skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Not sure how this would even be accomplished.

Essentially an end to fossil-fuel combustion as far as is technologically feasible. A large-scale rollout of nuclear power, replacing literally everything, with enough capacity to cover the peaks. Large-scale electric vehicle rollout where feasible, large-scale synthetic-liquid fuel (derived from nuclear energy and atmospheric sources) rolled out where direct electric is infeasible (colder climates and aircraft).

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jrse/4/3/10.106...

There is no technical impediment to a large-scale nuclear rollout. We literally have unlimited power at our fingertips and we cannot find the will to use it. The only thing we need is the political will to solve the waste disposal problem - which is another of those problems that humanity refuses to solve until their house is burning down. Between reprocessing and our geologically-sound repositories we can easily solve the problem until we have cheap and reliable launch capability in 50-100 years (eg launch loop) and launch it into the sun. Arguably we have that now - the Atlas-V has done 106 consecutive successful launches now.

This is actually why I say that we need to solve energy consumption on a long-term basis as well. Nuclear is so good that we will literally poison our planet with waste heat unless we preemptively solve that problem. Depending on your figures the impact of waste heat is between 1% and 50% as significant as the greenhouse impact of fossil fuels. The number varies based on how much of the atmosphere you are considering venting the heat towards - a vast majority of our energy is dissipated within say 100 meters of the surface and a vast majority occurs in cities that make up say 1% of the total surface area.

We can certainly bring everyone up to a first-world standard of living but we can't continue indefinite population growth and indefinite per-capita increases in energy consumption. A 25-100x increase in total energy consumption can easily happen within a few decades if we continue to allow population to boom while also increasing per-capita consumption, both at exponential rates. Exponential growth happens fast.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/waste-heat-global-warming.h...

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/01/waste-heat-as-a-contribu...
For that example, they're showing Visual Studio opening the Roslyn repo (https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn). Without any package restore, that's 200MB / almost 12k files.

Keeping in mind that Visual Studio isn't a simple text editor, it's a code editor that provides code-based IntelliSense, extensions, integrated debugging, etc., I'd say 30 seconds isn't too bad, especially considering some websites these days take nearly that long to finish rendering.
refusing to even consider solutions such as desal plants.

That's not really true; improved stormwater capture, potable reuse, and fixing leaking infrastructure are far more economical & environmentally friendly options being planned or undertaken. MWD put out a proposal last year for a billion dollar potable reuse plant and the SWRCB put out a draft report for regulation of direct potable reuse out last month.

Desalination plants are really an option of last resort given their cost, environmental impact, and capacity. The Carlsbad desalination plant cost $1 billion, runs their RO membranes at 800 PSI, produces 50 MGD, and is ~ $2,000 per acre-foot of water. Whereas OC's GWRS(indirect potable reuse) cost ~$623 million after an initial expansion last year, runs their RO membranes at 150 PSI, produces 100 MGD, and is ~ $476(~$850 before subsidies) per acre-foot.
> The name noto is to convey the idea that Google’s goal is to see “no more tofu”.

Nofu would have been a better name if that's actually the goal.
This is a great article thanks for posting it. My SO, in her not-day-job is a writer and stand up comic.

She has set a self imposed 100 word minimum per day and has been going over 3 months now in an attempt to combat this type of procrastination.

It seems to not only be working for her but people who read about what she's doing have also been motivated (but not me, and it's past my bed time ;)) to work on their own projects whatever they may be.
That sounds like a no brainer. I'd be interested in hearing the other side of this argument.
Not to be a jerk, but talk is cheap.

What'd the compensation/exit for the nonfounding members of the team look like during the acquisition?
This a 1000 times. Text is beautiful but if your editor doesn't understand it, you are, quite paradoxally, limited in your editing of it. Think refactoring, think auto-completion. There is a difference between making type-correct suggestions and saying "foo? oh, what about foobar, i saw it mentioned somewhere?!"

I often even use auto-completion in eclipse to get the hang of a library and explore its capabilities.
crazy pills lol, I can relate to that

Snapchat's ads aren't so bad fortunately. I don't like seeing in between my friends story, but I really liked seeing them in the city stories. It is kind of sad living in a place without a city story, its feel like a censorship bubble where people don't even know what they are missing. Sorry San Francisco, city story is life.

The whole tabloid thing is a big wtf though.
Perfect correlation between good interviews and getting an offer does not inspire confidence in how accurate the descriptions are. Times like these you want to hear the other side of the story.
What Cree is actually doing is replacing their claimed 10,000 hour bulb with a 5,000 hour bulb. However, their 10,000 hour bulb doesn't achieve its rated life; I now have four failed ones. The power supply, not the LEDs, fail.

