skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't entirely disagree, but I think that this whole discussion might be missing the underlying issue. I don't think the problem is so much people being priced out of a particular area (not everyone's going to be able to have a large place in Manhattan), but rather that there are certain things people want that cities are the best at providing. People want things like walkable neighborhoods, a close proximity to their workplace, cultural events, public transportation, greater density, etc.

I think that if there more areas like this outside of the major cities, this wouldn't be so much of an issue. Fortunately, it seems like (at least in the U.S.) there is a movement to create more city-like suburbs, but this takes time.
Relevant Low-Tech Magazine entries on wind-power, and small windmills:

Urban windmills harm the environment [0]

> A small windmill on your roof or in the garden is an attractive idea. Unfortunately, micro wind turbines deliver hardly enough energy to power a light bulb. Their financial payback time is much longer than their life expectancy and in urban areas they will not even deliver as much energy as was needed to produce them. Sad, but true.

Small windmills put to the test [1]

> A real-world test performed by the Dutch province of Zeeland (a very windy place) confirms our earlier analysis that small windmills are a fundamentally flawed technology

(Note that the picture shows that almost all windmills tested had three blades)

Wind powered factories: history (and future) of industrial windmills [2]

> In the 1930s and 1940s, decades after steam engines had made wind power obsolete, Dutch researchers obstinately kept improving the – already very sophisticated – traditional windmill. The results were spectacular, and there is no doubt that today an army of ecogeeks could improve them even further. Would it make sense to revive the industrial windmill and again convert kinetic energy directly into mechanical energy?

Unlike this story, which certainly sounds interesting but shares no real data to back it up, Kris de Decker thoroughly digs through sources to write articles backed up by available data as best as possible.

[0] http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/09/urban-windmills.html

[1] http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/04/small-windmills-test-...

[2] http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/10/history-of-industrial...
The Royal Navy did have "through-deck cruisers" for a while - they did eventually admit that they were mini aircraft carriers.
Well, we have WebGL but we don't have WebGLU.

It's shitty.

That's what I'm saying.

And the worst part about it is that the shaders have to be stored as strings. It's not as if it's possible to write shaders in JavaScript (even though it could be possible), so it's really an outrageous expectation when using WebGL from square one to have to write GLSL shaders inline in this specific language (to put a triangle on the screen). Even streaming them as text resources, there is not an easy way to write or debug a fragment shader in the browser that isn't stroke inducing. In fact, it doesn't seem that there's a reasonable way to do that AT ALL.

Your "very little use" case covers about 10,000 snippets that could be easy to share if they didn't end up looking like this, first result from Google for "Pastebin Webgl": http://pastebin.com/uiHGium5

Compare a decently developed web standard like HTML 5 video: http://pastebin.com/znbHgG3r

Wow, a 40 line demo that is easy to demonstrate.

The whole domain of 3D programming is full of such arrogant programmers that it's no wonder that everything continues to be difficult even 20 years on. It takes expert knowledge. Why even bother using a graphics card or language, when it's trivial for a programmer to write their own software rasterizer? This is obviously how someone should learn to program, if they're going to do it the RIGHT WAY.

Spare me.
While that is true, by the time they rebuilt them, you might as well call them new engines.

SpaceX took their landed first stage directly over to the test pad to fire the engines multiple times. It's not really apples to apples.
This is a new thing, 2-3 years ago downvotes were still rare, these days people treat it like reddit where it means disagree rather than inappropriate. The culture's changed.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/04/29/stanford-...
i find the iPhone 6 to be very breakable, case or no case.

it could be argued i don't care for it that well.
I tell my peers now that an offer in San Francisco should be north of 400k to make it worth it. They laugh and sign for the 2x their paycheck in Kansas City then end up back there in a year.
Duke Nukem 3D source code review (2013)
"why... very often the turbines aren’t turning at all?"
Someone told me that demand varies and it's easier to shut down a windmill than a nuclear reactor.
>They absolutely affect the validity if people claim non-receipt. Subpoenaing cooperative people is easy - you use mail, or email, or whatever you want and they acknowledge the thing and respond. That's why email is common.

