skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All consumer level electricity supply is classified as a utility in the U.S.. Would you say that electricity transmission and generation have "stagnated"?

That's a pretty bad comparison, though, because the transmission of electricity is as commoditized as possible (given that the electricity gets somewhere, the only thing the consumer cares about is price - there's no such thing as "fast" electricity). So what does "stagnation" on energy transmission even mean? There's no innovation - at least, not that the end consumer would ever know or care about - which is the textbook characteristic of a fungible commodity.

The production is not fungible (see: clean energy production vs. dirty), but that's the part that's also somewhat competitive. For example, in New York City, Con Edison has a monopoly on the infrastructure[0], but you can purchase your electricity either though Con Edison or through an ESCO, which can include clean energy providers.

As a general trend, municipalities which decouple the generation from the transmission and allow competition between companies that generate electricity do tend to have more clean-energy options than those which monopolize both the transmission and the generation.

[0] A few parts are serviced by another provider instead of Con Edison, but basically any given household is serviced by only one power company
Isaac Asimov was inspired to write "The Foundation" series after reading "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". He borrowed Constantines strategic use of Christian ideology to thwart his enemies by applying the ritualistic methods of religion to protect science in a fictional universe 50k years into the future. If you have the time, read Decline and Fall and then "The Foundation" series.
Latency is often better than Cable ISPs and DSL (even with VDSL2 or Fastpath) on a WISP, and can easily compete with Fiber in terms of latency (wireless has less latency than optical glass), but where it falls down is in suburbia, where there isn't enough customer density to justify small cells and pole attachment costs don't allow you to feasibly put up nodes to blanket the neighborhood.

Clearwire ran into many of these same issues, but they were able to operate at two orders of magnitude more power than most WISPs can (1 watt vs 150 watts) and had way more bandwidth around 2Ghz to work with, all of which was pristine.
So surely then, the simplest answer is that those miracles did not happen and god is not real?
He's asking about the training dog joke, not the American hell vs Russian hell joke.
There rules are really simple - allow for adaptive streaming at lower bit rates - something that every single video provider has been doing for over 20 years since the advent of RealAudio in the mid 90s.
Yeah. Changing employment is one of the more important decisions in life, there should be a compulsory waiting period.
I think you mean software consulting but Expert360 is a good example for other types of consulting.
> However it also looks incredibly rude and zoned out, but if I'm not doing it, I'll probably focus on the visual details of the person talking and my mind will wander to some random topic that comes to mind. Anyone have any tricks to help them either not look rude, or to concentrate on some audio without wandering off during some topic?

Work remotely :). Shit like this is why I transitioned out of the modern office and work 100% remotely. You could try somehow concealing what you're writing and look up every once in a while to look like you're taking notes. You're spot on that the visual details are a distraction. I concentrate better when I look at something boring, like a piece of paper. Perhaps this is why I find trying to take notes on a computer an exercise in futility.

A bit off topic, but if you care more about the optics of meetings rather than getting something out of it, here are a few "tips" [1]

* Translate % metrics into fractions and vice versa. Honestly, there are quite a few people who understand 1 in 4 better than 25%

* Tell everyone to "take a step back". This is genuinely useful when people start chiming in with comments or questions that should be taken offline. For bonus points, once you silenced the free-flowing, stream-of-consciousness that the meeting has devolved into, follow up with "What problem are we trying to solve here? BAM, you're the smart guy asking the "important" questions here.

* Ask "Will this scale", for everything. Especially if you know damn well that it's not appropriate to ask. For example, during a standup when Steve says "I just wrote a Chef script that leverages Vagrant and automates the provisioning of a dev environment, which..." cur him off and say "Aahhh, but will this scale?" Steve will be dumbfounded because he thought the whole point of doing this was to scale onboarding and say "he'll have to get back to you on that" while "you'll look smart".

* Repeat the last smart thing the someone said, but very very slowly. People will look back on the meeting and mistakenly attribute the intelligent statement to you.

These aren't jokes. This shit works. After reading "The Undoing Project" (a fantastic, yet depressing read about the weaknesses and limitations about how the human mind works, authored by Michael Lewis who also wrote Moneyball and The Big Short), I understand, somewhat, why these "tips" work.

[1] Shamelessly taken from https://medium.com/conquering-corporate-america/10-tricks-to...
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Honestly - looking at how many VC funds actually make good returns - I would say often isn't accurate. Remember that raising a series A is associated with many more failed companies than successful. I think there are far better signals for the core fundamental skills of a business.
I was not politically aware, but I was technically alive during both administrations.

