jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Please read up about e.g. statistics, [radiation] risks and Avogadro's number.

This cool xkcd link was posted just next to my GP comment: http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Look especially at the the varying background radiation levels -- and minimum level of radiation that has been proven to increase cancer risk. (And if you're trolling, go to the gym instead.)
Why exactly? The potential harm of the information being used by somebody for nefarious purposes?
I can't say I agree. My grandparents were interned at Tule Lake and they (along with my other Japanese-American family) prefer "internment" as the nomenclature.

"Concentration camp" implies something else entirely, to them.
Having to live there one summer for an internship, I was amazed at VTA light rail's route map - it seems to go to MV at one end, then a bunch of anonymous parking lots and not a single interesting place.

And none of the businesses seemed to be open anytime I was home, as if they just existed to run during NetApp's lunch hour. At least there's a grocery store now.

The zoning laws around Sunnyvale must be terribly strict for it to be so underdeveloped!
Plath and Dorothy Parker, never could choose between them.
Because of population growth, which is slowing but far from finished. If the population is getting larger and the economy is not, then there are fewer economic resources available per person. Also, even in a stable population, if there is no economic growth then there tends to be an increase in economic inequality, because then economic transactions are zero-sum in the aggregate (by definition) and so the people who have more money at the beginning have leverage in any economic negotiation, ie they are more likely to be price makers than takers.

Economics is efficient management of resources nothing else. Giving the population ability to stay healthy with affordable health care, moderate taxes and stability should be a main priority.

Those things are economics problems. 'Efficient management of resources' is really quite complex, even if everyone were agreed about what we consider efficient, which we're not.
There is also heavy advertising on existing transit. Subways, buses, and taxis in New York are plastered with ads.
I disagree. The economic growth is very much the problem. You can multiply abstract integers all you want and everything will be fine, but unfortunately the economy is coupled with the real world. Exponential growth means exponentially increasing resource use and energy needs, which is simply unsustainable. We need to cut off that exponent, or else the only singularity we will hit will be the brick wall of "oh shit, we just run out of habitable planets".
Checkout http://haiku.nytimes.com/

Sample Haiku:

Gusts of wind rising
up the chimney face blow his
feathers the wrong way.
> Growth and Peace aren't mutually incompatible aims.

Indeed, I'd offer that Economic Stagnation and Peace might be mutually incompatible situations.
> An increase in resource taxes doesn't necessarily mean an increase in consumer good prices.

Because income tax is taken out of a worker's gross pay, the Ex'tax plan is not going to substantially impact how much companies pay their workers. It will simply increase take-home pay. Assuming it's a revenue-neutral tax shift, three things happen:

- Workers with low incomes get a little bit more take-home money every month.

- Workers with high incomes get a lot more take-home money every month.

- Milk and eggs are uniformly more expensive.

That's why this is a regressive move that hurts people with low incomes.
Ok. I'll say it. I know very little of physics and maths. What features need to be observed to rule out the possibility of intelligent design in terms of the pulse?
With those numbers, that's about a 5.5% error margin at a 95% confidence level.
Great thanks, missed that. Be interesting to see the LP stuff.
Recruiter: I get the feeling that you're not really passionate about these languages and technologies.

Me: A language is a language. I'm passionate about working in a sane environment with good practices, delivering software that doesn't suck.
The same is the case for SkyDNS2. It runs just fine against our Etcd backends.

In both cases the combination (SkyDNS + Etcd or Consul) looks far less complicated than Mesos, so I don't really see what you think you gain. If you already have other reasons to want to run Mesos, sure.
You might also be interested in the MISRA C coding standard, which is geared towards reliability and safety rather than security. The MISRA C standard is fairly strict and mostly (but not entirely) machine checkable.

There was a Usenix talk on developing code for Mars rovers in which Gerard Holzmann pointed out that for large projects coding standards are much more effective when you have automated compliance checking.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotdep12/workshop-program/...

I note that there is a tool for checking the CERT rules called Rosecheckers:
http://www.cert.org/secure-coding/tools/rosecheckers.cfm?
It looks like it might be incomplete and/or outdated.

And the CERT pages include a reference to a deleted summary of other automated checkers such as Coverity and Klockwork:
https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...
While I love these recurring blog posts, it would be even nicer if Backblaze could wrap a public API and/or pretty interface around their live monitoring.

I'd happily pay a small fee for access to an up-to-date snapshot when I'm in the market for harddrives.
So basically, a WOPR's "the only winning move is not to play" moment?
The Tor project is not in the position to change or deprecate such things. On the contrary, if Chrome or Firefox would deprecate the referer, we could get rid of it, gradually.

The same is true for the worrisome behaviour of `window.name`.

