skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to see the numbers (dollars and calories) on what it costs to recycle these materials, including transport and collection costs.

It appears the trend is to externalize the sorting of materials, as this appears to be the most expensive part.

Are there dedicated paid human sorters? Would people volunteer to help in such a way?
Funding Redox OS Development
Travel to the island of Islay (off the west coast of Scotland) and head to the tiny village of Portnahaven. From there, walk north along the coast for half an hour or so and look out for the Islay LIMPET, the world's first commercial wave power device connected to the United Kingdom's National Grid.

It looks like this (photo I took when I was there earlier in the year) https://www.instagram.com/p/BD1Ao-1IaXi/

Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islay_LIMPET

It's not a "tour" (it's unmanned) but it's fascinating. While you're on Islay, you can also enjoy whisky, wildlife and being in one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
Why is this a manual process? Is our technology not sufficient to build a plane that can detect when it has too much weight on board for a safe flight?
That just shifts the cost to software, which is really complicated and expensive when you're talking about avionics software and airline ticketing systems.

If you do that, you need to synchronize the check-in scale with the aircraft, and the ticket-assigned seat with the weight. You also need to hope they're not gate checking much luggage (which could shift the CG resulting from their weight a lot) or crowding too much and putting two people on the scale.

But yes, the idea to minimize the number of sensors is a good one. I think the ideal place for this would be a pressure sensor within the oleo struts of the landing gear. High-resolution hydraulic pressure sensors are readily available. There would be some static friction errors (I've tried this with hydraulic cylinders, but it's reasonably close. And inducing a little dither in the hydraulics takes out most of the error.) Then you would know while waiting for take-off exactly where the CG was! And all that could be directly wired to and managed by the hard real-time avionics and electronics on the plane, and displayed to the instrument panels where it's actually needed.

...and running a Google search for 'oleo strut pressure sensor center of gravity', it appears there are already multiple patents for similar systems from 30 years ago and older.
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Looks like a bot to me. Literally only pastes links. I'd suspect that some of the websites it links to generate ad-rev, while the wikipedia and reddit links are there to obfuscate the purpose of the bot.

It's simple logic. If you notice, both the Reddit and HN source have the same source url.
Nigh-unusable? You can:

- search by tags

- get recommendations based on your interests

- get recommendations about popular new games

- get recommendations based on what your friends like to play or want to play

- get recommendations based on what curators you choose reviewed

The "new stuff" list is useless, but the store is okay, and improving constantly.
Why Yan Lhert Only Works Remotely
3 people were wounded and brought to a hospital (dutch newspaper: http://www.ed.nl/regio/valkenswaard-e-o/valkenswaard/video-d...)
> This is why you call a lawyer as soon as the police arrive w/ a warrant or ask you questions.

Pragmatic question regarding this type of advice. It's easy to say "call a lawyer", sure, but like many Americans under age 35, I do not presently have a lawyer in a meaningful sense of the term. (I had one once, for a very specific matter regarding a visa for another country - it was four-figure expensive - that relationship is now over.)

Suppose the police show up at my door in half an hour. What do I actually do? Or, suppose that they're not showing up in half an hour but I'd like to be generally prepared. What steps can I take to do so while keeping the up-front pre-police-raid 'expensive' in the low to middle three figure sums, or thereabouts?
Even a 12 mph reduction can greatly reduce the severity of a crash. Every foot per second makes a difference.

One problem with suddenly braking hard to avoid a collision in front is then you get rear ended (happened to me). Sometimes the best approach is to swerve onto the shoulder instead (also happened to me, and I watched the guy behind me plow into the guy in front).
It helps thinking about it the other way around, ie. nationality has DNA. For Americans this may sound absurd, but it's very common in non-immigration heavy countries. Whether "German" or "Norwegian" are nationalities or ethnicities is not a settled debate. This is why being non-white in Europe can be hard in some ways. Some Germans have a rather uncharming word for people with their nationality but not their ethnicity: passport-German. The meaning being that you're not really German, you just have citizenship, which is far less meaningful. I'm not hating on the Germans, btw; most countries are worse than Germany. I chose it as an example because they debate a lot about this, so everything's really visible. Just know that the US is the exception.
Ask HN: How to find people/blogs in niche topics?
While finding good blogs, in general, seems to be very hard, finding good and interesting blogs about niche topics is just blind luck to me. For example, I'm very interested in the topic of exploring new ways to teach computer science and math (taking into account different mindsets, ways people learn concepts, the importance of empathy, etc). The blogs and people I've found all come from random topics on HN and Reddit. I wonder how many links I missed over the years.

How do you find interesting people to follow?
MEAN is a good start, you can build on your existing skills and pick up React & React Native, which will also allow you to expand to mobile dev.
That's really cool. :)
Three crimes a day is probably a reference to this book: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...

