skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like we still talking 35 years from now:

"With wind and PV growing to 80 % of total power production in 2050, the study gives a lot of attention to how – and at what cost – the different regions can fill the gap when neither the wind nor the sun can meet the demand."
An earthquake took out a section of undersea fiber in Alaska recently, so it has definitely happened before:

http://www.adn.com/article/20140725/59-earthquake-causes-tel...
I think the perceived "black swan event risk" of nuclear is the result of over-hyping a few incidents rather than doing a rational across the board risk assessment. When a rational across the board risk assessment is done, nuclear does less harm per unit of power generated than any other energy technology. But the harm from other technologies is distributed in space and time (for example, coal dust in the air and radioactivity in coal ash), so it doesn't get the big media play.
Your comments have been very helpful. Thanks!
> Exactly how is the (indefinite) cost of safely managing it factored into all those kilowatt-hour costs?

Not a problem for an accountant. It's easy to value an indefinite stream of future dollars in present value terms.

The UK even has government debt like that, and they trade for finite amounts of money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetuity
Interesting idea. I wonder how much eye strain there would be? I remember headaches wearing the old colored 3D glasses for to long, but I think that is a larger difference than what you are proposing.
Sometimes I visit a website I don't want to give money to. I think it is doing a disservice to the world.
I don't disagree per se, but I think if you also factor in a lot of other sticky nasty things about current-generation nuclear power it's one of the issues that weighs it down.

I also think PITA factor is kind of a death by a thousand cuts -- a "long tail" as I said.
Let the paywalls come!
wget has another great flag, -k, which changes references to the css, js, and images to absolute URLs, resulting in a 1 page download that still looks like the original page. It's useful for making dummy pages for clients. I wish curl had this for my OSX friends who need the functionality above. Getting a wget binary onto OSX is a pain but curl is there by default.
curl is the one where I have to remember whether to use -o or -O when trying to download a file with the original filename and just use wget instead because it's faster than reading the curl man page.
Christian by birth? You can't be a religion by birth. Your parents were Christian when you were born but that does not make you a Christian by birth.
The Endangered Critical Process in the Digital Age
The unfortunate thing is we were using Gusto in 2015, and I loved them too. I think the reason why we changed was dumb - higher-up preferred the UI/UX - but really hope it was something more complicated than that.

Hopefully, we'll be back in a couple of weeks. I don't think Zenefits can go 2 weeks without something going bad for us. If anyone from Gusto is reading this, I have a CEO that needs a good old-fashioned "we miss you" phone call.
Aren't the cables run with a bit of slack for just this reason?
I remember buying Norton Utilities on a 5" "flippy" disk. It was like a vinyl record in that you flipped it over to access side 2. And Norton Editor was a godsend in the days of Edlin and Wordstar.
Totally anecdotal and totally objective, but he's one of the hottest ceos in the game
Depends a bit on perspective. The content that Google indexes (and puts ads on) is mostly created by third parties. Some for Facebook.
I think it comes from a place of frustration. Some people don't learn well from lectures at all, but because they're considered the default so strongly, other conduits of learning aren't usually provided.
with limited run of 1200, all they will make is $4.8 million on sale. At best they're breaking even.
They can't outsource ALL of their brain but the higher-level thinking is not that sensitive to a bit of latency.
None of your comments brought anything new to the discussion so they were downvoted. If you agree with something, just vote for it, don't comment "agreed". That's not how HN works. If you can't handle the fact that your comments get downvoted, this may be something for you to work on - it's life, whether you hate it or not, someone will disagree with you one day.
Pinging is a lot different from sending data. Its not just about words but also your actions. Try uploading an image to Imgur or a video to youtube! Humanoids probably have to do them. So entirely on the cloud is certainly not possible. Maybe do some precomputation on the humanoid and send the data for comparison with a larger dataset to the cloud makes sense.
Are you sure there employment ratio are so skewed away from developers?
Why a $15,950 Tourbillon Watch Is Considered a Steal
Cool Graphs of Implicit Equations
As far as I can tell the basic problem with Thorium reactors is they would be more complicated and expensive than conventional reactors. Given that, Thorium probably isn't going to happen at scale for a long time even though it's technically doable.
Bought my pair of 1200s about 20 years ago (wow! - it goes fast kids) - barely used I think I paid $800 for both. Kept one cause I just like the equipment so much and I don't even spin anymore.
Just a solid piece of equipment, real pro DJ gear.

It's sad though - in the same way that it costs $500 or whatever it is - to go to an NFL game nowadays (which I wouldn't know anyway). Anything of real high quality has to be priced out of reach of the average person. There's always Walmart for most of us I guess.

Not knocking Technics, what they say may very well be true, but I do miss the days when the best wasn't impossible to obtain for most of us.

