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Ask HN: Does it make sense to build a social network for left behind children
Background information:

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21674712-children-bear-disproportionate-share-hidden-cost-chinas-growth-little-match-children

After reading this article, I had an impulse of building a social network for the children so they can interact with their parents and also with volunteers who care about them online. The platform can also be used for education. I want to bounce the idea here because I am probably too emotional about this right now.

I am aware that even if this is a good idea, maybe I don’t have the capacity and resources to build it

Also I am aware that these kids need better food, better accommodation, and better health care. These are probably more important but let’s focus on the issue of them being alone and not able to interact with the rest of the world, especially their parents, regularly.

There will be many technological challenges: most of those rural areas don’t have internet connection so infrastructures will have to be built in creative ways.(Google balloons?) Also a special designed computer or device that is user friendly to children and also works well under harsh conditions is needed. Something along the lines of One Laptop per Child.

So my questions are:

Will such platform help those children? Am I being naive here?

Technically, can a small scale pilot of such platform being built within a reasonable budget? Say $200K? What are the biggest technical challenges you see?
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This is certainly not my understanding of the same topic. I have looked into this in detail and while I am not quite in the Jesus is mythical camp, I am certainly not convinced by the strength of the case for the historicity of Jesus Christ.
They're also immensely fun.
IMHO LW grossly overstates the importance of statistical thinking.

If you have a job making decisions for groups then statistics matters greatly but in our personal lives, genuinely statistical problems are so rare compared to the huge number of decisions we actually face.

Most of our decisions are characterised by uncertainty, uniqueness and an absence of data. Real-world rationality is less like mathematics and more like system design where we weave together plans and strategies. For example using contingency planning - a rational buyer ensures the seller has a good return policy rather than trying to use Baye's rule to analyse their past purchase experiences.

IMHO the overlooked core of rationality is creativity - you have to imagine possibilities and invent plans. Its only when you reduce decision-making to math problems that math seems so important.
I think the "useful as a side effect" comment stems from the fact that the money is being spent to develop things that are primarily for military applications. It just so happens that oftentimes, those applications/technologies can be applied wholly or partially for public uses as well. However, if your end goal is to improve civilian life and infrastructure then development via the military almost certainly isn't the most efficient mechanism to accomplish that goal.

That's not to say that military doesn't have its uses, but if public benefit is your main goal then it almost assuredly would be better to create some type of agency or organization that was explicitly tasked and organized in such a way to meet those goals.
If you look at the work that these guys had to do, particularly on the roof and under the reactor to prevent the core from leaking out, then the number 50 is hard to believe.

These two wikipedia pages are worth reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Human_impac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidator_(Chernobyl)

You can see videos of the work that they had to do.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bio+robot+chern...

Also the linear no threshold model is quite questionable when you consider how dosages are measured in an emergency situation, and that different isotopes attack different parts of the body in non uniform fashion. i.e. Skin contact versus ingestion or inhalation.
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Relevant comment at ElReg (no link, about #36 or so, by MacroRodent):

"At least where I live, Lumia's were widely advertised with the promise of bundling 15Gb of free OneDrive storage. Taking that away might catch the eye of consumer protection agencies. No doubt there is some fine print somewhere which allows Microsoft to renege on its promise, but the local consumer ombudsman has in the past often taken a dim view of such tricks, when ordinary people are concerned."

(I had also just posted here the OneDrive feedback link given in this Register piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505424 )
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Perfectly fair question, but I highly doubt there would be a 1:1 causal relation from BC price to twitter mentions of it. Trending topics are more of a critical-mass "hashtags trending with exponential growth" kind of thing.
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There are thousands of videos popping up on YouTube with how much money these people have 'made' on MMM Global, it's sad to see;

https://www.youtube.com/results?lclk=week&search_query=mmm+g...

It's very likely a big part of the price increase, many of the local MMM sites advertise that they're bitcoin-only and all of the exchanges are extraordinarily shallow so small surges in demand really move prices.

Here's a pretty good article from a mid October predicting the huge run-up based on interest in MMM and how they reward posts to social media where people show off how much they've "made":

https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/mmm-global-republic-of...

If anyone pays for better website analytics, I bet you'd find a pretty striking increase in the MMMGlobal rankings in the past month or so that corresponds pretty strongly with bitcoin price. One more note is that the exact same price runup happened in July with Litecoin based on a different Chinese ponzi scheme:

http://www.dailytradingprofits.com/4669/was-litecoin-pumped-...
D 2.069.0 released, compiler automatically ported from C++ to D
> how's the install experience these days?

