skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are obviously multiple factors with greater and lesser incidence depending on the times. It's also true that we have far better irrigation methods than before and drought-resistant crops. But that doesn't do much against the worst of climate change.
If you'd like to share the query I'd be really interested to debug.
The authors argue that there were very serious and repeated shortcomings in the methodology used to estimate the highest possible flooding caused by a tsunami.

The plant was designed for 6-meter tsunami from an M=7.5 earthquake, but what actually hit them was a 13-meter tsunami from an M=9.0 quake. I understood it's international standard practice to consider worst-case events from historical record spanning thousands of years in nuclear plant risk analysis, and it is known that almost as strong earthquakes hit Japan in 1933 (M=8.5) and 869 (M=8.6), for example. A plant by a different company just 100 km north of Dai-ichi was built for a 13-meter tsunami, so there was little consistency in what preparations the tsunami analysis actually induced, and the regulator seems to have been indifferent to these disparities. Further, there were for some reason no mandatory "safety margins" in tsunami level precautions to offset modelling inaccuracies, unlike in precautions for the earthquake ground shock – eventhough computational models for tsunami levels were and remain much less accurate than the ground shock models.

Although by 2000s the shortcomings of tsunami analysis like the one done for Dai-ichi were already well-known, a methodologically-flawed further analysis by TEPCO in 2010 failed to introduce any new recommendations – against the published opinions of their own scientists. The cost of relocating the diesel generators higher up in the building would have been just in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, rather than millions.
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Count me amongst those who dresses up - dress shirt, slacks, jacket - almost every day. All overt reactions - where there have been any noticeable reactions - have been positive or neutral. I haven't noticed any negative reactions.
Syria became seriously unstable after having the largest drought in history. That has obvious political and social consequences.

So no, what climate change does is create the conditions for greater sensibility to the external actors' influence. There's nothing disputable in that assertion.
I don't see that the article mentions explicitly: the population of Syria was 9 million in 1980, 12 million in 1990 and 20 million in 2010. So there were certainly a lot of young people, including young men.
Yeah, in the movie Buck was one of the "better" (or less bad) guys, although a bit crazy, too.
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My mistake; 1978 Pollard's Rho algorithm for DLP. Was looking at Pollard's Rho for integer factorization at the time. On that note; what a monster this Pollard character. Wonder what he is up to these days.
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That's ok if you think that, but look at it from the perspective of time management. I don't have all the time in the world to give everyone a chance. I would love to, but I can't and so a simple rule like "No bootcampers" is an effective filtering mechanism. With a little patience, I find better talent rather than forcing myself to hunt for potential in anyone who applies.

To be honest, I find it presumptuous that I should be giving them a chance. I went to school to get to where I needed to be. I had to pay off student loans. I had to learn data structures, compilers, and all sorts of advanced things that I don't use on an everyday basis (but no doubt help me). Who are you to say I'm being harsh in denying the get-rich-schemers of the bootcamping world for the diligent one-step-at-a-time college folk? And of course that's a generalization.. so please, let's not say "but there's always exceptions."
The theory that deflation is bad for an economy doesn't say "but only when that economy is over a certain size". It is an absolute theory that claims to apply everywhere.

I've been saying this theory is bunk for years, so it's nice to finally see the view start to surface in mainstream publications. You only have to review the data to discover that there's no empirical link between deflation and depression. For instance, take this paper, written by economists at the Minneapolis Fed:

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr331.pdf

Abstract:

Are deflation and depression empirically linked? No, concludes a broad historical study of inflation and real output growth rates. Deflation and depression do seem to have been linked during the 1930s. But in the rest of the data for 17 countries and more than 100 years, there is virtually no evidence of such a link.

But you don't really need data to convince yourself that the 2%-inflation-is-best theory is nonsense. Basic common sense should be good enough. The entire thing rests on the assumption that there's a class of investments that people would refuse to invest in if left to their own devices, but which suddenly become attractive only if their savings are shrivelled by a few percent a year. Such a class of investments certainly does exist: they're called bad investments!
Can you go into more detail about what you heard/saw that made Blizzard stand out to you?
Take a look at this course : https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Networking... . The recommended book is Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by Kurose and Ross.
With all respect due, I think the former residents of Pripyat would disagree with you.
How is this sexism? Because it's between a girl and a guy?

This could play out exactly the same between two females or two males.

This is nothing more than a communication breakdown. "Matt thinks..." because Matt has to come to some plausible conclusion in his own mind. Nevermind if it's wrong, it's the best explanation he can find and we should respect that.

