skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in solar, and here's some quick facts:

1. 1 out of 78 jobs created in the U.S. last year were solar jobs[1].

2. There are more solar employees in California than utility employees[2].

3. Soft costs (non-hardware) were recently 64% of the installed cost of solar[3].

4. Solar is expected to reach a load defection point (i.e. cheaper to leave the grid) in most places in the next 10-15 years[4].

5. Energy over the next 25 years is a potential $200 trillion opportunity[5].

Like OP's article states, this industry's hardware has gotten really cheap, but the software in the industry hasn't kept up in places. So much so, in fact, that an entire startup accelerator program in the bay area, Powerhouse[6], has been created to try and attract tech entrepreneurs into the solar industry to make the next generation of solar software. My startup recently went through the program, and being a part of this industry is one of the most empowering and rewarding things I've ever done. It's one of those extremely rare instances where you can have a solid business model and a positive impact on the world.

And we need all the help it can get. Solar expected to grow 100-200x over the next 25 years[7], but it won't happen if smart people don't join in. Smart grid, machine learning, energy storage, demand response, customer acquisition, logistics, energy efficiency, inventory tracking, IoT, security, and many more software areas are currently in the dark ages in energy. Solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, storage, and other clean energy sources have to replace 87% of the worlds energy in the next 32 years[8]. PLEASE HELP US!

If you're a tech entrepreneur, and want to do something that matters, please please please consider doing a startup in solar or other clean energy industry. To start, if you're in the bay area, there's a hackathon next weekend around solar software[9]. I encourage you to come and learn more about solar and software in the clean energy sector.

[1]: http://energy.gov/eere/articles/1-78-new-jobs-america-solar-...

[2]: http://www.calseia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...

[3]: http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/reducing-non-hardware-costs

[4]: http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2015_04_07_report_release_the_econo...

[5]: https://www.citivelocity.com/citigps/ReportSeries.action?rec...

[6]: https://powerhouse.solar/

[7]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-23/the-way-hu...

[8]: http://www.pvsolarreport.com/the-next-internet/

[9]: https://suncode.splashthat.com/
Are these articles on how solar is poised to make it big Real Soon Now (tm) an instance of pg's submarine? [1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
For an opposing viewpoint, today might actually be an excellent day to ponder the effect of a lack of understanding of basic math, science, and history has on the general electorate.
My oldest daughter is just entering high school and we are indeed thinking about maximizing the return on education investment. I went to school for computer science and while I have a very good and easy life, I regret not spending more time studying the humanities. I've told her about this hoping to provide another perspective than what she gets at school where they push STEM relentlessly.

An investment in education should pay off in ways other than a financial return.
So now we have sites to donate to individuals who need money for sex trafficking, education, health care, business...I'm sure there are others.

I think they are great ideas - it is wonderful to be able to literally share the wealth. But I worry that the success of such sites will depend on their marketing. I think everyone would be better served by a directory that aggregates these sites together, lets you see whom all the people worldwide looking for assistance are, and gives them all exposure. It would also be nice to see some reports on the efficiency of each site, to know how much of your dollar gets directly to the person in need.

I'm too buried in work and family to build such a thing, but I'm hoping someone on HN would have the time...
The thing is, if they miss the date by mere months, they will have to wait 2 years for the next launch window.
Those numbers are very misleading when you understand that the industry/market was expending at such rapid pace, that even a poor/marginal player could do well.

If you look more in the way what was possible, Apple was mostly a marginal player, and its peak was in 93. Eventually the market share started declining rapidly even though the industry was still increasing.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=image...
Most of the time, people seem more likely to Google for "amazon nail polish" than actually visit the site. Of course, company-name keywords usually mean that the ad and the first hit are both Amazon.
Thanks!

I had used valgrind before on a toy project to find memory leaks, but I had not used any of the other tools it offers. I remember that back then it did not work terribly well for bounds checking, but that was years ago. 2009-ish.

Electric Fence I have heard of before, but I never tried it. I will definitely come back to these links when I am working in C the next time.
So these things presumably run software? Or is it basically a bunch of quantum bits controlled by a conventional machine? What is it exactly and what can you do with it?
While cronyism and nepotism are probably significant factors, beyond those I don't know if what your parents earn matters as much as it may be an indicator of your manners, knowledge of social customs, proper grammar, etc.. Perhaps those raised in wealthy homes tend to know better how to behave among wealthy people than those who come from poor backgrounds. All else being equal, those who comport themselves better are more likely to get ahead.
You forgot the iphone SE, it's much worse for the Apple watch and Macbooks.
Vast majority of solar power costs are upfront capital costs. So if you know how much the panels/installation costs, what are your financing costs for ~30 year amortizing loan and how much the sun is expected to shine in the installation place, calculating the cost of electricity price per kWh is not too advanced Excel trickery.
Quotes infer that it's a hyperbolic metaphor - and is used to express the degree of my disgust for a country "legally" attacking itself without good cause.