It really depends on how you define "experience". For me, I like the manual installation procedure like everything else on Arch. Sure, it is not "easy". But the point is that you are taught to do things with standard Linux tools, save the package manager and a few straightforward shell scripts.

Arch doesn't give you all sorts of fancy, "automated", distro-specific tools to make your life easier, because easy life is a temporary illusion in the fast-changing -- and by consequence, always broken -- world that is Linux desktop. Automated tools that made you life easier yesterday will likely make your life harder tomorrow, due to all the changes in upstream software these tools try to hide. Keeping such tools up to date will require continued interest in the development, something Linux desktop community never really succeeded to deliver.

Arch just puts you in the real, wild landscape of Linux desktop. It may not be comfortable at first, but that's how Linux desktop is.
Two questions: a) does using Wayland in Fedora 23 offer the ability to scale the UI across different DPI monitors in a consistent way in Fedora 23? And b) am I going to get significant problems with Wayland on applications such as VirtualBox (running Windows inside it), terminal emulators Tmux, etc, and of course, browsers (Firefox?)? Ie is it usable without too much compromise?
yer a retard-nigger.
I think they probably do know, it's likely just excess spending on internal programs that probably failed and were later merged with bigger projects in a sense 'laundering' the money from public scrutiny. I mean just look at the CIA's mind control program from the 50's to 70's, they probably blew billions on a program that just got a few people on the government's payroll zonked on acid, scarred a few for life, and ultimately just led to the giant crowd of hippies on the white house lawn. Which hey, I say makes it money well spent! But tough to follow as far as a paper trail is concerned.
I have paid less then 500 for CA. But then in live in 2nd tier city.
Very inaccurate statement with some elements of truth, I'd say. (But then I'm not an expert, just an interested reader on the topic).

On the first point, Spain has not prohibited new solar projects. It has removed (even retroactively) most incentives to renewable energy production. This is in part because of the speculative bubble in solar investment caused by the previously existing incentives (production goals were overshot by a huge margin), but also, as others have pointed out, to pander to corporate interests (this is very clear in the way self-consumption is being penalized under new legislation)

As for interconnections with France, they have recently doubled their capacity from 1% to 2%. So the EU's 10% interconnection goal for all countries is still very far away for the France-Spain connection. I'm not sure about the reasons for this. There is on the one hand the very high cost of building connections across the Pyrenees (even higher now that they have to be underground due to environmental concerns); a traditional reluctance by France is also often cited, but OTOH I think France is much better connected to other neighboring countries, so I'm not sure what to make of this.

It's the "because" in the sentence that is completely wrong. It's Spain official policy to increase the interconnection capacity with France, due to the huge energy production overcapacity (over 200%) of the country. But it is mostly combined cycle and gas plants that concentrate most of the excess capacity and are way underused. See e.g. http://on.ft.com/1rt0XNG for more info. It's the use of all the gas infrastructure (including regasification plants, etc.) that Spain wants to "push" into Europe's market. The situation in Ucraine may well help with this, because of Europe's dependency on Russia.
Daniel Murphy is the man behind getting the sources converted from C++ to D. He wrote a program called "magicport" to do the bulk of it, with some manual tweaking. The back end is still in C++, showing that you can mix D and C++ code :-)
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Another Irish expat, living in Germany.

The cynic in me says the timing of the gay marriage, the abortion referendum on abortion and now this progressive drug stance is the government playing a game of misdirection with the electorate.

This current government was elected on the specific promise of fixing the economic mess and getting rid of the disastrous policy of bank debt being hoisted onto the sovereign balance sheet.

I know plenty of people who are struggling financially, losing their homes and so on back in Ireland, but by using controversial social measures (which I agree are a step in the right direction) they are distracting from their pathetic failure to fix the economy (any progress you see economically has nothing to do with the government, but a recovery of the global economy and the multinationals in Ireland along with it. We have very little indigenous industry, startups, etc.)
Personally I always understood LW's focus on statistical thinking as something similar to what math classes do, from times table to solving integrals - what matters is that a) you have the understanding of underlying concepts which makes you think in a particular way, and b) training / learning caches some operations in your head which lets you use new models of thinking that you otherwise would not be able to (e.g. memorizing times table serves just to make most calculations feasible to do in head or on paper in reasonable time). You don't have to do a perfect Bayesian updates in your daily life - just understanding how the thing works + little training lets you not fall into obvious traps when learning new evidence.
Price surge is in direct correlation with Winklevoss "Gemini" exchange going online on October 8th. https://gemini.com/

This chart shows the price surge starting the exact same day Gemini went online: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg60ztgSzm1g10zm...

