skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An increasing proportion of Opera's (growing) revenue comes from advertising (they bought a few agencies recently) and their share price continues to climb. I don't think they have many problems moving forward, it's just less visible than their traditional consumer-facing domain.

Still a shame they dropped Presto, though.
Sure, you can increase your efficiency, but:

There's a hard upper limit. 1 kW/meter^2 (mis-typed as 1W above). And you've got diminishing marginal returns of more efficient cells. The truth is that the land requirements are likely to go down by a factor of 2-4 maximum. Other cost factors (transmission, but especially storage) will dwarf these.

Once you've provisioned land for solar, the key costs are in replacing the panels every 20-40 years or so. Wind, stones, hail, and simple degredation will mandate this. Physical support infrastructure is likely more robust.

Land use for solar isn't dedicated-purpose for most applications. Even solar thermal can be used for grazing or other uses. PV can simply go on top of existing structures. You're not talking land acquisition so much as site acquisition.

Solar and wind are likely to be overprovisioned where possible. In the sense that you'll provide more capacity than is strictly needed to meet electrical demand. In part because you're not going to get 100% duty cycles ("capacity factor", which is how power installations are rated, are typically ~20 - 40%), and because you don't have an accelerator pedal, only a brake. Solar and wind aren't dispatchable, only sheddable. With overcapacity you've got the option of converting "excess" into other usable and storable forms of energy (hydrogen, methane, battery storage, electricity-to-fuels, etc.), or for intermittent but high-energy needs.

We've got cost reductions built in to PV production for the foreseable future. Again, efficiency improvements need to be considered in terms of total cost per Watt / kWh delivered*.
I've been a Fastmail user for years, ever since I realized that their web UI was compatible with my Windows Mobile Phone. (pre iPhone era)

Here we are now, and the rest of the net has caught up to mobile access, mostly. Though my initial reasons for using Fastmail have become moot points, I'll continue to use my Fastmail accounts with fond memories and hope for improved resistance to governments' exceeding their mandates.
I think you're generally correct about users not caring about the rendering engine for the most part. I wouldn't care at all that they ditched Presto if it meant they retained all the previous features and user interface they had before transitioning. However, I am worried that is unlikely to happen.

Looking at the course Blink based Opera has taken thus far, it doesn't look like they're focusing on keeping current users happy (any new user base is going to be an uphill climb). It's still new, but as a consistent Opera user for almost a decade, I'm very skeptical of them keeping all the previous customization as well as avoiding "Chromisms" in the UI.
There was a previous discussion a couple of months ago on hn about this fairly silly set of "studies":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6122707

The greatest part is where they admit that, for one experiment, rather than study actual rich and poor people, they just had undergraduates pretend to be rich or poor:

"We adopted a paradigm used in past research to activate higher or lower social-class mindsets and examine their effects on behavior."
Their customer services sucks. When I bought my last Thinkpad, I had to buy it 3 times, over the course of two weeks before they finally built it and wait a month to have it shipped once the order actually went through. It was a solid machine (except for the speakers and screen), but I'll never buy another device from them. Instead, I'm typing this up on a fruit company device.
I agree the rendering engine isn't important, but when they threw out Presto they also threw out most of the features and innovations they created and turned Opera into a sort of half-assed Chrome.
Your words widened the smile on my face. I agree with you about the risk/reward numbers.

Should you be comfortable, I'll be very glad to keep in touch with you. My e-mail is on the GitHub profile.
Give me an ajax-less google search over what we have now any day.
Using code generated here

http://www.higopi.com/ucedit/Tamil.html

in a new tab on Chromium 29.0.1547.57 Debian jessie/sid (217859)

does not crash the browser
"And yet I see no solution to this problem."

Dustin's problem is similar in some respects to an addiction (which he alludes to), so perhaps the solution is treating it as such; forcing moderation on himself, or even complete detachment (the cold turkey approach). Of course, being involved in technology means Dustin is essentially an alcoholic working at a brewery, so disengagement may be especially difficult. But to throw up your hands and claim there's no way out strikes me as a bit defeatist. If you feel a technology is negatively impacting your thought patterns, perhaps you could find a way to use that technology less.
Macbeth's Lost Callback
Thank you SO much - I've been using fewer and fewer Google services, and the address box already does search so I don't need another bar, so I was really annoyed at these changes.

