skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, transporting U3O8 is enough.
Upd: http://namrc.co.uk/intelligence/uk-new-build-plans/
4 sites are already acquired for development on British grounds.
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This implicit assumption is what the bad actors notice and capitalize upon. Before you realize it, they are consolidating power and it's too late to oust them because they are writing your review.
Like "organic" food.
I have done this.

In early 2009 I bought an octo mac pro with Snow Leopard and 6 GB of RAM.

Although I have reloaded Snow Leopard thrice, it remains the exact same configuration: same mac pro, same 8 GB RAM, same Snow Leopard.

I have not run into any problems whatsoever. I run a perfectly modern browser with 30+ tabs open, I run multiple guests in VMWare Fusion and I don't miss having the app store at all.

In a few months, this will be seven years of platform stability. I have enjoyed it immensely.

Further, provided nothing too sticky comes up with continuing to run Snow Leopard, I think I can add one of those bootable PCIe SSDs and max out my ram and run this to the 10 year mark.
Well I'm not doing it anymore, but I was using bioperl extensively when I was in biotech, but there were some gotchas and it wasn't as fast as it could be. With better concurrency, that certainly could reduce analysis time.

Currently, I am also using a monitoring tool called Argus (http://argus.tcp4me.com/) which is completely written in perl. It doesn't seem super well maintained, but I really like it, so I have been reading through the source and have been thinking about doing something similar in Elixir, but Perl6 would be a perfect update for it.

Perl is largely a sysadmin tool, in that many of us sysadmins are not formally trained in programming, but we often need to get shit done, and perl enables that. When bash, awk, and sed start to falter, we tend to use python and perl, so that's another use case. Simpler syntax and better threading would certainly help with that.
Neither is Polish or Estonian. What is your point?
Even if all they do is solve some of the problems with magnetic bottles, which apparently is the primary focus of their current research, then that would be most helpful toward future implementations.

As I understand it, another problem is how to inject energy beams through the bottle to keep the reaction going -- i.e., high powered laser.

Another issue is how to contain the neutrons which bombard the physical container, rendering it dangerously radioactive after a while. Maybe the bottle prevents this? I don't know enough about it.

By comparison, solar is so much simpler, though eventually we'll probably need both paradigms. It seems silly to power residential homes from a central location when they can get most of their own power from rooftop collectors, but we'll always need central power generation for some purposes such as solar-poor regions, as well as mobile applications like sea transport and eventually space transport.
On TV everything is dubbed (although you can watch the original audio tracks). Worth noting too that usually the dubbers are incredibly good, in following the flow of the movie/show and the way they talk. I've watched other's countries dubbing and it's cringeworthy. But I'd have loved original versions as the default since I was a kid: my English is decent, but that would have helped a lot and probably make it much better.
Dubbing / subtitling isn't everything, although it certainly helps. According to the theories of language acquisition, it is processing of linguistic input (connecting form to meaning to be able to understand the meaning) that makes the internal, unconscious representation of language to develop.

Subtitling movies and TV shows essentially gives more opportunities to encounter linguistic input. However, as the viewers are able to get the meaning from the subtitles only, they don't necessarily PROCESS the foreign language. Some do, so the mileage varies a lot.

(Watching without subtitles will force you process the meaning – or if the difficulty level is too high, just frustrate and ignore it. Or process partially.)

I find that even more than TV shows, kids these days are learning English from games – in Finland, they don't translate games at all, so there's even greater incentive to actually try to understand the English input.
Show HN: Frisbee – API Wrapper for ES6 Fetch for Node/Angular/React/React Native
Sadly my wife's macbook could only take 2GB of RAM, so we had to get her a new one; this means no more AppleWorks; I'm going to have to get her Bento to import her databases.
Who else thinks the built-in wireless capabilities are really making a difference here ?
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They are tough, largely overbuilt systems that seems indestructible. I have a few old systems in a closet (SGI, DEC, SUN, NEXT) and always wondered why they'd build computers like that, I mean, they weren't made to last for more than a few years. And they sound like... private jets!
Don't be afraid of that. The programmer's profession is one of constant study and learning. It would be impossible if people actually had trouble learning things by 25, and the field won't move at the pace it does. if people, or at least some people, lost the ability to constantly learn by 45 or 55 or whatever age looks ridiculously old to you.
jwz dislikes hackernews and does referer checks - copy/paste that link if you want to check it out.
ITER (located in France) will build a fusion device to produce net energy, in the next few years - 50MW input and 500 MW output. The project has about €13 Billion investment committed.

Perhaps we're on the edge of a new energy area.

https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines
>Surely to learn to speak, you need to learn grammar and that grammar is taught from a written source.