I'm well aware that it's easier to claim non-receipt, but that has no effect on the validity of the subpoena. An emailed subpoena is still valid.

>So hand-served (and signed letter) subpoenas remain relevant for when people are dodging you. The fact that many people do respond to email subpoenas doesn't relate to whether non-respondents can be charged for their failure.

I never claimed they don't, all I claimed was that email is a valid way of delivering subpoenas.

And I'm sure non-respondents can be charged for their failure if it can be proven that they actually saw the subpoena. Not all illegal activities are easy to prosecute.
Not sure how much consolation this will be, but... even if you are an accredited investor, you probably still won't be able to invest in most high quality Regulation D investments. Having investors costs time and money, and it's just not worth an investment managers time to talk to some marginally wealthy individual when there's a pension fund on line 2.
I disagree. They have a choice, yet they choose them instead of the alternatives, and they knowingly accept all the access policies, even checking the "accept the terms" checkbox. TBH this whole thing seems like a simple problem to me - publishing is not the purpose of science. Elsevier can't fix the problem that scientists don't have a way to assess the quality of other scientists' work.
The Golden Age of Reading the News
XyMcXFace is incredibly lazy. I have no idea why so many folks like that style of naming. The boat isn't even the first to try it.
If SpaceX can deliver what they're claiming in terms of refurb time/cost then that will be something to celebrate. But projects have a way of revealing unexpected challenges right at the last moment. I'm going to hold off the champagne until a refurbished booster actually flies.
Your argument doesn't hold. Apple is pretty replaceable in China, yet they are making yuge money from this one market.
Ask HN: I need a lawyer in the Netherlands?
We do micro-seed angel investing, we've just finished a 90K EUR round to a dutch company, I just need a local lawyer to fix some relevant papers. Just needs to be someone with any experience level in startups and convertible loans.
Ideas?
Here's a recent tweet from that person:

Christine Fair ‏@CChristineFair 9h9 hours ago
The more I learn about ISIS...the more I love battlefield nuclear weapons.
¿por que no los dos?
Also one of the easiest software to compile manually. It's crazy. Even Python and Nginx, which are quite simple to compile, are not that easy.
It sounds more like a subtle way to say "we'll meet you on the street, after a SWAT team drags you out of bed at 2:00AM"
It's obvious that the FBI isn't trying to serve a NSL here. If that's what they wanted to do, they'd have done it.
A shuttle launch cost over an order of magnitude more than a Falcon 9 launch does, though. This is hugely relevant because the biggest factor limiting space travel is cost more than it is anything else. The demand for space travel is absolutely there, and all that is required to satisfy that demand is simply lowering cost.
There's no American bias on this. If the world's activist investors employ extremely highly paid and numerous staff and maybe get things 50/50, what type of staff will a government employ that can do better?
The Guardian’s open source image management system
> The git versions Apple ships are reasonable up to date.

More than usual, but still not exactly up to date, as of April 17 Xcode shipped with Git 2.6.4, which was 2 minors and ~4 months out of date (2.6.5 in January and 2.6.6 in March) on its maintenance branch, and a major out of date (2.7.0 had been released in January)
This has seemed a little suspect to me since it started making the rounds earlier this week. Does the set point not work in reverse? What I mean is, the article states "starts at 300 lbs", but no one starts at 300 lbs, people get there through poor diet. So, why doesn't the set point push them back to 200 lbs? It seems to me set point is not the complete story when it comes to weight.
A brief history of spambots
Looks like it could have been a "Show HN"...something to play with submitted by its creator. Nice work.
Infighting threatens to close VC Firm XFund and its $100M fund
Yes, you are right! Thank you for detailed explanation. This is very valuable.
There are a lot of billion dollar companies. We should know all of their names?
Why are we adding (2016) to current year submissions now?
They recently got taken under the wing of Inria and have several people working on it full time.
Its simply a turbine using CO2 instead of water as a medium to be used in existing facilities e.g. power stations.

