skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MIT has a nuclear reactor on campus right on Massachusetts Ave, between Harvard and Boston. (It's not a power-generating reactor.) There is also a cogeneration plant that produces electricity, steam heat, chilled water, and compressed air. I've never heard anyone complain about either.

Most people don't know or care except if it's super obvious (generating tons of obvious smoke/steam). However, they will raise all sorts of fuss while it's being proposed.
'Guilty until proven innocent:' life after a false rape accusation
No Pascal, not a SNOBOL's chance. Go Forth!
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I think the main criticism leveled at the school is its failing to take into account their kid's needs and emotions -- and while it's based on their own pain points and their kid's failing (which we could call "sour grapes"), the same approach would lea the school to fail any kid in the same situation.

What I took from the article is that instead of those "gifted kids" being given extra care, the children are only given extra curriculum to cover. I'd expect both -- since kids being really bright can be very brittle, antagonistic, alienated etc, and a special school should be expected to take that into account to and help alleviate it.

So, while I could subscribe to "sour grapes", my main issue with labeling it as that is that I don't agree with the moral accusation it tags along with it. As in: I think they are justified to feel "sour grapes".
The crappy part is how the journal author tacked "for personal use" onto the title to make it sound like a move to condone hard drug use, when in fact the movement is just the opposite - to help addicts get clean instead of giving them criminal records. So it's crappy journalism, but for a different reason.
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I think brrt is talking about "burning" nuclear waste in a molten-salt reactor or similar. Some types of existing fission reactors can only utilize a small percentage of the uranium in their fuel rods, after which the rods must be removed. The rods must then be stored, and possibly reprocessed afterwards.

MSR and other fission reactor types can utilize 100% of the fissionable material put into them, so this sort of leftover "waste" is not such a problem.
A number of years ago I did consulting work for a mid sized company. 2-5 years later, my employers's front office admin called me and said "2 Gentleman from 'Dog' are here to see you." I called these gentlemen from Dog, and found that they were from the DOJ, not Dog or D.O.G. And they were really from FBI but apparently DOJ sounds better. They started by asking me about the company, and they mis-stated the name, apparently intentionally.

After listening to their questions, I said "Gentlemen, I will have my attorney call you, he will arrange everything."

These magic words, they stopped asking questions. He setup a conference call some weeks later, and they interrogated me left and right and up and down. They kept mis-stating things that I had to correct, they kept inferring malice where none was.

I had nothing to hide, but they were both ignorant and manipulative.

After they harassed the company I'd done work for 3-6 months, costing the exec they were after something like $100k+ in legal fees, they sent a letter to the exec saying they were ending their investigation.

Don't talk to the police. Ask them to put their questions in writing, hire an attorney, or just ignore them.

I was polite, and they didn't attempt to force me to answer.

Had I actually been at work that day (I was working from home) I would have come up and seen two cop-looking guys with guns and badges, I still feel I would have done the same thing, but it would have been harder.

You can't watch this enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I still stand by my statement that I think a lot of the public reaction to Fukushima was overblown (as a resident of Germany and a supporter of NPPs, I am biased ;) ). Have to admit I falsely remembered the radiation levels being lower by a factor of ~5 (additional radiation).
> Steve Jobs was quite happy to allow dreadful products like [...] the original Retina MacBook to go to market despite a litany of issues.

What are you talking about? I got the first rMBP right out of the gate and was blown away. After 3+ years, it's still a wonderful product. Never had any issues with the hardware except a screen repair that was done under warranty.
The total number of people who have died in all nuclear radiation incidents (excluding the use of atomic weapons) is perhaps 20,000, with all but 100 coming from a single incident (Chernobyl). That number is less than the number of people who will have died from pollution from coal power points, alone, last year, let alone the effects of coal mining.

Nuclear power has a big image problem: people overestimate the expected risk of very rare but high damage events and horribly underestimate common, low-intensity risks. If you scale deaths per TWh, nuclear is by far the safest form of energy--solar is about 5 times as deadly.
> Still, at least India has a rocket going to Mars even if its children don't have toilets and clean water.

These arguments are the worst as it conveniently misses the mark of the real world conditions. Yes India did spent on the Mars mission (a whopping $74mil) and in turn it actually got contracts to do launches for other countries and private corporations. So all in all a positive return on Investment. You see you start with $X and you make $X*2 which would now serve your purpose better than it would have before.

Well on the bright side atleast you dint say lets decommission the NASA until we solve the problem of homelessness in US.
Very simply, you're wrong. Badly wrong.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fuel-from-th...

