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> how we've become accustomed to the quality and price of software that's been heavily subsidized by massive VC investments.

See: Uber
Adobe Edge has already tried the HTML5 tooling route http://www.adobe.com/products/edge-animate.html. I don't think they got much traction and essentially abandoned it. Curious if this offers anything different.
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I run a facebook group with 100+ scientists/geneticists/biologists/microbiologists/molecular biologists/physicists who are founders....

Many of them were excited about this. Germany's making moves in the right direction.
No, we are long over designing systems for the worst case. This is what got us where we are today. The smart grid is about keeping grandmother alive tonight while drying your clothes during the light cycle tomorrow.
If it's anything like getting sick in India expect misdiagnosis, over-prescription of drugs and prescription of drugs that are banned in the US.
I am inclined to agree, but I would argue that most businesses do not aim to preserve the rights of their customers (think the data collection performed by Google and Facebook and 100's of ad agencies on the Internet) and I think that this thinking can be quite dangerous in a political context.
Show HN: An easier way to create and parse Unix Timestamps
2/5 stars.
I wonder if something using hydrogen as the buffer would work - it has a density of 37 kWh/kg (or 2.4 kWh/litre).

Instead of fuel cells (which are still expensive and relatively low capacity), using excess electricity to electrolyse water.

The oxygen and hydrogen can be stored in tanks, and when you need the power it can be combusted, generate steam and drive turbines.

There isn't really any new technology here, so it should be relatively cheap and quick to setup too. What am I missing?
How come such a fantastic product is not massively profitable?
what GUI toolkit is this made in?
Babylon 5 redefined TV science fiction, so why isn’t it better known?
Interesting product. There is a huge demand for it and I'm not sure what Adobe ended up doing and if it works well. Interesting these products that come so late to the party, to fix the gap left by Flash (it had timeline animations etc. like so) for html5.
One Uber rider took 3,135 rides in 2016
The announcement video had me thinking this was some sort of Pokemon GO / Fitbit cross-over. Thankfully, it's just a game.
This is so frustrating for me personally - I recently had to choose between several hospitals without knowing anything about the historical patient outcomes for each hospital.

A hundred years ago a doctor named Ernest Codman suggested that hospitals should be rated by an "End Result System" [1] where paient outcomes were measured and compared, yet only now do we have the "first comprehensive study comparing how well individual hospitals treated a variety of medical conditions". And we still do not know exactly which hospital is best and which is worst.

To me the best way to judge a hospital is blindingly obvious: For each patient at admission, estimate the chance he/she will be alive after 3 years. For example, a 65-year-old woman who is a smoker, is overweight and has stage 2 lung cancer might have a 25% chance of being alive in 3 years. Then compare the predicted outcome with the actual outcome. For example, say both Hospital A and Hospital B both admit 100 patients with 20% predicted chance of surviving 3 years. If after 3 years there are 30 such patients from Hospital A still alive but only 10 such patients from Hospital B, it would strongly indicate that Hospital A is better. We could look then at Hospital A for ways to improve Hospital B.

What's so disheartening is that this process doesn't involve any special technology. It could have been implemented 100 years ago, albeit with less rigorous statistical methods. We spend a billion dollars on evaluating a drug which has a marginal, one-off benfit for a few hundred thousand people. But we ignore a process which is cheap and offers long-lasting benefits to millions of people. It seems that the medical establishment is too powerful in this case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Amory_Codman
> The only logically possible outcome of immortality is that sooner or later the entire biomass of the planet is consumed by immortals, at which point all growth must stop.

Growth is not a discontinuous function, it's continuous. Resources will become scarce, wars will be fought over them thus further slowing the decline, unless of course biomass growth is encouraged. Fortunately, this is quite simple.

We're already growing meat in labs far more efficiently than the natural process, and without the harmful environmental emissions that accompany raising cows.

