skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if this sort of thing interests you, also read up on "neutron poisons" and the "iodine pit".

Basically, it takes about 500 hours (3 weeks) before a chain-reacting fission core reaches equilibrium with neutron-absorbing reaction products. A core that is late in its fuel cycle might not be able to achieve a self-sustaining chain reaction from a shut down state until after the radioactive neutron absorbers have been left a while to decay.

The longer the fuel rod has been in the reactor, the less you are able to modulate its output.

You really do have to look at Europe (especially France) for operating nuclear plant best practices, because most plants in the US are not built to a common design, and they may not be able to adopt improvements pioneered at another site. The US solution is usually to put the upgrades into the next-generation reactor designs, which never quite get to replace the old existing designs because of radfear and NIMBYism.
> The bigger problem is that most companies view "engineer" as "implementor of ideas that come from the business".

Isn't that the inherent nature of a lot of the programming jobs, though? For example, I'm currently contracting at a e-commerce company. My day to day work is as you described - closing tickets that get assigned to me in the Sprint. I also suggest new tickets, but they're solely limited to technical issues (mostly addressing technical debt, trying out new technologies etc.).

Honestly, I wouldn't know how to suggest anything on the business side - I don't know a first thing about how the market we're in operates (except that it's very competitive), and we have a separate person (Product Manager) whose only job is to think of new features for our team to implement. I think that's the only arrangement that works for non-technical products, which is what vast majority of programmers work on.
We've been led to believe that NSA/CIA hire smart people. Smart people probably know things that were common knowledge in 1983, so what is the use of a polygraph administered to NSA/CIA staff thirty years later?
How important is bone density though? Do we measure bone density of males, and exclude those who hit the genetic lottery and have super high bone density?

In the male league, do some fighters get to refuse to fight others based on bone density differences? I'm thinking not, which is why this restriction seems artificial, sort of like grasping for straws to find a difference (though I'm open to being proven wrong).
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Yes; an important function of a physical bookstore is a physical meeting point, shared with others, where you can see books randomly, ask the staff, open a book and read for a while...
He should run a few bots in parallel to augment his odds.
I wonder what is Twitter stance on this, as a company. Do they allow it because it's technically speaking not illegal, or do they ban it if they find it because it's questionable at best?
> Realizing that denial was useless, he confessed.

Is this a win or a loss for society?
As the article mentions, the polygraph results are still occasionally used in court. Regardless of its utility as an interrogation tool, there are serious concerns about the scientific validity of its output. The use of polygraph output to bar people from jobs and as evidence in court deserves scrutiny.
Totally agree. A good tech resource is hard to find. The guy who makes you go to a meeting once a week to tell you the floor plan is changing a little? Not so much!
> It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil,[1] or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.

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

Drones, also have the requirement to be autonomously controlled (UAV), none of your examples meet both requirements. Most don't meet the first, otherwise shooting skeet would be illegal, because they generate more lift then most your other examples.
Mine "go" experience comes with the latest docker 1.7. Ok okay. it comsumes 37% of 512 MB memory. That's fine. I will shutdown all of my apps for you. :P
Not at all. I was wondering the same thing.
In a lot of areas, the mega-bookstore lended a patina of high culture to areas that now basically consist of pricey lofts and bars/restaurants.

If there's any truth to the complaints, I think it's that they speak to a demand for more variety in "third places" - somewhere to meet friends and serendipitously run into new people outside of the house. Restaurants and bars are fine, but I think people miss other kinds of commerce - retail used to add that variety. Perhaps the eager adoption of work share spaces speaks to this. I think there are more business opportunities catering to this innate human need.
For someone who lives outside the USA, what's the standard meaning of 'reverse racism'?
I think I understand, as in: if the standard meaning of racism is a majority (Caucasian in this case) oppressing a minority (black, Mexican, asian, etc) then is reverse racism when said minority oppresses or acts against said majority?

I hope not, that seems wrong.

Prejudice (against a ethnicity, culture, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc) is wrong no matter the percentage of the majority/minority doing it involved
> I'm sorry, but anti-white racism and anti-male sexism aren't real things.

Even by the narrow "power plus prejudice" definition this is false; this is pretty readily observable, in the first instance, in lots of contexts where whites are not in a position of power (even in localized contexts embedded in broader societies where whites are in a position of power.)

