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We aren't talking about a shiny new feature in the latest cat photo sharing app. We're talking about fundamental infrastructure services. Do you have any concept of how many people "4-5% of users" is in this context? More fundamentally, breaking 1 in 20 users while you fumble your way to "progress" isn't how adults do things.
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It can take decades in-reactor to accumulate the irradiation dose needed to prove out really advanced fuels and materials. We really need an international nuclear innovation center complete with a flexible test reactor (high flux, fast spectrum, multiple independent coolant loops), legit post-irradiation examination facilities, core mockup facilities for mechanical design, flow loops for thermal/hydraulics, etc. This is extremely expensive to build and maintain, so a business model that can make money along the way (medical isotope production, Pu238 for space travel, easy access to many customers, etc.) is needed, though multi-mission stuff can add lots of institutional complexity. The national labs are supposed to play this role, and are doing so to a degree, but the current lack of facilities really saddens my advanced nuclear design soul.

Russia has operating sodium-cooled reactors (BOR-60, BN-350, BN-600) and low-power critical facilities (BFS-1&2). Using those, they can develop and test new nuclear structural materials and fuels that push the envelope. And shipping materials to Russia for testing and bringing it back for investigation is ridiculously hard. Politically streamlining collaboration is essential for nuclear progress.

The US shut down its best test reactors (FFTF near Handford, WA and EBR-2 in Idaho) in the 90s so it's pretty challenging to iterate. At least we're trying to turn TREAT back on now.

So what can a nuclear startup do? Sam is right. You have to focus on small things and bootstrap yourself up. I was an advisor to Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp a few months ago and the team wanted to build a new giant reactor in Diablo Canyon's containment for hydrogen production. Big picture stuff. I encouraged them to focus on something more specific, like technology for coupling the nuclear island to an industrial unit (hydrogen, desal, ... anything) while being able to smoothly alternate power between it and the turbine (for load following on the grid). It's a lot less glorious to work on something like that, but that's the only way to get started in this field unless you're sitting at the non-existent international nuclear tech center, or on $1B of very patient seed money.
Putting on my "get off my lawn" hat here:

> they're going to cause serious issues

But not until it's gone to production, and everyone's gotten an "attaboy" for completing their project and moved on to green pastures. Those sudden problems with performance in production are now the operations team's problem, to out provision or get a maintenance team on it.

Yeah, I know it's not that way in a company with good management and technical leadership... but I've been burnt enough to have a "get off my lawn" hat for this occasion.
Something could be said for being able to convincingly explain why you're right to your coworkers/manager, without hurting their feelings (even though they might be stubborn about it at first). That's a precious soft skill.
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Sure they can. It has a computer. Tell it "power down in 1 hour if you don't have a com link".
You hit the nail on the head with that last sentence.
I fail to see what typing and a typo have to do with each other to make that joke worthwhile.
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There are whole fields more or less dedicated to it! In mathematics, queueing theory; in engineering pretty much the entirety of Industrial Engineering; and there are probably 10 competing frameworks in management, the most important being Lean, Theory of Constraints, Six Sigma.
I ended up with a ThinkPad X1 Carbon gen 2 -- it has a five row physical keyboard, with the top row as a virtual keyboard.

It was constantly registering touches on the top row when I didn't want them. With a laptop, I commonly rest my hand on the keyboard and touch -- but don't depress -- keys.

Today it's only used in a desktop configuration with an external keyboard.

I'm not the only one who felt this way -- see, for example, this Ars review of the gen 3, which said of the gen 2 keyboard:

"...the keyboard shed its top row of function keys, replacing them with a software-controlled touchable strip, and used a peculiar arrangement for buttons including home, insert, backspace, and delete. The result wasn't better; it was awkward."

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/thinkpad-x1-carbon-re...
This transition has been in motion for over a decade now. NTIA (part of Department of Commerce) has some good material on it here: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2016/what-theyre-saying-why-its...

I think a lot of politicians (ahem Ted Cruz) are trying to frame the transition in a shadowy way to discredit the current administration, but its simply a procedural thing thats been in the works for a long while.
DANE is not DNSSEC. This API doesn't solve the problem the DANE is trying to tackle (adding additional trust vectors to certificates).

It actually seems kind of lazy. Their argument is that it is to difficult for client software to embed a DNS resolver into the browser so it can check whether DNSSEC was attempted and whether it was successful. The actual validation would still happen at the clients local resolver.

Their solution is to make client software implement a REST API for doing its lookups instead, and the validation is still happening at your resolver (the REST API).

