skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, if you're well prepared and live/work in buildings that have been seismically retrofitted, you're probably better off in an earthquake than most other natural disasters. San Francisco is making a lot of progress in terms of earthquake preparedness (recently passed a soft-story ordinance, lots of new building codes around earthquakes), and a lot of the infrastructure has been retrofitted for earthquakes fairly recently (bay bridge, transbay tube...).

My advice would be to put together a good earthquake preparedness kit, move to an apartment that has been seismically retrofitted, make sure your big appliances are bolted to the wall, and move on with your life. Plenty of other things to spend your time worrying about.
Virtual reality comes to space
More along the lines of your excellent point: https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/a-foreign-enemy-is-a-tyrant-s...
I made a simple demo/ starter app in Electron right around the time when the project was renamed from Atom-Shell. https://github.com/thom-nic/electron-demo/

I'm sure documentation has improved since then but at the time it was very inconsistent. Also props to the author of this article for doing a clever app that doesn't look like it's a page in a browser window - I wasn't that clever ;)
Weird, I thought the same.
If Microsoft hadn't ruined the Start menu functionality, you wouldn't have to search it in the first place. Once upon a time, you could organize your applications into groups, which would open as cascading menus. MS broke that in Vista and never fixed it.

The Start menu itself is a regression from Program Manager groups anyway. Even Apple has managed to come up with something better, in the form of Launchpad.
Ohlala, an Uber for Escorts, Launches in Berlin, Plans Global Rollout
It explains perhaps my opinion that running can be dangerous. However, my opinion isn't ill-informed.

Let's say you're running at 5mph on concrete and you trip on something. Amazingly, of all the anecdotal evidence I collected about falls while running, almost all of them were simple scrapes and bruises. A couple were sprains or knee injuries, and virtually none of the collar bone breaks I expected when people try to stop themselves with their arms. A few people hit their heads pretty hard, though.

There's also more self-inflicted injuries that are common for runners, such as Runner's Knee, tendonitis, hamstring pull, plantar fasciitis, shinsplints, ITBS, lower back pain, and stress fractures. And while all these things can happen to non-runners, they are much more common with people who run frequently or for long distances.

People with problems such as hyperextending knees or other pre-existing conditions are often encouraged to try exercise which is easy on the knees, by doctors. But the repeated impact of running might not be what's causing the pain in their knees when they run. It might be knee fairies.

And while knee osteoarthritis hasn't been found to be significantly higher in runners vs non-runners, hip osteoarthritis has. It's commonly held now that the lower BMI of runners contributes more to their lack of increased osteoarthritis, rather than the assumption that running doesn't have a negative effect on the knees. Also, mysteriously, doctors recommend those over 45 to substitute some of their running time for swimming, cycling, and other less knee-impact-prone activities. But maybe old people just get bored quickly or something.

It is also understood that trying to run before you're ready can result in injury, much like trying to weightlift a lot before you're ready can. But there are no guidelines about how to know what you're ready for, and certainly no warnings anywhere i've ever seen about running before you're ready. In addition, people who are encouraged to jog or run as part of a getting-fit program are at higher risk of injury due to a lack of muscles supporting the joints and bones, and adding additional stress to the knees.

Alternative exercises avoid these common issues by providing a structure from which to safely begin and increase progress, provide the same health benefits, remove almost all of the potential for common running-related injury, and don't involve spending lots of money on running gear, not to mention take less time and are more convenient.

But I guess I just don't know what i'm talking about.
Customer Success Technology – Guide
abc.wtf looks like it really is Microsoft:

http://whois.domaintools.com/abc.wtf

Created on 2015-08-10
IP Location	United States - Washington - Redmond - Microsoft Corporation
ASN	United States AS8075 MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation
That's fucking crazy. But I would love to see examples of how OS X, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS compares.
Better Than the Apple MVNO Fantasy
The fact that designers think this icon looks like a hamburger is the real problem with design these days. ;-)
For a desktop OS, try OpenBSD, Slackware Linux, Debian, or Arch Linux, or if those are too obtuse (they can be difficult for the uninitiated to get into) try Ubuntu or Linux Mint. If you go with Ubuntu you'll want to go to the Security & Privacy tab and disable online search results and tracking.