Your scenario is fear-mongering, and not at all realistic IMO.
And, there are 15 more days to go in 2016
One of the problems with Net Neutrality is that techies (us) and the media have both had a hard time explaining it clearly.

Meanwhile those opposed have been able to come up with analogies that while false and misleading, are easily understood.

What is the best way to explain the concept that can be quickly understood by those that are non-technical?
+1000
Cross platform including Linux. I hope this tool gets traction and goes beyond html5 to mobile design as well.
Hi, feedback noted.

I had not thought my comment would generate so much discussion, so yes I should have linked to a more up-to-date source (actually I thought I was linking to the 2015 data, and this was the easiest to read chart, but oops). I also should have included more information.

Anyway, Solar PV is not dispatchable. What does that mean? It means that Solar PV will never replace baseline power by itself (maybe with storage, that is a long and separate conversation).

Because renewables are highly variable, they tend to actually increase the variability of demand for baseline power. That means that power plants with lower capital costs, and quicker ramp up/down times are more profitable. Coal does not have a quick ramp up/down time, and nuclear is not low capital cost. As a result, the net power from natural gas has gone up, and nuclear/coal has dropped.

Without some kind of energy storage, you'll never be able to get more than about 50% of the power from wind/solar/hydro in the US. The LCOE on Solar PV, if you extrapolate out the existing cost curve, drops to about 1.8c/kWh. The best energy storage methods are not very efficient (e.g. compressed air or molten salt only get about 40% efficiency), which means they will always be more expensive than natural gas.
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Only because they figured out that it's more profitable to charge the other side, and that has happened, for example, Comcast getting Netflix to pay them to not throttle their traffic.
Nobody said everyone had to build systems with single points of failure.

Stop building systems with single points of failure. Doubly so when you don't control them!

Our risk plans should mitigate the immediate and permanent loss of GitHub at any moment, or we should be ashamed to use the title "engineer."
Another data point: 30-day mortality rates for high-risk acute heart patients are lower during the dates of national cardiology meetings, i.e. when the top doctors are away.

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullart...
Everyone is comparing GitHub with GitLab in the comments, but they are ignoring the other competitor.

I think Atlassian is the company that makes the most out of the git marketplace, even if they have fewer customers. They are simply more efficient, and are ready to take over with Bitbucket if GitHub fails.

Also, many companies pay for Jira+Confluence even if they use GitHub.
We need to use solar to pay for the extraction and transportation of fossil fuels.
Played a bit. Seems like a solid runner -- feels a bit more like the Rayman Run games than Canabalt or Jetpack Joyride to me. Curiously, it's more technical than any of those. Not sure I'm going to play more soon, but that's mostly because I'm playing on a 12.9" iPad Pro and the game feels like it's designed for screens half that size.
Show HN: Epiverse – kind of like AlienTube for all websites
Flash.
Tufte says to set aside 1/3 of your meeting time to have everyone read the agenda and relevant information at the start.
Cable companies and telecoms aren't consolidated. The problem is telecoms don't want to spend oodles of money only to make very little profit because the cable companies are already entrenched.
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> For example; 'More people make more progress faster.' (India has not made as large a contribution to modern technology as the USA)

Only if you take the statement as some immutable law and not the intended meaning as a description of a general trend.
I'm not sure I 100% understand your question, but in Go a string is a two-word struct.

type string struct {
data unsafe.Pointer
len int
}

The C version would be

typedef struct string {
const *char data;
int len;
} string;

Edit: oh, ok. I Googled the "painting algorithm" reference. I swear I had read that before :-)
the website redirect to /ch/index.html , and show nothing but `File not found."`

found this in javascript:

case 'zh':
location.href = _WARP_ + 'ch/index.html';
break;

Chinese index page missing?
I haven't used it for anything in production yet.

