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Those technologies all have unknown unknowns.

If we generate power some people are going to get hurt no matter which technology you pick. If we don't generate power some people are going to get hurt because we don't have access to the power necessary extend their lives.

Nuclear, hydroelectricity and wind have pretty much the best deaths per MWH, solar happens to be worse than nuclear.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-ener...
You're wrong on both counts. We don't know the full effects of Fukushima yet (it's not over, and cancers caused may take much longer to show).
Renewable is up there with nuclear for base load generation if one is not dumb about it, and it can be spooled up faster than nuclear because it doesn't depend on heat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
Somewhat vitally, there's a certain amount of unease for a danger we can't sense and can't see. Nuclear power is scary for that reason, it doesn't matter if it's irrational or unfounded, the thought of being killed by an invisible foe is pretty universally terrifying.

I'd much rather see wind, tidal or geothermal anyway. In the scheme of things they have lower regulatory hurdles and can even be tinkered with in your back yard for the former. One of the houses I walk past on my way home has a wind turbine made out of a washing machine motor and PVC pipe, it's extremely cool to watch.
Why? Because it doesn't work.

Nuclear is—even counting all the accidents—the safest and one of the greenest forms of energy we know of. Geothermal is hugely limited; wind is flaky, limited, and bad for the environment; solar is promising and getting economical, but it's still faced major practical and safety challenges.

> I have [...] no idea what the ramifications of the Fukushima disaster is on me now and in the future, as somebody living in the west coast of the USA.

None. Zero. Absolutely no impact or ramifications whatsoever. And that you'd even feel like that was in question is a crushing indictment of our sensationalist media.
Thanks for the heads up, this is pretty cool. Never thought about how a map of the entire earth would have changes approved or denied beyond open street map's wikipedia-style editing and re-editing.

I opened an issue on the map maker tracker based on this HN thread at https://code.google.com/p/google-mapmaker/issues/detail?id=5... ... I'm extremely impressed by the processes I see in Map Maker. It's obvious they've thought through a lot of how people might abuse or get features incorrect.

So the bug might be outside their control, but I'd argue that end users of Google Maps should be aware of newly added features and their source, if Map Maker. Could have avoided this whole posting on HN if that were the case.
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You might be interested in this project I worked on https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg it's end to end encryption, there's no settable timeout but there is a delete command so something like what you're saying might be possible.

I've already posted below but wanted to share this with you incase you're interested.
My vesting schedule is quarterly, at least for most of it. It wouldn't be a big deal to stick around an extra month or two to wait for that, if that was how I felt.
Yup, the funny thing about coal is even from radioactivity perspective it's worse than nuclear.
Coal power plants supposedly put more radiation into the surrounding environment than a nuclear plant per unit of energy produced.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-r...
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This is the easy way to get energia. Ok, We have seen that in Canada they use the dams, but we know that this harms the environment (for salmon).
Here we really need to do research for alternative energy, do not think only about money and earnings, but think about the future. Otherwise we risk in 2050 to find the first deserts created by humans because of global warming.
The artist isn't an artist at all actually. It's Mike Bostock, the creator of D3, and it's a couple of visualizations he's posted here[0]. So it's not like these are being sold, or even really distributed as art in the first place.

[0] - http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock
It's always nice to see just how far people have taken the C64's extremely limited hardware; one thing that's surprising to many is that the floppy drive contains a CPU identical to the one in the main unit.

The rest of his site is very interesting too - I think some of his other articles have made it onto HN before. I like that he has a series of articles on obfuscated programming:

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/obfuscation.php

...and below that, another series titled "sane programming":

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/index.php

His demos are worth watching too.
As opposed to 45 or 50, considering the sheer volume of incredibly thoroughly researched content he produced, for 17 years. Anand was writing better articles at 17 than almost anyone could at 32. Some people's careers don't even really start until they're 32 or older.
Germany responded to Fukushima by shutting down their nuclear power plants, and using more coal. In fact, they've embarked on a program of building new coal plants across Germany, which is madness by basically any metric you care to use.

Which has an interesting outcome: The irrational response to Fukushima (in particular, the shift from nuclear to coal generation) will undoubtedly kill several orders of magnitude more people than the actual Fukushima disaster did.

Sometimes it's hard not to get cynical and bitter.
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You might be interested in this client side encryption I worked on if you're looking for something like this https://github.com/abemassry/wsend-gpg it is a command line app though, I couldn't get it to work in the browser.
>...than a doctor weighing in on your position...

