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If all roads were owned by companies, should it be OK for UPS to charge FedEx or ambulances more to drive on its roads?

This is imperfect, obviously, but I think it gets close to the core issues fairly concisely.

Frankly, I, as a citizen, think you should be allowed to sell the pipe, what goes over the pipe, or what the consumer connects to the pipe, but only one of the three. I like that this has reasonably clear divisions and provides competing interests that keep the other parties in check.
FWIW HOV lanes actually increase congestion in practice, because the benefit from getting a small number of additional people to carpool is less than the efficiency loss from operating the lane at less than its carrying capacity during congestion.

And the correct analogy for what they want to do is that the road company also owns a car company and is restricting the lanes you can use and charging higher tolls for not buying one of their cars, because they want to monopolize the car market.
One of the few remaining alternatives to Dreamweaver is Blue Griffon.[1] It's open source (mostly), but the manual is proprietary. I just downloaded it and tried it. It's a basic HTML editor, not, like Dreamweaver, a site manager. It's heavily oriented towards preparing content for screen readers for the blind, with ARIA features prominent.

[1] http://www.bluegriffon.org
> What is the best way to explain the concept that can be quickly understood by those that are non-technical?

The only internet path to Comcast ISP customers is through Comcast. Comcast shouldn't be allowed to use that monopoly to destroy their competitors in other markets like TV.
In fact, I'd never trust an architect that didn't. I've worked with too many that can solve problems on a white board but hand wave away real world issues.
A bit OT, but Poland used Soviet movements before the collapse as well: http://forums.watchuseek.com/f10/1mwf-alfa-poland-3474649.ht...
A terrible spinner to select countries for sure, but after that it improved in terms of UX , except the online accounts, but Nintendo has always had terrible online account management.
From the video, I really thought this was going to be some kind of miraculous game that would marry fitness (via real-life running) with gamification -- the kind of magic that only a truly visionary company could pull off. Like Fitbit only with real entertainment and joy attached.

Not going to lie, no matter how great the game is, I'm pretty disappointed.
Bitbucket is in a weird position, in that Atlassian can't make the best Git hosting solution. It's not that they can't technically, it's just that they have complimentary products that cripples how good you can make code reviewing (crucible), issue tracking (jira), analytics (fisheye), wiki (confluence), and so on.

GitHub and GitLab are not bound by the same constraints, and can focus on creating the best end to end Git hosting product. While Atlassian has to be careful about cannibalizing other product lines.
What’s the argument for not shutting down Yahoo Mail immediately?
"I'm more surprised why Bloomberg makes such a big deal out of it."

this is a pretty bad hit piece from Bloomberg, they should be ashamed
Except that value is non-existent at the enterprise level. Substandard at most everything it does. It's the most expensive code viewing tool there is. They really need to turn their Enterprise offering around, because I don't see any value in it other than saying "we pay for GitHub enterprise."
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Nah, comcast would just inject ads in order to subsidize companies that refuse to "pay their own way"
Solar power is going up like crazy. The US just had its highest-ever quarterly solar installation rate, up 191% over Q3 2015: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/in-its-largest-...

Global installations for 2016 are also on track to set a new record, surpassing 2015 installations by 48%: https://cleantechnica.com/2016/11/30/global-solar-installati...

And despite these records, the manufacturing side of the industry is currently demand-constrained rather than supply-constrained.

When you say you there's just "limited installations here and there," are you estimating from whatever you personally see in your local area?
Yes, I doubt the MTV recruiter gets commission if they have to hand you off to the satellite office recruiter instead.
Wow, I'm actually writing a book that reads just like this list. It's meant for INTJs, it's got 300 suggested activities--similar to those on Da Vinci's list in terms of theme if not object. I'm about to hit publish and seeing this article makes me feel pretty excited. I wonder if Newton also kept to-do lists...
I only tend to play games when i'm bored on a plane flying somewhere - the necessity for it to be connected to the internet for copyright protection after I pay $10 is devastating. I'm sure they will still make a lot of money and I make up a very small fraction of their market, but it's still quite frustrating being punished as a paying user.
It's not a forest of Sisyphean gravel funiculars which your calculation presumes.

