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The short answer is that realistic fusion plants would have few advantages over uranium fission plants that exist today.

Long answer:

Fuel: Both are likely to use expensive but not scarce fuels but produce so much output from it that it doesn't matter.

Cost: Almost entirely in the plant infrastructure for both. Fusion is likely to be at a permanent disadvantage here, as both coal and fission plants are simple compared to hypothetical fusion plants.

Waste: Likely small advantage to fusion, as it probably won't produce proliferation-sensitive waste just a bunch of irradiated eqiupment and buildings that are easier to deal with.

Safety: It'll probably be more dangerous to work at a fusion plant than a fission one by orders of magnitude, but the negligible danger to people outside the plant will be lower. A Fukushima/Chernobyl situation at a fusion plant would be bad but less bad.

NIMBY: Equal for both, the scariness of an energy generating technology is inversely proportional to its practicality. Did you know that Einstein predicted that a fusion containment loss would cause the atmosphere to light on fire in a runaway reaction that kills all life on earth except for oil company executives and people who work in the advertising industry? Do we really want to take that risk with our children?
If the quest is open to all comers, I turn to page 34.
> You are mistaken because you are, like many others, confusing peer review with "pre- publication peer review"

I invite you mimic the behavior of a scientist and uncover evidence that I took that position anywhere. Here's what I said: "Modern peer review is frequently (not always) a rubber-stamp way to catch perfect rubbish before it gets into print, but it cannot detect intentional fraud or sloppy work ..." I am well aware of post-publication peer review, but it's less likely to solve problems that pre-publication peer review haven't solved.

> The peer review that is allowed by the system I mention actually enables post publication peer review.

Yes, and post-publication peer review still cannot prevent the kinds of fraud and abuse that have led to the present credibility crisis, issues I outlined in my original post.
There is more "soft skill" assessment going on with pair programming than "hard skills".
That's not ironic; the goal of a company is not to improve their product; its to SELL it. "Profit, corporate reputation management and empire-building" support selling; product improvement may or may not, depending on the market and the improvement.
By definition any increase in supply of labor will lower wages somewhat. However, as I'm currently on an H1-B and being paid a pretty hefty wedge I suspect your assertion is wrong.

In this market the only good engineers I see having problems looking for jobs are those who are unwilling to relocate or older guys.
NRE have a stranglehold on the only comprehensive source of real-time passenger train data in the UK. They developed it to power their own website but have recognised in it a way to exert power over anyone who wants to use real time train data and to stifle criticism.

What is referred to by "their website"? Why not just scrape the data?
On Bamboo, you can still specify newrelic_rpm at a particular version in your Gemfile. The agent is only injected if Heroku detected that you haven't added the agent yourself: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/newrelic#bamboo-config...
> isn't that why all the cities with 'English' names were rechristened? :p

Interesting choice of words there - 'rechristened'. In any case, many of the names were reverted back to their original forms (not just cities, but things like surnames too).
We're ratholing here. I just wanted to let you know about something in your beautiful, polished app that made me go "Huh?"

To make the app sound more natural in English, you could omit the words "hours" and "minutes".

It's fine in informal speech to omit the am/pm (inferring it by context). The current phrasing made the clock sound formal to me, but informality is fine in this context.

But be careful about thinking the US is unique - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Use_by_country
Here is the secret. Learning anything in proximity of design makes you a better designer.

That includes, math, psychology, architecture, any programming language, playing an instrument, composing music, playing computer games, writing blog posts and so on.

The trick is to look for where things are the same even if they seem unlrelated.
Even worse, claiming that the problem is that they didn't know that he was at risk from mental illness. Swartz's lawyer claims to have told the prosecutor directly:

> The thing that galls me is that I told Heymann the kid was a suicide risk,” Good told me. “His reaction was a standard reaction in that office, not unique to Steve. He said, ‘Fine, we’ll lock him up.’
This is just signalling. "Do X and I will think you are an idiot!" is his way of saying "please don't do X."
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Nope. People usually just do something like this [1] for multiple urls [2].

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Smuggler-Nation-Illicit-Trade-America/...

[2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/
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This almost certainly won't work for many reasons:

1. People would donate radically less money than they pay via taxes today. That would result in even higher inequality.

2. Rich people would be more powerful, because for example, they would be able to make their own army (tanks, nuclear weapons, etc.).

3. No regulation of private sector (banks, food companies, ...) is not good for the society as a whole.

4. Etc.
I ask difficult interview questions and require actual code to be written on the spot. If the questions can't be answered I let everyone know it. The viability of firing under-performing people is zero. Managers just want headcount and don't care about ability. They play the political game not the build-and-ship-software game.