Actually, you don't. I've learned several languages with Pimsleur, which is audio only. I took the lessons to their end and then progressed just by talking to people. You learn the grammar intuitively.

I'm doing Pimsleur for Japanese now. Though I'm learning the writing system as well, because I've heard that written Japanese lets you make more progress than, say, written portuguese would, since Kanji let you grasp some of the meaning of words before you know them.
It's always easier not to think for yourself. We want to assume we are surrounded and led by trustworthy people. Thinking is hard, and sometimes frightening; ignorance is bliss. To boot, cynics/pessimists get a bad name for raining on the parade. Whether it's your government or your boss... same thing.
Those old OSes also had severe reliability and usability issues. They did not have memory protection, so a web browser crash can take out your word processor and everything else. Each of them had a key combination you had to be familiar with to reboot the machine.

MacOS 9 also didn't have preemptive multitasking, so encoding a movie means you don't get to read your email. Some people used MacOS 9 as a web server, and discovered that if something fell on the mouse then the server was offline until the mouse finished selecting something.

So, stick to the stable software, and don't make your document too big, and you should be fine.
Thanks for commenting, and for posting the link. This quote is excellent:

"Once within the system, resistance is futile. I couldn’t help but recall a wise criminal lawyer’s (and friend’s) remarks: “Extricate yourself from the system, don’t try to vindicate yourself within it.”"
They did the best they could at the time, and with a few correct facts they were half right about the outcome but just made up the how to please their leader/church.

That applies to everything pre-modern medicine?
Because we don't use dubbing, English is way more prevalent. Most kids have a somewhat basic grasp of English before being taught in school. Years of hearing English also made it easier to learn in school. You already know how to pronounce many words, it's also less foreign because you grew up with it. With French, you learn it in school and when you go home.. That's it, no more French influences. With English, you turn on the tv or radio and you're passively learning.

Personally, French was always a chore, something solely associated with school. English was fun, something you actively used.
No more than the lead time and capex in spinning up new men of hard-laboring age.
One link per story is enough
I guess those expectations are part of the problem, a talk in the recent openstack conf higlighted this: OpenStack was initially created for what these days is called "cloud-native" workloads, every VM was considered ephemeral. companies and users then try to mould it into a cheaper VMWare and are frustrated how bad it is at this.

Resizing, stopping VMs, while admittedly being a rather trivial tasks, point to this usage of OpenStack. When I would mourn the loss of individual VMs on OpenStack (or public clouds for that matter), I would turn gray soon.
You can use services like Kiva, but the general problem is that it is expensive to pick winners and diligence opportunities. It's hard with debt financing (clearly because people still give out bad loans), even harder with equity financing. Also, equity financing provides no clear way for investors to get their money back. There is far less of an incentive structure here. Only debt creates that obligation which compels people to honor their obligation.

The challenge is, is that investors have a lot of places to put their money and an asset class needs to be compelling from a risk-adjusted returns perspective. Usury laws can protect predictors rates, but there are fundamental limits on what constitutes a profitable interest rate because of higher default rates with sub-prime lending.
I don't think any student of western medicine thinks that the medical profession knows everything about the human body. That's why there are new drugs and treatments coming out all the time, after all. But just because we don't know everything doesn't mean that we should abandon empiricism.
BS, solar is not great in the UK, but your comparing electric generation at 2009 efficiency levels with powering cars, heating using resistance heating etc. (Heat pumps break 100% nominal efficiency by extracting heat from outside air.) It's also perfectly reasonable for the UK to continue to import significant amounts of energy in one form or another and or increase efficiency levels.

EX: We can manufacture 40+% efficient solar cells, sure there expensive, but saying the only thing possible is some lower efficiency level is clearly BS. [They use 10% as some sort of arbitrary limit on page 41.]

PS: Photovoltaic panels with
20% efficiency are already close to the theoretical limit (see this chapter’s
endnotes Current, world record for concentrated solar is 46%.
And this is from Gritskevitch http://www.padrak.com/vesperman/HMD_Presentation.ppt
I am also learning English, don't know whether my suggestions or corrections are appropriate.

Also, sometimes I watch a TV series in which police is trying to solve a 50 years old closed case. What I find interesting is how sad the life of that people are, never a joke, sharp sound, short sentences, never a smile. Perhaps, it is a mirror of a society. In Spain the eyes of people are full of life, the doom is outside of our frontiers (or so I think).

"I'm still not great at English but I surely improved over 15 years": => (I have surely improved) or: I haven't mastered English yet, but I am sure I have improved a lot in the last 15 years.

Without to mention how trivial is to go back in the learning process as long as you stop talking / listening for a couple of weeks… => To top it all, if you stop talking/listening for a couple of weeks you begin going backward in the learning process.

My long term hope is that soon or later => My long term hope is that sooner or later.

