skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes sense given those numbers tabulated, but the real question is cost of solar plus backup or storage. One means nothing without the other in terms of both cost and carbon.

Above I illustrated my calculations on just one hour of battery backup for US grid with lithium ion- would require 10x annual global production of lithium. Generally cost of battery backup looks like 35c/kWh and has limitations on duration so it must come back to fossils.

Solar makes a lot of sense if backup/storage/smoothing weren't needed since pv has gone down in cost. It still makes a lot of sense in many off grid applications, and for instance in my home we have solar concentrator lights and I would love to have solar water pre-heaters in the summer. But for on grid the capital requirements are much more complicated than generally illustrated, and ultimately the environmental impacts are greater than apparent at first glance.
before we discuss what makes art good, we must first discuss what is art.
Global inequality has been sharply dropping over the past few decades as hundreds of millions of people in India and China have been lifted out of poverty. Amusing that you think inequality has been rising.
The name isn't great. It sounds like matter that doesn't produce light, when it's really "matter" that's invisible.

But not matter you can touch. Which makes it not really matter in normal English. You probably can't see it either.

So "Invisible Untouchable Gravitation Sources" would be a more descriptive name. I don't think it'll catch on.
LG G3 titanium running CM 12.1. The 5.5" QHD screen is awesome.
Phenomenally detailed article, as expected from Anandtech. I had the misfortune of getting caught reading comments but found, as a comparison, this comment from the articles author particularly interesting:

"It strikes me as bizarre how little we know about Apple CPUs even after two years.
The basic numbers (logical registers, window, ROB size) seem to about match Intel these days, and the architecture seems to be 6-wide with two functional clusters. There appears to be a loop buffer (but how large?) But that's about it.
How well does the branch prediction work and where does it fail?
What prefetchers are provided? (at I1, D1, L2. L3)
Do the caches do anything smart (like dead block prediction) for either performance or power?
Does the memory manager do anything smart (like virtual write queue in the L3)?
etc etc etc"
Maybe you should figure out how to do that :)
Not to derail your derailment any further, but hey.

I live in Kansas City, and there's a fascinating startup here working on enabling farming with an open-data platform. They build hardware pucks to go on combine harvesters and stream the data collection to a Django front-end. They're also working on ingesting legalese forms that farmers have to file and putting web-based (Django) interfaces over them (c.f. how TurboTax will show you a tax form that's missing a form entry).

So, as someone else mentioned here, if you're willing to look outside the Valley, there's lots of interesting, high-paying work that helps the common good.
Webviews are fine for displaying arbitrary content with arbitrary formatting. If your backend is an e-commerce catalog or CMS, then cool. If that's not your use case, ask yourself if using Webviews is just being lackadaisical. For example, a Web-oriented developer not wanting to use native layouts.
I guess it would be the kind of thing that makes you glad you've purchased an AC generator.
> Decentralization [...] requires much less skill and expense to implement and operate, etc.

This isn't true because decentralization is easier, it's true because technologies which this isn't true of (require large capital expenditures or high degrees of expertise) can't be given to everyone and their mother.

By saying we're doing decentralized X we're moving the problem of requisite operating skill to the designers who must make their systems simple enough for laypeople. Likewise factories and engineers must find economies of scale in production of units which are distinct from the efficiencies we currently realize building relative few, much larger generators.

In short, while decentralization solves some of these problems, it also presupposes the solution of others. It may be a worthy goal, but there are challenges to get there.
Go screw dude. That'd be like saying my copyright is being infringed by all "Lobster Thermadore" recipes or any dictionaries that contain the word "maximum".
Isomorphic web pages with Scala and ReactJS
Even a sequence number that a video was created by that author would help hugely, if I know that Lesson 2 was #92 then I know that Lesson 3 can't be #0 through #91
> It does not say that Google is infringing, yet

Yes, the jury ruled that there was infringement
Checkout sources & build your own binaries.
I completely disagree about the death of the cookie. First, most users just don't care much. Second, killing 3rd party cookies is a huge gift to the handful of companies with, eg, single sign on so cross site visibility: fb and google. This was the problem with firefox's proposed ban on 3rd party cookies: I can't think of a bigger gift to give to google and fb. Now you may still support that under the theory that a few companies are easier to regulate than many, but I'm not sure that's a compelling case to regulators. I think the most likely outcome is we get european style cookie regulation, and the majority of sites put a click-dismissed banner on the top saying if you keep reading we get to cookie you. Oh, and if you do just use technical measures to kill 3rd party cookies, google et al can evade that by having pubs cname them into the first party then doing standard cookie stitching.

