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The post minimizes the utility of a thorium reactor for making fission weapons.

Neutron irradiation of the most abundant isotope of thorium (Th232) produces U233. The US, the USSR and India have successfully tested U233 in fission weapons. [1] BTW, India has ~ the world's second largest known thorium reserves. [2]

Also, I'd be concerned about the long-term corrosion effects of molten fluorides on pipes, pumps, etc., especially those parts that are in a high neutron flux environment.

Not saying that Th reactors wouldn't be a better choice than what we've fielded to date, but the posted article doesn't lead me to that conclusion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-233
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occurrence_of_thorium
There is a thing that advertises itself as being like Ethereum but without the Turing completeness.

It is meant to be able to do more computation based stuff than Bitcoin, but without being Turing complete.

However, they seem to have confused the halting problem not being computable with Godel's second incompleteness theorem? (They might have corrected this since I saw when they published something with this.)
It's a hint to users that reading mode may provide a better experience. When we introduced it, reading mode usage went up; without the (very subtle) animation, users weren't aware when the feature would be useful.
This doesn't sound right to me. Contract law should not require turing completeness. First order logic should be more than sufficient. How does having a loop in contract law make any sense?
> Compare that to procedural programming, where you are telling the computer what to do, and even if it does what you say, that may not have been what you actually wanted after all.

Procedural vs. functional phrasing in no way changes the basic fact that if you ask a computer the wrong question it'll give you the wrong result.

"go through the list of all users and add the ones which are active to a new list"

vs.

"the list I want contains all active users from the list of all users"
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We chose the Surface Book because it's instrumented with a chip that allows direct measurement of instantaneous power consumption, which most OEM devices don't have, and because it has lots of battery for a fun run-down video :)
Yes, this would be considered fraud in the US legal system, but that's not the point.

* If you have to involve the legal system then the project has failed because the whole point was to have a contract enforcement mechanism which doesn't need a court system.

* If a legal system can override the smart contract then there's no point to even having one since the ultimate authority still resides with the state.
Not clear on what they want changed.
So then the question for me is do I want to deal with Google or Amazon? I pick Amazon every time because I'd never want to depend on Google, who hates customer service and sucks at it.
"Its not a long shot to say another race can practice prejudice against a white man, when white men and white judges have been doing it for so long."

You said it yourself: white men haven't been systematically discriminated against in the US for centuries, but People of Color have been. It's not about practicing prejudice. It's about leveling the playing field so that every American has equal opportunity, regardless of their genetic makeup.
bcrypt is significantly slower to compute. Something like 5 or 6 orders of magnitude slower. (se my other comment in here with numbers for cracking various hash types on an 8gpu rig...)
Imo, racism isn't bad because it oversimplifies the complexity of human experience. It is bad because it degrades in a very direct way the human experience of the group that it is targeting. I don't see how that statement does this. Poor white people have advantages that poor black people don't have because of racism... I don't see why you consider it racist to point that out. Its the opposite because it is highlighting inequality not causing it... or at least that is how it looks to me.
Disagree...
Also disclaimer, I work at Docker, and particularly spend a large amount of time working on storage for the docker engine.

Volumes are exactly what you should be using to have data that lives beyond the life of the container.
Essentially, if you are writing to disk in your container, you should probably be writing it to a volume.

Volumes can be backed by any number of storage solutions, including from every cloud provider, various distributed block, gluster, ceph, etc...

Docker should _not_ be changing the way you run a database. If you need a highly available database, you don't use 1 database process and hope for the best, you use the built-in replication features available in just about every database product in existence today... database goes down, oh well you have a hot-standye ready.
The Frog and Toad series had some great life lessons.
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An AGI would have to begin with the same values because without them he couldn't learn anything. Our values draw on the surrounding culture and an individual that grows up outside of any culture (e.g. a feral child) isn't capable of functioning. There may be different cultures but there is no alien culture. Thus there could be no alien mind.
Didn't vscode start life as a way to dogfood Monaco? It's my understanding that is why the vscode repo has been the official Monaco repo as well..
You probably want something like NixOS or Guix if you really want to go down that way.

Yeah I see where you are coming from. First time I heard about Docker, I thought it did what NixOS does, but it doesn't really.
Pseudonymity for transactions, intelligence gathering, influencing... it's 'money' and 'network analysis' and both of those have a lot of uses.

Bitcoin is very well designed, so it's not unreasonable to think that a brilliant mind or a team is behind it. Governments employ lots of mathematicians, computer scientists, and cryptography experts who would possess the the skills and man-hours necessary to devote to such an endeavor; whereas a lone hobbyist would have had to get the design right the first time the scheme became public.

