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I do think that what Fukushima shows is that when you have a nuclear power plant, you have the possibility of really big problems caused by natural disasters well above what you planned for. The questions are what you can plan for and what you do plan for?

Ideally we'd put nuclear reactors way away from all natural disasters, and design them to withstand magnitude 10 earthquakes, F-5 tornadoes, Category 5 hurricanes, and, say, bombing by massive conventional munitions during wartime. And we'd have perfect, guaranteed safe forever storage of waste. Practically, it isn't clear that this is possible.

I think the reality is: we need to make nuclear energy didn't work. TEPCO could't do it. Hopefully someone else can.

The question is, do we want these things to work until they don't? Or do we want them to be guaranteed to work no matter what happens? I am not sure the latter is possible.
It is problematic if you want to have millions of tcp connections serviced from the same host.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/8cXGTWGU...
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no, he's deliberately trying to downplay the issue, in addition to appearing underinformed. another blow for RSA's credibility, if they even have any left at this point
You appear to be confused. What's illegal is when you discriminate on a candidate based on factors that have nothing to do with their ability to cover the loan.

Denying a black man or a woman when you grant the loan to someone with the exact credit history otherwise, for example.

If a single woman makes enough to pay the mortgage, you shouldn't be denying her the loan based on your moralizing on her inability to survive without a man's wages.
I don't have data to back up my refutes, but on the surface those numbers don't add up.

In the US, state, counties, city and other local governments are struggling with their budgets. A police force with $400k in compensation per officer is way out of wack, and no way that tax payers would go for it.

At that level of compensation, that puts police officers in the wealthiest 1% of Americans.

I know here in Seattle (and the richer suburbs of Bellevue, Redmond, etc), it's a common complaint that police officers can't afford to live in the communities they protect.
Your admitted sense of self-loathing doesn't make you a particularly good candidate on how to behave properly.

If a woman doesn't value you, it's because of how you feel about them and not because you're not bulked up enough.
I assure you, it's in 4/4. I've transcribed and arranged this song myself. Also, that screenshot is from the official Amnesiac sheet music book.
I think he just likes Microsoft and the anti-MS circlejerk has been pretty strong lately.
It's not really that alarming. It has some deflationary effects (which Bitcoin was designed with anyway). Worst case, let's say all Bitcoins except .00000001 (1 Satoshi) have been destroyed. Well, no problem, we just make the base unit .00000000000000000001 Bitcoin or something.

As far as I know, the only reason 21,000,000*100,000,000 units was chosen was to fit comfortably in the 52-bit mantissa of a 64-bit IEEE 754 floating point number.

Edit: Apparently I just made that up... But it makes sense! Edit 2: Apparently some other devs believe this is the case as well.
I think you have to understand nuclear powered ships in the context of WWII history.

The critical loss for the Japanese navy was at Leyte Gulf, which was the largest naval battle in the Pacific during the war (and possibly the largest naval battle in history). The significance of the battle was that the Americans secured Phillipine Sea against Japanese shipping and this cut the Japanese off from the oil fields in Indonesia in terms of transporting oil back home. it was only after Leyte Gulf that organized kamikaze attacks began, and the Navy was largely put out of the war by that battle.

What that means is that Japan lost WWII when they lost access to oil. So the issue with naval ships is diesel or nuclear. About 1/3 of the US navy is nuclear-powered. The rest runs on diesel. Thats enough our navy (but not our air force, army etc) can continue to run if oil is not available for a time. Our military is still very dependent on oil but not like the Japanese were.
The song "Hey Ya!" by Outkast is in 11/4 time. There's no shortage of prog rock and prog metal in unusual time signatures but for a catchy hit song to have such a quirky rhythm was unusual.
Why I couldn't stop laughing..
This is an interesting issue. At what point will our descendants feel that they are different enough from us through natural or guided (by science) evolution?
Just questioning assumptions.

I am not hard-core in my opposition to nuclear power. However, I have serious doubts about its safety long-run.
Don't remember last time a company got really hurt by leaking their customers' emails, passwords or CC numbers. It's usually "oops, call your CC company and change your number, sorry" and then the news is old when another company gets the same treatment 2 days later.
> The Unix guys showed us the way out, by (a) inventing the first non-assembler language really suitable for systems programming, and (b) proving it by writing an operating system in it.

Not the first, see eg. Burroughs mainframes, early 60's.

