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> "It was a much more real threat in the 80's and early 90's, though. I highly doubt students are still forced to watch bullshit educational "duck and cover" videos on how hiding under their desks will somehow save them from a nuclear explosion."

I agree that it was more prominent in the public imagination, and you're right that "duck and cover" videos and similar were part of what kept it there, but I would dispute that the threat is any less 'real' now than it was in the 80's.

Looking around the world, I'd say there are currently three regions of instability that could lead to nuclear weapons used in anger (I'd add a fourth one if Trump is elected US President, and I'm not joking about that, the guy has already called for killing innocent people to further his own goals (killing the families of terrorists), and I could see Trump and Putin being a toxic combination in terms of diplomatic action).

The three regions I'm referring to are:

1. North Korea.

2. Middle East.

3. India and Pakistan.

North Korea are clearly threatening to develop nuclear weapons, and have a powerful ally in China, which allows them to get away with it so far. Even if the weapons are developed as a form of self defence, the question is what the leadership sees as valid threats, and considering their somewhat ruthless approach to their own people, I wouldn't put it past the North Korean government to do something reckless beyond their own borders.

The Middle East appears to be a huge mess, I'm sure I don't need to explain how chaotic the region is. Isreal are the only country in the region with nuclear weapons at the moment, but with the activity in the region it never seems far from disaster. Even if Isreal didn't push the button themselves, other more radical groups may go down that route. Russia's support for Assad and Turkey's membership of NATO are a bit of a concern when viewed in combination.

India and Pakistan are both nuclear powers, engaged with a minor conflict with each other over their borders. Things appear to be settling down recently but if either side gets a war-hungry government then work on developing a peaceful resolution could be undone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India–Pakistan_border_skirmish...
If you were a serious graphic design professional might not you already have an i7 or a xeon rig with SLI already set up, and be accustomed to leaving a render running overnight?
Interesting book, could you recommend others with a similar subject?
^ this. Austin is still a great place for startups, as a talented professional you just have to be careful about which startup you're jumping in to.
Sometimes I wish there was some kind of institutional body that could bar these people from getting a job ever again. Sometimes.
This is almost accurate, it's missing the last bit, which is that the exec returned to the US and quit his job after realizing what he just said.
What is fake about it?
Just because the author of this particular library picked C++/CX does not mean you have too.

I prefer developing native parts in C++ without CX. Compile classic C++ DLL. Then I use a combination of C-style [DllImport]-ed functions, and COM-style IUnknown-derived objects.
This approach works fantastic for a whole bunch of Microsoft’s APIs like Direct3D and Media Foundation. I don’t see why not use the same approach in designing custom DLLs.
Agreed, but I would not actually be surprised if they did not learn anything yet. The embedded hardware world is not quite as well connected in that sense as the web start-up scene. It could take a few days before the circle of the people that know about this and the circle of the people involved in that company intersect.
It's more of a tutorial than bragging about crashing something with no safety checks....
"very likely"

The science is settled.

How interesting that a group of people capable of wielding DDoS doesn't know how to counter-sockpuppet.

Could it be that they are simply vastly outnumbered?
I was referring more to taking a principled stand on LinkedIn, of all things.
Ever since the Phoenicians invented money, there has only ever been one solution to this problem. I personally could be convinced to work for a lot less than $1M/yr for a fully-remote job, hint-hint thirsty recruiters and tech execs ;-)
Thanks- that's really useful.
Copyright would apply to the scan, same as any photo you make of something is copyrighted to you.
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Thanks for the response, but I really don't understand where you're getting the idea that I'm advocating sexual harassment at all.

I'll go backwards:
4. So you think that most men would prefer to not have any women around them most of the time, and only want to socialize with other men? I don't know if that's true or not, but it certainly isn't the case with me. I don't really want to work in a monastery-like atmosphere devoid of females (attractive or not).

3. Maybe, but that's what I'm asking about: why would straight men only want to be around other men? Seriously, I really don't understand this at all. Are most men repressed gays or something? I actually like being in mixed environments, even if I'm not attracted to most or even any of the women. Am I weird that way?

1-2. You seem to be claiming that men aren't also judged on attractiveness, and this seems wrong. I'm quite sure a lot of studies have shown that men are indeed judged on attractiveness, though the standard is somewhat different than for men (it doesn't disfavor older men as much). Just go find a short guy (or worse, a short fat guy) and ask him how his life is going and if he perceives any discrimination.