According to the brochure on the site the Ares system seems to be an automated freight yard on a slightly sloping ground. Only a fraction of the total mass is on wheels at a time. The scaling issues might be a bit different.
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This account has been using HN primarily for political arguments. That's an abuse of this site, so please don't do that.
Has Ether theory made any novel predictions that have been verified experimentally?
>Younger gamers have an expectation that everything on mobile should be free, but kudos to Nintendo on having the balls to stay away from cheap pay2win tricks and stick to an old school pricing model.

nintendo is sticking to an old school pricing model by making a f2play game?

damn im old, like older than 5 years old old
It's Flappy Mario. The only reason it's popular is the brand. The game itself is not bad, but it's not special. The extras on top of the game only make it worse.
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Yep, and I expect the democrats to give Trump the hell that the republicans have given Obama, especially if they get back congress in 2018. There is no room for niceties anymore.
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As others have mentioned, all of those are in Common Lisp, either built-in or with with libraries readily available in Quicklisp. Quicklisp didn't exist back then, so it wasn't so easy as it is today, but most of the libraries already existed.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the convenience of having all of that built in, minus the crusty parts of Common Lisp, but as far as language features go, I'd say it was evolutionary, not revolutionary.
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Horrible game, extremely low quality, thoroughly disappointed from the first screen to the end of the first level where I was disconnected due to no internet connection (which I did have). Uninstalled.
When they spend the money, the goods they're consuming or moving around are displaced from where they would have been. Spending the money doesn't create goods out of thin air. So unless they are making an investment that is a good one that somehow no one else knows about, it doesn't really impoverish society for them to sit on it. This argument, of course, applies on the margin and does not apply to every bit of wealth in the system.
Do you think the Secret Service knows, for example, which hospital is best for gunshot victims? For stroke? For heart attacks? Of course they do. And yet, when Hillary collapsed at the 9/11 Memorial, they took her to no hospital, but to her daughter's apartment instead. Seems odd. Very odd.
I'm sure you thought it was very funny but as the person who has to deal with the messes such comments provoke in large internet communities, I read the guidelines differently.

Please err on the side of posting civilly and substantively when commenting here.
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Your "Earth vs. Magnet" fight is not fair. For that magnet to hold up something of 150 pounds, the magnet has to be quite close to the object.

The Earth in that fight, on the other hand, is doing it with its center of mass (which is the relevant distance) about 6.7 x 10^6 meters away.

Squeeze the Earth down to the size of the magnet so you can move it close to your object too, and it won't seem so weak. The magnet would still win, I believe, but not by nearly as much.
Yes, this is what I had in mind. In addition to all that, treatment by medical "professionals" who may be quacks and/or have qualifications granted by diploma mills.
We're using the latest build at work. I have really like Gitlab's merge request system. Their experience is pretty straight forward and they fixed a lot of the scalability issues with the built-in wiki.

The opening/home page of Github is still better though. What really got people into Gitlab was the self hosting. Github has depended on selling their enterprise version. I was at a talk where Wanstrath said something to the effects of their expensive enterprise version that only people with money to spend need. .. (Years after I left my job at a state university ... they bought a license. -_- I hated how they paid for a lot of stuff they didn't need).

Even though Gitlab may lack in some UI elements, it's more than good enough and it doesn't hinder work. I'm at a shop that still uses the community edition too.

Gitlab and Bitbucket really cut into Github's model. There are more clones out there now too. If you really want a self-hosted Github like UI, there's Gogs too.
I'd concede I'm grumpy. The broad swaths he strokes about robocalling being a "scourge" feel, to me, like they are indifferent to the virtual miracle of long distance communication on demand.

Here's the deal- nobody wants to do the hard parts of secure communications. They want them to work, for free, and be easy. Those goals are not compatible with "secure" and "fraud-free."

So I concede, bend to the his will may be provocative- but I don't see an administrator who is being compassionate to the marketplace realities in his behavior.
And not all organization is union organization. 5-10% of employees speaking up can have an effect.
I don't think software engineers were so much hostile as indifferent. And now we're wandering into an area where people want to take a stand against their own management, but are worried about doing it alone for fear of retribution.

This is exactly what labor law is designed to help do, and I can assure you people are interested.
Any news? Is it a new version. I have it installed for at least a year.
That Wikipedia article explicitly says that making this concept work in a tropical climate (we're talking Florida, right?) is so far an unsolved problem, and that the one example in Louisiana does in fact have an AC.

Not needing AC by having decent insulation in Germany or Scandinavia (which is where most passive houses are located) is a _much_ easier problem than not needing AC in Florida. Of course not needing _heating_ is a big problem there, and is what the passive house designs are mostly aiming to deal with.
Ask HN: Where are today's top-tier programming jobs? (i.e. most interesting)
It seems the vast majority of programming jobs these days are just maintenance or gluing together existing systems and libraries. Glassdoor is full of lukewarm descriptions of such jobs, even from programmers at big tech companies.

