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It can be stored safely, but so far a good waste solution hasn't been implemented, at least in the US. With the cancellation of Yucca Mountain, the current "interim" long-term storage plan is basically on-site dry cask storage scattered everywhere. The spent-fuel pools are an even bigger mess. Many of them are filling up, and fuel isn't being transferred from them to longer-term storage even when it could/should be, because operators want to reduce costs.

I don't think many experts are that happy with the current spent-fuel story. They vary in why they're unhappy, ranging from environmental worries (more common on the left) to theft/terrorism worries (more common on the right). But overall there is just way too much nuclear waste hanging out in suboptimal interim storage.
That, or he has non-branded phone straight from china. You can find quite some interesting things on dealextreme or similar site, if you're feeling adventurous.
> "I’m very, very close to moving all my family’s email accounts off Google."

Says the guy who registered a Gmail address for his children when they were born and buys a _Chromebook_ for them, since it's great and everything is in the cloud.

What can I say.
Is it forward secure yet? Why is this better than Pond?
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Or you could take away the lesson of 'build something that is of real, meaningful value to users.'
Given that, maybe Google should force users under the age of 13 to fill out an online form that has the parent's consent on it. Although, this might not stop some to forge information on it, at least, Google can remain in compliance under the law this way.

Or so I think.
To me this almost sounds like some crazy kinky joke. (Maybe I've just got a sick mind though.) I had to re-read it a couple of times until I remembered that latex is a way to lay-out formulae etc. :P
An interesting thought experiment is to assume a group of engineers, with perfect understanding of our modern technologies and how to make them travel back in time to the stone age. How long would it take for them to arrive back at our current technology knowing what the critical path to do so would be?
It's completely unlockable and reflashable from what I can tell
Indeed. This problem is caused by the U.S. Government, not Google.

So more accurately: A US Federal Law Made My Daughter Cry
Very Bad: you@your-isp.com

Bad: you@platform-provider.com (gmail)

Good: you@your-lastname.me (or your-lastname.com)

your-lastname.me or your-lastname.com - is the domain you own.

Once you own your own domain and mailbox - just use platform providers (or ISP) for what they are useful for - as a temporary convenience tools.
Always maintain backups of your mailboxes under your control.

If ISP or platform-provider will misbehave - scrap them for then better offering.
There is a difference between doing hard work and working hard. Hard work (of various sorts) for an extended period of time often has a long term negative impact on one's health. The people who do it should be respected, definitely, but glorified? Seems like a bad idea especially considering the lack of transference to other fields and growing automation.
We had this same experience with my daughter around the same age. This is also an issue with Android devices that desire (require?) a Google login when setting them up.

If you need to have a Google account to use a Chromebook, and the under-13 crowd can't have one, then why do they market Chromebooks to kids and families? I shouldn't sign into it for her, since then she would have unfettered access to the net (including my email, Google Wallet, etc.) as ME, right?
He did explain himself a day later:
https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...
The number of people saying "It's the law" as if that has any intrinsic meaning is a little astonishing.

Also, from COPPA: While children under 13 can legally give out personal information with their parents' permission, many websites altogether disallow underage children from using their services due to the amount of work involved.

So it's not merely a governmental problem. It's a problem with how much work companies are willing to put in to let children access their services.
Haha you got that right!
The law states that a site may collect information with the consent of the child's parents. That is fairly innocuous. The problem is that Google scuttles the account and thus the Chromebook.
I really like this. One thing I suggest however, is to stress why you are delivering at night. I have to go all the way to the bottom of the purpose page to find exactly why this service would be beneficial. Your homepage is beautiful but there needs to be something along the lines of "Don't miss another package" above the fold. Tell me why I want the service.
My apologies for the terse nature of my summary above. We measure the deflection of light bounced from a mirror attached to a test mass hanging from a very fine wire.

That said, the geometry of some of the Texas Instruments DLP MEMS chips has interested some of us for years. The chips are designed to be robust in consumer products, but if they instead designed their mirrors to have very soft springs, we'd be interested in playing with them. Once a year or so, I do a survey of the available MEMS accelerometer chips to see if it's worth building an array from them. They're still a few orders of magnitude away in sensitivity from anything we could put to use.