After 24 hours of inactivity it'll idle down, the next load after that is slow. The price tier up prevents the idle down, cost $0/month but requires a credit card number (?). I haven't tried it.
Ask HN: Do historians' research findings influence modern societies?
Are there any examples of instances in which an aspect of modern society changed or evolved in response to new findings/research about previous societies' mistakes (that led to their decline)? Just curious!
Remember, the entire mass of the Earth @ 5.972 × 10^24 kg (which is 1.317 × 10^25 lbs) i.e. 5 septillion kilos or 13 septillion pounds) which is under you is enough to push you down with something like 150 pounds of force. A magnet with 150 lbs of holding power is able to fight all of that and takes up this massive amount of room:

https://www.amazon.com/CMS-Magnetics-Holding-Neodymium-Count...

Yes - that's a penny for comparison.

Gravity is soooo weak.
Not sure why you've been downvoted. I feel the same way. I have no clue what this even is from the linked content.
the day google became microsoft for real this time... webdesigner aka frontpage
> Reducing aging will likely reduce the resources available to all, by reducing the rate of population decline relative to the growth.

Doubtful. It will also dramatically reduce the birthrate. After all, what's the rush to have kids when you have hundreds of fertile years ahead of you?
I wanted to order food just for myself. I didn't due to minimal 20.00 USD price.

If I am with a group of people we can go to restaurant anyway. On the other hand, eating out alone is awkward, so ordering online becomes more attractive.
Just wanted to point out that this has been out for quite some time with little updates. If you click "Download Web Designer Beta", in the top-right corner, you'll see a note saying that the page hasn't been modified since April, 2014. Nonetheless, it could be a cool product -- if only Google decides to move forward with it.
So what you're saying is that the mice that didn't have their genome edited didn't have a drastic life extension? I assume the improvements only occurred in the mice that had their genomes edited to reduce Yamanaka factors because they then artificially replaced the Yamanaka factors?
You seem to be saying that a hospital that doesn't want to take complex cases can more accurately adjust for risk factors than the people doing the study mentioned in the article. Is that right?
Your point wasn't completely absurd in the beginning, but now you're wilfully misunderstanding the arguments. It seems you're hedging some sort of grudge against educators?
Just for the background about why I made this when gazillions of such websites exist already? Simply because none of the existing ones did what I wanted — or did it effectively. It was beyond aggravating to parse the timestamp and then, account for offset hours according to the timezone. Additionally, all of them had multiple text inputs which is a terrible way to enter dates, or modify them.

This is a trivial solution to a trivial problem, but it matters because none of the existing solutions were good enough.
Ubuntu server usage has been growing thanks to AWS AMIs, so actually both have been growing.

I think Ubuntu are just going with a more long term approach.

RedHat just leveraged Oracle compatibility, if you needed Oracle RedHat was and is the only sane choice; but remove the need for Oracle, and Ubuntu is then a very strong competitor.
Some back of a napkin sums would suggest the vast majority is headcount costs. 300 new employees at $150,000 is $45m/year.
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It seemed that Github was doing just fine accomplishing their mission and goals when they were bootstrapping, but things got ridiculous with a massive (and possibly unneeded) VC investment. Or at least an investment of that humongous sum of money.

Can someone explain the rationale behind pumping all this money into firms that clearly don't need such vast amounts of it, which only spurs exorbitant and unnecessary spending? Is it some sort of non-obvious game of unicorn musical chairs hoping for a hyper inflated exit before the music stops?
I'm new to systems and this is enlightening to me. Are there any books out there that enumerate pitfalls like this one?
Interviewed (YC S15) is hiring Ruby engineer, AE, writer to our lean team. [Remote]
Interviewed (YC S15) builds job assessments that let candidates demonstrate their real world skills so that hiring managers don't have to rely on resumes, behavioral interviews, and personality tests -- which are inherently flawed. By completing job simulations, instead, the best candidates stand out regardless of their educational background or years of experience. Our customers love it.
As an engineer at Interviewed, here's what you can expect:

- Our team of 13 is remote spread across six cities in the US and South America. Makes timezones easy.

