skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article says: There were still areas in that room that were .037 milligrams per cubic meter.

Wikipedia gives the following info:
Chronic exposure by inhalation, even at low concentrations in the range 0.7–42 μg/m3, has been shown in case control studies to cause effects such as tremors, impaired cognitive skills, and sleep disturbance in workers.

Even if the first number is as high as it is because they handled it, things like that they found it while sweeping the kitchen suggests that not all of it was sitting quietly somewhere, but was possibly disturbed regularly or even ingested. Given that mercury stays in the body for decades and is especially bad for children, that doesn't seem like something one should risk.

(+ of course once the building is condemned, you can't really say "yeah, ok, no, we'll risk it")
Something like http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man7/... would be nice.
Assuming that your explanation applies to Spidler's situation, why not do

ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "%i/webapp"

rather than using a one-off wrapper? Does that wrapper ship with systemd?
I use C++ in my work - robotics/Comp-vision. We need it for the performance and the cross-platform characteristics. It is a highly powerful language once you get used to its complexity. In my experience, it is the most popular language in the robotics community, though not for prototyping (Matlab, python are more common for prototyping)
It was incredibly slow here. The tab locked up the entire browser for a full 7 seconds before I could begin scrolling. The rendering frame rate of scrolling was 3-4 FPS, and only jumped back up to a fluid rate once I scrolled down past all of the images. Late 2013 MacBook Pro running Chrome.
> he gets occasional cash gifts from relatives and a salary from me that consists of 10 cents for every mile walked or biked as part of family life

Hmm, not sure if you are serious, but this ain't great.
Facebook doesn't want to encourage contention and negative emotions? Seems logical to me.

You remember how you feel when you use a product. When I comment on HN I feel like I'm standing before a military tribunal that is trying to pick apart everything I say and find a way to disagree with it. When I use Facebook I feel nothing but love and appreciation from the people I know and care about.

You may think that's lame or that you're above that, but I deal with enough shit in the rest of my life that I don't mind having a cushy place online to communicate with the people who care about me. And I'll even put up with Buzzfeed and email-forward-worthy garbage to do so.

On a macro scale I think that's something the world needs badly. I think most people could do with a little more love and positivity in their lives.
Is this hypothetical, or are there a few working examples, or are there a lot of working examples, enough that one could casually talk about shorting Bitcoin? How big is this market for Bitcoin shorts and futures, what sort of volume are we talking about at the present time? The only shorting I knew of was on exchanges of questionable trustworthiness.
Unless your house was built in the very late 80s, there's still a possibility that asbestos could still have been used in your house.

Mercury is far more toxic than mold, unless you have asthma or an allergy to mold. I've known people that have lived in mold infested houses with no side effects, so it's not instant death like the lawyers would like to make you think.
Sure, I understand that. My problem is with this statement:

>The whole consensus network of Bitcoin is based around burning so much energy/space/infrastructure on hashing that a single actor wouldn't be able to invest a bunch of money and take a controlling majority.

I just don't think that's true. The only thing keeping one big player from taking over the network is scale. I really don't think that the "whole consensus network of Bitcoin is based around" what he says it is, since it's not necessary. Yes, there is a proof of stake, but it has nothing to do with "burning so much energy/space/infrastructure on hashing that a single actor wouldn't be able to invest a bunch of money and take a controlling majority". It's just a way to create the right incentives for people to want to mine.
Probably not that harmful, but it's a liability issue and definitely worth addressing early if the house is to be sold in future.

The building I currently work in is going to get some plumbing work done and there is likely asbestos somewhere. The current word from above is that if any asbestos is found during the process the whole bulding will have to be evacuated until somebody from the appropiate authority sign it off as safe. Overeaction? Probably. We know that to cause cancer you need to be inhaling asbesto dust for years. But the liability is too great that any other course of action would be deemed negligent.
> ascribe everything to luck,

Did you misread when the person said specifically "I'm sure you've worked hard"?

Person is probably not saying "hey nothing you did was on you" but is more likely wanting to say "hey consider the greater context of your existence".
That's what I though, but I read it in the unsympathetic Boston Globe as it proceeded, even they couldn't spin it into anything but a travesty. Well, to someone from outside the state.

Massachusetts is viciously anti-gun. Except, of course, towards the connected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_University_of_Alabama_in_...
I did not say that a buyback program was the solution. (Nor did Australia limit themselves to a buyback program; it was part of a national effort.)

I asked why Australia didn't have the horrors that you predict would happen should Australian-like gun control laws be put into place in the US.

Your only answer seems to be that the US has too many guns, so therefore can't change. (Which sounds like a bank which is "too big to fail", so we have to keep feeding it taxpayer money.)

