skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, only if you are pedantic with fossil meaning long dead organic (which is true, of course). But for energy it makes more sense to distinguish between sources that can be used or they are gone (sun shines on the planet and at some point the heat dissipates back into the universe) and those that are gone at some point because we have used them. So, yeah, point taken, but then I do not think it makes much sense to distinguish between fossil and non-fossil for the point you want make here, which is dependence on a time-limited resource.
This is a really interesting project: store energy in the form of concrete blocks moved up and down slopes by electric train bogies with regenerative braking.
http://www.aresnorthamerica.com/
What are the biggest challanges for the mining engineering industry?
Freedom in capitalism is financial independence. Yet most will never be free. Isn't that a failure? We can do whatever we want! Oh but we can't afford it.
> E.g. as stated in the article, the four Thunderbolt ports are interesting for HPC applications as you can build a portable compute cluster with up to five fully-meshed high-speed networked nodes. If that's not professional I don't know what is.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? Are you implying a MacBook cluster is an effective HPC platform?
There's a difference between grueling labor and fulfilling labor. Far be it from me to preach puritanism, but endeavoring to build something is very fulfilling by nature. Hard work for hard work's sake (or divine reward or whatever) is silly, but I think you're throwing out the baby with the bath water.
OpenResty is a dynamic web platform based on NGINX and LuaJIT
Of course you're going to find someone who wants to work. In those cases, the money is second to the actual stuff being done. It's most likely a hobby or something that they enjoy greatly, and probably would do for free.

Most people aren't like that. Their hobbies don't coincide with "acceptable business practices". And frankly, awesome. There's plenty of things to do that are enriching for all, and that have no discernible business value.

As for me, I wouldn't do the job I currently do now (systems engineer for a network operations). I'd much rather work in research and development discovering new things, or new ways to do things. I already do that in my spare time. But making money in my position is required, so I do things to survive, and fill in time of my hobbies. That would change, and bloody quick if I ever ran across fuck-you money.
This should probably be under Show HN
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Ah, yes. The trendy hip pubs with attached microbrewery.
That's understandable - but how many people gained respect for them because Wikileaks' releases appealed to their political biases?
Well people who are lamenting the lack of the 32GB ram bought a 16GB ram a while ago and are looking to upgrade.

Apple could have kept the previous form factor and not made the battery 20% smaller which would have allowed them to have an energy sucking 32GB option. Plus the new form factor is useless anyway, since we end up having to carry adapters which take as much space and weight as what was saved.

Anyway, I've developed a wait and see approach and reserve judgement next year when the next iteration of machines come out. Maybe I'm lucky and Apple even decides to bring back the 17 inch macbook pro
I honestly find coursera and edx are by far the best use of my time too. Structured learning with a beginning, an end and a few individuals (professors) that specialize in a field. I'm doing things that ARE actually in my field (similar to yours) but set me apart completely at work where most people don't take the time to do any sort of learning and just focus on the daily grind.

As a side note, the other more fun yet still kinda learning use of my time has been to watch a few older Japanese shows - not the crazy all-over-the-place stuff they have today. For example, Musashi (2003). It's fun to watch and at the end of every episode they talk about a site in Japan where Musashi traveled in real life. I find this type of show enriching. Another good one is a show called Change (from 2008) which is again Japanese about a young man randomly becoming prime minister of Japan. The show again discusses the intricacies of Japanese politics in a funny way but with a big dose of the real issues in Japan (e.g., the small number of young people vs the old).
I'm not sure 1 is true in aggregate. If people are ride sharing, won't the fleet size shrink? (Less taxis or less personal cars) It isn't like there are massive fleets of idle Ubers. If there isn't anyone to pick up, the drivers do something else.
In general conservatives seem to be more close-minded. It makes sense, really - they want to keep things the way they are. Liberalism on the other hand encourages introspection and change; informing oneself is a necessary part of that. So, those that distribute information are likely to be less conservative. You see the same trends in technology and science in general.

Note that this is not an absolute endorsement of liberalism; change can only be positive if people are properly informed, and doing it for the right reasons. And, well, they aren't - not for some time now. And it's been hijacked by identity politics (some is very good; some very bad, more to do with narcissism than anything else, sigh)
One of the best measures of quality of a company is how well it does after its founder dies/leaves. If your company can't run without you, you weren't building a company, you were building a job.
Inside the Hunt for a Ghost Particle
This version from 1974 includes the first international link to UCL in London. As no-one had budget for a dedicated transatlantic link, it was piggybacked on a link via NORSAR in Norway that was intended for seismic monitoring of nuclear tests.

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeo...
I think grandparent meant specifically taking the CTO's time, not a peer's time.
Thank you for the advice. I do exercise and have always detested all forms of it, sadly. So now I just do the shortest amount at a high intensity.
The Future of Bitcoin Is Not as a Digital Currency
Safety critical equipment needs safety critical software.

