skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can ask your contact to use the unregister app here https://whispersystems.org/textsecure/unregister/

Apple offer a similar tool when leaving iOS https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage
Been there done that. Twice. Port Saint Lucie Florida, Chattanooga Tennessee.
I seem to recall the Microsoft Mouse drivers for Windows 95 had a key shortcut to make lines radiate out of your cursor. Very useful on the low refresh rate LCDs where that cursor would appear like a submarine on the other side of the screen.
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And still radioactive.
The iPad 2 is so slow on ios8 and newer that most people wouldn't actually want to upgrade, though [1]. Apple sold the iPad 2 until 2014 as a low-end model, so they can't really stop updates completely, but it isn't really usable.

1: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/a-slide-into-obsolescen...
I humbly disagree.

No, CSS isn't a programming language, but that doesn't mean it can't use functionalities that are typical of programming languages - just look at variables, functions, arrays, maps and other features that preprocessors like SASS have brought us.

While some approaches are a matter of taste/habit, I think there's an extremely wide consensus that having everything available in global scope is bad.

If the global namespace really is by design, then why are we adopting conventions (such as the one in this very topic) that mostly aim to defeat it? Prefixing class names to apply them only to a specific component is nothing but a primitive way of limiting scope.
Describing the Dublin tech community as 'a small white male tech elite' is bizarre. Given the still tiny number of non-white people in Ireland, and the relative number in the tech industry, outside of the teaching hospitals the tech industry is probably the most ethnically diverse in the country. There's certainly a gender disparity, but given the relative ease of getting into tech (via Springboard and similar), this is likely a combination of legacy factors and relative lack of interest in STEM at university level. Sounds like you're importing a narrative from the US.

Agreed on the lack of progress in poverty, social inequality is growing - in part as a result of the concentration of growth in the tech industry, as well as the stagnation of public sector wages and the slow removal of hiring freezes.
Those are cloud backup....not cloud storage and usually allow you to backup a single computer. It's not like you can upload 50 TB to them.
Good luck subverting Duverger's law, tech.

(Also much of the reason for SOPA not passing was the stake tech companies had in the game, not so much your J. Random Citizen.)
> We have less forest coverage than Japan.

Japan has forest coverage of 67%, which is very respectable. New Zealand has 31.87%. Next 3 countries after New Zealand are Germany, Canada and United States.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_forest_ar...
"Twitter doesn't care about protests because it won't make them any money" -> Too cynical

"Twitter DOES care about protests because it will actually make them lots of money" -> NOT CYNICAL AT ALL
That is cloud backup...not cloud storage and they limit you.
It's a much easier problem to solve in a plant setting than it is in something that would be suitably sized for use as a bomb
The iPhone 6S and 6S+ are the same size as the preceding 6 and 6+, why would they dwell on something that was covered in depth last time, and hasn't changed?
And it's not just a plain heart. Clicking on it initiates an animation that looks like the heart exploding, but in a celebratory way... like fireworks at a celebration.
I would love to see an expanded article on this - it would be great. This article is basically "Feature flags are great, and we can manage them for you". I'd love to see an article of "Here's a practical guide to using feature flags without hurting your codebase"
I've seen several startups using this technique not only for their content but also for their API responses — they would just store them in S3 with the right headers and serve them through cloudfront. My guess is that this will only get more common with AWS Lambda and other "serverless" technologies.
I immediately thought of deepfreeze upon seeing this article - you'll notice that the people that it's cataloguing the misbehavior of are the ones that scream the loudest about its tone or the distastefulness of the people running it or associated with it, with precious little to say about the facts.

At least in DF's case, there's a reason for that. Most of everything you'll find there are of the form "X did Y" with a direct link to an archive where X was documented doing Y.. it's pretty hard to argue "I never said that!" when someone's got a third party link to you saying that.

As far as proof goes, they've got a higher evidentiary standard than Wikipedia, something that many trust without question.
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If they're going to have something called a NERD NOTE, they should at least get their units right:

"The entire planet’s electrical consumption is right around 5 terawatt-hours."

5TWh per what? Per second? Per hour (then why not 5TW?)? Per year? Cumulative over all of human history?
Battery costs have been dropping radically for the past decade, and there's both aggressive startups (Tesla) and established giants investing heavily in the technology, which will continue to drive prices down.
it's true. somewhat.
I mean the energy of the nuclear station stays constant. however the peak power of the solar panels will be higher. but I doubt that the solar panels will still be creating less energy over a longer period of time. unless you build both inside a desert and there you would have other problems like the sand which affects the lifetime of your panels, etc..

btw. i'm against nuclear and non renewable energy, however I think its hard to actually replace ever "bad" energy in the next 10-20 years. we will need a longer time for that. especially since building renewable energy plants fast isn't good for our environment either.
I would have to disagree. I love the large form factor of the 6 Plus. Now that I have been using it for a year, I have learned to hardly notice the big footprint that it has. I am probably on the extreme side as to how often I use the device, so for me I can't immagine going back to a teeny screen.