Another reason I find myself. => Another reason why I find myself.

NEVER learn a new word without learning what is its sound. => (how it sounds)
> I mostly hear the Mexican accent. When I hear Argentinian or Cuban Spanish, I have no fucking clue what's going on. Does that mean Spanish is phonetically broken?

No, it just means that you need more exposure. That very same thing happened to me while learning english (as my 3rd language after Spanish and Catalan [0]). I started to interact and shared flat with people from USA, England, Wales, Australia, Ireland, etc... For instance I wasn't able to differentiate between Scottish and Australian, only between American English and non-American English. Now I'm quite good at it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language
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To engage in some critical thinking about the article submitted here (which was recommended to me by a private message from a Facebook friend), I should point out that it is by no means clear that critical thinking is a coherent skill that is readily taught.[1] Perhaps the best way to learn critical thinking as a habit is to learn several traditional knowledge domains deeply through grappling with problems as well as through mere exercises.[2] There are some good textbooks on critical thinking for beginning university students, with miscellaneous lessons about various techniques of skeptical thinking.[3]

[1] "Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach?" by Daniel T. Willingham

http://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Crit_Thin...

[2] "Word Problems in Russia and America" by Andrei Toom (which I think I first learned about from another Hacker News participant)

http://www.de.ufpe.br/~toom/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.pd...

[3] For example, How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age by Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn

http://www.amazon.com/How-Think-About-Weird-Things/dp/007803...
Any idea why? Seems either a bit juvenile, or hostile
Negative externalities?

It would be great to concentrate all pollution from ocean, land and air into single place. And I do not mean CO2.
The Many Ways of WeChat: How Messaging Is Eating the World
Critical thinking, the existence of a rational faculty, is what separates humanity from animals.

Critical thinking is necessary in order for our race to reach and discover what it means to be human, and this has been true as long as there have been humans.

edit: Schopenhauer has a great essay "On Thinking for Yourself" -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8915729

edit2: A quote from the above:

12-- When you consider how great and how immediate is the problem of existence, this ambiguous, tormented, fleeting, dream-like existence – so great and so immediate that as soon as you are aware of it it overshadows and obscures all other problems and aims; and when you then see how men, with a few rare exceptions, have no clear awareness of this problem, indeed seem not to be conscious of it at all, but concern themselves with anything rather than with this problem and live on taking thought only for the day and for the hardly longer span of their own individual future, either expressly refusing to consider this problem or contenting themselves with some system of popular metaphysics; when, I say, you consider this, you may come to the opinion that man can be called a thinking being only in a very broad sense of that term and no longer feel very much surprise at any thoughtlessness or silliness whatever, but will realize, rather, that while the intellectual horizon of the normal man is wider than that of the animal – whose whole existence is, as it were, one continual present, with no consciousness of past or future – it is not so immeasurably wider as is generally supposed.
This! In my opinion Thiel does not think far enough and doesn't talk about the real question: Is fission even (economically) competitive? In my opinion (and from what I've read on this subject), it is not and won't be in the foreseeable future.

I will quote myself [1]:

>People always forget about indirect costs when talking about cheap nuclear energy (risk factors aside). Nobody has ever built a profitable nuclear power plant without substantial government subsidies (way higher than for all renewable energy sources). Operators need government help for security, fuel supply, waste handling and much more. There is no insurance company on earth which will cover a nuclear power plant without state guarantees (ask yourself: Wouldn't a profit oriented insurance company cover these risks, of these were really as low and controllable as people say here?).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10143081
For those who want a less all-or-nothing migration path from Heroku, might I suggest looking into Cloud Foundry? Several of the buildpacks (most notably Ruby) are derived from Heroku's upstream repos.

If you decide later that you want to build your own containers, Cloud Foundry has you covered there too, with a pathway for Docker images to be placed, launched and monitored on an equal basis with buildpack droplets.

I'm biased, of course. I work for Pivotal, which donates the majority of engineering time to Cloud Foundry.
Great to see you move your viewpoint on such a thing based on personal experience. I think the world as a whole would be a lot better if we all spent considerably more time in places other than those that we were born in.
English isn't unique by any means in that people from different countries speak different dialects which can sometimes be marginally difficult to understand. In fact, this is how new languages are created in the first place. At one point Italy, France and Romania all spoke Vulgar Latin. And French used to be considered the lingua franca to such and extent that it's in the damned name of the thing. But no one complains that the Portugese have difficulty understanding the Spanish who can't understand the French who can't understand the Italians who can't understand the Romanians. I've been to a few different English-speaking countries now and I can understand everyone's English just fine unless they're from a rural area. Doesn't matter if it's rural Ireland or rural Georgia, I'll have to ask them to put on a fake accent, no matter how poor it is.