You also need to provide machines and software for cheaper than a human life. Human life has a distressingly low value in several mining industries.
How to make a community on mobile app?
What are the principles for community? Is it that the platform must have communication embedded or should there be a way to build something and share for feedback?
The conclusion being:

You need a balance. Neither extreme works.

It's a rather universal principle.
How to Deploy a Serverless WSGI App Using Lambda, Zappa, CloudFront, RDS and VPC
The Botnet That Broke the Internet Isn’t Going Away
New 'nasty' ransomware encourages victims to attack other computers
I think the difference is that a senior developer will ask for help when it is a multiplier on productivity, whereas a junior will ask/need help when it is a linear gain in productivity (ie the difference is knowing how useful that help will be).
I released the new version of my Acid Machine synth + drum machine web-app just under a month ago. It has made about £200 in the last month.

The web-based version is like a demo, it's free to use but saving and importing is disabled. I'm selling a downloadable desktop app version which has the restrictions removed.

I'm thinking of making it completely free and maybe selling ad-space on there instead.

http://www.errozero.co.uk/acid-machine
NASA’s Power Supply Mistake on the ISS Was Totally Avoidable
As a consultant and advisor, I add value in the sense that I move my clients forward very fast, whatever they need at the stage they are. Need strategy? We devise a plan together. Need sales? We make calls together. Need r&d? I have a network to rely upon. Need introductions? We have a look at the sector and agree the approach. Need a deliverable? We have a look at capabilities and try the shortest path to put out something for sale. Need services? We test the market together. Blowing away = moving forward efficiently, safely and as soon as possible. That said, the ultimate problem everywhere is sales, so just help clients sell their sh*t and they will be happy, very happy, very very happy.
https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
Can someone fill me in why renting a couple of root servers wouldn't solve the problem?
Well done on buying an old Land Rover, and welcome to the club. The satisfaction I get from the upkeep and tinkering with mine is at least as great as the satisfaction I get from work. Honestly, if I never had to work there would another Land Rover and full rebuild. And I'd get to work on those side projects if I had the time. I could be very productive if I wasn't having to earn a living.
I would be overjoyed if house prices in London came down, and I say that as someone who bought a house a few years ago and should be interested in the value going up. London house prices are beyond stupid and the situation where foreign investors are allowed to come in and buy out entire towers of flats (no kidding) and take them out of the local market is just criminal.

However, I just don't see it happening based on the data provided. Yes, the luxury central London properties may come down in price but they are still so far outside the price range of almost anyone that it doesn't make a difference. And the article specifically mentiones that the target market for those are foreign investors, not normal people.

Anecdotal evidence, but when my parents bought a house in SW London many years ago we asked the estate agent and apparently even during the crash in the 80s the price dropped by maximum 25% in that area (compared with 200% for example in other parts of the country).
"Work" in this sense is like exercise.

It's a physiological/psychological need to be involved in some activity with a purpose, connect with people, etc
I'm having trouble figuring out how this would look in code and how it would be more graceful than async/await. Can you share an example?
I am willing to buy your argument, but you need to tell me why
Similar predictions of catastrophic global winter were made by Carl Sagan regarding the Gulf War oil fires.

In what way is this model any better?
> It's still brilliantly more efficient and elegant

Than what? The falling cost of alternative energy technologies vs carbon-based energy resources?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
"try to avoid buying devices that will slow down to point of being unusable as NAND wears out (ala Nexus 7, Nexus 6)"

Has anyone experienced this issue with their Nexus 6? My phone is more than 2 years old and I have no noticeable slowdown.
The pixel might have the slower storage option but it has no effect on usability. From what I have read its UI performance is the best of any Android phone yet.

"The Pixels are fast — noticeably faster than Samsung's Galaxy S7. On performance alone, these are easily the best Android phones you can buy."
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/18/13304090/google-pixel-pho...
I deeply admire your motives. Am not trying to remove that pleasure from your life, but I will say that very often people who pay tend to appreciate and value one's work product more than if it's free. Thanks for the thoughtful answer.
The Manipulated Man
Cubetto – A robot teaching kids code and computer programming
Just tried this (again) and it does require me to enter a phone number.

See here: http://i.imgur.com/LFZjcvG.png

I used to think it was dependent on the IP from which you register, like whether it was a home connection or something shared with many people (like in a train or café), when obviously you'd want to use the latter (and definitely not the IP from which you've been mainly accessing your main Google account for years).

But this time I did try it from my home connection, which is in the Netherlands (though I selected "Germany" for my home country because Fravia+ has taught me well).

