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>Sadly like Moore's law, LEDs aren't getting much better anymore.

The best LEDs are now remarkably close to the theoretical maximum luminous efficacy. We're now bottlenecked by batteries and the limits of sanity.

Specialist diving companies will happily sell you a 60w, 6300 lumen flashlight. It's not a big market, but it exists. To run a light like that you need a massive external battery pack tethered with an umbilical, because it'll eat through the entire capacity of an 18650 cell in under 10 minutes. That's no problem for divers, because a properly designed battery pack is close to neutrally buoyant; it's a major inconvenience for people on the surface.

1000 lumens is Good Enough for 99% of users of handheld flashlights. There really aren't that many people who need to throw a beam for half a kilometre or light up a football stadium with a flashlight.
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its written into the constitution that they don't do this, cause of their gestapo history. Ironically Germany are the safest bet because of their past.
I do not know of any German law which is comparable. Do you have a citation?

I agree with the sentiment, but at least legality of snooping has not been settled yet.
Iris pro might die, I've seen rumors along those lines. But the high end iris offers little and doubles the price.

Compare the NUC with iris 580 is $600-$700 ish. The NUC with the iris 540 is $340 and often they throw in 8GB ram for free. 580 is hardly a gaming GPU, it doesn't really run much that you can't run on the 540. Sure it's faster, but far from an AMD/Nvidia killer.

So the iris pro might die, but I expect the iris line to continue.

Certainly the popularity of the iris based mac pro will help. Hell I wish more of the skylake iris's were easy to get. I've been hoping for an Iris 550 based NUC or similar system for a quiet desktop. I've yet to find one.
Everyone is just assuming that Corbyn and Chakrabarti had their arms twisted. But, one, if they were vulnerable to that, don't you think it would have been done before in the many other times they've been nuisances to the state? And two, I don't believe that an arm-twist exists that would get them both to shut up and smile, rather than sing out and damn the consequences. Nor is it plausible to stifle such a public disclosure these days.

So perhaps they were persuaded by actual persuasion, rather than a gun to the head?

Such as for example, somebody had a quiet word with them about The Aliens.
No. The article says Trump's nominees probably want more powers. The only bill under consideration is S.3475 which is being delayed to allow more debate. A more honest title would be "We Hypothesize How Trump Will Be Awful But The Only Evidence We Provide Suggests Spying Powers Might Actually Grow Slower Than Under Obama"
Sadly the rumors claim the first gen zen will not be APUs.
C# lol. Anyway its fast and the library is made for the web it just fits perfectly and even has many libs to extend existing applications in other languages easily. Like making stuff in Go for rails apps just works
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Looks like they just put one up: https://www.patreon.com/eranhammer
>is this the kind of person you want near your children?

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

It sounds cliche, but everyone has their dirty little porn secrets. 95% of the porn I see out there I consider "weird". But there it is, so who am I to judge?
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I wish I had done math. I got scared by 203.
I'd really like it if VC/incubators etc. would set up a donation system where they give X$ to projects that are used by their funded companies. I also wouldn't mind seeing an equivalent to the YC-nonprofit program specifically dedicated to the development of interesting FLOSS software (or the support of existing projects).

At the very least I'd be interested in seeing an overview of the various FLOSS code that is used by every YC batch (maybe such a list exists?).
This. You can also get near 98% accuracy with vw and one quadratic interaction over the pixel space. It takes seconds. But that last .8%, forget about ever getting there with infinite training time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't usually buy drugs like that literally on the street. It's not unthinkable to have an ongoing relation with a dealer enough to be able to return something that doesn't meet your expectations, if you are an important enough client. Not saying it's common, but I think possible.
Sailfish can run pretty much any Android app I've thrown at it - but only on an official Jolla phone. Any phone where SFOS is just a "port" cannot run the emulation layer (and sadly this is a limitation with the software itself, not just a licensing issue).
I've thought about building an IA.BAK extension for typical NAS software like Synology's DSM, QNAP's QTS, etc. Unfortunately, I've found that these platforms don't come close to the developer friendliness we've come to expect from app or extension stores - probably one of the reasons why there aren't really all that many extensions available on those devices.

Anyway, I'm hoping that situation will improve - unused NAS space would be a pretty big addition to IA.BAK, and you can't beat the UX of just installing an extension on a device you might already own.
I'm annoyed by the Hollywood depiction implied by this comment. In my version of "back in the day", all the "street pushers" were some of my closest friends, not grumpy thugs.
The Sailfish UI can be replaced with the Glacier UI from Nemo Mobile, I believe.
> The war on drugs is not a war that soldiers fight.

There are a lot of decapitations and mass graves for something that isn't a war. If the people fighting aren't soldiers, what are they?
> I'm always amazed by the misconceptions out there about the Linux desktop, Maybe the last time you used it was like 3 years ago ?

