skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool regardless. But I am interested in cost and weight.

If it is too costly we might only see it used in niche applications (e.g. aircraft windows?). But even then if it weighs more than regular glass it may not even be utilised there.

I'd like to see it used on vehicle front windshields, cracks are a constant pain in the butt, and they can leave the rear window and side windows as regular glass for emergency escape (typically only the front one receives most of the debris). But it really comes back to both weight and cost again.
How to Save a Sinking Ship: Lessons from Yahoo
Can't you do this at any library or book store?
A bit morbid, but interesting reading. Apparently death by Opium is a great way to go, if not slightly illegal
The Hadoop Ecosystem Table
On the Poverty of Student Life
It was a spur-of-the-moment click, and while the link you provide works (thank you) I've no longer got the time, and no longer care.

I know these people need to make money, but teasing with something like that, or putting huge banners up before being able to see the article, just makes me bounce.
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Great video, thanks. There's an interesting fact in there about them putting dye in heating oil to stop people putting it in their cars and avoiding diesel tax.
Why Google Trailing Apple on Encryption Support Is a Human Rights Issue
The Silicon Valley Mindset
It's a nice idea, but I can see the UK leaning on them, hard, not to do this. I can see the arguments now:

- People will get the ferry to Ireland and bring them to the UK!

- Drug tourism! Amsterdam! Everybody hates Amsterdam! Look at how terrible everything is there!

- Think of the children!!

- It's not aligned with the UK's policy of increasing criminalisation!

- Think of what you'll do to your prison sector!

Hopefully Ireland will give their former (hell, ongoing) occupiers the finger should they dare raise a stink.
you are describing the 1040EZ which approximately already works as you described, for low-income wage-earners.

People who have stocks and mortgages and etc -- non-wage income and deductions, have to go through a more complicated process.
I'm not saying they shouldn't have privatized at all, I'm saying the way they privatized was disastrous. Summers was deeply involved in supporting terrible policy and putting corrupt US economic advisors in Russia to advise Yelstin. Those US economic advisors then worked to profit off the policies they were pushing.
A new study in Nature says that using thorium as a nuclear fuel has a higher risk for proliferation into weapons than scientists had believed. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a11907/is-the...
I'm not sure how much this plays in, but to my eye, your comment adds nothing to the discussion. Your personal preference isn't interesting in context.

To be fair, I can't imagine a context where I would find your preferences to be interesting (on HN, that is) so I could be wrong. I didn't vote on your comment in any case.
Where I live book shops have tended to become more like gift shops. They sell something that is an expensive luxury that you buy because it is a nice thing. Amazon have a huge advantage in this by giving the buyer an assurance that the present will be well received. You can buy a book for a 5 year old relative without knowing what a typical 5 year old actually likes.

This could easily extend to none-book purchases (probably the end goal). There are lots of products that are a little obscure that you don't find in physical shop but have high ratings.
I have the 6s+, and yeah I can't use it with one hand, but I'm okay with that because I love having the bigger screen so much more. I can see a lot more while typing, watching videos is a better experience, and I've noticed myself using the bigger phone (I used to have a 5s) in new ways a lot more.

Before, I would avoid doing some tasks on my phone like taking more than a few lines of notes. The bigger screen feels less cramped and I don't feel annoyed while using it. In fact I wrote this comment out on my phone. I've never done that with any of the smaller phones I've had.
Super slow to respond to this, but this is possible! But note there can be no speculation in names since selling is mandatory.
It was a fantastic machine. Unfortunately Commodore all the way through (from long before the Amiga) was an absolute dysfunctional disaster of a company, and it was a miracle they lasted as long as they did (and a testament to the calibre of people that kept saving the company from self-inflicted wounds)

The biggest problem being perpetual under-investment in R&D, and management meddling that systematically whittled away at the lead they once had. E.g. the archetypical example is the Amiga4000. On one hand it is the "flagship"; the biggest, fastest classic m68k Amiga produced.

On the other hand, it arrived late, was ridiculously expensive, and was slow for what was there. The problem? New management wanted to start all projects over from scratch and put their stamp on them.

IDE, for example, was suddenly pushed onto engineering. Without understanding that the Amiga used SCSI for a reason: IDE of the time loaded the CPU too much. Fine on a single-tasking OS, or on machines with more CPU, but the Amiga was built around offloading everything. It was the only thing that kept it competitive in the face of mounting problems for Motorola with upping the speed of the M68k range (work was underway to evaluate alternative CPUs; PA-RISC was the lead contender at the time; in the end Commodore went bankrupt before making a decision, and third parties chose PPC).

