skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully there are lots of people here who feel like I do, that building nuclear plants is a great idea -- just, what kind of nuclear plant should we build?

1. You want to use government funding to build nuclear plants. My response: please look at previous government-funded nuclear operations of all types. It appears this doesn't work, from a failure to manage the environmental impact to a failure to keep the project cost-effective. This includes state-controlled energy companies, since nuclear power is a very tightly controlled business.

2. You want to use an unproven technology. My response: there are several well-proven nuclear options that are being developed by very promising companies. Please compare your technology with them. Some of the promising technologies are government-funded, however, which seems like a waste of a good idea.

3. You want to keep existing plants alive. This is nuanced. Some existing nuclear plants are necessary, but hopefully we can shut down the aging and dangerous and high-level-waste-producing ones in favor of cleaner alternatives. Doing so shouldn't necessarily cost a lot of money.

4. You want to reprocess existing nuclear waste and burn it to low-grade waste while generating clean electricity. My response: if you can show that you've cleared the regulatory hurdles (a lot of waste is held by governments) and if you're reasonably transparent about your progress, I'd like to give you a donation.
My guess is 5GB; the maximum size of a single S3 put.
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As other others have pointed out HIPPA is an old law. But what most people do not realize is that it has not been enforced (for 10 years?) because no bureaucracy had responsibility for enforcement. This has led to a high level of complacency regarding the seriousness of the HIPPA law. HIPPA now has an "owner" (i.e. enforcer) at the HHS in the Dept. of Civil Rights and they are spooling up to start cracking down and auditing and fining healthcare providers and their business associates. This process has already begun so things are about to change.

For years, under advice of my lawyer, I operated under a signed contract with all my healthcare customers that included a disclaimer that HIPPA was not my responsibility and I had no HIPPA responsibilities. Recent decisions by the DCR have ruled such disclaimers invalid and defined Business Associates as providers to healthcare providers that have access to PHI and thus to which the HIPPA regulations apply directly. My lawyer said he can no longer limit my liability or responsibility for HIPPA with a disclaimer and advised me to implement full HIPPA compliant policies, procedures and documentation or drop my healthcare customers.

Please feel free to ignore reality if you want to get blind-sided by this.
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Without TLS, absolutely anyone along the link (not just curl.io) can inject some BS into your command line if you choose to copy-paste.

If you don't trust curl.io, fine. But without TLS the list of people you need to trust is not only curl.io, but everyone else in the tubes too.
Yeah, there's no contention AT ALL up to the DSLAM. DSLAM is DSL Access Module. Every DSL customer has their own dedicated copper pair from the DSLAM to their house--- it's their phone line. There may be congestion between the Central Office where the DSLAM lives and the rest of the internet, but in practice that rarely happens. The big limit on DSL is getting reasonable speeds a mile down the line over ancient copper pairs that were never intended for the purpose. Don't people remember the old Cable vs. DSL commercials, where the DSL companies were showing cable customers furiously calling each other bandwidth hogs and telling them "log off!"
The people of the areas surrounding Fukushima and Chernobyl may beg to differ.

I'm not anti-nuclear, but the cost of a failure at a nuclear power plant is so high, that the engineering must be to similarly high standards. Unfortunately, as we have seen in the cases of 3-Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukishima, this is not the case. We need to really figure that part out before opting for this route.

And then there's the problem of nuclear waste disposal.
In Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and the Damned, the protagonist's father is fond, in later years, of attributing his business success to his lifelong religious devotion. The hero doubts it.

I have been temped in the past to equate this magnate character's conviction to PG's belief that it was Lisp which allowed Viaweb to do so well.

I do not disaprove of religion, functional programming, or psychedelics. But in the instances described, I tend to view them mostly as analogous to Dumbo's magic feather.
Off topic, but in Firefox 33, I get a scrollbar past the "bottom" of the page. Looks like it's due to the margin: 20px; on .fireplace. Setting it to margin:20px 20px 0px 20px; seems to fix it.
For the same reason I use Vagrant. I would like to hear why would anybody use Docker instead of Vagrant and vice versa?
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If you think of Transducers as

type Transducer a b =
forall r . (b -> r -> r) -> (a -> r -> r)

(And I'm not claiming this is correct) then you can reasonably easily show that this is isomorphic to (a -> [b])

forall r . (b -> r -> r) -> (a -> r -> r)
forall r . (r -> b -> r) -> (r -> a -> r)
a -> (forall r . (r -> b -> r) -> r -> r) [non-obvious, but true]
a -> [b]