The ocean contains 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium already. 4.5. BILLION. TONNES. Dispersed in water.

I haven't noticed any continents dying off because of this, have you?
ec2 instances (at least in ec2 classic) indeed have a limit of ~120K packets per second. I don't know if this is per NIC, so I would be interested in seeing your results.
It's not that simple. Nuclear regulation in the US has turned (similar to the FDA) into an innovation stifling behemoth... It's a lobbying place and a capital sink and has little to do with safety. If it was about safety, they would shut down current reactor designs yesterday and had started working on Thorium alternatives 20 years ago. The youtube link I posted from TEAC7 conference does explain that quite well.
KMail doesn't really work fow many years now. Bu it used to do that too.

Now, I don't remember about pine and mutt. They probably didn't.
It's not everything, though. Because as I mentioned it purposely focuses on America, excluding the two biggest nuclear disasters (Chernobyl and Fukushima.)

Also fatalities hardly tell the whole story. Far more people have had their lives totally upended by Fukushima than have died from it, and then there's all the people born with defects from Chernobyl, or left unable to reproduce, and we have yet to see the long term effects of Fukushima.

Pro-nuclear folks tend to focus on a couple of things; cost and mortality under "normal" circumstances. Because those two things look great. But if you start talking about the full impact that nuclear power has had on it world, the picture becomes far less rosy.
You're missing my point; the discussion here is about the level of value objects have to those in their respective periods. I explicitly said that these objects can have a lot of value for those with an interest in research.

Akiselev was arguing that ancient pottery was somehow less mundane or disposable than contemporary objects such as laptops and phones, which isn't the case in an overwhelming majority of cases. Most ancient pottery was, to its owners, no different (in terms of significance) than our tupperware or wine bottles.
I came here to say this. This is a huge departure from the status quo in Ireland, very surprised to see this.
Which is why you bury it.
Depends. Other times we call it "backup". Or "failover".
Tesla owner tracks car thief in real time while on phone with 911
Physics Forests: realtime fluid simulations using predictive machine learning
Are you honestly arguing that dozens of mSv of radiation annually are safe? That big bad government is preventing people from doing what they want?

50mSv is approaching the level of guaranteed higher incidence of cancer -- If you lived in the exclusion zone, you'd be receiving that every single year for the rest of your, and your childrens' lives.

Canada did a survey a few years ago of all their nuclear workers, at much lower levels of lifetime radiation (<7mSv), there were significantly higher levels of nearly every type of cancer.[1] Now imagine receiving multiples of that dosage every single year in perpetuity.

The relative lack of cancer deaths in Ukraine wasn't due to 'safe' fallout, but due to the fact that they just closed entire cities and forced everyone within a thousand square miles to leave.

[1] - http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/153/4/309.long
Remember this is all still in beta. Adding support for editing items within 1Password for Teams is definitely on the must-do list. It's not one of those "we'll see how it goes and maybe we'll add it" features. :)

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The only trouble was they didn’t do it atomically, so if two people posted at the same time everything would get horribly mangled.

There was a reason we moved to database-backed sites.
Debunking the Tyranny of the Algorithm – Free Event in Washington DC on 11/17
> Recently, Twitter quietly started relying on the HTTP Referrer field.

Yes! It took me weeks to figure that one out. In three years without Referer that was only my second non-obvious error caused by that.

And then they started with the polls. You can create polls from twitter web, but you cannot answer one. You just see a tweet from somebody asking a question. Nothing else, no way to even see that it is a poll. Same in tweetdeck (which is also by twitter). Confusing strategy, at least for me.
Dart + w_flux would be a great combo for C# devs!

- Strong typing

- No build times

- One-way data flow

- React for views

https://github.com/Workiva/w_flux
white-flame wasn't talking about the frequency or content of the mailing list. The annoying bit is the modal popup. Modal popups are rude.
'removal branch' is a great approach. Module Flag DD is how I call our approach :). There is no widespread notion for that .
Very cool, and that definitely takes me back to eagerly pursuing/waiting out my beta invite. Unfortunately I would guess that even with a retro interface all of one's email data is still subject to content trawling, but that's a nifty discovery nonetheless.
Nice article, but:

Again, could you please not change the titles of submissions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Many companies offer unlimited cloud storage:

Amazon: $60/year

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/unlimited

Crashplan: $60/year

https://www.code42.com/store/

BackupLizard: $36/year

http://www.backuplizard.com/

Backblaze: $50/year

https://www.backblaze.com/best-online-backup-service.html

Carbonine: $60/year

http://www.carbonite.com/en/cloud-backup/personal-solutions/...

