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I'm proud of a tool that I did to find the visual center of images (http://javier.xyz/visual-center/) and one to make random color schemes more cohesive (http://javier.xyz/cohesive-colors/). I find those two really useful.

I'm not so proud of a tool that transforms images to pure css (http://javier.xyz/img2css/) but it's by far my most popular tool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yet none of those would today exist as independent states if not for the earlier conflict - they would have been Russia.
I am tired of seeing this argument over and over with no alternative news source presented. The New York Times is a whole lot more accurate than various extremist sites, your Twitter feed, Facebook or the frontpage of Reddit. With the NYT, at least there is somebody to accuse of bias.

Social media people are happy to peddle outright lies one day, never follow up when they are proved wrong, and get on their high horses about "mainstream media".
When the US originally decided to build out plants in the 1960's, the plan was for 1000 plants. We ended up with just over 100. Each construction was filled with delays and cost-overruns. Then, we ran those plants, based on out-dated designs, long after they were intended to be torn down and replaced. Even some plants that were upgraded, had flaws that prevented them from being used, (SONGS is a good example), so they had to be shut down.

The industry won't pay for R&D for new designs. They won't invest in proper maintenance and training. They barely keep their word on decomissioning schedules.

Waste storage is a huge, huge problem, that nobody has addressed yet. (except the French). And even fuel reprocessing doesn't fully solve the problem.

I think it's a great technology, and there are awesome new designs that could be researched, tested, and put into production. But the industry has to actually pay for this shit and do it. And that's just not happening. The finance side of the industry is still stuck in 1960's models. Operators are finding that these plants aren't even profitable to operate, compared to natural gas plants. (so nuclear is very vulnerable to short-term energy market fluctuations after you've invested billions of dollars into construction).

Also: insurance is not insignificant, when there is a risk of accident that will contaminate land around the plant for hundreds of square miles. That's all "someone else's property" - and those people need to be compensated. What if it's a farmer, who would have generated revenue with that land for the next 100 years (while we wait for the cesium and strontium to decay or wash out of the soil)?

Insurance funds do not cover that kind of loss.
If you want to only consider nuclear by looking at its worst-case, you have to do the same with its competitors for the comparison to be fair, which turns out to be even more favorable to nuclear than the naive examination - banqiao dam, global climate change, people falling off roofs and turbines, etc. Even if nuclear power plants continue to fail at the same rate as they have historically, or five or ten times the historical rate, I'd take them over existing power sources in a heartbeat.
The first gen Volt had a parallel-hybrid mode, which increases wear compared to a pure series-hybrid, so maintenance isn't as low as it could be.
The $15 minimum wage would have devastated the countryside.

I'm all over something like a minimum basic income that would effectively do the same thing as doubling the minimum wage, without putting the cost burden on businesses that can't afford it.

The perk of a national $15 minimum wage is to remove any incentive US only businesses that may consider relocating to less expensive parts of the country. I'm sure it seems perfectly reasonable in a high cost of living area, but outside of that it's a jaw droppingly bad proposal.
I think it does -- "Price cuts apply across all AWS Regions."

The regions listed were just examples. Check back Dec 1.
> When your fuel is 2 million times denser, you need 2 million times less mining, less transportation, etc.

That's assuming the raw materials have the same concentration and accessibility. I would naively assume that just pumping oil up requires no stripping of overburden while some surface uranium mining would. Not saying that oil is great, it's just that the comparison is not as straight-forward as you make it out to be.
Casualty count is one thing, but transforming entire regions into no man's land is not a small price to pay.

Can Molten-salt reactors be used with uranium too or do we need to develop a Thorium based industry from scratch?
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I've used rsync.net personally and commercially. Thanks so much for building a great, simple tool and also caring about user privacy with the warrant canary and stuff.
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My wife drives a "nicer" car but I am really happy with my old 1998 Toyota Corolla: stick shift, nothing has ever gone wrong with it, and it gets incredible gas mileage. I occasionally get it detailed and worked over by a local guy, a real artist, who builds large car models from scratch - he keeps my car looking good.

That said, I am tempted to trade it in for a Bolt EV. If I add more solar panels to our roof, I can try for a zero carbon footprint (except for the car manufacture and maintenance).
https://github.com/samihasan/eskendereyya

I've recently developed a writing system for Arabic in Latin alphabet that I believe will be very useful for Arabic learners to improve their reading and writing skills quickly and efficiently.

Please check it out and let me know what you think.
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Have you not heard of OnePlus?
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No? Tracking all that stuff is trivial. For sure they are tracking plays, I do not see how they couldn't just as easily track saves/skips w/ one log entry.
No matter what your opinion is of mainstream media, replacing it with disinformation, half-truths, and fabrications is not an improvement.
Yes, plenty.

