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This is a disaster. Why would you want to create such a complicated system? node.js has a bright future and will be able to replace languages such as Python, Java, C#, etc. But why do two back-ends when you can do one instead?
What do they do with seized foreign currencies? Presumably find some way to convert them to dollars
[1] 682 are by mbostock (to be accurate)
Totally acceptable to use Meteor first because you don't want to "reinvent the wheel" so to speak. It's fantastic for prototyping real-time concepts.

If your idea works, then you can "mature" your codebase a little. But, from the get-go, you'll want to make something usable, to see if your idea works at all. Meteor is perfect for that sort of thing.
In situations of depressed aggregate demand, it really doesn't matter what you spend the money on -- you could even bury it in the ground like gold and "pay" people to dig it up. Whatever you fund is essentially a free lunch.

You don't want to wait months though, which is why "shovel-ready" matters and this sort of research loses out to other sorts of projects. That said, less guns and more fusion would be nice.
Once ES6 will kick in, things will get better. Right now it's definitely a shit storm.
If you have a plan that seems workable, there are hundreds of thousands of people willing to join you. If you don't, then jurisdictional arbitrage will continue to be the order of the day.
Oppression is subjective.

It's presumptuous to claim that "not every law is oppressive." What might be unnoticeable to many people could become oppressive to you. Ultimately, the subjective ethics and conscience of an individual is more valid than any arbitrary system into which that person is thrown, on an individual basis. In other terms, that which is "worth fighting for" -- worth resistance to oppression -- is, as always, relative and subjective. Fortunately, quite a lot of people feel that it's extremely oppressive to inflict restrictions, caging, and great violence upon nonviolent, consenting people. Oppression comes in many forms. Given this thread, I'll use drugs as the context. A single lone person who wants to grow and use drugs is still oppressed (according to my ethical framework) even if the entirety of all other people on Earth, all 7+ billion, summarily and vehemently want to violently restrict that person from doing so.
Some people have hobbies that require other people nearby who share those hobbies to work. I like improv and various other kinds of comedy. You can do that in LA, SF, NY, Chicago, and Austin (where I live). You can't do that as well in Omaha, Salt Lake or Dallas. I also like riding bikes. Cycling infrastructure requires living in an area where lots of other people agree that it's a priority. Once again, the cities you suggest don't qualify.

No man is an island. The people you surround yourself with matter.
I bet moonlighting at that job is actually a welcome change from the smell of the stables. Granted, being a jockey is probably lots of fun during those all-too-brief sprints around the track, but the rest of the time, I'd want to be as far away from horses as possible.
Speculating about their "real" motives is just that; speculation.

I'm sorry your project was defunded, but that in itself is not evidence that the facility is actually a sham.
The parent post meant: “The Perl5 language can never increment its major version to 6, as the Perl6 name is already taken” – which is silly, as Perl5 is currently at version 18.
I'm surprised there is no law prohibiting people from telecommuting from U.S. to bypass U.S. laws.
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At the tv station where I was last employed, they decided to change the format of their newscasts by filming in the newsroom... so if you happened to be cutting packages together for the next newscast or whatever you ended up in the background.

It did kind of suck.
Loving the leaderboard:

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unicornfarts.com
ponypenis.com
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(:
Just wondering; could this negatively affect your SEO rating?
So a shit fascist news service is using a shit fascist operating system.

Bring on the haters.
No mention of MTU?

This is why there are jumbo frames for bandwidth (not latency) intense operations.
The NIF is probably more useful for coming up with new fusion bomb designs than for stockpile stewardship, as you say, but what makes you say hot fusion can never be economically viable? The sun is proof that nature can do this on a grand scale! It may be a long ways off, but "a long ways" becomes "never" without experimental work like the NIF. Yes, the U.S. is probably doing this primarily to create new weapons just as the space race was really about developing ICBM's. However, the fundamental science being done has huge long-term potential. It's a sad, but true fact that, sometimes, scientists have to use the megalomania of states to fuel research that has the potential to benefit all of humanity.

Fission power is a separate matter. The single most important thing that most people still do not understand is that power grids have almost zero capacity for storing energy. That means most alternative energy sources, such as wind or solar, can never exceed a certain percentage of the grid's production capacity or it will become unstable. On-demand energy generation is still needed, and there's absolutely no reason to fear nuclear power while we're still using coal power, which is far more deadly in every sense! It's not just the West that has this fear either. Look at Japan's recent nuclear shut-down[1] (from 30% of their grid to 0%, replaced with fossil fuels), and tell me that isn't going to influence China!

