skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And voilá, wind and solar suddenly beat coal.
And yet people choose it, overwhelmingly, whenever they have the option.

You're certainly free to choose a high-density lifestyle for yourself if you prefer it.

Very little of our evolutionary history occured in high-density urban environments, so it seems extremely far-fetched (bordering on ridiculous) that it would somehow be "healthier" from a psychological perspective.
Funny how similar it is to high frequency trading. They both invest a bunch of capital to get better/earlier information, then leverage it to make profitable bets and trades. Atleast in the professional gambling world they don't deny it's a zero sum game.
The men of the future will probably view our modern scientific views of reality with the same disdain.

And maybe these human sacrifice rituals had some utility.

Just sayin, let's try to see beyond the conventions of the moment.
It sounds good doesn't it? But then you compare to the size of the disk and realize that it's not actually that good.

The shameful part is that they actually sell the 10^15 drives - and not for a ton more money either. They simply bin drives and the better ones are rated as 10^15. Instead of doing that they should figure out what's different in the manufacturing of those and do it across the board.
Why wouldn't you advocate pure selfishness? Selfishness is a Good Thing. Why do we do anything? Because it satisfies some internal desire or drive. Selfishness is the epitome of living.
kaggle++
Sounds like a nightmare! Nothing worse than an environment where you get blamed for estimating something.

I too have worked in places that called themselves Agile but where everything but.

On the other hand I also was part of a well adjusted SCRUM team where the roles were fulfilled properly and we rolled through the project like a steam train.
The key was to have a really well filled backlog and then wear most of the pain during the sprint estimation meetings, and the whole team sat in on that. This made everybody understand all the features and their potential complexity before the sprint even started, and gave full visibility of the cost of each of these to the product owner, who could de-prioritise something or swap it out in that very session.
The actual sprints then were really straight forward and I really enjoyed myself there.

Prior to that I had plenty of contracts where I get "specs" from PMs, but then have to question each aspect of those, often resulting in me having to ask the product owner myself to decipher what it meant. Inevitably, nobody ever had time and I spent 50% of my day waiting for people getting back to me or work on whatever I could come up with.
I actually wrote something up on indirect carbon pricing in the US yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829683

TL;DR

EU carbon is trading at $6.88/tonne. Working back from an enrollment mailer I found that TVA's green power program prices it at $42/tonne (in terms of lbs of CO2 emissions avoided by purchasing blocks of renewable generation).
About 200k USD

Pays off mortgage, credit cards, car loans, etc... That would leave us in a position where the wife makes enough for us to survive with 0 debts (as what we would be paying for would be utilities / food / cost of living...) and I could focus on new app development / freelance.

And yes, I'd do it in a heart beat if it was real cash money.
Easier to just buy one of these: http://www.peachyprinter.com/
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Sounds like a cool project. Let me know if you want some front end help.
That javascript one is fantastic.

edit: Apparently I'm Blasé.
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So, by 2030 even if the US cuts emissions by 30%, aren't there going to be 2-3 billion people in emerging markets moving up the economic ladder who will use a lot more energy.

Sure 300 million Americans are currently using a lot of energy but we're going to be much smaller part of the problem by 2030.
That's nonsense and you know it.
Would love to and I have no objections to it. I work on some popular open source projects. It would be very difficult to work on this project while growing a community for it as well(this has been, for the most part a side project).
I'm a longtime Evernote Premium user and for I while I ran Springpad simultaneously, saving my notes both in Evernote and Springpad. I really liked the Springpad interface, but in the end I decided to stick with Evernote. The main reason? Springpad was free, with no paid plans.

I don't really like free services for important stuff like my personal of professional notes. I want to be sure I'm dealing with a reliable service, with revenue to cover the bills, with a real chance to stick around. It's hard to trust a free service.
It doesn't solve it all, so we shouldn't do anything?
Well, you're right that it's not part of any school that is designed to handle the general population. But I was making the point that prodigies don't need to look outside of their schools if they attend schools designed for them.
Even worse/better -- one bit wrong, not byte. So one bit wrong in thirty-two trillion.
I'm not condoning breaking into the network and stealing source code, but what financial damage did this cause to Valve? The article repeatedly refers to financial damages, but I'm not sure how that is.
That is likely because Germany dubs all of their shows on television (and I think most of western Europe does the same). Nobody that I know of in eastern Europe dubs their shows for television, we just caption them.

