skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.scottishrenewables.com/sectors/renewables-in-num... provides somewhat better number, but yeah I definitely fucked up, not quite sure where I got 85% from.

> That page also says it's been overtaken by wind power.

Which is true now but beware the trap of "installed capacity", as of Q3 2016 Scotland had 1600MW hydro and 5800MW wind installed (difference of 3.6x), but the 2015 production numbers were 5.8TWh hydro and 13.9TWh wind (difference of 2.4).
Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear
Ask HN: Cleaning trusted SSL certificates
After reading about google potentially untrusting symantec certs I was wondering if anyone has a recommend method to cleanup my local trusts?

does a SSL extraordinaire exist that has removed many 'default' trusted certificates on github or otherwise?
The apple store binary format is really horrible when it comes to keeping the size down. Especially if you need to use libraries and whatnot. What it comes down to is this:

1 - The binary format itself isn't very efficient. Compressing it usually yields at least a 50% reduction in final size, often more

2 - Even though .ipa is a zipped format, there's no actual compression on the binary itself because it's encrypted before compression. I have no idea why they do this, I can't perceive any security benefit(Any jailbroken phone can be tooled to output the unencrypted binary. And you can bet anyone trying to reverse engineer your app will be using a jailbroken phone for their work)

Basically, if you're a large company with lots of apps and shared dependencies(Google, Facebook, etc...) doing the "right" thing and writing shared library code across projects ends up bloating your binary size immensely. And since binary size(rather than resources like images) dominate the final app size, you're in trouble if you want to keep app size down.

Source: I work on the iOS app for a music streaming service, despite our best efforts, our app downloadable size is ~35MB(~45MB installed size). Our android counterpart, almost effortlessly has the same app functionality with a 14MB downloadable package(they did some cleaning a while ago and got it down to 10MB at some point). Thing is, if we do proper compression(no binary encryption, single architecture) we end up with a 19MB .ipa file

PS: The compression issue doesn't affect installed size, but I believe the issue here is simply that (1) the binary format they're using is just too damn inefficient by default
So I take it the submitter went looking for dirty Latin poetry after the Pompeii submission yesterday?
It's interesting that not one sentence in the article is from scientists or epidemiologists who published or reviewed the study itself. The scientific evidence that the ban was based on is shockingly weak - a 20 patient, retrospective, observational study of MRI scans that weren't even substantiated by clinical findings in those very same patients in the same study.

The quoted study design has well understood flaws from selection, observation, and publication biases. And until the findings are independently replicated, this can't really be called "science" but rather a "single scientific publication" http://www.pnas.org/content/109/20/7871.abstract.

The economic effects of banning organophosphates based on a single observational study would be undoubtedly horrendous to the third world. The NYT article adds little careful review and seems to simply draw on the "chemicals are ruining the earth" narrative. Taken to its logical conclusion, although popular and on its surface appealing, basing policy simply on a "fear of chemicals" has potential catastrophic implications that would disproportionately harm those in poverty: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984095/
Thank you "Environmental Protection Agency" for erring on the side of moneyed interests instead of public health.
You are right, some patterns (like try-catch) have been made optimizable thanks to TurboFan.

However:

* until ignition is not available by default on Node.js (now only through the --ignition flag, or using current master), a lot of these optimization tricks will stay up to date. Also, companies have a history of moving slowly to newer versions of Node.js.

* even with ignition (I just tested it), using Generators (including async functions) is an optimization killer.
Actually the PBMs are a big villain here. They pocket the difference between the retail price of a drug and the discounts they negotiate with the drug makers. They choose the drugs on their formulary based on this spread.

This one of the reasons why you will see prices for drugs like Insulin going up with each manufacturer raising price in lock-step. The drug makers are not competing to sell the consumer insulin, they are competing to get on the formulary of the PBM.
> Yes, of course. You must not own an electric car.

You may have responded to me instead of someone else. I own a Leaf, I didn't say "whether Tesla is the next Ford or the next Delorean". I work at an organisation that supplies both Tesla & Ford with the toolchains in which they do all their control design. (And Nvidia for that matter). I'm intimately familiar with what these companies are doing today and are capable off. It's amazing to see what they are producing.
Or when they are brushing the teeth

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170328-statistician-proves-...
I'm not sure this is true. The shadow ray pass is used to determine how much light is returned to the pixel. So something like:

* shoot a ray from the pixel

* when the ray hits an object check how much light that point receives

* bounce the ray according to the hit material properties

* repeat the bounces X times and gather how much light the pixel will receive.

Because most bounes are in a random direction it's best to sample a pixel multiple times. And ofcourse more bounces give a more realistic global illumination result.
that's not the same type of thing as inheritance of material property and money. the inhabitability of the earth is an existential priority. what we do with leftover bank account balances when someone dies is not.
>I now buy direct from manufacturer or brick and mortar.