It's not even that much money to spend, relatively speaking. A state-level agency from any of the highest military spending countries [1] possesses well in excess of the computational power required to mine coins. In this case, they released it into to the community and now it's a fixture most use but never seriously question.

The UK's GCHQ invented RSA 4 years earlier than Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman [2], but this fact was classified for 24 years. I think this is a very plausible theory that explains why Satoshi has stayed silent, and why Bitcoin was invented in the first place: not for personal gain or pride, but national interests by a well-equipped state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Cocks
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I hear your sentiment. But not your argument as much. Politicians and Lawyers are inherently > smart contract writers?

'I think more people will be pissed when they find out that "trust in the system" ultimately means "trust the writer of the smart contract".'
How is this different than not trusting Lawyers?

'Unlike law, which has admitted that insane things happen and provides "emergency stops" (ie: Supreme Court can say whatever the heck they want and provide a check against any of Congress's laws)... there isn't really a way to add human "emergency stops" to the equation of Ethereum.'
Agreed on using Ethereum contracts anytime in the near future (or ever) for anything life or death or over exposing your self financially is insane. There are plenty of cases that are a better fit for a smart contract system. People should invest affordable proportions of their money.
First of all, the "officious bystander" test is from English law, not US law.

Second, while there are similar tests in other countries' legal systems, it's not that clear cut whether this would be considered such a case or not -- a single lawyer's opinion aside.
VMware Releases Liota, an Open Source IoT Gateway Application Framework
Perhaps they should have cared years ago when this problem was first clear. I don't know about on Windows but on OS X the difference has been massive for years and years.
So, just the most important ones, then. In a sense, processes are just a form of arena allocation. They don't eliminate the need for memory management; they are memory management (among many other things).
Anybody using a modern password safe should be in exactly that position. I use 1Password and default to 25chars including upper/lower/digits/specials. It's occasionally annoying when I need to transcribe one of those passwords from my phone into a system I trust but not enough to keep my password safe on (my work laptop, for example), butthat's rare enough that I just suck it up and cope.
I've been enjoying Nixos[0] and hope to try Nixops[1] soon. The difference between Nixos and docker is that nixos makes it possible to have a truly reproducible environment. See the surprisingly readable paper[2] for more details.

0: http://nixos.org/

1: http://nixos.org/nixops/

2: https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf
Kubernetes is straightforward to run yourself, the only difficulty we had with it was scripting automated ssl cert management.
This is a caused by a race condition in the kernel that is not particularly easy to solve.

The way to solve this is not use the `--userland-proxy=false` function.
Not quite. I imagine Windows isn't well optimized for a MacBook Pro, Apple isn't going to go out of their way to squeeze every drop of efficiency out like they do on OS X.
How do you figure the safety net bit -- especially with the medical industry?

If you are a citizen of a country like Australia, the medical safety net is a life saver. No way will insurance pay for complete cancer treatments.
Can you go into some more detail about the risk of clobbering if you mmap everything? What's clobbering what?
Absolutely awesome. Thanks for setting an example of civil service.

I'm in the D.C. area, feel free to drop me a line (email in my profile).
Not all divergence is good. Optimizing for [the elimination of all entities which have an idea of good], would be bad, and would be very different.
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This is very common for digital items.

Because you need no postal address.

It's a easy way to turn stolen credit cards to money (or stolen Paypal accounts)

Someone tried the same arbitraging bitcoins on ebay and got burned.

Not totally sure this is eBays fault. I'd guess the actually were bought with stolen assets.
Perhaps, or maybe people were* tribal animals, just as they were once cavemen.

Globalization progresses mankind forward, it will ultimately make us better versions of ourselves. The root of Trump's evil is trying to reverse this progress by locking down borders and rejecting religions that are not the norm in America.
Apple cares a ton about this for obvious reasons. They want to claim all day use on their products and having s very efficient web browser is a big part of it.
Still it shows what's done just to make somebody's bonus (or just prestige in the meetings?) thanks to the change in the telemetry reports. Luckily both Safari and Firefox don't animate it.

And if I'm not wrong, Safari was the first to have it, years ago, at the time Jobs was there. Never animated.

Anyway, if the feature is useful, people will use it. If it's not, they won't. Not making the whole experience a "big ad" is an example of a taste. Microsoft managers however really like everything moving like in ads including the tiles in the "start" menu. Luckily they at least can be "unanimated," I hope that feature remains (but unluckily I believe I have to do it one by one).
Funny how the republicans handed the democrats two gun control measures, and they turned them down.
> Security and privacy may become an essential product offering.