Hence, people speak good English with a slightly american accent. We're exposed to it pretty much all our lives.
You can always have a seperate credit for sequestration. However, none of the proposedNlong term systems are anywhere close to being as cost effective as going from coal to wind power.
All of our lungs should breathe a collective sigh of relief for not having to deal with so many particulates from coal burning after these rules go into force. Not to mention saving our water from pollution of coal ash.

It will be pleasant to have less of these types of plants in operation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Scherer

And this country will be just a little bit greener knowing, we don't need to have trains crossing the country 24/7 from Wyoming just to keep the boilers running.
Most important things
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Absolutely agree with this. As a formerly precocious child, I'm still trying to recover from quitting everything that din't come easily to me.
The problem with smart people
Not yet, because wind and solar are currently able to generate only a tiny fraction of the energy we get from coal.
I'm surprised they don't have custom hand-held score clickers that would allow them to send out scores more discreetly (e.g. by forwarding over a phone hidden in their pocket).
Ok. I'll be super explicit about this. The page measurements don't matter. What matters is that all the standard page sizes have exactly the same width:height ratio when halved or doubled to obtain the next size up and down. That's the magic property that the 1:sqrt(2) width:height ratio used in the ISO/DIN page sizes gives you. The fact that an A0 sheet is defined as having an area of 1m² is a distraction. It's the width:height ratio that matters.

Your comparison to liquid measurements misses the point. It's irrelevant. Your statement that the US units are defined in terms of US units is irrelevant.

What is relevant is the preservation of the width:height ratio between pages sizes in the ISO/DIN paper size series.
"Developers don't work well with customers"

Why does it have to be like that? This sort of silo thinking is probably what created the disconnect in the first place.

The customer might care about how things get done, if it means the difference between getting 85% of their wish list done or 50%, all depending on one obscure feature.

Agile/SCRUM can make the potential complexity of a feature more visible because it's a team estimate. It also can make the decision process less laggy because the customer/product owner sits in on the team.
Finally it can make the end goal more visible to the Devs, resulting in less of a disconnect.

My 2p
That site's pretty impressive. They're open source and give away for free what Chess.com charges for.
That was an excellent writeup. Just want to say thank you. Somewhat hilariously, this is somewhat similar to some COBOL functionality I've seen.
I literally just bought a kindle book in large part because the cover caught my eye, as in a couple hours ago. That and the reviews and sample. But, yes, the cover definitely matters, even if it's never actually printed.
docopt is cool, but is there something new here? It's been around for a while.
By that point renewables will be substantially cheaper.

I suspect that at that point, since many countries will be experiencing the effects of climate change full-force (especially the Chinese), there will be economic treaties which will tax according to emissions per capita or a similar metric.
Securing their network properly after that probably costed them some money they wouldn't bother to spend otherwise.
I don't feel sorry for malware writers. They are not oppressed and deserve what they got.

And this guy also stole people's software keys.

If they were talented coders, they could've found less destructive ways to make money. But he decided to go the greedy route.
I just disagree with you and think that your perspective on the matter and use of the numbers is funny. Again you repeat "For a 4TB drive 10^14 is NOT OK"... but 10^15 is. Well, if you say so.

Note: you shouldn't downvote just because you disagree with someone's perspective. I'm not going to delete these comments because I stand by them. If 1 bit flip every 4 TB is a problem for you, then don't move to 1 bit flip every 40 TB - get some kind of ECC etc.
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What's the deal with using 2005 as the reference date for the 30% cuts? Do we not have more accurate carbon measurements since then? Is it to make the cuts seem smaller since 2014's emissions are probably bigger than 05. There must be some specific reason to pick a reference date of almost a decade ago. Any thoughts?
I am not sure what SAP and Salesforce have to do with my example of a typical agency environment?
Energy is going to get a lot more expensive in China from here on too.
Even if there aren't people who have "Product Manager" on their business cards there's going to be someone acting as a product manager.

