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A bit off topic....

Currently Hydro power makes up a small (6%) but significant portion of the energy mix in the US.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3

When you look at just the clean energy sources in the US this percentage is greater obviously. Also, other countries rely more on Hydro than the US (Canada and China come to mind).

Has there been modeling done on what global warming will do to those Hydro power sources? For example, I can imagine drought is not good for reliable Hydro power. Has declining Hydro power been accounted for in possible future clean energy mixes?
I wish there was more analysis around energy storage (mainly because that's what my startup does). I think it's often overlooked in the press when talking about the future of solar. We're working to flatten the duck curve that solar created.
I like the idea of making carbon fibers from CO2.

http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/201...
> even 4 whole years isn't enough to learn "all the fundamentals"

No. You are missing the point. The fundamentals are very simple and easy to learn. That's what makes them "fundamental." It's all the random shit invented by people who didn't understand the fundamentals (or chose not to apply them) that takes a long time to learn.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6809929
I thought biggest improvement to the MS website, MSDN and technet included, would be simply to disable the incessant demands for feedback on the webpage or surveys.

Would you like to take a short 25 minute survey? You visited this site 25,000 times previously and we have asked each of those times, but maybe this time you will change your mind and answer the survey.
Shallow journalism by Guardian. More access to medical care means more people go to hospitals and live longer and hence there is a good chunk of deaths that were preventable if doctors or hospitals did better. This is not same as saying 'Doctors are killing people'.

The correct way to judge this number would be to see what % of people have access to medical care.
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> Human beings don't directly photosynthesize for clear reasons.

I've always wondered why humans did not evolve to photosynthesize, and am interested if they could be permitted to evolve to using CRISPR.
OP is unbelievable.

> I completely agree. I’ve interviewed people from MIT who weren’t familiar with a hash table and the best software developer I’ve worked with never went to college. The CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, didn’t go to a top CS school. However, it’s still the case that college and experience is an imperfect signal of ability.

In other words: Here's all of these great reasons I've found not to trust someone's schooling as a good indicator of their ability, but I'm going to use it anyway.

OP is what's wrong with tech hiring.
I think some types of computation can be done with optical processors orders of magnitude faster. It's still early days but I think really interesting

http://www.optalysys.com
http://www.lighton.io
I doubt it. The EUR 500 bill would raise more eyebrows. I 've never seen one. Banks will never give you one (not even E 200 bills).
Reading the https://proofofexistence.com/about is really helpful, because I really didn't understand this at all.

While this is interesting, is there any concern about over use of the bitcoin blockchain? It's currently 65GB in size[0], which means it's fairly usable, and with a big enough system you could still store the entire thing in memory. What happens when it's 65TB? 65PB? Won't using it for lots and lots of things cause issues long term? Or am I missing something here?

[0] https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size?timespan=all
I believe you're just talking about inflation as a result of UBI and the potential

> Labor _costs_ are now very high, high enough that I think prices would have to rise significantly

Your assertion is not supported by data: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=2Xa

Labor costs have been shrinking for years, much more drastically so since the mid 1970's. This is also supported by data about effective wage stagnation (approximate 6% growth over the last 35 years, most of that going to the top quintile)

Regarding your original assertion about rising prices - that may be true to some degree if we're talking about consumables, but you could argue that some of the current welfare systems are doing the same thing.
I might be canned for this here, but, I see that enterprises have a lot more work of the fundamentals, simpler sort than startups. At startups, I worked with 100s of libraries not understanding, or not having the time to even look back at things we did. At enterprises, there are a lot of low hanging fruit, which when applied magic CS pixie dust, becomes more performant (to a lot of people).

This is one of the reasons why I moved away from product side programming to IT. My brain screams in pain, when I do lot of context switches, and I figured this is not going to make me a better programmer. The fun stuff is in handling data, not learning layers of apis(for me).

Now working in enterprise is not for everyone - the politics etc, but for me, it still beats the pain of working in a smelly, loud, fast context-switching, agile-kanban startup.
Semiconductor mfg. is a chemical process, not a digital process. So robots won't help.
I like this. Would have been amazing if this existed before the social explosion of the web. Where everyone is constantly stealing everyone elses work.
detailed list of implementations found http://encode.ru/threads/2078-List-of-Asymmetric-Numeral-Sys...
Yes, it was a pretty bad typo. One I didn't catch after half a dozen rereads because I wrote the article from 4am-8am this morning after little sleep.
Yes, but only to a certain extent, I think. A truly honest, and most importantly, useful analysis wouldn't be limited to admitting that previous research did result in wrong predictions. I'd like to see a breakdown of what was wrong in the previous prediction, and to be sure that it's understood well, I would like to see also a true prediction based on modelling and not limited to .. observing what is happening with solar power right now. Am I too demanding of a scientist? Adjusting my predictions based on what I observe, he was wrong in 2008 and I have a low expectation that his new predictions will turn out correct.
And?

