skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living near a number of wind farms:

- They are noisy in a very annoying way - Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh. I don't know about you, but clocks ticking drive me up the wall. Now I can add wind turbine blades swooshing do the same. It's not really a noise so much as a pressure wave.

- They strobe. Sometimes reflecting the sun. Sometimes the blade shadows fall over you. Blink, blink, blink, blink.

- They are efficient bird murdering machines.

I like the idea of wind turbines. Reality is not nice. Bring on solar!
That's certainly not a shining example of software quality. I also don't think it's fair to generalize about software quality for an entire country based on 1 or 2 examples.
More a case that UI is hard - and too easily neglected by our current approaches to safety-critical software.
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I'm concerned about all the math being per-area, which makes bigger windmills seem inevitable. But surely its per-dollar that determines commercialization potential. 1000 small windmills could be the better choice if they could be made cheaper per watt after all.
To be fair this seems to be more of a classic
example of a documentation or training problem.

Maybe - but if you were designing a consumer product, you wouldn't rely on the user following a checklist; the IBIT would run automatically when they turned on the ignition and sound an alarm (or even prevent takeoff) if the vehicle would be uncontrollable.

So you could also classify this as a user interface / design problem.
Good move to insulate yourself from nuances of http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325502/Map-shows-wo...
Stonebraker and his predictions - legendary!
Everyone will wait until just before the closing of the window, before submitting their orders, so that they trade with the most information available.

Those with fast connections will have more market information at the point that they place their order.

e.g. I phone in an order to buy gold at $1,200 one minute before the window close. The gold price rises to $1,300. A fast-connection trader then offers $1,201 and buys all the cheap gold, leaving my order unfilled.
You might like this:

https://github.com/bfirsh/needle

Would be cool to get a Diff.io driver for it, or something like that...
As far as I understand nobody has ever tried to do both right.

"capitalism, but with a few fixes" was always the intention.
It doesn't express the real intention of the code.

Uses C implicit conversions between pointers, integral and boolean operators for something that would be clearly better expressed with an if ().

This type of code wouldn't survive the type of code reviews I used to do.
I hope this doesn't sound unfriendly but that is a pretty "boring" PR post. People are generally way more interested in learning about your motivations and what you do and what drives you. So in the future I'd suggest a way more personal OP.

Also the recaptcha box is misaligned in the layout (FF curren, OSX/MBP).
Its true solar is easier to live with. But regarding the last - solar is efficient everything-under-them murdering machines. They sterilize the land, similar to strip-mining but without the poison. So not really eco-friendly, which is ironic.
Apparently you can make millions being an art forger.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9642526
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What is the real future of AR. How can it leave it's constrains to be a truly progressive technology versus just a marketing novelty.
Intel admits USB-C is the future and adopts it for Thunderbolt 3
1. Startups have happiness potential for developer not only because of the monetary wealth but also because of the wealth of the challenges faced. Developers live for tricky puzzles to solve and startups are one place that you can get them. Startups aren't the only place where you can find challenges (as you've noted).

The monetary wealth typically comes from stock options. Stock options are a promise that you can buy stocks at a certain price at some point in the future (when they become available, e.g. during an investment or IPO). Options are how you become an overnight millionaire. Startups aren't the only place where you can earn options.

You'll typically find that companies that aren't publicly traded have stock options (ask about them in your interview). It's not something that's exclusive to startups - I have options in a 10 year old company and have cashed in some of those options.

2. Yes.

3. Accrue wealth like anyone would. Developers earn relatively high salaries (whether they work for a startup or not) and hence have an easier time getting into the situation where money works for them.

However, even one of those developers who earns $1 000 000 can have no wealth if they waste it all. Someone who earns $75 000 can amass a fortune. It all comes down to how well you manage your money. If you do something to get rich quick chances are you are going to end up penniless. It takes time, discipline and a brain.

There is no quick road to material wealth.

Money does not make you happy, it merely multiplies what is already there. It's a catalyst. If you're already happy, money makes you happier. If you're already sad, money will make you miserable.
I think there was a "do you trust the TSA to keep you safe?" study about a year ago, and I think something like 55% said "yes".

Most people must believe that it "feels safer" when the TSA is seemingly "checking everything". And would probably be "worried" if tomorrow the TSA didn't exist anymore, even if that fear is irrational in this context considering the facts that the TSA is already useless.
Why India’s biggest startups recruit engineers from Silicon Valley
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Let's not forget some people look at curing people suffering form disease as just an Investment?

These biomedical companies are in business to make shareholders rich--it's just about the money. Maybe medicine has always been just about the money?