Anyway, my point all along has not been that only young pretty women should be hired, as you seem to think, my point was that I don't understand why men would discriminate against women in hiring, because to do so would mean you're surrounding yourself with a bunch of dudes, and as I said above, I don't know about other men, but I for one do not enjoy "sausagefests"; I like mixed environments.
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I found a datasource, it's dated (2011) it shows people trust their "shop" which could be a dealer, chain, or independent. With a 37% split going to independent and 30% to dealerships. I think you are right that we probably wont find any data on if people have a trusted mechanic since this also shows that there is a lot of price shopping going on.

But with all that said, in the broader conversation I'd say I was wrong. Even if you don't have a trusted independent mechanic more people prefer that option, even if they use a different one every time, over the dealership.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2011/12/survey-consu...
People want reactor which passes safety regulations and this article does not even touches the subject.

Communist Czechoslovakia was working on something like that, civil reactor for small remote villages. They got stuck on cooling.

BTW there is atomic reactor in center of Prague ;-)
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Thanks Jeff!

But isn't there an existing open source license model that contemplate this case?
Involving lawyers would surely kill the project, as the developer of the company already mentioned...
>"The difference, of course, is that I don't know anyone who actually takes the "government is always the solution" line, but I do know plenty of people who take the "government is always the problem" line. So, um, nice straw man you've go there."

I take it you haven't had much debate around the concept of a free-society without government. You bring that one out, and suddenly everyone is a statist that thinks that "government is always the solution", for every problem imaginable.

Heck, I'm an anarcho-capitalist and even I think government should be the solution to every problem. That is, as long as I'm paying taxes. While that's the case they better well be using my tax contributions to solving those damn problems, even if government isn't the "best" solution for them.
Satoshi Nakamoto did promote increasing the block size, in 2010. As you can see from the discussion, many of the same players were already freezing their positions in this debate six years ago.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1347.msg15366#msg153...
I thought that tDCS was already debunked as problematic since it increases neuroplasticity at the cost of information retention.

So yes, it can be used to accelerate skill learning for skill dependant people but can be (and is) detrimental for knowledge workers
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I tried buying us postal stamps last week online.

This article gave me flashbacks: must make account with postal service to buy stamps.. Not to mention some strange government rules for passwords (10 characters....)

Give it a try!

https://store.usps.com/store/

I saw Jared speak at a php conference back in the day. Funny and informative. Though mobile has changed a lot in 4 years the slides are still up.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1086584/Mobile%20%26%20U...
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I'm one. This is part of how I know.
It shouldn't be used to replace JPEGs, but PNG files are widely used and would be good candidates for FLIF files instead.

Also true for static GIFs, but presumably anyone still using them is not bothered about converting images to better formats.
Make sure you are factoring in the labor cost of hiring trimmers. Trimmers on average can do about a pound/day if they really try...
>We should have good 3D scans of every museum item of note by now and available for free for the public. How can we sell this concept to the boards, trustees, curators, and bureaucrats who control these items?

Why not convince legislators instead?
I'm a bit surprised they're not selling prints.

Someone put a web front end on this, with an approximate preview of results.
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That sounds like a lot of conspiracy theory with zero evidence. Mind producing some actual evidence of brigading, sock puppeting, etc, preferably before theymos started banning everyone and was downvoted to -1,000 by the bitcoin community, not by whatever your paranoid head imagines.

Moreover, didn't theymos say he would ban coinbase from r/bitcoin. I suppose coinbases is a sockpuppet too right and maybe they out to destroy bitcoin because it isn't bitcoin that gives them their business.

All we get from small blockers is conspiracies and conspiracies, all the while you engage in ddosing, banning, censorship, changing of sorting orders, secret honk kong meetings, backroom deals with miners and on and on.

There is an attack going on and that is the insanity of the small blockers - a tiny minority of only 10% - crippling bitcoin by keeping network capacity limited, creating a huge backlog, unreliable transactions, and now we on HN discussing it.

Congrats - nutheads.
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Sometimes, you might want to call somebody, and instead of leaving the app and opening phone/contacts, I used to click on the little phone icon in Whatsapp. If I do that now, it'll initiate a WhatsApp call, which sometimes works, but most of the time doesn't. If there was at least an option to select mobile, or WhatsApp calls... Furthermore, the only way to initiate a new conservation is by adding a new contact. In order to do that, I need to also upload all my contacts to WhatsApp. If my teachers wouldn't rely on us having WhatsApp (!!!), I'd probably ditch it at once...
Always paste to the browser url bar and then copy again. This clears any extra tags you might carry over and will display anything that might be hidden. You could copy and paste to notepad, but the browser bar is closer.
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AIM is actually really nice these days. I wish I could get my friends to switch back to it.
So we're supposed to believe that same side that supposedly disrupted the community through sockpuppetry is also at the mercy of DDoS attacks?

