skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition, as your design steam temperature rises, your receiver's costs start to go way up. You need to use more expensive, less conductive metals - some (all?) of which are patented. Your radiative heat losses go up exponentially (T^4), so you need to hide as much surface area from the environment as possible (which means you need a cavity receiver). Now that you're a cavity, it becomes harder to concentrate light (smaller target) so your heliostat requirements go up.

If I were a betting man, I'd say this goes nowhere. I think PV has already won the "war" versus thermal unless someone can come up with a great solar -> syngas receiver.
Yes, there is a lot wrong with that, as there are often significant inherent barriers to enter a market, and lots of things an incumbent can do to hinder competition, not all of which can be made illegal.

And a good government has every right to prevent this situation, that is exactly its business.
If you want to work in tech in the UK but don't like the downsides of London, it's worth considering Edinburgh. The tech scene is really taking off here, with plenty of jobs (see this list of tech companies http://www.nobugs.org/deved/). There is much more an 'ecosystem' of tech employers than there was a few years ago. Maybe you will make 75-80% of a London salary (your mileage may vary) but your living costs are way lower. You can live in a beautiful 2 bedroom Georgian apartment in central Edinburgh for £800/month and walk to work. The annual cultural festivals bring some great music, comedy, theatre, film and art to the city. The only major downside (IMO) is the weather, consistently a few degrees cooler than London.
(Author) Yep there is definitely an instant download page. Strange it's not the #1 result on Google. The #1 result is actually the thing as I've annotated.
50 courses?

Disgusting.
We must read that quote in a very different tone.

To me he's highlighting a situation where he disagreed with someone in a way that made him angry, but instead of jumping on his anger and telling her to "take a hike" he chose to control his temper and employ empathy. He illustrates the benefit of this approach by saying that in the end both he and the person with whom he disagreed came away happy.

One of the core tenants of the book is that you shouldn't fake it. That is, when he tells you you should be interested in the benign and mundane things people have to say, he means that you should find something about what they're saying in which to take actual, genuine interest. He says time and time again that even people you perceive to be stupid are smarter than to be manipulated by false interest and empathy and that by employing such tactics you do a disservice to yourself and the people with whom you're interacting.

I agree that in some places the tone is a bit Machiavellian, but it's only to illustrate that even to one who would employ such tactics, being genuine is a far better approach than being fake.
babies depends on social contacts :P
I suppose one could argue that a club that has 'For God and The Empire' as its motto, and awards military-sounding titles, is about more than just getting recognition from society. Though perhaps it's not to be taken too seriously...
This is an interesting take on London from an outsider. The villages point is important - to really get to know the town you need to get out of the centre and visit a few of the villages (Hampstead, Kilburn, Notting Hill, Camden, Kensington, Greenwich, Hoxton etc) - there's a lot of variety there and as the author says a lot of very mixed areas, each with their own personality.

This can make travel a chore, but if you have friends in the same area, you don't have to meet them in the middle of town, and some areas are very well connected. It also gives the city interest as there's always a new area to discover when visiting friends. Walking and biking round London is also rewarding if you like cityscapes because it varies so much.

Second, when a fast-food industry adopts some food type in London, it completely wipes away all other options to try it, leaving you only with a dull ersatz (this is what happened to sushi, for example). Just like with the music scene, the competition for a spot in a good restaurant can be fierce.

This is not accurate, though I can see why you might have that impression if you live somewhere sterilised by big brands like the centre of town or Canary Wharf where the only option is yo sushi. There are plenty of horrible chains for every cuisine catering to tourists, but there are a lot of great sushi places in town, like Jin Kichi in Hampstead or Inaho near Notting Hill. So this doesn't ring true to me at all - if you're eating in London there's no reason to entertain a chain restaurant, and thousands of alternatives, even if the most popular to get busy on weekends.

The analysis of financing rings true though - London does feel divided into those who work in the city (a different jurisdiction and a different world), and those who don't. Pay scales, careers and culture all change as you cross that divide, and unfortunately Canary Wharf is like an island insulated from the areas which surround it - most of London is quite different from that though. As the article says, funding for startups outside finance is not always easy (I'd love to hear contradictions of this).

The things I treasure the most about London, having been here for a decade or so, are the genuinely cosmopolitan and egalitarian culture, and the mixing of world culture occurring here in the last few decades. While some resent this change for me it is the redeeming feature of London, the part which makes it feel like a world city, not just the capital of a small nation shrinking in importance. Take a typical bus in this city and you might hear a dozen languages spoken in the space of a journey, from all over the world. Perhaps this is something we'll see more of in every city as the world continues to shrink.
Woow! This is really fucking cool! Thanks for sharing.
I can't really say I haven't passed that myself and that its something I still don't have. I think every person in its life has some alone moments. Your's just happen to be right now.

