skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have to agree with tomp's specific claims to disagree with tptacek's anti-intellectualism and demands for blind faith in his world view. They can both be wrong.
Not only would that be very difficult to do, nuclear and coal have had decades of subsidies, giving them quite an unfair head-start.

In any case, by 2017 solar will be at grid parity in most of the US. By 2020 this won't even be a topic.
Unfortunately I couldn't read the article, but agree strongly with the title. (It's like Slashdot, but I'll try hard to offer an informed response).

Radio Shack's problem was that they stopped selling anything you couldn't get elsewhere. They allocated more than half each store to cell phones, which are commodity items available everywhere. When I needed a soldering iron on travel, the selection was paltry compared with the Radio Shack of 20 years ago. But Radio Shack was the only place I could think of to buy one.

As another poster pointed out, electronics hobbyists are not immune to the market forces which push non-service industries like bookstores online. Price is so often king. But there is still room in the market for a service-oriented maker/hobby shop. I've thought for some time that there are areas of the country, primarily cities, where an electronics shop with a collaboration space could do very well. If they could find a way to make the gym model work - long, cheap contracts which aren't worth canceling - it could work out well. It's not a gym, of course, but if you push the education and personal enhancement side of the business, you might be able to achieve the same result.

A company called Techshop just opened a huge subscription-oriented machine shop near my office. The fees are around $100/person/month, and they are paying for a lot of currently empty space in a very expensive DC suburb. There's room for this business model. Radio Shack didn't just miss the boat, they sank their own ship when they switched from being the only place where strange electronic parts were sold, to being another cell phone shop.
It seems pretty strongly implied by, "It's my personal opinion that men are the ones that need to suck it up."
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I went to Maplin's (similar sort of store, based in the UK) recently to get some shielded cable. It took 3 "assistants" before I found one who knew what I was talking about at all. I asked the first 2 if there were maybe some rolls of thin looking black stuff out back but they both said they'd never seen anything like that out there. Fortunately the 3rd guy went out back and got exactly what I needed.

It's sad to see after having spent so much of my youth in the NZ equivalent (Dick Smith, who I'm sure are just as broken now too) staring at wonder in the electronic kits.

Similarly disappointing - I was given a DIY Synth Kit for christmas [0]. I thought it would be a great learning experience but they didn't explain anything about what was going on. It was just plug and play. And even more frustrating, the illustrations were inconsistent with the descriptions (though I kept doubting myself, because surely that's just not possible).

Between those experiences I was left feeling like electronics had become rather inaccessible. From the days when there were enthusiastic people around to help you at your local store, now you have to know what you need to even get hold of it in the first place.

[0] http://www.techwillsaveus.com/shop/diy-kits/diy-synth-kit/
And, surely, they will honor their contracts to the letter.

Your employees might take home your entire code base in the US, while working on-site on an air-gapped network. They can certainly do it when you're set up for remote work, almost by definition. In the US, the payoff for stealing your employer's code is low, and the risk of punishment high, but it still happens. I can't speak for non-US countries, but I would guess that most have a bit more relaxed attitude toward enforcement, especially when it would be on behalf of a US company.

If you think your IP is secure from the software developers who wrote it, you do not understand how they work. If you do not hold the loyalty of your developers, you do not control the IP, regardless of what the contracts say.
I'm interested in the study of complex issues like these (more from a math point of view than a political one) - how to optimize for the right choice, given that each choice has a bunch of non-overlapping side effects.

But I don't really know where to get started. What could I google for?
better later than never
Thanks for your (public) support. Most people write such things to me privately, since they don't want the downvotes.
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There's sure to be some creative applications for alternative input methods like these, such as Minority Report gestures for data sorting, where they will have some advantages. Some users, like children, will benefit also.

Here's the curmudgeon part: when it comes down to actually outputting something substantial, nothing is going to beat touch typing for a while. Voice is decent for prose, but frustrating for code. Touch/gestures are okay for spreadsheet, but then you get gorilla arms. Plus there's still a cognitive load necessary: instead of remembering a few hundred commands or keystrokes, you'll be remembering a few hundred gestures.

The mat might find some uses but it won't replace most.
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> Daily caloric needs are individual.

To that point, when I eat about 1500 a day, and feel fullish but will lose about 1lb a week. When I go to 2000 a day i start gaining weight.
Have you tried London?
Oh, nice. Did I miss this, or is this changing of the URL in the address bar a recent addition?

