markmassie

Until measured by a classical observer, the ship has sailed without ever leaving port.

The millions of dollars raised by scammers through crowdfunding proves otherwise [1].

[1] http://pando.com/tag/scampaign/

This proposal seems to make a lot sense for deciding what to tax, but I am curious about how this would affect who is getting taxed and where these changes would be felt.

It seems like decreasing taxes on labor (people) and increasing taxes on raw materials (things we dig out of the ground) would simply shift the tax burden away from urban areas (where people are) to rural areas (where the mines are).

Wouldn't this just make things worse for poorest parts of the country, like Appalachia, where the mining industry is typically the only provider of well paying jobs?

Minihack is the best Hacker News app I've found found for iOS. I've tried almost all of the HN apps in the App Store and Minihack is the one that I keep on my homescreen. It meets all of the criteria you listed, including the bonus ones, and the dev has done a great job at keeping the app up to date and bug-free.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id6...

Again, why the focus on the average person? Does the average person actively, directly participate in space industry? No. Has the average person been profoundly affected by the technologies developed by space programs? Undeniably.

It's great that you take such a pragmatic approach!

I recommend this article [0] by Mark Lynas [1] that explains the arguments that convinced him to go from a vocal anti-GMO activist to, what he calls, a pro-science environmentalist. (I think the hip term now is "eco-modernist"). From the article:

What happened between 1995 and now that made me not only change my mind but come here and admit it? Well, the answer is fairly simple: I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.

[0] http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/conservation-a...

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

You need to reframe the question. The interviewer isn't interested in the challenge, they are interested in the how you solved it and why it matters.

What is the most meaningful contribution you've made?

What part, the product or the size of the investment?

You can try it out directly in your browser:

http://hub.gravit.io/browser/

Yes, we published our first technical white paper earlier this year. PDF available here:

http://transatomicpower.com/white_papers/TAP_White_Paper.pdf

Nuclear engineer here. Definitely not in the software industry, but still do a bit of coding, albeit mostly in Fortran because (most) reactor design software stays pretty far from the bleeding edge.

I come to HN for the startup culture discussions. Even though my field is pretty far from the software/tech field, it's pretty amazing how much of the startup experience remains the same.

For those interested, my startup, Transatomic, is developing a molten salt reactor that's cheaper than coal and (hopefully) as cheap as natural gas, just without the greenhouse gas emissions.

We just closed our first round of VC funding from Peter Thiel and Founders Fund a few days ago. More details here:

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2014/08/05/nuclear-waste-start...

The tried find one but had no luck. The closest I found was this github repo, whose Readme file is only a single line description of the app.

https://github.com/thedillonb/RepoStumble

Asus RT-ACxxx. I have the earlier version of the router reviewed in the link, but I bought it for the same reason that this review recommends it: it's the best consumer AC router available.

http://www.cnet.com/products/asus-ac2400-rt-ac87u-dual-band-...

Co-founder of Transatomic here.

I'm not sure what you mean with your first point, but your concern with corrosion was solved in the 1970s at Oak Ridge National Lab, where they operated a molten salt reactor for four years. That reactor demonstrated that extremely low corrosion with a high-nickel alloy called Hastelloy-N, which is similar to the metals widely used to handle other high-temperature molten salts in industries like aluminum refining.

You can find more information on corrosion and material compatibility in section 2.5 of our technical white paper:

http://transatomicpower.com/white_papers/TAP_White_Paper.pdf

I was pleasantly surprised to see him on this list.

Looking forward to trying out the app! Do you need beta testers?

Did this guy seriously use the American Dream as a reason not to hate him?

Here is a great example of what not to do:

https://coingeneration.com

I see what you did there.

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Agreed. Authy is great.

Just signed up.

One suggestion: two-factor authentication. After so many hacks, 2FA should be available on any site that holds users' bitcoin.

Probably not. It's commonly assumed that the development of grid-scale energy storage will enable a large-scale transition to intermittent renewables like solar and wind. In reality, it will just entrench the lowest cost energy source. If you can store large amounts of energy, why not use it with a natural gas plant that produces electricity at much lower costs than solar or wind?

Comic Sans is a nice touch.

Please tell me you're joking.

Is US electricity consumption the cause of "gluten intolerance"?

http://www.rmi.org/Content/Images/KnowledgeCenter/RFGraph/US...

The answer may surprise you.

The Germans actually lost the air war by themselves despite a huge technological advantage over the Allies. The Germans developed something of a love affair with the dive bomber. They were effective early in the war, but once Allied dog fighters caught up with their German counterparts, dive bombers became obsolete. The Germans continued pumping out dive bombers at the expense of producing more relevant fighters. It ended up costing them the air war.

The cameras are already there.

What is UBL?

It's early...

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