Seems like anyone capable of orchestrating DDoS, can also organize sockpuppets.
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Gzipped the entire CSS file hamburgers.min.css is 3KB.

However, still no excuse. Which is why I also included the source, which is designed to be modular so you don’t have to include the whole library. The CSS is compiled via Sass and each type is its own partial that can simply be commented out. When compiled with only one of the larger types, that trims the CSS down to 1KB.

I also purposely have each type commented in the expanded CSS hamburgers.css so one can easily scan and delete the type(s) they don’t need.
Only if you actually would have billed that time out (you wouldn't have).
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I'd love to see this with water colors instead of coffee. Composite images made from multiple passes would be cool too.
This is probably the 3rd "replacement" for JPEG I have seen on HN in the last few years. None of these formats have been supported by common browsers. When will this stuff start making its way to the desktop?
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AIM/ICQ is still alive. Yahoo! Messenger is still alive. MSN Messenger has a migration path to Skype. Doesn't seem like that distinction makes a lot of difference.
And yet in Bulgaria you can live very well with $1000 per month. With $2000 you build enough savings in 30 years to leave well another 30 years without working.

The thing is, the biggest issue is not lack of jobs, it's mobility. If people could really easily move between countries, they could live much better lives. Of course, to do that we need to have many more remote jobs (hopefully this is coming), kill stupid cultural/political barriers (difficult), stop thinking people should remain in a 20km radius from were they were born.

Consider that a lot of this welt they talk about is in real estate. The moment you stop paying 50% of your income in rent, you become automatically richer than your parents.
The source of the project is compiled via Sass and each hamburger type is its own partial. Simply comment out the ones you don’t need before you compile, and you’ll only get what you need.
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They also are suffering debilitating health problems, chronic illnesses brought on by a lifetime of living with AIDS and the toxic effects of its treatment.

Can anyone explain what they mean by "toxic effects of its treatment"?
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I totally agree with you, except for the "not leaving LinkedIn" part. I closed my account about 1 year ago after having to deal with spam, bad UI, and useless connections.

Also removing your profile from the network is a bad use experience: I had to send a customer support request to close it because I had more than 500 connections.

I think that I will build something in the near future because I like the idea of collecting connections and achievements concerning my professional career, but I'll never use LinkedIn again.
While i agree completely, RIT's college of imaging science is a very R&D heavy college. Monetization is rarely a top-of-mind consideration for their projects.
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Yes, I believe that's the idea.
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I actually just wrote a post on that topic: http://www.zerobugsandprogramfaster.net/essays/estimates.htm...
It will probably take time to get all of the answers, but in this case, automatic updates are safe.

Although I'm not a Transmission developer, I develop software that uses the same automatic update mechanism. It appears that the hacker did not update the MD5 present in the automatic update mechanism. (Sparkle) Thus, when the automatic update mechanism downloaded the hacked version of Transmission, it reported it as a corrupted download.

You can see the comment here: https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17834#p...
In addition to umanwizard's comment, you're assuming that there are no external constraints involved. There are plenty of non-exponential growth curves out there, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz_function , which you can imagine as being at least as probable as an exponential rate.
OK, you are right that you can check more without trusting others with that system (with public votes/secret vote identifiers you can only check that your vote was counted).

But you still have to trust other people because you can't be everywhere.
Could the reporter be extrapolating from a couple of aquihires?
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For a few weeks Patrick Gray has been saying he has a source(s?) that claim there is a viable attack involving pulling the NAND from the phone, reprogramming it offline and reattaching.

We'll have to see if the reverse engineers are able to reproduce and publish, but between this and my overall security cynicism, I lean towards there being a way in but wouldn't be surprised that if the intelligence agencies have it, they're legit not sharing.
Short answer: it's politics, NIMBY nonsense, and radiophobia.

Longer answer:

Yes, there are obviously safety and proliferation concerns with nuclear power, but a lot of these are solvable problems. Many industries solve difficult/dangerous problem all the time. Unfortunately, paranoia and misleading (or simply wrong) information about radiation made a lot of people treat the very idea of nuclear power as something that is "always bad".

