skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a rather common thread, I'm having a bit of trouble finding an authoritative source but let's look around:

http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/solar.html

>Incidentally, naked solar panels currently (2013) go for about $1 per watt ($1000 per kWp), installation costs are about $4 per watt, for a total installed cost of about $5 per watt, without batteries.

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/11/27/the-insta...

>average non-module costs for residential and commercial systems declined by roughly 30 percent from 1998 to 2011, but have not declined as rapidly as module prices in recent years. As a result, non-module costs now represent a sizable fraction of the installed price of PV systems

>the median installed price of PV systems installed in 2011 was $6.10 per watt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel#Price

>in 2012 it was estimated that the quantity cost per watt was about $0.60

http://www.wholesalesolar.com/bulk-solar-panels-by-the-palle...

>Price per watt: $0.84

So if anything, I might be lowballing it. I was thinking in terms of tripling wattage for the same amount of effort, (which makes sense for commercial PV) rather than thirding effort for the same wattage (which makes more sense at home), so your secondary point is valid. If at-home PV takes off, it might be a good time to be an electrician.
> It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.

With an attitude like that, how can anyone explain racism, sexism or
_any kind_ of offensive behavior to you? I mean, you've basically declared the word "offensive" means nothing to you. So if someone said they were offended by something you did, you wouldn't even consider their point of view; nor would you have any empathy observing such a situation as 3rd party witness or as a reader of an article describing such a situation between 2 parties. Do you see anything wrong with this?
There's absolutely nothing wrong with `!important` if used correctly.

The problem is when people use `!important` because they don't understand CSS specificity.
I think the colors resemble more Sublime Text's default theme. Here, by the way: http://i.imgur.com/FYce2kD.jpg
I guess the point would to be to have the ability to run x86 Windows applications on a mobile device.
Vim's new hybrid line number mode
Ah, spectacular! A few friends and I had a lot of fun in the GameTap updates, especially solving some of the nonexistent puzzles (I just call missing puzzles Hard Puzzles, like Jalak). This should be a lot of fun!
I hate it as well, but I think it is generally anticipated that any greentech solution is never going to be widely adopted until it achieves price parity.
just received an email from http://www.androidrate.com/ offering "Boost your app with 5 star ratings and positive reviews". Yes, Google should ban them.
Porting a Tornado app from PyMongo to Motor
BB Guns, Gangs, and Other Teenage Rites of Passage
In my experience some devs are power users, but many business devs are writers of code, they don't know dick about anything outside of their purview, and frankly, they don't care.
Sometimes I wonder what the web would look like now, if Sun had taken a little bit different approach with applets and embraced HTML, DOM etc instead of pushing the Java GUI to the browser.
Eventually, yes, most users upgrade. But Apple's stats showed about 6% of users still on iOS 5 a full year after iOS 6 was released. I'd imagine we'll see similar numbers with users going from iOS 6 to 7 - lots of them won't upgrade for a full year, and some will never upgrade. Mixpanel is currently showing 36% of users on iOS 6 - that's not an insignificant number. I'll be supporting iOS 6 for probably another year.
Oh bother. Use `-` for hyphen and `--` for dash. That's it and that's all you need. If a style transformer wants to convert `--` to &ndash; or &mdash;, fine whatever. But f* the difference between the two.

Please, stop making things more more complicated than they need to be! It is so f*ing tiresome.
I may be wrong but afaik java 8 has been delayed once (http://mreinhold.org/blog/secure-the-train)
Where this utterly falls apart is that it doesn't consider that the major barrier is NOT the price. It's overcoming the friction of getting the user to pay anything, at all. If you can do that, conversion rates are similar at $0.10 and $10.00. That is why micropayments are dumb. They're leaving money on the table.