The A4000 was the result: IDE dragging down IO performance; a broken memory sub-system due to rushed redesigns; a butt-ugly case compared to the sleek A3000, and trying to compensate for the other problems by going for a 68040, but going "cheap" and picking one of the slower versions and yet stil ending up too expensive.

The truly crazy thing, though, is that as they were doing this, the "A3000+" was pretty much done. It didn't have quite as fast a CPU, but was a step up from the A3000. It had AGA (the last custom chips that the A4000 also got), and a range of other improvements, such as a DSP providing high-end sound (8x CD quality channels), and that could also double as a built in modem. And it kept SCSI...

The best part? It was far cheaper than the A4000, and would've been ready much faster. Of course Commodore had to axe it...

Being a fan of the Amiga at the time was painful...
Or this Three Stooges clip: https://youtu.be/ZHk_-YLQAhU?t=890

I imagine it's artistic license :)
However that only works at that scale.
I've been using this one for several years and have been very happy with it. It is a descendant of several other templates: http://www.sudo.ws/todd/resume.html
I realise you may not want to do Active Directory, however it is quite common even in small companies -- and you can even get AD via Azure nowadays. Even lots of Mac-only shops have AD.

Maybe v1.x doesn't need AD, however it's something the dev team should definitely consider for later versions. Beyond that, it's really upto AgileBits about how much of the large-corporate market they want to cater for (companies like Centrify seem to have found a niche there)

Thanks for listening.
> Are you honestly arguing that dozens of mSv of radiation annually are safe?

Yes, I am (despite the downvotes). The average background dose at sea level is 4mSv/year. A chest CT scan is 7mSv. The EPA has declared that 50mSv/year is perfectly safe exposure for nuclear, and any other, workers.

> That big bad government is preventing people from doing what they want?

I shouldn't address this, but I feel the need to. Your snide "big bad government" crack implies you think I'm putting a political spin on my arguments. I'm not.

> 50mSv is approaching the level of guaranteed higher incidence of cancer

No, 50mSv is approaching the 100mSv threshold for conclusive evidence of increased cancer risk.

> If you lived in the exclusion zone, you'd be receiving that every single year for the rest of your, and your childrens' lives.

Please stop the vapid appeals to emotion. This is totally unscientific and the root cause of why the general public freaks out unnecessarily over radiation.

> 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.

I will have to look at that paper in detail when I get home. My quick skim though shows you many have misread it. The dosages presented are annualized numbers, not "lifetime".[1]

> 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.

And the relative lack of terrorist attacks in the past 14 years wasn't due to terrorist attacks being hard, but due to the TSA and full-body scanners. You can't prove causality for a lack of events based only on a correlation.

[1] "Doses from the individual workers' various types of exposures have been combined into 'annual doses,' which are the basis of calculations in this study."
True; many of these dream reactors probably won't work, because that is the nature of things. But the full-scale engineering never gets done because of anti-nuclear propaganda playing on mass public ignorance, so at the rate we're going now we'll never know.
>And when you fail hard, it costs billions of dollars to cleanup: http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/environmental-heal....

Using Fukushima as an argument against nuclear is such a silly thing to do, and the decades long freeze on any sort of real progress in meaningfully upgraded or new commercial reactors makes this sort of thing a self fulfilling prophecy.

How many industries have catastrophic failures? How many people have been killed by hydro-electric dams? How much financial damage?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

We've created a climate where a completely viable power option that is better than what we have now has had innovation massively stifled due to politics and fearmongering, which has in turn made it more difficult for nuclear plants to be a safe option, which then allows for even more politics and fear mongering.

Fukushima? Yes, it was a catastrophic failure. But it was hit by a 9.0 earthquake and then a tsunami. It was scheduled to be shut down two weeks from the earthquake. It was a 4 decade old plant that was being shut down due to it's age hit by some of the worst possible natural disasters, and even then some better design choices, such as a higher seawall, or not storing the backup generators underground would have prevented it. The condenser units also hadn't been inspected or had maintenance performed on them since basically the reactor's opening. Everything that happened with Fukushima could have been prevented even with it's old technology despite being batter with one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. And this is with 4 decade old technology. With a more favorable political climate, how many advances in safety and efficiency could have been made over those decades?
Why wouldn't you be able to treat them as identical?

How would being able to change the sync/verification server make Chromebooks vulnerable like those conventional machines?
Well, you don't necessarily need to cite it, but linking it to a real event and not an opinion by appending "as has been reported in the past" or even just "as we've seen" will take it from what appears to be a snide remark to the those ignorant of those events to something they may want to investigate further. It was just communicated more poorly than it could have been, and now we're all wasting our time on this rather than something more useful. :/
So maybe, oh I don't know, throttle it back a bit?

