jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's not very hard to solve this problem. At work, we just have a bunch of small cubbies where everyone keeps their dosimeters. When you come in, you take it out and put it on; when you leave, you take it off and put it in. Occasionally people forget to take their dosimetry off, but it's not a big deal–it's extremely unlikely you're going to receive a significant dose outside of the facility (although you are constantly receiving a low-level radiation dose from cosmic rays, and, if you're below ground, from radon gas). I should mention that I work at a test reactor where the typical dosage is so low that the Federal Government doesn't even require us to track employee dose. I get more dose from flying cross-country several times a year[1] than I do working at the reactor. So, I don't know how dosimetry policy differs at power reactors.

Regardless, I think it would be particularly illuminating if there <i>were</i> false positives. Why not have employees who are concerned wear dosimeters constantly, and at the same time stick reference dosimeters near where they usually stand while a scanner is in operation. If their dose is roughly the same as that of the reference dosimetry, there's not much room to complain about the scanners.

The fact is we are being constantly bombarded by low-level radiation from cosmic rays and radon gas simply by virtue of standing on the surface of the earth. The level of radiation these scanners output is much smaller than that. Wikipedia[2] cites an article in the European Journal of Radiology that gives a dose range for backscatter machines of between 0.07 and 6 micro-Sieverts. For reference, the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements reports that the annual radiation dose from naturally occurring radiation is on the order of several hundred micro-Sieverts [3].

TSA employees have a right to be concerned, because they are involuntarily being exposed to it as a course of their job, without this being made clear to them when they were hired. If you're a traveler, you should be much more concerned about the radiation dose you receive on the plane than the one you receive from the scanner.

[1] Health Physics Society page on radiation exposure on commercial airflights: http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/commercialflights.....
[2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Backscatter_X...
[3] http://hps.org/documents/environmental_radiation_fact_sheet....
Developers like solving challenges, look at how popular topcoder is. The money's not the important thing for a lot of people.
Workflowy looks... almost identical to Google Tasks.
The writing is difficult to read, but the moral of the story is good: Effectiveness = Technology * People. Zoltan had good people to compensate for antiquated technology, whereas NATO had modern tech, but the human factor negated much of the tech advantage.

Also, the title is misleading. The article is more about how to hide than how to neutralize the F-117. Being nimble, using landlines, and understanding the enemy helped Zoltan outfox those who would try to stop him.
yeah. don't get why everyone didn't just convert to string after the last twitpocalypse
Last year, S&P 500 companies sent 95% of profits back to shareholders, through dividends and buybacks: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-24/private-com....
Bits can move anywhere in the world. Our jobs could be done from anywhere labor is stupid cheap, as long as the workers have the knowledge.

Someone has to come in person to clean your toilet, and can't be outsourced to the cheapest locale.
Bulky? My Kindle is smaller in every dimension than any book I've ever read. As for 13" tablets, I don't want a 13" tablet for reading gumshoe novels.

I think there is a sharp divide that needs to be drawn. Biology textbooks require an entirely different kind of device than Harry Potter. Books already acknowledge this- the paper, size, ink, hell even the binding & covers are completely different.

I agree that the biology-textbook-format readers have a ways to go, although I think that's largely a question of demand. There is little market interest in a 14" 4x3 tablet (which is the digital equivalent to the 8.5x11 format). I'm bummed because I have a number of magazines and reference books I'd like to have on tap.
I want to read Glenn Danzig's tales of statisticians.
This really isn't true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_c#Objective-C_2.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_c#Automatic_Reference...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_c#Blocks

Objective-C also suffers from C interop considerations that make it more difficult to extend and evolve the language than something like C# or Java.

(None of this is to denigrate the wonderful work MS has done when it comes to language innovation.)
Great thing to wonder about!

In the Lean Startup sense, the M is about minimum effort, and the V is about viability with customers. You're basically playing Battleship trying to discover where those two Venn circles overlap.

Different aspects of quality map to both those circles. There's build quality, which relates to the sustainability of the code base. There, you have to consider both short- and long-term quality. [1]

There's also quality as users perceive it. That varies widely by domain by market, and by how far you are along the adopter curve.

My general answer is the same as yours: minimal features with highly sustainable code. But for experiments, I think you can get away with terrible code as long as you a) throw it away quickly, and b) you are on it so even if you have a bad MTBF, your MTTR is really good.

I also think that you can tactically discard certain kinds of user-side quality. E.g., if I'm making a product for early-adopter financial traders, I'm not going to worry about quality of visual design, and I might inflict hard-to-learn interfaces on them. But I'd be rigorous about accounting and about UI issues that might lead to mistaken trades.

