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>Not really. Nuclear disasters are bad for the environment, but considerably less bad than say... Building a city somewhere.

Only you have to built a city to house people, whereas you don't have to build a nuclear reactor to give them energy, there are other options. Next argument?

>And "cough a bit more" is probably the understatement of a day. Those fuckers even create more radioactive waste (which won't get collected) when they work as intended, than nuclear plants when they break down.

Not so. The article you link to says the researchers found comparable or slightly higher levels to that of a nuclear factory in normal operation. And it goes on to say:

McBride and his co-authors estimated that individuals living near coal-fired installations are exposed to a maximum of 1.9 millirems of fly ash radiation yearly. To put these numbers in perspective, the average person encounters 360 millirems of annual "background radiation" from natural and man-made sources, including substances in Earth's crust, cosmic rays, residue from nuclear tests and smoke detectors.

Quite quaint. Not at all what happens in a nuclear plant accident.

A lot of geek people like to support nuclear plants because they think it's the pro-science thing to do ("oh, those ignorant masses, they are afraid of science"), and will twist the facts as fast as any bible-yielding evolution-denier to do so.

Well, nuclear plants are not science: they are technology, that is applied science.

Unlike, say, math, technology is not perfect: it's shaped by private interests, it's prone to human error (from the design to the development, to the operation stage), and it can also do a lot of bad shit, from blowing up people a la Challenger to Chernobyl.
Wow, pretty amazing. It's a lot like a Star Trek "hypospray."

Anyway, I can imagine a lot less kids crying when getting their inoculation. Seeing a huge needle (to a child) is quite scary and this device does not look scary at all. In fact, it looks a lot like a toy.

I wonder how they can reuse the device between patients (probe ejection)?

In reality, I fear this tool will never see the marketplace due to the medical industry stranglehold.
If /only/ the US government were as cozy with solar as it is with coal. http://solyndrabuilding.businesscatalyst.com/index.html
I'm not sure if you're asking whether or not there's information encoded in the image's metadata, or whether they're using some sort of additional watermark that appears when the image is downloaded or copied, ala this article[1].

If you're asking about metadata, I can say that on the Getty images I've used in the past (not for years though, so it's old data,) they were pretty diligent about ensuring Authorship information in the metadata. I can't remember whether or not there were any specific Getty attributions in there, like a link back to a page it could be purchased from, but in other comments here I see that they have a 'creative ID', which I didn't know about, so it's possible I just glossed over it.

If you're asking about the second, I believe the answer is no, but I say so without having tried it, even cursorily.

http://blog.makezine.com/2009/02/16/invisible-watermark/
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Personally, I believe that any system allowing for indefinite copyright protection (even a system like the current one, that involves constantly changing the system to extend protection) is harmful in the long run, but your compromise is definitely far superior to the status quo, and would probably make for a pretty good bridge from now to future, far more sane copyright law.
Why do non-HFT buyers or sellers deserve the spread any more than HFT buyers and sellers? They pay the same fees you do.
Much what you write is wrong.

I live in Northern Germany and the days where it is not windy aren't that much. During the next two decades you will see massive investments in offshore wind parks. Winds on the North Sea are very strong and steady.

Current distribution networks are being upgraded. You'll see more of that in the next decades. We'll have a HVDC grid around the north sea. Connecting the wind parks, pumped hydro and the consumers.

90% from new electricity from fossil in the next years? That won't happen. The market for new fossil fuel plants is currently dead in Germany. To make that happen, the market would need to be restructured.

New fossil plants are also not that bad, since the new combined heat power plants are extremely efficient. There are new gas power plants which have a combined efficiency of 90%.

Japan's phase out is also not only done with fossils. Much of that is done with reduced consumption.

The German plans for its electricity production look forward to 2050, where around 80% of the electricity production will be from renewable energy. That's 38 years away, but it directs the policies and the investments. Nuclear then will be long gone.

Nuclear is also extremely expensive. Not cheap. The private sector is not willing to invest into it, without massive subsidies. Nuclear is getting more expensive, not cheaper. The whole area of safety is underdeveloped. The storage of nuclear waste is not solved. The public pays for accidents (see Japan, where Tepco gets more and more money from the government). Acceptance of the technology is going down. The nuclear industry had many costly adventures: reprocessing plants, breeders, thorium reactors, ... Many old reactors need to be replaced or upgraded.