I really hope this is genuine growth, but I have a sneaking suspicion it could be partially due to market manipulation by Gemini. The Winklevoss twins have a lot of money riding on this play.
i would pay, yes. however it would need to be a excellent product. and I don't think that any product the near term could replace a existing ansible/puppet/etc... workflow which contains a bunch of lines (less then 1000 for multiple projects).

as said the only thing gain for docker would be process isolation, so it should be really really awkward simple and useful on low end hardware. (as the other solution already does) and getting process isolation with cgroups isn't too hard on newer kernels. (# systemctl set-property httpd.service CPUShares=500 MemoryLimit=500M)

so what the product needs to have:

- process isolation
- easy configuration
- configure the os/software and update it easily
- nothing more than a bunch of lines per project (no dockerfile frickling)
- binary / git rollouts
Presumably this means all passwords need to be stored in plaintext (or two-way encrypted, which is essentially the same thing at the end of the day)?
What is the best way for me as a UK citizen to try and fight this? Just keep donating to the EFF? Talk to my local MP?
It's amusing to me how, on this subject, Hacker News comments draw closer to regular internet comments in terms of the ratio of detailed discussion to biting one-liners.

I'm inclined to think that it demonstrates how very silly the whole thing is, that even us eggheads get snarkily dismissive, but I'm sure some will disagree...
Is your landing page’s body language turning people off?
Only if your tests are all independent. Doing the same test twice probably doesn't buy you anything.
Actual descriptions of medical tests routinely give both rates. They often call them "sensitivity" and "specificity". Good luck remembering which is which.

But if only one rate is given, that indicates they're equal. If they're not, then it's reasonable to describe the documentation as incorrect.
Yes, I guess making that explicit would make it even more obvious.
I'm gonna add - understanding feedback loops. A lot is written about economics and politics by people who don't seem to get that one, and those discussions are mostly pointless. Myself I understood it only after control theory course in university, though now I recognize that high-school level chemistry teaches it too (chemical equilibrium). After you grok it you start to see how incentives can feed one another and that it's perfectly reasonable for a bad system to exist in which there is no single actor to assign blame to (compare: is television stupid because people are dumb, or are people dumb because TV is stupid?).
The proposal (as I understand it, from media reports) is that ISPs will be the ones required to intercept and log the data. So it's unlikely that they will store anything more than required, if only for cost reasons.
I concur, this read as some sort of PR propaganda push according to an agenda.

it fails to take into account what actually happens with costs running several times the initial estimates, overdue decommission with no money to pay for it.
Look at Olkiluoto 3 in Finland, a first of its kind third gen nuclear plant: building start in late 2005 for 3 billions euros with a starting operational date in 2009.
delayed to 2011, then 2012, 2013 and 2014. now it is 2018 with a cost a little under 9 billions.

Then we also have past example of 4th gen reactor, superphenix in France, initial cost under a billion euros, actual building cost and maintenance around 12 billions + 2.5 billions for decommission. building started in 1982, operational in 1984 with an actual load under 10% until a first incident forces to stop it for 2 years, restarts and manage a 11% load early 1989 until another incident forces to purge 400 tons of liquid sodium and stop the plant again, then it restart again in 1994 with a load of 0.1% of the nominal capacity than a change of mission from producing electricity to experimental lab then same year another incident which stops it again for half a year, after a one year hiatus it is restarted and gets its best year of production over 30% load in 1996 and then is stopped for decennial maintenance and decision is made to cut the loss and stop it definitively.

These are not "run numbers" but real world examples of dealing with experimental nuclear plants, which is something else than mass deployment over a whole country as primary source of energy.

Putting unreasonable expectations on nuclear plants as this article does is a recipe for major disaster and public disappointment, this is not helping the nuclear energy production nor the energy issue itself.
so how is docker helping you? I mean tmux and runit are really good without docker and docker just gives a few things, like process isolation. (which you could also have with cgroups and other container technologies which probably working better with runit)
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We already use something like this product but with a vastly worse UI / UX from CyberArk. That's the kind of feature set you'll need to sell to companies that aren't already Mac users or larger than 1000 employees on a consistent basis. Unfortunately, you'll probably need to hire 5 new people per F100 customer at a minimum but if that sort of growth is what you want I assure you it's mandatory.

Please try, please help make the enterprise security software market suck less :(
I think you're reading too much into that post. I don't see any place where Scott makes this particular type of development as the most important one. It's simply the one he decided to focus his today's blog post on.
>"Such data would consist of a basic domain address, and not a full browsing history of pages within that site or search terms entered."

