skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just small enough where the empire wouldn't bother...
Ignorant question - what about a solar concentrator - like a mirror - instead of an array of "traditional" solar panels?
Is he factoring in energy storage costs? That's the real problem. Gathering solar energy is easy, storing gigawatt-hours of it at night is not.
17 comments (as of this writing), and about 1/3rd are grayed-out due to down votes.

Ergo, there are some pretty strong opinions about Vic.
I just came here to say that accessing papers is a pain in the butt when you're not an academic. I've not been near an university in the last decade (I hated my time there as a student, I leave them alone now), but I need access to some papers for my personal projects. I resort to begging people in the academic field to send me papers, you can't pay 45€ a paper you don't even know if it will be useful, I read 10s of them. And, even worse, this high price doesn't even pays the authors. A music album costs 10€ and the author gets all his money out of it plus you can listen to it on youtube to decide before buying.

Academics tend to cite papers for completely different reasons than for implementation, but you don't know if a paper will be useful for implementation or not from the title.

edit: and I couldn't find an option in scholar.google.com to filter only the free to view articles.
The "exclusive" article was posted at 10:16. Larry's post, quoted in the article, was posted at 10:18.
You don't need a special emergency button. It wouldn't be hard for the phone to provide that info to emergency dispatchers whenever 911 was dialed at the same time as it was connection the call.
The Discovery Channel series "Everest: Beyond The Limit" covers a few of Himalayan Experience's seasons, including the infamous incident with David Sharp. It's on Netflix, and I would definitely recommend it if you're interested in the politics and logistics of modern day Everest expeditions.
I think you're on to something there. Theoretically the auto-dial button wouldn't be necessary because the phone knows what number it's calling, so no matter how you connect with emergency services it could know to initiate the procedure for providing location information.
An argument that research into curing mortality is somehow immoral based on overpopulation or limited resources directly suggests that it's better for people to die than for us to have those problems. I seriously doubt that was the intent of the argument, but that's the implication of such an argument. If my response sounded absurd, it's because making the argument was absurd to begin with.

Now, if someone wants to look into those other problems too, that's fine; in particular, we do need research into solutions for other causes of suffering, not just mortality, and resource shortage is a fine place to start. But complaining about research into mortality is ridiculous. Doubly so because such an argument assumes fungibility of research resources: the people doing that research are not arbitrarily repurposable towards other issues.

The rest of your post seems like an unrelated red herring combined with a vague attack.
Agreed, we have to be wary of this being turned into an argument for more blanket surveillance or for constant tracking of cellphone geolocation data. But the conclusion does not have to be that. It would be good, for example, if cellphones could deliver rapid and accurate geolocation data specifically when the cellphone had initiated a call to a known emergency number.
The guy who "built" my house never lifted a hammer. I think our egos can take the abbreviated form of "assembled/managed the team that built G+" in stride. Context, dude.
If you don't care about Facebook anymore (for good or bad), why would you care then if they adquired Move? sounds illogical to me.
I don't understand why people have to try and read so much into someone leaving a company. High-ranking execs and employees change jobs all the time for numerous reasons.
From nothing to what exactly?
> You can try to make parallels to the record industry at its worse, but those people at least receive advances.

Also, recording artists don't receive taxpayer money.
It's not a matter of losing money; it's a matter of losing certain tax benefits that exceed the value of the bonus. It's a very real issue for people who straddle various thresholds for credits, deductions, and other benefits.

For example, in the US once you make over $75,000 (before most deductions), you no longer qualify for student loan interest payment deductions. For someone making $74,000 before who receives a $2000 bonus, they lose out on the deduction--potentially worth significantly more in tax-adjusted terms than the gross amount of the bonus before taxes.
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First responder here. I am a professional Firefighter/EMT in Arizona.

Its not just 911 calls from cell phones, its the whole stack. This will hopefully illustrate the problems we have;

Last night we were dispatched to an MVA (accident) with injuries. The 911 call came in from a passer by on a cell phone, but gave the wrong address.

A police officer near by, responded as well. When the officer arrived, he told Dispatch that the accident was on XYZ st. Dispatch corrected our address on our MDT (the computer in the Engine) and updated over the radio. We drove to the intersection, but couldn't find the accident.

I am the driver of the engine, so I ask my Captain if we should just head south a litter further to gain some elevation and look for lights. This is all while making appropriate radio transmissions. We drive a little further south up a small hill and find the Accident. The accident is on the street the officer said it was on. Dispatch didn't have an updated map that reflected the connection of two streets and the streets name change. They had dispatched us to the old intersection.

