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> please correct your usage of power/energy density. Power density is measured in W/kg, energy density is measured in Wh/kg. Supercapacitors tend to excel in the former but be poor in the latter.

I'd update the units; good call. You may have that confused? Traditional supercapacitors have had lower power density and faster charging/discharging. Graphene and hemp somewhat change the game, AFAIU.

It makes sense to put supercapacitors in front of the battery banks because they last so many cycles and because they charge and discharge so quickly (a very helpful capability for handling spiky wind and solar loads).
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lifelong favorite song. (although I must say that the Eye of the Tiger comes very very close)
And Facebook does?
It was observed long ago that there is no such thing as bad publicity. It may not be quite that black-and-white but there is definitely some truth to it.
Sure, but corporate culture generally always seeps into projects like these. Especially when looking for ways to monetize, since those decisions generally come from upper management at the "parent" company.
I was wrong, sorry guys
I would try to think of it from a first-principles approach. You can begin with a blank slate, for instance, a single HTML file with a <script> tag. Only when "doing it yourself" becomes tedious do you start to look for libraries to solve your problem.

Personally, I find a bare minimum of tooling to be valuable. I have built SPAs using 100% vanilla JS, and it can be quite repetitive and error-prone. I'd recommend using highly simple build tooling (maybe Brunch) and an extremely simple view layer like https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom. Pretty much everything else you can build yourself with surprisingly few lines of code -- state management, routing, event handling, data bindings, etc. I think of it as "building your own framework", and although you might not want to do it for every project, the learning experience is great.
I come from c++ too. My js looks like that: https://p.sicp.me/h5pxz.js

The best author about JS imho is 2ality (someone mentionned it already).

My advice is to avoid npm and frameworks. Write plain JS.
What kind of 'feminist' community is HN when men want women to let strangers abuse their bodies? 'Feminist' men are merely cads taking advantage of women using politically correct language. Anyways, if this is the sort of 'pro-women' environment HN wants to foster, count me out.
Cool to see Russian bot talking points on HN now.
I see a man behind a fence. Not sure what video you’re watching.
In general no, though many people use it that way.

Downvotes are supposed to be for "comments that don't add anything to the discussion" - personal attacks, comments that are factually incorrect, comments that don't have any content, comments or commenters who have an axe to grind and reply with the same screed to every story, etc. You can disagree with a comment and still believe that it makes a valuable point, eg. if it raises new information or a different perspective that makes you think, but then after you've thought about it, you still believe the argument was unpersuasive.
I like = for assignment, but I don't like it for configuration. HCL and TOML chose it, to their detriment, I think.

When it reads as "let x equal y" it makes sense. I think it makes good sense for imperative programming. It makes slightly less sense for functional programming. For declarative configuration, I think a colon makes much more sense.
> does having uber on your resume tarnish it?

depends who's evaluating it and what their values are. If their values are aligned with Uber's values, then no. If their values are opposed to Uber's values, then yes. I'm squarely of the latter. Uber would be a major negative to me. But everyone is different. Some people might view it positively.
That is about a specific bad policy, not about the concept of instituting policies to reduce these behaviors in general. I agree that some policies do not accomplish what they intend to.

What about taxes on alcohol that fund anti-drinking campaigns and help fund treatment centers?
Just like any currency - the goods that can be traded for it. Not useful as a currency in places with solid currencies like the US or EU, but some countries have poorly functioning currencies where cryptocurrencies provide some benefit. Also, it has value as a transfer currency, like when your own country limits how much money you can take out of the country.

In places where you can move money easily, and the local currency is stable and generally usable, then it's basically a trading commodity like gold or oil.
Exactly. Far better to admit to something in a follow-up letter to Congress than admit to it on live TV.
Apples meet oranges.

"Net neutrality" is a line in the sand, not a goal. Actual net neutrality would make their ToS clauses regarding webservers on consumer connections, invalid. IF they did allow this, people could have better choices to route around Google, Amazon, etc. Business class connections can be advertised where not available within a certain mileage of service. This harms the middle classes' ability to offset costs using assets by restricting business models that distribute compute power such as European companies that use compute to heat water. Fears of malicious activity and spam are already covered under other laws such as the can spam act and CFAA.

-- The ISPs created their own problems --

A webserver can exist without a public good but not publicly without the ISP. The ISPs require many layers of PUBLIC easements and PUBLIC airwaves. Both use water and electricity. Electricity in 1931-1934 was spoken of in a similar way, notably by Hoover(Against). The ISP is a foundation, the requested server is the roof. Satellite ISPs harm the rights of landlords with an FTC exemption for sat dishes https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/installing-consumer-own... .