The only thing I see as a positive with this is your DNS requests will be encrypted. The trade off is the complexity of the process of getting your responses and that you'll be subject to the potential of third party censorship, logging of all destinations which will be difficult to opt out of.
Going to university has completely destroyed my capability to appreciate novels. After years of reading maths/programming/electrical engineering books and the like, when I pick up a novel and it says "Tim said this, and Julie replied that", etc., I am bored out of my mind. Why should I care what they say, get to the point. You could compress this 700 page thing into 10 pages and barely any of the content is lost (in other words, low information density). I wish I could sill appreciate novels, but in most cases I can't.

In my eyes, most novels are trash and there are only a few worth reading.
I come from a lower class family so im not sure why you assume i dont know what i am talking about.
Yes, but there's a fairly high risk the computer or its power supply will malfunction on impact.
You're right, but history is not about knowing the names of the people. US Public Schools do us all a disservice by pretending that History is about memorizing names and dates. It's about remembering what they did and why.

Hadrian is interesting not because he's Hadrian and he was once a Roman emperor. Hadrian is interesting because he commanded to be built an enormous military fortification. The history of that fortification includes his motivations and that of his generals. There may even be a relationship to the economic circumstances of the time, and there were likely some interesting political ramifications. That's what's interesting. Hadrian could just as well have been named Buttface and there would still be something to study there.
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I agree, but that is not a license to operate with impunity. They must either be heavily regulated or allowed to fail. Neither is not an option.
I didn't mean it in terms of p values. Just an ability to reason from data. Statistics is not statistical inference. What does the graph actually show? Is it confounded? How was the data collected?

Everyone likes a bit of graph porn because it's associated to rigour. But clothing not maketh the man and all that.
Indeed, it's quite unfortunate
That's scary. The world is rushing full speed towards AGI. Yet few are working on or care about the hard problem of actually controlling AGI.
You are not counting the jobs they enabled.
There are literally dozens of us.
Having capacity doesn't imply the desire or motivation to make use of it. IQ is "capacity" but it doesn't mean that we inherently make better use of our "greater" intelligence.
I think that writing books about why people don't read books quite possibly is a bit of a self-congratulatory exercise.

It's a bit like holding seminars on why people don't exercise at a gym, or about how bad it is that people don't learn to code at a developer convention, right?

“I have a second book out this year that says to young people ‘for god’s sake, you are educated, why don’t you read!’”
Yeah but, again, the point isn't to offer bullet-proof security; it's to inconvenience people who mostly want to unload your phone.
Read poetry: you will find wisdom, not science. Truth, not facts. Beauty, not data.

Go to museums.
I would be afraid to ask some people in the US to refill their washer fluid. It will end up in the coolant or possibly oil. Although some diesel owners can apparently handle refilling the AdBlue tank or the dealer handles it.
> If you've not had the curiosity to do that then that's a bad sign.

Or you're just working from the backs of giants using built-in types. It's easy to do, when you haven't had to dig into low level code before.

I won't disagree with your premise, but it took some pretty extraordinary circumstances for me to find value in taking the time to learn about the ins and outs of linked lists and hash tables, because my every day work never required it.

It was reading an article about cuckoo hashes which finally prompted me to go down that road, and I can't regret it. That said, I've still never had to implement my own hash table for work.
Rational? This is a discussion about hating a language for silly reasons. They must let the hate out or they'll be bitter forever.
Yes, it sucks. But if you ever see yourself in a position where you can not pay your debits, I strongly recommend you to talk to a lawyer.

The main reason people don't declare insolvency is because there are better options. But I don't know enough to advise people about them - by a wide margin.
you could probably reach 20% by building custom quantization table (DQT) per image alone
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RSA1024 isn't as much of a problem for DNSSEC, though it is being increased. The validity period and the amount of data being encrypted restricts the attacker to a much larger degree. That being said, I don't think RSA is the correct choice anymore for speed, security, or size of DNS responses.

You can find more information here: https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/dnssec/ecdsa-and-dnssec/
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In my country, unlike the US, it's legal to use psychological tests for hiring purposes.

Still, as I grew my company, I've realized how inaccurate they can be. Some of the best performing testers couldn't demonstrate a long-term perspective or broad set of knowledge/opinions.

Whereas they were terrific at solving puzzles, they couldn't accept or recognize a puzzle itself.
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yeah would make sense i guess if they used another ip address in their 8.8.8.8 like range and offer it directly on ip.
No they didn't say that. A socialbot should fail a Turing test because no human could Google an answer in 1 second or know the exact temperature, etc.
Great read! My guess would have been greater than 10,000. Couple of typos towards the end you might want to fix:

"I don't know how I could have expect it, but somehow from the start I should have prepared for fraud. You want to at least keep an on any suspicious activity and react quickly if you start getting many chargebacks."

'expected' and 'at least keep an eye on'
Note:

GCE - Google Compute Engine. VMs in the Cloud.