So I used to think that this was an issue of unknown unknowns, but I'm now of the opinion that it is an issue of OPSEC valuation. Experience is the best teacher when it comes to a thing's true value. Story time:

I'm sitting in a conference room with a bunch of DBAs, a few network guys, some programmers, a couple of managers and a logistics guy. When the bullet point on customer mailing address correctness comes up - the action item is quickly assigned: price out services that offer a REST API. The network guy that usually wears the infosec hat insists on SSL for incremental, SFTP for bulk batches. On to the next bullet point, casual Fridays. I ask if we really want to broadcast the mailing addresses of our customers, and how much work are we willing to do to accomplish the task in house. Pushing through the blank stares, I ask how much would we pay for such information on one of our competitors - not only for sales leads but also second order strategic information like acquisition rate, campaign activity related to targeted markets and demographics, etc. I see glimmers of recognition on only two faces: the infosec hat and the logistics guy. The logistics guy makes it clear that such an information leak is unacceptable.

Now the reason why the infosec hat got it is obvious, the news is full of third party breaches. The logistics guy got it because he was prior military, where OPSEC is highly valued and experiences related to costly lapses are pretty unpleasant (ranging from public shaming due to a lost crypto key loader, to a friend being shot in the face while smoking at night).

While I'm glad that corporate America doesn't ape the military in everything, I do wish they'd do something approaching what the military did for software acquisition prior to the massive shift to COTS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-498
Hard problems are hard. We are looking at all kinds of issues related to this, and in reality reports from that issue are likely caused by different things (some things are fixed, others obviously not).

There are several people looking how we can resolve issues like this.
On the other hand for the odd item at less than $50 or so, I can't be bothered spending the time and effort to list on eBay. I'll just take it down to Goodwill or whatever. Not worth my time.
Probably wouldn't hurt to add "Sign Up for Free Draft of..." to the title!
...because it's unconstitutional.
I don't think I've ever heard this point made about H1B in particular.

Giving employers a way to shackle workers to a specific job and salary is bad from virtually every political perspective. It's anti-competitive (what kind of free market association is that?), it's anti-immigrant (obviously), and it's anti-labor because it artificially drops market prices.
Simply put, the only terror is the constant warring funded mostly by the US & the UK, which imo, is the banksters neverending wetdream. If those corrupt arsewipes think that they are that important, I can show them the road to hell is paved with idiots just like them. Take climate change. Another of my favorite disingenous slight of hand crock expression means of enriching the bankers while they attempt to pull the same shite. More control and money for them while they essential rickroll populaces never once taking any responsibility.
You cannot quell violence with one hand while leading the charge fully armed with the other. Lies run deep with these morons.
Docker relies on the already existing storage providers (ebs, gce, azure, netapp, emc, etc) to manage multi-host data.

Ultimately how do you manage data when it's not in a container? This is how you should be managing data inside the container as well, and docker provides an abstraction for doing this.

P.S. if you are at DockerCon, come to my talk on storage in Docker tomorrow @ 2:25
I don't think "most advanced blockchain out there" is actual praise. Systems, especially systems that are meant to serve as a substrate for more advanced systems must be simple to understand and reason about. Making the foundation turing complete is indeed poor design.
I seem to remember studies from a few years back showing Lumosity as less effective than World of Warcraft at "brain training". At least WoW can engage a few social and competitive aspects rather than just mindless puzzle solving.

CBC's Marketplace also did a show about this, pretty much crapping on the evidence for the whole thing:

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/episodes/2014-2015/brain-train...
You don't have to use overlay. Docker networking is pluggable and any networking configuration supported by Linux can easily ne expised to Docker via network plugins. The most common configurations (bridge, nat, host networking, no networking, overlay) are built-in.
Hopefully no on ever trusts a contract with 100 mill for a while, but for lower values and simpler contracts... absolutely i would.
It makes no sense at all if you don't view "having the best possible job" as a primary motivator in your life.
How did this madness start? I don't want law to be turing complete. Especially programatic law. Why are people so nonchalant about this? This is not sane design. You want totality and termination proofs. At least that's what I would look for in any programatic system of law.
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If you want to change your name, you have to go to a judicial ceremony, which occurs (almost always) at a local federal courthouse, as opposed to an administrative ceremony which may happen at a USCIS field office, school, auditorium, etc.