For a smartphone, you have to dig back into the past and find a Nokia N900 or an old-school BlackBerry; anything based on Android, iOS, or Windows Phone is going to snoop on you even if you tell it not to. Even FirefoxOS has glaring security issues, and Ubuntu Touch isn't ready for prime time.
http://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-announces-discovery-fund...
At least for Android:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t5GXwjw82SyunALVJb2w...

There are several banking-related apps listed here.
Considering how many containers are lost per year (thousands), I wouldn't risk my house on that chance.

EDIT: More like ~546 containers per year from an industry survey, out of 120 million moved in a year. Not quite as good as commercial air flight, but not as bad I was thinking.
Being outside and free, partaking in what is a natural human activity, as opposed to being inside working some type of machine like a hamster?

No comparison.

Nothing beats a good run for a workout. Simple, fast, effective, natural.
I honestly don't understand why the stock price would increase with this. It seems to me that all they did was add a layer of bureaucracy (or just shuffled it around).
> the typical cost is about $120 a day

I don't want to discourage anyone from traveling on container ships. It sounds like fun to me. Please be aware that some cruiseship travel can cost less (much less?) than $120 a day, and they make your bed everyday amongst many other amenities.
Flow – a book summary of the classic work
Zirtual shuts down overnight with no warning to its employees
If the author had portrayed the Imperial Japanese government as an innocent victim, I would be the first to despise the article. But he didn't. He mentioned the campaign of mass murder in China, the insane stupidity of the decision to attack Pearl Harbor and then to fight the war to the bitter end. In no way does he suggest any of these things are excusable. The people he portrays as innocent victims are the civilians of every nationality who are burned to death in bombing raids or starved by blockades - 'economic sanctions' if you want to use the current euphemism.

And he's right. The economic sanctions against Iraq that condemned hundreds of thousands of children to starve to death were an atrocity just about exactly as bad as the rape of Nanking. Just about exactly as inexcusable. We need to get to the point where we stop looking for excuses for such actions.
Here's what Google's Alphabet will look like in 2050
i m pretty sure its based on expected profits, or it would have flopped given the performance of all these prospects.
It’s exciting.
Which you can fix by either using another distro/uninstalling it/disabling it/using another window manager.
Many years ago, after agonizing over one too many flood victim stories, I went looking for a "safe" place to live. To my chagrin, I learned that humans habitually live near water so they don't die of thirst and can also grow crops. They also use water as a means of transport. Thus, most development is in areas at some risk of flood. Further investigation showed that every place has some kind of natural disaster. You can kind of choose which one bothers you less, but you cannot escape them. The Midwest has tornadoes. The East Coast has hurricanes. The far north has blizzards and ice storms. Etc. Etc.

I like California. My health is better here than elsewhere. For now, I expect to be here for the foreseeable future.
whoever owns alphabet.com is about to get some pretty sweet offers.
If you have the luxury of considering war unnecessary then someone else is likely carrying your water.
Maybe try working for the visual effects industry in Canada? It might be easier for you to immigrate from the inside. VFX industry has lots of tax write offs in Canada, so, they hire a lot. That might be an edge for you. Try Sony Imageworks, Double Negative, Image Engine, Method, Encore, Motion Picture Company. You don't need to have a background in art, they need lots of technical help.

The real thing that sucks is that you can't get hired under NAFTA, which has no limit on the number of years you can work in Canada.
It may be the exception that proves the rule.
They have to improve their products continuously to be competitive in the marketplace. Apple's competitive advantage is fundamentally in their software, not their hardware.

