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India has a lot of thorium; this is a natural step for them. The reactor itself looks decent technically; they've got experience building and operating similar reactors, and it'll produce a lot less waste than the light water reactors that most of the world is using. The 300 MWe size should be easier to finance than the usual gigawatt behemoths. The passive safety features are nice. I'm afraid I can't get too excited about it, but it's a pretty good-looking reactor.

The maddening thing, though, is that they haven't been too forthcoming yet on how they're going to keep the costs down. How much will one of these things cost? How long will it take to build? I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it turns out.
What about after the airlines were deregulated? Didn't we get great prices and service from lots of newcomers? Would you rather we go back to airline regulation?
That'd be better for the employees and customers, for sure. If it's a big corporation (maybe Microsoft), then it'd cause a fair bit of turbulence if they're deactivated for a few years.
This guy seems so sure that I bet he's wrong.
I didn't vote on your comment - your fail claim I would have downvoted, but I loved your link. Maybe you should have commented them separately if you wanted better feedback.
A corollary is that this may make ___ over HTTP more popular.
Umm, both flex and bison can be either reentrant or not, and the default for both is "not reentrant". You need to specify '%option reentrant' in your flex scanner, and '%define api.pure' in your bison parser. The signature changes, naturally - yylex takes pointers to yylval and yylloc that it's supposed to fill in. It's not terribly complicated, but the documentation for it sucks.

I've got both my flex lexer and bison parser wrapped in a C++ class, which parses string input, handles all memory management by itself, and hides all the other implementation details from the outside world. I didn't use the built-in C++ wrappers, which suck, but it wasn't hard to throw a few C data structures inside a C++ class and call a few C functions from C++ methods.
The point I was making was about beauty of design, not on the technology, which is where I think the Beetle/jet combo fails, and the handmade, beautifully crafted bicycle/pulse jet excels.

Although you could propose that the Beetle follows the Corbusian 'form follows function' ethos, the end result taking it's shape from it's purpose so elegantly illustrated by the original Beetle itself, strapping a whopping great jet to it does not.

The bicycle on the other hand, has obviously been lovingly crafted to be an aesthetic whole, even though two disparate technologies have been employed - therefore = win.

You could of course argue that Corbusier didn't follow his own ethos and 'fie rules' either though.

I actually think that the Beetle/jet combination is a very appropriate metaphor for many types of technology we use.

"Here's thing A, which only does X, if we add thing B to it, it now does XYZ, just not very efficiently, and it looks awful"
Building a cell simulator -- a biological, in-your-tissues cell, where the lowest simulated elements are exons (E), introns (I), expressed exons (Ee) and protein domains (PD), with cube-wise compartmentalization of membranes and intracellular space which contain chains of E+I, Ee, and PDs, and concentration functions for microelements like phosphates.

I wrote it in C++ and when launched with very downsized dimensions, it ate up 6 Gb of RAM and crashed with out of memory. I may try again when I can afford several hundred Gb of RAM.
Just like there is value in casinos. People are playing billions, it must be making their lives better.
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It's OO Calc, not "Excel".
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Most airlines have a separate fare class for upgrades like this. For domestic flights on AA, for example, the fare class is "X". So you can use any tool that shows you fare inventory (like ExpertFlyer) to check this.

And of course, your chances of upgrading are greatly improved if you have status on the airline. This is very easy to get. (AA is doing a double EQM promotion right now, which means one transpacific flight gets you Gold status. With this, you check a box when making your reservation, and if there is availability in the next class of service, you are automatically upgraded 24 hours before the flight. Much better than gambling on the rare "LFBU" kiosk upgrade.)

Anyway, statistics are nice, but it's pretty easy to ensure you get the upgrade. I fly about 50k miles a year, and have only missed one segment in the last two years. (And that was my fault; I checked in without enough "upgrade stickers" and was removed from the upgrade list. I got back on about an hour before the flight, and missed the upgrade by one spot. Oh well :) I have also been upgraded for free on a variety of generally non-upgradeable segments this year, too. A very nice undocumented bonus of having status.
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"Outlier" just means it's a statistical oddity; anything can become an outlier, sometimes very quickly, if things change the right way.
Clearly the FTC does not care that Cisco and AT&T have colluded to prevent me from modifying it.

