skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found this graph handy as a primer for the trends of and relationships between the different major types of photovoltaic cells and their efficiencies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PVeff(rev121211).jpg

It will put a lot of these news articles in perspective when you know that, for instance, a 100% increase in efficiency in a thin-film tech only means that it's approaching the efficiency of existing multijunction tech (ignoring price-per-watt).
What's currently the cheapest way to get a full (99%+) sequencing done privately?
You might want to checkout Holder.js, it is much like placehold.it but client-side.

http://imsky.github.com/holder/
I, for one,am extremely glad that i'm not the only one with the line 42 problem!
I don't get why SeatGeek hasn't gained more traction over the years. I've never found a ticket service that is so useful with such great UI/UX. Not to mention their seating charts blow everything else out of the water.
That quote itself seems to spell out the only way they really could -- the money goes directly to the brick+mortar partner, and then to Swig.
Just apps in general - I am a developer though, so geeky stuff interests me. Not necessarily apps _for_ development though.
Actually I stopped seeing the point of infix notation long before I started programming in Lisp; infix notation stopped seeming like the cat's meow when I had to actually spend time thinking about how to parse it. I have yet to encounter a good argument for infix notation; all anyone seems to offer is, "Well it's what everyone knows and what we teach in schools!" I am not even sure that infix notation being taught in schools should be pointed to as a positive thing, given that "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" does nothing to improve anyone's understanding of math (when was the last time you saw PEMDAS written in a proof?). I'm sure there would be endless complaints from parents who were unable to help their children with their arithmetic homework if we suddenly switched to postfix notation in elementary school.

I don't think mindlessly transcribing formulas from textbooks is a strong argument for infix notation, and it is definitely not a technical advantage. I am not entirely sure that infix is what people naturally use internally, either, as it is not unusual to hear people say things like, "subtract 3 from x" or "divide the sum of the numbers by the count" -- those look more like something you would see in Lisp than infix notation to me.
There were a lot of good ideas explored in Lisp - but not always they were first developed in Lisp (for example OOP came from Simula and Smalltalk to Lisp and merged their with Lisp approaches). Many ideas developed in Lisp have not even been reused now. It is buried in computer science reports from 60-90 (which no one reads anymore) and code which has been lost (or is not accessible). Example: Lisp 1.5 from the 60s had a bitmap used for marking objects during GC - Ruby 2.0 just now implemented this thing. One could have read old Lisp implementations from the last 50 years - but this is not how people work. Few people study old stuff and harvest it.

The flexibility of Lisp to change the language in multiple dimensions is still valid. There are few languages which provide it in a seamless and built-in way. That's why some people still use Lisp. It's also a thing which limits Lisp: it is more difficult to understand and goes against the coding standards in 'enterprise software development'.
JavaScript is enough of a Lisp, and it runs everywhere and is attached to a (more-or-less) standard UI environment that is getting increasingly powerful. And if you really like Lisp syntax, and believe in enforced immutability, there's always ClojureScript.
You might be hitting enter instead of clicking go. The form isn't actually a form and I'm using JS to trigger the redirect on clicking the link, so the default enter behavior isn't active.
Oh shoot:

http://gist.io/3135754

http://bl.ocks.org/1353700

Two of my favorite gist frontends, broken :(
Ruby is much lispier than Python, but it has the same fundamental deficiencies as Javascript (which is even lispier in that the idioms in Javascript are so closure-dependent); it's idiosyncratic, not particularly orthogonal, and nowhere nearly as powerful as Lisp.

Don't take my comment as a recommendation for Ruby. I use it in preference to Python, but Lisp is a better language.
This would be very interesting to me: did you end up putting your ruby hackery up on github?
I'm not him, but I'm from Sweden, where even people who work in television have tweeted "I love mondays!" with a instagram photo of a torrent client window of american TV shows[1] (that won't come to Sweden for a year at least, if at all). He got reprimanded, but only by colleagues because he actually worked in media. Media piracy is completely normalized.

[1] http://www.dagensmedia.se/nyheter/tv/article3586732.ece (swedish)
I read it as "Only on hacker news [insert good thing here]", and I agree with that sentiment, whether it was the intent or not. I think people caring a lot about privacy and issues like that is one reason I really like this place.
Good for a conversation piece at parties, if nothing else. "Hey, you guys won't even believe what I got from my random shopper bot this week!"
Find My iPhone app can now give directions to the finder’s door
An old version of the assembler is built into Ragweed, which my teammate Timur posted to Github.

https://github.com/tduehr/ragweed

(Ragweed itself is I believe also long since deprecated, though I used it recently as a starting point for an x64 Windows debugger, using JRuby and ffi).
I like the update to gists.

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Somewhat OT:

I find that github has always had poor to okay search capabilities.

