skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you don't know what this is all about:

Oracles Java contains a number of "commercial" stuff that costs money. So in theory, you could download the standard Java SE and run certain tools or the standard tools with certain command line arguments and suddenly owe Oracle a shipload of money. And I am talking a lot of money, like $40.000 for a single machine. And yes, they have started using SDK analytics to map potential "costumers" and sending them huge bills:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_...

Someone suggested migrating to OpenJDK which does not (for most parts) include these tools and have a more sane license. The problem is that OpenJDK does not come with a Window installation from a reputable source.

TL;DR: Larry Ellison needs a new yacht and since Google is not paying he is now sending his lawyers after ordinary folks who thought Java was free.
Confessions of a disillusioned social strategist
So a localised event can say that global warming is bullshit ? Looks 100% scientifically legit to me.
The article appears to be written in a biased manner and lacks Rational and logic , till now no body has ever been able to come up with a solution on how to deal with nuclear waste in a safe way or how to deal with a accident in a nuclear plant
Assuming of course you trust GitHub.. And you use HTTPS. And you trust HTTPS. And you read the entire code and verified there are no backdoors whatsoever. None. At all.
Sometimes nature fakes it.

https://cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1200/s/img.rt.com/files/2016....

Pretty harmless, but they've been known to drag away mice.
Indian here, I have experienced life in India and a Western country. I have noticed Western young adults are more confident and assertive compared to Indian young adults and I think the reason is because Western kids have to be independent after 18 while Indian parents still play a significant role even after their kids have become adults.

I feel the Western model is better.
You'll find that Elixir/Erlang is a mix of FP and OO at the end, which is why I find it amazing. While people debate FP vs OO, it takes the good parts of both.
You can read more about the OO aspects of Erlang from the author himself: http://tech.noredink.com/post/142689001488/the-most-object-o...
The grid spec has changed a lot since this article was written three years ago. His example is likely incorrect now.
Polling is far more opaque and highly susceptible to corruption. Any pollster worth his or her salt can get exactly the outcome desired by tweaking the protocol and consumers of the poll results are none the wiser.

I'd almost go so far as to say that polls are garbage and shouldn't even exist, let alone replace voting, but that may be going too far.
How We Got from Doc Brown to Walter White
In other words, they are perfectly obedient slaves to those exploiting them and murdering others, and will never ever resist, or aid anyone else. Maybe translate it to them sometime? There's more to be said about this, a lot of it written by Hannah Arendt.
Why does a college degree cost so much?
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5N1E24BU

> German power grid firms ready to help if French nuclear supply falls short

https://global.handelsblatt.com/companies-markets/germanys-e...

> Germany’s Energy Fix for France: France is at risk of blackouts this winter because a dozen nuclear reactors are off the grid. It’s going to need imports from countries including Germany, which has abundant supplies thanks to its heavy investment in green energy.
I have been living with sustained emotional stress for the last six months. There are days I go to work and as I'm driving in my car at a certain point I scream from the trauma. It's the only place I can do it, I don't dare do it around my family, friends or work colleagues.

And I absolutely cannot talk to anyone involved in medicine, because their treatment for suicidal ideation from a mental breakdown has the unique side effect of making me feel like I want to die to escape the disrespect and indignity of being treated like a criminal who must be locked away.
And the other side of the coin. Do you actually require me to be in the office. I only work remote, possibly with a visit or two a month to the office if needed.
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I wish it could just be downvoted. Browser support has improved considerably since this was written.
Vice Magazine.
The view from the cheap seats by Neil Gaiman http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24331386-the-view-from-th... - lots of good content about books, music, comic books history, etc. There's over 80 other books mentioned inside and it makes you want to read all of them.

Dracula by Bram Stoker - because it was mentioned in the previous one and it's amazing how many elements we borrowed / changed / rewritten in the new works compared to the original.
This comment taught me that 100,000 people still unable to return to their homes five years later is no big deal...

And if you actually believe that "not a single person killed" bullshit, I got a bridge to sell you. Death from cancer is still death, even if it takes a year or two.
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Four answers:

No, C (and C++) is used as much as ever. HN echo chamber aside, Rust and/or Go haven't made much of a dent.

No, we had such articles for decades.

No, it's just an article that points some issues with C, like exist for every language and environment (e.g. tons of articles on JS shortcomings). No correlation whatsoever with such an article and the language falling out of mainstream use.

No, this is a bizarro question. It's an article by single person, not some general trend.
I don't like it. There are too may countries, local governments with various degree of corruption. Legislation with various kind of rebates and laws which allow you to deduct all kind of different things. Global treaties like that can't work in a world with so many realities and cultures.

