skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Average US electric price is $0.12.

This number (which actually varies somewhat widely depending on which source you look at) hides a huge standard deviation.

For example, http://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ lists the overall number at $0.1044 but by that ranges from $0.0776 to $0.1705 if we ignore the Alaska and Hawaii outliers. And even then, the number this lists for Massachusetts is $0.1535 but my bill (in Masachusetts) say $0.1906....

Of course gas prices vary quite widely state to state too.
In my case, I'm still quite happy with the Nav system in my wife's 2009 Rav 4 actually. It works as intended to this day. It's missing some fanciness, but I'm just not about the fancy.
According to the docs, high-level goals of WASM are to allow synchronous calls to and from JavaScript;
enforce the same-origin and permissions security policies;
access browser functionality through the same Web APIs that are accessible to JavaScript; ?

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/HighLevelG...
Can anyone see what this is, or is it down under HN traffic? I just get a spinner with "Connecting".
I agree with everything you said. It's my personal philosophy, too: "adapt or die."

And like you, I'll most likely move out of here because to put nearly a million dollars on a rotting woodframe TIC flat in an earthquake zone isn't the most financial prudent decision. But dammit, I do love this stinkin' city.
the server appears to have crashed, does anyone have a mirror?
Holding your phone upside down isn't an interesting test. That's just the holding power of the plug. More interesting and relevant is whether you can hold the phone at an angle, which is what a dock does. This puts a lot of stress on both the connector and the phone's jack. I would expect Micro-USB to fall apart from this abuse. I'd don't know about USB-C but don't have high hopes.
Right now it's more like Flash or Java applets, running in a sandbox within a sandbox.
There are much fewer theorists compared to experimentalists.
Are any of these displays on tablets/laptops? No, they aren't because they usually require bulkier CFL backlights.

Apple also didn't invent the micro harddrives in their iPods. So what?
Peter Thiel Trump Speech
I am confused as to how they could afford the bandwidth, atleast at the start, to host the animated gifs
Don't bother with hybrids if all of the shortcomings are covered with gasoline. A good EV or a good gasoline car are both better than a hybrid, so what is the point? Who wants to buy a car that is heavier and slower than their full gas and full electric counterparts?

It's always too late to push for something that is just a bad product.
Christopher Soghoian: Your smartphone is a civil rights issue [video]
Nintendo Wii U?
>> I just want to meet the consumer who looked at the old MBP and thought, "wow this is far too thick!". And the same goes for cell phones. Thinner is better, but only to a certain point and certainly not at the expense of battery life and features.

> Ok I'll bite. I'd like the power of the 15" MBP, but after having the 15" in 2008 which I found to be too heavy to carry with me in my bag constantly

He was talking about thickness, not weight. Those are correlated, to a degree, but it seems like Apple has compromised on things in its quest for thinness that it wouldn't have had to in a quest for lightness.
I agree that Webkit is conspicuously absent here, but at least the announcement does mention Apple: "designed by collaborators from Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple, and the W3C WebAssembly Community Group".
Is like:

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

So Sussman began working on a program. Not long after, this odd-looking bald guy came over. Sussman figured the guy was going to boot him out, but instead the man sat down, asking, "Hey, what are you doing?" Sussman talked over his program with the man, Marvin Minsky. At one point in the discussion, Sussman told Minsky that he was using a certain randomizing technique in his program because he didn't want the machine to have any preconceived notions. Minsky said, "Well, it has them, it's just that you don't know what they are."
Does Microsoft make their own displays? How is this relevant?
It's a great idea but it seems like they went for the messed up arrow keys.

For a programmer I'd say the arrow keys are one of the most important parts of the keyboard.
No, the few things these switches are toggling are nanoscopic in the grand scheme of things, and the data sent are only that necessary to implement an ostensibly useful feature.

Compare to the shit that Windows 10 collects, and the comparison isn't even remotely close.
It uses flash for the video streaming, it should detect a lack of, but sometimes if the browser interrupts the loading of it it might never trigger as not being enabled.
I'm not sure if it's really Apple's fault at this point. Over the summer, two people that I know went out and bought MacBook Airs -- even though its specs are severely outdated for its price. As long as people continue to buy their uninnovative products, Apple will continue to never admit a mistake.
Does your 17.5 million include cars owned by rental companies. I guess some will be taxis too.
LinkedIn is working on a project that should terrify the $175B hardware industry
Hi! A few of us have been hacking on this scaled-down, spiritual successor to Persona.

The core idea is that you treat this (self-hostable!) microservice like a black box: email address goes in, validated proof of identity comes out. No passwords, and no secrets to store in your application’s database. The service itself is also effectively stateless: aside from caching, the longest lived key in Redis has a TTL of 15 minutes, and no other datastore is required. So it should scale pretty reasonably, and be easy enough to administer for hobbyists.