They innovate in the hardware space and physical design space, but all of their competitors will make copies of their hardware advantages after a few years. To keep on being competitive, their entire experience has to be superior. And what is harder to copy properly is the software experience.

Engineering cost wise, it's cheaper to just keep the software train rolling than to have older versions persisting that you have to continuously support. That is why they don't charge for it, because it's cheaper for them if you upgrade sooner and become part of the marginal few they can ignore if your a straggler. And 'free' has far higher adoption rates than even $1.00.
Does Google robotics fall under ventures/capital or Google X?
Foreshadowing? From April 2014:
"To be able to truly benefit from this platform you need to have a data culture inside of your organization. For me, this perhaps is the most paramount thing inside of Microsoft," said Nadella.

"It's not going to happen without having that data culture where every engineer, every day, is looking at the usage data, learning from that usage data, questioning what new things to test out with our products and being on that improvement cycle which is the lifeblood of Microsoft."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/15/us-microsoft-ceo-d...
The word 'balance' is vague and overused, to be sure. Here's my suggestion for a kind of action: if you have to respond to aggression, make the response targeted and limited to what is necessary. For example, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the right thing to do was use the military force necessary to kick him out. It should have stopped there. It should not have continued with twelve years of economic sanctions that condemned hundreds of thousands of civilians to death followed by an invasion and regime change that created a power vacuum leading to the rise of one of the worst regimes since the Nazis.
A nice recounting of the "discovery" by Goudsmit: http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/spin/goudsmit.html

(I use the quotes because he discusses the role of luck in scientific discovery, and the question of who should get credit -- the first person to "guess" a truth that is ultimately proven, or the first person to understand it?)
http://blog.blainebuxton.com/2003/09/erlang-i-got-following-...

Kay says: Erlang is worth looking at.
Tips and Tricks for debugging unfamiliar AngularJS code
Let's not forget the context in which poor and unsophisticated people decided that was a good idea, and the names of the international aggressors whose crimes encompass the evil of the whole conflict:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freedom_Deal

Do you think that President Kennedy was an evil man?
And? He could be running Tails with a spoofed MAC and bouncing through TOR while sitting in a coffee shop 100 miles from home.

There's privacy-conscious, and then there's paranoid.
Why Apple Should Be More Interested in Robots
A is for Automobiles.
H is for Healthcare.
D is for Defence.
E is for Energy.
M is for Medicine.
R is for Robotics

This will become the Umbrella corporation from the resident evil fame :P
I don't know what client you're using, but the UI freeze might have been because of the client-side decryption of the image data.
I didn't say it was; sometimes it might be the lesser evil. Still evil, though.
Pick two to three, repeat until tired.

1. Unnecessary social networking

2. Make music

3. Paint

4. Go for a walk

5. Go out to eat

6. Consume recreational inebriants

7. Watch move/tv show
Google could go public though, right? (The new Google)
It's been a really interesting laptop for a lot of stuff. 3 internal 2.5" bays, you can convert the optical bay into a 4th. An mSATA bay for flash, and an express card slot that can take any pci-e 1x compatible card (pretty much everything) with the right enclosure. 2x graphics card slots with adequate cooling for everything. it's definitely a beast but i bought it entirely for that purpose. it's been great for doing CAD (though i plan on making it better) for 3d printing and also for being able to keep it up to date (aside from cpu and ram, those are already maxed out for its generation).
Alphabet (the main company)

B

Calico (focused on longevity)

Capital (investment)

D

E

Fiber

Google (now led by Sundar Pichai and includes search, ads, maps, apps, YouTube, and Android)

H

I

J

K

Life Sciences ("that works on the glucose-sensing contact lens")

M

Nest

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

Ventures (investment)

W

X lab ("which incubates new efforts like Wing, our drone delivery effort")

Y

Z
" A couple were sprains or knee injuries, and virtually none of the collar bone breaks I expected when people try to stop themselves with their arms."

Thanks, Mr. Self-Taught medical expert, who thought running 17 miles without prior prep was a good idea.

