skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about the fund for long-term waste storage. Operators pay for decommissioning themselves in most countries, and about 90 commercial nuclear plants plus various other reactors have been shut down, with 15 fully dismantled. Once the fuel is removed, the remaining radioactivity has a short half-life. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Nuclear-Fuel-Cycle/Nuclear...
Right, which is why it seems like the obvious thing to use TAI as the underlying base time in a computer system, and have UTC be just another time zone offset on top of that, so you don't have to deal with leap seconds either.
Cars could save a lot of time blowing through red lights too. They'd burn a lot less gas if they didn't stop & go, which would save energy and world resources. Assuming they don't crash of course; but since we're assuming the cyclist isn't being hit and killed on their way to work - I think we can assume the car is making it through okay too.

It is laziness - and a sense of entitlement. "I'm on a bike so everyone else must wait on me and find a way to break the laws of physics (pun intended) to prevent their car from hitting me".

It saves a lot of time and energy until you get struck by a car. Which could result in the loss of all of your time and energy.

Not a worthy trade off.
Hardly an odd fear when adding new systematic components to the material supply chain massively increases the chance of some of that supply leaking.

Not doing that route makes you less exposed to risk.

In an extremely complex world where risk needs to be minimized as much as possible, it's totally reasonable for society to decide not to extract plutonium at mass scale in a free market way.

Sure if the military controlled the whole thing (as they do via their own supply chain) that could perhaps feel more secure... but who controls outflows of waste between governments, etc?
I am not a tox/haz/nuclear waste engineer (someone?) but I assume that groundwater threatening waste is being regarded differently than highly radioactive substances.

Can't you protect yourself and go cleanup an arsenic spill "easily" compared to how you would cleanup a radioactive spent fuel rod container which tore open?

IIRC the latter is a real issue currently at Asse in Germany.
Irrelevant. You are now on a totally different playing ground. It's an interesting comparison but not at all valid. flea market is cash only usually.
Solar is indirectly fusion power.
http://www.billburr.com/podcast
I just took a ReactJs workshop last week and was really impressed with how easy it was to use. The guy that was giving the workshop (Henrik Joretag) used it with AmersandJS and Webpack. He was also using a lot of the new ES6 syntax which was really cool.

The reason he was really into React was how it just deals with the views so you have the flexibility to combine it with other libraries to get what you need and you're not locked into a full framework like AngularJS.

I've been getting into Angular recently, but this really opened my eyes to how powerful React is.
Looks like they have part of what made Doom unique (at the time)-- they've got height differences and non-perpendicular walls, but don't quite have the same lighting and texture mapping capability that Doom had.

And the demo doesn't show whether or not they have Doom's dynamic capabilities (that let level builders make things like moving elevators).

This looks like it's probably somewhere between Wolfenstein 3D and Doom in terms of engine features.
You can't construct a pointer to a potentially uninitialised variable - http://is.gd/xkrJ3l

The idiomatic way to do this would be:

match init() {
Some(i) => do_stuff(i),
None => panic!("Oh noes"),
}
Hardly an odd fear when adding new systematic components to the material supply chain massively increases the chance of some of that supply leaking.

Not doing that route makes you less exposed to risk.

In an extremely complex world where risk needs to be minimized as much as possible, it's totally reasonable for society to decide not to extract plutonium at mass scale in a free market way.

Sure if the military controlled the whole thing (as they do via their own supply chain) that could perhaps feel more secure... but who controls outflows of waste between governments, etc?

Oh and the mind-boggling cost. Who pays?

Nuclear is one of the most expensive forms of energy when you cost in the full price of making it safe, including dealing with waste and ensuring absolutely no proliferation of weapons.
There is an animation showing how it works on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rebqcsb61gY

This confirms the “machine” is static in one corner of the building site, so it seems limited to non-reinforced builds.

Though it might be possible to interleave it with manual labour to lay and anchor the rebars.
Well, your government ostensibly has an obligation to protect your interests, while other state governments have no such obligation.

You can certainly argue against the ethics of any spying, but it should be abundantly clear that a government and its agents have a duty to its citizens that is greater than its duty to the citizens of other sovereign nations.
Presumably they meant the resumes of those working on GIMP, not users of it.
Who called the nineties?
Sloppy Cyber Threat Sharing Is Surveillance by Another Name
The way a student is taught to model something like this is to have the 'seed' entry refer to the 'account' entry (or, better yet, the 'game' entry). This is just how one models a one:many relationship. It is then trivially true that a given seed will only be used in one game at a time. As long as one never updates the reference on an existing seed, a seed can't be re-used in this way.

Of course, relational data models only encourage this type of design: they do not require it, nor are they required for it.

