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> and if we wanted to have some fun, we could lower that number by quite a bit still

One of my earliest introductions to the ELF format was "A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux" (http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...), which I still highly recommend.
That's a working Liquid Metal or Liquid Metal Salt reactor not necessary a Thorium Reactor.

The US prototype "Nuclear Jet Engine" used a similar design to prevent a run off.

Reactors today also weren't designed to produce bombs, this was true for the 50's, the US isn't running breeding reactors any more, the US for the most part doesn't produce much if any fissile material any longer, the Netherlands actually produces more enriched Uranium per year than the states.

ATM there are pretty much 2 countries which use breeder reactors exclusively that's India and Russia, Japan and France still operate some but they are also phased out.

As for the Thorium crap, does a thorium reactor works? yes, is it better than other LM/LMS reactor designs no. Is it safer than other WAS reactor designs no. Is it less radioactive than other reactor fuels, thorium yes, the actual LM/LMS fuel for a thorium reactor nope, for both slow and fast thorium cycles you are going to mix in some really nasty isotopes with the salts to kick off and control the reaction and the burn-off rate. Thorium reactors will still require breeder reactors to produce fuel elements for the actual fuel.

While I also like to believe that some YouTube video can solve all of the problems in the world and that everything is a government conspiracy the world doesn't really work that way.

Yes in principle you can design a safer "Thorium" liquid metal salt reactor than a 1950's fast breeder reactor but they aren't necessarily safer than modern 4 generation reactors like BN-1200 (BN-800 can be considered a gen 3.9 since it's a faster breeder liquid metal cooled reactor which is kinda of a prototype for the Gen 4 BN-1200 one) which is a sodium cooled fast breeder reactor, unlike the (classical Shippingport) Thorium design the BN-1200 (and the 800) design can be safety used with (since the coolant can reach 500c+ in the heat exchanger without being under any pressure) modern high efficiency gas-steam turbines, competing designs which use Fluoride Slats and Helium as coolants also offer WAS operations in many cases with coupled with high efficiency.

Also an important thing to remember is that while that pipe-dream Thorium reactor might be safer on paper we have 70 years of experience with dealing with Uranium fuel cycles and reactor design.
Those 70 years of experience, procedures, known and understood risks and issues are quite important when designing things that might kill 100000 people when they go boom, saying well i found this old design from a US project to irradiate the upper atmosphere with nuclear jets doesn't really inspire much confidence in anyone who ever handled even a simple risk assessment.
Yea, the Oak is probably the one that I'm the most excited about. I also backed one of Digistump's earlier kickstarters and was very pleased with both the hardware and the support.
I read Ashlee Vance's "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" a while back. His personal assistant (for 12 years) Mary Beth Brown asks Elon for a raise. He asks her to take a 2 week break so he can assess for himself how difficult her job really was.

She was let go after the break.
It's not like they have any friends or family anyway. Bonus points if they won't know the local language, then they can fully concentrate on work 24/7/365.
I grew up in AZ, and I don't remember this being the case, so it's probably your driving habits.
Would be interesting to hear your opinions.
Wow. It's a whole new world isn't it. This is "deeply interesting"
Actually I get substantially less than that.

Olympic sized pool = 164ft x 82ft x 9ft 10 inches = 132, 300ft^3. Density of lead: 709 lbs per ft^3.

So a single Olympic-sized pool would weight almost 94,000,000 lbs if filled with lead.

(If you really want to blow your mind, that same pool would weight almost 200 million lbs if filled with Osmium, the most dense element. Of course, that's WAY WAY more than the amount of Osmium that exists...I can't find a world wide figure but US production is only about 250 lbs per year)
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Not 100% of it, though. The bankruptcy administrator will try to obtain the best price for the IP; it could well be that the best price is a pittance.
Or a revamped pricing scheme for the website they might favor for their content. Seeing how the internet and computers allows for many more content to be published at a fraction of the cost of yesterday's system, there is a gap to be filled between the old pricing scheme of hard copies newspaper and all "free" content of the web.

$15 per month per website (like the NYT) seems a bit excessive when 10 or 20 other websites might offer the same news and at least a dozen direct competitors have similar offers. My father and his father might have had a subscription to a couple of newspaper/magazine, but I have the news at my finger tips.
I was really hoping this would be a native app for the collaborative/social aspects of github.
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You shouldn't really be concerned about this "relationship" that much. You're trading your time, life - for money. The fact that there is significant attrition is good for leverage.

