skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uranium available for enrichment is not fairly abundant. And U ore deposites are distributed far from fair. Like I said, China has no access to deposits, the UK secured for itself. Russia was effectively cut off Kazakh U resources, leaved with a _single_ mine in Chita region.
Netflix (and probably Amazon too -- I have Prime but the UI for the video service is so bad I normally don't bother with it) is falling into the cable model of hundreds of channels but nothing to watch. More often than not I will spend 15-20 minutes browsing Netflix to find something interesting that I haven't already watched, and end up just switching it off because there's not much there.
I really hope the programs that I've purchased aren't pirated, But Then again I just used the code that made anything 5 dollars. So... eh?
It is not mandatory in the specification, but all major browsers have decided to require it. [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2#Encryption
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2#Encryption_2
Robotic Formula E support series in 2016
It's not a matter of if you could, but of if you should. In OP's case, clearly not.
Pixelmator [1] for rasters (though it does have some vector support) and Sketch [2] for vectors are popular alternatives.

[1]: http://www.pixelmator.com/

[2]: https://www.sketchapp.com/
Best news I heard for a long time. 3.0 is almost groundbreaking especially for those designing distributed but lightweight architectures just to mention one advantage among many you get.
I'm surprised they don't invest in production just south in North Africa, it would be pretty trivial to lay cables across to Gibraltar. They would of course have to do it with a sense of economic fairness and fairly pay the countries in money and technology / education transfer.
Who gets the data? You alone? I.e. what is the incentive to use this?
I didn't see any evidence in that article that the waste was causing problems in the salt mine. Why is it considered safer to remove it?
Take a look at Convox, convox.com.

It's an open source "PaaS" that runs in your own AWS account.

It's a thin configuration layer for AWS. So you get easy access to ECS for running your app servers at resource cost, then simple tooling for adding an RDS database, adding a Heroku Postgres URL to you app env, or adding to Papertrail.

Full disclosure: I work on Convox full time.
This article indicates that there will be a "crowd sourced" entry as well. Looking forward to it.

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/its-here-formula-e-announces-i...
Try Krita, friend
Neat idea! Two questions:

- Do you verify inputs to ensure they are at least reasonably valid and not trolling?
- I'm getting a lot of numbers and certain letters, are you specifically trying to get the problem cases solved? If so, good idea - but how does it do right now?
And another: http://ncase.me/emoji-prototype/?remote=-K4Ec7kRoLhqwIp87dBH
There is a gtk3 branch of gimp which brings HiDPI support. I still need to land the new frame clock (for vblank sync) for the gtk quartz backend though.
That's weird. I have pretty much the opposite experience from the author. I'm talking with americans, canadians, english people, australians and a few slavic europeans in english (myself being from a slavic country) and the only ones I have a little bit of trouble understanding are australians. And that one guy with the lisp.
I think what changed was it achieved enough popularity for rights owners to notice it. Due to being (relative to say bittorrent) complex to set up, it skated by on obscurity.
I don't know Perl 6. But here's the reasons why I've considered dusting off my Perl 5:

- Subjective, but in my experience, the Perl community is more full of smart yet practical people than any other dynamic language community I've participated or dipped my toe in (and most popular static manifestly typed language communities to boot). I don't say this to trash Ruby or Python (or even JavaScript and PHP, which have plenty of smart users and participants); I just mean that I often learn more from engaging with the Perl folks.

- Kindof a corollary, but Perl 5 seems one of the few places where industry's reflexive treadmill dash towards the newly-formed but usually isocapable turned into a careful reflection on using the existing power at hand wisely and the best marginal gains from key additional features.

Place two jobs in front of me, one of them working on a new Go project, the other on a new Perl 5 project, my bet is going to be that the latter would be part of a more satisfying overall experience.