As I said, mechanisms that rely on the referer for "authentication", such as image requests, are broken.
And you a response.
Boarrd looks pretty cool.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1812221
The problem with backing up with S3 is that if you ever stop paying for S3 you lose your backups. If you get sick for a month and your bank balance goes negative, or the IRS takes control over your account for something, there go your backups. I find that to be way more scary and likely than losing all of my DVD backups.
See my other comment - street view doesn't exist in directions on iPhone. The Android term for it is 'Navigation' but it amounts to seeing the view you'd see with your eyes, with a fat arrow pointing you where you need to go.

It's really useful, especially as I've only lived in London for two years.
You do have to be careful, it can be annoying on ARM chips certainly. If you're using GCC, __attribute__ ((packed)) fixes alignment issues.

This method is so much less error prone than pulling stuff out a byte at a time. Plus you can use unions for network addresses, etc.

It's a simplified example to show what you can do.
In Finland the most common reason is, that hardly any suitable rivers exist any more as they have been dammed.
Or get a 5-10 year support contract for things critical to your company's function?
Thanks Scott. I changed it in the description.
Unless you plan to switch your projects to a Lisp (by which I mean a general name for CL or Scheme) right away, I would recommend the following route:

1. Start with PLT Scheme/Racket. It's self contained, very well supported on all platforms, and Scheme is a leaner and cleaner language that will cause you less confusion in the beginning. This platform should be enough for you to learn Lisp and be enlightened by its idioms.

2. If in the future you plan to get serious with Lisp and write real projects in it, reconsider. You will have much more familiarity with the eco-system by then. Scheme vs. Common Lisp is a religious war of epic (= brace style) proportions, and it's not wise to get confused by it right when you start.
The whole story seems like a big cliche.
If anything, you'd expect lower fuel consumption for a given amount of power due to the reduced pumping losses.
This has been missing for a long time.

Part of the programmer culture appears (unfortunately) to include writing code and then thinking that explaining the thinking behind the code is beneath you.

This is evidenced by the very large percentage of open source releases where the first commit is a very polished codebase.
That cert is expired...
The notion of holding a Code Purge Day (as Quora did) is excellent. Searching out and removing cruft in the code base results in a benefit that's hard to measure but easy to understand. Having more compact code without confusing distractions leads to easier comprehension and ought to make for faster bug fixes.
>However, it's also a failure - in part, due to Brian and his attitude towards contributors.

Looks like he seems to be burned out - maybe he just wants something in return for his time investment e.g. a paid job or some other gratification in return for his work.

Btdt - you put a lot of work into something, people/companies start benefit from it but they don't return anything important (monetary compensation is not a bad thing -it allows one to pay the bills/go on holiday/get a life).

We've seen this "pattern" a lot in the OSS world, but saying a different attitude would "fix everything" is a lie. We (as in the Ruby community) need to crowd-fund independent developers who are not paid by companies for their OSS contribution IMHO.
obviously, the benefit is that they are not then out all that computing power! (for which they refund fees at a 100% loss.) I would think their gross profit isn't all that high - certainly not nearly 100% where they can do these refunds without a second thought or loss to them. it's like asking, if a store refunds things stolen from you, what is their incentive to reduce this theft? well, obviously, the fact that after these refunds they are out these goods. . . The only time they don't care is with 100% profit margin.

regarding your first point... they don't have to promise they will check for bitcoin mining by having a fraud prevention check in place. the fact that I cheerfully allow my bank to hold some transactions that look questionable to them while they verify with me, doesn't mean I will extend liability to them if they fail to hold a transaction or find it questionable. it's more a matter that they might refund me if I did not actually make a transaction (as with Amazon) so they want to cover themselves in some instances from this happening in the first place. more power to them.
The native uibutton is made of uiviews too
I think everybody wants to work in a high-performance culture where we reward people who are doing fantastic work...

This is typical superficial business talk about "culture." Dig what the humanists have to say about it: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3016238/why-your-startups-culture-...
That's where you will want to install f-droid. It is an alternate "app store" for free apps, with no crapware (they even re-compile the apps from source themselves, and do some level of auditing to remove unwanted "features" from some apps [ it is clearly stated in the descriptions when they do this though ]). BTW, the flashlight app from f-droid is a simple no-frills flashlight app without ads or anything.
I'm pleased it crashed, it is at a bargin compared to two months ago.

Looks like I'm going to get Bitcoin and more cryptocurrencies at a Black Friday discount then.

As soon as it shoots up over 15k again, selling your cryptocurrency just for black friday would be like spending 15k bitcoins over a pizza, but this time a mistake for millions to make.
I believe the basic number taught in Mandarin is 3.1415926, which fits in one second.
It's fine to not know what an operating system is. There are lots of areas of life where I'm almost totally ignorant. The difference is I wouldn't try to report on them before I learned very basic, elementary things about them. It's not too much to expect someone to learn "it's like Android or iOS" before professionally writing about it.
You know, I'm not sure I really need to hear from any more non-experts thinking out loud anymore. We've had enough of that. I want to hear from experts giving their carefully considered views.
Apologies, I wasn't able to stream the video at the time.