(I know it's better to provide references to web pages and not books, but I don't have a web page that recreates that book on hand. Suggestions welcome.)

As I understand it, it's an estimate, not an actual figure. In order to perform such a survey, we'd have to sample people, record their entire daily activity, and determine how many crimes were committed. Determining how many crimes were committed would require an army of lawyers and private investigators... and that's the real point. As a normal citizen without an army of lawyers, you should have no confidence whatsoever that you are not committing crimes. If measured by "what could be used to convict you if the government wanted you out of the way" I'd guess 3 per day is a grotesque underestimate, at least one order of magnitude and I wouldn't bet much against 2.
Checkout mackernews.com I Made that app to scratch my own itch for precisely the reasons you bring up. :)
It would be next to impossible to get access to a commissioned nuclear powerplant and enter containment as a visitor. However, there is a nuclear power plant in vienna that was never used and can be visited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwentendorf_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

Additionally, many universities have research reactors - they often have tours or a tour can be easily arranged.
There seems to be 2 distinct justifications for this.

1. The plane has to be at a safe weight to fly. I'm ok with this.

2. The airline wants to charge more money for heavier passengers. This is getting into discrimination territory.
Choosing the right error handling strategy
News Today: Cheetah getting extinct :(
I think the most exciting thing (and we're way behind schedule on this, a lot of this could have easily been done literally 30 years ago, no problem at all), is caravan functionality, where a group of cars moves together. If you imagine 20 cars at a standstill for some reason, if they begin to move forward slowly but at the same time (less than 50 millisecond apart) because they're coordinated then they can get up to speed almost as fast as if it were only just one car (let's say they have to speed up a bit more slowly for a safety allowance). But if you factor in human response time, it can be a phantom traffic jam. There is no reason for a traffic jam because there is clear road all the way ahead of the group - yet a traffic jam slowly makes its way back anyway. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goVjVVaLe10&t=1m55s

coordinating this stuff doesn't require computer vision or truly self-driving cars or anything like it and could have been done 30 years ago (1986) over an AM radio standard and some kind of coordination between cars - just nobody sat down and designed that standard.

today wireless coordination technology offers dozens of choices (in the gigahertz domain) and caravans could be assembled all but "trivially", cars can know where they are via gps with no problems at all. That would be an exciting move forward. Of course, it only works when everyone is doing it, but if just a few traffic jams instantly disappear (the ones where are the cars happen to have caravan functionality and coordinate) it would improve things for everyone: the traffic jam will disappear whenever it bunches up in a way that happens to consist of coordinated cars. (e.g. a 3-car phantom jam slowly moving backward will disappear whenever it crosses 3 caravan-enabled cars - not every car has to have this functionality). But I haven't read anything about Tesla coordinating even with other Teslas, let alone some standard of intercar coordination. A shame - this stuff is way easier than the self-driving stuff Tesla and others are doing. It's very low-hanging fruit.
So if they earned a decent wage to begin with, that would be better, right?
I’ve been to two power plants in the Czech republic:

Temelin, nuclear power plan [1]. Pretty nice information center in a historical building with models, plant simulator and a small cinema. Although the most exciting part is visiting the actual power plant site - generators, accompanying infrastructure, going through radiation check point. Not sure if the site visit is publicly available.

Lipno, hydro plant [2]. Not as interesting information center as in Temelin, but the underground facility with turbines, generators and outlet tunnels makes you realize the huge mass of water in the dam and the amount of power the plant is able to generate.

The next item on my bucket list is pumped-storage in Dlouhe Strane [3], which looks like a hill with the peak cut off, having there a large pond instead.

Sources:
[1] https://www.cez.cz/en/power-plants-and-environment/nuclear-p...
[2] https://www.cez.cz/en/contacts/information-centers/lipno-inf...
[3] https://www.cez.cz/en/contacts/information-centers/dlouhe-st...
That's why they named it as i7, so that you can overclock to 7 GHz.
I think the visualization is misleading, it seems to highlight energy mix rather than absolute numbers. eg Poland looks bad but Germany burns twice the amount of coal that Poland does. (Per head of population its probably about the same) Germany looks better because it has some other sources mixed in there.
Constant-Time Mul
>Isn't it a good thing to record data that helps solve a murder?

Recording everyones data everywhere just in case it might be relevant to an extremely rare event like a murder is very dangerous. The use of NSA recording capabilities by employees to digitally stalk victims of their affection (LOVEINT) is a clear example of how badly this kind of collection can go wrong.
Why do you say GPU? I'm vaguely aware that GPU is far superior at multitasking unlike a CPU.
Upvote for Silence. It's the only solution for people who don't or won't have a data connection open permanently. It also requires no signup and depends on no external service.

