skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why is it the schools job to teach their finances? I see school as more academic, while personal matters like that should be taught at home.
I grew up in a small country of 400K people, which in 2012 generated 2.2GWh of power. [1] This is very easy to calculate, since the country has only 2 power plants, and the electricity grid is completely isolated. [2]

I was astonished to realize that the battery output of 4 weeks from the gigafactory would power my native country entirely from batteries for a full year!

[1] Page 2: http://www.nso.gov.mt/statdoc/document_file.aspx?id=3743

[2] https://www.enemalta.com.mt/index.aspx?cat=2&art=5
Tell me: where did you get your free car?
Would you consider Lua fits those requirements? The reference manual is short, the online guide and book simple to follow, and the syntax consistent.
but what about their parents? shouldnt the parents be smarter than that?
> The effect on global warming is near zero, possibly even negative. The decision to use green energy decreases the price of non-green energy, so other companies will buy more of it.

That's a first-order effect. But second-order effects of the price changes include encouraging investment in green energy and discouraging investment in non-green energy. That will shift the long-term incentives for all market participants.
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> Are you trolling here, or are you really implying that the JVM is bad? Could you elaborate?

No, I'm not trolling. I was responding to someone who said that the two non-dead browser plugin technologies were flash and silverlight. Java is notably absent from that list. (Can you even interact with the DOM from a Java applet?)

I agree with you that the JVM is the best part of Java, but that's not saying much IMHO.
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Most here are forced on IE 8 because PeopleSoft doesn't work on anything greater. It sucks. Luckily, we installed Chrome as a secondary choice for those who want it. And I work in IT so I install whatever I want :P
Careful with that. You saw what happened to Larry Summers, right?

Seriously, I take your point about the differences between men and women. I saw the news tidbit a few weeks ago about the study on toddlers and the toys they prefer. I'm willing to treat those studies objectively.

Yet in the case I cited, fewer than three percent of attendees at a technical conference were women. "Predispositions to excel" or not, that's a statistic too big to ignore, and there's something else going on.
Not paying your debt is pretty fucked up too.
That's perhaps too harsh.

You hear from people who are physically handicapped that the thing they hate most is the contrast in treatment. They want to be treated normally.

A different person in a different perspective gets treated differently because they are viewed as different. A common complaint. Is he being empathetic or indifferent? I dunno, but it's hard not to say to yourself "Women are being treated differently, that is what is keeping them out, so I will endeavour not to treat them differently."

Is that misguided?
There are enough horror stories regarding businesses built on Twitter &c to serve as cautionary tales, but Google and Gmail in particular are notoriously anti-developer. It is a nightmare to work with Gmail because, and I'm not even exaggerating, they actively prevent you from integrating with Gmail. Moreover, Google provides zero support and quite honestly hates you and everything about you.

No person considering a startup today should consider building it atop somebody else's platform. Even forgetting Google, it just doesn't make sense. You do not want to be beholden to a company that could not give less of a shit about you, and in all likelihood has never even heard about you.
My version of this would be "When you see a Heisenbug in C, run your program through valgrind".

Which is a good idea even if you don't observe any bugs.
The limitation on making better batteries is research, having a NA factory isn't going to help that. As per increasing the rate and reducing the cost, I don't have a good answer for that, Li-Ion battery production is already incredibly automated I'm not sure how much they can improve the rates. I would be surprised if Tesla hasn't figured out the supply chain management for all the materials they require.

I'm still sort of skeptical about this factory. There have been very few battery manufacturing plants ever built in North America over the years and they have pretty much all shut down (A123, E-One Moli, and Delphi are the three that come to mind) as they don't make money.
that's the one they have every year that's nearly 100% male.
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman [http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...]

Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web by Lukas Mathis [http://www.amazon.com/Designed-Use-Create-Interfaces-Applica...]

Don’t Make Me Thing by Steve Krug would have been my third.

I don’t believe any of these emphasize minimalism, and I’m not sure what help you’re looking for in that regard?
But why stop at dates? What about all the other useful things we could put in, DOM elements and and sets and synchronization clocks...
I agree it has a lot of corner cases, but they are mostly in service of allowing for an uncluttered document. The fact that you can always write a subset of the document in json is helpful when things get hairy.