ISPs propagated due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone , yet now setup cable modems in a similar way. In 1996 people warned about this after the ISPs abused the NSF as a tier 1 network, never paying their bills. Then around 2000, Lessig released "The End of End to End" and everyone crapped on him and the ISPs said that would never happen. It did.

The point is that in terms of timeframe, scope of utilized public resources, and tiers of broken promises... they aren't comparable but both should be regulated for different reasons. An ISP fighting muni broadband is horrible and Google pretending to be a newspaper is also horrible. These however are not the same things or even the same layer of things.
You'll pass on a potentially excellent hire simply because of the name on their resume? You won't even expend a modicum of effort to interview the candidate or see if they're at all involved in the specific work you despise? Are over 20,000 employees guilty in your view?

If this isn't irrational behavior, what would it take for you to be acting irrationally?
Unless the FTC decides to pursue the matter. The FTC can obtain relief for all US consumers and is not bound by the arbitration agreement.
I like it. Two factors in one! Even allows panic passwords.
I think SQRL is pretty silly and not an especially well-designed protocol but this debunking post is not great either.
There are better places if you just want to talk about yourself.
I mean, it's trumpeted from the rooftops here that if you don't pay you are the product. What is the alternative if not charge the user for the service?
Yeah, I was considering more along the lines of massive compromising of remote authentication mechanisms, not spycraft targeting.
If you have something as sophisticated as TouchID, it's actually hard to replicate a valid print. CCC did it in a lab situation (wine glass + latex paint), how is a smear on a tabletop or mug going to be retrievable for a sophisticated scanner?
I don't think it matters where people are as long as there isn't some hindrance to their work ethic or shady work schemes going on. You simply have to be due diligent AND be a tech lead at the same time. You cannot offshore that part. No way. Instead, you directly know each person working on the project and directly work with them, while providing guidance to the entire team. (Directly meaning on Slack since its offshore) For example, a coder puts out something sub optimal. You then correct that code, then go through this with your coder in a constructive way why this way is better and more efficient, while also noting to the group here is an example of X where you do Y. I make repos specifically for projects to refer to as example code scenarios that commonly crop up. For example, here's how you do a background image on a flexbox that auto sizes itself or here's how you destructure a promise.all easily, or here's a baseline project to start from with basic bones and structure to work from. You have to really guide and lead and there is no easy button where more time spent is the trade off of the cost savings.
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Thanks for the pointers! Great to see someone actually understands my requirements.

I'm already using the <input type="file"> method to load a file into the app. For the saving/download part I tried dynamically generating the output JSON and putting it in the DOM [0], but I don't like that this method doesn't allow to open a Save As dialog with right click. Always rendering the link to the DOM as in [1] crippled the performance of my app, since the link got rerendered on each keypress.

Offline browser applications are definitely appealing, since they're so trivial to update. I think I will dig into LocalStorage, React Router - not sure if I really need IndexedDB, but it definitely sounds interesting too. What I'm missing is comprehensive literature or articles concerning this type of applications. They came to my attention through cryptocurrency websites like MyEtherwallet and EtherDelta.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/18197341

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/3665147
Worked with Zak on our blog stuff at priceonomics. He can't be beat, top notch contractor.
He makes your life less painful.
Oppenheimer recalling the Trinity test:

It brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

I'm sure those scientists thought about it and discussed it among themselves, but they were in a super top secret lab in the middle of nowhere. Not much opportunity to leave an historical record of what they thought (letters highly censored, etc).
> At this point I feel like HN has turned into a FB news dump

Zuckerberg is testifying to congress right now. That's the news. You're not mad at HN, you're mad at the present.
Ethics are only important to the workforce when the company is shows to have bad ethics, thus just having the company on your C.V. makes it look bad.

I saw the same things at school, studying for forensic IT.
Whole classes of people who think they learned to be an ethical person. The thing is, sure they makke ethical decisions at times. But in a pinch they might not consider ethics as much. Like when they really need a job. I myself don't consider myself to be the most ethical, but my morals are strong... don't do evil!

