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But couldn't R have applications in business (industry)?

A businessperson once asked me about R after he read a non-technical article about it in a major newspaper. This person has never been in academia. Why was he curious? What could he possibly see in R?

I see R as a "disruptor" to the market that SPSS has had under lock and key for as long as I can remember. Perhaps statistics has utility outside of academics? Maybe R can give anyone the power of something like SPSS, for free.

Now what I want to know is how to convert "screenr" into a more open format. Can you convert to video? R is not dependent on a GUI. Maybe you could convert to screen(1) format, along with an mp3.
If you think the government isn't in cahoots with coal and solar, I have bad news for you.
Thanks! I spent a couple of days on the article and was pretty nervous having not written anything but specs in a year or two.

I also am starting to find the colors cluttering, mostly because they're the first thing my eyes are drawn to on any given page. I'm not sure what the solution is here. If I make them any smaller, they look even worse.
> The reason is that the costs of a failure of a nuclear power station are such that no insurance company would take on such a risk on commercial basis and even if they did, no energy company would be able/willing to pay the premiums.

I'm not sure how you can assert this to be true. Because it is a rare event, the premiums won't be that obscene, particularly if the carrier isn't carrying related policies.

The expense of a nuclear plant failure is most certainly high but, for example, can't match the impact of say Katrina (and while no insurance company was carrying all the impact of Katrina, several of them bore far more than the costs of pretty of completely destroying an entire major city, which is more than any nuclear power plant failure).

Certainly the money to be made from producing that much energy that cheaply outweighs the insurance costs.

Ironically, I'd argue this is part of the problem with nuclear energy. If left completely unregulated, I could see that a typical nuclear power station would be built with quite spare safety precautions, with the expectation that it likely would fail within a certain period of time, with an insurance policy in place to cover the expenses when that occurs.
In fact, most of Germany gets less sunlight than most of Maine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Insolation.png
That's the thing -- the telemarketing company knew perfectly well they were breaking the law, and thus took pains to hide their own identifying info even when the person did seem interested.

Sure, the fact that the bad guys are "playing dirty" doesn't mean it's moral for the good guys to do the same.

But in this case, simply lying that "that sounds interesting" before telling them he wasn't interested any more doesn't seem too serious. It's certainly not illegal.
> The main difference is in my opinion the visible action - reaction relationship. If a nuclear power plant blows up, the whole area is going to look for years to come like a scene from a apocalyptic movie, while with coal plants you might have just people to "cough a bit more".

Not really. Nuclear disasters are bad for the environment, but considerably less bad than say... Building a city somewhere.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120411084107.ht...

And "cough a bit more" is probably the understatement of a day. Those fuckers even create more radioactive waste (which won't get collected) when they work as intended, than nuclear plants when they break down. (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is...)

You are on track with the insurance policy. Though it's pretty safe to assume, that real costs of coal and carbon-based fuels are not calculated very well for insurance purposes either.

The end-point of unstoppable climate-change could potentially render the entire earth inhabitable via the Venus-effect. Even most apocalyptic local consequences are pretty minor compared to those.
All these comments about a silly watermark and not one mention of Getty Images's contemptible RIAA-like business tactics of shaking down people who use their photos illegally? The owner of my daughter's daycare had posted one of their images on a simple little website he built for us parents, and they sent him a letter demanding a few hundred dollars or were going to take him to court for thousands (he paid up). Apparently they must have some type of crawler that searches the Web for their images.
How is this really any different than all of these companies (and many others) investing in IV? or are those "investments" effectively just the licensing fees to the IV pool?
Why downvoted? I'm not against it, just noting that weather affects such technology much more than other.
Kind of meh that the HN commentary is 'blah blah nuclear blah blah.' There are, IMHO, other aspects to this that are actually interesting: The effectiveness of subsidy in spurring a tech sector; the importance of cultural values; concrete rebuttal to the 'energy incident per solid angle crowd'; etc.
Pardon my ignorence, but what does "completely opened the dev process" mean?
let's not forget that renewable sources are not only solar panels, e.g. the US produces energy comparable to germany from wind (given populations) and the same has always been popular in, say, netherland or denmark.
Or, Italy produces about 7% of the consumed energy from hydro alone, and I believe norway has about 99% of the energy produced from hydroelectric plants.
Just you. It's an exercise meant to push the boundaries and get people thinking creatively. Also, the triangle thing is a pretty common and useful hack.
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Yes, exactly this. I know I'm guilty of wanting to see something cool happen. :)
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Why is the entire background of zdnet.com an ad? This site sucks.
Pg has a great list on By others and Individuals as well: http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
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I think you only need the colors inside a thread and not really on the front page... and then in one thread you could just add a unique picture/avatar per participant (but maybe something subtle, not like a usual avatar - I was thinking of replacing the color rectangle by a random picture of the same format)
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Mike, you are wrong because your argument includes a false implied premise. Let's agree that you are not a high volume reader and that most people are not high volume readers.