Disorganized thoughts:

Your ad solution sounds to me like a trip back to advertising 10 years ago -- lots of brand ads / dems targeting. Surveys are pretty crappy; high income dems tend not to respond; people lie; most publishers don't collect regdata; etc. Obviously a handful of pubs -- those used as proxies for rich demographics -- would love this (nyt, ios review sites, bmw/mercedes fan clubs) but for most pubs it would be a loss.

Even with lots of direct response ads there is too much inventory continually driving ad rates down; I don't see how removing a bunch of demand would improve anything from most pubs' perspectives.

Publishers uploading regdata also brings its own privacy problems.
Regarding taxes, you're comparing two very different things. The 15% you're talking about is, as you said, qualified small business rate, which means you have [..] to hold it for more than 5 years. The 56% you're talking about in France is an over simplified number. My company just got acquired (i'm a co-founder), and I can guarantee you I got a better tax deal in France than you will ever get in the US.

I'm not even going to get into the laws debate, but just keep in mind, just like the taxes, it's not at all how you think it is :)
Yes. But that’s exactly the thing – Krita, while focusing on being a drawing application, has exactly those features that GIMP, a general purpose image editing tool, is missing.

Like colorspaces, effect masks, etc.

I found Krita to be a far better photoshop replacement than GIMP, actually. (With two differences: moving selections is a bit more complicated, the option for that is hidden by default, and it does not have a simple contrast-brightness slider filter)
Because "pets" causes less outrage amongst humans than calling them "currency".
> Members of Congress are immune from prosecution for insider trading.

This is a strong claim. Are you referring to trading in global equity markets?
This looks great! I used to watch some live streams on http://www.watchpeoplecode.com, but stopped due to time constraints. There is definitely a lot of value in watching the workflow nuances of experienced devs, but I found that the value was too few and far between. I still watch from time to time, but found pre-recorded/edited video tutorials to be more efficient, although many of the nuances and passive learning benefits are lost. Perhaps, edited livestreams would work well.
> Elixir is not really about the syntax

Don't lie, Jose; we all know it's about the syntax ;)

Kudos for the awesome language you've created.
The objects we know of are orders of magnitude too small to explain the missing mass. The Oort cloud is estimated to make up about 0.002% of the solar system's mass. If instead it was 5 times more massive than everything else put together (which would be required for it to make up our solar system's share of the galaxy's dark matter) it would be a lot more visible.
Guessing you have some interesting stories about Sealand. I know it's asking a lot and I understand if you don't have the free time, but did you have any you don't mind sharing with us?
The ART VM is language agnostic. As long as the language compiles to bytecode the ART AOT compiler will compile it to the native code of the CPU. The Java API's have more to do with source code interoperability with existing Java libraries.
Alternately, just give directly to individual poor people, which will mean that entrepreneurs can make money by solving the problems that poor people see and prioritize.

https://www.givedirectly.org/
Fun fact: Symbolics continues to sell 'Macsyma'.
> Turn everything off.

Speaking of that, and addressing a concern I've seen in places:

The way I understand the physics involved here, it should be indeed enough to power off things and unplug from AC, copper networking, and any other long cables. It would not be necessary to put electronics in Faraday cages.

Unless we're talking about RF receivers, in which case I'm not sure. I guess they should be fine if not connected to long antenna wires.
This is just not London, it's happening in almost every major city. There is a massive real estate investment movement in progress where wealthy and giant investing funds are dumping bucket loads of money to buy up properties in popular areas. These then gets put back on market with extra-ordinary rents (typically 5% annual of purchase price). I think the hope is that even if property stays without renters for even half a year, its returns when combined with appreciation would exceed other "safe" investments. It's not unnatural anymore to go in high demand areas of city in night just to find empty apartments all over. I shudder to imagine how next real estate crash would look like...

If you walk through Knightsbridge in the evening, at a time when people in well-adjusted cities might be having dinner with their families and friends, or at least watching TV with their kids, you will see a wall of black, punctuated by the odd square of illumination.
Well, Linux is used every day as operating system by millions of end users – on mobile devices.

And Linux and the BSDs are getting a lot more love on consoles, too – look at the SteamBox.

With 16% of all current generation games being able to run on linux, often (like in the case of the new Batman game) even running better than on Windows (or expected to do so), it is getting more and more towards equality.
Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
Well, Linux is used every day as operating system by millions of end users – on mobile devices.

And Linux and the BSDs are getting a lot more love on consoles, too – look at the SteamBox.

With 16% of all current generation games being able to run on linux, often (like in the case of the new Batman game) even better than on Windows, it is getting more and more towards equality.
Not related to the service, but related to your comment about talking while programming: I actually talk continuously when I'm programming (and not only swearing ;-) ). I've been doing pair programming for many years now and having a continuous patter going on is one of the successful strategies I've found. Even things as simple as, "I'm paging up now" helps the other person stay engaged in the session. Of course there are periods where I have to stay silent because I'm thinking of something difficult, but after that I usually conclude with, "I'm thinking about doing x,y, and z. Does that sounds right to you?".