As smart as they are, the doctors are most clueless regarding the moral issues involved. There is another MD in this thread claiming the essence of medicine is service to others but I think 5 minutes of thought can dismiss that non-sense, even from a doctor.

> It'd seem that you suffer from all-or-nothing, black-and-white thinking --

I don't consider this a flaw in my position. Its called Aristotelian logic either/or, maybe you have heard of it. There is no gray in reality it is in your head.

> that when confronted with tension between two ideals you don't know what to do except pick a single winner and declare that any attempt to balance tension between the two as an unacceptable compromise against the value you've judged higher.

Name those ideals, please. If you boil it down it is not a conflict between two good principle or ideals (this does happen but not in this case) but between a bad one and a good one. Are the doctors free to withdraw their service? Its a simple question. If you believe that medical service is a right doesn't that mean that medical service is an obligation of the doctors to provide? Who, other than a slave, has an obligation to provide service? If you force the doctors to follow the Code of Federal Regulations and limit their salaries are they still really doctors in the proper meaning or are they bureaucrats? Do the good doctors stay under such a system or do they move on? Don't be fooled by nomenclature.

> Finally (and perhaps most specifically and pertinently), while I'd be willing to believe that you may be familiar with the regulatory aspects that directly affect your professional life (and invite you to express your confidence about this by drawing attention to the specific market vacuum you've left behind in case someone else doesn't share your opinion), your summary doesn't seem to me to be a particularly accurate description of the state of values/laws when it comes to health care in the US.

AMA good enough for you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8248017

HIPPA is Coming!, HIPPA is Coming!, HIPPA is Coming!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8247991
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8248417
You have been warned.

> People do sometimes speak of the struggle many face for access to health care in terms of rights.

Words have real meaning and aren't rubber terms to justify anything people need or want. So where do you draw the line? You and I need food, is that a right too? Your concepts are so confused that I doubt you could even answer that without equivocating and hedging your position but that is a serious question. Every argument you made for health care being a right applies more so to food. So tell me what is different between food and healthcare, shall we enslave the farmers now too? And what about electricity or the internet? I have heard people argue that these are rights too and based on your soft thinking you have no argument against them. If you were consistent, as in my black and white world, you would have to join the hoards demanding these "rights" -- provided by whom?
Geothermal is available all the time. I'd like to read about what kind of difficulties they're experiencing directing power. Maybe it's a political problem, not a physical one.
But who just moves text around? Work frequently requires the use of Hangouts, Skype, GoToMeeting, Dropbox, etc. If you have to work through a VPN, the latency added by poor service is a serious drain on productivity.
Thanks for putting this together, always interesting to see people use React for the first time! I did a code review of sorts and cleaned up the code to be more idiomatic React. You can find the series of commits with in-depth comments on GitHub [1]. I may even write this up as a blog post on my website [2].

In short:

- Don't pass around components and call methods on them; prefer to pass props instead

- Conditional rendering instead of hiding, exactly as [3]

- Use the JSX harmony transforms

- Declare props

- Use classSet

- setState only needs to include props that change, rest stay the same

[1] https://github.com/ianobermiller/reactexperiment/commits/

[2] http://ianobermiller.com

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8247422
Hi rrtwo -

Please email me for the slides. I'm happy to share them.

- Derek
Yes, that's one of the reasons Guix attracts me as well.
By the way, it's interesting to note here that when it comes to directory structure POSIX is much less strict than FHS [0], which NixOS and Guix largely abandon.

[0] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_...
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Node.js web framework in 50 lines of code
Yama (https://github.com/smcmurray/yama) is a web framework built for Node's http server. It relies on middleware to do most of the interesting work, but even without middleware it provides a convenient wrapper for building RESTful Node web apps. Writing middleware is as simple as providing a node http request event handler.

Can 50 lines of javascript attract enough middleware to be interesting?
Please explain why you think solar could not meet global energy needs.
I concur. Besides NixOS is certainly more polished right now, at least for my definition of "polish" (I think, the right word for Scheme based Guix is "cohesive", maybe even "elegant"). It should be, being several years old, compared to Guix, which has been running on real hardware for mere weeks.
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Practically every sentence is wrong.

> Germany responded to Fukushima by shutting down their nuclear power plants

Germany did not do that. Some of the oldest were shutdown. Basically Germany went back to the original plan from 2000, which was made together with the industry. The last nuclear reactor will be shut down around 2022.