NB: I work in the industry and this is coming from direct professional experience. I'm not really at liberty to go much more in depth than I did, but I have strong real world data that says micropayments are a disaster, plain and simple.
What does this mean for Scaleform? if Flash stops being developed, then will Scaleform continue to be developed independently? lots of game studios are using Scaleform for their games.
Exactly. Could you be open for a lawsuit if you didn't pay your creditors in order to respect the privacy of the email holders?

It's a very fine point, against the backdrop of a very good article.
Aye, but people do. Often. I suggest to people that they set up a system that uses some permutation of the domain name or company name to uniqueify their passwords. This way, you only have to remember one password, plus your system, and you have unique passwords everywhere.

On the subject of red flags during signup, a password length restriction is always a red flag to me. If you're hashing my password, you don't care how long it is, right? If you limit length, I assume it's stored in plain text.
Clearly bad practice to be using raw integers here. They should at least be using enums.

public enum Ingredients {
BREAD, BACON
}

public enum Delicatessen {
BACON_SANDWICH
}
Exactly, I can't remember the last time I've seen an optometrist, horrible things could be wrong with my eyes.
Nitpick: the book was based on the game, rather than the other way around.
>if i recall from early Zynga (circa 2008), we would get MySQL (InnoDB) on decent commodity hardware (Dell 2U with 8 cores, 32G mem, 15K RPM disks in raid 10, cost about $7K USD) to around 6K QPS before it would eat shit.

Mysql is slow for concurrent access, but not that slow. I don't have mysql installed, but postgresql running on openbsd (a famously poorly performing OS) in a virtualbox virtual machine (hooray overhead) only being given one core and running off of a slow laptop hardrive is beating that for me.
I think the real revolution will be in long haul trucking, self driving trucks would go a long way towards increased delivery speed and safety. Throw in a standardized communications protocol and they could be tapped by a variety of services to relay real time traffic information, road conditions, and whatnot. They could be tossed into HOV lanes if isolation in city limits is preferred.

As to the article, in Atlanta one major change that helped congestion was to implement throttled access via on ramps governed by lights. This tends to keep people from merging in groups which has a rubber band effect on existing traffic.

Still more can be done by restricting areas of the highway to limit the lane changes. In Chicago I saw this done with bypass areas separated by cement walls. A simple solution but a bit cumbersome. Still separating some outside lanes would help.
Amazon does a similar thing to seller ratings: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/sellerfe... .

Ratings have an initial slow impact (this is more to do with getting the goods to the user and allowing the returns process to run it's course) then the feedback has a 100% affect that tails off over a year or two.

A similar approach could be used by google.
In HN style I'm going to comment by bashing a very minor detail of the article: at my current page width the subtitle: "Below I cover the common uses of three horizontal marks: the hyphen -, the en dash –, and the em dash —." breaks lines so that a new line starts with a comma and that's very bad!
Java error: The major.minor version '51.0' is too recent...
disclaimer: Ansible author here.

You could consider using Ansible to do image builds to set up your containers. You should probably look into local mode. As for your speed questions, accelerate mode is 1.3 may be something you'd be interested in.

I agree the article made that a little unclear as I would expect the docker file to be calling Ansible, but I may have gotten confused by the intent.

Obviously one of the main reasons to use a config and app deployment system is when you can't just use throwaway instances and need to do upgrades. Not always a problem with web architecture but you've still got something to preserve on the database machines, so I think there's always going to be a need for automation even with image build systems -- if only to provide an easier way of preparing those images too :)
This is a lovely program and yes, Comic Sans fits 100% perfectly :) haters gonna hate!
Shameless AndroidRate sells 5-star reviews on Google Play Store
"If you don't have this money and nobody's willing to lend it to you, it probably means that your case has little merit."

