skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're probably correct on this point in general, but the tax break I get from having kids offsets the cost of almost two weeks of preschool. No one is having kids to save money.
I'd guess that this sort of bulk wind power is going to increasingly find favour with the big utilities over time. They don't like thoughts about homeowners buying in to a future with Tesla powerwalls + roof solar at plunging costs (e.g. the situation in Hawaii [1]). Big offshore projects let the utilities supply clean electricity without decentralisation of the grid.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/hawaii-solar-indust...
Supply and demand amiright? Otherwise we might be branded as gasp socialists!

There really isn't any good answer to this, and there will be losers in either scenario.
Gold Linker(2008) [pdf]
Well, in German

climate = Klima

weather = Wetter

So, I really don't think that the confusion can be excused by language in this case :)
How Buying a Car on Finance Works
You know what's weird about this situation is that often I've been told by people here in the US that the price NHS and other single payer systems pay is only possible because we here in the US supposedly pay for it at the free market price. I don't believe that myself since it wouldn't make much sense to say that the prices would plummet to such a degree as to be unprofitable. But I do wonder how much of the price would be affected if every country in the world were under single payer systems. Would it be even marginally higher? Would it be possibly lower for all? I'm not sure. But I would love to see someone analyze this to see if this is statement I keep hearing is 100% bunk.
A New ELF Linker [pdf]
[Podcast] Mark Leslie: How companies go on to disrupt themselves
> Regulation has never fixed anything.

That's just silly. Regulation guarantees the safety of the food you eat, the buildings you live in and the car you drive.
LOL, the business model seems to fit pretty well to the douchiness of this guy.
A simple explorer for Google Drive which will list all of your files and shows how much quota they was used.
With it identifying files which took up most of your storage is a matter of minute.
As someone who does not tolerate heat well, i can confirm. And it isn't over yet.
What about graceful restarts? Like can I kill -USR2 the pid of this and have it stop listening on that port, launch another version of itself (new binary) that does net.FileListener(f) vs. net.Listen("tcp", url) but keep running until all current jobs are done?
He is flashy for sure, but Div is probably the only guy in the ads business, who runs a company this size and can still talk 'code' as good as the best engineers you know. They have a huge engineering setup in India and are one of the best paymasters. Though they do fly under the radar even in India.
So there's three things here: upfront cost, running costs, and decommissioning costs. The running costs of renewable generation are nonzero even if the fuel is free, as there's considerable maintenance cost. The long run cost - and so the decision whether to build fossil or renewable - has to take all three into account.
I try to understand why people would write JavaScript but I just can't. The only explanation to me is that they're not aware of what they're missing out on, or the deficiencies of their own platform, in a Dunning-Kruger sort of way.

I would be interested in hearing from some JavaScript developers about why they use JavaScript, but I have probably heard and refuted it before. Especially after Ryan Dahl disavowed Node, I think it's time to reconsider your viewpoint.
The Pitched Battle Over Mutual Fund Reports You Probably Don’t Even Read
Do botanists use the term "vegetable" at all?
I think the point that previous posters were making is that in controlled environments some features might outperform others. And yes, the scientific way of testing things is isolating variables and changing one thing each time.

But, for the final user, it doesn't matter if each technology alone is better than another. If you have a background 64-core processor, driven by another 8-core... What matters is how fast something loads, performs, and how long batteries last.

Of course, this might be outplaced in a thread discussing NN branch prediction.
This is a "writing code"-centric point of view. From the maintenance perspective "you" aren't the only person for whom the tradeoffs of callbacks/promises/async-await matter. It also matters to the people who have to come along years later and maintain the software.

So really it's about what abstraction makes sense for the maintainers as well. Not just you.
Google Brain Robotics Releases Pushing and Grasping Datasets
The scientific consensus is that it is probably man made.
This is amazing.
At first I thought it was clickbait, but I watched the video and he can use arms that were transplanted. I am an organ donor, but I never realized it could be more than just a heart or kidney.
To save humanity we will need some kids anyway. Who will choose who will have them?
Can you? I believe gmail strips out periods, but doesn't discard content after them like it does with +.
Check out the broken thorn tutorials on the subject. They are far more complete.
Not as dramatically as in the last 50 years.

http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Plenty of people are dying from unsafe food, unsafe buildings and unsafe driving. Nobody can fix these problems because lobbyists are increasing the barrier to entry under the guise of safety.

After all, check out this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12340694
Talk to the ham radio guys like me who operate (or operated) VHF/UHF weak signal.

At 433 that's pretty close to the 432.1 band some of us use.

Its possible for sunspots to really mess with HF and lower VHF like the 50 MHz 6M band but way off for 432.

