skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even 100W bulbs are pretty rare now days (illegal in the EU), replaced with LED versions that consume far less energy.

4.5 kWh is really a tremendous amount of energy just to refine a single gallon of gasoline. And it's energy that's completely lost, just converting hydrocarbons from one form into another.

By putting that energy directly into electric vehicles instead, you'd be able to power around half of all the vehicles on the road!
He's not really much of a businessman either, is he?
Funny, I heard it as AOL buying modems. Instead of a complaint, they got a shipment in two parts with a note: "We don't know why you wanted defective parts, but for your convenience, we packaged them separately."
Mutmut: a Python mutation testing system
Since the self-driving vehicle topic has been discussed here at length, I'm making the blanket assumption that is just the way it is going to work in the future: open your phone, call a car, ride it to your destination.

I think it is a big assumption anyone will be able to buy a bunch of self-driving vehicles and blanket a city. Tesla has already prohibited auto-pilot (or whatever it ends up being called) from being used for third party ride sharing services. I would suspect other manufacturers will too barring exclusive contracts with the transport/ride-sharing/etc company.

This means right now it is an arms race between Tesla and Uber to manufacture, at scale, the first fully self-driving "taxi." Tesla is probably well ahead on that game and Uber will either need to partner or buy an existing car company.

The secondary problem is the platform is the mobile phone. Apple or Google could easily build an auction platform in to the OS for calling vehicles. In that case, it could become a commodity business with royalties paid to whoever has the dominate mobile device in the future (could be Facebook or Snapchat instead.)

Thirdly there may be vehicle differentiation. Right now if you use UberX, there is a pretty wide range of vehicles that could show up. If brand preference and car features matter a lot, I don't see why a luxury car maker like BMW couldn't at least a niche player.

Finally, everyone has different ideas. What this looks like in 12 months is going to be different that 36 month, vs 10 years from now. I think some people are right about their assumptions of what will happen, but maybe it will only be that way for a few years before completely changing again. How it plays out probably has more to do with what decisions and deals the big players make -- Uber, Tesla, Google, Apple, the other car companies -- more than any particular inevitability.
Sports and ESPN are increasingly becoming political, which might take some part in this.
== Consolidated advice ==

- Don't use Iris because shady-thievery-mischief
- Learning is costly: If you have to learn a lot to get into fullstack dev, learning a new language will compound that cost
- Just pick whatever and f'n build something - artists build

Backend:
1. Node.js
2. RoR in second
3. Spring Boot/Play
4. Phoenix

Database:
1. Postgres

Frontend:
1. React
2. Backbone

Thanks all for the advice and avoiding the temptation to completely slam me (though it's warranted).

My takeaways are:

1. Don't forget about SSL, and LetsEncrypt provides a free option (will donate eventually)
2. Amazon Lightsail looks promising but be wary of any service that will not automatically cap usage once you've hit your spending threshold (apparently Google CC too, but not Digital Ocean)
3. I know there are .NET developers on here but they're a vocal minority (I work on a Windows/Ubuntu machine so it's within my reach but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Thanks again, all! See you on the webbz.

P.S. I'm working on my first chrome extension (frontend only) and might follow-up asking for advice on that.
If you're looking to transfer 100s of petabytes, I imagine you'd find a way to get a 1Tbps connection to the parking lot, rather than connect and disconnect thousands of Snowballs. It's clearly intended for a different use case than transferring a few petabytes.
Your standalone 4TB Western Digital hard drive isn't going to give you 99.999999999% durability and replicate your data across multiple datacenters. .03/GB is still insanely cheap IMO.
When the banana production facility is predicated on the collective effort and value that all of the monkeys provide, then refusing to pay taxes is tantamount to sealing from the society. Since the society provides for the common good, including the production of bananas, it follows that the individuals must honor and provide for that social function--which in the end serves _them_.
TL;DR: Server side transcoding of OTA HD recordings for playback over wifi. And "channels"

I have the plex server on my main media server, which also records OTA TV via an antenna. I often want to watch recordings on a tablet (older kindle fire) which is just on the edge of being able to playback 1080i (16Mb/s) content if everything is just exactly right with wifi. In my old house, with plaster walls, that was seldom the case. So I used the plex server-side software to transcode the video down to 3Mb/s and was able to reliably watch my recordings on my tablet from the other side of the house. These days, in a newer house with drywall, I'm finding less need to use PlexBMC, as the Kodi NFS access of the files works reasonably well.