(And does tptacek know you ripped off his profile?)
Yup. Rocket science is dead easy. Tsiolkovsky, and... that's about it. Rocket engineering, on the other hand...
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Someday tech will end our dumb two party system
Yeah, and the point is, they were able to accomplish something...

I'd be surprised if those same users could even manage to create a single, text-only post in most (pre-setup!) static generators.

Never underestimate agency. A working, ugly solution beats the hell out of a better solution that they can't understand.
The article is completely unprofessional.
The tone itself is very one-sided - which is bad enough.
However, the factual omissions are ridiculous.

Here are a few examples:

the area used for wind turbines is large, but it is usually re-usable for agriculture, or increasingly off shore

official nuclear death are low - but there is a lot of dispute on the "long tail" of long term deaths from the big nuclear disasters of Ukraine and Japan

they (correctly) mention the environmental cost of materials for renewable energy, but ignore the similar pollution of Uranium mining and enrichment

4th generation nuclear reactor are still not even past the design stage. How can anyone even put a price tag on these ?

3rd generation nuclear reactor are more expensive than claimed in the article. The real prices of real reactors in the real world in the past decade are x3 the expected costs.

There is simply not enough uranium for a full build out of 3rd generation nuclear. 4th generation will be required, and it is still in the r&d stage

There is no mention of the huge problem of load-following when using nuclear plants. You cant just assume 90% CF and then ignore this.

Most importantly, IMHO, they completely ignore the learning curve for solar & wind. This is a proven trend, over last decades, appears to be set to continue, and completely changes the discussion.

And on and on....

My own views are pro-nuclear AND pro-renewable. But this requires a scientific and accurate discussion!
But when I have to pay to play, I'll pass.

It's a fools errand to extend a private platform like Slack. They're already adding IRC features to their system, along with running a modified IRC bouncer.

Why play catch-up or copy-target when I can just use IRC directly?

Hell, I could do what they're doing for $1/user/month just by hooking a RADIUS server up to my nickserv. Easy peasy.
It's not supposed to dilute. It should stay put and not spread around.

Most human activities tend to displace natural ecosystems. Waste dumps (nor windmills) are no exception. The question is, is the damage lesser than greater than in proposed alternatives?

Though I do not understand why did they choose to dump the waste to the channel? If I would dispose the waste by sinking, I would use a kilometers deep trench to minimize risks for reacquirement and environmental damage. Do they plan to dig up the waste sometime in the future?
That "traffic light" seems to actually be a watchman for a building site. Thus he is there to either stop people or trucks are needed.

And frankly i would prefer that over automated lights, as the person could compensate for elderly or kids (or other less perfect events).

Its not like they have some lone officer sanding in the middle of the most busy intersection of Tokyo, now it is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya#Shibuya_Crossing

Frankly i don't see how an article of this "quality" made it onto BBC.
That is certainly your right, but we should base important technical decisions like this on peer-reviewed science, not knee-jerk emotional reactions.
> It was pretty much invented by the English.

Let me guess... you are English? Seriously, the English did not invent the notion that leaders are to be held accountable to laws just as subjects. Just take the roman republic.
Ok.

Source: within 30 miles of two reactor facilities.
> “The reason this is exciting is it’s scalable,” he added. “We cannot afford to hire operators for the entire world to be their personal assistant.”

Why all the praise when the goal will look nothing like it looks now. They don't actually know that it's scalable, otherwise we'd be seeing a completely non-human dependent AI with limited functionality (like ordering food) first. The current approach is just getting more data to see if the real version can work at scale.
Wow, I'm actually surprised that the battery comes that close. When one of the newer battery technology materializes those numbers might reverse.
Does Fermat's Library offer a printer-friendly version of the paper?
You might want to look into the operational realities for Dutch cannabis 'coffee shops'. I haven't lived there for ~15 years and don't know how it goes now, bu back then there would be multiple deliveries per day to a busy shop so as to stay compliant with the letter of the law about the (very generous) quantities that could be possessed at any given time. This is an important distinction since Ireland has no plans to decriminalize sale or distribution...

...but somehow I suspect that if this is what you had meant, you'd have said so the first time. I think you will be happier if you give up trying to parse headlines so closely, given that they're the literary equivalent of of candy.
I was looking forward to reading insightful comments on this seminal paper. However I was disappointed by overall quality of the current annotations. Many are about how it translates to Clojure syntax (why not Common LISP or Scheme?). Others are trivialities like "apply and eval are the Maxwell's equations of lisp." I think fermatslibrary.com is a great idea, but this particular example does not do it justice.
Glass itself isn't always "fragile" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert%27s_Drop so perhaps we'll be pleasantly surprised
> I just wanted my account deleted.

Totally fair.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10495758

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10499434
EDIT: Interesting. Watching the votes go up and then down makes me think that half of the people do not appreciate my comment.

