skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No solution is going to be perfect.

Going pure solar and wind in the US would require several hundred thousand square kilometers of photovoltaic panels. More for the windmills if you can't build them all out at sea.

Aside from the cost running in to the trillions, you need so much steel and concrete that the emissions produced by those ingredients being made (remember steel in particular requires coal) that the overall emissions from such a project are, let's say, non-negligible.

I'm afraid even visionaries like Elon Musk know that renewables are only part of the solution. Solar and wind's energy output per area is just too small, even before you consider their consistency drawbacks.

Molten salt looks cool but it's not prime time for that yet, and certainly not .029/wH. If we want to reduce emissions now while waiting for better technology to be made, nuclear is as viable an option as any. It's been a shame here to see Germany go backwards and shut down its nuclear plants for new coal ones.

http://energyrealityproject.com/lets-run-the-numbers-nuclear...
I don't think you will shake out the issues if you try it in the easiest place possible.
That said, UCLA Math dept is one of the best in the country. Some very talented people work there.
An alternative to PhantomJS is Nightmare (http://www.nightmarejs.org/), based of Electron.

We're currently using PhantomJS for some headless stuff, but are considering a switch.
It also tells you how a bunch of common tools will fare against your wonderfully designed solution that is
only 'truly' testable by sophisticated methods.

Thanks for whatever it is that you gave me. I don't keep up with nomenclature these days.
Customer lifetime value and the proliferation of misinformation on the internet
They're going to tax us no matter what, why not put it to good use instead of spend 50 million on a better toilet, or a pork project in their home district?
It works in the sense that they will probably eventually scroll through your comment and notice they've been mentioned...
Instead of mandating specific amount of hours per day or week, I'd like to see something like:

1.5x pay at 30 hours

2x pay at 40 hours
I think that is the issues that should be discussed.

Housing price is Land + Building Cost + Profit with Supply and Demand. Land is politics which you cant improve much, Supply and Demand is a market force you cant change. So really the only thing you can do is Building Cost.

But what i think the housing mentioned here being better really are houses, not Flat. i.e High Rise Building.
And all of those Appliances has nothing to do with building itself.

What i really want to see, is technology improving High Rise Building in Cites, so when the time for land approval comes, it could be built and sold ( live in ) within 6 months. Preferably even sooner.

They should be durable, easy to assemble, easy to fit in floors, Windows ( Without leaking water ), Pipes, etc.

I have seen Office Building being built in that time frame but not residential. In Hong Kong it is common to see these Office building built in Metal / Steel frame compared to Residential being concrete only. I guess that is a cost issues involved.

At the moment, fitting pipes, Windows, and polishing etc after the block of concrete lay on each floor is still very labour intensive and slow. To me, technology hasn't improved at all in these regards.
"Open to interpretation" means the same thing as "undefined behavior in the C programming language": i.e. only overly pedantic programmer nerds stick to the assertion that it could mean "anything."

When a work is said to be open to interpretation, it means that the author has their expressed opinion, but that it may also suggest other things about the author that they are not willing to admit about themselves.

For example, no interpretation of Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" will draw the conclusion that Card is a fan of Jurassic Park, or that he takes his tea with three sugars, or any such thing. There's just no evidence in the work to suggest one way or the other. But you could take his assertion that the book is about camaraderie and the struggle of good versus evil at face value, or you could take the themes of preemptive, hyperviolence he uses to read between the lines and realize that Orson Scott Card is actually a fascist neoconservative.

That's what "open to interpretation" means. A particular work does not exist separate from the person who created it, and people are not reliable narrators on their motivations.
Why should I work, so that others who don't work get my money?
s/struggles with/under-appreciates/

s/struggles with/gives hard time to/

s/^.+struggles with.+$/Business has no idea how creativity works/
The Stack Overflow developer survey had both Mac and Linux at 20% in 2015. But Mac shot up to 26% in 2016.

I think Hacker News will likely have very similar stats. Maybe somewhat more Mac and Linux leaning, even.

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...
In health care, there is a very steep cost that can come from workers who are tired, distracted, overworked, more likely to make a mistake etc.

And that's before factoring in lawsuits.
The hack for causing accidents by hacking traffic lights wouldn't work because they are physically incabable of giving green lights to the wrong combinations.
Author here, i'm happy to answer any questions you may have.
This is just my opinion, but I can see PhantomJS lose a lot of its appeal when the --headless switch for Google Chrome hits the stable channel (quite a way off still, sure). This was already discussed to some extent here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839303. Add a couple of porcelain libraries on top of chrome-remote-interface, and you have an even more powerful instrumented headless browser, plus you don't need to worry about security, performance and keeping up with crazy new web features. Also, Chrome headless will encompass features aimed at automation/CI like:

- "Virtual" time (fast-forward time)
- Session isolation (even for same origin)
- Full page screenshots out of the box

Slides for Chrome headless: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gqK9F4lGAY3TZudAtdcx...