So what are they?
I don't have a link as it was an internal project but it was a simple ASP.NET MVC app that interfaced with Yubikey (a 2 factor dongle) and Active Directory. It would set the Yubikey password to the Active Directory for a user which would then be used to authenticate users when they logged into the network. It wasn't much work but saved the company about $20k, which was the cost of the commercial version the company was looking into.
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http://www.madmapper.com

It's a video mapping application that started as a super simple tool, this is why artist love it.
Let's think like industry. Factories are extremely efficient, able to produce lots of stuff for very cheap by means of economies of scale, which leads to lots of goods available for consumers. Home manufacturing is very inefficient, wasting energy and material. Which is why nobody does it to produce goods for mass consumption.

Seriously. I'm fascinated by the Internet too, but it's like people are forgetting that centralization == efficiency, distribution == waste. There are ways to achieve reliability without totally decentralizing the grid, and what we need now is not adding few more nines after decimal point of the already 99.999something% reliable grid. We need efficiency all across the board to reduce waste.
That depends. Usually very little (single KB/s or less), but W10 is able to produce (write to disk) over 1GB/day of logs/traces/dumps that sits there and waits to be requested by the mothership.
Easy: money is immaterial in the long run, the planet does not care whether it exists or not. Whereas nuclear waste, or the result of nuclear accidents, is a real threat to life.
Most software is bloated with lots of features and doing too much in privileged mode. High-assurance security field keeps our privileged software tiny pushing everything else into either user-mode or separate, privileged components with clean interfaces that are easy to verify. Before this, there were separation kernels like INTEGRITY-178B that was EAL6+ verified for security due to being similarly small & easy-to-analyze. seL4 took it to next level with code & ASM verification but lacks many EAL6+ requirements. This one intends to boost productivity of code-level verification with DSL's.

http://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity-do-178...

Note: The initial reason for keeping it small was that the formal tools just couldn't handle anything beyond 10,000 loc. Now, it's believed they might handle up to 100,000 with enough composition. Already partial verification, esp code-level, of large programs like Hyper-V w/ VCC. Full formal is work in progress at that level with tools like these going to be quite useful.
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Agreed, I never really was interested in the history of the region until listening to Dan Carlin's latest series on the Assyrian and Persian Empires. Pretty crazy to think of Herodotus seeing ruins of the Assyrian's and viewing it as ancient history himself in his time (~450 BC).

Link to the podcast the interested: http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-56-kings-of-kings/
transfer.sh is easily one of the best file-sharing website I've used.

when I recommend it to others, they find it _counter-intuitive_ to use, maybe because of them not being comfortable with the command line. now it has a drag/drop interface, so, that's _good_ (i guess).

one "issue" that I do have with it, is that downloads aren't resumable/pause-able or you can't see actual download progress. Is this a limitation or was it built that way ?

thanks for making such awesome things :)

(for those reading, transfer.sh is fully open sourced here: https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh )
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just because it's a rationale for people to be vocally against nuclear doesn't mean it's rational
> Regardless of accidents, anyway, the dirty little secret of nuclear is still there: untreatable waste.

That waste can at least be sequestered. Coal ash emits radioactivity into the surrounding environment, whereas stored nuclear waste doesn't. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Even labeling lewd sexualised comments ("locker talk") as "bragging about sexual assault" is bias. People have different ways of communicating that not everyone might agree with, but what you're doing is trivialising the victims of actual sexual assault.
28 people died in Chernobyl, 0 in Fukushima. How many have died due to coal related air pollution? And this is completely ignoring global warming effects of coal fired plants.
Ive almost bought the pixel chromebook a number of times but it sounds like a mess to get working for developers.
RunUO for me ;)

I can still find a post from 2001 on their forums where I was overwhelmed with all of the { and } squiggles
Which of those pieces are you saying are inaccurate or untrue?
Last time I checked (maybe a year ago) there was not a single person who had died from Fukushima (the reactor problems - obviously the quake/tsunami had many fatalities). There was one worker who died but the last official stance was that it was from exposure. I think also some elderly or frail people died as part of the evacuation. Estimates in the abstracts of papers I skimmed were low hundreds of potential future deaths, but quite some uncertainty there obviously. I think the models nearly always estimate on the high side due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model being used but I'm not an expert.

Obviously you can continue to argue about environmental damage and cost of the land being unusable for many years as well. I actually felt a bit better about nuclear safety though - if old reactor designs that are poorly managed can be hit by tsunamis, melt down and still not result in many deaths, the safety looks better than expected. Possibly the risk model changes for a determined attacker?

