skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Dublin and work in the tech industry here, so I'm not importing any narratives from anywhere else. The tiny number of non-white people in Ireland is ~9% of the population, not too much lower than the UK.

There's also been a reasonable female uptake of STEM at third-level in recent years, in part due to deliberate initiatives to promote it. I get the anecdotal impression this may have translated into reducing imbalance in a few science/engineering-related fields (I could be wrong), but not really IT-related stuff seemingly.
> you'd have to recognize that that was hardly a durable principle established in England, having been somewhat forcibly repudiated when everyone who participated it that was caught by the post-Restoration government having been executed for their participation in it.

It was tenuous when it was first established. It became less so over time. Nothing happens all at once. If the North Koreans suddenly decided they wanted to ape the rule of law and passed a whole bunch of laws and killed a bunch of people French Revolution style, I would hesitate to say that the new nation has rule of law for at least a hundred years, unless I lived there and could observe the process directly so I could ascertain whether they're moving overall towards robust rule of law or more towards modern Russian oligarchy.
The average human IQ is 100. There are people with IQs upwards of 180, and recent research has shown that the genes underlying this are likely to be relatively common in the population. Given that IQ is extremely powerful and is positively correlated with income, health, and numerous other positive indicators, I think we must ask ourselves why the average IQ would be 100 and not 180. Why wouldn't directional selection for IQ have just run this all the way up to the max?

The only explanation I can see that makes much sense is that IQ must have or correlate with non-obvious fitness disadvantages.
Yeah, caching HTML directly on a CDN basically only gives you better latency.

..Which in turn gives you better page rank.
..Which gives you more traffic.

But that's it.

..Well besides that it also gives you lower bounce-rate.
..Which means higher conversion.
..Which means higher ROI.

So there's that.

:-)
I'd be interested in seeing this same performance benchmark run against various other OSes.

In particular DragonflyBSD since it has a lockless network stack.

And FreeBSD for good measure given that Whatsapp runs an Erlang/FreeBSD stack and has documented 2-3M connections themselves.
Why do you think meth is worse than heroin?
I use them. They just email (or call if you want) your failed billings and ask them to update their cards.
Some relevant links:

"(Chinese bank's) nonperforming loans may be at 20 percent to 21 percent, or even higher."
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-29/risky-math...

"by 2018 all of China's excess reserves — cash that it has on hand to use immediately — could be gone."
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-record-capital-outflow...

"China’s 42.2 trillion yuan (US$6.7 trillion) bond market is flashing the same danger signs that triggered a tumble in stocks four months ago"
http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Business-News/2015/10/10/...
Anyone think there is a future where 500 foldable e-ink screens can finally replace the demand for a hard cover book?
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Edyn is looking for Backend engineers to help us build the future of gardening.
We have a service oriented backend with a cluster of workers processing millions of jobs daily.
Our code base at this point is entirely nodejs, but we believe in using the right tool for the right job.
You will be working with a small team of engineers, which mean everyone's gets a chance to work on all parts of the backend.

Mid-to-Senior Software Engineers (Back-end):
You are a passionate and have a firm grasp of nodejs and javascript in general. Since write micro services that are deployed via docker on AWS, knowing a bit about those tools is heavily valued.
You do not “over test” your code, but never push code without enough test coverage. You don’t mind providing honest review of your peers pull requests. And accept the same for yours.

We are well funded and offer a very competitive compensation package.
We prefer people working from the office, but are perfectly fine with remote for the right candidates.

If that feels like you, send me an email at bobo [at] edyn.com
Chongqing and Shanghai have tried this (applied property taxes to 2nd houses for luxury properties). But that is easily gained by simply throwing in a Smurf or two (put the house in a family member's name).