Is this really necessary though? Lots of manufacturers don't sell directly to the public anyway, and more importantly, Amazon is not the only internet retailer out there. There's tons of them. It seems like it's really better, in fact, if Amazon goes belly-up and we get more competition and more strong internet retailers to choose from, instead of having one giant one dominating everything.

Just one anecdote: my (now-ex) wife really liked some kind of sea salt from Sardinia. (Yeah, I know, how different is sea salt from Sardinia from sea salt from any place else?) Anyway, she uses a lot of salt, relatively, and we had moved so she couldn't buy it from her regular little Italian market, so I looked online. Amazon had it, but it was rather expensive per jar, and that was from some 3rd party seller. (This was probably around 3 years ago, before Amazon really went down the tubes.) So I did some Googling and Froogling, and found a website that sold nothing but imported Italian foods, and a lot of it. I bought a couple cases of this salt (both fine and coarse grain) for dirt-cheap prices, less than half the price on Amazon, and much cheaper than she used to get it for locally. She also added in a bunch of other items that were also very cheap because this retailer was the importer and was cutting out middlemen and not having to pay for an expensive storefront. To me, this exemplifies what internet shopping should be like: specialty retailers that cut out unnecessary middlemen, have excellent selection, and don't have all the problems that B&M stores have (location, limited hours, having to travel there, high rents, etc.), and are able to pass these savings to end-users. Amazon, by contrast, seems to exemplify the worst of capitalism: one single company able to take advantage of efficiencies of scale and brand-name recognition in order to capture the majority of the market, not specializing in anything, and providing a mediocre-to-bad experience overall, but no one else being able to compete because the barrier to entry is too high.
The article does a good job of starting to explain the forces, but it's actually even more complicated.

A number of the PBMs are cross invested in pharmacies and insurance companies, and the incentives of 2-3 large pharmacies that control the majority of the market (and how they get paid) is very different than how small pharmacies get paid.

Additionally the way the generic market works vs the branded (patented) meds is completely different. (and the system of how drugs move from patented to generic is _nothing_ like the way patents work in software)

Which is all to say, it's a fascinating space. It's very ripe for innovation.

If you're interested in this kind of thing at Blink we're building a price transparency and payment platform that both routes over and routes around PBMs and gives a unified fair price for everyone in the US.

If you're interested in roughly what the wholesale price is plus a very small markup, you can find it on https://blinkhealth.com

And we're hiring. https://www.blinkhealth.com/careers

Also the re-importing from Canada is a total red herring. As is implied in the term "re-importing" these drugs are made here in the US, there is nothing special about sending them to Canada and bringing them back. There just needs to be a payment platform that allows people to pay the wholesale price with a small markup (vs the "Average Wholesale Price" which is often a 2000-3000% markup over the real wholesale)

Finally one of the challenges with moving to a centrally managed pricing solution like what works so well in Canada and most of Western Europe is right now R&D into pharmaceuticals is largely financed by the opportunity size available in the US market. If you were to just adopt the centralized model tomorrow R&D would grind to a stop, at least for some period of time until we found new ways to finance it.
Lots of negativity in here, but I'll say I really enjoy how incredibly simple Dropbox is and has remained since it launched.

It's so easy to explain how it works to my non-techie parents ("It's just another folder on your computer, except it backs up your data automatically").

I hope Dropbox continues to thrive.
A company with a modest valuation can survive by doing one thing and doing it well.

A company with a very large valuation needs either very large sales figures OR large growth potential. Dropbox is squarely in the second category, which is why they need to keep expanding.
> There is no acknowledgement that "not motivated by money" and "not motivated by more money" are two very different things.

Exactly what I came here to comment. Once you're guaranteed to make no less than $X00,000/year, of course you'd start thinking about the work itself.
One totally practical use case for this is to ensure that none of the virtual machines that you have allocated on your cloud provider are on the same physical hardware. This would be extremely useful for reliability purposes. I wonder how hard it would be to build something like that on top of this library?
How 3 years on Google App Engine feel like
It fascinates me that producing net energy with fusion is actually really easy, relatively speaking. It was figured out in the early 1950s and immediately put to use. What's hard is doing it at less than a yottawatt scale, so that the resulting energy could be used to power a city rather than obliterate it.

I guess it's another example of how it's easier to destroy than to create.

For comparison, controlled fission was performed before the explodey kind, and the first fission electricity was produced only three years after the first fission bomb.
> I'm working my ass of so that I can have more than you have.

why do you want to have more than someone else? that implies that you derive pleasure from the deprivation of others, which is sadistic.