>>The problem of removing corporate tax is corporate vehicles will become a holding vessel for profit hoarding.

I don't mind it. Sooner or later they spent the money. If we have inflation at some decent level that will serve as a tax on hoarding.

>>E.g for someone like me that likes to save rather than pay my tax bill each year on investment earnings I'll set up a company and put all my savings into this. Each year these invest profits will be retained tax free as I continue to save.

I don't see the problem. It's a basic arithmetic property of multiplication that it doesn't matter if you save more first and then are taxed at 23% (or w/e the rate) or are taxed first and save later. If you are buying assets then some other people get the money to spend.

>>This will pull massive tax revenue from the economy as people do this at scale

I think encouraging savings is good, it stops over the top consumption and allows building capital to finance new ventures and therefore allow for faster progress of our civilization. If you never spend the money it's great for everyone (you provided free services and didn't want anything in return), if you spend it: you are taxed. If you buy some assets you will be taxed on that and some other people will have your money to spend and be taxed there. I just don't see it as a problem as long as there is at least minimal inflation (aka tax on keeping cash).
They were checked because the steel is bad.

http://www.powermag.com/frances-nuclear-storm-many-power-pla...

> The discovery of widespread carbon segregation problems in critical nuclear plant components has crippled the French power industry—20 of the country’s 58 reactors are currently offline and under heavy scrutiny. France’s nuclear safety chairman said more anomalies “will likely be found,” as the extent of the contagion is still being uncovered.

Electricity price in France:

http://www.reuters.com/article/europe-electricity-idUSL5N1CD...

> EUROPE POWER-French spot power prices jump to four-year high on nuclear outage worries

Generally the prices in France are kept low, because the tax payer pays for the expensive nuclear industry monopoly.
What I find funny is that I only ever see this argument:

"Why can't both be right?"

Because if there is a right and a wrong, it is a binary.

What I never hear is an actual argument or fact based reasoning as to why that group (which I'll call R. or A.R.) is right. It's always "My opinion is worth just as much as your facts".
I imagine you'd have a different opinion if you needed to use a screen reader.
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This has already happened, to some degree. With baby boomers putting the burden on their grandchildren.
What paper are you referencing?
Me too. I recently read about these hybrid battery-capacitor thingies that sounded pretty promising. I'll see if I can dig up the link.

EDIT: here we go - http://www.nature.com/articles/srep04315 . Lithium iron phosphate batteries (LiFePO).

Although I'm assuming this particular combination doesn't provide favourable enough economics (or it would probably be a household name already), I can definitely see how this approach in general could. You could have the best of both worlds: cheap, but slow charge/discharge storage combined with the ability to very quickly scale up to meet peak daily demand for a limited (but sufficient) period of time.
Thoughts on the final 'Offer' stage. If it's your startup, be brutally honest with your first hires. Put yourself in their shoes when you make the offer. Explain it like you would explain it to yourself.

- Tell them, unprompted, key difficulties that may lie ahead (in an upbeat manner)

- Sell them on the goal, but don't sell them that they are the right person - that's their choice

- Do not make promises you can't keep. Let me repeat this. Do not make promises you can't keep

The reason for doing the above is a) You will have tough times together - this is your team - you must start well b) If they can't handle these conversations you probably don't want them c) You're human, behave well if you can

Context disclaimer - this is from a London, UK perspective while hiring senior people. YMMV.
Do I need nuclear power if it's cheaper? Yes! Would I like to stay near a nuclear plant? Hell no.
... and as second goal, becoming a prisoner in jail some time later, for the cheap prize of some bottles of wine.

This is the kind of problems that AI machines would try to solve, wrongly. Humans still score better understanding that some theoretical problems must not be solved.
Not all advertising requires clicks. Brand awareness works by finagling associations in to your brain.
No matter how immune to suggestion one things they are these things work to some extent.
Is the German army involved in this dastardly scheme? How else could one explain the atrocities of international power distribution that you describe?

Oh, right, there are contracts for all of this stuff. Power companies freely negotiate how they sell power to each other. "Externalities", try again.
If you've been investing in index funds for the past 20 years, your 401k is certainly worth more than what you put in. Hell, even if you invested two lump sums right before the dot-com bust and the 07/08 recession, you're still net positive. The markets are currently at all-time highs.
It may not be worth much to you, but to the right employer it's worth multiple $100k, and to oneself it's worth more than money.
These facts is not a lies. They are inconviniences which one can see looking on C from perspective of higher level language. But if you learn how to program with assembler before studing C, than all these facts would look like obvious and convinient syntactic sugar.