Its not a car or its not that you are afraid to talk to people and all those things you are thinking of. I think that yourself has just built up a DEFENSE mechanism in order not to engage to anyone at the moment cause it wants some time alone.

I don't have to suggest anything to that like most of the "doctors" in YC... Just wait for it and it will come naturally when you feel ok with yourself. There is no reason forcing things to happen.

Now on the other hand find some group activities like gym-classes or I dunno something that might engage you or open you up to people.

Time is the solution my friend, give it time.
Wow, I got pummeled there.

Ok, so maybe someone would care to explain, how the belief, that encrypted, anonymous and unaccountable news sources would be any better, than journalistic outlets whose profits depend on their reputation; how that belief is not infantile?

Why is it not possible, that groups opposed to transparency, like for example certain governmental organizations, would be able to join in the fun and flood the "encrypted, word of mouth, anonymous" space with their own opinions and propaganda?
It's a good thought, and it does seem a much better way to go at face value. However, I strongly suspect there are good technical reasons why you basically need to use canvas, to get the complete, pixel-perfect control over the layout and font rendering that you'd need for PDFs.
Not just a full month. Up to six months it seems. The response from TLC made it sound like new data is only available twice a year.
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Just hit the arrows to the right / left of the preview, you can also use the left/right arrow keys to navigate.
This is LEAP
I am Asian and am currently a student at an American University. I don't exactly think of my self as an introvert but here is my (opinionated) 2 cents based on my experience.

1. You say you don't have any roommates, you should probably start there. It will help you save money too. craigslist should be helpful there.

2. You mentioned that your internship is about to end, why don't you take your team out for a couple of drinks/lunch/dinner. You can thank your colleagues for their help through your internship and also get to know them personally/share anecdotes.

3. Make a trip to the local pub/bar (specially near universities), you can always strike a conversation with the bartender (maybe something like how you miss a particular beer back home). After you had a drink or two, it lowers your inhibitions, you could start up conversations with others, perhaps with ones sitting next to you at the bar. I met a lot of different people like this, not necessarily friends but you sure will have a good time.

4. Since you are at the university, you should try to get into the community groups, sports clubs etc.

5. You would definitely have group projects at the university, pick different teammates every time and make sure you use every opportunity to socialize with them, meet at the library to study, ask for/offer to help in assignments, suggest going out for dinner/drinks/movie etc. to informally celebrate start/end of project, perhaps even a tiring day working on the project. And, make sure you follow up and don't let those people slip away after your projects. Invite and go out with them to catch up once a while etc.

6. I noticed that, at least in my university, there are barely any Americans in the Masters program if you choose courses in core computer sciences. If you want to meet locals or people from different backgrounds/interests, then you can choose to take up at least one course that coincides with your hobby/interest e.g. music101 etc.

Edit - If you are at/visiting Chicago, let me know, I will definitely be up for a beer to two and meet a new person
I'm talking about UK weather in general. I lived in London for a year, worked there for 4 and remember many thunderstorms. Not so much neighbourly camaraderie though. If you want neighbourly camaraderie live in a village.
> Yep there is definitely an instant download page. Strange it's not the #1 result on Google.

Not strange at all. The #1 page is heavily SEOd by the marketing SEO teams. The technical download pages don't have the luxury of full time SEO teams.
Many different entities use TrueCrypt to secure their files and if we assume that TrueCrypt has been compromised it would give NSA access to these files.

The code base is huge and introducing small bugs which they knew how to exploit can easily slip through from individual code review.

It's true that there is on going proper audit of the code, but it's a slow process and if the infiltration was done good while back they might have not been aware that audit was ever going to happen after all TrueCrypt is fairly old software.
I can't afford it either, btw. (and didn't downvote).
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I don't agree with you. HTML has some facilities to render text, but I expect it's an intractable problem to use them to accurately render a PDF. SVGs might be easier, but I'm not sure they have the required facilities to allow for accurate PDF rendering either.

IMO, if Mozilla chose to use Canvas then there's a good reason for it.
[Hi, author here] Yes, that is basically the idea. ki functions are js functions, same goes for vars, which makes it easy to jump from js to ki and back, without giving up on immutability, etc. Note that ki is not really intended as a ClojureScript alternative at all. It's more a way to take advantage of its data structures and some of its expressiveness from a pure JS ecosystem.
Then you can filter the data to show only CC transactions. There might be some additional variance of CC vs cash tipping, but I think the overall trend will still be there in just the CC transactions.
You can't change it - you can only be accepted into it.
So not only you have to do something extraordinary, someone from the caste needs to like what you did.
Or you could be born into it...
>It's not somewhere you can clear your head by going for a walk, even the numerous and beautiful parks are crowded with young families on a sunny day. Quaint, village-type areas are well known and swarming with tourists. "Going for a walk" means something totally different in London- you're not going to escape the bustle, and will probably end up spending money.