Behind the scenes, it works similarly to a password reset or passwordless login workflow, but with progressive enhancement so that, e.g., Gmail users go through Google Sign-In instead of having to check their email.
A great example of the reality distortion field. You like Macs and they don't flex, that's great. But they are simply not more durable than a Thinkpad. You're rMBP is unlikely to survive even a single drop, the glossy glass screen would crack. The Magsafe cable has to be thin and light and is prone to failure. The keyboard on the Thinkpad has more travel and is better to type on.
Apple make many trade-offs in their designs.
They could upgrade lightning to support USB-3... Lightning doesn't specify the USB protocol.
> about $450 installed at Costco

Really depends on the car. It isn't uncommon for some sets to breach $1000, even at Costco.
What gets me is the subsidies going to buyers of these expensive new cars. Of all the things the public can spend taxpayer money on, we pick luxuries for (by and large) already-well-off people.

California has mitigated this to a degree by making their state subsidy means-tested: [1], which is a good first step.

1: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/07/electric-vehicles-incent...
You must value your time at $0/hr, because at that range it is way more cost effective to fly when you factor in TCO of maintenance on the car.

Unless you're driving 800 miles into the middle of nowhere, which is so far from a typical use case that it isn't really relevant to the discussion.
WABT (https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/) and Binaryen (https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen) as well as the spec itself (https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/tree/master/interpreter) all have interpreters for the WebAssembly language. What they don't have is the same import and export binding mechanisms that the JavaScript engines have. JS engines can bind wasm imports and exports with JS functions. The interpreters that exist today are great for testing implementations or compilers but don't have interesting capabilities to interact with an embedding environment. There have been a few experiments with non-JS embeddings (for example, implementations build on LLVM which could easily define bindings to native functions) but nothing really usable or productized yet.
That is a myth
Wow,that's awesome. How long did it take to create and set up? And are you all actually managing to get work done while this is going on?

And this just may be server load-related, but why does my wait time keep going up? When I first joined the queue it said 7 minutes. Two minutes later it jumped up to 9. A couple minutes later it was back down to 7, and there it stayed for about 4 minutes, until it jumped to 8.
I think he's referring specifically to giving a shit about people's criticism or even lack of interest, not about the product itself.

Just about anyone who has publicly launched a product or idea knows what it's like to have your ego crushed by people who take one look and dismiss work that you've likely spent a lot of time and enthusiasm on. That can hurt a lot, and you really do have to develop a thick skin to a point where you don't get discouraged by criticism and dismissive attitudes (which frankly seem to be the default on this forum).
Yes, I am very familiar with his work. I think he is a great interviewer, but analyst - not so very much. For example, watch his interview with Autodesk founder. I can't find it on my phone now, but it's out there (an old interview). It pretty much dissected how Autodesk became what it is. their strategy from the start was to straight out buy competition. Something that became evident over the years, but first time I've heard that was there.
If you're working on large sites, I'd looking into SASS and modular CSS:

http://thesassway.com/modular-css
because you're using the simplified version.

the traditional version of that character is: 國

type "F" for 囗, and "z" for 戈, if you were using cangjie you'd have to add the extra "口" and "一" but i'm guessing this system proposes that 國 is just 囗 + 戈 because that's good enough to identify what you're going for.

edit: the problem seems to be you need to switch to simplified. "F-q-g-e" got me the character.
The cost of petrol in Canada meets the figures quoted in the parent post. Gasoline is about $1.30/liter around major metros in Canada; a Toyota Corolla gets about 5.7 km per liter (highway). 800km would consume about 140 liters of petrol, about CAD182.
"Also regarding Magsafe, I'm trying to remember the last time I kicked a cable that would have otherwise sent my laptop flying and… I can't."

I can't either. A this point it's more the convenience of being able to pick up and go without needing to unplug the machine, and one I'll miss when I eventually get a new machine. That said, it's human nature not to remember things that don't happen.
I wonder if I am once again too negative. But what the hell?

Valuation doesn't mean anything I know. But how can they raise so much money on a product like this? What's the monetization available behind this apart from selling user data.
It's not the addressable memory that is important about 64bit, but the modern instruction set that came with 64bit that makes the processor faster.
I don't know. For a writer looking for inspiration for a character, she doesn't seem to be doing a very good job relating to or understanding Lisa Randall.

It reminded me a bit of The Big Bang Theory.
Well, Micro-USB was announced in 2007. So by the time USB-C really takes over, it will have had maybe a 10-year run. So that's no better for compatibility life.
Really?