They may be less significant in modern American society because of the general power distribution in the overall society and therefore the most common power distribution in particular contexts embedded within that society, but that's very different than not being real things.
Do you have any plans to revise that in order to preempt the sorts of problems that users are having with Github? I would imagine that most of the new users are expecting an environment there which isn't r-------.
I often hear about llvm breaking backwards compatibility but I don't know much about the specifics. What are the parts that are more prone to change? Are there any parts that are more stable?
This is how a chess player thinks. "Jesus, why did she play that? She must have seen something I've missed. Shit, if I had more time I'd be able to figure it out. Damnit, I'll just move my knight back, that way my king'll be safer. I'm sure there's a better move but I can't find it now, and I think my ass went to sleep."

Change a few words, and it's pretty much a typical thought process when coding for me.
there are some startups doing this in England. it is a good idea. Hear this website first time and tried it. it is ok.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by people having to "monitor their own speech." You should think about what you're saying before you say it, right? You should consider if what you're saying is offensive to other people, right? That's just part of being a decent, responsible, adult human being – in my opinion.

My go-to example is generally something along the lines of, religious people might be offended by atheist philosophies. Does that mean atheists should refrain from speaking about their beliefs to avoid potentially offending someone? What about the reverse, should religious people refrain from speaking about religion to avoid offending people of a different (or no) religion?

Or for an example closer to the context of the discussion, is it rude or offensive to argue that a wage gap between men and women doesn't actually exist? Or that employers shouldn't hire women purely based on a need to balance out a gender disparity in their employees?

I'm sure there are plenty of people would be offended by those arguments. Does that mean people should refrain from using them?
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Perceiving a manager—no matter how junior—as simply "dead weight" signals a failure in the organization, the individual manager, and/or your own perception. In addition to ensuring accountability, a good manager also helps to shield subordinates from the bureaucracy that is inevitable in large organizations. This work may not always be visible.
Github is not hacker-proof. It has been down for a few hours in march : http://thehackernews.com/2015/03/github-hit-by-massive-ddos-...

Software industry is becoming so dependant of github hosted open source project that is if github is down for a long time, it could hurt software industry seriously.
It’s 2015 and drawing text is still hard
So a good tech resource is harder to find than a bad manager? Hard to argue with that.
Considering the incredible amount of repository hosted by github, I consider this to be minor problems.
Didn't say it was. Was talking about GNU Mailman. With respect to git, I said it is released using the GPL.
So, curious about ProseMirror, I read this: http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html.

Sounds very interesting to me. This is an editor I have been looking for so long. Google's Kix generates a lot of DOM elements. Medium's sounds good in theory, but I haven't been able to try it due to the requirement of Twitter, and its clones just mimic the interface, not the functionality (still using contentEditable).

The closest one I saw was Aloha Editor v2. A little bit buggy and lack of document.

But I realize I don't need collaborative editing. Hopefully this will be separated into a component instead of built-in. Not all rich text editors need collaboration.
It depends entirely on the skill of the person shooting and what they're shooting at it with. If stationary, it's not an amazing feat of marksmanship, either. Even a moving drone at that distance is certainly possible for most people with any formal training.
The rule in the US is "It is income unless it isn't."

Everything you receive from everyone is taxable income unless you can find a specific tax code saying that it isn't. Lottery winnings are taxable unless a section exempts them. Non-monitary prizes or awards from competitions are taxable.

As with most tax law, this is necessary to prevent widespread avoidance. Nobody would pay any taxes if only money income was taxed. We'd revert to a barter economy wherever possible, defeating the purpose of taxation. (ir employer pays employees with physical good via a company store.) If all competition winnings were exempt, employers might pay people in gambling tokens simply to avoid them having to pay taxes.
For an article as dismissive of hipsters as it tries to be, it's written entirely in the language of hipster: snark. Flagged for having no content post-snark-ectomy.
This is great, but it seems like he got rid of the separate page now (the link in the article 404s) and the text is just inline again.
Trespassing is defined by Kentucky state law when "a person ... knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in or upon premises" [1]. Premises is defined in this section as "buildings and real property."

[1] http://www.lrc.ky.gov/statutes/statute.aspx?id=19786
archive.org is a mess compared to ComputerChroniclesYT dump. Most episodes arent sorted by date, a lot of them are encoded badly or only fragments are uploaded :(
For example first one I clicked https://archive.org/details/CC1851ULTIMATE only 9 minutes are encoded.

