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So what? Germany moved from 6% to 30% of renewable energy in 15 years, because they had policy and they invested. Russia started 10 years later. Every section of that article mentions investment projects in that kind of renewable energy that became possible only in recent years for economical reasons. And the investments in solar are not limited just to building of plants - government wants to build a manufacturing industry for them, which to me is the clear sign of interest and commitment.
> Why aren't there required 'debriefing' of medical staff and plane staff immediately following in-air medical emergencies?

IMO this suggestion is worth its weight in gold. Imagine what sort of a (valuable) resource could be created out of a databank of information culled from such incidences, growing with time.
> Even when their tools are being used against human rights workers or journalist they have no qualms.

And why should they? If you don't agree with their moral compass, then don't invest or support them. By laws of nature, they will eventually die away if it is unsustainable. However, I'd wager it is highly sustainable hence their continued existence. This has happened throughout all of human history.
> How do you motivate a kid who knows he has a guaranteed job at his parent's investment firm, that has trust portfolios that will support him forever?

You don't. And that's why (among other factors) most families squander their wealth within two generations.
Someone beat you to posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418081
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Not long ago I saw a documentary about a Chinese entrepreneur that started a "clean coal" company, by doing a SpaceX, redesigning plants from scratch, he claimed to be near pollution free (implying other plants pollute only because of naive careless design, not physics). I wonder if the claims are proven and if it influenced China decision.
I've tried to read the article, but it was crazy difficult to me, incomprehensible. I could be just stupid, of course, or lazy. But 4,000 words to explain the idea doesn't seem right to me, really.

So I went to the main page and tried to watch the video (it's just about 2 minutes, I think). The things did not get better.

I am a fairly technical person but I am always trying to look at any idea from the consumer perspective. So here we go...

1. I generate content, say, videos. I upload them on YouTube and I know how it might potentially get monetized. I mean that for X views and Y ads I may get Z dollars. All these Bitcoin/Blockchain kind of ideas always explain some kind of technology improvements but they never touch how the end user would actually benefit from it. Saying "everything will be better", "you will get fair profit", "no piracy anymore", and stuff like that is close to saying nothing. No one usually tells "why", "how" and "what" I would need to do as a user.

2. There is YouTube. There is Vimeo. There is Facebook which is constantly trying to make video integration more efficient. Instagram. Twitter. Etc. So, if the idea is to build another YouTube with some different technology behind the scene, then my question is - who would follow? I won't. Seriously. Because YouTube works, and there are millions of people there. If you build a network with different content, different functionality, different user experience, I may consider switching or using it at the same time with YouTube (YouTube also sucks a lot). But I will never care, as a user, whether it's built on MySQL, Big Table or Blockchain. That's not my business at all.

So, the technology might be great (I am not to judge), but the application of it looks still blurry to me. People just don't seem to come up with any good idea how to apply Blockchain, and they are trying to take any random industry and build a solution which "should work better" than existing ones. But from the user point of view, it doesn't matter.
> many people have to run Windows to do their job and often even have to run Windows 7 specifically, but might still need new hardware in the future.

Microsoft is under absolutely no obligation to support Windows 7. Those "many people" should and will be forced to upgrade, otherwise a substitute will appear and rake over their jobs/company/market.
What's the point of having your belly full if you have asthma or get cancer at 30 or not have water to drink?

You're making a false dichotomy there, these countries are polluted not necessarily because they are more productive that way, or because it raises the standards of living, but more because of corruption. By saying that other countries should pay up, you're basically saying that other countries should pay for their corruption.

The problem is that we are all in this together. What India does in its territory affects me in Europe, so I'm left wondering why I should pay for that. And don't give me the per capita stats, when they have had a serious natality problem.

I have a better idea. What is hypocritical is for the west to have regulations, but then to allow imports from countries that don't. If this has no other solution, then the logical path is to tax or ban those imports. Wouldn't that be more fair?
I can give you a counter anecdote. At my university, I have the most stable wireless connection (eduroam) among my peers, using NetworkManager and a recent kernel. You just have to find a reasonably supported device - Thinkpad laptops, for example.
For people who cannot visit the site, we have a mirror one: http://getmobicss.xcatliu.com

And the GitHub repo: https://github.com/xcatliu/mobi.css
That nobody has been sued for this in the UK does appear to be a common belief amongst professional organisations.

"Despite the fact that no-one in the UK has been sued for providing first aid, it is a common fear that we’re regularly asked about." - Joe Mulligan, British Red Cross, 2015

"Although potential legal liability arising from good samaritan acts is something about which we're regularly asked by healthcare professionals, in practice we have never encountered a UK doctor, paramedic, nurse or other healthcare professional being sued after providing this kind of emergency assistance." - Shoosmiths, a major UK law firm that I have heard described as "Ambulance Chasers".

