skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, backend failures, like spraying water on the core (NOT one of the established procedures because calm engineers knew that the reactor could dissociate the hydrogen and oxygen)

I cannot find any other information on this claim and I just read the main Wikipedia article, this article, and the Wikipedia timeline.

Didn't the hydrogen explosions start before they started spraying the reactor/building with fire trucks anyway (March 12th Vs March 17th respectively)? According to the timeline it did.

So while hydrogen explosions definitely occurred due to an overheating core, it is specifically laying blame at the use of emergency water to try and cool the core that I am asking about. It does not seem accurate.
I said diseases, not deaths. Cancer isn't always fatal, but they impact the quality of life for the sufferers as well as putting an economic burden on the healthcare system.
Assuming everything else equal, they're just a far superior way to travel, where you can walk around, drink coffee, work in a relatively quiet and steady environment and all of that going 300 km/h.... and end up in a place that's not actually where you wanted to go.

Trains are going to start to seem really quaint and retro-chic, right around the time this one is finished.

Also, California isn't Europe.
I'd be pretty sad if they go the Apache route, permissive licensing is a longer term benefit IMHO.
Yeah, agriculture (especially livestock) is the real thing that needs to be tackled. Everything else is small potatoes in comparison.
Good software engineering practices of yesterday were sometimes dumped for good reason.

oh but young people are idiots. That's right. Back to waterfall guys.I'll stand up the new CVS server.
Industrial farms use a lot of water.
But has anyone proved that markets actually do approximate the (intractable) correct allocation?

They could be a very poor approximation or even be actually computing something we don't want.

Furthermore if the point is to approximate an optimal allocation we should be designing them with that in mind. Auction design and a few specialized solutions such as medical residency assignment do this. But given your argument we should be applying this kind of design throughout the economy.
> ‘Terrorism’ itself is described as involving ‘violent acts or acts dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure’ which ‘appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population’ or ‘to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion’

An act that is dangerous to property or infrastructure and appears intended to influence the policy of a government is an act of terrorism.

So all protesters could be classified as terrorists under this definition? Am I misreading this?
It's her private opinion though?
Feinstein is a senator. How could gerrymandering have anything to do with her election?
ShadowDOM removes the need for a component user and a component author to collaborate in order for styles to be encapsulated. This, in turn, enables easier distribution and usage of generalized components.
She's casually calling people rapists in her post and you're saying that to not support that is sexist. I don't think there's anything we're going to agree on.
You can buy an antenna from Amazon for 20$ and watch all the local channels and the games. Just fyi...

I have never had cable but watch almost every Sunday night game on NBC.
A yard should be a reflection of a home's environment. If you live in a desert, the surroundings of your house should match that. You can be very decorative without having to use a substantial amount of water.

Then again, I'm from Upstate NY, where nobody waters their lawn because the region is soaked. But that doesn't mean grass is sacrosanct. We removed the entire back yard of grass between our house and the lake because it made more sense to have a stone patio. We also replaced our front yards with gravel driveways because we rent the house out fairly often and have far more bedrooms than parking spaces.

I think in general people should look to more than a flat pane of grass as the answer to the space around their home.
In fact Fukushima had a passive cooling system, but the valve to it was mostly closed when the power was lost and nobody knew how to open it or even check its state.
COS has been released for the commodore 64
If it bothered her she should have brought it up with her manager. Instead she's making a big deal out of it after the fact.
Alright I'm going to do it. ill tear out my lawn and replace it with California Native species.
You actually don't tear out the old lawn, you just put cardboard over it, then mulch on top, from what I've read.
Ill try to do some kind of write up for a cost analysis.
Perhaps to some degree. I keep coming back though to the fact that national chains exist. They may not have an iPhone app or hot programmers but, for a regularly scheduled cleaning service, I'm not sure it matters and I'm not sure what problem more tech solves that cuts the costs significantly.

Mind you I'm also not sure that the national chains are a particularly great product for consumer cleaning. I used Merry Maids for a while and thought they were meh. That's an anecdote but the reviews aren't great in general.

Now I have a regular housecleaner who my neighbor recommended and she's great.
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Protesters are frequently classified as terrorists. Protesters frequently escalate their tactics when non-violent methods fail.
I very much agree about the turnkey nature of a turf grass lawn. Everyone knows how to do it, and everyone knows how to take care of it.

But for example, the outfit called "Turf Terminators" (they convert your front yard for free, and pocket the ~$4/sq.ft. rebate) has been churning out travesties like this all over LA:

http://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/WsdchuaR6H96tnC2LEZ9R...