Shameless plug: I'm using Google Chrome to drive https://urlscan.io and will make the switch to the headless version once it's included in the Beta channel.
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/playstationnow/
Some former threads in HN:

2014-06-03 Sweden’s proposed six-hour workday (washingtonpost.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7838459

2014-07-14 Sweden's Six-Hour Workday Experiment Officially Kicks Off Tomorrow (entrepreneur.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8029162

2015-10-01 Some companies in Sweden are testing a six-hour work day (fastcoexist.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10306635

2016-04-22 Gothenburg's six-hour work day experiment hangs in the balance (thelocal.se)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543538

All in all, the HN posts were not that bad, but in social media - Facebook and Twitter - I saw plenty of overly optimistic, baseless junk spouting the magnificence of how Sweden just went to 6-hour workweek for the nation and productivity gains were so huge. It was actually depressing...

Well, obviously people are happier if they work a shorter day and get the same salary, and the productivity per hour may actually increase somewhat. But it won't reach the productivity of 8 (or 7.5) hours.
As conservative ideology becomes more and more unmoored from reality how do you propose we keep conservatives participating in academia? I'm not just being snarky - it seems to me the increasing liberalization of colleges is inextricable from the increasing non-fiction of conservative thinking.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...
And so it begins:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13184491-avogadro-corp
Must it? In fact, I'd expect the reverse -- choosing a model for the language will make the ecosystem tied to that model

For example, while tokio is being integrated with hyper, it does not affect the "usual" users of hyper at all, both in terms of API and in terms of what's going on under the hood, cost-wise.

Having a blessed solution for async like tokio that is not in the stdlib seems to encourage folks to integrate with it, but not in an irrevocable manner; the core library stays intact and able to support potential other models in the future.
In Byobu, you simply need to create a new session. Ctrl-Alt-F2. Then Alt-Up/Alt-Down to move among sessions. Each user can have their own session easily like this! Shift-F1 for the hotkeys, if you need a reminder ;-)
That is a very Whorfian view, but McWhorter, among others, would question whether it is at all plausible that these differences in what is little more than syntax can really make a profound difference in meaning. To put it another way, if these language features do make that much of a difference, then is there much more to these texts than a self-referential discussion of the meaning of the language used in these texts?

Your programming-paradigm analogy is perhaps unintentionally apt, as underneath their particular representations, they are all Turing-equivalent.
https://github.com/trailofbits/algo and https://github.com/jlund/streisand are also great alternatives.
Child free groups are like mens rights groups, nobody is getting in your way, you can cry and act judged all you want but you're fine.
Agreed, the article flirts with both biological and cultural reasons for rhythm perception. Puzzling.

400-500 years of musical history has engrained cultures in particular rhythms. Not much of a biological argument, IMO.
Clojure syntax looks like a cross between common lisp and javascript, but it manages to be the most popular lisp around by a country mile. On the one hand I find it distasteful, on the other hand it hasn't seemed to hurt adoption. I don't know if it drove adoption though - it's probably more likely due to the fact the inventor of the language is a charismatic and prolific speaker. But I digress...

I kind of agree with you. I don't think "softening" the syntax of a concatenative languages is going to help much, and is more likely to drive away the kind of PL dabblers who are interested in concatenative languages in the first place. The vast majority of programmers will never try anything that doesn't resemble ALGOL at least a bit. It's a lost cause to try and reel them in.

IMO, the best way for nice languages to thrive is to be simple enough that it's easy for a small number of people to maintain, and powerful enough that the implementation and standard library can be constructed in as few LOC as possible to minimize bugs. Being able to attach itself to an existing large ecosystem with a minimum of fuss (ie, embedable in C or Java interop) also seems to be a great trojan horse.
You can read(2) and write(2) to a socket, although it is more normal to recv and send on it. On Linux, you can also (and pretty much MUST) read(2) and write(2) to an eventfd; you can read(2) from a timerfd. That said, the semantics of the latter are considerably different from that of fifos or sockets.
This was initially attempted by G-Cluster in 2000, Crytek tried it as well, popularized by OnLive (who started working on it in 2003) and blew up in 2010.

