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Note that I'm not arguing in favor of coal by any stretch of the imagination.

But, you can accurately quantify the risks of coal using current facts, because the direct effects of coal power are measurable. When you stop using coal, the effects start to go away.

Even with rooftop solar, you can measure the risks of maintenance personnel falling off of roofs and production accidents. Again, current risks that can be measured and evaluated. If you take the panel off of your roof, there is zero risk of someone dying as a result of your panel. In the year 2200, I can say conclusively that no human will be injured as a result of the solar panel on my roof.

Nuclear is different, because while the operating lifetime of the plant is dozens of years, it leaves behind waste products which introduce life-threatening risks for hundreds or thousands of years. Nobody on earth has a viable long-term strategy for managing waste products today, nor an ETA for when that strategy will be devised and implemented.

That doesn't mean that nuclear energy is evil or otherwise morally reprehensible -- it is not. But ignoring obvious long term risks by narrowing the scope of what you consider a risk to be is not an apples to apples comparison.
This would seem like the reasonable choice. Or, just leave the tablet market alone. They could, perhaps, enhance the amount of other useful features in it for the "temporary mode before bothering to find a computer" but abandon the very low power drain (mostly by frugal screen) and they're abandoning the whole niche and stepping into a strange and different land. Many others have so much more to offer in all kinds of ways except.. recharge it every few hours of use. Nope, sorry, can't do that - the tempting device is now useless to me.
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Agreed, but I wish Linode let you do hourly billing. It's cool to be able to e.g. test a deployment script by spinning up a copy of your server for a few hours.
sounds blissful.
I definitely agree with you. To me, accepting the prize money in no way devalue the scientific achievement.
But was it mountable as a read-only volume? Keep in mind that most operating systems require a writable volume unless they've been specifically configured otherwise (e.g., Knoppix).
Thanks. :-) I hope you find this helpful.

I've gotten very little pushback on the pricing so far, much to my (pleasant) surprise. This was touched on the prior HN thread on the topic (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463682).
What's with this rash of illegal drug articles? Am I the only one who still thinks it's morally wrong to do something that's illegal, except in certain very special circumstances set out below?

Let me explain what I mean. There are just laws, and there are unjust laws. Just laws should be obeyed. Unjust laws should be changed. If you think a given law is unjust, you should be campaigning to change it, not breaking it willy-nilly. The cost of people taking illegal drugs is huge, from the drain on police and prison resources to the creation of the organized crime rings which support the drug industry, and if you're taking illegal drugs you're responsible for all of that. If you are correct and drug laws are unjust then... well shit, changing them is an important task for you, and you should get cracking on that.

Right now there's no great consensus over whether drug laws are just or unjust, but the majority wants to keep drugs illegal, even in California which recently failed to pass (by a huge majority) a legalization of marijuana. If you choose to live in a democratic society, why not obey the democratically ordained laws?

Yes, there are circumstances when it is acceptable to break a law which you regard as unjust. One such circumstance is civil disobedience, where you break an unjust law with the intention of getting caught and punished so that you can bring attention to how unjust that law is, but if you're not (courageously) trying to get caught and punished you're not a civil disobedient. Another such circumstance is if the law is so horrendously unjust that following it will directly harm others, but that certainly doesn't apply in this case.

In conclusion, if you want to take drugs then campaign for drug legalization. But don't go round breaking the democratically-devised law in the meantime.
Not really, not until you need one (we have an office manager now, and she's awesome, but in years 1-2 the role would have been more trouble than it's worth today).
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Well, why do reactors grow old to begin with? Because nuclear isn't an area where funding for research is pouring in. Had we not pulled the nuclear handbreak, we wouldn't be stuck with aging reactors in the first place.

Now that we have them though, why can't we just shut them down? Because of the energy deficit that would create since we're still pulling on the nuclear handbreak.
I'm considering trying this with the MacBook I bought a few months ago (to upgrade back to the 15" MBP that I miss), but to be honest, I've heard so many horror stories about trying to sell computers on Craigslist and eBay that I'm a little spooked by the prospect.
The most long-lived class of nuclear waste, transuranics, is produced by neutron activation of Uranium-238 (~95% by mass) found in the low-enriched uranium used in power reactors. If you remove these nuclides from spent fuel by chemical separation and place them either into a Thorium (Uranium-233, really) reactor or a highly-enriched U-235 reactor, the transuranics will continue to absorb neutrons until they reach mass numbers where they spontaneously fission, and, since there is no U-238, there won't be any new transuranics.