Are there cost implications? I should think so since the fakers cost lots of money and are not producing any software.
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New Relic has a fixed Python agent out: https://newrelic.com/docs/releases/python
This is only my second post so I don't know if this goes against the community guidelines but...

Hell yeah!, I love open source!
If Chrome for Android is anything to go by it's not the screen, but Chrome's touch handling.
>>However, now that the publicity machine has cranked up enough noise to reach Facebook's ears, the company issued a statement: 'We've recently discovered an issue whereby some Facebook users may be unable to enter a birthday before 1910. We are working on a fix for this and we apologize for the inconvenience.'

I believe Facebook is just going to do exactly nothing about it. It's not going to affect their bottom line at all.
Next: Kids are outside in -15C wearing only jackets!
The Tegra 3 doesn't use big.LITTLE. It does have a 5th, smaller core - but that's not big.LITTLE.
"Shortage" in an economy is expressed as higher prices. In almost any cases you will be able to find more workers if you are willing to pay an unlimited amount. There is no way of determining the "correct" price.
The reverse is also true. More potential employees in the marketplace lowers salaries.

If you take "you could find employees at a higher salary" as a proof that the shortage doesn't exist you'll virtually always have that proof. Under that definition shortages don't exist which feels like some sort of semantic trickery.
Anyone who's studied information theory would destroy that puzzle though. In the same way that someone with a physics degree would perform way above average on a "count the stars" question. Or someone whose dissertation was on computational biology would excel at a string-matching algorithm question.

It is an example of the interviewer (or company/process) mistaking a specific problem as representative of all problems. Presumably they're looking for someone with "general problem solving skills", rather than "knowledge of astrophysics".
A private company which is funded by companies which are contracted by the government to provide rail service. As a taxpayer subsidised body, they should have a greater degree of accountability.
I like how mind sounds. Sounds like a lone explorer searching for programming nirvana for a year, got disappointed for a little bit, and then eventually rediscovered the joy of programming again.

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=wyuenho

This is really really nicely done. Thanks for this. This made my day.
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The best interview I ever had, I was given a problem to solve with a system, a whiteboard and 20 minutes.

I sketched out a quick ERD, and explained the high level architecture of the system. No code was written -- it was assumed that I could implement said system if I could design it.

The worst job interview grilled me on low level algorithms (I'm not a CS grad) and wanted me to sketch out a quick sort. Of course, I can describe a quick sort now as a result of said interview, but since it was all C# I doubt we were going to have to implement our own sort algorithms.

Another terrible interviewer asked me about projects I did in college. I finished grad school 3 years ago, and have 8 years professional experience...
Over time I've made interview challenge problems progressively easier, as I've found that the trickier ones don't give any more information than the easier ones. My challenge now basically amounts to 'read this doubly nested for loop and tell me what it does', equivalent in difficulty to fizzbuzz.

If you can't solve that, even in the pressure of an interview, then I'm sorry, but you have no business working as a programmer, and I'm offended that you even applied.

And yes, people flunk it all the time.
Not everyone working for such companies are complete idiots. Many people in these orgs are competent enough to learn new skills and apply their previous skills to a new job.

Like every other organization these ones also have politics and that makes things a lot worse for the employees.
Yeah it was definitely Spybot. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. For the time, it was a good enough workaround in my experience. I don't really remember having network slowdown, but I may have been used to it since I think I was still on a blazing 56k modem at that point ;-)
> Selection bias.

What? I said "I can think of examples that support governmental intervention." I did not say "I have statistically analyzed governmental interventions and here are my results."

> The goverments [sic] regulation also blocks ...

Do you really not know how to spell "government"? So it seems:

> All in all goverment [sic] regulation of medicine has been horrible.

You're the one making unsupportable general claims, not me. Also, given that yours is a post about government, learn how to spell "government".

> Here is a nice interview with Marcia Angell of Harvard Medical School about big farma [sic].

Do you by chance mean "big pharma"?
I use them as "Bookmark".
Got any suggestions on a better way of testing real-world sites?

A number of mainstream sites now support SPDY, so simply turning SPDY on and off on the client side is a simple enough tactic.
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Not that it matters anymore since this was pre-Google, but I swear to god, someone actually asked me the manhole cover question when I interviewed at ITA in 2010. This was for a DevOps type role, so maybe they were less well organized on that side of the house.