For example, have you ever tried to search for a repo name, only to find 1000 forks? wat. Ever tried to search issues for a specific issue, only to find no results, removing a word or two to get a less accurate search.

Search for me is about discoverability. And github is for developers for the most part.

As a developer I want discoverability for code! I want regex features (like in google code search), better matches. Ways to compress my search results down. Search tags code:'if Awesome()'.

I just feel they could be doing so much better in this area.
I'd love to see the ability to print (with the wonderful formating in-tact, and none of the interface) directly from my Gists. There are various bookmarklets out in the wild that attempt to do this, all of which are of course broken after this update.

I just had a need to do this with a bit of documentation I was writing. Ended up modifying the DOM to show/hide what I wanted and allow the screen stylesheet to be used in printing (to PDF).
What I use: chrome, flipboard, iSSH, sketchbook pro, pages, evernote, kindle, iBooks, dropbox, AvPlayerHD, garage band
Bugs are a part of software life. Considering the great track record of Google Chrome, I'm not concerned and the issue was resolved pretty quickly. Even Google developers make mistakes as do the rest of us.
Thanks for that. The error I get when attempting to go to the original URL ( https://www.samba.org/samba/news/releases/4.0.0.html ) is

Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).

(Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap)

I went to about:config and turned on all the default-disabled ssl ciphers (per https://support.mozilla.org/es/questions/818578 ) but it didn't resolve the trouble.

UPDATE: I tried restarting my browser, and then it worked BUT after trying to do a binary search on which cipher setting was the "fix", I got to where everything was back to default, and the site still works. Probably there was a site problem that was fixed in the interim.
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Local gas and electricity prices vary dramatically, but it should be fairly simple to calculate this yourself for your area.
Oh. I apologise. I must have been misled by the phrase "fake my way through it" when you actually meant "I'd do it". :)

If you did go, and did not shut up, the worst that would happen to you is a quick trip back to Beijing. As your Beijing-side guide would explain, the worst that could happen to your guide is a life (i.e. death) sentence in a labour camp, along with her family (including children), and any children born in the camp die there too. If you truly couldn't keep your mouth shut in such a situation, you definitely shouldn't go (and I don't believe it anyway - that'd be psychological-damage levels of lack of self-control, but because you haven't devolved into screaming abuse, you clearly do actually have enough self-control).
My latest: controlling small appliances with my iPhone using qr codes to connect to them.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4865290

Thought of it on a Wednesday, started Friday night, finished Sunday night (and took video), posted when I woke up Monday. Total hours, probably about 8. I think I spent maybe 2 distracted hours Monday morning writing it up, but that may have had something to do with my straying into 'manifesto' territory.
The surprising point of the article is that it is natural to assume that no property = no exposure. But that's not true in the case of housing.

-- suggests public policy should be to <decrease> housing prices. yest many government's seek to <increase> or "support" them. we should all ask why??
well... it looks like the population of KS and central Kansas City MO (where google actually is) is way less than a million people. Comcast, on the other hand, covers about 100 million people. That includes those 1.5 million google skipped.
Screwing over the artists is absolutely nothing new for the music industry. I wonder what percentage of musicians made minimum wage or above under the old model?
It seems like the Gist component of the API is either having a hard time or no longer works with JSONP.

I'm also having an issue with Plunker as legacy templates are pulled from Gist and are currently broken.
It doesn't, and I don't see where I've made that claim. I'm refuting the opposite. The initial claim was:

> I didn't explicitly call that out, but as soon as you have more than 4GB of memory, there's going to be an application that wants to use more than 4GB. So yes, 64-bit is necessary in my opinion. Especially when you consider the server market.

I'm just saying I don't agree. There is a massive market very open to the power saving offered by arm that have no use for > 4GB process spaces. That doesn't mean there aren't markets where 64bit will be useful.
We have deals directly with the licensed retailer. The money for the sales goes straight to them.
You're falling on the same mistake as the original author, that craft implies art.

Craft is about applying creativity and skill and produce some product. Art is about expression, it doesn't have to solve a problem, and can come to life using any medium, software included.

So we could said while all software is craft, some software is art.
cool-thanks...I'll look at that sometime.
Does anyone know how I can view the html source of what is displayed on screen in the simulator.

I had a live demo [1] of Firefox OS by Tristan Nitot a few months ago as Pas Sage En Seine [2] in Paris, and it was one of the selling point that at any time the user can view the html source of whatever Firefox OS is displaying on the screen (see [1] at 55:00 approximately). This is really awesome because it means that you can always study how things work and easily improve them.

But I can't find how to do that in the simulator.

[1] http://lacantine.ubicast.eu/videos/nitot/

[2] http://www.passageenseine.org/
For 3. you should take a look at OpenChange. It implements Exchange using Samba 4.0 libraries.
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Just to heed a warning...be very careful with design being a differentiator when it comes to large enterprise (as the article insinuates). The person buying the software may not be the one actually using it, so therefore this is not as much of a USP as you may hope.

