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kobersteinon Electric vehicle battery costs rapidly declining, Tesla cited as leading

Check out Electrovaya, they have a non-toxic battery production process. Cautiously optimistic here as well :)

kobersteinon Email reveals Clinton worked with Google CEOs to keep Benghazi video blocked

http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/a16995

kobersteinon The 25 hardest video games of all time

What about Terminator 2 for Genesis?

kobersteinon All-female flight crew lands 787 in country they're not allowed to drive in

Saudi Arabia

kobersteinon Go from PHP engineer's perspective

"It was never recommended to decompose a system into microservices while it is not mature enough. While small, a business has to be flexible and react quickly to the opportunities in the market. This is not an ideal environment for building microservices, and more benefits can be achieved by having a monolith instead. PHP with its ecosystem perfectly fits into this strategy."

kobersteinon Pee-wee’s Big Comeback

Because Paul Reubens hacked his own own reality and made it something interesting and amazing to behold.

kobersteinon Goldman Sachs Abandons Five of Six 'Top Trade' Calls for 2016

Perhaps Bitcoin

kobersteinon Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life

Probably because the app is constantly scanning for beacons. https://www.facebook.com/business/a/facebook-bluetooth-beaco...

kobersteinon Baltimore psychologist pioneers team using psychedelics as ‘sacred’ medicine

What is "it" and why should you be afraid of losing "it"?

kobersteinon Top Programming Languages That Generate Software Vulnerabilities

How is it possible that a language can generate a vulnerability?

kobersteinon Western Digital agrees to buy SanDisk for about $19B

Now if they could just fix the broken firmware they released for my WD Live TV player.

kobersteinon Jack Dorsey giving up 30% of his stake in Square to help underserved communities

McDonalds has done it 12 times.

kobersteinon PHPBack – Open-Source Feedback System

"PHPBack is feedback a web application that you can easily implement into your website."

this sentence did not make sense to me.

kobersteinon Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland

Why was this downvoted?

kobersteinon Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot

What is the difference between predicting and influencing?

kobersteinon Potentially Habitable Planets

Yeah, let's just keep this one habitable.

kobersteinon Ask HN: How do you deal with the pain of programming?

The complicated problems are not the pain to me. The trivial things are the pain.

kobersteinon Spotify raises $526M at a $8.5B valuation

Why do you think the software is to blame for your decision to listen to the same music all the time?

kobersteinon Ask HN: Cheap places to stay in the Bay Area?

Have you tried couchsurfing.com ?

kobersteinon Ask HN: What should I do if I don't get a summer internship?

If you want to make a positive impact on the world, I would go out and see the world. People like to live in fear of not following the right path - but diverging from the norm is what makes new possibilities happen. Take some time to relax, recharge, and think about what it is you want to accomplish.

kobersteinon What is Superadobe?

If anybody is interested in further reading on the subject, I would highly recommend the book 'Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques'

kobersteinon Ask HN: How can I *really* change the world?

May I add to the list of hard problems that make a difference:

- Local / sustainable food systems

I have been working on an application for the past year involving connecting local producers with local customers. It is a different kind of application than typical e-commerce because it revolves around a scheduling component so that farmers can drop off food at the food hub and customers can pick it up their or have it delivered.

There are many others working on similar systems such as http://openfoodfoundation.org/project/open-food-network

There are hundreds of these 'food hubs' in the United States ( definition: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/foodhubs ).

As far as I observed, each food hub seems to operate quite differently thus making it difficult to facilitate each food hub's needs in one application. There doesn't seem to be a "market leader" software. This is a very grass roots sector and I suspect many food hubs are operating using excel spreadsheets or homebrew solutions.

Anyways, there is a lot of opportunity to make a big difference in the world around you. It has been a very rewarding and challenging thing for me to be involved in. Let me tell you, UI for farmers is quite difficult! :)

kobersteinon Is There Enough Meat for Everyone?

What resources did older cultures have less of?

kobersteinon New Starter Homes Hit a Dead Stop

I bought my first home last year and I didn't even consider building. The thought didn't even occur to me as an option. I think we are seeing a shift in mindset here - I would guess that people in my position are just buying older houses because they are cheaper than building and readily available ( at least where I live ). I paid well under $200k.

kobersteinon Ask HN: What are you reading?

Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound

If you are unfamiliar with Roky, you should check out this documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVFLqzJB6qw

His is an incredible story.

kobersteinon Ask HN: What are you reading?

Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound

kobersteinon 404 Animated Character in CSS

Probably for the challenge.

kobersteinon Did Neurons Evolve Twice?

Pretty sure everything has evolved infinitely.

kobersteinon Bitcoin exchange hacked via WordPress hosted on production machines

That shouldn't fly anywhere.

kobersteinon California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,000 Years Ago

Yeah, they should really be using new water to water that new food.