skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but given that pinch to zoom is nearly ubiquitous, and given that the double tap gesture requires a 300ms lag before responding to single taps, the Web would arguably be better without it.
As far as it's possible compilers should check as much as possible when false assumptions are made.

Is it possible to build a language, which would reduce the number of false assumptions?
Surely there's a country hungry for energy somewhere without all the red tape?
What's wrong with copying the solution used for all the other toxic waste modern industry produces?

We have no working long term solution for storing arsenic, but people mostly seem fine with "just dispose of it in a way where it doesn't leech into the groundwater" and not the crazy restrictions everyone wants to put on nuclear waste storage.
Didn't Assange have a show on Russian state-sponsored TV?

More baseless allegations. Isn't that one of the tactics the NSA uses? To attempt to destroy reputations of selected targets?

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
I'll counter your wikipedia links with the issues and costs associated with decommissioning in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Decommissioning_Author...

Current estimates for one Nuclear Power Plant Site (Sellafield): £114bn which seems A LOT!
Satya Nadella did just state in an employee memo that Microsoft has to "make some tough choices in areas where things are not working".
This and their exit from the display ads business (http://seekingalpha.com/news/2605555-bloomberg-microsoft-exi... ) seems to be a move in that direction.
I meant it more in a way of things that people think but don't say, not actual abuse. My office is really a great one, but everyone has thoughts to themselves and I want to hear what those thoughts might be.
This is not open to anyone, you still have to be gsa sched 70.
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Yeah both USDS and 18F are capped at the same length of time. There's a pretty good article about USDS @ http://www.fastcompany.com/3046756/obama-and-his-geeks
There's certainly a lot less latency from atomic reaction to harvested energy though :D
My impression was that the vast majority of sunlight Earth receives is wasted, and that solar panels just gobble up the waste (so long as they're built in, say, deserts or other places where they're not blocking out a whole lot of flora/fauna).

Wind and hydroelectric, on the other hand, could very well have significant environmental impacts if deployed on a sufficiently-large scale, despite being technically "clean" energy (aside from the non-clean energy and materials used in their construction).
Nope, I'm on Windows and Ubuntu. I don't have any Java in the browser, on ubuntu I apt-get the openjdk and on Windows I use ninite.
Uber has had an engineering presence in Seattle for at least four months: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/uber-opening-seattle-engineerin...
It's silly to describe solar as atomic energy from sun’s fusion as a distinct category from carbon-based energy, because of course carbon-based energy was formed by capturing solar energy from the sun's fusion.

Fine, call it a 'carbon-cycle' energy system. Which may make it more clear that we're doing a great job on the 'burning' part of the cycle, but not so good on the 'capturing' part of the cycle.
I always assumed it was an intentional design decision ...

1) these are board games, and for many people working through the mechanics is a big part of the fun

2) it's an attempt to make it clear the tool isn't a replacement for games but a supplement (i.e. a hedge against confrontations over copyright)
What's the news here?
Note that JTRIG is a GCHQ activity, not an NSA activity.
This poorly represents where the US national debt goes.

About 30% of the debt is owned by federal agencies ... that is the government owes itself that money. Social Security is the easiest (and largest) example. It owns about $3 trillion of the federal debt which it is saving (for now income>expenses for SS) for when it is needed as the population ages.

40% is owned by foreign governments. Being indebted to foreign countries isn't so bad. It means they have faith in you and are rooting for your success. It supports peace and cooperation.

The federal reserve owns about $3 trillion. This is the institution that creates dollars out of thin air. The interest paid to the fed goes right back into the treasury – the fed uses this as a control mechanism to keep the currency stable growing and shrinking the money supply. Lots of mildly ignorant people really hate the idea of the fed, but few of them have even the slightest understanding of how it works.

State and Local governments own another trillion – interest paid here is just like a different route to funding state and local governments, not something you can complain about all that much.

As for "rich people" mutual funds and banks own together about $1.5 trillion. A lot of those are pretty average folks. Even then this is only ~%10 of the $18 trillion debt.

There are a few other owners of us debt... Saving Bonds and insurance companies account for another few hundred billion together. The rest are odds and ends significantly smaller than anything mentioned above.

To summarize, the majority of the US debt is owned domestically, much of it by domestic government. Only a small minority of the interest goes to "rich people".
we are doing RTMP streaming.
These are the sorts of deep questions that often go unasked as we humans look for ever greater efficiencies. I had to attend a seminar on geothermal wells presented by a group of ageing hippies. When I asked if any long term studies had been done on the affect of mass-geothermal well drilling and pumping cool water out of the ground and cycling warmer water back in, no one could even parse my question properly.
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How do I answer people who say that kind of thinking is what led to the fucking mess that is Sellafield?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31725365

Behind schedule and over budget is totally normal of UK big projects. But still, £58bn is a lot of money to fix something that's not a big problem.
+1 for this. If You need the phone for Calling/SMS/social communicator/Car navi then IMHO WP8 devices are great for such tasks.
I'm pretty sure Assange's presence on Russian state-sponsored TV is not in fact a baseless allegation.
-Wuninitialized has been broken in GCC for over a decade: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18501
I think the OP is illustrating the pedantry of "well technically solar energy is atomic energy" by pointing out that, by that standard, so is coal and oil. In other words, I don't think you disagree with the OP.
You get what you pay for.