Any system with rules that can be gamed is not going to work in China. The only solution is a tax on all property.
You're also a self-admitted tall user with long fingers, and the device is pretty much at the size limit of what you would find usable. That means that for the average person, it's definitely too big, and surpassed the size of what they find usable. Also, being able to reposition the phone to do day-to-day activities being easy for you after a year isn't an upside to me, that's a downside. That's you saying, "After a year of use, I've found a usability flow that addresses the problems I initially had with the phone". You shouldn't have had to spend the year getting to a point where you can do it "pretty smoothly now with a year of daily practice". Not saying there aren't people out there who would prefer it, but the fact that it's across-the-board required to learn this (and the fact that Apple recognized it, and added the double-tap to "lower" the screen as a bandaid) make me think the darn thing is just too big.
Sort of the idea behind the Moto Mono:

http://www.motorola.com/us/accessories/talk/bluetooth-headse...

Although it didn't really take off.
i have my s6 rooted and with a custom rom. battery is not as bad, but not amazing. if i'm on a place with good mobile signal and on wifi, i can get a day[0] of battery life with ~2h of SOT (with my pebble connected and syncing all day long).

but at the same time it's kind of worth it, because it's easily the best camera on a cellphone i've ever used.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/J7Xe2FV.jpg
> official nuclear death are low - but there is a lot of dispute on the "long tail" of long term deaths from the big nuclear disasters of Ukraine and Japan

Fukushima happened too soon, and it will be a long time before the results of that disaster on the healthy of the surrounding people can be properly analysed.

Chernobyl on the other hand has been studied extensively and considering the scale of the disaster the toll on human life, including increase in cancer rates is lower than expected at the time of the accident.

In particular the Chernobyl Forum's 2005 report found that the increased incidence of thyroid cancer in children had caused 5000 additional cases due to the release of radioactive iodine from Chernobyl.

These are seen as the only additional deaths due to radiation exposure other than the estimated 2000 caused due to directed exposure to clean up workers at the site itself.

You can find an summary of the finding on the World Health organisations website, as well as read the report directly.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/

https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/chernobyl.pdf
In Android, try the Hierarchy Viewer. The "cost" of each view is small but it is easy to pile up the nested views in a complex hierarchy that will slow down.

Conversely, you won't cure a slow Ui by selecting faster View classes. You'll do it by simplifying.
The context is deathprint” (casualties per terawatt-hour) or deaths/joule, time cancels out. If you read the NERD Note alone your right of course.
Edyn is Hiring Back end Engineers to build the future of gardening
Edyn • Oakland • Full Time • REMOTE OK

Edyn is looking for Backend engineers to help us build the future of gardening.
We have a service oriented backend with a cluster of workers processing millions of jobs daily.
Our code base at this point is entirely nodejs, but we believe in using the right tool for the right job.
You will be working with a small team of engineers, which mean everyone's gets a chance to work on all parts of the backend.

Mid-to-Senior Software Engineers (Back-end):
You are a passionate and have a firm grasp of nodejs and javascript in general. Since write micro services that are deployed via docker on AWS, knowing a bit about those tools is heavily valued.
You do not “over test” your code, but never push code without enough test coverage. You don’t mind providing honest review of your peers pull requests. And accept the same for yours.

We are well funded and offer a very competitive compensation package.
We prefer people working from the office, but are perfectly fine with remote for the right candidates.

If that feels like you, send me an email at bobo [at] edyn.com
Do you have any link of any real development of any useful thorium reactor? If it has benefits, why isn't anybody getting rich developing it now? Even if the western politicians or corporations have any supposed agenda, why don't Russia and China develop or use them instead of scheduling the plutonium (Pu) reactors?
Show HN: Eventail, a compact calendar today widget for iOS
If you had more money, you could trade futures, which are mentioned in the article. If you sell the future before the date of delivery, then you never have to deal with the physical aspect of the commodity. There are lots of online brokerages you can use for this, for example, E*Trade and TradeStation. But they have higher minimums than $1000.

With $1000, you could trade ETFs, for example USO [0]. The account minimums for ETFs are lower. If you look at what's inside USO [1], it's basically a wrapper for a future (NYMEX WTI Crude Oil CL).