Nuclear in its current form is no option. It generates huge centralized energy monopolies and it hasn't solved its core problems (waste, safety, security, ...).
Unfortunately something like this is not nearly as effective as you may imagine. I spent more money than I'd like to admit a few years ago trying to shield my hi-fi stereo from all sorts of interference. I lived on Avenida Paulista with about a half dozen to a dozen massive radio and tv antennas within about a mile. No matter what trick I tried the noise was still getting through in every way imaginable.
>but considerably less bad than say... Building a city somewhere.

Living densely is one of the most sustainable things humans can do.

Nothing benefits from a nuclear disaster.
Also you need to watch out for Unicode control characters messing everything up! Certain characters (up to you to figure out which) should actually be stripped as they have no useful function for Western languages...
I don't owe him 30 minutes of my time. Simply because I don't choose to fulfill his request for information does not mean that I'm here to make "loud noises." If he was actually interested and not just challenging my point because he doesn't share my opinion then he could have done this...

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+is+apple+evil

...to get an idea of what I meant by common opinion. That "citation please" thing is a quick and easy way to try and derail anyone's argument who isn't willing to spend real time digging crap up. It's perfectly fine by me if this makes me "lose the argument."
Ah, there is a huge opportunity for a product here. Someone could make a lot of money on taking families into account (no pun intended) when providing "cloud" services. Let me explain through some examples:

My wife and I currently have Android phones. We have several choices for where we can buy music, apps, books and other content. Almost none of them allow us to share our purchases. Apps simply cannot be shared (please correct me if I am wrong on this point). Music can be shared but the process involves (1) purchasing a song on one of the available music stores, (2) connecting the phone to a computer, (3) downloading the song from the phone to the computer (incidentally, the only universal means of creating a backup), (4) connecting the other device to the computer (5) uploading the song.

Google Music does make things slightly easier. For one, there is less reason for backups. However, music purchased on one phone still has to end up on another person's phone via a computer. The situation is worsened by the fact that on Android your Google account is very deeply integrated into your phone experience. The only sensible solution I can think of is for us to create a separate account through which we purchase music, movies, apps, etc.

The situation is a bit better with Apple ID. At least here, as TFA points out, you can have a setup that allows you to not spend 2x or more on the same content, but also have individual accounts. However, the length of the article alone suggests that there is a problem.

The perfect solution would look something like this: a cloud-based drive with several areas: 1 GB of encrypted storage for private data, 20 GB for music and book storage, streaming capabilities for all videos. Anything in these areas should be sharable with a small set of people I choose to share it with. For example, when I buy a song or an app, it should automatically show up on my wife's phone. Bonus points for some kind of a parental control system (no rock n roll for my kids once I have them). Any photo I take should automatically be uploaded to the encrypted area but also optionally shared with my family. All the app data should automatically be backed up as well, so that I can continue using the app on my laptop from where I left off on my phone.

Note, that it is very important to also not share some things by default. For example, if I want to keep a copy of my private GPG key in the encrypted area, I do not want to share it with my wife. Another example would be a document with account numbers from my job: not something my family needs to see.

Obviously this is a tall order. Encryption means no capability to do de-duplication. Sharing apps is also a bit funky, especially I buy them from a third-party app store. However, this system would much more closely address the real-world patterns of how families use smartphones, computers and cloud storage. Whoever figures this out first will likely make a lot of money.
I'd use it at home, just on exterior-facing walls. This would not only block any interference from neighbors WiFi/microwaves, but also won't let them see my WiFi traffic. Throw in a cell repeater in the wallpaper package, and it'd be perfect.
So, as I just learned recently, the <huge number> is their 'Creative ID'. People who use Getty images enough know that they can just track that number and look up images from Getty.

