skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work about 9 hours a day and spend my remaining time with my family, volunteering, going to the gym, learning guitar, etc.

There are many times where I just don't have time, desire or energy to cook a healthy meal. A healthy meal replacement is a lot better than ordering pizza.

Don't assume that a busy lifestyle means 'overwork' - I just have different priorities.
There's also sdf-eu.org for users located in Europe (eu server is in Germany).

There aren't really that many shell providers. SDF (with SDF-EU) and devio.us are about the only ones that seem trustworthy (whatever that means) to me.

These kind of services should be more popular, I think. I'd definitely join a Plan9 (or 9front), just to play with the stuff and learn the system.

Check out 'profiles' on SDF. It's a CLI social network thingy. People don't really use it, but it brought a smile to my face.
The charts I linked below [1] have a comparison for 2013-2014 for Germany (eg page 8).
I assume the situation in Denmark might be similar.

There is also this statement:

" Wind power achieved a new record of 29.7 GW in peak power production at Friday, 12th of December 2014. The daily wind energy production was 562 GWh. Both figures represent new records. The last records of 5th of December 2013 with a maximum power of 26.3 GW and a daily energy of 485 GWh
have been exceeded by 13% resp. 16%.
Photovoltaic power reached a maximum of 4.9 GW at the same day. The maximum total power from solar and wind was about 34 GW, which is well below the maximum of 14.4.2014 when a total production of 38.8 GW was reached.

In order to provide sufficient space for the wind power in the grid, nuclear power plants have reduced their base load generation by about 10%, lignite plants by about 30%."

[1] http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/downloads-englisch/pdf-files...
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The text doesn't mention it, and it often is implied in these kinds of reports that this only is about domestic electricity use, so: does that include industrial use?

If not, what percentage of total electricity use are we talking about?

If or if not, what percentage of total power use are we talking about?
How one school district is monitoring social media of students and teachers
As long as the windpower installed reduces the need for baseline to be produced the efficiency can get pretty good indeed. No matter how high it goes this will not result in all baseline power generation being halted simply because it takes time to bring those plants online (shutting them down can go quite fast but ramping them back up takes time). Also, because of the inherent instability of renewables you always want to have a certain percentage of the current requirement available as non-renewable just in case.
I think it's important to differentiate that it depends on the company and the field. For lack of a better phrase there are sexy companies and not so sexy companies in the IT world. They get different people applying to them and they have different wants. If you are looking at doing R&D at a startup software company, the competition is going to be far different than working at a medium sized independent insurance company
Friend, I humbly submit that XP was their best.
Not sure if its the same for the Danes, but in the US coal is being displaced by natural gas, which can be throttled quickly for grid demand response (and is cleaner, and releases drastically less CO2 per unit of power generated, and can be moved across the country quicker via pipeline vs trains).
Quo vadis Flash?
Bushnell sees dead people.

Perhaps he's right, but maybe not in the way he expects.
I doubt with the figures which provide in this article.
> Dude, just get out and actually talk to women.

That's a lot easier said than done.

The parallel with employment is actually not bad: one doesn't find a job by approaching random offices asking for work any more than one finds a wife by asking random if they would like to get hitched (yes, some small number of people succeed with both approaches); one often finds a job by being introduced to the right opportunity by people who know of those opportunities. Now, those introducers might be recruiters (matchmakers) or people one has worked with before (friends), but at the end of the day it's all about networking.
"Here is the deal. I will tell you a story. But not just any story: an amazing story about this one person who did something unbelievable and you can't guess what happened next and also cats.

In exchange, all you have to do is let these people (whom I don't actually know) track you and run their software on your computer, which will present a garish display of images (and maybe also sound and video, did I mention that I don't know these guys?).

All you have to do then is click and I will get paid a fraction of a cent (and you will have to deal with whatever crap comes up afterwards).

So what do you say?"
This is just a temporary problem. One alway could just switch wind/solar plants off, if there were really no other way to deal with the electricity. The problem is not so much with oversupply but, that there is not enough oversupply for other uses of electricity to become economical interesting, i.e. large scale storage, building long-range networks, power to gas, etc.
If you run the calculations you can see that the more you have installed over capacity the less storage you need (since you can also fully provide if there is less wind). It's a trade-off, really.
JavaScript is the C++ of the Web
> Agreed. To extend the analogy though the customer sees the free one next to a quality paid one, chooses the free one and then complains about it having ads in it.

To improve it even further, based on my own experience and what I see in comments here, apparently you have like 1 quality paid stuff per 10 paid scams, 10 paid pieces of crap and 100 free stands. Those who want to pay for quality content quickly discover that it's incredibly hard to find.