Knowing what is evil and not evil, is a big part of doing the right thing, can't expect the whole workforce to know where the line is or that there is a line.
> By that reasoning all dangerous jobs should be off limits to poor people

Or any other job, really.
The tenor, the awareness, the culture of questions that 70-year-old senators are turning to Zuckerberg at the congress would make you cheer for Facebook. Even if you previously hated it.
True. That's the role of speculators in any market. They buy stuff that nobody wants, this way preventing the price from falling too hard. I always buy my T-shirts in the winter. They're cheaper.
In general, yes, however - the manufacturer is unfortunately the one who is responsible for both producing and validating the burden of evidence. I know someone with a very expensive car(Audi RS6) who had an aftermarket exhaust and in year 2 of ownership the engine died - Audi refused warranty repair, saying that the modified exhaust could have changed the outgoing pressure of the gasses and caused the engine failure....and they are not wrong, but at the same time the character of the failure made it really obvious the issue was elsewhere. But the manufacturer says that it's caused by something you did so that's that. The whole case is being decided by the court right now, but it's anyone's guess which way it will go - and I suspect it will be ruled in favour of Audi.
I agree with your distinction but, its mainly the issue of ICOs not issuing a S-1 with the SEC since they are primary being used to generate funds (legal or not legal).

The Ethereum website has as their "hello world" demos on their website how to make your own token. Obviously not everyone is playing by the rules because we should be having a whole bunch of S-1s that should have been filed.
Battlezone and Battlezone 2 were the first two games I worked on professionally so they'll always be special to me. That's part of why I ended up supporting them unofficially for almost 15 years after release. :D
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Fun fact, R also has -> (assign to the RHS instead of LHS), and "super-assignment" <<- and ->>, and also can use = sometimes too (and I think has different semantics). Yay R.
Not all of them. Some women (and some men!) consciously and specifically choose to engage in sex work.

The way we're trying to "protect" the people being trafficked into sex work is putting them, and the ones who do it voluntarily, in even more danger.

Legalizing and regulating sex work protects them all so much more, but entirely too many of us would rather moralize about others' choices than approach the problem with harm reduction in mind.
Read the comments in reply to that unnecessarily verbose comment. The follow-up comments destroy the original comment quickly.
Senators ranting on terms of service, nobody reads or understands these documents for products or services.
>Honest question: if people wanted to participate in fights to the death where the winner gets an absurd amount of money, should that be legal?

You could say that about employment in some SV companies...
It's an issue people vote around. If people believe strongly that it's time for a change then support candidates who support that change.
The American Chopper meme, explained: It all goes back to Plato
There is no objective truth to be had here. I want to live in a world where people have the freedom to decide for themselves. So I would let it be legal.

There is a precedent for this type of law - Mutual combat is legal in Washington - https://fightstate.com/mutual-combat-law-in-washington-lets-...
abuse? That's a bit of a stretch.
It depends on if you group together accidental deaths. Homicide is not number 2 if you break all the accidents out, for example, "vehicle accidents," "falls," etc. are both more frequent than homicides. If you group together accident-types, then homicide is number 2 and you will often see it referred to as such.

https://www.osha.gov/dte/grant_materials/fy03/46j3-ht47/prev...

I should have clarified that I can see how it would seem improbable.
I worked on both of them too, along with the unofficial patches and the remastered versions Battlezone 98 Redux and Battlezone Combat Commander. 20 years of Battlezone!
This is all supposed to be politically scary and demonstrative of the fact that very few people actually knows what is going on. Which all the more scary to me because these are the people who are supposed to understand what's going on so they can have proper oversight. This entire issue reminds me of the time the supreme court tried to wrap their brains around the (finger quotes) "the cloud".

What's really sad is that nobody has been addressing just how creepy the internet is getting. Like the fact that with just 500 likes the social network can insinuate more of your personality than your lover. Or how Google can predict what you will likely like to eat for breakfast tomorrow based on the kind of stuff you are buying at the store whenever you use reward cards that is gets cross referenced to your browsing habits that insinuate moods.

We are really over engineering the internet to the point that we have a "don't touch that red button" being installed into our lives where nobody knows what it does until it gets pressed, we end up wrecking our cars and are left wondering why the car manufacturers thought it was smart to install NOS in our cars without our knowledge in order to remain on the cutting edge (and thus competitive).
Letting a multi-billion-dollar surveillance company show more or less whatever it wants to very young children seems like a bad idea. We tried a very primitive version of this model a couple decades ago, with Saturday morning cartoons interspersed with ads selling sugary cereal, and the results were not great.
I don't get recent outrage about Facebook. Everybody knew what Facebook knows about them. Everybody knew that the data someone has about you can land in someone elses hands. Why the outstanding outrage?

And all the "private" information you shared is not that valuable to anybody. About $5 bucks on average not only for the ability to download everything you ever posted but also what your friends posted and also ability to post as you.