Now, Perl 6, this is starting to look like a language where they are going to make a number of things easy that most programmers didn't even know were hard, a number of things possible that most programmers didn't even know were possible, where recent PL research is going to meet further practicality, where unicode might even actually be reasonably comfortable to work with.
I don't disagree with your fundamental premise, but "would require an equal amount of backup power" sounds like hyperbole. I haven't read any proposal for "100% replacement" that doesn't take into account energy storage solutions.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to question those solutions, but an equal amount of traditional power generation as backup seems excessive.
I heared from several Mozilla volunteers that it's not anymore the geek-friendly organisation it once was, but a corporate behemoth run by men in suits.

After they pushed out Brendan Eich, there's no hope for change. Rest in peace, Mozilla.
"Contrary to what you think, this is not Christian Grey's favorite Saturday night activity"

Thanks Ars Technica.
WW3+UK+USA+WANTS+ASSAD+DEAD+FOR+HIS+OIL+ECT+-+YouTube
Ask HN: Your favourite React plugins/components?
Currently I make good use of:

* React Bootstrap (https://react-bootstrap.github.io/introduction.html) - allows use of ready-to-go Bootstrap components such as tabs without having to deal with any of the JQuery initialisation normally required, and makes them feel like first-class citizens in React.

* tcomb-form (https://gcanti.github.io/tcomb-form/) - allows you to quickly build forms that can validate themselves with set client side rules, and server responses using a simple object.

Are there any other great React plugins/components/tools etc. that make developing a React project easier?
Thanks, that sounds very interesting. I wonder if we can automate some of that and do it nationwide?
Chicago Tribune pretty much did this after a FOIA request for red light data was published. It's not searchable by owner name, but it's still pretty terrible.

http://apps.chicagotribune.com/news/local/red-light-camera-t...

http://apps.chicagotribune.com/news/local/red-light-camera-t...

The data's enough to get videos from: http://www.chicagophotociteweb.com/
Yeah, some networks (HBO) are extremely vigilant. If you don't have some kind of always-on device scanning for releases you'll be too late.
Google or Amazon will both give you PaaS systems where you can run pretty much anything. I have more experience with kubernetes than AWS Container Engine.

Openshift and Cloudfoundry should give you alternative PaaS type systems which in arguably are less versatile but more complete.
Or creating the road removed support or, more likely imho, made changes to water movements that eventually undermined the structures uphill.
So, today's desktops and high-speed internet connections are more than enough to just have personal Usenet servers instead of subscribing to somebody else's (or having your ISP shut down there's), anybody know what it would take to do this for real?

(after all I remember having access to full Usenet servers being served off ancient computers hooked into a T-1)
What is the usenet equivalent of a private tracker? The problem with "private" indexers is the content they are indexing (the actual encoded articles) are still public.
Air Force hires civilian drone pilots for combat patrols
I think genetic engineering is an important tool to use, and that the left leaning establishment (with which I typically identify) is far too knee-jerk opposed to any use of it.

I think there are real environmental concerns with over use of herbicides and with pesticides bred into plants that then kill non-pest species.

But I don't see any harm in adding vitamins or other positive traits to similar plants. AND I don't see harm in removing horns from cattle. (Quoting PETA in the article seemed pointless; of course you can't expect a group of militant vegans to say anything else.)

What I'd love to see is an independent organization that makes a rational determination as to the likely ramifications of a genetic change, and that certifies that sufficient testing has occurred to verify food and environmental concerns have been addressed.

But currently the best we have is the Organic certifications, which completely ban any GMOs. The distinction between GMO and non-GMO is even somewhat arbitrary, it turns out [1], where some non-GMO food could have far worse mutations than a surgical gene change, making such a ban worse than pointless.

[1] There are techniques where you subject seeds to radiation and then look for the mutations you want using genetic techniques, and that wouldn't fall under a GMO ban, for instance -- and those genes may have been changed in multiple ways, with some of the effects unpredictable. See http://grist.org/series/panic-free-gmos/
Oakland releases months’ worth of license plate reader data
Most new panels announced these days top 20% efficiency[1]. Output is guaranteed to 90% after 10 years, 80% after 20, real world often better[2].