But lets debate whether the smaller number of high volume readers will abandon the Kindle eInk tablet for a back-lit multi-use tablet.

My household has a Kindle, and also has the Kindle application installed on a laptop, desktop, iPhone and Android phone. I am a high volume reader and prefer the 6-inch Kindle eInk model over any of these alternative platforms because of the physical comfort of holding the device, and ease of reading eInk. The device is lighter because the eInk uses much less power than an LCD or other backlit display. The Kindle is purpose built for reading having convenient click buttons for page turning that are part of the frame - better than tapping. The iPad mini will not be a purpose built ebook reader and will be inferior to the Kindle eInk tablet for the purpose of reading books. High volume readers, who know the important features, will choose the Kindle or similar eInk reader.

Amazon gives its readers a choice now with the Kindle Fire, which is not eInk, and the eInk Kindle models. The latter continue to sell well.
Most of us at times have felt patriotic or romantic perceptions of battle and war. In addition to this piece, Chris Hedges' "War is a force that gives us meaning", will help vaccinate you from such notions and manipulations.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Force-that-Gives-Meaning/dp/140003...
so you don't have to be in the same place.
The 4% overall vs. 50% of these few hours illustrates the fundamental problem. Societies don't need electricity "for a few midday hours" on very clear, sunny days at a time of year where the sun is "in" the hemisphere. They need it more or less consistently all the time. Let's see how much electricity this massive investment is producing on a cloudy day in December.
Yes, the FIT is great if a) you're a solar equipment provider that can't compete with other energy technologies or b) if you're a energy provider that has hitched its wagon to solar energy, and can't compete with other technologies on a cost basis.

For consumers, it's not so great. Germany has some of the highest electricity prices before the FIT, and the FIT just makes it worse.
Current distribution networks for electricity do not work well enough to transport large quantities of electricity for long distances.

In my opinion, this is the main issue that needs to be solved. Currently, we have centralized power plants with constant output, which distribute energy over medium ranges.

Decentralized energy production with fluctuating output doesn't play well with the existing network. However, that's not an unsurmountable problem - it's just not profitable as long as fission and fossil fuels are acceptable alternatives.
I suspect 'at work' might include schlepping down to the lecture hall and plugging into the projector now and again. Or popping over to the Library to make notes. Or sitting in a faculty meeting to take the minutes.

To directly answer your point: portability within the building/location.
Please post your patch on HN when you release it. I think many HN readers would be interested.
That's budgeted as part of the (still remarkably low) operating costs. In the US at least, anybody operating a nuclear plant has to pay a certain amount yearly into a fund for its eventual decommissioning. (The same sort of situation applies to insurance, in case anybody was wondering.)
Please, please do not use ragefaces while writing.
In addition to being an utterly exhausted internet meme, they take something out of the prose- it would be more compelling, better flowing writing if you were to try and describe your own feelings.
I should add that, as prosody said, imageboard discussions are working anonymous communication models.
Take 2channel, with the slogan 「ハッキング」から「今晩のおかず」まで (From "hacking" to "side dishes for tonight's dinner"): it generates revenue of around 100 million yen per year; or perhaps 4chan, which has either scarred the internet, or broadened it depending on your viewpoint, having once (I believe) produced those images you used in your post.
I'd be really interested to see how you use similar projects to inspire yours, and as I've tried to show, innovation in this area could be influential or lucrative.
Certainly it does. Perhaps I shouldn't have emphasized academics so much.

Anyone who does in-depth statistical analysis can use R. It is equivalent to SPSS, SAS, and matlab in its applicability, plus its free.

People involved in 'big data' and serious analytics in business are already using R a lot of the time. The other group of people in business who use the closed source applications above, however, aren't as technical, and have a pretty big roadblock ahead of them.

The issue is just a question about ease of use. There are companies out there who offer products that compare with the above (http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/), but they still cost money. The 'problem' of R in business is that there aren't any good GUI's for it that allow you to just go menu>ANOVA>3 way factorial>[settings dialog]>Calculate and then get there.