But this is a thing that often gets ignored when talking about what humans are good at reading and writing. We aren't computers (or at least, we aren't as linear of computers). It's obvious enough in the languages that we speak and write every day with each other that we derive from and plant a lot of meaning in the margins of our expression. We tend to understand things quite clearly when noise has been elided out. A lot of JSON becomes pure noise: "{{[[{[{{[".

Really, though, what I'm most in favour of is that now that we've agreed on a basic data model that is less insane than its obvious predecessors (ASN.1 and XML) it would be nice if applications with configuration opened themselves to allowing the user to decide the specific format for their own benefit. If it's TOML or JSON or JSON5 or JSON+comments (Sublime Text) or YAML or whatever, so long as it results in the same structure who cares?
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I have no idea what you're talking about. You can't analyze the current situation while ignoring the past and the changes (privatization) that have happened.

Tuitions went up in the US because the govt has progressively withdrawn subsidies.

Student loans amounts grew to match. Also, student loan writing was privatized, and collections have been given real teeth.

I work in higher ed at a "public" university, which is quickly becoming a private institution, meaning that the admin is planning to be 100% tuition supported within a few years. So now we're "competing" for the best (highest tuition paying) students.

This is exactly the kind of bubble (price inflation running ahead of real value) that occurs when public goods are privatized.
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I've found typing faster means thinking faster, reading faster, comprehending faster, developing faster, debugging faster and generally getting things done faster.
I know this is HN, but maybe you should try to comprehend the message as it was obviously meant instead of choosing a possible interpretation that is illogical and then beating up on the interpretation you chose.
it seems like many people who don't like what you said pressed the down-arrow as though it were a disagree button.

I personally agree with this comment, my typing speed is not the limiting factor in my ability to turn out good programs.
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Cool, thanks for the pointer
You're sure busy on this thread for someone who claims not to have opinions or skin in the game.

> Is that misguided?

Completely.

Being a woman isn't having a handicap. Being brown isn't having a handicap. At least it isn't to my mind. Is it to yours?

When you go and talk to people who are women or brown or some intersection of these, one thing that's clear is that they feel much more comfortable when interacting with other folks whose lives and paths look like theirs. Their life stories are different from those most commonly represented, so increasing representation means finding people who can speak from a common perspective.

And that's before I even get into the patterns of harassment and aggression that are reported to me consistently from every. single. female colleague I know. That's before getting into the challenges female founders face in presenting their companies to a VC industry that's overwhelmingly male and therefore under-equipped to evaluate a huge swath of verticals and opportunities.

None of this is abstract. All it requires is knowing people who aren't young, white males.
You're getting a lot of disagreement with parts of your first paragraph, but I think it's worth dwelling for a moment on the good point you make your second paragraph. There are two claims the NCPPR are disputing:

1. Climate change is a big problem, if not for the present then at least for the near future, unless we do something about it.

2. Given that, we should all make an effort to do what we reasonably can about it, instead of caring about nothing whatsoever except money.

If the NCPPR disagree with the first claim, then they should present their best case for that disagreement. I think they're mistaken, but if they have evidence for their position, then let's hear it.

But instead of making that case, they mixed it in with disagreement with the second claim, which is a bad way to argue (mixing empirical questions and value judgments) and makes them come across like sociopaths to boot.
This. Except, there is no armed conflict currently, they are not getting captured, and Putin likely does not give two shits about what happens to them.

Speaking as a Ukrainian-American, the US and the rest of the world are responding way too slowly to this.
But the cause is important, because that dictates the response. If people continue to think that failed policy ideas like the Kyoto protocol are the effective response, then all we are doing is wasting resources and doing untold damage for no reason. Kyoto and its ilk are the equivalent of throwing virgins at volcanoes.

Adaptation should be about increasing water storage, storm defense and concentrating on uninterrupted energy supply. Research money should be spent on new energy technology and better climate forecasting.