"Whereas they concentrate seawater 1.5 times, recovery of salt would require seawater to be concentrated ten times. Under such conditions the first crystals would appear in the brine"

You'll just start with something more concentrated instead of seawater

Yes, you might have a reason to not want to do that, it might be easier/cheaper to just throw it back into the sea
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If you think that's ironic, consider how ironic it is that I'm now posting about how ironic I find your post to be about responding to an ironic post.
Amazing post, thank you! I remember "Spot the drowning child", that is a strongly viral site.
Your question is a hyperbolic straw-man, which means I will obviously answer "No" because I'm specifically talking about one particular item. Do you fundamentally mis-understand my right to not have some teenager from The Bay simply grab my track from iTunes and use it as the soundtrack to their Kickstarter video simply because technology makes it possible?
Looks pretty simple to me, you're playing "offensive and defensive coordinator" during the game, instead of the usual "player(s)"
Unless Active Directory or SQL Server are trademarked names in the music category, there isn't much they could do. There is no possibility of confusion.

Just as there is no possibility of confusion that this software was written by the band Slayer, or is even endorsed by them.

Although, 'They official C formal verification tool of the band Slayer' would be a pretty funny tie in.
Protectionism is neither "left" nor "right", its essentially an orthogonal axis. There are dissenters from the broad neoliberal trade consensus across the left/right spectrum. (Generally, the main dissent on the left favors international trade agreements, but favors stronger common labor, human rights, and environmental protections that are common in the current international regime, with tariffs as a fallback if they can't get these kinds of deals; the dissent on the right is more likely -- like Trump -- to see tariffs as a tool more directly to deal with trade imbalance, to see it about a weapon for "winning" trade.)

Not everything that disagrees with the dominant position of the Republican Party is "far left".
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I can not think of a single good reason to avoid check-lists in the medical field. And the doctors who resist them may very well just be arrogant and elitist. But there may also be some other reason. I don't know because I'm not a doctor, but I do know there are always things I don't know to consider in unfamiliar fields.

Do we have any doctors on the board who could explain a defensible resistance on the part of doctors to using checklists?
> A gracious unwillingness to burden acquaintances && passersby with one's own neuroses is now "privilege".

QOTD
>Express

> Limited extensibility, Eran felt strangled by the middleware (Connect) implementation, particularly when he needed multiple components to coordinate together [3].

I'm able to leverage the full power of javascript/node, which is fairly powerful.

> Poor isolation of the server from the business logic which prevented the reuse of services for purposes like batching operations (you don't want to have to go through the Express middleware chain for an internal request) [3].

Yeah none of this makes sense. You're doing something wrong. Express doesn't limit you here.

> Code instead of configuration, Express emphasized using code (imperative programming) instead using a more declarative model when wiring up middleware and defining routes [3].

And code is in fact more configurable and extensible which negates the first point made.

>These developers tend to be spoiled with a wealth of tools like IDE's (with syntax highlighting and code completion), debuggers, VM monitoring tools, etc. Node.js does not have this sort of support.

Vim supports a lot of that.
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Good ideas from the language(s), not the source code linked.

* Coroutines, a crown jewel of Go.

* Proper modules, separate files for interface and implementation parts.

* Nicer type system, with ranges, enumerations, ordered types and arrays indexed by any ordered type; can't remember if it ever had sum (aka variant) types.

* IIRC Oberon had an 'object system' very similar to Go's, with functions having a receiver and struct-based 'classes'.

* Obviously far fewer (if any) undefined behaviors than C.

* Low-level access; it was entirely possible to write an interrupt handler in Modula-2, access address-mapped ports, etc.
>The current system in America provides a disincentive to work.

It also artificially eliminates jobs that need to exist via austerity (e.g. not building necessary infrastructure), offshoring (moving manufacturing jobs abroad) and massive transfers of wealth to the already wealthy (e.g. wall street bailouts).

The techno-utopian notion of us approaching a post-work society glosses over these three things in a major way.
But sometimes, that advice actually equates to "don't drive the minivan in your garage. Go out and buy a bicycle."