Not enough people know that it's possible to do much, much better with a zero- or low-irrigation landscape.
The way my offer worked, at the end of the first year some stock grants vest come due, and I would end up working for less money per-month for the next year unless I stayed for my next stock grant a year later. I am not generally happy working in a corporate environment, but that's more about me than about Amazon in particular (I prefer being an entrepreneur; that's why I read HN). And I wasn't willing to work for another full year, even though the compensation was amazing. But it wasn't because of poor working conditions; instead it was pretty standard fare for big corporate salary jobs, like not being able to work on my own projects in my free time without restriction.

After one year as a full employee I was deluged with job offers from just about every other major company. I'm sure many of them would have offered to increase my compensation. I said no to all of them because I wanted to go back to consulting. I assume that after your second year, you probably get a similar set of offers.

A typical employee in AWS sticks around for about 2 years. But at the same time, tenure at tech companies is getting short just about everywhere these days -- and I knew people in my group who had been at Amazon for 4-5 years. My own personal tenure at companies rarely exceeds two years, with one exception where I stayed for nearly six. So again, I don't see how Amazon is terribly different on this axis.

One of the most annoying things at Amazon is the "on call" policy where all developers need to put in time "on call", which includes answering a pager in the middle of the night, sometimes for poorly designed alarms that are poorly documented. I knew one developer who quit, with no notice, right after the first week he'd been on call. The frustrating thing about it was that my team did client work: Android, iOS, and Windows clients for an AWS service, so none of us knew the first thing about how to fix anything on the server side, so it was particularly painful to be put on call.

So no, not everything is perfect, and I'm sure that some managers are downright awful. But not everything is "Work harder! Damn your family!" and "We'll be watching your performance after having a personal tragedy strike!" either, which is what the articles imply. I did really feel that if I'd seen something like that I could have taken it to HR and it would have been addressed.
Not when she publishes it to Tumblr.
I'm not denying that. Science, industry and politics did a hell of a great job. My point is, there were so many bad apples in those fields that society is rapidly losing its collective trust in authority - and this breeds all that anti-vaxx nonsense. I believe this rampant lying to be an actual existential threat to civilization - and I don't mean it as a hyperbole.

How about we stop jailing people for cannabis possession and instead start putting behind the bars journalists, politicians and "scientists" that push the most obvious bullshit for money?
Then it shouldn't be allowed by the language, and that's the core issue. Until the compiler enforces that Optionals aren't null they're not fit for most purposes.
Perhaps UAVs aren't the problem
I asked my neighbor about cleaners, they use X and gave me her phone number. I called X and she did an amazing job. Turns out, X has a higher incentive to clean my house because she can synchronize timing with my neighbor and reduce her overhead cost. The arrangement has worked great for everyone, running 9 years in a row and more neighbors have joined.

I see this as an ideal win-win experience for all parties involved. It would be really nice to have a service that can create this type of experience at scale.
My point exactly. Experiences will vary, and one experience can't be used to extrapolate over the whole company.

Which is what the articles are doing.
Airplanes are even faster... yet it's possible to drive from LA to SF in less time than it would take to fly, even if you never break the present-day speed limits. Remember, it's not fair if you count the distance from one city limit to another. You have to consider the time it takes a given passenger to get from their home or business to their end destination.

Also, all it will take is one (un)lucky 9/11-style terrorist attack, and everything we've come to know and love about air travel and the TSA will instantly apply to the train station. This is a matter of "when," not "if."

Finally, there's also a hidden economic cost associated with fixed tracks, similar to the costs/risks borne by someone who buys a house. They're stuck there. A homeowner might like to move to a nearby city to take a better job, but oops, they're still underwater on their mortgage. Likewise, locations and other trends in urban economic development shouldn't be biased by a decision made 50 years earlier regarding where to put the train tracks.

It's better to stay agile, and trains are perhaps the least agile things humanity has ever built.
> Lawn reformists are generally proponents of converting yards over to less resource intensive alternatives like drought tolerant plants or native plants species.

Or we could just build the houses closer together in the first place.
> Personal data is almost certainly in the top two

Do you experience a drastic drop in result quality when you use a public computer?
Love it! I can see my self using this tool to create perfect SVG icons.

One thing it looks like it is missing is zooming.
Comic: http://yearsoflivingdangerously.tumblr.com/post/86898140738/...
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Every major North American league has a similar service (except the NFL), but the local blackouts make it a non-starter for the vast majority of the viewing audience.

Football is more cable-cutter friendly because local games are almost always put OTA, so it's a matter of setting up an antenna if you don't want to pony up for cable.

There are services that try to do an end-run around local blackouts, but that doesn't really apply here (since the goal is to have a 100% legal, approved means of watching the games live online).
Setting aside any hatred for the government and mistrust, how does Company A share information with Company B (or the FBI) about how a hacker got into their networks?

