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You need to revisit your facts. Solar plants with storage are currently in operation [1] [2]. They have been producing 370GWh per year. This is tiny compared to a mid-sized nuclear power plant, but the technology is there and is easy to scale up without hazards.

[1] http://torresolenergy.com/TORRESOL/valles.html?swlang=en

[2] http://torresolenergy.com/TORRESOL/gemasolar.html?swlang=en
> I have yet to find a pro-DRM consumer

Every person who buys something that is DRMed is a pro-DRM consumer. Markets don't care about soap-box oratories, but only about money (this also means that if you want to know what someone really stands for, just follow their money trail).
Man, there are things I like about Ecto but for anything beyond simple selects the documentation is lacking and the experience is kind of painful.

As an example, I hit the issue recently where a changeset wouldn't accept nil for a relation via put_assoc. That seemed like an very trivial problem to be hitting for a project that's been around so long. And I hit a number of issues that had that sort of feeling.

Another thing was that, if you update a thing with new relation data, you have to force-reload the relationships from the database again. That was pretty surprising and seemed like it should be unnecessary.

I think there's room for an Ecto alternative that tries to be a bit less fancy and gains a lot because of it.
This is one of the dangers of a technology that is inherently centralized. It puts control of safety in the hands of a large, uncaring, faceless entity.

For that reason, decentralized technologies like solar are a better choice for where to spend money on energy.
Of course no one pays that much, directly. 90% of America cannot afford that all at once.

So the trick is to get Americans to pay $10/pill at the point of purchase, and an additional $3 taken out of every paycheck, before taxes, whether they get the pill or not.

The US healthcare system is a cesspool of interlocking scams and cons. Those who genuinely want people to be healthy, and for sick people to get well, are constantly at war with those who operate under the assumption that a person will hand over everything they own (and maybe even some stuff that other people own) for a decent chance at not dying before they're ready to go--and then still charge a little extra to help someone die when they are ready.
10 years ago I was hoping apple would get in to the printer business. It seemed(s?) ripe for disruption with a new entrant that simplifies aspects, has better hardware/software pairings and 'just works'. Given apple's swing in the last few years, it might not be a great idea now, but it felt like an area they should have entered 10 years ago.
Bingo. The real reason for DRM to exist is to maintain the old systems of distribution zones and price differentiation.

A system that came into place in the analog era, thanks to differences in broadcast signals. Something that VHS recreated verbatim, and thus a NTFC movie had to be converted to a PAL movie etc.
Looks cool mate!
The plural of anecdote is not data but just to give my own experience here; my youngest brother is of this age group and still lives with my parents for no reason other than laziness. He just has no ambition or interest in getting a steady job and moving out to his own place. No interest in finding a romantic partner. He just sits at home and plays video games as he has for his entire life. He has friends doing the same thing.

I don't know if this is a real trend or just something I'm seeing but someone should probably study this phenomenon.
I can buy a lot of counterfeit stuff on eBay and Amazon. Blacklisting Alibaba sounds to me is like that U.S gov is trying to block other companies to compete with U.S companies, like eBay and Amazon.
And you are going to make 700-1500 MWh of baseload electric power how? With PV solar and no storage? Hamster generators with flywheel storage? Coal? Russian gas? By daming every river and erecting 1k offshore wind generators with capacity factors of 0.4?

International standards for nuclear reactor safety have been altered after Chernobyl, 9/11 and Fukushima in order to make reactors as safe as possible. That's why the construction costs went up and no company besides some Chinese holdings are able to build a nuke plant on schedule and w/o exceeding initial estimates by more than 200%.

Brezsnyev era safety standards pioneered by the RBMK creators were basically: "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country". That's why the VVER PWR is safe - it was designed by responsible people.
01. The second machine age

02. The Firm: The secret history of McKinsey and it's influence on American business

03. The Simpsons and their mathematical secrets

04. League of denial

05. The Martian chronicles

06. The Sixth extinction

07. Lost stars

08. The Devil in the white city

09. China in ten words

10. The Fourth revolution

11. Red Mars

12. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe

13. Grit: Passion, perseverance and the science of success

14. The Signal and the noise

15. The Third chimpanzee

16. The Willpower instinct

17. The Master algorithm

18. The Emperor of all maladies

19. 1491

And I'm reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

Honestly, I really enjoyed League of Denial about all the shady stuff the NFL did around CTE, Lost Stars which is an incredible Star Wars book, The Willpower Instinct, and 1491. Everything else was kind of take it or leave it. I doubt I'll read as many books next year
Oops!

