skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I've worked in the nuclear industry (just a scaffold builder), so take this with a grain of salt, but there are a few things I think get left out of the conversation.

One is how absolutely catastrophic coal fired plants are. People often talk about hypothetical scenarios with nuclear, but tens of thousands of people are dying every year as a direct result of coal power and that doesn't even take into account the long term effects of climate change. We need to be aggressively pursuing _any_ and _all_ alternatives to coal, in my opinion. This might sound a little crazy, but I almost feel the situation is urgent enough to justify the president declaring a national emergency and using the national guard to unilaterally shut down these facilities. I realize that's completely unrealistic, but I hope it conveys my sense of urgency.

Another thing I'd like to touch on is the handling of nuclear waste. It's absolutely problematic, but I'm curious about the marginal cost/risk of additional waste now that we already have to deal with it. We already have to devise a solution to the problem, so it seems like that offsets the cost of dealing with the additional waste of more reactors. Even if we didn't use nuclear power, we would be generating waste from research reactors, nuclear medicine, etc, that we would have to deal with. If you have to figure out how to safely store a ton of material for ten thousand years, does it really cost twice as much to store twice as much material?
But you have to be morally corrupt to hold a position like this.
Why does the percentage of dropouts from an online class matter? Do the issues raised in this article really need to be addressed? There are still so many people benefiting from successfully completing these courses, and learning new information. Do the people who don't, or who try and then give up, really affect the value of the opportunity online education brings?
DROWN short summary
Staffer who set up Clinton's server given immunity
It's very well known historically that these agencies have been fighting with each other since their originations. They fight each other over intel, budgets, turf, governance, talent, technology, etc.

I don't think there's anything to subscribe to or not. It's established fact, widely written about for decades.
You're talking about some of the most successful companies in the field. Most companies will be low compared to them.
Ask HN: Does anyone know of a good academic journal aggregator?
JSTOR, Scopus, EBSCO... are all great resources, but not exactly what I'm looking for.

I'd like to be able to subscribe to academic subjects (i.e. economics, psychology, sociology) and receive daily/weekly notifications when the newest research is published.

I'm yet to stumble on a service that can do this for me - any suggestions?
Yep, but those tools rely on a DLL (msys-1.0.dll or msys-2.0.dll,) which is Cygwin by another name. MSYS is not MinGW. Programs like Bash will never run under MinGW because they rely on things like fork(), which are only provided by Unix, Cygwin, or a Cygwin fork like MSYS.
I thought some of the msys tools relied on a cygwin-like DLL for fork().
Awesome-GitHub: Better use GitHub
What are you talking about? People live stream to YouTube all the time. And to Twitch. And they used to on OnLive. And Nvidia has a thing. And Skype. And Google Hangouts. And Chatroulette.
Just because the MIC is winning doesn't prove me wrong. The usg incentive is continual war.

Chomsky backs this up, you're actually saying the same thing as me: that the system is fed by war. Show me how that isn't true?

However I will go through all your links and read them all.

But war is the only thing that keeps this country alive at the moment. War and financial fraud.
Apple argues (correctly IMO) that Congress already did that in the language of CALEA.
If Apple had designed the iPhone to require user authentication before updating the software/firmware then they wouldn't be in this mess and they would not be able to comply with the court order short of hacking/jailbreaking the phone. If the pin was required to be entered before installing new software on the phone then the FBI would first need to know the pin to load GovOS on the phone so they would not be able to crack the pin using this method. And once Apple patches their software to require user authentication before installing updates they will no longer be able to comply with any similar type of request.
This is great! Is there a similar app for sculpting in VR out there?
This is fantastic as I've just started learning flex-boxes, I did have one problem using it, there's no stop button once the circles start flowing!
I use curl because it is generally installed. I prefer not to install wget, especially on customer machines because it stops 90% of script kiddies. For some reason wget is the only tool they will attempt to use to download their sploit.
Criminals are never far behind, this is terrible, but technology isn't the problem here, tougher penalties and more resources to catch those at the top of the ladder in trafficking networks.
Not quite a gadget but many varieties of Japanese Kit Kats are either only available or are much cheaper in Japan. A lot of people in the states aren't even aware that Kit Kats come in flavors there.
You say "only" as though that's a bad thing. You don't need more than one reason.

