skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Round trip efficiency of pumped hydro is 70%-80%, maybe up to 87% according to some people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

A standard lithium ion batter is at 87% in the worst case, when it's AC-DC-storage-DC-AC. Going direct from solar panels to storage would save one trip:

http://www.catalyticengineering.com/top-ten-facts-about-tesl...

In any case, the efficiency of storage is only one aspect; it limits how cheap the storage can potentially be, but electricity lost due to inefficiency is not the primary driver of storage cost with any of the currently used technologies.
If anything, currently imprisoned criminals should definitely keep receiving at least some of their UBI, so they can land on their feet when they're released rather than just resorting to crime again.

I see no reason why we should exclude drug addicts. What level of drug do you start to count against a person? More people die from alcohol than marijuana, and I barely know anybody who isn't on some level addicted to caffeine. Prescription opiates are entirely legal, but lots of people are addicted to those.

The willfully unemployed are more or less the entire point of UBI. The theory is that as society increasingly moves towards automation, there will be fewer and fewer jobs, making the willfully unemployed a rapidly growing segment of the population, and that's a good thing as it will allow people to do with their time what they will.
We posted some more details here:

https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/05/imagemagick-remote-command-e...
From Wikipedia:

> The Serious Organised Crime Agency claimed that "90% of all €500 notes sold in the UK are in the hands of organised

crime", revealed during an eight-month analysis.
Seems like the mere existence of the 500 euro notes and those stupid enough to use them presents a pretty good profiling opportunity.
MEAN's great, but then you grow up
Yes:

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⌘-F "Godwin" shows me seven usages in this thread. I was looking for something like "see, Godwin was right". One commenter seems to have gotten it right. The rest think it's something one "invokes" (to quote one usage). Godwin's law is like the law of gravity: it always existed (in Godwin's case, post-WWII, obviously), whether you "used" it or not. You drop an apple, it'll hit the ground. An online discussion (or probably any discussion) grows longer, someone's going to make a Nazi comparison, which this article seems to confirm.
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We’re Moving SMS Recipes to Mobile Notifications on IFTTT
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Importantly, changeovers often happen AFTER a 12 hour shift - makes it hard for this to directly causal of the changeover vs the tiredness.
I don't disagree. Aviation generally has a safety conscious culture, which is easy for pilots because we're putting our lives on the line each time we get in the cockpit. I like not dying, so I'm going to do all things I can to avoid screwing up. :)

Ironically, failing to release the gust lock was exactly what killed the pilot and passengers in the article I linked. Although like most crashes that was just the final result of a long string of failures.
We have specific guidelines / process that we use to measure each. For example, professional coding is a focus on writing clean code, that is well designed on the micro level (good names, good modularity on the function / class level), and good testing. We measure this using a rubric as we watch each engineer code. Low-level understanding is knowledge of how computers work, under the hood (bits, bytes, character encoding, operating systems, networking, etc). Again, we have a rubric (and these topics are covered at multiple points as each engineer goes through the process). Our measurements are not perfect, but companies really do vary widely in how much they care about different areas (understanding how computers work say, vs. having a great coding process). By mapping this and matching we save everyone pain. No one had tried to do this before, and I am pretty excited about it.
Interesting timing for this as they report earnings tonight. They also announced that they've leased 2 buildings near Livermore that give them almost 1,000,000 square feet of space.

There is alot of speculation on CNBC that these announcements were made early to help direct the investors call as TSLA is widely expect to report poor earnings this quarter due to Model X delays.

Tesla's Powerwall is also starting to be installed. I always thought they'd announced the powerwall to gauge interest. I assumed that they'd want to focus all their battery storage capacity towards car deliveries. I guess this is a positive sign that they can meet their battery needs.
Hey guys! Eric, developer of PieMessage here. Happy to answer any questions you gifts have :)
Yes, I believe so. I think Brian Harvey puts it aptly, "The big ideas in the book — the ones that alumni in the real world tell us they’re using in their work — express themselves best in Scheme."

[1] https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/proglang.html
That's a rather complicated question, but in general I think a lot of people tend to believe in a greater broken windows effect than actually manifests in practice...from the Economist article:

> Mr Anoche’s first move on getting his windfall was to buy a new roof. Not only is thatch leaky, but it also needs to be replaced twice a year, at $40 a time. He spent half the money on his home, and half on timber and chickens. Those two businesses now turn a monthly profit of nearly $90. “If you’ve got the money and the mindset,” he says, “you can change your life.”