Being shaper in the morning I see I should have written Jean Labadie.
The spent fuel ones produce plutonium as a byproduct -- not good.

I'm all for new technology, but the lobbying/PR effort that produced this article is 100% based on existing technology that makes big engineering firms/government contractors billions of dollars.
Hi SwellJoe, thanks, just tried FFDevWindows for the first time and saw the bug. Fixed. Cheers.
By critiquing his reluctance to accept patches because he'll be stuck maintaining that code? By forking Vim and removing some compatibility and legacy support features when tarruda's multithreading patch was not accepted?

No, the core contributors have not been outright in their criticisms, but IMO the fork itself shows a lack of respect for Bran's work and a lack of willingness to work with him to make Vim better. And now tarruda has stepped back from NeoVim, perhaps recognizing himself the cost that Bram bears.

By simply contributing to the tests - one of the outright critiques of Vim itself - they could have brought a lot more confidence to accepting such patches to Vim, but they chose to take their ball and play elsewhere instead.

What frustrates me the most is that instead of two branches of Vim that are moderately better (with the future of one of the branches being left behind), we could have had one which was much better.
I think we are talking about different kinds of diversities.

To say it another way, no matter how you bang at a piano, it still sounds like a piano.

I was talking about diversity in what is technically known as "timbre". For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1T-za0WH4Y You can say that these are toy sounds, that they don't sound like real instruments, I can then say that they are purer sounds. But I think we can agree that a classical orchestra cannot make these sounds, so in way it's less expressive.
What I would like to see happen is for young people to stay with their aging parents even after becoming financially settled and even after marriage.

The whole concept of 'moving out' is barbaric to say the least. Old folks who can't fend for themselves in many situations and their old bodies fail them in most basic of tasks such as cleaning house and cooking are then simply shoved into 'old folks house' till they breathe their last.

Best if this generation can break this sh!tty concept about 'moving out' - after all, they themselves would become old one day...
Regarding #3, it's worth noting that even though the elements of the two-dimensional array form a contiguous block of integers, you cannot treat them as such [1].

[1]: http://c-faq.com/aryptr/ary2dfunc2.html
> CrowdStrike, which was hired by the DNC to investigate the intrusions

I can't think of anything that would lend less credibility to the findings than to be paid clients of the DNC.
Sometimes you want a GPU near a display.
Interesting perspective!

The biggest worry here is the automation of law enforcement. Once we're policed by robots, there's nobody to rise up against the dictators.

Maybe we should ensure that every person has one robot to do their work for them, and that's it. No robots for governments and corporations.
Alpine Linux 3.5.0 released
Too Big to Fail: really interesting, but for some reason reading this book stressed me.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: Easy to read and entertaining. I actually had to spend a good 10 minutes going thru the plot to understand what happened, felt great to get it.

(Unfinished) Barbarian Days: a book on surfing
Things I completed:

1. Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

2. The Code Book - Simon Singh

3. Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh

4. Deep Work - Cal Newport

5. Smarter Faster Better - Charles Duhigg

6. 1984

7. So good they can't ignore you - Cal Newport

8. Distributed Systems for fun and profit

9. Classic Shell Scripting

Things I partially read and hope to complete some time:

1. The music of Primes

2. Traction

3. Founders at work

4. Your Memory: How it works and how to improve it

Things I would recommend:
Fermat's Enigma and The Code Book are very interesting reads if you are into Mathematics. They are both written very well and you don't need to know too much of Mathematics to understand it. On the other hand The Music of Primes started of very interesting and then got a bit too heavy for an evening read. If you can chug along I think it would be a good one too.

Of all the self help books I mentioned I think Duhiggs Smarter, faster better is the one that stands out. It is more of an analysis of various teams and people and how they got to work efficiently.

Founders at work is a long read but something that you can read a chapter independently and that's why it is under half read but definitely something to look at.