That said, I spent the evening trying to figure out how to fix Firefox's new tab page (half the thumbnails aren't there because Firefox doesn't store them for https:// sites to protect my privacy) - if you go into the thumbnails subdirectory of the Firefox profile directory, the files there are named using the MD5 hash of the URL of the page - just put a PNG in of the appropriate size and you can customize the blank thumbnails to your liking.
GNOME 3.8 has been available on Gentoo in various forms since April - first in the gnome overlay, then hardmasked in the portage tree, then unmasked into unstable/testing ie. ~arch. The (one month old) gentoo-dev thread that the blog author referred to is talking about the stabilization of GNOME 3.8, which is the tier used by the most conservative users who have chosen to only use well-tested software that is known to build/run well on their architecture and has received ample testing. This is not very different from binary distributions, Ubuntu 13.04 shipped on April 2013 with GNOME 3.6 from Sep 2012.
Thank you! I wish Hacker News natively added this. I don't think they ever will because I guess they want to keep this website as minimalistic as possible.
There's some opportunity for this, and I've seen discussions of it. The capability is real and is being seriously considered, though with existing EV fleets the effects are too small to consider.

Given the variability of renewables supply, this is a good way to allow for surplus daytime supply (of solar) and possibly overnight supply of wind (though in many areas winds tend to peak during the afternoon/evening due to land heating effects).

The challenge though is that you're still ultimately limited by battery materials. Known lithium reserves would be exhausted within a century even with recycling (about 90% efficient) providing only a fraction of the world's population with a Tesla-sized battery. Other electrolytes, improved recycling, or sourcing lithium from much poorer sources (potentially seawater) might work around this, but it's still a constrained resource.
Hitchens is not the only one who has come out against Mother Theresa. Here's a recent study by the University of Montreal:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/uom-mta022813...
you can't pay for childcare

Having children is a choice. There are no storks dropping babies into random homes.

True, people do make bad choices for a variety of reasons (teen pregnancy, for example), but nearly every parent, including teens, have some idea that children are a major responsibility that require a considerable amount of care, attention and financial resources from their parents.

This is not simply a matter of social/economic conditions or of genes. I remember being a teenager not all that long ago (I'm 32 now). The girls that got pregnant all knew better - I remember sitting through the same lectures in class that they did - but they made their choices.

So if it's not social conditions or genes, what is it?

I really think it boils down to ideas, which are accessible to anyone and everyone:

1) Life is for keeps. You only get one go at it, and that's it!

2) Your own life matters most, and it is possible to make something of it, if you try.

3) What's good for you does not come at the expense of other people.

4) How can you make your mark on the world if you're just starting out and all of your spare time is spent changing diapers?

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Your ideas are not determined by your social/economic conditions.^ If the ideas people held were simply a matter of economic conditions, no one would ever rise out of poverty. (I'd supply some names, but it's better if you just do a Google search for "poor people who became rich.")

^Nor are they determined by your genes - I won't delve into this because I'm assuming that this point is obvious.
Startup Act 3.0 – Where Job Creation and Immigration Reform Meet [Infographic]
that's monokai theme, originally used in Textmake back in 2006

http://studiostyl.es/schemes/monokai
> uneducated/naive migrant workers

I suspect that, due to the internet, prospective migrant works are a good deal less naive than they used to be. Which makes me wonder if Nepalese will still be prepared to work there in future.
Is that separate from their browser stuff?
This is pretty nice. Great start and thanks for posting this! :)
I've been very interested in finding out what lies behind Swanson's law. I suspect that chip fabrication technologies and methods have much to do with this, and to that extend there would be some carry-over from IC silicon fabs.

Thanks for the reference.
Jennifer Egan did a New Yorker story called "Black Box"[1] that was intentionally composed as sub-140 character chunks. It was released on Twitter tweet-by-tweet and collected in a New Yorker science fiction special last year.

She is an impressive and experimental writer (check out her "Visit from the Goon Squad") who does a great job with this form. The thought-sized chunks give the story a lot of space and cleverly invites the reader to imagine a lot of context.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Box_(Jennifer_Egan_story)
Thanks for coming to my defence. Obviously, this person thinks race is an important factor in this discussion, which it is most certainly not. It is a shame when someone throws the race card out there. Neither drug dealers, nor poseur rappers that pretend to be deserve to be glorified. If I were a betting man, I would place a bet that either Rick Ross would bitch slap that troll and take his figurative lunch money if SHTF.