If you've been making a significant contribution, go ahead and ask. If the answer is something along the lines of "compensation shouldn't be the main driver for our employees" you know:

a) they don't value you
b) they're full of shit

Its good to ask to separate the wheat from the chaff. Upvoted the question btw, don't know what kind of retards downvoted it.
Yes! There was talk at one stage of including ccan in clib, but AFAIK nothing happened. It makes sense for a ccan tool to automatically create the package.json which clib wants.

Code welcome :)
It's not just software development though. Salaries in different cities and states are all higher or lower depending on the cost of living there. For example, the average 2 bedroom apartment rents here for around $900-$1000 a month. Same sort of apartment costs my friend in Seattle about twice that much. Food and goods seem to be about the same here as there for most items, but that's a pretty big increase in rent.

Going out to lunch here at a decent sit-down restaurant is around 8-10 dollars with tip (assuming you're drinking water). Somewhere like SF or NYC will be much higher.
No, that's a repeatable observation. There's a difference.

Look, take it up with Volkswagen AG. They're the ones who designed the electrical system in the car in question. Don't shoot the messenger, but a long term business plan centered around aftermarket car batteries is going to be a challenging play, for these and other reasons.
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I don't understand the AirBnb angle? Is that meaning it is a marketplace? Buyers and sellers?
"Airbnb for drone pilots" yeah that is not misleading at all
Not to mention the nightmare that accessibility would be if you were just rendering polygons on a canvas.
I hate to spoil the celebration, but I've wanted a basic text interface to Netflix for years. Can I just get a list of movies and shows available? Click a link, see a page with a description, use the back button and I'm back exactly where I was?

The technical implementation really doesn't need to be this complex. Also, the interface itself has gotten worse and worse too. As a customer, just offering HTML links, a search box and then using HTML5 to stream the video would be great.
Which is also probably why the video stops before the debris reaches the operator. The footage being buffered was lost when the shock wave hit. That was a massive explosion and tonight we'll see the true extent of the damage.
On the other hand, this creates an adverse effect of specialising in what you're good at and what will be best for qualifying you for the type of degree you want to do, at the expense of a broader education.

I too took Maths, Physics and Computing to A level because I knew I'd want to end up doing a Physics or Computer Science degree, and because I knew these subjects were my safest bets for As. For those outside the UK education system, all As at A-level is essentially the minimum requirement for getting into the best UK universities, so you're under a lot of pressure to ensure you get them if you want to go to one of these.

I would have really liked to carry on studying other things - French, in particular. But because there would have been more of a risk of me 'dropping' to a B in French, as opposed to a maths/science subject, though I would have enjoyed it I would have been foolish to do so under that system.

Instead I ended up taking French night classes years later, when I was out of University and the general educational funnel where you are strongly incentivised to focus solely on your specialisation of the moment for the best grade(s). It was much harder than it would have been at 16, and I'm much worse at French now than I could have been as a result, which is a real shame.

Specialising early has benefits, for sure, but a very real drawback is that you have to sacrifice the development of other skills, knowledge and interests to do it properly. I'm not convinced 16 is a better age than 18 to start doing that, even if it means you're ultimately in education a year or two longer.
Lenovo laying off 3,200
afaik it was a loan. It'll probably turn out to be a de facto subsidy because it was a subordinated loan (i.e. they're last in the line of creditors to get their money back), although looking at the financial reports I wouldn't be surprised if something was left at the end, but either way created tens of thousands in tax revenues alone, a bunch of jobs and a finished game that's still selling (and whose IP is for sale to pay off creditors, including the government), not a bunco of sketches and models. No wonder he deleted his comment.
Thats correct. Clients can search for a pilot and accept a bid from them. After the work is complete, the pilot creates an invoice, and the client pays them through the marketplace.
Yeah, although their lens strategy seems a bit of a mess - Minolta, Alpha, and Alpha Full-Frame.
http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2014
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Wait, doesn't putting this all behind Cloudfront make that a SPOF for your system?
One of the methods of detection is to upload the SSID of WIFI access points around you, including signal strengths. It's pretty easy to spot someone who knows/has pulled apart the client as they usually (accidentally) refer to actions by the internal API method names instead of the UI names. :-)
I am sort of curious. What problems are you having with package managers that building decent packages wont solve ?
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My solution, where possible is to run with one (or more) of the following responses:

- I think there will be some challenges in that, can we take some time to think through the implications of ______ (or how we would deal with _____, etc)

- I think it's a great idea, but we're going to need to come up with a creative solution to solve _______

- I think we're probably under-estimating how much work that is. Maybe there's a smaller version we could start with and progress from there.

