skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Natural gas energy can be transported much more easily than solar or wind.

Yes, but not easier than it is to transport electrons. And solar and wind energy can be converted into electrons and then transported across vast distances using existing infrastructure.
But the energy is fungible. So that if it is purchasing the green energy from elsewhere, it is simply depriving others from that benefit meaning that ultimately is is carbon-based fuels that are used.
Added to which the cheapest solar panels in China are often subjected a tariffs of up to 60%.

The "coal/gas/nuclear funded free markets lobby" (ALEC, etc.) who whine incessantly about hairdresser licensing went awfully quiet about that one.
This is actually largely what we're trying to do at Sonadier.com. The basic idea is that you can build most enterprise CRUD applications with drag-and-drop forms.

While we realized it before starting, we didn't fully grasp how much you need people with "computer literacy" to build these things, for lack of a better term. Just thinking about the schema of the application you need is something a lot of people can't really do yet.

As far as I can tell it's got very little to do software intuitiveness, as I've noticed the same effect on phone calls with prospective customers.

Even as enterprise moves towards managed SaaS platforms, there'll always be a huge place for power-users. Much of the time, even just defining the problem that needs to be solved takes one.
Yeah. As usual Google's strategy is fragmented and erratic.

Angular2 looks solid, but I'm happy with React despite the warts in the ecosystem.
I've settled into a similar pattern and have found it the most sustainable out of all the diets I've tried. I also recommend a few multi day water fasts a year as a sort of 'soft-reset' of your appetite/digestive system. You learn the difference between cravings and hunger and how marvelously tuned your body is for dealing with caloric deficiencies. People get so anxious and scared of hunger when it's no big deal. You're basically asking it to 'garbage collect' to conserve the energy you're burning which it doesn't seem to do normally when food is coming in every few hours.
Why is the function SHStripMneumonic misspelled?
> Solar can be produced anywhere of course.

That’s not a very realistic view of the globe. There are plenty of populous places with only 8-9 hours of total sunlight during winter months, assuming a clear day. Growing up in Vancouver, it wasn’t uncommon to go a week without seeing sunlight...
Thank you. I'm surprised I haven't come across it before. It is certainly memorable enough to stick in my mind... it certainly has now!
I'd hoped the author would talk more about how cobbling an app together from 30 different npm packages is a wholly different experience from using only a few and designing the code to model the problem being solved, rather than being forced into a solution by your dependencies. The distinction is subtle but real. I submit that great software must be designed.
Disclaimer, Mithril core dev here. I'm not as familiar with Hyper.

In Mithril:

The hyperscript function supports Emmet/Zencoding syntax: `m('input.myClass#myId[type=radio]')`

There's a stream library for state management (not an out of the box solution, but a robust building block).

The Mithril router

- supports `path`, `search` and `hash` modes

- supports asynchronous resolution (for lazy module loading)

- parses the current route at mount time and launches the app at that route if possible

The renderer

- has lifecycle hooks (that fire when nodes are created, updated, and removed, before and after the DOM is mutated),

- supports fragments (components can return arrays) and raw HTML nodes (the former with keys support).

- optimizes keyed diff for insertion/deletion of contiguous nodes

- AFAICT Mithril handles the attribute/property dichotomy better

Mithril also comes with a querystring parser and builder.

There are probably a lot of other small things that I didn't notice (and there may as well be errors in my assessment of hyperapp)

Edit: I take back what I said about forms. Either Chrome got their act together or hyperapp is doing something that I don't understand yet... Anyway, the naive app works well: https://flems.io/#0=N4IgTgpgZpDOAWAhArgF1QewHYgFxQEMAbWCAGhF...
That sounds like a way to lose a lot of money. Fracking in the US is heavily leveraged and often running at a loss:

http://wolfstreet.com/2015/07/21/its-happening-debt-is-teari...

...and that's before you take into account the massive cost of shipping it across an ocean.

By contrast Russian gas is already very profitable and shipped through a pre-existing network of pipelines to Italy.

Even if the numbers work now it clearly doesn't take into account the fact that Russia can undercut them forever.

It reeks a little of desperation.
Are you referring to the necessity of supernodes?
The bottleneck is the grid. The Grid has to match the production and demand, and at times that is why CA gives away electricity to AZ and pay for AZ for consuming its electricity. In turn, AZ turns off some of its production.

A tanker with LNG is much more flexible and denser form of energy than photons to electrons.. Once electrons out they need to be consumed asap!
May I provide a view from someone who is aggregating app-specific data from thousands of users a day?

I create software that people enjoy using. Unfortunately, the market isn't very big. Fortunately, they use it every day.