Right now we have billions being spent on innefectual or worse solutions, because the responses are based on 20 year-old understanding of climate sensitivity, which has proven to be incorrect by several orders of magnitude.

If Illinois does turn into Texas, what you absolutely dont want is having sent the previous fifty years wasting your productive capacity on worthless solutions.
Without looking into it the percentage that suggests no prejudice is unknown, so we don't actually know if 3% is where it 'should' be for that to be true, or the much assumed 50%.

It has no basis in fact is my point really. And I'm uncomfortable in applying sexism as a solution to perceived sexism.

Im confused why everyone isn't uncomfortable with that.
I think it is Vista.
That has happened to me as well. There's a bug until I add a printf or enable debugging, or (paradoxically) go from -O0 to -O2. What's going on here? Is there some specific class of UB that I'm invoking to get this infuriating bug?
Since multiple base stations are involved, there is handoff where the far away ones leave and new ones join - but unlike cellular systems, the end device doesn't have to do anything during the handoff, it's transparent.
When you see a Heisenbug in C, change your mind: it's NOT the compiler. It's you.

At least that's been my experience in almost 20 years of programming a lot of C and C++.

I've found my share of compiler bugs, particularly in embedded compilers, but 99%+ of the time the Heisenbugs are mine: stray pointers, stack overflows, buggy concurrency, unexpected interrupt timing, etc.

When you see a Heisenbug in C, it's probably NOT:

1. The hardware.
2. The compiler.
3. The OS.

It's not you (compiler), it's me.
> One rarely sees corporate honchos being jailed for such incidents.

... except when the corporate honcho refuses to do the government's bidding; in that case, his ass thrown into prison. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30...
Challenger Deep: Defeat Deep Packet Inspection on HTML Data
Haskellers just call them Monoid and happily include anything that's associative+identity. When talking to people not yet familiar with Haskell or abstract algebra, it's commonly a good idea to simplify the notion and call Monoid the same as concatenation. That's all.

newtype Sum = Sum { getSum :: Int }
instance Monoid Sum where
mempty = Sum 0
mappend (Sum a) (Sum b) = Sum (a + b)
Google publishes an .msi that can be pushed to pc's.
I usually don't bother with links to things that are phrased in such a way as to suggest support of segregationist policies. I don't care about women in tech. I care about people in tech.

So douchey.
I guess Putin really does want the old days back, including the Cold War. I cannot imagine any scenario where this comes out well for the Russians, and a number of scenarios where a lot of innocent people die. Going to be one of those 'turning points in history' either way.
It's not "do no evil". It's "don't be evil". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

Except, today it's more like "Don't be evil*

* except where permitted by law and/or required for profit"
I would guess that they are saying so called because most people who say 'climate change' assume that human-created c02 is the major driver of climate, when all of the detailed measurements taken since the forming of the IPCC have shown that the sensitivity is far lower.

Each IPCC report has increased the confidence of the impact of human emissions, but lowered the effect. So the science says that we are more certain now than before, but that the sensitivity is much lower than understood before. This is great news but most people haven't realized that the scare stories of 10-15 years ago no longer apply. The term 'climate change' is pretty debased though, because it can mean anything from 'natural climate change' to 'Himalayan glaciers are going to melt in 20 years'.

But the wording from this group is silly, there is no doubt.
I have had one large piece of PL1/G code - a whole mess of mappers for a map reduce based billing system where rebuilding the entire code base made one bug go away.
But purchasing renewable energy also drives down its price, by allowing the industry to develop economies of scale and streamline its operations. This strategy is essentially the way most technology innovations work, by first selling to early adopters who are willing to pay a premium and then pushing prices down to mass-market acceptance.

Considering that the market for fossil fuel energy is so much larger than that for renewable energy, I'm going to say that Apple's choice will have a bigger positive effect on the renewable sector than on prices for non-renewable energy.
The __future__ may not be far off: Python with Braces (http://www.pythonb.org/).
I used to type extremely fast but over the years I developed nerve damage in my left hand from what docs told me was bad posture and bad keyboards.

