skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted a detailed comment at this[1] Ars Technica thread, explaining my belief that developers underestimate the capabilities of Excel as a development tool for end users.

I'd want to ask if Hacker News' strict forum rules allow cross-posting, to bootstrap conversation on interesting topics?

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/preview-office-for-an...
It's a horrible article, but it certainly does imply that it is an energy storage system.

"The electrodes, in tandem with the liquid metal that settles to the bottom of the tank and the oxygen above, form an enormous battery."

"Trimet can soak power from the grid when energy is cheap. It can then resell the power when demand is at its peak."

My guess: they usually just load shift in response to prices, but when prices get exceptionally high they resell, and the author mixes the two up.
I love good visualizations, this one is neat. Unfortunately the visuals don't carry much data with it. That is, it didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know--climate change will provide more extreme (hot/cold) weather patterns.

Even worse, viewing this almost makes me less inclined to worry about climate change. That is in nearly a decade the leading headline is jellyfish closing down a power plant. Hmm, ok, let's spend trillions of dollars to fix climate change, or a few million to upgrade power plant water intake systems to protect against jellyfish swarms.

So, seeing this I sadly now understand why politicians and companies are greenwashing everything. Talk is cheap and will get you support, but the consequences of the problem won't be seen until you are well into retirement.
Google Glass's biggest problem is really wrong timing. In fact, all of the wearables that are coming out now have the problem of wrong timing. We hardly have exhausted the applications of mobile computing. And the applications that do exist are only a version of desktop and big computing devices retrofitted onto mobile.

The true vision of what "a computer in every pocket" can do has hardly been scratched. Things like accepting credit cards on the spot with an iPhone or barcode scanning with mobile cameras are true examples of that kind of vision. 3D scanning, whenever it arrives, will be another example. Flashlight, pocket camera, video conferencing, and digital level are also great examples.

One of the great ways I hacked my life to use a "pocket computer" was using it as a digital briefcase where the phone would sync all my work files on my work computer the moment I connected to work wifi and sync it again to my home computer the moment I connected to home wifi. (I know it's not needed anymore.)

That kind of true innovation where you give the mobile phone actual mobile purpose is what makes the phone a great device. Retrofitting apps from desktop to mobile fits only in some (venture capital)/(mobile frontier)/(developing country) scenario.

To immediately warp speed to wearable computing and to retrofitting desktop or mobile apps onto wearable platforms is immature. There are some great uses of wearables like Google Glass in the areas of augmented reality. But very few companies are even thinking about it. Other uses for Google Glass are hindered because of privacy alarmists who cannot stop thinking about sinister uses. And of course there is the cultural stigmatism of having a computer on your face.
If you were underwhelmed by this blog post have a look at:

Transforming code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python by Raymond Hettinger at PyCon 2013

https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/transforming-code-into-b...
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGv2VnC0go&noredirect=1

Topics include: 'looping' with iterators to avoid creating new lists, dictionaries, named tuples and more
Do you really think time spent being social is wasted?

No judgement, just curiosity.
Special considerations when videotaping:

With regards to videotaping, there is an important legal distinction between a visual photographic record (fully protected) and the audio portion of a videotape, which some states have tried to regulate under state wiretapping laws.

Such laws are generally intended to accomplish the important privacy-protecting goal of prohibiting audio "bugging" of private conversations. However, in nearly all cases audio recording the police is legal.

In states that allow recording with the consent of just one party to the conversation, you can tape your own interactions with officers without violating wiretap statutes (since you are one of the parties).
[1]

Police officers may not confiscate or demand to view your digital photographs or video without a warrant.

Police may not delete your photographs or video under any circumstances.

Police officers may legitimately order citizens to cease activities that are truly interfering with legitimate law enforcement operations.

[1] Know Your Rights: Photographers

https://www.aclu.org/kyr-photo
These guys have an incredible performance: http://blog.ludei.com/cocoonjs-announces-webview-for-ios-8-p...

It's x23 faster than iOS' webkit in the Octane 2.0 tests!
I thought it would be realtime like http://tmpvar.com/markdown.html (although you miss all your text editor features).

This plugin acts as a browser reloader, like the ones you find for HTML/CSS, which is already helpful in itself.
The confidence that this will inspire while looking or interviewing for a job is immense. Taking it one step further, it would be great if they're provided free clothing if they can prove(to prevent abuse) that they need it to go to an interview.
Also not an expert. My impression was that the high cost of fission plants can be attributed to safety features that aren't required with fusion. (And arguably aren't required -- to the extent society demands them -- with fission plants either.)
‘Best’ isn’t hidden, it’s on the lists page that’s linked in the footer: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
Newspapers. They claim that google is stealing their "content" , as if newspapers produced much original content.
Good. Thanks Jeff!

