ~5% discount, and as a result of that, GM's weighting in the index is going to be re-weighted upwards at the next index balance in three weeks, so they might as well sell other (more productive) stocks, which will be weighted downwards, and buy GM at a discount. The capital raising is "oversubscribed" because of this arbitrage opportunity. As a result of the discount, the stock price of GM falls from $30 to $29.50 ($2 times by roughly 25%). GM's stock price falls 0.16% per quarter, and can sustain this rate indefinitely because of passive investors.

In a stock market with active investors, GM's fall in stock price would be a lot more than 50 cents.

Passive investors represent inertia that will keep the current ratios of market capitalisation between companies listed on the stock exchange constant, even if those ratios are suboptimal economically. As a result of the stunted capital allocation, the economy will begin to shrink, over the long run, as it continues to support unprofitable companies by depressing the share prices of the more productive companies, since, ironically, those more productive companies raise much less money than the unprofitable ones, and those capital raisings funded by selling the other companies that aren't raising money.
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Languages don't really dictate response times to the user.
First of all, the whole idea of some kind of special screening process for Muslims is already discriminatory, and quite possibly unconstitutional in itself.

Second, it's patently obvious that no brilliant new techniques for screening out terrorists are magically going to materialize all of a sudden, so that the "temporary" ban would become effectively permanent.
> (...) what separates euthanasia from every other tragic suicide

I see two large differences:

1. A requirement for euthanasia is usually that the patient keeps wanting it for a reasonably long period of time: it should never be a spur of the moment thing.

2. Another requirement usually is that the patient is mentally competent.

> When we hear about deaths, aren't the most painful ones those where a person has said "this human life is not worth living"?

If euthanasia is forbidden, people _will still be saying that in similar situations_, just they won't be able to do anything about it.
My comment was not a guide on how you can "rule the world", in your words. I was simply pointing out that those at the very top are "self-learning".

The examples I gave should make it incredibly clear that people can and do learn enough to get to the top of their fields without going through a formal process. It doesn't mean that you will. It doesn't mean that there are no fields with rigid credential requirements. It does mean that no formal body controls education, only schooling and credentials.

>"Sure, maybe the top 1% is self-taught (probably not, though, you're just selecting for your point)."

Another thing to think about is that with or without credentials in their past, at the very top everybody is self-taught. No business school on earth can teach Zuckerberg exactly how to set Facebook's strategy. He's got to make his own curriculum.
In general, most gas stations have more than one petrol or diesel pumping point!

Also, electric cars mostly have a much shorter range than gas/diesel vehicles, so need to charge more frequently.

And electric cars take much longer to charge than internal combustion engines (double-digit minutes to multiple hours, vs. single-digit minutes).

So, really, even if all of these charge points were publicly accessible, there are about two orders of magnitude too few of them to service an electric vehicle fleet of the same size as the IC vehicle fleet.

(It is, however, a very promising early sign.)
it seems to work for climate "science"..
Japan has quietly done it and forgot to tell the world!
It's an explicit rule of HN, and from the start this was explained as "let's see which startups HN would pick". Things can always be clearer, but I really don't think there was much ambiguity here.
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It's 'Lua' btw.
Very nice! But how is this different from Obnam? AFAIK obnam also dedups and encrypts (gpg).
If your encryption is deterministic, the second client can check with the server that Hash(Enc(chunk)) is the same on the client and server.
Commute there, commute back, shower, eat, say hello to spouse, go to sleep might just take 2 hours, but i wouldn't describe that fit as "easily" (maybe if you live at work).

Remember we're not talking about the exceptional 16h day once in a blue moon but the normal modus operandi over months or years.

Also, 8 hours per night is how much most people like to sleep (and i suspect for good biological reason, long term).