This is "obviously" the Kleisli category for [] so you get rich, rich structure here. If you want to include local state such as what's needed to implement `take` then you can do something like

data Fold i o where
Fold :: (i -> x -> x) -> x -> (x -> o) -> Fold i o

type Transducer a b = forall r . Fold b r -> Fold a r

If you're familiar with pure profunctor lenses then I can tell you that Fold is a Profunctor and thus these can be acted on by a lot of generalized lens combinators. This explains a lot of the richness.
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So this shows them my file path?
Browsers normally do not submit file paths when uploading!
Privacy fail IMHO.
From what I've seen Transducers tend to use Clojure's ambient state mechanics to get local state to each "transduction step". If you want to do away with that then you can embed the state in a Fold (which is basically a Moore FSA) and then think of transducers as Fold transformers which aren't allowed to touch their output.
Don't confuse Fukishima with a nuclear disaster. Yes there was environmental contamination, but 10's of thousands of people were killed by a tsunami. Nuclear accidents aren't nearly that bad. What we need is more sea walls, not less nuclear plants.

Also it was of the type that melts down if the cooling water is lost. Other reactor designs (eg 3-mile island) need water to operate so they shut down automatically if there's any major breakdown.

Furthermore, coal is far more dangerous. We just don't care when thousands of Chinese coal miners die every year as much as we do when Japanese farmland is rendered unusable once in a lifetime.
That's a really good question. I'd love to hear the answer from a physicist in the know.

Assume you could overcome the uncertainty principle or observer effect and you could fully determine the initial conditions of the entire system. You knew the position and momentum of every atom. You knew the spin of every electron. Etc. Etc. Etc.

Doesn't the inherent nature of quantum mechanics say that it's still impossible to predict the state of that system at some future time? Interactions only occur probabilistically, and there is no way to predict them a priori.
SPJ is a fantastic author. All of his papers are recommended unilaterally.
Scientist transmits message into the mind of a colleague with brain waves
Additionally off topic, I'm confused as to why Cufon was used for custom fonts, when @font-face is so widely supported these days...
try elance you'd be surprised what you can get a full patent filed for.
What platform should I use for my website?
Maybe they also cater to the clientele which has less money but more free time (students? elderly?)
Or just yourself. As it really should be.
Novel. This is a project of Smore; which coincidentally does incredibly awesome design work with their products. This (ykombinator) is a good example.
Enjoyed playing with this - it would be neat to see a version where the company name and description matched up a little bit more and the description had a little bit more semblance of reality. No startup is going to talk about 'Pedobear' or '/b/' on its splash page.
To be fair, the most doom and gloom predictions (which are also disputed) basically amount to approximately a 7% increase in cancer risks as a result.

While that's obviously tragic, the WHO has far less pessimistic estimates, it's worth noting that some 15,000 people died just from the earthquake itself, and another couple thousand or so from exposure as a result of evacuating to nowhere.

More importantly though, if they hadn't been utterly and woefully incompetent on safety, would almost certainly have survived the earthquake without incident.
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Great idea but where I'd find value in something like this is for securely transferring files to people who, presumably, are somewhat clued. If I needed to do that, doing it without SSL seems counter productive (as has been pointed out). Additionally, while the four hour deletion is nifty, were I building this (could be a fun toy to hack together), I'd like a settable timer or download count. The comment about auto generating to URI path is spot on too. Sure, it would be nice to be able to choose but in many cases, a randomized path is ideal.

Again, cool toy and a fun idea but...

Too bad the code isn't available so I could hack it up a bit. I've saved this, in case bored and want to give it a try on my own some time.
Why don't we just build renewable energy that is abundant and doesn't require the unknown unknowns of nuclear energy? Geothermal, wind, solar?

I don't trust anybody with nuclear power. I don't know whether I should be eating fish from the pacific ocean. I have some idea how much cesium is in our ocean water because somebody is tracking it, but 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.
That would be playing with fire, though. The risk of one of these being funded is high enough as it stands.
Something I've always wondered with regard to idea generators like this: in the (extremely unlikely but non-zero probability) event that it actually generates a good idea and someone decides to implement it, throwing up a website with the same copytext that was output by the idea generator, who owns the copyright over the copytext?
I use cloudapp for sharing files and they have a convenient ruby gem for command line use: https://github.com/cloudapp/cloudapp.rb
Sure you do. A person has the right to defend themselves when assaulted, even if the assaulter happens to be wearing a shitty tin badge and carrying a gun and night-stick. We should not mistake the so-called "authority" of the State as having any legitimacy that can trump our innate rights, of which self-defense is about as fundamental as they get.
The cost of a nuclear power plant is pretty high, but not because of the dangers. Rather, the expensive part is inherent with all reactors, and has to do with how it is constructed. IIRC, Nuclear reactors need a few years to "warm up" before they begin producing power, so you basically have to pay people to work on (and in) the reactor all the while knowing that they won't be producing anything that can make you money. In short, a big reactor is a very expensive investment, but eventually it pays off.