EDIT: current state of Wikipedia is pretty much in agreement with the above, but it's an article with a lot of edits and some points have no references. The number of deaths "due to evacuation conditions" is much higher than I remembered (~1500).
> Google could provide easy ways to control Internet traffic and to gain root access. For example, they could grant access to builtin linux iptables which doesn't cost anything to implement. And Google is easier to influence than noname chinese company.

And the manufacturer could simply unroot the phone and lock its bootloader. At the end of the day it's the phone manufacturer that controls the product, even if Google tries to prohibit such practices in its contracts.
Google has a similar feature to give trusted people access to your data if you've been inactive for a given amount of time (so probably dead): https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive
lack of torque and sluggish acceleration are an issue that is unrelated to a top speed that is artificially limited for whatever reason. Electric cars tend to have vastly superior torque and acceleration at the same horse power rating. They are perfectly usable on the autobahn.

you're attacking a point that I never made.
How is GLONASS affected near Kremlin?
My two favorites vulgarization approach about nuclear radiation:
- The XKCD radiation dose chart http://xkcd.com/radiation/
- The pretty bad-ass documentary "Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail" where there presenter start by taking an radon bath in a Swiss SPA then travel around to the most radioactive places on earth (and flip out when under Pripiat hospital where he almost took too much risk)...
Holy crap! That some great improvements together with the COGENT paper I posted in this sub-thread. I'd love to see them try to overlap in their strong suits. Push-button is hard to argue with, though. Thanks for the links. :)
I figured someone would bring up Australia. I'd say that they _tried_ to do it, but in reality ended up creating a huge black market for illegal guns.

As far as I can tell, there has yet to be established a causal relationship between the buyback program and a decrease in gun related homicides. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Australia

The suicide argument appears to be fairly weak. Yes, the rate went down, but suicides by hanging went up at nearly the same pace. Many of the studies which look at hun related suicides ignore suicides by other measures.
Clinton prefers a $12 minimum wage because outside of cities small business wouldn't be able to keep up with $15. Clinton wanted $15 minimum wage to be passed in cities that can handle it, and has explicitly supported people organizing those efforts.

From the primary debate:

"While Clinton believes $12 an hour is the right federal minimum, she is not steadfastly opposed to the idea of a $15 hourly minimum nationwide. On Thursday, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked if she would sign a bill from Congress setting the federal minimum at that level (something that would be politically improbable). "Well, of course I would," she said."
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My threshold for "soundly" would be at least 2 percent of popular vote. I agree that an actual threshold would be subjective. What's yours?

That we can have disagreement between the electoral college and the popular vote is also an issue that we need to look at very seriously. I'm not contesting that. I'm contesting your contention that Over half the voting population is begging the electoral college to be faithless. To my reading, there are two interpretations:

- "begging the electoral college to be faithless" is a colorful rephrasing of "voted for the candidate that did not win the electoral college"

- over half of those who voted are now asking electors to be faithless

Is there another interpretation that I'm just missing? I'm open to correction.

I guess it depends on what message you're trying to send and who you're trying to send the message to.

If you're addressing those who already agree or are likely to agree with you, the language doesn't matter as much, as it's clear what side you favor. Exaggeration, hyperbole, misrepresentation will generally go unnoticed or be forgiven. Your message is effectively "I'm on your side" and serves to energize those you agree with.

If you're looking for a wider audience, the language matters more, especially in a political environment as polarized as the one we're currently in, where both sides are hypersensitive to language and how it's used. Also, people respond emotionally: it takes active effort to parse messages rationally, particularly if they're messages you're not already inclined to agree with. This is why I'm paying attention to words like "soundly". Those who agree with you don't really care. Those who don't are going to respond emotionally, put off by the language and no longer listen to the content of the message.

Given the attention I've paid to this, you're not going to be surprised that it's something I think is really important. I'm not ready to accept that the divide in America is insurmountable, but to close it we need to be engaging each other across the divide.

If the Electoral College votes for Trump, there needs to be cross-party support in government to fight the efforts Trump you oppose, which means working with people who don't already agree with you.

Does this seem misdirected to you?
Relatively contained waste compared to the waste products of coal burning that are just spewed into the air?

Please. And with newer generation reactors, waste is even less of a problem than in the past.
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The thing is you could argue in the same way about anything dangerous.

CDO only blew up during the financial crisis because of investors overleveraging. If investors had not fucked up, the financial crisis wouldn't have been that bad.

Bophal only happened because industrials fucked up, improperly storing chemicals close to a populated area.