Something of this nature is usually what is meant when people say "burn nuclear waste".

There will still be the other kind of nuclear waste, namely fission products, but their half-lives are on the order of decades instead of centuries.
Here's an idea, instead of "executive assistant" call it "office manager" or something. It seems like that would solve the "stepping stone" issue he ran into, while effectively being the same job. (I'm not saying the job titles are always related, but I AM saying that they could be the same thing.)
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Bill Gates calls this the future of education. I think he is correct. I am doing a project involving corporate training and this method has vast implications for my work. I also have three school age children, and they will be "attending" Khan tonight. This is the very first post I've read on HN and I'm overwhelmed by its significance. Thanks!
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In addition to using those guides on my slice, I used them to help setup my friends under-desk server, my linode, and several EC2 instances. I love those guides.
The idea behind this is great. I love to get a fast, visual interface to the entire API.

One thing that annoyed me however was that things keep moving. If I search for a function, it pop ups immediately but doesn't settle down, which means I have to try to read moving text. Even more annoying, the popup sometimes moves offscreen.
> People die after playing video games for 16 hours

Really? In what context? Do you have a link or citation I could read?
I think you're right on a lot of this. I guess that all I would say is that the proportions are different. You're more likely to find false prophets, psychosis, and disturbing detachment from reality in Williamsburg drug culture than in monastic Buddhism, but this is a contrived comparison that maybe doesn't mean very much. Still, I'd much rather (in the distant future when I'm raising kids) find out that my 17-year-old kid was practicing Zen Buddhism than find out that he or she was using LSD. If the latter, I'd do everything I could to encourage him or her to use it safely and in an intelligent way, but I'd still prefer the former. And I'd definitely let a child attend a meditation retreat if I thought he was ready; I wouldn't give help him or her find LSD, though.

I'm a pragmatist at heart, much more than a moralist. If drugs can make peoples' lives better, they should be used.
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Why on earth would you pick an engineer to be an assistant? Engineers are usually people who want to build things, and being a good assistant has nothing to do with that. I don't know what fields are ideal for this sort of position (MBA would be my guess), but I can't imagine any engineering field to be one.
I totally agree. The control panel on Rack Space has kept me from ever recommending them. I love the Slicehost management panel. I also love the Linode panel. I do not love the Rack Space cp.
I don't know their relationship, but in Salman Khan's TED Talk[1], Gates performs some closing remarks with him.

In the talk, he mentions that they're doing a pilot program with the Los Altos school district[2] as well, which I'm sure wasn't for free since it involved custom development.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein...
[2] http://lasdandkhanacademy.edublogs.org/about/
How do you measure?

Erdos published more papers with more collaborators than Euler.

Euler published more pages of material and founded more areas of research than Erdos. (Yes, Euler has the benefit of having had people think about his stuff longer, and attribute more to inspiration from him. But Erdos won't ever come close to catching up.)

I think that Arthur Cayley is in third place on both measures.
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Many things are "externalized" in the process and we are pretty naive about risk.

Do we count the cost of side-effects like wars and oppression in our energy ? Think about Libya for oil or Niger for Uranium.
Do we count the cost for democracy of the impact of energy lobbies ? Centralized production entails centralized structures which often have a tremendous influence (in France there was never ever any democratic feedback loop about nuclear energy).

The cynical view though is that this is nothing compared to other "industrial risks" and to the insiduous and continuous risk we are producing by saturating our planet with garbage.
Question: When would you ever want the .attr("value")=="initial" in real code? How often is it that you want the original value encoded in the HTML as opposed to the current value of the element as entered by the user?

This is part of why I think .prop vs .attr is a regression. It makes me think twice before I use either--even if this is closer to how the DOM actually behaves, the point of jQuery used to be that it could hide those inane details from me.
But your argument seems like a straw man to me, as nobody is proposing that dichotomy. As long as renewable energy sources can't stand as a viable substitute in terms of costs (economic, environmental, power per unit land, etc) and can't cope with an increasing energy demand, I don't see the need of relinquishing an energy source that has proven viable by all those standards and moreover is pretty safe.
Arguably, Gates and Winfrey have built significant companies and become very powerful people. However, I see no good reason to ever listen to McCarthy.
(completely unrelated buy why is historio.us down, did you shut it down? I don't see any mention of outages on Twitter)
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I suggest Amazon Marketplace. Prices are higher, but people who shop for used items there will pay a premium to have a smooth transaction and be done with it.