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A fine piece of writing: "The thing that chiefly interests the basic Fitzgerald is still the florid show of modern American life — and especially the devil's dance that goes on at the top. He is unconcerned about the sweatings and sufferings of the nether herd; what engrosses him is the high carnival of those who have too much money to spend, and too much time for the spending of it. Their idiotic pursuit of sensation, their almost incredible stupidity and triviality, their glittering swinishness — these are the things that go into his notebook."
you can do that in vim as well
http://pastebin.com/LLm0tx88
I've actually cleared it out before and didn't even realize what it was. I volunteer to clean up invasive species, and we end up pulling a lot out when we clean up buckthorn along with garlic mustard. I probably knew it was hemlock at one point it time, but it didn't really stick.
Author of exrm rewrote it as Distillery and says that will be where all future development goes.
> well enough to protect the future of their businesses.

I'd even say the expect platforms like Netflix to 'do what they can', even if it's not enough to prevent pirating. At least that's what was communicated to me when I asked and worked on a similar platform.
I agree with you. There are undoubtedly issues with nuclear power but the possibility of a Fukushima/Chernobyl meltdown happening in your backyard is not one of them. The main downside is that this understandable but unfounded fear get in the way of politicians having a meaningful discussions about the real issues of nuclear, such as the one you mentioned.
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Gobot 1.0 released
I doubt the odds of that are anywhere close to the ~2/1,000 odds of a significant nuclear accident over 50 years of operation.

Granted, it's hard to get real numbers and future designs may be safer. But, if you include military reactors there have been more than 2 significant accidents per 1,000 reactors. So while some people say they are very safe, people also said that about the Titanic.
It may help to check who is the actual seller, as Amazon these days is as much a distribution center for third parties as a first first party retailer.
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In theory, no, but is there a competitor with a similar array of sensors and data sources in their cars? It's a tremendous head start. It's going to get interesting :)
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Speaking for myself, growing up in the US I couldn't wait to move out of my parents' house and live on my own. My friends were the same way. The reasons having my own place was appealing to me really boil down to independence.

Being able to choose where I live, being able to decide my own priorities, not dealing with them being around and pestering me, having peace and quiet when I want it and being able to blast my music that they don't like without being asked to turn it down. Being able to have my friends over. Being able to have girls over. Being able to move in with a girlfriend (which is what I did when I moved out.)

I love my parents but I cannot live with them. They annoy me within a few hours of being around them. We don't like the same things. We don't like the same music, the same TV shows, we don't hold similar politics, they are religious and I am an atheist. We just aren't compatible.
Yikes that video thumbnail with the ~hacker hands~ and wall of green binary...
Let me clarify. The primary debt issuance was debt taken by people doing stock market speculation. The joke at the time was that if your shoe shine boy was asking you about stocks, something weird is about to happen.

The agriultural overproduction was a result of the drop in market prices for goods, so the farmers ramped up production to make up for it, ignoring good farming practices, notably proper tilling and crop / land rotation which resulted in the deterioration of the top soil (dust bowl).

All of this happened in the Roaring 20s.

As far as before the 20s, you had WWI and the industry kings manipulating the markets. They were doing fine, but the people working under them weren't. This was the era of industrialization, child labor and The Jungle. It was wonderful if you were an industry titan, but bleak for most everyone else.

Anyway, my point being, the great prosperity we experienced after WWII was more of an anomaly that anything else. I believe it was sustainable through smart regulation and government investment among other things, but interests have been working hard to bring us back to where we were before.
> ...agree to disagree about ownership of capital leading to increased inequality...

If it is not capital ownership, then some other inequality mechanism is at work if the automation trend is true, considering that as automation scoops the obvious and not-so-obvious patterns of workflows in the economy out of the labor market, proportionally none of the benefits accrue to those who are left creating that automation. Think about that for a second.

If you are one of the few who create the automation, then by definition what you are doing is currently not amenable to automation. You are creating a fabulous wealth machine with the automation, but by and large, unless you own a capital stake in that exercise, you will not see compensation proportional to the value you bring to the table. It's a curious dynamic to me, because due to classical economics, I would have expected capital to flow more readily to those whose work could not (yet) be automated, to accelerate delivery towards the proven benefits of automation.
Why not hiring people with amnesia for testing product?
Let's forget the ethical limits for a sec.

Advantages :

- Giving job, integration for amnesiac

- New look on the product at each tested version.

- Testing the simplicity of the UI

Notes, it concerns certain types of amnesia only.
>no nuclear plant built starting today would have any of the issues

They still have the issue that they are inherently centralized technology that puts control of energy in the hands of big government and big corporations.