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* Hyperbolic metaphor:
https://sesquiotic.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/can-a-metaphor-b...
> People should follow their aptitudes.

This is posed in too absolute terms. People should, among their aptitudes, pick some activity that has the prospect of a fulfilling professional life. Aptitude and personal preference represent one aspect of such fulfillment. Market fit is, however, most definitely relevant towards professional success.
This Bar-Brawling Lawyer Might Just Take Down Led Zeppelin
Citation needed.

I know a dozen companies who spend significant ($1m+) a year on Google or Facebook ads and performance is tracked obsessively.
You seem to be confused about what's public and what's private. You're entitled to all the "safeiness" you want in the privacy of your home.
I stopped maximizing my browser window a long time ago, and I only have a 27" monitor. It's just not comfortable for me.
To say anything more means to assign some meaning or value to life other than hedonic consumption, which nowadays is something people are often reluctant to do in a public forum.
DotBigBang will let you make your own game quickly and without programming
Strange. I'm using Firefox on Win7 here, but it shouldn't have been Windows difference. Will check when I go home where I have Win10.
4 Design Principles for Building Analytical Dashboards
No. According to the US Energy Information Administration, coal is dispatchable. https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/electricity_generation.cfm

It is correct that coal does not ramp up or down quickly, but that is not a characteristic of dispatchablilty.
I think it's noteworthy that the article you point to pertains to common law and testimony, rather than to philosophy, pedagogy, or education. When a student freely explores a concept, that clearly demonstrates a higher ability or skill in mathematics. But "leading questions" are scaffold to show the student how to explore and build abstractions, and most will have to learn how to do that from example.
The obvious answer? You didn't demonstrate that you can use it.
The problem is a fundamental one. Nginx, like many other event loop implementations of servers, presumes that kernel code behaves consistently, precisely and correctly, instead of treating it like a black box, that sometimes lies about things or behaves completely incorrectly, it's not the first time this happened. Any correct event loop implementation should take reported poll events under advisement only and try to schedule reads and writes independently from that.
A Princeton psychology professor has posted his CV of failures online
And yet trying to work out the finances in my condo building, its not adding up... We can get solar and do the right thing, but it will still cost us.
> I used to work for a financial services company. I made 150% of what I make at SpaceX for at least as many hours a week. The difference was, at the end of those weeks, I would look back and realize that if I did my job right, I was doing nothing other than making rich people richer.

I'm working in Antarctica right now and my story echoes yours almost exactly. Worked for a large finserv company in a very comfortable position (telecommuting allowed, great benefits, etc) and took a 30% pay cut to come down here. But here I feel my work matters, supporting research that matters, where at the other job it was just a paycheck at the end of the day.
But it does depend. If the above poster was taking Japanese as his sole Major it is probably not worth it. If he/she is taking it as an addendum to say a Business degree then it is very much worth it.
Yes, it is a misuse of a TCP reset. The RFCs are very clear about when to use a TCP reset.

You can't use a reset just because you want to be fast or don't feel like sending any more data. Resets are for something abnormal happening. A timeout isn't abnormal to a TCP connection. It's part of the process.
This is something I can definitely buy into. Currently, I go to 14er's.com to look at trail reports but it's limited to just the 13ers/14ers of Colorado.
My friend took me to hike a trail my first summer in CO that had a 10-ft frozen waterfall at the end of it. It was incredible and I've wanted to go back but don't know where it is and have lost contact with the friend. Having an app I could track those smaller trails in would fix that problem for me.
By the way, on your What's New page, you've spelled 'where' as 'were'.

edit: This would be great as an app so I can track stuff while I don't have internet/data to use.
However for every Apollo, there's a dozen Solyndras.
Not everything in life is because of financial incentive. Some people are driven by ideology, desire to do good, desire to accomplish something for the first time, etc.
TL;DR: 5 qubits as a service. Interact with them on your tablet.

