skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The size of the battery varies from phone to phone, but let's choose 3000mAh as a typical value so the battery is enough for a full day.

If you want to charge it in "seconds", let's use 60 seconds as an upper bound.

So if the charger has a 100% efficiency, then it has to provide 3000mAh/60sec = 3000mAh 3600 sec/h /60sec = 180000mA = 18A.

An USB can provide between .1A and .9A. For comparison, a typical plug in a home can provide 10A. So to charge the phone you will need some big connector, not a tiny microUSB like connector.

But it's worse. From the article:

> "If they were to replace the batteries with these supercapacitors, you could charge your mobile phone in a few seconds and you wouldn't need to charge it again for over a week," said Nitin Choudhary, a postdoctoral associate who conducted much of the research published recently in the academic journal ACS Nano.

To recharge the phone once a week, I guess you will need a 20000mAH battery, and a few seconds is something like 5, so the connector must survive to 1000A, that is a ridiculous current.
> Eve is the culmination of years of research and development by the visionary team who previously founded Light Table.

...and then abandoned it after getting me excited about a possible Emacs replacement...
No. The cardboard and marbles are the substrate on which the program runs; one might as well argue for the self-awareness of the individual carbon atoms in your brain. The program can't run without some sort of substrate, but the substrate is inert without the appropriate program; it is the system as a whole which is self-aware.

Godel, escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter is a colorful, whimsical, yet rigorous treatment of this argument in book format.
AppleScript was originally intended as a way for non-programmers to develop applications, hence the "natural language" syntax. You could think of it as the spiritual successor to HyperTalk / HyperCard. Aside from that, the language served an important purpose in classic Mac OS which lacked preemptive multitasking and thus true IPC. AppleScript was used to allow multiple applications to communicate with one another using a pub-sub model.
Regarding your point 2 - some of those are volcanic fields that contain multiple volcanoes.
Hmm, as someone who is about to move from using a webserver to hosting our single page app on S3 you may have just convinced me not to.

What exactly are the benefits over simply setting up nginx if not simplicity? Yeah, it's great to just serve the asset from s3 but the complexity of what you just described negates it almost entirely.
Just curious, outside of multi-host support - I'm not in the business of writing a scheduler, so we'll most certainly use an existing one if we ever get to this feature - what is too simple about Dokku?
Bye Bye Emojis: Emacs Hates MacOS
What app/site are you using to upload to S3? I use a combination of CloudBerry Backup and Arq Backup on my Macs/PCs here and the requests aren't that high (on average about 30Gb of data per machine in around 300K files).

I am guessing it comes down to the algorithm used to compare and upload/download files. I believe the two solutions above use a separate 'index' file on S3 to track file compares.
And eventually they got independence diplomatically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Manila_(1946)

The lesson from history is that peaceful secession's work better than violent ones. Do you really think the rest of the world will turn a blind eye to the US holding Cascadia hostage?
Turbo Pascal was the best, for that time. Unfortunately it didn't really set the standard, as no IDE I've used afterwards has ever been of comparable speed, without any lag anywhere ;)
Wombats mess up cars pretty bad if you hit one.
But Carbon taxes are proven policy that benefit the economy. See the FA's reference to BC's carbon tax which has been an enormous success. We are long past the point where people can claim carbon taxes as potentially negative for the economy or unproven.
A nation-state, by definition, is a state comprised of a single nation. But a nation-state isn't the only kind of Westphalian state -- and frankly the nation-state idea has mostly been a destructive one, although holding a nation (or other community) in a country by force of arms is no better.

It sounds like you'd say that permitting secession is wrong because it leads to ethnic cleansing. How much ethnic cleansing do you anticipate in the event of California seceding from the United States?
If that's a theory he has there, then you imply god and the spirit are not a theory. If that is the case, please provide proof. Quite literally the entire human race would be interested.
Financial companies and banks already trust each other. It doesn't make sense for them to be held under public scrutiny with a public ledger. Therefore, blockchain is a solution without a problem for financial institutions. Their needs are already well met and there's little incentive to change. It worked for a 1000+ years why uproot everything for a buzzword ? Of course they aren't going to change.
Tip: You need a bootcamp in negotiations and selling yourself. Not in programming ;)
Trump's Six Executive Actions on Day 1
Acceptance testing? Load testing? No, never heard of those :-/
And yet you quoted someone from the past as an exemplar regarding a moral issue of today. You kinda opened that door.
Amazing, cooler than Prezi (and free)!
Wasn't the intrastate demands a GOP added addendum to the bill? As well as the removal of the single payer option? I feel like people forget how much stuff changed from the original ACA to the one that passed through congress.

