skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can pass all the EPA regulations we want in the US, but if China and India do nothing, it is a moot point.
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Learn how to systematize - even if it just means a checklist + calendar - marketing tasks. You can have a great product, but without eyeballs, you can't have sales. Then, create something with a clear value proposition. That is, if they buy / use your product, the $99 the invest will easily save them $1,000 in lost time or lost opportunity.
An example: Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for climate change advocacy. And on the side, made up to a billion dollars from climate change business -- much of which was based on e Energy Department grants!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/business/energy-environmen...
Private lives are exposed as WikiLeaks spills its secrets
Northern Italy (just below Austria). The hottest is around 37° Celsius, but I don't use AC until I go over 30 inside the house (which has happened just once or twice this summer). Workplaces usually keep AC on as long as temp is above 23°, but that's just my experience.
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Insurance companies are consistently profitable, it's hard to look at that profit as anything other than a net drain. Especially when a public healthcare option was not included in the US specifically because these companies could not compete.

Looking at direct and indirect costs insurance adds ~20+% to healthcare spending. Remember insurance commercials for example are yet another cost.
Full quote is a bit more nuanced:

“In the absence of any positive experimental evidence for supersymmetry,” Gross said, “it’s a good time to scare the hell out of the young people in the audience and tell them: ‘Don’t follow your elders. … Go out and look for something new and crazy and powerful and different. Different, especially.’ That’s definitely a good lesson. But I’m too old for that.”

Personally, I see quite self-aware comment on conceding defeat and contemplating on not having enough time for second take on the problem. I don't think it's really possible to become a top ranking physicist while being "grossly unscientific".
The US constitution doesn't say much about privacy.

The 4th amendment restricts the government from doing things that would (in part) violate privacy of individuals, but it doesn't say much about what other citizens can do in public places.
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Would love to repeat this sometime using pure modern C++.
A friend of mine has a child with an allergy and was visiting Turkey. A family member of his (in Turkey) is a physician, and said that in Turkey nobody uses epi pens and allergies are generally never the cause of visits to the ER.

Is this true? What's going on?
That is a very nice piece of work! Well done!
》There will come a point where the accumulated complexity of our existing systems is greater than the complexity of creating a new one. When that happens all of this shit will be trashed.

I think it applies to bank system, politics, and more in general to anything that can be improved and where there are enough money to think about re-design. At that point yes, another life cycle will starts.
Hi, so far owncloud and nextcloud are still pretty much the same after their fork, however nextcloud seems to pursue a more complete personal cloud solution, with lots of other addons/apps like an openstreetmap or email UI. I use owncloud on a daily basis through my Cloudron and it is pretty good, especially given the file-syncing from my phone (Android). I did use seafile as well some time ago, but I found the UI quite a bit confusing, less focused on what I needed, which was file-syncing.
Whoa, very cool. Waste not, want not. Well, science is kind of miss-and-hit (re: odds) so when they succeed and find additional use, that's inspirational I think.

Kind of had a funny mental image of the team wrapping up the shut-down process. Then, recently, all of them still at NASA get a calendar notification from the past: "SETERO-B about to return from behind the sun - go try and jump start it!" and they get back on the case.
The US might have plenty of desert, but you need rather a lot of cool water to run a nuclear plant, which is why they're often built on coasts.

And what of other places? France has a decent set of nuclear reactors, but there aren't really uninhabited areas in Europe to put more in. Only relatively less populated areas. The UK is currently struggling to get one off the ground and the economics of it look terrible.
I actually thought this was AirDisplay until I saw your comment. I just filed it under that popular iPad as a display app that has been out for years.
Nadella personally oversaw the QA changes to windows updates. Ask any sysadmin how terrible the QA is now.

Also, at a company like MS, I think its a naive to think the big decisions in regards to Win10 have zero input from the CEO level. Also the CEO is responsible for the calls of the higher ups. Even if Nadella is hands off with Windows, the fact that he isn't intervening is a sign of incompetence.

I don't know why people persist in thinking the CEO is just a ceremonial role in big companies.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12342048

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12343049
> I'm not going to get into a debate over it,

Would that be because you know you've just made an unsustainable statement. Regulation has prevented plenty of ills.
Perhaps we could consider what is going on here to be something of a small-townification of cities.

I grew up in a small town. If something was going on out from behind closed doors, everyone knew about it. And sometimes they knew even if it was behind closed doors.

Prior to the current era of data ubiquity, to escape such a thing, you could find some level of anonymity in a crowd. Walking through Times Square in NYC, you're technically in public, but you're just another unremarkable person on an unremarkable day.