The coming thing is a power supply that doesn't use electrolytic capacitors.[1][2] This should increase power supply life beyond LED life, to about 40,000 hours. But will we see that in consumer products?

[1] http://www.ledsmagazine.com/ugc/2011/09/dali-power-unveils-l...
[2] http://www.rle.mit.edu/per/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Chen-E...
Only in certain, highly procedural use cases. But in the large, no.
you've probably never:

1. been forced to use a system with nothing but vi, ed, and ex, which was common for commercial unixes until the 90's

2. had to make thousands of edits to thousands of files in minutes without access to a scripting environment or other more advanced tools

3. had to edit and debug a program under the above conditions on a super laggy dialup internet connection

vi is a force multiplier for operating a terminal under duress in adverse network conditions. that's literally why it was developed. i say it does an even better job of it under good, modern conditions and unless you look at it through that lens, it's never going to make much sense to you. and those adverse conditions still pop up now and then, especially with wireless networks and public cloud shitstorms.

"[Bill] Joy explained that the terse, single character commands and the ability to type ahead of the display were a result of the slow 300 baud modem he used when developing the software and that he wanted to be productive when the screen was painting slower than he could think."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
well if they had figured it out, the road to 100 million market cap would be a quick one. Just competing views on speculation getting the existing market premium.
> It contradicts the author's thesis to note that a country with so little inequality as India was (and still is) way ahead of the US (Gini 41) in terms of providing domestic services.

Think of the Gini coefficient as a cumulated histogram of income. The actual values of high and low income are not represented in the Gini chart.

So India has less differential in population than the US but the absolute value of max and min are much lower than the US's (actually the max in India is pretty big but the curve is quite steep).

Also the Gini coefficient is a single number, the geometric mean of the curve. The shape of the curve is quite different: India has a massive unemployment problem and a reasonably large middle class that can pay for service (income is low so the time value of money is low => hiring a servant is worth it).

I don't know what percentage of the median household income an Uber driver typically earns so it's hard to see if it is a good analogy or not. All the studies I've seen on this matter have been biased (high or low, depending on the point to be made) and have been methodologically suspect. It's not clear if it's even possible to calculate it since many / most Uber drivers enter and exit the "work force" casually based on available time and desired compensation.
Python, Ruby, Lua are all great. If you want to make it serious and will go into lower level languages later, Pascal is great.
You'd think so but not necessarily.

Photovoltaic cells can take in a broader range of energy from the sun than plants can through photosynthesis. LEDs can then emit that energy at specific wavelengths such as red or blue that the plants can take in.

The whole system can end up being more efficient.

Furthermore the prospect of growing plants in a completely controlled environment where you can control all the variables from light intensity, light cycle, temperature, humidity and remove the pest factor and therefore the cost of pesticides can result in a much better final product.
> but this year Google is also offering financing plans that are identical to what a carrier would offer

In the US. Other countries don't get that benefit.
ECC vastly lowers, but does not remove this problem. You can for example get bit flip errors while doing the checksum.

As a personal user it's a non issue but scale things to ~70k devices and you get ~1.7 million device hours per day.
FCC Helped Create the Stingray Problem, Now It Needs to Fix It
CloudI – A Cloud at the lowest level
What do all the controls in an airplane cockpit do?
The Massacre at Monkey Hill
Don't accept it. Use VPN in a VM with firefox. That way each VM/service has its own ip address and own env. It takes a bit of setting up but you get used to it.

Otherwise, those who do use Tor or other anonymity techniques will be targeted.
I came across this project while working on our own Erlang codebase. Part of me thinks the entire thing sounds like madness, but the more I read through the documentation, it seems like there's a lot of merit to be had here.

Does anyone have experience using CloudI in production? I'm having trouble finding case studies by anyone who isn't involved in the project.
Git was made in, what, 2005. We knew about discoverability then. We knew about accessibility then. We knew about user testing, about UX. Git makes use of zero of those concepts. In fact, it seems to be actively hostile towards its users^.

We also had source control packages that were not only easier to use, but had more features: TFS let you put a lock on files that don't merge well, for example. Both TFS and Subversion allowed you to check-out only small portions of the repository.

Git has some nice things. It's generally fast, for example. It allows developers to work offline. But when the developer community apparently unilaterally chose to adopt it, we threw away a lot of good stuff, let's not forget that.

