jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Coal is much less dangerous for those who live near the power plant.

Oh, I should have added: this claim isn't really true either. The WHO estimates that a million people die each year due to air pollution from coal plants. This is many orders of magnitude higher than the annual average deaths related to nuclear energy.

The difference is, there isn't a worldwide push to ban coal because of this; instead, there's a push to scrub the plant emissions to remove the pollution. So again, nuclear is treated much more strictly than other power sources, relative to its actual risk.
Sorry if I downvoted sarcasm. Unless you meant "middle" literally as in anything exactly as written by the most extreme of either side, this is a bad way to reason about things.

It's the kind of thinking that lets people say "well the anti-vaccine people are pretty strong about their views, but doctors disagree; it's probably somewhere in the middle" and slide about while being incorrect.
Really good article. Interesting insights.
It would be easier to put the generators in bunkers and harden them.

Besides, it was pretty clear to me reading the sequence of events at Fukushima that there was entirely too little thought given to backup decoupling - there was too much of a zipper effect of one failure leading to another.

I'm not a lay person on this - I worked for 3 years on airliner designs, and much of that is finding ways to deal with failure cases. The nuke industry could learn a lot by consulting with airframe engineers.
There don't seem to be any long term studies (which isn't terribly surprising, as getting significant compliance in the long term would be incredibly difficult. There are a couple studies over small periods which found increased/equivalent alertness from short sleep periods.
a previous story about these folks (prior to the charges):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221068
I recently switched to chrome from firefox as well for a similiar reason. Browsers are just getting too bloated. Although i just looked at their video demonstration of tab stacking which looks really cool. The problem is opera was even slow in the video which doesnt really make me want to use it.
Hardware is always going to fail eventually. Moving to AWS caused NetFlix to write better code to deal with these failures.

Failures were always going to happen, even in their own datacentre. What they have now is a more fault-tolerant system which should have less downtime overall.
Give me deflation over hyperinflation any day.
Maybe. There are a number of things I don't find original enough to be worthy of a blog post or don't have enough data to feel comfortable saying. There are a few rare things but they fall under the terms of the exclusive lease my employer has on my brain.
Monetarism has very little to do with Keynes, its' main figurehead is Milton Friedman (not too far to the left of political spectrum from your beloved Hayek).
I just tagged that link with delicious for later.
Did you uninstall opera first?
operation horsecrap??? double take there.
I'm not criticizing the API overhaul, I'm criticizing the unrealistic release schedule rush.
FDA calculated the reference amounts for persons 4 years of age or older to reflect the amount of food customarily consumed per eating occasion by persons in this population group. These reference amounts are based on data set forth in appropriate national food consumption surveys.

[1] http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrs...
It's possible that certain insights, realizations, concepts, or thoughts are not easily transferable or translatable from one mind-state to another.

Also, selective amnesia is a common effect of various drugs, including high-dose LSD trips. Dreams are also easy to forget upon waking, leading some to recommend that you try to make what you do remember from dreams (and from trips) concrete in ordinary waking consciousness, through artifacts such as art, music, etc.

Some psychological theories posit that there is a mechanism of repression that occurs when the mind resists the brining of certain subconscious material to consciousness. This is one reason that some therapists recommend one does not venture too deeply in to the subconscious without a trained guide. You might not be ready to handle what you find on your own.
Derek Sivers has been working on providing this sort of data for a few years. He created https://woodegg.com/books first and now apparently that effort is converging into http://gotolaunch.in/
This looks like a great free alternative to Nutritionix and/or MyFitnessPal. I've never been approved for a MFP API account. I'm definitely going to be checking this out!

So many places charge outrageous sums for this data, especially if you have UPCs. I didn't see UPCs anywhere on the site- any plans to track those as well?
Assuming you want Windows, try the fast & free application called Duplicati:

http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/

Their 1.0 release is out and works excellently with S3. It can't be set up as a Windows service yet, but that functionality is on its way.

For Linux, my favorite is another free utility called Amanda Network Backup:

http://amanda.org/

Supports S3 and MySQL backups. Really easy to set up and has commercial support if you need it.
I don't know that we have to make the commands themselves data-aware. The UNIX philosophy is that everything is a stream of bytes and you build on from there. After all, we have plenty of command-line tools for audio, video, structured text, archives, etc.

