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The current Firefox Sync (based on Firefox Accounts) still keeps everything client-side encrypted, rooted in password-derived keys and locally generated keys. It never sends the password to the server.
Very large populations will increasingly be a liability in the age of robotics + AI. China and India will suffer immensely because they're simultaneously extremely poor, extremely under-educated and overpopulated at exactly the wrong time. Their over-population will be a persistent drag on raising the standard of living for all of their people, leading to stagnation once their easy fill-in growth is done (China's ended years ago). There is no scenario under which either nation can substantially boost the economic output of their bottom ~800 million, the global economy will never grow fast enough to allow for it. For example, India's path forward on easy GDP growth is already blocked by the end of the manufacturing boom that China was riding for decades (and that regional competitors in east Asia are already deep into taking from China). India coming from extraordinary poverty, will find it very easy to maintain 5% & 6% type growth for years to come, the economic wall will show up as they try to leap toward the middle of nations economically.

It's very likely that neither China nor India will ever become the most powerful countries.
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Not all nuclear energy is the same. I encourage people to check out Thorium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium

http://energyfromthorium.com/
I'm not sure that trawling Google Images counts as active. It doesn't seem like it can be any more powerful than being given the entire Google Images database in advance.
Google for the fuel cell handbook from the DOE. Last I looked it was a clear intro. Wrt charge balances and driving force you need to remember this is a 3 phase system- h2 splits, ions migrate, charge balances by electron flow. Product is steam that wafts away so it is reasonable to think of a fuel cell as a battery with replenishable fuel. It's been a long time. I walked away from fuel cells in '02 or so. Nothing has changed and battery tech has completely owned any large scale opportunity
We're mostly focused on getting the core enabled in Kubernetes. I would like to see it happen once some of the wrinkles in Windows support get ironed out.
Man spends $1.5M to make his country less safe. Brings families into a culture that they will not integrate into (statistically Muslims are the worst at integrating [1]). Ultimately leading to their marginalisation and making them ripe targets for radicalisation.

But good job signalling his virtue.

[1] c.f. France, UK, Sweden and soon Germany.

Sweden:

Australian journalists attacked for going into a Muslium ghetto
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/news-and-cu...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-pG4oiih3A#t=3m9s

Swedish girl explains what's wrong with Sweden today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgRE5upxvAU
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i tried to tell people vaccines are little ufos that cause breast cancer and vagina cancer and testicle cancer

its very scary how many disease-rate graphs go straight up since the vaccine rate was 7x'd in 1975: abortion, miscarriage, retardation, autism, deformity, vagina cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer, lower sperm count, breast cancer, adhd, chrons, asperbergers, spinal diseases, learning disability, parkinsons and dementia, als, alzheimers, various other learning disabilities deformities and abnormalitys

searching for a catalyst: and vaccine rate further 4x'ed in 1980, and 4x'ed in 1990, and 4x'ed in 2000

they still just laugh and say shit like that cant happen, and im making it up (article on it forth coming, with ~25 graphs)

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Yes, let's open US borders without any screening or perhaps more importantly any idea how to pay for entitlements and the cost of sustaining them. We're seeing how well that worked for Germany. In fact, these liberal policies have further strengthened the extreme right in Germany. Next up, after Merkel is the German brexit or Trump equivalent.
I work for a company that does not use any kind of cloud services on the basis that they could be in a situation where there's no money to pay the monthly bill. So we buy servers, equipment, licenses, etc. It's insane. We spend a lot of time implementing open source solutions that are half-baked.

Any cost analysis would clearly show what we do is inneficient but fear trumps it all.
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I believe that the UN should make a Convention on the Rights of the Refugee.

Right now countries just pick and choose what to do with refugees in conflicts that, often, they helped exacerbate.

If this convention existed back in the early 20th century then many Jews would have been saved from the Holocaust, there would be no stateless Palestinians today, and so forth.

As it is, I find it frustrating that the question isn't dealt with seriously: "why do so few Arab countries give asylum and citizenship to Arab refugees?" Lebanon did it, with Syrian refugees. Jordan did it with Palestinian refugees. But by and large, Arab countries don't help fellow Arab refugees.

What makes you Arab? Speaking Arabic and sharing a common culture. Russia would have taken in Russian refugees. It is one of their "five points". They even annexed Crimea and gave everyone there Russian citizenship.

Speaking the same language means you can integrate into societ FAR more quickly, get a job and support your family. It is also better for the country as skilled workers can become productive faster.

But it seems that international pressure must be applied to make Arab countries take in Arab refugees at a far greater rate than European countries with totally different culture.

EDIT:

According to this, a similarly named convention exists, but does not require countries to TAKE the refugees. And most Arab countries are not even signatories to it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relating_to_the_S...