I don't agree with your assertion that a top button is more awkward, even on the larger phones, but I wouldn't moderate anyone down for saying so. But you've got to consider how many Apple users, fans, and even employees are probably reading a site like this one. They may not have the time or motivation or even the ability to articulate a rational rebuttal to a critical comment, but the good ol' downvote button is only a click away. Can't take it too personally.

And speaking of usability facepalms, there's also the wonderful HN up/down button layout to contend with. I don't always hit the arrow I'm aiming at with an optical mouse, much less a finger on a touchscreen. I think those buttons amount to some kind of obscure hazing ritual or inside joke on YC's part; they can't be that obtusely-designed on purpose.
Hmm... the article has solar/wind costing 6 or more times as much as nuclear

Wikipedia has them costing about the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

Plus solar etc. are dropping in price in each year in a way that nuclear isn't. I suspect someone's numbers are a bit off.
Is it obvious?

What if you displease them in one way, by making older phones have a limited lifespan, but redress that by pleasing them enough to make the difference in other ways, for example by developing newer phones with superior features that get them excited enough not to care so much about the shortcomings of the old model (shortcomings which wouldn't necessarily be as apparent if the phone had a longer lifespan)?

Might it then be the best strategy to displease your customers on purpose, and accept the negative impact of that since it's also contributing to a wider goal of selling more phones and making more profit?
Found you on linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/veltronix, but www.veltronix.com.au doesn't resolve for me. Is that expected, or has something gone wrong?
I wonder how much the fax thing has to do with their writing system as well.
At least it's now consistent with Periscope and they're both messed up.
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1PW is without a doubt one of the nicest iOS and Mac programs I have ever used. It is gorgeous and just works. Well worth however much I spent on it.
The problem is that we have very limited amount of natural reservoirs. Practically every natural reservoir out there already has power plant, is on a desert or belongs to natural reserve.

With tesla solution the problem is going to be limited amount of lithium. There is maybe enough lithium to get a powerwall to every household in U.S. and EU. But rest of the world is fucked.
Its not a contact poison but a breathed in poison, so given even the lightest breeze you're probably OK. In a sealed tank, of course, you're dead.

Also there is no such thing as the crude molecule or atom. Its like dirt, and I assure you not all dirt is equal. And some crude has so much sulfur you'd think it should be yellow like paint. Some has about none.

If you've ever heard economic discussion about "sour crude" now you know what they're talking about. If you build a refinery to process oil you don't waste money on a hydrotreater to eat the sulfur if you don't have to, then if the market floods with cheap worthless sour crude you can't process it without buying/building a hydrotreater cycle process. And they aren't cheap or built in a day, either.
But talking about Chernobyl and Fukushima is like focusing on the Pinto as a rolling deathtrap and saying we shouldn't have cars. Fukushima should have been shut down decades ago when it was discovered the danger earthquakes posed for it, and Chernobyl was such a horrific chain of bad decisions, it might as well have been on purpose.
> CMSs enable non-developers to publish good-looking content, which is basically what the web is. You can have a small army of 10-20 writers and 1-2 front end devs styling templates for them. It scales, and it makes sense.

Assuming that the content you're publishing is primarily writing, then yes, that makes sense. But most companies on the web are not primarily blogs or news. Hell, even the way news is going, a lot of these Snowcrash-type (or what was that famous NYT article called?) articles are too complicated for a template-driven workflow.

The company I work for is a marketing company, it primarily uses the Internet for e-commerce. Our marketing team gives their ideas to our front-end guy, including mock-ups and copy, and he goes ahead and makes all the HTML/CSS.

I think most companies on the web wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a static site and a CMS, because non-technical people won't even touch an admin back-end anymore. There's just too much to screw up to leave in the hands of a non-professional.
>Pripyat

The USSR was horrendous at building things in a safe manner. Go look at their track record building submarines vs. the US. Someone making a shitty version of something and it being bad is not a good argument against making a proper version of it.

>Fukushima

I've spent a fair amount of words talking about Fukushima elsewhere in here, so I'll keep this short:

A 4 decade old plant that was being decommissioned was hit by a 9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami, among the worst in modern history, and still could have been fine if it had better design choices (Higher seawall, backup generators not being stored underground) or if the condensers had been serviced in the past decades rather than being left sitting there to break down since the plant's opening. The issues with Fukushima were not hard ones to solve - they were a matter of negligence, and that is an argument for making sure we aren't negligent, not not doing something in the first place.
There's nothing new here, Ireland has been changing at a very rapid pace for the last 20 years - becoming progressively more liberal due to many influences, not least the fact that all of a sudden most young people were staying in the country during the celtic tiger years.