skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The USA uses ~1,000GWh of electricity per year

That's off by several orders of magnitude. Wikipedia says ~4100 TWh/year, Wolfram Alpha ~3900 TWh/year. It's also 35 GWh of battery production, not 35 GW (which seems obvious in retrospect but I just spent 10 minutes trying to wrap my head around how the 35 GW figure could fit in). A 1 GW power plant -- which incidentally is quite large -- generates (if run at capacity) 365 * 24 = 8760 GWh per year.

So, not 3.5%, but roughly 0.001%.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=electrical+energy+used+...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States
Thanks a lot for explaining! The same is true in Dutch, perhaps I should have phrased my question as "what surprises you?".
Nope, this is in fact one of the topics that I feel strongly (and try to work on with high school prog teams). Yet, I feel there's a bit of hysteresis effect on that discussion, with HN flooded with such posts. Most of the "normal shit" on HN you refer to stems from the above.

This one is quite different though, it's actually about female founders, not just targeting girls for coding.
> Ayn Randian titans took control of pretty much all power ... after many years of cries ... Teddy Roosevelt was able to strengthen the government ... People like Ayn Rand, who sadly came to the US just as the wheel was turning, didn't see the suffering that their romantic fantasies had brought about

I'm confused - which side used the time machine?
#1 https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia feel free to work on it. Any contribution will be appreciated.

2# this is not marketed as a substitute to iPhone or even Android. It's mean for people that can't afford high end phones. People that if the choice is a $25 phone without contacts sync or a $100 phone with sync they will take the former.

3# A lot of people are working hard on this project improving it every day. Dismissing it like that for a quite minor thing, yes minor, seems quite childish to me.
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"Female Founders" is the title of the conference.
And the JVM is wonderful!

Incredible amounts of R&D devoted to optimizing its performance, broad hardware and os support, with lots of interesting languages to choose from running on top of it.
I bet a huge percentage of people dying are over 65 and have Medicare. You need numbers for those outside of that safety net to compare.
I think there are two sides of this question.

The first is common decency: don't hurt others unnecessarily, don't be an ass, or you feel guilt.

The other is a matter of shame: worrying about the disapproval of others for something you did.

I want to be more proactive about being good to people around me in ways that matter to them.

I am also trying to do more things which create my "shame" feeling, because as this piece says the feeling is generally unnecessary and irrelevant to the feelings of the people around me. I try to do things I am uncomfortable with, or if the only thing holding me back is some vague sense others might disapprove. Really, most of the time they just don't care.

From that perspective, if you really think it will hurt some of your readers to spell out the words, and you don't have a significant reason to do so, censoring them is perfectly in line with his philosophy.
Here is a code snippet that does the opposite of what you want. To achieve what you are looking for, just change the conditions around to mark the email messages as you desire.*

This one will mark any received emails that you have not responded with an "AwaitingReply" label.

As I mention in my Gist comment, I used this a lot to make sure we didn't have any emails slipping through the cracks.

https://gist.github.com/colinloretz/9299685

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> Ah, you may not be acquainted with English punctuation.

Most of us are familiar with passive aggressiveness, though. Playing dumb in the face of it is one way of deflecting it.
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It's somewhat amusing to see him brag about how he's a self-sufficient bad-ass that can keep his site running because he doesn't use any hosting services and he wrote his CMS himself, and then when the site doesn't actually stay up he starts backpedaling and saying it's because it's on his home network and he threw the whole thing together in two weeks only spending a few hours each week and making it better isn't really a priority.

"I'm awesome because I built this kick-ass system."
"Yes, well, this system isn't working very well."
"Well it's not like I tried very hard."

The comment thread on his post is a trainwreck. The guy needs to learn when to shut his mouth. He even comes across as a total hot-head in the description of his last job on his resume. I'd feel kind of bad for him if he wasn't being such an asshole.
And the use of green energy goes towards investment in green energies that will lower the price of it, with the difference that the supply of nonrenewables is limited, whereas the others are not.
It's not irrelevant, it just shows how governments "think". This is more or less accepted practice in foreign affairs.
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Isn't it often the case that the optimizations throw out sequential consistency guarantees?

That would introduce non-determinism in concurrent executions that might have nothing to do with the semantics of the program.

For example, I'm under the impression that the most recent C++ standard basically says "if you have no data races then all will be well" even though they may be benign data races like dual assignments of the same value.
Yes, that's the purpose of a demonstration (it's a way to demonstrate the political power lent by the people to an opinion). However, I just don't see how this would change anything in the current situation since the incentives of avoiding a war already seems the predominant objective.
I use a ThinkPad. Mine is a t530, and a good balance of the things I want. 16gb ram and a discrete video card are nice.

Best is vague. Best bang for your buck? Best ultra portable? Best workstation? Best battery life?
IE is hardly evergreen. IE11 is curiously not available on Windows 8.0, although it is available on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. They also publish update blockers [1]. Maybe this is why StatCounter still shows a huge IE10 presence [2]. The point of an evergreen browser is to make older browser version shares negligable as quickly as possible, and it doesn't seem that's really happening.

