skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. NOx is quite bad for you.

Short-term NO2 exposure is, in and of itself, harmful. In as short as 30 minutes, even healthy people will have adverse respiratory effects like airway inflammation.

NOx reacts with ammonia and other compounds to form nitrate fine (PM2.5) particles that get lodged in the lungs which can cause everything from bronchitis to emphysema.

NOx reacts with hydrocarbons and sunlight to create ozone which is quite damaging to your respiratory system.

In the US, NOx is considered to cause upwards of 150,000 premature deaths per year - mostly from fine particles (PM2.5).
True, eh. Especially if those functions are available for doubles already. One could probably use the double-version as a first order approximation.
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I guess inmates cant become security professionals? Book banned for inmates
That's fair, and I don't, per se, disagree with any point.

That said, I will reiterate that it's clear that based on the several recent attempts, un-zombie-fying Modula-2 isn't trivial. Perhaps the answer is to grab one of these projects (or Modula-3) and throw the effort into "you're not going to be the next Webdev language, but lets beat this low-level systems niche into our world". Maybe start by writing a bulletproof bootloader or something. Or some security sensitive network plumbing. Can't do any worse than the Rust/Go guys are doing, with the bonus that Modula-[23] have actually been used to build real bare metal systems.

I dunno...maybe I just need another scotch.

FWIW...every time I've been in a "Forth could do this, but forth makes me want to dig my eyeballs out with spoons, what is the alternative?" scenario, I reached for C, and haven't really been all that disappointed. I know that makes me a bad person.
Swift 2 is fantastic except (har har) for exceptions. Optional<T> has been hanging out, monad-y and all, since v1. Why not Result<T, E>? You can't flatMap exceptions, and the Swift 2 implementation even throws away type data (or hides it, at least). Huh?
It's not that simple. I'm talking about phenomena for which we have lots of evidence. There is lots of evidence for Bigfoot and UFOs, but amount does not equate to quality or proof. My point is that with the increased number and quality of cameras and lower burden of creating footage we should see exponentially more footage over time rather than less.

The recording of real phenomena should be directly related to the number and quality of cameras or other recording devices (see rogue waves, shark attacks). Phenomena that seem inversely related or at least disconnected from the spread of cameras (Bigfoot, UFOs etc) become less likely to be real over time. We still get occasional new footage or other evidence, but it doesn't fit the curve followed by known real phenomena.
I scanned the post and it seemed the issues are regardless of the language.
> That said, I sure feel sorry for someone with no friends, romantic partners, or human engagement on anything outside their work.

All three of those things are really available throughout life and are not that hard to accumulate once one sets his/her mind to it. In fact, she'll probably have access to higher caliber of candidates who'd know her background and find her intellectually stimulating in those capacities.

Whereas the opportunity to move humanity forward in a major way, with a matching set of skills (and energy of a young person) is more of a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Placer looks interesting. I'll try it out.

>When you're writing a kernel you're not supposed to be using the standard library at all, just libcore (which exists for this purpose). The same issue exists in C++.

Not quite. C++ standard containers are polymorphic on the allocator. That means you're welcome to use std::list or std::string in kernel mode. Just plug in a kernel allocator and you're good to go.

There's no technical reason why every Rust core project must reinvent the linked list and the hash map, like every C project.
FYI for anyone still coming in, this has been up and down all day due to the fact that Uber's API is rate limited to 1000 requests/hour. I contacted support and asked for an increase but they haven't gotten back to me yet. So if you want to see it and it's not working, check back on the next hour. Sorry about that and thanks for looking!
... except we're not talking about Turing's share price going down. We're talking about pharmaceutical stocks generally going down.
Penn & Teller can be surprisingly narrow-minded sometimes. I'd prefer someone with fewer preconceptions. Ideally a combo team of scientists and stage magicians.
They are responding to a chance of additional regulation from a political candidate that hasn't been elected yet. To me that's fear and fear is an emotion.
Yep. A valid partition-intolerant system is one where nodes on both sides of a partition will automatically do something drastic, like unconditionally terminating, so that no subset of the nodes remains for clients to talk to.

The interesting thing about CA systems is that their behavior strongly resembles that of non-distributed systems. It's just like having one SPOF machine!
Is Naval Ravikant the Nicest Guy in Tech?
But you'd be in pretty bad shape after that.
This is a monopoly, which is, by definition, not subject to the price discovery mechanism of the free market.

If you mean that eventually, some sort of force will break up the monopoly and find the true free market price point at the intersection of supply and demand, that is cold comfort to those who may die before that state transition completes.
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Alternate explanation : he's still employed by yahoo, has millions in unvested shared (it's still less than 4 years), and got threatened with termination.

