skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a secondary marketplace of "green energy futures".

edit: Going from memory... The fine print on your electric bill in Texas says something like: "If we, the electricity provider, don't have enough renewable energy to meet your current need, we promise to offset the amount of non-renewable energy we provide to you now with a future purchase of the same amount of renewable energy from an electricity generator." In other words, you get the electricity today, they get the money today, but they have to buy more renewable energy in the future.
Or Google for that matter. My search is pretty much exclusively Google in the same way my shopping is almost all Amazon.
>The doctor wanted to prescribe an appetite enhancing drug but my father explained he can not simply gain weight by eating more. It's as if his digestive system is already at a maximum threshold.

Well, actually he can. It's not 100% just calories in/calories out, but it's very much that. If he eats potato chips and fries and lard every day he WILL gain weight.
Maybe. There are some settings related to google maps and driving mode but frankly... I stopped looking. If it's there and half hours here and there of going through menus didn't make it I consider it broken through bad UI.
One thing that still makes me wonder, is what's the structure behind the rise a separate silos (amazon = online) that depletes energy from other silos (physical stores) to then .. reimplement them because they were useful.

This wave/backwave is so strange to me.
TFA actually talks about possitive experiments with monkeys.
Yeah, I only hang out with developers, engineers, and designers, most of whom game so it's all pretty much top of the line.

I think it would because everyone wants the options to run all day not plugged in, even if they don't.

As a business guy, I've got to think that the big companies wouldn't make these if they weren't big sellers?
Also while and iPad or surface can do what we need, most other people wouldn't feel the difference. I think it might be more of a psychological reason that they think they need a laptop? Haven't really done any market research, so just a guess.
Wonder if anyone else who reads this has a spouse/SO that does something non-technical...
I don't really have any insights into marketing. I'd say that's what I struggle with the most. I was able to cheat a bit by having a bit of a following already via other projects I've been part of. Expanding out of that circle has been pretty hard.
While I disagree with "acceptable", traditionally wars have been the one socially agreeable way of getting rid of excess (male) population.

The economic repercussions of increased local manufacturing (you don't outsource weapons manufacturing to your enemies) combined with increased demand for workforce are pretty well understood.

Which also kind of explains why right-wingers tend to be disproportionally warmongers. War's good for business, after all.
I worry about hyperthreading hurting worst-case latency (since a thread might be assigned to run on a virtual core which does not work as fast as expected).
Uber can't make government irrelevant.
UK Readers may find this page interesting giving info on our energy sources. I didn't realise we use less energy now than we did in 1998.
http://visual.ons.gov.uk/uk-energy-how-much-what-type-and-wh...
Deep in my comment history I called Kalanick shady many times before all these headlines...
Totally side question - are you Russian by nature and language?

If you are, I'm wondering if you ever feel limited by English as a language. Do you feel like you have bigger, better ideas in Russian?
Energy intensity (watts per dollar of economic activity) is leveling off and decreasing in developed economies such as the US, China, and Europe, and I think also South America. I don't know about India and Africa. But the days of exponential increases in power needs have passed, I'm pretty sure.

And carbon intensity -- tons of CO2 per economic activity -- should show an even steeper decline, as energy generation becomes less CO2-intensive. We're going in the right direction, and it would be great to go there faster!
I listen closely to my body, my parents and my doctor in roughly that order.

Old knowledge is better than new when it comes to health - statistically too it has "survived" longer without being debunked.

Forget fads and realize there are always economic incentives at play to promote information on health.

Excessive attention to health could be called stress, which itself is horribly bad for health.
> So how was I supposed to grade that?

Tell them they're required to include equivalence markers (⇔) and implication markers (⇒) in their proofs. The arrows make it obvious when the proof is correct and when it's wrong.
Why I stopped speed-typing with abbreviations
True, but if so that's still extremely convenient.

Edit: Pardon my cynicism - I'm just a bit suspicious with things like this :-)
Index funds mean we all own a lot of amzn.
Not only does being around objective machines all day long not make us more objective, I think it has the opposite effect.

Specifically, programmers like to perceive themselves as being objective and logical. This opens a giant blind spot toward the biases that we do have. The resulting cognitive dissonance allows all kinds of irrational beliefs to fester.

I used to think that the most wonderful thing about working in engineering was that engineering organizations are meritocracies. Then I realized that a organization that genuinely believes itself to be a meritocracy while being rife with nepotism is actually much worse than an organization where cronyism happens out in the open!
Show HN: RemotePassword – No more hardcoding passwords in scripts
The idea behind this is pretty simple and it was developed to solve the following scenario:

* I have a RPi with an encrypted drive attached (which is mounted on boot) where all my backups are synced (and from there rsynced to a remote location).