Do you have any suggestions on how to fix some of the problems? (If not, that's ok.)
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That's the exact system behind molten salt storage [1]. It's just now getting to the point where it's really feasible, but is something that's being researched for the exact areas you described.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Molten_s...
Not really "containers" but "VMs"

Here's my call on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8245682
Protectionism never makes sense, but in this case it is to benefit newspapers.
>$90 HDMI cable

Ah, I don't miss being required to hock those at customers. We used to have to watch training videos (in Macromedia Flash!) about how Monster's special braiding technology transferred the bits with more fidelity.

But they really weren't the worst offender. "Overpriced" doesn't begin to describe the markup on their batteries. When I worked there -- and i'm sure it's even more now -- it was several hundred percent. It was absurd to the point that I went to my boss for clarification thinking that maybe the POS drops decimal places or something.
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Some of the pages are listed in
https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (4th link at the bottom of each page)

But there are more. See this old thread with more information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024293
We should cash-bomb the people – not the banks
I did it 90% as a joke, but I do know some developers that would definitely benefit from a little guidance.
AirPlay is not a device, it's a technology implemented by multiple devices, and it's four years old (compared to Chromecast, which is barely one). Comparing the two directly is nonsensical.
I don't think she has ever been Foreign Minister, she's been an elected Danish MP for 13 years, serving as Minister of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic and Interior Affairs before being nominated to serve as Denmark's EU Commissioner by Denmark's elected government.

I'll note that the public in Denmark did not vote for her to be Deputy Prime minister, they voted for her to be an MP, being a Deputy Prime minister is a nominated position. There are lots of nominated positions in representative democracies. In this case, the position is nominated by the elected government of a host country, then the selected nominations get voted on by the elected EU parliament. It is a bit like the process of nomination to the US supreme court, only the whole set gets voted on.

There is an argument for the Commissioners to be initially selected by election in member states rather than through nomination and that was raised in 2010 by European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, though I don't know how it is progressing.

She couldn't be a foreign minister though, if you meant it in the other sense, as she is definitely from Europe and is in an EU post.
On a slightly tangential note, after having used Mou for a while I've recently moved to Macdown[0] for Markdown editing on the Mac after Mou seemed to be abandoned, plus, it's open source!

I mention it as the live previews in both those apps are the real winners for me, and having something like that in my regular text editor would be awesome. Not such a fan of the browser based previews, but I'll give it a go!

[0] http://macdown.uranusjr.com/
You're making implicit assumption that a new OS must come in with a new ecosystem built from scratch. There is a significant number of standards (e.g. POSIX, ELF, PDF etc) that can help you ensure different levels of interoperability with existing software and data. Implementing such standards lowers the cost of building an ecosystem significantly. Also, with the push to the cloud, fewer applications need to be provided natively.

Driving adoption is a matter for all products in the market, not specific to operating systems. You can make it easier with familiar UI, advertising and bundling your OS with hardware (although that may be anti-competitive practice it seems to be widely accepted where I live).
I think I've figured out the reason I don't see this the way you do; I believe Apple has the right to alter the search results of their App Store because it's their freaking store.

Guess the only solution to this problem is to have some sort of legislation decreeing whether the Google's actions is legal or illegal.
Giant paywall. I was bummed, great article so far.
Go to systems programming meetups, in Malmö there's Rust Skåne and C++ folk at least. Gothenburg and Stockholm probably has meetups as well.
What would be great is if you could combine this with actions people can take to make reductions, and the results of that. Like one of those primer timeline visualizations.
Make Any Framework Suck Less with These 10 Insightful Lessons
For anyone who is interested in the story of the original development of Windows NT, check out the G. Pascal Zachary book, Showstopper.
If you're on Mac, you should definitely check out Marked 2: http://marked2app.com
> There are serious logistic/economic barriers to enter
> the search space.

But there were before Google started as well. Google entered the search engine party after it seemed to be over. I remember reading about them first on slashdot and thinking - wow - someone still thinks there's room to break into this? Surely portals are the proving ground. (Who knows? Maybe they are.)

Something particularly interesting about Google is that they just took the industry head-on. I'd guess that there'd be areas where you could build a kind of search engine that was better than the market leader, and focus on carving out a niche. Yandex have done just this with the Russian market. (and there's an example of a commercially-viable post-google search engine business).

But Google just went after being the leading power.