[1] I wrote some about that here: http://agilefocus.com/2009/06/22/the-3-kinds-of-code/
> Any plans about how to develop and/or maintain this in the future?

Yes, I plan to continue developing and supporting it although I don't think I'll add too many features since I try to keep it focused.

> Is this anyhow involved in a commercial operation, i.e., where you or other devs can get paid to invest some (maintenance) work into it?

Yes, I use it professionally and can use some paid time to work on it. One of the reasons to post it here was to get some other devs eyes on it and to make it easier to bring on new hires by hopefully building a small community.
If the Left didn't want the Right to be mean to them maybe they shouldn't have called them nazis and deplorables.
Didn't we have an election? How is this a purge?
Not OP, but I'd gladly have a discussion with some coal miner who felt like politicians weren't representing him and fell for the populist rhetoric Trump would sometimes use.

The reason? I don't think that sort of person voted for Trump because of the idea of Trump or a cult of personality. They simply got duped and there are better solutions to their problems.

The folks that stormed D.C. are too far gone at this point.
Yeah their hesitation shouldn't have happened.
They shouldn't have issued those weird corrections to his statements either, they would have had MORE credibility had they come down sooner by actually assigning someone to give the public legitimate reasons for them to ban him.
In Dutch we have a saying, which roughly translates to "a lunatic can ask more questions than ten philosophers can answer". I feel it's quite apt here too.
I truly want to know by what metric Tim Pool is anything close to the most popular journalist in the world.

Pool seems to have ~1 million subscribers, which is less than the NYT or WaPo. Not to mention TV news. Rachel Maddow gets ~3 million viewers daily, which is similar to Tucker Carlson and Hannity.

And that doesn't even begin to cover things like NBC or ABC nightly news.
The fact that noncompete clauses are apparently unenforceable in CA, and nowhere else, means CA always has an advantage. So while people may have moved due to COVID, those who stay will innovate faster, keeping the startups rolling off the assembly line.
The problem is half the country sees the world in a different way. They already are yelling "censorship".
Did they use an outside recruiter? In that case the recruiter should know the size, and if they are (as is typical) on commission, are incentivized to suggest to you a number at the high end of the range since their commission will be higher. They are also incentivized to not suggest a number too high for you but sadly most are not that clued in.

Since this is your first full time gig, you can always say so (since they know already from your resume) and simply say "I don't know what's a reasonable wage in this city; I'm excited to work for you and expect to be treated fairly". You can find from glassdoor what other companies in that city are paying -- if they are in the neighborhood of those prices, go for it.

After all if you later find out they are screwing you you can use your experience to go find a better, better paying job. In the mean time you can learn stuff and do good work for them -- once you leave (for whatever reason) you can do so with your head high.
Roma and Arena: Roma II are excellent 2 player only games. Sub 1 hour and good strategy.

I would disagree with you on TS, as it is one of the simplest two player games with any depth I have ever played. My wife owns a game store; I have played a great many two player games.
My guess is diabetes or heart disease.
That megavideo link is shit. Here's a better one:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3684218/National.Geographic....
Is there a good HN- or Digg-style gaming news site out there? Besides the big blogs like Kotaku and Gamesradar and stuff, I mean.
No kidding. There was a comic about this a while back.

http://okcancel.com/comic/3.html
At the risk of being flippant, it seems obvious and the article even mentioned it. The airlines are short of cash, and new technology on this scale is not cheap (or quick or easy). I'd bet the airlines are big believers in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
I also had the impression that he was arguing against people who may not exist in any significant number or position.
In the uk where there are 5 competing GSM networks, you can get 10GB for £15 ($22) as a microsim for the iPad with no contract. You can do even better if you're willing to sign up for a long period.

AT&T's deal is more than 5 times the price of that. Is there a good explanation for this other than lack of competition?
As others have said; objects in programming languages do not map well to objects in the real world because a. the real world is vastly more complicated than any constructed abstraction, and b. our minds permit vagueness whereas computers do not.

It is not the case, anyway, that say nouns map to real-world objects for example. There are infinitely many variations and intricacies in the way we humans interpret nouns, many of which are entirely context-based. That is another issue - PLs do not have a sense of context the same way we humans do (which is probably a good thing as I'd rather a PL be less vague than a highly context-sensitive conversation with a friend.)

For an indication of the depth of complexity of natural language and the philosophical difficulties therein, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is a good place to look - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_investigations.

I do think there is a deeper issue with objects in that the environment in which they are constructed often fails to permit the kind of complicated interrelation that the concept of the object should actually have, i.e. there is not enough freedom to compose and combine objects in a way entirely cohesive with the way you think of the object. However that has less to do with the relationship between natural language and programming and more to do with the limitations of oop itself.
I think parental controls are more about the parent(s) feeling good about themselves. Most probably realize they can't stop their kids from seeing this stuff one way or another but if they are proactive and enable parental controls they can feel like they did everything possible to prevent it.
Not true.