Also, I fully expect that I'm remembering completely wrong. I'm human, and in mobile, and about to prep a turkey, sorry.
"I made a mistake and contacted a recruiter from the same company where I was already working with another recruiter"

That's not a mistake, or certainly not yours. You're not paying the recruiter, you're not they're client, and you definitely aren't beholden to them.

Sign an agreement to the contrary, that's different.
FakeNewsMonitor: A trustworthiness score to rank sites
But they could order them to give them access to administer their servers, with acts of sabotage being punishable. There's no reason you should assume that the people running RiseUp right now are the same people that ran it a week ago.
No, we mean after the world changed and violently suppressing independence movements became no longer viable in western democracies.
> I think we should keep this and open insurance companies up across state lines. This should bring competition and reduce our overall rates.

As I understand it, this is the first step toward removing all regulation on the healthcare industry. Some pro-big-business-controlled state legislature will slowly start removing regulations to lure insurance companies. They'll move to that state, and then they'll be able to sell their product from that state to the rest of the country.
Well, many Chinese neighborhoods or residential areas contain "village" (村) in their name.

And you are right, it is not actually a village. It is just an area and another metro station in Shenzhen.
nkurz, thanks a bunch for taking the survey!

The problem of nuisance calls is a real one, indeed. To be honest, I hadn't realized how many I receive myself until I started taking count of them. And as you rightly pointed out, we answer them because we think that they might be important. Subsequently, I've missed some important calls because I thought that they might be spam (sigh!).

I've some research experience where carriers were involved and realized that they have a huge sway with the politicos. So practically, I have doubts that getting them to be held accountable is gonna happen.

The National Do Not Call registry works, but telemarketers and other such 'callers' always find a way around it. One slick feature I found in Android lately is that it asked (after I received a call from an unknown number) if the call was a spam. So it kind of blacklists some numbers locally. Regarding what you seek, doesn't Google Voice kind of does that?
We've been using Phabricator for a few years and have been really happy with it. Initially we brought it on board to help with code reviews (which it is fantastic at), but have since also used it to help manage projects being collaboratively worked on with external customers. I usually jump at every chance to talk about it with others who are interested in learning more.

Definitely check it out if you're looking for hosted or self-hosted alternatives to GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket, especially if you use Mercurial (or SVN).
Why Native Apps Really Are Doomed
Coming of Age in the Era of Email
You can control almost all EMET mitigations except for the ROP and EAF protections through IFEO (Image File Executable Options). There's also the cert pinning but I believe that was only useful for IE. There are also other Windows 10 specific mitigations that don't exist in EMET which can also be controlled this way. The main selling point of EMET was that it did not require recompilation. Luckily you can still control most of these mitigations through IFEO (see below) which does not require recompilation.

EAF uses debug registers which limits its usefulness and the ROP mitigations are becoming less useful because of CFG (control flow guard). Although the latter does require applications to be recompiled with the latest Visual Studio (and Opt-In to using CFG which is not enabled by default). It's not really surprising seeing Microsoft retire EMET considering you can get nearly the same kind of coverage on a vanilla Windows 10 install.

I made a rough guide as to the layout of the MitigationOptions QWORD which controls these mitigations:

https://theryuu.github.io/ifeo-mitigationoptions.txt

There are Microsoft provided functions which can also enable these mitigations[1][2] when compiled into the code. Also lets not forget that for now EMET still works fine with Windows 10.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...

[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh7...
Trump: US will quit Trans-Pacific trade deal
That is what some people have conjectured is in the works with a "Surface Phone," although it's really anyone's guess at this point. But it certainly is very appealing. With this new emulation news, the use-case could be that you can run your x86 apps (slowly) in a pinch while out and about. When you get home or to the office, you dock up to get a full-powered PC experience.
The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders who are helping Trump
Seriously though, considering how deeply every other aspect of this project was deliberated (presumably, given the cost involved) - how they could possibly end up going with Javascript is bizarre. You'd think there would be a preference for arbitrary precision and against undefined behavior.
>Congressional districts are ultimately decided by the individual states, (theoretically) based upon Census data as I understand it. (A correction is welcome if I've misunderstood)

Theoretically based on Census data, but ultimately at the near-unrestricted discretion of whoever holds the state legislature at the time.

