skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tried sending "Attached is my photo". Then "I've been feeling less attached to you". One warns, the other doesn't. This is also more than a single if.
Apparently, most nuclear power plants even produce less energy than if their area was instead covered by solar panels. Says Musk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-n6xJOFbvA
I made my first programming steps with Turbo Pascal and later with Delphi (which was very common here in Germany as a student language, versions 6/7, before the .NET stuff where used for ages, and possibly still are in some schools). Really surprising that there aren't many GUI building tools of equal speed to Delphi around right now.

Of course I've heard of Forth, but I can't remember seeing SNOBOL before.
I love that feature.
1. You can make same argument about any energy recourse. "we need so big number of them, that it's futile." I guess my grandchildren will die then.

2. No way to recycle.. Except there is. Over half of current energy production happens in countries that already have nuclear weapon, or are part of NATO. So because Ghana can't have heavy water nuclear power plant, U.S. can't either?

3. Price going up with the cheapest fuel out there does not sound like much of an issue. He does not quantify anything.

4. France needs to use huge amounts of water for cooling because they produce about 75% of their electricity with nuclear. If average would be even 50% of electricity produced by nukes, we could breathe lot easier with the climate change. You can also cool with seawater.

Fukushima proved that even with completely fucked up security culture, dated power plant and overall completely unpredictable carnage, nuclear is still safe.

5. Nuclear is centralized and that's not hip-n-cool. This last point is the best one IMO. But it's more of an argument why we should not rely only on nuclear. Not a reason to abstain from it.
Slowly, the personal assistants will get smarter and do more of your job. Then you get laid off.
Small Donors Are Clicking More with Democrats Than Republicans
Sure, pseudoscience has unlimited explanations :-) I've also heard it explained as the engine from a crashed alien spaceship.
This kind of stuff is really cool. I imagine the future of Google being the same old search box, but instead of entering a search query, you engage in a conversation with Google so you can delve deeply into a narrow topic and get back tailored responses to your question (as opposed to opening 10 tabs of Stack Overflow links that are maybe related to your question).

I worry a bit about the long-term risks of this kind of training (query / reply). While this is obviously very far from being "high resolution" enough to single out very specific information, at some point these kinds of tools (and assistant AIs that can answer questions) will out of necessity be able to converse around very domain specific topics. At this point, how do they know what data is private and what is not? It could be tempting to train these AIs on chat logs or e-mail conversations, but that'd give them knowledge of very private information which they might leak to others. Even if they're limited to data that is accessible anonymously, they'd be extremely good at picking up information that wasn't intended for the public. For example, if you could describe a person called /u/andreasblixt on reddit, and leave it up to the bot to put the pieces together that this person is also on Facebook, Twitter, etc... and that obscure forum from 10 years ago. Food for thought.

A final thought on this... When these assistant AIs will inevitably have to know something about you. For example, your preferred schedule, food restrictions, preferred airlines, name, family, friends, phone numbers, where you were last night, who you've talked to, etc. Even if we all get our own namespaced AI assistant (i.e., the trained neural network that contains private information is stored and encrypted for your access only), that assistant's "brain" may very well become a prized target because if you get access to it you can interrogate it for information (you most likely can't just access the information in any meaningful way – you'd literally have to give it queries to make it return semantic output with the information you're trying to access).

Anyway, automatic e-mail responses, yay!
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The word "centralized" does not appear anywhere in their post, which tells me that they are not thinking about that as an issue. But it is an important bias of nuclear energy, the bias toward centralization. One of the benefits of solar is that it can be either centralized, or decentralized, or a hybrid of the two. Being less biased in this way, it opens up more flexible options.

Another important aspect of solar is that its performance is a moving target. Because solar cells are improving over time, comparisons against them need to be kept updated, or else the underlying assumptions of the comparison are invalid.
Blind testing swings the other way: http://www.androidauthority.com/blind-camera-shootout-winner...

Taste is subjective, I have no doubt you like the Samsung more. But subjectively, on average, people like iPhone photos more often than they like Android photos.
Is your second sentence a sarcastic suggestion that they shouldn't be sending rockets to Mars and should instead put those resources towards helping rural Indian poor people? If so, what makes your ideas of what's best for them any better than this person's?
It's all yours, my friend.
And even today there are areas even in Germany where you can’t eat mushrooms or eat boars because they are still having residue radiation from chernobyl!
> You simply can't compete with ... natural gas

Not necessarily, not if you include the environmental costs. Natural gas may be considered "superior", if you don't mind the damaging effects of hydraulic fracturing over the environment. Water contamination is no small deal.
"The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine." Exceedingly.
I thought e.g. TerraPower was beyond that stage?