History in general, but in our space in particular, is written by small, well-coordinated teams who can repeatedly execute. If you can get that team together, you can do almost anything.
Ask HN: Does my homepage make sense to you?
I'm looking for some feedback from the HN community on my homepage for a new project I'm working on. Would love some critiques and insights. The URL is http://www.audienceowl.com

Included a clickable link in the comments. Thanks.
try xing
No, search is also for things like positions, local businesses, etc. And no I don't want to be prompted to customize my google experience by choosing any of X providers for maps, etc. I want the answer to my gooddam search query, stat.
link is http://www.audienceowl.com
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Looks like another Chinese company disguising as a European company for image reasons.
Have a look at their logo: http://www.linshof.com/ Now take a look at the logo of this real German company (established 1887): http://linhof.de/index-e.html (It's almost the same name except for the s)

Coincidence, huh?
For those wondering about "like the ones you find for HTML/CSS", http://livereload.com is what you're looking for (or at least one choice, anyway).
Maven archetypes make Maven a lot easier to use, and the standardization of things such as JPA and CDI and the simplification of EJB has gone to lengths to reduce the complexity if JEE.
That being said, this isn't a "Hello, World" app, but more of using "Hello World" to demonstrate how to set up the full JEE system.
Actually making the words match the movements of the actors' lips seems to take this kind of comedy to another level.
I liked the Coursera course a lot:

https://class.coursera.org/android-002
Cool geodesic grid. [1]
[1] http://kiwi.atmos.colostate.edu/pubs/CISE.pdf
How to travel abroad without internet
It's not terrible.
OT; the screenshot on the page is 4.3MB, same image at 330KB: http://i.imgur.com/jMMD3uR.png
All Facebook Applications Deleted on My Account
I know you are being sarcastic.
If you have a creative personality, a source of income, and an internal source of validation then, yes, social time is time wasted.
I don't know if that's entirely accurate. I did a good stint of retail early in my college career and Radio Shack, at least in my experience, was on a whole different level.

I think the author nailed it on the head with this statement:

>Working at RadioShack was sort of the worst of two worlds: there was the poverty-level income of a blue-collar retail job, coupled with the expectations, political nonsense, and corporate soullessness of the white-collar environment.

There was a non-stop, life or death pressure from management to sell -- especially phones and "add ons." I was once written up for selling a phone without attaching 3 accessories.

One day the manager stuck a clipboard behind the counter with stack of paper on it. After every customer interaction, we were supposed to log What phone they had, what service they had, when they're due for an upgrade, and like 2-3 other things that I can't remember. Failure to do this would result in a write up, and eventual termination.

With a Target or Publix gig, you can more or less mind your own business and stock shelves -- helping customers is actually an awesome break from the monotony in that case. At Radio Shack, every customer interaction was painful because it was turned into an awkward interrogation.
unsafePerformIO is for quiche eaters. Real programmers use accursedUnutterablePerformIO.

(Ok, but in all seriousness... don't.)
Personally, I get a lot from knowing FreeDos exists. It makes things like DosBox much more compelling.

I look at this project in the same light, before too long you'll be able to download WinBox and play all your favorite old Windows Games or use some long forgotten old productivity tool.

This is amazing work that will ensure we can keep alive our culture and history in a meaningful way.
Cool thanks for the tip. Nice to see MathJax support!
Sounds like a market opportunity for someone. In Russia there is Yandex, in China there is Baidu. The EU has a larger population and much higher GDP (~market size?) than Russia, and a higher GDP than China. (Actually, a higher GDP than the US, according to Wikipedia.)

Even if we have to break it down by language, Germany, France, and the UK have larger GDPs than Russia. Italy's not far behind.

So why is there no European competitor -- or multiple EU competitors -- to Google?

(Apart from the obvious snarky "someone might start one but then they'd have to worry about being hamstrung by EU Parliament resolutions once they got too powerful" reason -- Russia and China are hardly bastions of libertarian capitalism.)
I don't think you'll be guzzling gigabytes of data on the low end phones people use in the poor parts of Africa that we are talking about. If they did, I doubt internet.org could afford to give it away.

We are not talking about broadband providers, but GSM/Edge internet on what is essentially feature phones.
Indeed! Who cares about conflict of interest in a discussion thread? Your point is either valid or not, intelligent or not, it will persuade me or not. I don't need to know your entire background to see value, insights or lies in your remarks.
> Driving adoption is a matter for all products in the market, not specific to operating systems.

It's a matter of degree. To simplify, the costs of switching are linear in the complexity of using the product. I apologize that I don't know how to precisely model human network effects (you need to learn the product from someone) on top of it, but intuitively the societal costs are super-linear.

Computer systems are by far the most complex products human kind has ever produced. Given the simplistic model sketch above, the costs of switching in the computer industry are the highest humanity has ever seen, likely by orders of magnitude. Fun times.
I think it's probably more that it is a useless $1500 gadget that also happens to look terrible.
Syrian Electronic Army hacked Forbes and many other websites hijacked
I'd really like to see the term "virtual battery" banned.

You're either a battery or you're not. If you can store and release energy in the same form you're a battery. If you can't, but can store energy for later use, then you're an energy banking system. Otherwise you're a demand response system.