[1]http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/14/us-japan-nuclear-s...
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How can this be news? The fall of the Berlin wall is far more important and current!
Stop it, JavaScript.

Stop it. Stop being used for application programming.

Stop.
This is actually sort of cool-looking.
So sorry to hear that project got cut from spending.

It really seems like another extremely powerful nuclear bomb.
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I had something somewhat similar - https://github.com/patrickkettner/grunt-compile-handlebars/

just precompiling handlebars into static html
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It's great that they're trying to leverage the technology like this. Ideally, we'll get a little news room arms race, which will hopefully lead to a few innovations. The next newsroom needs 8k screens. :-)
It's less fascist than OSX.
Green as in money? Or green as in environmental? This is Fox News, the distinction is important.
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Finally someone that's actually in the fusion field. Could you say whether or not the NIF research represents a practical path towards a fusion based power source? My understanding is that it would at least be capable of capturing some much needed high pressure empirical data necessary for validating theory.

On a side note concerning the NIF funding, the US gov will spend huge sums of money studying Nuclear weapons (including their disposal) regardless of the NIF project. If it is at all possible to combine that research with other fields then really it's a perk. I'm not justifying the expenditure, simply attempting to frame the situation in a different light.

Finally, as a fellow scientist with funding woes, I feel your pain.
At least OSX is Unix-based and actually makes some sense and can do useful things
Downvote me for my opinion you HN haters bring it on
It is important to consider the chance of us having evidence of B, assuming that B was actually happening.

We have an absence of evidence for æther, but we are pretty certain that if it exists, we would have evidence of it. Our confidence of that is strong enough to state with some confidence that æther does not exist. For practical intents and purposes, we can say that the absence of evidence of æther is evidence that it does not exist.

Not all absences of evidence are made equal, some are more significant than others.
I would imagine he's nit allowed anywhere near a computer right now. And most likely the blockchain will be watched to see if there are any outgoing transactions.
It also has a problem.
Without weapons research

1) we never would have had nuclear power in the first place. (or it would have taken decades more)

2) It would even have taken a lot longer to develop oil energy and widespread cars (allied research on oil)

3) We wouldn't know about co2 separation (since the nazi state was cut-off -mostly- from oil, they researched liquefaction and nuclear power)

Nobody ever gives cruel losers credit, I guess. Heh. But the nazis certainly did a lot of useful research.
Netflix replaces DVD rentals and purchases, not the initial product, which is the release in theatres or the initial broadcast on television. You can still make money in the box office and on advertising. For news outlets and periodicals, their websites replace their initial product, the publication itself. Spotify falls somewhere between the two: streaming music can replace the intial product of a CD, LP or download, but it's also allows you to offer a new product to people that would never purchase the initial one.

Another point to consider is that piracy has had a huge impact on the music, movie and television industries. They had to compete against free. Netflix and Spotify may make less money for labels and producers than DVD and CD sales did, but it's more than they get from everyone who would torrent their stuff instead.

If you bundled unlimited access to multiple publications for a monthly fee, and distributed payouts to publishers based on their share of views/reads, you'd just end up reproducing the current situation, where the competition for pageviews is a race to the bottom.
"The Attack of the Giant iPads"

Or Surfaces...
Whether the sun is capable of fusion isn't super important. We can take advantage of that, but it doesn't mean we can build many safe plants based on an evolution of the NIF design.

If your alternative fuel requires hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in the future, just to show viability of the basic research concept, before it can actually be useful, you will be at a massive competitive advantage relative to alternatives.

What I am saying, is that relative to other potential investments, fusion does not seem to be a worthwhile investment, as the risk/payoff ratio is worse.

As for the rest of your comments, I mostly agree I'm aware that alternatives like wind and solar have limits, but we can still use them to great effect (as augmenters, and ways to reduce reliance of less sustainable sources).
Fox News is not serious.
Then figure out whether promoting Tor is moral and do it. Don't ask someone else for your morals.
As a fellow New Yorker, I would be upset of taxes on visitor housing were eliminated.

The governments gotta get it's money somehow, and I'd rather them tax visitor housing and the housing would pass those costs down to the tourists than for taxes for everyday New Yorkers be raised.
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I would discourage even titling the submission "Silk Road 2.0". I can't speak to the criminal side of things, but civil court judges have come up with theories that if another piece of software has been deemed 'illegal' and you try to attract users of that software to your software, then your software could be considered illegal.

