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Not only is this pedantic in the context of whether Earth's geothermal energy is "stored" or "generated", it's also wrong. Fission is when an atom breaks into smaller pieces. What is it that you think happens in radioactive decay?

From Wikipedia, first line in the article: "...nuclear fission is either a nuclear reaction or a radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts (lighter nuclei)."

Why would you assume that Scientific American got such an elementary thing wrong, then post it as an argument without even checking?
You see references to the IPCC here. Safely ignore those. The ipcc is a political organisation - it's in the title. It was setup specifically to find evidence for a set theory, not to study the problem.

Plus the models that the IPCC uses to forecast disaster have been proven to have zero predictive power.

I would continue to read books written by scientists on both sides of the argument, and ignore anything said by a politically connected person or group.
“Most people would assume that folktales are rapidly changing and easily exchanged between social groups,” says Simon Greenhill from the Australian National University.

I imagine straw man arguments have been around since the Bronze age as well.
Like an artificial plant? If it is possible to engineer something that works better (and there is no reason to believe it is impossible) that would be a huge event.
it doesn't surprise me that you failed to
actually read the article

Gee, I quoted it twice. Am I psychic now?
If that made sense, why can't I get 3 cent wooden buttons shipped to me within the US for free?
It's a rare entry point into the world of venture capital, a world that, for decades, was completely dominated by the old-boy network.
Not to mention other energy storage options - of which there are many.

If renewables had had a small percentage of the money thrown at nukes in subsidies and sponsorship, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
It sounds like you are doing the right thing.
It's not somebody's personal assessment. It's the scientific consensus of almost all scientists. Climate change is not in question, it's not a possibilty under discussion it's as close to scientific fact as gravity and evolution.
Seems like that's a proposal that's trivial to exploit, I can think of at least a couple of ways off the top of my head: shell companies funds-shuffling, related companies wash buying/selling, etc.
> 7 hours
> 5 hours

both of these seem like an extremely long time to do something fairly simple in the native language for minimal gains and often huge tradeoffs (performance, memory usage, lackluster apis, etc)
I interview Harry Percival, author of "Test-Driven Development with Python".

We discuss:

* testing django with unittest and pytest
* layers of testing (test pyramid) including functional testing with Selenium, integration tests, and unit test.
* where tests should live
* test isolation
* testing by development team without a QA group
* double loop TDD
* having Harry's book available for free
Take a look at domvm [1], disclaimer: mine. It was written expressly to allow for imperative AND declarative sub-view composition using a concise, js syntax. I used Mithril for a while before needing granular redraw and concluding that MVC wasn't the way to go.

~8k min. No build tools, no dependencies. Extremely fast [2], composable, isomporphic. JSONML [3] superset template syntax. it's plain js all the way down.

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm

[2] http://leeoniya.github.io/domvm/test/bench/dbmonster/

[3] http://www.jsonml.org/
This is mostly do to the Universal Postal Union Convention, it was discussed in details on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9795017
It's still fundamentally the wrong argument to make if you're trying to convince the public. As I mentioned, all of that precious work goes right out the window the very first year there's a record breaking cold snap (because there will be). And then you'll end up spending all your time trying to break people out of the logic you set them up for. Getting complex science across to the public is a difficult bargain but if you short cut it you're just going to pay the price later.
Switch banks? If your bank is using SWIFT, the MT103 message has fields to track this information (fields 71F and 71G) and validations to ensure the fields are populated correctly (i.e. 32A and 33B must reflect 71F and 71G correctly). Any decent bank should be able to display the originating payment instruction details for a given cross-border payment ledger entry. (I've implemented SWIFT processing fees for cross-border payments.)
What if all these guesses & models are WAY OFF?? What happens when the average temperature change is 10C, not 2C?

A family member works at Nasa & he says that their model is written in Fortran.

And those models do not really take into account feedback loops. (like Siberia thaws & releases giga giga tons of methane.. Greenland disintegrates instead of melting slowly)
I mean, I'm sure it is like that. But you have to ask yourself, why bother with the 3 cent transaction?
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Show HN: A ToDo list that you manage manage inside Slack
Never try to get in the way of the HN anti-advertising hate train, especially with reasonable counter-examples.
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Desperate people living in poverty will be just as responsible as those living in developed countries as soon as they can work their way out of poverty.

Those in developed countries are never going to go back to the standard of living found in poor ones, or at least not without fighting it to the death.