The other thing that the plex server gives you is access to Channels (1) which don't exactly line up with Kodi's plugins. Even if they both support the same thing (say PBS or NFL Gamepass), there will be times when the Plex channel works, but the Kodi plugin does not. So it is good to have both. And, oddly, this is where the Plex Android client really falls down here. I've often had times when the Plex client simply refused to play channel content, but the PlexBMC Kodi plugin worked flawlessly.

(1) Channels are what the Plex folks call 3rd party plugins to provide access to on-line content, like PBS, NFL Gamepass, etc.
I believe very very few of the shows the parent post is talking about are sitcoms.
4.5Kw/h won't get you around the block :)

4.5 kWh will take you nearly 20 miles in an electric vehicle. Not far short of what 1 gallon of gasoline will get you.
Thanks for the recommendation! Great read.
> This is apparently the first time anyone’s done this “peroxate” solvate trick with any energetic material, and no doubt others in the field are slapping their heads while reading this paper – gently, though, so as not to set off the stuff next door.
I can see the logic behind that, but without any sort of tension/release between the melody and chords, it still sounds just as dissonant to my ears.
Uber will not make a profit for decades, break-even is a stretch of credulity.

Unless you think they can somehow turn around $2bn loss on $1.8bn revenue in a very thin margin business.
You're putting it in the truck with the intention of shipping it to Amazon to load it onto their infrastructure. If you don't trust Amazon with your data, the truck isn't unique in any way...they can clone your data at their data center too.
Breitbart ? really?
But if you keep forcing draws, it doesn't let your opponent reach 6 wins.
> There is no point at which sequestering CO2 by use of electricity is going to make sense.

Of course there will be. Even burning a small fraction of the Thorium lying in spill heaps today will achieve that. In February 2019, when Tsinghua Uni demos the worlds first commercially viable fusion reactor, everything will change.

We will:

- convert cubic kilometres of seawater into potable water per day and irrigate the Sahara and the Outback.
- convert atmospheric C02 to carbohydrate fuels (while there are still need for them)
- extract cubic killometers of C out of the atmosphere and oceans for construction material.
- Drop the excess blocks of diamond into the mariana trench, those that we don't use for road base.
- etc

People really do not appreciate what superabundance of energy would mean for man and our current planet.
It will literally be the demarcation point between the age of want, and the ages of plenty.
One monkey says to a group of other monkeys: "We all need to take one of the 5 bananas we individually have to feed the doctor monkey, the asphalt monkey and the teacher monkey, from whom we receive services."

One monkey from the group, which just came back in his car from the doctor monkey with his daughter that goes to the local monkey school: "I refuse to give up my bananas!".

Remember context. Full context is important.
I'd much rather use Uber because they are subsidising my ride.
"One monkey says to a group of other monkeys, "we all need to take one of the 5 bananas we individually have and place it into a central banana disbursement fund".
Then, another monkey from the group refuses to give up one of his bananas. How is this refusal equal to stealing?"

This is the most American and the most stupid thing I've read on HN. It's almost pop art.
Electric cars don't have non-zero maintenance aside from the battery, but -- due to the lack of an internal-combustion engine, simplified drive train, and absence of emission-control equipment -- maintenance costs should be considerably lower.
I think you have to count the earliest purchase first for taxes. So you can't use the $500 base until you exhaust all of the $100 when counting buy-sell events.
Yep. I got the feeling that Vess was hammering the browser hooks issue because it's the only one where blame can be shared outside of the AV vendor. Handing out privilege escalation and sandbox escape from your own crappy code isn't something that can be blamed on a shortage of external support.

