skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Anything requiring tracking is not going to be competitive with regular solar cells for simple mathematical reasons so I suspect this is not quite as breakthrough as the title makes it seem."

I see one thing which even 5 hours after your post no one has observed, which is that while your argument may make sense for two otherwise-equal non-concentrating solar panels, for a concentrating solar panel based on small cells you don't have a non-tracking option to compare against. If your concentrator isn't tracking, then the vast majority of the time it's concentrating on not-the-solar-cell, which isn't useful. You'll never be able to mount this on your roof flush with your shingles.

If they can make small, 40-50% efficient cells, then the tracking setup may very well beat a conventional lucky-to-be-20% efficient setup regardless of how it tracks. The additional money the setup is making over a conventional cell (literally) buys you some maintenance options that are harder to justify for a solar cell that starts out more expensive than natural gas.

I've got my own questions about their claimed efficiency, but the good news is that solar efficiency is pretty easy to directly measure, so I can just sit back and wait for their customers to work out what's going on. If they're right, they're right.
I am a white male married to a black female with 2 mixed kids living in Texas. While we haven't experienced much bigotry our way, it has happened. The first time I was filled with disbelief and shortly after rage while my wife (then gf) cried.

Our lives would be different if we were born a generation ago. Thank you MLK and Tim Cook.
The best way to get a job is to get a personal introduction to the hiring manager and build rapport with them. I would not ask for their manager's number. I would ask them to make an introduction. That will carry much more weight. A "Coffee Date" is a common way to have that initial meeting. It is perfectly reasonable to suggest (or have the person introducing you suggest) meeting over coffee. It's just a social nicety that can help break the formality of a first 'interview'.
I wonder what considerations were taking for wearing this device while using a mouse. Most people are right handed, so this device on your right would certainly need to have a hearty outside surface I would think. It has been noted that "in front of computer" time may be "charging" time due to minor activity, but I have always thought (for me at least on the computer/mouse 5+ hours a day) an opposite hand device would be hard sell with people who use mice with that hand.
No... They simply acknowledge that the roughly 4% of the population that identify with the LGBT community exists. It's a pretty far push from acknowledging existence to "pushing homosexuality on everyone." I'll leave as an exercise to the reader to identify the mental gymnastics required to come up with the phrase: "pushing homosexuality on everyone"
I assume he's referring to Steve Ballmer.
My problem there is that Susy Grid requires bleeding-edge SASS. And the very latest Compass version, too.
Evolution of “Hello World” over 100+ languages
So those 250% tariffs on Chinese solar panels have really worked out for us, right!?

The whole energy sector is so frack'd. Oil cartels periodically drop prices precipitously to drive competition out of the market. They pay off Federal politicians to create 250% tariffs, and State politicians to outlaw the the sale of electric cars direct to customers and make it illegal to use your solar cells during power outages. Oh, the irony of "free market" Republicans passing all these things. Our clueless president dumps billions into an obvious boondoggle designed to undermine the solar market, while real breakthroughs wither on the vine.
I am not sure about the actual name, the point is that those engines come from the same root, be it WebKit, Blink or something else.

As far as my experience goes, they include common things like dev tools, rendering nuances and other such stuff.
Sounds more like "I'll stick with MySQL because it's what I know" than any kind of a holistic comparison between the two.
Sure. You or your father are welcome to join the Google Group and we can work through until your dad has a job. I will post my phone number in there so that I can talk to your father directly too:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nemcv
Thanks for the response! Keep up the great work.
George Boole, Charles Babbage, John von Neumann, Grace Hopper

- To name a few great contributors. Yes Alan Turing is considered the father of computer science but with out the knowledge of others before him (and even during his time) we could be living in a different world right now.

Even the late, great Isaac Newton said - [1]"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_g...
In the 30 minutes where the example was at the bottom of the README: 7 upvotes.

In the 30 minutes where the example was moved to the top, so you could see it without scrolling: 30 upvotes.

Given the fast-paced nature of HN, getting to the point ASAP seems to have significant merit. All the other projects that I've announced on HN, with weeks of work put into them, and websites which expect the user to spend 5 minutes reading before they get the point, have had no upvotes or comments at all :-P
The process would still be somewhat labor-intensive, since someone would have to apply significance to the landmarks.

GTA, specifically, doesn't use all the landmarks they find - they instead use rough facsimiles that give the same impression. It's really rather brilliant - a different design, but somehow it's familiar if you've been there or seen that.

