skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They assumed electrochemical storage which is really expensive and invalidates there findings, renewables would be significantly cheaper than there suggesting.
"You are the product" means "You're actually ultimately paying for this, whether you know it or not". That's the point of advertising.
I have. And while nice, I honestly don't see what's so bad about writing headers. I like being able to export a set of headers and a binary library.
I wrote most of the Avian VM, and I agree that the code generation is quite primitive compared to LLVM's. We've considered using LLVM as an alternative code generator, but hesitated partly because LLVM used to require a shadow stack to support accurate GC. I just checked they're latest docs[1], though, and it seems that there are other options now.

All in all, adding LLVM support to Avian would be challenging but doable. However, Avian's generated code is already fast enough for most purposes, and it's not too hard to fall back to a bit of native code when you need maximum performance. My impression is that Java-on-iOS developers are less concerned about performance and more concerned with ease-of-use (e.g. tool integration) and convenient access to native APIs (e.g. Bro[2]). The RoboVM devs have apparently done a great job on both of those things.

I sympathize with Zechner and the other RoboVM devs. Development on Avian was originally funded by the company I was working at since it neatly addressed a problem we had: extending the lifetime of a large body of client-side Java code in a world that was/is increasingly unfriendly to client-side Java. Once it was good enough for that purpose, there was no business reason to continue investing in it besides bug fixes and maintenance, so we had to move on to other things.

I'd love to keep working on Avian full time and do cool stuff like an LLVM port or trace-based JIT compilation, but it's hard to justify when there are bills to pay. In my case, that means focusing primarily on other, income-producing projects. In RoboVM's case, it means trying a new approach to licensing to make development sustainable. I wish them luck with it.

[1] http://llvm.org/docs/GarbageCollection.html
[2] http://docs.robovm.com/advanced-topics/bro.html
I didn't know until I clicked it whether this was going to be a pro-Europe or a pro-America link. Austerity hasn't ended Europe's part of the Great Recession; but the US's "recovery" has only extended to a few privileged economic areas. In the South, the Midwest, and the interior of the coastal states, the Great Recession never ended.
From what I understand it is the opposite, that because it was much easier to turn uranium byproducts into nuclear warheads it was the technology that won out over thorium.
Lithium batteries are in no way going to be so inefficient as to have a 50% loss of energy. They're already cost competitive in Hawaii for utility scale storage:

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/hawaii-co-op-solarcity-ink-d...
People are finally starting to realize that CMSes are horrible. They got us through a time period where the front-end developer is a scare resource, but now there's enough of them everywhere that we don't need WYSIWYG web content anymore. CMSes are eventually going to be relegated to the sole proprietor who doesn't want to learn HTML but still needs to maintain his / her own content-oriented website.

My company is handcuffed to a legacy custom CMS that's still using Rails 2.3.8. We have no need for it, as we have a front-end guy who would be perfectly comfortable using git, as he has me to ask whenever there's a problem. When you use the database to store content, you lose a great number of useful properties. I had to build a custom tool to search through the entire database to find encoding errors. And I had to keep re-adjusting it every time I found some hiding somewhere. It was annoying and painful. Content is code, not data, it needs to be managed like code.
And what they also don't appreciate is that nuclear material with a 20,000 year half-life has, by definition, very very low radioactivity.

It's like any other fuel -- the faster it burns, the shorter it lives. And vice versa.
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The Fukushima exclusion zone is still dozens of square miles where upwards of 100,000 people have had to abandon their homes and businesses.. That's a decent approximation to what happened in Chernobyl. Clearly there was much more radiation released in Ukraine but that doesn't mean the area around Fukushima is safe..

Here's a map; http://i.imgur.com/EBEnCUa.jpg
Oh wow! That explains wierd artifacts I've been seeing since El Capitan, when using my trackball mouse. The cursor randomly grows in size, usually when I move it between screens quickly. I expect it's some "random jitter" in my using the trackball that causes it to happen.
You need to calm down.

I made that statement based on personal experience and that I find laughable the idea that women are somehow too incompetent to kill themselves.

What does that leave?
Grew up evangelical. Still am. I go to an evangelical church. I have never heard this, and I don't know anybody who thinks it.
Wow, the website of churn buster explains NOWHERE how churnbuster actually works. Just pointing to tweets, and saying you have "algorithms" doesnt cut it. This is a crap landing page (for tech savvies). But maybe only marketing guys are landing at that page.
> typically, a set of related symptoms are identified and named, then later -- often many years later -- mechanisms that appear to occur with and likely generate the symptoms are identified and then later -- often many years later again -- root causes are identified for what causes those mechanism to begin operating

Sure, that's still useful. But then it should be used as a catalogue for further study, not a diagnostic tool and certainly not the basis for prescribing treatments that often do more harm than good. And above all, by no means is such an incomplete catalogue appropriate basis for forcibly detaining someone or otherwise dictating what they must or must not do.