Of course there are a few other reasons why those other applications exist and thrive in spite of R, but I think the limited use cases and lack of a comprehensive GUI are its biggest roadblocks.
There is very little that annoys me more than mobile applications, or worse mobile versions of a website, which are feature crippled. I'm sure it can't only be me who finds this completely infuriating.

A simple example is not being able to delete a comment on Facebook when you have second thoughts or need to correct an typo / autocorrect disaster.
Definitely will! Just waiting to hear from saurik about getting it in the store. Hopefully it'll be up soon.
It's just a funny thing to giggle at. But I really hope no one will use this in production.
One could hybridise the two - a scatter plot whose points change colour as a function of proximity (the equivalent of a density plot with 1px wide bins and the background colour for zero).

This would preserve the outlier flagging of a scatter plot while alleviating its risk of obfuscation via density. Plus, one need not worry about picking an appropriate bin width any longer.
I wonder what the cultural impact would be if realtime anonymous forums forced everyone to use proper spelling/grammar.
It can still make a nasty mess, though.
This is actually not really news since Apple said this already on their dividend announcement in March. Check the transcript for source
Ubuntu: 95% no problem with wifi, a couple of local hotspots have strange redirection pages that won't work properly with Ubuntu 12.04/Debian/Centos (Firefox/chrome) but which will work with Mac OS, Kindle and Win. I just avoid those.

Displays: no problem with projectors or 1080p monitor.
I think the pokeball is because of the name of the service, there was this character in Pokemon called Prof. Oak.
Coal is probably cheaper. Nuclear is very capital intensive, costs are usually more than estimated. Maintenance also regularly goes over budget and schedule.

Solar is increasingly cost-competitive. In my city there is at least one per block for the parking payment stations - it's cheaper than connecting them to the grid, even in the middle of the city.

As the costs of solar go down and we know we can close down plants, the political focus will shift to coal. I can't wait.
I wish it stated whether it's a US-centric initiative or not. And, if it's not, I wish it registered the country of the subscriber.
growing > 50% CAGR in the last 5 years. Don't write it off just yet :)
No. The costs for the lifestyle of a solar panel are considerably less than nuclear rods.
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Is there something that logs your keystrokes in vim (or any other editor of choice) and uses basic analytics to suggest snippets? Like, it looks at your keystrokes and sees the most common patterns that are repeated, or something simple like that. I wouldn't mind having that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

It turns out that Fukushima was 'insured' but the insurers won't be paying anything. It is all excluded, see?

To prove your assertions, you need to come up with an example where a major nuclear disaster was actually cleaned up at the insurers expense. Till then, I stand by my statements.
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Great!

I made something similar three years ago, but I admit that even if it was good enough for my freelance jobs, it was nowhere as polished as yours. I really like it. Thanks for sharing.
But nuclear plants burn fuel at night when nobody needs the energy. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is needed for both.
I don't see a 'fundamental' problem here at all. Yes, place the German solar panels in a region where the sun is shining more intensely and constantly over the whole year and you get a lot more power out of it. And IMHO _that_ is the problem: nations with these areas haven't installed this capacity, and effectively Germany is significantly responsible for the massive decline in the cost of PV.

So the question is: why hasn't a country with more and more intense sunlight hasn't done it? And why aren't they scaling up massively now, with the price of PV much much lower than when Germany decided to do it?
12.04 fixed my multiple monitors issue, but for a while it took around 2-3 hours of setup to get dual monitors working with my AMD/ATI card.
I agree with this article, but nothing said here is really new insight, nor does any of it apply specifically to mobile. This is basically similar to loads of other articles written about iterating good software with the catchphrase "mobile apps" slapped on to it despite the fact that this same advice applies equally to web apps, desktop apps, etc.
> 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour

I'm cringing.
If this is a satirical remark about the US, I acknowledge your wit.
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Ragefaces are one of my favorite parts of Internet culture, and I did think about it before I inserted them into the post. I think they give it a certain feeling, that this is an experiment and I'm playing around.

I've tried to take the good parts of every service I could find, and leave out the rest. I don't intend to make any revenue from this site. It's only for fun :)
Interesting thought. How would you implement that in an algorithm? Maybe a Bayesian filter?
As a (UK, math(s)) teacher I have to warn you that gaming the scores will inevitably happen when you have scores and those scores may impact on career.

http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/mathematics-made-measure

Long, UK specific, but possibly of interest to those with school age children in educational systems using these metrics.

