skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point. I'm not entirely sure either.

The most immediate implication is that it simply invalidates a great deal of present future-cost/future-value analysis, by noting that the entire present price and cost regime is severely faulty. It may well be that money is the wrong unit of economic analysis. There are a number of people who've suggested that currency should be considered to be backed in energy (though that's not the same as saying money is energy -- a crucial but nuanced distinction) -- Arthur C. Clarke, Kim Stanley Robinson, and F. Buckminster Fuller among them. I've traced the concept back to H.G. Wells (of whom Clarke was a fan).

Which would suggest that an energy flows model of an economy is of interest, and that for the nuclear instance, you'd want to sort that out based on total available nuclear energy, conversions for provisioning synthesised hydrocarbons (or other fuels, though CH chains are awfully appealing), and how much net free energy (for other activities) you're left with. Plus factors for risk and such.

That could be compared with the models for renewables-based alternatives.

A key benefit to most renewables schemes is that they pose relatively few widespread catastrophic systemic risks. Grid stability seem the main issue if we're still talking electrical systems (and the advantages of electricity are such that we almost certainly are). But solar and wind plants don't suddenly go into catastrophic meltdown, and the tech stack for each is relatively small.

(Hydro power can see regional catastrophic failure, see the Banqiao Dam disaster, 170k killed. But a lot of things had to go wrong, most of which aren't significantly different from what can befall a nuclear site, and the long-term consequences are fairly benign: the region is now home to 7+ million people, 40 years on.)

But, answering your question in part: it seems to me that a combined measure of net free energy, and systemic risk is probably a better assessment criteria than some putative present "cost" analysis based on a flawed pricing system.
I'm a startup founder (wincing), since ~1999. I've seen a board member ejected for talking like this.

But if you're talking about the board of, like, AB InBev, I dunno!

There are people who get away with it, and there are cultures that are fine with it, but my guess is that about 80% of the time, your ability to rant like this is a function of the social status hierarchy. In a Lord Of The Flies sense.

I'd be uncomfortable working on a team that allowed it, because my thought would be: we're not really allowed to talk to each other this way, and the day I piss someone higher-status off will be the day one of my rants is used as an excuse to manage me out of the team.
"why is Doc so worried about fixing the past in order to fix the future? They aren't his past and future anymore, just ones he created by traveling through time in the first place."

Is it possible that an inventor brilliant enough to have built a time machine doesn't subscribe to the parallel-realities hypothesis, and is unaware of how his invention really works? We'd need to answer this question to get to why Doc Brown cares so much.
Certainly a good way to stop all work at a company until those emails go out.
Also every other biography - Jefferson was human, Washington was just a man, MLK was a regular guy...
The argument that our successful being very successful is a bad thing never ceases to be wrong. Our poor are also the richest poor in the world. Making the rich poorer would do nothing to help the poor and quite the contrary hurt them. Bill Gates and his malaria work for instance have done far more good for Africa than all the aid the government has ever provided.
Rule of law is rule according to laws, not by people. It's about the relationship between the state and the nation.

If your system of laws is so weak that you can have such internal strife that a little bit of pressure from another country's king is all it takes to annex you, you don't have rule of law. Your civic institutions are supposed to be able to prevent these kinds of circumstances. It's the whole reason they're there, the primary role of the state is to protect you from other states.

So far we've identified these criteria, in order of evolution:

a) A tradition of civic participation

b) A strong state

c) Traditions and rules that prevent would-be tyrants from subverting civic institutions

d) Leadership that respects limits on power defined not by him, but by the nation

D arises out of the first three, if d fails to happen, then you didn't have a-c.

Republican Rome lacked c and therefore d. A and b protected them for awhile, but the tradition wasn't strong enough to prevent devolution into tyranny. Iceland lacked b, so even having direct democracy isn't really enough. You have to have both a and b before it makes any sense to have c.

Small states where everyone knows everyone else are bound by stronger ties than law. You have decision-making processes rather than machinery of state. Rule of law protects the weak from the predations of the strong, if you don't need it, then those institutions won't have a chance to become resilient through constant testing. The first serious challenge to your nascent state will cause it to crumble, as happened in Iceland.

States today tend to have b without a.
Great list of stuff and makes think I need to do more of that, with the only possible exception being the prescription drugs.