There is a certain level of ignorance about the greater world in a small town. I've witnessed people saying and doing very--how should I say--unprogressive things, "just" because they didn't know any better [0]. On the flip side, there is a certain level of indifference about the greater world in a city. I've seen no greater degree of true open-mindedness in cities, and I think that's due to a kind of shutting down and retreating from the full ocean of people that cities contain.

In other words, whether or not a certain person lives a public-by-default or private-by-default life, they're probably going to be exactly the same.

So what does this mean for privacy? Privacy is a continuum that is inversely correlated with how much contact you want to have with the outside world. 100% privacy requires 100% retreat from the world, which is childishly unrealistic. Either accept that society needs to know your face to be able to talk to you, or go move out into the desert and live a hermit's life. You can't expect to live in a community and be "anonymous", not now, not ever before.

I don't agree that one should be allowed to blur themselves out of other people's photos. If you're out in public, you agree to be seen. It's childish to say, "I don't want my photo online." You might as well say, "I don't want people on the bus to see my face." They are the same exact people online as they are on the bus.

[0] They should have known better, ignorance is no excuse here, but it's very easy to rationalize to yourself that the media provides an accurate depiction of people-unlike-you of whom you have no personal experience. I'm not sure my grandfather has ever met an African American man who confirms his racist stereotyping of them, but that doesn't stop him from adopting whole-cloth the image that they are all wanna-be rap stars, which I blame mostly on my grandfather being a raging asshole, but a small part on mainstream media providing black men with few other roles.
Any success by way of a giant Earth-based laser? Asking for a friend.
KuWit is the AI bot who knows everything about Kubernetes
Using IBM Watson to detect Facebook messages tone and prioritize support
It was announced earlier this month:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/technology/apple-will-pay-...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/08/09/why_apple...
Similarly, the single Bronze-Iron age result they find is from the Isle of Thanet, which was a major trading post

(see: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-pho... )
read Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

This will explain why SF has these issues.
There's a large pool of .net developers that are generally less expensive to hire.

he following technologies feature most strongly in job vacancy advertisements:

Java — featured in 18% of adverts with an average salary of $100,000 USD

JavaScript — 17%, $90,000

C# — 16%, $85,000

C — 9%, $90,000

C++ — 9%, $95,000

PHP — 7%, $75,000

Python — 5.5%, $100,000

R — 3%, $95,000

Scheme — 3%, $65,000

Perl — 3%, $100,000

https://www.sitepoint.com/best-programming-language-learn-20...
> if you don’t assume that the US in the only country in the world.

The US is the only country with a CAN-SPAM Act. Unless Canada has one of those too?
The problem is that wind and solar are only a supplementary to nuclear power at the moment. It won't be able to replace nuclear until we find a better way to store energy.
It's video on demand! The leader demands, and you watch the video!
It is possible that both can be true. The price for medicine is cheaper because you have a single entity, the NHS, negotiating for a large group of people. On the the other hand, it is possible that we subsidize the development of new medicine to an extent. An epipen would otherwise exist regardless because it is a requirement for many people. More advanced medicine that requires a large capital investment for research and development could be another story.
How did you decide that the guy was douchy? Having money and spending it shouldn't be the criteria for it.

By most accounts, his company is a great place to work in.

Let's not forget that before it got on its high horse (after making billions upon billions), Google was pretty okay with letting people advertise scammy stuff on AdWords too, as was Facebook (just ask people about the glory days of the "Rich Jerk" or dating offers on Facebook)
> Build a machine that pulls significant amounts of CO² out of the atmosphere

Or you could plant a tree.
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It would be really interesting to have a set of extremely similar programs in, let's say, "matured C", modern C++ and Rust for comparison purposes.
Get rid of it, or show a counter of hidden stories in the top bar...
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there is a community driven fork of crosstools-ng which in turn is based on a gcc fork made by a tensilica/cadence employee (jcmvbkbc). both gcc and gdb are ported to the call0 calling convention (no register windows on lx106).

it's quite a mess but it's getting better.

we (Cesanta) packaged and cleaned up the build environment: https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose-iot

you can use our docker based toolchain. It contains a few patches (malloc, stdio, moved all text sections to flash, ...), a gdb stub and serial crash dumper, working OTA solution and a sensible event driven networking API (based on the good old mongoose web server) for those that just can't wrap their heads around espcon .

please take a look. the embedded JavaScript interpreter thing can be disabled if not necessary
As historically cooler climates warm up, opportunities shift. A huge amount of industries where geography plays a crucial role will be affected. Vineyards, for instance, will be entirely changed.

The trick is to find an industry currently tied to a specific climate, and predicting where the change in climate will take the market.

