skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A not insignificant share of the population just cannot become skilled.

Can you justify that statement?
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Don't forget wind energy as being price competitive for large utility scale renewable energy. Innovation is slower than solar, but in the near future we will be able to build wind farms in lower wind speed areas and offshore.
Rational markets fly in the face of complexity theory. I would very much like to see the evidence.
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I'm still using Bootstrap on my own small website for nearly this reason, and I still haven't really found a reason to install the framework to customize my build of it. My traffic is simply too small, and my site unimportant enough. The default options are just fine, and with minial effort look great on all the mobile devices I have at my desk to test with.

I don't use the CDN links though; something just doesn't sit right with me with that option. I'm glad it's there, and I'm sure it helps newer programmers or those that want to just toss it in a template to see how it works, but I'm not comfortable relying on a third-party server to house such a critical part of my site. I always self host those files in production.
> If the gitlab people could fix these minor issues

Sorry, dropping in here while working on our release of today. Could you clarify what issues?

We're always excited to help projects move to GitLab.
Polarizing question, but I wonder how many people who hold up an Ayn Rand book as a marker for their views have actually read it, and how much they read otherwise.

I think it's very rare for people who do read a lot, and read varied to not be "better" off than not reading.

Like most I was an idealist in youth, and while I have become more pragmatic, I still try to stoke that fire. I however learned in my 20s to never fear the opposition/unknown, and reading more and challenging views is never dangerous. Sometimes it challenges you to rethink your stance, sometimes it's exposed as ridiculous.

My point is that I think it's really hard to "learn garbage" from reading a lot.
A page full of snippets with little context.

Just to pick one: 'A July article suggested that research revealed "women might just suck at job interviews."'

Is this claim false?
And it's called a hypothesis for a very good reason.
It was past the peak last year, i.e. machine learning somehow went backwards up thr hype cycle over the past year according to Gartner. Maybe due to deep learning news stories over the past year+.

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/noBKI
One example how the regulatory environment hinders faster construction: In olkiluoto some contractor used some cheap concrete instead of the special one that was supposed to be used for safety reasons. The concrete was pulled out again and the right one used afterwards. What of this would have happened differently in China do you think?
People said the same thing about Hilary.

I guess we both have blind-spots, so let's share the evidence. There's been a lot of fake news around.
> Why do people use Chrome, again?

Oh you are like my mother. I do appreciate Firefox respect for standards, but their UI hasn't innovated since 90s. Two months ago it took me 20 minutes on my moms Windows laptop to find current version of Firefox! It lacks unified search bar, tab expose, even some basic hotkeys are backwards.

I can't believe it uses so little resources though. It's not uncommon to see a single tab use 400 MB of memory on Chrome/Safari.
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Is anyone else not totally cool with showering and drinking water with flouride, chlorine, and inhibitor chemicals? APEC Water makes a great counter-top tankless RO filtration system for $200 that takes 10 mins to install and doesn't require any permanent mounting (so it's fine to use in apartments). The only downside is that unlike filter taps with a reservoir tank, you only get the RO membrane rate of flow (~2GPH depending on your water pressure) so you kinda need to fill up a jug and keep it in the fridge, otherwise an 8oz glass of water takes about a minute to fill.
Unless we develop viable (and affordable) grid-level battery technology

Do you think grid-level energy storage needs to be batteries, as opposed to other forms? If so, why?
France is a net importer to Germany though.
there are 4 entries for my city.

these four entries are dumpsters.

what a fallen fruit, indeed.
For me, HN works better then 99% of all sites. On all of my devices. Desktop, tablet, phone. It always does exactly what I want it to do: Fill the whole window with content. So I can always resize the window to the exact size that is most comfortable for me. And it's blazingly fast.
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Chrome Bias (and Finding Things to Like in Firefox)
But what about a new company being ruled by an AI? Surely it would be more efficient and make more money that competitors, eventually displacing them?
Estimote introduces Here and Now – the messaging technology for the physical world
Why would it be the end of old vim? I've never used neovim and I don't plan to use it, vim is perfectly fine for me, as it is. I guess, most of vim users don't even know of neovim. Sure, it's good to have a choice.
Here is my list of 2016:

- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

- The 48 Laws Of Power

- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

- Crossing the Chasm

- The Richest Man in Babylon

- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

- Europe: A History

- The Penguin History of Europe

- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Every of the books was awesome. The only thing is that I haven't finished Europe: A History from Norman and read The Penguin History of Europe instead because the Norman book was just too long for me. But It has way more details.

I switch between business-related books and non-business related (it can be everything from philosophy to language history to hardcore science) but I don't read fiction (The Richest Man in Babylon is fictional, but still the focus is on self-development).