Here is the original press release:
http://www.gereports.com/this-scientists-got-the-power-plant...
I could have sworn that i read a notice a year or two ago that they pulled out the readahead code because it had not been maintained in a while and all the devs were using SSDs.
Then why do an internet poll at all? Nobody would be complaining if NERC had just decided on the name by themselves. By launching the poll and then reneging on it, they just look foolish for failing to predict an obvious outcome, and somewhat petty for not owning up to it.

And as I pointed out in an earlier thread, it's not like the Royal Navy ships never had playful names; some past examples include the HMS Speedy, HMS Child's Play, HMS Happy Entrance and HMS Arrogant (later renamed HMS Insolent).
You are the parent comment are both right, IMHO.
Thanks, how emberrassing, yes Bf109.

"I guess available power from the engine plays a big role, as engines got more powerful they started fitting 4 blades."

Good one.
New Research Suggests Outdoor Cats Kill More Wildlife Than Previously Thought
Is there a way to change the resolution from every day to every week or every month?
That presumes this graphic is offensive which I feel it's not.

That said, that does not explain people reading the kinds of graphic novels and magazines they do in plain sight in public on trains in parks, etc.
Physical Counter of Facebook Fan Page
it's fairly common for an ISP to inject popups into web traffic (or redirect your dns)
The suggestion I've heard is that the xkcd style is a good way to signal "this is just an informal whiteboard sketch, not a highly-refined analysis". I think there's a place for that.
If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend the podcast episodes from The Gist (from Slate) where they talk about Billboard #1 hits from various years.

https://www.google.com/search?q=molanphy+the+gist+billboard
my peeps at nasa say to use a minimum of 2 runtime asserts per function

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...

safety first
Get a smooth stepper. The Ethernet one works great. I too ran into the issue with parallel ports, and basically, they aren't worth it. The timing is bad, and on most computers I've encountered, there's enough noise on the port that eventually it messes up a project at some critical part and convinces you that parallel ports suck. Better to have a board designed for specific pulse timing than counting on the average CPU to be consistent.
Also on iPad (Safari)
Wind turbines aren't built in virgin forests either. They're generally in farmland, which is pretty well ecologically destroyed already.
UK Rural broadband only on request
I Built My Own Amazon Echo (Alexa) with a Raspberry Pi…Alexaberry
AFAIK, (and IANAL), you would have to be certain the questions did not incriminate you. In other words, "pc86, were you or were you not on your couch May the 5th at 8PM EST?" "I plead the fifth." "Your honor, this doesn't incriminate the witness." "pc86, you must answer the question because it is non-incriminating." And of course if it was incriminating, the appellate lawyers would win resoundingly.

Logically, it would follow that if you don't know what a question IS, you can 'plead the fifth' to it on the basis that it could be incriminating. But again, IANAL.
Mechanical keyboards – Chronicles of Addiction
Christians do not abhor sex. Christians are taught to abhor sex outside of a marital relationship.

That means all this psychological discussion of "feeling dirty" and "justifying their feelings" is attacking a straw man fallacy.
Also the more extroverted the woman, and introverted the man (in hetero relationships, obviously), the less happy people are. Extroverted women and introverted men get less happy, where as the opposite is true for introverted women and extroverted men.
Things that are perfectly fine when only a few people are doing them often become a real problem when hundreds or thousands or millions of people are doing them. That's why investors need to be accredited. Otherwise legions of hopefuls will throw their nest eggs into overly-leveraged positions sold by the unscrupulous. That's what happened in the early days of stock markets.

