jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
edit: s/mwbs/bs/g; per comment below

Well, X-rays cause cancer. BS uses X-rays So it is a cancer risk.
And it is a little more founded than someone randomly saying' this causes cancer'.

In terms of risk...

This says dental x-rays are about 2-3 mrem:
http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/dental.htm

This says BS is about .006-.009 mrem:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/backscatter.htm

Keep in mind that under certain models (the 'no-threshold model'), any amount of exposure (even a tiny amount) to an X-ray is a slight increase in the chance that that person will get cancer.

Now you might think that because dental x-rays are about 300 times more powerful than BS, dental x-rays have a much higher chance to cause cancer. Sure, individually, my chances of getting cancer from a BS are much lower than my chances of getting cancer from a dental x-ray. It is even higher from daily background radiation, or from the radiation that you get from flying in an airplane.

But everything is about context. How many people fly each day? 2 million or so? How many people do we propose to put through the BS machine? All of them? (I assume the intent is to eventually replace the metal detectors with these). If you are putting 2 million people through the BS each day, that is actually large amount of radiation exposure. Probabilistically, someone will get cancer from the BS.

There are certain types of radiation that you can avoid (x-raying your foot for fun! backscatter machines), and there are certain types of radiation that you cannot avoid (background cosmic).

I don't see how the argument that it is 'nothing' in comparison to other forms of radiation really stands up, in that I could potentially avoid backscatter radiation, whereas I couldn't conceivably avoid the other types.

(This doesn't take into account other real issues, like 'what if the machine breaks down and we start blasting people with focused beams of radiation'... while trained to run the machine, I doubt that the TSA people are trained to maintain the machine, or would even know if something had gone horribly wrong with it).
I agree with the idea, but disagree with the choice of name.
Haml is great for structure, not for content. Chris Eppstein wrote a great post on this that worth reading:

http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2010/02/08/haml-sucks-f...
Dupe from a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011564
He titled it "I Hate Haml." There are better ways to ask for help.

PS - Pointing out my misspelling of "flame-bait" is flame-bait.
Power turns you into an asshole. When I was in the Navy, I got temporarily assigned to ship's security. I saw a lot of people go from being happy-go-lucky sailors to yelling at their fellow shipmates for having haircuts slightly out of regulation. Look no further than the Stanford prison experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
I think you just coined a brilliant new technical term. We should totally start using it.

Steerage: n. A computer storage pool with more limited characteristics than the device's primary storage, commonly with inferior throughput performance and an inability to store a boot partition or executable software.
For carcinogenic purposes (what we are discussing here), no.

The fractionation effect only comes into play when you receive such a high radiation does that it can cause large amounts of cell death. Similarly, being burned (with fire) twice at low intensity is better than being burned once at high intensity, since your body can partially recover after the first burn.
DJB said in his recent talk that Microsoft is going to adopt "26 new curves", and he seemed pretty happy about it. But I'm not sure whether that means Microsoft will support Curve25519 or not. If they will indeed support 26 new curves, but they won't support Curve25519, that would be pretty silly of them.
Yeah, the now deleted comment said something about a bug with the site.
Not sure about trying to predict the future, but it sure reads the same way.
> All modern browsers and operating system employ anti-aliasing on text to some degree. Textual anti-aliasing is agnostic about whether or not your font is made up of letters and numbers or pictograms. This has the potential for negative side-effects in terms of visual quality, especially if you stack glyphs to make multicolor icons. Your icons may look blurry or misaligned.

To add to this point. On normal DPI screens, aliasing often just looks blurry, and the automatic font hinting that's used on most custom fonts is A T R O C I O U S, if you disable anti-aliasing. System default fonts are usually OK and look crisp without aliasing, since they've been expensively manually-hinted, but requiring icon fonts makes it difficult for the user to use them on your site.

I hate aliasing, so I hate all web fonts, not just icon fonts.
While they do have such programs, that's almost certainly not what's happening.
The next sentence has a link explaining the differences: http://lyonbros.github.io/composer.js/pages/comparison

Things Composer.js provides that are not in Backbone: Generic class system, filtered collections, controller-collection tracking, granular silencing of events, router-provided auto link binding, controller event inheritance.
The details were not part of the reporting and it seems like many HN readers were not aware of the details until the links to the court document were posted.

What happened to him is clearly not acceptable, but the story is not "Learning Arabic got me arrested" but "handing a list of words including 'bomb' and 'terrorist' to a security screener got me arrested".

I'm not sure the Arabic is relevant - I suspect the NSA screener could not read the Arabic and could only read the English portion of the flashcards, and that he would have had similar results if the cards were in English and French.
But see, if they'd been using Linux, they would have had the kernel source and they could have patched the SIGFPE handler to do a virtual longjmp back to the part of the program that did form entry.
Food, housing, and small luxuries are necessities. They are not a recipe for a good life unless you are pacified by trite platitudes.

