skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure but he might be referring to the fact that the silicon crystals used for these panels require poisonous gases that thousands times worse for the environment than most produced by any E source.

Or the fact that they require huge amounts of energy to produce. Often offsetting the energy they produce themselves by many years. Not to mention the energy for all these panel come mostly from China which uses mostly coal plants. Which also use some of the shittiest, low grade flammable dirt from Australia (it's cheap).
No idea why this is downvoted. This is very true. Batteries are coming down the learning curve very quickly. Distributed storage and high-resolution demand response are very real possibilities. Especially if electric cars come online quickly. And this would eliminate a lot of the intermittency issues.
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I would argue that lying is not deceiving. At least not all the time. Lying also has the meaning of intentionally telling a falsehood.

And there is some deception involved, even if unintentional. Describing a restaurant you didn't like as what a great place simply reinforces the speaker's (monologuer's) impression, even though his interlocutor obviously believes it to be false. In the second part of the paragraph I quoted, the second person is basically just holding a mirror for the speaker in which he (the speaker) can admire and enlarge his own self, while the listener encourages and cheers him on.

They are both fooled.
Some previous discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2939002
http://tawqer.com/comment/12538720#.U2Ql4IL7HIE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1234721

Djb on dnscurve, a better way:
http://marc.info/?l=djbdns&m=129434351607605&w=2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2078475

and others.
I really don't think that is what "bait and switch" typically refers to.
There is not a 3rd option of 'she refuses' for the scenario 'she doesn't refuse'.
Not at all. Is he worth it?
Heh, thanks Egor!
I think it's even worse than being 'crafty', they're actually trying to show you respect under the idea that because you're with her you have a claim on her and they're deferring to that. Which is incredibly creepy and offensive.
SO, as a 100% bike commuter for the last ~4 years... I find this map to be interesting and definitely beautiful -- but utterly useless.

What I would love to see is: Given two points on the map - what is the most common path between them based on multi-path tracks of others...

What were their avg speeds along those routes.

How frequently did they stop.

Also, looking at SF, clearly there is no bike path across the Bay Bridge (as an aside rant, how did we spend $7.5 Billion dollars on half a bridge, adding no additional capacity and no full span bike/pedestrian throughway)...

It would be great for this map to ID bus/bart/public transit options that connect across such things like the bay bridge.

Also, the fact that the dark red is the more trafficked route(?) that was completely non-obvious to me....
I follow a guy on Strava who is in the process of riding every street in St. Louis City. He's been all over the Northside. But, as this map shows, it's not a popular place to go cycling.
I found something very interesting in Minneapolis (where I live); it's a path that you wouldn't be able to find using google maps or probably even any bike-specific route finder.

Here's the area in google maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.9837242,-93.3338652,1914a,35...

and here's the same location in the Strava heatmap:

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#16/-93.33287/44.98897/gray/b...

I'll have to check it out in person but I'm guessing it's a mountain bike trail or something, which is what this heatmap would be great for helping people find.
Sounds neat. Looks pretty cool. Trial is 3 tests? Is there so little long term value they won't let you play with it for a couple of days unlimited?
People use strava for many more activities than just running and biking.
Some people uses if while snowboarding/sking. I've personally used it while power kite-bugging.
How often does this happen? Maybe a better question: has it ever happened that a failed project has refunded all money? I suppose I've been lucky with Kickstarter (and Indiegogo); although several rewards are currently late, it appears that progress is being made and they will be delivered eventually.
In this day and age, companies rarely get second chances. Unless NASA releases a brand new amazing library, this is the only time we're going to see this. Unfortunately, the Internet is not very kind to second chances.
This was how I learned to program BASIC at six years old.

Of course, I also figured out I could get my TRS-80 Model 1 to make sounds of various pitches by tuning an FM radio to its CPU and running loops with varying delays. I added sound to a pinball game this way back then.
Well, or they just feel that they will be much less successful hitting on a girl who is accompanied by a guy, platonic or otherwise.
I really wish she would name names. This sort of conduct shouldn't be tolerated.
Metaphors and frameworks as tools for thinking
Walking away silently is not the appropriate response. Tolerating a colleague's obscene language isn't either.