For my existing users to continue getting updates/upgrades, I need to be able to afford to spend time on the product. I cannot spend enough time on the product if it does not make enough revenue. This means (among other things) making sure I lose as few people as possible through the funnel. This is the only reason I aggregate the data: for example, if I can see that 95% of users who complete task X go on to purchase, then I can try to ensure that more users complete task X without it being.

This provides more funding, updates and upgrades. It allows me to keep prices reasonably low (so you are, in fact, getting paid for it).

You may say: instead of charging $40, charge $80 and don't track me!

The commensurate amount of features needed to double pricing, or whatever the case may be, may not be supported by the market. After some point, there are diminishing returns: software does get "done" eventually and only a radical re-imagining can reinvigorate the customer base. But quite often, you will lose a substantial portion of the customer base because they like the old way of doing things.

This is primarily why I allow tracking by websites I use on a daily basis.

Or you might say: Just pick something that makes more money!

I'm currently working on a business model that does this as a business model. Who knows if it'll work :)
which is why we have all this media about fighting robo-Ottomans during the Armenian genocide or protecting Huguenots from Catholic necromancers right?
I don't think amazon has an interest in that, because it will lead governments to make amazons life uneasy, and they are capable of making it very uneasy.
It sounds more like they decided to throw Levandowski under the bus. Whether any of that is true or not, they know that it's already an established fact that Levandowski had the disks with Google information and they can't keep pretending they didn't know. The only reasonable course of action is for them to admit that they knew, but that Levandowski was the sole bad actor, and they didn't want anything to do with the stolen information.
> "Are you trying to tell me that they won't build more windmills..."

The tilting at windmills joke comes to mind :-)

Honestly, first off the article says that it seems that gas is less competitive than renewable, so there are already market incentives in Texas to build windmills.

A lot of the money for windmill power simply ends up in General Electric's (the major US vendor for windmills) pockets.

Also, I think ones energy is best put in doing what one can do to minimize energy consumption using LED lights in place of incandescents, using mass transit instead of one's automobile and working with city council in Dallas and other major Texas cities to encourage more production of mass transit.

Also, doing what one can to turn up air conditioning from 72 to 76 or 78 in Dallas will save substantial amount of carbon-based power generation.

There is also the use of microturbine technology that can be used for trigeneration meaning that water chillers for air-conditioning as well as electric power from natural gas. This is very efficient and if it received the same financial incentives and wind and solar probably much more cost effective.
So basically she got much skills and happened to meet someone who was a well known player in the game industry.

Most people have neither or just the first one.
High Growth Startups: The Studio Model for Building Them
anecdotal datum: A few years ago I lost about 40 pounds (230->190ish) in a little over a year by limiting the amount of food and not caring about the type of food.

steak, sandwiches, cheese, potatoes, all good. salad, bananas, cereal, all good.

I had to make sure to look at the nutritional info. If the food was small but energy dense you have to eat less of it.
It's a vicious feedback loop that arguably does involve Amazon and other global retailers / manufacturing chains - although I wouldn't say they're at fault.

Consumers are locally optimal buyers, we go for the cheapest goods on the market. Over time, international imports have been undercutting America-produced goods. At first, it was American companies that simply outsourced raw materials... then manufacturing, assembly, service centers, and now even R&D. All because consumers were chasing the locally optimal ROI.

Rational consumers were undercutting their employers, which in turn forced their employers to cut labor, wages, or automate. That steadily drives down the purchasing freedom of employees, like a frog in a slowly warming pot of water.

In turn, consumers are even more driven to seek out the cheapest goods, which are still international, and which continue the feedback loop that ultimately undercuts themselves. Eventually, we end up with an economy that cannot distribute wealth among the middle/lower classes due to large labor market inefficiencies (such as the difficulty adults face cross-training into/between knowledge-based fields)... All while the 1% and 0.1% continued building up tremendous wealth, buying a disproportionately loud voice in politics and public opinion.

Amazon and Walmart are centralized manifestations of this issue, but no one person is to blame. This problem has been building for decades as America has refused to publicly invest in itself.

As I see it, we need significant public investment in order to get back on track:

* Infrastructure (water, energy, transportation esp. light rail), creating short-term jobs that improve regional economic competitiveness and reduce consumer debt

* Higher education + adult cross training, restoring an efficient free labor market and voter literacy

* Advanced R&D (incl. but not limited to space+energy), researching and commercializing new fields of industry to replace automated/exported ones

We don't need to raise taxes. Start by cutting back excessive military funding.

For perspective, we just spent ~$17.5 billion/10 years on one ship -
the USS Gerald Ford supercarrier. Its defense ROI is questionable; counter-terror operations and force-projection against lesser states does not warrant a supercarrier (renovated carriers / allied regional airbases are sufficient), and potential threats punching at our level (China, Russia) would employee asymmetric warfare that makes carriers irrelevant (think: smart missile barrage, fast attack submarines, or maybe just propaganda).