It seems to be common in the US for people to get sued for helping. Not so much in the UK, and following the 2105 SARAH act, which creates additional protections for such people, now even less likely.
Well, not quite. The documentation summarizes what your experiment showed.

> Unadorned integer literals (including binary, hex, and octal numbers) yield plain integers unless the value they denote is too large to be represented as a plain integer, in which case they yield a long integer.
The use of force to round up large groups of people is a terrifying thing, and it's absolutely something the Nazis did.
Not only Symantec. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16292
Concurrent sentences do happen, especially when all the counts stem from one incident, though I'm unsure if they happen for federal crimes. (In that case assuming full conviction he'd serve each count at the same time, making it up to ten.)

They're obviously angling toward a plea, though.
Aside from sensory immersion etc, paper books are just easier to flip through, have higher resolution, and generally look nicer.

And there's the simple fact that sitting somewhere with a book makes you look pretty cool whereas sitting there with a Kindle makes you look like a dork.

Also, paper books can be shared, lent, given, and they exist as nice physical objects instead of as these weird ephemeral files that Amazon can probably delete at any time.
Personally I think the UI and UX of a paperback is really hard to beat.
Some of these people had US passports. US passports! If I had a US passport it would not cross my mind that I was not a US citizen and that I needed to do even more paperwork.
40 years, or even 10 years is not a reasonable sentence for cybercrime. It should be no more than 2-3 years in the severest of cases.
Actually, NodeOS is a real thing: https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS
Ask HN: Working in Sweden?
Hi HN!
this is a throwaway because job hunting reasons.

Im from EU and currently looking for a new job. I've reading good things about working in Sweden as Stockholm is rising as a tech hub.

I've lined up some interviews and I'd like to know how is like to work and live there.

Anything from salary, quality of life, job market or things I should be aware before jumping.

Anyone working in sweden?
> Of course it implies that these services must be good enough so that the riches wont look for something else.

Even if the services are good enough, there will always be segregation in the presence of huge income disparities between sizable portions of the population. Wealthy overambitious parents wouldn't want their kids to have any contact whatsoever with the "lower class".
That's not the case in London. The notice you need to give a tenant is specified by the lease agreement (general an Assured Shorthold Tenancy). It's usually specified as 6 months minimum, after which either tenant or landlord can give 1 month (or sometimes 2) months to end the lease.

If the tenant refuses to move out (despite the landlord serving notice correctly) you can usually get that resolved in 2-3 months at most: 1 month to get a court date, 1 month to give the tenant time to comply with what the court orders, and 1 month to get a bailiff to physically remove them (if it comes to that).

(Source: I'm from London, and I've signed several leases as both a landlord and as a tenant. I've once gone to court to evict a tenant who had stopped paying rent, and the matter was resolved in <2 months from first filling in the court paperwork)
> How does this even make sense? The whole point to specifying something abstractly is that you want to denote anything that satisfies the specification. And what proof are you talking about? Are you confusing “proof” with “typing derivation”? A single term may admit multiple typing derivations.

I am not confusing anything. Again, this is a matter of overloaded terms. When a typed language expression to compute a function Nat -> EvenNat is given, there are two computations that must be carried out: First, a proof that the function yields an even natural is computed (you call that type checking); second (that's the evaluation step), the actual computation is carried out, and an element in the set of even numbers is computed.

When you want to start counting operation is up to you. You can declare that the validation (type checking) phase is not counted. But the fact remains that if you know something -- i.e. that the result of the computation is a member of a certain set -- that knowledge must be gained at some computational cost. If you know it, then it means that something has paid that cost.

> You're assuming that you can write correct programs, without taking verification into consideration right from the beginning. This assumption is incorrect.

I am not assuming anything. When to do something is a practical, engineering concern. It is obviously of extreme importance. But from a theoretical point of view, the total computational effort required to prove a property of a program is the same (given the same conditions), no matter when it is carried out. Of course, engineering concerns move that complexity around between different machines -- the computer and the human programmer -- based on their respective strengths, but the total work is always the same. Just as to sort an array there's a minimum complexity required (O(n log n)) no matter how you do it, so too does writing and proving a program correct has an inherent complexity that has to be paid no matter what.
> Do we need to compare everybody to Hitler?

Trump's policies are eerily reminiscent of Hitler's. Seriously, go look up some transcripts of Hitler's speeches, especially the early ones, and substitute "Muslim" for "Jew" and compare the results to Trump's rhetoric. Better yet, show the results to some Trump supporters and ask them if they agree with the sentiments.