Sunspot correlation with sporadic E (bouncing off the ionosphere) is common up to 50 MHz and drops off rather fast. I've made hundreds, thousands of contacts on 6M sporadic E but precisely one in my entire ham radio career on 2M which is 144 mhz pretty far from 432.

What does mess with vaguely 2M and up including 432 is tropospheric ducting. Basically a weather front or extreme fog makes a poor waveguide out of itself. Its somewhat location dependent.

One 70 cm band specific problem that could affect 433 mhz unlicensed stuff in a local area might be (legal ham radio) experiments with wide band ATV using a channel that overlaps the unlicensed band. That has nothing to do with sunspots.
Ask HN: What are the selling points of .NET?
Just looking to better understand the stack and it's strengths, particularly where large web applications are concerned.
If we stop having kids, then why would we bother to protect the environment?
Indeed, it is amazing how quickly things are changing. If we solve intermittency, there won't be any reason to be pro-nuclear.
Or nephews and nieces or other kids that they might actually care about leaving an inhabitable world for.
It's an argument for not letting simplicity get in the way of functionality, and designing the interface around the actual usage of the site. Hiding the added complexity of the new features and hoping people just figure it out doesn't keep things elegant.

Although I suppose it's also an argument for having the unhide link in the user profile be a bit more obvious somehow. Either way, it seems like a UI problem, for which the solution may be to either deal with the complaints in order to keep things simple, or else to change the UI to be more intuitive.

I suggest moving things to the top bar because I'm assuming people pay far more attention to it than they do their profiles.
Apple acquiring Gliimpse marks a new generation for the healthcare industry
Per capita CO2 production has dropped in the US and EU by over 20%. Remember, the only long term causes are fossil fuels which are both finite and replaceable.
USB Goes Full Circle with USB-C
> Personally, I’m sold on the whole thing just because I can pin Google Keep and Inbox to the top of the sharing menu.

+1
I live in Australia.

We tend to use AC if the outdoor temp is above 30C, so most days November to April.

It gets to above 45C here, which is pretty horrible without AC.
Laravel 5.3 is now released
No, I was just pointing out that 80% is not very likely and is probably some sort of bias or mis-representation. In fact it would be a great compliment for them because they would be getting consistently the opposite of the market (If they overall lose money it must be that at least on the weighted average of their bets they get it wrong, maybe one big wrong and many little right ones, or mostly all moderately wrong, etc..).
Developing countries are influenced by rich countries along the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus.

To poorly summarize the book, the path that works is

1. Land reform to give small plots to families. This boosts yield and turns unskilled labor into foreign currency.

2. Protectionist policies balanced by government requirements to export so companies have to innovate instead of milking the local market.

3. Financial controls to prevent capital flight and make capital available to strategic industries. Often at the expense of savers.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in History, Economics, or Current Events.
You can make 1% predictions.
If you reduce net CO2 production by 90% you still get record temperatures year after year, but the rate of increase is dramatically smaller.
Hehe.

I have the feeling most German (Millenials?) just study what they do in their free time.

Yes, there are the academic families, that tell their kids to become lawyer or medical doctor or something like that.

But most tell me I was just lucky that I liked doing computer stuff, so I could study computer science and make "mad bucks" while they liked to draw or read and had to study something like languages or fine arts.
You're right of course. Again, no real solutions just pointing out a problem. Also, not sure why people assume I want to reopen Auschwitz when I say we need less people.
iOS vulnerability lets apps break out of sandbox
Great idea! I thought I was the only one needing this
Good, appropriately cynical take on this from Peter Woit:

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8708
The use of white backgrounds with blue text is a major UI error. Blue text is known to be more difficult to read due to fewer blue cones in the retina. Otherwise this looks pretty interesting.
I cannot imagine the will it takes to go through this. All due to a sepsis/necrotizing fasciitis issue started from a strep infection which ended up taking all his limbs.
It's more that certain features can be way more expensive than they look.

e.g. say you're working on an embedded system, and you want a string, so you do:

std::string s = "fnord";

At first it seems to work fine --- but you firmware image's RAM requirements have just gone up by 32kB, and a week later there's a crisis when adding another feature causes the system to stop linking because the RAM address space is full.

What happened is that std::string uses the heap to store the string data, so adding the line above caused the linker to pull in all the heap code and allocate a 32kB block of RAM to put the heap in. Because previously, the product wasn't using a heap: it was using static memory allocation throughout.

That example's contrived, but only a little. I've done the must-avoid-dynamic-memory-allocation dance many times in real life. (I've also discovered that printf() requires a raise() implementation on some platforms.)

A more realistic one is that embedded platforms typically have RTTI turned off, which means no exceptions, which means no throwing exceptions from constructors, which means two-phase construction throughout your program and you have to be really careful about which bits of the STL you use...
Besides consumables like fuel, mentioned nearby, there are also mechanical parts like gyroscopes or reaction wheels (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wheel) which maintain pointing. If the s/c contains an imager, there will probably be a mechanical shutter, protective cover, and/or filter wheel.