But it seems I've tried InoReader before, I'm giving it another shot.
> Here in the South, some pickup drivers modify their exhausts to spew toxic smoke ("rolling coal") which is clearly not an option with the Tesla...

They could always shoot a hole in the battery pack to do that.
An expert having learned a magnitude more has magnitudes more experience than a novice. This education and experience has taught him (or equally her) how much there is left to learn and how little we really know. In our field, we have learned humility... no, not really learned, so much as have had it beaten into us so harshly that there's no ignoring it. It becomes a part of us.

Conversely, this lack of experience and humility and the bubbling exuberance and over abundance of confidence that comes with inexperience tempts people to walk a path that someone with more experience dare never venture. It's these paths that help move us forward into the unknown.

Our confidence comes from different places. An expert's from the confidence that they know their place in the world. They've learned their reality, they've learned to build tools to deal with and capitalize on that reality. Their experience has taught them how to survive and, if they're lucky, prosper. While a novice's confidence is often borne out of idealism, hope, arrogance, ego and sheer audacity.

There is not only room for this in the world but, I believe, a need for it. That we need each other for humanity to move forward.
Also keep in mind that elite schools have a selection bias to kids from much more affluent backgrounds. Affluent kids often have parents with friends in the industries they are entering. So take the data with a grain of salt unless they controlled for factors like that.
You don't need to be on a VPN, just make a new account, set a profile picture and bio, and it'll be locked if you don't have a phone.
So, there's been 11 years of plot since then. But hey, that's cool, to each their own.
By "these people", you mean Justin Gillis of the New York Times?

What do you care what the terminology is? Our climate doesn't really give a crap if you call it 'warming' or 'changing.' That has nothing to do with data.

I don't think you could be missing the point more if you tried.
Yeah, I really dislike hoteling, because I'm not in an office - I'm in a weird office display space, like you'd find in Office Depot or Ikea. If you're giving me space, give me space I can decorate and make my own.
This is why the landing pad is run autonomously.
I'll take a swing at this, being an infectious disease epidemiologist.

When people talk about the "effectiveness of the vaccine", what's actually happening is that they're talking about a smear of different things, which is why you're (justifiably) confused.

There's a few different aspects to think about:

1) When people say things like "The Moderna vaccine is 95% effective", the statistic they're citing is that in a clinical trial, the participants in the treatment arm of the trial had 5% of the outcomes the study was tracking as compared to the treatment arm. In the case of the early vaccine trials, this is stuff like...well...death or severe disease requiring ICU treatment.

It importantly does not mean you have a 5% chance if you get COVID. You have 5% of whatever the chance of someone who didn't have the vaccine has.

There's a reason that endpoint was chosen. A few actually. First, it's the most important one from a public health standpoint, in terms of immediately addressing the pandemic. It's also straightforward and unambiguous to study, which paves the way for faster licensing and thus getting it into the arms of the public. Studying things like if a vaccine is enough to induce herd immunity is much harder as a statistical problem.

Note that I haven't said anything about stopping the epidemic here. That's because this endpoint doesn't measure that. It's possible, for example, that the vaccine can protect you by reducing the severity of an infection, but that that would just push it to an asymptomatic infection that can be passed to others. That's why there's still public health messaging about wearing a mask even if you're vaccinated, etc.

2) There are follow up studies, which are still being done (and for which we are starting to get results) about whether or not the vaccine also reduces whether or not you can give the virus to others. This is what most people think of when we think about vaccines.

3) We don't know how long it will last, but it's likely fairly long lasting, and this is something that we can (and are) monitoring to make sure people don't need booster shots, etc.

4) Herd immunity depends on point #2 working well, and being at a fairly high level. One thing to keep in mind that I say a lot is that "herd immunity" is about a specific place at a specific point in time. It's possible for example that a city or town can have high enough vaccine levels to have achieved herd immunity, but the country (or the globe...) not being vaccinated enough for SARS-CoV-2 to have "gone away".

Public health thinks about this using a couple terms:

Control - "We've got a handle on this, but we've still got it"
Elimination - "This is gone in our area, but could come back"
Eradication - "This is gone forever"

TB is an example of a disease the U.S. has under Control. This is what we're aiming for with COVID-19 right now. Measles, Mumps and Rubella are, in most of the U.S., considered Eliminated. Smallpox is Eradicated.
It might be a more usable quiz if the source pages for a given question were somehow clustered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists
Processing in java is a really nice project and it would be really nice to be able to run processing visualization in the browser without having to run java applets, but the current lack of support for Internet Explorer (I do not know if it would even be possible to realize, BTW) is really preventing me to invest too much time in it. I have been using Raphael.js instead.
It is perfectly valid for you to write this:

"contain large majorities of their residents who couldn't stand city life and far prefer the openness of the suburbs, sprawl and all"

but you can not combine it with this:

"In a free society, however, such aesthetics are always balanced against utility and, when people have a choice, they will often choose utility."