Sometimes, contracts are written such that the contractor must provide all of its source code to the military. In these cases, DoD pays a significant premium. As budgets tighten, this practice has become less and less common. Nowdays it's typically only done if there is an expectation that the code will be used, built upon, and modified for a significant length of time, in which case it would be cost-effective for the government to own the code so that they can bid out future work competitively.
Suse and non-Suse instances run on the same hardware at different prices.
I wonder how much worse our internal combustion engines would be if we'd spent half the money that we spent on improving them on batteries instead.
It seems to me like that kind of concentrated power would be capable of vaporizing any small particles (or even turning them into plasma briefly) in the way.
I think it might make HN a smaller place. Because the current design of the site puts so little emphasis on usernames, it is difficult to know if a comment I am reading is coming from someone I've read before. Just as in the real world there are some people who I listen to more carefully than others, I'd like to discover who those people are here.

The current voting system shows us on a comment by comment basis what is liked most by the entire community of HN. I'd like to be able to see who I like on a person by person basis.
Jobs tend to 'move' to areas where lower monetary compensation is required.

Would you have the same complaints about fair market compensation if an employer starts hiring software developers in low-cost of living areas like Mississippi or Louisiana instead of San Francisco or NYC.
Yes, but the point is that this "coordinating" can be done without users having to update browsers themselves.
I run a slightly bigger startup than the one you're at and FWIW, I really appreciate it when employees tell me that they are looking for work elsewhere. If you are an engineer (I assume you are since you are talking/worrying about technical debt) you are extremely employable. You will probably get a much better opportunity if you are able to look around while at your current company. Interviewing behind your companies back can be logistically tough and can lead to a worse offer.

It's possible that your company might march you out the door if you tell them you are leaving. I think this would be a real asshole move and not in their interest but it could happen. If this puts you in a major financial bind it might not be worth the risk, but if you are ok with this I think it is probably better for you to let them know.

I don't think you have an obligation to let them know but I think it's probably in your interest.
This shot never works, but if it does....huge.
In Zynga case there's no material difference between

* asking an employee to give up a certain number of options

* firing the employee, making further option vesting impossible

By not firing immediately and by not requesting 100% of options be cancelled out, Zynga was actually playing nice. If you were among people affected by that offer, the writing as far as future career prospects at Zynga was on the wall.
Heroku uses "follower", which is much less jarring.
I've nearly gone bankrupt due to AMT on ISOs, and I've also been forced to put up considerable money to exercise Non-Quals after leaving the company. I definitely applaud Pinterest's move here. My former employer went public, the top execs are still making a ton of money, and yet Finance still hasn't implemented a similar post-termination plan. A lot of former colleagues are still at the company due to 'mildly-golden' handcuffs-- the tax liability that their options present is now large and complicated. Companies that fail to adopt changes like these disadvantage themselves in a variety of subtle but important ways.

What would be even better is if smaller companies / start-ups just did 83(b) elections up-front (say on day one or year one upon cliff). Another (for larger companies) option is to just offer RSUs.

The bottom line is that opportunities via tax law complexity are not particularly motivating to the majority of employees (i.e. ICs), and yet ICs are the most likely to suffer near-bankruptcy due to unexpected income tax. This is a nice step in the direction of transferring deserved wealth from 'the top' to ICs, but there's still plenty of progress to be had.
I'm running Chrome, Excel and Outlook right now on my 2 Gb, Win8.1 Pro x86 Atom tablet and it's great. What kind of problems are you imagining?

I love having full control on a tablet that lasts 10 hours and fits in most of my pants and jacket pockets.
The article advises paying attention to the mailing lists.

Is there a LWN style product covering OpenBSD (possibly with free/net as well?)
My advice is to work for the brazilian government. If you don't do anything, nobody will ever notice.
If you are on Linux it’s worth checking out PulseEffects [0]. Setting up gate, limiter, etc. is a great way to tune your audio and in a more robust way than some AI algorithm that only runs on some hardware.

[0]: https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects
Forgive me for my ignorance, but what is a "jelly bean" processor? Do you mean the "extremely cheap, almost no power consuming" processors?
Why not?

If you strictly and only tax consumption and property, you will have large segments of the population living hand-to-mouth, trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and and hard labor in a hole that requires super-human or generational effort to get out of. Meanwhile, those who started with a leg up will continue to accelerate their net-worth. There are people who "make money" by "having money" and under your rules those people would only pay taxes on the fees they pay to their money manager. We aren't THAT far from that now were it not for the miserly 15% investment income tax.