The analogy breaks down on the nature of the ads themselves. In physical magazines, ads are static and occupy fixed space on the pages. The off-line equivalent to what we have on-line would be ads carried by bugs inside the pages - moving, making sounds, hard to get rid of and occasionally biting you so you get sick and need to seek time-consuming and/or expensive care. Ads on-line are actively hostile.

> At the end of the day, everyone wants a great experience for nothing. It's not possible.

I agree.
obfsproxy with obfs3 as a pluggable transport does somthing similar, it's made for tor bridges but i'm sure you could use it for vpn traffic too.

https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en

https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/obfsproxy...
Get mad ideas
I don't know about "they'll never." If excellent tools are developed and freely distributed and improved, why couldn't there be a kind of co-op renaissance? Certainly there are lots of people who aren't interested in systems administration but who still see the problems with centralized services, and more importantly are getting bored and exhausted with the ad-ridden, spying, proprietary networks they're using.
Show HN: A steel building configurator in AngularJS and three.js
That definitely wasn't the context. I won't link to the comment here because I think it is an embarrassment to the maker but it's easy enough to find if you want it badly.
How are they poor choices? Methinks you're just looking in wrong places if they're languages you want to continue using at a job.

Embedded is hot right now, so sign up for the Jack Ganssle's Embedded Muse Newsletter http://www.ganssle.com/tem-subunsub.html. The jobs are going to be mostly US based, but some place to start.

And look for companies that you know are going to be using C/CPP from their products. Even if they don't have jobs posted, find someone on the engineering team via GH, FB, LinkedIn, their blogs, guessing their email address, conferences, where ever and email them a nice note talking about their products and how you'd love to work with them if they have a position open.

If you can engineer a piece of code, I feel you can also socially engineer your way to a contact somewhere you want to work.

Else if you really want to be some "rockstar" web developer (and I only ever use that term as a pejorative), then start using a relevant language, and learn how to talk to employers about how your deep C/CPP experience is actually an advantage that no other diploma-mill code-school grad is going to have.

It's never more depressing then when you've hauled in a candidate for a review because they've got great past experience, but the candidate has zero ability to relate that experience to conversation at hand.
Thanks, the first one looks extremely interesting.
The "nice API" comment is something that struck me after using mint for a couple years: there are banks/brokerages out there who are set up for this sort of thing and handle it well: tokens, revocation, etc. (Interactive Brokers is one.)
The evolution of the written language (image)
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I don't see the point of this other than the "cool i spend 50% more time in [insert language here] than [insert language here]" factor.

Also: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CannotMeasureProductivity.html
my reading experience, my choice

I'd extend that to say "my eyes, my ears, my brain."

If I have the right to mute the volume, change the channel, or otherwise do something else when adverts appear on the TV, then I should also have the right to block them on a webpage - we're just using available technology to help us do it more effectively.
I'm not sure programming is a good intro to programming.

It isn't the actual coding, or syntax of languages that trip people up, at least not when first learning. At any age, it is the logic that needs to come first. How code flows, branches, how to work with variables, and build up to more complex structures.

It is the same as learning math - you learn how to count to 10, then 100, then start manipulating them via basic addition. Or to read, we first learn the alphabet. For teaching kids to code, first they need to understand the very basics.

There are many products coming along that are working on ways to teach these basic concepts to children, using literal blocks in some cases, to give kids a base skill set before ever actually getting into what could be called "code".
Source:
http://www.focus.it/cultura/curiosita/amare-verita-di-tutti-...
My understanding is that they use http://www.yodlee.com for getting information from your accounts. That's pretty much what everybody does.

I turned it off and deleted my data because the bank or brokerage would change something and break the automatic downloads and things would get out of date.

I believe banks and brokerages should have two levels of access: one where you can move money and one where you can look but not touch. I'd be much happier using the second type of password with Mint, with the bank's own apps, etc. I'm not thrilled at all about the idea of losing my phone and having someone get "write" access to my bank account.
If you're moving to a city you'll be fine.
They're generating millions of rays to trace them at the same time, so they should be able to use packet tracing and they seem to use that [1]. Incoherent rays can be extremely troublesome when tracing packets, as you could be entering a branch of the BVH for just a few rays in the packets and in that case you're wasting a large part of the SIMD vector. There has been some research to alleviate that [2, 3] and creating more cohorent batches alleviates it even more. One of the other big problems of packet tracing is that there is no good way to handle motion blur, but if they're generating millions of rays at once they can just create packets with rays that are all in the same time interval.

[1] https://disney-animation.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/production...