There can also be higher power electronics, like signal amplifiers or radios, which tend to fail more often than computer electronics. Finally, there is cumulative radiation damage, and the possibility that a combination of single event upsets can get the s/c into an unrecoverable state.

From time to time, operational changes can force the s/c into new operating modes ("we need to flip the camera to take images to fit a new point spread function"). These new operating modes can cause unforeseen consequences ("when flipped, the antenna has to be pointed differently to target the ground station") that ripple through the system. As the mission wears on, the chance of a new operating condition tickling a latent problem increases, because there are a lot more latent problems.
Thank you, I get your point. Re-reading it, and other comments here, I am getting reinforced in suspicion I already had for some time -- people don't do operating systems in C++ simply because they cannot hire big enough teams of C++ developers skillful enough to code in an OS environment.
The least safe new car in 2016 is vastly safer than the absolute best car produced in 1980. Remember, seat belts are a direct result of regulation mostly from US airforce testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp
There's also making unnecessary copies of things like strings and vectors passed to functions and exception overhead (in binary size at least)
> In Europe, prisons are more focused on rehabilitation, whereas US prisons are more focused on punishment.

Not all of Europe. Here in the Netherlands we have the high security prison in Vught where there are no guards during airing time. So the guards put all kinds of nutters, murderers, and psychopaths in a big field together, lock all the gates, and stand on the other side looking. If bad happens, sorry can't do something about it, wouldn't be safe for the guards.

I'm deeply ashamed of this. We Dutch like to be so enlightened and moralistic but this sort of shit really kills it. We need to adopt the Norwegian system.
All that money but <div> yearns to have semantic meaning.
Then why are they making hundreds of thousands of epipens? Sounds like they should make like 100 a year and auction those suckers off. Less material and capital to manufacture, same profits.
I really don't want to be "that guy" but....

I have a big problem with what you said. It should be "fewer people."
A simple carbon tax at $X/ton and a little patience would go along way by simply making carbon-lighter solutions more competitive.

The problem with pretty much any regulation actually implemented is that politicians have been way too eager picking winners (massively subsidising specific approaches instead of letting a thousand flowers bloom) and protecting losers (assigning emissions trading credits to existing big polluters, essentially shielding the organisations that need them the most from incentives, while burying newcomers in cost and red tape), creating an opaque web of perverse incentives and an orgy for lobbyists.
Live in a multi-unit building in a city where you can commute and do errands by walking or cycling (electric bikes are fine and get around that whole pedaling bit). Source your energy renewably and use little of it (80-300kwh per month isn't crazy depending on your climate). Don't buy much stuff. Eat very little meat.

I mean, it doesn't take it to 0 but even if you DO want a comfortable life it doesn't mean living in a hovel.

I'm as guilty as anyone though. I love to travel, and I live on an island, so I fly a lot. Offsets only do so much (though they'd be really helpful if we had a functional carbon market).
It's not necessarily wrong, is it? I mean the TV could legitimately have a full ethernet buffer, and the switch should handle that appropriately.
That doesn't matter unless you're arguing that it wouldn't have happened without a government and regulation. Most of the responsibilities of a government would be better handled and implemented by the private sector.
How  to Determine Which Applicants Will Be Loyal Employees
I can beat that one. My school was in the mountains and had cold winters (temps < 10F/-12C not being unusual, dropped below 0F/-18C several times while I was there), but also fairly warm summers (> 90F/30C) due to being in the southern US.

The school had a campus wide steam heating system to deal with the winters, but according to what I heard they were terrified to ever turn it off because parts of it were approaching 100 years old. So, all summer long the heat was running on low in the same buildings that were being air conditioned.
How much Carbon did it take to make New York into New York? That's "your Carbon" too if we are going to talk about "punishment"

That's just the wrong language and maybe the wrong perspective, we are all in this together when it comes to climate change, we all pay for the sins of others.
And what if this machinery starts taking out CO2 too fast? Who will stop it, taking into a count the beaurocraty level in UN and lobby behind such a money making machine?

Indeed, worth a book.
I thought a significant portion of north africans are genetically arab.
I live just North of Toronto, it's definitely gotten above 30 degrees a few times this year and I think above 40 (Celcius), but I can't be sure.

We have no air conditioning. There are days it's downright uncomfortable and you're walking around shirtless and sitting by a fan because even warm air flow is better than no air flow.

There are a lot of cold showers and cold drinks consumed. I have to say though, it's only seemed to be 2 or 3 days at a stretch and then a storm or cold front comes in and breaks it up. So is it unlivable? No. Is it uncomfortable? Sure.