You say they want to grow or maintain their market share. As opposed to wanting to go bankrupt and fire 100,000 people. You mean, Apple wants to continue to exist? That's exactly correct. Rational self-interest is a wonderful thing, including Apple responding to their customer demands.
Yes! That blue and white thing. Amazing piece of software.
Soooo cool! This is clearly the way of the future.
Completing Swift Generics
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The implicit assumption seems to be that we need nuclear because solar and wind alone (with presumably cheaper batteries in the future) won't be able to supply the needed power.

It is hard to prove something like that, that future technology can't do something, but the author doesn't even try.
Well that's interesting. I haven't seen any Google product host its videos on anything other than YouTube in a very long time.

It's strange they chose to host it outside YouTube in this instance.
A little meta comment and I apologize for bikeshedding but it seems https works fine here. Can we replace the link in the title with

https://www.tiltbrush.com/

Thank you!
Yes it helps a whole lot. For me the big conceptual leap was about dynamic libraries (linking, loading and organizing it in the file system). Windows and Linux does them differently and organize them differently.
Citizens United depends on the concept that corporations have 1st Amendment rights. But it did not create that concept.

That has actually been settled law for a long time; it is how newspapers (which are corporations) are able to enjoy freedom of the press--not just the reporters individually.

So Citizens United could be overturned and it would not hurt Apple's case at all.
Trumps Plan for Healthcare Reform
> I think I can answer those questions.

Actually, I don't think you can - you're too close to the subject to be objective about it. Maybe in 100 years.

Counterpoint: 20 years ago Shenzhen was a sleepy fishing village. Nothing about fishing explains my motherboard or phone. It was central planning not organic growth.

Nexus, like the cities represented by them have always existed as a socioeconomic force. This is true as far as we know further than written history can tell us e.g. Hattusa [1]. And no one can explain them or create them from scratch outside the fact that some last longer than others.

A visit to Amsterdam reveals the lasting power of the Tulip as both a symbol and an economic force over centuries [2]. What physical form will SV take in the future is more interesting than any postulating by the author - who as a historian - should know better.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattusa
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Do you ever open stuff in incognito to see content?
> It's not Apple's job to protect the American people

They're not only protecting Americans.
I think this is the answer. You can imagine content plugins that inject into server side CMS (RoR, Drupal, django on top of Apache, Nginx, etc..) that add ad elements, and scramble the div / css tags such that it looks uniform, yet has a semi-random naming scheme that would be hard to defeat.
Scott Kelly Back on Earth and Two Inches Taller
The fact that he's already independently wealthy makes this act far less impressive. If it was a first time founder making a humble salary doing this, that would be completely different.
This is great. I have been meaning to learn the CSS flex box model and thanks to this game it took only a few minutes!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RROTlX1QAx0
The allegation in the San Bernadino case is that it was international terrorism, so the NSA would reasonably have jurisdiction.
Oh man I can't wait to see the Michaelangelos and Berninis of today
Web front end to console weather app
Mercedes Boots Robots from the Production Line
Your Checkout Page Is Doing It Wrong
Hnbuzz a hacker news iOS client already supports collapsible comment :) - |via http://bit.ly/hnbuzz01 |
It's because revenue isn't meaningful, profit is.
Possible missing Boeing 777 #MH370 horizontal stabilizer found off Mozambique
I'm curious... How do they harden these things and do they have an impact on the CPU speed (is that why its so slow) ?
more images: https://twitter.com/CNNJason/status/705127022222299136
but the loss (from the stock tanking) would be the same regardless of how many employees had options though, no?
It is in fact the other way around. The US Government completely and entirely dominates the private sector economy, controlling nearly every aspect top to bottom. The US is one of the most regulated economies in the G20, with economic regulations continuing to expand rapidly, the government adds thousands of new regulations annually.

That blatant government control is why the NSA (US military, executive branch) was able to force Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, et al. to comply against their will, and often against their attempts to defend themselves. It's also why this is even an issue at all. If Congress were owned by corporations, none of this would be happening, Apple would have dismissed them with a swipe of its hand, given it's the world's richest private corporation.