>Trouble is, when a party wins (and thus is in the best position to fix the issue), this isn't seen as a problem worth addressing. That change, too, needs to come from within.

Yep. It's taken lawsuits in some places: http://electionlawblog.org/?p=89402. This case could end up before the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court then votes their own partisan preferences, which they often do these days, it will be... fucked-up.
Ok, so as much as I didn't vote for Trump, or Hillary, I think the media in general is fear mongering. Trump wants to replace ACA. He doesn't want to just say, "Fuck it! We'll do it live". He want to repeal the law, while invoking a new one.

While I admit that it's not a fleshed out plan, the website does provide reasonable guidelines for what his administration wants to perform. Republicans have, half-assedly, been trying to do the same in the House for years. Perhaps all of the saber rattling will lead to a coherent plan.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform
Same about prototypes! I wonder how many other people have created really great products for their company doing the same thing. It would be in any company's best interest to provide free tiers for experimentation.
Until someone figures out how to duct-tape 1,000 optical microscopes together in a giant interferometer, I guess.
They're working on services. From the Q4 earnings call,

"What should we read into the fact that R&D has more than doubled over the past three years while sales growth was sort of a fifth of that? Are R&D investments just less efficient than they were in the company's history, or should we think about that as incremental spend for products that haven't yet come to market?

Timothy Donald Cook - Apple, Inc.

There's clearly some amount of R&D that are on products that today are in the development phase that have not reached the market, and so that's a part of it. And we feel really great about the things that we've got. We've also put a lot of emphasis on our Services business as well and on making the ecosystem even better. And so we're very much, we're confidently investing in the future, and that's the reason you see the R&D spend increasing."

My super informal analysis of where Apple's priorities are:

Term Count
iPhone 64
Mac/macOS 17
Services 16
iPad 15
Watch 8

(http://seekingalpha.com/article/4014922-apple-aapl-q4-2016-r...)
Thanks nkurz!

I didn't know that about Medium - so thanks for the heads-up. That's my first blog as well, so I will try to figure out where to post it :)

Really appreciate your help!
It's more that we have a pretty high throughput system, using Lambda.

Users authenticate with an API gateway endpoint, we do a PUT to store a descriptor file, send a presigned PUT URL back so they can upload their file, we then process the file and do a COPY+DELETE to move it out of the "not yet processed" stage and finally do another PUT to upload the resulting processed file.

Despite a lot of data, the storage bill is barely scratching $40, but we're at almost $700/mo on API calls.
The only thing I liked about Obama care was the pre-existing conditions clause.

You can't separate that clause from the mandate and minimum coverage clauses. All three were designed to keep costs from inflating on the one hand, and coverage becoming useless on the other. It's sort of like saying you like your lunch, but have a problem with having to pay for it.

We can quibble about rates for men vs women, but unless you were matured to adulthood in a lab, it's hard to argue that men as a class do not benefit from improved and cheaper access to reproductive healthcare for women. (Also, better reproductive health means fewer criminals, if only because they're born healthier and with fewer mental handicaps.)

Opening up insurance across states would be nice theoretically, but you must realize that it's a states' rights issue for a large segment of the GOP, and a cause for concern among Democrats. It would necessarily limit and perhaps destroy the ability for states to meaningfully regulate insurance within their own borders. Unchecked, it would also mean a race to the bottom in terms of regulatory oversight as every provider would only sell insurance from states with the least restrictive regulations.

What state do you live in? Coverage in states like California and many other states that haven't fought tooth-and-nail has been fairly stable as far I know. The Kaiser HMO rate at my company actually decreased slightly for 2017, with no change in coverage. And California not only has a rigorous regulatory framework, it even maintains a weird tax on hospital income to pay for uninsured coverage.

Also, you don't need a federal law to support an inter-state insurance scheme. States could voluntarily permit policies to be sold from other states. For example, states in different regions could elect to normalize their regulatory schemes and open up their markets to each other. There's plenty of precedent for this. It doesn't require Congressional approval; just coordination among state legislatures like is so often done for other regulatory frameworks.
Related discussion from earlier today, in case you missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13008408
> What exactly are the benefits over simply setting up nginx if not simplicity?

We weren't fully aware of these limitations when we decided to host our site on S3. Had we been, we may have just used nginx.

There are obviously a ton of benefits to S3 and Cloudfront, it's just than in practice you can't really get them if you need Google to index your site. And while Google claims they can now execute javascript and include async content, in practice this isn't true for any real Angular or React site.