- Mostly Rails and React, with some Python for ML.

- We ship new capabilities often and quickly by explicitly asking ourselves the 80/20 question often.

- We care about making beautiful, intuitive UX.

- Philosophically, we love it when something is NIH ("not invented here"). We actively look for specialized services that we can outsource capabilities to like PDF conversion, image manipulation, audio transcription, etc. instead of rolling our own.

As a company, Interviewed is a year and half old and we just hit profitability! We still have 2 years of cash in the bank left from our $2.4M seed round, so we are financially secure and have no need to raise additional capital.

Our hiring process is simple and focused on letting you show off your skills -- not your resume. As soon as you contact us, we'll reply with an invite to tell us about a particular dev situation. The purpose is to see how well you communicate in writing -- an important skill for remote teams.

The second stage is a phone call to get to know you and a 1-hour work sample where you get to build a feature on a real-world git repo (no algorithms).

The final stage is a (paid) one or two-day project to implement a significant feature and interact with the team over Slack and Google Hangouts. This is the ultimate job preview for you and for us!

Please email me directly at daniel@interviewed.com or you can see all our openings at https://internal.interviewed.com
Analytics, Reporting, Ad management and Biding platform, Fraud detection, and way more.

This basic CRUD app is just user-facing thing, and now remember that they are making money not because of you, but because of publishers. This is where main functionality is.
Why Tumblr has such high costs? It doesn't seem to warrant complicated infrastructure like search or Flickr. It shouldn't require 100s of people to maintain. A tons of eyeballs should translate to very significant revenues here.
It seems in many districts the higher you get through k-12 the earlier they start you.

Anecdotal point, Highschool bus picks up at 6:30, elementary at 8:30 in our district.
Someone will do them. There is a business model for surgeons who only take the sickest patients. Sure, in that case your numbers are worse, but that's the way you market yourself.
I wonder what will MS come up with to counteract this: Microsoft Windows Ultimate Surface Things.
So I posted this around 9 months ago, and was given some great feedback. Specifically that to attract users, it helps to have some content in place already.

The extension is a web discussion tool that allows users to view and post comments on all webpages. I've now included the ability to view the corresponding Reddit comments as well, which I think is pretty useful.

Please let me know what you think, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

E: Unfortunately it doesn't work well on HackerNews threads, due to the way items are presented as URLs. I can make an exception which would fix it, if people are interested?
I get a card in the mail every week offering me "High Speed Internet" from Centurylink, no speed specified anywhere on the mailer (it is actually 12 down 768k up).

Meanwhile I have a 100/7 connection via HFC from the CableCo.

Mind you, they send me a mailer every week too, asking me to subscribe to TV and Phone services...
BitSight provides a service that quantifies the security of a company based on publicly visible data. Even now it is being used for underwriting insurance and for evaluating alternative partners.
That took way too long to get to the actual playing... choosing my country(?!), linking to a nintendo account etc.
> Flip it around and it's 1.3% versus 2.1% -- definitely noticeable.

Flip it back around and it is a 0.9% reduction in survival rates. ;-)

I'm going to guess that hospitals aren't exactly the biggest factor influencing outcomes...
Storage not included. To run an AC in Florida at night you'd burn through a Tesla wall unit in a few hours. You want that AC at night. So you'll need probably 3-5. At $8k per unit, $24k-$40k total.

I like solar. I like wind. I like the grid because the best way to handle the power storage from over production during the day is in a centralized fashion.
I would tend to agree that solid state is better than moving parts for reliability, but we have been building trains for like 150 years and the parts here that move seem to be just really big weights. We also don't have batteries that can do city scale storage economically, but a series of trains seems intuitively do-able. This is just intuition so could be wrong, but trains seem so simple.
My favorite quote from a modern historian seems apropo here. The book is a long version of a short history of nearly everything:

"Imagination drew in bold strokes, instantly serving hopes and fears, while knowledge advanced by slow increments and contradictory witnesses."