I remember my parents as deeply unhappy about world affairs, and now i know why.
It's so refreshing to hear an adult voice describe Christianity in a historical context instead of one that assumes that the supernatural is real and a given. The historical narrative is a million times more plausible than conception without sperm or consent.
I can't speak for the most rural areas. But when I visit smaller cities - populations around 100K, usually I see people on all four major carries. Going on the outskirts usually it's just Verizon and AT&T.
Young friend of my dad's is a school teacher and spends every summer exploring Europe. He was in Kiev and everybody told him to attend the Opera. He was leaving the Opera, rounded a corner and knocked a girl flat on her ass.

Helping her up he saw she was model gorgeous so he swallowed hard and insisted taking her out to dinner the next night to apologize and she accepted. Turns out she was a travel guide. He ended spending the rest of the summer there and by the time he left he was engaged.

Had a dinner with them a while back and they wanted my help building a website so they could start a business giving guided tours to Americans each summer. But the war started and I never heard back from them.
I understand. But understand that from their perspective, as a business deciding whether or not to stay in a particular market, it's also not their problem. They're going to act in their own interest; if the incentives are aligned as they are, the resulting behaviors shouldn't be surprising. Whether they should be condemned or whatnot is perhaps something interested people could debate, but interested they are not.

And, with a $2.2m settlement, the incentives are still solidly weighted towards behavior like this.
FYI Tab Bars are now recommended by Google for Android as well http://www.androidauthority.com/bottom-navigation-material-d... There is a lot of data that shows hamburger menus create big discoverability issues and Google highly discourages uses them now.

So if anything the general layout of an iOS app would meet the latest Android Design Guidelines quite well. There may be certain "iOSy" things left like very blurry backgrounds but overall there's little reason to have a different UI layout across platforms at this point.
Yuri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job (1984)
I love this quote!
Reading both links I have no doubt that both Democrats and Republicans wasted all their good jokes on their political platforms.
Newly minted unicorns (2016)
Timeless app – Authenticity as the new product design standard
The Russian guy never gave his dog anything. And yet, his methods were so tough and efficient that he taught the dog to speak and beg in human language.

Could also contain a nod to the patience and unending hope of the Russians under their "stingy" government but that's likely too deep and contradicting their infinite cynicism and complete lack of faith ;)
Curious what your goal is with this comment? Because you seem to be implying that that's a relevant question. Occam's Razor is a useful heuristic, but hardly lays claim to truth. Classical physics is, after all, simpler than quantum physics. Reality is far more complicated.
But you are also supporting the invasive practices by giving the manufacturers your money.
If you are a startup reporter I think you can get signal from customers/users and you should be writing about features/product improvements instead of funding rounds.
Cold War humor was an odd beast. I came across this book in my father's collection a while back:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3536429-no-laughing-matte...

It's a hoot.
Great engineering. Instagram always runs snappy and also with low bandwidth (>1Mbit/s). Meanwhile Snapchat does not even know how to download first clicked story video first.
A now defunct company in Australia "Sous Vide at Home" actually sold a PID controller that converted a basic rice cooker - it won't work with a fancy one - into a rough temp controlled water bath.

I have one. It actually works pretty well for a lot of things. The temp swing is a bit poor compared to other machines, about 2 degrees. But for the $120 I paid for it, it's pretty great.
Makes me wonder, what jokes is the CIA not declassifying?

Yes, this is a call for more Russian jokes.
How do you explain all the situations where companies raise money and no/very little value has been created?
Ahh thanks for the clarification. Your logic makes a lot of sense. I believe there was a study that showed pesticides may cause cancer (it was probably done in mice or something) from a long time ago but this is just the top of my head so I don't know if there's any relation to fruit/veggie consumption.
Lessons from Real-Time Programming class
emplacement doesn't handle lifetime management; the vector itself does this, whether you emplace or push.

push_back with a stack object will copy the object, yes. Emplace_back with a stack object will also, they are not much different. But if you emplace by creating the object inside the emplace call itself, then there is no copy.

see the examples here:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector/emplace_ba...
All I know, and what I think he's saying is that if I were to tell my friends and family that I grew that (which I don't) they would all redicule and/ore disown me.

And a lot of people I know would be in the same boat. Is everyone like that no of course not, but I'd venture to say a significant portion of people are(not necessarily majority, but a lot)
If we had a giant, breathless discussion about every batshit house Bill published on congress.gov, this site would consist of nothing but that. This bill's sponsor is a 34-year-old first term Congressperson from the 15th most conservative Congressional district in the United States. It's not going anywhere.
Well, I guess that narrows down the metro area where I live....