We were delayed about 4 minutes and the injuries were not serious, thankfully. However, this is pretty common.

We have two laptops on every truck. We have a brand new digital radio system. We have a year old CAD (dispatch) software package. We use electronic patient reporting and transmit full telemetries (patient reports) via a shitty web app.

Our laptops do not cross pollenate (share data). Our radio system doesn't work with police unless we coordinate beforehand or activate the MMRS system which is reserved for homeland security type events. The radio system has all kinds of other problems, it is fully software defined radio. Our patient data from the EKG monitors do not talk to the EPCR (electronic patient...) software. Our EPCR data does not cross pollenate with the shitty web app for transmission to the hospitals. CAD; Maps are a cluster f* and its too expensive to use Google maps apparently. The CAD software has all kinds of bugs for data extraction Ie. calls are doubled, missing and more.

Believe it or not we have Fire/EMS departments from around the country visiting us as we are very, very advanced in terms of technology in the Fire/EMS service. I've made two android apps for our department to use, an easy SOP reader and a Fire pump calculator. I am actively trying to come up with solutions to fix our problems via MORE! software...haha
I said before this was on my wishlist too.
Developer of Mobile Safari Shares His Apple Story
Oxford and Cambridge are not private.
Parsons still has a crater on the moon named after him. Very interesting story though. I think Parsons is more renowned in occult circles than in scientific circles. His legacy remains in both.
ANI/ALI look it up. We did not have these problems when the majority of 911 calls originated from land lines. period. full stop.
I fell in love with FreeBSD's init style, which is what I switched to when the move Archlinux made broke my systems. Due to virtualisation demands I had to switch back to Linux, and chose Funtoo (a Gentoo fork) with the OpenRC init system.

I've never been happier.
All phones should have the ability to send your location to the other end of any call/SMS at the press of a button. There should also be no way a remote entity can trigger this...

Then the feature would be useful in day to day life and would be well supported. We have to stop treating emergency communications as something special. The actual problem here is a lack of proper standards.
What is your startup? I used to work in the same space (albeit for a non-profit).
Personally, I don't think Google+ should be abandoned, but I do wish some of the problems, such as the real name policy, can be fixed.
Yes and no… But ‘no, it doesn’t matter’ isn’t the good option here.

Thing of it as your credit rating (if you live in the US) or you ability to lie to your plumber and say “I’ll just ask another one” when you have a leak, water up the knees and he asks for a month’s salary to fix the issue. Information matters when it allows to measure you willingness to pay for something — it’s basic micro-economics.

You can step in a wine merchant or your car dealer (both classic cases in the economic literature) or with either a t-shirt or a suit and tie; in either case, they’ll offer you all the same options, but unless the labels are true (they are not if they are too high and without dealer-negotiated rebate) the price will adapt and make sure you’ll pay as much as you can.

So… what happens on-line? Well, with the traces of your Facebook and Google logs, airlines can tell if you are really willing to take that flight, and might rake up the prices accordingly. It can come in many ways, depending if they have LinkedIn information (and can tell if it is for business or not) and they are generally far from perfect, but… Imagine that at one point, people notice it can be cheaper when you use the Incognito mode.

That would trigger a reaction: political ones (banning the practice, unlikely in the US; already done for some cases in the EU); one would be to only sell through a mobile application that have your Facebook ID (or your mobile phone, same thing) and don’t let you the option of hiding it. Very rapidly, anyone who refuses to be identified will be refused service — just like you can only pay using credit cards and letting FISA know you bough something big for many things today.

Forced service, cash is King? No problem: just make it more expensive than most non-revealing option, like what happen now if you want to purchase a car sticker-price. You are perfectly welcome to say you have negotiation and don’t want to deal with the slimy sales tactic: they would be happy to oblige.

But imagine that is not jus cars, but anything that is advertised on Facebook now: restaurants, transport, real-estate, games, electronic. Face value crazy high; “social price” lower, but never exactly the same.

You might be fine not having the social value — but if a single entity controls enough information about how much enough people are willing to pay… we will all suffer, except the stock-holders of that application.
Another option is Phaser - A free, open source game engine similar to Impact:
http://phaser.io/
I think if Linux extended an olive branch to engage the three main BSD's, that would be a smart political and actual move. Religousity doesn't scale anything but egos and pitchfork-toting, angry people looking for an ego-oriented leader.
How does one discriminate? If they are identifiable, why is there no process to inform what sound like victims?

68% bad bot traffic is an incredibly high figure. 68% of what? Not absolute bandwidth surely.