In both cases, the outcome is that the perpetrator is going to repeat the same offensive behaviour. People who are offensive should be shunned and told why they are shunned. If they are borderline criminal, others should be told about them. If they are criminal, government should be involved.

Being afraid of what others will think, or of them potentially closing their doors (why?), is a sanction of evil and encourages further victimization.
I think it's important to look at this as part of a more widespread issue than a few individuals expressing themselves inappropriately. When women are so ridiculously under-represented in the tech industry and are facing both explicit and structural discrimination, it's important to speak out against this behavior.

Put another way: women's "jerkiness" does not make it harder for men in the tech industry, but men's "jerkiness" does make it harder for women in the tech industry.
Now that '~' is being removed for pointers, can it be used instead for unary bitwise NOT instead of '!'?
Much like Google, Facebook has been squeezing the advertisers rather than generating more/better impressions.

Revenue from advertising numbers for the endpoints (company with product to end consumer) are down across the industry, and everybody is trying to hide it. Once it becomes general knowledge, the advertising spend is going to drop and take the numbers from both Google and Facebook with it.

From my personal experience: I always run AdBlock/NoScript. I am APPALLED by web surfing when I don't have those. If I'm stuck on an iPad or my Galaxy, I want to hurl the pad across the room after 15 minutes. I have uninstalled apps just because the advertising was so intrusive (to be fair--those app developers don't want me either--I'm not the fish that will make their revenue).

So, now, I absolutely will not use web browsers on phones/pads unless I'm desperate (at which point ads will actively piss me off instead of get me to buy). Good job, advertisers. You've now ensured that you absolutely cannot reach me.
Men are dramatically less likely to hit on me when I am with either or both of my adult sons. Many people realize they are relatives (though some think they are my brothers, not my sons) so, no, they don't think I am the sexual property of these two males. I have only been bothered by a guy when my sons are around when the guy was drinking alcohol. So I think the parent comment is more accurate than your assumption, though, yes, your observation is a social reality in some situations and it is a problem for women -- that "respect" is sometimes given for a man's property rights over a woman, not really given to her per se.

I am upvoting both of you.
The Illusion of Life: Disney's principles of animation
do you have the source code of this?

I had an awesome idea a long time ago that is almost the same as that, but I was a CS noob and tried it in Java...

can you throw that on Github with a license?
Per my other comment -- can you do a version which show avg speed of the route goers? It would be awesome to see the fastest path via bike or run between points... if you noted each stop the people made, it could be the diff between a smooth, fun ride vs a stop-heavy route.
The Strava route builder incorporates the popularity of other users routes when you plan your own. So, in an extension to the normal find-shortest-path algorithm between two points, penalties are given to paths not used by other users or bonus given to those that are popular. The result is that you end up with the better roads to ride on. Especially on the bike this is really useful as I can plan new routes in unknown areas and they are pretty good.

For running I found it remarkable how these heatmaps show the inclination to run along water bodies or in forests. It can almost perfect predict where I would or wouldn't run.
Or maybe this is far, far more common than many people would like to think.
Intent is huge. If my friend says something incredibly aggressive, but I know they are being facetious or sarcastic or humorous, I will find it amusing. If I know they are being serious, I will not find it amusing.

Actions are generally equal regardless intent, but IMO words depend immensely on intent.
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Your post reminded me of "The Outer Limits" Final Exam episode (1998)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667892

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xinb18_outer-limits-final-e...

There was another movie/short film that I vaguely remember with protagonist arguing same thing (with a woman on train?), that inventions are simply inevitable once we reach appropriate technological level. Radio and telephone were cited as examples with multiple inventors popping at the same time all over the world.
Unfortunately, that doesn't really mean anything. Glioblastomas, like many types of cancer, come in several different forms often depending on the specific mutations that led to the cancer. The different forms have greatly different behavior, and cause death on different time scales (e.g. there are 60-day forms and 5-year forms, and we can't yet distinguish them in a clinical setting without watching them progress). Some of this uncertainty will soon be eliminated by the widespread genetic sequencing of tumors.
SQLAlchemy also does this. Which is appropriate, since "ORM" implies that on some level you're mapping existing relations to existing objects.
I apologize if I wasn't clear, I think the issue is that "patriarchy" means many things to many people. Maybe you have some clear definition in mind, but that may or may not be what anyone else is talking about when they say "patriarchy"