How do you figure they 'clearly' don't care? Isn't it just that nobody is making enough of a fuss about it for them to do anything about it?
Typically your inbound rate is capped by the ability of your software to process the incoming data.

For the most part that's roughly comparable to how hard it would be to generate that much data, parsing and datamining are probably a little bit more cpu intensive than generating data. So if typically you find that you can push 300 Mbit out of a box you can expect to get around that much inbound or a bit less, depending on your application.
It's not benign or helpful when it drives, or excuses, attacks on successful companies.
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that InfoQ interviewed a team of really smart guys doing exciting and challenging (and computationally intensive) data analysis on a sparkly new-ish cloud host that's supposedly doing great things for scalability, and wasted so much time talking about HTML5 and mobile web UI? Aren't there a million web designers out there they can interview instead, or am I just missing something?

I know they had a "Part 1" (which my computer is utterly failing to access right now or I'd verify the following), but from what I remember, it was about how they use Clojure, and there's an entire scalability angle to get that I'd rather hear.
Actually it's not about saying "fuck you to everyone who still has to work for a living". It's about saying FUCK YOU to the bosses who tell people what to do; and who doesn't want to say THAT, at least occasionally?
This brought up some traumatic memories from very long ago.

To make a long story short, such a key would have come in fairly handy at some point in my life (only we didn't have 3D printers then).

The longer story:

In Amsterdam, in the early 70's they were building a subway. This led to all kinds of bad feeling between the people and the municipal government culminating in riots on the 'Nieuwmarkt' where a bunch of houses would have to be torn down.

My dad was there when it happened and spotted a police issue pair of handcuffs on the ground after the melee.

He picked them up and took them home as a 'souvenir'. A little while later he had to go on a trip and an uncle came to look after us.

I found the handcuffs and tried them on my one hand first 'crrrrclick', ok, that was fun. Then - of course - the other arm. I showed my uncle who thought it was funny but told me to take them off.

Slight problem, they were on pretty solid, I'd pushed the ratchets as far as they would go. Now panic set in, causing my wrists to swell. My uncle freaked out too, searched everywhere for a key (which wasn't there) and finally had to call the police to get me 'liberated'.

They were definitely not pleased and after releasing me took their handcuffs with them and issued a fairly stern warning and had my dad report to the station for another lecture upon his return.
But to get back to the conversation that prompted this thought, the same thing could be done with a .dmg; instead of requesting to move itself when a program finds itself unzipped in ~/Downloads, a program could prompt to copy itself to the Applications folder and relaunch from there if it finds itself running from within its disk image. To imagine the dialog, the buttons would be "Copy" (default), "Copy, then Eject and Trash this Image" (for convenience), and "Run from Here" (or perhaps not—there's no really good reason to include it.) You don't have to include the decision between "Copy and Run" or "Just Copy" because the program is already "running" (from the user's perspective); they double-clicked it, didn't they?

But because they see the program as "running" from inside the image, they might try to launch the program again from within the .dmg after it had already been copied (if they didn't choose the Trash Image option.) Thus, the program should probably check for a copy of itself in /Applications and exec(3) it if it exists and is the same version, to avoid the lag of re-installing on every start. Though, since you want to kindly escort the users away from the .dmg, it might be better to present another dialog with the options "Run from /Applications" and "Copy Again" (to overwrite the old app—in case of a bad install or somesuch), giving them a small speedbump and a hint about where to find their app. The we-already-did-this dialog could even offer to automatically add an alias of the app to the Desktop or the Dock, "so you won't have to see this again."
Very good coverage of the thorium fuel cycle and associated reactor technology is to be found at
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Owning your own company doesn't make you the boss; it means you have a lot more bosses, your customers. The advantage of working for yourself or your own company is that there is no ONE boss who can fire you. The disadvantage is having to deal with many more, if individually weaker, bosses.
You know, labor is not the only cost factor. Go take Econ 101 and come back when you have something intelligent to say. Thanks.
I wrote it. I deleted it, not because I disagreed with what I wrote, and certainly not because I wanted to "game the karma system" (could anything be more asinine?), but because when I took a step back and looked it over, it wasn't a tone I really cared to strike and it didn't seem likely to lead to a good discussion.

I often use HN in this way. Something bothers or puzzles me, I don't know what it is, so I write about it until it's out of my system. On rare occasions, I then delete it.

