skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it is not cost effective. Fossil fuel is still cheaper. Unless solar prices ( installation- panel, batteries) comes down or subsidised to match those existing prices, it will still take some time .
But then you can only use the money for certain purposes.
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In other words, "things I don't use = cuckooland"
Surely I'm not the only one who thinks this robot looks like a very happy little goat? :-)
I've read that link, but it's a bad idea to have comments that can't be parsed except in context of a 4,000 word essay.
What helps me is a moderate dose of amphetamines. It takes me from being someone who steps over something on the floor for a week because he's to lazy to put it away to writing code for 56 hours straight.

And the code isn't actually bad. The real problem is that it also makes you into a perfectionist who starts to write his own jpeg library if he finds anything about libjpg that he does't like.
Why Entrepreneurs Should Be Watching the X Factor, Not the Apprentice
why is this thread full of people saying "this thing in china is not bad, it supports a lot of people" ofc their stuff has to scale, if it's successful there are a guaranteed hundred of millions of people ready to crash their service and render it un-useable.
also please name things that this software is more advanced than? the only reviews [1] i can find name it as a middling piece of software

[1] http://qq-international.software.informer.com/
Want to hear others' overall experience on Xamarin too.

It looked like it's just a middle ground that does neither as good as the native solutions. Was hoping MS will accelerate it to be more competitive.
Of course, you can't get rid of your entire tax bill (well, maybe you can, in one tax year). But you can probably do more with charities than you'd assume.

For example: let's say you buy a mansion. This mansion has a forest or large amounts of land surrounding it. A charity focusing on land or nature preservation could acquire that land.
> I hope the idiot got fired

In general firing people is a terrible way to improve quality.

People look to airline style investigations as a way to improve quality for good reasons.
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Crowdfunding campaign against US patent on personalized content
I don't know if it's a joke, but it's hilarious.
Based on Google Translate, it's nothing related to GNU, but "Pyongyang broadcast "national unity" editorial".
>It's one reason I'm skeptical of basic income.

The major problem of means tested welfare is that if you want to do a low paying job that you lose more in benefits than you gain in income. The dependees are acting rationally in this regard, they didn't lose their "self-sufficiency".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_trap

UBI doesn't have this problem.
Would be a dream if they adopt Swift but then again, the history of blink/webkit fork does come to mind.
> but once the sun goes down it's pretty dark out and that makes me a little uncomfortable.

Just get your child a decent headlamp. Problem solved (this is how I solved the problem that it is quite funny to go inlineskating on summer nights, when it is already dark but still warm).
One way I think about it is I ask myself how long would it take to spend in an average adult life?

To spend $1m in 60 years you have to spend $45 a day every day for the rest of your life.

To spend $1bn in 60 years you have to spend more than $45,000 a day, every day.

Those are figures I can kind of work with.
Show HN: MelodyAPI – GraphQL API for Go Package Metadata
This is really true and chinese companies exploit it to the hilt, there is a game i tried called "Revelation Online" that mixes player vs environment(PvE) and player vs player(PvP). It instantly becomes very clear to you as a player that play to win is the theme of the game as you get slaughtered quite easily while trying to accomplish anything in the game. quite frustrating but the in game community treated it as quite common and was blase about it
In a related matter: Has anyone built a production app with Exponent JS and lived to tell about the experience?
Fascinating, that's the complete zone for the whole country? And it's run on 5 servers? (only 5 different IPs mentioned as far as I can tell)
Apple seeks patent for paper bag – you read that right, a paper bag
I find it amazing that you can actually read (yourself) all of the content of all the toplevel DNS zones of a country. In 2016. Two subdomains in .edu.
He is specifically talking about the author of the original e-mail who was a FeeBSD core member. They didn't change its meaning, they invented it with that meaning.
What sorts of things would they ask for? Also, is there any good "socially acceptable" way to turn down dinners and unsolicited favors and such if one does not wish to become indebted, while still saving face and being polite?
Interesting paper, but I have issues with some of the statistics--not helped by the large number of seemingly exploratory analyses that give the impression of a garden of forking paths.