A good example of what is a good level of communication while pair programming is James Shore's Let's Code stuff: http://www.letscodejavascript.com/ Although it is clearly aimed at teaching, I find that good pair programmers say pretty much the same things as they are going along.

Keeping up this kind of patter is a skill that requires some practice, but it's not really so difficult. It's worth developing IMHO.
Would an organism that lives for millions or hundreds of millions of years detect our momentary flash?

Our lives (and civilization) are incredibly short on a universal time frame. This is very cool - we are the fastest creators of complexity and order we know of. We are a piece of the universe that has become sentient; (arguably) the only part capable of choosing whether to grow or die.

Our understanding of life is inherently limited by our context; an enormous tree is nearly alien yet it is very closely related to us. At a philosophical level we can begin to assess the basic requirements for life: an infrastructure that can store, propagate, modify, and execute code to alter itself and the world around it.
MetaComputation: MetaSystem Transitions and Supercompilation
I disagree with your first paragraph, but plenty of others here are already responding to that 'trickle-down' sentiment.

I also didn't read the article as being 'holier-than-thou' (in fact, entirely secular, but hey). It sounded to me more like someone narrating their own, personal, feelings on a topic and giving some context to why he might not give an unequivocal affirmative response to coworkers' queries about staying at one or the other job. Because life is complicated and there often aren't binaries. It's not a sentiment that gets a lot of traction on HN, but it's also not proselytizing.
It could have been less negative, but i've seen much worse. Folks like that tend to get downvoted to nothing pretty quickly.
Power laws in venture capital
Which was overruled by Judge Alsup.
You can play with Prolog or rule-based programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule-based_system

For some laws, it should be possible to detect flaws or inconsistencies.
Nokia Lumia 1520
>When is the last time you've ever seen any player at a casino ask the dealer to reconstruct the six or eight starting decks that are in a shoe? I've never seen that

You see the decks fanned out, each card visible, before they get shuffled and put in the shoe. It would require some sleight of hand from the dealer to cheat that way. If you're going to do that, it's much less risky to rig your slot machines or your craps dice or your Wheel of Fortune, where no one will ever notice any wrongdoing short of an audit by the gaming commission.
> Yes, the jury ruled that there was infringement

A jury verdict is not a court judgement. Because the district court ruled against copyrightability, it did not rule on infringement. When the court rules on infringement -- and the court is not necessarily constrained by the jury verdict on that point, and there will be further motions on it -- then someone will likely be upset and appeal that judgement to the Court of Appeals again. And whichever way that goes, there will no doubt be an appeal to the Supreme Court again.

And, after all that is done, then we'll have a final answer.
I keep intending to buy this - it's Kent Beck writing code using TDD. https://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-kbtdd/test-driven-develop...
U.S. Top Court Declines to Hear Google Appeal in Oracle Software Fight
Why do you guys talk about Oracle as though Oracle created Java? Sun created Java. worked to gain greater control over it and was bought out by Oracle.

A lot of us here don't identify Java with Oracle, we just regard Oracle as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of Java ecosystem and the software industry, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money*

LOL
Google still pulls its descriptions from there if it doesn't like your ones!
Indeed tun/tap performance is terrible, it seems to take about a whole CPU at gigabit.
1) Having a dog on a platform like that (basically a 5000 square foot trailer park with no "park") is pretty crappy for both the dog and the humans unfortunate enough to be stuck with it (not the owners of the dog).

2) 30 year old canned meat products are in fact still nominally edible.

3) Spending all day on the Internet from a random building in the middle of nowhere is actually not THAT different from my daily life today; less traffic, higher latency Internet.
For those who are interested, physicist John Hartnett has developed a model that does not require dark matter. His work builds on that of Moshe Carmeli, who published "Cosmological Special Relativity". Hartnett's book is "Starlight, Time, and the New Physics" ISBN 978-0-949906-68-7. Disclaimer: I am not a physicist, and the math is way over my head, so I cannot double-check it. Hartnett has not made much, if any, headway with mainstream scientific publications, probably because he is a Biblical Creationist.
Today I am ashamed to be a member of HN. To see your comment downmodded this way is just very sad.
Solar may have been weaponized as early as 214 BCE.
Well, recipes are specifically exempt from copyright, but the text of them is not. If you had a recipe for "Lobster Thermadore" that was a close copy of another published version, that would be infringement.