So, in a sense, you're right. It is both a URL and a 'product code'.
I predict with very high confidence that this does not work.
Maybe it is due to an Anchoring bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
The point about the scatterplots is valid, but if he thinks a correlation of .26 (same teacher, subject and year, but different grade classroom) is sufficient to justify VAM, which arguably has no validity let alone reliability, then it's impossible to take him seriously.
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This is currently the weakest link in the overall Apple experience, and it gets even worse if you want to use, say, Google Contacts and Calendar.
I figured it was broken (on my browser) too, and I didn't know how to get to other levels. After seeing your comment I went back and saw that touching the rectangle with the yellow glow takes me to the next level. (On the first level this requires a jump, which is done with the up-arrow key.)
That's how 4chan works. Of course in practice, there's often a tendency for things to descend into anarchy.
The problem with iPhone batteries is they need 100% backup in recharging stations.
I'm a scientist (certified for radioactive & x-ray research) so I totally hear the point to be made regarding something not being a fact until a thorough investigation has been done on the matter. However, the fact that electromagnetic wave cause harm or may have secondary effect in some people is not that far fetched and should not be discarded as "is anyone really still concerned". We just don't have a sample size of individuals troubled by it that is sufficiently large enough to prove it. The majority of us may show no signs of harm; yet I know of at least two people that suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, probably resulting from having 30 different wifi signals crossing their walls day & night for the last ten years. Indeed, I don't believe cell-phone tower signals at long range are really the cause. It's more likely to be the high concentration of wifi signals inside of apartment complexes. And even if the exposure intensity is a matter of square root with respect to distance from source, you can get significant exposure when you increase the number of source or the relative average distance you are from them. So no, electromagnetic waves is nothing to sneeze at. If you think so, why don't you go sleep every night in a tiny room with 15 wifi routers on and a couple of cell-towers directly above your head?
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Depending on the size/shape of the apartment, this seems like it could cause some interference issues. A hallway lined with wifi-blocking wallpaper would produce some kind of weird multimodal effects, wouldn't it?
Right, and I agree that the underlying value of FBComp hasn't changed. But that variability in the correctness of pricing of a stock is part of the game, is it not? As is the mis-estimation of a company's "true worth" by investors. If the problems with NASDAQ weren't present, and there was a first day bump as expected, I could see that instilling confidence in investors, driving demand for the stocks. Hence nanex's strongly worded quote about ripple effects. Do you disagree with that?

Ultimately we'll never know what would have happened, but the negative ripple effects seem plausible.
I guess you're a guy from Nanex.

I'm curious why you think I should have to "prove it" if willing buyers are trading with willing sellers on an exchange they chose to trade on. Seems pretty anti-market for a finance company.
The text also needs to be outlined - you can see how it becomes hard to read when in low-contrast/light areas of the photo.
I expected a bit more than just the Stop Censorship Cloudflare Application...
For type 2, what about allowing them to be embedded and linked from the gty.im server (which could enforce the 10k hits limit, do analytics/tracking, etc.), for free?
Pretty cool, but the fact that you have to account for latency sucks. Is there a way to make movement purely client-side?
From the blog: > It’s unclear what sampling of patent applications they’re actually providing; I wish they were more transparent about what data they’re providing.

Did you download the data from here?: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto-patents.html

If so, how much clearer do you need it to be?:

> Patent Application Publication Full Text (2001 – present)

It is applications that were published from 2001 to present. Prior to 2001 applications were not published, that is why it begins in 2001.
I honestly don't think tariffs on Chinese solar panels is a bad thing. China devalues it's dollar, it's people & it's environment already. Plus they've stolen some US "green tech"[1]. I don't think they are playing on a level field.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-15/china-corporate-esp...
Here you can see the list of nuclear power plants in Germany:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kernreaktoren_in_Deut...

The remaining plants have mostly only one reactor of around 1.4 GWe.
Is this code that you can put online somewhere? This kind of thing would a) likely be really handy for lots of people and b) is the kind of thing I'd like to be able to make myself (using browser as a readymade UI), so having an existing reference would be helpful.
We actually already have energy-storage technology (in your macbook, too!) - it's just terribly inefficient.

I think the most common technology in use today at powerplant-scale is the "Pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant". You basically pump water uphill when you have energy - and let it flow downhill again, through your energy-producing turbines, when you need it back.

Either way, there is tons of research in this area (e.g. SmartGrid). It seems like a problem that we will solve eventually.
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I can't speak for others, but I'm skeptical by nature. When someone puts an idea in front of me, my first reaction is to find where the idea doesn't hold up. I immediately start poking at it.

It's not necessarily a negative reaction, and it doesn't mean I'm not going to buy into the idea eventually. It just means I don't take it at face value.

I used to get frustrated that people would see that kind of reaction as negative, but I've gotten better at mitigating that kind of reception over the years. And the people I've worked with long term have come to find ways to use it to all of our advantages.

For example, on a couple of development teams, I've ended up as that "unofficial lead debugger" for everyone's code. One mistake I work to avoid in debugging is thinking "Well, the problem can't be here, I know this part works." Cause, you know, that's inevitably where the problem is. :-)
s/HTML5/HTML-ng/

Just because HTML5 != work in every HTML5 browser.
"Numbers don't mean anything anymore they say". Well for HTML5 thats pretty much spot on.. and that's unfortunate.