JOVIAL was another language, used for systems programming on the militay side, predating C and proven.

Pascal was contemporary with C and UCSD p-System was released just 2 years later than Unix. It was also more portable and retargetable than Unix.
"What if it was phrased "whites in tech". Would you be okay with it?"

When Whites are an oppressed minority, sure.
This is an interesting article but the grammar is a little off.
Maybe he is under the illusion of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis in thinking that lack of punishment implies lack of wrongdoing.
great solution, now all I need is the problem.
Do people often use floats in their bitcoin code?
I didn't mean to imply it wasn't a huge difference. Just correcting someone from above..
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This is not the only or even the primary problem with MtGox. There are fundamental control shortcomings, among various tech problems.
Author here.

Any material that is placed in a textbook to inflate the page count and legitimize the $100+ price of the book.

Actually, the forces of bullshit are strongest in freshman calculus and physics texts; linear algebra books are much better on that front.
Doesn't work with my clang either but it does for me on Apple's LLVM GCC.
The more that I am wrapping my head around it, the more I realize this all may not be an accident.

My conspiracy theories side tells me this: imagine that you own a bank that is not guarded by any rules laws or regulations, that most money is deposited anonymously or semi-anonymously, and it is deposited in unmarked banknotes. And its worth $500k.

Now, fast forward to today and you keep keys to $400,000,000 vault. Only rules haven't changed. Now, given the overall complexity of bitcoins algorithm, the fact that mt gox is (afaik) not even registered in a country with solid laws, wouldn't you grab the money and "run", even though running means only pointing out there was a glitch in the system and filing for bankruptcy protection?

If any of this is true, then here is your (sad) reasoning why we need government oversight when it comes to dealing with someones property, being it even bits on someones hard drive.
The message was posted 2 hours ago, and now I'm downloading go-1.2.1 after a simple "brew update && brew upgrade". I love living in the future.
It's not exactly difficult to overshoot a window's close button. I don't run everything maximized; that would completely defeat the purpose of a large screen.
I agree. I am also working through this book and feel the same as you. I think also part of the problem maybe not being able to discuss this with other people. I'm trying very hard to get through it but I think I miss being able to discuss problems with other students in a traditional classroom setting. These sorts of discusses can really help clarify things rather than just staring at the page for a long time.
I'm not attempting to "refute" all pro-nuclear arguments. I'm just pointing out that we're not very good at predicting what might go wrong, so it's good to be modest about our reach.

(But yes, let's talk about straw-man arguments.)
This only works if you assume that every officer is nice, reasonable and believes strongly in upholding their duty to the public.

The sad fact of the matter is that a very large number of police officers are simply bullies in uniform. Asserting your rights to them, or acting "uppity," will only get you in trouble.
When the first thought that came into my head was "DO NOT WANT!", I can guarantee some advertiser somewhere is going to find a way to make this even more irritating than it currently is.

And everyone wonders why I'm still using as my main browser one that doesn't support CSS animations... and I do have blink and marquee filtered out.
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Not sure if my server will stay up. Here is the text:

Right now in ##mtgox-chat someone named nanashi____ claims to be speaking for a group of hackers who have gotten into Mt Gox in an attempt to figure out what happened. Nanashi says they have a DB dump and are looking at what to do with it. Nanashi gave these links:

A conversation in Japanese with Karpeles and a Banker (http://picosong.com/Y7di/)
Some Mt Gox Code (http://pastebin.com/W8B3CGiN)

Nanashi says the group plans on releasing more info. Nanashi also said they group plans on not releasing the huge store of passport scans they found… Hopefully this group has the public’s best interests at heart.
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(It appears to work only in Firefox.)
Ha! (and thanks!!)

... This is totally logical but I still would never answer it personally. I almost never answer questions that make me uncomfortable during a hiring process and have never been dinged for it AFAIK. I guess everyone has their own thresholds.
Great, we can now have Miley Cyrus twerking in pure CSS.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYcg1ot1iWs
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Hey! I was just reading about you guys. http://www.lamag.com/features/2014/2/26/downfall/print
I thought this post was going to ask... why are any of you looking for jobs? Isn't HN for entrepreneurs and founders? Is everyone else too scared to live in poverty until their ideas succeed?