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No problem, it just seemed that you had a priori assumptions that may not be correct. If you want to sell to women, of course you would be interested, e.g. the great scene where Darcy first meets and teaches Nick this point in What Women Want (great movie all through, btw). As an edge case, think of people in Mattel not being interested in what girls think!
I dislike the fact that females get a lot more attention because of their gender. If you want true equality you've to start treating everybody as equals and giving extra space for some just doesn't cut it.

I see this all the time in my country (I don't know if this is the case here) but females get a lot more attention in basically all areas of society and I don't think much good can come from that.

Well, I guess I'm just trying to write as a man in the extremely feministic country of Sweden I kind of feel left out and viewed as "not as important" as the counter gender. Since I am quite young and the feministic views here just has grown stronger with the years, this feeling has grown on me since I started elementary school.

Now in my twenties, I don't think it's that weird I think feminism is possibly one of the worst phenomenas in my country and the world in general.
Mind you Crimea asked for help (and today some other states also asked for help, and passed laws authorizing referendums to ask their citizens if they want to leave Ukraine)

Also Russia still consider Yanuk as the president, since he was physically kicked out (the day he fled some Right-Sector people were actually trying to kill him, his car for example ended full of bullet holes), and they consider that since Yanuk authorized they to get inside to get rid of the new government (that in eyes of Russia is illegal), then it is not a invasion, or a act of war.

Of course that is just the theoretical explanation, if Putin REALLY believe that stuff or not, is another thing entirely.
This isn't particularly surprising, I'm not sure why this is "big news". Many antibiotics are naturally occurring and fairly common
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Moreover, the model in which large, multifaceted standards go through a series of revisions, with vendors following in lockstep, releasing implementations of everything that has been decreed stable and nothing that has not, has never been the way the web worked, despite the fact that many standards organisations design their processes around it.

In practice vendors implement small chunks of emerging ideas, with flags to prevent the ideas reaching the stable versions being a relatively novel addition to the process made possible by rapid release schedules. The ideas become stable, ready or not, when enough people are using them that it's no longer possible to remove or amend the implementation without breaking sites and thereby annoying your user base.

I hear that the TC39 group that controls ECMAScript are planning to adjust to this reality by incrementally standardising features in the future so, perhaps, instead of "ES7" we will see specs for "ES foo", where "foo" is a specific feature. Ironically this is closer to the way that some non-web languages like Python (ignoring the 2/3 divide) work, with a series of enhancements that are adopted as they are ready, even though Python actually does have clear and meaningful versions.
I am somewhat pleased to learn this isn't a post about the importance of enthusiastic consent when it comes to sexual advances (http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/02/27/robyn-urback-...).
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I did it the old school way. When I was out of the country for about a year, I paid a local bookkeeper to handle my mail and asked the USPS to do a temporary forward.
Yep this is closer to my intention :) kmfrk were clearly surprised by something but there was no indication what. I appreciate that igravious he took the time to explain nonetheless!
Russia would have sent troops to Ukraine a minute before they officially joined NATO. "Claiming" Crimea for NATO is something that Russia will never allow, like the US will never allow Panama to fall in Russian or Chinese hands.
I did not want to imply that the comment is irrelevant, it shows, as you say, an interesting parallel in the way of thinking. I wanted to say that it is completely irrelevant as a justification for the current actions of Russia.
I remember an almost impossible to diagnose heisenbug I had on an embedded device years ago. It was a small embedded system with no MMU and very poor tooling. It took 3 of us stuck in a room working long hours together for 2 weeks to trace it down. I ended up having to port portions of the code base to an easier to use system and luckily the bug ended up being in that subset of the code. The real kicker on this bug is we could never reproduce it with optimizations turned off so it was a constant battle between adding in diagnostics and trying to keep the bad behavior intact. Every little change we would make would shift were the memory corruption was and the reordering from the optimizations made the changes unpredictable at times. Ahhh, shitty memories.

I can't express the joy when the source of the bug ended up not being my fault.

That bug chase in particular made me extremely weary of people who alter systems to fix bugs without understanding exactly why it made the issue go away. It might not have fixed it but just moved it.
This! Give this to your lawyer for safe keeping ASAP.
Yes, I think you are. You may be paying too much attention to the technology. Two clever strokes in this idea:

* Identifying huge excess inventory in the market for cartoons and generating value from it

* Positioning cartoons in a manner similar to premium fonts, for bloggers and online publications

I have in mind (it's not my idea mind you) a Javascript blob one would stick on their blog, like you would for the HF+J fonts, and then an interface for picking cartoons (or themes of cartoons) out for individual posts.
I'm not sure that's necessarily the case. See my comment above about sequential consistency.
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That's a horrible shame.
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You say "ON-SITE", but not where that is. "Silverlake, Los Angeles, California" in case anyone else is wondering.
I agree! A focus on sustainability is a good one, carbon sequestration sounds like a great way to spend untold amounts of money.