This tool could simplify cognitive load in two ways. One is by helping you visualize a given stream - untangling the mess of text, data, and what-have-you, perhaps scanning for known headers and letting you drill down on individual components.

Another is by helping you composite functions to operate on data. Say I have a video stream, and I want to extract every third frame, scale and quantize them, and convert to an animated gif. Quick, what's the syntax? Yargh, man page hell. 20 minutes later, I've got it, but it wasn't any fun, and some of the commands weren't stdout-friendly so I couldn't apply pipes that way I wanted.

I'd love a better way to explore functions available to me perhaps based on data type (e.g. Image* -> Image) and even browse and preview user-contributed transformations. There was a Haskell shell that went in this direction, although Haskell is sort of the opposite of UNIX so not sure this is part of the plan ;)
For the Android users and soccer fans, you might try http://www.worldcuptimetable.com or from the market, look for soccer world cup 2010 - wm2010
There are no silly questions or answers, just silly comments.
Tech history is filled with former champions such as IBM and Microsoft who were pretty damned sure their customers would find it too difficult to abandon them, only to wake up one morning to find themselves abandoned by millions of formerly "owned" customers.

Microsoft has a $231 billion market cap and makes ~ $17 billion a year.

IBM has a $162 billion market cap and makes ~ $13 billion a year.

One day I hope to have started a company that this guy views as a 'former champion abandoned by millions of formerly "owned" customers.'
This book relates to this post:

http://www.amazon.com/Managers-Not-MBAs-Management-Developme...
Just to note: The GitHub account user name is Brian Behlendorf.
The pressure at 5000 ft under the ocean is roughly 2000psi relative to atmospheric pressure. 3500psi is the difference between the oil pressure and the pressure at the sea floor.
The tagline ("something US cities have yet to do") is nonsense. Most of the US has ended hunger and replaced it with gluttony.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/11/Hunger-Hyst...
Definitely should have told TC that you got into DEMO. TC has an expedited process for companies with a conflict, including acceptance to DEMO. They would have let you know ASAP whether or not you would be invited had you told them the situation.
Thanks for the heads up on Pandora. That is an amazing device. How much is/will it be selling for?

Edit: Found pricing... $330 (without VAT) which sounds good for what you get
Perhaps the correct phrasing is "Ideas without execution are worthless." Ingenuity, creativity, and taste locked up in your own head and not executed are worth nothing to the world around you.
apparently the infamous flightprep team http://i.imgur.com/v30tP.jpg
I think the implication is that it happened without much fanfare and during a holiday because they didn't want people to notice.
Is the sarcasm from van Rossum or PG? If Rossum I find this quote much more interesting. :)
Mine too. Here was a case where they repeatedly looked the other way when the evidence didn't serve their narrative.

To me it's the first example of link-bait style reporting in print journalism.
The FAA responded to a number of high profile aviation accidents by making a series of important changes in the cockpit. Their studies revealed that some mistakes happened because subordinates were too afraid to question the captain. After these changes, the captain was still left firmly in command but a new environment was created where subordinates felt (more) comfortable to voice any questions or concerns.

A similar thing needs to happen in medicine. Doctors walk around like gods in the hospital but they are still human and make mistakes. The problem is that everyone is too afraid to correct the doctors when they make obvious mistakes. Don't get me wrong---the doctors must remain in charge, but they will still goof up so people need to feel free to offer advice and criticism.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think eyestrain has any long term effects. Mobile technology won't make people's vision worse.
The numbers may indeed be random, and they may be from a physical process, but are they actually quantum random? As the article indicates, it is indeed true that there is no method of determining whether a string of numbers that looks random is actually random. You can tell if it's not random through the use of various statistical tests, but there may always be a test that hasn't been invented yet that could reveal an underlying pattern.

However, distinguishing between quantum randomness and "other" randomness is quite easy actually. You just ask: did the randomness come from the collapse of a quantum state into an eigenstate of the observable being measured? (Now, if it's already in an eigenstate, it will collapse to the same state, so you have to prepare it in an eigenstate of an incompatible observable before measuring a new observable.) The particular new eigenstate that it collapses into will be -- according to the postulates of QM -- truly random.

So it seems to me that with this "QM random" source from the cell phone sensor, the scientists should be analyzing the "purity" of the signals they are using to generate their numbers. All kinds of factors could make the results non-QM random: electrical noise, different kinds of light sources, processing delays, etc. There's a lot of things to consider here.