The general term for it is cloud gaming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_gaming
The paradox goes away once you realize that philosophy is more like literature than it is like science.
Well then you are free to edit wikipedia, add new information if you have objective sources.
Yup, I'm still trying to figure out if this whole thing is overblown or people actually consider things they see on Facebook to be reliable. I've never seen a news article on Facebook that wasn't by a news source I already knew about, and considered that to be reliable. Facebook just doesn't optimise for that, obviously. It just seems so obvious that the content on Facebook around news is and always has been trash that I'm amazed if enough people actually took it seriously enough for it to matter in the election.
I like how they reference Japan and Qatar. Japan has a pretty overworked populace and a culture that is toxic to the health of the worker.

Qatar has literally brought in masses under indentured servitude to build their workforce.

Not exactly countries with workforce practices that I'd like to see emulated in the USA.
Perl has a tainted mode where any outside data is marked as tainted. You can only detained it in specific ways. Copying the data from one variable to another keeps the tainted flag.

Pretty much only explicit checks are able to remove the tainted flag from the data. As such you limit the security problems to faulty checks. It is impossible to forget to check something.

Above is used in Bugzilla. Despite all of that, it's still pretty easy to make mistakes. IMO it's rather unfortunate that not more languages have such a feature. This as Perl code if often pretty difficult to read (it doesn't have to be!).
Also coming into play during Moana is the hyperion rendering engine, which was first showcased in Big Hero 6:

https://www.disneyanimation.com/technology/innovations/hyper...

Also, here's an article containing some stills from the movie:

http://blog.yiningkarlli.com/2016/11/moana.html
What was their crime? Feeding the homeless in a park
Makes me wonder the same thing for years now and I believe it's about damn time I finally get to it.

Even if it takes another batch of several years down the line, it's definitely gonna be a time better spent -- as opposed to always trying to educate colleagues and bosses on the added business value of giving people space and time to be creative.

I am at a point where I finally concluded I am wasting my time, that people by default have zero interest in evolving their views -- or simply see things through your eyes, even for a minute. And I see no real profit for me being able to do that for them.

So yeah, being your own boss looks to be the best course, with all the hardships, uncertainty and gray hair that comes with it.
Because it leads to a healthy vibrant society that enables you to make that money in the first place.

Your income is a benefit conferred by the society in which you live, so it makes sense to return part of it to enable that society to exist.
I am a big critic of both the militarization of police and tough-talking billionaires. No worries!
Eastern philosophy also holds some middle path values that reject true/false dischotomies. However, the vast majority of western philosophy—what people tend to refer to with "philosophy"—is built on objective truths and deductive reasoning. I'm comfortable with his point #2 above.

The actual existence of truth--that's another story.
Not sure I can get behind this. We read primary sources in history, but in those cases it is to get understanding that can only come from a first person account, like subjective experience. With philosophy, it is argued that Aristotle's thoughts can only be fully conveyed BY Aristotle (aside from the hero worship of some philosophers I know).

My sense is that you're really on to something with empiricism. Philosophy is now largely about purely social phenomena, like epistemology and ethics, that don't have a physical "correct" answer (at least to most people--maybe not Kant). That being the case, there really is something unique about, for example, Aristotle's take on virtue ethics, since there is no virtue ethics outside of his conception of it (and our practicing of it). So the pure thing being studied in philosophy is Aristotle's conception and the surrounding literature of virtue ethics, whereas with physics and Newton his theories and equations are pure things and there is no value to his particular exposition.
Would this work on Amazon EC2 as well?
moana pozzi was a famous italian porn actress in the '80, that made also standard tv programs and involved in politics, too. I'm pretty sure she was famous in Europe too.
Wouldn't it be a representative sampling though? Unless users of certain OS'es are more inclined to use such third party clients than other users.
And what evidence do you see to the contrary of the proposition you quoted? The deployment of autonomous vehicles will not contradict anything I wrote.
If anything, the content of the e-mail leaks (that the intelligence report from the other day confirmed to be authentic, although this was also known from verifying DKIM signatures) had a bigger impact.
Any resources? I'd be interested in reading about that.
Can you stop spamming the same story over and over.

