skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the thing: when you're coding, how much time is spent on reading vs writing? For me it's probably 90/10. Since most my time is spent concentrating on understanding code, the last thing I want is an editor that forces me to consciously think about text operations. "d[downkey]4" might be theoretically more efficient, but I spend way less cognitive energy holding down the shift key and pressing the down arrow 4 times.

The other thing is efficient navigation within one file isn't super useful to me. I spend most my time doing find-in-files or jump-to-definition or rename-across-this-project. Vim kind of sucks for all those use cases. There are plugins of course, but that just brings it up to par with popular IDE's, except with a clunkier interface.

I say this as a person that knows vim well. If I'm SSH'd into a server and I need to edit a config file, vim is the first thing I'll reach for, but for coding, I'm pretty much only using it if I'm using a language that doesn't have a nice IDE already.
this looks suspiciously like anti-Google marketing rather than an interest article
Of course, you don't need to run any numbers to see make the logical conclusion :-/

But wouldn't it be true to say that store is the cheaper alternative to installing excess capacity, the alternative with less local resistance (a political issue with both on and offshore wind), and the alternative with fewer maintenance issues versus e.g. offshore wind? Let me know if you have any numbers on that.

I've checked some numbers myself. For example, even domestic storage (which includes things like an inverter already) like the Tesla powerwall costs $3500, and has 5.000 full depth cycles of lifetime, and a capacity of 7 kwh. Meaning purely for storing and using 1 kwh, it's about $10c. That's more than the cost of onshore wind (about 7c or so, differs per country).

But we know that utility scale batteries can be much cheaper (I mean these Tesla powerwalls are quite similar to batteries that go into cars, their energy density is very high due to space constraints. If space and weight is not a concern you can build cheaper batteries), plus batteries as an industry are currently on a much steeper decline in cost annually than renewable generation technologies so going in to the future storage should become much more attractive, even as extra generation becomes more attractive, too.

One example is Alevo, found an interesting post about it I'll quote here:
> Alevo is claiming $100/kWh and 40,000 cycles. That works out to $0.003/cycle. Financed for 20 years at 5% would mean a $0.022 price per cycle over the first 20 years and then the cost of storage dropping to roughly zero for 89 more years.

That's 2-3 cents per cycle. It'd be really hard to make the case for excess wind capacity over storage. Particularly because on some days wind generation is still near zero. The image I showed shows the top day generating 200x as much as the bottom day. To generate enough on the bottom day, you need a ridiculous amount of excess capacity generation to compensate, capacity that may be more expensive per kwh than storage, that overproduces the rest of the year (while still costing money, unlike storage which costs money per cycle, i.e. when used), and exacerbates the non-financial issues of wind (e.g. landscape changes that local people resist).

It's looking like storage is going to be playing a huge role.
hi sean, it's a hidden program :). We started this year with the first two interns and there is not much there on the site yet. If you are interested, jobs+interns@auth0.com

Type of things you do as an intern (apart from eating Asado and live the city :)
https://auth0.com/blog/2015/07/28/if-this-then-node-dot-js-e...
For stoves/ovens, just up it to 240V DC. They're just big resistors and will work basically the same (although mechanical power switches will wear out quicker, and now that I think more, triac-based ones may not turn off at all).

Things could get really interesting if say the EU started incorporating a requirement for things that should essentially run fine on DC to compatible with DC. Universal power supplies (computers, phone chargers, etc) and brushless motors (washing machines) should really only require tweaks of their control circuits. AC motors (fridges/dryers/air conditioners) and microwaves wouldn't be an easy change. They'd either need a local converter or for demand to ramp up for explicit DC versions.

Standby power supplies (the thing that powers the IR receiver and power button while your TV is "off") wouldn't function as-is, since the common method is to use a capacitor+zener across the power line. But changing that to a rectifier + small switcher doesn't seem terribly onerous.
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So are they talking about software or hardware?

They talk about LHC, but the innovation there was using a different file system: GPFS (http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/219/7/072030) which meant that data is sharded, managed by age and transparently cached intelligently

Are they instead talking about using replacing TCP with something more designed for bulk data transfer?