In my possibly overly-simplistic view, PMs should generally focus on what the customer should be able to do, while developers should focus on how it's going to work. Of course, each group needs to be able to understand the position of the other to be useful. I'm worthless as a developer if I have no empathy towards for the customer (i.e. I shouldn't say "we're not going to implement this feature that would be useful to customers because it's too hard"), and PMs are useless if they don't understand the technical constraints of the existing code/infrastructure.

I'd say that PMs are less technical than developers, so developers can do the PM work if necessary (and should be thinking about it a little bit even if there are good PMs).

Project/Program Managers are different. Their job is more focused on making sure all the moving parts of a "project" are coordinated. When it's a small start up there aren't as many moving parts, so it's not a useful role - but in bigger companies it's useful to have someone coordinate between marketing, legal, finance, customer service, etc. And they can make sure everything happens on time.

You run into problems when developers don't care at all about customers, product managers have no sense of what's technically possible or reasonable, and project managers get too hung up on the process and not the final result. Avoid those situations and everyone adds value.
I suspect that if you asked a microelectronics engineer about that he would disagree. An FPGA has too many things not needed; there will be leakage and other nasty effects constraining frequency. And wafer scale? Signals need time to move. You can't just scale things up like that. Those are my hunches anyway - we'd need a specialist to say more.
I think it's probably just marketing. They're just engineering reliability targets, a specific batch could have far different rates.
Full source of that:

http://www.nexteraenergyresources.com/pdf_redesign/Full%20Co...

Interestingly, most of the external costs they estimate aren't CO2 emissions. Table 4 on page 92. In the "median" case, it's 9.3 c/kWh air pollutants, 4.4 c/kWh public health burden from Appalachian mining, and then 3.1 c/kWh from climate effects. In the "high" case climate goes up to 10.2 c/kWh, still less than half of the 26.9 c/kWh total.
There are no recorded instances (AFAIK) of any behaviours like that in Britain in that time period.

OTOH we do know human sacrifice was practiced. [1] and [2] give a reasonable overview of what we do know.

Beware that there is some attempt to manufacture a controversy over human sacrifice in Britain. The Celts didn't keep written records of their practices, and Roman records are often interpreted as propaganda.

In my view, the combination of archaeological records[3] with the fact that those digs match the Roman records fairly well makes a compelling case.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory/huma...

[2] http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2009/03/090320-dr...

[3] eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindow_Man#Interpretation
One good reason to accept MONTHS of delays and "serious unprofessional offenses" like this is that the delays are often part of the cost of working with the best, most lucrative clients.

If you want to constrain your consulting business to clients who will look you in the eyes, shake your hands, give you their word that you'll be paid 14 days after invoicing, and then keep that word, that's fine, but it's not a revenue-maximizing strategy, nor is it necessarily the strategy that will leave you with the most hair and the lowest blood pressure.

Not losing your shit over hiccups that are a natural part of the lifecycle of a serious customer is part of the distinction between a 1-2 person freelance-company-in-website-only and a 20-50 person consulting company. There's romance in working at the 1-2 person freelance shop, but I'd like to retire someday, so I choose not to freak out over accounts receivable.
That's a false choice. There are more options than either doing nothing or doing something predictably ineffective.
> Two weeks ago, an interesting commit appeared in the GnuTLS repository.

This statement gives the impression that the code was quietly fixed without disclosing the vulnerability. In reality, the fix was done on 5/23, but it was not rebased and committed to the public repo until the bug was formally announced and the updated releases were ready:

commit 688ea6428a432c39203d00acd1af0e7684e5ddfd
Author: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
AuthorDate: Fri May 23 19:50:31 2014 +0200
Commit: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
CommitDate: Thu May 29 19:00:01 2014 +0200

Prevent memory corruption due to server hello parsing.
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The history of Queen Elizabeth's court astrologer, John Dee is a very interesting chap.

He was well versed in Western Astrology, as well as the joint creator of a symbolic magic called Enochian Magic. He was also considered as Elizabeth's spy.

For what there is in the occult, I really am surprised that more technologically minded people don't dabble. Things like Chaos Magic and the like are well suited for applying scientific method to the esoteric.
In the article it says that he does it with his phone in his pocket.
Plans for Bitbucket/3rd party git support?
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2014)
Continuing jader201's thread from last month - I was surprised to not see it posted by whoishiring.