> In fact, they've embarked on a program of building new coal plants across Germany, which is madness by basically any metric you care to use.

Germany did not do that. Various coal power plants were planned long ago. Also many old were and are taken offline. That Germany is using coal is not actually madness. Germany has basically only one fossil fuel in larger quantities in the country: coal.

> Which has an interesting outcome: The irrational response to Fukushima (in particular, the shift from nuclear to coal generation) will undoubtedly kill several orders of magnitude more people than the actual Fukushima disaster did.

Germany is on a long missions towards renewable energy. Nuclear energy is not a part of the plan. Nuclear will be replaced early, since it is a very costly energy which needs decades to be replaced. So Germany wanted to stop investing into it very early.

There is no shift to coal. This year for example coal use is going down. What you think is a shift to coal, is just a temporary effect in a long-term plan.

> Sometimes it's hard not to get cynical and bitter.

If you would be better informed about German plans, you would not need to be cynical and bitter.
I think that software output can't be automatically copyrighted. Individual snippets of the copytext might be copyrighted though, if its of a non-trivial length (since it was written by somebody, instead of something).
> Geothermal is hugly limited

How? If you dig down you'll get heat. Wind power is bad for the environment? Solar has safety challenges? What?

> None. Zero. Absolutely no impact or ramifications whatsoever.

Clearly it has some impact, the question is how to measure it. Whatever the answer, zero isn't it.
The castle itself is pretty cool.

What I would be interested in are the numbers in terms of cost saving (when implemented at scale). The printer seems to replace some of the labour of building in say brick or wood, but of course the labor to build the walls is only one of the costs involved.

Consider the major cost areas; land, earthworks, foundations, structure materials, structure labour, windows and doors, plastering, plumbing, electrics, painting, bathrooms, kitchen, floors.

Clearly this optimizes one of the processes, and it may make construction timeless and if you like the finish you can avoid plastering etc, but given that you only save the labor, not the materials,I'm not sure what the eventual monetary saving would be.

Architecturally though it can do things your regular brickie probably can't do - curves for example - so that may end up being the true value of the printer.
> Putting patients first is the part that seems "right." That's not a coincidence, it's the job.

You claim a responsibility for the trust between the doctor-client relationship but with govt control of medicine its now a three-way and one of the parties is holding a gun to your head. You can't put your client first under govt controlled medical system. The doctors are very unhappy, as 2mur expressed "There is no chance I would do it again" and I have heard from many doctors. Following the regulations or the bureaucrats comes first and you know this because I have yet to hear of a doctor not complain about this.

Also, if you are British you should realize the Empire died a long time ago when they stopped calling the uncivilized peoples savages. Your embarrassment on my behalf is quaint but no longer necessary.
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> This is a false promise; a user still must trust the server.

How is this any different than trusting mozilla.org when you download Firefox? Unless you write the software yourself, you have to trust a server at some point. So I think what you meant to say was, "A user still must trust the server every time they load the program, which is different from only trusting it at install time".

To which my reply is, yes, they do. However, it's simply the best we can do right now while still making it user-friendly for this audience. What is your alternative proposal?

Apps like this are trying to address the root bug[1] using a go-where-the-people-are strategy. Tons of people use the web, therefore we should make apps that use the web. Asking them to change their behavior is incredibly difficult, especially when they don't see any tangible value out of changing.

So here's some questions for you:

1. What is your proposal to addressing the root bug[1]?

2. What will people's reactions be when you ask them to use your proposal?

Empathy for the user is one of the biggest things that I think most crypto projects are missing. These kinds of apps at least attempt to consider user adoption in their scope.

EDIT: The cool thing that this project does that I haven't seen before is just put the encryption password in the URL fragment. That way, it can be automatically read by the client javascript for decryption, but it will not be sent to the server as part of the request. Clever!

[1] - Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258
Hello,
I made this simple app to help me whenever I'm reading some journal article.
I always want to give a quick peek at some referenced article but searching google for the citation almost never gives me a link to the right article, and copying and pasting is always quicker than filling some database archive's search form.

I really like the regexp matching approach because is fast and doesn't need any database at all, the downside is that not all publishers' websites have meaningful urls :(

I choose Flask to make this because I am learning python for my work and Flask seemed to be really easy to make a one-page app like this, and indeed with very few lines of code and trips over to the documentation I was able to pull this off in the weekend.