Am I right in understanding they will have access to this data without a warrant? And then any 'further' data would then need a warrant.

>"For more intrusive surveillance - involving the detailed content of the communications - security services need to obtain a warrant."

So with more and more websites using https, where does this 'detailed content' come from? Is the Government expecting ISPs to collect data that doesn't exist? As far as I was aware, as long as you view a website in HTTPS, there was no way your ISP knew what individual pages you are visiting.
Not a whit.
Do you have links to those studies?

A lot of the harm from heroin come from adulterants which are injected, causing abscess; or from the illegality of providing clean needles and injection advice and safe spaces to inject which causes infection etc; or from the illegality of providing maintenance doses from doctors which cause people to burgle or sex work to get money to buy the drug.

Heroin is undoubtedly an unwise choice, but keeping it illegal has been a public health disaster.
tulips that can be transfer digitally anywhere in the world at a low fee...
I assumed it meant real identity
Your claim is really US-centric. Most of the exchange's volume right now is from China. China is driving this and I don't see how an american-bank-only exchange would be the main reason, if there is one.
sorry it's a direct debt/bank transfer, sometimes I forget to translate acronyms
The full text hasn't been released yet - just going on statements over the last few days. It's likely that you'll have to give the government your private keys, or be able to decrypt any encrypted communication that passes through your network.

Again, it's likely unenforceable, in no small part as there's no such thing as a "communications provider", which is the term they keep on using. Skype, Apple, etc., don't work in a vacuum - data transits via peers (are they communications providers?), your computer (is that a communications provider?), your ISP (they're almost certainly a communications provider), and so-on.

The purpose of this bill is likely to break large tech corps, rather than smaller operators, but it could also have the effect of essentially closing the technology market to all but large operators who can afford to be compliant.
My mom moved from a Mac Mini (PPC) to an old Core2Duo with Fedora not too long ago, and I'm pretty happy with the result. As I got her to use Chrome before, anything browser based wasn't a big switch, but I was worried a bit about moving on from iPhoto. But shotwell is pretty great in that regard, being a bit of a clone in the first place...

I don't see a big advantage in Elementary when it comes to simplicity. GNOME itself ain't exactly overloaded with options, it's just that E tries very hard to appease the Mac folks. So it's mostly aimed at already computer literate minimalists, more than the computer semi-literate. I'm also not too excited about the support, even compared to other alternative desktops.

And with GNOME extensions & tweaks, it's quite easy to adapt to different usage patterns, e.g. if someone really wants desktop icons, a fixed dock or a taskbar.

I was really surprised about how easy it went. Definitely recommend it. And if something goes wrong that you don't know anything about (odd hardware probs, software you're not using yourself), it's always easier to find help for Fedora and Ubuntu distros and default desktops.

Someone should really make a distro spin intended for relatives and friends, where everything just comes ready with remote support, desktop sharing etc.
Wild conspiracy theory - London is becoming the playground of world elites. So security is paramount. These bills are not to keep pedophiles at bay but to prevent some forms of "London spring" of the underclasses or other forms of physical harm towards your friendly neighborhood billionaire that could damage real estate prices. The conservatives goal is to make elites know they are safe here so they could switch to lower profile security details.

I have no better explanation why UK is pushing so hard on its own populace.
Well once again an article that fails to address that the energy production issue could be addressed with controlling our energy wants instead of mindlessly using more and more combined with local self-production instead of centralized giant production plants and transportation.

Let's not forget that nuclear plants are basically huge and optimized steam dynamos and that a breakthrough in producing electricity would be a game changer.
I actually quite like Fax as an idea, Put in the number, and send it over. The problem is Fax is too slow.

Over the years I have been trying, testing and implementing a paperless office. But Not in a tech industry, and you can imagine how hard that is.

Yes we even tried iPad or tablet rather, it didn't work as well.
There is digital whiteboard, I dont have the budget to test those out. But I guess it still wont replace stickers and massive whiteboard.

You still draw and sketch or design on a piece of scrap paper. I haven't try the iPad Pro ( its not out yet ), but i am not convinced this will improve my work flow either.

Then I start to question the notion of paperless. And it turns out may be getting rid of paper isn't the solution at all. Pen and Paper is the possibly the easiest form of recording down information. The problem with paper is how we find and file these information later. ( And its environmental issues. )
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Interesting, thanks, that's good to know. The game in question had about 8 minutes "played", so this would cover that.

Good on them for improving their service.
The guardian is very left leaning as well, a more neutral paper would be better.