At first I laughed because I thought he was joking until he I saw he was serious. He followed that up with something about stacking weights on a seesaw.
> It makes sense for a private company to....

So the railways in the UK used to be run by the state. They were privatised. sorta. On the grounds that we'd get the best of both worlds. Do you think that we did?

If this was a completely private enterprise situation, ATOC probably wouldn't be going through the motions of pretending to be open like they are.
Genuinely curious - aren't fusion plants both safer and use cheaper-to-get and more-abundant materials?
Don't forget that some buildings are not zoned as residential, and therefore cannot have people actually living there. (Not that you can't live there - just that eventually, some people from the city will show up with a lot of fines for you to pay.)
Presumably National Rail Enquiries. How can you base a commercial application on scraping a website? That is not a sensible business model.
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My baby loves the cold (must be because she was born in Chicago in winter...) The thing that frightens me about the article isn't the leaving the baby outside in the cold, but the leaving the baby out where it could be stolen...
Oil costs are way higher than $20 a barrel now. Extraction takes a lot of drilling and so on even in the easy places.
Also did this. Once a domain is looked up and in the local DNS cache it's fine, but the initial DNS lookup can get stupidly slow, especially on older hardware.
We do, for the right person, but we prefer on-site when possible. I'm actually the only remote worker in the company at the moment. I can't say I've ever seen a good candidate who wanted to work remotely from Iowa or Canada, but maybe we just haven't looked properly. (Nothing against those places, just hasn't happened to me.)

Of course, if you're willing to hire remotely, the H1-B thing gets much less pressing, as you can simply hire people overseas and keep them there, no need for a visa at all.
I have always assumed this is about the editing of choices - there is a vast world of OSS choices. And I cannot keep up.

I would happily buy Matasano-branded cloud servers that talked the AWS/OpenStack API (ie were actually run there) but were imaged off one baseline that was Thomas-Approved.

I dont trust other people's Chef or Puppet recipies to install nginx for me. I would trust yours.

That means I would start writing my application on your branded stack. If that means I get to only use vi on OpenBSD then - hey there is real badge value in it still:-)

And if actually I can only deploy my code to your secure server via a CI process, all the better.

After that we can talk appsec, and scaling.
Thanks for the clarification. I guess I got things mixed up.

Are there any big.LITTLE implementations out there? Wikipedia only mentions Samsung Exynos 5 Octa, which doesn't have any designs right now.
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There are many universal standards for a government not serving its people. Literally uncountably many. So yes, you're technically right that there is no one standard.

I don't mean to trivialize anything. But government starts with the consent of the governed. It's cool, sort of, that you feel you consent to this. But I don't. It's not that it isn't good enough soon enough, it's that we reward treacherous behavior so the system is never going to work for the people.
Reminds me of the old "what the customer actually wanted" comic:

http://imgur.com/NXHbZ
With respect, why does the world need another project management app?
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Some of the designs are pretty small-scale, though not Mr. Fusion size. The smallest is focus fusion. The reactor core is the size of a coffee can, and the complete power plant would be about half the size of a shipping container, and produce 5 to 20 MW. Since it would use (mostly) aneutronic boron fusion you could safely locate them near their customers, and remove most of the transmission cost.

They've published a couple papers recently in respectable journals so I think they're easily distinguished from perpetual motion.
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Bloomberg in general is amazing. It's shocking in this day and age that a financial news network would sue the Federal Reserve to force it to release sensitive data on its bailout operations, but that's exactly what Bloomberg did, and won [1].

By way of comparison I could never see CNBC, the cheereader propaganda network, doing the same.

Real investigative journalism, not dead yet.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_L.P._v._Board_of_Gove...
One can also null route them as well via 0.0.0.0. Hosts tend to die instantly that way versus timing out with 127.0.0.1
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Are the neutrons that fusion kicks off particularly more difficult to deal with than those kicked off by fission?
This is precisely right: I ask people questions like the difference between an interface and an abstract class as a gauge, because I've had so many people answer them really badly.

The question wouldn't normally come out of the blue, though, but as a follow-up from part of a design exercise where they would have just used one or the other in their design, and as part of finding out whether they could justify their choice.
My relatives keep mentioning the possibility of my son being stolen, which seems absurd to me. I was very curious what the real odds of your child being stolen by a stranger in the US are.

EDIT: The post motivated me to do some quick Googling... one article I found said there are roughly 40 children abducted by strangers or slight acquaintances in the US annually which would make your child "700 times more likely to get into Harvard than to be the victim of such an abduction".
Well the good news is this problem should be solved soon since we spend so much time focused on it.