Also, this is by no means the only possible bug of this nature. For example, the seed generation might be based on the current wall-clock time. I'd hope someone trying to run a casino would know better than that, but hopes of that nature are frequently unfulfilled.
Twitter in the Browser Could Be Better
Since when does Windows have /dev, let alone /dev/random?
Maybe not fences, but a twitch clone for people painting pictures on the other hand might be a hit some people.
Why We Spy on Our Allies

R. James Woolsey, a Washington lawyer and a former Director of Central Intelligence.

http://cryptome.org/echelon-cia2.htm?utm_medium=referral&utm...
I am a German SaaS developer. More and more customers are asking me for not using infrastracture services from US companies.

On the one hand this is bad for me because google and microsoft have top products for my needs. On the other hand this means big opportunities because my customers are heavily searching for alternatives.

The trust in US IT companies was never so bad here. It can become a desaster for their european sales.
thanks! as the hyperlink was only at thw word "ton" (and to the url above); I assumed "short" was part of the phrase, not of the unit name. Something meaning that 6,600 was a rounded number or something like that (enlgish is not my first language).
Uber Acquires Part of Bing’s Mapping Assets, 100 Microsoft Employees
The general consensus seems to be not that the NSA is wrong for merely doing these things, but that the NSA is wrong for doing these things against specific corporations for other specific corporations' benefit, seemingly at the behest of those that would stand to profit.

You can't justify it via patriotism or service for country if the explicit purpose is to enrich a controlled, hand picked minority.
It's also the site of one of the most ridiculous nuclear accidents in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

Regardless of how much one is for or against nuclear power, i think we can all come together and agree strongly that building an air cooled nuclear reactor that uses a flammable substance as a moderator and blows exhaust out a chimney is a catastrophically bad idea.

And I don't imagine that kind of activity results in easy cleanup.
Same.

Although apparently the word is misused a lot: http://www.lauradhamilton.com/learn-a-new-programming-langua...

Not sure if this is a fight we can still win.
Where are the invisible apps?
I didn't say that. Of course it's detrimental to their well-being: Orcas are wild animals not bred for captivity. This is not new news.
Dmoz nearly died in 2006...

http://www.skrenta.com/2006/12/dmoz_had_9_lives_used_up_yet....
I am not attempting to justify these actions, but politics and economics are one and the same. The job of the NSA is to keep the USA in a position of power economically and politically to help stabilize the world. Since WW2 we have had an unprecedented period where major world powers have not gone to war directly and this is a direct result of the American hegemony.
lol really. All the people who have been doing SEO since 2000 are shaking their heads right now.
It's great however there is no plugin yet available for livecoding.
If you check now you should be able to watch without logging in.
I disagree and I think that treating the frontend and backend as different concerns is one cause for the big balls of mud we end up with. For example, many treat the backend as if it doesn't require design or taste for good user experience and many treat the frontend as if it doesn't require solid engineering. They are wrong of course.
Decentralization to the community level is almost as good and works for people who live in apartments and such. Both ycombinator projects would qualify; Helion's reactor would be 50MW and fit in a shipping container, and produce very little neutron radiation.
My bad; Strilanc's interpretation is correct. I updated the wording to hopefully be a little clearer.
Since it costs several billion to build a plant, that decommissioning cost is somewhere around 10-20% of the construction cost, which doesn't seem too bad.
"Poisons" is subjective. Practially all the stable bi-products are naturally occuring in nature and many of them have all sorts of uses [1] [2]. The chemical toxicity of spent nuclear fuel (excluding radioactivity issues) is not worse than many other industrial processes in general. Spent nuclear fuel definitely needs to be treated/handled carefully, but what you say is not a "nuclear" problem - rather it is a 21 century high-tech, industrialized society problem in general.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirconium
I don't think the NSA has any business using the words "highest standards of behavior" in any communications, ever.
Just fixed it on Wikipedia. :-)
> You can't imagine anyone having any use for this device?

No home users would be able to use this - and that is who they seem to be targeting their marketing towards.

> What's hilarious about the inherent impossibility of secure closed source software?

That you can't get around using closed source software/hardware. You have to put trust into closed source software at some point - do you drive a car?

> You "hope" Chrome is "based on" Chromium---what relevance does this hope have for a factual discussion?

Like I said before - relating to security I hope certain systems like OpenSSL and CAs are not compromised. I'm a realistic person and I assume they aren't. Do you check and pin every SSL certificate you come across? How do you know that you don't have a bad CA certificate in your store right now?

I'm not saying I have irrevocable proof that Chrome's code is a fork of Chromium - but there are enough indications that suggest this[1]. I'm not saying you should or shouldn't use Chrome - go use lynx if that makes you feel better.

> And what about Microsoft and Apple?

What about them? I'm not saying they are perfect - but I'm also not totally paranoid that I'm going to refuse them on the basis that I can't see their code.

> And the many well-reasoned criticisms of browser-based encryption?