Your article is bogus. I can also say people walk and talk more then they text message so therefor text messaging is dead. Secondly, the unified messenger is tried before and failed because these platforms do not like unified messengers.
Privilege-free side-channel attacks on x86 [video]
But that wasn't the point I was trying to make. You should not be judged by not having children. In fact the default "you should have children to be happy/successful/not-be-frowned upon" is arguably the wrong one.
I would imagine, in 15 - 20 years time, when self driving Car is a thing, the need for Urban Housing will drop. You car can be summoned whenever you need and not worried about where to park it as it will find and park itself.
Man photographed wearing jumpers he made that depict the location of photo
It's even easier once you realize that dd is not required to read/write disks:

pv /dev/sdb | gzip -c | ssh name@host "gzip -dc > /dev/sdc"

Not only is this shorter with less cargo cult steps, it also gives a much better `pv` output now that it can determine the size and show a percentage.
There seems to be so much potential in alternative computing technologies. Why is nobody setting out to build one? (with the obvious exception of quantum computing)
What about the people who enjoy working? The dignity of receiving an honest wage for an honest day's work? The satisfaction for providing for their family? For some people, their work is the only thing that keeps them in shape. My father, when he was no longer able to find work, and now after looking for 10 years is too old, literally sits on the couch for 16 hours a day watching television and smoking cigarettes. He would do anything to work.

This thinking on here that we are doing humanity this huge service by automating all their pesky little maniacal jobs away is insane, and it needs to stop. There is more than one world view out there.
So, entertainment with role models.

That is the best description of philosophy I ever heard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory

The value of something like just war theory isn't so much to say the concept is right or wrong, or this historical war was right or wrong, although plenty of people love to derail the discussion to grind their own particular axe on those topics, but the real value is to define the right way to talk about the topic, and that doesn't change much with time.

As a minimal example of a very small corner of the field today, look at the current Catholic dogma where they say the right way to talk about it is WRT the damage an aggressor or proposed victim is causing must be "lasting, grave, and certain". Arguably the order the arguments are discussed implies a certain priority to the issues.

Hopefully I've managed to offend grand op by pointing out that as long as it takes PR to cause a war, then the philosophical subfield of just war theory will be living and growing continuously over time, while also offending great grand op by pointing out that just because you haven't read Saint Augustine on the topic of just war (or possibly anything else) doesn't prove he has nothing of value in 2017. Or my genealogy of posts might be inaccurate, but whatever.
...and?

Is it faster? Is it shorter? Has it fixed bugs? Does it have more functionality? What reason does a user or potential user of this library have to care that it's now written in another language?
France is not just a trial. It's the current working hours law, since 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35-hour_workweek

And it hasn't been a massive success, except that employees mostly like it. But the unemployment level is roughly the same 10 % as it was before 2000, and the last time French government did not have budget deficit is still 1974.
Business values tasks being done on schedule and with minimum friction and noise. I fought the good fight of trying to educate people on the added value of creativity. The most positive response I've ever received was "Look, I am aware that you're correct. But your approach doesn't produce positive and quick results 100% of the time, while everybody else somehow manages to do it" -- and the arguments for technical debt go down the drain in seconds.

Everybody wants to please their direct supervisor now -- and to hell with everything else.

As I mentioned in another comment few levels below your comment (but inside it), the people like us who appreciate creativity are probably ill-suited for employees and have to start chasing own business, as nightmarishly hard that is 99% of the time.
"Solve, or nearly solve, partial differential equations". That's game physics. Most of the effort is to come up with ways to "nearly solve" without having awful stuff happen. There's a long history of awful stuff, going back to when Seamus Blackley botched Trespasser in 1998.

Game physics still tends to go "boink", because with impulse/constraint collisions, everything, including large, heavy objects, bounces instantaneously. Stuff flying apart, though, is rare now; most systems drain the energy out of a system when they detect that happening. It's physically wrong, but looks less awful.

I used to work on this stuff. I solved the "boink" problem for articulated rigid body physics in the 1990s, but couldn't make it work in real time on 100MHz CPUs.
No no no. Its not just a matter of political will. Its a question of the type of busuinees and its individual situation. the whole idea that this can be applied generally is whats wrong. Productivity simply doesent work like that.

If anything is lazy its the idea that poltical view is all that matter.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13318990
This is another nice appreciation of Hentoff: http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/08/nat-hentoff-19252017
What I do is I look at the products I absolutely love. Then I think about if the concept can be applied to any other industry.

Think Uber for... (But seriously, don't do 'the Uber of [anything]'.

My latest side project I was thinking about a product I love and I thought about how I use Buffer for social media management. They have made my life, so much easier! From there I thought about if the concept could be applied to any other industry. I realized the messaging industry had nothing like it! Needless to say, I am not working on 'the Buffer of messaging', but that is where the idea spawned and I refined it from there.
This was only a thought experiment to show that even an absolute massive parallel approach with gazillions of computing entities doesn't really solve NP complete problems. Even if we could use a single water molecule as a simple computing entity, for problem sizes of about a few hundred variables or more we wouldn't have enough water in our whole world.

So it's ultimately hopeless without even going into detail how to use water as a computing medium.

However, for SAT there are practical solutions with heuristics back-tracking for many instances. So don't get worked up too much.