Other physicians have, slowly and with difficulty, come to terms with the limits of their knowledge and sometimes even how to communicate those limits to patients. When diagnosis is uncertain or the effectiveness and side effects of treatments poorly understood, advice is (among the better physicians) tempered by an honest effort to convey the risks and benefits given the unknowns. If nothing else, the guidance of Hippocrates still prevails. I don't see that from psychologists or psychiatrists, and the DSM and its current uses form a perfect case study in their hubris. When in doubt, diagnose; when in doubt, treat, whether the patient wishes to be treated or not, with whatever is handy regardless of whether there is any basis to expect it to work. Again, all traits of pre-modern medicine.

If you think I'm being too hard on these disciplines, consider that medicine as a whole -- while I acknowledge its many faults and would not pretend that its understanding or attitudes are anything resembling perfect or complete -- has at least in principle advanced beyond these particular errors. That should offer hope that someday psychology and psychiatry will advance similarly.
Was curious how long the reactor is designed to last, seems the answer is 30 years:

https://www.fastcompany.com/1594671/bill-gates-goes-nuclear-...
> Can you point out what thing is being sold?

In EU my personal information (my name, my username, my email addresses, my clicks, my metadata, etc) is mine and there are limits to what you can do with it.

In US who knows. There seems to be strict rules on HIPPA, and some tax stuff, and some money laundering stuff. But other than that selling the data seems to be fine.
contrast, however, with the results of a tanker spill or oil-drilling disaster like Deepwater Horizon.

Also note that more nuclear waste enters the atmosphere every DAY from coal burning than in the entire history of nuclear power generation excluding Chernobyl.
I think more nuclear power is the way to go, but I don't want (heavily subsidized) privately owned nuclear plants in my back yard.

For how long did TEPCO fake their safety records? Private capital is far too single minded and powerful to be responsible for nuclear power plant safety.
And now we know why the Windows bitmap format stores the scanlines from bottom to top.
They're nice, but they're small. Since many operational costs (gates, pilots, infrastructure) don't change with plane size, and because many airports are already flight-limited, it usually makes sense to use larger airplanes.
Thats interesting and yes I guess they do correlate.

It's not the global economy it's the networked economy. And so in order to understand economy we need to look at it non-nationalistically. Thats the only perspective where we will see whats going on IMO.
Large countries run their electrical grid on mostly renewables (e.g. Brazil, Iceland), and large countries run their grid on mostly nuclear (e.g. France, Belgium). Centuries of development aren't necessary to achieve it, it's mostly political will.

Nuclear power has actually a fantastic track record with regards to mortality and statistical risk. The main problem is it suffers from the "Airplane effect" -- the few failures take over the media an the population's imagination, even if the overall safety is great. We can and we should scale both wind/solar and nuclear power, right now, not in a century.
> there was no meltdown

Except that there totally was a meltdown.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

* http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/201706-muon-scans-confirm...

* http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/09/29/fukushima-watc...

> the issue was resolved without having to permanently evacuate any area around the plant.

Except for the 20 mile exclusion zone that is still in place.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_reaction_to_Fukushima...

* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/1...

I'm not an anti-nuclear person by any means, but let's not sugarcoat this disaster. It was bad.
Another thing that can happen is D) you find something disturbing in the contract that you would like changed, and the business just cancels the transaction. Another guy will come in and lease the car and won't ask questions.

I'm not really sure how to fix this, or if it should be fixed. Is it a problem that I can't get phone service without agreeing to give up my right to a class action? It seems that it is: it allows companies to essentially have one sided contracts. I must abide by the rules of the contract or be taken to arbitration (where I will lose), but the company can feel free to break the contract whenever they wish. If I complain, we will go into arbitration and I will lose.

I suppose the way to fix it is to put legal controls on arbitration, but if enough controls are put on arbitration, it starts to look a lot like court, at which point, the value of arbitration has been lost. However, at the moment, the lack of controls make outright fraud much too easy.

Here is a question: can you sue the arbiter for a bad decision? It seems this idea isn't unheard of[0], but it is definitely not perfect.

[0]http://works.bepress.com/andrew_guzman/12/
It sure works for hungarian, as far as I remember it doesn't catch all synonyms of "attach".
"like" is an acknowledgement, not an adjective in the true sense of the word just like e.g. your family members funeral is not your "favorite" thing
I use an iPhone and I (continue) to have an Android tablet -- I've been operating this way over a few generations. I don't think either platform is 100% superior over the other. For every advantage Android has over iOS there is different advantage iOS has over it.