Is the concern that Google is going to hand over your browser history under the guise of CISA?
But there's already overwhelming evidence that those watchlists are not small, focused, or accurate.

I think they serve a different purpose: to be able to manufacture an excuse when it is convenient. We're far enough past "innocent until proven guilty" that we've manufactured a plethora of new tools and processes to support nearly any unconstitutional actions against citizens.
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i recall something posted here on ycombinator about kids having lung diseases from playing on turf football fields? It's due to the rubber in the turf getting kicked up into their lungs, and into their cuts.
> Effectively, from transaction #1 you're in a perfectly replicable pattern - Cleaner X comes to your house every Y weeks and works for Z hours.

This is the key failure.

Anyone's whose regularly procured cleaning services knows the dance. You find a reputable cleaning service, they send out a cleaner. If you don't like them, you keep asking for a different one. When you find one you like, you ask them what they'd charge if you deal with them directly.

Why should they pay an app developer (or cleaning service) a cut of their profit when they can just show up and earn it themselves?

Most of the house keepers I've known did this until they'd built up enough of a consistent clientele that they could break out on their own....eventually building their own "crew".

Cleaning services are only good for businesses who require a paper trail for tax deduction purposes and who aren't as price sensitive as individuals.
>The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.

-John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went
Barack Obama says the only fashion choice he makes every day is red tie or blue tie. Every choice comes with decision fatigue, and he's got a lot to make.
PDF is less proprietary than most people think. It is an ISO standard after all and it is a bit complicated but it does solve the problem of making "printable" documents produced by all sorts of tools available online.
Junior developers are junior developers: regardless of whether they've been coding since age eight, started in college and graduated with a CS degree, or bounced around odd jobs before doing a bootcamp, you can't let their code near production without substantial oversight from more senior developers. (I fit into the first bucket and it is frankly amazing to me that they let me touch a keyboard at all in my first two years in industry. I used to pronounce projects done which did not compile, as a result of "just one quick fix" on the last day.)

Engineering organizations either a) understand this fact and build teams around it, b) accept that their salary floor is now +/- $140k or so (in Silicon Valley), or c) whine incessantly about the engineering shortage.
If I saw that bar graph in my profiler, I know which section of the code I would be optimizing first: Agriculture.

But aside from that, I look down and see another bar graph for water use by type of lawn, and see that I could probably save 2% of the state's water just by voiding all landscaping covenants for all the HOAs around the state.
Drone roundup: Canadian manufacturer Aeryon Labs receives $60M in funding
I think our watchlists are already past "small, focused, and accurate".

edit: Zikes beat me to it, and said it better.
2 points: Panay's presentation was the best presentation from MS I have ever seen. It was about 100 times better than any MS presentation I have seen so far. Second, this is a nice write-up, and it is a promo, but for some of its honesty I'm surprised it makes out the SB as such a miracle. It is not particular thin and that might matter more than a lack of a kickstand.
The NSA and GCHQ sent spies into online games to seek out terrorist or criminal chat and even to recruit foreign informants, according to leaked documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/video-game...

They also have at least one programme to harvest in-game messaging, so, basically, you can either be 'groomed' by snitches or 'hoovered up' by the same machines that eavesdrop on everything else. It would be naive to think otherwise. So long as you have nothing to hide then there is nothing to fear.
Speaking as a self-taught programmer since I was in my early teens: I have nothing against it, some of my coworkers are bootcamp grads and I make sure they know I am available to help them. I also pull them aside to show some tricks or things to pay attention to.

Who is the lifelong programmer that dislikes showing others what they know about their favorite thing? Not me.
> As nuclear "disasters" go, I honestly don't even think Fukushima should be among them. Considering what COULD have happened, very little actually happened.

There are hundreds of square miles still in the exclusion zone and some 80,000 people haven't been able to return to their homes.. I'd say a nuclear meltdown that displaces tens of thousands of people and costs several hundred billion dollars to clean up qualifies as a 'disaster'.
So, this is subtle, because everything you say is good advice and can't really be argued against. Calm down, don't overreact, give the benefit of the doubt, be constructive, etc, etc. These are basic, undeniable principles of good human interaction.

But. But. Consider an alternative hypothesis; that the author really did experience a bit of nasty, petty sexism.

In that case, responses like yours at best sweep the problem under the rug, and at worst patronizingly pat the woman on the head and tell her not to be hysterical.