Nor, for that matter, is silently disabling other, better security products, which seems to be standard practice these days.
>Our grandchildren might fairly say, well, it was our asshole grandparents who selfishly shat all over the world, why should we have to suffer exceptionally for it?

You know, we young folks are right here. We are already suffering and already angry. We already want the maximum preventative and ameliorative efforts taken.
Because the banana was grown on the fields that the other monkeys paid for, transported on the roads that the other monkeys paid for and the monkey received it's education on how to get it's banana from a school that the other monkeys funded.

If you live on a farm off the grid have solar power, collect your own rain water and don't ever leave your plot of land fine don't pay taxes. But if you want the niceties of civilisation don't expect to get it for free.
That may be one of the biggest annoyances of "Agile Methodologies". It's this idea that we can just keep micro-incrementing anything forever. While the principle works great, you end up with this model where you never actually stop/complete/etc...

I'm not saying we should stop that, by any means, precisely the opposite actually, however what we DO need to do is be more focused on actually building sustainable products and services, that generate (gasp) REVENUE/PROFIT, and learn to "Fail Fast" when it becomes a drag.
There is too many assumptions to make a case either way. There is zero info about actual unit economics available publicly. We don't know which cities are without subsidies (on both driver and rider) and which ones are, only Uber has it available internally.

Heck, due to the growth in a city, the economics themselves change as the company scales in a city. Only Uber can actually project out to a certain reasonability (which are almost always different from reality even after that). Projections are just broad strokes to see if something will definitely not work rather than a proof that it definitely will.

All these arguments could have been made for Google, Amazon, Facebook etc at a certain point in the company's life, and then BAM - in a couple of years there was some "magic point" where the whole company became a cash minting machine. Also, Amazon is not a "pure software" company - there is a huge operations backend which was scaled along with the company.

People tend to look at a given snapshot in time and confidently proclaim that it won't work - ever. But the world is a complex place - nobody has a fking idea what's gonna happen next. Instead of finding reasons to proclaim "This is not gonna work - ever.", it would be better if we can ask - "Okay, it looks like it doesn't work in the current phase - but what are these people doing which makes it possible to work."

In short, its moot to discuss why Uber will fail - atleast right now - there isn't enough data that we can confidently project to make that conclusion. Its better if this sort of analysis is done in hindsight because right now there are too many variables which are changing too fast for anyone to make any prediction about anything.
Well if the container is completely and securely sealed it should not affect the drives, after all the drives or other parts are shipped from factories.

But yeah I'd expect air-shipping as well, if only so that the container can be kept secure, I doubt Amazon is going to send security personnel for week-long trips on cargo ships.
I'll start researching it if I see the proletariat developing floppy ears and other cute features :)
I envy Shreeve’s and Matzger's groups. Not that I want to do what they're doing, but man I would love waking up to an article written about me like this. I can guarantee that their teams have a getting a huge kick out of this.
It would be nice to see which ones are linux friendly and don't come with Windows preinstalled.
Like Sweden? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13079323
Uber makes $2bn loss on $1.8bn revenue.

I'm not sure who thinks that's basic economics
Some.

1) it was never seen as a problem because the erlang team believe (and i agree with them) that you best let specialists deal with their speciality are.

2) There were never an efficient JIT on the BEAM. This is something that is regularly looked at by the OTP team, but it would be a massive effort, just to try to approach effiency of what other language, that you can easily interact with, could do.

3) The use case are small. Let be honest. The amount of problems that are really only CPU bounded are limited in day to day work.
It won't just be S3, it could be stored in Glacier. Considering AWS just cut list price for both of those, this makes sense.
It's totally unreasonable to mandate a particular FS for modern general purpose software.

Multiple files does mean multiple threads. Unless you manage to run this without a modern operating system.
Huawei develops ground-breaking graphene-assisted Li-on battery
"How is this refusal equal to stealing?"