I'm using it right now (and have been for years), rather I was going to ask you the same thing..

> SANE for printers and scanners support hundreds of peripherals out of the box. No specific driver installation required. Most USB devices are recognized and supported in the kernel.

Really, what front-end are you using? 50% of the time or more I've had to wiki [0] / run terminal commands to get a printer to work and if that floats your boat that's fine. As for Android it's a complete crap-shot e.g. the Archlinux wiki lists as many as 5 different MTP packages[1] one of which will hopefully work?

> That I can agree with you, but it's not related to the "desktop" per se, it's for a tiny amount of people who have this kind of configuration that it's an issue. There are workarounds like Bumblebee, and with Wayland the situation is supposed to improve.

It's not a tiny-amount of people -- it's anyone that wants to play games on a laptop.. Have you tried Bumblebee? I only got very marginal ~10 FPS improvement running a game with Bumblebee (Nvidia+Intel) vs. only dedicated Intel (after hours of configuration) -- basically useless: don't play modern games on Linux.

> Intel is releasing patches all the time. That's not the Linux's project fault if Intel is not working at the same pace on all platforms.

I don't see how it matters whose fault it is - it doesn't change the fact that if you buy a new laptop/desktop with a CPU less than one year old -- you are going to be in for a world of hurt if you chose Linux.

> The situation has vastly improved with GNOME, Mate, Cinnamon and KDE for HDPI support. The issue remaining are mostly applications that have not been rewritten to take advantage of modern GUI frameworks yet. Note that on Windows the situation is far from perfect either.

I've tried HiDPI with GNOME Shell -- maybe it works for all the built-ins but breaks lots of other programs you might install, again I'm not saying you can't fix it, I'm saying that passing command-line arguments to grub or editing XML files isn't something most users are into.

> When you are not in a situation where the choice is left to the user, OF COURSE you will get this kind of share.

This kind of delusional thinking amazes me. You want users to spend hours monkeying around on command-line/googling getting their system to work -- and than you still think the reason it doesn't have market-share is because users don't have a choice? Don't believe me? I encourage you to give a Linux laptop to some non-programmer friends and ask them about it.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MTP#Functionality
I think the cost for nuclear and lead time will have gas powered and coal plants for dark times. The issue is the cost for these dark time power will go up. I have a friend who is a Wheelwright and he states that backup plants that only come online 3 days a month makes more money then if it was running 100% of the time.

http://energypost.eu/battery-storage-will-take-backup-power-...

In the next 10 years batteries will have a larger role and about 25% of coal power plants will be retired by 2020 in US and Europe.
Probably an undercover test of the DARPA, haha
I think the printing press was a key invention which was needed for this. So many great things got lost because in history there was only 1 or few copies of it.
MDMA (or Molly) usually comes as a cloudy off white crystal or crystalline powder (if broken up).

Ecstasy comes as a pressed pill (presumably containing some MDMA, with the possibility of other drugs/adulterants and fillers).

The only way to know if they were taking pure MDMA in either case is to test it:

Potentially NSFW: https://dancesafe.org/product/complete-set-of-all-8-testing-...
That is so cool...
I always find it kind of ironic when things like this get shared on Facebook. If you don't want the UK government to know everything about you, why would you be happy for a private, tax-dodging corporation to?
Oh, but wait, I need Skype to conduct business. (You wouldn't think a Microsoft app requires Google services, but it can't run without it.)

The problem is, people will often need one or two apps which open source can't adequately replicate. And they're all on proprietary Android only.
Ask HN: Best learning gifts for kids
I good friend of mine is having a birthday party for her daughter who is turning 8. She really likes legos and hatchimals.

I was thinking there has to be a better learning gift out there. What learning gifts in 2016 do you have personal experience with that you could recommend for an 8 year old? I am ok with something recommended for 10+.
National Lottery accounts feared hacked
But the motivation behind dark matter is deeper than its gravitational observations. For instance, almost all particles physicists believe the standard model of particles is incomplete. No one is really sure exactly what we need to add to the standard model, but it turns out that if you add things to it in any sensible way, you almost always get things that look like they could explain dark matter.

So, it's more: particle physicists all believe the real theory has this aspect; when we look at gravity it looks like it had this aspect; therefore we should probably find a way to modify our theory so it has this aspect.

The major reason we haven't been able to go further than this is because we haven't been able to pin down exactly what these new particles are. Particle experiments are /hard/ (see:LHC), and it might take a long time.
another datapoint -
Desert Sunlight, California - 550MW - construction started in 2011, finished in 2015
I don't think there is a dominant culture in the US. The power of the American culture is it's ability to assimilate other cultures and integrate them in.
I used to think this, but I'm not so sure anymore.