Now it's both of your responsibility, as social human beings wishing to maintain a professional relationship, to honestly convey your position to each other. If his accusation is blatantly false, don't use it to fuel your arguments, speak from your understanding of the situation. Now listen to his.

"Oh dear, aren't we silly, going off in tangents in our minds without any concrete evidence of these things actually being true." "I'm glad we talked."

Also, rattling off 100 ways in which you hate Matt is suspect. I don't like any of those things either, but I try to refrain from shit talking. If Matt wants to talk sports, I'll entertain it. Eventually he'll learn how shallow my interests are, maybe via body language or even a direct statement, and we'll discuss something else from then on.

The part where you offensively generalize what you think are typical male and female interests? There's the sexism.
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It's a question of what's causing the deflation. If prices fall because spending has collapsed, people lose their jobs, businesses go bust. This is what happened in the 1930s depression and it's bad. If prices fall because the currency is strong making imports cheaper as in the Swiss case then that's not such a problem.
Because it's an interesting article which is trivially easy to access.
I hadn't considered that angle before. That helps me reconcile it – imagine it's health records left more or less unattended.
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Useage elsewhere doesn't support your comment. E.g., in the introduction:

Interestingly, while the Onagawa NPP was
also hit by a tsunami of approximately the same
height as Dai-ichi, it survived the event ‘remarkably
undamaged’.
#4 is super important for many things, not just gender equity.

One of the biggest ones is to make sure that you actually clearly communicate what you want out of an employee. If you expect someone to be doing more work than someone else, but they have the same title.. you may want different titles. Or clear (and public!) pay grades that signify seniority if you don't want MTS1 MTS2 MTS3 MTS4 MTS5 MTS++ style titles.

Companies, especially small ones, that skirt performance review policies as either unimportant or "too formal" can lead to a lot of incidental/accidental discrimination that goes unnoticed until it's too late.
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This is literally what happens:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/06/stemwom...
I have. Frequently when making comments similar to those above ;-)

(The dog is doing his job....)
When you combine the potential lack of punishment for juveniles with the biological reality that prefrontal cortex development in adult humans doesn't really complete until the mid twenties, you get teenagers who don't think bad outcomes are possible, and whose brain is less capable of long term risk assessment.

I would think that the 50+ crowd would be far more hampered by their risk assessment of the negative outcomes of these behaviors than by their skillsets alone.

A teen is in it for the lulz, or the glory, or whatever, but a greybeard could lose his retirement, leave his spouse high and dry, lose his ability to see and support his family...
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Almost certainly high. US seems to be about a $10B market: http://www.sbdcnet.org/small-business-research-reports/comme...

Note though that, outside US and Europe, labor costs are indeed a lot lower but having a lot of personal help (cooks, housekeepers, nannies, etc.) is far more common also as a result.
No, that's wrong everywhere I've lived and traveled. With non-recurring trips (pretty much everything except commuting), you almost never migrate to a single provider. The advantages of tapping into a pool of providers is too great. In house-cleaning, there are no advantages to tapping into a pool, and in fact people are leery of it.
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Talking to Your Neighbour as a Service? Asking People You Trust for Recommendations as a Service? I'm not sure there's a VC-growth business to be had in there exactly.

I mean, Airbnb kinda tried to the latter by getting you to add your Facebook friends so you can see their reviews, but I don't get the impression that's gone far.
Is social network analysis a good product idea for a startup?
I've just moved to Berlin with the intention of starting a startup, hopefully in the field of Social Network Analysis (this is what I wrote my Computer Science thesis on, and I loved it).

However, I do not seem to be able to come up with any half-decent ideas. Everything seems to be out there already.

How do you guys come up with ideas? Do you recognise the feeling of eagerly wanting to work on something but yet not being able to truly love anything enough to put effort into it?

So, my question. How did you guys come up with your ideas that you are working on now? Was it sudden or did you have this idea growing in your mind for a while?