I’m assuming I missed it. Sorry about that.
It's tricky. Being 2x better means 1/2 time to delivery, 1/2 maintenance burden, 2x more flexible software, and 1/2 the management burden, and very often all at the same time. It's also much harder to find cream of the crop workers in cultures you are less familiar with, so the average case (where some people are quite bad at it) is, from what I've seen, a little larger than 2x. Maybe 3-4x, sometimes more? And compounding across all those disadvantages (2x more work to make a change due to worse design, 2x times slower because of lower skill, with every week needing 2x as much management, slowed down by the extra daily operations and keeping-things-going, can be... a lot), it can actually work out to be a worse deal unless you're pretty careful. Personal experience shows that this involves both careful hiring and on the job training.
Collaboration with people inside and outside the company that use Office. The conversion back and forth hasn't been faithful enough, and who wants to bother with fixing things on both ends, both times?

I don't think I'd ever give anyone an odt document; the rare doc I produce with LO is exported to PDF before sending, not the least because virtually no one has LO or even knows what it is. And if I export to some Word format, who the hell knows what version of Word is on the other end? It's just not worth it.

If someone insists on a Word doc, I'll write a plain text document, give it a .doc suffix, and when the other end double clicks on it, it will open in Word.
New cloud storage integration for Office
Really this is a nostalia-fest article, instant click-bait appeal to anyone who thinks their High Street is getting too much like every other High Street. Thank goodness the writer was in the UK, had he been in the USA I am sure he would have got himself lost in identical mini-malls.

More interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law

"principle of minimum differentiation"
Who are the dictators and religious nutjobs in power in Europe?
Installing an "office suite" these days is becoming less and less of a need. I can only speak for myself, but online versions at Google, or Microsoft (to mention two) are all I need.
Most of the time, there's little recourse from pricing mistakes, exactly for the reasons you mention - but there is usually (and definitely in this case - can't speak for Mexico) an exception for entering the contract in bad faith.

From the article: “The traditional rule at common law,” says Peter Cartwright, a professor of consumer law at Nottingham University, “is that if one party has made a mistake as to the terms of the contract and the other party knows of that mistake, the contract is not binding.”

The burden of proof is on the company, and anyone who were in good faith can sue United for breach of contract. But they better have a good explanation for why they suddenly decided to browse for airfares in Danish kroner.
I'm inclined to repurpose a cliche, and say that now your backend team has two problems!
This is certainly not the first time
someone does this. I remember a guy here in Brazil about 15 or 20 years ago showing the same thing. I doubt he was the first even then. Lots of things got lost before the internet was common.
Glad to hear it! Best of luck lads :)
See fairbanks alaska:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3312118/Worlds-biggest...
Perhaps to westerners and perhaps to you. To other people, that is not necessarily always the case. For example, my family has lived in the city where I reside for less than 100 years. This is my home but it's not my ancestral home.

If I were from India, if my family had a connection to an area that went back hundreds or possibly even thousands of years to a region, if I could live similarly to how I live here on the kind of salary the job pays there, I wouldn't be in a big rush to leave either.

Would I leave this area to make 10x what I earn now? Probably. If I left for 5-10 years, I could come back and retire.

Is there any pressing or burning need? No. Not at all.

Even though I could be persuaded to go somewhere else, there are still limits to where I'd go. I wouldn't move to North Korea, even to make 20x my current income. I wouldn't move to any of the former Soviet republics. I wouldn't move to most of Central or South America. I wouldn't move to most of Africa.

I get it, for you, most of these concerns are trivial but that's simply not the case for a lot of people.
A clarification from the comments there: It's not Unicode, or an ISO charset, but a codepage mapping.

$ echo -n غير مسجل | iconv -t CP1256 | md5sum
e6d290a03b70cfa5d4451da444bdea39 -
I knew the Danes where counting in a crazy way but I didn't know the French did this as well.

One more reason I'm happy English is the most common international language I guess.
chroot existed before 11 mag 2010
I know this opinion won't be popular here but to me this eventual result should be expected as the norm for basically all VC funded startups.

VC's fund startups for a financial gain - they get that financial gain when a startup is acquired, which usually involves a much larger, established company. Being bought out is considered "winning" and is the ultimate goal for VC funded startups.

The type of companies that can afford to buy out VC funded startups are generally not going to be buying to continue business-as-usual. The whole reason for VC funding is often that the business (model) can't be profitable on its own, and thus must change somehow to become a worthwhile part of the buying business.
I thought that was what the head bobble was for. It's like the gestural equivalent of telling you exactly what you want to hear.
9!!!!!!....!! + 1
A truly level playing field would mean internalizing all externalities. If that were possible, yes, that would be ideal, but as he just noted, it's really unlikely, partly because it's enormously complex.
Your front-end is your 2 page report. It's not about size but separation of concerns, nothing to do specifically with web apps.
I hope I get it.
> I think that's the premature in premature optimization, when you spend time optimizing something you aren't sure will even survive a later point in the design stage.

That's true enough, though it doesn't seem to be the original point, since the context refers to optimizing parts of the code that aren't taking most of the time.