> Of course, not all the money has gone on things that make development economists happy. Sitting on a rough bench in his moonshine bar in a banana grove, a tipsy Bernard Okumo says his wife used her windfall to bail him out of jail, where he was facing a murder charge. But the first independent study of Give Directly’s methods, by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Johannes Haushofer and Jeremy Shapiro (who is a former board member of Give Directly), suggests this sort of spending is unusual. In randomly selected poor households in 63 villages that have received the windfalls, they say, the number of children going without food for a day has fallen by over a third and livestock holdings have risen by half. A year after the scheme began, incomes have gone up by a quarter and recipients seem less stressed, according to tests of their cortisol levels.

My own opinion still tends to believe that the net benefit will be positive, despite misapplications. At the moment the things I have read seem to indicate that while misuse occurs, it generally is the exception to the rule, not the other way around.

Edit: I should also point out that UCT (Unconditional Cash Transfers) are concluded to only be part of the solution to poverty in the article. CCT (Conditional Cash Transfers) are also useful for correcting deeper systemic issues (such as undervaluing education in the poor).
Not necessarily true, you could set up an adblocking app that changes the host file to block out those served up by ad networks. There are some that already do this, such as adguard, which has a program that blocks ads across your entire system, no matter if it's in a native app, or not.
AIUI the patent office has a list of resources they search for prior art, and Google may not be on the list.
Is this coming out of Rust's intermediate stage before LLVM? The compiler project seems to have gotten a lot more interesting :)
> UBI seems like a good idea but it is important to recognize that the problem it seeks to solve has a cultural component too.

I don't think you understand the problems it seeks to solve.

Among the major problems it seeks to address (different advocates may not consider all of these important, and some may consider additional problems):

(1) Means- and behavior-tested (and use-limited) welfare programs substitute external judgements of what will provide utility for the recipient for the recipients own judgement, and expend extensive resources applying the means- and behavior-tests, all of which causes significant inefficiencies.

(2) Using minimum wage to reduce economic duress in the labor market, while it has some demonstrated value such that many UBI see it as a net positive compared to no policy to address economic duress, also has drawbacks in that it eliminates the possibility of work that provides a mutual benefit being done, without economic duress, where the pay would be low. UBI provides an alternative approach to address mitigate economic duress and thus allow more work that provides net economic benefit to be done.

(3) Wealth and income inequality is accelerating, and in a way where the saying "a rising tide lifts all boats" is not an accurate reflection of the results, with virtually all of the gains in recent economic expansion going to the very top of the distribution, and this produces a variety of social harms, and is expected to be reinforced as automation and other economic changes continue to reduce the relative value of labor other than the most skilled (resulting in returns increasingly going to capital and shrinking pool of elite labor). Some mechanism to constrain this growing inequality is seen as desirable to address the social impacts.
Depends where you live I guess, but it's not a crazy thing to do and I know a lot of people who do it. I myself rarely take more than a couple thousand over a border, but mostly because I'm afraid I'll misplace it or lose my wallet or something.

Seriously, you can easily spend $500 a day in San Francisco on restaurants and bars for two people, without going to anyplace really fancy.
Also whitehouse.gov, verizon.com, yahoo.com, linkedin.com, instagram.com, netflix.com, hulu.com, washingtonpost.com....
Let me quote what I've said: "Lending out loan creates money circulated in the system. Paying off debt destroys money from the system." There.

You were the one using the friend lending example to say there's no new money created when debt is created.
EVs are simply better, e.g. lack of local pollution, higher efficiency, simpler. Synthetic fuels may have a place for airplanes, long distance trucking, demand management and long term energy storage though
Hopefully, some of the studies showing that work detriments after 6-8 hours will spillover from select tech companies and academia to the broader market and other industries at some point.
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Because you've then lost your local steel industry, put out of business by those dumping. Steel could be considered a strategic commodity, unless you want to be beholden to China for your future steel needs.

EDIT: You might be okay overpaying for steel for buildings, but would you be satisfied if China said you couldn't have steel for warships? Because they're entitled to not sell you a product if they don't want to.

When we needed titanium for the SR-71, we had to purchase it from Russia through shell corporations:

http://www.mining.com/bbc-future-sr-71-blackbird-the-cold-wa...
MIR will make this much easier to implement, so we're blocking it on MIR, yes.
If I didn't know better I'd think you were CGPGrey. You're right, though, checklists do make things so much better, as long as you're not tied to the list. I would imagine (please correct me if I'm wrong) that pilots' checklists are developed over time by veterans and changed infrequently. If you're developing your own checklists, be prepared to modify them. Often. This is still better than the alternative, because you are now aware of problems or steps you should have included.