That said, I'm pretty sure climate change is happening - but I'm not really certain its anthropogenic, and even if it is, I don't think the genie can be put back in the bottle anyhow.

I think focusing on carbon seemingly alone is a distraction, Using less resources to do a thing is a good thing anyhow, its cheaper in the long run, carbon alone doesn't get us there.
My cousin. I'll have to let him know he's on the front page.

I'll say this: this is not a beginner book.

Edit: So this is how I learn he is now Principal Scientist at Oculus VR. I need to go to more reunions.
I agree with it in principle, but this isn't the first time FF has dropped in Javascript features which are still not finalized. I just think that if other browser vendors are going to be raked over the coals for not rigidly adhering to standards processes and shipping non-approved features not behind flags, everyone should be held to the same standard, a consistent policy.
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Is that really it? Thought it might go deeper than that and I'm missing on some "cultural background" :)
You're right, I'm happy to see I was less correct than I expected after it seemed to be ignored initially. The new page is a funny beast.

Sorry, I'm afraid that reference is lost on me :(
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I wouldn't be so sure. Drawing the Russian military in a lengthy and expensive campaign to pacify a huge country is actually a very compelling scenario from a certain point of view. Yes, Europe would be short on gas for a while, but quoting one Ms. Nuland, "F*ck the EU", right?

There are a lot of incentives on all sides, at this point.
Looks like a great event. Somewhat ironically, I'm a female founder and had an invite to do go, but couldn't go due to childcare.
They're back now. That's great!
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Ordering is basically an unspecified behavior in C. An optimizers best friend is the ability to reorder, perform CSE, etc.

C and C++ are specified as the behavior of a straight-line sequence of code run in isolation. Basically, any concurrent C/C++ program treads into the unspecified behavior area. Thusly it's not the optimizers fault, but C/C++ certainly aren't helping out at all.

Even the mechanisms that are common place to make a concurrent C/C++ program run correctly basically wade into unspecified behavior, for instance using asm("lock esp"), asm("mfence"), etc.

TL;DR: concurrency is unspecified in C.
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Investors are not panicked. I argue that a panicked investor will either: I) Sell his stock immediately. or II) Demand any information available. Since (I) is not happening on a large scale (even when it dropped in January volume was a small portion of total shares), it follows that if investors are panicked about the stock, (II) must be occuring. However, (II) is not occuring because only 2.95% of shareholders voted for the proposal. This indicates that even if some portion of investors are panicked, it is at best only 2.95% of them. Thus it would be incorrect to say investors are panicked.

Now you have changed the investors' dispositions from "panicked" to "concerned". Assume that 100% of shareholders are "concerned" about the stock. It still follows that, at best, only 2.95% of shareholders are "concerned" about this particular information.
The problem isn't when one company pays better than everybody else. The problem is when the top ten different companies, all of which you would like to work for and all of which pay the best, agree with eachother that none of them will pay you what you are worth.

Now, I think you already understand that, and your counter was "well then someone will hop in and pay you what you are worth and they will suffer for colluding". But clearly that hasn't happened.

Seriously, the fact that the word "collude" can even be used here is a bad sign. If you pay attention to business history, that word is never good.
One of my coworkers is from the Ukraine and he predicted exactly this while the situation at Maidan was slowly escalating a few weeks before the Olympic Games began - once the Olympic Games are over, Russia will send tanks, he said.
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I'm confused by this response, and I've seen it often. You don't have to use this feature of Gmail. It can easily be reverted back to default email behavior. So I'm perplexed when people complain about it not working very well, and from everything I've heard, few people actually do think it works well...
[Trivial Googling needed]
Sorry about that. I just looked for -S as that's all that I ever use for performance reasons, but you are correct as you do mention a diff search example.
Awesome! That's why you support women in tech and the female founder thought, right? Because that's how _people_ get in to tech?
I would be very interested to see a meditation based currency that might use webcam, brainwave readers, GSR, MRI visits, and duration logs to prove people people are meditating and that it is having an effect.
[Actually open to correction, I swear] Didn't Georgia invade South Ossetia shortly after vague noises about it being able to join NATO one day? I understand that under modern international law South Ossetia is part of Georgia but it's never been actually ruled by post-Soviet Georgia. They were invading.

On a separate note, why would any country treat the UK's guarantee as worth anything after Cyprus?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus

In response to the coup, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sent Joseph Sisco to try to mediate the conflict.[42] Turkey issued a list of demands to Greece via a US negotiator. These demands included the immediate removal of Nikos Sampson, the withdrawal of 650 Greek officers from the Cypriot National Guard, the admission of Turkish troops to protect their population, equal rights for both populations, and access to the sea from the northern coast for Turkish Cypriots.[47] These demands were rejected as they would have given Turkey an unacceptable amount of power on the island. Turkey, led by Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit, then applied to Britain as a signatory of the Treaty of Guarantee to take action to return Cyprus to its neutral status. Britain declined this offer, and refused to let Turkey use its bases on Cyprus as part of the operation.