Just an alternative theory. He may have simply chosen the more money option.
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If you do some research into this particular medicine, you will see that there are clear, non-free market roadblocks to producing a generic version.
I think I'm suggesting that the ability to "calm oneself down further" varies tremendously between individuals.
Sure, but a rich person is also a person that is rich.
Their calculus in determining a potentially "ethical" decision is much different than, say, a developer struggling in the former eastern bloc.

People rarely ever operate in a vacuum, and a person is subconsciously influenced by a variety of factors, of which financial status is one. In this particular instance, it would be a bit disingenuous to assume that Marco made this decision on his own, operating in a vacuum. The real world is a lot more complex than the simple case you are making it to be.
> When you present people with an economic system that does have a social-utilitarian purpose, those people will select capitalism over it on the basis that capitalism is better at fulfilling that purpose.

No one has ever offered people that choice, as far as I know, certainly not in a way that wouldn't in many cases be confounded by rational or irrational attachment to the present mode of social organization. (And in fact plenty of people seem to like social democracies just fine. And, for that matter, plenty of people seem to want socialist or communist modes of social organization.)
Volkswagen falls over 20%, to halt US diesel car sales
Thanks for the info, cbhl and paulmd. I'm afraid I still don't quite get it, probably because I don't understand EE and radio as well as I ought to.

Why is there significant expense in putting a ROM chip between the radio and the amplifier that cuts out certain frequencies? I can see where that's not as simple as mandating software that is simply incapable of generating bad frequencies in the first place, but it intuitively strikes me as the same sort of embedded programming that goes into, say, a microwave oven--I can see it adding some cost, but not so much that it would be unfeasible in e.g. an home wifi router. What am I not understanding?
Has either PATH or the Gates Foundation ever developed a drug? Honest question here, I just don't know?
When Does a Diplomatic Passport Not a Diplomat Make
Does it affect cellphones? From the description I would have assumed it did, but I haven't seen much talk about that.
That isn't very far fetched. That was England not very long ago.

"However, consuming human remains fit with the leading medical theories of the day. “It emerged from homeopathic ideas,” says Noble. “It’s 'like cures like.' So you eat ground-up skull for pains in the head.” http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-o...
Closed systems strike again? This "feature" may well have been found sooner in open, transparent software.

Oh, and, who goes to jail for this? Willful I ntent to defraud the public and the government. Criminal?
I wasted a good 15 minutes on the first X-men chess claim only to find that they botched it.

axb2 is not mate. this is:

3. Nxb2 axb2+
4. Qxb2 P(c3)xb2++

Speaking of which, the chess column in the SF Chronicle drives me nuts because the solution is in error about once a month (because the logic is wrong, pieces are omitted from the graphic, or the solution printed doesn't correspond to the printed position).
It even uses real usernames for comments. I've apparently commented on "Watch Morley Safer Lie in Tech is Not a Single Blog Post" :P , and I've seen posts by patio11 (and referencing patio11 too!)

http://news.ycombniator.com/comments/comments_286.html#

And some of the Ask HN actually make sense too :) , I mean "Ask HN: Are there any good MOOCS/Online resources for learning TDD?"

But others are almost but not quite there: "I'm an 18 year-old front end GUI development?".
Here is another one from Swami Rama: http://www.swamij.com/pdf/swami-rama-beyond-biofeedback.pdf
Any break from the XUL days are a huge plus. XUL gives you so much power but is very unsafe for the users since anything goes and that system is also very poorly documented. I sometimes had to look at the Mozilla source code to understand what was possible with the XUL based extension system. Now that we have a really great set of native dev tools inside Firefox maybe we don't need XUL anymore? I say that because maybe something like Firebug isn't possible without XUL.
What services backed by A.I. would contend with Google's?
The absence of evidence is evidence of absence in the case where you would expect there to be evidence.

The fact that we don't have video footage of Egyptian Pharos is in no way evidence for them not existing, since they are purported to have existed prior to the invention of the video camera.

Things that are purported to happen today should have good quality recordings of them if they are at all common.
you forgot to call me 'edgy'
I think you may have misunderstood my point, which we actually agree on: Our so-called venture capitalists right now are behaving a lot like central planners.
A lot of distributed systems literature seems to be too abstract for real world systems engineering. Where does one go to learn about architecting a distributed system on a that works in the real world?
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But he's not talking about the performance of the car, rather its reliability. And an unreliable car is flagged as such pretty soon.
There really needs to be some way to pin these "necessary context for understanding the post" comments to the top of the thread. (Other than just upvoting, which as of right now hasn't yet achieved that.)
What's sad is that Clinton says she'll unveil a "new plan" for dealing with this. The law to deal with this is the Sherman Antitrust Act and it's been on the books for over 100 years.