Best,
Andrew
You expect me to believe that Butterball sold at walmart is the highest quality? Who paid for this site? I did some googling on the CEO's name and the whois owner but couldn't find much.
Wait for the second trial to finish and the third to start on a new account before doing anything.
Playing a war/shooter simulation is a far cry from gaining skills useful in real-life combat, urban or otherwise. For one, using a controller or keyboard to aim makes you better at using a controller or keyboard to aim -- that has zero bearing on whether or not you can aim a firearm. Not to mention that using that as criteria for watchlisting someone would be grounds for reprimand and/or review of every watchlisting decision the analyst has made (which is looking for reasons to fire that analyst).
Well here's my issue with this explanation that I've heard a lot: the caller may or may not be able to recover from it, but the caller may still be doing something with the error. Maybe the caller doesn't want to expose the error to its caller, or maybe the caller wants to build a new message to explain the cause of your error. But to panic! takes away a lot of options for the caller.

Worst of all, it leads to untestable code, because the calling test case can't properly check the error against some known result.
How can Handy survive in the real world where workers reasonably call in sick with less than 24 hours notice if their customers behave like this?
The origins of Grav come from a personal desire to work with an open source platform that focused on speed and simplicity, rather than an abundance of built-in features that come at the expense of complexity.
So, medium squid, then?
Wrong. On a gross margin basis, Uber is wildly profitable.
Exactly it was a typical bait and switch program. It should have had a single payer option but that was gutted pretty quickly in the beginning (one can argue it would have never passed without).

I was on the other end of the spectrum. I had a good insurance through a small company and because of Obama care also kind of got screwed insurance company raised our rates 50%+ in a couple of years before the whole thing started to go into effect.
The link back to the HN post, and the subsequent resurface of the post in HN comments on a related NYT article, are already in TFA.
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Aren't all accidents preventable?
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Validating startups in the US market? how to do it?
Here is the story; I have worked with different startups in the Middle East many of these startups do not scale in the international scene of scaling. They do not raise lots of money or acquire a big customer base.
I argue that startups must sell in the European and the US market, but I found it pretty hard to conduct research on market needs, understand the cultural differences, and market the product to sell in those markets.

I claim that a pool of early adopters (testers) will solve this issue, I claim that segmented early adopters based on product they used will make Middle Eastern startups interview and understand opinions from markets mentioned above

I would love to seed this discussion to get your opinions, is this a good approach or you suggest another approach to solve this dilemma.
For now I am collecting interested early adopters on http://findearlyadopters.com/adopters/
Also remember that gender isn't the only diversity issue in tech. Race is too, among others.
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So, in reality, if I suspected that there was some privacy breach with regards to the transfer of information, I could not prove it. This means that I would have no standing in court (no proof of injury means no standing). This seems problematic, and worthy of examining the privacy implications (or at least discussing them)

how could it be otherwise?

Allow FOIA, and use the existing exemptions for classified material if the information is actually classified. This would mean that breaches of privacy could be found when non-classified information is present.

There seems to be concentration on "indicators" being username/passwords, etc. However, Sec 2 (6) (G) is "any other attribute of a cybersecurity threat, if disclosure of such attribute is not otherwise prohibited by law;". That's basically anything since cybersecurity threat is defined as "means _an action_ ... on or through an information system that _may_ result in an unauthorized effort ...". That seems to be a rather large hole.
That stuff's been tried and doesn't do the trick. Human nature's still there.
Regardless of your opinion of the article, this isn't really relevant to the topic at hand, in fact it's an inflammatory suggestion unsupported by evidence that has nothing to do with creating discourse.
http://tributary.io/ has been around for ages and works pretty well....
There are watchlists and there are watchlists.

What are your thoughts on the events of last year when Linux Journal readers were flagged by XKEYSCORE?
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Who ever thought that grey text on white background is a good idea? I would have maybe read this ridiculous article, but I can't, as my eyes are bleeding.
So it's "human nature" that boys like tech and girls like princesses?
Use a reader like evince and toggle the checkbox.
But in Java you'd never use a library that calls System.exit when it reaches an unexpected null
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If you really think that... then congrats: you're part of the problem.
If you try something out, and think you look great, and find that others agree, then bin any given rule. But most people, most of the time, are most likely to look best following most rules.

Personally, I don't like the look or feel of a tie with no jacket, or a suit with no tie.
I would argue that being extremely skilled at videogame warfare still makes someone an "armchair revolutionary." It's not sufficiently removed from 'studying the literature' to warrant concern, any more than being really good at horror games versus reading a lot of horror fiction makes someone more likely in the latter case to commit grisly murders than the former.