5 years ago I switched to a split keyboard and now type half as fast but surprisingly I’m more efficient.
I cheated my way through the typing classes in Computer Lit and couldn't touch type for a long time after I was coding professionally. Eventually I felt a bit ridiculous about it and bought a Das Keyboard Ultimate. I never did exercises or anything, just committed to typing on that keyboard at work. After a couple of weeks I was typing faster than ever without looking. One of the better investments I've made.
If a link to one of the jobs is dead does that mean the position has been filled?
If the other vendors weren't, respectively, the largest, second largest, and third largest tech companies in the world, and amongst the most valuable companies in the world this comparison would make sense. If, of the other three browser makers, we weren't discussing a company that holds a near monopoly on desktop OS's, a company that holds a near monopoly on the high-end of computing, and the third which holds a near monopoly on internet services this comparison would again make sense.

Should Mozilla have been more conservative in shipping features that are actually written up in a spec on their fledgling OS? Probably, playing strictly by the rules is generally a good thing. Is this comparable to a different vendor working to ship an enormous feature which didn't even have a spec, and which the person at the centre of the controversy asked other people to help write because they had been so busy? No, not at all.

Size, influence, and power always make a difference. I have a hard time understanding how you wouldn't see this.
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Surely nothing to do with the fact that there's television commercials for Chrome, ads every time you go to the most visited website on the Internet, etc...
You can block updates in Chrome and Firefox too. It's a necessary feature for enterprise IT departments that need to test updates before the deploy.
Please do, that sounds fantastic. Also, which meetup were you speaking at?
IE8: XP/Vista/7
IE9: Vista/7
IE10: 7/8.0
IE11: 7/8.1
Because 50% of humans are female. If there's a strong deviation from this in a large sample size, then there must be a correlation between being a woman and in CS. If gender didn't matter, there wouldn't be a correlation.
Ah, you're in the "Got Mine" syndrome phase. I suspect you'll understand when you're older.

You'd do well to recognize that your own complex set of circumstances has very little to do with the people who things did not work out well for.
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The size of the sample is irrelevant for its accuracy. That seems odd and statistics can be counterintuitive, but consider how a random sample of a few hundred people is enough to estimate who will win the elections within a few %.

What matters - beyond a certain reasonable minimum size, which is a few hundred - is if the sample is random and unbiased. Both NetApps and StatCounter are far, far above the minimum size, so the only questions are the other factors.

But more important to realize here is that they measure different things. StatCounter measures pages viewed, NetApps unique users. There is no reason to expect those to match up.
I know its widespread, but I find it irksome that climate change denial has become associated with conservatism. I want to avoid climate change because I'm worried about the ramifications of that change on our society and am worried that failure to mitigate or prepare for climate change could topple the U.S. from its position at the top of the global hierarchy. Changing climate and depletion of water resources in the heartland could make us tremendously vulnerable by making us dependent on other countries for food. Allowing a country like China or India to be the first to develop reliable, cheap, renewable energy would be a total game changer that could leave us as an also-ran country or vassal state. There's a mile long list of conservative reasons to be afraid of and want to address climate change and its potential impacts. To me its a no brainer to spend substantial, but predictable, resources to address what is potentially an existential risk.
> there's something else going on.

It's irresponsible and misogynistic to assume this is true. Irresponsible as it's used as an axiom for powerful political movements, and you as a smart person, should confirm this (and not via feels) before stamping your name across it; there is nothing 'else' going on. Misogynistic because you disrespect a woman's agency to choose her own profession.
Oh, you mean like this ?

http://www.aacn.nche.edu/aacn-publications/issue-bulletin/ef...

Effective Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Nursing Programs
I think it works pretty damn amazingly.
Question to any touch typist who codes: how do you cope with all the special characters: (){}[];:'`!@#$% ?

Do they slow you or make you leave the home row?
I disagree. Typing is boring, coding is fun.

Learn to type by learning to code.
NetApps measures unique users.

StatCounter measures page views.

Those can be very very different, if some users browser more or if some users use more than one browser, both of which are probably true.

So it is very possible both are accurate. Or that both are wrong.