Suburbs require gigantic subsidies to be made to work, so you need to be careful how you use the phrase "free society". Because the population is relatively sparse in the suburbs (compared to a dense city), the cost of procurement of infrastructure tends to go up on a per capita basis. Just think of the energy loss carrying electricity, kilometer after kilometer, in the suburbs, and compare that to carrying the same amount of energy in the city, where the power does not need to travel as much of a distance (per capita). For any given 100,000 people a dense city allows the cheaper availability of roads and sewers and power and transport. Such density is economically rational.

Think carefully about some of the things that people love most about the suburbs. One thing people love is the wide open spaces, and the lack of crowds (especially compared to a dense urban core). And yet, the crowds in the city are usually economically rational, especially compared to the expense of provisioning the suburbs. Think about the wide open highways of Texas - "wide open" means "used less than a road in New York City" and the greater use that the road gets in New York City means the money spent on it is more wisely spent.

The suburbs need to be seen as a luxury item. Since the USA is wealthy, it can afford many luxuries, and the suburbs are one of them. But the suburbs are more luxurious than the cities, and the cities are more economically rational.

And of course, in the suburbs, one has to use a car to get anywhere. This is, of course, a tremendous use of resources, on a per capita basis. In a dense urban core, such as New York City, you can travel by mass transit, which uses less resources per capita. And you can even travel by foot or by bicycle. The suburbs depend on the use of automobiles, and automobiles, too, need to be seen as luxury items. Again, because the USA is wealthy, it can afford many luxuries, but again, the heavy dependence on the automobiles makes the life in the suburbs more resource intensive, per capita, than life in the city.

Where you use the phrase "free society" I would prefer the use of the phrase "subsidized society".

Where you use the word "utility" I would use the word "subsidy." And yes, of course, everyone would like to live in a heavily subsidized society, so long as you can get the subsidies from someone else.
Haven't his handlers signed similar agreements? By your logic, no judge should be able to hear his trial lest he/she hear and expose the secrets that might be revealed.
Now this is userspace networking I can get behind!

Rather than re-implement a new network stack and solve all the same problems again, this builds on the years of good work already done and leverages the existing time investment within the existing stack.

"Librarising" existing stacks to userspace, great idea, this is the way of the future.
Well there is good confidence and bad confidence. :-)

If you are like me you are rational and skeptical, willing to be proven wrong, but stubborn in holding opinions you believe in. If you are slow to form opinions, you may not seem very confident, at least until you are sure about something. And even then sometimes you may be confident about an opinion but you're uncertain what will happen if you express it, so you keep quiet.

If you're like this, then I think a lot of the advice in this thread is good. Your confidence will improve with practice and familiarity. Try politely disagreeing with your boss. Try inviting some women for coffee. Choose low-risk circumstances until you get used to it and prove that nothing terrible will happen and you'll survive. The good news is that as you get older it gets easier, sort of automatically. I'm 37 and there is a lot more I'm confident doing now than when I was 25.

I still have a hard time looking people in the eyes. Maybe it's confidence, but mostly I think it's just too hard to think about doing that and think about what I'm saying at the same time. I don't know how others do it! I look at people while they're talking, but as soon as it's my turn I forget.

What I'm trying to say is that most likely there is nothing wrong with you. Probably you are just fine as you are. Thank goodness for self-doubting, open-minded, thoughtful people! So instead of trying to change your personality, try changing your basis for being confident or not. Be patient and don't feel bad at it. It gets easier.
Does GCHQ rely on NSA QI facilities, or can they run the attack on their own? The Intercept makes a weaker claim than the above about NSA direct involvement. Certainly, I believe NSA QI redirects traffic to NSA controlled servers, but I'd imagine when GCHQ is running the op they would prefer to redirect to their own servers.
There must be other perks, those amounts are peanuts for a 2 year period, unless your crooked politicians live more modestly than usual.
The problem is that you cannot just add a new permission and expect things to not break. The flow for requesting permissions is different and would break pretty much every website that uses these APIs.
GCC optimizations are also smart enough to remove memcpy calls for small numbers of bytes entirely and just output the unrolled movs/loads inline. If you're memcpy'ing a struct from a byte buffer and reading some fields, the optimizer is usually smart enough to output the minimum instructions necessary. As I recall, MSVC's optimizations perform similarly.
HEPA is 99.95% of particles > 0.3 micrometers

N95 is 95% of particles.

They aren't equivalent.
Disable Gatekeeper:

sudo spctl --master-disable