Good luck and happy to give some direction on the challenges of dealing with the enterprises area. Contact details in profile.
I see what you're trying to get at. You're saying that "x% of children are not genetically related to their fathers because women have affairs to increase the competition for her egg" is a theory, not to be taken as something true.

I didn't mean to make myself sound like that I was saying it was. I was just suggesting something and I agree with you: it is plausible, but it is still a theory at the end of the day.

We're on the same page. :)
Oh that's neat. I love the Instacart model. I even paid the $100 for a year of free deliveries (I figure, if I get 25 deliveries, it's worth it, and I'm already close to that). I'll have to check out Swig as well.
I'm just going to assume I worded my post poorly. I pointed those out and identified them as niche markets, because they are. Some how it appears the impression I gave was "there is no need for 64bit, ever!!!!!".
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> there are a lot of great products out there that are built much better than WordPress and I wish one of them were the dominant player.

Honest question: Can you name one?

I'm seriously looking for a WordPress alternative, but I haven't found one that is truly BETTER.
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I know it's a rename. That's a cool idea. Sort of the way Google Docs handles it by letting you specify emails that can view your document.
Then down the line the smart people from those firms can disrupt the existing players at their own game or a new game when the current-elite get lazy or can't innovate. That's how the market's supposed to work.
That we have sex is defined by our genes; who we have sex with is a choice we make by thinking about it, not something pre-encoded by our genes, as you are trying to say.

Which actually makes sense given your premises. A good evolutionary "strategy" would be to evolve brains that can make choices far more complex (literally, inelligently) than what can be pre-encoded by genes that change slowly and mutate randomly.

In summary, you are implying that when you have an affair, it's not a choice, but it's determined by your genes. Thus, it's not a moral issue; you have no choice. Thus, you can justify having any particular affair by claiming "genes," and you should just forgive any particular affair your wife has for the same reason. And I'm saying, no, it's a choice.
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Remember that the "G" in "MPG" stands for "gallons" (of gasoline or diesel fuel). When your car runs on electricity, the measurement no longer applies directly, so a conversion is used to treat "gallons" as a proxy for pollution.
CL-USER> (ql:quickload "infix")

("infix")

CL-USER> #I(abs(-4)+5^^2-6)

-23
Trying to wrap my head around these numbers, I see the rate 35 KWh / 100 miles which suggests to me you could take a 100 mile drive for about $4.50 (11 cents per KWh and 15% extra for charging inefficiency)
I've looked for training here in Romania, I couldn't find anything clear on the topic: what is provided and for what price.
In computer science, this doesn't really apply. I mean, hiring decent people is hard enough without restricting ourselves to certain top tier schools. Sure, a company like Google might have a bias for MIT or CMU, but they'll take you if you are from UW, Cornell, or Brown, as long as you can pass the interview!
I define "art" as something I (the proverbial unskilled layman) couldn't do in a weekend.

I was in a Syndey art museum recently, and there are a lot of beautiful art paintings I couldn't create in a thousand years. There are a few proudly displayed "things" that I could create in a couple hours with zero skill. I have no idea what people see in those "things".
Already exists. Use one of the derivatives, like xubuntu, lubuntu, or kubuntu, or ubuntu-server.
From the article

the gatekeepers at our nation’s most prestigious firms are pathetically shallow, outrageously parochial, and insufferably snobbish.
Haiku is the closest existing OS to that I can think of (one "true" distribution that "just works", but nothing stopping you from making your own).

It's not Linux though.
How do you really annoy a web dev?

<div id='element-container">
<h2>header for paragraph of text</h2>
<div id="element-container-container">
<span>... paragraph of text...</span>
</div>
</div>
The article claims the 60 kwh model goes one mile on 0.35 kwh. So, at USD$0.16662/kwh (didn't know the currencies were that close), it costs $0.058317 to go a mile. If gas is $3.35/gal, then you need to be getting 57.4 mpg to be even.

However, if, as was quoted up thread, off-peak electricity is 5¢ per kwh, then the equivalent mpg jumps to 191.
That's wrong. Lisp is for those who want to reprogram the language to enhance the brain. If you feel uncomfortable with that mode, then Lisp is not for you.

I don't know if I would go so far as to say the poster is wrong for feeling that way, but you are correct, Lisp is fundamentally different, and one should really only embark on learning it, if they want to learn how to do something fundamentally different. If one has the mindset of "why should I change" then they are probably going to miss the profound ah-ha many of us got when leaning a Lisp. They are not wrong for feeling that way, but a Lisp is definitely a bad choice for them and will only frustrate them.
I have also long thought about this problem. The problem with your idea is the same problem lamented by the article: That throwing money at the problem of poverty tends to promote dependence and leave people less able to take care of themselves, thus it tends to make poverty more intractable. If money alone could solve such a problem, you would not have such a high banktuptcy rate among lottery winners (last I hear, 2/3s of lottery winners are bakrupt within five years).