If corporations owned Congress, the US wouldn't have one of the highest effective corporate tax rates on earth.
Ejecting a floppy disk in space
I use httpie for interacting with APIs and aria2c for downloading stuff. They're both perfect at their respective jobs.
Profit is not always meaningful either. Running at full Op Ex (eg, hiring a larger team) can reduce profit to near zero, but if it leads to growth it's money well spent.
Are you sure it was a boat? The fibre providing most of the connectivity from Whistler to Vancouver runs along the highway and has been cut by traffic accidents, but I don't think there's anywhere that a boat would kill it...
Loss per employee would go up, since the number of employees with options is less than originally assumed.
His point was that the fear over waste isn't necessarily a consistent one: people fear nuclear waste more than other types of waste, even though those other forms of waste are a much more significant concern. It's not really a question of which is objectively more dangerous, but which is more likely to affect the general public. The odds of someone stumbling across nuclear waste are incredibly slim; interacting with chemical waste, much more likely.
This is seriously amazing.
The rapid updating of car models is either going to be a success or blow up in the car manufacturers face. The sales of cars has been high over the past few years, but economically sustaining car sales year and adding growth year of year is not feasible with the current model of purchasing and holding onto a car as a long term liable asset. Newer business models will be needed to make this shift for newer model sales on a smaller time frame. I see a big push for leasing coming.
I'm told that the US military uses the phrase "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
The Great Silicon Valley StartUp Workhorse
Isn't this based on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSbkn6mCfXE

(If you're impatient to skip into 2:30)
This is great - I'm self taught and have been working for years with no idea what the stack is - I'd love one for this "heap" thing I keep hearing about, as well.
Super cool. In grad school I developed a system to schedule TAs for a new student counselor. I used simulated annealing because it was related to something I had just learned in class, and because it wasn't heuristic.

It's an interesting problem because there are so many ways to define optimality. Does it mean working with the same manager? Working at the same facility? Minimizing travel between facilities? Number of shift in a week? etc. The problem can be extended with reinforcement learning with employee feedback. If there are manager preferences as well, there is a two-player problem with two perhaps competing interests.

I would love to work on this problem with high school scheduling for building both a master schedule and individual student schedules. No clue where I would get data though.

It's a very cool problem.
> There's a compelling argument that the world ought to be building many more nuclear power plants.

The writer starts the article with the assumption stated explicitly. He punts on that question to discuss cost. Whether or not Nuclear is a requirement can be (and has been) discussed elsewhere. I think that's fine, because it was still an interesting article.
I'm nervous about reality preserving the medium for as long as their works have been around. Do you think it wouldn't be a problem?
Then what do they use? How do they make tea and coffee?
What is a "150_____ mile radius"? What goes in the blank? "Nautical" vs. "imperial roman"?
I am already doing that even if it is just for my convenience (I work flexible hours and the monthly time report is compiled by the employee on a purely trust basis). I use an app called Moves (iOS) and once every ten days or so I just check in-out times from the pinpoint location that identifies my office.
I experienced TiltBrush over the weekend with the HTC Vive / SteamVR set at a friend's house. It was an amazing experience.

By far the best VR experience I had to date (I have a DK2).
The creative joy and glee you feel when painting in TiltBrush is phenomenal.

Some extremely satisfying micro experiences:

* Painting stars / sparkles above your head that sink down onto you

* Trying to draw a cube in 2D, then leaning forward and realizing that you are in a 3D world and need to draw completely differently - actually walking the cube.
Elex, a command-line tool to get election results from the Associated Press
You'd need to download scripts and run them in the background if they send info back to tell if it's blocked.

That would defeat part of the purpose of the blocking. Tracking is easily blocked by deleting cookies after you leave the site/browser.
But isn't that just Bash and a few other tools here and there ?

This is a more complete suit of tools that intends to be sufficient for building any Gnu/Linux/Posix software on a Windows platform. A much more ambitious goal.
I was more referring to the NSA leveraging power over our congressmen and senators due to their knowledge of secrets those politicians may not want exposed. That's a very dangerous game to play, and all it takes is one person not willing to play for it to all come tumbling down for the NSA. So, I don't really subscribe to that narrative.
The problems in the article are not problems of history, rather they are problems of people who refuse to learn from history. People who refuse to learn are doomed, whether they have history or not.
It's not the memory that is the problem, but the collectivist mentality. I "remember" a lot of history but I know better than to associate myself with dead people of the past or to hold my contemporaries responsible for anything that happened before they were born. Sounds easy enough, right? Apparently not when you have pack animal genes and a bunch of politicians eager to exploit it to their benefit.
I agree! We did an interview focused more on the pure mathematics side here:

http://www.aistartups.org/2016/02/interview-with-philip-thom...