Or are they talking about lighting up fibre with different transmitter pairs? (think dwdm x 10 http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DWDM.html)

for 5 million, I'd assume its software, if that the case, its pretty much just copy and paste what everyone else has been doing:

http://filecatalyst.com/
http://asperasoft.com/

for opensource there is:
http://uftp-multicast.sourceforge.net/
http://tsunami-udp.sourceforge.net/
https://github.com/facebook/wdt

And a myriad of others. Multi stream TCP is fairly simple as the application doesn't have to deal with rate limiting or error correction.
I'll just leave this here:
http://www.minyanville.com/sectors/technology/articles/AMZN-...
http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/3ce0s8/dear_amazon_...
>Did one of those code bootcamps to learn back end C# .Net MVC work in 6 months and got my first developer job at $40k, got the next one at $60k 6 months later, $75k 6 months after that, and $100k 6 months after that.

That's a ridiculously good trajectory actually. Did you go to each next job based on what you built previously (plus the business experience), or were you also doing your own stuff in parallel to work?
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Ask HN: Programmer Unions?
Seems like a no brainer for skilled programmers.

Especially considering the no poach, 'non-compete' deals made between Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm — which has suppressed wages.

Programmer unions could even be fun, competitive qualification tests, union co-op projects, many interesting possibilities.

If it's practical for teamsters and floor coverers [1] to unionize, why not computer specialists?

[1] http://nyfloorcoverers.com/
>I have long wanted to fully switch to DC in my life and would love to see common appliances designed for a DC world.

Modern HE washers and dryers along with many other appliances already are in some sense. They have their own high efficiency power conversion built in to drive the motors at variable speeds. Powering current-gen stuff requires two redundant conversion steps, but the conversions don't lose too much.
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We also have a fair amount of projects right now that could use some assistance.
Primarily, we're looking for one more junior iOS developer to work on a last minute app.
Would love to hear from some HN'ers for that as well.
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>"Scheme doesn't run in the browser and lacks tooling for readily manipulating the DOM"

Meh... [1][2][3][4]

[1] http://www.biwascheme.org/

[2] https://github.com/jcoglan/fargo

[3] https://www.hashcollision.org/whalesong/

[4] http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/spock
What creates loneliness is artificial borders and boundaries. Why can't I move to America to meet my friends? Not because of any flaw in the technology.

I have many online friends. They are fulfilling relationships, except that it bugs me how hard it is to meet face to face.
> No other editor stands next to vim

And no other operating system stands next to emacs.
AFAIK, IBM sold OS/2 a long time ago (it's now eComStation, owned by Serenity Systems).
The jobs listed at the link don't mention remote?

#Edit. Nevermind, I see that if you click-through they do say "Remote OK".
An another alternative to the vim plugins, here's a vim-like text editor that concentrates on selections and multiple cursors: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune
Activesync was good enough that a lot of smaller customers could stop paying the extra Blackberry fee to their carrier, the extra Blackberry fee to their cloud host (OR the cost of maintaining an extra server in their colo), and stop carrying their 2nd phone.
Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
for reasons too long to write here I have around $8k of credit on AWS from my last failed venture that will expire end of this august. Id hate to let those credits go in thin air and I don't have the time to build the stuff I imagined myself building to use them, so I thought Id give it to the HN community if they come up with a really cool 'demanding' computational task to use this kind of server power.

Comment on how you'd like to use it and if you impress us they're yours.

p.s id be super happy if somehow the computational power is used to build/crawl some kind of data that would directly/indirectly help anyone for free. Second to that would be if hackers in the comments come up with an idea and do it together.
> The menus are totally non-intuitive if you're used to doing everything from the keyboard

You can disable the menus, and using MacVim doesn't require you to use the menus. I use Vim 100% with the keyboard, and I still use MacVim.
As well as GEANT.

In fact, the list of such NRENs (national research and education networks) is quite extensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_research_and_educatio...

Earlier examples include MIT's Chaosnet.
Some really are. I know several who I wouldn't classify as all that skilled, but they hit the right check boxes, and they're making $160k-$350k a year a year or two out of college or even high school.

The way this works is that each check box you can hit, no matter how arbitrarily increases your market value x amount.