PS: most of the data I plot on scatter plots has low density and high variability so little stacking.
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700MW, 580km long: world's longest submarine power cable... Between HVDC stations at Eemshaven in the Netherlands and Feda in Denmark.

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This pretty much mirrors my setup on the software side (in the Linux camp). I really love The Setup, mostly because it's just awesome knowing how other people get things done.
Small number of points, high variability, accurate numbers.
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Except that would entail prices for non-text services go down proportionately as texting gets more popular, which is not borne out by reality AFAIK (my bill certainly hasn't dropped despite being a very light texter). So while that way of looking at it is good for your blood pressure, I don't think it's good for modeling reality.
This doesn't really apply to the project in question here, but one good reason to switch from LGPL to MIT or another similar license is for libraries one might use on platforms where dynamic linking to libraries is basically impossible (eg. a non-jailbroken iPhone). On platforms where static linking is your only option, the LGPL basically becomes the GPL in practical terms.
It obviously depends on the numbers involved, but from your brief description nothing sounds wrong. It's pretty hard to "accidentally" stumble onto a Getty image used without a copyright statement which could lead you to think it's free to use, and a few hundred bucks is about what Getty charges as the rack-rate for a small business using one of their images (as you can see from their website).

Maybe there are details I'm missing, but you don't mention any RIAA-like practices or gross inflation of the cost/damages.
One probably-very-relevant thing you aren't addressing -- the "business relationship" started with a very clearly illegal cold call to a Do-Not-Call listed mobile phone number.

I also suspect that the company actively breaking the law as part of their business model must know something about the laws they're tangling with, and they settled with him for $4K rather than actually to go to small claims court over $7500.
If you're wondering, I found out you can delete comments on facebook for iPhone. Just slide left on the comment, then click the remove button.
They have a position they feel is worth defending. I don't see this move (and to be clear, it is a distasteful move) as anything other than piling obstacles in the way of current or potential competitors. It is easier to prevent a competitor from rising up than it is to combat one that already has a foothold. I doubt this is a significant part of any strategy on their part other than "throw molotov cocktails all around to keep competitors busy/distracted". I would like companies to compete on merit and win by, you know, convincing consumers their offering is the best. Current corporate culture seems to view that kind of outlook as quaint or naive and prefers this kind of ass-hattery. I continue to hope for an eventual attainment of more sophisticated outlooks. The fact that such retarded, petty shit continues thousands of years into organized society is discouraging.
Underscore also supports pre-compilation with _.template().
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Thread from an article on this initiative: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4024144
Anyone have examples of their old watermarks?
I submitted a story midweek about this same topic and was wondering why nobody else seemed to be concerned. I'm happy to see that is not the case because I don't think anyone in our industry is helped by protectionist maneuvers like this.

People wonder why there are fewer hardware startups, but I can tell you the hardware guys I know have expressed concerns over patent issues for not helping me work on a low-power server (and I need their help because I'm too dumb to do board layout on my own).
Yeah, I guess you're right. I just write about stuff that catches my eye in my day to day work. Lately I've seen so many apps from bussinesses that are just terrible, that I decided to write about this. Sorry about wasting your time.
>€100 billion [2] to build this, at taxpayer expense.

At energy consumers expense to be precise. 100 billion € sound scary, but it's just adds another 8,2% to the incredibly expensive German electricity bill.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strompreis
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NVIDIa on Ubuntu 12.04 took about 10 minutes to work out twinview. You should put your method on Ubuntuforums or askubuntu. There are always threads running about AMD cards on those forums.
And not just software, starting with the basics and working outward is a good way of getting any project done. It should be common knowledge but somehow it isn't.
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I'm quickly desensitized by video footage or images from war, acts of terrorism and the like. It might just be me, but I find that reading about the atrocities of war is much more effectual. So maybe there is a case for more old-fashioned war reporting?
Indeed, and there is also a question of the dignity of the victims of these events. It might be very distressing indeed for the family of a dead soldier to see his strewn remains appear on television.
i thought both the question and answer was good, but it didn't need to be first. i don't like fluff interviews, its too easy for critical areas not to be discussed.

(i do quite a few interviews myself).
One odd thought crossed my mind - most proprietary software you use has a clause prohibiting reverse engineering in the license agreement, and here they are admitting to the world that they routinely ignore said license agreements. Are they making themselves liable for copyright infringement here since they're using the software without a license? How enforceable are those "no reverse engineering" clauses anyway?