The prices most drug comapnies charge for their latest drug seem outrageous? Want a jaw dropper--look into Biomarin drug prices. Read their prospectus--it reads more like a hedge fund, rather than bio company. Oh, and one of their buildings is sitting on the San Andreas Fault. Found that last sentance interesting--I guess lawyers were being proactive?

But then again, I'm for government funded research, I would like to outlaw forprofit Insurance, and I have become a huge skeptic of modern medicine.

(As a side note; If you noticed your generic drug is not dropping in price like it did years past, you are not loosing your mind. Supposedly, large drug companies(companies whose drug patents are expiring, or expired) are buying smaller generic drug companies, and either shutting down the operation, or keeping the generic price, of the newly aqquireed company, artificially priced high. I believe congress, or the FDA is looking into this slick business tactic? It's completely legal now.)
I'd say the same about Indian users like myself. The sort of people who are downloading this app on their last-generation hardware are unlikely to pay for in-app purchases, and definitely not for donations. Although you do have reviews on the Play Store claiming to the contrary, so your call to make.

Also worth evaluating whether the PPC network you're thinking of using will pay you the same rate for audiences in these countries as they do for audiences in the West (which is already very little)
You don't need macros for that, since IntelliJ has multi-cursor editing these days.
If they want to save /. they should post articles condemning SourceForge. Sacrifice the one to save the many.
except it is actually fairly common and once you have seen it once it is really clear.
Totally agree if you don't need the money it's the way to go.. it may become something even bigger.
RACIALLY THE MOST TOLERANT COUNTRIES have the least birth rate;

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/16/article-2325502-19...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_rate#/media/File:Birth...
My opinion is not to listen people telling you not to put ads.
Remember, your demographics is not first tier so that advice doesn't apply... You'd be surprised what a banner or an interstitial can bring on those countries....
Did I miss a segment of that article on energy storage?

One of the most difficult components of making wind energy practical on a large scale for any grid is it's lack of predictability. I suspect that things are somewhat more predictable at higher altitudes but not so much so that it mitigates the challenge of having a turbine that isn't necessarily going to be spinning when you need it.
It is frustrating how much time and energy is wasted on these useless tech interviews when it really has nothing to do with most real world jobs out there.
It is just an inefficient way of casting something to a boolean, I suppose. Perhaps the compiler can optimize the double negation away, but that is nowhere in any spec, so don't count on it.
Given your motivations and comments, I would recommend that you have a whatsapp like subscription in place. One can get around paying for the subcription by inviting friends. For best results, make it easy enough to select all for the invite [you will soon realize that you'll get most of your users from such people who don't mind inviting a friend to an app they like a lot]. At some point in the next 1-2 years, you would likely get to 1 million downloads!
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The same way as everyone else: leveraged property speculation.

If you're really good at maths you could become a "quant". Most of the really high paying developer jobs are unsurprisingly in the financial services industry.
As of now I'm also here ;)
>> If you work at a large tech firm and participate in their employee stock purchase program and/or get stock options, then you are doubly leveraged as that can add a nice kicker to your salary.

Normally this is OK, but can be a concentration of risk if all your wealth is tied up in salary from your employer and stock from your employer. Ask Lehmans employees.
There's still a lot of area available for solar power that doesn't involve getting rid of plants, though. Deserts, house and car roofs, for example.
Similar concept - https://www.talentbuddy.co/practice
This is an interesting perspective on just "how much of a crime" that was:

http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/06/some-notes-about-ulbricht-...

I haven't followed this too closely, and maybe he is guilty of attempting to murder people and such, but it does look like the government/judge wanted to punish him with a life sentence mostly for the the fact that he created a "drug market outside the reach of the law" (or whatever).
I apologize, I didn't understood it wasn't meant to be posted. Sorry :(
There is an interesting series of blog posts about microwave towers used in HFT entitled "HFT in my backyard" at http://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com

Several of the individual posts were submitted to HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=HFT%20in%20my%20backyard&sort=...
Given the popularity of my comparison, I think you've already lost that battle.
Thank you for sharing your reasons for downvoting, but you're wrong. I did read the article, I do understand their plans and I didn't have a failure of imagination. It's cool tech, and I made a flippant joke in response to someone's comment.

Demoing that you can (partially) dissolve something in acetone or even water is not terribly impressive, even if their self-folding and mode of locomotion is pretty cool.
Many of them don't care enough about version control. Many of them don't care enough about unit tests. Many of them don't care about best practices and clean code. Some of them only learn easier languages (such as JavaScript and maybe Python, Ruby) while they should learn the more complex ones, too. Well, if they really are interested in becoming a good developer.