Sources?
The particle physics of you
> http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/153/4/309.long

And yet you leave out an important point directly in the abstract:

> The following significant results were found for males and females combined: a deficit in the standardized incidence ratio for all cancers combined

This makes me suspicious as it probably means we have too little statistical power so that an increased elevance in one or two rare cancers skews the numbers.

It also includes the 1950's in its analysis. And, let's face it, we weren't that far from people playing with plutonium spheres. It was in the 50's when people started to get serious about nuclear safety.
It's not actually that hard to fix. We know how to regulate large industrial operations that use dangerous substances. The problem is that we don't use those regulations, we use a whole different set of regulations that were created by people whose specific intent was to make construction uneconomical.

Example. One of the problems that have occurred is that the regulations change during construction. You spend a billion dollars on construction and then the regulations change and you have to start over. The simple change that the construction rules a plant is evaluated under are the ones in effect when construction began would solve half the problem in itself.
Magic 8-Ball for dealing with bug reports
Researchers at Harvard have created a metamaterial with a refractive index of 0
> very glad I don't live anywhere near Dr. Klapötke's lab.

I do. If I ever hear a huge explosion followed by a smoke column north of the city center, I know what my first suspicion will be.
Is this anything like aerogel?
Corrosion is not a problem. But there is still a ton of work that needs to be done with molten salt reactors. But it's work we should do, I feel. I used to be skeptical of the idea but after doing a considerable amount of research I changed my opinion, the core design has a myriad of advantages and it's practically criminal we aren't dumping gobs of money into research for it.

As for water, the working fluid of the heat exchanger and generator can be water, though Helium or CO2 would make more sense.

Additionally, renewables are absolutely not ready to take over base load power generation. They are an incredibly flawed system in their current form, and incredibly expensive (in multiple ways). They can be improved but it'll be a long, long way before we can rely on solar and wind as the core (rather than periphery) of our power generation infrastructure.
Every form of energy generation has positive and negative points, to claim that one is the best is oversimplification. In fact when I met people who worked for that industry their argument to me was that no single source of energy generation could meet full demand. To me the real prize in the energy game is efficiency, and there's quite a bit of wasted energy if you look around.
> trunk power lines

Germany found a solution for that: Underground.
Depends on the market. I don't live in the Bay Area or NY, but knowing how much I make where I am (plus that of my peers) and similar pay levels in the Toronto tech labour market (one of the better ones in Canada), I would probably end up with ~50% of my US compensation in Canada even when assuming 1 USD = 1 CAD. Once you factor in the exchange, it's probably in the low 40s.

And that doesn't even account for take-home pay after taxes and the large Canadian urban markets' cost of living, since the tax brackets top out quite a bit lower in Canada (not that I think the higher taxes are a bad thing; I don't feel my taxes in the US are high enough).
I'm a little confused; this isn't stuff I just made up. Again, think about what a share of stock actually gets you. People trade stacks because their price fluctuates... but why do they fluctuate? Because the company is earning more? Why does that make a share more valuable?
I can think of a couple. I'm not sure if either one is enough to overcome the incentives to do otherwise, though.

1. General brand goodwill. If it's known that the phone you buy today will be functional for the next 5 years, then long-term customer loyalty may incentivize a company to make sure their units last that long

2. App-store market share. The longer your phone lasts, the lest likely its purchaser will replace it with another ecosystem's product. This would increase the lifetime revenue you get from that buyer.

Again, I'm not sure if these two incentives are enough to outweigh the "new every two!" hardware refresh profits.
Thanks for the inside perspective - hard to get a real sense of how a country is doing from GDP/economic indicators. Wishful thinking on my part that tech wealth would trickle down more effectively in Ireland than in the US.

On the homelessness crisis:

Amazing that housing prices in Dublin have jumped up 22.3% YoY. [1] What else do you see contributing to the rise in poverty/homelessness and the decline in living standards in Ireland?

[1] http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Ireland/Price-Hist...
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Customer goodwill?

Consider it this way: the actual evidence we have disagrees with your conclusion. Apple has seemingly gone out of their way to ensure that new releases continue to run on increasingly-older generations of hardware. Look at calvin_c's comment[1] for a complete breakdown of this.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10502753
Cognitive complexity
I feel the same way, and at this point I'm just holding out for some kind of iPhone Nano product line next year.