Wealth is relative, but progress is not.

What happens when you get old? What happens why somebody else needs your help? What happens if you have a good idea and nobody to listen to it?
I don't feel like any truly compelling applications of VR were presented here. I find it plausible that eventually we'll find ways to leverage VR effectively for development, but we've still barely managed to make a mouse useful for coding, so it feels like it's probably a long way off.
“We are motivated to work toward a cure that can be accessible and affordable to patients worldwide,”

Sickle Cell is prevalent in some populations because the gene mutation is protective against malaria. (Probably only beneficial if you have one copy, not two.)

I hope they will keep this in mind and work to eradicate malaria hand-in-hand with trying to eradicate the genes that are protective against it when they look to take it global.
Besides if Tao has a claim to fame among the general public it’s because he was a child prodigy (a good story!). It’s hard to find some article about him that doesn’t mention his extraordinary childhood accomplishments.
Original article is here (German):

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2013-08/trusted-compu...

Die Zeit is probably the most highly regarded weekly in Germany, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Zeit
Isn't OpenCVS being worked on too? I don't think it's decentralized though.
Complaints are only valuable insofar as they are constructive.

What should they have done differently? If bank lending really was frozen solid, is the argument that it would have been better for the Fed not to make these loans, and not turn a profit in doing so?

There's some vague hand waving here about competitors who may also have been affected by the credit freeze who may not have received similar details, but I'm not seeing any specifics.

Are you simply complaining that there may be something to complain about?
Care to elaborate? I'm not sure what you're referring to here..
One box? One box is never a good idea for an application that is relied upon. You need to have redundancy (geographic even better), load-balancing, etc.

Sure, you may roll your own anything, but you are better off outsourcing much of that to cloud providers today. Freeing you to focus on your application that provides value to your users, not worrying about how to properly architect and scale telephony solutions.
I'm perfectly familiar with database queries, but pulling a list of email addresses doesn't do anything. The problem is what you do when you have the list of email addresses.
>Hosting on a home-based server is not possible as my ISP scans for and blocks HTTP servers, on any port

Really? Exactly how often does your ISP perform this banner-scrape of all 65535 ports for every customer? Last time I checked that could take hours for each person. And have you considered fuzzing the shit out of their protocol parser?
No. Drummond and Cauty hacked the popular music industry in the late 80s, then literally wrote the book on how to do it.

Compared to them Gaga is a script kiddie.

Take Gaga's attitude and bluster away and you have Dale Bozzio. Interesting -- her stuff was more listenable and she looked cuter in those ridiculous outfits.
I myself, and some of my colleagues, have signed up from time to time since the thread 144 days ago, and we have yet to receive a single invite among us.
I've also noticed some strange behavior based on those types of keywords on Facebook as well, but there is something more than just the keyword itself. I believe there there is some sort of user reputation rating or other algorithmic factor (or maybe even their own friends reporting the content) -- because certain people on my feed get demoted faster than others.

Unfortunately unless the algorithm is disclosed to the public (IMO it should) nobody will know with certainty.
My own trust in authorities is eroded by more recent and basic things than your list of horrific things.

For example, Afghanistan - decades of war, thousands of American lives, trillions of dollars - all for no clear purpose and whatever we did accomplish there seems to have been reversed in a weekend. The Taliban are still in charge of the country and there was never any accountability for the policy and military failures.

Trump is another example. I often feel like I've walked out of a theater after seeing a convoluted movie. I'm left asking things like "So, was Trump a Russian agent?" If our intelligence services thought he was, then their plan was just to run him down in the press for several years? If they didn't then the mainstream media was misrepresenting them for years?

Most major things fall into this category of "I can't believe our government could possibly be this bad." Climate change - we need green energy but also haven't approved a new nuclear reactor in decades. Infrastructure - it costs infinity billion dollars to build a train, and a new public restroom will take most of a decade. Economy - we're just going to create trillions and trillions of dollars at ever increasing rates and that will be fine somehow. Pandemic - almost too much to talk about stuff going wrong.

I could go on and on but the main thing is that the people in charge, the government and the media, seem incompetent to a degree that beggars belief. Why should I trust these people?
I know you're kidding, but I want to note that UTF-256 isn't enough. There's an Arabic ligature that decomposes into 20 codepoints. That was already in Unicode 20 years ago. You can probably do something even crazier with the family emoji. These make "single characters" that do not have precomposed forms.
Wow this is really fun!