I don't care for puzzles. Just conversations. I skim resumes looking for glimpses into personality more than looking for skill sets. I have a guy that went to Yale on my team. I didn't even know that until he mentioned it the other day, yet it was on his resume. I missed it because I don't care where you went. I don't care how fast you can solve a puzzle. It's put up or shut up and show me what you've built when you come here. If you can do that in an interview there's a great chance I'll hire you. The last two hires whipped out apps they'd built and then we went over how they accomplished it. To me that's more valuable than any other process, having a portfolio or sample ready when you show up.
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Today, it's increasingly rare for organizations to have bespoke security, just as it's increasingly rare for them to have bespoke IT. It's only the larger organizations that can afford it.

The rest of the article is based off this premise, which I can't agree with at all.

It's the micro and small companies that are using off-the-shelf cloud software, not the mid-size companies. I know of two software vendors in my city alone that sell project management software to mid-size companies, both offer bespoke customization on top of a core product (one written in-house, one Dynamics CRM) and they are both doing a roaring trade in completely different markets.

All of these off the shelf cloud systems offer only the most basic business functionality when you actually get down to it. Salesforce just manages sales. That's all. To get it to do more you need to do bespoke customisation. And then you find out you can't just pay someone to build some software and let it just run, you need to be able to change it as your market and needs change.

EDIT: My impression is that off-the-shelf cloud software is replacing shared excel spreadsheets and Access DBs. But this is all based on gut, I'd be interested to see any evidence supporting either me or Bruce.
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but that is not a puzzle, it's real code if you don't access to a collection library
Node: Everyone knows JavaScript, there's a massive community, there are tons of libraries, and you get very good performance

Go: No one knows this language, there's a small-but-growing community, there are enough libraries to get a lot done, and you get even better performance

Java: They are paying me (money!) to write in this language
Exactly. Same here.

Now I give interviews, and I do the former not the later. Make sure you do the same if you get to interview others.

This puzzle and brainteaser shit needs to stop.
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I tried Gas Mask a couple weeks ago, but it crashed every time I tried to edit the file list. I'm running Mountain Lion. At the time, I was busy on a project, so I didn't have any time to troubleshoot. I just gave up and uninstalled it.

It looks to be very useful so hopefully I can get it working sometime soon or at least be able to provide some crash feedback.
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Funny to read this since me and my girlfriend do the same with our baby in Quebec city, Canada.

Its all about good cloths and making sure the hands, feet and head stay warm.

You would be amaze by the quality of cloths and stroller our baby has to face the ever changing Quebec temperature, she got a cold baby sleeping bags, a bear fur cover, and many different cloths, ...
I can't say for certain since I don't live there, but a cursory search for baby kidnappings in Sweden pulled up a famous guy and that baby was stolen from a crib. Baby kidnapping isn't an issue for them, otherwise I imagine they would not be leaving their kids outside. It's like if no one steals stuff, you don't have to always keep your door locked.
Did they actually show a picture of it? I guess there are limits on what they could reveal
Looks at the SANS training classes and certifications. I think their training is one of the best ways to jump start a InfoSec career, and the various training tracks and certifications will give you a general understanding of various roles (job definitions/categories) that are available in InfoSec.
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Keep in mind the general state of fear in the US. If a danger even exists, it's cause for concern. Unless it involves an automobile.

--d, US Citizen
I personally run a local caching server on my home network. Rather than locally on my personal machine. That way I get the best of two worlds, when I move my laptop it will pick up new DNS fast and easy (especially if it is required for captive portals and the like) and at home I get fast speeds over the local network.

I run unbound, I don't have a tutorial or anything like that, mainly because I don't know what OS you are running or where you want to do this.

My personal unbound also connects to a locally hosted nsd, which is used to host the zone network.lan. On network.lan is where all of my hosts live, it is where I have entries for various of my internal servers, as well as all of my test sites.
I used to run a local server as well until I saw a recommendation to use 0.0.0.0. Requests now fail instantly and I don't have to run a local server just for blocked domains.

There is one thing I do miss: being able to log requests and seeing which domains were accessed the most.
Here are some statistics about it: http://www.ncmec.org/en_US/documents/InfantAbductionStats.pd...

The kid is probably more likely to be struck by lightning while you're walking around in the park on an overcast day than being abducted by strangers.

But parents of newborns are rarely sensible about their risk assessment, and obsess over amazingly unlikely scenarios while forgetting about the plausible and common ones.
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