[1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Is-SolarCitys-N...

[2] http://sroeco.com/solar/solar-efficiency-losses-over-time/
BeYindi
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I found this while perusing their open data portal for other information, was completely shocked that they would make this type of potentially very sensitive information public.
Roads to Xanadu
This is great reporting. The reporter explicitly pointed out it isn't necessarily a causal effect instead of exploiting the misunderstanding that it might be. Then she succinctly explains the findings and a few potential interpretations without evangelizing any of them. She even linked to the original paper! I wish more scientific reporting were like this.

(Note: There's a typo in the link to the original paper. It's missing a period after pnas: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1511536112)
This would be a really neat application for making one. With the order of complexity problem from an earlier comment, it'd be neat to see how the AI's behavior changes as the number of states exponentially increases.
I don't know everything there is to know about how a car is built, but I'm not going to assume that dwarves carve their way through the floor of the factories to finish up the parts I'm unaware of.
> I think it’s a good idea to donate money to Mozilla to reduce the dependence on Yahoo

This is a fool's errand. Mozilla's revenue in 2014 was $323 million: https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi...

The sum total of the proposed public donations to Mozilla will be off by an order of magnitude or two. And there's no reason to believe that public donations will change Mozilla's bizarre course of actions such as forced Pocket integration, or lack of any U2F support.
Unless there's a hardware fault, no runaway loop would overheat the system so much it would ignite.
If you're only containerizing a Ruby application and nginx, I don't really see how containers are much better than old school Capistrano-style rsync deployment. (How often does your nginx version change, after all?) At the cost of an awful lot of additional tooling and somewhat unstable infrastructure.

For our simple Ruby workers, we just use Puppet to set up app server VMs with Ruby and nginx. Deployment consists of updating the Ruby code directory. It's pretty much cloud provider independent, as long as your provider can make a Linux VM, and it works fine, just like it did in 2010. :)
As powerful as Persistent with Esqueleto? Slick, Squeryl, Quill, sqlTyped, probably others. Scala's type safe query dsl story is exceptionally good (I'd go so far as to say unrivaled, but working in Scala I'm biased).

Don't forget JDBC, Haskell is in the stone ages on this front. Like the JVM so much engineering has gone into JDBC, and all major database vendors have drivers for it. Not the case for Haskell, and even if it were, Esqueleto offically supports a single database, Postgres.

Haskellers in the know are well aware of deficiencies in this area[1]. Perhaps down the road things will change, but for now I couldn't help but rofl at the question ;-)

[1] http://www.haskellforall.com/#databases-and-data-stores
I've met (only a few) devs who are as you describe, but instead of socially incompetent assholes they were committed to humility, cooperation, and professionalism in the best sense of the word. They were better leaders than what you describe.

I actually don't get where this stereotype that the best in our field are inevitably jerks comes from. If you're smart enough to rise to the top engineering-wise, you're probably also smart enough to realize that ours is a collaborative field, no one is right 100% of the time, and that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Light-field Camera – Computerphile [video]
Here's a short list of some interesting things: phasers[1], lazy evaluation, feed operators[2], grammars[3], meta/hyper operators[4], subtypes[5], multiple dispatch[6].

1: http://design.perl6.org/S04.html#Phasers

2: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_6_Programming/Lazy_Lists_...

3: http://design.perl6.org/S05.html#Grammars

4: http://design.perl6.org/S03.html#Binary_hyper_operators

5: http://design.perl6.org/S12.html#Types_and_Subtypes

6: http://design.perl6.org/S12.html#Multisubs_and_Multimethods
> Google will be a dominator and gatekeeper to the browser extension market [...] for Vivaldi and other browsers that implement the Chrome extension system and use the Chrome extension repository exclusively. This means Google alone decides which extensions get published.