I'd not heard of Noise. I'm glad that all the interesting crypto work that Open Whisper Systems is doing is being forked and diversified - it's too valuable to be only available through one centralized provider.
That's actually about MSSQL 2014. 2016 is a substantially different beast.
Yeah would-be neat to have them "globally connected" to Tesla, not sure why you would want that.
I wouldn't hate on it, but my Mercedes equipped with Distronic Plus can do the exact same thing, and I'm sure it was at least an option on the S-class for a decade now. You can even get it on the base barebones A class nowadays. All I'm saying is that there's nothing new here and the number of articles this video caused is almost silly.
Did you try this one: https://react-hn.appspot.com/
As far as I can tell, PHP doesn't have any way to spawn a subprocess without passing it to /bin/sh for evaluation.

PHPMailer (not core php) apparently either calls php's popen(), which passes to the shell...or calls php's mail(), which uses popen(). There are other options in php, like proc_open(), but they also call /bin/sh.

TLDR: There isn't any way in PHP to avoid "relying on the shell to separate options for you".
That sounds more like a UX flaw in the app than something wrong with JS. Why would a newsreader close itself when you actually read the news? It makes more sense to open articles in a new tab (or whatever your specific device does), and leave the reader open, avoiding this problem. That is a fairly universal mechanism anymore when working from a page/app acting as a content hub.
In fairness the guy is saying that in the video. Stop, wait to see what the cars do behind, etc. Presumably he gets out when traffic has stopped behind him.
Actually we burn "renewable" wood here and decrease catastrophic effects of global warming caused by more developed economies.
Yes. Poland was affected by Chernobyls fallout and public opinion led to the dismantling of the building of nuclear power plants.
The Ugly Unethical Underside of Silicon Valley
As I said, all the problems can be solved on a case-by-case basis. But you can't just replace all numbers in JSON with big.Int, because you'll miss floats. You can't just use big.Float for all JSON decoding, because you'll trash performance, something that Go users care about more than Python users (because in Python you've already accepted that your code is going to be slow relative to C). You can solve each problem on a case-by-case basis, but to provide a general solution that makes everybody happy is impossible, which is what you want for this big ol' happy "let's just let everybody call any function they want" plan to work.
Wind kills lots of birds.

http://www.audubon.org/news/will-wind-turbines-ever-be-safe-...

Add 100x the current number and we'll have a big problem.

Downvoted to hell because "We don't like what you're saying".

Wind has a negative. it's just a fact, not an opinion.
I see the cars in front of that car braking, as well as those beside the Tesla, before the alarm.
Austria's largest electricity provider "Verbund" offers tours at many of their facilities (mostly hydro-power):
https://www.verbund.com/en-at/about-verbund/visitors-centres
oh no, lier, lier, pants on fire! It was absolutely unstoppable, don't you know?
> nuclear is very expensive

If you disagree, and have an argument, why are you not providing it?

> nuclear has a waste and risk problem

Yes, and?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...

> Thus, Alfvén identified two fundamental prerequisites for effective management of high-level radioactive waste: (1) stable geological formations, and (2) stable human institutions over hundreds of thousands of years. As Alfvén suggests, no known human civilization has ever endured for so long, and no geologic formation of adequate size for a permanent radioactive waste repository has yet been discovered that has been stable for so long a period.

In other words, we have no, zero, ZILCH real solutions, and just hand-wave it away. Future generations might come up with something. They may not. But hey, let's not be a "scaremonger", let's not be like great minds of the 20th century who paid attention. Let's be shitty consumers with the attention span of a goldfish. Fuck that so much.

> wind and solar are price competitive and very environment friendly

And don't forget they're not using up resources we have a a.) limited supply of and b.) could use for more interesting things than burning them, but instead using energy that the sun pelts us with anyway. That's kind of a fundamental difference. It's the elephant on the couch, I'd say.
Bear in mind that you had an enormous sampling bias: almost all the people you saw were the people who couldn't understand minimum requirements. You didn't see the people who could understand minimum requirements, so you don't know what proportion the first set is of the entire population.

(I don't disagree with your larger point that Steam should take a lot more responsibility to put up roadblocks to purchasing games that won't run on the system the Steam client is running on.)
Ugh, I'm broad-shouldered as well, and I've had to give up picking aisle seats. You can only get run over so many times in a flight by the drink cart, and when your shoulders are wider than the seat is, you get trucked every single time.
This article feels like a long paraphrasing a Microsoft blog post [1] that was already discussed on HN[2]. I'm not seeing any new insights or analysis-- just restating of the points already made on the Microsoft blog.