For the second half of your question: Physicists do indeed measure interactions at scales far smaller than the diameter of a proton. The "trouble" with gravity is that it's so very weak. On a handwavy charge-for-charge basis, gravity is 10^40 (that's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) times weaker than electromagnetism. For an experiment that's purely sensitive to electromagnetism (atomic spectroscopy) or other comparably strong forces (particle colliders) to see gravity, it's necessary to resolve the other forces incredibly well in order to see a tiny residual effect from gravity.

For our work, achieving sensitivity to gravity at the scale of tens of microns isn't that hard. Proving to you that we're not seeing another force/experimental influence (the flip side of that 10^40) is very hard, and is what I spend almost all of my time trying to do.

Thanks for your interest; it's sharing the stoke about this stuff that keeps us going when it's hard (and, if you're a US citizen, you're paying for it! Thank you!).
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Well, unknown-in-the-West brand. It's a Star phone bought off Amazon Marketplace.

Could have gotten it even cheaper straight from China, but didn't feel quite adventurous enough to order direct and not have a local distributor to deal with at that point. My next phone probably will be.
I'm not so sure they will just "leave the high-end market" to the rest, but they may try changing things up at the high-end, such as with highly customizable "ARA" phones:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/7/5185768/dennis-woodside-in...
The Copenhagen wheel was announced 4 years ago, and since then we've had copycats like the FlyKly back in October(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flykly/flykly-smart-whee...).

In case, like me, you wondered why this was news - it's because they're actually putting it on sale. I'm curious as to what they mean by a battery life of 1000 cycles, when there's regenerative braking and I'd hit more than 3 hills a day on my commute[1], so is that 1 year?

[1]ok to be fair I work from home now, so my 20 mile each way commute is now a morning jaunt on the bike to wake me up.
You can see this with Jolla- interesting new entrant, aims to provide a less monolithic, more hackable device, built on the Nokia N9, which was widely acclaimed. But it's double the price of the Moto G, with equivalent or even slightly worse specs.

If Google is selling its handsets at or near cost, and relying on the long-term value of advertising and data, then it will be almost impossible for anyone without the same revenue streams to engage in serious competition.
You might appreciate this landscape distinction.
http://www.slideshare.net/slidarko/titan-the-rise-of-big-gra...

Furthermore, please have a look at "On Graph Computing" for a break down of 3 different categories of graph computing systems -- toolkit, database, analytics.
http://markorodriguez.com/2013/01/09/on-graph-computing/

Finally, yes -- there is no theoretical expressivity gains between RDBMS and property graphs (and, RDF graphs). Nor is SQL (Turing Complete versions) any less expressive than Gremlin (Turing Complete path recognition). The only argument you can make is that graphs are more (or less) effective in terms of conciseness of expression and speed of execution at particular problems. Typically (as expected), its the difference between problem datasets that look like networks (graphs) and those that look like spreadsheets (tables).
One factor of the metric that there're "unfilled skilled positions" is that the pay for those positions is still incredibly low. Many of those positions offer compensation near minimum wage, or are laborious enough that it's not worth working for.

So although there are unfilled skilled labor positions, many of those don't fit the supply/demand curve.
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If that's all there was to entanglement, we would just use the term "ignorance of the actual state". The issue with entanglement is that the system will show properties of being in _both states at once_, which is distinct from being in one unknown state, which is your analogy. There's really no classical analogy that I know of that correctly fits entanglement in QM.
Agreed, I think many people don't realize the enormous cost of an accident like Chernobyl, and that wasn't even the worst case scenario even though it was pretty bad.
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What scale do you to determine the relative size of your body font and headings? i.e., the golden ratio, 2:1, etc. Do you change the scale between websites and contexts?
Tangential, I know, but sure it's a word:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whiningly
I'll wait, I'm not gonna shut down with a strongly worded C&D. And besides, I don't believe Vine is aware of VineClient at the moment, this is being blown way out of proportion.
Wasn't my post, but I believe the point is that the vast majority of people can't physically do some of these jobs.

This is an interesting parallel to the fallacy that many fall into in trying to get really good at sports so that they have a straight path to a lucrative career. Simply put, statistically you are not likely to be able to cut it in that industry.
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In the x86 family anyway, it's kinda-sorta 'built in'. It is possible to avoid using the stack -- it's done in interrupt handlers which do not have a stack of their own and must avoid clobbering it -- but most code uses it fairly frequently and there are many auxiliary instructions that push and pop from the stack.