What puzzles me is that I don't know anybody else who feels like this. Most people are surprised at me, or don't seem to notice that they suddenly need two hands to operate their smartphone.
God is dead, paedophile priests, neighbouring cultural hegemons and cheap credit have killed him.
Server-Free Express.js with AWS Lambda
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Except in reality, Apple continues to support their old devices with the latest updates significantly longer than any other Android manufacturer, who practically force you to go through the effort of rooting your phone to get even critical security patches.
The Man Who Brought Zombies to America
Have you looked at the medical devices in a hospital, recently?
I seriously doubt that claim.
In Cork, big pharma (Pfizer, GSK, Johnson&Johnson) & some tech, Apple, EMC, Vmware, Amazon, Redhat.

Hard to say why the sudden progressive turn in Irish politics. With the marriage equality referendum 1 in 3 voted against, so there is still 33% of the country that I can guarantee you would be very conservative. But yes, for what was once a deeply religious country there has been a seismic shift in culture.

GenX is the generation where the shift first happened. I have seen the following reasons. Television (I'm not kidding), low-cost travel (Ryanair), 3rd-level education, Church scandals, ...

Very hard to say why this political shift, frankly even though people in Ireland have been talking for years about the decriminalisation of cannabis (t the very least) and even though I felt it must happen some day I am still surprised. The supervised injection clinics is a great idea.
How 4 popular startups really began
Really hard to say. Could be a number of things from the engineer reviewing the code being swamped to the coding sample not being strong enough to needing more time. If it's been a few days, it's ok to send in a nice email to the recruiter, even something simple like

"Hi! Just wanted to check if you received my coding sample and if there's any feedback. Thanks so much!"
If anything there has been a net emigration of young people here in the past few years due to the global economic crisis. We have had multi-national technology companies in Ireland for a long time, so it's not that.

Ireland lived under the thumb of the church until the 80s. They dictated the morals of the nation, and when their corruption and hypocrisy was exposed it became OK to speak out against them without being ostracized. Condoms were legalized in 1978, without prescription in 1985. Homosexuality in 1993. Divorce in 1995. We transitioned from one of the most conservative countries in the West to one of the most liberal in a remarkably short time.

The gay marriage referendum was primarily seen as younger generation issues, but I was pleased to see that the older generations showed their support in the end - the general attitude was "It's not harming anyone, so why should I stand in their way".

Our government, however, would never be the first to make bold reforms in drug laws. We have the United States, Portugal, the Netherlands and Spain to thank for the progress made. Some former ministers responsible for drugs have come out in support of treating it as a health instead of a criminal issue AFTER they left office.

Anyways I think that this is just an election ploy for the youth vote. Here is what the current Taoiseach (prime minister) had to say about legalising cannabis on the Youtube Digital Debate Q&A at the last election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6k9sohbulg (the typical answer to a question was about a minute).
Gorilla glass uses a post-solidification hardening step.

The glass described in the article uses a higher aluminum content than any other mass-produced glass, to the point where any contact with a solid surface would produce alumina crystals rather than incorporate the aluminum into the glass structure.

So they levitated a glass bead with a continuous stream of air until it solidified. The bead is very strong, but they have no idea how to work the resulting glass into fibers or sheets.
First point: Full disclosure, I'm Canadian - in Canada it's not required to disclose your disability to prove discrimination. Generally you can at least get to the interview phase without disclosing. Not familiar with American law, didn't know that.

In Canada you are also required to have an elevator or ramp in every business building so stairs normally aren't an issue either. I don't think I've ever been to an interview where someone in a wheelchair wouldn't have access.

I agree disclosing in the interests of transparency is a great thing, I just don't see what it has to do with a cover letter and "Why you'd be a great fit".

Second point: I guess I hadn't thought that one through. :P
Aerogels aren't known for their structural strength or elasticity, but for their extreme insulative properties.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
MIT Paleoclimate Study Reveals When the American West Dried Up
Human Age-Reversal Research
I'm really tired of all the internet kids plugging nuclear. The numbers don't work, and the cost of failure is huge. We can put solar on everyone's roof and turbines in windy areas and it's completely safe, dumb nuts simple, and decentralized. Nuclear energy is dead. Let it go.
It is an awesome book and its an extremely thinly disguised biography of Jesse Livermore.

Its interesting to read up on why its thinly disguised. Its widely believed the author both got, and planted, stock tips for Livermore, but the author wanted no written legal document connecting them in case things went wrong and he ended up in court discussing his documented long financial relationship w/ Mr Livermore. Legally on paper he can say he has never had anything to do with the guy, etc. Everyone knew exactly what was going on, of course.

Fred Schwed's "where are the customers yachts?" is another investment classic.