Google indexed it, so perhaps my "flawed viewpoint" can be brought back from cache someday for that "brutal down modding".

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gruseom+hickey+pret...

Obviously I wouldn't have deleted my comment if I had seen yours.
ok then: any art :P

The idea was to make a reusable FOSS engine then build some commercial games on it :) the market is quite competitive, good graphics is becoming quite important.
There is also a third player on the web which is non-businesses. Now, you may argue that there is no place for non commercial entities, and this may very well be a valid argument, but there is also an argument for the web being a place where data can flow without discrimination regardless of the capital behind it.
Although I can't see the original comment anymore, I can imagine it: I was probably thinking along the same lines. Let me try to explain thoughts of the 'hand-waving and pseudo-philosophical' kind:

The main problem with Hickey's presentation is that it is unclear how well he actually understands the philosophy he cites and especially how thoroughly he investigated the alternatives to that philosophy. He presents a single view and doesn't debate it, while it warrants a book of its own.

Something you can see clearly in students of philosophy, psychology and those 'softer' subjects, where multiple truths seem to exist, is that they tend to change opinions and general outlook along with what they learned last. The last thing they read made an impression and it is the first thing on their mind. This lasts until they reach the point of enlightenment, where they notice this fact and start to integrate their knowledge. But not everybody reaches that point, by having studied enough philosophy.

Now you can be a world class physicist or computer scientist: that doesn't make you a good philosopher. In fact, great scientists have been known to espouse some pretty strange philosophies, whose implications they obviously didn't fully grasp. In light of that, Hickey's talk brings to mind the crackpots waving Kuhn's 'paradigm shift' around, without actually understanding it.

It is also unclear how relevant the philosophical grounding is for the actual contents of his talk. If he left all the Whitehead quotes out, wouldn't it be a better presentation? If so, then he's guilty of basically an argument-by-authority: trying to prove his notions about time in programming are good, because he can call upon someone of the stature of Whitehead. I'm not convinced that isn't the case here, although I'm sure it was not the intent.

I think all this 'philo-babble' detracts from the actual point he is trying to make. You're bound to get into endless debates about Whiteheads notion of time and such, while losing sight of the fact that Hickey makes a few practical points that most people probably agree on. A thorough analysis of time in object oriented programming does not need to be a full fledged philosophy and it definitely seems like hubris to present it as such. Hickey should stick to what he knows best and perhaps give some pointers as to philosophies supporting him, instead of making that his main point.
I suspect it's more from their not being able to manage the money. One thing getting your money by working, saving, investing, creating your own company does teach is how to manage money.
I will see the shirt offer and raise him one shirt. Any Google employee who forwards me confidential and highly important legal documents, and thus risking immediate firing if not a lawsuit of their own, will get not one, but two t-shirts! All the way from Italy!

Sheez...
Haha if only you'd read this - http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/introduction.html
That might show that idioms from C got into your english, not the other way round:

"For every cookie in the jar; I ate that cookie" vs. "I ate all the cookies from the cookie jar" vs. "The cookie jar is empty"

(the last one assumes that the cookie jar was type-safe and contained nothing but cookies)
Your kind of assuming that Google would want the FCC investigation to conclude and effectively force Apple into accepting Voice.

But perhaps they would prefer for Apple to just get so uncomfortable over the poking around they accept Voice off bat in an attempt to take the heat off.

Which means Google have that rejection letter as big guns at any later stage.

Yes Google have to give it to the FCC if they ask for it - but if they don't ask (I am not 100% sure of the rules here) they don't have to mention it or do more than vaguely hint at it's existence.

Right?
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Today it is hard to see all the members of the family staying in the same city or in the same country at times. Most of our friends with whom we grew up settle in different cities. There are number of reasons why people have to leave their hometown and settle in a different city. Some of us move to a different city to find a new job while others move for education reasons.
Well, you can write your own guideline on how to prototype a language in SML, post it to NH, and profit.

Now we don't see your guideline but do see Flex/Bison/LLVM one.
That's exactly what happened when procariotes evolved to eucariotes and dropped RNA in favour of DNA for storing genetic information which is much more stable so mutatuons are much more rare (our body still uses RNA just not for genetic information)
I'm guessing many people are interested in the whole PDF package. Can you perhaps put it online somewhere?
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This isn't so weird or crazy and might even be useful! Have followed and will see how I go.
http://blog.whatwg.org/this-week-in-html5-episode-35 states:

"Adrian Bateman did what no man or woman had ever done before: he gave substantive feedback on the current editor's draft of HTML5 on behalf of Microsoft."