From last time:

With the blessing of dang [1], I'm starting a thread to allow those looking to be hired by a company a way to communicate that to the HN community. Think of this as the inverse of the "Who is hiring?" monthly threads [2] -- except this is not a whoishiring sponsored or monthly thread (yet).

If you're looking to be hired by a company, please use this thread to let other HN members know.

If you're looking for talent, by all means, check out the candidates below and if you see a good fit, connect! Please no recruiters, unless specifically indicated (opt-in).

If you're not hiring/looking to be hired, take a look over the candidates below and connect with them if you're aware of a potential fit for them.

Up/Down Voting: I would propose that up/down voting be reserved to help promote high quality submissions, and push down those clearly not putting in much effort or are off-topic. Use sparingly.

I am loosely proposing the following format (obviously you're welcome to use any format you'd like):

[Location], [Remote | Relocation], [Full Time | Contract | Part Time]

Stack: [Comma delimited list of technologies]

Resume: [Link to resume]

Contact: [Email address or other means of contact]

[Brief overview, what you're looking for in a company, etc.]

(By the way - if people want to propose changes to the template I put it on gist: https://gist.github.com/cjbarber/189c84750cd42309201d)

Note: Do not use this thread to hold meta discussion. That belongs on the original thread [1]. This thread is reserved for posts by those looking to be hired.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682189

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679431
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7830213
This was an amazing and somewhat sad story. How's Gembe doing today? Based on his near adoration of the Valve developers, it would be fitting if he worked in the gaming industry. Maybe he could set things right by helping to make Half-Life 3?
Does anyone know of a study on how effective such programs have been in the past (assuming it passes and isn't significantly overturned by the courts)? As in, what is the expected success rate of long-term plans of the US government (or other nations)?
At the very least they are the product owner, and if needed can step into a scrum master role depending on resources / constraints.
Nice to see local startups on HN.
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Well first of all, the game appeared to be playable, so there's the piracy aspect.

The Source engine is also licensed to other games. If the code is public, other engines could copy their features.

Also it is very annoying to re-secure all your computers after you have been breached. Every single person has to change their password and you don't know what backdoors the guy has installed without a full wipe sometimes.
Except this thing can be built right now instead of having to wait for the Kickstarter to finish, products to start shipping and then ordering and waiting on the post KS batch.
The reasons why terminals are 80-character wide are well known and well documented all over the web. What's sad, is that newbies still have to ask on stackexchange or Hacker News about it, not knowing how to use a search engine. What are pupils taught in schools nowadays????
A few things:

1. Your intuition about emissions being higher now is wrong. For NOx and SOx: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=15611
CO2: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html

2. The recession messed with a lot of energy and consumption so that the years from 2008-2012 or so are something of anomalies.

3. There have been significant rollbacks and cuts to getting datasets complete. It used to be we were only a year or two behind in lots of the published federal data. I've found it to be far more scattershot today, and sometimes just cross my fingers and hope they have managed to stay up to date. That said, the EIA has mostly managed to stay on top of their annual publications.

4. Natural gas prices bottomed out a couple years ago, and we'll have a glut of it for a while, keeping prices much lower than they were in the early 2000s.

5. Coal plants are getting replaced with natural gas combined cycle because of the fuel costs, and also because of new regulations on the new MATS stuff (also in the link above).

6. "Clean" coal has mostly been a bust. Duke Indiana's been trying to get their gasification plant to full capacity for a while, and cost ovverruns has resulted in them asking for rate increases. Also, carbon capture still isn't up to snuff, and underground gasification never took off.
Aren't they both obviously a zero sum game? There's a winner and a loser to a bet. If you buy a stock and it then rises, you profit and the seller has missed out. There's really no magical insight gained by the phrase 'zero sum game'.
True. The project is interesting nonetheless :)
Is Wikipedia really 90% wrong?
But apart from a short transition program, they're not attending an institution designed for them -- they're being mixed in with the general UW population.
He's not saying that 10^15 is good enough for all purposes. He's saying that it's closer to good enough without significantly increasing the cost. This should not be that hard for you to grasp.
Whats on the other kind of earth to you?
All of this perspective has helped a lot, given me some clarity on what I need to shed and what I need to keep. Thanks a lot.