I am also a tall guy with long fingers so usually I do not have to re-position the phone to reach everything. When I do, I can do it with one hand pretty smoothly now with a year of daily practice.

I do have to say, that any bigger and it would be too big. I can also see that someone who is less willing to compromise on drawbacks of a large screen would not like it.
Well, we'll know soon how the new AP-1000 reactor works. The first unit starts up next year, in China.[1] The first US unit should start up in 2019. It's a boring old pressurized water reactor and should work.

The history of large exotic reactor designs is poor. Sodium-cooled reactors have sodium fires. Helium-cooled reactors have helium leaks (The Ft. St. Vrain story is sad; good idea, but some badly designed components in the radioactive section.) Pebble bed reactors jam. (A small one in Germany is jammed, shut down, and can't be decommissioned.) Molten salt reactors require an on-site chemical plant which processes the radioactive molten salt. Chemical plants for radioactive materials are a huge headache and have the potential to leak. With pressurized water reactors, you only have to handle water, not radioactive fluorine salts.

All designs where the radioactive portion of the system has much complexity have had major problems. Fixing anything in the radioactive part is extremely difficult. But the reactor has to run for decades to be profitable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmen_Nuclear_Power_Station
Are you kidding? Even if you completely ignore the radiation, the amount of disruption caused by the disaster caused a huge amount of pain, suffering and death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas...
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Maybe the library but the book store...well not if you are then taking home only what you purchase from Amazon instead of the place you just comfortably browsed inventory.
I find it hard to understand the logic of using a place of business in order to take advantage and not purchase from them. People justify it in many ways but none of those justifications stands up to examination.
Full scale engineering, free of the liberal treehugging you decry, happens in China, India, Russia, and elsewhere. You'd think we'd be seeing better results than we are.
Someone else recommended Vintersorg. It's now on my list of bands to check out, along with many others from this thread.

But while we're on the topic of Swedish artists (who have unrelated day jobs†), I absolutely have to mention Seventh Wonder[0].

They based their 30-minute anthem "The Great Escape" on Aniara[1], an epic sci-fi poetic cycle authored by Harry Mattison. It's a significant piece of literature because, to quote his Wikipedia page[2]:

"He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson 'for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos'."

Someone actually uploaded a comparison of lines from the English translation of the poem to the lyrics of the song[3]. Maybe I'll write a more detailed article about this at some point, but it's a beautiful song that really lets you get into the story.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Wonder

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniara_(opera)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Martinson

[3]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MUd4hf0FH4gQQN_9kypNtGBe...

† Tommy Karevik is the singer in Seventh Wonder (and Kamelot) and also plays the part of the Prodigy in Ayreon's Theory of Everything. He is also a firefighter.
Can't specify any financial details (sorry!), but the whole process lasted about 3 months.

Legal fees were reasonable using a local attorney that another startup introduced us to (with experience in M&A).

Due diligence included reviewing ROI reports (how well the product works for clients), financial reports of the company (where does revenue stand, how fast is it growing), current customer lists, past customer lists, all support conversations (how happy are customers, how fast are support requests handled), and gathering listings of accounts in-use that would need to be transferred.

We decided on a purchase price before entering due diligence, but saved equity offerings until after the deal had closed. At that point, we brought in our investors, and offered Andrew a priced option to invest (at a higher valuation than the purchase price based on the expanded team and advisors).

If you don't have guidance from someone with experience, you should probably use a broker. And if you don't know the seller super-well, you should probably use an escrow company for the transfer of assets. In our case, we knew we were working with a stand-up guy based on our friendship with Andrew, and how wonderful he was throughout the entire process.

Let me know if I can answer anything else!
Matt
Is it intentional for the 11 (eleven) in the date to look like a Roman II (2)? I don't think this is compatible with the masses.
That's not even close to being true.

Ivanpah has the capability of producing about 400 MW. It produces no energy at night, and doesn't max out the rest of the time. It rests on 4,000 acres of land. [1]

The Palo Verde nuclear plant can produce 3,939 MW from three reactors (currently operating at 3,875 MW). It's located on 4,000 acres of land. It can actually generate 3,875 MW, and can do it all day long if necessary. Most nuclear plants don't run at max capacity often, but it's irrelevant given the extreme difference, reduce it by 75% and it stomps Ivanpah. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_...
Just a reminder that energy use and electricity use are not the same thing --- about 2/3 of all energy is used for heating and transport, and electricity can't be used for that. (Because it's too hard to store, and because the electrical grid simply can't transport that much.)