* If both RPi & HDD are stolen then they will have access to the data as the password is hardcoded.

* To solve this, GPG encrypt the password and upload it. Use the script to pass it as a subcommand to the mount command. A simple example with mysqldump would be:

mysqldump -ubackup -p$(rpass.sh "MySQL") > /tmp/backup.sql

* If the device is stolen, disable the GPG password on the website and your data is safe.

I have a few things on the roadmap but wanted to get a feel if this is something people would use before spending more time on it (it's currently only doing what I initially planned for it to do).

URL: https://www.remotepassword.com/
Thing is, we're not "hungry or the time".

Developing world kids are. We just have cravings -- and we eat much more than recommended for our age/height/etc.
SQL is for people whose problem domain is so simple that they don't need to do things such as, I dunno, compose queries.
For modules based on crystalline silicon cells, which have ~95% market share, the only rare element they presently use is silver. Silver is a component of screen-printed pastes used to form electrical contacts on cells. Silver can be replaced by base metals such as aluminum, copper, nickel, tin, and combinations thereof. So far most manufacturers find that the simplicity of processes using screen printed silver pastes outweighs the high material cost of silver. But that's an economic trade-off rather than a hard technical limit.

Beware of silver bulls proclaiming that silver consumption will "inevitably" grow alongside PV manufacturing volume. I think that the transition away from silver will be more like a ratchet than a floating level. If silver prices rise enough to spur high volume PV manufacturers to implement more complex metallization schemes using base metals, they're not going to switch back to silver pastes even after silver prices fall again.
I think it depends a lot on the kind of app you're building. Many of these tools start to shine for larger and more complicated projects that are being developed by many engineers over a long period of time. The web community is pretty large, so there's constant competition over different ideas and approaches. For most tools and libraries, I usually read through the docs when I hear about it and create a mental index that it exists, in case I ever need to solve a problem for which it would be a good fit.

I'll note that plenty of these tools and libraries have been around longer than two years. If I remember correctly, Webpack came out in 2012 and React in 2013. I point out these two projects because they caused a fundamental shift in the way I approached web development, and neither is looking like it'll be going away soon.

My suggestion would be to try out create-react-app [0]. There's still some stumbling points, but it does a good job of showcases the general direction many people in the webdev development community have moved towards. It hides all the build stuff into a black box. As you become more comfortable with the ecosystem and the need arises, you can eject and access all these tools directly.

I totally agree that the webdev community should strive to do a better job at explaining the purpose of all these tools, but I don't think this problem is limited to them in the slightest. In fact, I can assure you I feel the exact same way you do when I look at many of these cloud / devops / server / backend tools.

Do I want chef, puppet, or ansible? Oh, but you need better dynamic configuration management and service discovery, so be sure to pick up consul or etcd. Remember KVM, jails, and vagrant? All those are dead, containers are the new hotness, say hello to Docker. If you wanna be web scale you'll really need Kubernetes, cuz you wanna be like Google, right? But also check out Deis or Flynn, so you can build your own cloud in the cloud. There's a few other HashiCorp products with nice-looking sites, but I don't even understand the problems they solve well enough to even try poking fun at em. Let's not forget databases! Remember MySQL? It cloned itself and changed its name to Maria. But it turns out that it totally sucks and everyone is using PostgreSQL. Those won't work if you're trying to be web scale, turns out RDBMs are a thing of the past, the future is all about NoSQL. Try out Mongo, it's so easy to use! But be sure to also check out Cassandra, CouchDB, and RethinkDB. They're all NoSQL, but different, but still the same [1]. If you're really set on being like Google, then CockroachDB is the only serious choice anyway. Is anything going slow? You'll have to add some caching with redis or memcached. It's time to jump on the real-time train too, so you'll need some pubsub magic, luckily you can use kafka, rabbitmq, or redis. I'll stop now, since I think this is already way too long. However, I'll note I didn't even mention big data, analytics, or monitoring.

[0] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app

[1] http://imgur.com/QXLL0XJ
Thanks for such a comprehensive follow-up. It's true that it has been a while, and it really does sound like you've addressed nearly all of the issues I had. (btw, the undocumented file was host.json, which it appears may be better documented now)
A lot of us worked retail jobs when we were younger?
Somewhere I still have an X.com plastic credit card.
CR reduces inflammation through the mTor pathway. And a lot(if not all) of the benefits of CR are seen with protein restriction or intermittent fasting(which both don't modify total caloric intake) because they both act on the same receptor.