So as a result getting the real figures is a complete clusterfuck, with Arab governments claiming some numbers and stretching the definitions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrians_in_Saudi_Arabia
2 of my 3 cats are quite regularly on top of the refrigerator. One likes to nap up there, and the other likes to experiment with gravity by knocking magnets off the fridge. The only reason the 3rd doesn't get up there is because she is almost 18 years old and has arthritis and can't jump anymore. When she was younger she would use the fridge as a stepping stone to get on top of the kitchen cabinets and regularly nap there. There is no such thing as a cat-proof vertical height.
have you heard of sandstorm?
Because it has mostly been working out to their advantage.
I don't think it's catchy or confusing but it rolls off the tongue nicely.
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Gympie Gympie plant is also not nice. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-enviro...
Here's a Ted Talk that says the same thing:

https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shellenberger_how_fear_of_...
We have policies that favor home owners because, 1) older people are more likely to own homes and they vote at higher rates, and 2) politicians love property tax revenue. If you don't vote and you don't fill their coffers, you're invisible to politicians.
> Alas, the programming, maintenance, re-programming, upgrading, not to mention construction of the robots still needs a small army of people.

If automation doesn't result in absolutely massive savings on employment, it just won't happen. You're army of people is more like a small platoon -- the army being entirely displaced.

But I think there is something to be said about automation allowing for creation to become more accessible. It might make entire categories of small-scale products designed by small teams possible in ways that were not possible before.
Rolling your own crypto - how about "don't"
One thing that needs to be stressed is that realistically there is a rather limited amount of Uranium than can be extracted from the earth for nuclear power. That if we could magically convert to 100% nuclear power - it wouldn't last that long.

from wikipedia

"Still, the world's present measured resources of uranium, economically recoverable at the arbitrary price ceiling of 130 USD/kg, are enough to last for between 70 and 100 years"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Conventional_fue...

reactors have a life of around 60 years I think. So maybe you could double the amount of nuclear power? But it's not like the world can magically go to 100% nuclear indefinitely.
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Less transportation, less devices (instead of upgrading every year, how about using the same phone 5 years in a row?), don't eat meat, generally just reduce consumption.

It does not count as less consumption if you replace oil with solar. Replace it with a void. Whatever activities you were doing that required energy, just don't do those things.

We could do a lot better if we just lived like the 1600s.
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I think they underestimated the rapidity and effectiveness of the DMV's response, and were perhaps anticipating a lawsuit they could draw out and spin to their advantage, knowing that corporate malfeasance is rarely meted appropriate punishment.
You're so cowardly that you had to create a throwaway to say it.
Normally when people say “statistically” and provide a citation you expect it to go to an actual factual source, and not more of the author’s own opinions and assertions.
I think you have backhandedly libelled 200 people you know nothing about and it has no place in this discussion.
One has simple leaves, the other has compound leaves. And do the ranges even have much overlap?
“I didn’t want to be 80 years old and know that I did nothing during the greatest humanitarian crisis of my time.”

As an American citizen who publicly supported both gulf wars and contributes disproportionally to climate change, the above is an understatement of how I feel about the Syrian crisis.

Somewhat related, we have cities in the U.S. that are depressed in part because of population decline. An influx of immigrants could be mutually beneficial. The City of Detroit, for example, has no budget or incentive to demolish condemned homes because the cost of demolition exceeds the vacant land value. A refugee could be granted two homes on the promise they demolish one home. Perhaps one livable home can be constructed from reclaimed materials of the two.

Last I checked, it cost $10k to demolish a small home and a barely livable COD home costs around $5k. Receiving $10k in property for delivering a $10k service doesn't seem like a handout.

Granted refugees require support and resources beyond housing but this inspirational article on Jim Estill and his team of volunteers offer much encouragement in this regard.

edit: grammar
That's a perfectly valid complaint, but it's not necessarily a good argument for nuclear, since nuclear has similar issues, I.e. controlling production to meet demand. In particular, nuclear cannot provide more than the minimum base load without huge investments in storage and/or transmission.
Ha reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-OQhot_ml0
I would be surprised, to be honest, if more than half the american population knew that a nuclear power plant literally cannot blow up like an atomic bomb. However, I can't find any information to support either of our gut feelings. All of the polling information is of the form "how much do you like nuclear" or "what is the best non-fossil fuel power source". I'd love to see answers to "why do you think nuclear energy is a bad idea" or something.
Too diffuse. This is a classic "principal-agent" problem.
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Easy to get started...That's why it's called Bootstrap :)

Plenty of people whine about its bloat, but that's, as you've noted, not the point.
Thorium still has some major technical issues such as corrosion from molten salts though.
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> Less oil? Working on it (see: solar).

