skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I don't get is why they don't just run the desalinization process at "full speed" when the sun is shining, and store the freshwater. Then you don't need any batteries. Maybe the process is not amenable to scaling up and down with a variable power supply. You could possibly use giant capacitors to smooth the power supply, but maybe the economics still favor smaller facilities that run 24/7, even though they need batteries.
Truckers are pretty conservative.

I don't see an owner-operator being willing to buy one, since if it fails on the road it could take a day or more to get it fixed/replaced.

However, I do see 2 markets for the vehicles:

1. Trucking that has a defined area of operation such as say, the truck that does local deliveries in a city covered by a listed CNG center; or a point to point route.

In such a case the long haul truckers will deliver to a big warehouse; then another trucker will load up for deliveries locally. E.g. ice cream, lettuce, carrots delivered by 3 diff. trucks to warehouse; then 1 truck to deliver a mix of these items to each local store in a grocery store chain .

2. For the Zero, there are lots of park rangers that right now have pickup trucks - they drive around the same city or state parks all the time and have 2 way radios. Since they can't go fast anyways, like 10 or 20 miles an hour, the range limitation won't kill them.
I don't think the site looks "shady" as many have said. It just has some shady information: to anyone with half a brain, it's clear you are not getting whole story. My impression is the company is insecure about their product and ability to execute, so they are overcompensating with big promises and deception. Shame really; because for all we know they are smart and well-intentioned.
I find this fascinating! Googling a bit, it seems there is a documentary on the Movile cave: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1qpffb_the-secret-underwor...
Anyone who was already doing it?

There's nothing new about offshore tax havens - cf Switzerland.
One of the best news aggregation sites for Docker is here:

http://docker-software-inc.scoop.it/t/docker-by-docker
Does this include the CO2 emitted in the process of extracting and refining diesel/gasoline? Depending on the source of the oil (Canadian Tar sands vs Saudi Arabia), its carbon footprint can vary drastically.
> "Analytical philosophers generally resist about having to teach history of philosophy."

I actually agree with you on this. It's fine to draw inspiration from historical theories, but I'd prefer if we could focus more on the ideas themselves, and less on the history behind those ideas. That said, this is orthogonal to what the article is about. Given that so much of philosophy classes revolves around "History of Philosophy," it makes sense to cover the full range of history, and not just one slice of it.

> "What topics discussed by non-European philosophers do you think are neglected? Yes it's hard to imagine there isn't bias in topic selection, but then this needs to be addressed by convincing modern researchers that whatever non-European ideas are better on their merits, not by studying modern non-European philosophy as a separate topic."

What you said is exactly what the author is arguing as well. He's expressly arguing against the segmentation of western/eastern philosophy into different topics, and in favor of integrating them into the mainstream of philosophy, based on their individual merits. He's also given specific examples of non-western philosophy that is unfairly neglected, and meriting integrated study. So far in this thread, numerous people have disagreed with the author, but I've yet to see any highly rated comment dispute the merit of the examples he's given.
Well put. I'm not attached to my current domain and might actually pick one of these up, depending on pricing.
which would you recommend for a beginner to read. looks interesting
It's odd that you don't see why guns are potentially more important. Because without guns or money (also something the left enjoys taking) the population is helpless to fight things like "being spied on and the loss of privacy".
To many jobs, to little qualified candidates but nothing a hacker can't fix.
I've written up a few ideas about PDFs, edges, and reproducibility (in particular); with the Hashtags #LinkedReproducibility (and #MetaResearch)

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LinkedReproducibility

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MetaResearch

- schema.org/MedicalTrialDesign enumerations could/should be extended to all of science (and then added to all of these PDFs without structured edge types like e.g. {intendedToReproduce, seemsToReproduce} (which then have specific ensuing discussions))

- http://health-lifesci.schema.org/MedicalTrialDesign

- there should be a way to evaluate controls in a structured, blinded, meta-analytic way

- PDF is pretty, but does not support RDFa (because this is a graph)

... notes here: https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/data-science#linked-reprod...

(edit) please feel free to implement any of these ideas (e.g. CC0)
Microsoft's wacky work sharing app – it's so crazy it just might work
1Password for Teams
How shameful, to be 17 without a college degree /s
It's more people complaining about unforeseen possible use cases that are now seen and possible rather than the underlying bits of tech that make it possible. (What, should we make cameras illegal?) But because aspects of our law have a tradition of "if it's not explicitly illegal, it's legal, unless you get sued for it and the judges decide it's illegal" then it is not a bad idea to nip these sorts of unintended purposes in the bud with an explicit law before someone actually does it and we have to wait for a long court battle for it to be resolved. (And when that someone is the government, the odds aren't exactly 50-50.)
Absolutely, great introduction to analytic number theory for anyone curious about the subject.
videos have subtitles in English :)
I can empathize with the message of this essay because I feel like it reflects the roots of my career, but I wouldn't share this with anyone I know because there is so much unnecessary cursing in this that gives it a really immature feel. You can totally get the message of this across without the crass language. It only detracts, not helps, in my opinion.