In other words, if this is a real problem, your undeniably good advice actually isn't constructive towards fixing the root issue. It's allowing it to perpetuate.
I agree with your conclusions, the 'tinfoilhat' was for my conspiratorial tone with no citations to back it up.
Ask HN: If Apple iOS is pro-privacy, how to block Internet access for one app?
Is there a way to block iOS outbound traffic on a per-application basis, without jailbreaking the device? This would be useful for preventing data leakage and for limiting spending on mobile data. On Android, apps need permission for network access.
http://hallojs.org/demo/markdown/
http://sofish.github.io/pen/
https://github.com/bevacqua/woofmark
http://prosemirror.net/demo_markdown.html

Haven't seriously used any of those but I'd put my money on ProseMirror as the most principled one.
I wonder if there is some sort of evolutionary force at work here. Sort of some kind of heads up that you're coming into the world at a stressful time, better bring your best game kind of thing. Do we also father more aggressive children when we perceive we are threatened?
You're not going to own a 200MPH autonomous car. You will lease it by hour.

I don't want to own it. I don't have to own it. The transit authority can own and operate it.

This will be so much better than fixed-track transit it's not even funny.
Ah, found it. Thanks.
This:

> "don't accept ' or 1=1 -- as a password"

(the way that it's stated) implies that one should be checking input for possible SQL injection attacks and dropping the request, rather than sanitizing input so that the attack doesn't work, but the password is valid.
Are there statistics on how often non-violent protesters escalate to violence in the face of failure?
Justin Jackson just released a book around this very topic "Marketing for Developers" -> http://justinjackson.ca/marketingfordevelopers/

It's full of great advice...but I think one of the key take aways is to "find a market" before you really "have an idea"...and he walks you through some really good ways to do that (using real world case studies of people that are doing it)
> TalkTalk said it would only let customers leave without penalty in the “unlikely event that money is stolen from a customer’s bank account as a direct result of the cyber-attack”.

Man, I would hate to get stuck with the carrier that got breached for "bank details and personal information of its four million customers" by a 15 year old kid. That sort of lack of security should in and of itself constitute a severe breach of customer trust and confidence.
And I think your comments are the defensive result of an emotional reaction to your helplessness in the face of an overpowering perceived adversary.

When you create an us/them narrative, you might not be the only one who plays into it, just remember that.
A tangential thing I noticed:

>Unlike Uber, which requires a drivers’ license, cleaners need more intensive training to do the job properly.

It's sort of bizarre to have higher expectations for cleaners than automobile drivers. Driving a car with multiple people around town to semi-familiar places? Sure, that driving test you took when you were 16 years old is fine. Cleaning a house? Waaaait one minute, what are your qualifications?
Has the database of people on the watchlist been leaked? I wonder if anyone I know has been added for playing these games
Hey there!

Just a small nitpick: Running Zookeeper is insanely simple. We deployed it in 2-3 days, and it has had literally 0 issues over the last year.

I highly recommend https://github.com/mbabineau/docker-zk-exhibitor to get started (Docker container that wraps together Zookeepher and Netflix's Exhibitor manager for it).

Remember, pick boring technologies that just work.
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If a world government decides to spy on its own citizens, the whistleblower will have nowhere to run.
Metro's aren't easier in my experience.

I live in Silicon Valley now. . . found the best cleaner I've ever had. Very happy with her and her helper's work.
Poor jews. I guess they have learned from history and help others now.

How many refugee camps for Syrian people are in Israel?
Why? I can understand that for short trips but not for 3+ hours.
its like literally peaking into the future
Ah yes, the white guilt.

There's a reason why Germany is targeted as the end destination - there's less chance it will deny them because of collective guilt.

The UK said it will not accept any then mere thousands, yet no one blinks an eye. Why ? Why didn't the USA (who started this shit in the first place) offered any help ? Why don't the immigrants demand that from them ?

The blind left extremism in modern western world isn't much different from the right one and there are a lot of political players who will exploit that.
Hiya, author here - yes, you are correct. RankBrain is one of hundreds of distinct signals that go into the results page. It just happens to be one with a great deal of influence, which I think demonstrates the surprising generality/adaptability of this type of approach for natural language processing and interpretation.
The article has been updated at the very bottom. It seems to support your view that 15M greatly overstates the audience:

Update: ESPN is now reporting that the Yahoo stream saw an average minute audience of 2.36 million, and 1.64 million in the U.S. This is lower than the typical Monday Night Football game as well. For instance, last week’s Giants-Eagles MNF audience attracted 13.9 million viewers, said ESPN. The 15.2 million figure instead refers to the total number of uniques who watched some or all of the game’s stream.
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I think the main issue is fear of radical islamists hiding amongst the refugees going to Europe. Haven't heard of any jews blowing stuff up and beheading germans, can't say the same for syrians and middle east in general. The somewhat lesser issue, as evident by this thread is economic competition.