How did Zoloft have such a great impact on you? Can you describe what you felt like off of it vs on it and how it changes you in a positive way? I'm very curious (and curious to know if it would benefit me long term).
There is a large difference between well thought out research ideas that break the mould (which absolutely deserve a fair chance and funding opportunities) versus those that are diametrically opposed to our current understanding of well tested science. The EmDrive is not the former.
A Brain at Rest? Thoughts and Feelings in the “Resting State”
The point is that's not an explanation. A hypothesis says "We propose this happens". A theory says "We propose this is why that happens". If you don't have the why, you don't have a theory, and you don't have an explanation.
Was simply pointing out the fact that Linux has been on Azure for years, because apparently some people don't know that. Indeed, according to Microsoft: "More than 20 percent of Azure virtual machines run on Linux."

http://news.microsoft.com/cloud/index.html

You're welcome to spin anything you like.
none are GPL.
if you want to know why Richard Stallman doesn't view "open source" to be actual free software, just take a peek at corecrypto.
So, my takeaway is that if the transportation is automated, our country will have a "Few problems" with regards to unemployment, taxation, and human welfare.

If? Make that when.

So, the next question, considering all the companies entering in this landscape: How do we change our country to handle a mass forced exodus into unemployment? What do we do with 5 million unemployed?

Worse yet, what do we do when we are looking at 50% unemployable? (Not unemployed, unemployable. As in work done at free != absolute lowest cost of food/shelter) And when that number climbs, where do we go? What do we do?
The existing site is simple enough. Digital India would probably help these guys with Aadhaar auth, FACTA link for NRIs, and unified API.

The issue with IT website is not simplicity or functionality -- it is the fact that it assumes you know what you're doing. Which is simple for a nominal case, but gets increasingly complex with a diversified income sources and portfolios.
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Well, relativity tells us there are no preferred reference frames. But I believe relativity also tells us that time travel is not possible.
> Snark aside, I think we have an extremely big problem on our hands, in a sense this big bucket of money does exist, it is in the bank accounts of the 1%. Now who that money "belongs" to is kind of a fun but futile philosophical argument, the fact of the matter is a LOT of people are going to be reaching retirement age without the funds necessary to sustain an even remotely pleasant lifestyle, with (in my opinion) very little correlation to each individual's contribution to society throughout their lifetime.

That's what scares me to death. I've spent my entire working life scrimping and saving. I haven't had the fun lifestyles, the swanky apartments or the fancy cars that many others I've personally known have had. As a result, I have accumulated a sizable sum. Meanwhile, I personally know people a few years younger than me with zero savings, not even cash, who literally live paycheque to paycheque, despite making roughly what I make.

When they are no longer able to work, the only possible thing will be for the State to rob that nest egg I've been accumulating and sacrificing for, in order to finance their retirements. Whether it's tax-deferred or tax-exempt, I know that I am going to lose the vast majority of that money. It'd be inhuman to let them starve on the street, and so my own dwindling years will be impoverished.

I should have just lived high on the hog like everyone else.
Photoshopped. Where did the cows go genius?!
I remember BEGGING my parents to buy me OS/2 2.1 for Windows as my only Christmas present when I was a kid. They'd bought me my own PC (386DX/40, 4MB RAM, etc.) sometime earlier and I was hooked. I wanted to play and experiment with EVERYTHING, and OS/2 looked fascinating. I loved the stability it gave, and the fact that it ran Windows better than Windows!

I wish it were open-sourced and modernized to compete in this era (UI, device drivers, virtualization, security, etc.) It's a shame that will never happen.
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I would, .NET and the latest C# is awesome and superior to other frameworks, so yes, the fact that can run in Linux is something very atractive.
It had a height of over $900 in 2014 just for perspective.

Last year it was worth over $400, and then it crashed down to just over $200. There's no reason to assume this year's surge won't go the same way.

Bitcoin needs sustainable growth, not these crazy spikes caused by people seeing the jump and joining in to "get rich." Who knows what started it? Maybe just a very large single trade.

I will say at the current price ($480 ish) you'd be foolish to invest, it is more likely to crash than it is to keep surging (at least looking at historical data).

The expression "get in on the ground floor" applies here.
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The Bitcoin dream of it being accepted by banks and replacing fiat currency will never come true, especially since financial institutions are focusing on blockchain technology as opposed to Bitcoin.