Checklists are also good for helping you start things, if you have trouble getting started with stuff. It might be a little weird, but I keep a list of fun things I want to do. And I don't mean just big things ("visit London"), I mean smaller stuff. I find that after busy weeks my (old) brain is tired and doesn't want to start a new task, even if it's a fun task, so it tends to fall into patterns like "eat popcorn and watch Netflix." But if I have a list that reminds me that I could read up a bit about that microcontroller project I want to work on, or that topic I wanted to write something about, it helps me get started.
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NetSpend (US) promotional rate is 5% annually. Capped at $5000, but that's certainly above inflation for that balance.

Various banks and credit unions (US) have promotional (capped) 2% rates. (Above inflation.) Ally bank (US, online) has a ~1% rate, which is sometimes above inflation (uncapped).

More info: https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/banking/nerdwallets-top-high...
I'm a timid GA pilot too and you're absolutely right.

Another big differentiator is the way accidents and liability is managed. When a pilot makes a mistake, they file an ASRS report and instead of being disciplined or hit with a huge legal liability they can be open and transparent while NASA and the FAA work to mitigate those accidents from happening in the future. Unfortunately, no such system exists in healthcare. Physicians and hospitals have every incentive to cover up mistakes and hope they don't reoccur instead of reporting them and ensuring that they dont.
I suggest the book Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge as an interesting bit of fiction built around the concept of a secure CPU enclave.
> I have a hard time imagining a world of -5% to -10% rates!

A year ago I would've agreed with you, but with the ECB at -.04 and Japan at -0.02, I believe it more likely than previously.
Literally nothing you said in this comment is true.

1. There is not a preponderance of public evidence supporting your claim.

2. I am not assuming you're lying, I'm simply pointing out what you've said is useless.

3. You can fact check yourself, in fact many people do it to themselves every day.

4. Probing the source of information for verification is precisely what I am doing right now.

If you don't care about people believing what you wrote, then you didn't write it to convey information. Maybe you wrote it to feel good about yourself?
Why do you need the carrier to be involved in your decision to update your phone? All they know about is your SIM card. Do they even know or care what phone or version of Android you are running?
> But if my answer is, "no. In fact, I don't even have a checklist/documented procedure, I just make sure my commit message is informative and hope I remembered everything", I'm likely to get fired.

Or even, the nurse has a checklist, but I don't need checklists, I'm a professional.
Some of Trump's ideas are pretty far left also.

For example, he proposed taxing vehicles imported from Mexico by semi-American companies like Ford. That's not exactly the free trade GOP party line.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/elections/201...
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> Seems like the mere existence of the 500 euro notes and those stupid enough to use them presents a pretty good profiling opportunity.

But...it doesn't. 90% of those sold being in the hands of organized crime doesn't mean 90% of times a 500 euro note is used it is used by organized crime. If most of it is used to store reserves of organized crime, it might make up a very small fraction of all exchanges of the notes (and even smaller if you exclude exchanges between organized crime participants.)

So, it might not be very a good profiling opportunity.
Amen. I couldn't agree more with this.

A lot of comments in the thread are commenting that the developer should be able to slice up PSDs, but why not go further and be responsible for the design and interaction. It requires empathy for the user and, let's say 100 hours spent on understanding fonts, colour and layout.

The constraints of the platform should absolutely guide the design. Fight those constraints and the app will feel weird on the platform.

Most designers won't know the constraints of the platform, or won't care; they want to make a design that's unique and beautiful and all that. The client (or any human being) will look at the pretty pictures and love it. The eventual user of the software _won't care at all_.

Designers make pretty stuff that demos well. Those designs are usually a lot more work to pull off in code, though. In the middle of implementing those designs, all I'm thinking is, "What a waste of money. No user is going to care about this [animation|screen transition|custom look|beautiful settings screen]."

This applies to web and mobile and desktop apps.

Look at the apps you use everyday. They're probably boring to look at.

At the least, if you're in the client position, get a designer and developer together at the same time to hash out the app. You can probably get something that looks decent, works well and costs less.
https://www.fnbodirect.com has .95% for savings (they used to have 6%)

Inflation for March was .85%.
The Automat has been around since before most of the fast food chains, yet half a century of continuous innovation in process optimization has continued to conclude that paying a bunch of people to mostly stand behind counters exchanging cooked food for cash is worth the money. And unlike the average service industry employee the fast food worker isn't even expected to be a particularly good generalist, is mocked for perceived lack of social skill and isn't operating in a role where new tasks can be invented to supplant tasks which have largely been automated away.
If I knew I was at "higher risk" for certain kinds of cancer (which BTW typically means, say, a 10-30% increase on some very small baseline risk, say 1 in 1,000 -- and for only a few cancer types), my reaction would be to make peace with it --

-- and to make a note to myself to get screened more often. So then (in the small chance) that it hits, I know I will have done everything possible to shield my loved ones from the shock of facing my imminent departure, when we could in fact be using the foreknowledge to stretch my relatively pain- and incapacitation-free interval out to its utter maximum.