Hope you could see some titles that might interest you.
The german term "Stromgestehungskosten" is a well defined standing term for the price you have to pay for power generation. This price has come down to 5ct/kWh and the estimation is that these costs will be undercut in the upcoming solar projects. So the "Stromgestehungskosten" for solar going to go down even more.

Regarding storage and distribution the video reports on a current project in Utrecht/Netherlands where they are combining the untapped storage capacity of electrical cars. As a Tesla owner you can set the amount of milage you will need the next day and the rest of the capacity can/will be used for storage and distribution.

Imagine that, if demand is high and your Tesla is charged you can take the bike and sell the electricity for profit. So the Tesla might pay for itself over time.

Regarding potential over capacity by solar generation I think the electric car revolition is just about to start. There will be huge demand for electricity in the near future.

On the contrary to the costs of storage and distribution, which are often cited and remarked upon in discussions about renewables, the cost of enviromental damage is also not included in the power generation costs. If you factor in the value of the land that became virtually unusable by fukushima, I guess the power generation costs will unlikely be as low as the are presented to be. I vaguely remember figures from someone who did the math for nuclear, this person also subtracted the nuclear industry subsidies, and I think it was 69$/kWh. Yes, sixty nine dollars per kilowatt hour. I wish I had saved that reference. I can not vouch or this value, it is only from the back of my head.
Heh.. I moved out when I was 16 (went to a high school and then followed by University) and have now lived alone for 22 years.

I can't even entertain the idea of not having my own privacy and my own place to do exactly what I want, when I want how I want.

I'm already getting anxious about the holidays and spending a few days with family. It's so exhausting, all that useless meaningless chatter etc. Makes one so weary.
Reminds me of the Devil Tree (Triplaris americana) found in South America[1]. Anything that touches its bark (bird, insect, human) is ferociously attacked by colonies of venom squirting red ants.

Learned about this fascinating tree in the equally fascinating book "1491" by Charles Mann[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplaris_americana

[2]http://amzn.to/2hKn6Ly
First, there can be little doubt that a substantial fraction of the high cost of nuclear is down to almost the entire west being scared stiff of the stuff for thirty years. If we gave actual scientists and engineers a real mandate to come up with a pragmatic, realistic (ie accepting a small amount of risk as acceptable, perhaps something on the scale of a single Fukushima every 30 years, just like we accept a small amount of risk everywhere else - driving, living in hurricane country, even flying isn't perfectly safe) regulatory regime, costs would surely come back down.

Second, funny how costs suddenly matter when it's about nuclear. Barely a month goes by without some new unimaginable mind numbing (wholly impractical) 'solution' to climate change that we're being implored to consider, because it's about saving the planet for our children. Nuclear is a perfectly practical, much cheaper (if still very expensive), 80% solution to climate change that we can actually start implementing today, but somehow it's not on the table. Somehow it doesn't seem all that plausible that cost is really the issue.

In short, climate change is the biggest issue facing the world (except nuclear and fracking). I'm very excited that the NYT is being practical here.
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Modesty and determination to tackle change seems more needed than economic expansion.
Kenyan girls hide in schools to escape FGM
I was wondering if some big companies were affected and I tried with Uber (on Android).

And... the app won't let you pick some addresses ! For instance, it is virtually impossible to go to "1646 35th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States" using Uber app.

There seems to be many broken address...
What I don't understand, we have a whole bunch of semantic HTML elements for years now (<main>, <section>, <header>, etc.) and no need for <div class="main"> anymore, but they don't get used very often.
It's not simply an emotional argument. Fukishima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island weren't supposed to have the issues that hit them either, right up until the point that they did. Every nuclear power plant that ever failed was claimed to be safe until it did, and only after that point did it become so obviously unsafe that it shouldn't be compared to all the other safe nuclear plants. Even when the safety issues could have been and were predicted in advance, as with Fukishima and Three Mile Island, or were the result of major and likely routine violations of safety protocol as with Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, this is simply swept under the rug until the point of actual failure.

For example, a number of people in this HN discussion have held up France as an example of successful nuclear power. Except that as others have pointed out, it turns out that for decades the French manufacturer of their reactors and components, Areva, has been shipping parts that don't meet spec and falsifying their documents to cover this up. In another universe where one of their defective parts failed and caused a major nuclear accident, they would be the isolated incident that shouldn't condemn nuclear power as a whole and another country would be the success story - maybe even Japan if the tsunami hadn't happened.
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Duh.

This is one of the reasons I think Greenpeace is doing counterproductive work over the last few decades, at least in the energy space.
Grids should be arriving in Chrome stable in mid March
Fukushima was also befell by a strongest tsunami in decades.