This recent price increase will possibly be viewed as a dead cat bounce.
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I find it flattering that you try to deflect from your embarrassment by talking about me. :-)
> That begs the question

No, it raises the question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beg_a_question
Those sorts of transpilers are usually tailored to a specific project, so it would probably not work on bitcoin-core. Of course if bitcoin-core was committed to moving to D they could fork the transpiler and tailor it to their own code base.
It's one of the last low barrier to entry good paying jobs available to high school graduates.
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Because web development in brainfuck was already written?
Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism
With .NET being open sourced, they're probably hoping on a wider ecosystem developing around it.
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> It is very disheartening to think that something as political as Fox and Murdoch can have 73% control of it and presumably influence it editorially

Have you been reading NatGeo this past decade? It's already become as political as one can imagine, just in the other direction.
Betteridge's law of headlines to the rescue.
True, however how it is used in this case leads to unnecessary opacity

(I'm referring to the || mtu <= 7 part), which, once
you know how usub_overflow works is obvious what it
means, but this might not be evident and unnecessarily
complicating that snipped

Sometimes 'smart code' is not necessarily better

(I'm open to disagreement, though)
So political snark is synonymous with making an observation now is it. I mention vote manipulation because it was very apparent that is what igotspam had done. I care not for meaningless points but when people use multiple accounts to further their own point it is disingenuous and serves the community to highlight this sort of behaviour so others do not waste time interacting with him.
Security drones.
For a reasonably balanced view of costs and risks of nuclear power, I'm inclined to look at the IPCC's study of renewable or carbon-neutral energy alternatives, SRREN. I don't have numbers off the top of my head, but believe that nuclear is at least within ballpark competitiveness based on present cost estimates (see my immediately prior comment on why cost estimates are likely not the best assessment tool to use).

IPCC assimilates data from a large range of sources and viewpoints. It's about as close to a concensus view as you'll find. And considerably more sober than the parent article here.

http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=heroin+overdose+p...

Considering purity fluctuations will actually KILL you rather than just make you want more, yeah I'd say that's by far the most dangerous part of street heroin.
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"Enterprise". E.g. you won't find a bank that doesn't run RedHat. RedHat is Linux for enterprise people.
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I'm looking for a summer internship in 2016. I am a third year computer engineering student at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and am currently interning at PayPal, where I am working on and learning a lot about Android development and Node.js server side development. I also have some experience in Python through side projects (https://github.com/Pathangi-Jatinshravan).

I am of Indian citizenship and will require a J1 visa sponsorship to intern in the United States.
I'm eagerly awaiting the forthcoming geek poet who'll write our Howl. Who saw the best minds of our generation destroyed by startups... their skulls bashed open by a sphinx of capital... that moloch "whose mind is pure machinery... whose soul is electricity and banks!"

http://genius.com/Allen-ginsberg-howl-annotated/

Moloch in whom I sit lonely! Moloch in whom I dream Angels! Crazy in
Moloch! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch!
Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness
without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!
Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries!
blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible mad houses
granite cocks! monstrous bombs!
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios,
tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American
river!
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive
bullshit!
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The default RHEL on AWS is loaded with a bunch of a crap - supposedly Redhat officially supplies the distro, but one really has to wonder if a single week of engineering time has ever went into this. I mean seriously WiFi-drivers?!

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/review/product-reviews/re...
If the cause of death was health related (mental or physical) is it really any of our business? I feel these are private matters, and if the family wish to withhold the cause of death then that's their prerogative. We should not expect nor be entitled to demand to know how a person passed away under certain circumstances. The fact of their death is enough for me to know.
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‘Chemsex': Doctors about days-long, drug-fueled orgies with ‘ca. 5 partners’
I find this interesting. I see many conflicting and biased studies comparing cloud/hypervisor performance.

There are a great number of variables that come into play with configuring each hypervisor. Also, considering continual updates, a solid analysis 6 months ago may be stale. Not to mention most of the studies come from the vendors, not from independent parties.

Question: does anyone know of an ongoing/reliable performance review of the major hypervisors?
Could anyone provide a good pointer to an introduction more amenable than e.g. Wikipedia? A brief googling provides a lot of material, but I could use a little curation... and that's the sort of thing that sometimes HN is best for. Thanks!
I would like a source on that cheese article please.
Sort of joking but what do you think happens in the private world with banks, hedge funds and other large financial institution/collectors. It seems wherever there is a lot of power/money there is a good ole boys club.
Well, at least it explains systemd.

/s
In the case of stomach ulcers it actually is more complicated. Helicobacter pylori is the most common cause, but not the only cause:

http://www.uptodate.com/contents/association-between-helicob...
With their release of CoreCLR[1], which combined with the class libraries, I think there is a lot of reason to look at .NET on UNIX. The implementation includes the same JIT and GC that the .NET framework uses, it just cuts out a bunch of bits that likely wouldn't be relevant to people developing server backends (WPF, AppDomains, etc.).