(In fact, if you really wanted to be sure that it was QM random, you could create an entanglement [which is a QM-only phenomenon] and then see if the Bell correlations exist between the two entangled states.)
Most major companies, to me, seem to be following Apple's example and forcing a shorter support lifecycle for each device, expecting users to simply replace their "obsolete" device with the newest one.
I was wondering if this was the project of the guy that talked about doing this a while back, which I read about here on HN and indeed it is.

Announcement post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/website-launch-45852093
The zzart format looks ridiculously wordy. A lot of compression could be achieved by shortening the property names. I wonder how much BSON would provide in size advantage but it'd have to be encoded to something amenable to a URI.
All book links are Amazon affiliate links (tag=tbf092-20).
I feel sorry for the Chinese people. That's because Xi has set the government and the country on a path that is almost guaranteed to turn out bad.

Let me explain why I say that. To start, China faces many serious problems today, like poor demographic trends, massive bad debts, the trade war with the US, and the Honk Kong and Uighur crises. In order to deal with these problems, the government needs to make good decisions, and in order to do that it needs good understanding of the realities involved.

Now the problem with Xi's authoritarianism is that it cuts off the sort of communication needed to find out what is going on. That includes the free expression of ordinary people, university experts, and people in the lower levels of government. All of them are constrained to be silent or say what the government wants to hear, instead of the truth of what is actually happening. As a result the higher levels of government get more and more out of touch with reality and make poorer and poorer decisions.

I am guessing this will lead to some sort of collapse in the next two or three decades. For those who say no, it is not possible, just take a look at the history of China over the last century. There have been many crises and wild changes in direction, and there is no reason at all to believe that Xi has finally gotten the country on a permanently stable path.

Something else. For years in the comments here at HN, when there was a negative article about China, many China defenders would say it was false, and defend China's policies and general way of government. But in the last few months, they have pretty much given doing this, and instead their main tactic is to try to divert the conversation through false equivalency claims. It seems they have realized China as it actually is can't be defended to people who are not already strong supporters.
> but tracks if the user at any point closes the app. This then is reported to the teacher so the teacher knows if there was any cheating.

Apple Classroom does this.
Please do - achieving this definitely possible. See my other response in the thread on how I think I'm being valued.
A longer drill bit is the solution for that.
A sad and illuminating reminder of the realities and tactics of the misguided and barbaric American & EU Foreign policies to crush a nation of wonderful people - decade after decade.
Sure, my phrasing was overly simplistic, applying in spirit to the way languages define general recursive expressions.

But if you want to be technical, most of your examples would not be considered expressions in the given language.

int j = i = 0; i < MAX; i++; /* ? I think not. */

But sure, many languages also use parenthesis for things besides general expressions. Ultimately this argument is anti-productive nitpicking.
The book had two of the most enduring images in all of modern literature.

The first, that occurs in a Cadillac convertible bombing toward Las Vegas at 90 mph, has the author seeing big black, bat-like things swooping around the car, and choosing not to mention them to his companion: "He'd see them soon enough, poor bastard."

The second is in the lounge of a hotel on the Strip, when the author suddenly realizes that everyone else in the room is a vicious, bloodthirsty reptile, and the whole floor is a puddle of shed blood.
This is a little silly. How do you know when you have found a robot? When someone says no. How do you know when you have found an entrepreneur? When someone says yes. No doubt a good entrepreneur can find an encouraging angle on a lot of bad ideas, but that insight still does not make a bad idea good.

Innovative people have a lot of ideas; successful innovative people are able to understand which ideas are worthwhile and execute them. An entrepreneur with promise may well tell you: “You are dead wrong.”

Of course a buffoon may well tell you the same when you are well on your way to conquer the world. This article does not offer helpful insight into understanding who to respect (save for not respecting the author of course).
It dependens, in w2k you had the compat mode from sp2? and beyond which enabled an xp like compat mode, and often games ran better than under xp.

You had to enable it with regsvr32 /enable slayerui.dll or something like that.
Loved it a lot and I'll check out BOLTR too. I'm an emigrant of Canada and this guy's mannerisms and verbal style make me miss home so much. There's something really endearing about rough-around-the-edges Canadians. They make vulgarity downright homey.