The demo's cool tho :)
Right Click -> Inspect Element
As my fingers say, thanks for the reduced keystrokes.
It's great how you can use spacebar to start a new game, definitely fuels the addictive/impulsive play. Unfortunately the cycle is broken everytime I have to take my hand off the keyboard and use the mouse at the Game Over prompt.
The student is female, Mustafa is her surname.
Conservation of momentum has been one of the most unshakeable laws of physics. Reactionless drives violate conservation of momentum. The likelihood that this is flawed is infinitely greater than the likelihood that conservation of momentum has been overturned. End of story, as far as I'm concerned.

Anyone remember the EmDrive debacle? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive
Thanks! I actually spent the majority of my time fixing latency issues. The movement actually is mostly client side, but I have to sync positions sometimes. With purely client side movement many issues arise like one snake lagging behind the other one due to rendering being slower on one computer, a snake turning a block too late on one browser because it gets the signal later, .. things like that. So I just sync positions when it matters.
Does anyone find the reporting horrible? It's like reading a press release with all the buzz words and jargon thrown in. "Dynamic Casimir effect" that produces a net force? Yeah, the net force is the opposing forces squeezing the two plates together from outside. It produces zero directional net force. I don't see how it can move an object in space.
This appears to be another reactionless drive [1] that sci-fi authors and crackpots come up with every few years. There are many variants of these designs [2] and a drive based on the Casimir effect is just one of them. However, they all tend to violate a critical law of physics or depend on a custom theory of physics [3]

BTW, the original article at http://www.onislam.net/english/health-and-science/science/45... goes into slightly more detail about her invention and mentions that it's related to a differential sail.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReactionlessDrive
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Propulsion_Physics...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertialess_drive
Even if they never made another dime, they'd last through 2019 without a problem. I think people underestimate just how much money these companies have.
Lol that actually occurred to me. I had some issues with hotkeys but I think I might figure it out and add that, now that a few people have mentioned it already :)
It is a patent. Who say a patent has to work? It just describes some methods dreamed up by someone. The hardwork of finding out and getting it to work is left to the engineers. And payment is due to the idea guy if it ever works.
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OTOH a quick and easy way to make your argument is to claim everyone holds it.

Let's inspect your claim:

"It's a pretty common opinion nowadays that Apple is the worst in the bunch; beating the pants off any unethical stuff Microsoft might be up to -- or was up to even back in the day."

Let's examine your first piece of evidence: they have a closed ecosystem.

Let examine something MS is famous for doing back in the day: destroying Netscape

No one in their right mind would put these in the same league, I don't know why you nonchalantly claim not only that they are but Apple's worse and that this "beats the pants off" MS in the evilness department.

Let's examine another one of your pieces of evidence: the removal of RA's app because it reverse engineered a private API or something.

Let's compare this to something else MS was famous for back in the day: bankrolling SCO's attempt to kill linux.

Well clearly again if we had a scale of evilness with Nathan Myrvold being a 10 and Hitler 100, MS might be a solid 6-8 and Apple maybe a 1-3.

So you can keep defending what you said til the end of time but I'm going to call it total bullshit and be done with it here.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Experience-Economy-Theater-Busines...
What makes it to, and stays on, the front page has a large random component.
And they went a bit overboard with the "See also:"...
Just using javascript from two years ago: http://facedetection.jaysalvat.com/ (hn comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002316)
The Play framework (java) also does this:

https://github.com/playframework/play/blob/master/framework/...

See "renderTemplate(String templateName, Map<String,Object> args)" for a good example.
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So you're making good money. STFU
There's not only photovoltaic but also wind turbines, water turbines, burning agricultural waste, and various means of storage to spread the harvest into weak times (though all of that has lots of potential for optimization, it's here now - sometimes for over 30 years).

Combined, this allows various providers in Germany to sell energy without resorting to fossil or nuclear fuel, right now.

The bad part (for big Energy Co.s and their buddy Angela Merkel) is that this way of doing things is too decentralized for the old oligopoly to keep an inherent edge over new entrants on the market.

Building and operating a nuclear plant (or even a coal plant, in highly regulated Germany) can't be pulled off by just anybody. Setting up solar or wind power, and scaling up over time is possible even on a much more limited budget.
The current German government relies on a coalition involving some left wing union backed candidates in mining areas and the greens.

In US terms imagine you had to keep voters in Berkley and Pennsylvania happy
I enjoy your style of curious investigation of a subject. It leads to my greater understanding of stuff.

But there's a big difference between that and between people who are just bashing.
FuhshniZZle beta - New music video playlist site seeks feedback
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Also, while we are in beta, everybody who saves a playlist will be automatically converted to a free lifetime premium member upon go live.

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