1) The authors go through the work of doing several simpler analyses which are obviated by the final multiple regression. The analyses (in Wilkinson notation) P&L[0] ~ HBD[1] and HBD ~ covariates only provide a subset of the information in the final P&L ~ HBD + covariates. The paper would improve if the preliminary analyses were replaced by a more thorough treatment of the multiple regression.

2) From what I gather, the maximal model containing HBD and the covariates was fit and then variables were subtracted successively based on whether doing so reduced the AIC. This does not seem like the right choice at all, and could possibly have influenced the final result. Selecting an optimal model is not the goal here, yet that is what this process is designed to do. The research question is about the influence of HBD on P&L, not predicting P&L from some optimal combination of variables. So, the theoretically important covariates should have remained when testing the significance of P&L. The point of the covariates is to "control" for confounding factors or "stress test" the importance of HBD in the presence of confounds, not to increase the predictive power of the model.

3) Trader and session length are actually random variables but their error is not modeled. Instead, the results from all sessions are averaged for each trader. Taking the average has the result of undercounting the variance and misspecifying the variance structure. Something like a multilevel model with crossed random effects should have been used instead.

[0] "Average daily profit and loss" - measure of trading performance.

[1] "Heartbeat detection score" - how well the trader self-assesses their heartbeat.
Lot of pro-chinese propaganda in this post without data or even anecdotal experiences to back it up. paid astro-turfing on hackernews?
Are GitLab's free plans better than GitHub's or Bitbucket's?
That's uncommonly insightful. Thanks for sharing.
Come on, "Unheimlichkeit" is obviously derived from "unheimlich", and thus the same word type as "creepyness", derived from "creepy".

And "unheimlich" is in many contexts further from "scary" than from "creepy", with "scary" more describing something as outright fear-inducing than the other two.
it's like they don't even realize how ridiculous this shit sounds..
Sure, but as it slowly makes its way towards the surface and then space, it keeps the soil warm. I'm worried that various biological processes in soil may be depending on the constant flux of heat from underground, and if we disrupt it, we may end up accidentally degrading or even sterilizing soil over large areas.
I've found that, myself included, a lot of the focus on how to "get things done" in the tech community comes down to tips and tricks. Focus using this technique, break things down, follow GTD, use this productivity software, use that todo list, etc.

With a team, working on a project, you have some nice extrinsic motivation. A team relying on you, maybe deadlines to meet, customers to please, a paycheck to work for, etc.

But for side projects, even though I knew all the tricks, I still had a really tough time actually doing anything for a couple of years. I had a couple of projects that I was super motivated for and completed over a couple of weeks, but most of my time outside of that was wholly unproductive.

The thing that was missing for me was the why, the long-term vision. If I was working on something now that has little value to me in that moment or the days following, I found it hard to find motivation to keep going.

What I found boost my initial productivity the most was actually conjuring up the motivation. After that, it's a series of small wins in increasing that productivity through software, tips, tricks, support groups, etc. Without the motivation, though, no amount of tools will get things done for you.
It's one of these terms that proves too much to be useful, like "mansplaining" or "leaky abstraction". Its used as a one-word dismissal of an idea without expediting even the least amount of energy on it.
There is way more advice in David Allen's well-known book Getting Things Done, and there are many things to help with this like the Action Day Planner notebook.

Allen's method is better than many others. Still I have to admit that personally this self-motivation stuff has never appealed much to me. I'm using the just do it - or procrastinate method.
It's pretty common. We have G-Cloud Cloudstore [1] and GeBIZ [2] among other things.

[1] https://www.ida.gov.sg/programmes-partnership/sectors/G-Clou...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeBIZ
The gov.uk site is wonderful to use! It is incredibly fast, just a tenth of a second latency, it feels.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09446231

basically all companies should file with companies house...
SOme great advices are there in this article!
> The idea that we should be able to immediately read all the correspondence written by any public official also seems silly

Open government is silly? It has been a core aspect of democracy for a long time, and dates back at least to the time of the Enlightenment. People are allowed to have private conversations, but government are held accountable for decisions and the decision process. Transparency allows citizens of a democracy to control their government, reducing government corruption, bribery and other malfeasance. Is that what we are calling silly?