That's what I think when I see "Who's Hiring" thread, but maybe I think differently.
climate change

In fairness to Rickover, though atmospheric greenhouse warming from human CO2 emissions was known in his time (the first published account of it I'm aware of came from the US Naval Research Lab in 1932, the tie between CO2 and greenhouse effects goes back further), I'm not aware of it being a significant general concern until the mid 1980s or so. Then again, Rickover was well aware of peak oil in the 1950s and could very well have been aware of the greenhouse gas / global warming issue, though I can't find any evidence of this.

Some prefer to describe the situation concerning energy and sustainability not as a "problem" (to which there is a solution), but a "predicament", to which there is an outcome, though not one which returns the system to the status quo ante.
It might not be clear, but that was posted well before they set up the call center.
I just saw this also in ##mtgox-chat.

What legitimized this was the fact there was a portion where MtGox connected to Eligius's servers to broadcast free transactions.

Eligius and MtGox had a partnership where MtGox provided free hosting for their pool in return for their acceptance of MtGox's transactions with no charge.
Sorry but this looks like a copy paste comment from around 1995, funny how some things never change.
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I wonder if in the case of a technological singularity would you be able to tell that the original species was human? That is to say if we're at the point that we are augmenting our brains to that degree will the difference between a human/dolphin/great ape brain as a base be dwarfed by the technological layers on top of it?

That's getting a bit speculative as a question though. It was more of a thought on how much/how little we might need to change to even constitute not being human.
Alas, all that fanciness presented in a website that is completely unusable below around 1024x768.
Everyone seems to agree this is bad -- and in the wrong hands, it definitely could be.

However, I can think of some great uses for it:

- Very similar to iPhone's "delete", which most people are familiar with. It means "Hey, I can be dragged"

- Could be good for refusing to do an action. Apple shakes the login box when you use the wrong password.

- A tiny notification icon could shake every few seconds to get someone's attention.

- Some logos (a car?) could look cool shaking for a second or two (either right away, or on hover).

- In tutorials, to show a button/element that the tutorial is talking about
I share your concern about drift, but in practice I've never seen it become a problem. On the other hand, blurry views really stick out. The easiest way to avoid them is to have a category method on UIView called something like "alignOrigin", in which you grab the value of "self.window.screen.scale" and make sure to snap both the x and y of the origin to be a multiple of the reciprocal of that scale. For example, if the scale is 1, you snap to integer bounds. If it's 2.0, you snap to multiples of 0.5. If you call that method every time you adjust the view's position (especially after manipulating "center"), that'll keep everything looking sharp at all times, and is future-proof against any new screen densities Apple might someday release.
On my work desktop and home laptop: Ubuntu. I just like Unity and I have got used to it now.

On our servers, we use CentOS though, so consequently, I keep a bunch of CentOS virtual machines for testing too. I think CentOS was chosen for our live servers because of it's stability.
Omfg JavaScript
Author here.

Thanks for all your comments!

This is the followup book from the No bullshit guide to math and physics and is written in the same style. I'm still doing some final touchups on the prerequisites chapters (Ch1 and Ch2) and I want to beef-up the Applications chapter, but the core material is done.

Several of my students asked to see the book---even unfinished---because they wanted to use it to study for their finals so I decided to make a pre-release. Once I finish the Applications chapter I'll create the print version and a nicer looking eBook (sans-serif). The current version is intended for easy printing at home of sections that you have to study for.

@Irishsteve thanks for posting! I am on a plane right now going to SF (tourism mostly, but if anyone wants to talk textbook business... hit me up) and I couldn't resist the $10 for 1h of internet time. I had a nice surprize when I checked HN!
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Mt. Gox Has Been Hacked by People Trying to Find Out What Happened?
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In case my server goes, here is the text:

Right now in ##mtgox-chat someone named nanashi____ claims to be speaking for a group of hackers who have gotten into Mt Gox in an attempt to figure out what happened. Nanashi says they have a DB dump and are looking at what to do with it. Nanashi gave these links:

A conversation in Japanese with Karpeles and a Banker (http://picosong.com/Y7di/)
Some Mt Gox Code (http://pastebin.com/W8B3CGiN)

Nanashi also posted personal information on those employed by Mt Gox including phone numbers and addresses. Nanashi says the group plans on releasing more info. Nanashi also said they group plans on not releasing the huge store of passport scans they found… Hopefully this group has the public’s best interests at heart.
Yes ,everything

..except automotive, agricultural, aviation, health and so on
basically anything that is even remotely critical is exempt.
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The MIT AI Lab itself never found its way to that new world. There’s a reason the Emacs text editor is the only software artifact of that culture that survives to us, and it had to be rewritten from the ground up on the way.