There are so many books I would recommend to junior devs, but sometimes they simply aren't interested. Depending on the technologies, you should look for must-haves and read them.
Get a castle! They're really cheap at the moment. They'll cost you about the same as a decent villa in a big city, involve a bit more driving and maintenance, but then you have a castle which can become your family home, with grounds, and probably designed by an architect who really knew what he was doing. Beats yet another modernist, out of place horror on a cliff that will probably collapse in 20 years...

I recommend http://www.patrice-besse.com/ which seems to have the best line-up and to know what they are doing.
Will be making 44,4k USD each year starting september (student now). I will according to my budget save around 28% of that. 35% goes to rent. Although this is a trial employment, after i get a real employment (after 6 months assuming i won't fuck up) i will make 53k USD. I am from Sweden, btw.
> what's likeliest to kill more than 10 million human beings in the next 20 years?

Looking for spikes in mortality charts may not be the best way to answer this question.

Cancer currently kills more than 8 million people every single year [1].

Smoking currently kills almost 6 million people per year [2].

At the current rate, road traffic will kill 25 million people globally over the next 20 years [3]. Maybe self-driving cars will reduce that significantly, but given rapid urbanization and the prevalence of developing countries in the data, I have my doubts.

You don't see any of these stand out in charts because they constitute a smooth background, steadily reaping lives, year after year.

[1] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/
[2] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/
[3] http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_st...
That's really neat! You can see the location of every windfarm and tier within the U.S. It even has info for HI and AK!
It would be better if we could see the adjacent cubes with same color clearly. Especially on objective part, it is hard to determine how long a line segment is if it is same color.
>And even then the visa granted is dependent on your startup making hires of local citizens at a certain rate per year, in line with revenues.

So they don't just let you come in their country, use its resources and whatever advantages it offers to make you pick it, and not give anything back in jobs?
...and eliminated a vast amount of suffering.
Making green energy cheaper than coal
If we follow that logic there are a few large players that are missing from your line of thought-

Ulbrich is a small fish in huge pond when compared to the large unnamed players who get of with small reprimands and fines.

How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-...
Injecting or substituting ads is shady.

You're degrading the experience with less targeted and lower quality ads at the expense of Facebook's brand and perceived quality of service. The end user assumes the crappy experience is from Facebook itself.

How's this different from malware that injects/substitutes ads?
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Sorry for the off topic as I think I will comment on the OS rather than the app.
I don't own any Android device, so maybe it seems all natural once you use one but the UX is so strange.

I can grasp the meaning of some icons, a cross for closing, an arrow to go back or forward, but the ones sitting on the lower taskbar ???
What the hell could be the meaning of a triangle, a circle and a square ?
It already is cheaper than coal, coal is just mispriced/subsidized/externalized.

Has anyone studied the likely progression of lobbying? At the moment the money is all on the fossil fuel side, but as people start making millions from solar and wind then they're going to start paying some of their profits to politicians to properly price their competitors. And since they're basically right they'll be pushing at an open door to some degree.
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>Their iron-fisted approach to things from chewing gum, drugs, and even dancing on tables (for example) is antithetical to the dual veins of libertarian and liberal US political thought which is so firmly entrenched in Silicon Valley.

Yeah, because Silicon Valley is a hoot and all about dancing on tables...

I've stayed in both places, Singapore is by far livelier than SV.
For the right candidate anything is possible :-) However at this time everyone on the team is mostly located in Oslo so this is something we would have to consider as a special case. We're not primarily an C++ shop (we're not primarily anything really), but we do use some C++ in parts of the realtime processing code. We do occasionally use objective C when writing for iOS, but we haven't done that for many months now. Primarily we're using javascript, java (for serverside signalling and handset android apps), various scripting languages (python, shell, ...) and whatever is useful to solve the problem at hand.
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Do any of you know a website broker called Hautesite
Hi guys

I have a website that makes quiet some amount of money (at least according to my own criteria) and out of the blue I have been contacted by a so called buying/selling sites company, named Hautesite, on behalf of a potential client interested in buying my website.

Ever heard of Hautesite? Their french website is http://www.hautesite.fr/, they say they are from the UK and are big in the UK (but no website to be found). I was wondering if it was a scam?

I even got into a Skype call with one of the employee who seemed very professional and so on...

But still... a buying and selling sits business with NO website in english, no social network, no presence on social media... I find it very strange.

So i'd like to know what you think about this?

Thanks in advance for your help :)

Nicolas.
Also, once you have another project (maybe one that's easier to monetize) you want to push, you can use your existing app to drive a bit of traffic to it (as a sort of ad that shows only once per installation, for example).
They've probably never been to Singapore, and are stereotyping to begin with. Singapore is nothing like a red state.
Agreed. In fact, back at MIT, this was required reading in 6.033, one of the required classes for CS. We spent 1-2 weeks discussing it and its issues at great length. One of my favorite courses by far.