FWIW, in Cleveland they only offer judicial ceremonies at the federal courthouse building. In places where administrative ceremonies are offered, they are usually done at a higher frequency than judicial ceremonies, though they still try to have at least one judicial ceremony per month.
>It's funny how Microsoft conducted the "tests" on Chrome [1] & Firefox [2] and discreetly leave out Safari. Safari is by far a winner when it comes to efficiency. So hats off to MS for their "informative" & "thorough" test(s).

Safari also doesn't run (anymore) on Windows platforms that Microsoft targets, so it's irrelevant to their point.
Animated Basic Charts in D3 and React
I clicked few times those bulleted "links" until I realized they weren't links.
If your goal is a calculator, then a computer is a poor design indeed.

Ethereum is meant to be a platform and goes far beyond what Bitcoin can do.
run for the bitcoin hills!.
They sold us again.
The CIA must surrender to the IRA.

We don't need your nigger saboteurs

God is the boss. He commands.

God says...
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Beginner’s Guide to Tor on Ubuntu
Gonna have to give edge a try just for this
I downvoted because your comment didn't add anything to the discussion while blindly dragging down "The others" in a huge swath. This kind of sweeping disparagement of huge industry sectors will gain nothing and won't help us get to a more peaceful world.

The reality is more nuanced than "a bunch of assholes who want to kill others to make money".. please comment accordingly for beneficial HN discussion.
Since Chrome itself kills battery life, what makes you think an OS where all user applications are Chrome-based is gonna help?
Getting past my 'expertise' in this area, but she didn't personally sell her shares to Google. Her company was acquired by Google, and her shares in bebop were exchanged for shares of Alphabet. A merger/stock exchange is not a taxable event, she would keep her near-$0 basis in the now Alphabet Class C shares, and then donate the highly appreciated Alphabet shares to the Fund.

You have to structure the deals this way, otherwise you lose more than half of your company to the government. When marginal rates exceed 50% and you have dependable future earning potential, yes, giving away unrealized gains can be worth more than realizing them.
Bypassing Simple IP Address Filtering
Very interesting paper. Thank you for sharing it.

I had a question after reading it. The parameter rho, that is used to either classify/regress depending on the t cascade stage{1..T}, is said to be set empirically. This, I would assume, could change across data sets, how were you able to decide when classification switched to regression in your tree and how was this adapted when testing on other data?

Also forgot to attach the paper I was referring to:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.02766v3.pdf
Thanks for that article by Hayden. Wow. It echoed much of what Schneier et al kept saying to him. Shows that they're more honest, receptive, or both when they finally leave the job that forces them to BS for SIGINT gains. ;)
While I do agree that game is a bad example, the argument still holds IMHO.

Ethereum has been advertised from the very beginning that it is a decentralized platform where the only rule/law will be the code, and no one authority can control that. However, what they are doing right now is exactly gaining control back from the code, hence making the platform less or even not decentralized.

I know this probably will get me a lot of downvotes but if there always will be a central group of people that I need to trust, I'd rather trust existing banks which have a lot of existing experience than a group of software engineers who might be experienced in coding, but not so experienced in finance.

I admit that it's very sad those much money was involved, but I believe the people who took the money away(I don't want to call them attackers, they are really not) just played the rule smartly and did nothing wrong.
Supreme Court rules evidence stands after illegal search
I am certainly a layman when it comes to the sciences, and I had no problem passing the cert. Best thing to do is to check with local clubs, often there will be weekend or evening classes (only a few hours total) that you can take which will speed you through the process immensely. It's definitely the kind of thing you can learn by rote and then figure out the 'why' later on.
Minor nit: I think your comment would be greatly enhanced if you changed some stereotypes, e.g. "soccer-mom" for "soccer-parent", "senile old" for "old" or "people with less reflexes" and "boy-racer" for just "racer". None of those relate 100% to the gender or age of the driver, IMHO :)
Ask HN: How do you estimate how long projects will take?
Hey HN,

There's a company that I've done a lot of contract development/design work for. In the past I've always charged an hourly rate but they asked if we could move to a flat fee per project.

I often struggle estimating how much time a project will take me. Because of this I usually try to guess high, but in practice my guesses range from way too low to way too high.

Another option would be to bill based upon the value I'm providing, instead of the time it takes. This probably makes more sense, but then I'm stuck with the even more difficult task of estimating how much value I'm creating.

I'd really appreciate any tips on the best way to estimate project length or cost.

Thanks!
This is assuming the real one wouldn't have articulated anything unique and contextually valuable. (Unless you've got some sure-fire method to determine which statements are objectively so and that's what's getting confused.)
Very cool idea! Just wondering if it's feasible to do something similar with two words?
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