I haven't thought about it a ton myself yet, but that's the line of thinking I've been on...
Even loading the pink lines took about 60 seconds last time I tried. So the heavy load seems to be very heavy indeed.
Is a company in New York bound by the laws of New Jersey or California? Do consumer protections for an individual in California extend to every company in the US?
Wood for Trees interactive global temperature graphs
Yeah, those physics and chemistry models are made by scientists who are really, really smart and are 100% correct, 100% of the time. They have lab coats and all.

It's definitely possible to model the whole climate system. Amazon is making recommendations with machine learning AI and shit.
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Ask HN: On how many topics should a good developer focus?
I'm currently finishing my MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering and there are many topics that excite me. However, I feel like some of them are too unrelated for me to specialize in both, like ML and OSdev, for instance. On how many of these "unrelated subjects" should one concentrate and focus on being good at? Any strategies or advice to filter the topics you should hang on to and the ones you should leave behind?
Kinda, yeah!
Someone might reasonably wonder why a federal task force is required to investigate "price gouging" for an item that contains under $10 of materials and is not mechanically complex.

Why wouldn't an entrepreneur simply introduce a competing epi-pen design and bring it to market for $300 (for example) and undercut the price being charged by Mylan?

We're told to hate the Martin Shkrelis of the world, and to resend the Mylans, but the truth is that our system prevents price competition because it is designed to protect established firms. This is why many established firms and "industry leaders" strongly supported the affordable care act.
link to patent:

https://www.google.com/patents/US20050273054
in cities like chicago and new york they crank the heat in the winter so that it's 80F inside. you get sick just from the temperature differentials of walking inside and outside.

you also have to strip down to a single layer as soon as you walk in the door, and put all the damn clothes back on if you want to go outside, or you start pouring sweat. what's wrong with keeping everything on but your winter coat?

being from southern california you see this stuff for what it is -- people going insane from shitty weather. it should be 73F everywhere, inside and out, all the time.

unfortunately, it's getting hotter and hotter here, too. eventually we'll be insane also.
Ask HN: How to find users for my beta app?
I have side project that I really enjoyed doing plus I think it's a really nice tool to have. I use it in my day job. The thing is I have no idea how to find users to register and start use it. There is a free plan, so I really don't think it should be so hard...

The app is http://discrete.li/
it's basically analytics service for ajax requests. Website owners plant a small javascript snippet in their site, and I track all statistics, including latency tracking and payload logs.

The service is pretty simple right now, but it is reliable. I use it for 6 months to track a medium-size app in production. I don't expect people to pay right away. I'll give it for free in exchange for feedback + patience while I implement it :-)

any way, I would love to hear your thoughts....
If my bath is overflowing, the only water I have to worry about is the relatively small volume coming over the edge - not the total amount of water in the bath.

The ecosystem produces vast amounts of CO2 ... and consumes a similarly vast amount. It is the imbalance that you need to worry about. And that imbalance is largely caused by humans either damaging CO2 sinks or releasing CO2 that ha been sequestered over the last few billion years
My wife's cousin had something like this happen to her two years ago when she was planning her wedding.

She browsed a few specialist wedding sites for inspiration and when she went to to some well known retail sites to start pricing things they seemed to know she was getting married and promoted wedding goods and services on their front page to her.

It freaked her out no end. I suggested a few plugins that seemed to put a stop to it. But a few weeks later she did start getting wedding related snail mail spam.

Its very creepy, especially after the whole Target teenage pregnancy thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM0hczFNDZI
What are the chances the device contains a pinhole camera(s) and microphone array to act as a surveillance device?
Const does not mean immutability, only immutable references to the outermost pointer. It is equivalent to final in Java. While that solves the issue with numbers changing state, it does not help objects e.g. For that you need something like immutable.js from Facebook.
doubtful that an auction that would demand those profits would be 1) easy to facilitate 2) stable and predictable.

Also, the individual price per unit would rise to the point that there would be another competitor to the market.

My point is that you can't cry about government controlled health care, and high prices of "free-market" items at the same time.

So either we have a gene pool cleansing and accept that people die, or a controlling entity uses force to coerce the manufacturers to adopt practices that will make it available at "reasonable" prices to the populous.
I didn't know that they were so prevalent, though I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised; my current energy plan does a wind-offset thing right now.
The cliche´ of hacker news haters is really really really getting old.

I don't think your rebuttal of a criticism as exhibiting a hater culture is any less cliche.

Until the disgustingly contrived artificial hype, and regular poorly-founded misguided hype are all derided too, the haters persist to balance the equation.

Or, to rephrase my point in a business-friendly way: garnter_hype_cycle.jpg
I'm using a few classes and some class hierarchy as well. I've reimplemented std::vector and std::string and a few other features from the STL and use them both in kernel space and user space (the STL is not standalone, need the glibc and I didn't want to port everything). I'm using quite some templates in the library part. I'm using auto from C++11 and a few constexpr functions. I have disabled exceptions and RTTI. I'm using RAII principle as much as possible (but this can be improved a lot still). I'm using references when I can remove pointers.