> that's the only way to get guns out of american hands

That's irrelevant. As I demonstrated, only about 1/3 of the guns got out of Australian hands. Why would anyone think those same laws would get 100% of the gun out of American hands?
Investigate the "robo advisors" like betterment and wealthfront. You are exactly their target audience. You can safely ignore the general FUD you will read about their fees. The people writing that it costs too much are far more sophisticated than you and have traded a great deal of their time researching investing to be able to invest "cheaper" on their own. If you are extremely price sensitive, then you should look at wisebanyan which is "free", or use a referral link to join wealthfront to get the first $15k managed "free".
Easy potential fix: make the pay reasonably attractive (say 150% of median wage), and allow people to buy themselves out of it by paying their replacement's salary (and if the first 100 people picked all opt out to pay, then that's about 99x pure government profit).
You're right, but throwing money at more observation stations, satellites, and balloons would work as well. The general "throw money" solution would work.
In my most recent review of random ID-generating tools (all I wanted were plausible and random names and details), I found that many will now "generate" documents -- state drivers licenses, passports, etc. -- which could presumably be submitted.

Mind: that likely puts you solidly into fraud category.
Darn, right when I was contemplating resubscribing. I guess I'll make do with Amazon Prime for a while longer.
> Call it $50k total?

Jesus fucking Christ. So I guess the lesson here for the average homeowner is "if you find a mercury spill, don't tell anyone or you'll lose your home"?

Also:

>They were using a Jerome meter, which can only measure down to 3000 ng/m3 when the safe indoor limit is 300 ng/m3

Huh? Why would a mercury-abatement crew use a mercury detection meter that can't actually detect hazardous levels of mercury?
Doesn't Android borrow a lot of code from NetBSD and OpenBSD?
Only if you're being literal. They didn't say short the currency, and there are several ways to short bitcoin: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092214/no-fai...
Is it possible to see the list who reacted with a certain emoji or is this only as it was with likes?
I had a physics class in a community college that had us handling open containers of mercury for our experiments. It was maybe 15 years ago.

Someone in one of the classes managed to knock one of the jars over, and mercury spilled everywhere on the floor. Either the students hid their spill from the staff, or the staff just had some janitors do a simple sweeping of it, because I noticed spheres of mercury everywhere in that classroom throughout the semester.

I didn't realize that mercury spills are such a huge issue until recently.

The professor also seemed to be going crazy, which suggests to me that this happened more than once in the past and he was suffering from the effects of mercury poisoning.
He may come to regret testifying under oath with these particular sentences, which are very much falsifiable. I'm not sure what the penalty is for lying to congress but this could very well backfire. There is absolutely no way that anybody within VW is able to put limits on the scope of the fall-out of this whole affair at this point in time.

Not smart to still be in 'damage control' mode when the only way out is total transparency.

I'll be very surprised if there won't be a mass resignation of engineers working for VW for being thrown under the bus like this.

The mere suggestion that 'a couple of engineers and their managers' could get away with deception on this scale speaks volumes about VWs perceived internal lack of process - something they shouldn't be able to get away with - and their lack of documentation for the development track of the engine.

If they've shredded documentation or if they suddenly find their version control systems and email audit trail blank there just might be jail time for some execs after all.

The thing that bugs me is that they are still somehow in lala land about how they're going to cover this thing up, digging a deeper hole in the process. You'd say the VW brand has sustained enough damage but clearly the execs don't agree with that.

"for whatever reason"... quote of the day, as if engineers put stuff in production without reasons, specifications or instructions.
Netflix Hikes Streaming Plan Pricing to Bring New Content
It may have cost you $50,000 but you now have +50 karma on HN and rising. Some would say a bargain! ;-]

In all seriousness, cool story, glad you're okay, and this makes me think "insurance" as a business needs to be re-thought entirely. How many times has it happened that insurance companies weasel out of paying? Objectively you might think THAT was their primary job.
Sigma Xi put up march madness style brackets [1] for the science prizes and the winners weren't even in the bracket for chem and medicine. If you look at the increasing time from work to the award of the prizes [2], and then the fact that chem bloggers handicapping the race aren't even familiar with the winners' work [3, comments] it becomes clear that science has just outgrown the 3 award areas. They should consider splitting the award into more sub-categories in most years.

[1] https://www.sigmaxi.org/news/keyed-in/post/keyed-in/2015/09/...

[2] http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/n...

[3] http://blog.chembark.com/2015/10/07/predictions-for-the-2015...
> pg saying that downvoting for disagreement is ok.