And failing at it, oil use is still going up

> Less food? Working on it (see: /r/progresspics, and all the science and journalism on this, soda bans, etc).

And failing at it, see worldwide obesity statistics

> Less cars? Working on it (see: Waze, Uber, Lyft, public transit, et al).

And failing at it, see the meteoric rise of motorization in developing countries

> Do you suggest that China didn't try population control at scale for generations?

Are you suggesting it was a success, and didn't cause a huge gender imbalance which is threatening to cause social strife?
I don't know if you consider this an effective rebuttal but I live in a place (Ontario, Canada) that made the opposite move at the same time as Germany. All coal plants have been shut down and replaced with additional Nuclear, Hydro, and Natural Gas generation.

We now have some of the cheapest electricity in the world (~$0.055 per kwh residential off peak vs. something crazy like $0.30 in Berlin) and haven't had a single smog day in Toronto for nearly two years.
Free publicity is a possibility, but I don't necessarily see it as an advantage, especially with the tone of the articles. The adage that all publicity is good publicity is simply not always true.
Reprocessing can massively increase utilization. All that U 238 can also be burned once it is Pu 239.
If you don't think they are bring their culture with them, then you're an idiot

http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...
Is this real life or Metal Gear Solid 4? When I read HN I'm half expecting to hear about how war has changed. ID tagged soldiers carry ID tagged guns. The armchair analysts guarding HN's comment boxes should spend their efforts worrying about ID tagged pull requests. This is yet another example of when a programmer site jumps the shark.

PS: programmers are good at programming. Not at all things thinking-related. Which this community shows countless times again.
Data types à la carte (2008-ish I guess?)
Migration from 3 to 4 will certainly be a pain but then you're gonna love it. I love new cards, utility classes, better out of the box support for mobile browsers.

But beware of breaking changes between alphas, there are quite a few.
Lead was the common material for pipes until the 1950s and was only banned in the US in the mid 1980's. Most of the infrastructure in the US was built during the industrial revolution around the turn of the century, so most of that infrastructure is lead. If the water is treated properly (with very low levels of extremely cheap chemicals), these pipes are completely safe. It was estimated that spending $150/day in Flint would have prevented the crisis.
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There are also a ton of Bootstrap layout design / code generator tools. I've yet to see similar for Foundation.

Why is anyone still doing a mock-up in PSD when you can "live prototype" with a Bootstrap generation tool?
I (try to) do CD as part of my day job and found this slide-deck and video helpful in that it is from a practitioner, Daniel Bryant, that is working with Java applications. A key insight is that "container images become the build pipeline 'single binary'"

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/opencredo/oreilly-2016-continuous-...

Youtube: https://youtu.be/xfTAcNzV5EY
[video] Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis talks about scientific production
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_...

Hans Rosling has a very good argument that we need a certain minimum amount of energy usage if we want both social and population stability. Wasted energy in the developed world is an interesting discussion, but if we want to address climate change the focus has to be on the much larger population of the world that is trying to rapidly increase their energy needs.

> without confusing it with lowering the standard of living

That's precisely the problem. Any proposal that significantly reduces energy usage almost certainly involves telling a large portion of the world "no, you don't get a washing machine" or similar restrictions on the basic benefits of industrialization.
You can have a basic ultrasound with only on channel. The following patent is from 1985, and has a pretty good overview of the field at the time. It appears that most if not all untrasound transducers at the time were large single channel instruments.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4446395A

This patent, from 1989, indicates that most ultrasound transducers are either single element or linear arrays. It was the earliest patent I could find with a cursory look that had a 3 dimentional array.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5027820A/en

Regardless, even Wikipedia suggests that most of the arrays used for medical imaging use either a single element or a phased array:

To generate a 2D-image, the ultrasonic beam is swept. A transducer may be swept mechanically by rotating or swinging. Or a 1D phased array transducer may be used to sweep the beam electronically. The received data is processed and used to construct the image. The image is then a 2D representation of the slice into the body.

3D images can be generated by acquiring a series of adjacent 2D images. Commonly a specialised probe that mechanically scans a conventional 2D-image transducer is used. However, since the mechanical scanning is slow, it is difficult to make 3D images of moving tissues. Recently, 2D phased array transducers that can sweep the beam in 3D have been developed. These can image faster and can even be used to make live 3D images of a beating heart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ultrasound#Sound_in_th...

Point being, I think you are wrong. I'm not an EE, so I can't speak towards signal processing, but I am a biologist by training, and I don't see a clear reason why sonar principles wouldn't work. We are basically a bag of salt water.