In addition to some explicit stack-related instructions like PUSH/POP, PUSHF/POPF, PUSHA/POPA, PUSHAD/POPAD and many others, certain other operations assume you have a valid stack and act on it. For example, the CALL function (used to call a procedure/function) will push a return address to the stack, and RET (used to return to the caller at the end of a procedure/method) will pop the return address to the stack and jump to it.

These instructions are fairly essential to the function calling conventions for typical code, enough that it's reasonable to say that the concept of the stack is 'built into' x86 processors.

Partly this is because the x86 processor is a beast with an instruction for everything. Other more RISCy architectures tend to not bake in the stack, and instead you use any general-purpose register as a stack pointer and manipulate it manually with regular instructions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings
What am I missing on the example [1] page? It claims to be interactive, but all I see is a static map image.

1. http://bamboo.io/docs/examples.html#an-interactive-map-of-th...
>There's a reason nobody has ever cheapened the Stradivarius by creating new technology. The selling point is craftsmanship and good design.

Nope, their major selling point is their myth, vintage status and patina.

That's why nobody cheapened them with new technology. Those are not attributes you can make better with technology or that relate to music and audio performance directly.

(That's why, say, the guitar Hendrix played in Woodstock would trump any 10 times better in timbre and keeping its tuning guitar in any auction sale).

There were several A/B tests with Stradivarius and most professional violinists couldn't even tell them apart from regular violins. E.g: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradivarius#Comparisons_in_sou...

>The 808's a work of art and it's always better to have the real thing, if you're serious about music.

No, that's only if you are serious about collecting stuff. Nothing to do with music.

>(I mean absolutely no offense, but it sounds like it's just a hobby to you.)

Professional electronic musicians, absolutely passionate about music, have used 808 sounds in ROMpler and/or analogue emulation audio plugin form for ages.

Collecting pieces of history, even musical history, has nothing to do with being "serious about music" as a musician.
Which part of the law do you think requires Google to do this?

(Hint: the answer is there is no such part.)
Yes, I can do registrations. I did not include the registration on there for the simple fact that I didn't want users to abuse the registration form.
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This is one reason I'm always surprised people buy anything other than a Nexus device. You have a new phone, and it's running an OS that's already a year old.
The problem with that is that it's unsustainable. How many ie. Ben Adams would this work with, ben@adams.me? 1. Now Ben Adams owns `adams.me` and has no incentive or mechanism to offer his domain to the million other people with his last name.
The CR-48 chromebooks weren't for sale; Google gave them away.
I remember the first time when I worked on multithreaded C++ project. I allocated a structure on the stack and passed its address to a queue which was received by another thread and the inevitable segfault happened. My mistake provided a lot of laughs for the entire team.

Also see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8468210/stack-vs-heap-c
I'd extend this statement and say that the Moto G puts every single cheap phone to shame. Not just Android. It becomes very hard to justify a Lumia at $400 or an iPhone 4S at a ludicrous $450 when we have a flagship Nexus at $350 and now the Moto G at $179.

Combine that with the defiant cries against consumerism and wastefulness with Project Ara, and Google has really raised the bar by quite a bit for what a mobile phone OEM is capable of. It will be interesting to see what happens 3, 4 years down the line when the market fully resaturates with more price-friendly and DIY-friendly phones.
It suits Hacker News to believe that the government is causing Google to disable accounts, even though that is not true.
The law goes a lot further than that, the law prevents Google from marketing to children, so it would have to disable ALL of its marketing and tracking programs for children's accounts. It is reasonable for Google to scuttle the account instead, these services are not intended for children.
Because it says in the article that several of their businesses are producing lots of cash, just not growing.

This is not to defend the business, I have no interest in doing so, but the ONLY thing about this that is even reasonably a cautionary tale is building a business that has no intrinsic value to anyone. Those businesses have little chance, but that's the point they're making when they declare it a cautionary tale.
Exactly. I was a fan; now... not as much.
The Einstein quotes are rather apt. There was a famous disagreement between some well known physicists about what quantum entanglement meant for the principle of locality. The argument that you explain above is the same as that used by some of the brightest minds in physics in the 1930s, including Einstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr-Einstein_debates#The_argum...