I think you should work so that you can have the things that you want for yourself, not so you can have more than someone else.
Replying to myself, since I can no longer edit what I posted: I'm not advocating the developers of curl rewriting it in Rust! I think that a lot of the debate here is around a few different points, and that we're generally talking past one another. My primary concern was that the initial response seemed to disregard the vulnerabilities that can occur due to unsafe memory management. To the extent that I read people say arguments along the line of "you can only make that criticism if you write a curl replacement yourself", I felt that that was unfair.
Maybe they are famous due to serendipity and luck. I don't believe there is a correlation between long hours and luck.
It's not tax evasion. People comply with the law, they just want it to be as difficult/expensive as possible for the government to continue the program.

>If you don't like the tax policy, leave. It's part of the social contract - find somewhere to live where you agree with the social contract.

lol? This attitude is the antithesis of democracy. In democracies, we say, "If you don't like it, contact your representatives and organize some peaceful, lawful opposition, and you may convince enough people to change it."

And indeed, it appears that's exactly what the people of California did when they didn't like this proposal, and of course, rather than admit defeat, the other side blames a corporation that dared to exercise its rights.

I don't know what it is with HN lately, but a lot of these really vapid, myopic memes have been invading the political threads here. I didn't make it to HN until right after Obama was elected, so maybe this is just how it is when Republicans are in power? The "threat" becomes more credible, resentment becomes more palpable, and it's get taken out on the users on the board?
This struck me as the most outrageous aspect of the story.

I think having a 3rd party host laws behind a paywall is a terrible idea in terms of the public good, but I can at least see that the cost based argument behind it is coherent.

But the judge finding Malmud to be engaged in "commercial" activity and "profiting" without profiting is some Orwellian bs and seems to me to be belie a personal stake in this decision. After all, judges in Georgia have no incentive to see defense lawyers get better/freer access to the annotated case law (and the state prosecutors surely get it for free anyway). I hope Malmud succeeds in appealing.
If America were a democracy, there's a big difference between Republic and Democracy
Thanks—so there's another layer of encryption over the ever changing (Megolm) key that encrypts the room, if I understand this. Looks like I simplified too much.
actually, you'll be dead
In this case, it can be fixed by running this in the developer tools:

getEventListeners(window).wheel[0].remove()
I can't read that article (it thinks I have an ad blocker). Can you summarize the better model they have in mind?
Niche creators can always leave the algorithms behind and work out ad deals on their own. Podcasting is an area where this is how it has always worked, and will continue to work.

Also, I think you need to change your perspective. Ads allowed these niche channels to exist, but these niche channels might not be providing value to the ad networks proportional to their cost. In essence: they're riding the gravy train. They're an inefficiency in the system.

They should work toward becoming valuable, or they should seek alternative forms of funding. Maybe people like you just need to be more open to the value-for-value model. If you like what they are doing, pay them for it.

If you watch an ad on their show but don't interact or otherwise act on it, you're part of the problem. Its like complaining about traffic while you're in your car on the freeway.
No, they really don't have to fix this issue at all. Has Sears fixed their issues? Has Yahoo! fixed their issues? Did Circuit City fix their issues? Is h.h.gregg going to fix their issues?
Money isn't everything, but it sucks being poor. The older I get, I'm finding money is more important. Between the costs of college savings, retirement savings, medical savings, you'd better be paying your high performance employees well. They may like their work (like me), but money still talks.

Regarding the medical savings it's a race to the bottom for employer provided benefits. I no longer have dental insurance at a Fortune 50 company. Medical insurance has increased 3x and now it's essentially a catastrophic plan with $10k max OOP. Far cry from 10 years ago. I put $600/month into HSA for a family of 4. Been doing this for several years and still can't save up the $10k. The damn OOP is now higher than the max HSA contribution.

Whenever I do get a raise, it just goes into another expense for some other benefit that has been cut.

$17k/yr 401k max * 2 people = $34k

$12k/yr edu savings * 2 kids = $24k

$7.2k/yr HSA contribution (that's a fucking car payment).

$26k/yr mortgage

It all adds up.
Remind me of Visual Studio
> When did it become cool to write poorly like Trump?

That's just low. First, I'm dyslexic. Second, I was on my new mobile with a new keyboard. Please refrain from turning HN into redit.
Ask HN: How feasible is a remote job in jr position for a self-learnt developer?
I have been learning Web development with the goal of breaking into the tech scene with a remote job. But I have never considered the practicality of it. Part of the reason for this is the fact that my country is a decade behind in terms of technology, and where I am located doesn't have any job remotely related to Web Dev in a 100 miles radius. The tech jobs in the bigger cities are mostly restricted to people with degrees and deals with mainly older techs. So, remote has always been the only option in my mind. However, now that I feel confident of my knowledge, even the junior remote jobs ask for a minimum 3 years experience. And I guess, reality has started hitting me. I am working in two shit paying menial jobs and part of the reason I gravitated towards learning Web Dev is that I wanted to earn more than I have been earning so that I can save more for college. But, since remote is my only option and in case it isn't feasible, I will have to refactor my plans and start searching for jobs outside the tech industry. That's why I wanted to know whether a remote job is feasible, and if yes, what would you guys advice to secure a remote job. I am 20, plan is to save enough by the time I am 23, so I can attend a college where I want to pursue an academic career in CS.
1.What is your estimate then? Hundreds Dollars? Thousands? 10 Thousands? Surely it might fall into the later two category, since paying a professional speaker to sit and work for 26.4 hours is already over 1000 dollars, if you assume 40$ per hour wage.