I'd also question that Git is "universally respected". I've worked with a great many programmers who found it just as unpleasant and unfriendly as I do. The reason people use Git is because other developers demand it as a condition of employment, not because it's enjoyable. In that respect, it's in the same class of application as, say, OracleApps or Lotus Notes.

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^ Yes, someone's going to come in here and say, "well it's a professional tool for professionals therefore it's ok that it's difficult to use and hostile and not accessibility to people who can't use a CLI due to physical limitations because it's a professional tool for professionals.

Well.

Sony Vegas is a professional tool for professionals, and somehow it doesn't have even remotely the amount of usability problems Git does. So is Adobe Photoshop. So I don't buy that argument.
Mostly systems tools for managing operations in companies with complex internet presences.
I hear you, but does Stoppard's affinity for style and precision relate to off-topic pedantry? I'm not trying to diminish the importance of correctness. I actually do share your appreciation for these things. Maybe we can make a distinction between literature and singling out one person publicly.

Btw, Stoppard also said "I was always looking for the entertainer in myself ... [but] it's really about human beings".
Is it possible to replace the Mac system font for some languages with this?

I prefer the Noto Japanese typeface over the one that comes with Mac and would like to replace it.
You can definitely get around the currency issue by scaling yourself, but things like the timestamp issues (fractional seconds since the epoch with millisecond precision) are a little more problematic. You basically have to roll your own datetime format and lose any db support.

Databases are about data after all. Why not have a rich way to describe it?
I have a guilty confession to make. I don't know how to use Visual Studio. Which seems absurd because I am a heavy Emacs user. Last Time I tried to use Visual Studio (which was about six years ago) I found it kept getting in the way of what I was trying to do. It almost had too much complexity. I ended up throwing my hands in the air and 'saying forget this' I'm going back to what I know, which is Unix and Emacs. At this point I think I'm too entrenched in my habits to have the patience to give anything else a try. Maybe slavish adherence to my tools makes me a bad developer but if it isn't broken why replace it.
quantitative easing on three continents couldn't make twitter profitable
You can actually test on a real device without paying the fee now.
Exactly. If you're interviewing for a startup and you don't know what funding round they're on or how much runway they have, you're setting yourself up to get screwed.
Common use does not make it right. People using litterally in this way are just showcasing their ignorance.
The point is valid, but this obviously puts organisations trying to recruit their first female employees in a bit of a pickle. For the benefit of the common good (getting more small businesses and startups to hire more women) it might be better to asses a business's desired trajectory rather than its current state... right?
It's ridiculous that they charge the owner of an ad board for the ads that got posted. Ads for "escort services", which are legal.
I'm a bit curious, do you refer to men as "boys"? I realize that this is likely not an intentional slight against women, but language does tend to subtly reinforce the ideas people have about groups of people. People tend to use the young versions of nouns to refer to those they think of as somehow immature, and even if you don't intend it, it tends to color the way people interpret your statements.

While I tend to agree that this particular example is something that affects all of us in this industry, keep in mind there are things that women do get singled out for, and that it can be hard to determine why. Think of it like there's a set of negative things that happen to women. Some of them overlap with men, and some of them don't. Given that there are some things she has probably been singled out on gender for, I'd expect you could see how it would be hard to determine whether or not this was something broadly applicable or not. Even if she had talked to male friends, gauging the extent of differing life experience is hard.
Hey @fiedzia, thanks for your great reply. This has got me thinking.
"Infinitely slowly" is a theme in physics. What is actually meant by the term is "slow enough that you can approximate it as being infinitely slow". Now, obviously the idea of approximating an infinite value with a finite one seems dodgy, but the idea is that if some process converges to the "purely theoretical and infinitely slow" solution quickly then you can make that kind of approximation (physics is generally not obsessed with precision).

As a concrete example, most of thermodynamics becomes insanely complicated for very rapid changes in pressure and temperature. And in many cases, you cannot actually compute the state of the system (without making a bunch of approximations). But, if you make some assumptions and approximations, thermodynamics becomes much more simple even though you've added some error factors due to your approximations (but it's definitely "good enough").

In general, the first thing you learn as part of a physics degree is that approximations and assumptions are just part of how you do science. Without them, we'd all be stuck dealing with insanely complicated equations that probably are not solvable. And at the end of the day, the unsolvable part of whatever equation you're dealing with wouldn't actually have a significant effect on the result (so you can generally ignore it).
The cocktail I had with dinner was delicious, but I honestly wish it didn't have the effects of alcohol because now instead of making good use of my evening I'm just a bit sleepy and unmotivated. You're getting pretty far off into the weeds insisting that the primary reason to drink anything with a drop of alcohol in it is the alcohol.