Sure, solving renewable energy is a really valuable thing to do, but it's still only solving 1/3 of the problem.
I upvoted it to counter your downvoting :)
Axolotl (the crypto protocol used by Signal/TextSecure) never used SAS. The calling feature uses ZRTP, which does do SAS.
> Clinging to fax machines for hotel reservations when a simple Web form would be more efficient.

Frankly i don't know what is more complicated, given that with a web form you have one computer talking to another, several exchanges of data, and computing of same (request form, transfer form, render form, transfer inputs).

It may look simpler once the form is on screen, but the processes behind the scene seems no simpler than fill out a sheet of paper and stick it in the machine.
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I now see that it's the font's 1 (one). It's okay'ish in other places but in this case it looks like a Roman II.
My use of the ipad has definitely descreased since I have gotten the 6+. That extra effort of getting up, locating where the iPad is usually isn't worth it for me since the phone is within reach already.
Why is this on HN?
You can still do this (at least in Windows 7, the last time I checked.) Just look in the 'Mouse' section of your control panel, and select the one to make <Ctrl> radiate circles around your mouse :)
Yeah, reading about the dominance of the smaller companies instantly brought to mind Germany. Then again the two nations have seemed quite similar for some time.
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The peak power of solar panels is not higher today.

The highest capacity US nuclear power plant can out-produce the best utility scale solar installation by 10 fold, with both at max capacity, on an equal amount of land.
Cobol and mainframes anyone?
I agree. The Clojure syntax comparisons are probably due to the popularity of that language, compared to Scheme or other Lisp dialects. Perhaps a comment section in addition to the annotations would provide more insightful discussions.
Interesting concept. Do you have an example blog? I would suggest linking to one from your landing page.
Glad we could help!
WPI has one also: I remember when they switched out the HEU fuel to reduce the proliferation risk.
Mildly interesting (at least in chrome on os x) if you open a new tab on top of it the web audio api stops playing but doesn't seem to stop the timer in the animation leading to a jump and some interesting audio for a beat when you open the tab back up.
Their use of floor space to show all the books cover-facing-out seems to suggest that they're looking to move dead-tree books too...

Barnes & Noble definitely became a showroom for the Nook, but it was also selling books. This might imply that Amazon is re-deploying the same strategy but without the dead-weight of under-performing brick-and-mortar stores. (i.e. Amazon gets to use it's data to only put stores in places where it knows traffic, volume, and customer profiles will perform well.) I expect Barnes & Noble knew much less about its customers when it set up its network of stores...
Does the calling functionality support any wideband codecs? I've tried RedPhone in the past, but the audio quality left a lot to be desired.
I think (but am not sure) that replying cancels the downvote. You can't downvote a post that you have replied to, so it's reasonable that you not be able to downvote and then reply.

But I could be wrong. Perhaps someone knows for sure?
The channel's a really dumb place to dump waste. There's a massive difference between a life-rich continental shelf with a complex ecosystem, and the barren abyssal seafloors five miles down. Put the waste there and it will just stay there for millennia.
> Built in obsolescence?

Compared to its competitors, decidedly no. The state of affairs on Android is even worse.

Samsung Galaxy S2 release: May 2, 2011
Apple iPhone 4S release: October 14, 2011
Google Galaxy Nexus: November 17, 2011

Galaxy S2 last OS release: October 9, 2012
4S's latest OS release: October 21, *2015*
Galaxy Nexus' last OS release: October 3, 2013

And that's just from the same generation... I suspect there are even newer flagship Android phones that have hit EOL, where the 4S is still (at least partially) supported...

Compared to other industries, like computers or cars, sure. Maybe it's planned obsolescence.

Or maybe it's just that it's such a new product that innovations and consumer desire are faster than usual (or, likely, sustainable).

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_4S

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Nexus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
The careers page does not appear to have any intern positions open right now. Have you started taking applications for the summer yet?
All manner of more recent developments after this article as well:
1] MTN share trading has been suspended on the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange)
2] In an impressive about turn after threatening to leave South Africa a few weeks ago, they asked the SA government to help negotiate with the Nigerian authorities.
3] Any delay/reduction of the fine has so far been denied by Nigerian authorities.

To put the size of the fine into perspective: Nigerian nominal GDP estimate for 2015 (according to Wikipedia) is ~$564B.
Indeed... first class GNU/Linux support would be sweet.
Dublin is a different animal than the rest of Ireland because the country is very centralised there (despite some efforts to combat this).