[2] http://www.sci.utah.edu/~wald/Publications/2011/singleray_hy...

[3] http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/graphics/research/papers/2014/drs...
A technical summary of the Usenix fingerprinting paper- Tor Project
I used to think this but I have come around to the opposite opinion. We have tools, these days, to rate and rank products. We have tools to search for them. We have tools to get nifty new ideas out to the public as quick as you can say "gone viral". Buyers don't need advertising at all.

It's purely a system to confound rational consumer choice these days, to maintain the viability of companies that shouldn't be viable, because their product is inferior.
Isn't that blog itself a huge counter-argument to the whole "blogs are dying" point? And yes, as more and more of "general public" go to internet, their percentage in internet audience rise, and so does the percentage of PC-like content. Do blogs really perceive less attention now? Or may be just a less percentage of overall attention?
Swiss cryptography firm helped NSA during Cold War
> The reason they're not on a subscription business model is probably because that wouldn't be sustainable for 99% of the sites you use.

I say, let them die then. It's not that we need those sites but don't want to pay. It's that various "enterprising" folks figure that they can make some "content", fill them with ads and get passive income. If those 99% of sites disappeared overnight, everyone would likely be better off. You'd have a choice between quality paid sites which people would support, or free sites paid by people who think their content is important enough to put their time and money to keep it accessible. Yes, the second group exists and is usually the source of the most valuable and trustworthy content on-line.
Sure, but during a suitably windy night who's to say that a good number of those electrons used to refill pumped storage schemes aren't sourced from wind farms?
Soy is a big no within the Paleo diet group I know. This is because it's potent with Phytic acid which binds to other nutrients and turn them into waste. Consumers beware.
A Guide to Secure Data Encryption in PHP
The authors often don´t provide one or the other, so we opted to give them choice over convention. API integrations are planned down the line. As well as using machine learning techniques to cut down on noise.
For me, it's a tool to track my time i'm spending on which projects.
IBM did a study on this, i think they call it the doherty treshold, or maybe just the show "halt and catch fire".

it assumes that anything under 400ms response can add to the addictiveness of a user interface.

http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/evrrt.html
Except the Tragedy of the Common requires a depletable resource of some kind, and unfettered access to it for people who have a vested interest in protecting their own supply but not the supply of others.

That is not online content one whit. My use of the WaPo does not in any way impact another users use, certainly not to the degree that WaPo is loading down my bandwidth with extra code and content above and beyond what I'm there to read. Seriously, by the time I'm done reading this article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/03...), they've used up 5MB of my bandwidth, for 5KB of text. Literally 1/1000th. It gzips down to half of that. In the time it took me to write the last three sentences, it's now up to 25MB. I'm not the one choosing to use up their server resources. They're doing it to themselves.

My hosting fees for all the sites I run combined come up to around $50/mo. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be for 1000 times more traffic. I assume it's not linear, but lord help me if it is.

There is no end in site for online content. When I can get a perfectly good substitute to the NY Times just by scanning the plethora of free blogs and social media posts from people who are doing it because they like it, because it's important to them, because they are living it, then there is no end in site to online content.

People will pay for valuable things. The problem is that this age of "you have to play the blogging/social media game to find any relevance in the public conscience" thing has created a functionally infinite supply of articles all saying basically the same thing. But turn on the TV, flip to CNN, and what are they talking about? "What are people saying on Twitter?" Why put up with ads to pay for secondary sources when I can go to the primary, where their advertising is nowhere near as intrusive?

An artist I really like releases a new album and I buy it right away because I want to listen to it on repeat. If I really liked a movie I saw in a theater, I preorder it right away (at current theater ticket prices, plus going with my wife, plus typical Blu-ray prices, I'm spending around $60 a movie, if I really like it).

Oh jeez. The WaPo article is 35MB now, and they just played a little "dink" sound, I'm guessing to try to catch my attention and get me to come back to... what? To an article I've now long disengaged with. These tactics works? This gets people to buy? This is worth all this infrastructure to try to leech out that one converted sale out of every 10,000 people?
I'd much rather see my friends drink this every day then eating fat fast food on their way home after a long job instead...
>but sometimes things just get worse. (Look at television as an example.) You can't just write it off every time when someone notices the decline.

What decline are you talking about? You don't mention anything specific - just saying "look at television" isn't very convincing. There is fantastic content available on television - something for everyone. But it's hard to make a point when you don't provide any examples of the decline.
Stray bullets and accidental shots are just as lethal as aimed ones. The point is that someone pulled over at a traffic stop can keep a gun hidden and take the first shot if they want to. Each and every traffic stop is a nervous bundle of potential danger for a cop, and they aren't paid to endanger themselves. That's why we go out of our way to make cops comfortable during a traffic stop. Keep your hands where they can be seen. No sudden movements. Polite interaction.