The basics of a recipe are hard not to duplicate, but if you start writing a lengthy description of how to do it, that enters a different territory. That seems like a decent analogy for this case.
Uber has had a lot of trouble with routing their drivers using directions from Apple Maps. (E.g. in SF, Apple Maps commonly recommends making [either illegal or dangerous] left turns off of Market Street). Sounds like this acquisition focused on engineers who process street-view-like image/sensor data, which Uber could probably collect much more quickly than Microsoft. It makes sense that they'd want to have engineers who were good at gardening the data (tho not necessarily doing robotics/CV-oriented research on it). This purchase has some rather realistic near-term wins.
> With 16% of all current generation games being able to run on linux, often (like in the case of the new Batman game) even better than on Windows

You are literally making stuff up. The OSX/Linux port of Arkham Knight doesn't even have a release date yet.
It lobbed nasty insults at every single human who thinks that curing malaria is more important than Uber.

I get that in the context of HN it's not the worst thing ever, but if that doesn't count as too rude to remain on HN, then the rudeness rules mean nothing.

Perhaps they do mean nothing; after all, dang tends to enforce them not as rudeness rules, but as polite language rules.

If that's all it is, that it's okay to be shitty to each other so long as we use polite language, then let's edited the approach to comments to be more honest and accurate. Let's say "It is fine to insult people for their beliefs, for their actions, or for no reason at all, so long as you do so in a slightly indirect fashion, or while using elevated language so that we can pretend it's high discourse."
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I think that is the general gist. What we definitely can say is when X data element was missing from event A, this was a problem for system Y. We may even be able to create a feedback loop from error logs which could feed training data back to the algo.
Is Bill Gates really an example of what the person described? Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think his motivation for working or making money was to donate it. It seems like he decided after accumulating his wealth that he should use it for good.

It seems important to note the difference because I don't find it hard to imagine how a person whose motivation is to help the public good might not be passionate about a job which doesn't inherently do "good".
Keep in mind they are calling it a "replica", not a port. From the video there's some form of game logic, the raycaster and asset loader. Other than that, it doesn't appear to be the full game.

Still, though, AWESOME! Can't wait to check out the code when it goes up on Github (they said soon).
I am aware that there are some who accept cards onsite. I was leaning more towards offsite purchasing. You pay and then pick up. So it's not necessarily NFC or anything, but aggregating food trucks and vendors.

Think of it like a GrubHub/Seamless for street food. Without delivery of course.
Software Engineer – Big Data at ShareThis
haha thanks! Do you know what options are available? How do I get the 25 by 25 version?
To develop an interface for github inside the command line so that we dont have to open a browser to use github
Ride sharing is helping lots of not-rich people in small and medium sized towns who can't find jobs but have a car. I can go to my hometown and probably would request an Uber or Lyft. I never once took a taxi living in the same area for 20 years.

I for one think technology should help the living. The goal should not be to maximize human population on Earth. If we could reduce the birthrate, fewer children would die from disease. Overpopulation is sometimes the cause of widespread disease.
Tearing Apart a Datto
Hospitals/Big Healthcare need to be sure the vendor will be around for a decade or three. It is very hard for a startup to offer this assurance in a believable manner. It will take someone like Google to tackle this.
I want to be more of an aggregator like GrubHub/Seamless with offsite purchasing. I'm guessing Square you have to be onsite since it is a POS.
> The end of solitary confinement for 16- to 17-year-olds, in particular, they say, has resulted in more violence, since they’ve lost the biggest consequences for misbehavior.

I don't sympathize. So what if the guards found their job easier when they could employ this method of psychological and physical torture (via neglect)?

> And both inmates and officers think that a new generation of COs, many of whom have taken a substantial number of college courses, is less street-smart and thus less equipped to deal with the brutal realities of the job, and therefore more likely to clash with inmates.

What an awfully polite way to say they don't want none of that book learnin round those parts. This isn't the first time I've heard this view expressed. A New York appeals Court actually upheld
the legality of only hiring people with low IQs as cops.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto...

Were I a cop, knowing that I only had my job because I failed an IQ test would be a blow to my pride.
Also, why is this not documented anywhere?

I found this but doesn't use the username...
https://dev.twitter.com/overview/general/user-profile-images...
And the studio porting it has NEVER made a single game that was bad – while the windows port, made by a different studio... well, you’ve seen it.

And about the 16%: Look at the Steam games catalogue.
I am not a lawyer, so take what I'm saying here with several large grains of salt.

My understanding is that a subset and a superset would both be okay. I am more certain about subset than superset -- I am not sure that something like Microsoft's J++ would pass muster either. But a subset I think would still be permissible under fair use so long as the goal was to achieve compatibility.

Oracle's argument is that Dalvik is not the JVM, nor is it an attempt to be the JVM. It's a competitor to the JVM that uses parts of the Java API. I don't know if they're right, and I don't know that being right should mean that Google has to pay them money or what have you as a result. I do think that people are overstating the effect that a ruling that Google infringed on Oracle's copyrights would have.