In short pretty much nobody cares about you enough to make distinction between what you consider private and what you consider public. At least doesn't care enough to pay 5$ on average to get also the former not just the latter.
This was a really interesting story, and I'm interested in hearing even more detail about how they cut the temple into pieces. What machinery did they use to do the cutting? How much material was lost by this method? How did they make sure the pieces fit back together again?

Is there a book that goes into this detail (or any books about similar projects)?
This was not in the US.

My father used to own a computer repair shop. Some of the computers were assembled by us, some were not. After a service was performed, there was a warranty (two months if memory servers).

What would happen is that people would pick their computer up, open it, do some stupid stuff, and then come back and try to claim the warranty. Best one was some guy that installed the CPU in a incorrect orientation on purpose, to see if it would "improve performance". Burned out the CPU and motherboard and tried to blame us. This was back at the Pentium Overdrive days.

So we started adding those stickers in the case itself. People would be free to remove them, but we would not honor any warranties if so.

As a consumer, I know it sucks. But I do know the other side, people will do really stupid things and then try to get others to clean up after them.
Nice points. Unfortunately the type that is looking to offshore has a lot in common with those who are not interested in training or coaching at all. No, must "hit the ground running."
I'd advise spending some time in China before judging. It's probably not what you'd expect, if you're just going by US media depictions.

Likewise someone in China judging life in the US!
Can you imagine the maintenance nightmare in having special case hacks just to support bugs by one program? I read some of the MS blogs where they detailed all of the workarounds they've had to do. It has to make Windows less stable and harder to maintain.
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

—- J. Robert Oppenheimer, after watching the first test
>User data was obtained via means not allowed by Facebook

That's what I'm asking. 1) Is it alleged that CA found a flaw in FB's design and 2) did something illegal with it? I've seen accounts alluding to that, but that makes me think that it is entirely by design and it's just be framed negatively for the greatest political impact.
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Either way, this is a terrible argument toward good security. "Oh, someone got a copy of your fingerprint? No problem! There's a belt sander right over there!"
That's a fair point. There are even legal (and what should be relatively safe) career choices that can be subject to compulsion. For example meat packers have been documented to pressure workers with questionable immigration statuses in to low pay, high risk jobs [0]. When a meat packer does it we punish the meat packer, not the industry. When a trafficker does it, the entire industry gets painted with the same brush.

[0] Fast Food Nation (I think it's written about in Chapter 8 "The Most Dangerous Job").
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Contrast Feynman's attitude to that of Wolfgang Pauli, who refused to work on the Manhattan Project, saying "it's not the business of science to engineer mass destruction."

There have been plenty of other highly intelligent people who acted ethically, often at great danger to themselves, rejecting many financial and social incentives to act unethically.
I'm not really wanting to not work, as such, but to transition from working for someone else to working on my own projects.

So the equation for me is more: Spend a little less time with wife/kids today to improve my future enjoyment of the work part of life.

It's a tough balance, because I highly value wife/kids time -- so when I give up some of that (valuable and well-spent) time for a potential future good, I want to make sure I'm using that time optimally, so that sacrifice is as "worth it" as possible.

There's definitely a balance here; I could make much faster progress by working every night and weekend, but that would be too much of a sacrifice of the good present for the potential better future.

Anyway, I very much agree with/appreciate the point of your questions :).
One of the whistleblower on Theranos was Tyler Schultz, grandson of George Shultz. Tyler took a lot of heat for doing this. Hopefully he feels vindicated by all this.
Mining is a legitimate need. Men don't need prostitutes. What men need is to treat women as equal human beings, and not a vessel for their lusts.
You know, I'm not sure. This article is from a few years ago now and there's not much uptake.

It may be that most people dismiss supercapacitors based on the stats for legacy (pre-graphene/pre-hemp) supercapacitors: large but quick and long-lasting.

It may be that hemp is taxed at up to 90% because it's a controlled substance in the US (but not in Europe, Canada, or China; where we must import shelled hemp seeds from). A historical accident?
i fear that eventually you'll be able to just design something in Sketch and press a button for the rest...
> Animals often fuck without consent (although most other mammals have mating sessions that last less than 15 seconds).

... are you advocating non-consensual sex should be legal?[1] I don't think so, but I'm not really sure how "animals have non-consensual sex" really supports anything related to this argument.

[1] To be clear, there are people on various places on Reddit that do advocate for non-consensual sex to be legalized... as a measure to "prevent rape." I kid you not.