So CR isn't about eating too much food (though many of us are) it's about certain biological pathways that get activated during famine that prioritize longevity over other things like procreation.
Ah. So here we could have a change of laws, I guess, to put a stop to the ratchet?
American textbook whitewashed versions of King and Gandhi, perhaps. It's convenient for the ruling class to have peaceful (and ineffectual) forms of 'resistance' lauded over other means.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/riot-language-unhear...

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mahatmagan100677...

http://www.naturalnews.com/038372_Gandhi_nonviolence_right_t...

etc
I think you mean they decided to throw Levandowski under the self-driving truck.
> but I prefer to write raw SQL for all queries.

If you're doing this you're missing out on the biggest advantage of the ORM, which is that it allows you to compose queries.

Using the Q objects, query expressions, and custom Queryset objects, you can filter objects by pretty much every imaginable criteria out there. This would be horrendously difficult and error-prone writing plain SQL.

The Django ORM, despite having limitations if you want to run analytics (and that's really a use case for with plain SQL excels), generally writes out exactly the same SQL I'd write by hand.
The contents of a persons heart are known only to them and fundamentally unknowable by anyone else barring some scientific breakthrough, so they cannot and should not be subject to sanction. The words that come out of their mouth, on the other hand, are discernable.

You say the correct way to read your comment is as a criticism of the rhetorical support for violence in the parent, but the parent comment in question treats of violent opposition to Nazism, an inherently violent ideology, which you seem to be overlooking.

Allow me to illustrate how this looks from where I'm sitting:

Abel: Nazism is good! I support putting [people I dislike] into camps and killing them.
Baker: I find Abel's views repugnant and threatening to me, and if he expresses them in my presence I will punch him.
Charlie: Baker is terribly violent!

Please explain to me why you find the idea of violent opposition to Nazism 'chilling' but don't have anything to say about Nazism itself. It seems like a strange double standard.
Just partition work and make your team members experts in their own areas, while requiring that they explain what they do and why, and have them review each other's PRs. That's how I run things. I don't know where the author of this article works, but we can't afford to "like seriously slow down". I'd rather figure out a way for us to further speed up without working any harder. Loose partitioning is one thing that helps with that.
Most people have realized this - either explicitly or intuitively - over the last 10 years.

Those cheap android phones and lower-end Windows laptops are so cheap because they are subsidized from the revenue they bring in via data collection and selling.

Its like a privacy 101 realization...
Does sci hub offer a dump of all there papers on a torrent site?
It's fine to write it that way as long as you justify that the steps are equivalent and thereby showing you know what you are doing. If you don't write something like 'by equivalence' then the assumption should be that you don't know what you are doing. Or, when there comes a time where there is actually a proof or step of a proof where there is no equivalence, mark it wrong. Don't patronize your students but do write better problems, perhaps.
> and forcibly move millions of people to the other side of it?Somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of the population seem heartily in favor of this idea.

Yeah, only a true Nazi would deport millions of people. If someone deports millions of illegal immigrants they must be punched as they are Nazis. Can't believe Obama was a secret Nazi all along :'(, Alex Jones was warning us all along.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/...
In Europe one big reason for this is that Germany is now a very large producer of electricity from wind energy and several of Germany's neighbors have old and unstable grid infra. This causes all kinds of problem, especially in the former East German part of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.

Those regions still have a large chunk of their power infrastructure dating back to the communist times, power consumption in those regions is up considerably compared to the time when those grids were sized and that combined with the fluctuating supply caused by wind farms has caused some issues that can't be mitigated easily.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/how-germa...
It was an answer to parent's "It's simply a matter of scaling up." comment.

I agree with you that the exact same fact is true of nuclear. And wind too, while we're at it.

I don't think there's a way out of it: our technological civilization lives WAY WAY beyond its means, and that is made possible only by burning through fossil fuels, among many other non-renewable resources. When that dries up (economically speaking) or enough ecosystems have been damaged, our civilization will most likely fall apart. It'll be a slow and ugly process, it'll happen over decades, and it's already under way.

Renewables would have been great in a simpler and slower world. Hopefully, that's how the next global (if any) civilization goes in a few hundred or thousand years.
I've been downvoted because HN has Dislike Button which encourages people to downvote things they personally don't like instead of making constructive arguments ;)
Jet and Spark are not what most people would call databases, since they have such a heavy stream processing focus and are rarely stores of record.
They probably feel entitled to that US copyright because the entire US system of laws around intellectual property have been manipulated to be strictly of benefit to large corporations and is thus only accidentally of benefit to others (such as authors, taxpayers who funded research). US voters are apparently OK with this, and businesses like Elsevier put a great deal of effort into protecting, extending and exploiting the result.
Contact your laptop OEM.
This is just great! Just yesterday I got a new laptop with a skylake processor. Now I wonder whether I experienced that bug today as I got kicked out of dosbox (on debian) for no apparent reason. In the config file I had to change the value of 'core' in the cpu-section from 'automatic' to 'normal'. Could be something entirely different but it is a funny timing.
It's an excuse that is commonly given - but easily avoidable if you care enough about the ones that pay your salary by buying processors from your company.