The 23% of Web traffic would encourage me to do something about it instead of campaigning against my users watching films.
Just download VisiCalc: http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm

I have no idea how easy it is to pipe input into and out of it, but it certainly want designed for it.
Who decides how consumers should shop?
Unpatched Rails apps are found vulnerable until patched... news at 11.
http://www.scholasticahq.com
Porting AnyList from iOS to the Web
It appears that all colors are out of stock, currently.
I went to the Warhol exhibit at the Dali museum a few months ago. I never was a big Warhol fan before going, but perhaps viewing an entire exhibit devoted to his work might give me a better appreciation. I now theorize that Warhol's artistic life was one big piece of performance art. "Can I become famous and revered by hanging out at the right NYC parties, and immortalizing famous people in what is otherwise the visual equivalent to sampling?" Ignore "Marilyn" where he just silk screens over a photo, and pay attention to the fact that he's famous for it.

Polaroid photographs? If they were photographs of your friends, no one would care. But when the pics are of Mick Jagger at Studio 54 or Jackie O, and Andy Warhol took them, now you've got art. Why? Because famous people.

It seems he his overall theme was fame. His most famous quote even deals with that. So it seems fitting that he is famous not for being a great artist but because he hung out with famous people and made art that involved them.

That's the theory I'm sticking with, anyway. It's either that or take the cynical view that the art world is more shallow than I previously thought.

Afterward we revisited the Dali side of the museum. Holy crap, now there's an artist.
You can read this on Google+ : https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/MFrDF3W4...
> 4. And? I'm not sure what's the problem here. udev and dbus are mandatory by pretty much anything that's not a .sh script nowadays.

I don't know that this was the author's original meaning, but I think the much bigger problem is that udev and (k)dbus have become dependent on systemd. This has caused headaches for the Buildroot team with udev, for example:

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2013-March/0681...

How do systemd's proponents respond to these problems? GKH will say "just use mdev":

https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/R387kQb1... (conversation about halfway down)

And if you need udev's features after all? "If you disagree with the current developers about decisions like this, then fork. And be prepared to handle the fallout." As in, be prepared for endless public derision by Lennart, GKH, Koen Kooi, and everyone else involved with systemd, as was directed toward everyone working on the eudev fork just for daring to make a version of udev that was no longer tied into systemd.

The author of "boycott systemd" complains that it is "heavily desktop-oriented". I actually like systemd, but this is a legitimate concern for a huge number of embedded Linux users, especially as systemd continues to assimilate peripheral projects. The concern is made much more severe by the confrontational and childish attitude adopted by systemd's developers and lead promoters in such matters.
That's the straightforward reason, but it doesn't sound big enough to me.

First, AirBnB just got valued at 10bn. FB's IPO broke valuations records. Reporting requirements are a drag and I'm sure they impact IPOs on the margin, but 10bn is not marginal. Reporting for a company like AirBnB is not that hard. They have a straightforward business model with one business. It's not like they have 50 years of hair, cross ownership, JVs and zombie businesses.

Second, FBs timing indicates (to me) that something else is going on.

Third, WTF is the reason for these arbitragers. Arbitrage requires a willing seller. Why raise capital (sell shares) at a lower cap 9 months before an expected IPO?
>For example, I wouldn't tell someone to write a web server backend in Haskell if it's going to be in production.

You probably shouldn't be giving advice then.

>This is how Galois and Facebook are taking advantage of Haskell

Facebook is using haskell for a high performance, high concurrency server for filtering. You do realize how similar that is to a web server right?
> Former CEO Eric Schmidt admitted in an interview at the D conference in 2011 that he missed the boat on the rise of identity on the Internet.

> “I clearly knew that I had to do something, and I failed to do it,” he said. “A CEO should take responsibility. I screwed up.”

I think Eric screwed up in a deeper way that this quote admits. Google+ came up at a time of broader dissatisfaction with other social networks, particularly Facebook. From both UI weaknesses and social perception, I initially saw G+ gaining a lot of interest among disparate folks I'd loosely label "influencers". And _all_ of that interest was shot dead due to attempts to own identity by enforcing the use of real names[1].

There are very real reasons why "average" people need alternate identities online. In some cases, it's mandatory professional separation; your work persona shouldn't be conflated with your author persona, shouldn't be conflated with your close-friends persona, etc. Circles were interesting, but solved a different problem.