YT stash is not great either, a lot of wonky stereo past ~1996, and about ~10 episodes with wrong dates.

I love this show. Discovered it about two months ago and Im binge watching since then, four seasons left to go.
Wow. Do my daily HN scan for the day and find an article you wrote ~4 years at #1.

I hadn't read that in many years, and what fun to do a re-read.

Thanks Internet - don't stop being you.
> I had never heard the term "cissexual" before. I don't really see why it's needed.

Because people who aren't transsexual exist, and it sometimes is useful to refer to the group of people sharing that characteristic, and its more convenient to do so by a term that doesn't involve the negation of another trait.
the designs are nice but there are not much enough
Click bait.
You can't really teach such a thing, not in any profound way. The programmer in question must have an intrinsic or otherwise self-conditioned drive to read computing history, papers and be interested in actually doing research before starting a project.

We have largely crafted a culture where doing research before writing code is considered slow and ineffectual for whatever reason. Instead, we value "moving fast and breaking things" and whipping up the quick hack, which encourages people to propagate their computing biases and never step out of their comfort zone.

This is one of the reasons why I mostly scoff at attempts to make computer programming a compulsory schooling subject. Coding as "the new literacy" devalues computing and is the very embodiment of the programming pop culture that Alan Kay has warned about.
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Yes, he means node.js. (I also work at Shyp)
I'd rather presume that most of these contests are actually other bots designed to generate buzz to promote events or, more likely, harvest market research data. I have no sympathy for such devices and have no problem watching robots fight over cowboy hats.
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Interesting you should say that, because my music preferences have been enriched immensely by Rdio, in a way that physical stores (even my favorite, Rasputin Music) never did. Rdio helped me explore new genres, find obscure albums and artists and dive into areas (especially experimental music) poorly served by stores.

In part, I think, this is because Rdio implemented social features poorly. I find music based on the music, not on what's popular. And it's willing to recommend things off the long tail that I'd never find in a store—one of my favorites was an album from a French band that never released anything else and probably didn't make it to a single US store.

The same isn't quite as true for bookstores, perhaps because popularity plays a somewhat smaller role than for music. But I could still see online recommendations being better for depth, especially if I wanted to dive deeply into some genre and explore obscure authors that never really made it.
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Definitely not as many available jobs. Every company in the Valley seems to be looking for engineers by the truckload, but there are not so many openings for [people|project|product] managers. Apparently, engineers now self-organize and products simply leap from their fingertips onto store shelves.

As for job security, I guess I'll find out eventually. My gut feeling is that in software companies, it's easier to get laid off/fired as a manager, and it's the opposite in companies where software/IT plays a peripheral or supporting role.
This is a simple python based blog builder using Flask. It has a simple CLI script and can be used both as an app and as a static site builder. It's one of my first Python projects. I'm learning this language so... It may be so bad. :( xD
Honestly not sure :) Maybe at the back of my mind looking for a long term hobby project :)

I am a software guy. Had no idea about/interest in this stuff . Then a couple months ago, I got a tour of a textile factory which had a bunch of power looms. A week later (by pure chance) I got to spend an afternoon with a master silk weaver. And I was just blown away by the complexity he and his "simple" handloom, and "simple" actions were producing. I don't know how to describe it, other than to say, there was just a great beauty to the whole thing.

Been fascinated and reading up ever since. Would be interested to hear what you are upto and how you got into it . You can mail me at sven7.msgs @ gmail if you want to connect.

Btw you might have already heard about them, through openknit but there is another project www.knitic.com, based on the addi knitting machine which is also quite cool.
Here's a list of disposable email domains if you'd really like to block them: https://github.com/lavab/disposable

I would go one step further and look for {spam_words} in "username+{text}@{googledomain}.com", where spam_words can be "junk", "spam", etc. This is like a very narrow edge case, but still might catch something. Again, if you're into that kind of thing; I'm quite skeptical that it brings any value.
Thank you for this! I'm training word2vec on it right now - will take several hours.