OK, so apparently I misread that. Does that justify a -1 down mod?
Do you actually use it much? Do you have to open documents written by others, in MS Office?

I work for a small engineering and instrument making company. I suggested trying OpenOffice in a company, it was carefully considered and rejected, and there are reasons for it:

1. Some of the documents we get from partners who write them in MS Word just don't open right. The company can't afford this, period.

2. OpenOffice Calc doesn't have compound filtering, like MS Excel. I.e. you filter column by one parameter, then by another. In Excel it is compound filtering: you select list of parts that satisfies the condition1 AND condition2, in OpenOffice Calc the condition2 just replaces the condition1. Maybe it's even more _right_, maybe the behaviour of MS Office is just a gimmick - I don't know, but the fact is that a guy who manages inventory of parts in our company came to depend on the functionality of MS Office and making switch is just impractical.

The version of OpenOffice was 2.4 back then, but I have no reason to expect that those issues have been fixed since. OpenOffice is a nice project and helluva work, and open source is cool, but there are reasons why not everyone can use it.
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A neat idea, AI rules applied to UI design. But some the suggested costs are a bit harsh. Of course these are just suggestions.
I'm looking for this to be applied on our daily UI's and compare them.
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The "private beta" approach seems like a great idea for sites that require or encourage a form of registration. I'm glad it's working out for you Travis. My problem is that my app is more casual than that--registration is maybe a phase 2 or 3 feature for me, the site is more of an information resource and I don't want to ask visitors to register for that up front.

I like the idea of a "sneak peek" splash page, as vyrotek suggests. It's a good alternative to "private beta" for registration-free sites. But I'm expecting visitors not to enter the site via the homepage but by one of the informational pages (discovered via Google, etc.), which means most visitors won't be coming through the front door. Still, I think this might be a good approach if I can figure out how to present it.
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Yeah, go for it...
Tom Chilton was a guildmate in UO. Great guy. It's cool to see him doing well.
Then I assume you believe corporations should be immediately stripped of all media outlets like the NYT, WSJ, WaPo, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and so on? Otherwise, you are just saying some corporations should have first amendment rights (those that own presses) and others shouldn't.
Come on dude that must have been cool.My opinion sell the story at Hollywood they need just such a thing to stitch together another Computer-brings-doomsday movie. I don't care how big budgeted these movies are but they always are a good laugh.
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TechCrunch itself points out the primary fallacy of TC50 in the first place:

"One of the best things about TechCrunch50 is not what happens on stage, but what happens before companies even get there. Startups that don’t even have a working demo or a product are forced to build one just to be considered."
(http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/17/techcrunch50-wrap-up-co...)

While I'm sure - and have seen, via the videos - many of the startups at the conference were thoroughly worked upon, the rush to present at TC50 doubtlessly hindered the quality of many of the presentations. Issues like "distribution and cost of sale," as Marc Andreessen noted, shouldn't be questions that a serious startup would stumble over...
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The post on 37signals the linked post refers to is discussed on HN directly at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=829502 with over 190 comments currently.
Your tone isn't doing you any favours but you actually make a good point.

I was tempted to argue that providing "value to society" is always good but what you really mean to say is not that passion leads to "value" (there's no guarantee of that) but that passion leads to the motivation to act and the desire to have an effect somehow. Whether that will be good or bad is unknown, often irrespective of intentions, and can only be evaluated through value-judgement.

If that's your belief, currently, I can't fault it.
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Can TUNIX be used as a guide for writing an operating system ?
Dear friends,
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Tunix:

Tunix is a small linux distribution/toolkit, intended to teach and show how to gather opensource projects, what parts are needed, what methods can be employed and as a result, have a bootable linux distribution which fits in a single disk or CF card.

Tunix is a set of tools used to generate small bootable Linux images. It can be used to learn how to roll your own distribution, or to port embedded systems. The basic release uses busybox and has a kernel with netfilter-enabled modules. A uclibc iptables binary is included, so you can roll your small firewall from a floppy.

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