Tell me what you think and feel free to suggest any improvement or addition, i would really like this to be useful for more people than the ones that live between the four astrophysics journals I implemented :)
That's fine, but the amount of reasonably accessible wind, tidal and geothermal power is far below global requirements.
The obstacles that nuclear power faces are formidable.

One is that two other carbon-free options, solar and wind, are dropping in cost at a rapid rate at the same time that cost estimates for new nuclear plants are rising at a similarly rapid rate.

Another is that there isn't anyone who thought their investment in the existing fleet of nuclear plants in the US was a good investment. They were uniformly bad investments, which is the primary reason for the 40 year gap with essentially no new plants ordered.

Furthermore, even completely amortized plants are shutting down in the US. They can't even cover their operating costs, the few that shut down in the last year, let alone operating cost plus amortized construction cost.

So even with the federal government guaranteeing 90% of the funds used for new plant construction (free money) it hasn't been easy to find investors willing to put up the remaining 10%.

Nuclear power is awesome, especially if it is fusion power, and the reactor is 90M miles away, and anyone can use it for free just by put an inexpensive fusion power receiving panel outside with a clear view of the sky.

One just needs to project what the wholesale price of PV power will be in 10 years to see the real reason it is difficult to find investors for new nuclear plants. Why spend $5B on a nuclear plant when you could spend it on five solar panel plants that each produce 1GW of solar panels, each year, creating substantially more jobs than the reactor would? Just asking.
I think everybody here is in agreement.
What were your difficulties with other storage?

S3 is as easy as:

s3cmd put FILE [FILE...] s3://BUCKET[/PREFIX]

Dropbox is automatic, just move a file to a local directory. They have CLI tools, though. If you want the public url, it's just:

$ ~/bin/dropbox.py puburl ~/Dropbox/Public/file.zip

If you don't want dropbox running all of the time, just use the 'start' and 'stop' arguments to dropbox.py.

References:
http://s3tools.org/usage

http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/using-the-officia...
> I'd like to be clear on this: you're telling me that I am not, in fact, autistic?

If you will point to where I said this, I will be very pleased.

As to what I did say, as a result of DSM-5 people with Asperger's diagnoses were folded into the autism category, but Asperger's was itself dropped and clinicians are advised to stop using the term. How you were able to interpret that as my saying you aren't autistic is beyond me.

But in point of fact, the Asperger's diagnosis rate has long been regarded as far ahead of reality, described as a "false epidemic" by Allen Frances, the editor of DSM-IV, so without a medical examination, no one can say whether or not you are autistic. Recent events prove that a psychological examination isn't good enough. Frances says:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dsm-5-will-lower...

Quote: "Only 45% of those who met any DSM IV diagnosis of autism (ie of Autistic Disorder; Asperger's; or Pervasive Developmental Disorder, not otherwise specified) met the more demanding standards of DSM 5."

The above means that less than half of those with autism spectrum diagnoses under the old DSM will still have a diagnosis under the new rules. Which means, statistically speaking and without ever having met you, you have only a 45% chance of still having an autism-spectrum diagnosis under the new rules.

There's your answer. Now imagine that you go to a doctor and he says, "Remember last week I said you had cancer? Since then some important doctors held a secret vote and the rules have changed -- now you only have 45% of last week's chance of having cancer."

That's not how medicine works, but it is how psychology works.
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As long as the nuclear waste problem isn't solved, nuclear power can't be the answer. Also the cost is very high, especially if you factor in risk/insurance and decommissioning.
It's a very confusing article, I must say. On the one hand it seems to imply Microsoft is defying the law on behalf of its customers. If that is the case MS is in contempt of court and presumably the board of directors and other executives could face criminal sanctions. However there's certainly no mention of that and in other parts of the article it sounds like this is just one more round in an ongoing legal case ...

> The removal of the suspension legally requires Microsoft to hand over the email immediately

vs

> The judge has now ordered both Microsoft and federal prosecutors to advise her how to proceed by next Friday, September 5

Paul Thurrott is of course a relentlessly pro-Microsoft writer, and I can't help but get the feeling he's trying to take advantage of strategic ambiguity to put out a positive story here. I will stay tuned to see if indeed there is some kind of punishment meted out to Miscrosoft - otherwise my assumption would be that this is much less of a story than it sounds.
Cool, thanks. Just listing, we have ticketing covered.