Another classic comedy was Ben Graham's Security Analysis; its a comedy in the sense that market prices currently have no relationship to fundamentals from a Graham perspective. When I was young and dumb I thought I'd spend my life making wise investment decisions based on fundamentals using Mr Graham's techniques. Instead, my entire adult life has been spend in central bank bubbles. In that sense the book is useless today. But in your grandpa's day, or great grandpa's day, this is how investment decisions were calculated, and its kinda interesting historically.

It would be amusing some slow day to have a HN article along the lines of "books recognized as cool, that have nothing to do with computers". I think we've had them in the distant past, years ago.
The brutal honesty and creative process of hard rock song writing
Seems obvious that displeasing your customer is more likely to send them to a competitor than pleasing them.
If I could spend a couple hours comfortably browsing real books and then take some of them home on my Kindle, I would be very happy.
Chelsea Manning Wants U.S. Government to Abolish Secret Court
Sachs resigned when the Harvard Institute for International Development he was running was roiled in the scandal of his direct reports buying Russian stocks and working to get the first mutual fund license in Russia while they were dictating economic policy. They were recommending policies that they were directly profiting from. They lost their funding, were in a massive scandal, then Sachs resigned. His article is a sad heap of dishonest excuses and fails to take responsibility for his own involvement in the corruption he happily blames others for.

The corruption in HIIS was also a factor in the dismissal of Summers, since he set up the project.
It is a step in the right direction, but it still half-baked. Without decriminalizing production as well, they are maintaining a monopoly for those that works outside of the law. Which means a very profitable tax free market that has to recreate all of the state features like physical safety and insurance policies from scratch. Every nation that forbids something that is in demand, is gestating its own competition. The laws of capitalism are brutal and can not be escaped. I wonder how far we can go by following the principle that it should be easier for demand to be satisfied legally than illegally.
The terrible manager interviewed for a job at shaftway's employer.
Of course until it breaks :)
I don't see any reason not to take what they say at face value:

> “Our goal is to do a great job selling lots of books,” Cast said.

> “We’re completely focused on this bookstore,” Cast said. “We hope this is not our only one. But we’ll see."

They could end up operating a very profitable chain of bookstores, and they have quite a few competitive advantages that might let them do just that.
>The word "centralized" does not appear anywhere in their post, which tells me that they are not thinking about that as an issue

why is centralized power an issue? It was only recently that power generation became decentralized (through renewables such as wind and solar)
Yeah, the (usually Chinese) spammy chemical suppliers have an interesting selection. I've seen several offering to sell you 99% pure isopropane, which is a bit like offering a RESTful service that keeps track of state on the server.
Node-jslinux: run Linux in Node
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOgS8gTATv8

Nuclear Energy is the cleanest energy
Memory boosting devices tested in humans
The article neglects to mention the insurance costs of running a nuclear power plant versus the insurance costs of running solar / wind. It's nice to just hand wave away insurance, except when you discover that only nation states have the ability to insure these things.
It didn't even occur to me to try to read the song in any but the most literal sense. Your explanation is very compelling!

The only thing that detracts from it is the relative cheerfulness of the song (especially the keyboard/guitar duet that starts at about the 2m30s mark) -- although who knows, it could very well represent euphoria associated with the prospect of imminent liberation?

Thank you for this! Glad you like Strato; I love the way Event Horizon shifts to Elysium, a song I listened to three times a week for 4 months on repeat on my 20-minute bus commute back when I was in uni.
>it's completely safe

let's ignore all the toxic chemicals used in making the solar panels.
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They need to share it for your W-2 or similar at tax time, not necessarliy at any other time.
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I surely hope that wasn't the reason.
I'm not willing to live next to a reactor and I'm not willing to force someone else to. If people really think nuclear is the best option put your money where your mouth is and raise your family next to one.
I have a concern that is somewhat related to this issue. I've been wanting to play around with doing NLP in the client using the SpeechRecognition API available in Chrome. It typically gives pretty good results for simple recognition purposes, but there is not yet any way to specify an arbitrary grammar for the backend service to use. This is a big deal when someone wants to be able to recognize a name spelled like "Bobbie" rather than "Bobby". The W3C Web Speech spec currently allows for setting arbitrary grammars, but it isn't implemented. I'm just saying it would be cool if some of you AI geniuses at Google could help me out on that front.

You can play around with the dumb little AI app that I've been working on that does a little bit of NLP in the browser. Check out this site with Chrome: https://yc-prototype.appspot.com. His name is Bertie. You should see his face on the bottom of the page. The site works like an OS in your browser.
Unless you want to get into a "no true Scotsman" argument, you can't really argue that Christianity as it's widely practiced actually abides by that.
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