I wonder what makes the difference. Maybe if I had a US-based IP? Could be something with EU privacy laws. It should just clearly tell me, though.

Now, I won't whine about it when Google doesn't want to give me something for free. I will, however, whine about it when Google pretends I should hand over the thing it wants at no cost but for my own benefit. I will also whine about it when it purposefully obfuscates the cost/benefits and leaves me guessing like this. If it's a trade it wants, either be upfront about it, or be shady business.
I find myself recreating different versions of state machines for almost all projects I work on. The ability to reduce a problem to a state and reactions to external stimuli, resulting in a new state, is a powerful, simple and easily testable/encompassing process. You can write cohesive and testable pieces of code, and return to them later, and easily understand what you originally wrote. When I start writing callbacks and event-based code, I find myself confused and tracing through a "spaghetti of callbacks".
No, this is wrong. If the box is made of glass and you can see what's happening inside, the photons that reflect off the cat collapse the wavefunction so the cat really is alive or dead. In the case of the metal box and the completely isolated system, the cat is really in a fundamental way in a superposition of alive and dead - you can construct an experiment [1] that shows that entanglement can't be explained by local hidden variable theories.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHSH_inequality
With Uber and Lyft Nearby, Rental Cars May Be Ripe for a Comeuppance
Zeit Open Source Software
My neighbor owns and runs a McDonald's franchise and that man is drowning in debt and working himself to death. I honestly would not recommend it.
> I took your earlier observations on the correlation between commit volume and overall performance

What does this mean? The best developers tend to have the most commits?
Create it as a report in SSRS, then they can export to XLSX, PDF, CSV, etc
If I didn't have to work, I would up my tennis time from 10 to 20 hours a week, boxing from 0 to 10, Go from 1-2 to probably 10 as well. That alone would give me about a 40 hour week. This is the time my kid spends in school, give or take per week, so it wouldn't change my family time, but I'm betting I would be much more fun to be around me after days like these than after 8 hours of development work. (ps: this is what I try to do at least one week a year, I take time off from work while my kid is in school and do this)

I don't care about 'fulfilling' work, money, things. I love being physically active and improving in my hobbies.
"Solar" is just nuclear on the sun.
See also RFC 4.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4

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That's not an interface everywhere you can imagine, that's a huge, bulky interface that should probably be many smaller interfaces. No one is arguing for 16-method interfaces when all you want to do is call s.Alert().
> No, there are different parties involved

Yes, and the party doing the taxing is also the party controlling things like import duties on solar panels.

> It's just like any other tax

Exactly. And once you introduce it, others like it will be sure to follow. Except they will be levied on the alternative energy sources which are cannibalizing carbon, because the state coffers demand it.
A stack is an abstract type having two operations: push(element) and pop(). The implementation can cheat till it's transparent to the user. To quote CLRS,

The INSERT operation on a stack is often called PUSH, and the DELETE operation, which does not
take an element argument, is often called POP. These names are allusions to physical stacks,
such as the spring-loaded stacks of plates used in cafeterias. The order in which plates
are popped from the stack is the reverse of the order in which they were pushed onto the stack,
since only the top plate is accessible.
Fake news is just the tip of the propaganda iceberg
I had but then I got a mini display port 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 active converter and that fixed the colours and fineness and best of all runs @ 60Hz
I don't understand this.

I did a sabattical in 2014 and had plenty of stuff todo.

I didn't even know how I could start working again, because I didn't have any free time left for work.

Eventually I had to work again, because I needed money, but I tried to get it done remote at home.
127B Cracks – Password Cracking on a “Budget”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...
I've got a Nexus 5x and the performance was disappointing from the start. But maybe it just feels like that because I came from an iphone 5s.
Is it possible to keep websockets connected on Node.js server restart?
My opinion - people don't have a RIGHT to a business model. Internet is a free for all, so if someone clicks ad links that is good for for adplatform, if not - sorry, invent something else. You can block me from visiting (in fact it is a common practice of segregation upon IP/regional/adblocker factors) and I can block you from visiting or executing some code on my PC (e.g. ad scripts).

It is similar to people saying that just by owning a car they are entitled for a parking space for it.

Also adplatforms seem to underestimate amount of stuff in the modern Internet and overestimate their own importance - I've switched dozens of tech sites in the last 5-10 years, I don't even remember names of some of them, so even if there will be a mass extinction event for internet media there'll still be lots of stuff to read or watch.
Also - ad model obviously does not guarantee quality of material, as we all see on almost all websites.
I noticed that you don't have to, but what is then the benefit of this web site..?
A collection of resources to learn from and become an awesome programmer
What's wrong with favouritism ? [...] Promote the ones
you personally like (avoid idiots of course).

Because I can use introspection, look at the gut instincts that make me like someone, and tell that following them wouldn't serve my interests or the company's interests.