But take a step back and think about it for a second. You can put 'ways to make money' on the axis of 'conscious involvement'. On the left you'd have 'keeping a job', then on the right you'd have 'hiring a professional money manager'.

As you traverse the scale, returns on investment vs. conscious attention devoted tends to decrease. You need no money to get started on a job, but investing in the stock market requires large amounts of cash to generate significant returns.

Until you have a quarter of a million dollars net worth, it just doesn't make sense to do more than slow-growth passive investment over time to fund a very specific event, retirement. Even there it's a hard sell for many people. You need to make a lot more than the average for retirement investment to really work for you.

In the middle of the scale, between having a job and investing, is running a business. If you want to move up the economic ladder, the move isn't from salaried professional worker straight to investor, it's to hanging out your shingle and carving out an economic niche. In business, it's much easier to earn the kind of money you need to make investing work.

Over time, you can learn your niche to the point to where you can direct others to exploit it rather than do it yourself. This is where the line blurs between business and investment, where you have a working system turning inputs to revenue, and all you have to do is watch the numbers to make sure they keep going up. And you don't need to be accredited to do it.

You might think, "oh, but I could day trade and earn a ton of money if the SEC would just let me!" If you don't know the principles, the market is going to burn you badly. If you know the principles, then you'll know it's not a fast road to riches. Business will get you there much quicker.

The SEC is aware that the accreditation limitations are somewhat onerous, so what they're doing is opening up some Series A rounds to unlimited numbers of unaccredited investors. If you want to bet on an emerging market, this would be the best way to do it:

https://www.seedinvest.com/

I considered investing in Virtuix, but decided I needed the money accessible right now more than I needed a lottery ticket, no matter how much I believe in the potential of VR. What did I need the money for? Tiding me over while I get my startup off the ground.

Don't shy away from learning or starting a business. It'll make you a better investor when the time comes.
I have to wonder if there are some imperfections in the simulation which cause it to evolve toward a blade that's optimal for the sim, but not as good in real life.

He talks about 20 minute tests, and then later uses a 12 hour test and gets a significantly different power number. I wonder how differently the evolution might proceed if he just had more power to run the full tests on each generation.
Scio Kickstarter blocked due to IP dispute
This is an edge case of one of many libraries that attempts to make form handling simpler. It's well known that rapid rerenders of complex components is bad for performance, rendering 83 form elements every time a key is pressed is obviously not going to do well. There are ways to mitigate this (like debouncing the keypress handler), but this issue alone doesn't mean React can't handle large forms.
Why does everything need to have a functional purpose? Can't hacking be just for fun, playing around, and seeing what you can do?
My understanding is that Wolfsburg was built in order to house Volkswagen workers. There is a massive difference in planning a city around a specific need versus a well-established city investing in companies. While I still do not agree with governments investing in companies, I will say that it makes more sense if you are planning an entire city around it.

In all other cases, cities investing in companies are either going to take on a VC role which I'd very much argue that they are not capable of performing well (and introduces so much room for corruption) or will be investing in mature companies and likely without the balance sheet to make a dent as far as voting power goes. I don't see how either leads to anything productive.
This is a classic psyops move on their part.

Get the person thinking they're not safe anywhere, so they stop going out, stop being mobile and stick to a more confined area. Once they've determined where she is, it makes it a lot easier to get in contact with her.

If she's smart, she start moving more frequently, and travel in states where they don't have field offices, avoid air travel and create a constantly moving target for the FBI officers trying to nail her down.
HAHA, that made my day! ALL HAIL INFRASTRUCTURE! ALL HAIL REGULATION!
The big difference between landing at sea and on land seems to be the PR value. Otherwise a target is a target, taking any differences in weather into consideration. In fact it seems that landing at sea is actually less pressure since you don't have the same safety concerns and crash pictures (which are bad for publicity) the rocket simply disappears.
Are they reacting to terrorism? Or are they using terrorism as a pretext to expand their powers (or to achieve whatever goal they have)?
>I'm really not sure what you're trying to say. My contention is that these nicotine vials should be at least as regulated as other over-the-counter drugs, such as ibuprofen. Do you disagree with that?