If anyone else is interested here is the (terrible) code to get it into a prototype format. https://gist.github.com/binarymax/d3691180e65ff7f0dec5
He fired at it with 3 shots of number 8 birdshot[1], which means he fires hundreds of pellets per shot[2] and those pellets spread out as they travel. All it takes is one pellet to bring down the drone. It would have been trivial.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/kentucky-man-shoo...
[2] http://www.gunnersden.com/index.htm.shotgun-shells.html
They like bots as long as they aren't too obnoxious as they increase their number of users.
"Every time you dissuade a great engineer from becoming a manager, an angel gets its wings." - Roy Rapoport
Hi, thanks for this great project. Curious if you've looked at CRDTs? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...)
Where would one start learning methods of data vis like this?
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Oh, there's content there: the author uses examples and quotes to show a person who seems willfully out of touch with reality.
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Which is?

Also, why are you assuming they are a man?
Awesome information, can't believe I've never heard of this. Goodbye ln -s x 10
> It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil,[1] or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.

OK so in that case the paper airplane is an aircraft provided that you fold it to have an airfoil. Done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dof_Ks-f9U

Also, if it needs to have a power source, the rubber band helicopter or the rubber band airplane is super legit. That's a power source.

My point isn't that I really think that these are aircraft. It's that trying to apply the rules for "mechanical devices which carry people in them" to things which don't carry people is pretty silly.
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They do seasonal yard waste collection separately from the primary waste stream. When I last visited they only did a small amount of food waste collection since their new processing plant (digester) hasn't been built. Food waste adds in health and odor concerns so they need to build the digester before really expanding that program.

Throughout CA and across the US it is very common to offer a separate service for solid waste and organic waste. Certain areas/haulers have been collecting and processing food waste for decades, but the vast majority aren't yet.

I completely agree about the need to update the health code to allow for more efficient resource management. A minor change could dramatically impact the annual resource consumption of the hauling industry.

Also, YES!! hybrid garbage trucks are certainly on the horizon and will have massive positive impact. Waste Management (wm.com) was working on them at one point around 10 years ago. Now there are several companies working on them.

Related to this, I'm working on software that increases the efficiency/density of collection routes as customers subscribe. I feel that the vast majority of waste haulers have allowed their routes to become inefficient and through applying a layer of software/logic at the subscription point we can help them be more profitable and more efficient.
Ah, but the managers are usually the ones that decide who gets fired. If they fire you, you can be back on the job somewhere else in a few weeks. If they fire themselves, what other manager would hire a former manager who even implied that a manager was the least productive employee in the unit? That's crossing the thin green line, man!

Half of a manager's job is justifying the importance of management to the employees, and the other half is justifying their own importance to their superiors.

Let's put it this way. I have never been kept around long enough to see my own manager get fired. And I have been through 3 mergers.
"I don't think computing is a real field, it acts like a pop culture, it deals in fads and it doesn't know its own roots."

Harshly put, but there's some truth there.
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Great app, it's really cool!
That was a fun read.

It took me a bit to get my head around the use cases. It's sometimes amazing how many different ways you can twist a simple (complex really) thing like email into a product/idea.
Depending on the gun, this person could be guilty of reckless endangerment. I imagine it would be pretty easy to miss a drone, and even if he used a shotgun with small shot, you can still hurt someone with the falling shot.

Much easier would be hosing it with water.

Much geekier would be a low power jammer.
While Rob Rhinehart's original blog post is amusing, to say the least, I don't see the need for the relentless mocking.

"The truth that most people are being – surprisingly – too polite to point out is that Soylent is mental illness as a service."

I don't know if it's that most people are being too polite. I think it's more that most people don't get delight out of ridiculing other people.
You're not generally allowed to destroy other people's property just because they're trespassing with it. They may have committed a crime by trespassing, but that's a matter for the police and the courts.

This is of particular personal interest to me, because I fly gliders and sometimes we end up making emergency landings on other people's property when the weather doesn't quite cooperate with us.

My understanding of the law there is that I'm liable (and covered by my insurance) for any damage I cause to their property in the course of landing and retrieval, but the property owner can't stop me from retrieving my aircraft, and can't intentionally damage it.

Now, the fact that it's technically an emergency landing does change things a bit, for example my actions aren't a crime the way normal trespass would be. But I don't believe it changes the property owner's rights and responsibilities.
"Coercion" is specifically the use of threats. "Inducement" is a broader category that includes other methods like begging, badgering, and wheedling.
How exactly does album discovery work better in the physical world? If I'm walking down the isle and see an album cover that has artwork I like on it, or just grab one out of the Pop/R&B section because I liked a pop song I heard on the radio, or grab an album that was recommended by a store clerk on the recommended shelf? All those are nearly just random discovery.