This is completely untrue. Vivaldi is deciding what extensions get published by intentionally limiting themselves to Google's extension repository. There is literally nothing stopping Vivaldi from hosting their own extension repository for extensions that don't make it to Google's Chrome Web Store. They can also choose to support both repositories, so users can have access to extensions they already use in CWS, in addition to any extensions from Vivaldi's repository.

The article also states that V8 "has a real community behind it, with less control from Google" as if Blink is more strictly controlled by Google. This is false.

V8 and Blink governance are exactly the same. If you want to participate in the community, both projects have public mailing lists where anyone is allowed to put forward rational feedback and ideas regarding functionality and policy. Yes, the final word comes from Google, but there is no governance imbalance between the two projects as implied by this article.
This is a submarine for DCHQ which looks to be some proprietary docker orchestration service that doesn't list prices and doesn't have an open source version. Pro tip - customers don't want to be forced to talk to your sales team before they can try your product.
I love Inkscape on Linux (and it worked well on Windows for me in the past), but it's close to unusable on OSX.

This is one of the biggest reasons I could never use OSX as my OS.
I don't know whether to laugh at the suggestion that a crowd as diverse as HN has a "cumulative sense of humor" or be offended by the implied suggestion that my sense of humor matches that of Reddit's.
We must "fight browser monoculture" by making Firefox the dominant browser instead of Chrome? Firefox would become "independent" if it became dependent on donations? This guy later on stresses that we must have free software engines, that we can't have Google owning most of the market. But Blink is licensed under GPL and BSD... So is Chromium IIRC.

>Currently Mozilla Firefox is a genuinely free browser, but it might not exist for long if main sponsor Yahoo! pulls the plug on their sponsorship and Mozilla can’t find a way to finance its development

There will always be a search company interested in being the default of the browser with the second largest market share.
Do you have sources for radioactivity in coal ash? It's not that I believe you (I do!) I would just like info to share with others.

Unrelated - I'm sorry I downvoted you - stupid tiny hit box on mobile. I meant to upvote.
1 - True but cookies will get read and written upon connection to a server. Whereas most more advanced techniques require more.

2 - I agree with you on the user agent. Don't fake it unless you are going to make it more common. Perhaps turning Linux into Windows is a good idea (but make sure you do it right).

3 - I would say many if you recognise the sender.

4 - That's going a bit far. People can live without facebook but they usually fall back to email or other poorly protected methods.

5 - Agreed.
This really is an amazing milestone. Almost a decade of work getting up to here!

Well done Gimp devs, and everyone involved.
The fact is, it is now confusing for most end users. I tried explaining usenet the other day, and people just can't wrap their head around something other than "a web page" or "an app."

Not only is it a different protocol, but it is a different interface as well.

But I realize this post was meant more towards Usenet's intended audience. I know for me, I really started migrating away from Usenet around 2005-06 when the SPAM got so bad I could barely sift through my daily posts.
As an Australian, the only English speakers I have trouble understanding, are the Scots.
Doesn't seem to work. Getting javascript errors on Chrome 46.0.2.

Update: works fine in chrome's device emulator. Didn't realize this was only for mobile devices, but it makes sense.
New to me, thanks for sharing.

Some great examples there, such as "minute" and "minute". heh.
I really try my best to stick with Mozilla, but their changes in the last year or two have been more then dissatisfying. Like the author said, they have added completely unnecessary things and reduced the customization ability in a several occurrences.

I have written a rant about Mozilla a couple of months ago that I still think is relevant: https://blog.r3bl.me/en/mozilla-dissatisfaction/

Although I'm all up for supporting free and open source software, the situation with Mozilla has became shady enough that I just want to move away from it. Unfortunately, I have nowhere to go. Midori is still not completely usable, I just can't convince myself to switch to Chrome or Chromium because I genuinely feel uncomfortable using them, IE/Edge are only available on Windows so they're practically useless to me, Firefox forks are really nothing groundbreaking, Vivaldi is not open source...
I use React-Router, a couple of "Reactified" Semantic UI components (Accordian, Tooltip, Modals, Sticky, etc), and NuclearJS for the Flux implementation. I also use Semantic UI CSS.