And even if every search engine were to magically execute js correctly, you'd still need to prerender your site in order for Facebook and Twitter to populate the preview cards for your site with the proper headline, summary, and image.
Early adopter of something that dates back to at least the Middle Ages? Earlier, really, if you consider that a lot of Roman statuary was mass-produced. And I'm probably missing out on non-Western-culture examples.
Given the quality of HN comments, I am forced to support the current system.
This is right. There's no other reason to allow selling across state lines, and very little evidence there is a lack of competition that needs addressing in this way. The biggest issue facing the ACA is literally no one wants to offer insurance in a lot of rural counties. Selling across state lines would do nothing to address that or any other real issue with our healthcare system.
They did the same for 68k programs when they first went to PowerPC. And there's mild rumor building of them switching to ARM as well. 4 processor architectures across the Mac's history is pretty impressive.
That is what happened that one time. Why do you assume that is the only way it could ever happen? Do you think that the people proposing Californian secession are entirely unaware of the Civil War? Perhaps they have learned something from that example, and don't merely aim to repeat it, as you appear to assume.
"we face people who, perceiving that they have lost something, are willing to take high risks."

I love how throughout the post the author keeps on pushing the point that people simply have a misguided perception of reality, under no circumstance it is considered that these people are directly or indirectly affected by current policy.

There are too many people living in opaque bubbles blogging about "what REALLY happened!".
We ought to be angry sometimes. Maybe you'll like this one better:

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

pretty damn relevant today. (rent seeking, crony capitalism, lobbyists writing the bills)
The simple fact is that carbon taxes are only effective if all countries are participating but India, China, and large portions of Africa, the middle east, and south america are not. It will not be effective until we solve 3rd world problems first.
Shouldn't a rational VC be taking a couple of (2) in among a bunch of (1)? You want a mixed portfolio with an overall positive expected return, but you want to fold in a few moonshots on the off-chance that they pay off and make you mega-rich and famous.
https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut
You might not be able to shutdown if you have been forced to keep the service running.
That's both a good and a terrible change.

- The price reduction on S3 is good! Kudos AWS.

- The price change on glacier is a fucking disaster. They replaced the _single_ expensive glacier fee with the choice among 3 user selectable fee models (Standard, Expedited, Bulk). It's an absolute nightmare added on top of the current nightmare (e.g. try to understand the disks specifications & pricing. It takes months of learning).

I cannot follow the changes, too complicated. I cannot train my devs to understand glacier either, too much of a mess.

AWS if you read this: Please make your offers and your pricing simpler, NEVER more complicated.

(Even a single pricing option would be significantly better than that, even if its more expensive.)
say you are reading an article, what is the best way to gauge the authenticity of the article and how to make the user actually give a shit about it's validity?

It surprises me people read fake news on FB knowing it's false but upvote or share it because of crowd effect-lot of shares & likes must mean it's legitimate.

This is a major loss of confidence in Facebook, at first dow right denying the existence of fake news, now announcing half measures to kill their own user engagement. It boggles my mind such company is somehow more valuable than incumbent tech giants with more cash than facebook will ever earn in it's lifetime.
FWIW this is called "Content Marketing" in the SEO industry. Chris Chin calls it that in the article you linked. He's pretty good at it: most content marketing is terrible and uninteresting content.
Sorry for the off-topic, but I have to share:

A year and a half ago, I was looking for a place that would allow me to host a single HTML page for free. A couple of shady free hosting sites later, I came across Neocities. It was a breeze to set up an account there and host a short story of mine in HTML format.

I found myself giving out the link to anyone who'd like to check it out, without needing to e-mail them a PDF (or even worse, a Word document). I like nice typography and readability so sending a simple text file was not the ideal option either. But a link to a page was perfect: it displays well on every device and the page can easily be updated. I wrote the whole thing in Markdown and hacked together a short script to generate HTML from it, which I could easily drag-n-drop to Neocities for quick iteration based on remote people's feedback.

I never wrote again, but if I did, I'd definitely use the same method. An open platform for HTML publishing is essential to keeping the spirit of the minimalist, hyperlink-driven Web alive.

So thank you for Neocities, and cheers!
RDS does have a free tier: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/free/
Full costs and income of a $1m independent feature film
This a really dumb question, but since I've never used Glacier what does the workflow for a Glacier application look like? I'm used to the world of immediate access needs, and fast API responses, so I can't imagine sending off a request to an API with a response "Your data will be ready in 1-5 hours, come back later".