Again, it's apples to oranges, but you can see how the court's line of reasoning could go the same direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arista_Records_LLC_v._Lime_Grou...
You have to keep in mind that a company is its own entity and since my startup was formed in the UK, it is a UK company that is governed by UK laws. The UK has no problem with non-resident company directors, but setting up a bank account for a company with a non-resident director is another story.
The new Bluetooth Low Energy could help a bit with that a bit.
ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for TLS
I think if someone had a manservant bring him his phone following a notification, I might let him look at it too...
I think that if quantitative easings' current results prove anything, it's that it can't. Or at least it can't work if money is distributed through bank loans.
Ten years ago you were right, but I think you are making this out to be some hard-wired component of human nature when it is largely cultural. Something has changed culturally and psychologically in the time since then. The psychological gap between paying and not paying now is narrower than it was 10 years ago. This is in large part due to developments that have taken place in the time since, especially the iTunes model. In the 90s people people were extremely cautious about purchasing things online. In the beginning it didn't happen at all, but Amazon and the development of e-commerce broke that barrier. People began to think nothing of giving out their credit card information and home addresses to purchase things that will ultimately be shipped to their homes. Then, paying for all-digital premium content became the norm, especially because of iTunes. iTunes completely normalized the concept of a small payment for quick and easy access to content. People think nothing of purchasing an app or a song in two seconds on iTunes, because psychologically $1.00 doesn't mean a whole lot to them and easily fits within their recreational budget and it is exceedingly convenient.

I think the next form of content to fall into this model will be written content. First major newspapers had to stop giving away their content for free (they already have as you point out). People have shown that they are willing to pay for this formerly free content. Now comes the part where they start charging for a la carte access to articles. I've already seen this on some magazines - GQ? Time perhaps? I forget - and I must admit I've clicked through a few times, and I don't have a lot of disposable income. I might simply irresponsible but on the other hand I'm probably not alone.
15Mbps? LUXURY.

Nice write-up. I wonder if there's any market in spec-breaking routers that can accommodate smaller inter-frame gaps, etc.? What use is there for this that is not covered by jumbo frames?
Looking over the comments I want to say I am surprised the attitude of some people towards this project, but given this is Hacker "Hate On PHP" News, I am not. I am disappointed to see people nitpicking over the way some things have been coded. As someone who's used Dropplets on a couple of small sites now, I've found it to be a breath of fresh air compared to Wordpress.

Not only is Dropplets a lot more simple to work with compared to other CMS's/blogging platforms written in PHP, it works. It's easy to write themes for it, it's easy to publish content and easy to make it do whatever you want. It's perfect for those times when you want something lightweight that isn't bloated Wordpress.

So I am going to surprise you all by not weighing in on the dick-measuring contest that is language comparison. You can write bad code in any language, PHP just makes it easier to do so. I think this is a great project and if you have a problem with the way it's coded, remember it's open source and anyone can contribute.

This is the other problem with a lot of people that frequent this site, but not limited to this site. They're quick to complain and point out problems with other peoples code and their choice of language, but rarely ever put their keyboard where their mouth is and actually bother to make a difference by contributing to an open source project.

So my advice to anyone who came here to comment on the choice of PHP or the way it's coded would be to take it elsewhere and learn to compliment someone else's work. It's attitudes like the ones I am seeing that make people (like the author of this project) not want to release their work as open source because people are far too critical and judgemental of others.
Ask HN: New Grad Friendly full time opportunities?
I was wondering if there were any startups (<100 engineers) that were hiring new grads. I've interviewed with a few startups now, and almost all of them want someone who is very proficient in either ruby or python and also know javascript. I'm pretty good with javascript and have used backbone.js in a previous job but when interviewing my speed in programming a solution is becoming a hindrance. I need more experience is what they're all saying, and am wondering if there are startups out there that are willing to forego speed for a few weeks till I get used to everything. I learn really fast.

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I can imagine everyone driving around in Tesla cars powered by Nuclear fusion in the not too distant future.
Actually, this is a specific case of the bad is worse than the none (as opposed to the bad being better than none. I.e., half a loaf of bread is better than no bread if you're hungry, but a half-finished boat hull won't float, if you take it out it'll sink under you).

In this case, your friendly PHB looks at Gladwell or other pop sci author, decides its true (a falsehood), and then makes policy based on the illusion of correctness. Now you, in your quest for truth, have to defeat Gladwell as well as spread truth. See how it gets worse than your PHB just derping it up on his own?
No doubt he put all his money in bitcoins, and never ever converted any money.
How is it legal for someone based in the US to setup a UK company to run his business? Isn't this a recipe to get the IRS to investigate this as a tax evasion scheme?

I mean if it's possible, then every online business should incorporate in HongKong and avoid Taxes, VAT and several other complications that the IRS put.
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Jacob Appelbaum works on TOR and is routinely harrassed.
I was already aware of a lot of this, didn't mean to appear like I was doubting the claim - I mostly wanted to hear this stuff from a fresh mouth.
If the probe is destroyed so is the the possibility of decryption.
Same for the second option.