I realize the typical HN-libertarian-calvinist view is that everything needs to be transactional. Transactional down to the level that the taxes someone pays would ideally go towards the services that they as an individual use, and that everyone needs to work in order order to be "worthy" of a social-safety-net (assuming a safety-net has to exist, which isn't a given in such points of view). It doesn't have to be that way but sadly there are motions in that direction.
I'm not sure a webkit monoculture is good for the web in the long run. Having multiple browser engines compete is a really positive thing, as long as they are all going for standards compliance. Thankfully, even Microsoft have made huge moves in the right direction on that front.
Any recommendations in particular?
I too took this course as a freshman, and it was one of the most enlightening things I've ever done for my software engineering career. It's worth getting the most recent copy--it has a lot of corrections and entire new chapters on interesting things (automatons, lambda calculus, lattices, graphs...)

Let me know if you have any questions about its content or my experience.
It doesn't matter how many AES ciphertexts you collect. No number of them that physics suggests could ever be feasible will allow you to break the cipher. That's part of what makes one time pads so silly. The gap between the security margin of AES and the "infinite" security margin of a one time pad is totally meaningless in reality. Meanwhile, attempting to use a one time pad has huge collateral costs throughout the rest of the system.
The terrorists just got reelected in Israel too. I'm always amazed that Israelis believe their government's propaganda about "human shields" used to excuse terrorist acts like the bombing of UN schools.
1. It's OK to feed their ego. Explain that you are impressed with their knowledge and experience, and you are interested in learning from them. Confidently assert your ignorance (it's better than misrepresenting your abilities) and work to improve. Provide value however you can (even if it means doing menial work, unrelated to your primary job).

2. I don't know what is normal. What is normal for me may not be normal for society at large, and this may not be normal for the company you've joined.

3. I sure hope not.
His former job is most accurately described as "propagandist". The word "troll" is probably unsalvageable, one more victim of semantic creep.
claims google play music doesn't use deduplication for legal reasons. holy shit.
Glad to see the friend.ly team succeeding.
Whenever I'm in Sweden i just drive one road. The E4. I bet the asphalt per capita is probably pretty low compared to any other country. But still the quality of the roads don't compare to Denmark or the Netherlands for example which feel even more thought out and structured.
It’s a reference to the general claim about self driving cars, super batteries that make solar competitive, etc. these things are always just 5 years away forever.
Yes, which is always why I always cringe when I see how many people in their 20s and 30s believe that home ownership is a bad idea. The willingness to rent for life in order to live a high density, urban lifestyle is going to come back to haunt them when they get older. It's good for me as a landlord but I hope people my age start rethinking their position on home ownership.
Right, but I don't think anyone is arguing that.

Its when you modify the AGPL server code, and open that up, you have to release your modification.

So in you AGPL HTTP server example, the clients never are required to be open, but any changes you make to the server must have the source available.
> A medical team led by Nina P. Paynter of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston collected 101 genetic variants that had been statistically linked to heart disease in various genome-scanning studies. But the variants turned out to have no value in forecasting disease among 19,000 women who had been followed for 12 years.

...that's really not good. This sounds like the translation is: "Routine medical abuse of statistics so bad that 101 out of 101 'statistically significant' results failed to replicate."
There's a market for the data that's on them.

And get this -- when Apple sells you a "new" drive to replace the broken one, at 1.5 times what it would cost mail order, how much you want to bet it's someone else's broken hard drive that they got for free.
This is a really great post. Why more startups don't use something like RPX from JanRain is beyond me.
> But the people who are ruling the poor nations have a vested interest in the status quo, which is why the region is poor,

Not everywhere, and not in a perfectly unified way, which is why Romer got genuine interest in Madagascar and apparently has a couple of other possibilities on line. It only takes one place to get started.

Note that the article closes by talking about how Romer's bigger problem is finding rich countries willing to be sponsors of the charter cities. If what Romer wants is a new Hong Kong or Singapore, this does seem like a problem, at least if he's looking for sponsors among Western democracies.

I think it would be hilarious--and not entirely implausible--if nominally communist China ended up sponsoring Romer's first free-market-enterprise-zone charter city.

> Unless this changes, theorizing about changes is fruitless. Until Paul Romer or someone else has the wherewithal to MAKE changes, it's all air.

Persuasion, argument, and communicating a vision are ways to make changes, and they sometimes work.
Well this certainly sparks my interest. Could I ask for some recommendations for any books and articles on algorithms which take the current computer/memory architecture into account?
I'm currently reading "Mastering algorithms with C", and I had some other books in queue. But I'm always looking for some fresh content.