That's a loaded question if I ever saw one. Web applications like cryptocat are bad because they send the keys with Javascript. I'm no security expert - but something like this seems reasonable to me in the context of the use case of this box [2].

[1] - https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...

[2] - https://encrypt.to/
Velocity raises $12M Series A
Hi! I saw you guys there! A friend suggested that adjustable tension in the glove rather than haptics might be a good way to deal with interaction.
You're right. I use VS2005 because in my daylife job I work mainly with industrial Windows CE 6.0 projects, and Platform Builder is a VS2005-only tool (why, Microsoft?) so I'm somewhat forced to keep using this version. Just as the blacksmith that fixes everything with a hammer because he is proficient using it (despite not being the most suitable tool in all cases), I use VS 2005 for everything :)

There's another reason: any newer VS version can import projects from older versions, but the opposite doesn't hold true. So I'm not leaving anyone out.
You continue to insist that your opinion of "one only has to brake and there's nothing else to consider" is a fact, going so far as to ask the right question in parens, but then immediately barging on to indicate you don't even care to hear or consider what else there might be. Unless you show signs of actually caring to learn, i won't go in great detail, but do yourself a favor and consider these bullet points: Pedestrians, other bikers, visibility when stopped, space available for tilt, viability of tilt aids (curb, poles, rails, trees), car parking gaps, street vs bike path.

It's not a giant problem, but it's also not nothing either.

> canyon roads

So, nothing like this? https://goo.gl/maps/gYhhk https://goo.gl/maps/NxGza https://goo.gl/maps/YcGHN

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

You're making the mistake of assuming that that kind of condition is universally present. See above for a non-exhaustive list that may change your situation wildly.
Why does this have to be a valid program? There is obviously a chance that x is undefined at line 3 so why not allow the compiler to throw an error?
more of a niche case, but i once achieved easy concurrent writes to an rbtree by converting it into a bunch of rbtrees hanging off a two-level trie. the point was that you only need to lock the subtree you're actually editing, because since tries are never rebalanced, edits cannot propagate upwards.
Yeah, GP post is unnecessarily negative. I think this is a great idea and knew there was always a space for it.

Twitch has really changed the entertainment scene (millions of people individually consuming hours of streamed content a day). More importantly, there's a large subset of Twitch streamers who don't just stream for entertainment purposes, but for education as well. Often times, watching someone do a thing is a lot more instructive than reading about someone doing a thing.

There are people getting much better at video games by watching informative streamers. There's no reason to think that, eventually, live stream coding will be another popular form of learning to code as well.

GP post makes me sad, honestly, due to how willfully ignorant that opinion appears to be and the fact that it's so unnecessarily negative towards something that can legitimately help a bunch of people.
Probably not as the average length of the identifiers would be 2 bytes in that case.
Potential headline: "Hey, I just learned about an interesting thing."
A small tool to upgrade npm on Windows
Calculating a pension and building a billing system is rather basic CRUD work compared to scaling software to handle millions of concurrent users. Google's hiring bar is relatively high compared to any government position in terms of quantitative skills you'd need to demonstrate.
It should probably be renamed to National Spy Agency at this point, because it does that much more than "security".
This is close to happening. http://www.rmi.org/electricity_grid_defection
That's more or less my point. Nuclear waste is similar to other toxic waste in terms of the danger and long-term storage problems. Yet with one we just say "Let's be real careful about how we dispose of this" while with the other we say, "We cannot proceed with any more of this activity until we come up with an absolutely foolproof disposal method that will last longer than civilization itself."
Eager_group – fix n+1 aggregate sql functions for rails
Ahh that makes a ton of sense, thanks!
Demystifying CRM pricing structures: true cost versus smoke and mirrors
Shameless plug/Me too: http://www.bettyblocks.com

I work for the company that builds this; and no... I'm NOWHERE getting nervous about "no code".

On the contrary :D
Thanks - nice to get positive feedback as well :)
Slavery is just the way societies work today. We can't just wish it away.

- Most people a few hundred years ago, probably.
I don't understand what you mean by "2 or 3% suboptimal query's", or really, in general what you mean.
If the NSA commits an act of industrial espionage, who gets access to that information?

Ostenscibly, this information would be valuable to American companies, but I don't recall there being any federal registration where I can sign up to receive such information. Certainly, some company is getting access to this information, but because this process isn't transparent, the other problem with such espionage is that it leads to greater corruption. Basically, someone gets to pick and choose who receives this extremely valuable information in private industry with no external oversight.
Will you be adding more customization of the "User" or is all customization per channel?

It was difficult to figure out how to set an avatar at first, I had to go under my stream page and edit there, rather than in the settings. Maybe I'm confused between the distinction between a user and a stream?
What is the example web browser?
Well, ok, so some of that debt does go to things like retirement funds and mutual funds, which help individuals that are not the mega-rich (like middle-income folks) but still the very poor in this country are not being helped by this.