But AT&T seems to be being more aggressive about their Rollout between DSL (slowly dying), and their newer fiber offerings.

https://m.att.com/shopmobile/internet/gigapower/coverage-map...
How is this "surely" the simplest answer? And if it is, since when is the simplest answer the true one?
Remember: the historical may not be accurate because history is easy to influence.
House Passes E-mail Privacy Act
It would have been a nightmare for Einstein. He was a scientist, lover, and musician at heart. He even, while not officially rebuking Israel, was very critical of it. The right wing ideology and cultural/racial monopoly/supremacy, especially.
I think the main issue is that since the Android guidelines have changed so many times in a short period of time, it makes it very confusing to follow the latest ones. Add on top of that even Google's own apps fail at following some of the most established Material Design guidelines, it is very difficult to have proper examples to look at when trying to design an Android app.
>Women do in fact make less than men.

If they do then why don't employers hire women only since it's cheaper?

Here, have some reading material:

https://www.wsj.com/article_email/the-wage-gap-myth-that-won...

http://time.com/3222543/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism/

Also, check out Factual Feminist on youtube.
So you think the broadband infrastructure should be nationalized, but not treated as a utility? That seems inconsistent.

Anyway, I think Andreessen's argument is greatly exaggerated. 20 years ago I had ISDN at 128kb, if memory serves; now I have a cable modem that bursts to something like 90Mb. That's a CAGR of 39%, or a factor of 2.7 every 3 years. Give me gigabit fiber and I'll be happy as a clam for years to come. (I don't expect my cable speed to increase significantly from this point either; that 39% CAGR is not going to be maintained.)
Sci-hub link for the paywalled paper : http://sci-hub.cc/10.1038/nn.4490
They were known as PetSets beforehand.
I think you're definitely on to something.
Didn't we essentially do that with several companies, including GM?
Totally fine to need a lot of money. Actually there are a lot of fintech/alternative lending companies where debt fundraising is a big milestone because debt/capital is core to the product. This is relatively rare though.
Auber Instruments has been selling these for about 10 years now. I can only assume the prices have come down steeply; I bought mine (including the thermocouples) for around that much in 2007 (I think?), but that's now the price point for a circulator that's about as capable as the PolyScience Pro that I replaced the Auber with.
I don't think Facebook backing Parse is relevant. React Native was designed by Facebook, so I'm assuming they understood the design choices of the mobile ecosystem at the time.

Parse was an acquisition by Facebook that didn't end up working out.
that's also why 1080i effective resolution is more than simply 540 lines of resolution (1080i for a sitcom has a higher effective resolution than 1080i watching a a sporting even, which is also why I think ESPN chose to transmit it 720p, at least for some time, as opposed to 1080i, but could be wrong about that)
It doesn't seem that out of control, higher than most western nations but still no where near a lot of African countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_HIV/AIDS_...

From the map it looks like Russia may have lowered the average in their behalf.
Uber are leaving Taiwan on the 10th February
If anyone wants me to test anything in particular, I've got that RC on my laptop - although the setup for 2017 is much nicer than anything that came before.
Inserting jokes is not that easy. A joke needs to be told in person, create laughs and get retold, go viral.

Similarly there's no reliable formula for viral videos etc.

And, the Russians were pissed enough and cynical enough and often drunk enough to get pleasure from creating their own. Laughing at the cruel unjust absurdity of their Situation was some of the last bit of power they had to form their narrative.
It's not that easy, and not just one field.

DEX uses a method table, listing every method with an ID, and using in the rest of the file only that ID to refer to it.

This ID is limited to 2 bytes.

Obviously, thats an issue, but short of using varint or straightaway uint32 there's few alternatives. And those use either more CPU or memory.
Like a lot of other tech-obsessed people, I jumped on the Apple Watch bandwagon when it hit the market, having not worn a watch since my teen years. After about 6 months, I ditched it due to it being a bit useless at actually telling the time (display didn't always show if I lifted my wrist whilst lying down, terrible battery etc.).

I did however quite like the idea of having a watch again.

On a trip to Japan, I purchased a nice mid-range JDM automatic Seiko, which I now have to say is just about my favourite bit of personal tech. It's beautifully built to such incredibly tight tolerances, looks great, and the underlying mechanism is just awesome (as shown by the OP). It's not that accurate (gains about 40s a day), but I can live with it.

I do wonder how much the smart watch (r)evolution has actually lifted the entire market, and given other people like me a reason to revisit some of the more traditional but still highly functional watch tech.
Might be an opportunity for you to file your first FOIA request!
Transportation.