And even then, the greatest damage was by the tidal wave.
If cost-effectiveness is a factor, unless Tesla manage to reap some pretty massive economies of scale, realistically we should be talking about recycling lead-acid batteries (like the one in your car). They are, by a pretty large margin, the cheapest method of storing energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_battery_types#Co...
> Seriously, I have no words to describe the hoops content providers want us to get trough, so that we can play our "legally owned" (well, it technically is closer to a lease nowadays) content.

Usually it is the content owner not the provider putting in terms that requires DRM schemes for playing their content on the internet. And once you have the requirement for some content you usually require it for everything so you won't confuse users if they only could play some content.
What is "mainstream" these days?
Quran, a very superior all in one book, I have never seen a book as expressive as this one, I invite anyone just to "try" it ;)

Freakonomics, is a good one about economy from a new angle of view
Right, all the good use cases involve not actually using it - if you're immediately committing then it would be better if it just became a commit.
Lumina claims it needs about 150MB to run - maybe that's the reason.
I wonder how much other desktop/window manager weight (before you ask: I'm on windows 10 - my window manager eats all the RAM it can get ;-).
Being dogmatic about anything is usually going to end up being wrong. But I think a lot of common advice is meant to serve as a baseline. It helps us take mental shortcuts while we familiarize ourselves with the field. Once you're more familiarized with everything, you start to question things more heavily. Otherwise you'll probably end up with decision paralysis.
I think Distillery is the current de-facto standard Elixir deploy tool.
I'll make sure not to eat the air around this tree
There seem to be two Flow books by the same author :

Flow: The Psychology of Happiness

Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life

Which one are you recommending?
I agree. Notability criteria are really bad. IMHO they should only be used super sparingly on occasion if a real problem is identified. The last 10 years has seen a huge amount of good content deleted, and more importantly new contributors put off Wikipedia because of policy thumping nutjobs.
Google and Honda Are Teaming Up on Self-Driving Cars
No, you're correct I typo'd.
A backup by necessity is a copy; with centralized version control as svn is, you don't have a copy of the repository, so you have to make one some way.

(Decentralized version control is only slightly different; if you lose the 'main' repository and don't have an exact clone (aka a backup), you may be able to glue together something from other repositories that is close to or equal to what you had, but there is no way to know for sure)
In practice, loaded OLTP systems use a combined approach. Balances are computed at regular points in time (at the beginning of each month or quater), and final balance is efficiently calculated from the value at the nearest point and changes from the transaction log.
The long term job killer is UNFAIR access to automation decided by the costs of automation or political decision.

The revolt in late XIXth century in Europe were based on the generalisation of the steam engine that were favoring without any other merits than birth the wealthy and ripping the craftsmen of their jobs.

Diesel made an engine so craftsman could compete vs steam engine. The german government pre-empted his invention so that it would not disrupt the dominant position of big corporations...

Automation is not the problem, it is unfair access to automation decided by capital.
Except that it's not true at all: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Energiem... (percentage)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromerzeugung#Bruttostromerze... (absolute)

Kohle = coal, Kernenergie = nuclear energy,
Uber have taken the startup "victory or death" model to its logical conclusion. Their whole business model only makes sense if they can drive out competition and entrench a network-effect based monopoly. As part of that, they need to make sure that they're not troubled by competition authorities.

So they've engaged in a maximally confrontational strategy. Either they win, establishing the precedent (socially if not legally) that the law doesn't apply to them and in the process becoming essential; or they lose, but in a way that ensures that competitors are similarly barred from the market.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/can-uber-ever-deliver...

As part of this, Uber's preference function looks something like:

Uber autonomous taxis > total ban on autonomous taxis > Tesla autonomous taxis.

(Above link is via https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/12/21/2181626/ubers-potenti... )
Why do some people call programs "codes"? I hear this a lot from mathematicians and physicists.
Some things that are missing and I do want to know: the exact location of the office, pictures inside the office so I can see the chair and desk I'll be using.
There is only so much pumped hydro storage you can make...
favourites by category:
- fitness:
Becoming a supple leopard
- fiction:
Seveneves
- non fiction:
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently
2 Highlights:

- "Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison

- "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

These are beautifully written books-- true art. I read intellectually stimulating, non-fiction material every moment of my life. Fiction counterbalances that frenzied information consumption.