The problem is rather that overleveraged financial products and chemical products are dangerous. They are safe if handled with care by responsible people who understand what they are doing. But they are inherently a danger because sooner or later someone who doesn't know or doesn't care ends up handling them.
I would hope, given the price, that it's printed using some super-high-quality techniques on incredibly wonderful paper and bound in such a way that it will resist a thousand years of idle browsing.
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He died in a small town, relatively. So any day of the week someone killed themselves in LA, but not rural nowheres-ville, so the lack of XYZ in nowheres-ville kinda proves something.

His internet public memories page was full of relatively close friends and relatives in shock. So your situation or an accident. The police would be involved either way. I pulled the police log for the week of his death of all police calls in that city and found nothing logged along the lines of any bodies being found or violent crime or whatever. As near as I can tell the only interesting thing that happened in the town where he died on the day he died was a very major traffic accident, the worst thing to happen in town in weeks before and after. There was a twitter-worthy hours long road closing due to a major (aka fatal) car accident. Absence of finding anything proves nothing, perhaps they intentionally censor suicide calls or it has to be considered that "suicide by car" is not unknown, but I would not be surprised if he died in that specific car accident.
Here's an alternative. Every baby squirted out by religious fundamentalists, increases the demand for more energy utilization, more carbon.

How about people stop having families with 7, 8, 9 + kids, and moderate our impulses to 1-2 kids? Oh wait. Sorry. That's "racism", "eugenics", and "genocide".
Eliezer has a fun version of the amoeba: beings with two-dimensional (but highly folded) sheet brains who reproduce like DNA - at what point in the process are there two consciousnesses rather than one? http://lesswrong.com/lw/ps/where_physics_meets_experience/
Actually, companies are building more. In Georgia we are building the first new reactors in 3 decades with more planned.

https://www.georgiapower.com/about-energy/energy-sources/nuc...
I wouldn't go so far as to say that lies are good. I'm in favor of a robust debate, but let's base it on facts, and even feelings/understanding. The last thing we need to do is mis-educate more people... that'll never lead to agreement.
https://furnisearch.co/

Definitely different from the ones here since it hasn't made me loads of money, but definitely proud of it.

The first web application I ever made, which was actually based on one of those Ask HN threads we had 2+ years go about looking for furniture the fit a specific size. I actually did make a few sales, shockingly.

At this point, it's pretty much dead as I've taken in other projects and independent security consulting engagements. It was extremely useful understanding the entire stack, and I've found it to be something I've been able to use to build a bridge to developers.
One thing I almost never see discussed is how expensive it gets when you have to keep building nuclear power plants due to decommissioning. Most nuclear power plants in use nowadays seem to have a 30 years life expectancy, new ones get up to 60. It just seems hugely expensive.
> "were I in the market"

> the market of dying

is there something about your mortality that you'd like to tell us?
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>> Incidentally, what are the war crimes that were specifically revealed by this leak?

I guess the same as the massive corruption exposed by the brave Julian Assange of the infamous organized criminal organization known as the DNC. What? All the emails occurred after Sanders mathematically lost the nomination? Are you telling me the DNC was trying to support the certain nominee in a general election? Horrible and shocking!

On a related note the DNC scheduled so few debates because they wanted to help Clinton clearly. (Just ignore the fact that the number of debates was comparable to 2008 with far less candidates and a less competitive race.)
This is a pretty sad story. I remember reading about him (when I was a Boy Scout, actually) and being impressed and inspired, in a way (despite the whole superfund site in his backyard thing...)

Unfortunately he was later diagnosed as bipolar and paranoid schizophrenic. I have to wonder what he could have achieved otherwise.
https://github.com/samihasan/eskendereyya

I've recently developed a writing system of Arabic in Latin alphabet that I believe will be very useful for Arabic learner to improve their reading and writing skills in Arabic.

Please check it out and let me know what you think.
What defines a 'mainstream' media outlet anyways?

There were a handful of news outlets thoroughly reporting issues between DNC and Bernie Sanders such as Huffington Post and al-jazeera.

I suppose these are not 'mainstream'? Perhaps mainstream media is defined by having a dedicated TV channel, or at least primetime TV show? Isnt it almost customary for such outlets to prioritize ratings over comprehensive coverage?
1) Anecdote is not evidence.

2) In one breath you dismiss this article as elitism, and in the very next admit the problem of fake news, which is exactly what this article is talking about. It's not another discussion. It is exactly this discussion. I've never seen such a blatant use of straw man.
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not just crazy, it's legitimately scary. i have friends who's opinion and perspective i can usually trust makes making bold declarations about topics on which they are highly misinformed.

that's to say nothing of the calls for censure of thought-crime from the commenters on HN