It was a hotly debated topic for several decades. Until 1964 we weren't even sure we could ever resolve it, then a fellow named John Bell published a testable theorem showing a divergence between quantum mechanics and the classical explanation you have above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem). In 1972, the first successful experiment of this theorem was performed, and incredibly, it showed entanglement is in fact more complicated than can be explained with classical mechanics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments. The experiments have been repeated and refined over the years and little by little, the once common theory of local variables is now almost completely dead.
* they're committed to give away 55 billion XRP to non-profits, users and business partners for the foreseeable future: https://ripple.com/ripple_primer.pdf

'Committed' Heh.

I guess Ripple is a religion, because you've got to have ulterior motives or faith in demons..

Enough said. It's a friggin' scam. Enjoy that free XRP that OpenCoin started you off with, like a baby nursing on a milk bag.
It is a word. Whingingly is a word too.
It's not just about job requirements. A lot of countries require, at a minimum, a Bachelor's degree in order to get a work permit.
This. eHow has 3.1 million results listed in Google. Stackoverflow has 6.7 million results listed (6.2 million questions per their site). Stack's traffic of course just keeps growing.

Pretty weak article overall.
I treat complaints from content farms that produce low-quality content kind of like I treat complaints from real farms that produce low-quality food. People will stop buying your stuff because they know it's worse than competing offerings, so don't blame Google for giving you less prominent placement on the homepage, and don't blame the grocery store for giving you less prominent placement on the shelf.
That's not correct. More likely, they were too lazy to be COPA compliant.
I guess the question then becomes: can the cancer cell population in a single patient evolve fast enough to evade the newly improved immune system, before it gets killed off completely?
It isn't a belief. Even if Google obtained parental consent by law it still can't market to children-- since Google's services are a giant marketing engine, it is reasonable for them to disable children's accounts.
Of course they are. I question their relevance when it comes to considering "liveable" situations, though. Eventually, this becomes akin to thinking someone should stay in an abusive relationship because at least they have that option.
This line of thought made me think of utility of the monopoly on the ownership of the patent vs the utility of the monopoly on the exploitation of the patent. This is a distinction that I don't think is often considered, perhaps because "ownership" of something, at least in the US, has do-whatever-it-is-that-I-want-with-it, including the option of not doing anything, cultural aspect.

That is, should the quid pro quo of being granted the limited monopoly require the grantee to still provide for the public good by actually doing something with it, rather than just sitting on it or attempting to exploit those who are doing something with it?

So, the public grants you a monopoly on the exploitation of the invention for a limited time in exchange for making the invention public. But purely attacking the public, using the patent as a bat to beat others with, is not part of this exchange because the patent itself is not the invention. Really, shit-or-get-off-the-pot of patent granting.

In exchange for publicizing the invention, you get a limited monopoly on the exploitation of the invention, not on the exploitation of the patent.
It's a good idea to even out uphill and downhill sections of cycling, so that you can cycle around, in places which are not completely flat, without arriving where you want to go covered in sweat. And the concept of the casing staying static, while only internal sections spin with the wheel, sounds interesting. The problem for mass adoption is cost.
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Bitmessage is not mobile practical due to the hash cash requirements, unless you have a main 'mail' server and use the mobile client as a thin client.
COPPA compliance includes no marketing to children, even with parental consent. So they'd have to operate a completely different platform for children. Plus their business model is based on marketing, so they'd take a huge loss operating a second platform for kids. It is stupid to expect Google to accommodate children.
Unless Google is trying to build a business that these children will come to rely on once they get older.

At Google's scale, I think it definitely makes sense to put the extra engineering effort in to comply with the law while the kid is too young.

On the other hand, I'd probably sign up as a 5 year old if it meant Google would collect less information from me and show fewer ads. Paid account?
Sure, but don't you have control over your role? Maybe not in the short term, but in the long term you can take steps to move into a role or job where you have bigger free blocks of time. You just have to decide if that's what you value over, say, money, prestige, etc.

Paul Graham wrote a nice essay where he mentioned that "prestige" is basically a way to get people to do shitty work.

What I'm saying doesn't really work for managers or leaders, because your job boils down to talking to people, and e-mail is a big part of that. But it works really well for programmers.
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Show me any evidence that college educated people, in particular, are having trouble finding employment. These numbers look extremely favorable http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm.
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