For server stuff, .NET is now close to the level of openness and compatibility that the OpenJDK enjoys. If you like C# or F# better than Java, there is plenty of reason to switch.

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
Might not be what you want, but I like mithril.js.

It's now my go-to solution for HTML-javascript projects. It allows rapid prototyping and simple iteration is a way that most other solutions I've experimented with just don't.

I suggest you play with a few and then choose. (And I do mean play. Make something fun that'll keep your attention).
You read arrogance. I read exasperation at trying to explain the fundamentals of his field to lay-people.
Yeah, but "Red Hat being late" is not a fact, it's placing the burden on Red Hat for getting their stuff running on Microsoft's systems for Microsoft's benefit. "Microsoft was late getting Red Hat on board" is the exact same fact with the opposite spin.

No spin would have been "both companies ironed out an agreement allowing their products to be commercially supported when working together, three years after Azure launched support for Linux systems". I know, not sexy.
If you've been paying attention to Mozilla post-Eich, it's overrun with social justice warriors now. the JWZ's are long gone, since replaced by the Apparatchik[0]. Thankfully, the Servo side of things still has competent engineers.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparatchik
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Being less pro-Tory than the Telegraph is hardly a challenge. The Telegraph is the propaganda arm of the Tory party. As in they literally run press releases from CCHQ as news stories.

The BBC should aim for their coverage to reflect facts, not just be a the-truth-is-in-the-middle triangulation of Labour and Tory positions. Their neutrality and balance mostly consists of getting a comment from the Tories and then getting a comment from Labour, with the assumption that doing so will cover all sides of any issue. One of the aims of any decent media organisation should be to challenge the establishment, but when the BBC is constitutionally unable to criticise positions where Labour and Tories both agree then it's unable to fulfil that role.
Generally speaking, entities where their professional administration teams need a *nix product with a strong reputation for dependability and the fall-back option of a support contact for when things go pear-shaped. This is vaguely referred to as "The Enterprise," because they tend to be large, low risk organizations with high user counts.

RedHat's userbase is basically the opposite side of the spectrum from Ubuntu users flying by the seat of their pants with that popular free server thingie they heard about.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Just to be clear: I don't think Linus is wrong (I'm also not qualified to judge that). From what I can tell, he's like, 52.5% right.

What's more interesting to me is how low-stakes this issue is. Gizmodo wrote an article about it, but really, if you understand kernel C, do you even give a shit about this code? Linus could have said "we're not using GCC builtin overflow intrinics", just like that, one line no punctuation, and the issue would have been settled.

But look at this thread at the number of people who extrapolated from Linus' rant that this code was bad, ruinous, unsafe, "one size fits all" (still scratching my head about that), &c. How many of Linus' defenders actually know what he's ranting about? It looks to me like: not many.

What's funny is, you actually do seem like you know what he's talking about, and even you overshot the mark with "broken". :)
That's true. The rhs isn't the the most obtrusive part compared to its type declaration:

NSMutableDictionary<NSString *, NSString *> *

imagine having to pass the typed dictionary into a method, now you've got to add the type declaration to the method signature in addition to it being initialized elsewhere. Its brutal but also worth doing if you stick to Objc.
I actually have never heard of it making socializing fun for anyone. My anecdata tells me that the opposite is true...
That's exactly the argument I use when I hear "Thorium reactors will solve all our problems!" I don't think thorium will really work, or someone would be doing it by now. But at least it's theoretically safe, as opposed to traditional plutonium breeders, which are safety nightmares with the potential for true runaway.
> We run Kubernetes on CoreOS and every piece runs in a container. On the master, the api-server, controller and scheduler all run in docker containers. On the minions, the proxy and kubelet both run in containers.

I don't think the direct complaint was that Kubernetes didn't "run in containers" but that it isn't as easy to set up as "just running some containers".

"With Docker we were supposed not to have installation instructions (aside from a few docker run arguments)". He was saying that the Kubernetes setup didn't fit the ease of setup touted by Docker.
> how many people will perceive any value in stacking a Microsoft technology (.NET) on top of UNIX?

That's not the point of this. MS is positioning Azure as the cloud for enterprise. Azure can run a bunch of hosted services you had to administer yourself (Active Directory, Office 365, etc.), it can run any Windows server apps you had, and now it can run enterprise Linux apps on the most popular enterprise Linux distro. So if you're a company that has Office, Active Directory and an Oracle database running on RHEL, you can move your everything into Azure.