Ultimately, for video games, they are still designed by hand, because of the "if it's not there, it doesn't exist" problem and for a host of other reasons. Unfortunately, for space reasons, most of it is non-interactive in a meaningful way.

There's some interesting work being done by ESRI that could hopefully lead to virtual city designs that are almost fully interactive. Imagine GTA where every building could be entered and every object could be interacted with because they are generated on the fly.

Sort of a realistic Minecraft. Very sort of, but still.
Ask your peer for an introduction. It's always much better to be introduced by someone the manager knows or respects than via a cold-call. (It plays on association fallacy in your favor)

If you don't know anyone who knows the manager, find their contact information and contact them, informing them you're very interested in the position they have open and you would love to discuss it over coffee. It's not "out of the blue" because they have been looking for someone to fill a position, and you are that someone.

Also, keep in mind that some hiring managers may ignore you or put off meeting/interviewing you until you bug them enough. I was kept in limbo for a couple months once because I was afraid of being "pushy" while they were basically waiting me out.
AFAIK The kernel needs to perform calls to the hypervisor in order to copy the page table, but I'm not expert enough to provide you with details about this unfortunately. It is for sure not inherently due to virtualization, since for example VMware does not have this issue.
You can learn a lot about someone's coffee habits. How much sugar, how much milk. How much... whiskey.
That's a cool view, but not how it works. The 'side issue' you dismiss is really the center of it: the government denies full participation to a class of people based on a questionable moral stance. Anything less that recognition is a 'back of the bus' argument: if the bus goes to the same place, why do you care if you have to sit in the back?
There's no need to be reticent.

What I've found helpful is to start billing for all customer interaction immediately after the initial meeting.

This includes any time I spend drawing up proposals, vetting specifications or customer meetings.

Most of all, this also includes any legal costs I incur if the project requires me to sign complex legal agreements that will need to be vetted by my own counsel.

The thing is, from the moment a customer starts talking to me they are making use of my time, expertise and personal resources.

Because these things do not come to me for free they have value both to me and to my customer.

If they are recognised as having value it greatly decreases the likelihood that my time will be wasted and increases the probability that my customer's requirements will be met.

When I first started doing this about five years ago it did mean that I lost a lot of "opportunities" in the beginning.

Fortunately this also meant I now had time in my schedule to accept more lucrative and enjoyable opportunities with folk who were far more concerned with the quality of my work than my willingness to sign complex legal agreements at the drop of a hat.

Take a lesson from those very same lawyers who draw up NDA's!

Have you ever heard of one who would spend more than five minutes of their time, expertise or resources on your problem if you weren't going to be paying for every single dollar of it? :-)
Past performance is not indicative of future results.

While MS has built a reputation for solid build quality on its peripherals, they are not immune to the race to the bottom. If you liked your old MS Intellimouse, for instance, it would be wise to check the date of manufacture before buying another.

This affects more than just Microsoft. Other brands have changed ownership, or changed manufacturing facilities, but kept the same trademarks. Or items with the same advertised model number could now be manufactured in multiple facilities, to the same nominal minimum standard, but widely varying actual performance. I'll leave it to you to do your own research, but LCD display panels and SD cards are a particularly obvious example of this.

If Microsoft wants me to trust its hardware like I once did, it doesn't need to actually open a new manufacturing facility in Washington under the burning eye of its QC employees, but it would at least have to be embarrassingly open about it manufacturing process. I simply don't trust anyone to build quality for the mass market any more.

I'm not saying companies don't build quality anymore, but you can't just trust a brand. You have to do your research on each new model, every time.
I thought most people wear their watch on the opposite wrist?
Nice. Now if only we could find a way to expose the operating system as a hierarchical file system.
Sorry what typo? I'm not a native english speaker and I want to fix it.

EDIT: Thanks for correcting me, sorry. Just to put things in the right context, for me homophobia is unacceptable, so I would never misspelled his surname for a joke or alike.
By the same logic scanl should just have the type:

(b -> IO a) -> [b] -> IO [a]

instead of

(a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> [a]

Just putting the whole thing in the IO/ST monad isn't the right solution when you need a very specific form of local state.
In the game of solar PV, niche markets are not going to drive the kind of demand that manufacturers like this would need to reduce manufacturing costs. PV manufacturers must scale to very large numbers (hundreds of MW per year) to be competitive.
People don't call civil rights or women's rights "agendas," they call them "movements." Agenda is pejorative, pertaining to "underlying intentions"; whereas movement directly refers to the act of changing, and in other fields such as music indicates a progression or forward dynamic. Portraying gay people in media could have an advertising "agenda" (e.g. they have an intention of selling things by appearing gay friendly or progressive with respect to modern culture rather than an intention of advancing gay rights), but are still progressive in that media portrayals of gay people actually is a change, or forward progression, for a minority group.
Tim Cook officially comes out as gay in public essay about equality
Where would it store that encryption key? How would it store it in such a way that a Chromium fork wouldn't have good access to it to easily decrypt and copy the cookies anyways?