Or you're a start-up or small business that can't afford the contingent liability of a deep-pocketed infringer's legal team. Uncapped "loser pays" clauses also have an unintended consequence of encouraging the infringer to beef up their legal team to intimidate the patent holder.
What? You really think that the same amount of people will pay $10 for an article as $0.10. That's completely ridiculous.
Indeed, hence the numerous cheats in the playbook to make things work together.
Still need some digging to figure out the perfect workflow; Dockerfile that runs some git clone vs. add of local code vs. deploy via ansible - the ansible approach still provides the flexibility to have a customized container per dev that includes one custom set of ssh keys for example to fetch code from github or alike...
Or a VM?
The mechanics of micro-payments (which bitcoin may or may not solve) are but one hurdles to making a system that works for publishers.
Release notes: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2013/000567.html
This is neat until you realize that by converting it to a PDF, you lose all of the jumping around goodness that Vim offers you to help you navigate this monstrosity.
Does it install the Ask.com toolbar?
Photovoltaics is more inline with Google's needs because it also offers increased cooling if placed above data centers. Could this be a reason why they favour PV?
Unlikely. EasyJet is a UK/Europe based airline, and they mainly travel within Europe. I think they have tried to ignore a few EU directives before and got stung by the European courts, esp around compensation.

I've travelled EasyJet a couple of time, it's a cheap low cost airline. Just don't expect any customer service whatsoever if something goes wrong, it's like talking to a bunch of incompetent monkeys.
This says a lot about Europe actually. 4000 Euro should, if taxed decently, be a nice salary (2600 Euro net at 35% taxes). However, in many countries that salary brings your income tax way up (usually between 40 and 50 %). Plus, you are obliged to pay for a pension you will never see (I challenge anybody believing that in 40 years from now European States will be able to pay decent pension).

Finally, most of the European States have funny regulations about building new house, so most of the cities are crowded and rents are way too expensive.
Had quite a laugh at enlargeYourContainer.

Any plan to release a way to export the drawing in a json object (or any other data structure) ?

Props to you anyway.
Sounds about right.

I worked at Prudential about 10 years ago, as a FTE. Our small division mainly ran on a bunch of custom Access reporting applications. It wasn't quite cutting it, because Access, so it was decided that we would build a portal on the company's intranet. The only problem was that we, as accidental web developers, were not allowed to run development web servers on our dev machines, because they were locked down by corporate. We had to use an extra PC that, by some miracle, had IIS, and develop against that remotely. Good times.
Solved By Flexbox
Ghost. Simple. Beautiful. Blogging.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Talks New Kindles and What He's Doing Next
Good points about Evernote - I'm not sure what went into their decision to support iOS 7 only, but I'm sure they considered it.

"I guess I was lucky that I still had it on my phone cause otherwise, I would be left without the ability to install it now."

That's not entirely true any more - Apple is now allowing users to install the "last compatible version" of apps. More on that from Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/17/apple-ios-last-compatible...
I agree on his one. For example in Portugal it's almost impossible to buy a computer with linux or no OS, you simply can't.

Last time I asked about it and told them that if they sent the computer to the manufactor or if they contacted them they would sell it to me without OS, the seller simply told me that he can't sell the computer like that and that the pc + os are a package and there's no way to separate them.

Recently I saw like 2 asus eeepc with ubuntu at shops, but that's it. Weak, small computers that almost nobody will buy and then they will tell the excuse "ohh, computers with linux don't sell". Simply stupid, I mean too damn smart for microsoft.

Monopoly rules and still exists. Most people won't buy stuff from amazon or any other online shop, specially a computer that's something expensive and that if they have problems they can't simply go to the shop for maintenance.

I think most people here live in a dream world when they say this kind of problem is solved.
Please stop thinking only about how you see the world ( hackers that dominate technology and internet, living in 1st world countries ) and think how normal, granny type users live and experience the world.

And I must laugh when people also say that ipad or mac computers are cheap enough for these users, seriously I don't know what to think...

And sorry, I know I may be ranting a little but this must be said.
Siri offers the latest backdoor into your iPhone – just ask nicely
sigh. please. As an aspiring writer this sort of fear-mongering posts make me cringe.