And not only that, but they did much more than the average Joe and essentially pin-pointed the issue for them. So yeah, inexcusable it is.
> The issue with web development is that there’s no good, or working solutions.

This complaint generally comes from the opposite direction—that the JS ecosystem provides "too much choice", which can lead to FOMO or analysis paralysis if you let it.

> On the other hand, you can look over into the JVM world, and, well it just works. There’s one option for dependency management and handling of compilation and preprocessing (gradle)...

Gradle, Maven, Buck, Pants, Bazel…
> Really glad to see it moving away from XUL.

Why?
They will be fine, robots don't eat.
Well, they wrote and ran a lot of
software with outrageous bugs,
especially writing out of array bounds.

But likely a biggie difference is
that the attack surface was smaller.

Also it may be that some of what Microsoft is still struggling with is
being able still to have Windows run
old software that thinks it's just fine to
read files from nearly anywhere, write lots of files it should have no business writing, run other programs, etc.

E.g., on Windows, I can download and install software, e.g., a new version of Firefox. That writes to my boot drive. What the heck security door did that software pass through?

I'd like to know the details of Windows security, but so far I've never seen any good descriptions or documentation.

I'm interested in Windows security because Windows is the source of
the computing for my startup.

Otherwise, and in general, I hope
that Microsoft gets the security
problems fixed.
Also, most hunger is really thirst, but your body will output the same sensation.
You mean like just when you're committing crimes?

Because we all plan for that.
With the disclaimer that I don't fully understand Gamergate myself, and the following account sounds possibly incomplete, it seems like a workable summary of part of the subject.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2g9tit/e...

Edit: I suppose I could note, some of the Youtube personalities who (I have heard) supported the movement are currently staunchly anti-feminist. I'm not certain how central they were to the movement at the time, but they may be relevant to the comments others have made involving the impact of the group.
Applicative seems to be the way of the future, yes.
As a long time DIY Soylent aficionado I use examine.com[0] as my go to source on supplements and USDA Food Composition Databases[1] to look up nutrition info on food. When and if I need community input on stuff, I usually go to the DIY section of Soylent forum[2].

[0]https://examine.com/

[1]https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/

[2]https://discourse.soylent.com/c/diy
In the US you don't have to talk to the police, and you never should talk to the police. Remember, they aren't necessarily trying to find the perpetrator, they are trying to convict someone, and that's not necessarily the same thing.

If they can establish you had the means, motive and opportunity, why look for anyone else. Your device can put you close enough to a crime scene that you become the convenient person to convict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&feature=share
That's not exactly correct; the real issue with Baumol's Cost Disease isn't that it leads to wages in "traditionally lower-wage industries" — it's that wage competition leads to wage increases in sectors that don't undergo productivity gains.

To give an example: medical doctors aren't a low-skill/low-wage profession, but their productivity in crude terms of patients examined per hour appears stagnant — medicine is inherently labour-intensive (although the outcomes of care provided can improve over time as new and better treatments become available). If wages rise in other professionalized sectors that require huge amounts of training due to productivity gains (e.g. among engineers), wages will consequently rise for doctors because doctors and engineers are loosely coupled at source through the training/labour market.

TLDR: cost disease isn't about low-wage occupations, it's about pay in occupations that are refractory to performance improvement being coupled to pay in sectors where performance gains are possible via the labour market.
Shameful. I am not surprised, either.
Pay people to move to someplace where there are jobs, then return the land to nature.
Trust can be signaled in many ways. A green lock signals trust, as does logos from trusted companies.

Also the expensive telepresence you are talking about is technology and technology is continually falling in price.
I went to several nutritionists with a similar quest after watching a video that explained all foods only have 7 things in them. It was money poorley spent. None of them could answer my simple questions. And all of them wanted to develop a meal plan for me. This was a classic buy what I'm selling not what you're asking for situation. I was going to go to the local college bookstore and get a book on it.
Harvard's Nutrition Source web site [0] is the best source I've found. It has a wealth of evidence-based information. The accompanying book "Eat Drink and Be Healthy" discusses what features make a study reliable or not. The web site will be more up-to-date on specific dietary advice.

The Harvard School of Public Health are behind 2 of the biggest ongoing studies on diet, the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study[1], which has followed 50,000 men for over 30 years, and the Nurses' Health Study which has included 275,000 people over 40 years.

[0] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hpfs/

[2] http://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/