It didn't come from MIT, but TeX is certainly an artifact of the same academic hacker culture. Knuth originally wrote it at SAIL to run on the local OS, WAITS. It was rewritten in Pascal, not C, to be portable to the wide range of operating systems out there in 1980.

(I understand that GNU info is also a reimplementation of MIT AI Lab software, which explains a lot.)
E-mails and passwords are one thing, credit card numbers are quite another.

Firstly, you're going to get sued. Some law-firm is going to figure out you're a decent target, find someone aggrieved enough to be a lead plaintiff, and sue you. Maybe the law-suit is baseless, but you're still going to have deal with the expense and hassle of defending yourself. This is not cheap. The credit card issuers will come after you to reimburse them for fraudulent activity (because your merchant agreement almost certainly has a clause holding you liable should you be responsible for a data breach). Oh, and now the payment networks are insisting you provide a full PCI compliance audit, at your own significant expense.

And whilst the Targets of this world typically have indemnity insurance that covers this kind of thing, Joe Startup does not. So yes, the news cycle is brief, and maybe the PR damage is minimal, but that's not what's going to hurt you. What's going to hurt you is the pain and headache of wading through the legal and financial crap-storm that's coming your way.
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It's frustrating to use on mobile. Hard to move through each section. It kept jumping back to the top for me.
One thing to note–It's standard for everyone on a film set to sign a 'Deal Memo' which among other things expressly releases all creative rights(copyright) to any work you do on said project. While I agree with Google, there isn't a big risk to movie studios etc.
The magic ball says:

- It will be abused by ads, and annoying "CLICK HERE AND SUBSCRIBE TO MY SHITTY BLOG!" messages.

- If it ever gains popularity, all major pop-up/ad-block/no-script applications will add a couple lines to remove it.
It's hard to know just how much a breach does affect a company in each case, but I would say it is not nearly as simple as that.

If sensitive information like passwords (hashed or not) and credit card numbers are released, a company has to spend hundreds or thousands of man-hours dealing with the breach. They often are expected to pay for credit reporting/anti identify theft services for all affected customers, there are lots of legal requirements, customer relations has to go into overdrive, and if the company is a financial firm or must be PCI compliant then all of that may be amplified. Customers might even sue you, especially if there's evidence of some negligence.

Of course, they must also conduct an investigation of the breach, which for most companies involves hiring a contractor like Mandiant or Fidelis to determine how it happened, exactly what was taken, what the purpose was, etc. Was source code or other intellectual property stolen? Did the attacker leave very subtle backdoors? Could they try and attack us again later based on admin passwords or portals they found? Incident response service companies charge hefty fees for that kind of work.

Then they'll need to perform heavy security audits to ensure the hole, if there is a specific one, is patched. If it happened via spear phishing then lots of employee training will have to take place. If it was a server running some unpatched software then a vulnerability management program will have to be created (though any tech company should probably have one already). More money will end up being spent on security services and systems, security staff, and proper training.

All of that is still assuming the company's reputation and trust isn't damaged; in many cases it seriously is. Prospective customers may be reluctant to use the service and current customers may switch.

I imagine tptacek could give some more useful information here, as could any business owner who's dealt with a serious security breach.

From working in the security industry though, I can tell you that most business owners likely consider a breach on the level of leaking CC numbers to be a nightmare.
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Humans will most definitely be the cause of human extinction on planet Earth. I would put my money on Homo sapiens not making it another million years on the surface of the planet.
where do people get the idea that speaking multiple languages makes you intelligent. In a lot of third world countries almost everyone speaks 4 or 5 languages.
I would really like to know why Google is fighting so hard to keep this video up when they regularly remove anti-Judaism, anti-Israel, and other distasteful content under "hate speech" or other offensive content guidelines. You can't act like you're protecting freedom of speech when you remove videos offensive to some groups but not others, that just reeks of bias.

More importantly the sleazeball who made this movie lied to the actors involved about what kind of movie it was and abused their trust and left them fearing for their safety. There has to be a recourse that allows people like that to demand the performance be taken down since they were tricked. If someone tells you they need a clip of you saying a few lines for the local news and puts your content into a snuff film instead, you would want that video taken down too.