Enjoy your $1M from NYT in a month.
There's money laundering; have a front business and gradually mix in a bit of the illegal money and pretend it came from the business. That's how mobsters do it.
Oh yeah, I guess I didn't feel the need to spell it out in my original post but I'm trying to move. The problem is all my family is in the states, so my options are limited and expensive. I don't think we have a truly walkable city besides New York, and I love New York but that's as far away from my western and Hawaiian family members I can get while staying in the US.
There’s a layer of ice on all the roads right now outside.
Math isn't concerned with "practically straight", so it won't make a difference.

For example, consider the number 2 and 2.000000000001. To engineers and scientists, these two numbers are basically the same, and there's no practical difference. To a mathematician, the former is an integer, and the latter isn't - you could add as many zeros to the second number as you want, and the difference won't go away, unless you add an infinite number of zeros, at which point it becomes identical to 2.
I find lack of understandability to be a bigger problem for Perl and PHP -- for entirely different reasons.

And yet good clean code is written in these languages, and they are successful for better or worse.
That's less messed up than if you don't care about the thousands of people for whom you're writing several hundred pages. When you start telling people, "You should be happy to pay me an arbitrarily high price," that's your failure as a businessman. Unless your work is truly breathtaking, there's probably another author about as good as you who will sell his book at the price the market dictates. Your potential readers will be his actual readers, and thus they will care more about him than you.
"as they were HTTP POSTed in plain text."

Why on earth would you ever do that?
Printer hardware and usability need some help, too. In my office, the printers (and fax machines and copiers) are always jamming or difficult to replace the ink or paper without referring to the manual.

The office printer room actually has a huge poster: "How to fax in 12 easy steps". Ironically, the process is so "easy" that the poster lists more than 12 steps.
Thats ridiculous. Sony should feel in debt to their customers for such a security breach. I hope they catch the people responsible and give them jobs!
What is it built in?
Postmortem? This damn thing isn't over. A client's RDS database is still not completely accessible, we can't make or restore backups and are waiting for the AWS clean-up crew to get to us and hopefully repair the damage.
I think the idea of suing for only a dollar is to show that it isn't about the money. I can relate to the frustration experienced when you can't get in touch with a human being through a website--especially when its a non-web based company.

I doubt FB would setup a call center--imagine the call volume! That said, maybe an online chat with a support person? Or an open chat forum to ask questions to other users with a few FB specialist who are also available?

Maybe they already have this... I have no idea.
Brutal AND snarky - "Hey guys ... I proved that Einstein was wrong!"

Curiously, I've forgotten his name already.
On which side are you ._.
It all started with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbNnNF9JHFQ

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/03/unsung_heroes_of_tec...

ARM low power consumption was an accident caused by financial constrains. Small team with no money (Acorn was starting to go downhill at the time) forced Sophie Wilson/Steve Furber team to be clever with resources.

In 1987 hand routed ARM2 build with 30K transistors ran at 8MHz reaching 4 MIPS (of 32bit operations). Coincidentally Intels 386 build by an army of hundred engineers supplemented by state of the art emulation/validation/automation software (Mossim etc, &) and divided into large groups working on individual parts of the design achieved ... 4 MIPS at 33MHz using 275K 2x smaller transistors and >20x the power.

&http://webee.technion.ac.il/people/kolodny/ftp/IntelCADPaper...

&software born from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead_%26_Conway_revolution and following Darpa programs
It's obfuscated.
You're right... I copied it from the top search result (http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html), which seems to be the 1920 version. There have been others since, and Wikipedia uses the newer wording.
The goal of the government is to maximize welfare.

I would say that in this case, your so-called "government favouritism" and "sketchy business practices" benefits citizens immensely.

"MTR trains boast a 99.9% on-time arrival rate. Fares are notoriously cheap ($.50 to $3)"

Moreover, a lot of systems that maximize public welfare are often monopolized and subsidized by the government. Do you think having myriad companies running various train tracks in a city would be beneficial? Or would one unified system make more sense? I think the evidence points to an unmistakable answer.
Yeah, we can all quote from Wikipedia. Here's another interesting quote about Helium:

*Moses Chan, Evan Pugh Professor of Physics at Penn State, explains that the world's supply of helium is a byproduct of natural gas production, with the Texas Panhandle arguably being the helium capital of the world. However, says Chan, "Very few natural gas wells in the world have enough helium in the well to make it economical to separate helium from natural gas. The gas wells with the most helium have only about 0.3 percent, so it is in short supply." In response to the element's scarcity, the United States has been stockpiling helium since the 1960s in a National Helium Reserve called the Bush Dome, a deep underground reservoir outside of Amarillo, Texas. By the mid 1970s 1.2 billion cubic meters of the gas was stored there. The current reserve is approximately 0.6 billion cubic meters, or roughly 4 times the current world market. But, Chan notes, in 1996 the Helium Privatization Act mandated that the Department of the Interior sell off all the stockpiled helium by 2015. "As a consequence," he says, "the United States government is selling the equivalent of 40 percent of the world market of helium at a below-market price." This action discourages the active exploration of helium," Chan explains, "since companies can buy it from the United States at a cheap price and sell it at a premium."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-04-probing-helium.html#jCp
Really interesting, thanks. Hopefully I'll have some time to try it soon!
I'll believe you when I see a warning from Facebook castigating investigators for using their service for those purposes.
The difference between mixins and traits is basically that traits happens at compile-time, where mixins are a run time feature. PHP is a bit odd in that it has static object model, where classes are defined as final entities at compile time, then used at run time. Traits hook in at the compile time level. This is unlike most comparable languages (Such as Ruby), where classes are run time constructs.