Class scheduling for schools is a huge issue but selling to schools is a nightmare. That means that turning it into a business would be really hard.
Maybe in the future so much content will be created by so many (eg digital photographs, youtube), that the notion of preservation will lose a lot (but not all) of its former value, with the focus shifting on the next thing rather than enjoying the last thing for 400 years. Humanity as we understand it today, isn't going to exist in hundreds of years, we've already taken over control of our own evolution, and there's a high probability that we'll merge into the machines and never come back out. At the rate all of this is accelerating, long-term preservation is very likely going to be moot.
17 months of work by a team at Lockheed Martin. It doesn't seem unreasonable.
>No, that is fundamentally wrong. Every self-respecting nation holds grudges,

Every rational nation doesn't hold grudges, and merely does what is beneficial at the time. Trying to avenge wrongs done to your grandparents or farther back is one of the dumbest things you can do.
Harvard project aimed at translating ancient text angers Hindu right
to validate and analyse JSON, you can use these tools http://codebeautify.org/jsonviewer and http://jsonformatter.org
Dtrace isn't completely dead; it's used to great effect as the underlying technology behind Instruments (performance analyzer/visualizer) on OSX.

It never has really managed to catch on as a standalone tool by itself, though. Part of that's the licensing situation on Linux, but I'd hypothesize that part of it is also that it's a pretty complicated tool to use, interpret, and act on-- you don't hear a lot about SystemTap (same concept, GPLed for Linux-friendliness) these days, either.
Brazil orders release of Facebook executive arrested in WhatsApp dispute
This is a vast oversimplification of the problem. LLVM is a compiler IR; nothing more. It is not portable (you cannot generate IR for one target and have it work for another target) and it does not trivially map to the semantics of most languages beyond C.

A programming language is a combination of many components; assembly optimization and target code generation is just one important part of a much larger picture.

I'm only responding critically because I've seen this trope that LLVM is some sort of universal programming language target way too often now. It misleads people into underestimating the scope of the actual problem. LLVM is not a panacea.

If you really want to make your platform programmable from any programming language, invest time into a well designed C API. Your users will thank you.
I'd be happy if the entire ad-supported content industry burned to the ground.

Make excellent content, and charge me for it. There's your system.
> If you were a Catholic in Northern Ireland in the
> recent past, subject to arbitrary harassment and
> systematic discrimination, you might feel differently.

That's why you don't let your feelings dictate your actions. Listen to your feelings, sure, but if your feelings tell you to do something stupid, shake your head and wake up.
All I remember is what I was told. It could have been specific special-purpose fibre that was laid by Bell for the Olympics, don't know.
Most of those services have a lot more latency than you may realize. I've been looking for a way to stream real-time game video from a friend on the west coast to me in Kentucky, so we can kibitz over voicechat; high-quality streaming video has very noticeable delays at best.

(And it's really bad if the service is optimized for streaming to many viewers at once--Twitch enforces a minimum buffering delay of 10 seconds even for a private, one-viewer stream, and can range as high as 60 seconds in heavy conditions, which really annoys a lot of streamers. If anyone has a suggestion for a good low-latency one-to-one video streaming tool, I'd love to hear it...)
Uhm, that's a bit like encountering the question "how do you put this equipment in orbit and what will it tell us" and answering with: "Use something that goes boom."

Sure, it's a starting point, but it's hardly a full plan, a good plan, or the answers we seek.

For starters, maintenance is not an annuity: How exactly did you estimate the number of real-dollars spent on repairing leaky barriers for the year of 2245?
It was probably a blank "____ mile" in the original electronic doc and someone added the 150 without deleting the underscore, shifting everything right.
A Google search turned up that the Chinese have used a heat shield made of impregnated oak, and perhaps the Russians used a cork one.

Some speculation:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11075.25;wa...
The guy who thinks client-side rendering is wrong is using ASP and JSP as his example web development systems. Those are outdated technologies. (ASP pre-dates ASP.NET by years). Since he is using outdated technologies as a reference point, I am not surprised he has an outdated perspective on client-side templating.

Client-side templating comes with its own problems and advantages. You might not need or want it. A lot of times though you do.

But the original guy who is against it is so far behind.. give it a year or two when people are taking desktop apps and compiling them to web assembly and running them in web browsers. Then the advantages will be obvious. But that is almost a reality today and that person probably doesn't even know that web assembly exists.

Sorry but people need to try harder not to fall behind.
> Uncanny valley isn't real. It's just an artifact from the fact most people see robots on video.

I can't make that make sense. Could you elaborate?
That is this.
The same logic as: donating a kidney is less charitable if you have an extra. When will the meme of moral relativism die?