I've read bell hooks, and I consider myself a feminist. But the problem is that there's no universally agreed-upon definition. How will we know when patriarchy is dead? What metrics are we judging this by?
No offense meant to aircraft designers, my point is just that it's a common fallacy to assume that probabilistic events are independent when they are in fact dependent in some ways. In the case of debris penetrating the tail, if one hydraulic line is severed, the probability of the other two also being severed is high, therefore the probability of a triple failure is not equal to p^-3; you must add to that the probability of this single catastrophic event occurring.
Here is the video that Brinke saw and identified her as lying, can you?

http://vimeo.com/55997359
So people who use incognito mode don't benefit much?
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Open redirects are a much more common issue than you'd think.

For example, we use elasticemail.com to send out emails. They encourage [1][2] people to setup a 'tracking' domain under your existing domain (ie: tracking.yourdomain.com). They then rewrite links in the emails that go out under their tracking domain. http://tracking.yourdomain.com/track?redirect=[youroriginall...

It turns out that their tracking service is effectively an open redirect and you've been encouraged by their documentation to setup the redirect. Now, if you have auth on your site via oauth2 (ie: facebook login), you've got a hole.

Something like this could easily be setup by the marketing department and the engineers wouldn't know anything about it.

Thanks to Egor Homakov for pointing this out to us.

[1] http://support.elasticemail.com/kb/general-faq/why-do-my-links-route-through-the-elasticemailcom-domain-and-then-get-redirected-to-the-destination-url
[2] http://elasticemail.com/post/what-is-a-custom-tracking-domain-and-why-is-it-important
> Yet the program construct, unlike the poet’s words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms.

This is true of poetry as well. The pattern with which you arrange words in sentences, and sentences in paragraphs, can summon up an infinite number of visuals in someone's head. Words are brilliant in that they are literally the bridge between two people's minds.

The poet is the programmer of the imagination. There is value in both the words themselves and images that the poet/programmer elicits.
Or maybe you are prejudiced. There are also people who think black men are all criminals; they'd also say "maybe this is far, far more common than many people would like to think."
Your random number generator should give random numbers.
So you're happy to generate the SQL via some language-specific API, and you're happy to have the results turned into objects...

What's the problem with an ORM again?

Half the point of SQLA is that the ORM is built on the core SQL generation. It's the least magical and most RDBMS-friendly ORM I've ever seen. It's designed for people who already grok SQL, not people who'd like to forget that it exists. You can even jam hand-written SQL into the ORM if you so please.
http://strava.com/routes let's you create your own route based on the popularity of segments. It's not as fast as creating a google maps route but combining the heatmap with the routes tool is a pretty surefire way of creating a solid route.
Work in progress, but got something basic up for the time being. Hope that helps!
..and since you're freeing up ~, you can now rename 'fn' to it. Rust criticism would drop to nearly zero, because everyone would focus in on your crazy function-defining-tilde and those people just don't get it.
Ask HN: What startups are leveraging iBeacons in interesting ways?
...not a popular place...

There's a difference between "cycling" and "cycling while using Strava". I suspect that few people who cycle because they can't afford to fix their car, or they lost their license, or their wife commutes in the single family car, etc. belong to the latter group.
Every time I see TOPIC I am expert in coverage from journalists I break out in cold sweat. It's usually horrifyingly bad.

FTFY
For those not intimately familiar with St. Louis demographics and urban geography: http://unewsonline.com/2013/05/02/the-delmar-divide/
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It is the same for men in some situations.

When I worked my male bosses asked me to give them a blowjob in exchange for a promotion or drop my pants and be sodomized instead. I refused and was never promoted. They told me they did this with everyone. I complained to HR, but they refused to do anything about it.

I don't really consider myself an attractive man, I think they were doing it to be mean and have some dirt on me. In order to be promoted they need dirt on you to keep you in their control. It is more of a bully and domination thing.

Manager of HR, said she would fix it if I slept with her, by the way.

You will find that a lot in big businesses, smaller businesses not so much. Which is why I try to startup my own small business and never do those things and go by ability to do the job, experience, talent, and skills as well for promoting people.
Being on paper might not help.