"It is also understood that trying to run before you're ready can result in injury"
This is also true of HIIT.

"don't involve spending lots of money on running gear"
?????
Did you install the CA certificate from whatever software you're using to MITM your machine?
From all of the pseudo-mathematical posturing you see from the Haskell community, you'd expect the thread to be replete with mentions of it, yet a quick scan turns up none, which aligns with my own first-hand observations. Actual research mathematicians use LaTex, not Haskell.

Do any prominent Haskellers even have Ph.Ds in mathematics? SPJ, the late Paul Hudak, dons, and Erik Meijer don't. It seems like they're mostly CS academics (if even that) infatuated with type theory.
Senate's Warren seeks probe of bank messaging system
Aw, Sophos on OS X doesn't think it's a threat.
That's $20,000,000 which is enough to warrant at least 10 people working on it.
I feel law and code have a lot of good overlap. Some of my lawyer friends code on weekends. I am a coder but could totally have done law.
FYI jug5: it looks like you've been shadow banned for some time now.

Sorry for the useless comment that he may not see. I just hate seeing this.
Thousands out of how many containers? Hurricane Sandy destroyed thousands (about 2000) of homes in Long Island but people are still eager to live there.
I think control of data is the addiction feeding this trend. Perhaps the belief that those who control the data, can predict and control the future?
It's pretty common practice for a .com to run its backend stuff on the .net version of their .com domain.

Also, if you know how CDNs tend to structure their DNS entries for their clients, you can remove all but seven of those entries from the list.
I think the same could be said for almost any profession or field of study.
I assume it signals that they will be investing more heavily in the non-Google portions of their umbrella. It also signals that they are going to keep Google as a very ad-focused company in their banner.
Is there any effect on our thinking that comes from HoTT? I heard this is exactly the kind of problems it tries to solve.
i guess the employees will now also get a clear feel who of them is "maker" and who is "taker" :)

By the way - who is inheriting the piles of money accumulated in the tax heavens? I think that is another elephant in the room. The GoogleX+Fiber+... is obviously a money hungry black hole, so would they be able now to redirect/invest this money from abroad straight into hat loss generating business without incurring the taxes?
>> Garbage collection done in the idle tasks are hidden from critical, latency-sensitive operations.

> I don't believe it.

Don't believe what, exactly? That statement is true by construction. If you mean that there will be times that GC will have to run that isn't during an idle task, that seems obvious (and is covered well by the post).

The question is how much of GC can take place during those idle tasks for typical browsing, whatever web app you're writing, etc. The article states (in the "Performance evaluation" section) that for some top/typical sites benchmark that 43% of desktop GC and 31% of mobile GC happen during idle tasks. That seems like a good improvement. It's not magic GC, but it's not claiming to be.
Well, yes, but Sun was more than the sum of its parts. Alphabet is actually less than the sum of its; Google is a highly profitable ad business that's still showing nice growth. The rest is a hodge-podge of startups and fantasies that provide neither revenue nor profit and have little chance of ever doing so. Most of them don't even have products. There's no reason to think that what is being taken out of Google was helping its business in any way, yet the market right now is willing to pay big option premiums on the remote chance of some future success. So what is now Alphabet would be worth more if Google were spun out entirely to its existing shareholders, because they'd get whatever Google is plus whatever people are willing to pay for the imaginary stuff. As a whole, it's just Google less a lot of its profits. None of this was true of Sun.
Remote Car Hacking [pdf]
I like #2.
This is just some razzle dazzle to make it less jarring that Google's founders want to focus on their hobbies and not run Google proper.
> That way, the risk/return of the various projects can be traded on more efficiently to the benefit of both investors and google/alphabet shareholders.