Are you sure it's even an import? I wouldn't be surprised if this thing is just naively using the same cookie stores and bookmarks and whatnot live.
Who drinks plain coffee? Latte, espresso, chai - single or double shot - soy or low-fat, the list goes on and on!
OpenBSD Drops Support for Loadable Kernel Modules
Isn't this the same site from three years ago? Back then, it "aimed to take on Erlang".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809827

... and tried to fork Node's EventEmitter into "EventEmitter2":

http://blog.nodejitsu.com/distribute-nodejs-apps-with-hookio...

This time it's "HTTP Microservices", eh? Maybe next time it'll be even more incredibly powerful and surprisingly simple.
Also having some pretext for the date helps I think; asking for advice on how to get a job for the role you're interested, better understanding the company culture and working practices or advice for some other particular situation could all be good reasons to meet. Setting out the reason for the date (in your email response to the email introduction) will make it more likely that your request will be taken up.
I actually think it is a great idea because I don't want to stop wearing my stainless steel watch on the only premium part - wrist. Most right handed people wear their watch on their left hand and it is a hard habit to break. In that way, it is good that I can wear this band on my left hand.
> I wish we lived in a society where people weren't pressured into "publically acknowledge" their sexual orientation

As someone who has come out, I'd like to note that I was never "pressured" into publicly acknowledging my sexuality. In fact, the general message from the wider culture was "please STFU and don't talk about it".

No, I looked at history, saw that coming out was an important and useful thing I could do to contribute to the movement aimed at getting equal rights for gay people and that formed part of a pretty rational decision to do so.

The lies and bigotry aimed at gay people thrived for so long precisely because nobody knew any gay people. That's exactly why coming out was (and still is) necessary. One of the reasons the gay rights movement has been so spectacularly successful over the last 40+ years is because the lives of actual gay people is a living testament to the falseness of the vicious stereotypes spread by homophobic pricks.

You don't see straight people coming out because they don't need to. Gay people came out because the alternative is persecution, mixed with a whole lot of personal misery.
Interesting take on this. I like webscript.io but prefer JavaScript to Lua. Also, great domain.

You should check out our tools. We can help a lot with the storage/display of http requests.
I covered evil-mode in my previous post[1], mostly advising new converts not to rely on it, but just to take the Emacs plunge completely.

[1] http://decomplecting.org/blog/2014/10/23/welcome-to-the-dark...
So, more like PNaCl?
You're assuming that the people who built the site could be working elsewhere in HP producing revenue. HP already employs the content creators and lawyers, so they are already spending the money whether this site is created or not. HP has a huge sales engine and customer base, so marketing new products like this is perfect for getting feedback while producing the product.
Weaponizing Your Pets – Gene Bransfield
Well married homosexuals get the right to adopt children (I assume). I don't think it's just a moral stance. Maybe some people really are convinced that having two dads is bad for children psychologically. They would probably be wrong, but it's not a question of morals (unless you dismiss the protection of children's wellbeing as a goal). I am not sure if science has really shown it's not bad for children. I personally don't think so, but I can't blame other people for thinking so.

How does adoption in general work? For example it can happen through "natural causes" that a child has only one dad and no mother. It seems likely that having two dads would be better than just one. But if somebody wants to adopt, they might have to be "better than average"? Like would a single dad have a good chance of adopting? Or does some office consider the likelihood of a child's wellbeing in a family - so presumably they would try to find two parents, not just one, which is discriminatory against singles? And then if the "adoption office" (or whoever is responsible) has the choice between a heterosexual and a homosexual couple, things become difficult?
The fact that various kinds of people will consider it an odd thing to say is probably just the reason why Cook went out of his way to say it.
Good on him, nice work Tim.
This is so much like theology, on which thousands of man hours have been wasted (including Newton's). Mental masturbation. What's the point?