A short film[1] based on Ken MacLeod's short story "The Surface of Last Scattering".[2]

[1] http://scatteredfilm.com/
[2] http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-surface-of-last-s...
I've seen this argument so many times at this point they blur into one. It's a watered down version of "She was asking for it" when talking about about a rape case. The way someone looks or the clothes they have on doesn't give you carte blanche to harass/assault them.

I'll show you what I mean:

>If you are an attractive woman and want to do business under such potential circumstance, then your best bet is to try to make yourself look unattractive.

This is the exact same kind of victim blaming as in "She was asking for it". He's telling women to make themselves look unattractive, implying that they are partially to blame for their own harassment because of what they were wearing, or how they looked. Saying "well, it's bound to happen" isn't good enough.

>You can't have it both ways.

>And if instead, you just want to pin all the blame on men for being pigs and expect them to change, well good luck with that.

These two quotes both show that he really is talking about harassment and assault. The OP article wasn't talking about relatively harmless (if inappropriate) workplace flirting; some couples meet at work. That happens. The difference is that those kind of things generally begin with very subtle signals over an extended period of time. The context of this article, this thread, and implicitly this comment (by explicitly agreeing that women are asking for this harassment to stop) is one of harassment and assault.

>You can't lure a client with your looks and then always expect totally platonic behavior from them.

>Mother Nature quite clearly has other designs.

I don't need to break this down. It's so shitty.
Photography is an interesting knowledge (some basic chemistry might help)

Apart from that: metallurgy.

Very few modern things can be made with one's bare hands and without tools. Tools that help build more tools would be essential for re-bootstrapping.

(Chopping the first trees so that you would have something to make fire so you could melt metal would be very hard)
I was so happy this was published. As a female founder, the grossest things happen. It sucks, there are some VC firms where I no longer feel safe attending their events. I don't get why men I ask for business help to this day still feel comfortable asking me out knowing that a) I'm a very vocal feminist and b) I state very clearly that I need business assistance.
So far, yes, apparently.
How is Kickstarter any different than me paying an artist to write a song for me on my behalf or a carpenter to build me a house?

I'd certainly have ground to sue the artist or carpenter if they failed to eventually deliver a song or house (or indeed, didn't deliver one according to the terms of our agreement).
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> Online sales are another use case. It's far easier to verify buyer information and funds. You also save the 10%+ in fees that you would pay using a service like ebay.

Do you mean using the blockchain as an escrow service? True, but that's not "bitcoin the currency", it's the blockchain.

The rest of the use cases run a huge regulatory risk.
Given that we're talking about Python, it should be pretty obvious how we all feel about those things.
Original accusation and comment from the employee: https://storify.com/FakeRobotGamer/puppet-labs-employee-gets...
>>My partners are concerned that when you have this baby you are going to lose interest in the company and not be a good CEO

As a practical matter this is a legitimate question. For example, "why are you taking this job when you plan to be busy for the next 6 months?" (or even longer).
Just added Rollbar integration:

https://addonlist.com/products/rollbar

More to come, what services would you like next?
Ah yes, sorry.
Carbon, Avogadro's Constant and the Importance of the Number 12
> Kickstarter doesn't get to make law. Just because a TOS says you're legally obligated to do something doesn't mean you are.

When someone makes a conditional offer to you of something of value, and you accept it, and you accept that conditional offer, its not the offering party making law that makes it binding, its this thing called "contract law".

> In fact given the very public nature of kickstarter's failures, and their own disclaimers about the risk associated with backing a campaign, it will be extremely difficult to make the case that this falls under standard consumer protection laws.

The "in fact" claim here would be a lot more convincing if your post actually referenced even a single way in which "the very public nature of kickstarter's failures" or their disclaimers had any bearing on the applicability of "standard consumer protection laws"; or, more to the point, the specific consumer protection laws at issue in the instant case.

> You're not making a purchase, your taking a risk to finance a project.

While financing projects is certainly the uniting theme of Kickstarter offers, the actual terms seem to me very much like an advance purchase conditioned on sufficient volume of commitments, and if it were legally treated as anything differently, it would be an easy place to do take the money and run schemes that are the exact kind of fraud that many consumer protection laws are designed to prevent.

There may be something in the relevant terms, etc., that courts would find warrants substantially different treatment -- but I've yet to see a convincing argument made of a specific, relevant distinction.