I like cycling and drinking cider, and a bunch of my friends are cyclists who also drink cider.

But if there's a guy who works for me and he wants to get paid more, it doesn't help me if he takes up cycling and cider drinking. It helps me if he does his job better and produces more business value.
> with only the sketchiest understanding of what's happening in the world.

For most of the things we do, we don't need to weigh in the geopolitical consequences in the other side of the world. Common sense works most of the time. The news media are in continuous war with common sense.
The only way I could make it fairer is to add a magnifying area zooming to 100% but that would be too much work. Hoping that links to images is enough.
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Reading that I'm left thinking that perhaps nuclear war wouldn't be so bad, well except the billions dead and the radioactivity. But we don't have to worry about global warming and water scarcity so we have that going for us.
Apple and MacBooks and Dongles, Oh My
So then the pro applications are supposed to come from? And beyond that, where are their iOS applications supposed to come from?
Designing a Safer Battery for Smartphones (That Won’t Catch Fire)
So 1.5%/year, which is a lot closer to 1% than 10%.
The inner workings of Virtual DOM
Can we try to reproduce Nuclear Winter in case of runaway global warming? Seems that we do have the emergency brake here. Won't even take nuclear weapons - introducing soot into higher layers of atmosphere doesn't seem to hard.

However, this will decrease carbon dioxide consumption by plants and might allow unsafe buildup in the atmosphere.
I don't know your neighbors case, but there are plenty of wealthy McDonalds franchise owners. I got this off Google just now (from McDonalds)

An average McDonald's franchise makes between $500,000 and $1 million in profits per year as of 2013, according to McDonald's Franchise Disclosure Document. For restaurants open at least 1 year in the United States, average total revenues are $2.6 million.
Azure SSAS. Cubes in Clouds
I actually miss demos, it's a shame they're a thing of the past, because they let you actually try the game before paying.

Steam could easily implement this, letting you try purchased games for up to two hours.

It's be trivial for them to implement some anti-abuse system (like "must have purchased N games before using demos, etc).
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99 Reasons Why 2016 Was a Good Year
The private key can be stored in the cloud but is decrypted client-side with JS. If you have nefarious JS running (like from some evil extension), there is a risk, but there is not the opportunity for man-in-the-middle.
True, volcanic eruptions in the past caused temporary much colder temperatures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
Some people will consciously game the metrics and some people will unconsciously game the metrics. Some people might not game them at all, but if a chunk of the team is gaming them, then its already game over.
I think you're on to something. At Microsoft we don't stop at senior. It goes further to principal, partner, distinguished.
Even if 99% of sites will die there will be millions of them left and billions filling the empty niche. Out of them millions will invent some new and hopefully working business models.
I disagree on your last point. By far our biggest problem right now is to keep the climate stable enough. Earth's carbon absorption rate is the most critical resource we have, not the amount of non renewable energy resources that are left. The first problem we have to solve within 1-20 years max., the second is more like 100-500 years (Uranium/Thorium/Plutonium/Fossil Fuel that's available).
Probably not a lot, but a fallout game set in a lush and/or winter landscape would be awesome.
Maybe it costs +100Bn right now, but with a heavy push, costs will drop before he has to give it all.
There is a school of thought that suggests that if we've already hit the climate change tipping point, we should put more efforts at this sort of terraforming-type approach instead of playing the long game by slowly curbing emissions.
A somewhat less popular cultural reference could be The Road from McCarthy.

Human scavengers roaming what's left, true, but mostly famished and trying to find food before anything else.

Maybe this time is the time we will renew the fear of nuclear annihilation. With Trump elected, Europe is turning to itself for its defence, and is already considering a common nuclear deterrence. Depending on its implementation, this could mean the end of the non-proliferation treaties.

Time to watch Threads again.
Lift: Functional Data-Parallel IR for High-Performance GPU Code Generation
We could call it "Operation Dark Storm"...
I suspect it isn't about desire but income. A car can typically cost up to $10,000 per year regardless of specific purchase price there is insurance, fuel, repairs and/or car payments (lower purchase price on used vehicles raises maintenance significantly) ... sure you can shave a bit here and there, but on the whole if you're going to own a car, you're going to be out a lot of money.

Making the choice not to own gives you a leg up for other purchases.

Housing, I suspect is bennefitting from similar post-hoc analysis. "Millennials don't want to own homes" which I've seen in headlines should also be weighed against the fact the houses today cost many multiples more than a typical annual salary. I believe when my father was buying his first home the rule of thumb was "roughly 5* annual salary" nowadays in Toronto homes are easily 10*

This stuff (microhousing, ultra-mobility) isn't necessarily about "enlightenment amongst the youth" it's the crushing cost.