- Only buy good products, like the Air. If Apple releases a
lemon, it’s not going to hold its value well.
- Buy at the start of a release cycle. It’s unlikely Apple will
replace one of its own products within a year.

The problem with the above, is that it's harder to know if the product is a lemon if you buy too soon in the product cycle. I suppose someone could do an analysis of news articles and determine when you have a good chance of spotting a lemon. (People with SSD drives buying a new i5 or i7 13" Macbook Pro are an example of people bitten by an Apple-lemon.)
Our company had a security system installed with cameras and DVR. About a week after it was installed I scanned the internal network and found the device. Googled for the open port detected and found the software to access the device. Upon connecting to the device it asked for a user and password. I didn't enter any and it logged me in. I had control of the device. It's scary what "security" companies install on your network.
The browser.
They will give you prorated credits if you cancel a VPS early. Not sure if its by the hour or day though.
Thorium, people !

Current nuclear reactors basically suck because they are the children of war ! They wanted to make a big scary bomb first. No surprise they chose the most dangerous element ! It's the same thing as why space flight is so expensive. Each communications satellite has to be the shape of a hydrogen bomb.

Thorium reactors are still in research phase. However, take a look at these quick bits from Wikipedia:

- Rubbia states that a tonne of thorium can produce as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium, or 3,500,000 tonnes of coal.
- just 8 tablespoons of thorium could provide the energy used by an American during his or her lifetime.
- there is no possibility of a meltdown
- it does not produce weapons-grade by-products, and will burn up existing high-level waste as well as nuclear weapon stockpiles
- Weapons-grade fissionable material (233U) is harder to retrieve safely and clandestinely from a thorium reactor
- Thorium produces 10 to 10,000 times less long-lived radioactive waste
- Thorium comes out of the ground as a 100% pure, usable isotope, which does not require enrichment, whereas natural uranium contains only 0.7% fissionable U-235
- Thorium cannot sustain a nuclear chain reaction without priming, so fission stops by default.
- However, unlike uranium-based breeder reactors, thorium requires a start-up by neutrons from a uranium reactor. But experts note that "the second thorium reactor may activate a third thorium reactor
- Thorium is found in small amounts in most rocks and soils, where it is about four times more abundant than uranium, and is about as common as lead
- Thorium-containing minerals occur on all continents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium#Thorium_as_a_nuclear_fu...
The SvN post (at http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2544-were-looking-for-an-offi...) is titled "We're looking for an Office Manager / Executive Assistant".
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Well, tomorrow is better than never, so hence not the worst.

To reiterate on day, the better quote would be:

"The best time is yesterday. The second best is today. The worst is some day."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_addiction#South_Kore...

There was a rumor a while back that some of these South Korean internet cafes were putting low doses of mood enhancing drugs in the air so that people got depressed when they left, though I'm pretty sure that was just an urban legend.
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That's fine with me. In all honesty, I would vote for any candidate who proposed a nuclear power plant in my neighborhood. I'm sure you don't believe this, but during a natural disaster the odds are that it would be the safest place in town.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Japanese-take-shelter-in-N-rea...
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Nuclear power presupposes a competent and responsible society continuously from now until the distant future. Now look at Japan: no other society was better prepared for disaster, and still they came very close to a catastrophic nuclear disaster. Then look at all the other countries in the world w/ nuclear power, and project their histories forward 100 years. How many will experience a civil war? An external war? regulatory incompetence? etc. The chance of a catastrophic disaster somewhere, sometime, is 100%.
Well somebody has to talk about it, and people don't seem to trust the people who really are experts on nuclear safety, because they all seem to work for the nuclear industry.

I put more stock into Bill Gates' opinion than random-internet-person though, not just because he's smart but because he has been spending the last decade in the habit of dispassionately ooking through actuarial tables and thinking about real dangers. That's why so much of his philanthrophic efforts are going towards unsexy things like malaria reduction -- because he and his staff decided to look dispassionately at the statistics and figure out where the greatest lives-saved-per-million-spent is.

If he's telling me that nuclear is safer than coal then I believe he's gone and genuinely satisfied himself that this is the actual statistical truth.
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> If you choose to live in a democratic society, why not obey the democratically ordained laws?