Being as, whenever you've stared down that window in a loved one (and nearly everyone will at some point in their lives) -- the difference between 6 months versus 6 weeks (or something much smaller, depending on how the final phases play out) can make a huge -- sometimes life changing difference for those around you.
One reason I went with different algoritm books is that they were for languages I use. Did the use of a fake ISA hamper your understanding at any point?
Very interesting tool!

Suggestion: can you scrape gmail to find commonly used links and allow people to optionally add those?
No, dead-end jobs are very much a real phenomenon. Working as a janitor is not a stepping stone to anything except more minimum wage janitorial work.

Meanwhile as a software engineer, the work you do can be put on your resume and used as leverage for better opportunities.
I constantly do this, so does my wife. Even if we don't end up buying from Amazon, we'll read lots of reviews and often figure out what to buy from there. And for me, if I don't buy from Amazon, I usually end up going straight to eBay after that.
By unworthy I assume you mean unworthy of our support and sympathy?

What differentiates the "19th century style" worthy and unworthy poor is that unworthy poor are thought to have made poor decisions and brought about their circumstances on themselves whereas the worthy poor were seen as suffering through little to no fault of their own.

Prior to the welfare state (which makes no such distinction) the "unworthy poor" served as an example of what not to do. Do we really want to discard that wisdom (even more than we already have)?

Put another way, is every poor person equally deserving of our support and sympathy? I would think not.
Couple booked an Airbnb, walked into a porno shoot
But, if measuring QALY, then, riskier procedures with great reward, can be promoted; which maybe they get better?
http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm shows all the problems associated with CSV which looks deceptively simple
When will this "duck pricing" actually trickle down to consumers? I'm on a PG&E rate plan that charges me an incredible $0.75/kWh during the afternoons of selected days. According to the figures in the CAISO paper, these are the hours of least net demand.
If you're capping it at a dollar amount, its a marketing promotion/cost, not a true market interest rate.
Love Republic Wireless! The moto phones are great too, and cheap.
Did you guys run any sort of analysis like this, on comment content in aggregate, during your tenure? I would guess with all of that data it'd be fun for hackathons to come up with interesting conversation starters like this one, despite the flaw you point out.

Glad folks are putting together these datasets now, too, if informally.
Cops kill about 1500 people per year. So why don't medical professionals wear body cams too?
Here's my current account
http://www.santander.co.uk/uk/current-accounts/123-current-a...

Needless to say you can do a lot better with specialist products and better still with funky startup consumer investment platforms if you don't mind the risk
Many patients have adverse outcomes which do not result in malpractice suits; one example of a surgical issue that should be tracked is artificial joint replacement surgery. There are many people who are put under the knife multiple times due to surgical errors.
Neat. Trusted timestamping (which this provides) is a useful primitive.
Thank you for sharing your story. I'm sorry that this was such a painful experience.
Thank you! Nice idea! :D
"Now starting"? Fast food vendors have been automating since fast food was invented. And now, the industry is bigger than ever.
How much are we talking about? You can use ACH transactions for almost free to do the same thing (e.g. Square Cash, which goes up to $2500 if you verify some info). I'd say that the risk of accepting a pile of $100 bills is certainly not worth the 45 cents or so the ACH transaction could cost you.
Supporters of the subsidies will claim 100% of the credit. Opponents will claim it would have happened regardless. Both sides will put forth impressive looking studies proving their case.

My belief is that it wouldn't have happened nearly this fast without both subsidies, and a widespread awareness under investors that there are going to be government incentives for a huge renewable market. But figuring out the amount is impossible.
I think we're quibbling when the difference is .1 percent. Too much capital is chasing too few returns.
> I also absolutely do not want anyone to euthanize me if I somehow end up semi-vegetative.

Just out of curiosity, why not?
Ahead of model 3 ramp-up? Last I checked they didn't even have a single "production" car yet and that ramp-up isn't scheduled to happen for the next two years.

It's like saying "Obama to leave ahead of zombie apocalypse".
Some remarks on Mefi itself:

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/24089/You-were-accidentally-p...