>If they can't tell a difference what hope does the average consumer have?

What kind of students were they? Were they just starting off? How good was the program they were in? How do they compare to professionals?

If you _intended_ to make a study to prove your point that wine critics are full of shit, you'd pick the most incompetent wine critics possible. It's pretty solidly true that olfactory senses don't translate into language very well. I can experience really complex flavors and smells but it's more or less impossible for me to share them with words in any way that could actually communicate the flavor to others. If I studied flavor and the language to describe it extensively, I might be able to communicate a flavor to another similarly studied person, but that's about it.

Experience of flavor is wholly separate from being able to describe it. And students who are leaning to are _more_ apt to invent flavor descriptions based on what they think is expected. It's pretty easy to trick people, especially by putting them in an environment tailored to deceive. You could draw more conclusions about the ability of suggestion to affect perception than you can about why people drink wine.
If an excellent candidate doesn't get an offer, it's probable that something went wrong in the interview process. And if there are only three examples of rejections, there's not enough data to talk about unexpected correlations.
Configuring HTTP Response Caching in ASP.Net and ASP.Net MVC
When people speak about it's too late and ad the words "we" i always get nautious. Don't project your generalisations onto others, do something about it - and if you do what you can do help someone else to turn around. There are millions of people working to do so.
And yes, there will be a high peak if nothing is done but there is still time to avoid extinguishing (or close to) the human race in it's current technological advancement.

There is still time to realingn the military to fight an actual war that matters, for continued human progress.
There is still time for powerful regulation of the commons to avoid the tragedy therefor in so many areas.
There is still time to buy those solar panels and spread information about those that exist ready to increase the efficiency a handful of times.
There is still time for city planners to stop allowing new buildings in areas that will not be sustainable.
There is still enough time to do alot of things...

Excluding conservatives worldwide, who are finally coming along as looking beyond their noses they've started smelling blood in the water - possibilities to prosper in the new climate.
If those are rude questions then I don't want to work there - not in this economy. We need to be picky who we work for so that company culture is favorable for employees. If we start working for whoever just cuts a paycheck then we become just another cog in the machine.
Is there an email I can reach you at? I can't message you on LinkedIn as I need to go premium
Honest question: Would this type of production be considered organic? There's no pesticides and such, but it's also not quite "natural".
Indeed it would. It seems that after every purge they've fallen a bit farther. It seems very odd, on a platform dedicated to short witted public screeds, that they would get offended by...short witted screeds. Oh well.
I'm not sure what side I stand on here but this definitely seems very excessive.
It's also worth noting that this has been going on for a while:
https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/06/sex-trafficking-on-backpag...
Actually, yes. It's very likely that the core algorithms for these systems were written by "crossover" types (e.g. math PhDs) who are perfectly capable of getting up to speed with the esoteric aspects of these systems, without having to go back and master the standard undergraduate CS curriculum.

It's called being flexible and able to learn, and it's the single most important thing you're supposed to get out of your formal education.
Electrons do not orbit atomic nuclei in the quantum description of atoms. Instead, in the lowest energy state the electron wave function is spread out in a sphere around the nucleus, and this wave function stays constant in time. Almost all quantum systems do something like this in the ground state, which shows why the time crystal is something new and interesting.
Curious if there are 'inside the box' monetization ideas, because those might be more easily understood and evaluated by an investor. And if there are reasons that they would not work with the product, that would be a good starting point for explaining why the 'out of the box' ideas might.
If you're already a successful entrepreneur, the only reason you'd want to be a Google software engineer is if you have no idea what you're signing up for. There's absolutely nothing magical about working at Google and the learning curve plateaus fast, at which point you're likely a salaried code monkey. If that's more money than you anticipate making on your own, then I guess go for it. Otherwise you're making a serious mistake.
Nope. Like in the ground state of the hydrogen atom, the ground state of the quantum harmonic oscillator has the wave function spread out in a sphere, and this wave function stays constant in time. Almost all quantum systems do something like this in the ground state, which shows why the time crystal is something new and interesting.
The Noto characters are from the Unicode definitions, so that's where you should look to understand why those characters exist. These proposals provides some background: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08132r-n3427r-syllabics.pdf http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08342-n3507-syllabics.pdf