AltDrive: $44.50/year

http://altdrive.com/pricing.html

NitroBackup: $39.95/year

http://www.nitrobackup.com/plans-and-pricing/
How do you feel about windmills like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/De_Liefd...

Genuinely curious. I've never heard of a phobia like yours before, is it just because of the motion, or is there something different about steel towers than stone ones?
It's not really a subset, it's more like an intersection.

But to your example - I will be long time happy with social (in)equality before we get to 1% differences in income. I think in your example Joe absolutely deserves the unhappiness he has.

Meanwhile in reality, when I suggest that maybe there should be a limit of personal income/wealth like around 100x the average (which is amount of money I can't imagine reasonable person would know how to spend), I get shooed as crazy pinko full of envy. Yet, is that really envy, or is it just longing for fairness as in the ultimatum game example?
Apple occasionally issues major releases that are more responsive than previous iterations, so no, it's really nothing to do with closed vs open source.
I'd much rather have a nuclear plant in my back yard than a coal plant, or even a natural gas plant, much less some uber-noisy bird-killing wind farm of an equivalent capacity.
I've recently listened to the podcast Serial, and another called Undisclosed about the 1999 murder of a high school girl in Baltimore. Really interesting listen, and a of a scary view into the criminal justice system.
I never got a response. Did anyone else?
Twitter should have been bold and merged retweet and favorite into heart. Instead it's now more confusing which you should do. On other social networks hearts are kind of the redispersal mechanism, whereas I think what Twitter wants is more retweets -- more people introducing more people to each other.
Yes but how does it compare with the number of people who have died due to solar or wind power?

And while Fukushima may have had a "low" number of fatalities (so far), the mortality statistics don't even begin to paint a full picture of the negative impact of these disasters.

Nuclear power has an "image problem" for a reason; when a disaster happens it's a truly major disaster.

> If you scale deaths per TWh, nuclear is by far the safest form of energy--solar is about 5 times as deadly.

This is totally ridiculous and arbitrary, and only true because so many average people fall off of their roof while installing solar panels.
And to think I was going to buy a heap load of TWTR yesterday!
(2) is not true of misuse-resistant crypto primitives and libraries, which is kind of the point of Nacl.
I know this isn't a complete solution, but 1Password for Windows runs OK under Wine, and with some registry tweaks as the browser plugins work OK too. The exact details are documented here: https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/42126/making-1p...

I verified this afternoon that this works with Ubuntu 15.10.
I'm in the awkward position of supporting nuclear power in a country that has its anti-nuclear stance apart of its national identity. New Zealands Prime Minster David Lange famously argued against it at an Oxford Union debate, and ever since kiwis have viewed it as us standing against the 'big guy'.

Some people I've spoken to view this as on par with not supporting the All Blacks. To top this off, they typically have an irrational fear of nuclear power steaming from pop culture such as The Simpsons.

It's New Zealand's dirty little secret that we're no where near the "100% pure" ad campaigns we're running. Half our rivers are polluted beyond repair. We have less forest coverage than Japan. We flooded vast tracts of land for our dams. And we're still dependent on non renewables for our electricity.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I'm not sure I know which issue you're referring to. I've not seen the menu show up behind the menu bar. Could you follow up with us on our forum? https://discussions.agilebits.com

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I'm not arguing in favor of our current regulation, I'm saying that it is hard to fix and you can't throw it out altogether.
This is great news, and thanks to everyone involved. I've been using TextSecure for a while, and it's really "pretty good security made easy". Yes it is not perfect for the super privacy-conscious (depends on Google Play services and all that) and a fork with these features might be useful, but if I understand the motivation correctly, the main goal is to make good crypto accessible to the masses.

I do have a personal gripe with that, though. I'm hoping a "high up" might read it so I am posting it here. The only people in my contact list who use the app are crypto nerds. It's really hard to get traction. I thought that the TextSecure people had a great idea to solve this chicken and egg problem; a unified messaging app that would handle your sms, and send secure messages wherever possible. One feature that I find is missing though, is the ability to semd broadcast (unencrypted) sms texts. In my experience (Europe, people around 30) this is used a lot, and a drop-in replacement for the built-in messenger would need to have this.