Just printing money is not a good solution. Inflation (despite what Paul Krugman says) is very bad for the poor. One: If it weren't bad for the poor, why is there a need to periodically raise the minimum wage? Two: The common refrain is that the poor are indebted and benefit from nominal devaluation while the rich will stuff their matresses full of bills if we had deflation, but the rich do benefit from quasi-loans, like leveraged investments. Leveraged investments get very favorable interest rates, and the poor, typically are not offered low interest rates. I will be impressed if you can find an urban money lender that offers an interest rate below inflation, but if you have access to IMF funds (which sometimes are below inflation!), you're probably not in the 99%.
Ethnography is a valuable tool. But it is not science. Science is about prediction, reproduction, an falsifiability. Ethnography lacks these and thus it is not science.

I have no issues with ethnography being used to broaden our understanding, but the understanding should be there that this is not science (and should not be called science) and the biases of the author have more of a chance to come into play.
If they're getting Uber options it could be a real blessing.
something something "move fast and break things(TM)" something something
Major news sources are acquired and politicked. Who is the good guy depends on what news your reading.

Say tomorrow the US intelligence agencies shut down any cyber capabilities would then China and Russia stop their hacking groups or increase their activities?

Interactions between states are struggles for power and the concept of fairness does not apply.
If all that you said was true I'd be totally OK with justifying NSA's actions, but a pretty huge chunk of your reasoning rests on this

to help stabilize the world

Unfortunately this part of your statement is the one that couldn't be more tragically and more demonstrably wrong.
What is old is new, I still want a good directory site like this. Spam is just crazy though. I wonder if you could set it up as a request to mail in links via filled out form. That would cut down on the junk.
Raspberry Pi seems to be the new target of Atwood's Law in place of Javascript.

Any application that can be ported to Raspberry Pi will eventually be ported to Raspberry Pi.
It would be great if the machine would render out full-res pngs of each image, right before it changes topic, and store them somewhere. Screenshots are always slightly compressed.
Most of those listed as employees of the digital service on the main site seem to be employed for political purposes, if you read their biographies most don't have deep technical skills. The whole department seems to have been created to help Obama deflect from the healthcare.gov debacle and make it seem like he was taking serious action to fix the site.
AOL Takes Over Majority of Microsoft’s Ad Business, Swaps Google Search for Bing
Doesn't BRL-CAD [1] count ?

[1] http://www.brlcad.org/
Firefox and Chromium vs Internet Explorer.
Or Linux which as an OS far surpasses e.g. windows.
It runs on any hardware you can imagine from satellites to hand-held devices and the majority of the super-computers in the world.
> Why no negative hex?

From the article: "I had been worrying about things like -0x12345 and -9223372036854775809 and 9999999999999999999, even though those numbers would not be something a programmer would be likely to encounter"

For his project, negative hex numbers were an explicit non-goal.
My provider (BellSouth or AT&T or whatever they're calling themselves this week) block incoming port 25 and block outgoing to port 25 to anywhere except their SMTP servers, because of spam.
I can see why you would say BLEVE.
But I'm quite curious why there wasn't a huge fireball, at any rate
Off topic, but where are we on Sourceforge? I read a few scary articles but have not been following close enough to know how bad it is. Is it all project downloads have crapware bundled to the installer or is it just the occasional unmaintained project, so be careful? Somewhere in between?

I was bored this weekend cleaning up bookmarks and came across a link to MegaMek. I played it long ago but it was not quite up to the level of being fun for me. I saw it had progressed quite a few versions and went to download it to see if it had improved only to be taken to Sourceforge. And that was the end of that. Is my paranoia justified?
What’s the most exciting company in Seattle? Impinj
2 Uber France Execs Arrested for running "illegal taxi service"
Ah, another gamble. How nice.

So, let's see if I get this. Three letters, that means 1/26th chance of getting the correct number. And.. wait, what do I do now?
> this is a direct result of the American hegemony.

No, it's a direct result of nuclear proliferation and Mutually Assured Destruction doctrine.
TypeScript JSX support landed in master branch
"There are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It's just... a bunch of guys."
> for instance spy agencies spying on their own citizens is more broadly recognized as bad)

An instance of the more general value of "personal privacy" which has nothing to do with such abstract constructions as "nations".

If we value personal privacy, then spying always involves intrinsic harm, and the question is whether we should tolerate that harm for some greater good.

... and whether we want to go down the path of seeing ourselves as the sort of people who will tolerate harm to innocents for the greater good.
Like I mentioned above - that cost is not uncertainty in single plant decommissioning cost. It is a range of much-lower uncertainty decommissioning costs for several different plant. The decommissioning cost is estimated by NRC and plant operators before the plant becomes operational and is periodically revisited. And decommissioning costs don't look nearly so big compared to the several billon $ for construction.