I agree with the rest and I wasn't implying that we can't have both. But there do seem to be a lot of people who take a moralistic tone about this or who push solutions that amount to the same.
To be fair, it seems that even MS are a bit surprised about this throughput:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJeWIWkhVow&feature=youtu.be...
Something very similar is happening to collapse, yes. But it's under weight of complex law. We technologists don't like to think about the law, and usually don't have to since the limitations on our actions are usually intrinsic to the field, but society is law, and law is society. When the law gets too complex for any real human to know, to follow, or to enforce, you get a strange kind of tyranny. You get, for example, business models predicated on millions of petty injustices (bank late fees, parking tickets, pay day loans etc).

I call it "The Tyranny of Complexity". And we, the programmers, have had a big part in creating it, which is why I believe we have a moral obligation to end it. Some simple rules, for example, about how bills must be submitted for a vote, e.g. written in long-hand by the sponsoring congressman, or rescinding an equal or greater amount of law before passing a new one, would help. But computers allow for the asymmetrical enforcement of contracts, strongly favoring the business over the consumer (favoring the highly connected node over the less connected nodes) and we can and should address that, too. Too often we suffer petty abuse in silence, and lack the tools to redress our grievances with our abusers.

Eventually this will yield a true collapse, but it will take a while. Trump might accelerate things, but even not-Trump won't stop it.
http://bfy.tw/3pkg
That's quite amazing. I wonder how well it does with vocals. My partner and I sing a lot of silly little songs and it would be great to have some auto-magical accompaniment.

Also, it would be even better to read a white paper on this. Anyone know of some of the ingredients that went into it?
> Just keep repeating it, but it isn't true.

Please edit uncivil language like this out of your comments when posting here. Without that (well, that and the uppercase yelling), this comment would be a fine one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is brilliant! I wish more people would do that.

I'd add a fat, explicit disclaimer that you don't want anything if people actually made a billion with those ideas (but might be happy if treated for dinner ;).
For every small tool you want to use in Gulp you either have to write your own Gulp task in JS, or add a plugin wrapper to the tool as an additional dependency to your project. Doesn't seem ideal. Just by switching to npm scripts you could probably reduce by at least 50% the number of 3rd party dependencies in your build.

Also streaming stuff around inside a Gulp process is good in terms of speed, but imo quite complicated conceptually, and doesn't match the simplicity of piping stdout between one-liner CLI commands.
Amply and persistently debunked. See e.g.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seven-answers-to-c...
I want, by the way, an interactive map of the solar system, complete with known spacecraft, with the same UI as the KSP map. I've never met anything quite as good at visualising planetary systems.

I haven't found one.
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For the same reason some people might advocate basic income, because overall administering the cost is more expensive than just paying it, especially when it comes to customer satisfaction and buying choices.
There is also online.net[1] who are relatively cheap.

[1] https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-scg2
This book seems explicitly one sided to me, it says right in the blurb:

> The authors of Climate Change: The Facts number some of the most prominent dissenters from Big Climate alarmism
"using" is like "typedef".

With "using", you can define an empty/illegal/abominable function looking like a pointer to function (usually done with a "typedef").
The purpose of a sales broker is not to get more money. We have plenty of cashflow.

The purpose of a sales broker is get your company in front of perspective buyers, who would have interest in an acquisition of your company and help with the sale.
It's easy to use Redux in a composable way once you start removing imperative code in components and just make them describe what happened.

Redux-saga can glue this all together. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/34584313/82609
Awesome, most.js was exactly what I was hoping for! Still, it would be best if all those operators were a separate library dependant on a single common interface (using ES7 bind operator for nice chainability maybe?)
Study: Professional Landlords Generate $500M per Year on Airbnb
I've watched 6 of the 10 episodes, as stated elsewhere. I'll happily recant if one of the people on the stand says "Yes, I planted this evidence" in the remaining episodes. Otherwise, there's plenty of opportunity for a one-sided representation given

> Please go watch it before you start blathering on and on to absolute strangers about their severe lack of imagination, kiddo.

Lack of imagination with regard to this. But hey, why bother to be civil when it's so much easier to look for suspected disrespect so you can respond in kind.
I hate gratuitous unit conversions.

I was taught metric in US schools 50 years ago. But I still have to read articles about a "656-foot space mirror". No it wasn't. It was 200 meters. Morons.
House committee subpoenas Shkreli on drug prices
If SpaceX can recover and re fly the booster staging as they hope to, we should see a marked decrease in cost to LEO. According to their numbers, the booster and engines clock in at 16 million dollars. Normally that's a sunk cost every single launch, so even in a scenario where they fail to recover nearly 50% of the rockets, (they believe they can achieve <95% recovery eventually) the cost to orbit could fall by almost half in the immediate future.

