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Report: World trending to hit 50% renewables, 11% coal by 2050
I would argue reducing the time spent and memory used both by 25% is pretty significant, considering this is one of presumably a large number of jobs.

The comments on the article also state: "With regards to time taken and peak working set, that was not our main focus. Our main focus was to reduce the number of allocations and reduce the time spent in GC. Unfortunately this data import process is not a standalone one time application. It is a part of a much larger application which is core to our entire platform."

It's possible that this has no meaningful impact to their application, but it's far more likely that the blog author just hasn't provided you all of the information you need to understand why it's important. I feel reading charitably is the best case here.
Your SSL certificate works in Chrome, but not in my Safari 11.1.1. SSL Shopper (not sure how reliable this is), also shows warnings.

https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html
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This is correct. Consensus opinion might not be the very best of all the possibilities, but is rarely a very bad choice. The other side of this is buy-in. On a great team, it's important to have everyone feel free to put forth an opinion, with backup. And then this process happens. And then it's just as important for everyone to "murder the un-chosen alternative" - in other words, even if a team member very strongly believes their posited solution was correct, and very strongly believes the chosen solution is incorrect - they must murder their solution, and wed the chosen solution. A team, committed as a team, to the team-chosen alternatives over time, is a very powerful team. Likely more powerful than one that only chooses the objectively best solution without full buy-in from the rest of the team. It takes hard and nuanced work from the team leader to cultivate this.
Reversed as in slowed down, absolutely.

Reversed as in CO2 levels brought back to preindustrial levels within a few lifetimes, not known.

The "warming" is a small part of the overall problem; CO2 increases are impacting a far wider range of conditions, including those in your own body, and that of your food. The temperature changes just capture the imagination better.

Other than stopping burning so darn much, our two go-to strategies are "artificial weathering" where we unearth carbonaceous rock and convert CO2 into bicarbonate, pulling it out of the cycle, and "ocean fertilization", where we unleash the power of aquaculture by dumping mineral nutrients into large swaths of ocean, whereby a new crop of plant critters will absorb the CO2 and add it to the food chain.

Most other ideas either make the problem worse (blocking out part of the sun, for instance), or fail to move the needle.

My upcoming book Fat Gas (first few chapters at fatgas.com) is a useful resource on the subject.
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According to my quick look at wikipedia, consensus seems to be that men choose more lethal means of suicide than women.

Women tend to choose things like drug overdoses or wrist cutting, while men tend to choose things like hanging or firearms.

Women apparently attempt suicide more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide#...
Yes, it's really sad that a language as young as Dart already has such problems :/
The equivalent in C is code blocks connected with gotos. In my conversions of C code to D, I'm able to replace these gotos with nested functions, which makes the code significantly easier to read.
To be frank: I have never used Rust nor Go. Nevertheless, I am quite sure closures and goroutines would complicate the translation due to different syntax from ordinary functions. The same argument is being discussed at reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8si75b/how_an_...
Average ticket price in the US is about $9. If you prefer watching movies at night (non-matinee prices) or prefer IMAX or 3D, your average ticket price would be much higher. But let's just say it's $10 for a nice round number.

So that's 24 movies per year, 2 per month. That's not an insanely high number. I certainly don't come close to that now; with a family and the hassle of getting a babysitter, etc., I'm closer to the national average of 5 movies per year.

But when I was younger, in HS & college, I probably saw around 24: one each weekend during the summer (nice cold theater to get out of the heat), a few around the holidays, and a few scattered throughout the year.

And if you really enjoy IMAX and/or 3D, your average would be at least $16-20 per ticket, which means you'd only need to see 12-15 movies per year for the math to be favorable.

There are about 50 million people in that HS & college age range in the US. So yeah, I agree that this plan does not hold much appeal personally, but that seems like a pretty big market to me. I certainly would have loved this as a birthday/holiday present when I was younger.
Looks like it's real: lawsuit filed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17356970
Is it better to have reduced fraud and disgruntled customers, or viceversa?

I'm genuinely curious. I suppose it depends on the ultimate goal, but seeing as Coinbase is VC-funded, well...
"erratic" is an understatement.
"you first". It's a competitiveness and coordination problem.
YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)
Short answer: we don't know.
Slightly longer answer: it also varies a lot between races of men, and between countries, so to unravel this completely you'd probably have to figure out how gender, race, and national culture interact, so don't hold your breath for a definitive answer anytime soon. Probably lots of B.S. answers coming your way soon, though.
From the future? Most new features have been available in Oracle for years. Still prefer postgresql to Oracle, but Oracle deserves some credits.
Men have to prove that they are "valuable" more often than women.