I beg to differ.
Yes, of course a place like Hyde Park will be full to the brim on a sunny day. But I have never had a problem finding a quiet area to walk around in London.
Even walking about 5 minutes south-west from Hyde Park around the side streets of South Kensington you will quickly find yourself to be the only person walking around the beautiful houses.

A nice park if you want some peace and quiet I can recommend is Richmond Park. It's massive and there's loads of space around to explore without being herded around like cattle or having to endure the constant drone of traffic/sirens.
Yes, I just "noticed" that I get a "web browser" when running komanda.exe.
Some people socialize just for the sake of it, but some dont. (me neither)

You need a mission. Go find something fun to do in which you work with other people. Not entirely conincidentally, work is such a place, except that you likely did not choose your colleagues.

I enlisted as volunteer to restore a monumental big old steam engine. Together with some old and young folks, we have fun working towards a common goal. This common goal is what makes me socialize, with rather random different people that share an interest i have.

We are not the same, so we can help eachother.
What a rubbish article. Without goals, how would anyone know what needs to be done? How would you know what is expected of you? If it is a generic company, the main goals are to make sure the company stays around and to make a profit. You then create sub-goals to achieve the main goals and repeat this until everyone knows what needs to be done. If the sub-goals do not agree with the main goals you get the mess which the article describes. This is caused by WRONG goals.
Learn Swift by running Scripts
May be it is only me, or you are like me. I like to learn a language by writing little Scripts in that language. You can write and execute Swift Scripts using the immediate mode of the Swift language compiler.
> there are people in the US who hate the lack of a "real" summer (30+) in places like Seattle, London, or Paris.

But then they have AC turned up to full so it's freezing in their office! Funny old world...
Not the OP, but concentration of wealth in the hands of a class and concentration of capital in the hands of capitalists sound awfully similar.
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It’s worth pointing out that an accessible content structure is presented to assistive technology, and you can also find-in-page without any problem.
The reduction in memory usage seems impressive for large PDFs, but peak usage of 695MiB to display a 14-page pdf [1] still seems like loads of memory. On my machine, a native reader (Foxit) [2] takes ~30MiB.

[1] http://cdn.mozilla.net/pdfjs/tracemonkey.pdf

[2] http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/
That's art. :P
Glad you find it interesting, looking forward to future feedback.
Sure Bangkok taxis are virtually free if you live on a London-salary. And I'm surprised you say Bangkok is a good city to move around in. Bangkok traffic is often a huge pain. As can going on public transport be.
Realize that everyone else is just trying to make friends as well.
Paying a market rate sure helps. I have no end of my own speculative ideas that I can work on for sweat equity and people that want me to work for free are a dime a dozen.
> Clearly as an adventurer you have to learn to live with whatever weather there is. It is just an inconvenience to experience on the way to your end goal.

As an adventurer? The weather can be much more of an inconvenience to an "adventurer" (which I guess has something to do with being outdoors) than to the average modern, white/blue collar worker, person.

Too cold a weather might mean that you have to be very mindful of what you are wearing and adjust it to your activity level; wear too much while you are active and you get sweaty, which means that you in turn get colder. Wear too little and you start freezing. Even changing attire between activity levels can be difficult, since you sometimes have to undress partially in order to change attires, which might be enough of a room to leave you freezing. Too cold weather might mean that your equipment stops functioning because something froze. Too cold weather might mean that you have a hard time doing anything precise with your hands, because your wooly mittens don't lend themselves to that kind of work.

Then perhaps the weather gets milder; now you have to question whether you are able to cross that river on that ice. Also perhaps beware of snow avalanches.

A lot of rain might mean that you get, you know, wet, perhaps most of the stuff you have. Now you have to carry around wet tents etc. because you didn't have time to dry anything. Perhaps you even have to go to bed in a wet sleeping bag. Good luck trying to sleep.