But I don't really care what color their shirts are. What I care about is: by what process do we decide who gets thrown out and who gets to stay. Trump's policy is: throw out everyone who can't prove they're here legally. Well, if a passport isn't good enough proof (and it manifestly is not) then I'm not sure I can prove I'm here legally.

Will it be "that bad?" Maybe, maybe not. But if history teaches us anything it is that the time to speak up is before the answer becomes apparent.

[NOTE: I posted this comment in the wrong place in the comment tree, but someone posted a reply before I noticed so now I can't delete it. I re-posted it in the right place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418441]
Yeah, this has nothing to do with YouTube. This is about art distribution with a digital currency. Very little of YouTube is about art and there is no currency involved. Not every content creator on YouTube want to be paid by viewers. For sure I don't, that would against the goal of my videos (very short vacation clips for friends or tutorials to bring people to my local go club). The title is misleading.
> because I have the feeling that if that person had been on the ground he would have almost for sure survived (IANAD, once again, so, it's just a feeling).

Sadly, most people who need CPR will die.

How successful is resuscitation through CPR?

Diagnosis Success Rate for CPR
Head injury 7.2%
Acute renal failure 2.7%
Survival after 24 hours 9.2%
Survival to hospital discharge 8.3%

(That's from a Google instant answer).

https://www.resus.org.uk/faqs/faqs-cpr/

> 9. How many people survive a cardiac arrest?

> In the UK fewer than 10% of all the people in whom a resuscitation attempt is made outside hospital survive. Improving this figure is a major priority for the RC (UK), the Department of Health, ambulance services and voluntary aid organisations.

It's a bit of a problem when films and tv shows depict CPR as almost always being successful.
Passive income on capital assets (e.g. letting out property) is exactly how they make that money.
Both my grandparents survived the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The only time my grandmother mentioned Nazi Germany to me was when Schindler's List was in theaters and she asked if I've seen it yet. Hitler didn't just start killing Jews and others. He slowly progressed to that. Of course, each step towards the final solution didn't seem like a large jump from the previous one. That is what I was told the power of the movie was, that it captured the slow progression. It started when Jews had to register all family members and had to move to ghettos in major cities or leave the country. Trump wants to start with step 1 with Muslims and Hispanic people. Trump is literally Hitler right now. What Trump wants is literally the first scene from Schindler's List. We are in 2016. We should be past this by now.
Well, fair enough then. I plead guilty as charged. Linux is definitely not great.
The ultimate solution is a machine that solves every need I have before I have it.

But then why live?
IMO it really depends on the cybercrime. Maybe in this instance 2-3 years should be sufficient. I can, however, imagine scenarios where much longer sentences should be applied.
If a cybercrime results in human casualties, for (a more extreme) example.
They're not trying to sell it. They're hackers who use it for their own purposes and are probably more interested in attracting other hackers who can help out than they are interested in pretending to be a consumer OS or actually being one with all the support and polish and work that entails. Maybe later someone will make the Ubuntu of Nix.

The Emacs of distros sounds exactly what I'd want by the way. What's wrong with that?
Using bignums means that arithmetic operations would have to check their arguments for whether they're bignums and also check the result for overflow, and that's going to be a lot worse than some branch-on-OF, which I'd think any sane CPU should statically predict not to be taken. The needs for things like array indexes, sizes of things, and other stuff that isn't in-band user data, these janitorial integer values, are such that you don't need (or want) bignums for them.

If I ruled the universe, I would declare overflow-checked signed and unsigned types to be the ordinary numeric types, and then in-band user values -- the data the program's written to work with, like coordinates of stuff in video games, values in spreadsheets, data in strings that is going through a crypto algorithm -- are the sort of thing that would deviate from the ordinary. They might use bignums, or floats or doubles or float128's, or unchecked 2's complement integer types, depending on the needs of correctness and performance.

Most of the operations on janitorial integers can have the overflow checks be optimized away, anyway. On one 20k line C program I counted, and I forget the exact number of arithmetic operations where (1) the overflow check would be gratuitous and (2) where omitting the overflow check wasn't a trivial optimization, was less than 10.

(Edited to make clear I was talking about gratuitous checks, by which I mean the overflow check would provably never catch overflow, and where a human programmer might feel bad about doing the wasteful check. There were less than 10 provably unnecessary overflow checks that were not "trivially" provable. One example of an overflow check I would not consider gratuitous is a doubling in capacity of a std::vector<T> when adding an element, or multiplying by a sizeof before a malloc. It could be theoretically provable if you bound other integers globally that such an overflow could never happen, but a human editing the code would be OK with the check and its performance implications.)
So, in your mind, "defending equality" means deporting people who don't respect the sanctity of swim class.
I wouldn't take that bet this time. Microsoft's shown an aggressive willingness to break anything that gets in the way of Windows 10.
> Behave like us, or get the hell out. Is that racist to you?