I'd rather see control at a local level, down to the individual property owner.

So from that perspective any nuclear power plants built starting today absolutely do have the same issues. Not the same safety issues, maybe, but let's be aware of all the issues, not just cherry pick.
Yes! I think I left the best for last! Loving the book and it's practicality. I look forward to writing about it in the coming year.
That's all well and good if the context is unambiguous, but if it isn't, people will get used to having this done for them (or not even know that it happens at all), and then be totally perplexed. Worse, maybe then people want even ambiguous situations to be made friction-free, so the compiler must guess. Then you've got the possibility of very confusing behaviour, doubly so if the ambiguity involves any kind of polymorphism (different, possibly contradictory behaviour per type!)
Out of 32 books I read this year I recommend:

Somehow tech/startup related:

- Spelunky, Derek Yu: book about creating the game of Spelunky + notes on game design

- Disrupted, Dan Lyons: book about "old" guy working in startup

- Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton: book about Twitter

Non-startupy books:

- A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami: modern Japanese novel

- The Hills of Chianti, Piero Antinori: story about wine company and notes on wine making, wine marketing and other stuff from one of the most notable wine company from Italy (700 years old, owned by one family whole history)

- The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clark: scifi classic
Ask HN: How long did it take to release your side project in 2016?
From idea to release and first paying customer, how long did it take? What were the challenges? Encountered anything unexpected?
Are there no professional investment advisors in Europe.
Very possible. A tit for tat measure. China does the same thing to US companies. Not that I'm advocating the behavior of either side.
Tolkien's:
- Lord of the Rings
- The Hobbit
As someone younger on HN, I see a lot of people my age buying stuff from Taobao even though it is specifically for Chinese people. There's a lot of hype around counterfeit luxury clothing and shoes ('reps' of nike, adidas, supreme, etc.) because they are extremely cheap on Chinese sites but look close (and sometimes '1:1') to the real thing. They use agents that speak Chinese and live in China that can order what the consumer wants on Taobao and then ship it to them in the west independently. You can see some examples and discussion on /r/fashionreps.

Even beyond that, plenty of sports fans I know buy jerseys from Alibaba because the official ones are way too expensive for young people in the Midwest. I also personally know a guy that makes money using a python bot to get shoes when they release and resell them with a markup when they're sold out.

It might be more difficult to use some of these sites, but for many the savings are worth the inconvenience of navigating foreign sites, and there's a big market for the goods it sells.
The best lifestyle is always the newest one
You forget two things:

1) Our military is largely composed of 18-24 year olds. We would be sending legal children to war.

2) The purpose of democratic voting is not to decide policy, it is to give legitimacy to policy decisions. When you disenfranchise a large number of people who believe themselves capable of decision-making, and who tend to disagree with the majority opinion, you risk revolts.

Note in particular the disastrous consequences of the product of these two issues.

18 is just fine.
Ask HN: With all these popular video chat apps, how do you monetize it?
Next Step Mars or the Moon?
Never mind that Julian Assange is saying the source was not Russia.
Transmission of electricity is not free, you have to build and maintain a high-power transmission line, and also waste some of the power for transmission inefficiency.

Getting people live in a work camp, transport them to and fro, and otherwise compensate them for their strange living conditions takes money, too.

This may be a significant fraction of operation cost, even if the power at the generator's output connectors is produced cheaply. More expensive -> less competitive.
Well, generally the game-theoretic proposals are for some kind of direct compensation for impacts - developers pay the residents directly for new impositions like shadows or traffic. But this really throws the whole notion of "master planning" and "expert opinion" out the window (as it's now a transactional system) which is why people who think of themselves as expert city planners do not like it.
1. On many browsers, if you don't use `display: table-row` between those, it'll mess up your content.

2. CSS only almost exposes the HTML table layout system. e.g. There are no column groups, or column or row spans. There's no way to indicate a table header in CSS that would make a browser repeat it when printing a table over multiple pages.

3. People who learn by rote that table is evil without really learning why are likely to assume that using CSS to make something behave (almost) like a table is also evil.
"Carbon emissions from the electricity sector increased 24 percent after the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California closed."
Because existing coal generating stations can be scaled up quickly. With planing one could have also build a solar generator before.
Same index funds as always. Don't try to time the market, especially a quarter century before you retire and start withdrawing.
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