How exactly is the Publishing with the capital P is in danger? Is it in verge of death? The advance of technology has made it easier for the readers to access them. Therein lies the problem of publication industry as we know it. Some companies have adopted the e-book platform, and many more are following.

People will never stop reading for sake of receiving information/entertainment/discourses.

I know I am bashing down a strawman here, and to get back to the point, no, Bitcoin won't save the publishing because there won't be a need for the saving from the first placing. Microtransaction is not the key; content management and good deliveries will be the key to adoption that we see, not some magical revival.

Please. Bitcoin is new and hot. I understand, and we want to solve all of our problems with it, but it's not a magic bean. We should stop inventing problems for it to solve, if at all.
IE 0-day: exploit code is now widely available
I find using the compose key easier than remembering Unicode points. For em dash: `Compose - - -`, for en dash: `Compose - - .`.
There's also a garbage collector running around. But if you shoot him, the whole game pauses.
>Some people will point out that the Surface has it, but then people will say 'but Apple added this feature that makes it work'.

I used to own a Nomad Jukebox. It was a decent MP3 player but was marred by crashes, terrible battery life, and excessive bulk.

While I still think Nomad's offering was good, my friends iPod was excellent. Better battery life, polished UI, and the thing was tiny - well, as tiny as a hard-drive based MP3 player could be.

No one cares who made it first. All that matters is who makes it work, and makes it work well.
Brainfuck interpreter in xslt.
Well I'll bite on the whole anecdote thing.

My anecdote simply states that nothing is perfect and things do go wrong.

A more pertinent question is: is that less problematic as far as you are concerned or as far as the users are concerned? Also are you fully sure that you are qualified to judge this as a success based on the metrics you set out? Perhaps things take them ten times longer but they are ignorant to that fact?
Yeh, I think it's definitely looking more like Sublime Text.
I agree with your first point totally. I usually prefer to pay a little more and go with BA.

The second point though. This must have come from higher up. I mean, I doubt that manager was actively watching Twitter so this must have been identified by some automated system and trickled to the manager as a notification...
I love Java but I hate Oracle more than any other tech company. I don't refuse to use the language but I don't like to either if I can help it. I really hope with OpenJDK we can just forget about Oracle in the long term and have a solid language/platform that is free from a corporate parent.
Angularjs, Emberjs, Backbonejs Job Trends
Exactly. The whole point of a tablet is to show the buttons you need when you need them (and only then), without an external device taking up space whether you need it or not.

What if I want the buttons available without taking up space on the screen whether I need it or not? The information density of a screen collapses in on itself when it is completely crowded out by control surfaces, so your very argument can be used as a counter-argument.
Oracle sued over $33,000 bill for SaaS: STRIPPERS as a SERVICE
Interesting re: the GPS usage, thank you. I would have thought that the process of repeatedly acquiring the satellites and establishing the fix on demand would have been quite an overhead, though. /me goes to read more

Network location does require wifi to be permanently active, which for some reason seems to be a magnitude more power-hungry than 3G. So most folk I know turn-off wifi when not interactively using it.
It should be easy to use a meta key to specify you want a menu. I wonder if anyone's made the option.
Not for an article, no. For a one month subscription? Sure.

I have hard (private) data to back this up, too.
Well, true. But all scenarios should be solvable via specificity alone.

I feel this is similar to saying there's absolutely nothing wrong with Goto if used correctly. The problem is when people use Goto because they don't understand other structural mechanisms.