I'd say 3 incidents in the almost 50 years of solid nuclear power usage is a pretty good track record. These incidents were also relatively "contained", that is, their meltdowns didn't trigger worldwide environmental catastrophe, or even a catastrophe inside their own countries.
Looked one up in two minutes.

Royal Dutch Shell gives a yield of 4.3%. http://ycharts.com/companies/RDS.B/dividend_yield

In 2010, it's yield was 6.5%.

It isn't inconceivable in 18 months time it'll be back near 6%.

It's all about timing.

I'm sure there are other high dividend stocks which are similarly non-risky, high yielding and produces a non-volatile source of income. 6% is on the high side, but isn't impossible.

You also don't have to look for USD denominated investments. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Australia's largest bank), gives a dividend yield of close to 5%.

https://www.commbank.com.au/about-us/shareholders/shareholde...

The share price had risen over 50% over the past 4 years so if you had bought it 4 years ago instead the yield would be much more attractive.

Yields are low currently only because the entire market is currently on the high side of the cycle. When it turns back down, that's when you go in and pick up your 6%, which may be 18 months from now (though could be more, or less).

EDIT: If you're really going to do this I recommend diversifying your investment into 3-4 high dividend stocks in different industries - since dividends do vary as the economic cycle in each industry moves up and down.
Yeah, actually one of the reasons of their failure was that both were made with old tech, Fukushima one was made in 1967 and Chernobyl in 1977. Even if they did upgrade software they certainly didn't upgrade hardware.
Just released a new library so Sass users can now use Duo.js with duo-sass (https://github.com/stephenway/duo-sass). Check it out!
Is Joel Shapiro special and famous? His work looks boring but there is more than enough aesthetic mastery in art today, someetimes on par with Rodin. Abstract, surreal, real, take your pick.

Just took a quick scroll through a popular portal:

http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-question-of-integrity-will-get...
http://www.xavierhufkens.com/exhibition/2006-09-antony-gorml...
http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-bastard-form-of-mass-culture-i...
http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-randomness-to-which-mutation-t...
http://www.stephan-balleux.com/index.php?id=2

There is so much of this it will take one weeks to wad through just the quality work. And then there is a huge sea of ugly dog vomit. Just as with any product category, if you put enough crap out there, someone will bite. If everyone sees mostly crap, they think this is as good as it gets and bite en masse.

The schools producing dog vomit artists are providing a valuable service to the art market by adding variety.
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> The people of the areas surrounding Fukushima and Chernobyl may beg to differ.

Have you been to Kingston, or Martin County, or Buffalo Creek or .... I should stop or I'll be here all day.

Coal has killed hundreds of times as many people, and contaminated thousands of times as much land as nuclear, even including the worst accidents.
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It appears that Fukushima isn't exactly over. And, it's clear that in the case of a disaster, nobody needs to take responsibility. Who is holding Tepco accountable?
3 Mile Island was not a catastrophe, although it could have been. The reason for this is arguably the high standard of engineering. The safety systems worked to contain almost everything. Chernobyl was an outdated design when it was built, today it is a really outdated design. In addition, Soviet bureaucracy prevented people from being properly informed what was happening and evacuating. Fukishima was a disappointment, I normally have a huge amount of respect for Japanese engineering. One way to solve it is to not locate nuclear reactors near seismic activity. (In the case of Japan, they have to. They aren't going to build them in another country, and all of Japan is vulnerable to seismic activity and tsunamis.) Very high voltage power transmission is feasible, and will only get better as silicon fabs increase. It also likely that we will have some energy dense liquid like gasoline/ethanol that is produced easily from electricity, and can be shipped anywhere. Hydrogen is not realistic.

I'd say we have figured out the engineering more than you claim.
The courts would have to decide.

Reasonable IANAL answer: the person who owns the copyright to (the strings in) the code.
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3-Mile Island is a very bad example, since no member of the general public was harmed by it (some plant workers got more radiation exposure than they should have, but nobody who wasn't a plant worker did).

Chernobyl is a bad example too, not because it didn't do harm, but because nobody since the Soviet Union is going to be insane enough to build a plant without secondary containment, or to run uncontrolled experiments with a reactor, or to build a reactor with a positive void coefficient of reactivity.

Fukushima is a somewhat better example, but the engineering that needed to be done better in that case was not nuclear engineering: the problem was siting the backup power generators and switchgear behind a seawall that got overwhelmed by the tsunami. (To be fair, newer reactor designs don't need backup power to cool the reactor after a shutdown; but those designs didn't exist when Fukushima was built.)