GKE - Google Container Engine. Hosted Kubernetes. Runs on top of GCE.

(I work on GCE)
The quality of a person, as well as how well they can recognize what exists as it is, is determined by their degree of truthfulness.
Let's not forget the classic biometric-hospital-gate :
People using silicon fingerprints to sign in for their colleagues:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-21756709
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Which summons that quote from The Big Short: The truth is like poetry, and most people fucking hate poetry.
No, dynamic languages use Maps and Dictionaries and Objects and Containers and...

Sure, they're all hash tables under the hood, but if you go up to an average JavaScript programmer and ask them the difference between a Hash Table and an Object, I'm sure you'd get a surprising (to you) answer.
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In operational practice, very little will change. The staff who perform the IANA function of managing the DNS Root Zone etc. will continue to do the same job, although those staff will now work in a separate subsidiary of ICANN. One operational change will be NTIA, an agency of the Department of Commerce, will no longer be required to authorize every change to the root zone in advance.

In addition, ICANN the organization will have new accountability measures that will allow the community to challenge decisions it makes. It provides new powers like spilling its Board under certain circumstances.

One of the main drivers to change the current setup is NTIA's role above is seen as undue US government influence in what should be a purely technical operation by many. Over the years some have advocated fundamentally altering how ICANN works (like moving it to the UN) because of the US Government's influence. By transferring the primary oversight role to the multi-stakeholder community (users, business, non-profits, etc.) who have always really driven ICANN's decisions anyway, it is hoped that that criticism will go away and pressure to fundamentally alter how it works will dissipate.
So we got better in solving IQ tests?
Why have you disabled "Issues" on your repo?
> I fail to see what typing and a typo have to do with each other to make that joke worthwhile.

Well to be fair it's more about static analysis vs catching typos though they tend to go hand in hand. I suppose a more apt analogy would be transposing a letter in the sentence where it was still spelled corrected but the part of speech changed from a noun to a verb.
No, if you rebuild on collision you waste just a bit more memory, but get O(1) worst case look-ups. It's still a hash table and not a table that maps an entire key space. See how dynamic perfect hashing works.
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They did that with Bing too, 5k people, and Bing wound up getting busted for stealing Google's search results: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
One of the most interesting videos on programming I've watched in a while addresses that idea: https://vimeo.com/108441214 The video can be summed in a lot of ways as "What if we actually took that seriously and started designing around it?"

I haven't had enough chance to do it, but I'm at least intrigued.
That's a substantial sum, but to put it in perspective remember that the bailouts themselves cost many many billions
It's off topic to this discussion. If you discovered a new interesting website/service it's best to submit it as a new discussion.
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More than half the Matasano office in Chicago didn't own a car, or, if they did, not one that actually worked. IIRC, one person owned a car and lost it for weeks after parking it on a street and not driving it for a couple months.

Lots of people in Chicago --- in the city proper --- don't have cars.

If you live in the suburbs of Chicago, you'll have a car.
Data journalism is such a broad umbrella that it's hard to agree how mainstream or niche it is. I think David Leonhardt (former editor of the NYT's Upshot) had it absolutely right [0] when he said "data journalism" is as dumb and meaningless a phrase as "word journalism". Though perhaps the fact that journalists are OK with calling it "data journalism" as a means to differentiate it from whatever normal journalism is, is a testament to how niche the concept of using data is in journalism.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/upshot/death-to-data-journ...
You are right that most theories are pretty wrong. It goes beyond soft sciences though; even physics has mostly been off on a crazy tangent for the last 40 years or so.

That being said, reading is still invaluable, you just have to be thoughtful about what (and how) you read. Don't pick up a book without something you want to learn that has real value ahead of time. If the book isn't leading you towards your goal, stop reading it and find another book.

Additionally, look for books that enlarge your picture of the world. Occasionally, pick up a book written by someone with a very different viewpoint from yourself and try to take the author's perspective. Find books that draw connections between disparate ideas.
Read poetry: you will find wisdom, not science. Truth, not facts. Beauty, not data.

People writing nice-sounding words does not in fact necessarily constitutes wisdom.
I think you're right. I also think that if you told a suburban owner that they should trade for the Model X, they would laugh.
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Just like mathematics isn't just the rote drilling of arithmetic and algebra many associate it with, history isn't the rote memorization of facts and trivia.
10^80 = (10^3)^80/3 = 1000^80/3 = 1000^26.67

2^256 = (2^10)^25.6 = 1024^25.6

These number seem very close.
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It sounds like you're reading terrible novels (and I agree, most of them are terrible). There's some great stuff out there, though - very high information density. ;) Are there any genres you like?
>> All I see is a slow tangled mess of dependencies and broken libraries with a package manager which lets you change already released modules...