The most effective solutions come from developing a culture and set of policies which consider human needs at a baseline which largely ignores current income yet manages to promote effective behaviors. Rewarding poor people with money because they poor is part of what we do now. It has a proven track record of promoting lifelong dependence and helping to create entrenched poverty.

Please keep thinking on this problem. It is one we pretty desperately need to make headway against. But lease think on something other than throwing money at the problem.

Thank you for posting.
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This is one of those debates where there's no convincing anyone on either side. Convention is the only argument I have or need, and it's perfectly sufficient for me. It's insufficient for you and the rest of the Lisp world. This has been the state of affairs for the last fifty years and it will continue to be the state of affairs until the end of time.
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I might be completely crazy or have had biased experiences, but the content and tone of this article are the opposite of what I've observed. Stanford, Dartmouth, MIT, Cornell, and Michigan (to name just a few of the schools cited) all enjoy robust recruiting efforts from top companies as far as I've been able to tell.

Additionally, based on conversations I've had with friends at some of the firms that were (presumably) polled, the desire to cut down on active recruiting at schools is usually due to lack of resources rather than deep prejudice on the part of people doing the hiring. If you only need to hire 3 people, it's simpler to just recruit at a few places where you've been successful in the past and call it a day -- it doesn't matter where you find good people, just that you got some in the end.
Samba has a flexible process model so you can choose what you want: forking, preforking, threading (bad) or a single (for debuging) process model.
The title is linkbait, but I'm not sure what about this is really news. Yes, degrees so-called "elite" schools like Harvard are essentially an expensive form of signalling.

Whether or not that signalling is accurate is a topic that can be (and has been!) debated ad nauseum, but the observation that people in the financial, etc. industries[1] do treat those degrees as a signal is nothing new or surprising.

[1] Really, anything except tech, where this trend is absent (or arguably reversed - ie, respect for dropouts).
I believe you are still getting the numbers wrong.

There's no way Google Fiber only hits 2.55 Mbps consistently. That's slower than the slowest speed advertised by crappy ATT DSL that would be barely be fast enough to watch Netflix at all.

Regarding the mobile speeds, 700 KBps sounds about right for someone on a 3G (LTE or HSPA (T-Mobile)) connection. I just did a test right now, and I get about 900 KBps

Also, regarding your last point, most people probably at least have 802.11g by now, which maxes at 54 Mbps, waaay above 2.55 Mbps.
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When you leave an event with 10, 20 or 50 business cards what do you do with them? What platforms or apps work best for the busy hustler?
Go to Settings > Configuration > Accounting > Then go to the "Bank and Cash" section. You will be able to set up your paypal account, write the email to be sent to customers, add payment processors,... through the "Configure payment acquiring methods" link.
I'm reminded of the quote "Hiring managers don't always get the people they want, they they always get the people they deserve."
http://www.slackware.com/

Slackware is simple, easy to use, and "it just works". It's free software so of course it's hackable. It's not as GUI-y as an OSX fan might like, but otherwise, it fits your requirements.

It even has the "top dollar" price tag ($30-$50 depending on if you want the 6 CD set or a single DVD, and whether you sign up for the subscription or not), although you can download it for free if you want.
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Guy Kawasaki thinks self/artisanal-publishing has greater benefits
I know a couple of twins named Winklevoss that would be perfect for their firm.
I'm not a fan of this at all.

I wonder if there is a market for something like a CentOS/RHEL base system (think slow moving core system) with a faster pace of release for the desktop applications for a small fee.

I kinda get this on my laptop using CentOS plus some carefully chosen additional repos..
The fact that top firms have blunt, inefficient hiring algorithms is in theory a good thing for equality/competition/dynamism in the long run. Imagine they accurately assessed every graduate in the job market and always harvested the best ones.
This is what happens in situations where you can't measure an employee's marginal productivity with any reasonable degree of accuracy. You hire based on pedigree and promote based on popularity. Excessive focus on these things implies that no particular measurable skill is actually required to do the job. It's not really "we want to hire people who can use their skills to create the most value for us." It's more of "we control a large source of income, and we're going to share access to it with the people we deem worthy." It's the old way.
There's a bit of a tail risk benefit too: the utility of a house is somewhat uncorrelated to the rest of the financial market.

I.e. in 2008 when the world was utterly insane your house still kept rain off your head. It's easy to overstate but it's a thing.
Oh yeah, right. I forget the concept of using gists in blog posts, but I guess it's because I quit that thought because of how much of a mess it leaves behind in your gist list.
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I like the changes, except that it broke syntax highlighting for php gists without open and close tags. For example: https://gist.github.com/3837352