On the other hand, a lot of code is clearly very close to C. When you're doing some low-level things, parsing memory structures, paging, ... there are not a lot of features from C++ than can help. Moreover, there is a lot of code that could profit from some refactorings:P
We looked very closely at moving from Austin to Flagstaff 3 years ago when my wife had a job offer there. Although we absolutely love the locale we concluded that there were very few job opportunities in the area, particularly in tech, and it wouldn't be a great move from an economic standpoint.

What's your view of the Flag area economy?
You seem to think that markets can do absolutely anything. Asymmetric information, unpaid externalities and other economic hazards are a thing.
I seem to remember the UK also had some fishermen protests until the fishermen found out fishing was better among the wind farms. Old article, I wish I could find now.

[edit] also, isn't 7 miles offshore pretty much close to out of site?
Suppose net CO2 went up on average by 1ppm per thousand years by natural causes. Well, over the last 2 billion years 2,000,000,000 / 1,000 * 1= 1,000,000 ppm. 2,000,000 ppm wait part per million so 2 parts per part that's meaningless.

Thus, net CO2 from natural causes must average very close to 0 on long time scales.

PS: If you look into it natural carbon sequestration increases slightly as atmospheric CO2 increase which is why things end up in balance. Natural carbon sequestration is also why there are huge sources of coal and oil to begin with.
yes,

Decreasing the CO2 emissions - which wont happen due to losses in profits.

Reduce deforestation - which wont happen due to losses in profits.

Increase the planting of grasses, and fast growing carbon sequestering crops such as hemp - Wont happen because it costs money, unless its triggered by individuals (Green plants absorb infrared and sequesters CO2). For those people who say, OH! but the CO2 cycle is neutral for growing plants because they rot... B.S. what do you think permafrost is and not to mention... oil.

Seed the oceans with iron to encourage algal blooms, and dredge it all up and bury it deep.

Change the mode of Air Transport to reduce contrails as studies have suggested that ‘contrail cirrus’ is a contributing factor and leads to greater forcings. We need widespread Maglev trains, or dare I say it something revolutionary such as Hyperloop (but one that actually gets made.. lets focus on what we have already)
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The Palo Verde nuclear generating station is the largest nuclear reactor in the US, and possibly in the western hemisphere. It is located in the US desert, an hour out of town pretty much in the middle of nowhere & nothing.
Any thoughts on the second question?
Does anyone know if this is controllable by software?

i.e. is it something DD-WRT, Tomato et. al. can alleviate?

I have been suffering similar symptoms on my home network and I also have a Sony Android TV, though to be honest it hadn't occurred to me to bust out Wireshark to figure out what was going on. In hindsight, I guess this was a rookie mistake on my part.
Yes, you can be sued by a California resident for violating California's spam laws even if you're based in another state.
Good thoughts. That's exactly what I thought when I saw the tweet as well. VCs are pontificating on SnapChat about what kind of team you should build at the seed stage because they are doing content marketing. Like all content marketing it is a mix of useful insight and a strategy to get you to pay attention based on interest/entertainment/etc. Don't take it too rigidly.
Storytelling or Story Making?
Well, Ford now see themselves creating a taxi service.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37106570
It's easy to point the finger and call people assholes when its not your home value that is being impacted by the project. For better or worse, most people don't move to places like cape cod so they can stare at wind turbines all day. Placing them there will obviously negatively impact home prices where they are dominant on the horizon.

That's not to say that it's a bad idea to put them there, and the overall public good may make it worth it, but to brush off the concerns of the actual residents (who I would guess is not you) as stupid is not very productive.
Nice, having logins while not using Https.

EDIT: Failed at english.
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This is exactly how Finland became developed country.

1. Land reform 1918.

2. Protectionist policies, import restrictions and increasing exports trough war reparations after WWII.

3. Strict financial controls and industrial policies. Finland ended financial controls in 80's. (Most Nordic countries ended their financial regulations in the 80's).
That's a fair point. However, nuclear plants can be modularized and produced industrially. These are called SMRs, and in fact they are actually the recommendation issued in the joint letter to the President on climate change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
> If you're out in public, you agree to be seen.

True. Seen and enshrined in some (or more) peoples fleeting memory. Not captured for (nearly) all eternity and the whole world (who were not present at that exact moment and place) to see.

That is also the reason I oppose ubiquitous public surveillance. Even if it can only be seen by some amount of government actors.

I am glad, that I grew up in a time without constant photography or trackability. I am glad, that I an not totally recorded with every step I take in public and that only the people who walk by might have the chance to remember my face and me being there at that moment.

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