Peace.
Because (3D) AMD drivers have been stellar on Linux so far?
It's 1kW/m^2, which, given cell efficiencies of ~25% gives you your 250W/m^2 value. I goofed saying 1W/m^2.
This is a really nice writeup of the whole startup process. Thanks for this!
The Guardian is Britain's third biggest newspaper, and the slavery story is on the front page. Close enough?
I'm not sure, but as an end-user, I'm comparing the two players on the out-of-the-box results I get when playing video. If VLC's codec library is inferior to the one on my Windows computer, then I won't use VLC unless I could easily import my proprietary codecs.
It's only entrapment if the cops tell you it's legal when it's not.
I've tried voting up other people's articles here but all numbers remain the same. Is it because I'm new here? How long until I'm able to vote?

I would start a new thread but HN says I'm submitting too fast.
Uh what? I thought we were talking about accidents caused by portable electronic devices.

The rule you point to was put in place because evidence strongly supported the fact that distracted pilots are a hazard.

No such evidence (that I know of) exists for portable electronic devices, and I don't believe for a single second that Boeing would make an airplane susceptible to harm by cell phones.
The Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus (what a mouthful) uses Bluetooth for pressure, which is similar to the Pogo Connect and Adonit Jot Touch styli. What the OP want is perhaps something similar to the iPen 2 <http://www.cregle.com/>, a pen and receiver combo that captures pressure sensitive data.
Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics - Lasers and Optoelectronics
Or maybe more people were being locked up…

http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/crime-in-america_5...
> Back in the day, Ross would offer the same deal with crack cocaine — to start you out, he'd give you $100 worth for free and you could sell it for $300.

So - he was a pioneer of the freemium model then.
Blackberry’s 'bring your own' blues
'and every fucking thing I think about, I also think, “How could I fit that into a tweet that lots of people would favorite or retweet?”'

That, as I see it, is the problem – not twitter or 140char limits or any of the other stuff Dustin raises, it's the desire for external validation (and I can't help but imagine him furiously clicking reload on his own blog post to see how fast his Kudos score is climbing…)

My takeaway/advice is - try to recognise when you're being manipulated by gamification techniques and choose to be aware of them and ignore/resist them when it's in your better interest.

Does anybody _really_ think Picasso would have painted iPad trifles for immediate social media validation, instead of starting and completeing Garçon à la pipe? I _seriously_ doubt that - from Wikipedia: "At the time of his death many of his paintings were in his possession, as he had kept off the art market what he did not need to sell. In addition, Picasso had a considerable collection of the work of other famous artists, some his contemporaries, such as Henri Matisse, with whom he had exchanged works."

Picasso _didn't_ paint for the twitterati - he painted for Picasso. Dustin should write for Dustin - not for Twitter. He's allowing himself to become distracted from achieving what he wants at achieve. That's not Twitters fault. Procrastinators gonna procrastinate (he said hypocritically while wasting time on HN…)
'Afternoon naps' aid children's learning
UPDATE: Looking again at Amazon.com's current HTML, it does not appear that Amazon.com is securing all requests so it may be vulnerable.
"One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is also no problem about changing the course of history - the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end."
-- Douglas Adams
For me, following the link here comes up as my default set-up for iGoogle, the home page skin that Google will deprecate in another month or so.

I have used Google since the beginning. I was amused, when I updated my personal website at the beginning of this year, to discover that most of the pages on my site still had a paragraph specifically recommending Google, as if most people had never heard of it. That's how enthusiastic I was about Google when I first discovered it. (I discovered Google when it was still Backrub, but examining which search engine spiders visited my site.)
As it happens, I'm working on something like this right now...

My current best solution is to use mouse/pen movement as cspline sample points, even when not drawing. The motion as you swing into a curve, even before the pen touches down, often predicts the trajectory of the pen stroke. (This also lets you "swing in" a circle without getting ugly linear segments).