Half of the energy used every day, worldwide, is used on transportation (cars, trains etc.). But is this energy well spent? I have seen first-hand, and so have you, that people spend their mornings unhappily commuting to work, school etc.

This needs to be changed, and given how fast technology has been advancing in recent years - change is coming sooner rather than later when it comes to transportation.

Great question by the way, have a look through YC's RFC list.
https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#vrar
I'm trying to reduce the hostility of my posts. What parts of this do you feel was hostile?

Edit: We've hit the end of the reply chain. I see your point about both the opening and closing sentences. Is there any way to say the first one without coming off as hostile? My goal/point was trying to demonstrate how patently wrong the earlier statements were.
Based on the headline I thought this was going to be about Quakers - you can map current Western elite beliefs onto Quakers fairly straightforwardly
I wish route-finding apps (Google Maps, Waze, etc.) more heavily penalized left turns and aggressive/risky maneuvers in their route-costing algorithms, if they do at all.

Waze in particular is frustrating, as it aggressively routes you down side streets with the intent of saving you time, but following its route always seems to result in trying to turn left across two lanes of fast traffic (or pull straight through four lanes) with no traffic signal a minute or two later.
I can't speak to the video processing (although with modern neural networks it seems it would be more than doable), but speaking from experience, brute forcing a 32-bit PRNG takes substantially less compute power than you might think...
I don't use 10x as much bandwidth every 3yrs either. I don't use 3x. I don't come anywhere near my "unlimited cap", nor do I use anywhere near my 80mbps limit, except the occasional download (from a very well-connected source).

Consumers at home use bandwidth for exactly one thing: video. I can only watch so much video (just as I can only shit so much).

And the cable that comes into my home - like the sewer line - is 30 years old, and has never been upgraded.
That was my assessment as well. Even worse for commuter vehicles because of the various property laws and regional egress requirements.
> So surely then, the simplest answer is that those miracles did not happen and god is not real?

The simplest answer is not guaranteed to be the correct answer.

I'm not sure why you are attempting to use Occam's Razor on a person's belief in God and it has the caveat of "usually". 2008 happened because most people accepted the simplest answer, for instance. Simple answers frequently fail in complex situations involving human interaction and a simple acknowledgement that the Bible was written by fallible men who may have misunderstood a few key details and the miracles were metaphorical rather than actual is an equally simple answer.

God isn't about who wrote the right book or got the details perfect, it is about knowing that at the end of the day you should be a good person who loves your fellow man. We will all be judged in the end, even atheists admit as much if they thought through what happens after they die (by their fellow men, if nothing else).
What Bible have you been reading? Many times throughout, people's names were changed to indicate change.
"And there came a voice saying, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?” And from that time, Saul was changed to Paul and become a real believer and a worker in the church"
Given the source of this release, I am incredulous, and suspect that the internal disagreements referenced were more akin to bikeshedding or perhaps just entirely fabricated for the purpose of political ax-grinding.
I commend your desire to improve your posts. That's something that's always on my mind as well.

From my unsolicited, third-party perspective, two things jump out at me.

- You could do without the first sentence entirely.

- The insinuation that the parent is possibly a shill (an Uber employee)

The rest of it is fairly neutral.
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Like any milestone, it's possible to get to milestone X but fail to get to milestone X+1.
> The fact that big money is being funneled into the idea makes it more plausible that ever.

Big money has been funneled into a number of pipe dreams before, it didn't make them practical.
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Beautiful interactive exhibit of endangered species
I agree with you on the amount of technical knowledge that's needed. I guess routers/home internet security might be ready for some shakeup if someone comes up with a layman-ready interface while being secure.

But, the point of having a firewall is that you can find tune the outgoing IP addresses. Sure, it'll take some time to initially allow all IP addresses for a specific devices, but it shouldn't be undoable. There are lists out there which specify which service owns which IP.

The sole point of a good firewall _is_ that it can only access Netflix and not any unwanted servers.
> This is incorrect; even basic economic theories of risk/investment account for uncertainty.

> A key concept in economics is that people are economically rewarded for investing the value they've created (as opposed to consuming it all), as compensation for taking on the risk involved in investment. Or to put it another way: part of the returns people get from investing is economic compensation for the risk involved in investing (as opposed to spending the money immediately, which entails no risk of losing that money).

So you view insider trading as an acceptable behavior accounted for in unrestricted capitalism?

If not, you misunderstood my meaning.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13582933
How are fines that are as little as this supposed to deter future companies from sketchy collection practices? One can only assume they made more than $3.7M selling illegally collected data.

There's no incentive for companies to do better and not be shady. It pays to roll the dice and see if you get caught. If you do just say sorry and pay a small fine.
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