- We've looked into this before and got stuck at ________, do we think we've got a solution for that?
Ping me at John at Bitnami dot com to chat about this. Happy to see what we can do to help y'all out ;-)
You aren't taking marginal tax rates into account. The tax rate you pay on the incremental 30k is higher than the average tax rate of the first 100k, which makes a significant difference.
If we had the equivalent for a Turing test for animated human face renders, I'd wager that we'd start passing it some time in the next 5-10 years.
The purpose of a company, any company, is to achieve some goals, and that means risking the company's capital, that is, investors' money. If your primary concern is to return the invested money undiminished, you'll be completely paralysed.

The purpose of the campaign was to develop and ship a game.

They have succeeded, and in the process went bankrupt. Which means they won't be able to even pay creditors, lest investors.
I was going to say exactly this. When I catch myself having "brain farts", it's usually after several nights of not enough sleep.
It sounds like something useful, but the AirBnb mention seems like a stretch. Based on your description, it could also be the 'Uber' for drones, if you get my drift.
I like being able to make calls longer than 8 minutes.
The AirBnb angle is completely misleading. It seems for a marketplace like this to momentum you need talented drone pilots as quickly as possible. Currently the quality of the sample footage is terrible e.g. 2 out of the 4 videos look like they have had no color correction done and the drone is very jerky.
This is getting to be a competitive market ( http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/dronebase/ )

However my understanding is that it might be illegal to do this at all without FAA approval on a case-by-case basis since its for profit. You can just google "drone realtor" to see the many issues they have faced in the market of using drones to take shots of homes for sale.
What if the product is not available in each visitor's country? Can you customize a list of countries where it is available?
Sounds alot like Skycatch's Workmode that already has tons of pilots and clients on it. It'll be interesting to see how Droners intends to compete with a company that already has a strong network effect going in its favor.
> Otherwise, all of these counter arguments could be interpreted as saying "Coal kills 1 million, so what if nuclear only kills 100k every once and a while".

Well, yes. We are, unfortunately, stuck in a pretty awful region of the configuration space of possible existences. We can't be perfect. And that, unfortunately, means that perfect is the enemy of good enough. Right now we only have a few choices either we stick with coal or oil and kill a lot of people and maybe everybody, or we switch to nuclear/solar/whatever and only kill a few people. I acknowledge that nuclear kills people. I fully understand that Chernobyl and Fukushima were catastrophes. And I'm not going to disregard them. I've thought about them carefullyh, and considered the options, and even if I accept the most pessimistic evaluations I come to a single conclusion: We need to switch. Now.

I can give you credit for wanting to be sure. But there's a point where you have to stop wanting to be sure and start making choices. And it's well past the point where we needed to make that choice, and as a result the conversation needs to be different. Right now our biggest obstacle is the public, and that means we need to present a united front. We can't tolerate dissenting opinions on a topic where the decision is so critical and the public is so pathetic. When you say "don't disregard Fukushima", people hear "radioactive scientist-men will eat your babies". So stop fearmongering.

Also, stop bullshitting about Chernobyl. "The total global collective dose from Chernobyl was earlier estimated by UNSCEAR in 1988 to be "600,000 man Sv, equivalent on average to 21 additional days of world exposure to natural background radiation."". And that's an early, pessimistic estimate that's since been revised to half that. Maybe half a million people total were exposed in any measurable way. The few thousand people who worked on the reactor itself lost maybe ten years each. Everybody else lost... a few hours? Fukushima, similarly, is estimated based on data from Chernobyl (which, remember, happened thirty years ago! we have data from it! lots of data!) to kill a few hundred people. Pessimistically, a few thousand. Indirectly, ten years before they'd have died of old age anyway, and with a relatively treatable cancer. Seriously, thyroid cancer? Five-year survival rate 98%, and that's if you aren't watching for it already and you catch it late.

And, really, greenpeace? They haven't been reasonable about nuclear since ever. If they ever realized how radioactive their bananas were their heads would explode.
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It's not about whether someone else would build this. It's about whether Apple will take draconian steps to stop any of the hotloaders from working.
Eh it sounds like he ended up getting at least as much experience as he would have at facebook, and he did some public good too.
What about those of us who prefer to stick with tried and true text, like HackerNews? Fairly simple and effective. No need for a GUI when you can just have a line of text convey the idea much faster.
Ok, I'll call bullshit on the title.

You can't 'lose money on every xxx' and still have a positive gross margin. Tesla's gross margins are an industry-leading 25%. Which means on a $90,000 sale, they make a profit of $17,500.

The fact that they have a net loss can be caused by many factors, not the least of which is R&D spending. And since they are developing 3 new models, X, 3 and a new Roadster, and building out a global charging network, a global showroom sales platform, and not to mention a battery gigafactory, one should not be surprised that their investment in future sales exceeds the profit earned from current sales.
Just fake your user agent?
I agree. I'm just pointing out that, since we're talking about unproven speculation, any statement that fits "Chernobyl killed >3e4 people" is also not statistics.
I vaguely remember you could buy non-ECC registered memory back in the SDRAM days for servers. It was before we really understood trans-gigabyte error rates.
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> What do you expect they will find?