It depends on other factors, and is a generalisation, but i would say that a woman who is a "failure" may not have as gloomy prospects as if he were a man.
I don't know, I heard it second hand from someone who works for AMC on the Stubs program, who probably heard it through that industry's rumor mill.
Attempting suicide is usually a call for help.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

> Of the attempters, 39.3% (3.5) endorsed the statement that they made a serious attempt, and it was only because of luck that they did not die; while 13.3% (2.1) endorsed the statement that they were serious, but knew the method was not foolproof; and the remaining 47.3% (3.9) endorsed the statement that their attempt was a cry for help, and they did not want to die.
A language with only goto and call statements can express any program, too. It's not unreasonable to require higher level programming constructs, because such make programming faster and less prone to error.
Cool - how is the WebView support?

I have a project that will require a WebView in the app.

Also I downloaded Flutter a while back and noticed a lot of buggy / unintuitive behavior with their TextViews (multi-line specifically) such as with copying and pasting, selecting text, etc.

Do you know whether these components have matured?
Physicians, and others, pay for their medical education in the US. How do physicians pay for their education in other countries or is it paid for them by their governments?
Ask HN: What will HN do if DCDSM's Article 11 passes?
There are many HN submissions that directly link to news articles.

If the European Parliament approves Article 11 of the Copyright Bill, this has direct consequences to HN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market#Article_11
I wrote a little script to watch Tor traffic to my servers and way more than 94% is either clearly malicious or probably malicious. Malicious is clearly scans, bruteforcing attempts, and so on. Malicious is obvious most of the time when I look at the web logs. "Probably Malicious" is something like an odd single hit to an index page, really not quite sure what they're doing, but it's clearly not a person looking at the site. Tor traffic is almost never a person looking at a website based on what I see in my Apache logs.

Most clearly malicious traffic to my servers is not Tor, but most Tor traffic is malicious. This is what I see to my servers, you may see different traffic on your servers.
Edit: Ok... I'm just adding some numbers to the parent post because there werent any in the wikipedia link. From the downvotes.. apparently data isn't welcome.
This is a bit like asking for tech that converts lead into gold. CO2, when unpressurized, is about as worthless a source material as you can think of. Even at pressure (which is derived from mining CO2 deposits) its applications are limited.
http://mawazo.tk#-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
If this is here tomorrow, your summation is verified.
>Really tragic how little attention is paid to this

Meh. I’d rather have the silence when the alternate is repeating useless memes at eachother and thinking it’s more productive than the silence.

Suicide is like mass shootings in one way... the media and popular conversation are only equipped to make the problem worse.
Women are more important than men. Men cannot reproduce and if you add mental problems to that it makes them completely useless. Deep down both women and men know this. Men are not born with any value whatsoever. So much for "male privilege".
What if you had an interactive helping hand for your citizen developers?
Remember the old joke, "In Soviet Russia, TV watches you"?

Now, in the West, people actually pay for devices that surveil them.
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> If the repository is served ... with Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories set to true(the default is false, thankfully)

So you're saying if I explicitly disable an important security feature my system is less secure? No tears yet...

That's a good article. It has information relevant to groups setting up apt repositories but the only issue that potentially applies to using the official Debian repositories is the replay attack and that would work even if you were verifying the signatures of individual packages.
This does mean that you can buy a game, hack it using a modded console, and play online.

This doesn't prevent cheating in online games, just piracy.
Is there anything that Dart does particularly well in a project like this that justifies its use over TypeScript?
It took the death of someone catering to diversity, women and minorities to even bring this subject into any measure of media spotlight.

When you classify issues into "trendy" and "real", the disproportionate focus distribution between the two reveals a key metric of society.
This is a desperation move by Musk. Nothing in the complaint alleges interference with Tesla production. Just that the ex-employee leaked some data on Tesla's internal screwups. Yet Musk claimed this was an excuse for Tesla missing their 5000 units/week goal yet again. (Actual production is about 1500 units/week right now.[1])

Also, this is someone at the battery factory in Nevada, not the auto plant in Fremont. So this is totally unrelated to the auto plant problems.

Tesla will have a hard time showing actual losses from this.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
A "FOAF" of mine tried to game the review system with a fairly intricate level of seperation and was busted for it... From just this experience (and from reading some stuff related to it on forums for independent authors trying to gain a foothold and get their name out there) I feel that Amazon is trying, and the "word on the street" is that they are increasing their efforts all the time.