I was seriously considering going for an Android phone this time around but the 6s is really some amazing hardware. It isn't even as hyped up as it should be.
Think of web app architectures like data structures. Most websites should be optimized for reading, not writing. Static site generators are very optimized for reading, not writing. Wordpress sites, on the other hand, are more optimized for writing. It makes sense that most websites should choose static site generators - it's just a better "data structure" for the needs.
... provided your team doesn't include anyone using Linux. I asked them whether they had any plans to support Linux recently and got a disappointing "no comment" type of reply. Not impressed.
Yeah, the chlorine trifluoride is most often the gateway to those articles.

Ended up reading a PDF version of the book, Ignition!, mentioned in that article.

I do wonder if dry wit comes with the profession, btw.
Sadly, I think it will never work for end users. I myself also don't update my blog very often, partly because writing new posts is still too cumbersome (with Jekyll). I am a developer, but I don't use Markdown and Liquid (or what was the name) on a daily basis, so I still have to look things up when writing.

Now I tend to think that the best way would be to use a random CMS (like Wordpress) and mirror it's output as a static site. That way, the dynamic part the end user uses for creating content could be behind some secure login-wall, and the public site would just be static.

As for comments, I guess they just won't be supported.
What are you viewing it in? It opened in Pixelmator for me where it was showing banding. Then I tried again with preview where it was ok. So the app you use to open the file might not have proper 10bit support
The mailing list is quite good, it's one paper every week, and nothing else.
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Yep, I think I'd still have one. I think the UK learnt a few lessons from the mess of Sellafield. The clean up associated with that is pretty harsh.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-26124803

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-21298117

etc etc.
A good precedent has already been set for this. The first iPhone got two major updates, iOS 4.0 being the first version that didn't support it. The 3GS added an extra year to the lifespan, launching with iOS 3.0 and only being left out of support for iOS 7. The 4S added even another year, recently having received the fourth major update of it's lifespan.

So yeah, while there is certainly some performance lost on a 4S running iOS 9, it's not nearly as bad as the original iPad running iOS 5, or the original iPhone running iOS 3. I imagine the 6S will easily be able to handle iOS XV.

Also noteworthy is that the only iPad not still receiving updates is the original model, meaning the iPad 2 has received the most major updates of any iOS device at five.
Unusable by some species of life in their present habitable zones. Climate change is going to seriously screw around with humanity in unpredictable ways. But don't worry about the planet. Earth will be just fine.
The reverse is actually true. Nobody uses Thorium since you can't make bombs out of them. Thorium is very unsuited to weaponize since one of the byproducts of the fuel process (U-232) decays in to a hard gamma-emitter. This not only makes the material dangerous to handle, it will also wreak havoc with bomb electronics, will require heavy shielding and be very easy to detect.

Due to its unsuitability for bombs, the militaries of the world (in the '50s) didn't invest into researching Thorium. Industrial inertia (and sunk costs) and Uranium being good enough lead us to where we are today.

It is 'technically' possible to make a U-233 bomb but the effort required is so far above U-235 bombs that for any nation able to do the former, it's much easier and cheaper to do the latter.
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.quote doesn't escape % or any other LIKE-special character.
This is as good a place as any to re-post this:

http://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/how-to-avoi...
Yes, it would be terrible if people started depending on government for the safety of the air traffic system, the maintenance of clean air and water, or the existence of a stable and universally accepted currency.

I mean, can you imagine? Just...total horror. If only there was a word to describe this nightmarish dependence on government.

Wait, what's that? There is a word? Oh, right, civilization.
Then why do they have children spend 6+ hours a day there every day for 3/4s a year? Taxpayer funded babysitting?

School is there to raise children, but they do play a lesser role compared to parents and cannot make up for absent parents. It is really to outsource the parts of child rearing that we can both scale up and have a general consensus on. (And to some extent, it does sometimes seem to be about babysitting.)
It seems to me that the recent few articles on fusion have inspired a lot of people - who now seem to be thinking "hey you know what would be great? If we moved back to fission reactors!"

I'm not talking about people writing these articles. I'm sure there's one appearing on the Web every week. I'm talking about people who are suddenly upvoting these articles.

But to me that doesn't make any sense. Fusion, I get. It's something like 10x more efficient than fission, and it's not radioactive or as dangerous as fission. But just because I support having more companies and research into fusion, does not mean that I would support fission reactors.