In fact, that whole course was brilliant. It was almost like a seminar where we read a ton of seminal CS papers (X Windows was one of my other favorites) and discussed them / studied them. Really one of my most memorable courses.
Nice job, but I really loathe tech interviews.

I've absolutely bombed tech interviews in the past, I now will refuse to do any. Particularly, because I've got some "street cred" with my startup, and basically my work with my company and GitHub speaks for my talents. I get it, you have to "vet" a candidate, but tech interviews in my opinion are not a good solution.

O(N) notation, data structures, academic computer science.... Rubbish.
How does it compare with http://applinks.org/?
Not like the TSA they don't. I'm an American with a Hungarian wife and we travel a lot. For the last ten years or so, every year entering the United States has been more and more like entering an armed camp. Really it's a whole lot like Eastern Europe used to be - the looks of suspicion, the whole "why did you even leave?" attitude.

That's not TSA so much - on the contrary, TSA workers are, nearly without exception, pretty upbeat, efficient people enforcing rules they know are kind of silly. But Homeland Security as a whole is just one mistake after another, old-school Stalinist wannabes trying to bring back the good old Cold War gravy train.

Entering Europe, on the other hand? Nobody cares. Hi, you're here, need a taxi? Just the way America used to be.
I would like to thank everyone for the kind words. You guys are absolutely amazing! In my wildest expectations, I didn't see such a warm response and wide audience.
Thank you!

I am sure there are people who deserve that much and more attention, but aren't getting it, so I would like to say something to you guys, working tirelessly, day in and day out, on your projects - keep doing what you love!

I am not always talking about synthesizers or music, but you can follow me in these places:

* Twitter: https://twitter.com/@NikolayTsenkov
* Ello: https://ello.co/tsenkov
* Facebook: https://facebook.com/NikolayTsenkov

I am also looking into job opportunities (or even if you just want to connect) so here is my LinkedIn: https://bg.linkedin.com/pub/nikolay-tsenkov/38/754/955

Cheers!
The signup form seems to reject passwords with special characters but there are no indications besides "8 characters minimum". Kinda lame.
It's common for iOS and OSX apps that are tool oriented/helpful to the user to have a price. Frankly, I'd rather pay $2 than wait 5 seconds for some random full-screen advertisement in the app every time I open it.
The only UX reading list ever
In C, there may be static variables with infinite lifetime which are locally scoped (module scope or function scope).

This is done to reduce stack usage; it does not mean that these 10000 variables can be accessed from everywhere else.

But I don't want to ruin the "hurr-durr, stupid C programmers" party that the rockstar full-stack webdevs here like to celebrate. Obviously, they know more about embedded software development than people who have worked in this field for several years.
Shutting down Megaupload also caused a lot of people to move back to torrents. At that time, direct download websites were quite trendy and most of the trafic was redirected to torrents after.
So does Lavaboom (PGP encrypted email, still in closed beta). You can reserve a username here: https://mail.lavaboom.com/secure
The secrecy surrounding the negotiations based on the premise that "We'll see it when it's passed" is absolutely part of the reasons it's been resisted in the way it has. The portions that have been leaked so far seem to suggest it's role is little more than expanding US control over media rights and limiting other countries abilities to produce potentially competing products (Medicines, media etc) which of course means any country with any form of sensible population would want nothing to do with it. Sadly the desires of the population seems to mean little when governments weigh the concerns of big business but still.
Correct. Spikes only present evidence that something may have occurred.

So the deaths during world wars could have been due to a flu pandemic, we will never know ⸮.

The main point is that there are some processes which can grow at a faster pace than we're prepared to control. Just like cancer.
Missed items 95% of the time. Wow. How much money, time, and heartache have we all gone through? How much of a smudge on our national reputation as a free country? And all for a 95% false negative rate?

Political systems of people exist for political reasons. So, of course, if the entire effort looks useless, it can't be that the effort itself is idiotic. Nope. The real crime here is that somebody made us look bad. In a political system, this is the ultimate crime.

So we fire the head honcho and bring in a new one. Cue up lots of speeches about how seriously we take all of this and how some new regime will make a huge difference over the last one.

The TSA needs to be abolished. Immediately. There are viable and reasonable replacement options. Even if you don't care about the money and prestige we've lost, we can't keep sinking money down a hole on security theater when the hole is endless.
Those UX elements are actually part of the OS and appear in every app. The triangle is "back", the circle is "home" (essentially the same thing as the circle button on iOS), and the square button opens the list of recent apps.