Anyway, there's ebay and the original 12s. If you're into vinyl don't even play around.
Being offended.

I am offended by you saying that people who have faith aren't irrational. That goes against my worldview and is therefore offensive to me.

Irrationality is cognition, thinking, talking or acting without inclusion of rationality. It is more specifically described as an action or opinion given through inadequate use of reason, emotional distress, or cognitive deficiency.
Show HN: Meet Eva, an AI-based personal financial assistant
> 'curl' is 'cat url',

Whoa... TIL something! I don't know if that's the official etymology, but that's a great mnemonic!

EDIT: ... and yes, I use both tools :).
> The only way to keep your data safe is to not give copies of it to third parties.

What makes you say so? Fully homomorphic encryption (which we don't have, yet) would allow untrusted party to do trusted computations for you.
Ask HN: What Router Do You Use?
I'm looking into buying a new router, to finally replace/supplement the one my ISP provided. The ASUS RT-AC68U has been recommend by just about everyone, except those who recommended Apple's AirPort instead.

Essentially, would like faster/more reliable Wifi with better reach, backup support (aka Time Machine), and VPN tools (to both VPN all traffic, and/or VPN back into home network).

What's HN using nowadays?
Wget just werks.
It reads to me he's talking about the pool of equity allocated to this year's grants. At companies like LinkedIn, you receive new grants every year to layer your equity and keep you there past your 4 year mark. Everybody does it differently, but it's usually something like "We have $x in equity comp available, lets do some magic calculation based on base pay and annual review to allocate this between our employees."

Also, I can't speak to this personally but I've heard that LinkedIn offers are heavy on cash, less equity.
Here's a totally wild guess. Wikipedia says LinkedIn has 8735 employees. Let's guess that before the crash, employees had an average of $50,000 of stock each. The price is down about 50% the past year.

8735 * 50,000 * 0.5 = $218 million lost by employees.
For a product like this, so is the extra cost.
How does wget compare with httrack for mirroring?
Do you mean to say that we should include the people who make the products consumed by Netflix?

That's a very odd way of looking at it. Is that because there are entire teams at AWS supporting Netflix, which makes them more like contractors?
If you give me a deadline and a list of companies, I am willing to bet money against this.
True. But rarely do they analyze their way to innovation ...

Analysis leads to improvement. Improvement is not necessarily innovation.
Having visited the Hanford site in Washington State, it's a pretty epic thing there trying to deal with the waste from WWII.

Actual nuclear waste is a 10,000+ year problem, not hundreds of years. But the 100s of years problem is more about where long-term storage should be (Yucca Mtn. etc.).

When you tour Hanford, what do you see (free tours for US citizens, BTW)? You see many ancient reactors - all disabled now except the preserved first reactor. You see -every single decommissioned nuclear submarine-'s reactor in long lines. And they remind you: based on ice ages, in 15,000 years or so, it won't matter... the entire plateau around Hanford will be under water. So it's going to need to be somewhere else.

Wild stuff.
At least 2 states launching formal investigations to your practices of a regulated industry? Then the CEO was fired for "the macro" which he authored. If you write the goodbye, it's a resignation, but if someone else does it's a firing.

If that's not wrong, I don't want to be right.

Full disclosure: messing with my money IS messing with my emotions.
No, but empire did set the stage for the world we have today and the set of people we have today. In other words the rebirth of the West and the focus away from state (serf-lord) and religion to science and advancement (progress) results in us (the whole set of people alive today), the product.
> As soon as education gets difficult (and useful education always gets difficult) it’s social pressure, peer pressure and our own need to fit in and achieve that often keeps us going.

What, no mention of the sunk costs to date? By the time a course gets difficult (second year, third year, wherever your course got hard), quitting will cost you a year of your time and a lot of money.

I would expect major factors contributing to online course dropout rates to be:

1) Often there are no prerequisites enforced, so people get ambitious and find themselves out of their depth very quickly.

2) Once they get stuck, all they're losing by dropping out is a few afternoons' worth of reading a web page.
Network Automation: code with ONUG, win prizes
1Password inter-process communication: a discussion
Thanks for this. I really enjoyed his writing style as it reminds me of my own way of spinning tales. I read this story and his other story about Prince Albert Hunt's demise and found them entertaining and well-written.

Like the author, I have found myself browsing old 78's looking for musical treasures in old bookstores, yard sales and at places like Half Price Books.

Thanks for the entertaining reading.
In general, Singapore has some of the highest salaries worldwide.
Some people, maybe a lot of people
want to take encryption seriously.

So, get some little open source,
command line programs that run
and just squirt out dirt simple
flat ASCII files in base 64 encoding.
Run the software on some old
computer where are fairly sure
there are no back doors.
Never connect to computer to
a network.
Move the data from that computer
on, say, just old diskettes.