Which is a danger, but I think the danger is in wasting time on such optimizations, either up front or through increased complexity.
Not to mention that if the greyware enabled the option, this would also make it possible for other unsigned addons to be installed.
I play table tennis so I guess it constitutes me as a table tennis player. In order to become a member of England Table Tennis Association you just have to pay a fee. They don't check whether you even can hold a racquet or not. So out of people who pay the fee it makes you "elite". But out of 1000 people who are ranked it makes you average even in England.

Don't get me wrong. I am all for these experiments and finding out that you don't have to work on a skill for 10,000 hours to be an expert, but, please, don't say that 250 in England is an expert at table tennis. It is just a lie.
I've been working on getting web-based X11 working for a while now...

http://youtu.be/vca13X1TpIw

It works very well but I can't release it yet because there's an underlying problem and the author of this article pointed it out very clearly:

> because X11 is impossible to secure

So imagine the scenario: You want to have a single server that hosts desktop environments for multiple users over the web. X11 is multi-user! No problem, right? Wrong.

Your little web server daemon is going to run as some user. Let's say that user is root to keep things simple. So now your root user needs to spin up an X11 server for each user (so their sessions are separate). But that won't work so well because the X11 servers will all be running as the same user (root). This means that each user can mess with each other's applications, log their keystrokes, etc.

So what do you do? Well, you can just create random, one-time user accounts in /etc/passwd and spin up X11 using those accounts but now your little daemon has to run as root. Also, you now have to keep track of and maintain not just all those temporary users but all the files owned by those users. You also need to keep track of which user had what account and when (for auditing purposes). You also have to worry about UID conflicts (especially with external systems) and some other less common scenarios (e.g. LDAP integration with sudo).

Another option would be to give each user their own container and run X11 inside of that. Except now the application can't get access to OpenGL acceleration and shared memory access (so your little deamon can capture the screen) becomes complicated. Then there's the fact that if you want to give the users access to more applications those applications will need to be installed inside each user's container. You can do some tricks with mounts in order to work around that problem somewhat but it's complicated. REALLY complicated!

For now I've decided to just assume the daemon will be running as a single user (doesn't matter which one) while I work on some other things (e.g. improving audio support) but very soon I'm going to have to come back to the multi-user security problem. It's not easy to solve.

The way X11 was engineered just assumes that each user has their own processes and if you do have multiple users all their applications will be running under different accounts.
Right. Protein breaks down to glucose more than fat does (which is why keto diets recommend moderate protein and high fat). Carbs break down the most into glucose.
Why is this being posted? Its not like they are expecting any special skill that anyone who works for minimum wage would not have.
> 56% of NFL players are obese... Going on the same "that doesn't sound right" criteria, saying they're less healthy than a skinny, sedentary person just because they have more muscle (and possibly more fat, but after all, BMI doesn't distinguish) doesn't sound right to me.

It doesn't sound right to you because it isn't correct. NFL players, as a general rule, are not obese. Obesity is an excess of fat, by both the colloquial and medical definitions. BMI is an indication of obesity, which is not the same as a definition of same.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obesity

: a condition characterized by the excessive accumulation and storage of fat in the body

Medical Definition of OBESITY

: a condition that is characterized by excessive accumulation and storage of fat in the body and that in an adult is typically indicated by a body mass index of 30 or greater
There tends to be a lot of history rewriting in these kind of stories.

Check out

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/

for a somewhat more realistic and balanced view of their business model.

They always owned the niche of small electronics parts, but what paid the store rental bill and the salaries was CB radios, car stereos, TVs, vcrs, dvd players, hi fi, 80s computers... all that stuff was gone by the mid 90s replaced by numerous big box stores. Nobody has taken over retail parts.

(Part of the history rewriting is I don't think "kids these days" understand life before big box stores. In 1989 you want a VCR you don't drive to the local walmart or best buy because there wasn't a single one of them in the state. You could drive into the city and shop at Sears, or the local Radio Shack sold VCRs, or there were audiophool stores that charged $500 per cable. Thats about it. Then the big boxes arrived in the 90s and annihilated RS's primary revenue stream, so history is rewritten that RS was in business in 1985 by selling 79 cent resistors to proto-makers and nothing else, LOL. Maybe its fear of offending currently existing big box advertisers.)

Selling one clock radio for $49.95 per week was always more important to the bottom line than selling five 79 cent resistors.

Turning themselves into the worlds largest, most expensive, and highest overhead mall cell phone kiosk in the world was at best a temporary delaying tactic. Historically RS stepped into big markets accidentally, look at CB radios in the 70s, early computers in the 80s, and they did pretty well with the first cellphones in the 90s. But they never got lucky in the 00s and 10s so away they go.
Not sure if this has changed since then, but around a year ago, I was using Google Docs to collaborate with a few other people on a school project. I lost connection to the internet, and when I reconnected, Docs popped up with an error message telling me that something went wrong and I had to refresh. That was the only option, though: it disabled all controls and I couldn't copy off the work I'd done that didn't get saved.