This may be of limited utility on a touch-based device, however.
First off, you're going to want to be getting away from coal by and by, for both availability reasons (turns out Peak Coal may well hit us sooner than expected) and for greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions. An alternative would be to have biomass plants available for weak-supply periods, and some solar plants (the solar thermal plant in Spain for example) use this method.

Second, solid-fuel plants don't ramp quickly. If you're keeping them in standby, you're burning a lot of fuel just to keep your boilers hot. Most peaking plants today are either hydroelectric (which can literally spin up in seconds) or natural gas (not quite as quick, but still capable of demand-matching in a few minutes). Natural gas is also subject to depletion and CO2 concerns.

For base-load power, nuclear and geothermal would be good options. Geothermal also doesn't ramp particularly quickly in most cases, though it's very reliable. Enhanced geothermal (ground holes dug into which water is injected) has proven to be much more expensive and accident prone, and less productive, than hoped.
Thanks for helping these folks out, you're making the world a better place by helping them in their time of misfortune.
For the record, sorry, accidentally downvoted you (meant to upvote).

Unfortunately, such people start with the assumption that race is the motivation for dislike, and you can do pretty much nothing to change their mind. It's mind-boggling, but they're really, really convinced of it.
Yes, evolution is the ultimate long-con.
Jennifer Egan's short story Black Box was written in 140-character chunks and published via both the New Yorker's twitter account and the print magazine. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/05/coming-s...
Much like television, smoking, or facebook, it's pretty easy for me to look at these products, look at what the users get out of them, and make the conscious decision not to use them. That isn't to say it's easy to quit smoking, but it's been pretty easy for me to never start smoking because I know what sort of personality I have.

(When writing comments like these I always think of this article:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention... . Sorry if I've done that.)
Any free market advocates or Randians care to try and fit this terrible situation into their worldview?
Tweets provide a lot of efficiency. "Tweets aren't great because the compress otherwise complex ideas". A decent summary of your essay and tweet-able. Point made in 5 seconds of reading. Yes you don't get the full emersion but thats exactly why both mediums still exist. The tweet saves time and consequently gets a wider audience.
The essential defense here is that Crossfit is just a workout, so there shouldn't be anything to hate. Which raises the question, if it's just a workout, why does it need hundreds of words defending it?
And because he made it to web 2.0 before dying, you can even read the comments on his obituaries, e.g.:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/14/3719/5652
Or, perhaps, it's much easier to come a conclusion there's nothing one can do to improve one's position, if one attributes successes and failures to external causes rather than attributing successes and failures to themselves; Since it's generally perceived that it's possible to change oneself but much more difficult to change others and the surrounding environment.

Therefore, if you assume poor people do attribute the causes of their situation to their surrounding environment, and that rich people attribute causes of their situation to themselves, it can be hypothesised rich people got to be rich because of their perception that they can change themselves to achieve their financial wealth, whereas poor people gave up because of the perceived difficulty changing their surrounding environment.
s/last/this past/

https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
Digital do-gooders: Why do we help strangers online?
What evidence do you have to support your thesis of poor people attributing their situation mainly to external factors?

And why can't both be true? Is it possible that humans innately attribute success to themselves and failure to their environment?
Ethical relativism
Happy to learn that the post resonated with you. I appreciate it.

Once a VP at a customer told me that a diamond is just a piece of coal that shines under pressure.

The quest to become a jewel in the market can be a powerful initial thrust to work as a consultant. Combined with the opportunity to work in a diverse set of technologies and business domains turns to be a pretty compelling force.

Re: compensation, tptacek and patio11 have shared some great thoughts in the past.
Yep. LearnBoost was incorporated from my dorm room on Jan 4, 2010 - but I had been working on it on my own for months before the incorporation. Then I raised most of our seed round, merged with Guillermo and Thianh... from which we built LB, a huge open source presence in Node.js, tried everything possible to grow on the edtech side, and then launched Cloudup in June 2013
YouTube makes over its comments; Popular Science just shuts them off
Note that in addition to using it for your web site, you can also use this same certificate for e-mail, assuming you run your own mail server.

Long story short: I recently moved my e-mail from Google Apps to a machine under my control. As part of that project, I "redeemed" an unused SSL certificate I had purchased a while back for Postfix and Dovecot.

(While I paid for mine, you can use a self-signed one and most MTAs won't complain or refuse to deliver mail, if memory serves.)