It may serve as an outlet but I don't believe it necessarily serves as a catalyst. The more time extremists spend online killing virtual people, rather than offline killing actual people, the better.
Clearly you never had children.
Really? I still feel like a mid-level supplementer, if not a straight out noob, compared to other nootropics users out there. You should see some of the more extreme stacks, they take into account neurotransmitter balance, metabolism, diet, antioxidative properties etc. Those can swell up to 15-20 different substances being ingested daily!
I wonder how much of this was a scare tactic. In theory the USSR would be more apprehensive if they believed the man in control of the US weapons was a bit crazy.
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This is entirely incorrect.

nil is a pointer to the value 0, and in C there is only one value that evaluates to a logical false, which is 0. Invoking a method on nil returns 0. This itself alleviates the kind of nil-check-chains discussed in this thread:

[[[user profile] name] isEqualToString:@"Paul"];

[user profile] && [[user profile] name] && [[[user profile] name] isKindOf:NSString] && [[[user profile] name] isEqualToString:@"Paul"];

if user.profile.name is nil, then that expression evaluates to the value 0, which as we discovered, is the _only value that evaluates to false in C_
You can engineer to influence human nature. But often the task is, as you highlight, to take existing tendencies and influence them. Fast food, and consumer marketplaces generally, are highly engineered to prompt desired behaviors. Those generally aren't, though, very high reliability error-correcting behaviors.

Some other examples that come to mind:

1. Public spaces designed to be "riot proof". Generally this works by avoiding single large assembly points, putting entrances and exits such that there's no through transit of a space or building, and otherwise dispersing the energy of crowds.

2. Las Vegas. The manipulation is so grossly apparent to me that the entire place disgusts me. Windowless interiors, no clocks, bright lights and flashing displays, loud music. And, most iconically: moving walkways to take you into casinos, but having to depart under your own power.

3. Much of air safety practices. While it's not possible to design out pilot (or other human) error, you can become highly aware of what leads to accidents. The commercial air travel industry is a fascinating study in risk reduction, starting with the goal of incident studies, which is to ascertain cause, not assign blame.

Perrow goes into this in depth in his books.
The problem is that none of this information is "classified". PII isn't classified. Zero-day vulnerabilities aren't classified. Classified information is stuff that goes through USG classification process.

So there'd need to be some other regime in place that ensures that no harm is done by publishing information that companies are voluntarily sharing with the USG.

What would that regime look like?

I'm also not really convinced that there's a problem with the catch-all at the end of Sec.2(6) --- that's enabling companies to share things they were already allowed to share, and just bringing it under the same set of controls as the new sensitive stuff they can share. How is that a loophole the USG can exploit? What does that loophole look like in practice, in actual use?
Yap common path for ex-heads and high ranking people from those agencies. His friends will funnel business his way. While they make friends there, retire, start business so those friends can now funnel business their way.
I agree completely. I used rover.com once to find a pet sitter and found a great one. I don't need it anymore.

Furthermore, they're doing the typical thing that businesses resort to when they're desperate. They're asking you to review every single damn time you use their service. (I had the same sitter for 30 weeks in a row. Clearly I like her or I'd use someone different. Stop bugging me!)

They also try to steer you towards using their service more when there's no need for it. Every time I book a stay, they want me to look into other pet sitters on their site. Why would I do that? I'm completely happy with the one I found. If I ever need a change because I move or the sitter moves, or we have a falling out, I'll consider looking for a new one. Until then, get out of my face!

And on top of it, they're trying to push services I don't need. I never want someone to come to my house to walk my dog. I don't need strangers coming by my house. And I need an overnight maybe 3 times a year. (And I'll continue to use the day sitter I have as they also do overnights.) It's almost impossible to find a day sitter on rover.com, and they seem to be pushing everything but that.

Their whole model seems like it's living on borrowed time to me.
Sounds like you are saying:
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Technically nootropics are drugs with no negative side effects that increase a person's capacity for memory retention, focus and analytic ability. Various noots have different properties, so a person can pick and choose what to take and combine depending on what abilities they want to reinforce.
While I don't remember any serious evidence behind a bit of what you can legitimately call "right wing propaganda": when the Arab "Spring" started it was proposed that one of the causes was how US policy of burning food as fuel (corn ethanol) was driving up world food prices. This was in reference most especially to Egypt, which has to import half its calories.

To the extent there may have been a secular increase in the price of basic grains at the same time all this was happening through Syria, it's worth considering.
The energy is converted to electric energy, but when you use it it gets eventually turned back into thermal energy.

In the extreme case you make it worse since the solar radiation that would have been bounced back by the 'white' desert is now absorbed by the 'black' solar panels, which convert some of it to heat and some of it to electricity which in the end also gets turned into heat.