What it should do is encourage public officials to act lawfully and within the trust than citizens has given them. The idea of sealing emails "X years after leaving office" goes directly against the idea of classified documents, since that seal should only be added to information which will harm society and the public that elected the government. Embarrassing or corrupting showing information is not that.
> we’ve built our backend as a collection of distributed microservices

I hope I will never have to rely on a bank that uses this architecture. It seems they are vastly underestimating the complexity of distributed systems and the range of their failure modes. It's all cool if you're building a web site, less so if it's about your money and being unable to pay at a gas station.
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The only people avoiding facts are those hand-waving from afar, which is all well and good but one should stop short of offensive generalizations.
What about the NY reporter who reviewed a Tesla, and when top gear reviews one? Was Tesla's response to each of those - were those dishonest?
Too much in a hurry now, but you should find the original. It's a beautiful short essay if I remember correctly. Or maybe he did it as a song or a play – I only remember it was good.
Worth checking if there's a huge .babel.json cache file in your home directory and deleting it.
This is not how you treat an issue report
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09446231
I know it's somehow like a gripe here, but the attitude of the maintainer really pisses me off. Dismissing and closing the issue without even looking at it? With 17 (and potentially many more) users on StackExchange indicating they're having the same issue for 3 months? Seriously? Even if you want the issue reporter to add more details, just ask and let they add it, and then try to reproduce it, before you decide to close it or not. Not to mention in this case there's frankly no more details to report. There is already ample information to try to reproduce it straightforwardly, but instead they choose to just close the issue in a blink (the reporter can't reopen an issue closed by the owner), and claim "there's no bug to report here". Wow, just wow.

Was never fond of the node ecosystem and I only needed to install Node v6 here to run another framework. But this kind of handling is really something beyond my imagination.
WASM doesn't have DOM access or GC. It's not the answer.
> It's weirdly taboo in liberal American journalism to suggest that one's industriousness might be a major cause of one's economic status.

One way to see if industriousness is a major cause of economic status is to look at social mobility. Unfortunately for the argument, the US has lower social mobility than most other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the...

> However, in recent years several large studies have found that vertical intergenerational mobility is lower, not higher, in the US than in comparable countries.

Now it is the case that this might still be true - and there might be factors making different socio-economic classes of people work hard. However, generally speaking, absent those effects, if some people like to work and that makes them rich, that would be seen in a lot more social mobility than appears to be the case.
A popup before I could read the first sentence? Closed the tab, flagged the story, enjoyed the rest of my afternoon.
I would be surprised if browsers really would cache a file for 10 years. That sounds excessive and browsers shouldn't trust servers too much anyway.

At least when they are updated, I'd expect them to flush the cache.
You can find Focus' details at companies house, https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09446231/filing-h...

Bit more about Mondo/Monzo on wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monzo_(bank) (they recently change the bank name)

Initially they only offered prepaid cards while they waited for their banking licence. They're not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) at this point but will be when they start to offer current accounts.

They've recently got their (restricted) banking licence so they'll be part of the FSCS fairly soon. Part of their restrictions is that they can only hold up to £50,000 ($65,000) in customer deposits, the FSCS covers up the 75k in savings so customers money is protected. (http://uk.businessinsider.com/uk-digital-bank-mondo-lays-out...)
I don't feel the posts answer the question, they are more ads to Typescript or Flow. Unsurprisingly the people who answer are the one who use TS or Flow.

So I tried a little to convert a big React project to Flow or Typescript. The Flow was a non-starter because of the absence of Windows support at the time, and we use like 40 (non dev) dependencies, and Typescript has a way better support for typings, I tried Flow on a mac it was chocking on the size of the node_modules or couldn't find the app modules because we use a webpack root dir (i don't tried hard to make it work).

When the app was started Typescript didn't support React so it wasn't written in a "static" way, and accumulated a lot of dynamic idioms, also the backbone of the app is a dynamically generated schema based on XSD and that would be hard to make it compatible with TS type system, also React ecosystem doesn't really use it, leading to a chicken/egg problem, and React.PropTypes is already a form of type checking (but dynamic) so it probably lessen the feeling of a need of static typing in React ecosystem.
Ah, so just like my paper wallet[0], but bigger, and patented.