It will never be perfect though, and that's my point. You have to face facts...there is no way Amazon (or EBay or anyone else) can possibly look at every item being sold on their massive platform. Buyer beware.
Reported being a very important word here.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Call 1-800-273-8255

Putting this here in the event anyone needs it.
> focused on catering

I don't think I'd describe a popular food writer as "focused on catering"!
> whoever is collecting data on me, I'm not really worth spying on.

What makes you think that? This isn't a team of private investigators paid a hefty fee to watch you 24/7; this is fully automated mass-surveillence. It would be more cost/effort to stop spying on you, since that would require maintaining a blacklist.

Besides which, if any of the following apply to you then you are worth spying on:

- You spend money on products and services

- You are eligible to vote in elections, referenda, etc.

- You communicate with people who do the above

An example of this is the heavily data-driven and audience-tailored presidential campaign of Donald Trump. "Everyday people" made up a large proportion of their target demographic. Even if such data gathering (spying) had no effect on the outcome, it was still part of the winning strategy, which makes it an attractive service for companies to offer, and incentivises an arms race to push it much more extensively in the future.
Not the headline. It actually says: "Former astronaut doubts that NASA or SpaceX will make it to Mars with their shiny new rockets"

Which is, of course, no surprise to anyone, lease of all NASA and SpaceX.
>Coverage is a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code of a program is executed when a particular test suite runs. A program with high test coverage, measured as a percentage, has had more of its source code executed during testing, which suggests it has a lower chance of containing undetected software bugs compared to a program with low test coverage.

In case folks are wondering about what we mean by coverage...
anyone care to expand on the practical applications/implications/threat model where this makes sense?
Honestly I prefer this system.

There’s definitely some pseudo curation happening, which I like.

Some interesting things I’ve picked up:

- If a submission is interesting but doesn’t get picked up for whatever reason (posted at the wrong time or there was other big news at the time) mods will get in contact with you and ask you to repost.

- More comments than votes seems to sink the article quickly. It’s generally a controversial topic which isn’t engaging and inspiring in the right way.

- there are a number of mod specific flags other than the above that affect the position of articles. From what I remember reading there’s 6 such flags. Would love to know what they are

I’m guessing the algorithm is a sort based on time * points then modifying it based on hidden flags
HN is not based in the EU, and doesn't publish extracts from articles, so I guess "nothing".
I agree. Just interesting that the issue is not proportionally funded. That's perhaps a more interesting question.
Has anyone used both Flutter and NativeScript/React Native?

I'd be really curious to hear some experiences and why you prefer one over the other.
>floated their "experiences" stuff up top

That is no minimalism in my hand book
Too embarrassed to act
828 open issues. 20 pull requests. trying to orchestrate complex control over all major os'es. uggh what a nightmare.

long time user, it's always been great. runs most of my home. absolutely invaluable.

i'd love to see standards, a mouse & keyboard & clipboard standard protocol emerge some day.
I would use irratiobnal
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Egregious title rewrites break the site guidelines and will eventually cause your account to lose submission privileges, so please don't do that. (Submitted title was "Travis VanderZanden already bailing on Bird, selling stock".)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I operate an adult comic book publisher and Coinbase shutdown our account without notice and blamed the bank they work with (despite the fact that we were not converting our BTC to USD). All support tickets took 3 - 5 weeks to get a reply and it was always unhelpful.

For a company like ours the whole appeal of Bitcoin is the anonymity, so our readers don't have to worry about buying lewd comics and having it show up on their statements. Coinbase tarnishes what Bitcoin stands for and they do not protect artists/publishers.

Do not use Coinbase.
They are not infringing on consumers rights to buy and sell the consoles, but the seller who knows that the console has been banned from online services is perpetrating a fraud upon the buyer. You can buy and sell consoles all day long, but transfer of ownership does not change the status of the console any more than selling a broken console (that is outside any hardware warrantee) obligates a manufacturer to make it work again.
If you ask at the front desk they will happily remove it from your room or change room to one without it. Actually you could nag about it and look annoyed so maybe you can get better room from them or some freebies.

I think they will remove those from rooms as soon as people who nag about anything to get freebies will realize it is good point to get some.
$500k, really?
The best manager I've had as a dev is a first-generation Nigerian-American, and in the year I worked for I saw him get legit fired up once, and it was incredibly effective. At least for me and I think the team as a whole.

Though to support your point, from what I could tell he had that rep with some in the office. But that was probably inevitable given the environment (very white collar) and his personality (certainly not angry but not at all passive either).
You're being down-voted but it would be foolish to ignore the possibility you bring up, especially when we consider that Tesla has competitors based in countries where the rule of law is weaker than it is in the US. Certainly if he's going to break the law and exfiltrate data it would be a small hurdle to try to profit on top of that.
Heard about this last week from a friend on the keybase team, happy to see it launch on time :) congrats!
Wasn't that exact article already on HN's front page a few days ago when the article was first posted, or was I dreaming? I just assumed that the HN algorithm pushed down reposts.
As I understand, Keybase chat is open-source?
(https://github.com/keybase/client)

I don't have time to read through the code right now, but I'd love to hear how they implemented exploding messages with untrustworthy clients.