$17,500,000,000 could put 523,000 Americans through a 4 year private education or 1,750,000 through public state colleges. This sum is also equivalent to 30 years of fusion research funding, tripling the Seattle Link network, and 8x the the BART expansion to Santa Clara.

Perhaps you have better examples, but these already offer better ROI than a war ship. There's plenty of fat that can be trimmed or reallocated from our $598,000,000,000 / year federal military budget.
Spot on. In Canada I visited a building that was being constructed as an experimental home using very thick walls (12", R35 or thereabouts) using several vertical chambers and reflective mylar for insulation and a solar trap. Mid winter, -20 outside, the house had not been heated at all and a bucket of water was left in one of the rooms, it had not frozen. Body heat would be enough to get it to 10 Celsius or so, solar would easily do the rest.
Nazis are used as all-purpose villains because the evil of their movement is universally recognized, not because of this Thule Society nonsense. It's because nobody likes Nazis.
I'm not an author, but based on my reading of it (and I read the whole thing) it really just depends on polyfills you use with your webpack build. I'd risk saying IE10+
The article is certainly more negative than you're giving it credit for. Its title makes a prediction about the future, but it spends about 3/25 paragraphs explaining why it is making that prediction (where it quotes statistics about the changing landscape of jobs).

The rest of it instead talks about the benefits of being more emotional (nobody would disagree) and complaining about why people don't seem to think it's as important as the author thinks, but without balancing it out with everything else happening in the world that people have to also think about.

This is done after framing the first paragraph in terms of Obama supporting computer science education, so it's clear that the author wants to imply a contrast or opposition to this, in the rest of the article.

There's also a fair amount of implicit bias and weasel wording dotted around the place, like:

- "But the truth is, only a tiny percentage of people will ever end up working in software engineering [..]"
- "It’s also not hard to see that highly educated, mostly male [..]"
- "the information revolution frees us to complement, rather than compete with, the technical competence of computers"

The first and third ones basically "beg the question" of the whole article's thesis - it's stated as an implicit assumption, it's never actually justified.

In fact, technology is also automating away a lot of human service jobs, and there's even ongoing research to replace them with robots that can "act" more emotionally. I think the development of this sort of technology shows that plenty of programmers are emotional and empathetic, and the article makes no mention of these.

So it's not infeasible that we'll see a trend (in the long run) of there being less "care workers" of the sort that the article mentions. I'm not in the business of making predictions though, I don't think I know enough - unlike this article which is too falsely confident of itself.

Nobody disputes that it would be good, if all jobs were done by people that were more emotionally sensitive; however you could say the same thing about technical topics, like knowing how your new laptop or phone actually works.

Finally, my own experience of this topic has been that, without exception, complaints about the supposed lack of emotion in programmers or in industry or whatever, has been from people with personal grudges to hold against particular programmers or particular aspects of more analytical behaviour, and who also implicitly think they are "superior" emotionally.
Worse, someone is using the view (that joins several tables) in a join to get one extra field, which would be a simple single join -- they just didn't bother to check where it came from because 95% of the time that view gets used, and no one questions it. I've seen it happen more than once.
Way overblown headline relative to the filing that 3 long days ago.

I am no fan of Uber but this AP writer is terribly sloppy in his formulations.

> Uber knew fired exec had info at center of Google theft case

Absolutely not what it says in the filing.

All the filing says is Lewendowski tells Travis he has five “disks” of data from google. It could be a backup of his pst files, roll out plans for Orkut, cafeteria menues, we have no idea from the filing. So the filing is very far away from both Uber “admitting” it knew and that this data is the “stolen information” central to this case.

> The filing asserts that Levandowski destroyed the disks containing Google's material not long after Kalanick told him that Uber didn't want the information on them.

So sloppy it’s painful.

This implies than Lewendowski propositioned Travis and said “let’s go build this dirty LIDAR together” and Travis declined. Not supported by the filings!

The incident this refers to was an email thread between Travis and Lewendowski that had two lawyers Cc’d on. This was perfunctory Dislosure that he has some info, and a perfunctory response from Travis saying “don’t bring any info from prior employers.”

If you are going to make a dirty LIDAR you hand off a usb drive on a long walk across the city, not plot in front of your lawyers.

Again, I am no Uber fan, but this is one of the worst pieces of reporting I’ve seen that I can remember. Very misleading article.
So is this a fair characterization of the conversation?

L: I've access to Google's lidar designs if we ever need them.

K: Burn it bro. I don't want that stuff traced to us. I'll still buy you out.