I think probably about 30-40% of the population would be able to make adequate life decisions and control the use of drugs to the point where it would be recreational use only, and they would otherwise be able to live a productive and positive life.

But what about the other 60%? The majority of the public make bad long term decisions in order to get a quick payoff, examples: Payday loan companies, Fast food / obesity, binge drinking, credit cards .. these are (not absolute) but examples of how people "just cant wait" for the long term payoff and take 'fix' and run.

Having > 50% of the population addicted to drugs would be disastrous.

And another point: What of the health costs of all of these consenting adults? Here in the UK, public health care is free though the NHS - should society as a whole bare the cost of the drug addicted and unproductive majority?

I do actually think legalisation is the answer, but I'm not sure how to answer these tough questions first ...

Maybe drugs should be legal but very expensive?

What do you think?
U.S. To Forgive at Least $108B in Student Debt in Coming Years
So this is like GWT, minus Java? GWT's treeshaker removes dead code and outputs fat-free plain JS.
How Obama's climate change legacy is weakened by US investment in dirty fuel
For myself, maybe I could have learned math on my own without studying it in school, or maybe it might never have happened. Sure it's expensive, but the structure and schedule of the coursework "forced" me (for lack of a better word) to learn it at a reasonable pace. I learned physics that way too. Those were my college majors. I didn't have a 750 on my math SAT, and was not destined for graduate study or research level work in math.

Also while in college, I taught myself electronics and computer programming, to a level where I was employable in those areas. In music, I combined self learning with formal lessons that provided a much needed critique of my physical approach. I am employable in music at a journeyman level.

Working under a mentor in physics research taught me to be a better scientist.

What you got for free through self-study, my parents had to pay for. That's life. ;-)

Lesson: Use school to learn the stuff that you wouldn't learn outside the classroom. Learn additional topics on your own. I don't know many people who are comfortable working with math, physics, electronics, and programming. Those who are, tend to call themselves physicists.
I'm always amazed at how quickly Amazon pushes out new, useful features. I don't know if it's on their radar, but I think one of the most important things they could incorporate is the concept of a "project" within their console / apis.

I'm not saying it's not possible to do similar things within the constructs already provided, but if I'm involved in 10 different projects (or managing them) maybe I want to be able to "toggle" between projects. This way (a) I can simply assign / unassign a person to/from a project without needing to worry about permissions at a different level. If I'm a lead programmer on a project I should simply have "project-level" permissions. (b) when I "toggle" to a project I immediately see project-related resources ONLY. No more need to scroll through 10's or maybe 100's of unrelated resources just to get to what I'm looking for.
I think the 1.0 compatibility promise, the simplicity of the language, and great standard library let people focus more on the problem than other languages.

I wrote my own zero allocation xml parser in Go the other day and it is 2-3 times faster than the standard library. It was not difficult to do mainly because I could reference what the standard library was doing. The code is easy to read and understand.
Would you rather 'things happen' before anyone reacts and there is no discussion till then? What's the point of a comment like this.

The exact same kind of statement was made on HN a week ago about the grotesque snooper law in the UK and well now its law. And this is not new. There is a clear trend in process for years now.

Why would any citizen under threat from these kind of laws that shift tremendous powers to the state and take an irreversible step toward totalitarian outcomes make these diminishing dismissive statements?
That seems quite amazing, especially the todo example being over 10 times smaller than the React one. Are there any drawbacks to this approach?
If u don't like it you don't have to use it. And redux is nothing like that. It reduces a tonne of bugs among a lot of not so smart developers or beginners.
I think the difference in the 21 century is increased awareness of consciousness. Unconscious animals don't care about survival of their own self. They just reproduce.

Humans, since getting a bit of self-awareness have been fantasizing with the idea. Religion, and self-rebirth after death is an example.

Now they are getting more real and more practical. If you think about it, it makes more sense to increase your lifetime than make another person to carry-on your dreams.

Your emotions tell you otherwise, because you were made to reproduce. The brain is working something else. It's evolving and thinks that it can solve this problem and instead re-make the body.
They're still there, that's the problem.

I think it's time for the Labour party to go out to pasture. There needs to be a split, take some Conservatives, some UKIP (maybe, if there's any more moderate ones left) but enough to lose the baggage of any one party, lose the extremes and head for the middle ground.

Unless that happens (and it seems at this point it won't) I don't see there being an effective opposition anytime soon.
in the same boat, let me know if you find any decent candidates.
How could a woman with Alzheimer's, no money and no transportation vanish in LA?
I think the obvious counter argument is:

You read them to learn. I learned a couple of perl flags in this discussion I had forgotten. Also, you get ideas about what you can do. And third, after reading through a collection like that, you can find stuff back by looking in an index.
When the author started suggesting that the woman he had an affair with was planted by the government to temp him, my hackles went up a bit.