2.96GB GDDR5 instances on GCE costs 4166.4 dollars per month. Though it is within affordable range, but definitely not CHEAP. I don't know whether this is powerful or not, but Google used 96 GPUs for their GNMT work. Thus, I don't think I have the confidence to say a 4-GPU machine is all you need, and it will surely cause much more if you go beyond that.
You usually can't get in on the discounted opening price because those favorable prices are in exchange for large investment banks buying enormous blocks of shares (and thus limiting the IPO company's risk that they won't raise enough cash from the IPO), but you can certainly buy the shares from those banks at the market price. If you have $100M+ to invest you'll get lots of preferable pricing deals...
The rest of the time, they were hiking mountains, taking naps, going on walks with friends, or just sitting and thinking. Their creativity and productivity, in other words, were not the result of endless hours of toil. Their towering creative achievements result from modest “working” hours.

If Darwin spent most of his time "hiking mountains... or just sitting and thinking", guess what he was actually doing? Yep, he was studying, and working. Just because he was not hunched over a table or a microscope does not mean he was not studying.
Not sure about you, but my university was very strict with cheaters because of how widespread cheating was. Gaining an extra 10 points on tough exam wasn't worth the risk of expulsion. I suppose that deciding whether to cheat or not is an optimization problem in and of itself. If no one else is cheating, the gains are huge, but if there are a lot of cheaters, it might not end up being worth the risk.

Actually, there never was a time where I felt that cheating was worth it. On the contrary, the amount of time I'd need to prepare a strategy (compile cheat sheet, figure out how to use it, where to sit, etc.) probably exceeded the time I'd take to just study for the exam!

I agree, always following the rules isn't beneficial to society, but I'd argue it's better than the case where no one is following the rules.
There's a concurrent trend towards MOOC programs. Georgia Tech now offers a Masters for only $6,600 - Which degree would you invest in? > http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/07/...
The main problem is that, if they wanted to, it shouldn't take Apple/Microsoft/Google/Amazon too much work to put out a comparable product and offer it for free.

As an anecdote, my girlfriend already cancelled her Dropbox account because iCloud provides what she needs at a much cheaper cost.

Personally, I require Unix support and also use a large portion of the terabyte of space, but I'd bet that the majority of users don't.
Regardless of the century, the credential is not the defining characteristic of science.
An ob-gyn had some stuff to say about it here:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/10/05/hospitals_ch...
The science behind a ban wasn't all that great. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13996137
Also Daring Fireball: http://daringfireball.net/2017/03/the_deck_adieu
Show HN: A simplified weekly calendar to record and share wasted time
UK wants tech firms to build tools to block terrorist content
Being creative is like tending a garden. Ideas grow on their own, and all you can really do is prepare the environment to facilitate this growth. You do this by clearly defining the problem, fertilizing your mind with inspiration, and revisiting the problem periodically to keep it present. From there, you need to relax and let your brain do its thing. Actively thinking/concentrating actually inhibits brain activity in much of your brain to prevent interference, and the brain areas inhibited are usually the ones that make creative jumps. The rational networks of the brain should only be engaged to sanity check/refine creative ideas.
It's to return local DNS records so you resolve to a nearby server.
I've been thinking about this too. Maybe more of a twitch.tv style delivery scheme? When they streamed all of Bob Ross' stuff, that was hugely popular.

So maybe stream it at a time/schedule announced ahead of time, and then give the ability to view any of the previously streamed content. Seems like most of the best of both worlds.
Those are all like 20-30 seconds behind live for some reason. When you watching something while following along on say, Twitter, you're going to get spoilers.

I encounter it while watching hockey constantly.
Hi everyone, Max (the creator) here, I just wanted to note that previously submitted results can be revisited with their unique pages, e.g. https://theslackertracker.com/bsoaztceyfjd/

I’m still trying to address some confusion that might come out of having the cumulative hour amounts shown in the week view, rather than a daily average or percentage of waste for that week as the value shown. I’m likely going to see how it starts to look with real submissions and will adjust accordingly. In addition, still challenged with activity + company name normalization, and general approaches to gamify and make more fun (without sacrificing submission legitimacy).

The idea started from Peter’s line in Office Space, “I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.“