0: http://www.instructables.com/id/Paper-Wallet/ aka Mighty Wallet
Thanks for the response. I agree with you that at best Trump seems hypocritical to denounce the H1B visa program after having employed those holding H1B visas, and at worst much more nefarious for using those immigrants as scapegoats. At the same time, my main concern with your original comment was that you used his stance on the H1B program as an example of his racism. Now, in Trump's case that very well may be true, but by using his stand against H1B's as your reasoning you basically imply that anyone against the H1B program is also racist. I understand that wasn't what you meant to imply but it highlights to me one of the dangers of the current political climate. Namely, a person might have a specific stance on an issue based on very legitimate reasoning, in this case the H1B program being indentured servitude, and if someone else comes along who happens to hold those same views for perhaps less legitimate reasons, lets say racism, we tend to automatically discount the stance as being racist or otherwise illegitimate.

Being labelled a racist is a pretty serious charge for most people who don't have wealth or power and actually have to live and work with a diverse group of people. I would hate to be called a racist due to being against the current way the H1B program is administered just because Trump is against it as well.

Again, I'm sure that's not actually what you meant, but it points to the importance of using very clear language when leveling these kind of accusations.
One should note that meta-analysis is a form of rigorous independent verification.

It most definitely is not. Meta-analysis performs aggregation of existing research data in an attempt to validate specific research results for a larger group than initially tested. As such, it is primarily an inductive proof. That it can also validate or invalidate prior research is more of an artifact than a goal.

A rigorous independent verification can be performed deductively. No inference required.
Back in 8-bit days I didn't have access to the Turbo Basic XL, but was reading about it. I was really excited about the new features (speed, graphics commands, control structures) and at the same time miserable that I can't use it. The local computer shop offered a lot of Polish Atari games (they were great [1]), but not so much tools.

Anyway, once I bought a new game "Kolony", stored on a cartridge. It was a multiplayer game, asking about the number of players before start. Accidentally, I pressed CTRL+3, which caused some error and I got the BASIC prompt. It turned out that the whole game was written in Turbo Basic XL and the cartridge included the interpreter as well. I just have to type NEW to erase the game code itself and start programming in the new BASIC flavour.

[1] http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-lk-...
Making Games for Apple Watch
"On Sept 20, 2016 at approximately 10:00PM"

This hasn't even happened yet...
Someone is going to get executed with an anti-aircraft gun :D
I do not believe compilation nor a type system belong in JavaScript. It's better to have something like "Flow" that does static analysis of the code as you write.

I might even go as far as putting on a "tin foil hat" and state that Typescript is a trick to lock you into their proprietary ecosystem of expensive tools that everyone have to buy into just to communicate with you once you are locked in.
Horses for courses. If you to do R&D, go with PhDs, if you want D&D, go with devs.
Connect ethereum to a Santander bank account
Watch as they're going to blame the US and/or South Korea of hacking them
For someone who isn't particularly familiar with DNS, what are the implications of this?
I dont know if its just me, I have the opposite problem. For me its very hard to finish things properly. I have the motivation to start and get 80 percent there but then there is no more pull to polish things further.
My story about being an Instructor at General Assembly
Vox Day is literally a creationist (if an old-earth one), so might not be a great name to invoke for any aspect of thinking about this.
If we want to be pedantic, there is no such thing as a pure JavaScript function. If the stack is full, the invocation of ANY function will overflow the stack. That's a side effect to the outside world. Pure functions exist under Plato's Theory of the Form conception of the world, but not on a fixed and finite physical computer. http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/05/18/pure-functions-have...

If we don't want to pedantic, then a fraction of the 74% of who took the function as 'pure' probably took this to mean being equivalent to referential transparency. That's good enough, and I believe the author would agree.

I hope we can start shifting our discussions from 'is this pure?' to 'Does this function behave like a Mathematical Function in all the situations I will encounter in my code?'

It's a good exercise to think about assumptions, but we shouldn't be so paranoid as to check if native JS methods, namely Array.isArray, have been overridden (unless security is a concern). When we speak about the Fibonacci sequence, it's nonsensical to talk about f("pie"). The domain being integers is implied in the semantics of the function. In the veins of "keep an open mind but not so open that your brain falls out", I propose "keep writing code with pure functions, but not so pure that your code becomes cluttered."
I found this quote from an interview: http://writerunderground.com/2011/04/28/ira-glass-on-creativ...