From the press release: "The quantum processor is composed of five superconducting qubits and is housed at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. The five-qubit processor represents the latest advancement in IBM’s quantum architecture that can scale to larger quantum systems. It is the leading approach towards building a universal quantum computer." (http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/49661.wss)

From the demo video: looks like you can use hadamard and CNOT gates as well as measurements. Somehow it sounds like you can also apply oracles (not sure how you specify what they are when it gets run). (https://youtu.be/pYD6bvKLI_c)
It's not that "old people" think they hear such things, in some cases those things are actually stated. That's the problem as I see it, the people who use calm, controlled, verbal arguments are drowned out by the idiots who think shutting down opposing viewpoints is justified. These idiots exist in all spectrums of discussion of any topic, some are just louder than others. The calm ones tend to, unfortunately, get lumped into that crowd.
But you have to ask, why would Google go to all the trouble of being your personal experience curator? Google is not in that business. They are interested in showing you the highest value ad that they can, and obviously that's nail polish.
Maybe. But I think its parser is better to be replaced with the httptools one.
Concept Hacking: The QA 2.0 Which Helps You Deliver What Your Clients Desire
>I'm puzzled by the outcome of this discussion, but am assured by other security engineers and cryptographers that bugs they opened were treated equally badly, often ignored, even if they were non-disclosed, heavy security issues.

If you have organization with strict good manners policy and problems arise, this kind of passive-aggressive behavior is exactly what you should expect. "company policy" and PC rules can't make people better persons.

NOTE: This is not my opinion about Ruby-core team. I just want to point out that being polite does not mean that you interact well with others.
If you know nothing else about A and B it actually does. In terms of pure information theory / probability. Causation between random things is rare and causation is less rare in correlated things.
I did not ignore the rest of the argument at all.

I was indirectly pointing out that the OP had used the first line, not as a statement of belief, but as a token so that they could say the rest of what they actually believe.

Similarly, you say "I'm all for oppressed groups having a safe space and living their lives freely", followed by "but", followed by what you seem to actually believe. Which one of your statements is true?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/jan/27/flywhee... comments:

> Sounds promising. So could flybrids compete with battery hybrids? Rob Thring of Loughborough University's department of aeronautical and automotive engineering wonders if that's a fair question. "Flywheels are a good way of storing energy. But as for comparing them to batteries – it's like comparing petrol and diesel. Both have merit," he says. "Flywheels' have a lower energy density compared to batteries, but their power density is higher."

> Meaning flywheels can release stored energy far more quickly than batteries. So despite the fact that they can't store as much energy for the same weight, they might actually be great for city-centre driving, characterised by short distances and endless stop-starts.

Also, batteries can come in diverse shapes.
Von Braun's biopic was called "I Aim at the Stars" - some wit suggested that it should also have the subtitle "(But Sometimes I Hit London)"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Aim_at_the_Stars
But there are 3 types of Apple Watch and 3 types of MacBooks.
I've seen them used to power comments on some sites, which is why I left them enabled after I installed Ghostery. I might reconsider if I see them putting junk into other websites though.
>The Northeast is generally thought of as the most liberal part of America (aside from coastal California maybe).

I sure don't think of the northeast that way. I see it as fairly conservative both in politics and business. One data point is that it wasn't anywhere in the northeast that first legalized weed. It was Colorado and Washington, followed by Oregon and Alaska. Another data point is that people wear jeans or shorts at work in Silicon Valley (or Socal, Oregon, Colorado, etc) whereas they're far more likely to be required to wear suits in the north east.

The northeast is very urban, which has some overlapping effects with but is still very different from actually being liberal. Change is mostly driven by the west. It's just that the change reaches the dense cities of the northeast more quickly than the rural areas in between.
Yeah, verbifying von Braun doesn't make something with a clear meaning.
Bear in mind this is 20 years and not lifetime earnings. Many studies have come out that across majors lifetime earnings are anywhere from USD 300k to USD 1 million higher than those with only a high school diploma.[1]

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/curre...
> if a student says, "This (action) causes harm to members of these groups in this way," that student is using words to start a discussion about the topic at hand.

Are they? Which discussion are they starting? I don't think I've seen that lead to a discussion about whether it not it actually causes harm, but instead it's for starting a discussion about what to do about the harm that it's presumed to be causing.
Just tried it with a couple of guys at the office, seems it is only blocked on Android. It works on WhatsApp web, Windows phone and on the iPhone.
It seems that you may not be the target market for this information if that's all you have to contribute.
I'd be very surprised if business people spend much time reading Japanese literature, learning anything other than pure modern business Japanese, or probably even learning to read and write the language.
If I take a car to an establishment labelling themselves as a 'Car Wash', and their washing method consists of flinging mud all over the car....said establishment isn't a very good car wash, is it?
Sculley sucked at Macintosh, too. Around 1991 my parents asked me what Mac they should buy. And I couldn't tell them; there were like 20-30 models, all slightly different and with no way to make clear comparisons.