I'm surprised I've not heard that before; but either way, I guess I stand thoroughly corrected, and will know better in future. Thank you for replying to explain my error and not just downvoting :)
Ebola Scare in Calabar; One Dead, Hospital Partly Shut
Except that exactly the same criticism was said about moving to mac back in the day.
> The problem with demonizing Nazis is that it makes them seem uniquely evil.

"In the air strike, witnesses said patients were burned alive in the crowded hospital of medecins sans frontieres. Among the dead were three children being treated".

War crime, last week. Almost 200 patients and employees in the hospital.

To talk about how crazy was Hitler this week seems really convenient. Very pleasant and distracting exercise of history.

source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/05/us-afghanistan-att...
I, and many others, prefer sysvinit over systemd, which I consider overly bloaty and not in-line with the unix philosophy of 'do one thing and do it well'. It's far too involved in the overall systems where, now, some desktop environments require it? That's absolute crap.
multiplexing should be automatic, but prioritization and push are different, obviously. Ilya Grigorik just tweeted[1] this project[2] for server push on app engine.

[1] https://twitter.com/igrigorik/status/652267370241654784

[2] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/http2push-gae
It's the acquisition of the gun that's comparable, not the crime committed with it.

Since someone can physically go and mill a gun, should that be the reason not to enact gun control? Seems like a ridiculous reason to me, but apparently is a core bit of logic for the gun crowd.
$10k is the starting investment for the nicer classes of some mutual funds, but those are completely obsoleted by ETFs. You can buy those as soon as you have $50 for one share and brokerage fees.
This after a study reveals more than half of Americans have less than $1k in savings.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying that in extreme cases, most people would simply go bankrupt or starve. Something to think about when you root for certain laws and politicians..
When speaking under oath take great care to not exceed the domain of verifiable facts.
This has been talked about for over a year now and the miners have made it pretty clear they're not going to adopt it, especially given that these failing "stress tests" generate more profit for them. Even XT adoption is abysmal.
> ...the name "multi-user" is not exactly difficult to cope with if one has a Unix background. It's not novel or a systemd-ism.

Sure, but I had to do a bit of reading to understand that

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

meant: "This service should start in the runlevel called 'multi-user'".

It also seems... backwards to put runlevel membership in a service definition file. Runlevels are an administratively controlled thing. Does systemd have two or more places a given service's runlevel membership can be specified, or is the only way to change a service's runlevel in its service definition file?

Yes, I know that the notion of "runlevels" is probably "legacy". However, assume that -on my OpenRC system- I have two particular runlevels, one for regular multi-user operation, and one for operation when I connect to hostile networks. Transitioning to this second runlevel shuts down all services that listen on anything other than localhost. Transitioning back brings those services back up.

Although this situation is a little contrived, this sort of flexibility is valuable.
Long term fixed rate? Why bother paying early. Interest rates must rise eventually. If even if they don't the future dollars are much cheaper anyway becuase inflation won't stop. In real terms, your interest rate goes down every year, to the point where is can reach 0 or negative. Locking the money in the house means opportunity costs to take advantage higher rates later.
I would definitely be very uncomfortable with my health had I been living there, balls of mercury in the bathroom seem to suggest that there was quite a high degree of exposure.
Droplets without private networking communicate over the public internet. Your traffic can be listened to and if it is plain text and if you have sensitive data (every app I've ever worked on always has) then that sensitive data is flying around free and clear.

If you have Droplets with private networking you can communicate within that data center but other Droplets in the data center could still eavesdrop on your packets. To feel secure you need to encrypt data that goes between your droplets.

As for iptables: if you don't need a port open, don't open it.
Deerhoof vs. the large hadron collider
This is a major reason for reform of the visa system. If you get a US PhD you should be guaranteed a US visa. Studying a STEM PhD is free and mostly paid for by public grants aka tax dollars. If you force these people to leave you are using tax dollars to train them to go back and contribute to another country's economy. Instead they should be heavily incentivized to stay in the US and grow the US economy since we already wasted time training them.

For years China and India have been suffering brain drain to the US with their best researchers and engineers coming to the US but at least in china there has been a shift with more and more Chinese PhD grads choosing to go back most of which is because it is just too hard to stay in the US. They go back and work for upcoming tech giants like alibaba and other companies that are competing with US companies. So US companies are facing more competition from companies whose workers are trained in the US with grant money from US tax payers
Somewhat unrelated - for those who don't know Alistair MacLean[1] was a novelist, mostly war thrillers, adventures. My grandpa - a voracious reader and a retired judge spent most of his retirement reading and walking, he turned me on to Alistair MacLean by describing his experience of reading Ice Station Zebra (based on the north pole) as if "you feel the chill in your bones as you read it". So I read that, and ever sing book Alistair MacLean has authored. These were the first novels I read in English. After going through entire works of Alistair MacLean, I went through pretty much any other book I can get my hands on. And the _best_ part was finishing something, going downstairs to grandpa's room and telling him, his response was almost always - "oh yes, I read that in 19XX, love the character X doing something with Y".