I also read 2/3 of SevenEves by Neal Stephenson. Although the first 2/3 were good, I can't recommend the book due to the last 1/3. Those who read the book will know what I'm talking about.
Whatever language you use.
I'm not sure what you mean by that, flexbox has been supported by Chrome for a while now: http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox.
Not at all, and sorry I guess I misspoke. Whatever works: pumping water up hill, spinning flywheels etc. all sound fine to me. It's simply a question of whether it meets current energy demand, environmental impact, and cost.

Come to think of it, I've only ever looked at the per KW hour cost of batteries (lead-acid seems to be the clear winner). You wouldn't happen to have references for other energy storage methods?
Just wait until a special brain implant is required in order to listen to DRM'd music :)
I found the article on vim.org:

> Nice article about Vim on hostingadvice.com

> Releasing version 8.0 and getting close to the 25th birthday inspired the writing of this article. It contains links to relevant info and can be used to convince a friend to start using Vim. (Bram Moolenaar)
> The concept of 'moving out' of your parents home is baffling for most of us.

Yeah, it's almost like we have radically different cultures.
"Competitive salary" means "we pay the same crappy salaries as everybody else". Your salary will increase only if their competition increases salaries and people start to leave (hence "competitive").
> Glad it works for you, but that has got to be the third circle of my personal hell.

Here, here. Not only do I not live with parents, friends or anyone else. The slowly but steadily losing side of a current raging personal debate in my head is that one day I should share my life with a significant other and perhaps have a family of my own. That idea is on the ropes but I'm not quite ready to close that door completely, but I'm real close to calling the fight and declaring a winner.

Further, I have been going longer between replies to messages from friends. If they need to find me, they will know where to go. We can only maintain X number of relationships. I would rather that list include people in my pro network and an inner circle of friends and family.

If you can handle being alone. I feel that's a superpower. Though there are many benefits to for sharing your life with an SO. I suppose it's a trade-off.
>Technology is not as convenient a villain as China or Mexico

Technology is a MUCH more convenient villain. You can roll back 1% friendly trade agreements with China and Mexico. You can point pitchforks at the 1%. You can't roll back technological advancement and it's pointless to try.

You achieve nothing by being against technology except looking like an idiot, which is precisely why articles like this are trying to convince everybody that technology is the "villain".

Because god forbid Lloyd Blankfein and his cronies start being seen as villains.

>A lot of US jobs have been lost to globalization, but in the long-term that won't compare to the jobs lost to automation. As a software developer this seems painfully obvious to me,

Funny. As a software developer it seems painfully obvious to me just how far off we are from this supposed goal. All around me I see developers who shirk at even automating their own tests while getting excited over vaporware.
I tried this. It works _kind of_. I have 3 monitors, and Netflix stubbornly refused to play until I had unplugged 2. Had the same issue on my MacBook. Have a second display because you want to watch Netflix + do something else? NOPE!

Now with the price increase I'm really wondering why I keep my subscription.
It really isn't. Also, no one still builds reactors out of graphite, or without containment vessels. So there's that.
I think the fact that it's streaming is actually taking one of the main arguments against drm away: If I own it, I shouldn't be hindered by drm to do with it whatever I want.

Still all DRM in the end is futile and can be reduced to a cat -and-mouse game.
Sorry, I meant CSS grids! Edited original comment.
There's lots of creative accounting behind the recent headlines on the competitiveness of solar. Without an efficient means to store solar power, you can't run an electricity grid off solar alone, and you need a more reliable baseload. Not only that, but the base load stations need to be able to raise and lower their own power generation (gas is best for this) to accommodate the sudden spike in solar energy supply.
I'm 34 and I seem to reinvent myself drastically every 7 years or so, and this includes politics.

My views on life the universe and everything stem both from direct experience and books - lots and lots of books.

At 15 I was apolitical, and a default conservative, but while I would merrily assign myself these labels my actions spoke very differently. At 22 I was a libertarian/objectivist zealot, and still an authoritarian, just a different source of authority. By 26 I had moved to classical liberalism with leftist leanings - and had become vehemently and vocally antiauthoritarian in a political rather than "fuck you, dad" manner. At this point I just sit on the sidelines and laugh at the insane symbol manipulation that seems to be the primary occupation of humans.

The thing is, while my views and degrees of misanthropy and cynicism have ebbed and flowed over the years, a constant thread can be traced back throughout - a nascent distrust of authority which grew into a rejection of all authority - and a pattern of thinking that makes people look at me cock-eyed, as I think and say things which others consider irregular. Always have.

The only thing that has changed is that I've continued to load more and more information into the system, which has given me more to work with, more precise identifiers, a more nuanced understanding of ape-men and their activities.

So - the crux is that while I rebrand myself every seven years or so, the only thing that's actually changing is the labels, the assignation - I still identify strongly with eleven year old me - although I do now prefer Trek to Wars.