Cornering the market on the supply of a drug where the market supply is restricted (any competitor wishing to reproduce it would have to demonstrate equivalence) then implementing a drastic subsequent price rise is a clear Section 1 violation of that law.

We don't need a "new plan to deal with this". What we need is a politician that will have the justice dept indict them, file a request for an injunction on the price point, and stop supporting policies that constrain market access.
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Like the Breton language in France.
Well of course they pay less in absolute terms, they have less money. They absolutely pay more for an equal amount of equal quality items.

Let's say a pack of cigarettes is $7. In poor areas you can often find "singles" or "loosys" for sale at $.50-$1. They're exactly what they sound like, single cigarettes. Usually the store owner just opens up a pack and sells each cigarette individually. Poor people with little money will buy the singles and thus 20 singles will cost $10-$20.

This isn't something I'm making up, this actually happens in poor areas. Often times there's not even a store owner and it's just an individual trying to make some quick money and turn a profit (this is what Eric Garner was trying to do, sell loosies at a markup).

You can go on endlessly with this kind of thing. If you can imagine a packaged product, it's probably being split up and sold as singles at a higher price with respect to the packaged price, and almost always in poor areas.

I've even seen stores that seem to make a racket out of buying stuff in bulk from Costco, breaking up the package and selling singles for 2-5x the original price. Shelf after shelf of Kirkland signature bottled water, toilet paper, detergent etc. Poor people don't have Costco memberships even if getting the membership and just buying non-perishables in bulk would save them money in aggregate. The store had a whole repackaging operation in back where the singles would be rewrapped in new shrinkwrap, but they didn't bother removing the label.
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> Large firms have been sitting on enormous sums of cash; e.g., why is it that the most capitalized company on earth isn't investing aggressively. In lieu of investment, many of these firms have been focused on engineering stock buybacks.

Ie they have essentially been paying dividends. Working as intended.
As best I can tell, it's invested in US treasuries and corporate bonds [http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/02/apple-cash-m...]. It's doing much less work than if Apple paid it out as a dividend, or spent it on Bentleys for all its employees, or invested it in creating some new product category. And we don't see a penny of it paid as taxes.
http://www.amazingabilities.com/amaze9a.html

> There are various stages of Yogic Flying. The initial stage is "hopping." The second stage is "floating," and the final stage is "flying." So far, no one practicing the Yogic Flying TM-Sidhi has been observed achieving a stage beyond hopping. Achieving the floating and flying stages is dependent upon the extent to which the practitioner is able to sustain his awareness at the level of the unified field, the level of transcendental consciousness. It is by maintaining one's awareness at this very fine level that one is able to influence the laws of nature to gain support of those laws whereby anything is possible. That is why the unified field is called the field of all possibilities; from that most fundamental and powerful level anything is possible. The author believes that eventually the final stage of levitation (flying) will be a common phenomenon.

This sort of flying comes out of Transcendental Mediation from the 1970s. You are right that this kind of hop is labeled "flying", even though it isn't flying.

However, I think sandworm101's comment of "yogis who can fly" should be read more generally to include levitation. For example, quoting from "Autobiography of a Yogi" at http://www.crystalclarity.com/yogananda/chap7.php (and also mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints_and_levitation ):

> "I saw a yogi remain in the air, several feet above the ground, last night at a group meeting." My friend, Upendra Mohun Chowdhury, spoke impressively.

> ... "How does he remain in the air, defying the law of gravitation?"

> "A yogi's body loses its grossness after use of certain pranayamas. Then it will levitate or hop about like a leaping frog. Even saints who do not practice a formal yoga[4] have been known to levitate during a state of intense devotion to God."

The footnote 4 mentions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila , who was "said to have been observed levitating during Mass on more than one occasion".

Then there's https://books.google.com/books?id=mSpQAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT26&dq=yo... ("The Autobiography of the Maha Yogi")

> ... It is the law the governs the life of a yogi, (an equivalent to the Arian law of the Buddhits that governs the conducts of the Bodhisattvas) that forbid he yogi to demonstrate his paranormal and supernatural powers in the presence of savages and barbarians, before the public or in front of television cameras. Yet, I am the only living contemporary who ever levitated four feet off the ground in front of a camera. I shall, of course, refrain from ever levitating in public, as a matter of fundamental principle for that would be a sacrilege. Furthermore, like several of my Siddhies, levitation in [sic] an Involuntary occurrence that happens in rare moments of religious ecstasy, perhaps as few as one or two times per year. There was no known yogi in history who has been able to levitate at will and on demand.