Nuclear waste disposal is only a problem if you refuse to reprocess the waste, which only the United States has done among all nuclear-using countries (because of misplaced concerns about proliferation; other countries have been reprocessing for decades and there have been no incidents).

Finally, if you're going to be fair in assessing nuclear power, you have to compare the overall cost of nuclear power with the overall cost of other forms of base load power generation. You have to look at the damage done by coal mining, coal ash and soot (not to mention radioactivity in coal ash, which is actually worse than many forms of nuclear waste), oil spills, fracking for natural gas, etc.
There is active work underway at W3C on annotation standards, it would be great if Loeb's experience could inform the new standards.

http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/
> Why don't we just build renewable energy that is abundant and doesn't require the unknown unknowns of nuclear energy? Geothermal, wind, solar?

There isn't enough. Not even close. It's not as abundant as you think - the amount of our planets resources we would have to consume to make use of this "renewable" energy is enormous.

> but 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.

Well now you do. There are no ramifications whatsoever.
Exactly.

Not only are they good enough, but they are very sturdy (at least the iPads I've owned), they will last "forever". Or at least 3 or 4 years before the battery fails.

No reason that the 2 year upgrade cycle that applies to cellphones should apply to tablets.
As far as I (with only an semi-educated opinion) can tell, renewable energy doesn't come with the steady output a nuclear plant provides. Either its not sunny enough (sudden cloud formations, bad weather) for solar panels or the wind calms so that wind turbines don't work.
Another issue is location, in my country (Germany) we have wind parks in the northern regions but the providers are having difficulties directing the power to where it's needed [citation needed].
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You are trapped on a catch 22: you want free time to work on cool projects but need one of these projects to drip $500/mo so you can free up your time to work on cool projects ;) This is how I did it:
1. Get to zero debt. Cut your credit cards. Keep one at home to pay for online services/emergencies.
2. Aim to make double of what you think you need/mo.
3. Go freelance and sign paid SLAs/Support Contracts. After 2yrs/4-6 projects you will have stable monthly checks and if you play it smart most of your maintenance tasks will be automatic. Add 1-2 projects to the mix/year.
4. Don't grow, don't hire help. That will turn you into a manager+programmer and the train will lose track. Be like the expert doctor: if you are good clients will line up.
5. Pick good value projects: short (1-2 months), well paid, at least 2 yrs of SLA, 50% upfront.
6. Save!!!!!!!!
7. Quit your current job when you find your first client, not before.
Work is essential to a happy life, not only "paid" work. Find a good balance.
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What exactly does "technical" mean? Does it only apply to people who write code?
I'm personally excited about Thorium reactors, suprised that nobody else mentioned them yet.

I could cite the "pamphlet propaganda" but I feel that I lack knowledge to lead the thorium discussion, so I'll let somebody else do that. :)
Awaiting the redesign that uses a heating coil combined with LED lights that can be tuned to any color.
What people don't think about, because it's not an acute disaster like a nuclear accident, is that coal power plants kill a /lot/ of people.

According to this article, coal power in China killed 300,000 people last year, which itself is way more than were displaced (not killed) by Fukushima. Even US coal power, which is much safer than Chinese coal power, is 160x more deadly per joule than nuclear, and it appears that's not counting climate change effects.

I don't mean to suggest that nuclear power is without risk -- of course it's risky business. But we need to compare the risk to the alternatives.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de...
Tried to leave this comment on the target page where there is discussion of smoothing the ridged surface:

There's another option for a smooth finish, or a finish with a different texture: stucco. The printer could easily create nubs, or short spines, at regular intervals that would act as supports for another coating.

That coating could be sprayed concrete, or it could be stucco applied traditionally with a trowel. Masons can create a wide variety of surface textures quickly with a trowel.

So the proposal here is to let the printer do the structural part, and details like cornices and dentillations, but leave the finish of broad surfaces to professionals with skills.
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Talk about technological merits, huh? The onus is on him to prove that dmd is a viable alternative.
This reminds me of a recent tweet I saw, to the effect of "people in the US will text you while they drive to say they're scared of ebola"

Which is to say, people are terrible at risk assessment.
Good point about Fukushima. People often forget that there was a reactor closer to the earthquake that got hit by an even bigger tsunami which survived just fine...

...because they'd built a sensibly sized sea wall. I'm all for learning lessons from Fukushima, but the lesson basically seems to be "don't put reactors on the coast without big sea walls".
> the cost of a failure at a nuclear power plant is so high, that the engineering must be to similarly high standards

Sounds much like an aircraft. Let's revert to cars. Oh wait those aren't any safer, either.