I expect them to tell the truth. Do you accuse them of lying?

Because this is a very straightforward piece of research, it's not one of those cases where you can fudge the numbers with statistics, to cherry pick results out of nothing.

I'm willing to believe that if this study had bad results they might not have published it (which is why affiliated-type studies usually have "good" results). But since they did publish it, I am not willing to believe they lied.

Plus it's well known birds will die from smoke, it's also quite well known at what point butter or oil will smoke. This isn't very complicated research, and it fits perfectly with other known information.

If you still have doubts after this then that is simply your bias, not logic.
Need to run empirical benchmarks. CUDA is usually faster. I'd like to run my own benchmarks with nd4j though. We have our own benchmark setup that works for every backend. It allows us to do some interesting things. Cuda itself is usually faster with data transfer latency though[1].

Looking forward to running these ourselves after our opencl support kicks in (only the kernels are written =/)

I plan on basing the work for open cl on our cuda work which is fairly well established at this point (mainly doing optimizations not much change in architecture)

[1]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1005.2581.pdf
One of the most successful risk workshops I ever ran was for the implementation of very large application in a bank.

I pulled in a sample of people from the development team and proposed the following scenario:

It's the Monday morning immediately after our implementation, and you come in to the office to find a bunch of senior managers discussing a big issue with the system.

What went wrong?

That brought up a huge number of potential issues that were sitting in the back of the engineers minds that have never been written on any risk register, etc.

We talked them through, got comfortable that some of them weren't really likely/possible, and then worked on mitigations for the others (mostly via test plans)

In the end, the implementation was a success.
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Yes, unless you are have a really novel concept that will make people see past early bugs (such as ARK: Survival Evolved) you are competing with some games that set the bar very high.

For example something like Ori and the Blind Forest, not exactly indie but a $20 title with amazing graphics and sound and around 6-8 hours of bug free gameplay.
I would never ask for a raise unless I had an option I was willing to walk to. Even if you're happy at your current job go talk to other companies and see what's out there. This will better inform you what you're worth as well.
Agreed. I am not a fan of carousels in general. Combined with the awful jawbone shrink+expand+flyin thing, I find the new interface to be quite awful. I really dislike using it.

I would vastly prefer a simple paginated grid of videos with a "click to show info in a little overlay box", and then a close link to simply dismiss the overlay and go back to the grid.
SkyCatch is geared more towards B2B, particularly architecture/construction/scanning, there is still quite a market in the other areas.

Regarding pilot base, we've on-boarded almost 400 pilots in the last 10 days.
We have literally hundreds of open source projects that want to be part of Bitnami and limited resources. The contest is the best way we could come up with to help us prioritize
It's used by Etoile, at least. The problem with GNU Smalltalk is lack of traction (developers, users) and incompatibility with Pharo/Squeak. Pharo is the open source Smalltalk with the most traction at this point.

There are also licensing concerns because it's LGPL, whereas Pharo/Squeak is MIT.

I think using it as a scripting language in a UNIX environment would be easier than Pharo though.
Are there any times or various tasks that you believe one type would be better at? Again, just a broad and conceptual, curious question.
I'm concerned about the TCP stacks on these boards. Near as I can tell, they're all built into the chips and no source code is available. Is my impression correct?
> Can't those other sources also be spoofed?

It's a lot harder to spoof say for example APs near you, signal strength to a cell tower, and/or IP geolocation - than a GPS signal.

If you can spoof all of that - you probably aren't interested in playing a game like ingress. You have your own more interesting game you play...
Can it really anneal at normal oven temperatures? Cast iron has a melting point of 2200F -- so how can 500F oven do anything?
We've currently on-boarded almost 400 pilots in the last 10 days. The FAA has also began issuing 333 exemptions at a faster rate. To date there is now ~1100 exempt pilots that able to commercially operate a UAV, earlier in the year there were only around 100.

Regarding video quality, there is a wide range of pilots, giving clients a wide range of services for the price.
I completely agree. In the meantime if you aren't using it already then I recommend checking out instantwatcher.com for a better Netflix interface. I'm not affiliated with it in any way, but I do use it anytime I want to search Netflix content.
That is correct Dan, it is illegal to commercially operate a UAV without obtaining the FAA's 333 exemption (https://www.faa.gov/uas/legislative_programs/section_333/). As I mentioned in another comment, there are now 1100 pilots who have obtained the exemption.