Because he is going to eat up from that salad. In nordic countries everybody actually uses the resources enabled by taxes.
He's not wrong, most traditional AV is complete hacked-up shit. Some of the "Next-Generation" AV(I think they are trying to rebrand this as Endpoint IPS too) like Cylance, CrowdStrike, Webroot are better in that they do a lot less crap on the endpoints to begin with, so there is less to screw up.
The last Insider Fast build was 2 weeks ago. Maybe MSFT is holding the net one back until they fix this...?
How to See Everything Your Browser Knows About You
I've just created an account and begin to try this game.

You should maybe (I know, it's boring) put some pictures or a video to show what it's all about.

And congrats BTW :)
Which is why it was bizarre to read TFA claiming China was taking steps to shore up its currency against the dollar...?

> The yuan has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar since 2008; anxious Chinese officials are said to be pondering tighter restrictions on foreign takeovers by domestic firms to stem the downward pressure.
The full tweet has the best putdown ever to fit in 140 chars with room left over:

"You misunderstand your own ignorance".
Well that's what I'm saying. I mean I guess that rabbit hole goes all the way, even if Amazon brought their machines to me, there's still not a guarantee that it won't be stolen somehow.
Whoever said "The Internet is not a truck"? Seems like this blurs the lines a bit :)
I know it's an MVP but I miss this old style of faceting. These days selecting or unselecting a facet takes so long. The clean aesthetic really appeals to me also. I guess modern companies need ways to differentiate themselves and big nasty designs are they say to go.
https://christophermeiklejohn.com/pl/2016/04/12/rpc.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDWZyYHj2XM

Christopher is far better than i will ever be at explaining it. In general, RPC have some fundamental problems, among other, they need you to ship the full context.
I agree that we should tamper with natural economic forces as little as possible, we should remember that even economic nature can be a cruel, cruel bitch. Read the following for why we should sometimes risk economic meddling, despite the costs and risks.

https://morecrows.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/unnecessariat/

TL;DR: Being on the bottom of the economic ladder is terrible and near impossible to escape.
Because there's no way to opt-out of the benefits of a well-educated, well-protected society with good infrastructure. If we could send everyone who wants to opt out of taxes to some island somewhere, we would.
It looks great despite having very little styling!
> @VessOnSecurity whines about a lack of hooks

I think that "Antivirus" arrived as a bandaid during the decades when security was taken seriously by some consumers but not by the OS/app software vendors. It started out as "inspect the system for signatures of malicious executables" and evolved to include "clever active mechanisms to avoid infection."

I think that there should be no need for the "active mechanisms to avoid infection" part and that is ultimately the responsibility of the OS/app vendors.

Unfortunately, through their inaction, OS/app vendors have allowed an industry to arrive. This industry will be reluctant to forfeit their position. Clearly if they think they're entitled to some consideration in the browser design, they will not go away without a fight.
It was inspired by Wakui's work, and attempts to produce a similar glow/bloom to highlights in an image, which it sort of achieves. The overall color grading could be pushed further, but the author wasn't looking to exactly match the style.
Nice work! Reminds me of the old pricewatch days (which, apparently is still a thing!)

If you're looking for recommendations, one of the most important specs to me personally is the screen resolution.
Not sure; I'm in Europe. But I've read on forums that some (all?) of these don't work with American frequencies.

Edit: Found it! [Manual][2] says "You can only use your device on the GSM 900, 1800 MHz networks."

[2]: "http://download-support.webapps.microsoft.com/ncss/PUBLIC/en...
Maybe you were referring to the _demo_ of custom training, here: https://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/train ? The demo only classifies using one classifier at a time, but the API can do multiple at once.
Math is closer to the humanities than economics is. Math is not empirical, with its expanding knowledge driven more by philosophical thinking than empirical deduction.