Also, I am familiar enough with ultrasound to be sure that models with only a single transducer are very common. Hospitals and the like might be using the fancy-pants multi-dimensional arrays now, but the units we used to image things in college were definitely not multi-dimension. For one thing, they were older than the patent that demonstrated multi-dimensional arrays.
i'm not sure what uber's intention was, but there's a silver lining:

1) The barrier to entry in this space is somewhat low and now it's higher. Within 4 months, a small talented group can build a decent self-driving system from scratch. The DMV's action might have a (slight) chilling affect on small self-driving car operations, and gives (a small) advantage to big operations like Uber.

2) If uber thought their launch was a failure (maybe the supervisors had to intervene too often), scuttling the launch in this way buys them some time to incorporate the lessons they learned from their brief foray.
That is me. A decent developer who gets data and enjoys reporting, particularly the variety of hard problems that crop up.

I am happily serving a niche market with my own company and I suspect part of the difficulty in finding the skillset is that we can just start our own thing when we find a domain that we like.
Make them excited about the thing you are building. Especially telling about the possibilities of the thing you are building and how it can actually help people by giving concrete examples. This is just my personal view. I don't prefer people who use abstract and hand wavy vocabulary to discuss their vision and ideas as that just means you don't have enough clarity of thoughts yet.
"We could do a lot better if we just lived like the 1600s"

Sure, nothing like a bit of plague and disease to thin out the population a bit.
The quoted article by the radiologist was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12257523
You're so cowardly you'd rather dox/attack someone instead of proving them wrong.
I think it's also because early on it had Twitter as a prefix. Back when people still have envy for Twitter. That didn't hurt at all.

Ironic that Bootstrap might be the best thing to come out of Twitter.
France was able to run at 80% fission because they were selling excess production at low domestic demand times to adjacent territories. If you want to use nuclear for more than base load, you run into similar storage/transmission issues to solar/wind.

Either way, we need a larger and more capable grid, so that production and demand can be balanced over larger areas.
If you're seeking work: If you want to be in demand, be the machine learning person for __________ , electric energy revenue protection, or healthcare payer fraud detection, investing, or supply chain. Pick a specialty.

If you're hiring: Get the above out of your pathetic small minds and start hiring the smartest people you can find. Look for successes in any industry. Your business isn't that unique. The best people can learn it much faster than you did.
Sure, dramatically lower the corporate income tax rate and substantially reduce the massive over-regulation in the US economy. Check out the various regulation registries at the Federal level, the US is choking to death on thousands of unnecessary regulations (growing rapidly for decades) that are almost always written solely for the benefit of protectionism or for fake the-government-is-doing-something purposes (which happens at all levels).

The US corporate income tax rate has been a bad joke for a long time. Countries like Sweden at 22%, understood decades ago that it was bad economic policy to have a high rate. You tax the income of the wealthy as the offset. The US for example already has an extremely progressive personal income tax rate. For several decades the corporate income tax rate has been falling around the world; the world's average rate has fallen from near 30% to 22% in the last 12 years. The US isn't competitive, you see that in how we've been bleeding pharma & biotech companies off to Ireland. Over time, you start seeing R&D & operations offshoring because of that. Give it time and you've artificially created a lot more global competition through bad policy.

If you're a small to mid size manufacturer in the US, paying a 30% effective income tax rate is brutal if you want to compete globally while everyone else is paying far lower rates. Germany for example lowered their top rate by about 9 points a decade ago. Finland and Iceland have a 20% rate. Korea is at 24% and China at 25%. The European average is about 20%.
I'd bet that's down the road. Only recently has testing your water for lead/etc become cheap, easy, and relevant. If you tested your water for lead 10 years ago society would probably label you paranoid - still might in many places.
I like that. I just dont think most FOSS users are doing that. We could start with number of Apache or Linux users vs number who are FOSS contributors. My model says the disparity would be multiples or exponentially different.
We've got these things you know, batteries. And they don't need to be stored somewhere safe for hundreds of years while they cool off. And they decrease in cost as you make more, which nuclear doesn't.

Every time an article about nuclear hits HN or Reddit, everyone chicken littles "Nuclear! Won't someone think of the atom!", while solar is on track to have ~80GW installed this year and next year in the US alone.

Its over. Nuclear lost. Its never coming back. (10+ years to build a new nuclear generator and billions of dollars? With solar and wind getting cheaper every 6 months? What patsy is going to pay for nuclear?) Now go get some solar panels on your roof and a Powerwall in your garage. Or buy some renewables from your utility if they have a program where you choose your supplier.

Even the Union of Concerned Scientists agrees:
http://blog.ucsusa.org/steve-clemmer/renewable-energy-to-sur...