[1] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2016...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13206438
When Eric Schmidt said "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," this is pretty much what he was talking about.

We live in a society where passive, ubiquitous, voluntarily-accepted monitoring is becoming the norm because of the vast convenience it affords the users. The flip-side of that coin is of course breaks in your regular pattern of behavior are going to show up in the data trail.

Rather than blame the data trail, maybe we can just all agree to a societal understanding that if you're going to take up murder as a hobby, it might be somewhat incompatible with your other cloud-based ubiquitous-computing hobbies?
I hope they decide to sell it for around $300. I'm certainly not entertaining any prices north of that. I'm not interested in funding their mobile chip ambitions when I buy a desktop processor. Which is why I haven't purchased a chip from them since the first generation i7. Their prices and products have been ridiculous for too long.
I was simply asking if it only works on a server.
I was reading the installation guide and it has command line installs for Fedora and Ubuntu so i thought it was only for servers.
Will pip also install the system-wide dependencies?

As for API documentation vs Library documentation it just seems like HotDoc is for Library documentation. (Even though it's the tastiest API documentation system)
From their examples they are just showing Library documentation sites?

Docsgen is inspired by API docs like DO and PayPal where you have text on left and example request and response on the right.
Example: https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/

I have trouble finding examples of API documentation sites that uses HotDoc, feel free to link some and i will check them.
I mean, most of what North Americans do in their every day life is robbing a child in Africa of... all sorts of things.
Much innovation in the last 20 years has been finding ways to get your customers to do work for free that you previously paid employees to do instead.

For example, self-service checkouts in supermarkets, fast food, building a holiday package, etc.

Recycling is the same. They have 'outsourced' much of the job to local government and consumers.
Very nice visualization and that it is realtime, the color scheme could be nicer
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IIS already runs on Drawbridge since a while AFAIK.
I think showing the mix of energy sources is also insightful. Germany has spent a lot of effort into diversifying and upgrading their energy system. Meanwhile, Poland is lagging in investment and relying almost exclusively on one piece of energy source. This piece of knowledge is also insightful.
As far as page layout goes progressive should not behave any different than non-progressive since images have an intrinsic size in the header which is considered by the rendering engines when sizing the image layer. It does not change throughout the load process.

Multiplexing will load the necessary headers just as soon with non-progressive images.
It's still good to avoid separating ourselves from others based on some external reason. So many times one can think "this groups is this" as if it was a solid, internal factor.
"A legitimate reason for that water use that he doesn't wish to disclose because it would incriminate him for something else" is an odd definition of "legitimate." ;)
No it is unfortunately not if there exists at least one company that provides a VPN service from your country. :)
To me its quite amazing that in 2016 we have a fully approved & supported Windows kernel running in linux and a linux kernel running in Windows. Makes me rethink the definition of what an OS really is.
In addition to that, Ignalina (150km-ish from Vilnius) nuclear power plant, which is currently being disassembled, offers tours too.
I'm not a lawyer, either. But I don't think it's the case that any warrant can just be refused, more that the warrant itself can be challenged based on a lot of factors, like the burden placed on a company to deliver some evidence.
Exactly. I also wonder what public opinion would be if MSM headlines read "US planning to retaliate against Russia for exposing the truth in US politics".

There are so many ironies here. The US has been involved in interfering and over throwing governments for decades. The public should not be upset that the truth was exposed, but rather should be calling for more truth to be exposed. Let's expose the Republican corruption as well.
you are obviously too young to remember the propaganda from the days back then :-(

and, no, international communists had nothing to do to fix it. It was by imposing the first global tax -- it's all that it achieved. Proofed it's possible to have a global tax.

There was no problem and as soon as the tax was implemented the problem in the media disappeared too.
Kaby Lake is not great for overclocking.
You literally have to cut this CPU in half, to make it usable for OC. Better thermal paste between silicon and heatsink, will reduce temperatures by 10°C.

But overclockable i3 Kaby Lake is interesting.
SQL Server on Nano is hard to install properly - MS didn't think about how to install SQLS on Windows without a GUI. Docker is the only usable way that doesn't take hours.
And further, it's not like there are all these no-kitchen apartments for rent so you almost certainly have a stove anyway. Your average refrigerator apparently costs you less than $12 a month in CA (http://homeguides.sfgate.com/calculate-cost-run-refrigerator...) so it's a pittance too.
No, we don't. We can promote the value of the tech without the denigration.
Did you not see the video of the guy doing that in a Tesla? Except it happened on the road, not in a testing facility?

This stuff is going to happen as the technology develops.
Bringing skin color into the discussion did not help your argument.
I would have linked the video had I remembered the talk but exactly. This is what I meant.
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Also, it would be nice if my information wasn't so easy to datamine.