Yes I do. The regulation in OP has nothing to do with safety and everything with giving the monopoly to the right people. If you are concerned about safety then the generic food/household chemicals safety protocols are applicable here. Nobody needs to go through FDA approval for the new vintage of every wine on the market. You can even blend different grapes! FDA has no say in this.

More - safety is not a problem now. There are no reports of people suffering en masse from unregulated e-juice or premium cigars. Then, why exactly do they need to be regulated?
The long-term plan is to put humans on these right?

How many years out is that?
This is not true evidenced by the fact it is a political talking point every election cycle.
A lot of ink has been spilled here on HN about the dysfunction of the video game industry. I won't rehash that here, but I will speak about my specific experience.

I worked in the video game industry for three years before burning out. I let the company I worked for work me 80 hours a week for 2 years straight[0]. I let them because the work is addicting and I was having fun.

When the project I was working on was finally canceled (we never launched), I was given the opportunity to move on to other teams, but to my surprise I just couldn't bring myself to make the transition. I basically spent two weeks browsing the internet instead of looking for a new game team. When I hadn't transitioned to a new team, I was laid off.

I looked around at other companies (inside and outside the game industry) and once again, to my surprise, found I couldn't progress past the phone conversation stage of the interview process. I would schedule technical interviews and cancel them at the last second or simply not show up. This went on for a few months before I simply stopped looking for work.

I didn't work for a year after that. Then I took on short web dev contracts and, between the contracts and my side projects, over the course of another year finally worked back up to a full time 40 hour a week work schedule.

At this point, I'm sure there are people here that would say what happened is entirely my fault and they would be right. I would have been better off had I refused to work more than 40 hours a week and then been fired.

[0]: Fun fact: during that time, I did the math and found what I was making as an hourly rate. My brother works manual labor for the DOT and made more per hour than I did during those two years.
As another comment mentioned, it appears that it's already had its candy[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Splashy_Pants
7 reasons why a Rails 5, Redux, React, and React Native is great for startups
Why is ~1 user doing it is the question. I guess there is a good chance they just prefer it.
Design Follies – ‘I paid for it so you have to use it’
TheVehicleDestroyer (who makes FlightClub) actually commented [1] to say that the 12G is an error due to how he models the deployment of the landing legs.

The actual force would have been closer to 5.1G

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4htenu/rspacex_jcsa...

Ugh sorry, there's a bug of some sort in Flight Club there. There's no way it was that large. A constant deceleration down from terminal velocity over 6 seconds is

a = (300 - 0)/6 = 50m/s2 = 5.1g

I'll need to look into that

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4htenu/rspacex_jcsa...

So it looks like that peak is due to the sudden increase in drag during my landing legs deployment. I deploy them at 500m altitude which is a time when the stage is probably still moving a bit too fast. It's a really large increase in cross-sectional area, but I'm probably not treating it correctly. I'll revise before Thaicom-8
For (1) does this mean that everything in the global namespace barfs when called from a worker thread?

(2) sounds like it might need a larger set of primitives, though I'm not sure.
While I missed that, I'd have to agree that note is quite amusing. Oops, wrong planet.
And you analyse people's souls a lot for someone who is not a psychiatrist.

I'm just chatty. I write a lot for every topic I'm interested in, as you can plainly see from my comment backlog.

Doesn't need to be offended on behalf of Adams to respond -- I'm just the kind of person that doesn't let an inconsistent argument slip by. And I saw "Adams is XXX because he said YYY is OK" without YYY being either bad or any justification for the XXX.
More blades and closer spacing between windmills optimizes power / land area. But what matters is power / capital cost.
xkcd needs to make one for that too https://xkcd.com/435/

I guess "purity" is just another word for "lack of immediately applied practicality"