Ah yes, let's blame the tool for the bad things people do with the tool.
>For me history is just fiction that by sheer accident actually happened (well kinda, because there's a lot of post-factum narrative in history that might be false as any other story).

Nowadays I've just started assuming that real life is bad alternate-universe fanfiction. Someone, somewhere, in some other universe is enjoying a reasonable, functional universe that runs on clear rules instead of sheer perversity.
It's 2016, and the DNSSEC people are congratulating themselves for removing a 1024 bit RSA key.
Java is a different best. It is used for a lot of enterprise projects but you don't want to use it on your own hobby projects. You can't get things done in time.
I love Paul Coxon's tweet of the Rosetta mission told in emoji:

https://twitter.com/paulcoxon/status/781785896513314816
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> PHD's are very "smart" but have narrow "knowledge"

I'd be careful with both of those generalizations.

PhD's aren't necessarily smarter than anyone else. On average, PhD's -- especially at top institutions -- probably typically have above average IQs. But I'd wager a guess that the same is true for non-PhD's working for top employers (or starting successful companies).

Similarly, while it's true that PhD's have very deep knowledge about a very narrow topic, that doesn't preclude them from also having a lot of knowledge about many other topics. Especially since intellectual curiosity probably correlates better with PhD than raw intelligence.
Yes, this happens to other manufacturers. It's also extremely atypical. Samsung is in trouble because, as with their Note 7s, there's a basic design flaw or lack of safeguard that's causing/allowing it to happen with significant frequency. No one's claiming the law can prevent this entirely. It demonstrably can cause manufacturers to build safer products.
Heh, I made something similar for a dashboard a while ago to show how many business days remain until a specified event, e.g.: http://bizdaysuntil.herokuapp.com/?year=2016&month=12&day=25...
Code: https://github.com/opyate/daysuntil
Interesting idea, although not new. It's called odious debt.
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I just bought a 600 dollar pair of boots, the primary features being quality build,materials, and the ability to re-sole - they will last me 30 years if I take care of them.
Microsoft is going in right direction. New CEO seems to know what he is doing.
You should check out the "digital nomad" communities in SE Asia. The only thing anyone is selling is marketing courses/seminars/ebooks
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You'd have to be a pretty incompetent automotive engineer to inject enough water to cause hydrolocking.

Injecting water isn't done to "effectively increase your compression ratio". If that were the goal, you'd just increase the stroke. Water injection cools the engine, allowing a higher compression ratio. If you injected enough water to meaningfully increase the compression ratio on a 3L engine, you'd run out of water in minutes anyway.
I'd love to see the sources on closed-loop systems.

Small note on helium-3: if you can get net energy from He3 fusion, you can also get it from the easier D-D reaction. The output of D-D is half He3, and half tritium which decays to He3 with a 12-year half-life, so you can breed He3 from deuterium and get energy in the process.

The D-D reaction does produce neutron radiation but it's lower energy than D-T neutrons and more easily shielded. The fusion startup Helion is attempting a hybrid D-D/D-He3 reactor, and says only 6% of the energy output would be in the form of neutron radiation.
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That's not mentioned in the article, did you work on this?

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
I have a Samsung front-loading washer and dryer set, about four years old, and it works great. My wife grew up on the far side of the Iron Curtain, and she's always saying how washing machines in the US are surprisingly cheap and flimsy compared to the battle tanks they had when she was a kid, and she loves the washer we have now. So I guess your mileage may vary.
At the core of this article, to my mind (and ignoring Flynn's typical baby-boomer lament that kids today don't know what I know), is the false dichotomy of "nature vs nurture." The article claims that IQ is 80% predicted by genes by adulthood. It's the same point stressed by Charles Murray in "The Bell Curve," which suggested that government social programs were a waste because African Americans lacked the genes for higher IQ and were therefore doomed to poverty [1].

But then, as the article notes, if IQ is so reliant on genes, then why the Flynn Effect? Why are IQs collectively rising year-over-year in our society [2]? If it is the result of our modern society, where technology perpetually challenges us to think abstractly every waking minute of our lives, then wouldn't the Flynn Effect eventually level off at some point in the future? If it really is 80% genes (and I'm still waiting for my 23andMe results to identify the specific SNPs responsible for my Mensa membership) then how far can that 20% environmental influence take us?

These are the most interesting questions to me. Our brains exhibit a high-degree of plasticity. Making students and teachers aware of neuroplasticity can have significant positive outcomes on their education [3][4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

[3] http://www.edutopia.org/blog/neuroscience-higher-ed-judy-wil...

[4] http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec0...

*edited for formatting.
Isn't the future electric?
I mean, not even under the hood. Those are just different names for the same thing.
Cool. I wonder what the results are on a high resolution image.