The reason I'm excited about this is that the really hard part (flipping a booster that's going 8,000 KPH around and flying it back to the landing zone) has worked pretty consistently. There have been several technical issues with the actual landings, I think they are 1 for 4 now but what people tend to forget is that that portion of the process is something we've done with rockets since the 60's - it's how we got down to the lunar surface.
That's good, right?
This is a good time to remind folks that the theory of anthropogenic warming doesn't rest on historical climate reconstructions. Past climate helps us understand the implications but without those reconstructions we would still have a clear and strongly supported theory.
There is no 'solution' to climate change becaus the climate changes. It's not even always a problem, either. It's like strong/weak currencies. Some people want a strong currency, others want a weak currency.

Adaptation to climate is what humans have always done and what humans will always do. The richer we are, the better we can adapt. It is beyond futile to wast percentage points of productivity growth futilely trying so change something which is not changeable.

The problems faced by humans 100 years ago are mostly not problems anymore, because of the use of technology and greater productivity. Framing productivity and technology as the problems simply is code for trying to freeze progress.

The greater issue is people using fear to try and gain more power. Fear of terrorism and fear of climate change are the major levers being used to increase the control by those in power. Mostly this is by people who think they can reduce the chaos of life though better planning. While that is possible at the margin and at the micro level (better city planning results in better cities) at a level above that it breaks down and makes things worse.

Central planning is, has been and always will be a disaster. Whenever you hear a politician advocating giving them more power so they can plan a better life for you, know that while they may sincerely believe it, it is more likely to make things worse for you.
Thanks so much! I should add that disclaimer for sure. Take an idea and go with it! Dinner is expected after your Series D fundraising round though...
I agree that some points are actually valid (conceptually).
However React permits to do useful compromises on purity for practicity.

In Elm you have to hack the system to give the focus to a single input or use an external lib... See https://github.com/evancz/elm-architecture-tutorial/issues/4...
You can detect downsampling by looking at chroma frequencies. Bayer pattern color filters on cameras mean that color resolution is never going to be as high as pixel resolution (assuming 1:1 mapping of pixels to sensor pixels) and if you see chroma frequencies that are higher than 2x pixel densities, then you have some downsampling going on.
I've ordered lot's of packages from AliExpress, mainly low value items (<10$) and shipping ranges between 0 and 2$. We're not in the EU (Serbia) and not too rich either. Maybe there's an old agreement we inherited from Yugoslavia but I doubt it.

In fact, I ordered a USB lamp worth 2$ with free shipping just to verify it was possible. It arrived 3 weeks later (btw 3 weeks is the travel time China-Serbia for all packages so far, give or take a couple of days). It boggled my mind that someone is building these things (the connector, wires, led's, plastic and metal alone is worth that money surely), packaging them and sending for such a small amount (not as crazy as the example in the article, but pretty crazy for me).
Facebook over Tor
Why we sold to GM
This is a perfect example of chilling effects in action.

"If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think."
Learning About Deep Learning
Well yes, on a basic level when you have specialization and division of labor, you will always have dependencies.

But when you tighten the feedback loop and shrink the batch size of the work, you make the dependencies smaller and more granular, so the queue gets smaller and fluctuates less, and you get better flow of work through the process.

Here's a simple visual that illustrates why this is the case:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/QGyl3JPoMH1wU0pNoGIsucQCOf...
Another big part of the Patreons I see are for YouTubers. If YouTube's donate/support YouTuber option was better, it could hurt Patreon a bit.
Where you can put wind power, how many approvals you must have, how long the lead times are.

If you can't see how regulatory process increase costs, use this thought experiment. You want to build a house. You buy some land for it, and submit the plans for approval. Now spend the next ten years paying an architect to complete forms and submitting them for review. You have to pay the carrying cost of the land and the architects salary. The cost of the building materials for house remains the same. Can you now afford the house?
Good Design
Seems like a really interesting idea. For now I've got my money on SpaceX in terms of decreasing the cost to orbit first, they have the hardware already up and flying, and it's a bit less exotic so the engineering issues may be more well understood.
Except YC does not expect to be criticised when YC companies tank, which many eventually do.
So Nutter saying that having N versions called X.Y is silly, is what got him banned? Did I read that right? Let's hope the other 'abuse' was more tractable.
Isn't it more that Arduino boards dominate the hobbyist microcontroller space, and they have historically used AVR? IIRC, most new Arduino models are now ARM based.
It's a distraction depending on the size of their team. The people building entertainment and ticketing systems aren't the same people as those building propulsion and safety systems. As long as they have enough manpower to implement the actual technology, fleshing out the business case and the revenue model is not a bad thing.
Your rewrite doesn't need to be on a completely new platform or language, and depending on the use case you'd still benefit greatly from using some of the original functionality of the current code base to do things until you're in a position to replace them.