English is not particularly strange or unique on most measures. Phonetically it has a few unusual sounds, but every language has one or two (and our most odd sound "th" is found in everything from medieval Japanese to ancient Greek). Grammatically English approaches an analytic language, though nothing quite like Chinese. That means we have fairly sophisticated syntax (meaning attributed to the order of words), but our morphology (the actual words changing according to grammatical meaning like for tense or plurality) is very simple. People from countries where the speak languages with all sorts of genitive and ablative cases with verb agreement on prepositions with an animacy hierarchy (I'm exaggerating here, obviously) seem to see English as simple.

Of course, English isn't particularly well-suited to be a lingua franca. If anything our shift toward analyticism is more of a result of England being repeatedly conquered in it's early settlement by Germanic tribes followed by English speakers repeatedly conquering everyone else, while embracing multiculturalism. But like most lingua francas, they gain status because of their economic importance and then you have to learn them simply because they've become the lingua franca.

I am not optimistic on the idea that a language should emerge that is actually well-suited and designed to be a lingua franca. Esperanto has been around for, what, over a hundred years now or something? And I'm sure Amiga was technically superior to IBM and in a thousand other format wars the technically superior option never took hold.

I'm just glad that I don't have to learn the bastard version of Latin that has grown up in academia and instead my own native language is the standard. There's very little you can do to convince me that an 8-syllable compound word formed from the roots of a language that did not allow compounding using word meanings that are grossly different from their original meaning for a common, everyday concept or thing for the sake of "universal standard" is a superior method of doing things.
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slightly off topic, but...

> Credit goes to ... Lee Smith for spotting the variable record format used to encode the file (an artifact of the VMS on Acorn's VAX that at first appeared to be widespread corruption of the file),

These days, thanks to Unix and C I suppose, a file is just a collection of bytes. That wasn't always the case. Consider Pascal, where a file is a file of something (records, integers, etc).

So, on VMS, you had streaming files (just a collection of bytes) but also RMS -- Record Management System -- files, which were files of records. There were fixed length records (the record size was probably stored in the file metadata) and variable size records (record size was stored inline, as a byte or word prefix before the record). You might think you're just writing data to a file, but you're writing records (the OS adds the prefix for variable records or 0-pads for fixed length). Then when reading, you might request xx bytes but it will only read one record at a time. (Kind of like how fgets() will stop reading when it finds a newline or a tcp socket will stop reading when it finds a PUSH.)

There are advantages and disadvantages to this but if you're dealing with a VMS RMS file, you need to be aware or it will look corrupted.
To be fair, that had nothing to do with software running inflight entertainment.
Is there a library for Scala that is as powerful as Persistent with Esqueleto in Haskell? Persistent is a DSL for the database model and Esqueleto is a library for writing SQL that is validated against the database model at compile time.

http://www.yesodweb.com/book/sql-joins
The Slow-Motion Legal Disaster Unfolding Within the Refugee Crisis
I said "Wirth philosophy." It's his style of a language in action but invented by others. Greisemer had enjoyed the simplicity and productivity of Wirth's Oberon language at a point in the past. He wanted to re-create and expand on that in their C++ replacement. Source is below:

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123645585015
That's pretty much it. We also start second (and third) languages pretty early in school. True story: toddler in a local health center after being asked to count from 1 to 10: "what language do you want me to do it in?"

I never did find out how many he spoke but I wouldn't have been surprised if it was 3 (both parents from different countries in NL, they spoke English between them).
Its the same in my case. Me and my class mates where taught Finnish from 1st grade, and English from 5th. (We where taught Finnish because we are Swedish speakers living in Finland).

Even after all those years of lessons. Few of us spoke even half decent Finnish by the time we where adults, but most of us spoke good English by that time. So I think school had little to do with it.

Me and my class mates watched hours of English cartoons or movies on TV, every day on our free time. Its not surprising it made a bigger difference.
I had fairly nice conversation the other day with a neighbor who actually knew what CRISPR/cas9 were. I was stunned but delighted. It was a rare occurrence, though.
At first sight I find amusing comparing Ruby to Perl 6.
(a=. sort) (a.sort!)
(a.what) (a.class)
(say a) (puts a)
(for @a=>item) (a.each {|item| ..} )
and the similarities, push, shift, splice, ...

I see nothing new here. But I must say that Perl 6 seems to be easier to learn than Perl 5 for beginners.
HMD vortex generator is so disruptive tech for existing energy market that Gritskevitch was offered to abandon his schematics for a lump sum in the late 90-ies. Fortunately his ideas met understanding of Al Gore and inventor now works in the US. But I hear no news about his US based dynamos. upd: Oleg died. This is great loss for humanity. His son has know how and is looking for 10M investment http://www.padrak.com/vesperman/HMD_Presentation.ppt