It would like measuring the average house price in the US by just measuring the BA.

I can buy a house in my hometown which is well serviced by schools and more than the essentials for about €150k.

The one thing that Ireland gets right is access to 3rd level education. I'm constantly floored by the amount of debt that students in North American and UK (or wherever else) pile up getting educated. I will concede that their standard of education is probably higher but, personal experience, I see very little difference in the average standard of graduate produced.

Coming from a working class background, I was lucky enough to be on the grant system so would have received about €3.5k a year to attend college - it wasn't huge and I obviously had to work part time but it certainly helped.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to arrive at is that the best way for a society to progress is via education and I think we're doing good (though it could be much better) at this right now.
Will do.

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Still not seeing any technical details about if this is a native implementation of Android or virtualized with QNX. One of the key issues with their past approach was lack of any accessibility at the system API level. I wonder if they will be blocking or interfering with native Android app accessibility.
If there's positive buzz about molten salt reactors, the most likely source of that buzz is people who want to get rich selling molten salt reactors.
Right, I remember reading about bookstores that were kicking people out who were scanning ISBN barcodes to buy the same book on Amazon for cheaper (to their cost. Shipping costs adds up but not on the end-user)
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Very interesting news! I wouldn't have expected Ireland to be on this forefront. When I got to the paragraph below, I also couldn't help wondering which nation that was:

"His comments follow a leaked report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, appearing to call for a worldwide decriminalisation on 19 October. The report was reportedly withdrawn after at least one nation put pressure on the international body to bury the findings of Dr Monica Beg, chief of the HIV/AIDs section of the UNODC in Vienna."
Run the numbers on it. What's a reasonable expected area for a real-world nuclear power plant? (not the fantasy of the OP, but what real plants usually cover) Reasonable peak and median output long-term for that much solar panel? Throw in some batteries for storage to stabilize the output, and the numbers are pretty compelling.

Then throw in the cost of covering, say, a square mile of land with solar panels versus the cost of building and operating a nuclear plant, even the ridiculous fantasy numbers of the OP. Solar looks pretty good.
Far from half baked (theres a pun here if I look hard enough), Portugal stepped up and did the experiment already. And it worked.
I wonder how much that has to do with law rather than tech.

Meaning that a faxed document holds more power in court.
> I think the authors of WASM actually agree with your opinions here and are working to a system that satisfies that concern

That's very reassuring - I hope it works out that way.
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It would be on right ballpark in Sahara. Assuming that we use current kilometer scale safety zones around power stations.
More likely, "for personal use" means that they've intimated that only a small amount of marijuana will be forgiven in the decriminalization process.

We have the same caveat in Maryland, which decriminalizes "personal use amounts". "Personal use" in our case is "up to 10 grams" of marijuana, and anything above that would be considered "for distribution", which is still criminal, and of course still retains the full weight of law previously associated.

On top of that, it's worth pointing out the obvious -- decriminalization is not legalization -- it's still "against the law", and is punishable (in Maryland) by fines that raise progressively each time you're caught. Moreover, while the material good itself might be decriminalized, no such decriminalization applies to paraphernalia. To that end, 9 grams of marijuana are mere citations, but a trace amount of marijuana in a pipe is still a criminal offense.
Nice site.Good choices for papers.

The top border kind of smushes down on me sometimes. It would be nice if I could resize. Hm, and it doesn't seem to keep me logged in, so every time I connect it asks me to subscribe again.
A sibling commenter already did run the numbers on it, and found nuclear ahead by a factor of 10: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10503382
You can't downvote a post that is a reply to yours. But you can downvote a post that you reply to.

So you can't downvote this post, but you could (and please do try this) find another one of my posts and reply to it, and then down vote it. (Let me know which post you chose and I'll let you know if the vote count changes).
Sorry you were less than impressed. We can't really discuss future plans, but we are working to mature the 1Password for Teams web client into a fully functional client that can add, edit, and delete items. The whole thing is still in beta right now, but it's definitely on our must-do list.

The web client runs in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, so Linux users will definitely be able to access it there. That's our immediate focus for now.

Rob

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I think 'reactions' is the way to go. Slack has it, Facebook is testing it. I think by this time next year it will be standard.
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I find that Pelican itself can do the non changing stuff, but that it is really hard to find themes or examples that aren't blog oriented.

But I'd be keen to hear about the kinds of things MiddleMan etc does better than Pelican for non blog sites though....
That's an awesome idea! To mix the knowledge, I learned some things. There needs be another for Chrome, and it'd teach all kind of tricks, and with an unknown reward at the end. This is good, this is artful teaching. Reminds me of the hacking challenges.