I'm saying this as someone who swears a lot, too.
Titles are written by click-bait experts.
It has those features indirectly - if i want to text my wife a picture of a typing dog, i can hit Now On Tap, search for the picture, hit share, hangouts, wife, and insert a picture of a typing dog, but it isn't rolled up in to the keyboard app like the IOS Gboard being shown here. (Unless I'm missing something...)
IIRC, there was a supreme Court case a little while ago that ruled the government couldn't put a tracking device on your car without a warrant; I wonder if there's an argument to be made that, with the prevalence of plate readers, machine-readable license plates are such a tracking decide.
it saddens me that techmeme isnt revered as the best non-discussion tech site on the internet. nothing else even compares.

http://techmeme.com http://techmeme.com/river

http://mediagazer.com http://mediagazer.com/river

http://hckrnews.com

http://redef.com/channel/media http://redef.com/channel/tech/feed http://redef.com/charts/popular/total http://redef.com/charts/shared/total

http://www.aldaily.com

http://www.producthunt.com

http://readability.com/topreads

http://longform.org

https://longreads.com

http://thewirecutter.com http://thesweethome.com

and for everything else there's http://www.usepanda.com

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and ones I never seem to make it to

http://www.metafilter.com/

https://thebrowser.com/

http://www.isitfunnytoday.com/

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and if I were limiting myself to non aggregators: atlantic, newyorker, bloomberg, avclub, indiewire, arstechnica, mit technology review, techcrunch, anandtech, nautilus, npr, rolling stone, wsj, nyt, guardian, wired, vice, foreign policy, the kernel, stratechery, harvard business review, variety, birth movies death, priceonomics, poynter, digiday
Please do learn to code
Off-topic, but am curious: was there a "standard" text for AMa 95? I didn't go to Caltech, but heard a bit about the course from a friend who did. These days I sometimes teach our equivalent course, and am always looking for good resources. Thanks!
The standard of living/quality of live for the poor in the USA is better than being poor in other countries. People on the dole often have nicer shoes and accessories than I do (talk about financial priorities out of whack, but I digress)! Depending on the situation you're better off on the dole than working a low-wage job. However, In other countries being poor means no welfare, no shoes, no plumbing, no food, and no Louis Vuitton purses.
The problem is that private investments maximize ROI instead of utility. This is why the financial sector keeps growing without actually contributing more to society. It's the easiest place to make more profit. That's why many kinds of investments, the ones with low financial ROI, must be made by the government.
I don't know if I would even consider his last name a household name at this point. HN is generally not a good indicator of the majority.
I'm currently passing though a GTX 760.

It was apparently a hassle in the past, but the bypasses are basically built in to the tools now. Nvidia is calling the blocking behavior a "bug", but the have no intention to act on it.
True that. I do not want to live in a city where I cant access Uber with the same ease as my current city.
Testing Development Pipeline for Android – Part 1
i was personally surprised that glide wasn't given top position in the announcement, since that's the one feature i've seen lots of ios users envy from android.
This smells fishy to me.

Why did they test in High Performance power mode? The default is Balanced.

High Performance mode doesn't allow the CPU to downclock, keeping it at the maximum frequency at all times, even with zero load. It also maintains a higher screen brightness, and stops wifi and disks from entering power-saving modes too. This is NOT a negligible difference.

The _concept_ behind optimizing for energy savings in a browser is absolutely brilliant. Why pollute it by using such blatantly fake numbers?
Off topic but I found it disturbing the way they kept saying "Allahu Akbar". It reminded me of Frisky Dingo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmnaeU0k80I.
And also RAM keeps getting cheaper. 64GB is absolutely nothing these days and can fit a LOT of data.
Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction [video]
>We need to remember that at its core a web page is simple. That's the beauty of it. And when you publish your own HTML to a server that you control; that's fucking powerful. Autonomy and independence are central to the web. We can't forget that.

I absolutely agree.

People seem to forget that the fundamental nature of the web hasn't changed. Facebook hasn't destroyed the web, javascript and that framework you hate haven't destroyed the web, advertising hasn't destroyed the web (arguably, the web has destroyed advertising), the NSA hasn't destroyed the web (yet.) You can still open up the text editor of your choice and write some HTML and put it on a server. That still works, and it will probably always work - human readable, human writable, human accessible content. You can still write it all by hand if you want, you don't have to know how to code, you're not forced to conform to arbitrary standards, or use proprietary software.