Thanks, homie.
The majority of UK exports is also services.
You are right. The official inflation rate is wrong and misleading.
Arcadia seems like what you described.
https://github.com/arcadia-unity/arcadia
I remember seeing Revolut doing that, worse the price of buying Bitcoin was actually much higher than what you could get on other trading exchanges. What a fucking scam. At the time I didn't understand that people were buying Bitcoin only to gamble with it, and I couldn't wrap my head around buying Bitcoin on Revolut without the ability to move these to a different address.
Oh yeah, it's a classique. $500 for a hair dryer. Let me say that again: $500 for a freak'n hair dryer. Does it run Android and give your hair 8K video? I think I paid $29.99 for one for the guest bathroom that winds-up the cord in the handle. I can buy 16 and 2/3 of those for one over-engineered, over-marketed, unrepairable cash grab.
Indeed. It seems that the chickens on the left are cheering on the wolves who have eaten the chickens on the right who disagreed with them.

Big Tech have too much control and will come for anyone and are certainly not your friends.
Not sure if you intended to, but despite the hand-waviness this sounds like you’re making an argument for a return to hard currency...
If only they had bought at the all-time high of $20K they would be happy now.
Depends on the manufacturer. Nvidia still releases regular updates for the shield line that was released in 2015. I haven't heard of any EOS.
I agree, Computer Science does suffer from many dumb computer tricks.

Wait a second. Ah well, point still stands.

E: It was a joke...
I use a fdm + s-nail combo. I know I can use s-nail over imap, but this way I am sure I always have my mail available.
I agree 100%. Any Browser.
> Your compensation will include meaningful equity ownership

quite an understatement there
Not OP, but I'm concerned about the fairly rigid and possibly overreaching take social media platforms are taking. At this point they should be some kind of public trust like Bell, and while for now they aren't subject to the first amendment, they are a major concern for those worried about freedom of speech as an ideal and a norm in a democratic society.

With that said, I think Trump crossed a big, big line yesterday. I agree with actions taken on his accounts yesterday, but not the larger muzzling of (admittedly often misguided or even heinous) speech in the broader context.
> You always have a choice.

I agree with this statement. It's always a matter of priorities and perceived cost vs profit.

In any case, I never said it was going to work the same for everybody.

I have simply given my personal anecdote of how I used to believe that there would be a high social cost associated with closing those accounts, and in the end I found the opposite to be true.

I know of many other such anecdotes, but I also know of a few rare ones where the cost was too big and they decided to reopen said accounts.

As always, YMMV - but please don't spread the idea that it will be costly for everybody. It might just be that people feel better and find other ways to communicate, or it may be that they decide to rejoin such services.
Maybe if we let the speculators take the hit of losing it all when playing these games, they’d stop playing. But instead we stop it from happening and prevent the hard lesson from being learned.
Calpis halved with cclemon might be the best way to rehydrate after a night of sake
> While not directly related to strictness, a pain point on the PureScript side that I didn’t experience in Haskell was stack safety.

Stack safety is directly related to laziness—Haskell being lazy[1] by default is what lets functions that would cause stack overflows in other languages work in Haskell. If you're incrementally producing or consuming a lazy data structure, memory can be allocated on the heap and garbage collected as you're traversing the data structure without needing to use the stack[2]. Haskell makes recursing over or producing lazy data structures the path of least resistance, so you end up almost never worrying about stack overflows—they only pop up in code written with strict types like numbers.

Of course you end up with other issues that are unique to lazy languages—like space leaks—but you really do get some pervasive advantages from having lazy code by default. Some people make it seem like laziness has lots of downsides with only niche upsides, but that hasn't matched my experience at all: I've found laziness makes day-to-day programming better in a few ways (like not thinking about tail calls and stack overflows) that are the opposite of niche—so pervasive it's easy to take them for granted.

[1]: Technically Haskell is "non-strict" rather than "lazy", but I've found that distinction obscures the core issues in discussions like this. Just throwing in this footnote as a fig leaf to accurate terminology :).

[2]: I feel this explanation is oversimplifying or not quite getting details right, but can't think of a better way to explain it at the moment.
As the sibling comment notes, there have been, but one major reason they are not more common is the mysterious extinction of the Rocky Mountain Locust in the late 19th century, leaving North America as the only continent (other than Antarctica) without an extant locust species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust
> most car makers can't design a good UI if they tried, because they are just so incredibly bad at designing software.

Interface as a secondary concern to any other business function is historically a budget race-to-the-bottom.

Just let Apple and Google design and implement everything with CarPlay/Android Automotive.