-Boorstin

The Discoverers

edit: add a link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discoverers
Teamwork exercises actually do work to gel a new team, despite everyone rolling their eyes!
> I don’t care who you are or who you know. I don’t care if you think you’re funny. I don’t care if you think I’m over-reacting.

> We need a lot less negativity and a lot more positivity in our community.

Agreed.

But is threatening a block spree, baiting people so you can banish them, after declaring you don't care to empathize with them really promoting more positivity? Or is this just a piece we can upvote and get outraged over to feel better about having done nothing?
I just checked out the included templates. At least the first 20-30 are all ad templates, one of which is a full-screen mobile interstitial! That's the same element that just got an SEO finger wag from the Google Webmaster Central Blog[0].

_Just_ as the list of templates started getting interesting with some Youtube slider-thing integration, it came to an end. So yeah, this seems to be aimed at folks who need to build ads quickly and don't want to have to be HTML5 pros.

With that said, there's a "my templates" feature so maybe you can use it to maintain your Star Trek fan website, or business portfolio website, too. I'd just hesitate to recommend that in general, as my experience with GUI HTML5 builders has been that they aren't the best IDEs or text editors and I really quickly start to need one in order to be efficient.

[0] https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easi...
Indeed - this is going to break a bunch of images in posts I've made to some forums I'm on that don't locally host images.

Dropbox don't seem to be proposing any way to make existing public urls remain public.

Not exactly unexpected I guess - when you put trust in a company continuing to do something for ever, you'll usually be disappointed.

But being disappointed is the time you revisit your decision about whether to keep paying for Pro plans for a service that no longer does one of the things that's important to you.
To play devil's advocate -- and let's be clear, confusing ordinals and cardinals really is the devil's work ;) -- there are 5 items not after the fifth item.

The ridiculousness of that argument should be evidence enough that the fifth item is item 4.
Thank you, EFF
> In a statement issued Thursday [..] officials for Devry [..] denied all wrongdoing but said they are "pleased this matter is reaching resolution."

Okay standard sleazy corporate thing: settle the lawsuit, but deny any wrongdoing..

> Under the settlement, DeVry agreed to pay more than $49 million to the FTC, which says it will distribute the money to students "harmed by DeVry's conduct."

> The chain also agreed to forgive more than $30 million in loans issued before September 2015, and $20 million in debt owed by former students.

> Going forward, DeVry has promised not to misrepresent job and income prospects of potential students, and not to count jobs that students found more than six months before graduation.

If there was no wrongdoing, why would they promise not to misrepresent prospects going forward? That means they were, up to this point, misrepresenting prospects. This promise is admitting exactly the wrongdoing they explicitly said they are not admitting to.

Just say "Yes, we were merely counting whether our graduates had jobs or not, instead of more specifically if they were able to obtain employment as a direct result of their studies. Sorry. We will now collect and be more exact about this information."

Note: IANAL. Just a rational human being.
I like the game but unfortunately Nintendo really does suck when it comes to online accounts.

I had signed in on my iPhone then also set it up on my ipad. After finishing a few levels on the iPad i went back to my phone.

The phone let me finish a level, THEN came up and said 'cant progress as you're signed in on another device' and the app crashed.

what the fuck is the point of signing up for an account if it doesnt even sync across devices
That's the date of the TOS. It looks like this product has been around a while. The latest build is dated Nov 16, 2016 as far as I can tell (they don't date the release notes). The first release goes back to Oct 1, 2013.

release notes: https://support.google.com/webdesigner/answer/7218073?hl=en&...

HN post when it launched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6470426
MongoDB stubbing library
https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongodb-factory. Just made this library for MongoDB stubbing. Should be pretty flexible and useful for testing your GET requests.
It seems to work alright for lobsters.