Then somehow have an iPhone
read the base 64 and send it.

If the FBI gets the base 64 code,
lots of luck making any sense out of
it.

Some people will be impressed by that
scenario and possibility.
The glassification plant at Hanford is just starting to come online, but Yucca doesn't want it.

We have a political problem now, not a technical one... and yeah that's going to be a tough one. I wonder how long until someone figures out ways to let a 3rd world country be the deep bore storage place and allow export?
God I love this forum. Thank you!
Most of the replies you got are talking about DOM manipulation. If you're using React, then you have that part covered. In my experience, it's much easier to use React's declarative model over D3's imperative one.

D3 has some really nice graphing utilities, though. Their scale functions are handy and their geometry API is spectacular: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Geometry
This was a very kind gesture. But there is no way this gift would remotely make up for the value loss experienced by the employees.

According to LinkedIn's site, they have 9,200 employees:

$14 MM stock grant/9,200 employees = $1,521 per employee

In order for this grant by the CEO to fully make up for the amount lost by employees in their recent stock crash, they would have had to have no more than $3,804 of LinkedIn stock ($1521/.40). This seems quite low.

According to LinkedIn's 10-K, LinkedIn has 6.1 MM RSUs outstanding, implying 663 shares per employee. The average amount lost per employee would therefore be:
($272(LNKD high) - $119(current stock price))*663 = $101,439

In other words the CEO's stock gift to employees would only make up 1.5% (1521/101,439) of the total loss from the recent crash.

There are many reasons other than money to work somewhere: how rewarding the work is, how much you enjoy working with your team, and the impact you are having on the world. Those are things that this kind of analysis would not capture.
The article talks about the design choices as the reason for success but I think the expense of the chair and need to perceive some related value caused the, in my opinion, over-rated reputation, coders attributing their 14hr marathons and their 10x factors to some chair, in some instances their new physical posture, tone and health all due to the magic of a $1000+ chair.

In my experience having worked in an office which was all Aeron chairs for several months I feel no different now on this $100 office mate chair or any of similar priced chair at the various co-working places I visit. I should note too Im not exactly in great shape.

tl;dr - price and talk made the Aeron chair an icon
Humans have latency in their comms too, we just hide it effectively with filler language. I'm surprised we couldn't mask a half second of latency with a quick, "Hmm.." or "Ah..." or even a bunch of canned responses.

I know I've bought myself additional time with exactly those -- "That's a great question." "Interesting..."
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
I think critically examining these actions can be useful, but cynicism only goes so far. Generosity is a good thing, and him sharing his compensation with employees is something that should be commended.
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> hot lead

To me at least, this sounds terrifying compared to the liquid nitrogen.
ASUS RT-AC66U (primary), AirPort Extreme (Secondary). And I weep for something better... ASUS firmware updates are starting to destabilize a multi-year solid and consistent experience.
The only reason they align is because Apple wants to maintain or grow it's market share. It's intelligently recognizes that consumers want privacy, so they are fighting for it.
> The two CVEs against Varnish were both utterly bogus "trophy-hunter" CVEs in my opinion. (But don't take my word for it, judge for yourself.)

ok

> CVE-2013-4484: Varnish before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child-process crash and temporary caching outage) via a GET request with trailing whitespace characters and no URI.

:|
> Under the law, his assets would not be in jeopardy and could be passed on to his wife/family

That reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peine_forte_et_dure

Where a person could not be convicted unless they placed themself under the authority of the court (by pleading either guilty or not guilty). By saying nothing the court could not penalize them (their family) financially, but could torture them even to death (which people preferred in order to help their family) in order to try to compel a plea.

PS. Writing that last sentence really brought home how reversed morals today are from then. There really is no such thing as absolute morality.
You're probably better off just removing identifying details and posting a link straight away. Requiring some back and forth communication from others just to do something for you doesn't sound like a good strategy for your problem.
He who controls the past controls the future

What this guy is getting at, in a necessarily stupefying way to confuse and tire the reader, is that we should remember certain events and not others. No doubt the lists of things to be forgotten and propagated will be determined by people as enlightened as himself. But on that count he's calling for the status quo making the article that much more dull.
It's Getting Harder to Be One of the World's Wealthiest People
Was something I said factually wrong? User im_down_w_otp put up an example of what I'm talking about (minus the unit testing) so what gives?
I was mostly referring to Taboola/Outbrain styled ads. But if they are without any "sponsored" tag that is even better.
WebAssembly may go live in browsers this year
How would you explain the difference between war and terrorism to a space alien?
I agree with you that there is tons of value in digging into the various boot tasks that make this workflow/tutorial possible. The reason I decided not to is that the linked tutorial on modern-cljs# 1-3 does a great job of that!