Up to now we have paid tens of billions to get surveillance, and tens of millions to preserve confidentiality.

It could be the other way around.
Hey, Max! :)
Sure, you can be a "sole proprietor", and just report your business income as personal income. I'm not aware of any limits on how much you can make and do this, though most people probably switch over to some sort of LLC or corporate structure if they're making more than a trivial amount of money.
Yes it surely is. We need to take everything into the equation on where to go.

- grey energy invested

- full lifetime costs from start of construction until fully recovered land

- inclusive recycling costs

- inclusive environmental impacts
I really like this article, if only because it mentions real and concrete consequences that have come to the people at fault, like Corizon, the medical provider, being fired.
I had actually never even heard of Tries until today. Fast prefix searching makes a lot of sense; are there any other clear use cases for Tries?
Thanks for pointing me to his blog. He's a great read. Got anything else by him I should read/watch/listen?
"Infinite half-life" basically means an isotope is stable. Half life is only one piece of the radioactivity story. Knowing how isotopes decay is also important - alpha, beta decay, spontaneous fission, etc - these differences matter a great deal w.r.t. how to safely handle and store spent fuel. And we don't just "chuck it in a landfill" - here is a good place to start to learn a bit more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository.
The "you can't read the values" note is referring to the API exposed to callers, not internal restrictions on the implementation.
Also the somewhat wide range is disturbing!

The NRC estimates costs for decommissioning a nuclear power plant
range from $280-$612 million.
>it's the physical AND mental effort required to evaluate all the possible options for stopping and then balancing the bike, then choosing and encating the right one.

My argument against this is that it takes very little physical effort and almost no mental effort to come to a stop when biking for the majority of the population beyond the training stages of riding a bike, in which it takes a lot more mental effort to maintain balance and come to a safe and complete stop.

I wasn't focusing on your "a little annoying" statement but on this mountain of a mole hill you created after saying it was only "a little annoying" by making it sound like a long and arduous problem that was mentally straining and physically difficult where every possible option (what option besides "apply brakes" is there?) has to be considered while maintaining balance on the bike (something not difficult for the general population) and properly selecting from these many options (1?), selecting the proper course of action (of the only course of action?) and after all of that mental effort (that had to be done in mere moments!) to actually physically act upon it without screwing it up!

Now, I would like to repeat myself, I don't think many people find deciding whether to brake or not or the act of braking on a bicycle to be that mentally or physically taxing beyond the training stages. In fact, I would say it's more reflexive and "muscle memory" ingrained within them that their subconscious is able to take care of a majority of the process without much conscious thought of the cyclist.

>In all cases of this i've seen someone was holding the bike and making sure the learner won't just crash uncontrollably. I'm wondering whether you ever learned how to ride a bike.

I was presented a bike on my 5th birthday. My father removed the training wheels on the 2nd day against my mother's wishes and offered no supervision beyond watching me fall. By the end of the day I was riding around, although rather scraped up. I still ride my 21 speed around the canyon I live in because skateboarding on these canyon roads is suicidal - too many rocks and there isn't even an official "bike lane" to ride in. You share the same lane as the cars. Really impatient cars who are going 80mph in a 55mph. I'd rather not risk hitting a rock.

>You don't actually seem to have a mental model of what stopping on a bike at an intersection entails

Slow down while approaching the intersection. Tilt the bike towards the curb (right-hand side in the U.S.A) and place your right foot down to create a tripod.

Braking a bike isn't rocket science.
There are various reactor design proposals (such as molten-salt), which can be used to burn a variety of fissionable materials. There hasn't been nearly enough investment to put that sort of thing into production yet.
http://www.transatomicpower.com
Years ago, the story I understood was that renewables couldn't scale up fast enough to sufficiently mitigate climate change, and nuclear was the only answer. Recently, I've read that renewables have scaled up much faster than expected.