How would this make any difference for the costing of projects (or businesses, now)? In terms of risks and returns. Its not like new businesses under Alphabet will be boostrapped, they'll still be the same drain/boon on resources that they always were.
Well, you'd have to beat 2% + transaction fees + capital gains which would mean you'd have to beat the market.
He didn't mock the world, he mocked Sun's strategy and it played out exactly like he said causing Sun to die off.
You missed the point. The gluten isn't what was causing my problems. It was whatever monkey business american companies do when processing their wheat. I don't know if it's the iron enrichment, the bleaching or the GMO stock, but I can tell you this: something is rotten with american wheat and it isn't the gluten.
A better communication paradigm.
I think GP is saying that in his case the iron supplementation in U.S. Flour was the cause of his problem.
Ah, so this was a preemptive, "We don't use the hamburger 'cause it is not cool anymore", blog post. ;)
is this just an ad for Infinix?
But shouldn't 17% of the trading volume of a massive company like Google be much larger than 100% of the trading volume of most companies, and therefore very accurate? Isn't this plenty of liquidity to make money if the prices was predictably off?
Just because it's Google, doesn't mean it's right
>how do you think the author of this passage would respond to your question?

I am the author, and I would respond that 9/11 was a despicable act of mass murder committed under the same terrorist rationale and collective guilt fallacies under which the above listed crimes are also committed. Two wrongs do not make a right, and neither do two atrocities. For more along these lines, see this other essay of mine: https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/the-symbiosis-of-savagery-68d...
"Those little sweethearts will face German bullets or they'll face French ones!"
No, they're not subatomic.

Charge density waves mean that there is a periodic modulation of charge (for a little more background, see the Quora answers here: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-significances-of-charge-de... and this pdf: http://www.wien2k.at/reg_user/textbooks/WIEN2k_lecture-notes... ) What they are saying is that itinerant electrons (those not localized in a given orbital, but which occupy bands throughout the metallic system and hop, in contrast to an standard insulating magnet) have the instability within themselves, the lattice does not necessarily need to give them a push (this is called "dynamically generated"). In my answer I go into a bit of detail about the heretofore standard role of the lattice as well as the applications to superconductivity.

What this paper is saying is that the Peierls distortion (cf. answers cited or Wikipedia) in these systems is either paralleling or a consequence of the electronic instability. The bit about following the Q wave vector has to do with the discussion of "nesting" in the answers (that is, how well does the momentum of the electrons couple with that of the phonons/ionic lattice vibrations at a certain periodicity and do they steal energy away from the lattice leading to an overall lower state (and is this the _primary_ factor in that lowering, a conclusion this paper would seem to militate against)"

A good reference on this is the book by Assa Auerbach "Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism"
If the dull stuff compensated for the lack of prestige with cash (for example), that might be true. But in reality, the low prestige tends to go with low pay, low promotion opportunities, and low recognition.
Chaebols are in a league of their own.
Thousands out of more than 120 million container trips per year, and the loss of containers was primarily from two large accidents. http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=17474

Your container may be safer than your house, and the financial solutions is the same: insure it.
GitHub just got a small visual refresh
All the icons are new and flat. Anyone else notice?
List of Android SSL MITM vulnerable apps:
https://samsclass.info/128/proj/popular-ssl.htm

Highly recommend any material on the main site as well. One of the few legit infosec professors I have ever interacted with.
They already have a large update coming in the Fall and one next Spring that should bring additional features. Of course, fixes to things that are broken should be happening regularly.
Thanks!

Typing

> New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Search" -Direction Outbound -Action Block -Profile "Domain, Private, Public" -Program "C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchUI.exe"

in elevated Powershell should work.
Context: I currently train weightlifting with a former US Olympic Team weightlifter and someone who has been to Olympic trials many times for swimming and has since switched to weightlifting. My wife is quite a good climber.

While pretty much all exercise is better than being sedentary, you didn't really pick the the sports without "bad parts" :)

Swimming has a pretty high shoulder injury rate, though as best I can recall, it's a much lower total injury rate than running. Weightlifting is safer still, but it's definitely not without injuries. And finger pulley tendon injuries in climbing happen _all the time_.

[edit for clarity]