Maybe in C++ these facts become inconvinient, because of C++ pretending to be higher level language than crossplatform assembler. But if it is a problem, it is not problem of C, it is problem of C++.
So I guess the race is on to either figure out a way to prevent nasty nuclear meltdowns, versus how to prevent humans from falling off roofs.

(Hint: Tethering)
Dang, I'm interested to know why you shadowban some accounts (obviously without warning, or else it wouldn't be a shadownban) and yet give others advance warning in a very public way.

Is there a criteria or policy you follow?
I assume this https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04474 (since the title is basically the quoted text)
I became a total cynic toward the entire field of fMRI studies the day I found out that they found a dead salmon [0] could tell what emotions humans were depicting in photos.

[0] http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
If someone falls off a ladder, life goes on for the rest of us.

If nuclear power plants have an accident like in Fukushima. then tens of thousands have lost their home for decades or forever and ten thousand workers will fight for three decades to clean up the mess under the worst possible circumstances with costs going into the hundred billion dollars.

In middle Europe easily a few million people can be affected.
I'd classify reading something in a newspaper under "personal experience", the news are mostly written in a way to invoke emotional responses.

In contrast to, say, looking at the actual data and crunch the numbers yourself to try and get an educated view

This is obviously not very practical but at least then you could hold your opinions with good conscience
Is Wikipedia Woke?
That's nothing new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole

DRM is not there to make it impossible, but to make it inconvenient, to copy the things, so as long as it is "harder" with DRM than without it will persist.
Chrome dev tools have network throttling
Honestly, we need to just fork Java away from Oracle, just like Solaris and ZFS have been done.

I find it deliciously ironic that Oracle's products are no longer compatible with Solaris and ZFS because they won't follow upstream... because they don't understand they aren't upstream anymore.

Java needs the same treatment.
The Sahara has low precipitation in part because the air passing over it has little moisture in it. Warmer oceans mean more evaporation and more precipitation in some parts of the world. Hotter doesn't necessarily always mean drier. Additionally, desert environments generally have wild swings in temperature, so snow falling in a desert isn't unheard of. Global warming is not undermined by local events.
And the cars are anything but boring golf carts. A stigma electric cars have had for a long time. These might even get you laid.
Chemical data is missing though.
Yes and france depends on other countries for its incapability to quickly vary production. In other words the nuclear fleet of France has a significantly higher capacity factor than the average demand of the french grid because it can push power to other countries. If that did not exist the french nuclear power would be a lot more expensive (uranium is not free!)

Power demands fluctuate as do power generation capabilities. If your generation is inflexible, as nuclear and solar both are at this time (economically speaking right now in this year). You need quick reaction power (e.g. gas peakers) or e.g. pumped hydro.

The funny thing is a wholly nuclear grid needs storage as much as a full solar+wind grid does. Of course in a mixed grid both techs can play to their strengths.

For example in Lazard's 10.0 LCOE analysis solar plus battery is 92 USD per Mwh, while Nuclear starts at $97.
That is smack in the middle of LCOE coal costs!

But the solar, will have a lot less of regulatory and construction uncertainty! And a much smaller financial risk. As 3 years from project start to completion is normal. With most projects being set up in independent financial contracts of about 100mw nameplate to allow cancellation if performance or market do not materialize.
ZIRP is the reason. Once we get away from ZIRP, interest rate sensitive assets will go down in price, and people will be able to afford housing. They may not be able to afford bread (inflation), but housing will be cheaper.
Isn't the problem with these the extremely corrosive salt liquid that needs to be contained and there isn't any reasonable solutions to do that at this time?
In 30 years, solar will have taken over. Using safe existing nuclear power plants is OK for me, building new ones seems stupid. For some countries, replacing an old unsafe one with a good new one seems plausible, but more seems a bad choice.
It is interesting how you say that nuclear might be cheaper and at the same time accept an incident like fukushima every 30 years like you pay 1000 peanuts and that it alright again. Maybe you will allow a nuclear plant in your backyard but most people already have a problem with wind power. This has nothing to do with fear about the technology itself but about the decrease in property value in vicinity of the plant. So, may be your intention is good but not realistic as the Hinkley Point C plant for 30+ billion pound in england shows.