While odd, and somewhat limiting, there is also some benefit to the static object model that PHP has. It gives some point of certainty in a language that is otherwise very dynamic. In general, it leads to easier-to-reason-about code.

All with the IMHO disclaimer, understood.
Or just build your own. It's super easy with the API's and can be customized with much better search-and-match rules than anything out in the wild.

Some of my personal favorite stats are to watch people who RT more than once over a set time period about the competition.

"Like terms" is also handy because then you can add terms that are directly related but not identical to your competitor.

I'm sure that the big brand folks are already doing this and that there are paid tools ... but on a smaller scale, it's fast and easy to whip this sort of monitoring up.

The hard part is figuring out what these people want. You really need to have an insight into the weaknesses of your competition to accomplish that.
At least one game programmer is recommending sticking with integers for distances. " 64 bits of precision gets you to the furthest distance of Pluto from the Sun (7.4 billion km) with sub-micrometer precision. "

http://home.comcast.net/~tom_forsyth/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BA%...
I switched to Vim because to me it seems that TM2 is vapourware. I know Allan is trying to get it right with his second go but he is so coy about any sort of details that I lost interest in it.
You're going to make those types of generalizations based on a blog that just started and has two posts?
I wish they could support Inkscape. Anyone wants some XKCD pictures on their furnitures? Now that I want to see
I'm being pedantic but, isn't it "Vim" not "VIM"? I seem to remember seeing something like a usage suggestion on the site but can't find it. It just looks silly to me, like when people write "LISP."
While you're right about that point, there is a reason why conflicts are allowed: inheritance chain ([1] for demo) which provides you a VERY powerful tool for chain-combining traits.

[1] http://www.dcmanges.com/blog/20
Presumably inspired by http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2006/08/01/text-ed...
Taking a step back, I think this is an excellent example of how most people are woefully ignorant about copyright. The vast majority of people think nothing of infringing copyright - they use images from Flickr without bothering to check the license, they forward e-mails, they post & repost videos to Youtube, they download & share music & video & software with their friends without a care in the world.

Why? Because that's the natural way to use the Internet, and (despite the recorded music industry's best efforts) nobody has ever pointed out to them that it's illegal. They copy on the Internet like fish swim in the sea.

What Marak did is wrong, and I feel for the guy who had his code nicked. It's happened to me - Wordpress today contains my code in blatant violation of the license under which I published it. When that happened it annoyed me at first, but ultimately I decided to let it go because any complaint would be met by blank incomprehension. When your stuff is taken by "kids on the Internet", you can't just call them out on it, you have to educate them into a whole new way of thinking. And life's too short for that.
Probably next week,

If it'll work out, I'll try to make this a monthly event,
You might ping Hiten Shah, or at least listen to his interview on Mixergy, where he talks about how he and Neil Patel lost $500,00 trying to start a hosting company.
Nicely done, a good clean approach utilising current logs so no increase on server overheads by running the app, that I can tell.
Upvoted for the "then they fight you" aspect. Fringe language practitioners need to hang together :)
"Dear the internet, I know that serious companies have used certain cool languages to do amazing things. However, my benchmark of a trivial HTTP server demonstrates that BASIC is still the language of the future."
There are a couple of comments here about the phrase "destroy the world" normally referring to life on earth.

In that vein I'd like to say that killing all life currently within 6500 kilometers of the Earth's center of mass is, in some ways, harder than simply destroying the Earth.

Take for instance the humble Water Bear they range from microscopic to a millimeter in size and can survive being frozen to within a degree of 0k and have survived 10 days in hard vacuum, during which time eggs were laid and hatched. It seems likely that any of the various "disassemble Earth" methods would fail to kill them. Similarly any chunk of Earth with a sealed ecosystem, like some caves, might continue to keep going indefinitely.

Killing everything might require vaporizing the planet in the sun or eating it with a black hole.
I still remember typing in pages of A4 sheets of code for a football management simulator on my commodore 16, reading every line to try and figure out where I could alter a line or two to give me an edge in the game over my brother :-) good times!
For example, new browsers with search bar functionality etc.

new?
If you get a 3 room apartment for $800 a month in SF, then why are people there always whining about super high rents?