[1] - https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs/blob/master/doc/sec...
Test
Test for a class
So? The vast majority of people agree that's what happened to it.
Raman amplifiers still require juice to run the pumping laser. There aren't exactly 110V sockets sitting on the ocean floor.

There is a copper tube around the fiber bundle that carries high voltage (usually 10,000+ volts to reduce losses over long spans). The return is usually just coupled directly to the ocean.

If you're careful, use a non-conductive cutting blade, and have enormous balls, you can no doubt cut through the tube on one side and not cause any noticeable effects. At least, if you've brought along someplace dry to work on it...
Any hardware running OpenWRT [1] - you could try flashing your ASUS before buying a new one.

[1] https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac68u
Is there a global status of cut/degraded undersea cable systems? That would be very beneficial. It seems that the connectivity providers Level3, Hibernia/Atrato, HE, NTT etc.. only relay limited information, perhaps their notification from cable providers is very limited too, by the time it gets to downstream customers we're all guessing, e.g. on WebHostingTalk there are customers trying to determine latency issue to a Hong Kong provider, only to have a competitor announce a fiber cut 2 days ago in Jakarta may be affecting it.
Earnings/employee is a much better metric than revenue. Netflix is higher up because they are primarily reselling, which usually translates to higher revenue and lower margins.
Is that data science, or #DataScience?
If you do ad placements with iframes, that can mitigate some vectors, but then it is very hard to have full screen takeovers or many other hideous things that seem to make advertisers happy.
Yup, it changes the default behavior slightly but as @omalsa04 mentioned if you just hit <up> without typing anything it will iterate through the whole command history, the same as it would without this binding.
Both very cool and sad at the same time. I loved and used Mailbox daily, still not sure what else to use now. Polymail seems to be a similar alternative, but they're still in closed beta.
What's the "I can't figure it out" part mean?
I think that quality was probably THE reason why he was hired for such a position.
Hypthetically:

Pentagon builds some massive surveillance program for US government which is blatantly illegal and in violation of constitution. You need someone who can get it done without leading a paper trail, help friends in government and then lie when confronted. Eric clearly has all those qualities.
Good point actually; you could extend this with a number of properties to make an awesome learn-while-you-play td game for CSS more generally... keep us posted ;)
Right. ZeroNet and Ethereum don't compete with each other. Ethereum will never be a decentralized CDN the way ZeroNet or IPFS are.
VW CEO was told about emissions crisis a year before admitting to cheat scandal
Chemical waste is a problem but it is not nearly as deadly or difficult to handle as nuclear waste.

Just one obvious example -- you can put lead into metal blocks and store it virtually anywhere (well away from drinking water).

Nuclear waste irradiates stuff around it, generates heat, and causes everything you put it in to rust and deteriorate very quickly. Some nuclear waste generates so much heat that it has to be continually actively cooled so that it does not set itself on fire and spew clouds of radioactive gases.

If there was a warehouse full of blocks of lead in fukushima, the tsunami would not cause much of a disaster. Nothing worth mentioning on TV. But instead there was nuclear waste storage, which had to be actively cooled. So when the tsunami knocked out the cooling systems, it caught on fire and there were the clouds of radioactive gasses.
> What new information?

Trades occurring at other locations. Even if the other location are operating in discretized time, there's going to be variability in how fast different market participants can transmit information from one location to another. From Wolfram Alpha, Tokyo to NYC is 36ms at speed of light in vacuum and 51ms at speed of light in fiber, so someone with a faster network could be multiple discretized ticks ahead.
Imagine a company has a policy that says "we wont hire black people". Does the number really matter whether 1 person was turned down or 20k ?

Google discriminating against a person for their past employment without being upfront about is pure evil.
The logic is that if you outsource your ops team to AWS you have less people but your revenue is still the same, you're just paying AWS instead of salaries.

So if we take the revenue per person number as anything significant then netflix skews that by using AWS.

Ultimately it's a number without much meaning.
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I don't think zsh uses the .inputrc file, actually. I've actually never looked into how oh-my-zsh does it.
Rappel: A REPL for x86, amd64, and armv7
> Officially our view is "if a malicious process with user privileges is running on the users machine when they use 1Password, there is little we can do".

I'm curious about whether you guys can address the distinction between "a malicious process with user privileges is running on the users machine" and "a malicious process with some other user's privileges is running on the machine.". That is, is there a threat that your TCP server could be impersonated, and what could happen in this scenario. It's easy to dismiss a scenario where you already have pwnd the 1password user, or worse, root, but TCP listeners aren't scoped to a user, they are scoped to a (potentially multi-user) machine.