It looks more like Ford's CMax Hybrid: http://www.cmaxownersclub.co.uk/uploads/1/new-cmax.jpg
Pretty sure he alluded to something like this in The New Digital Age.
Even if you make something people want, most people still won't like it at all for quite a long time.
Why are there threats of DRM with the DAC moved to the cable instead of the DAC sitting inside the phone (where arguably it has more control over the DAC than if it is sitting in-line on a cable)?
My first thought reading the post was that it reminds me of Polandball memes.
#52: "you will attack people that want to help themselves more than they want to help themselves"

Is any employee over 22 or so wanting to help their companies more than themselves?
What would the capture source be if not an existing online repository?
Many people have found grief counseling and support groups helpful. Frequently, there are local faith based groups that are quite good.

GriefShare is interesting, they have a registry of meetups for those dealing with loss of a loved one > http://www.griefshare.org/findagroup

Condolences-
>plus you're cherry-picking MB Pro configs to intentionally leave out the i7 and higher-end graphics options

Wrong. Cherry picking to match the price ($1999).
I'm sure that he – as someone who spent years developing his own input method as a hobby – is acutely aware of all of this.

Still, as a side project, I would consider this a success: he's done his research and he came up with a really cool, well-thought-out tool. It's not going to take the world (or China) by storm, but it doesn't need to.

You're right, of course, about new learners better investing their time elsewhere.
It's a web-cam enabled ping-pong-shooting tower, situated in an alien control room, where various aliens are working among light-up targets, which register when you hit them.

You can join a queue to shoot the targets (and the aliens, if you choose), and get about 30 seconds of play time.
Note that Mozilla Persona did not support passwordless authentication. Specifically, you would still need to create a Persona password if you didn’t use a Gmail/Yahoo email address.

I’ve tested this service with one of those 10-minute emails and it seems to work without any passwords, so true passwordless authentication.
I use both Metabase and Redash in the company that I work for.
Both are really great tools and can replace (at least in part) expensive BI tools.

I'm using both not because they are complementary, but at this moment they have a distinct feature set and no one has all the features that I want/need.

Btw, congrats for the Mozilla award, really well deserved! https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/10/03/moss-supports-four-...
You used to do spot sprayings with glyphosate... because it would kill any plant. Now that we have Glyphosate resistant GMO crops we just spray the entire field.

Normal conditions in nature don't favor a heavily glyphosate resistant plant, multiple sprays of glyphosate in a season does.
The explanation was implicit, but I will elaborate it for you.

What he is proposing is a vertical integration within an industry that doesn't work like that. It did once (studio model) and that crumbled for various reasons (I can elaborate on that too if you want). On top of vertical integration, he is proposing a base income. Sort of like accelerators, but communist version. In a sense where selected writers would have income to fall back on, whether they work or not (whether they're motivated to work on quality or quantity or not at all).

edit: here's a bit of background on Studio system of ye olde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_system
Yeah, the node-js client isn't fast either. There's a client written in C and available from homebrew: `brew install tldr`.
My car gets 8km/L real-world, so 800km is about 100L of gasoline. At $1.50/L for its required 91 octane gas, that's $150.

Electricity is $0.08/kwh for the low tier where I live (Vancouver, Canada), so $4.80 to charge the 60kwh battery from zero.

The Bolt has an EPA range of 380 km. So, I was figuring that it would require two (and a bit) charges to hit the same 800km number.
This is true for giants of the past, but modern theoretical physicians have no way of distinguishing themselves to the public at large. Meanwhile, experimental physics produce novel results that actually prove other people wrong. I don't think the above effect will continue for much longer, if it is still in effect at all for people doing work now.
I use this.

su -c 'dnf install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

sudo dnf -y install cabextract lzip p7zip p7zip-plugins unrar gstreamer1-libav gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld gstreamer1-plugins-base gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-espeak gstreamer-plugins-fc gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-rtsp amrnb amrwb faac faad2 flac lame libdca libmad libmatroska x264 x265 xvidcore hexchat mpv smplayer vlc
Embarcadero has those tools now, and those tools are very alive and kicking. Have you looked at them recently?

(Except JBuilder, the Java IDE. Did you use it back in the day? What did you think of it?)
A camera.

That's where Mapillary and OSV get their imagery from, people that decide to go out and take pictures.