Does anyone know the current story? Can renewables scale up fast enough? Also, does the availability problem (i.e., renewables not being available when the sun/wind are not) prevent them from having a sufficient impact? I could imagine that, even if renewables weren't always available, their use still could reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to mitigate climate change sufficiently.
Confused: if you have nuclear, skip the solar and save money?
Return of the Prodigal Book
Roundcube Next reached their crowdfunding goal
Might as well make a twitch clone for people painting fences
Hm, that's hardly anything like doom. It is more like a very basic raycasting engine from several years before that. Doom in 9800 would be really impressive. This does not seem very special if you ever wrote your own engine like that.
1. Song Exploder: Hrishikesh Hirway interviews composers. In the interview they talk about the process of how one of their songs were created.
One of my favorites: https://soundcloud.com/hrishihirway/song-exploder-no-24-tych...
Another one of my favorites: https://soundcloud.com/hrishihirway/songexploder-no-8-loren

2. Radiolab: This one gets you thinking. I feel like sometimes they will oversimplify very complicated concepts though.
One of my favorites: http://www.radiolab.org/story/worth/ (This one is really long. It's like a three in one. Usually they are like 30 minutes long).

3. Let My People Think: This one is a thinker too.

4. Here and Now: Basically the news.

5. NPR All Songs Considered: (I don't listen to this very much) They have guest DJ's, and new music (I'm not much of a fan some of the music they put up). They also have special episodes, which are more interesting.
One of my favs: http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/05/19/406500138/th...

6. NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour: (I don't listen to this very much) They talk about new movies, shows, books, and songs.

Here is an episode I like from this podcasts (I haven't had the chance to explore the other episodes though): http://www.radiodiaries.org/new-podcast-strange-fruit-voices...
> The first version of Mathematica ran on M68000 Macintosh machines. It's hard to imagine overcoming the pain that something slower than C would have inflicted on users.

According to this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma#Commercialization) Wikipedia article, Macsyma (a Lisp-based CAS that Mathematica was designed to compete with) was running on 68000 Sun-1s in the mid-80s and a Windows port came out about a year after Mathematica came out for the Macintosh (1989 and 1988, respectively). The pain must have been real because Mathematica ended up with all of Macsyma's market: "Macsyma's market share in symbolic math software had fallen from 70% in 1987 to 1% in 1992"
There are reasons for everything in the database. Undo and historical records were the primary use case.

All tables had a unique, integer primary key.

However, if you want to enforce a uniqueness constraint across your data [eg. UNIQUE(name, location)], the constraint breaks when you introduce the boolean deleted column [and UNIQUE(name, location, deleted) does not provide the appropriate semantics]. The application semantics must be provided at some other level than SQL column constraints.
As a sanity check, the earth gets ~1366 W/m2 * (6,371 km) ^2 * pi = 1.7e17 watts * 24h/day * 365.2425day/year ~= 1.5e21Wh/year ~= 1,500,000,000 terawatt hours/year. Humans use 155,505 terawatt-hour / year or ~ 1/10,000th of that much energy. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption)

Further, it's all (99.99%) going to get released so net impact is going to be very local.

PS: In the end the real change would simply be changing the albino of the planet slightly. But, buildings and roads already cover far more land than solar is expected to anytime soon with minimal impact.
All good points. And I agree that the median return will likely be -100%. Honestly I think you're probably right that even the average return will probably be underwhelming, even if theoretically it shouldn't be. I am curious though. I certainly wouldn't invest my money in startups on the theory that on average I would end up with more to donate, even if I intended to donate 100% of the proceeds regardless...
> "To exploit foreign signals intelligence for the benefit of the USA"

Does it benefit the average U.S. citizen? If not, then how can you say NSA does this for the benefit of the USA. And if it does, then how exactly does a U.S. citizen benefit from this? Making a bunch of rich people even richer doesn't seem all that beneficial to me.
Least we forget: Tidal energy & Geothermal energy...
Supreme Court Refuses to Decide If APIs Are Copyrightable
It would be a nice feature add-on if Own-Mailbox users could add a special TXT record to the DNS that identifies them as Own-Mailbox users. The presence of this record would tell Own-Mailbox that it could do a direct delivery to that user and get the increased end-to-end security. For all other outbound mail, it could use the provider's SMTP relay.
Cyclists blow through red lights because it takes energy to get going again if you stop. That's it. Call it laziness, but if you're commuting it can save a lot of energy for whatever you're doing when you get there.
Trinity Ventures Shares 7 Essentials That Startups Need to Secure Funding
The closest to a hosted solution I've come across is Azure's DataLake announced at the recent Build conference: https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/29/introducing-azur...

We're working on something adjacent at Silota. We pull in your CRM, behavioral analytics and support data and provide an easy to comprehend view layer atop. Our users are not analysts or data scientist, but account managers (more popularly known as Customer Success Managers.)