This is a demand response system.
China's Google will launch a smart bike later this year
Sounds interesting - got any recommendations for meetups in Stockholm?
Scala with mediocre programmers (CommodityScrumDrones writing FactoryVisitor classes) is an outright disaster.

The Java community has its flaws (oh boy, does it) but it has adapted to the hordes of mediocrities. Give Scala to mediocre engineers (who typecast to Any, use null instead of Option[T]) and you have the Java hell with worse IDE support and 5x compile times.
Why would the expenses per employee for a bootstrapped company be different than the expenses per employee at a startup?
I can think of two: Sharing high-quality videos, and making backups for law enforcement.
Problem is that there's different information available in different places which confirm either argument.

The Trimet annual report / brochure linked elsewhere in this discussion makes clear that this is only demand-side management / load shifting.

The diagram linked elsewhere ... here: http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-11-26/tech_aluminumgraphic49_... ... shows what could well be a metal-air battery.

It's a fucking disaster of reportage.
What good is a multi-gigabit transfer protocol when the flash memory which is used in most consumer electronics and it's memory interface controllers can't maintain the maximum theoretical nor attainable speed of USB 2.0 atm?
Unless mobile phones will start coming with mSATA SSD's instead of the el'cheapo integrated flash memory ontop of an eMMC controller this technology is not useful at all.
There are already plenty of "touch/kiss" based file transfer services which used BT and NFC and they never took off. Even Samsung gave up on it's "beam" tech, and yes although it used NFC with much lower bandwidth it was still enough for quick transfer of documents and general items between the phones, and on top of being easy to use Samsung had a large enough market share for it to be useful, however alas still no one used it.
So yeah sorry i don't see how a technology which will require adding an additional radio to the already overloaded radio stack of the phone(AM/FM(US phones mostly), BT, GSM, NFC, WIFI), especially a proprietary chipset with a proprietary protocol will be a viable solution, especially when it's going to be hindered by the hardware (and software, i wan't to see Android or iOS handling gigabit speeds) of the devices themselves.
If anything USB over NFC or something similar seems like a much better candidate for this type of technology most due to the backwards compatibility to existing hardware and software stacks and USB being more or less and open standard.
Bill Cosbys attorney releases a NEW statement
The fact that the bits are shipped on a CD or downloaded as a webpage should not make a difference. Google gives its own services a major advantage while burying the competition.

Harmful indeed.
So the phone:

- is called i8

- has 8 corners

- has an 8-core cpu

- has 80 gb flash

- and a camera sporting 8 megapixels.

Plus it has a square logo that looks like the writing above an old-established viennese pastry shop. Whats not to like? Maybe there'll be a Swarovsky edition someday.
Behavior Change Apps Don't Work
I worked at the Shack in 2000, and the batteries really were superior. Not sure if they still are, but even the NiMH batteries were superior to a lot of the other brands out at the time. I don't know how they'd compare to Eneloops, now, though.
Continuous Delivery for Front-End Engineers
Since this isn't what they say it is... try http://www.sandboxie.com/
A lot of web agencies fall into the trap of "Hey, we'll make a super flashy website and potential clients will be falling all over themselves to work with us!" It seems you've made that same mistake. Focus on customer testimonials, highlight a couple successful projects, show off conference talks/open source work and talk about the problems you solve. These things go way further towards winning customers than any parallax effect or web cam will.
Team Treehouse is what I used. It may be a little slow if you have java experience, but it's very thorough. I went from knowing nothing about java/android to building a useful, simple app integrated with an external api within a week. They recently updated the whole course for material design, android studio,and lollipop.
You mean "not putting a camera on it" would have made it impossible? What part of the glass design required it to have a camera?
You don't think there's anything more to life than supporting yourself and being validated in your creativity?

I agree these things are wildly important to a happy life. I still think there is more though.
There was a post about it some time back. I've always wondered why it's not linked anywhere.
All I can say is lolllll. Is it possible to flip it around? To not accept commits unless your prose is really unnecessarily wordy and opaque?
Yep, athletes, cyclists...
Bill Gates: Yes, robots really are about to take your jobs
They look like an asian company that decided to adopt a vaguely european name (most likely a take on Linhof). The design looks like asian knockoffs I've seen.
I've replied to everyone who emailed me. If you didn't receive a reply, check your spam folder.
I know some people who might fit the bill here in London, including myself.

Can you elaborate on the position?
Sorry for the off topic.

> like convincing cats to gather for a game of Scrabble

If you get any board game out in a house with cats, it will be minutes until they are all gathered, trying to sit on the board. Perhaps they should have said "like convincing cats to not sit on a game of Scrabble".
I actually lean more towards your way of thinking - I'm just trying to explain how the EU feels and why they're doing it.
also in the std library, https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collectio... field_names can take a single space separated string