So if I have two solutions that are equally expensive but one leaves me with radioactive waste, why would you chose that one? And while I agree that we need some back up plan to stabilize the net load, that also wont be nuclear power as those plants are not fast in start up managment either.
Frankly, using Bootstrap from source is really easy, and tends to be my default path... I copy the bootstrap.less/scss as well as variables.scss to my project, update all the refs to the node_modules path(s), with the local variables... this way I can update said variables. I also create a local utils that includes the modules one... I'll add the local global styles to the lookup in webpack, and I'm off.

It's really nice, and allows me to comment out the bits I don't want/need and customize the few things I want changed (noto/consolas for fonts) and reuse the variables/fonts where needed.

Foundation, iirc originally required ruby, when I already was using node/npm for a lot of things... the better sass support via npm came later.
Ask HN: Shadowbanning vs. public warning / public banning
I'd be great if dang could answer this question directly, otherwise we can only speculate.

I'm interested to know why some accounts are shadowbanned (obviously without warning, or else it wouldn't be a shadownban) and yet give others advance warning in a very public way.

Is there a criteria or policy for this?
I have heard that this plant is very difficult and dangerous to destroy.
We switched most of our layout to flexbox in my day to day job about year ago, and Im much happier developer since then.

Also I think the issue is not that bad as it affects mainly desktop version (mobile mostly have content stacked) of sites and people on those are "usually" on faster connections.
It depends who they are. (Ha ha.)

That's one perspective on anatta, but not a particularly useful one. You may find this interesting:

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/selves...

If you've ever taken an introductory course on Buddhism, you've
probably heard this question: "If there is no self, who does the
kamma, who receives the results of kamma?" This understanding turns
the teaching on not-self into a teaching on no self, and then takes
no self as the framework and the teaching on kamma as something that
doesn't fit in the framework. But in the way the Buddha taught these
topics, the teaching on kamma is the framework and the teaching of
not-self fits into that framework as a type of action. In other
words, assuming that there really are skillful and unskillful
actions, what kind of action is the perception of self? What kind of
action is the perception of not-self?
Wow, your article looks incredibly well researched! Thanks for contributing, I'm sure it's extremely useful to everyone who wants to start reading up on it.

I still don't understand why many academic institutions dislike Wikipedia so much. Articles like this show that a well written Wikipedia article is often the best place to start researching.
WTF is Brexit?
> It never sends the password to the server.

It does, however, download JavaScript served by Mozilla when you log into your Firefox Account, which means that Mozilla can cause your password to be sent to them unencrypted, if they so choose. This in turns means that a disgruntled employee, Mozilla the organization and any government which is able to compel Mozilla the organization or key employees can get access to your password at any time, rendering Firefox Sync completely untrustworthy.
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the future is Molten salt reactors - not because of this article, because it is the only abundant fuel for the two of the largest energy consumers for the next two decades: India and China.

India+China have the world's largest thorium resources. China is also investing more than a billion dollars in molten salt reactor research (led by the son of Jiang Zemin) [1]

Peter Thiel, who is pretty much the think tank for the new government, has a personal investment in Transatomic Power that is doing very interesting work here. I see no reason that this project will not receive a shot in the arm after January.

TLDR : India + China + Peter Thiel = Molten Salt Reactors

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/02/02/doe-china-molten-salt-nuclear-...
That's temporary. New powerlines to south Germany are being built, a new HVDC line to Norway is under construction.

Additionally we will see a lot of new ways to deal with surplus electricity. Surplus electricity in the North will grow over the next two decades. Power to gas, Power to Heat, etc. will be feasible then.

France has the same problem, but different. Demand varies + production varies. On many weekends they have surplus power from the nuclear plants. In summer and winter nuclear power may not be able to meet demand. In hot summer weeks, the nuclear power plants overheat the rivers. In cold winter weeks, the electrical heating of French consumers creates more demand than nuclear electricity is available. This problem may increase, since France has aging reactors, but new reactors are not coming online - maybe one EPR - but when? 2018? 2020? 2022?
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There's many ways to slow global warming. Is replacing power production with nuclear really humanity's best first to-go in slowing global warming? I would have thought not.
Your comment inadvertently shows why we should be supporting fusion energy research (the problems you speak of are problems with fission).
Looking for iOS / Android projects
I'm looking for programming project on iOS and Android. Let me know if anyone needs help with their apps.

Also, for a young mobile dev agency (~10 months in) - where would it make sense to look for projects from US and Europe.
We have finally reached the age where humans can only do creative jobs. Humans are not good enough in doing heavy and repeating stuff. Robots on the other side are perfect for that. So the problem imho is not technology but lack of education.
In Google Chrome you can go to Developer Tools -> Network, and change No throttling to something you like.