It's not healthy to be near nervous cops.
I thought the whole point of pumped storage was to use solar / wind to do the pumping and release the water back (thus running the turbines) when it was dark or not windy. Why are they using nuclear or fossil fuels?
Agreed. Sounds like there's something else at play with this guys inability to find work. Maybe he doesn't interview very well?
Everything but I will take employed as a substitute for rich.
This was previously the Bitsquid engine. Really nice engine hope Autodesk can take the tooling to the next level!
Drones and powerful chips face China export limit
I can't display articles of big news media on my iPad 1 anymore. It crashes Safary because of out of memory.

I suspect that things will get worse with HTTP/2 and its push functionality. Ad blockers won't be able to prevent the server to push the ads through the network. Adblockers will eventually prevent the display of the data, not save bandwidth anymore.
I'm actually curious about this. How do popular web apps store your id/pw for other sites? I know personally that Mint (Yodlee), Zenefits, TriNet Expense, and BoA all log into other sites but I'm curious how/where they store the passwords? If they create a scraper then it means they have to store the password (encrypted) and then decrypt it so the scraper can use it? What happens if a master app (let's use Zenefits as an example) get's hacked? Are my other passwords compromised then?
Get some kind of insurance. Show me that if you get hacked and I lose money (and for some reason the fraudulent transactions aren't just rolled back when I call my bank), I can take it out of you.

Also, post some info about your experience writing other secure apps. Social proof is about all we have to go on here, so play it up.
What does it mean? There is no Linus-level genius willing to work for $10 an hour.
> but don't pretend like you're the victim in this

Websites that distribute malware through their ads are definitely culpable. Mobile browsing without adblock is a miserable experience, with every other page opening up the app store to install whatever the malware game of the week is, or shouting audio that I didn't ask for. Plenty of non-tech-savvy people get caught by "your computer is infected!!" style ads. If website operators can't be bothered to ensure they're not distributing malware, I think we have a duty to protect ourselves.
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Well, Hacker News is the exception, not the rule. Most Internet comment sections are unmitigated dumpster fires. Some are even worse than that. Even if you restrict yourself to the really good comments and discussions on the Internet, if you cut off the oxygen from the articles I think the value dries up real fast.
Agreed, it is good to try it, and even better that they care about the impact of the production on food and the environment.

But this should not be a startup looking for fast growth. This should be a slower process, evaluating the longer-term health of people who truly use it to replace their food. I don't know that I would go so far as to say it needs the whole clinical trial process, but it definitely needs more than "A bunch of us made some stuff in the lab, and on paper it sounds healthy, so lets sell it to the world."
I think that's a false dichotomy.

Certainly, there are sites that we could do without; there's clickbait-filled garbage that does nothing but pollute the Internet.

But there's also a lot of really good stuff out there that is supported by ads. Stuff that people put their heart and soul and a lot of effort into, and stuff that I (and probably you) love to read, that wouldn't make it without ads.

I can count the number of sites I've ever heard of that are paid for by their users on one hand.
Paying subscribers have money and get complimentary copy. Non-paying subscribers get complimentary copy and garish advertisements as a punishment to encourage subscription. I'm not sure getting rid of the punishment ads is necessarily helpful to drive subscriptions. My understanding of the complimentary copy marketplace is its informal, "here's this nice news release of ours, now you wouldn't want us to pull our ad budget, would you, so you know what to do."

I'm not aware of any journalistic experiment where readers get to select between ads and complimentary copy. In theory it should be economically possible. Maybe even a slider bar where you can smoothly pick any ratio such as 20% ads and 80% complimentary copy? I'm pretty good at reading thru B.S. so I'd go complimentary copy, my elderly MiL needs help not getting ripped off so she's best pushing the slider to ads... of course putting my best interests in direct opposition to the advertisers isn't going to work well...
This article makes me wonder if what the author is calling for is even possible. The web, to me, seems subject to exactly the same phenomenons of growth as all other human enterprises. It starts off with auspicious beginnings where everyone involved knows almost everyone else involved. It grows slowly and retains that old familiar feeling during the honeymoon of its existence. Then, when it really catches steam and starts growing, everyone from the original cohort gets excited about how it's going to change the lives of all the newcomers in the same way it changed theirs. In actuality, there's a saturation point that gets reached where there's so many people using this system that structure inevitably grows out of it/gets applied to it.

It's the difference between the city hall in a town of 200 versus the US Congress presiding over 300+ million. When things grow, they become systemic.