That seems to do the job pretty well for me.
Love this. One caveat that I wonder about: asking about the meaning of one's life outsides the strictures of culture yields nothing - structures in that case are more helpful (providing guidance) than harmful (foreclosing other options).

Does the same apply for career?
A script like that would be completely feasible, but wouldn't that make it more popular? Isn't it's difficulty to set up what's keeping it under the radar?
> "...with pages that only work properly in Google Chrome or its derivatives."

This is already well underway. Facebook's advertiser power tools will only work with Chrome.
I like you and your level of cynicism/paranoia.
Oh, I like you mentioned that. It reminded me of a quote I'd read recently and which I'd liked. Here it is:

"For me, the hardest thing about functioning in a foreign language was not the long hours it took me to get through a text, not the heightened anxiety, accompanying every social interaction, but the sense of reduced personality that comes with limited verbal expression. For someone who prided herself on writing music criticism for one of the largest Russian newspapers Vedomosti, a branch of The Financial Times, this was a bitter pill to swallow. Even though I communicated perfectly fine, I missed being able to say more with less, to say the same thing in several ways, to express character, not only literal sense. What came out of my mouth felt crude, stiff, and trite."

(from http://www.rma.ac.uk/students/?p=2646)

It is so true for me, this thing about reduced personality.
Yes, indeed is critical thinking of importance; but unfortunately it is only as broad as the subjects tastes, culture and emotions allow for; very few use logic, reason, or history; and even if objective critical thinking is of the more reasonable, many go against the grain and follow a path of critical thinking that is paved by emotive language and bias.. .
> Esqueleto offically supports a single database, Postgres.

This is not so. It supports at least persistent-mysql, persistent-postgresql, persistent-sqlite, according to https://github.com/prowdsponsor/esqueleto/

Perhaps you are thinking of Opaleye, which does only support Postgres.
>devs pushed fixes mid-flight

They don't say they updated the flying server midflight, though:

"An issue was spotted mid-flight, discussed over Slack with Yle (located in Helsinki) and fixed immediately. The fix was visible whilst airborne, 10 minutes later when the latest news were updated to the aircraft."

It could well have been an issue in the infrastructure on the ground which led to garbled news. Then they pushed a fix on the ground and 10m later, the flying system got rid of the glitch. Purely to make it more dramatic, I would have been vague about that too if the fix was to the ground-based infrastructure.
Lessons from Douglass North
Check out their GlassDoor reviews if you need any further proof. [1] Lack of focus is the biggest concern. It's a shame, really.

1: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Mozilla-Reviews-E19129.htm (access with Google referrer to get all the reviews)
I'm in the middle of reading a great book on geoengineering, Oliver Morton's The Planet Remade. Engagingly written and comprehensive; I recommend it highly. From the introduction:

If the world had the capacity to deliver one of the largest nuclear power plants ever built once a week, week in and week out, it would take 20 years to replace the current stock of coal-fired plants (at present, the world builds about three or four nuclear power plants a year, and retires old ones almost as quickly).

Morton goes on to make the case for considering geoengineering, and for ramping up research on it. I don't know that I can do justice to the argument in a short summary, but one key point is the extent to which we're already doing it in an unplanned way. We all know about all the carbon dioxide we're putting in the air, along with other greenhouse gases -- nitrous oxide, for example -- but there's also the massive amount of reactive nitrogen we're creating, mostly for fertilizer. We all know about the massive local environmental effects of burning coal, but there's also some evidence that coal smoke has a cooling effect; changing from coal to nuclear may actually worsen warming in the short run.

I was favorably disposed toward geoengineering before I got the book, so I can't claim to have been won over, but there was an awful lot I didn't know about it -- for example, how the various approaches would affect different regions of the globe differently, and how those effects could be adjusted to some extent, though not optimized for everyone simultaneously.

Again, I highly recommend it.
Here comes the first open source email app with automatic encryption