In fact the problem is not related to time, but to the processing time and it's hard for two reasons, the math has to be so incredible/good/error free that going the physics way is cheaper and by cheaper I mean the only way (there is nothing more expensive than that thing it does not exist).
Now Assumptions related to physics, which part do you assume as "hardcoded", (gwern decided for the cache speed; I found the problem on specialized hardware for it, AMD builds cpu on spec (back to physics))speed of light, and the amount of energy it takes to perform a job, resistance of circuits near absolute zero and therefore the amount of energy required to perform the job given that you can suppose on non paralelizable tasks therefore scalar cpu and therefore given a minimum scheme of circuitry the amount of time on a perfect conditions.
This works unless reality(trademark) goes into play;
-how much time will it take to humanity to hit the perfect conditions?
-which conditions or values do you consider appropriate to measure the time (for releasing the information given the conditions are met?)

What if you just hide (like for example by burring them in the sand on the sahara) 100 devices from which 10 are the original ones and the other ones are backups of the original and you need ten of them to decrypt? (scale times 10^x for paranoia level)
these look suspiciously similar
Rietumu Bank in Latvia will take any corporation anywhere except blacklisted states. In fact you can apply online you don't even have to visit in person. This guy could've also used Okpay, or dropped in a payment gateway like Global Payments or Stripe and had them pay out to his Okpay bank wire SWIFT code.

For a while as an experiment, I decided to see how easy it would be to break the Argentina ban on foreign exchange or money leaving the country. I simply signed up to a bunch of services like Inpay (Agentine soft bank transfers), Rapipago and DineiroMail and accepted payments in exchange for Bitcoins. I had all these payment gateways just dump into an Okpay account and then traded it on IRC. Worked flawlessly, though high fees. Still were cheaper fees than what it costs on the black market there to move money.

I also have a decoy software store that I sell to a circle of friends there Bitcoin for Argencard. I wouldn't do this for the general public of course that's risking fraud.

Poland, Belarus, Moldova, Italy, any of these countries walk into a bank with corporate docs and open an account in an hour or so. Bitcoins are of course, better suited for this guy's business of reselling software but he barely tried to get around silly bank laws in the UK.

Edit: To get money back to yourself cheaply from the Latvian bank after your payment gateway dumps funds into it (because SWIFT can be expensive with correspondent banks robbing you a percentage in fees), buy Bitcoins with SEPA from Bitstamp or another EU exchange or p2p trade. Then cash the bitcoins out locally.
He unquestionably still owes taxes on that money.
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Also it's cheaper than your options, also your options are not that "real world" factible without some serious money.
I have seen a fair bit of 'red shirting' also. It seems quite strange to me - but then I graduated high school at 17 (no skips) and many high school students in my town are 19 when they graduate now. The inevitable result of 7 year old kindergarten students I guess (btw one of my sons is 6 and in first grade).

After reading Outliers at least I have a theory of why I was a crappy hockey player with my October birthday.
erm... How exactly does spending billions of dollars on a Gov't shutdown and putting nearly a million people out of work help our budget crisis?
It's legal as long as you report any income you make from it personally. There's nothing stopping you from incorporating in the Seychelles, and getting a bank account in Latvia, Belize, or Panama/St Vincent.

Just so long as you report foreign income paid out to yourself. The foreign corporation doesn't have to report anything (this might have changed, i'm not a lawyer). That's why you see all those shady collector coin ads on latenight TV and they are always based out of Liberia.
We've built StackOverflow with it. Is world's #55-ish network by traffic. So, yeah, it's certainly possible.

On the other hand what do you mean by scale? There is no way you can go internet scale with a "vanilla" framework.

My advice? Use what you like, get the right people, don't be slave of a canned architecture or technology. You'll figure it out as you go.
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Honestly? For a large project probably PHP/jQuery/Bootstrap, iOS, MySQL on AWS.

For something smaller and quick I'd try to use Parse.
@HalfPriceDigi, don't forget to prepare and file Form 5471 for your UK company. Screw that up and it is an automatic $10,000 penalty.

(Disclosure: international tax lawyer; have fought this battle with the IRS before).

And yes. The banking problem is the hard problem to solve.

In both directions. U.S. banks can be giant poopy-heads. Bank of America just closed the account of a foreign client of mine who had banked with them for 33 (!) years. "We don't have to give you a reason, and we are sending you a check for your money." The second such client to experience this. Both are moving to Citibank, for what that's worth to you.