An additional advantage is that you then have full rights to the imagery (so for example, you can upload them to both services).
20 times more valuable than The Wirecutter?
Maybe? It's total car sales, this is cocktail napkin math. Wouldn't the amount owned by taxis and rental companies have to be absorbed by the U.S. population anyway? If anything it takes away the amount of eligible households, making the issue even stranger. This is because utilization of rental cars is going to be lower than purchased cars.
As someone who just saw (from another HN post) the documentary "Before The Floods", I'm curious if they take into account energy saving and lower carbon footprints into the design as well.
MacBook Escape, which will be the most popular model by far, has all the hardware escape keys any user wants.
Are there any pictures of the turret build and possibly a bit of details about the implementation of the project?
Agreed, I just spent 5 minutes perusing the threads here ... talking about range and charges and base price ...

I support electric, and my next car -will- be electric .. but at the end of the day. this car is as ugly as hell. I'll support it only to the support the industry and more entrants.
Think of it this way. It sounds like you're surprised by the number of new cars being purchased, but presumably you're not surprised that people are constantly buying used cars. And yet, roughly every used car that's purchased corresponds to a new car being purchased, unless you're expecting total car ownership to decline.
That's surprising if true because it doesn't take much resources to become a theorist vs. an experimentalist. Usually a modern computer will do. An experimentalist is usually out >$1e6 to setup a novel lab.
This still has the issue of not being able to use your car controls to control the music, but:

https://www.amazon.com/Antec-Portable-Bluetooth-Receiver-Hea...

Pair this with your phone, and plug it into power. When your car turns on, it powers on, pairs with your phone, and spits audio out over 3.5mm to the car stereo.

Comes with a 3.5mm male -> 3.5mm male plug for this purpose.
Related: The Fuzzy, Insane Math That's Creating So Many Billion-Dollar Tech Companies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/the-fuzzy...
Go See Ghostbusters Because It Matters
Yep! Requiring a separate account for Persona was, in hindsight, misguided. I've written a bit about what Persona got right and wrong, and how we* plan for Portier to be different, at https://github.com/portier/portier.github.io/blob/master/Oth...

*Though Mozilla supported my work on this, Portier is an independent side project with significant code contributions from folks outside Mozilla.
It has less to do with what the public clicks and more to do with the level of quality competition amongst advertisers. As more and more brands get smart about native, the networks will push out the arbitrage sites and other bad actors.

Bad advertisers is a sign that an ad network actually works but hasnt matured yet.
How does the drone know its exact elevation? GPS is only accurate within like 10 meters
subsistence farming is HARD. Much harder than sitting in a chair and writing code. It's not really freedom because all you time is spent simply surviving.
I'd run VMs more often if I weren't in a constant disk space crunch, even with a 512GB SSD. VMs not only take up space for the OS, they have the annoying property that free space in the virtual disk still takes up space on the real disk once initially dirtied. Especially annoying since in theory, TRIM/discard should be exactly what's needed for the virtual OS to inform the VM software what parts of the virtual disk file it can throw away... yet as far as I can tell, VMware Fusion doesn't support this at all, and VirtualBox only with a hidden, possibly-broken flag.

In fact, I've been looking into NixOS partly because in theory I should be able to wipe the entire system partition whenever I haven't used it for a while, then regenerate it from a handful of config files. Neat - but NixOS partly "compensates" for this by being rather disk hungry when it is in use.

I suppose I should be more diligent about cleaning out junk in general. But these days at least, half the time I have more free RAM than free disk. My next laptop will have 1TB, even with Apple's ransom-level pricing for disk upgrades.
Where do laptops go when they die?
There's one at the bottom, we'll do a write up afterwards I'm sure (like we did for Sid https://sidigital.co/blog/lab-sid)
So it's not suitable for Python, Java, or C#?
From what I can tell, it uses Ubuntu's community supported release of PowerPC.
Hacking diet the middle path way
Performance is the single biggest issue keeping me from getting a new MBP.

16GB just flat out isn't enough.
What kind of tires did you get for that price?
Although I have used both CPython and Stackless.py, the specific differences are fading from my memory. While working on a Go style select() for stackless.py I recall there were minor differences in how the runnable list is represented and accessed. However this is really an implementation detail. For the most part, they are pretty much the same.

The biggest difference I remember in the current stackless.py implementation, the move to "continuelets" resulted in the inability to pickle "complex" stackless tasklets. So it becomes more difficult to stop a tasklet in one thread and restart it in another. Maybe the ability to control the recursion depth (including getting rid of it) may also be gone in stackless.py.
iPhones speak PTP (the USB camera protocol) as long as the screen is unlocked. You can use any photo app you want.
Ah, of course. In hindsight, I now feel pretty silly even asking that.
The initial MVP of WASM won't have privileged support for any custom runtime services, so in order to run Go code in the browser (or any other GC'd language) you'd have to compile the entire runtime with it and ship it all over the wire to the client. Eventually they do hope to lift this restriction.