In the end, no matter how much abstraction modern developers pile on to make it look and act like "legitimate" application programming, the web is just HTML, CSS, javascript and some embedded content, probably images, possibly of cats. Sometimes, in the midst of how homogeneous and corporatized the web can appear, I think it helps to be reminded of how revolutionary it still is because of its fundamental simplicity and accessibility.
Available... but not in all countries. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That said, it has been available for a long time in unofficial forms. For example Weather Timeline accepts "Forecast" (from http://forecast.io / dark sky's weather api) as a source:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....
DOD cyber official cites 'critical gap' in network defense…
I find this sort of stuff creepy since it's always built with the concept of giving you the idea to buy something even if you didn't really want it. It's nothing like Futurama brain slug but it's still just as disturbing. It's probably why I'm always unsubscribing from email advertisements from various companies I tend to buy things from (since I'm not a regular customer for anything but utilities, rent, and groceries). I want my choices of consumption to be driven more by necessity than just some slick ad or product placement. Hell, I didn't own a smart phone until just last year. How's that for weird?
I also really like the sqitch project for migration management.

http://sqitch.org/
I don't know. I'd like to see them try it, because screw ContentID scammers.

I'm sure it would scare at least some percentage of them away.
At another point, she hops down onto a bus fording a canal and runs halfway across it and stops. I immediately thought "as soon as I approach her a cutscene is going to start where the bus is swept away or something". Yup.

I think it was an okay game, but it was definitely overhyped.
If that were true, he wouldn't have built something so perfect for abuse.
Yes, I find the lack of under construction signs and badly alpha blended gifs disturbing! ;o)

(By which I mean: it's a thing of beauty!)
Good point. I had to forget that important detail.
Resilience is probably not that closely linked to the probability of arising. Maybe once it exists, it is resilient, but when it is absent, chances of it arising are still very low.
The downvotes proof that "Wooosh", the sarcasm in your post was missed.

He is demonstrating a point here people. "Simple taxes" are unfair. Taxes are complicated because real life is complicated, and we wish to be fair.
Oriels a VR desktop with tons of windows
Matter, energy… knowledge: How to harness physics' demonic power
I don't know why HN is being so critical, because this sounds awesome and really useful! Similar to what I've been trying to do with databases ( http://gun.js.org ).

It is sad to see so much elitism in the tech world that is dismissive of anyone/anybody that knows less than them. This same attitude seems to come out a lot to dismiss really cool tools like this ( http://leveros.com ) that help solve frustrations and problems. Could we try to be more encouraging of newcomers and of tools that automate (laziness is a programmer's virtue) those gaps?
Wow, the idea that you shouldn't ask about educational background is pretty fascinating.

If it were placed at the same level as, say, sexual orientation in interview questions (e.g. verboten)... it would be a very effective way to skip straight to your capabilities and make a self-taught homeschooler be on the same playing field as an Ivy Leaguer.

The only "problem" would be one of getting off the ground. Currently there's a reasonable ecosystem around interning and recruiting on campuses and so on, which would muddy that "I don't know where you came from" line. Further, when you're straight-out-of-college there's a fair expectation that you're nigh useless at virtually every complex job and will need to be trained, so there's a fall-back that education is essentially vetting-by-proxy and gets you "street cred".

e.g. "Hey, look, I managed these activities and was a member of these honor societies and still managed to get a 4.0 GPA, you should hire me because I've proven that whatever I'm in, I kick ass at."

If I'm not allowed to talk about school, what the hell do I tell you I've been doing?

Still... pretty cool thought experiment.
I'm arguing that the "intended outcome" isn't always complete recovery. If a patient with terminal cancer dies, that doesn't necessarily mean that the chemo didn't achieve its intended outcome.
The reason is pretty simple: California doesn't have many power plants.

I spent a day or two once sifting through California Public Utility Commission archives.

California has not approved a coal plant since at least 1978, mainly due to NIMBY concerns wherever they tried to build them.
It is well known that in the untyped (or dynamically typed if you prefer that language) case then the expression problem trivializes. In fact, if we sacrifice type-safety then the problem trivializes in a typed language too.
Making garage space more valuable. Not much further to go before the care and maintenance of a sedan chair becomes economically viable.
How to decode job listings
I would be surprised to learn that USOC isn't doing the same thing.

The stakes are so high now and the training is so thorough, the temptation to cheat must be immense.
> The incentive to make fake accounts on Facebook is orders of magnitude greater than almost any other social network.

Not true. In the article, the writer pays Russell $15 for 1,000 likes. Being generous and assuming each of Russell's fake accounts can farm out 100 fake likes, he's making $1.50 per fake account before it gets shut down. Compare that to social networks where you can directly extract payments from other members by listing fake items for sale, laundering payments from fake credit cards (on other fake profiles) to yourself, or link-baiting other users. A single successful fake account on those networks can easily net you $100.