Levandowki ends up using the (already stolen) designs anyway as revealed in the accidental email from the 3rd party vendor.
If I were a CEO and a potential new hire told me he had stolen confidential information, there's no way I'd hire him. Even ignoring lawsuits, I'd be worried that he would turn around and steal my confidential information.
CIG have just released a statement regarding this (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/for...). Pasted below for those who can't or won't visit the previous link:

Ortwin: We have noticed the speculations created by a posting on the website of UK’s Company House with respect to Coutt’s security for our UK Tax Rebate advance, and we would like to provide you with the following insight to help prevent some of the misinformation we have seen.
Our UK companies are entitled to a Government Game tax credit rebate which we earn every month on the Squadron 42 development. These rebates are payable by the UK Government in the fall of the next following year when we file our tax returns. Foundry 42 and its parent company Cloud Imperium Games UK Ltd. have elected to partner with Coutts, a highly regarded, very selective, and specialized UK banking institution, to obtain a regular advance against this rebate, which will allow us to avoid converting unnecessarily other currencies into GBP. We obviously incur a significant part of our expenditures in GBP while our collections are mostly in USD and EUR. Given today's low interest rates versus the ongoing and uncertain currency fluctuations, this is simply a smart money management move, which we implemented upon recommendation of our financial advisors.
The collateral granted in connection with this discounting loan is absolutely standard and pertains to our UK operation only, which develops Squadron 42. As a careful review of the security will show and contrary to some irresponsible and misleading reports, the collateral specifically excludes “Star Citizen.” The UK Government rebate entitlement, which is audited and certified by our outside auditors on a quarterly basis, is the prime collateral. Per standard procedure in banking, our UK companies of course stand behind the loan and guarantee repayment which, however, given the reliability of the discounted asset (a UK Government payment) is a formality and nothing else. This security does not affect our UK companies’ ownership and control of their assets. Obviously, the UK Government will not default on its rebate obligations which will be used for repayment, and even then the UK companies have ample assets to repay the loan, even in such an eventuality which is of course unthinkable.
This should clarify the matter. Thank you.
I've known people who have left groups not as intensely controlling as this, but very controlling. There is typically a very long period where they aren't directly controlled by the group, but are very much still "engaged" in the sense that their interests still intersect quite a bit with the group. (Wanting to spread warnings, rescue people they know, etc.)

I'm sure there's a psychological model for this, but I think that's why there's so many "ex-XYZ" groups. Leaving is both abrupt and lengthy. Especially so, I imagine, for a group so totally psychologically consuming.
Ask HN: Is there a Market for low-spec laptops with long battery life?
I could imagine there would be a market for that (maybe there's even already supply, but I don't know of any machines marketed as such)
Maybe chromebooks, but they're quite restricted machines out of the box.
I'm asking because I'm surprised how long my "new" used laptop (a Fujitsu lifebook) lasts me - with moderately heavy usage it's around 8 hours.
And I could even add a second battery, damn.
But does anyone know of new, comparable laptops?
I won't buy one in the foreseeable future, but I'd be interested if there's anything viable in case this one ever breaks.
Also Europe is trying to reduce its dependence on the russian natural gas, so they are building LNG terminals all over.

LNG tankers are freaking scary though, they are like mini-nukes, approaching 1 megaton equivalent.
Did you by chance see the paper a year back or so outlining that memory errors are more likely to occur near page boundaries? The author's premise was that a lot of 'cosmic rays' are just manufacturing flaws.
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Texas is investing billions into new voltage lines---many of which are designed to pull power from west & coastal Texas power to central & near-East Texas. (This leaves East Texas power generation to East Texas.)
> "The filing asserts that Levandowski destroyed the disks containing Google's material not long after Kalanick told him that Uber didn't want the information on them."

A person that takes a trove of proprietary information like that is unlikely to just destroy it. My suspicion is that he'd keep it for reference until it became a liability.
http://wolfenstein.wikia.com/wiki/Thule_Medallion
Reminds me of:

Sci-Hub As Necessary, Effective Civil Disobedience

http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/02/sci-hub-as-necessary-effect...
Norway sells a lot of oil. As a country owning a large airline is good diversification?
Well, if there's a bright side it's that the good retail jobs are long gone. I had friends whose parents made decent livings selling suits or appliances at Sears and JCPenny. You used to make 40k/year as an assistant manager at KMart. Now it's almost impossible to make $10/hr in retail. There are no benefits or even full-time hours. And the only stores hiring work you like a dog with two people per shift like Dollar General. You have to stock, clean up, and play cashier.
...was hoping for top notch pen recommendations...
Not interested, sorry.
Or "screwed".

It's pretty likely that the literature describing the plan mentions what happens when they can't buy renewable power.