That's just the marketing / planning side of things. He wasn't that great at setting directions for technology, either.
Yeah I think Pinterest and/or Esty were using GraphicsMagick extensively according to some technical presentation or blog post I've read a while back.
Indeed, pharma sales are maybe only a small part of the reason.

The biggest reason may be the irrational terror certain societies have regarding death, which is something easily exploited by terrorists.

Even many of those who claim to know they are going to Heaven when they die are terrified to do so, indicating they don't really believe.

But where does the root of this terror come from? Perhaps it is the false belief of an artificial separation between mankind and nature
The peak demand in California yesterday was at 8:15 pm and solar produced zero electricity at 8:00 pm. http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/20160503_DailyRenewa... But that's that the biggest problem. The problem is that solar is decreasing at demand is increasing. This is the problem they describe with the duck curve. https://www.caiso.com/Documents/FlexibleResourcesHelpRenewab...

Yes, solar can help meet peak load during the summer, but not the rest of the year and it causes stress on the system by requiring a lot of power to spin up to meet demand and solar decreases.
If you're studying Japanese because you think it will make you money it is a bad idea
Is it broken or working like it's supposed to? I've never understood the desire of scientists to rank and self-segregate themselves into "elite" and "Tumbleweed State". First, it's not in scientist's self interest to give up chances at career progression to an elite cabal of admissions panels. Secondly, it actively restricts the flow of ideas to artificially limit the pool of respected scientists to only those people at a few institutions, even while the total number of scientists continues to grow. Finally, science is science, whether you're in Wichita Kansas or Cambridge Massachusetts. Why is it bad that scientists are judged on their objective output rather than the place they went to school?
It's probably related to your location. My guess is you're not on a coast and don't live next to a college or deal with 18-22 year old kids where they feel empowered.
They do. Here's the website that compiles the data:

http://www.payscale.com/college-roi

Average loan amount is factored into the ROI calculation.
Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This clearly basically retells the Jalopnik story linked prominently in the article.

Also, that story already has been on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604922

Please check before submitting!
You are employing a faulty concept of what constitutes built-in. This is not Windows, or one of the BSDs. You're using one of the Linux distributions where everything is made up of installing packages. There is no meaningful "built-in"/"not-built-in" difference between installing one of these DNS server packages from a CentOS 7 repository and installing any other CentOS packages from a CentOS 7 repository.

> All software on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system is divided into RPM packages which can be installed, upgraded, or removed.

-- https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/pt...

A (very) quick check indicates that the CentOS 7 "main" and "updates" repositories have at least three of the DNS softwares that I mentioned. Ubuntu 16 is better endowed, and has all of them that I mentioned, and an additional "Debian fork of djbdns" that I did not, in Ubuntu's "main" and "universe" repositories.
Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This clearly basically retells the Jalopnik story linked prominently in the article. Also, that story already has been on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11604922

Please check before submitting!
I'd add the observation that it is way easier to go to college and get a formal education in science, math, or engineering, and pursue an ongoing adhoc self-directed education in the arts and humanities in your remaining decades of life, than the other way around.

Yeah, not really. There is a huge difference between reading a book by yourself, and reading a book then discussing it with a room full of other intelligent people + a knowledgable teacher.
So what are you supposed to do?
Also the payscale report may not be peer-reviewed, which should give caution when going against many peer-reviewed studies on the subject.
I would love to also see the data linking ROI and whether you went to study something out of love for the craft or just because you wanted a well-paying job.
Credential Stealing as an Attack Vector
QueryTree now supports PostgreSQL databases
To be fair, that article is in the Economist.
My guess: looking at the curve, and when they'll actually have to purchase the PV panels (a few years from not), things will be actually cheaper.
Apple is much more of a household name today than it was before the iPhone. When you've built a reputation, people are willing to try your new products "just because"; see https://stratechery.com/2016/its-a-tesla/
3 in 5 Employees Did Not Negotiate Salary
I'm not a developer. The most frustrating part of the chromebook is having to be connected to the internet to do almost anything. I have desktops for everywhere I'm usually working but laptops for me are mobile devices. Sometimes/often I dont have wifi but still need to get work done. Sure google docs kinda works offline but its not great.
That's a huge factor I hadn't considered. Thanks.
Is that really the whole story ?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-isnt-really-sitting-o...
I honestly don't know and am interested in what you think of this article.
Not to mention, it makes it harder using Ctrl + F to find information.
Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way
Well I jumped the gun then. I just assumed they would use the chance to show off their new format with a post about their new format. Guess not.

Looking at the actual documentation site, its not bad on first glance.
AFAIR, they had one, which was so flakey they had to disable it all the time.

But yeah, maybe them being somewhat at fault as well helped me out a bit :)