As opposed to choosing not to live in a democratic society? Is there some psychedelic-utopian society out there that's just like a standard first-world social-democratic country (high standard of living, good education and job opportunities, I can speak the language, etc, etc) except that drugs are legal by fiat?
Actually, if you look at other posts from Sam mentioning dapper you'll find that they profiled the site and found some bottlenecks also on the translator from the datareader to objects on linq2sql.
Since they're going to hand-write the sql then they're going to take advantage of that really fast microorm instead of sticking with l2q.
People shouldn't be trying to contribute to open source—you use something, you need to extend it, so you submit your patches upstream. Nothing more.
There are actually quite a few of those - New Work City, Sunshine Suites, and a few more. It's on the order of ~$30/day for walk-ins, last I checked (a year ago) and you can get much cheaper if you are more regular (around $100/month for 2 days/week, $250 for full time).

Internet connection is valued too highly, though - Clear 4G gives you ""unlimited"" ""nationwide"" mobile internet for $45/month (and occasionally you can get the wifi hotspot in exchange for a contract). I put unlimited and nationwide in quotes because I don't know how true that really is, but if you are in NYC it works reasonably well. You are likely to spend more than $2 extra per day (==$45/month) extra in coffee/food working at Starbucks or Argo Tea or Think Coffee.

Personally, I find I can't do work at a starbucks because of all the auditory and visual noise - YMMV.

(Also, if you actually have any sort of income, you can expense the mobile internet connection, whereas you usually can't expense the coffee).
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Why on earth would you pick an engineer to be an assistant?

Because I could also tell her to do stuff like "Set up an Amazon EC2 instance" and she could just look up instructions and do it. (I know, because exactly this happened!) She could do geeky, she just didn't understand "assistant." I wanted someone who could do both.
There are a lot of reasons people study engineering besides wanting to build things.
there isn't much difference between coal and nuclear. A primitive civilization mines a substance that produces heat after performing a primitive operation upon it. It is like "gathering and hunting" state of civilization when compared to the "animal domestication and agriculture" state. It is time for human civilization to move on to renewable energy the same way like it moved to renewable food production 10K years ago.
Thanks for the details but I think it backs up my contention, as the networks are all upgraded the companies are trying to maintain the old sms prices without technical justification.
Same thing happened here (South Africa) only on a much bigger scale. Hundreds of them were stolen. Can't remember what they were used for though (Wasn't smart meters).

I feel the supplier should carry part of the costs. Unlimited SIMs easily accessible with zero safeguards should attract a stupidity tax.
Oof! That's no good, at all. We'll fix this right away. Thanks for the reduction. Just filed it here:
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As someone dying from cancer, medical marijuana is the only thing that allows me to eat.

Get a clue and stop bothering people.
Powerful photo. Interesting that apart from his expression Obama does not look like the big cheese - he's wearing casual clothes and took the small chair tucked in the corner with a not-so-great viewing angle. For some people it's important to be seen as the top dog, but this guy clearly has more important things to worry about.
What the grandmother did with ages, say, 0-99, would be radix sort if the sorter had 100 pockets. Then the sort was done in just one pass. I don't recall counting sort, but in this case it sounds like the same thing.

The obvious way to implement radix sort, just think punch cards, is stable with no extra effort.
I'm not going to say that you're wrong to want to hire a person like that, but I will say that most people who hire "assistants" don't expect them to coordinate password databases with contractors or spin up EC2 instances.

I can see why it would be particularly hard to hire the kind of assistant you seem to be looking for.
If you're going to criticize "I'm feeling lucky", you may want to note that it is an open redirector as well (it's not hard to rank #1 for a totally nonsensical phrase like "fried squirrels with wasabi").

Does this matter? (Mostly self-proclaimed) (web) security experts disagree.
The most useful thing that git has given my workflow is `git stash`. I almost never find myself branching and absolutely hate having to push, pull and pick changes between separate branches.
This (or some variation on the issue of the graph's motion / time-to-completion) is easily the #1 complaint right now. I have a variety of ideas for eliminating the problem(s).
I'm on very low doses of Klonopin, which takes longer (about 30 minutes) to set in but I think that was a very good thing. First, there's no sudden change in psychological state. Sudden relaxation during panic could have a paradoxical effect. Second, it puts a 30-60 minute upper bound on the attack but still requires me to work at calming myself down. If it took effect immediately, I never would have had to go through the hard process of deliberately calming myself down, through which I learned a lot of skills that work on run-of-the-mill negative emotions as well as on panic. Thanks to that process, I'm probably actually above average in mental health post-panic. Panic disorder teaches in a very visceral way that most of the garden-variety worries are just not worth getting upset over.