In my experience, you often iterate towards a replacement instead of pulling the rug out from the current platform and replacing it with another. This isn't always true, but in the case of CRUD based web apps, it's a lot smoother in my experience.
I you go to another country you'll be working for someone else even if you stay at your company.
For those looking for an introduction, here are some of my favorite short stories.

The Profession: http://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html

The Last Question: http://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

The Last Answer: http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/

Nightfall: http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.h...
Both factors are important, period. Whether it's people who are emitting a lot per capita today or countries with lots of people who are increasing their emissions.

You cannot have a reasonable discussion about CO2 emissions without talking about India and China.

Let's say the US halves its per capita emissions tomorrow. Hey, that's fantastic right?

But then let's say China and India come up to match the US's per capita emissions levels. That would increase China's emissions by 25% and India's emissions by 5x. Increasing total emissions for all 3 countries by 50%.

Even if the US stops emitting CO2 tomorrow, if China and India reach 50% of the US's per capita emissions they will together account for 1.2x the total emissions of the US, China, and India today.

Pretending that because the US has much higher per capita emissions today means that it's ok to ignore the rest of the world is pure fantasy. That's the point. We should totally "talk" to China and India. Nobody gets a free pass.
> Those in developed countries are never going to go back to the standard of living found in poor ones, or at least not without fighting it to the death.

Of course not, nor should they.

> I agree with the rest and I wasn't implying that we can't have both. But there do seem to be a lot of people who take a moralistic tone about this or who push solutions that amount to the same.

Understood, and I agree to a certain point, although I think a lot of the strident tone on the environmentalist side is more the result of sheer panic than a desire to moralize. Be that as it may, we can choose to filter out the tone and look at the substance, and when we do that the positions on both sides are not as irreconcilable as they appear (as you seem to agree).
I can confirm that they also exist in Canada but that they are rare.
Its ironic that your username is an ad for the addictive, manipulative game.
If we develop AI to the point it's indistinguishable from humans, will we need to be nicer to computers? I don't think I have the patience, nor the capacity to have to be polite to my fridge every time I use it.

Would data centres be considered modern-day US-slavery cotton fields?
>I received my package around 10 days later, in perfect condition.

That's amazingly fast - I don't understand why it's faster to send things from Hong Kong/China to the US than from the same to Australia. I've had things from AliExpress take upwards of 35 days to get to me (in a "metro" area of SE Australia)
So why wouldn't you use rails and benefit from a matured platform and more proven scalability?
Which part? Are you saying the roman or medieval warm periods dont exist?
Keeping up with the pipeline: Automate security for continuous delivery
Kanye West Is My Father
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Fluid refuses to create a wrapper for a site using a self-signed SSL certificate (or at least, it did the last time I tried it).

This was annoying, because I wanted to use it with an app I was self-hosting, and it wasn't worth the effort of getting an SSL certifiate it would accept.
Thanks for the link!

re cores

They don't appear to have floating point. That a pre-requisite for quite a few accelerator cases. Also could help explain how many he fits in there at what performance.

re FPGA

BOOM! I was thinking it was an UltraScale or Achronix given the numbers. So, that was a hit.

re NOC

Probably the most exciting thing there. I'm guessing he's going to license it. Might be able to use it in open projects or even ASIC's depending. I lack the expertise to speak on the latter except to say that the existence of EDA companies specializing in NOC generation means such a thing might be useful.

Also, good to know we can hit this kind of performance on an UltraScale. Makes me more hopeful about what can be achieved with an open 45nm or 28nm FPGA once we get them. Archipelago is progress in that area at 45-65nm already.
> …but probably not paying the mechanical license rates to the authors. Just like Conte's Pomplamoose.

Pomplamoose pays mechanical licenses for their covers.

"The duo buys mechanical licenses for all of its covers online, which is a quick and easy process." — http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1257832...

Not only that, but they've helped lots of other musicians learn about licensing (via Twitter, on podcasts, etc.), and how to do the right thing.
That's a good point about cities growing to encompass weather stations, and it would be a slow steady change. But like you said, that can be corrected for and I presume you or the gp are not the first to have thought of it. So I still strongly disagree with the assertion that using this data is pseudoscience. Almost everything in science has to compensate measurements for known anomalies or biases.