Reading the title of the post was a pang of nostalgia, I can still remember him telling me about Ice Station Zebra, Night Without End, Where Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone. I miss him.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_MacLean
Seriously. I don't know a lot of people for whom a surprise $50k bill would be "unfortunately" rather than "disastrously".
Is there source code for the attack script anywhere? It would be interesting to see if a decentralized currency can stand up to a decentralized attack.
>>Because rampant consumerism isn't the issue.

Sorry to break the bad news to you, but rampant consumerism actually is the issue.

>>Most families are responsible with their money.

No, in fact their spending decision don't even remotely reflect any sense of responsibility.

>>Their greatest expense?

If you think, smaller delta spending doesn't matter. Alas, I'm sorry that's the whole point behind indulging into consumerism without even realizing you are.

>>Rent/mortgage which is pushed up by

Demands.

>>bankers issuing insane amounts of debt that out-pace wages

You always have the option to move to the city outskirts, where houses are affordable. It will take more effort to commute and all, but cheap has to count for something. And you could save money to borrow less.

>>real problem is economic rent extraction by people who are adding zero value to society.

Houses don't get build out of fairies dropping suitcases full of money outside people's houses. They earn it, work for it. And make investments.

You are all welcome to invest and grow. But just because you don't want to, it doesn't make others greedy and evil.
There are plenty of people who don't know their algorithms and data structures writing prodduction code for large companies.
My understanding was they weren't specifically a mercury-abatement crew, so they probably had detectors for a broad range of contaminants, but not specialized equipment for particular toxins. At least that's how I read it.
Wouldn't an insurance company that was TOO good at paying out go out of business? :)
Yep, an alternative model enabled by technology is mutual / cooperative insurance in which the policyholders not only own the company but also govern the release of funds. This way incentives are aligned - the insured want the insurance to act fairly, even with respect to others, so that it will be there for them. It would be something like gofundme but on a subscription basis, with up or down decision-making by subscribers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_insurance
IDK, looking at that singles page, it looks bad in all major cities.
Why give money to a solution before exploring other options? Decentralization, for example, seems like a more natural way of distributing meterological forecasting workload across the planet, by colocating sensors and computation on clusters of devices in close proximity. Decentralized computing is a natural fit for weather problems.
I don't think that is true. Some are but most foreign PhD students are paying their own way or being paid externally.
"The alternative" is almost certain not to be an alternative Web-based service, but a set of protocols allowing for interactions between independent and independently hosted systems.

Diaspora was a valient effort, but sadly, appears quite doomed (I was an early fan and user).
You have saved your children a few IQ points.
wow. I remember as a kid ~20 years ago playing with mercury (my grandfather was a dentist and had a 1lb bottle of the stuff for some reason)

I think if I found mercury in my house I would literally just scoop it up and bring it to the fire department without thinking about any health hazards of it. Is mercury truely that bad that short exposure is that dangerous? I mean, I wouldnt eat the stuff (or breath it in for extended periods) but I used to roll it around in my hands and whatnot as a kid without any effects.

Considering how some people work with mercury ( see this : http://www.vice.com/video/el-dorado ) , I feel like you need quite a bit of exposure to be up shits creek.

Then again, I'm not a doctor so dont listen to me.
Intercept the back key event when keyboard is visible on Android
"Everybody else is doing it" isn't doing it for me right now. Facebook has ~1.4 billion monthly active users and, somehow, no real competitors at the moment.

Facebook's COO, Sheryl Sandberg, has tried in the past to change how society functions by limiting vocabulary[0].

Facebook's product is their userbase, they make money by monetizing their userbase.

Ideally there would be enough competing chat/message services that you could always switch when you're unhappy. That's not the case here. Facebook has an enormous amount of power over how the world communicates and I think the intentional and unintentional effects of any bias they introduce should be discussed.

[0]-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Bossy
Why is /usr/bin being adopted as the place for binaries with /bin linking to it instead of the other way around? Since they're essentially the same directory under this setup why not favor the short path?
Following the tutorial worked out as described. I wish more tutorials were this hassle free. One thing, after one has downloaded the IntelliJ and installed the Cursive Plugin, I think the tutorial should also give a few pointers on how to get a REPL going. I had to fumble around a bit cos after a Leiningen project is setup simply clicking the 'Run' menu item does not run the '-main' function and certainly didn't start an REPL session. Thanks for the tutorial.