I've thought about it a few times before, and it seems one of the few places that closed software has an advantage - You can't easily force third-party clients to delete messages.

If they've solved that, I'm really interested to learn how it works!!
I wonder what the numbers would look like if they were instead "number of people who have attempted suicide one or more times" which would seem to be a more meaningful measurement.

If you attempt suicide and succeed you're not going to do it again.
What's worse is all the "hipster yoga" classes and movements taking place.

Remember seeing that "Yoga with goats" class? Or "Yoga with kittens" in the studio.

It's a great example of first-world privilege and "living in the bubble" that we do here.
>Coverage is a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code of a program is executed when a particular test suite runs. A program with high test coverage, measured as a percentage, has had more of its source code executed during testing, which suggests it has a lower chance of containing undetected software bugs compared to a program with low test coverage.

In case folks are wondering about what we mean by coverage...

PS. Love Rails.
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I've noticed that as well. Just a guess, but certain news organizations are given "special treatment" lately.

Almost everyday, I see a post from select news sources with 1 or 2 upvotes and no comments very high on the frontpage.

Also, is it just me or has hacker news slowly shifted from being about technology to more politics?

And a final observation, what's with the neverending submissions about facebook?
deprive... Jesus christ. It's a movie.
I guess the crux of the matter is I don't generally consider EU regulations "unfair" nor "hair brained". I think competition laws are needed to prevent abuse of market dominance, I think the GDPR is a good thing as it brings data protection into the 21 century. I do think the proposed copyright law is a terrible but that's just one bad egg and one which still has the potential to get blocked (plus as you've highlighted, America isn't any better at copyright reform nor legislations that don't have global implications for non-US businesses).

So I welcome the fact that I'm protected by the EU even when I do business with American sites. If they don't like that then they're free to block my IP (it's really very easy to throw up blocks based on geographic IPs - it's something I've needed to do myself for several different projects due to political or legal reasons. So I'm quite aware of how GDPR affects American websites as well).
Wow. Well that does suck then. But just because you emailed someone named "jeff" over there hardly means he read it..that's a stretch.
That's because unlike a zero-revenue startup, whose potential revenue once they start monetization may be trillions of dollars, the potential revenue trajectory of Tesla is somewhat bounded.

Yet, their stock is valued like one of those startups.
Because "conservative attitudes toward sex" don't produce "coercive bullshit" (and foster all kinds of sex related obsessions and psychosis, including rape).
Why Would You Want a Prosthetic Hand That Feels Pain?
Is it an old wives' tale that east coast news stations send reporters with heavy accents to midwest stations to unlearn them?
IMO, triggers should be used sparingly. For something like updating a "last changed" timestamp on a row, they can be useful. But they are places for side-effects to hide, and later be the source of frustration and performance problems. I almost always prefer to keep any business logic in stored procedures not triggers.
this motherfuckers selling out
You're assuming that his decision was an individual one decided solely for his own reasons, which is not a supportable assumption to make yet.
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Apparently those dank memes and corporate espionage according to the article are some of the uses.
Men are more "successful" at suicide, whereas women tend to "fail" more at suicide.

Interestingly, the suicide attempts are often categorized as a call for help, as specifically stated by the attempters themselves.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

> Of the attempters, 39.3% (3.5) endorsed the statement that they made a serious attempt, and it was only because of luck that they did not die; while 13.3% (2.1) endorsed the statement that they were serious, but knew the method was not foolproof; and the remaining 47.3% (3.9) endorsed the statement that their attempt was a cry for help, and they did not want to die.

It makes you wonder, why the gender discrepancy? Is this cultural? Social? Are women simply better at asking for help than men? Are men simply more stubborn than women?
It works as long as no one takes a screenshot.
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Seems like the antithesis of what a "hacker" news site should be. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
It's for when you trust someone but don't want to risk either your or their device being compromised in the future. For instance:

- if your or their phone gets taken at a border crossing

- if your or their phone gets taken by the FBI (which is how they recovered encrypted WhatsApp/Signal chats from Michael Cohen's phone)

- etc
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The title had to be truncated to fit HN (80 char max).
Do you think more awareness of and empathy for mental health issues and better resources to support depressed people are pointless? That's presumably what GP meant by "attention".
Oh, no

What am I missing?