So, speaking for myself, I wouldn't trust these online office suites with my data or time. They also tend to lag more on lower-end hardware (I frequently use a netbook for notes, etc).
Banks are really good at understanding service businesses that have 46k of monthly revenue and sell for 276k. Profit would matter too, so if the margin is 50%, then we're looking at a ~11-month payback possibility.
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I think that's the joke.

Must have HUGE AMOUNT OF EXPERIENCE IN ALL THE THINGS (with bonus "Hosting" on GitHub)!

Pay rate: $12/hr.
Some of the branded kits are better than others. The lego star wars kits give you very reusable pieces. The kits that focus on characters + backgrounds/buildings seem to be the worst in terms of useless pieces
The experience they've grown accustomed to.
ReviewsApp - Amazing way to keep in touch with the reviews on our apps
We developed ReviewsApp - http://reviewsapp.in - to help us listen to the users of ours apps. It's still on development but all the feedback is appreciated. For now all accounts are free but limited to 5 apps (server constrains). We have many great ideas to turn this project help all developers, including support for google play store, app ranking and improve the way we start conversations around app reviews (no more screenshots to share the perls we see on the app store).
Check out the google dictionary plugin for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-...

You can double-click almost any abbreviation (or any other word) and get a definition.
A few years ago I wrote an article explaining how the chaos game works with high school level math, and a few couple of fun experiments that you can do with it. If anyone's interested you can read the article here: http://shiftingmind.com/chaosgame/
okay.....I get it....
Shoegaze is incredibly easy to make and incredibly hard to make well. I'm not surprised to hear that bands are stringing up a couple reverb/delay pedals and then trying to get some of that 90s no$talgia cachet.

I think that's why Mark Gardener comes off like such a prick in this article: Ride were really on another level technically and in their songwriting and then all these crappy knock-offs came along and watered down the genre until it was a joke. Seriously Ride's live shows were so tight. These guys could really play their instruments.
Building a custom analyzer in Lucene for Elastisearch
I love it when the comments here capture it better than the article did. Three things:

jimmyswimmy: Radio Shack's problem was that they stopped selling anything you couldn't get elsewhere.

danpat: Radio Shack definitely missed the niche that Sparkfun/Adafruit and others have filled.

replicatorblog: Today, the stuff we get from Shenzen is just too good.

Taken together, Radio Shack zigged and the market zagged. As the article points out, Fry's is more what Radio Shack envisioned itself to be than Radio Shack is. But I think the elements of that are above, Radio Shack used to sell parts you couldn't get easily elsewhere (text to speech chips for example), they completely missed the "small boards are the new components" transition (which happened long after they stopped paying attention), and the hobbyist "market" is not quite big enough to support 5 to 10 retail stores per market.
Wait, are you using the Hindenburg as the worse outcome? Most of the people on it survived, and a 90 second fire is by no means an explosion.
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The billionaire’s typewriter
"The device, which will sell for $1,900 in the US and £1,900 in the UK ..."

So, over 50% more expensive in the UK.

Why is this? Is the cost of doing business in the UK so much higher? Is the US price before tax, and the UK price inclusive of VAT?
The real punch line would be if they offered equity in exchange for the low salary.
Serious! Is this the average hourly rate for a web dev in Los Angeles?
As a Mexican living in Mexico, I really like chipotle, I eat one every time I'm in the US, they are the greatest mix of American and Mexican food, still I don't understand why there aren't authentic "Taquerias" (taco shops) in the US, I haven't met a foreigner that doesn't love tacos from our taquerias that you can find in every corner in Mexico City. The closest I ever tried was at a Taco Truck in LA, but that was just one food truck.
Compete fairly against solar by eliminating coal's subsidies but not solar's?
Impressive stack, must be a undercover Google R&D project for fashion VR:
• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, XML, ASP.NET, PHP, SQL.
• CMS: WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Joomla.
• Web Server Package: LAMP, XAMPP, WAMP.
• Web Hosting: BlueHost, GoDaddy, HostGator.
• IDE: NetBeans, Notepad++, Dreamweaver, PhpSt
• Java, C, C++, C#, Prolog, Scheme.
• Hosting: GitHub
• IDE: Eclipse, NetBeans, CodeBlocks, Dev-C++, SWI-Prolog, DrRacket.
• Web Design: Adobe suite
Alternatively, "Does statistics, but on a Macbook"
It's better to stop now and start the road to recovery, because these next three days will not be productive anyway.

You team will understand, the company cannot fairly* dismiss you for being overworked and stressed. You owe it to yourself to take a break and recharge.

* depends on your country's laws I guess, but if they value you they will give you time to recover.
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