Despite this article, solar power is still the most practical way of getting renewable energy in the next 20 years. Thinking about building new fission reactors is like getting excited about some "breakthrough gas-powered engine that uses 50% less fuel", when everyone is already thinking about getting an EV for their next car.
There were only 31 direct deaths, and it did not "irradiate" whole countries except in the most technical sense of the word.
Also went to Wharton, and I'm a PM. My background was only a CS minor as an undergrad (8 years ago) and that I taught myself Rails in order to attempt a startup. This demonstrated a propensity for software but is completely useless practically. I've learned almost everything on the job.

I use my MBA for: statistics (I'm stronger here than most SWEs), marketing, communication skills, and understanding business use cases. Watching very effective PMs, I think soft skills (leadership, communications) are more highly correlated with success than "technical prowess." The ability to grok technical concepts is kind of table stakes, but being very technically talented isn't necessary (and such talent would probably be wasted).
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That's also how the most popular guestbooks and forums in the 90s worked. e.g., WWWBoard, which seemed to be used almost everywhere for quite a while. A perl script would generate a new HTML file and update the index HTML for each post.
Nuclear energy is very expensive when adjusted for building the plant. Companies building those plants know this and their usual tactic is to severely underbudget, knowing that a government cannot refuse to pay because it is committed. The Olkiluoto plant in Finland was estimated at €3bn before start and at the most recent revision the estimation was €9bn with a 10 year delay. The plant is not yet operational and I expect there will be even further delays. Don't drink the nuclear cool aid.
I'm not dismissing it entirely, I'm opposing the manner in which it is used by clinicians, politicians, and the judiciary. A work of its nature should be used with the utmost caution and acceptance of its limitations, primarily by researchers. As it is, it's often treated as holy and unappealable writ by the clinical-political-judicial axis.
Probably referring to the number of Siri requests. There are around 400 million active iOS users so >1 billion requests per week is a pretty interesting number.
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Thumbnails drive engagement -- doesn't seem petty to me.
Or for core social ideals, which I would hope basic empathy and kindness are considered, we should teach both at school and at home.
Personally, I generally trust a third-party's shop system significantly more than I do something homegrown for a typical small business. Credit card security is hard. Why force everyone to reinvent the wheel?
Intuit (owner of TurboTax) lobbied against the "government doing your taxes" for you.
Under federal law a bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from consumers and businesses. If a financial institution is not accepting and holding deposits, it's not a bank. (This is greatly simplified but it's a key differentiator.)

Laws are targeted toward different types of financial institutions. Glass-Steagall was a law that applied to banks, and prevented them from selling securities.

But if a financial institution wasn't a bank, then Glass-Steagall did not apply to them. AIG did not hold deposits so it wasn't a bank. So no G-S.

Edit: to help connect the dots--what I'm referring to above are technically called "commercial banks."

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

From the G-S page: "The term Glass–Steagall Act usually refers to four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms."

In general, different kinds of financial institutions are regulated by different regulatory agencies. This is as good a place to start as any:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_regulation
We need some kind of global treaty to cap straw man emissions.
> The Swift version of our Objective-C application, with the same user interface and features, is only 39% as large

This makes a lot of sense. In Objective-C chaining too many method calls together gets ugly and you end up having to break it up into multiple lines of code for your own sanity. Take the code below, autocompletion is guaranteed to break on you for the Objective-C version.

Objective-C:

[self.view convertPoint:apoint toView:[[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow]];

Swift:

view.convertPoint(apoint, toView: UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow)

Objc Refatored:

UIApplication *application = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
UIWindow *window = [application keyWindow];
[self.view convertPoint:apoint toView:window];
Yes it is sorry and thanks, I knew that 1 ml = 1 but I did not check out my incorrect instinct re volume.
I was thinking of 5 grams to a teaspoon, intuitively 5 cc seems to me, much bigger than 1 small teaspoon.
Still surprising to me though, how 5 grapes can fit on a teaspoon ?
A whole bunch of things don't scale down as the overall size of the plane does, so operating a smaller Embraer isn't a a casual decision even before you get into the limited number of gates available in desirable airports.

They are very, very nice based on two flights I took on a couple of them a decade ago, much nicer than turboprops. They seem to have achieved a good niche, a quick look with Wikipedia suggests the company is healthy and that their passenger jets have a very good safety record.
I may have connection tested a few things in the past ;) If you're benchmarking with tsung, it's nice, because it has hooks to let you pick the client port when making the connection; you'll probably need this, because the OS default assignment algorithms tend to get it wrong with this much stuff going on.
That is an extremely sound advice whenever you speak to any police. Excellent video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
They are both considered Level 7 events by the IAEA [0], the highest level. I imagine it's a bit like the difference between category 5 hurricanes. Some are bigger and more destructive than others, but that's where the scale tops out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sc...
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permanently evacuate any area around the plant

This is simply false; there is an area which remains evacuated. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3263714/Destroyed-ma...
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