The US policy he talks about is real enough, but autobiographical points struck me as questionable.
tl; dr; No need to be concerned fellow hackers, this only applies if you have been in the slammer before.
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It's based heavily on Ractive (http://ractivejs.org), which Vue is very similar to.
I have friends of friends, who have friends (who I NEVER speak to btw) who say that Ecstacy is never just pure MDMA.
No they will see the VPN service endpoint - the next step of course would be to disallow those connections since you must be hiding something. Only VPN providers (like Corporate ones) that are verified by the state will be permitted. Since the external VPN providers could keep changing the endpoint they will respond with whitelists of acceptable domains. Eventually you will succumb and learn to love big brother.
Yes! Thank you so much for posting this.
There were other areas I wanted to ask about, but I chose to keep the survey a bit more focussed – especially as it stretched to 19 questions already.

This could be something I look to include next year though if there’s interest in finding out about usage.
Philips still makes those kinds of clocks. The "light up slowly" comes from LEDs, now, and the color of the light ramps up from red, through orange, eventually to white, over the course of a (user-configurable) timespan. They're pretty expensive for an alarm clock. I have one (it was a gift), and I gotta say, it's a way better way to wake up than any cell phone alarm could be. Very gradual and gentle.

The phrase to search for is "Philips wake up light", on Amazon or whatnot. They make a few models, but the prices start around $60.
Israeli activists are crowdfunding to take the National BioDB to court
Pincloud: a tool that pins gcloud subcommands to different versions of gcloud
I'd guess the typical overhead of material and contracting could be drastically different between the two markets. Also, it seems the complexity and size are far less in the Indian project. 9m modules on 4700 acres in California vs 2.5m modules on 1270 acres in Tamil Nadu.
«DevOps» term originated from conference named «DevOps»: http://www.jedi.be/blog/2009/12/22/charting-out-devops-ideas...

Wikipedia quotes description of tne conference, not a description of DevOps role. However, if you read carefully original article, you will see that main idea was to close gap between ops and dev team by bringing dev techniques, such as Agile, to ops team. So, DevOps IS developer with Ops knowledge.
Unfortunately, UI frameworks are extremely hard to modularize in a way that makes them amenable to tree-shaking. So you're left with the alternative – cobbling together your own pseudo-framework out of 'small modules', which loses all the ergonomic advantages of a good framework. As you might imagine, I've been thinking about this problem for a long time :)
I know nothing about Taiwanese pronunciation other than I probably know it when I hear it. :)

I agree. To add: The most useful advice I read, which I found useful, is stop caring about tones of individual words. Listen to the flow of sentences, correct own pronunciation of words that are wrong with some drilling, and focus on communication. Like English, speaking word-by-word (or, character-by-character) doesn't sound natural.

And also stop caring if you're met with an unfamiliar word. As long as you're focused on the sentence, it should be pretty obvious if it is a noun, verb, pronoun, or any other part of speech. Does it have material impact? If so, take a note and remember it.

Basically, stop translating what one hears. Just understand it.
Labour gave us RIPA in the first place. They want surveillance as much as the Tories.

The problem is, there are no major parties which are opposed to it. There is no choice.
Imo people need to attack the hard problem of changing the political landscape, limiting the power of the government and making it accountable. Fighting each and every overreach is way harder than limiting them in the first place. It is completely logical that the government is grabbing for more power as long as it is not incentivized to actually serve the people.
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Yeah I interpreted his comment to be about syntax. OTOH React (JSX) lacks these control structures inline in the templates, it has to be done in separate steps, not a clear win for all situations.
"Has been accused". Evidence lacking.
You seem to be missing my point. In any election, some large portion of the population doesn't vote at all. At least some of them are refraining because they know their state is a foregone conclusion.
I am not a physicist, in fact, I am a complete dilettante, but can the transition from a power law to an inverse law simply indicate that on large scale the universe has less dimensionality? I mean, if we take a suitable definition of dimension, likely along the lines of Hausdorff dimension (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff_dimension) then we can see it as a number that defines how volume/surface changes with changing diamater of an observed "sphere" (I know I oversimplify things here). In other words, as we start to measure cosmic distances on a large enough scale, volumes/surfaces covered don't grow quadratically anymore but with a lower rate. This might be even in line with the assumption of a universe curved into itself, i.e. closed. This would change the gravity power law from having a constant 2 power to having a function as the power.
We should do a better job of clarifying: this isn't Mustache-the-language, it's just using {{ and }} as delimiters. The syntax is simpler than Mustache, and allows you to use any inline JavaScript expression, which will become fully reactive.