The simplest definition is that consciousness is a property of a program which has the capacity to compute something determined by at least one of its previous outputs (which can be an identity function, a perfect memory). Integrated information theory is basically this, only made more complex with the addition of a quantitative property, presumably because people feel an aversion to simplicity. This has a danger of producing absurd results in some edge cases, still, overengineering is a minor infraction compared to the deadly sin of bullshit (like p-zombie).
Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm Found Guilty in Hacking Trial
ScalingStack: 2x performance in Launchpad’s build farm with OpenStack
Give it to my mum normally
Well I hope that there is at least a small percentage that can recognize in their homophobic believes a huge limit and improve. What is otherwise the thing to do for somebody as regarded as Tim Cook, to remain very private about their sexuality?
1. Find an Introduction
2. "Do Lunch" or "Do Coffee" don't call it a "date"
3. Talk about problems that are interesting that you've solved(or that they are solving)
4. ???
5. Profit!
I always give the same answer to questions regarding social etiquette/propriety: just be normal. Seriously, you're overthinking it. Just be a normal person. Make people comfortable, help them get what they want, and smile. That's all you need. If you think something is weird, it probably is, purely because you'll make it weird by thinking that. Would you want to go on a coffee date with someone who was worried it was a weird thing to do?

Dale Carnegie knew what he was talking about. In general, if you treat people like people, you'll do well.
FSVO "problem", sure. There's no ambiguity in using it, but the motivation for its existence is still dubious; it seems like an appendix.

That, however, is also true for all other QM interpretations.
The web is not locked down. Anyone can publish anything, and the source has traditionally been visible. And look at the explosion that it produced - some good and some useless but the huge usefulness of the internet in the last 10 years has been led by the web, not by proprietary app silos.
If you're using IE8 still, you're probably pretty used to a broken web. For most purposes, I think developing for IE8 should basically be making sure your very basic content and functionality is available in some form. But I think it's ridiculous at this point in the game to be aiming for 100% compatibility. If someone cares enough, they'll upgrade.
Or a mormon?
It's fine to ask for a coffee meeting if you want to learn more about an industry, position, or the company.

Hiring, and interviewing is as much about mutual likeablitily as it is skills and qualifications. You can always train for skill and knowledge more than you can train for attitude.

Another thing to remember is as more medium and large companies start to use applicant tracking systems, they generally filter out very good people who don't happen to have the right keywords in their resume that they upload.

Standing out will become more important in those cases.

Ultimately, while what you know is important, who you know can help.
"Tim Cock".
Nice, it could work as a wrist band lie detector too.
Thanks for the feedback!

I took the curl example added it to the homepage right under the tagline.

Thinking of a Hook as a standard Unix Pipe really helps solidifying the entire concept.
I recommend Avira to my family members, and it seems to do its job without being annoying.
Me sees you've struggled with the problem for a while too: http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1815 filed April 2012 and not even an ack.
India spending $18B for digital revolution
Although battery swapping has obvious disadvantages such as requiring a power cycle and fumbling with the battery and a battery cover (as well as your external charger), it certainly beats wired/wireless charging in this aspect in that it provides immediate usage, not tethered to a wire or a charging plate.
I had a rather "terrible" public school social experience (like I'm sure many of the people in our field did, unfortunately, if I may be assumptive) which also failed to teach me much of anything of value. Even with all that time spun out for very little, I mark it as less of a waste than kindergarten, elementary, and middle school. Highschool _forces_ you to some extent to play the social game, if only to survive it; in either case you start to understand the true nature of people far more personally. These are all very important insights, IMO, and have served me well post-factum, both in college and in industry. I think the other posts in these comments indicate the "highschool" in both of those scenarios quite well.

(And to address why I think the prior schoolings are so vapid, all of the lockstep progression through "tasks", gameable metrics, and the sheer environment that felt more like a babysitter than a place of learning removed both any natural drive to learn 'interesting' material AND any opportunity for social growth.)
I don't think terms like "Fuck-ups" or "screwed" should belong in corporate communications, start-up or not.
It's cool they are talking about this openly, but unfortunately what I took from their write-up is that their communication style is less than professional.
Statistical Analysis of the Holy Quran (Part 1)
>> there was no need to come out to the press about it

Sure there was. Here's Cook on why it was worth caming out to the press about it:

"So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy."
Very impressive Ankit. Really liked your hack to go cold emails. Even InMobi cold-called all the way to KPCB! So it's not unheard of. All the best on journey ahead.

Bit of a noob Qn: Is it the norm to have as much as 50 investors in your Angel round? Or are you guys an exception in that too? How do startups deal with so many people after funding? In investor updates and followups, sharing figures, revenues, execution strategy and then following up on those discussions. Is it all done kinda light-touch?
What’s wrong with automatically scanning Twitter for suicidal tweets?