By the way, do you have any suggestions for tutorials that teach someone a mental model for how CSS/HTML layout works? In particular, I'm looking for a mental model that I can apply consistently and which doesn't feel like I'm playing whack-a-mole. So far I've found that with flexbox, but I'm still finding myself in situations where I need to work with existing block/inline/inline-block code.
> I would think when the state acts as ward to an individual, the agency would receive the BI on their behalf.

Probably not a good idea if we want to see our prison population lessen in the future.
You must be f. kidding?
http://blog.geckoresearch.com/content/11658
Tragedy of the commons.

Literally every doctor will make a mistake that kills someone. Every one. Every doctor will kill someone. And every mistake that causes someone to die will have been preventable.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Harsh punishment for the inevitable doesn't result in positive outcomes. Quite the opposite. It leads to death and suffering.

I strongly, strongly recommend reading this: http://www.newstatesman.com/2014/05/how-mistakes-can-save-li...
I don't remember 1998 too well, but I read the article formatted like this http://m.imgur.com/yWTv9Xz and I still find it preferable to the original.
I believe now that labelling free trade as right-wing was a ruse all along used by the GOP to sell free trade to their voters. I see the rise of Trump as a sign that voters see through the ruse.

There has been bipartisan support on Capitol Hill for TPP and TTIP. Free trade hasn't been particularly left or right recently.
Indeed, while the anesthesiologist was ultimately at fault, this story made me wonder about the design parameters around the mistake. Are the vials the same color? Do they have the same size and shape? Was this anesthesiologist near the end of a 16-hour shift and had to differentiate two very similar objects?

Your comment about the physically compatible, deadly-if-switched connectors was an eye opener: It's almost like if the USB standards group settled on a two-prong design that was physically compatible with a North American 110V AC outlet, and every USB cable shipped with a label saying "DO NOT PLUG INTO WALL OUTLETS".
Will say this: I met a director from Tesla just after their unveiling of the Model X. She said a small number of people were assigned to fully assemble / prep each vehicle shown that night.. for roughly two weeks they worked 20 hour shifts and slept 2 hours each night. Most teams were working on them right up until the cars rolled on stage; there was still wet paint on one. Also, it was said a "normal" workweek of 16 hours days isn't uncommon..

So, your theory is the story.. she can't wait for options to fully vest and gracefully exit. It's not for lack of thrill, growth, etc. – just that after 3-4 years it is heavily taxing and a pace of sanity is much desired.
The point is we already live in that dystopian future. But it isn't machines running things. It's people fighting over scraps. I firmly believe the machines will do better.
Operating Systems at Bard College, a decidedly not top tier CS school but I still learned a fair bit :)

The materials, as far as I know, are not available online. But we used Tannenbaum's book which you can read for free here - http://stst.elia.pub.ro/news/SO/Modern%20Operating%20System%...

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Ah but then we come to something I'm going to coin as "Zeno's Investors".

Passive investors achieve the average return. Active investors receive some distribution of return but obviously it must range from some above to some below average. 1/x investors get a worse than average return, despite their efforts. For simplicity, let's say that 1/2 of the investors 'win' and half 'lose'.

That losing half would do better if they moved to passive investments, allowing the top half to make the real gains. Now, we're back in the same situation. Does this not continue on until it's selfishly best for everyone to be a passive investor, even though overall that might be worse?

Ways I think I might be wrong:

- The maths doesn't really work quite that way once the balance shifts away from 50% each side. It may be possible that some proportion of active investors will always make more profit than the passive investors. I don't think this is right but if it is then it'd entirely break the reasoning.

- Changes that happen from one step to the next. The winners now own more capital and therefore we don't see the same converging series. I don't think that matters other than prolonging the outcome, but I'd not be surprised if I'm wrong on this count, I've not thought it through fully.

(I'm trying to be more cautious about making overly bold claims and so am trying to point to things I know might invalidate what I'm saying, if it seems annoying then let me know)
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My take is that they restructured into Alphabet to protect for eventualities that google (the core legacy business) may not be the revenue driver forever...