> Facebook has methods that radically exceed this method in both complexity, precision, and recall.

Agreed, and indeed Simility's models have much more complex methods too, but a) I wanted to post an interesting example everyone here would understand and b) I still say Facebook is not using anywhere near its full ability to stop these fake profiles given how rampant this fraud scheme is on their platform. (Again, follow the money, FB has very little incentive to stop these fraudsters who are only inflating their own numbers. It's important to keep them in check, but there's no incentive to waste resources stopping them.)
It's a shit documentary, and that YouTube user doesn't have the copyright license to distribute it on their channel.
“Recent posts from #kansas are currently hidden because the community has reported some content that may not meet Instagram’s community guidelines.”

You aren't seeing the presumably bad stuff when you go to /explore because it is being hidden.
And on that theme, then get ready for when your boss gets to the part about how NoSQL gives you:

"Rapid development. If you’re developing within two-week Agile sprints, cranking out quick iterations, or needing to make frequent updates to the data structure without a lot of downtime between versions, a relational database will slow you down."

Reminds me of this classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Take the coin flips you are confident about – the art of risk-management
"And, thanks to Konrad Zuse, computers and computer networks are what we have."

Holy smokes, what an inaccurate statement. Arguably one of the obstacles to progress in technology is due the persistence of the fundamental computer design that has been employed since "Baby" ran its first program just before lunch on June 21, 1948, including an approach to fast random memory accesses. This approach was novel, based on CRTs used in radar. Most everything else -- design-wise -- was from the Moore School Lectures of 1946. And the really inspirational part of those was from the work on the ENIAC.

The missing piece that needs to be more generally appreciated is how the early work on practical, general-purpose computers was quietly done in England while the Americans were squabbling over who was first.
From your link, the results section states, "Spence discovered that even if education did not contribute anything to an employee's productivity, it could still have value to both the employer and employee. If the appropriate cost/benefit structure exists (or is created), "good" employees will buy more education in order to signal their higher productivity."

The second sentence flips the causality you describe around. Employees who are already productive buy education to certify their productivity. The education does not necessarily lead to higher productivity. The employer wants productive employees, not certified employees. Certified employees are just a proxy for productive employees. Another proxy, such as aptitude tests or GitHub repositories, could function just as well. These "cost/benefit structures" may very well be more appropriate than formal education because they are less costly in time and money.
I love developing in Flask cause of the way decorators written.
This article is great. I've played through most of the game at this point, and I've really been noticing how good the single-player AI behavior is. Your AI buddy is pretty good about picking places to go, when to follow, when to lead, finding their own routes up cliffs and such that have multiple choices, etc. About the only oddity I've noticed is in combat areas, your buddy sometimes moves from cover to cover in full view of enemies or otherwise hunkers down in cover in a position that's actually in view of an enemy, and it doesn't matter (presumably enemies simply don't ever see your buddy unless they've already seen you). From a gameplay perspective this is absolutely the right choice, and it's such a minor thing that I really only noticed it because I looked specifically for it, I'm just kind of amused.
How does it fare compared to dillo ? That's right.
Repo men use these setups to find cars to repo, and they can sell the slurped up data to companies who in turn sell it to insurance companies, law enforcement, banks, and security companies.

First result from google on subject: http://abc7.com/news/repo-industry-collecting-data-on-you/37...
It's not really that much of a contrarian argument.

Basically, here's the deal:

Right now, the cost to own a car is CO and the value received from owning a car is VO.

The cost to rent cars from a taxi-like service is CR and the value received from renting cars in a taxi-like service is VR.

For most people, CO < CR. That is, it's usually much cheaper to own than to rent. With perhaps some exceptions if storing your car is super difficult in your locality.

The VO and VR relationship is much more complex. There are advantages of each model (you can take an Uber when you're drunk, you don't have to look for parking, but on the other hand you can't leave your crap in it and you have to wait for it to arrive and you can't take your kid in it).

Based on the CO < CR and VO <?> VR distribution across people, we have a certain balance where taxi-like services are pretty big, but ownership is the dominant model.

In the autonomous world, VO > VR almost all the time. That is, you get all the advantages of current ownership and pretty much all the advantages of current rental. But the cost of ownership presumably increases (you have to pay for a sensor package now) and the cost of renting presumably decreases (since you no longer have to pay for a driver). So the question is how much do those costs end up changing? Is the sensor package expensive or cheap? How many human costs can the Ubers of the autonomous world actually cut out, and how much utilization can they get out of each car? If the CO increase is small enough or the VO decrease is small enough, you expect to see more car ownership. If not, more car rental.
nuclear ~0
you could do that in the space bar