Is this a trick question?
Yeah? Have a look at EU social democracies... Everybody go to the same schools and the same hospitals, everybody gets the same internet, everybody go to the same sport clubs, etc. And wealthy overambitious parents tend to hide their money and live among their community.
iirc, the method they got caught using was an unsolicited sms with a link to a page with a mobile safari/webkit 0day that silently installed a jailbreak
It's not untrue. It just depends on what you want and like. My laptop Linux setup is exactly how I want it to be and it's indeed great. If you don't like it, that doesn't affect me at all.
> Do we need to compare everybody to Hitler?
Trump's policies are eerily reminiscent of Hitler's. Seriously, go look up some transcripts of Hitler's speeches, especially the early ones, and substitute "Muslim" for "Jew" and compare the results to Trump's rhetoric. Better yet, show the results to some Trump supporters and ask them if they agree with the sentiments.
But I don't really care what color their shirts are. What I care about is: by what process do we decide who gets thrown out and who gets to stay. Trump's policy is: throw out everyone who can't prove they're here legally. Well, if a passport isn't good enough proof (and it manifestly is not) then I'm not sure I can prove I'm here legally.
Will it be "that bad?" Maybe, maybe not. But if history teaches us anything it is that the time to speak up is before the answer becomes apparent.
As I said, xenophobia makes people do ridiculous things.
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Poor Pareto would be sad to hear this. Even as hé described them, he viewed Pareto improvements as unjust and broken.
Freedom isn't ideological, it's very concrete. It just means you are allowed to tinker, share, and learn about the software on your computer.

And generalizations about what "people" need make the mistake of assuming that all people are the same which they're obviously not.
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I guess if there was an opportunity that had to be taken now you might consider it - but spend some serious time modelling the risk. 30% is too high for week to week cash flow issues though I agree.
Java or JVM?
That's not a literal. The result of an expression that overflows int is a long. 'int' is merely an efficient way of storing small integers as part of the larger bignum scheme.

>>> z=2**62
>>> type(z)
<type 'int'>
>>> type(z+z)
<type 'long'>
> What's the point of having your belly full if you have asthma or get cancer at 30 or not have water to drink?

Making it to 30 as a member of your nation's populace is a better deal for your nation than starvation and food riots. When it comes to citizenry, nations have a weird, unspoken incentive to keep you alive and in the workforce so as to exploit your output. That's not sarcasm or pessimism; one just doesn't often think about it in that simple of terms, but that thought process is a useful illustration around the point you're making. I'm not well educated in economics but I'd wager this is a concept of some kind that is known.

Belly full is near the top of critical sovereign state priorities. Environment is near the bottom. That's not really a dichotomy, one just has to understand the incentives for a nation. If a nation can work you for twenty years that's a start, and helps build the budget for 30, then 40, then clean air. And so on.
I am speaking of this world; the world in which we live today. In this world, "inheritance" is a thing we already know about. In this world, when actions are taken to stop something we know about, people don't suddenly forget about it.

We have laws already against people trying to dodge inheritance tax, and when people try to do that, it is frowned upon. In this world, should inheritance tax effectively become 100%, and based on the knowledge people have now, I see no reason why society would not notice people trying to break the law by clever use of contracts to recreate the inheritance system. This is something that already happens; laws come into being, some people try to break those laws, it is frowned upon. This happens already. Fact.

"It would be trivial in any world where contracts and transfer of ownership are accepted to recreate an inheritance system."

This would be some other world entirely. Sure, in that world that you're hypothesising, you can have whatever you like. I'm talking about this world; the world in which we already live, where we have hard evidence of people already trying to dodge inheritance tax with contracts and getting busted for it, and hard evidence of new laws being created and people being busted for breaking them. You have no such evidence (hardly your own fault; your world doesn't exist), so I find your argument less convincing. I will find any argument based on hypothetical worlds where you simply assert whatever you like as fact to be unconvincing.

If you have no facts and no evidence to present, the usefulness of this conversation is at an end.
Found an Ames Research center link.

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4302/ch2.11.htm
Well, I guess if an ambulance manages to reach you quickly chances increase? I don't know. Anyway, I guess they do increase dramatically if there's a defibrillator available, right? At least that's what this suggests:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/aed-cpr
Can you give an example of some things that are better on other airlines? "good service" is a pretty vaugue phrase.
Any debt is typically done early on for seed level amounts and has convertible features - converting at the next funding round. We are seeing more leveraged buy outs recently.
I guess a more expensive workaround then would be to buy Windows 7 retail if it's true it will still work, just wont use the new features of the chip.