If it were my house, I'd definitely have caved and had AC installed; and if I had it, I'd most likely abuse it more than I should. If I'm honest with myself and asked "do I really need to have the AC running right now?" I'd have to say, I could count on 2 hands the number of days this year where the answer was yes (although, I did make it through without it, so is that even true?) vs. just (ab)using it because it's there and 18C is comfortable in summer.

When I build a house, it's definitely having geothermal heating/cooling to take the edge off.

... and a dehumidifier takes the edge off too. Dry heat is a lot easier to suffer than wet heat.
The network? "YC doesn’t end on Demo Day. We and the YC alumni network continue to help founders for the life of their company, and beyond." http://www.ycombinator.com/
Wc in x64 assembly
maybe, maybe not. methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas. So if you reduced CO2 90%, but methane went up by 2X then you would have stronger warming. My point is CO2 is not the only greenhouse gas.
NASA is using Node.js for its Mission Control Framework
https://nasa.github.io/openmct/
https://github.com/nasa/openmct
I don't agree with Linus, but yes, boost is horrible.
Switches aren't supposed to exist in the OSI model at all, which makes it of questionable usefulness today - when was the last time you used a purely-hubbed network?
Reader View being too narrow should get a fix in either the next release or the one after that, i.e. the fix is in Developer Edition, maybe already in Beta (I didn't check there), and a small change like that usually goes through Developer Edition and Beta in one release cycle each.

Basically, they now have a setting for that in the toolbox to the left, so you can decide yourself how narrow or wide you want it. They also added a setting for the line height, so even though you didn't complain about that with Reader View, you can now change that, too, if you should ever need it.
The original Asian Tigers included Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines when they boomed in the 90s. After the '98 crises, though, none of them were able to get back on track.

There's good and bad ways to feed a boom in the short term. I hope Vietnam figures it out. I was there for a month earlier this year and it's a fantastic place.
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I associate blazers with a degree of formality and if I'm wearing one it's probably because I am somewhere I am obliged to be rather than really socializing.
US versions of the Note 7 use a Qualcomm processor, not a Exynos. (supposedly to support Verizon and Sprint's CDMA networks)
In 1900 it was literally impossible to buy flour that did not contain significant amounts of chalk dust and other adulterants. In Hong Kong there are entire streets given over to baby formula shops because the Chinese from the mainland don't trust the stuff in their shops, with very good reason. Don't assume that just because things are not perfect that regulation hasn't made a huge positive difference.
I agree that Malaysia's racial policies are fundamentally unfair, but their GDP-per-capita (PPP) is $~27k. That's in the same ballpark as many European nations, and not monumentally different from South Korea ($34.5k). From an economic perspective, I would hardly call them a failed state.
The standards that NIMBYers advocate in this context, e.g. "if it's within X miles I might be able to see it" would be laughable in any other. Not to mention that wind generators are among the most beautiful useful things ever built, so it's odd to claim that seeing them is some sort of hardship. If windswept shorelines weren't occupied by old-money assholes, these facilities would already be common in USA.
Was reading about this the other day. As far back as three years ago they predicted that Solar would undercut Nuclear. there's many articles out there, this is one of them:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-16/new-wind-s...
My take is from scientific computing perspective.
But as my opinion isn't that interesting, I take this opportunity to cite some julia-python-language-relatedtopics on HN.

I'm still betting on Julia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11516374
and, since I do not use it for "production", I'm not giving up
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11692155

That said, if it's all about speed, then Python can be, well, faster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10735840
(especially so if you need BigInt, these still suck in Julia.)

Recently, discovered Go(language). Clean design rules!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158865,
(but you shouldn't take it for what it is not
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12330573)
A job in Workq doesn't directly target a system command or anything. The short answer is a job could be thought of as a function call. The name of the job is the function, and the job's payload is its parameters. This allows a worker to connect to Workq and pick up available jobs enqueued previously by a client. It is up to the worker to decipher the payload and act on it, which may be run “ping 10.10.10.10” on the worker node.

The ping example was just given so I could enqueue a job named “ping” as a client and respond with a “pong” text result from a worker. Just a silly example :). Real use cases would be background jobs such as sending emails, http downloads, image resizing…etc.
Ha. You posted this while I was writing my answer, and I see you (very nearly) used the exact same pair of examples that I did. This is possibly a hint as to where the pain points are...

(Your post is better than mine, though.)
A child walks in closes the door and the testing starts. Now they are stuck in the garage.

Or parent sees garage door open and decides to close it. Child is inside playing. Testing starts child is stuck.

Take your pick of scenarios. Neither require a car to be inside.
Regulation has never fixed anything.

Young, inexperienced but passionate fish sometimes have been known to deny the existence of water. Later they're embarrassed.
On the other hand smart pointers (which I think didn't exist when linus wrote this?) and RAII make C++ harder to misuse than C.