Actually, I would like to see this happen so much that I would be willing to do the work, if someone is willing to provide the handholding...
FWIW, towards the tail-end of my time at Yahoo! I played a bit part in a team working on a more modern open source PHP-based version of the template localisation system that was at the heart of Jake. Remarkably this still exist on the Internet, though they haven't been touched since 2009 when most of us left.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rthree/

Looking at the source now, I think we might have been trying to use every pattern in the GoF book in one project.
Not that the former is objectionable. We are all too willing to forgive hard drugs as long as you give them the proper branding, i.e. pharmaceuticals. And of course for good reason. I would go as far as to say that the decriminalization and widespread medical administering of say, ibogaine, would do far more to fight the war on drugs than the actual War on Drugs itself.
8 facts that explain Google's complex situation with Chrome OS
Plex is the one that doesn't have PsuedoTV
What is the point of this comment?
This explainer puts Android and the Chrome OS into perspective and shows why these Linux derivatives will both come together and remain separate.
Who said anything about HTML? One can use Javascript on iOS without using HTML.
>use of the phone number is necessary to make it not shit

Why? People who actually care about encrypted communication the most will just see it as unnecessary leakage of private data.

One of the best things about internet based communication is that we don't have to rely on traditional concepts like phones and phone numbers.
I should be able to sign up and chat with anyone on any internet capable device, phone or no phone.
Really? I'd imagine the potential pool for buyers in the market for 28K tons of coal is pretty limited (read: power stations), and they have their supplies sorted out years in advance.
A world where "they hacked me first" becomes a defence and all concerned deliberately hiding / obfuscating their tracks.

And then the opportunity for getting two third parties to retaliate against each other ad nauseum.

What a recipe for disaster.
Using the wikipedia Python library (to search for oranges :)
Ok. I'm a tax professional so I may have a vested interest. But the problem is there are a lot of questions you may not know to ask. Sure, filling out the forms is the easy part. Knowing what goes where, why & what carryover provisions apply is the hard part.

For example the OP just said options. He didn't say if these were ISOs (although my response assumed they were). Even if they were ISOs, were the options for restricted shares? Did he make an 83(b) election at grant? What if he thought they were ISOs but they were really non-qualified options or restricted stock units. (I've seen that happen but by the time I got the info as a preparer, it was too late to do anything except pay the tax.) These all are taxed and reported differently.

If you're talking a lot of money, I would find a qualified tax professional. Make sure the person you hire has experience with stock compensation.

You should find this someone now, before you exercise, to make sure you're planning for the tax implications. On the OP's exercise, there will be no tax withheld on the transaction, but the US has a pay-as-you go tax payment requirement, so the AMT tax on the exercise could be due now, rather than April 15...but there are safe-harbor rules that could mitigate this requirement....see what I mean... there's an awful lot to know which is why we're required to have so much annual CPE.

CPAs are not the only option and not all CPAs specialize in taxation. Enrolled Agents are licensed by the IRS, rather than the states like CPAs & attorneys. Whoever you hire, make sure they have experience in this area.

Good Luck!
I had the 4S and was itching for a replacement/upgrade at the 2 year mark. Now I'm on a 5S and I don't think it's lost much at 2 years old - it's maybe gone from "lightning fast" to "fast" in that time, but a raft of convenient added features make that a worthy tradeoff. So Apple are laying the sense of "planned obsolescence" to rest, for me at least. I think they were just pushing against a lot of hardware boundaries in the iPhone's early years.
Sounds like a hybrid between glass and "transparent aluminium".
I understood what you were trying to say, and I never disagreed. But I didn't feel that was the point of the discussion I was responding to. I don't recall that the economic system of choice was involved in determining whether vigilante justice was actually vigilante justice in the absence of government.

As for your question, a capitalistic society is never free from exploitation. Regardless of the state of the government. Without the government then capitalism would eventually run amok to the detriment of the people. With government it can still go too far due to corruption and cronyism to the detriment of the people. But between the two, I'll take capitalism with government oversight.

But I don't see much of this point to discuss as I believe that any form of economic and government system will never be free from exploitation, because human beings are involved.
Yes, of course strictly, scientifically, speaking they are an object. But people don't talk about underpants as an object. Particularly with the weird plural-like singular.

Similarly if you asked "What item ..." in UK English at least we talk about "items of clothing" rather than "clothing objects" and so the question starting "What item" is far more likely to get an item of clothing as a response. "What does this remind you of?" is less leading.

I'm tempted in to a diatribe on the epistemological bounds of the category of things that constitute "objects" but it would probably be less than edifying for the rest of you so I'll keep it to myself!
So nuclear is cheaper if one takes the numbers from the industry for cost, while ignoring the problem of spend fuel. And ignoring the actual main cost of nuclear power, which empirically is the property damage in Pripyat and Fukushima.