(and hence the appeal of hosted solutions.)
Yeah, I am playing with switching he for she whenever the gender is unknown or irrelevant. It's weird how weird it is.
These are not patented, and are reasonably simple - http://www3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~leis/papers/ART.pdf
I'm pretty sure that a billing error in Adwords would cause a fairly large controversy!
Elixir's syntax also gains a wonderfully consistent AST, which enables all manner of meta-programming and macro writing. Sometimes there are practical benefits to syntactical choices beyond the pleasing aesthetics.
I figured it was a holdover from starting as a wargaming simulator. The rules on those are somewhat varied (x inches in one system, hexes in another, squares in a third, or y inches in a fourth) so the ability to shift things around (flexibly) allows games to be simulated with greater ease.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Is it that it's nice to be able to copy over a systemd service template file with ansible vs running commands to start services?

If so, how is that different from copying runit service files instead? If not, can you elaborate / reword?
I really hope it's more than £30bn. No-one seems to know how much it costs to decommission one, but a link above says "range from $280-$612 million." Ouch.
How is bing anything but an enormous gift to google?

What I see is a marginally profitable business (finally, following years of huge / $4B per year losses) that obscures google's true monopoly in the US. For all the claims of 20% search marketshare, on my personal blog, google has 98.7% marketshare in the last 10k search visits. It's an open question if bing is worth the hassle -- is it foreseeably profitable enough that msft should continue in that business?

imo, it would quite damaging to google if msft shut bing down, reallocated the engineers to more profitable projects, and let google own their 75% + bing's 20% == undeniable monopoly search marketshare, with the immediate antitrust implications, in the US.

Microsoft's biggest threats appears to be things like chromebook, google apps, and ios/android rendering windows and office largely unnecessary. I don't see how having a search engine helps any of the above.
You should be able to watch livestreams and videos without logging in now. :)
Haha, i for one welcome our orca overlords and would rather be on the right side of history! All hail orcas!

But all kidding aside, i do have appreciation for arguments against anthropocentrism, or at least suppositions of human superiority. Sure, there's a spectrum regarding to how “intelligent” (read: advanced faculties of empathy, planning, language, etc.) different species seem to be in general, but i definitely believe we as humans are very much on the bad side of the spectrum regarding how we treat non-humans. We have a long way to go yet. Locking up animals in zoos, through to slaughtering them for food after a life of misery, all don't seem to me behaviours befitting a species which calls itself empathic and intelligent. As somebody wise once said, a society should be judged on how it deals with its weakest members.

But yeah, i guess the article is preaching to the choir in my case, since i would be in favour of more protection of non-human rights, not only for orcas (presumably rather high on the intelligence scale) but also for most non-humans we use for food, medical trials, etc. Whether that means they should be granted personhood, however, seems a tricky question, which i assume is best fought out by lawyers. The thing is, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, that probably entails many responsibilities and prohibitions (e.g., no killing each other) which would simply be impractical/absurd (having said that, i like the idea lower down in the thread, that inter-species violence could be considered in a similar fashion to crimes outside of a given jurisdiction). Still, if not personhood, i would at the very least be in favour of universal rights for all sentient beings (ha, i hear you now, what is the cut-off for sentience? Mice? Flies? Earthworms? Bacteria? This is a hypothetical and hand-wavy argument)—they should not be kept in zoos against their will, and (more pertinently) not be killed for our sustenance/experiments/gratification. Basically, they should not be property.

...but none of that seems to be very broadly underwritten by society at large. One can dream, i guess.
Do you mean to include the entire U.S. as one of those states? Wikipedia lists nuclear's capacity factor as 90.3% in the U.S. in 2009, and 88.7% averaged over 2006-2012, according to the DOE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#United_States

The Helion design which Ycombinator funds is pulsed, so sustained burn time isn't applicable. It's also much smaller and cheaper than mainstream tokamaks.
Agreed, and another thing they're doubling down on: disentangling themselves from Google. Eventually they'll stop using Google Maps, and I'd guess Google Ventures will sell their stake in Uber at their next stratospheric private financing raise, if they haven't already.

It's vaguely reminiscent of Google/Apple's friendly status up until 2007, when it quickly deteriorated to "frenemy" then "direct competitor in nearly every market."
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> unfortunately, we can't simply wish that away.

I know. If we ever hoped to get to that point, I think we'd need some esoteric unicorn shit like "checks and balances" built into our government.
The main problem with reprocessing is fears of weapons proliferation, which is an odd fear when it happens in countries that already have large piles of nuclear weapons, but there we are. The waste is mostly still full of fuel. Advanced designs like the Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor could make this simpler and cheaper.

What to do with the UK's plutonium seems obvious to me: use it as nuclear fuel. If this isn't being done it's presumably because of political opposition, not technical problems.
No mention of Safari View Controller and Chrome Custom Tabs?
:/ sorry you think that!
If you're a bit dehydrated, 1L of 4% beer won't make it worse, and 2% supposedly does nothing.

Alcohol isn't just a toxin that your body eliminates; one of its effects are to override our excretion pathways.
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/24t7hr/at_what_p...

The science in this field is interesting. Poor test subjects had to drink a litre of 4% beer.
http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/4/366.full