So, haven't they solved this problem - or at least mitigated the risk to shareholders - already?
Yes, the 500€ I can understand

Eliminating the 50£ and $100 is just a sad joke
You're not required to disclose your religion on the census. You can leave the field blank if you get the long form, and it isn't asked on the short form.
There's nothing in that quote that goes anywhere near "assum[ing] that all people are equally qualified regardless of their education".
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Most of the readership on HR doesn't. But most consumers want their phones to "just work" - unless they personally feel the pain of unpatched vulnerabilities, they expect that whatever is running on their phone continues to work. So it seems that the carriers have decided not to risk keeping their customers up to date (not wanting to take on any extra tech support). Carriers don't generally care what you're running on your phone, but since many handsets have locked bootloaders (and/or few people maintaining alternative ROMs), choosing a Nexus device means being able to do what you want, which could include being more secure.
what do you mean, i bet some of these guys launched a landing page about a medical startup app that got at least a series A...
It's no Obama or any one person. It is an institutional thing. Certainly people, especially presidents, can change the institutions. That's what we're witnessing in Canada. I'm not snarking nor saying the US is worse. But it's a fact that unless your title includes "spokesperson" then you are not fully at liberty to speak.
Ok so it increases the barrier to entry for new device/platform makers. I don't see why that should be the content creators problem though. It's similar to the argument Pandora was making that the cost of content was too high for them to survive - that's your problem not the content owners.
Well part of the reason for that is because of the Welfare Cliff and the fact that there just aren't enough jobs. Most people on welfare do not want to be on welfare.

We're ok with those who are born rich not having to work. Why should it be different for poor people? And if society can function perfectly fine without these people working, why does it matter if they don't work?
The thing is defensive medicine does not reduce errors. Or mortality. It even increases them - more procedures = more risks of complications. It is done for covering a doctor's ass, not the benefit of the patient.

You can prevent errors only with proper procedures.
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I don't disagree with you, but I think we've come to expect too much from software updates at the same time. For example, security updates and performance improvements are often touted as the reason we should get software updates more often. However no one expects say apple to replace the processor in your laptop when a new one comes out.

Software costs money to develop, most users don't care enough to pay for software updates (would your "mom" pay $20 to have JDK 8 support?) and unless the update enables a feature the vendor expects you to pay for (say, iCloud or Google Drive) no one is incentivized to provide timely updates.

On the flip side, software updates allow vendors to differentiate their new phones (yeah they both have A123 processors, but this phone has snapMessage *due to the new update)

I think the only other alternative is fully open source phones, which exist, but in terms of updates they're not any better
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It's a parody. There is no actual real thing as "curl as a service".
Actually, your statement about "your right" to fair use being trampled is total garbage - I was referring to technology's ability for ease of mis-use and un-approved appropriation of one's work. As in, using a lifted track as a music backing for a video. Fair Use is a limited scope, and one of the most often abused and totally mis-understood flags waved by people who wrongly believe it washes away a host of rights by creators. Newsflash: It don't.

Fundamentally speaking, YouTube's ContentID matching system is a form of DRM and I'd really, really like to see your argument of why it should not be allowed.

You're right, it's not so black and white, and arguing with me about Fair Use will get you nowhere. I'm an advocate of Fair Use and the four factors. An educator by training and have spent time in the profession. You're being disingenuous bringing it up in a strictly commercial dialogue, and it just shows you have a perverted sense of priorities because you can't actually address the issue I brought at first:

Can the EFF present a viable alternative before simply tearing down an imperfect system?

So far, they can't, you can't, and I think it's going to take a lot more than just 10 years on the subject to get it figured out.
Eventually you'll be able to trim some parts, and only full nodes will need to store everything. The code is not quite ready yet, though. I believe there were plans to include a hash of the unspent transactions set in each block, so you could have effectively the same security by only verifying the block headers up to the latest block, and the unspent transactions set. Not sure if they ended up including that, though.

There were a couple other interesting proposals along the same lines as well.
In a meritocracy, people earn money by means reaping the rewards of their own personal merit.

The government has no money of its own. So, in order to fund these programs, it must first appropriate said money from the people who earned it in the first place.

This appropriation (taxation) is non-voluntary, and enforced by threat of violence (force of law).

When someone takes something from me by force that I would not otherwise be willing to give them, it is by definition theft.

Therefore, it would seem to me that taxation/theft is an intentional attempt by the government to reduce the rewards of my own personal merit.
I don't understand why there is no good rating system for doctors, we have it for restaurants, hotels etc but not for doctors?

Yes doctors are more complex but the rating system can be improved over time by feedback and observation and this system can help filter out the doctors that became doctors mostly for financial reasons.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll get around it this weekend. Have you heard of Jacques Van Rillaer ? He wrote the black book of psychoanalysis which stirred things up in Europe some years ago.
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Well, in the jurisdictions I'm familiar with it is quite illegal to avoid authorities while being a wanted fugitive.
I'd say overwhelming evidence points to the exact contrary.
Sorry, I don't understand. Could you provide more info or a link to something showing this? I can't understand how I'm giving up control of my laptop hardware when I stream a movie on Netflix for example.
Also: http://www.wsj.com/articles/rising-rents-outpace-wages-in-wi...
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