So I guess my question is where should one focus to find the most interesting jobs? Is it just a matter of excelling in your work and climbing whatever ladder you're on? Or are some fields/disciplines just generally more interesting than others?
Keep in mind that the whole point of Gitlab/gogs is to self-host it.

In my experience, both are lightning fast compared to GitHub over the internet.
So how did the bank screw up like this? They deal with so much money, you and your grandchildren could make a living from the rent they pay for a single branch office. Yet they are unable to purchase the skill set and competence to stop giving people unbalanced credit or stop international fraud at scale.
Has anybody managed to move your company up the Joel Test[0] by threatening to leave, or management learning they missed a hire? Serious question.

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
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"The single thing that will shift people off high carbon energy into lower carbon energy is going to be the price...When that
situation is broken and free market decides to go for solar it will break like a dam is broken."
You got me. I don't know how to parse that ("1p.).

My ignorance is showing. Is there a stack of yank buffers??? Does this p-for-put pop the top buffer, back up before the inserted text, then .-do-it-again and put the delete/yank beneath the last one on the stack? I have no idea what the quotation mark actually does.

Thanks in advance if you can explain how that works to me.
However, there is an abundance of information on the site about exactly what kind of game it is.

I won't defend the site design - it should be easier to get to https://supermariorun.com/en/about.html, but it still takes very little effort to find this.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, and please keep partisan politics and name-calling off HN.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13190490 and marked it off-topic.
Yes, you're both right. My fault – I misunderstood the ARES concept.
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Pop-science-journalism headline is predictably overblown... I guess "scientists reduce impact of progeria in mice" doesn't have the same ring to it.
They had a few characters that were pretty much completely evil, for example the lady who had the key for immortality (not as lame as it sounds). I'd give more examples, but spoilers. :)
There is no magic explanation that's going to suddenly convince people when your opponent has no compunction about lying. You need to have your best, shortest explanations available and articulate them, of course, but you also need to be willing to call out dishonesty and get into a fight over it if it persists even though this will make your life unpleasant some of the time, eg by closing some career choices or making enemies of people.
Does that page seriously require es6 (in production)!?

https://puu.sh/sRdzE/f9a952f073.png
The political issues inside the company are a lot more troubling than anything involving the product, I agree.
Respectfully, I'm interviewing for jobs right now. I did NOT just sign that pledge as a gesture.
We're a big Atlassian shop, and switched from Crucible to Bitbucket Server (then Stash). I do not get the sense that Crucible is the future as far as Atlassian is concerned - I believe they see Bitbucket Server as what they are going to focus on.

FWIW, with the latest releases, they've addressed most of the remaining features that were missing from Crucible, and I'm very happy now with the PR/code review flow in Bitbucket Server.
Which is all fine and good when you have VC funding and can run at a loss for years, or are growing at a rate where you don't care about a few cheats using your product. But, for all those bootstrapped business' your argument falls flat.
"which means they will always be more expensive than natural gas"

The median cost of pumped hydro is ~20% premium over natural gas[1]. Nothing a carbon tax cant solve.

Though this source claims that it would not be feasible to rely only on pumped hydro, due to the scale. [2]

1. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph240/galvan-lopez2/

2. http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-stor...
Exactly. I was exposed to elixir/phoenix and could not help but think "man, typespecs is the best we get? wish this were F#". But alas, all the momentum and mindshare is being sucked up by elixir/phoenix. If F# could replicate that somehow that would be AMAZING.

I don't mean to knock Elixir/Phoenix though. They are very cool and intersting. Erlang/beam is.. interesting. But F#'s tooling is just fantastic.
> Hillary Clinton did attack her husband's mistresses and accusers, and there's a long history of documentation of that.

Source?
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for politics (an abuse of this site) and, worse, for religious flamewars.
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I would like to point out that moving parts are what keep our civilization running. Intricate moving parts.

To feed the intuition:There are machines that have run with minimal maintenance for hundred years, such as the original newcomen engines used to pump water away from mines.

Each time an assault rifle is fired lots of small parts work together in a delicately timed dance. Now, take an AK-47 - due to it's massive parts and loose fitting it can be filled with dirt and sand and happily continue operation.

And, it's quite hard for me to imagine the turbines in electric plants and all the "piping" around them are any less "rude goldbergish" than the Ares system would be.