That is just normal weather - not even going into things like storms.
That's exactly where you are right now (and everywhere else).
Take your motorcycle to a local monument or park or look-out spot. Park next to all the other motorcycles. Find someone standing next to their bike and say something like "that's a nice bike. What is that?" Let them tell you about their bike. Ask them if they ride in the area. Tell them you're also from the area. Ask them if they want to go for a ride sometime. See if they're with a group. Ask if you can join their ride. Ride with them. Usually rides end up at a restaurant or bar. Hang out. Exchange numbers. Go for rides some other time. Tell them you're a new rider and ask for tips. Tell them you've never changed your oil and ask them if you could do it together when they change theirs. This works especially well if you have a bike that everyone else has. Get a gixxer or an R6 and rake in the friendships.
So.. the author is focusing on metrics - the memory usage. Basicly what's being done is release the caching sooner. Well what if a user's usecase scenario is such that he's looking at 2 pages after another a few times which have 10 pages in between.. This would cause a lot more rerenderings than before, making CPU go up. I'm not sure if I want to trade memory for CPU when running on battery
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Imagine that you go running with a friend. You run at 0.9 * speed of light and your friend runs at 0.8 * speed of light in the exact opposite direction. How fast are you getting away from each other?
So your argument is that because Mozilla does it they must have a good reason for it?
It's stupid, I know, but there are less step to do it even from microsoft.com

The trick is not to go to the SQL server page but goinf directly on the download Center. From microsoft.com you to Download->Download Center and then search for sql server 2014 express.

There you will find the one click download if you can guess what version you actually want.

Yeah, that does not improve the process that much.
You can always just move to the west coast if you end up missing wet and dreary. ;)
I am not the author but i think this is it:

https://github.com/soupdiver/ansible-cluster
a finder without search
I think you're confused about what this honour actually is. Receiving an OBE doesn't imbue any extra rights or powers, it's literally just an award for doing something that helps others. That's specifically what it was created for.

You can't be born into it, and the system has traditionally honoured thousands of 'normal' people that have been nominated, usually by their peers, for doing work in their field or community.
>Facebook is insanely complex... they have to use right technique and be insanely creative to stay in that spot.

Inevitably when one of these articles crops up, someone "in the business" comes out of the woodwork to say, "Everything is fine, these brands just don't know what they're doing."

I'm not sure I buy it. I dabbled in the space a few years ago, so spent more time than I ever intended reading about FB advertising. It seems to me that a long predicted issue is slowly developing: ad space and eyeball time are limited, so as people "like" more and more material over time, Facebook will have to cull and restrict to keep the news feed relevant to its users, most of which don't really want advertising.

Facebook is not really changing? Am I to assume that with another year experience these social media teams got worse at doing the things you suggest? That's hard to believe.

Sure, I'll bet that these teams can be doing some things better. On the other hand, how many brands are going to continue to spend money on a constantly evolving, unpredictable advertising platform that requires outside consultants to navigate properly?
A poem on the subject of lending & taking:

Lending Out Books
Hal Sirowitz

You’re always giving, my therapist said.
You have to learn how to take. Whenever
you meed a woman, the first thing you do
is lend her your books. You think she’ll
have to see you again in order to return them.
But what happens is, she doesn’t have the time
to read them, & she’s afraid if she sees you again
you’ll expect her to talk about them, & will
want to lend her even more. So she
cancels the date. You end up losing
a lot of books. You should borrow hers.
Living in London is to an extent, a young persons game. Many commentators are talking about being an hour away from people and home. I don't think that's a big problem. Sure it's not easy, I used to live somewhere where i was nevermore than 1/2 hours walk from anyone of my friends, now i'm generally on an hours tube journey.

It's not a big deal and it's about being in an area you like. I love my area in west London, I could have moved closer to my friends in East London, but that would put me out with friends in West, South West and North London. I'm in Zone 2, so cycling to the middle isn't a big deal, but nor is taking a tube to east London, or south east London. If you don't like commutes and being within busy places, it might not be for you. You'll make friends with people who live and work all over london. If you're good friends, you'll make the time(travel) differences work. It's one of those things people who live in London deal with. I do think it's about being under a certain age/having that mindset though.
You'll definitely want to check out Rejection Therapy: http://rejectiontherapy.com

Here are people who have done Rejection Therapy:

Surprising Lessons From 100 Days of Rejection (TED video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFWyseydTkQ&feature=youtu.be

Rejection Therapy Saved My Soul: http://theapproachmachine.com/rejection-therapy-saved-my-sou...

My 40 Days of Rejection: http://my40days.co.uk/
My experience shares many similarities with yours.

What transformed my life was taking up juggling (contact juggling specifically) again. I'd learned a little at university but gave it up after I graduated. I got back into it years later, entirely by accident, and it's open up a whole new world to me. I've made friends in countries across the world and I regularly travel to juggling conventions in the UK where I'm based and further afield. I even perform a little these days.

I'm not necessarily advocating that you take up juggling, but whatever your interests, there's almost certainly a group of people out there who'll share them. Find them and you'll be surprised at how quickly you can bond with relative strangers over a common interest.

I was 32 when I got back into juggling. It's still early days for you!