As I said, it's just a nit that they can consider it or ignore it as they please. If this were just some web page, I would never even care. But since they encouraged me to open my DOM inspector and look at the code, I wanted them to know that I cringed when I saw the !important. That's it.
Essentially, yes. More precisely demand is increasing faster than readily available supply (people selling Bitcoins for goods or other currencies, also called liquidity).
Console API Reference: Chrome DevTools — Goodbye console.log
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Had his Top Execs Read these Three Books
The question is if it’s worth the extra work. I think for minix it’s obvious that it’s not worth it — nobody is using it seriously as a desktop system with gnome (a quick googling for it even brought up that gnome 3 isn’t running on minix anyway). Relying on some things can make it easier to go forward (for instance the mentioned sandboxes).
Just noticed this comment in the code:

*droppable: true or false (false by default). If true, dropping an image on the canvas will include it and allow you to draw on it

That's awesome! I was thinking that this would make a great coloring book, and being able to just drop lineart into the back of a canvas and have your kid go to town is awesome. Really nice work, Leimi!
Yeah, the proprietary databases can be very expensive. I was told at an IBM internship day that DB2 was doing billions of transactions / day for UPS in the mid 1990s ... on clustered[1] mainframes. Not something most startups can easily get their hands on.

Basically the technological bifurcation seems to exist near the limits of a high-value corporate credit card. Which naturally changes over time.

The biggest shift in data economics in the last 5 years has been the emergence of SSDs. For startups the 2nd biggest shift has been the surged in performance of PostgreSQL; they've made huge strides in scaling it up over the last few years.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Parallel_Sysplex
My dashboard claims I went here[0]. Must have blocked that whole stint I served as a Liberian pirate out of my mind.

0: http://bit.ly/19ExLIT
Thanks for linking to this, I hadn't seen it before. Excerpt:

Ironically, of all rich countries the US has lost the most civil liberties
recently. But I'm not too worried yet. I'm hoping once the present
administration is out, the natural openness of American culture will reassert
itself.

I would love to see pg revisit this topic, as this was written in 2006.
Theory vs. practice and my first days as a developer
Apple admits, iPhone 5s Fingerprint Database To Be Shared With NSA
Actually it is.

Third party support businesses stand to make a pretty profit off of Microsoft ditching support for XP. I'm afraid XP will live on for quite some time after it's officially unsupported.

The medical field is perhaps one of the largest supporters of these ancient systems. I can't tell you how many times I've heard my medical friends say they use EMR and documentation software that ONLY works in IE6. You think those underfunded nursing homes and second rate hospitals are going to spend thousands updating their systems?
Or blocking Random House's ebook app if they did not agree to an iBookstore deal.

Chief Apple cheerleader Gruber himself finds that "worrisome" here: http://daringfireball.net/2013/06/siege_mentality_indeed
Apple has been inconsistent about the use of colors and buttons - sometimes two things look the same, but one's tappable and one's not.
The +/- 3.1% is relative to the efficiency. The way to read it is: 0.447 +/- 3.1%, where now it's more obvious that it translates to more like 0.447 +/- 0.014.
You are in the IT/CS/computer field. Murphy's law is part of the deal :)
IOS Email Encryption with OpenPGP Keys
I've spent some time working with Parisian based companies. To add to the above...

- It is VERY expensive to fire people. Something like 2 years of salary?

- The taxes rates can be borderline extortion. People are happy paying them because they see value, but it hurts competitiveness.

- There's more of a feel of us (workers) versus them (management) as opposed to esprit de corps. You see this in employee attitude as well as the government's view of business.

This is all a shame, because outside of work, it's a fascinating country, with great food and culture. The academic system produces a lot of well trained engineers that are very good at Math. (This is why most financial software firms either have a French office, French roots, or lots of French engineers)

What's this mean? I hope the project succeeds, but I don't think it will. It sounds like Malaysia's multimedia corridor of many years back. Unfortunately you can't centrally plan innovation.
Can Music Really Aid Math Learning? [2012]
If you're a developer and haven't played this game yet, I wholly encourage you to do so, just to witness the technical feat that this game is. There is a simply baffling level of detail and surely one of the most sophisticated open world engines ever conceived under the hood. It is stunning what the rockstar devs have pulled off here.
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Never left, actually