That's two yogis who claim something that sounds more than kind of hopping. After all, hopping can be done at will and on demand.
Yeah the Randy Radish here in VA pulls it off. I'm not vegetarian/vegan but I thought it was pretty good.

http://www.therandyradish.com/menu
Google's papers on F1 and spanner are decent. Unfortunately not many companies do this and a lot of it is tied up as 'proprietary information'.
> (And in fact plenty of people seem to like social democracies just fine. And, for that matter, plenty of people seem to want socialist or communist modes of social organization.)

Plenty of people seem to want more socialism for the country they live in, but given the choice many move to countries that have less socialism. (Ie richer countries.)
Afaik, upvoting will only work for a while -- I believe the sorting algorithm uses time as a factor, to allow newer comments to bubble up above higher-rated ones.
There is a style of yoga that I have heard being referred to as 'flying'. It involves two people, and one lifts the other completely off the ground so that the second person can practice without being encumbered by a floor beneath them.
I think a fairly typical method of doing this involves the first person lying on their back with their feet straight up, and the other person would then put the grounded person's feet above their pelvis and gradually bring all their weight upon the grounded person's feet.

I've only done this style once, it was a great experience. I found it to be very much a team effort between me and my partner, we had to work to maintain balance from both positions. Very different from what I have experienced in regular yoga classes.
http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/08/18/the-evolutionary-ange...
so... you're pivoting?
They are correct that it's a typical clause in an EULA for the embedded industry.
Google AppEngine is part of the Google Cloud Platform. It's a pretty big deal.

If you want to use it, (at least with Python) you need to roll your own. You can't upload scrypt, bcrypt or PBKDF2 with your app, since code with C isn't kosher on there.
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> It is LaTeX syntax.

That's LateX-enough for me :)

But in all seriousness, thanks for clarifying/confirming. When I posted I didn't want to risk overstating.
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Yes.I see those things too.

But when I look at something that is 'modern', all I see is a highly refined/glorified version of a 50 year old thing. Mobile phones are just a glorified radio. Computers are glorified calculators. Internet is a glorified telephone network.

Sure, these things have massive impact on our existence. But that does not prevent them from being mere refinements.

So, if we figure out something like, teleportation, or anti-gravity or a way to convert arbitrary matter to energy(mc2), that would be something. An innovation/technology that will be indistinguishable from magic.
>derp, nope.

Your post was full of good information. why did you have to start it by being an asshole?
Salesforce loves to consume OData too. I'd be very interested in a sheet->OData connector.
Well, that's why you have to argue against capitalism. If you don't present any alternatives, you won't know that they're worse than the way things are. There are important things that it doesn't do well, and we have enough information to know that.
http://fortune.com/2014/11/13/angellist-ceo-naval-ravikant-d...
PBKDF2 is okay, but the underlying algorithms (usually SHA256) are a little too easy to accelerate with GPUs and ASICs. scrypt can also be accelerated with GPUs, but the difference is much smaller due to its design.

PBKDF2 is still widely used in applications that need to be small and simple, such as embedded devices and disk encryption tools. For hashing website passwords, though, it is showing its age.

Disclaimer: I'm not a cryptographer, so I might be talking out of my ass.
I stopped reading when I hit this sentence: But armed with two of these, and a new slant on deep belief networks, they are breathing new life into an established deep learning knowledge base and proving how a new model for deep learning is proving itself at scale for NASA’s terabytes of near-range satellite data—and potentially for other areas as the work expands.
You're making an awful lot of assumptions to arrive at your conclusion. You have exactly as much evidence as is provided in the article and therefore can't make the claim that he did not.

Of your points above, only point 1 is based in any sort of fact which relies on a current understanding of how a human heart functions. Therefore, the point you're making is that a human heart cannot be consciously stopped because a human heart cannot be consciously controlled.

With the current data you've been provided all you can do is conclude that the test was flawed, not that what the test suggested was true or false.
They do exist, but they are rare because dishonesty is far more profitable financially, even though it comes at the expense of "moral profit" and "social profit" for the world.

And it is a bottom up as much as it is a top down problem. Employees self-servingly turn a blind eye if not actively participate in the dishonesty to benefit their careers and salary. Check out The Banality of Systemic Evil.[1]

You are far more likely to find honesty in small orgs than large.

I wish the post about Kickstarter choosing social profit over financial[2] profit lasted longer on the front page today. That it didn't says something sad I think about the priorities of HN readers and the tech community as a whole.

Don't give up! The most important thing is to work against the banality of evil not just in your workplace but in yourself. It takes a lot of courage and sacrifice.

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[1] http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/the-banality... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6436719)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10250120
The quote was about corporate bonds and TLT is a US treasury ETF. I hold TLT in my portfolio as it one of the only ETFs I can find that tends not to move in tandem with absolutely everything else.