This, and the usual political stupidity, has kept nuclear power restricted to the same designs for decades. Imagine if the computer industry was was never able to move past the relay and vacuum tube designs made in the WW2 era; today we might have very good vacuum tubes instead of the integrated circuit. Newer reactors like the Westinghouse AP1000 are a nice improvement in safety and cost, but it's still basically the same solid uranium alloy fueled, pressurized light water reactor we've always used. Newer designs are never always considered "too risky" in either money or physics.
Not an official comment, but from other parts of the hacker news thread it sounds like one of the mirrors the main site redirects to was hacked, not the main site itself. The SHA sums on the main site where apparently unaltered. So it sounds like the only fault on the developers is trusting that mirror.
anyone got a sample?
Agreed on all counts. I don't use it before every single meeting, but it's helpful to see who we have in common, etc.

And yes, it could have been (or could be) so much more than just recruiter-oriented. Something as basic as letting me keep notes about my relationship with someone - where did we meet, who introduced us, etc - would have made them truly indispensable to an entire generation.
To support the old, we need to have more young. It's a lot like a Ponzi scheme. It's an inherently unsustainable situation.

Also, resources aren't the only concern of having more people. More people means more governance. The world becomes more complex as the numbers grow. Accountability becomes harder, laws become more extensive.
If world is a set - everything is unique by definition.

You need to define some relation on that set to get classes of abstraction. And that's exactly what abstraction means :)
I think he meant automatic.
Except, companies want to hire "experts". They want to hire people who have done X to do X, instead of people who haven't done X but want to do it.
The article seems to be using "cloud engineering" to mean what I would call "data engineering" or "distributed systems engineering". If so then the numbers they're throwing around seem high but attainable. I would call myself a "data engineer" (I build ad servers, recommendation engines, etc for clients) and have been getting offers in the low 300s for full time work with about five years of experience.
Why do people thing they would enjoy being a game developer? Do they assume they would have critical design or decision making input, or do they just love coding physics/graphic rendering software. I never got the appeal. I like games too, but I would never think making them in a large studio would be fun.

A simple game by myself as the complete owner on my own time seems way more fun by comparison.
I wrote something similar (but using Python), on how one can generate music using mathematical sequences such as Fibonacci's:

http://pedrokroger.net/pascals-triangle-sound/

I used to spend a lot of time on
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences ;-)
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Ask HN: What's the best email-based customer support system
We use a combination of Slack and email to track customer issues for our small software company, but it's not working well.

We're looking for something (which must be quite common) which would allow us to track issues in conjunction with the original emails and with Slack discussions. It'd be OK to replace the Slack discussions, but not the email threads. And we don't use gmail, so solutions extending gmail wouldn't help.

Surely, this must be a common need here on HN. Anyone have any recommendations?
There is also www.adobe.com/voice
Its an iphone app that allows you to create videos. I used fiverr for the audio (since I am not a native speaker) and adobe voice for the video. The end result was pretty good.
Bitcoin is simply decision making by CPU power. Quote Satoshi: "Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote. The majority decision is represented by the longest chain, which has the greatest proof-of-work effort invested in it."

I didn't say that everyone follows automatically if there's a hard fork. But if there's a hard fork and an un-upgraded node finds itself on the losing side of the fork, it is lost.

Whoever generates the longest chain that gets accepted by the majority of the networks, wins.
>Everyone loves the "responsive loading" feature, but
> that's not even the novel thing about the format
>(JPEG 2000 did it even better — 16 years ago)!

Interlaced GIFs did it ~30 years ago.
I don't care about my score. I could have guessed why though. People not reading things properly. I was taking point with the observation that the site said it was better. I pointed out that it didn't say that, just that the compression ratio was better.
This working environment looks like a cramped nightmare. How can anyone focus?

https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/zap03-15_b...

Compared to, say the Basecamp offices, which look open, airy, and peaceful:

https://basecamp.com/about/office
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Almost could replace Pandora for me. All I want is some somewhat melodious tones in the background anyway.
Yeah, and "survivor guilt" wasn't explicitly mentioned because it was one of the over-arching themes of the whole piece.
I also shut down my LinkedIn account. While I was using it, I was never able to get it to completely stop sending me emails. My workaround was to create a filter in Gmail to immediately toss anything from LinkedIn. After a few years of this and recruiter spam on the site itself, I decided it wasn't worth it. Dark patterns, privacy concerns, spam, and worthless recruiters - why bother?

As an additional bonus, I can now view some people's LinkedIn accounts without giving myself away. So I get to look people up without any of the downsides. I guess this benefit will disappear if people start to abandon LinkedIn, but for now it's nice to be able to creep on people anonymously.