Machines are quite durable if they are designed that way.
I guess you're not old enough to remember the original Quake, released with a shareware license where the first episode was free. Someone will probably come along and shake their fist at me, but if Quake isn't old-school, I don't know what is.
I mean, that's an even more frugal waste of money. Still, the fact they even had something like that is the problem. It's like something from an episode of Silicon Valley.
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$0. I would consider paying ~$30/mo for GitLab though, because it's free (as in freedom) software.
They're not without alternatives already though. In a changing environment to stay still is to fall behind.
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This comes up when I practice calligraphy as well. I'm right handed and if I'm doing an LTR script (like English), I can manage fairly well without a guard sheet but if I'm doing something like Arabic, I need to be way more careful since my hand will be on top the fresh letters I write. That, apart from the lack of good instructional material, is probably why I moved away from Arabic calligraphy although I really love the form of it.
Am I the only one who feels in places the UI was rushed? Like the generic sans font in the splash screen, and buttons that look like Aqua from 10 years ago?
Sundar seems very confused here. The idea that we should invent AGI to make "personal digital assistants" is like Hogwarts students inventing time machines so they can take two classes at once. I mean, yes, it would technically enable you to do that, but it doesn't matter because at that point you have way, way bigger problems. If a fleet of alien spaceships arrived in the sky over Manhattan tomorrow, our first reaction would not be "oh, now the aliens can be our personal digital assistants!" (or, for that matter, "they might take our jobs!"). Yet the invention of general AI would be even more powerful than that. It would be like enabling any programmer in the world to summon a personal fleet of alien spaceships, on command, from a planet of their choosing anywhere in the universe. "Digital assistants" would be the absolute last thing anyone had on their mind.
This is fitting here: http://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
I don't get that. Could you elaborate?
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>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.

To be fair, pretty much every school does this, hell even my lawschool did this. The reality that higher education is selling a dream of cushy, high paying jobs, and that dream is a lie. If education institutions told the truth and provided un-manipulated statistics, they probably wouldn't be getting enrollment.
Let's hope the new Nintendo Switch console gets a good UI. The Wii, 3DS and Wii U have a UI that does look outdated and is clunky. Everything is separate app that takes ages to load. The XBox UI isn't good as well. The PS4 UI is easy to use and very fluent, nevertheless a few more options to customise the home screen wouldn't hurt.
I'll shake my fist :D

Id software pioneered the shareware model in 1990 with Commander Keen, six years before they used it in Quake.

In fact, Keen, Keen 4, Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom all used a three-episode shareware structure where the first episode was free and the rest were considered the "full version."

Doom 2 did not use this structure because Doom itself was a good enough advertisement for it. id then used it again in Quake, but fully broke from it with Quake 2, which just had a demo with a few levels.
Please stop, both of you. This kind of tedious back-and-forth degrades this site and adds nothing of value.
That all sounds great, but... modules. The biggest thing they could do is natively support ES6 modules.
Factor in the cost of society collapsing due to carbon driven climate change, and see where that gets you :)
some kind of miraculous game that would marry fitness
(via real-life running) with gamification

Here you go,

https://www.strava.com/premium/live/segments
The Antlr-4 book is terrific:

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It can be efficient in $$ terms since ballast is cheap.

Ballast is > 100x cheaper than powerwalls by the kWh in your equation[1]. 10 tons of rock just 5 m^3, you can put hundreds or thousands of this size of rock in a train[2]. You load/unload ballast instead of having all of it statically bolted onto rails and cars, so you get by with 1/50..1/100 carrying capacity[3] per trip vs total ballast amount.

The amount of raw materials (lithium mining and refining etc) required by the powerwalls is probably much higher too - good lithium deposits have ~ 1/100 of lithium content and turning ore into batteries is a heavy process consuming a lot of water, electricity, fossil fuels (ore transport/mining) etc. Not to mention limited battery service life.

[1] 2x powerwalls = $16000, even building material grade gravel is < $300 per 10 tons (50x cheaper) but here you could use sand or something from the site.

[2] big ore transport trains carry 10000-40000 ton loads, so 1000-4000 of our 10t rocks per train. You would probably use a smaller train for energy storage purpouse since the distance is small and you can have quick load/unload turnarounds

[3] if aiming for 1-day charge capacity, you can fit 100 15-min round-trips in 24 hours, or 50 30-min round trips
We detached this trainwreck of a subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13186829 and marked it off-topic.
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I appreciate the level of detail the game has compared to the average single finger jump game. But!, I think Nintendo is late to the game on this one. Had this game been launched a few years back a different story would've been. I'm not saying this is the wrong move, it's just a little late. The ad didn't help either, I honestly thought it was something similar to the pokemon game, where you had to run to get points or something, idk.
this source claims that it would not be feasible to rely only on pumped hydro, due to the scale. [1]

1. http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-stor...
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