Economics is not a hard science, and shouldn't be treated as such, but to claim it is more like the humanities is disingenuous. It is a social science. That is to say that it is still ultimately empirical, just that the empirical implications of working with humans makes the job a lot harder and ocassionally less repeatable (are we measuring innate human nature, or a fluid and ever changing culture?).
Iconoclastic mood affiliation?
You sound like some of the kids I teach. All 17 - 18 year old kids have phones and check them at least every 5 minutes. I mentioned that it'll be weird when they are wearing some sort of augmented reality glasses and teachers won't be able to tell if students are concentrating or reading reddit.

The kids all said "That'll never happen." as if technology is stuck where we are today. They were astounded when I told them that ten years ago, I never saw a phone in a classroom. So from my perspective we went from no phones, to big phones, to little dumb phones, to little connected computers... it's no stretch to think that soon they will be glasses mounted or project some sort of holograph into the eyeball. Version 2 of Microsoft HoloLens will be cool, v3 will be tiny, v4 will be mounted inside glasses for sure.

The same with AI. A few years ago I couldn't talk to my computer. Today I do it all the time. Last week I had to remember passwords, today my computer recognises me and logs me in.

AI is here and it's getting better and from my point of view it is getting better much faster.
Chains of discussion like this are why I like CMake. Much less confusion.

Few confuse the output of CMake with things that ought to be committed.
Yeah, but in practice ranged GETs and HTTP servers are more likely to be down than the FTP servers.
What a stupid, dismissive response. I am not doubting human activity has impacted the change in climate. I'm just curious to know more about this specific symptom. Do coral reefs go through the same kind of cycles that forests do? Or have these reefs been around for thousands of years uninterrupted?
"Then, another monkey from the group refuses to give up one of his bananas. How is this refusal equal to stealing?"

You're leaving out the veterinarian who accepts a payment of bananas equal to the number of monkeys within the group. That'd be fine if the refusing monkey didn't go on to accept healthcare from said vet. But since he does, the other monkeys must chip in more banana to meet the required payment since not paying would force the vet to stop working for any of them, period.
LOTS more information here on the proposed models and specs:

Nokia WILL Return in 2017 With Two New Android Phones: Specs, Hardware & Release Date Rumours - http://www.knowyourmobile.com/mobile-phones/nokia-c1/23369/n...

Also if you haven't yet already, you should really try their Z launcher for your apps. I switched a few months ago and have been really impressed with it: https://www.zlauncher.com/

I'm super stoked to see Nokia getting back in the game regardless of what platform they're going to be on.
My blood also gets easily to the boiling point if I see the public broadcasters complaining about not having enough money while simultaneously opening a new radio station only for "Schlager"-music (old-fashioned music listened to primarily by old people reminiscing about the "good old times") and paying the higher-ups of the TV broadcasters obscene amounts of money...
Fully public facilities like gyms and pools are just one brand of soda, as it were. Some people don't like Pepsi, they'd rather drink Coca Cola, or put more plainly at least go to gyms and pools where the people have an appreciation of the cost of good things. There is the central difference between the American way of doing things, people have more freedom to choose what they spend their money on. If you are subsidizing everyone's pools and gyms, and you don't care to go yourself, money is being stolen from you in a sense, or to use the soda analogy, you're being force fed Pepsi when you really want something else.
Also, hard limits on download size seem silly to me. Either it's worth spending those couple kb for jQuery or it's not, but you shouldn't need to compensate for it by reducing payload in other places.
Your significant other needs to have a hobby too... Help her or him find something that takes some time every day (my girlfriends paints and reads -a lot-, for example).
Historically "fonts" have been set by the author, not the reader. While I appreciate that this is no longer necessary, it seems reasonable that authors still want to choose it for reasons of presentation. Of course it's easy enough to write a use stylesheet, so readers that need a different view can get one.
Yep, this is a common problem. The solution is not perfect, but works correctly with respect to permissions:

https://medium.com/@ramangupta/why-docker-data-containers-ar...
Show HN: Notes. Simple flexible unix-y note taking