In this regard, I think Schmidt's big failing was analogous to the fable of the golden goose: he killed any chance Google+ had by trying to seize the golden eggs of online identity. This delayed G+'s adoption enough that Facebook in particular was able to react, improving both its then-primary web UI, make some privacy improvements, and significantly shore up its public perception.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars
[2] Not counting the rabid social-network and/or Facebook haters, whom cannot be satisfied.
Bravo. There's also something to be said for persuasion through friendship and tolerance. E pluribus unum and all that. There are many different textures in a good melting pot.
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The problem I've had with reporting accidents is that the phone isn't loud enough to be heard over other traffic. So I can't hear the 911 dispatcher.

My guess is they're being volume-limited to protect people's hearing, but in a high ambient-noise environment (like, standing beside an interstate) it really needs to be louder.
Interesting. At the time of submission, they were all in stock. I wonder if this page was accidentally shipped?
50, 100 years from now, Larry Page (if he's even dead yet) will be remembered as one of the more impactful people in human history.
Available to everyone under the condition you can click 'purchase' faster :)
I'd be interested to know exactly why Google Maps would be too expensive. Is it the licensing of the maps from Google that costs too much, or the development of new software to use the new map source data?

In the case of the former, I wonder if OpenStreetMap is any better than CAD Maps' existing map source.
I get the feeling that these companies are throwing money at trying to fix the problems (in other projects besides OpenSSL that are fundamental), and not talent/manpower.
It happened for me. It's not bullshit - Archlinux had the wonderful plan to make /lib a symlink, and that just broke a lot of stuff on my systems.

I don't know if it didn't break for the majority but for me it certainly did on many installations.
note that neither do record companies.
This sounds like a perfectly reasonable take on the situation. As a general rule of thumb, expansionary monetary policies benefit smaller companies. Now that the fed will likely start tapering back some, I think we'll start seeing larger companies (Apple, Google, maybe Facebook) having good years.

There's one thing I can guarantee though: we are almost certainly in some kind of bubble. It may not be a tech bubble, but bubbles are just a fact of economic life.
Does "small-company stock options" apply only to pre-IPO startups? If not, what else does the term cover?
Isn't that borrowing more because of US tax policy causing vast amounts of money to just sit there in foreign bank accounts for those SV companies?
They are aware that people complain (they complain to Facebook after-all) but they assume those are people that are exaggerating and won’t actually change their behaviour. By and large, that is also true. They have no metric to measure pent-up resentment, nor can their imagine a possible sanction, other than migration to a new service.

Because that threat is likely, they try to purchase those when they appear.

My take remains that public intervention should be considered. There is no legal framework for that for the moment — therefore Facebook lawyers don’t see the issue; if there were, their lobbyists would be all over it.
This is good news for my fellow Tennesseans. The only thing that still bothers me is that we use lottery, with all it's baggage, to fund these schooling initiatives. Well, let's be honest, I don't like that we have a lottery period. It is interesting, however, to see this kind of policy planning. Lower-income, lower-educated people tend to play the lottery more, which in turn funds programs that makes it easier for lower-income people to go to college, which hopefully reduces the number of lower-income, lower-educated people in the state. Making education more accessible is an awesome goal, and I hope that it works out here.
I wonder why Wired magazine has been wading into "deep politics" more and more recently. I mean the German and Occult underpinnings of NASA is a significant can of worms for a publication with a mainstream readership to be opening.
I think the £1bn+ acquisitions must be playing a role as well (obviously that's is stock money too). That is an IPO scale exist without an IPO.
"everyone"? What about poor people?
Show HN: a simple webapp to save time doing something on the way
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How to be productive – inspired by pancakes
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Nice graphs. Meaningless, but nice.
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)  J.P. Morgan
I'm tired of people who are tired of hearing about UNIX philosophies and call it crap.
Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries
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I don't know for power genreation, but it would make awesome weapon.
I still would prefer that it would not be needed, but that is not Google+'s problem to solve.
Any product where I have to figure out why I would want this is probably a product I don't need.
I think the interesting part is how many unpatched, hence vulnerable, apps there are.
For a while, GnuTLS was faster to support newer TLS standards. But again, same boat of not taking a leadership approach to engage TLS WG.

More implementations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_Implementati...
Facebook, Gmail, Skype face Russia ban under 'anti-terror' data snooping plan
Lets say you just had a stroke or something. I honestly can't imagine how hard it would be to dial 911 on a modern touch screen phone if you are mentally or physically incapacitated.

Seriously, it it kind of scares the crap out of me visualizing how I'd dial for an emergency if shit hit the fan and for whatever reason I wasn't my normal self.
I've had a pair for the last 6 months. Honestly at this price point ($1500), you must really be a geek to be willing to buy one. IMHO it's not ready for rollout. The limited voice UI and the battery life make it useless for actual consumer usage.