- Have a UX portfolio? $40k
- Is it good and you know javascript? +$20k
- Have a couple of javascript frameworks under your belt? +$50k
- Show that you're language agnostic on the backend? +20k
- Have you made any videogames? +$30k
- Did a machine learning project once and know how to talk about the subject intelligently? +$50k.

etc. The thing is that not every job will pay for every checkbox, but if you find one that does you maximize your value. It's one of those matrix things.
The "need" is this case is being demanded by the end users, not the businesses. ServiceWorker for example solves real user needs, especially in the developing world. This is not "let's use bleeding edge features for bleeding edge sake" but "our users are abandoning our product, so we either need to rewrite as a native app, or lose business"
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There is no "best solution" or even a "solution". IMO games are art, so trying to solve for a solution is a fool's errand. Even games like Call of Duty -- they're pop art, which is simply the artistic process as democratic exercise. Zelda, for many of us, represents that child-like wonder that we can never return to for the same reasons game developers could never make a similar game.
I don't have a great simple answer for this. I think it some combination of maybe looking at code samples, talking to previous employers, maybe doing some code in a timed exercise, either on or off-site, or maybe even contracting with a prospective employee to pay them to work on some small trial piece of code. I agree with you that there are definitely candidates out there who are all talk. I'm just not sure demanding code on a whiteboard during the interview itself is really a foolproof proxy for "smart and gets things done." I think it might weed out obvious duds but it might also weed out some people who might be having a bad day. It also is, I think, quite possible to game this kind of interview question, by studying some of the many books of coding interview questions coming out and just memorizing some of them.
> they've merely redefined the rules in their own favor, and in the long run I believe that's a good thing because they'll be able to compete with YouTube.

I'm not so sure that's good for the content creators whom they're stepping all over in their climb to competition.
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Have you ever looked at Strategies (or the Par monad) in Haskell? To me, Strategies exemplify some of the stuff you can do with functional languages that are _really_ hard to achieve elsewhere.
Tabs in vim are actually just views of buffers. Ie: a workspace more than an editing window.

Buffers are the proper solution to the mentioned comment.
CloudBees Releases Kubernetes Plugins for Containerized Applications
What’s across the ocean from you when you’re at the beach
Mine was 1480/1600. Will Google hire me? Oh wait, I just gave away my age lower bound :)
If it's mixed up with security issues then that is certainly troublesome. I think this is a question of context. My first exposure to your company was with this blog post, and with that it seems like you're trying to gather data to tell people if their apps crash. But really you're focused on security and this is a side benefit, if I understand it correctly.

What about making available a big text file with the names or identifiers of apps affected by this problem? Or if you can whip up a quick search interface (I know, always sounds easier than it is) to just this list of apps, maybe provide that as an alternate.

Your experience with that SSL flaw is interesting. I'm guessing/hoping it wouldn't apply here because the apps really will fail when you say they will, but I see where you'd want to be cautious.

Anyway, thanks for explaining the context and providing this service.
I knew someone would answer that. It was just a matter of time.
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Being good at Math and writing open source software plus having an intense interest in ML, you might try contacting a few professors working in the field you are interested in and volunteer to write up some software in exchange for some help.

You can contact them online, but try contacting 10 or so, not just one and getting disappointed if you get a bad response.
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I've tried Emacs + Evil and Spacemacs, but eventually just came back to Vim.
CLI args in Node.js with yargs
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He never complained about the quality of television shows, just about television. And I concur. The quality of television has gone down a lot. Too many ads, too many channels filled with rubbish. I stopped watching too, and turned to Netflix instead.
I found BazQux when Google Reader died, and have been thrilled with it ever since. It looks and feels much like GReader did, and it just _works_. I continue to be amazed that it's not more widely mentioned when these sorts of discussions pop up.

BazQux and Pinboard are two simple services that I am extremely happy to pay for, based on their usefulness, reliability, and value.
It says it's completely vegan but they say the Isomaltulose is from honey? Isn't honey non-vegan? Are they just saying that it occurs in honey but they used a different source?
No other text editor has as many developers working on
plugins than VIM. Virtually anything that exists in
another text editor which isn’t mouse driven has some
very popular, very supported, very documented plugin
you can use.

And the Vim equivalent of org mode is what again? I'm a Steve Litt fan, but Vim Outliner isn't even in the same league as org mode.

As a Vim user of many years I still believe it to be superior to emacs when it comes to editing text. That said, emacs is a vastly superior programming environment. And like many people I find org mode to be indispensible.

Happily, these things aren't either/or situations. I still use Vim for quick text editing tasks, but for other matters evil+org mode lets me have the best of both worlds.

Edit: typos