[0]: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSEARCA:USO

[1]: http://www.unitedstatescommodityfunds.com/holdings.php?fund=...
I prefer the security of sending a fax over sending an email.

To eavesdrop on a fax transmission would require you to eavesdrop on a telephone line just at the right time.

It's a point to point communication over a private line, as opposed to email that travels over public trunks, and past At&T 'closets' full of FBI/NSA equipment.

So for sending sensitive documents like passports etc, I'd much rather scan and fax than send an email.

(Now of course, the first thing the office worker does on receiving my fax is surely to scan and email it to some other coworker, but that is beyond my control.)
Meth junkies go on violent psychotic rampages killing and injuring other people and have no other thought in their brains except to get more meth. When I read in the newspaper about someone murdering their family I expect, and often find either a statement or suggestion that the perpetrator was using meth.

Heroin junkies go to sleep and are making a poor health choice but it is possible with clean heroin to lead a functional life including work and family.

Drugs that harm the user are "better" (as such) whereas drugs that result in harm to others are "worse".
Hello there. Since the widget API for iOS was introduced I was hoping somebody would write one that displays the calendar in a mini-week view. At some point I got tired of waiting and written one myself.

The application website with more information can be found at http://eventailapp.com

All feedback is very welcome.

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Because "just burning it" requires engineering and implementing a different nuclear technology with its own issues.

Nuke advocates always practice magical thinking. Wave away safety concerns. Write off intractable waste disposal issues as "just bury it". The reality is that nuclear as it stands today is a relic of the Cold War. Solar, wind and gas are the future.
What I mean is that you can't be paid to raise a child, but you can be paid to manipulate them through marketing. You won't get paid to pick of trash off the street, but you can get paid to produce things that produce street-prone trash.

"And if you could pay someone to do something they normally wouldn't wouldn't they be merely passively not for it and not actively against that thing?"

It doesn't matter. They might be actively against it, but if you pay them enough, they'll still do it. We -- as a society -- pay people to do things that nobody really wants to have happen except those who happen get paid to do it (like market cigarettes.) And there are things that everybody wants to have happen that almost nobody gets paid to do (like care for your family.)

We're potentially using our economy to create problems rather than solve them.
> its a comedy in the sense that market prices currently have no relationship to fundamentals from a Graham perspective

You missed the whole point of Security Analysis and Intelligent Investor(another Graham book). The market is irrational from time to time, so you patiently wait on the side when prices are overvalued and invest in fundamentally good companies when prices are undervalued.
There is not time period in context of deaths/joule. There is only a error if the note is taken out of context. On its own its ambiguous sure.
Um, banks and "too big to fail" cost a few billion dollars a few times a century. The most recent bailout was profitable for the treasury.

While I'm not generally a proponent of war or the military, it's hardly clear that these are a large amount of rent seeking compared to the broader economy.
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And... there we go! http://www.arachni-scanner.com/blog/windows-package-and-rest...
You left "By definition" off of your first sentence.

There's even been a substantial apparent rise in the measured intelligence of the general population in recent history:

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

As to the idea monster, I'm not sure if it is a retcon or not, but I've seen lots of people claiming the reaction was more if you believe that to be dangerous why would you share it and not so much oh no what have you done.
It can be argued that Systemd does do just one thing, and well.

Unix has a process model which has historically been lax. Things built on top of it tend to be shell scripts. Cron is probably the worst example of "do one thing well", because it does that one thing very poorly. It can only start stuff. If you want to avoid dogpiling, enforce timeouts, enforce resources, prevent multiply-forking jobs from leaving orphan processes, preserve historical per-job output, pause or delay jobs, manually start jobs, balance jobs across multiple nodes, etc. — then you just have to cobble that together yourself. I certainly have.

What "cron" and "/etc/init.d/something" and "scripts that run on ifdown/ifup" and "scripts ran run on DHCP changes" and "scripts that run at specific times" have in common is that they are arbitrary processes whose lifetimes are bounded — by time (cron-like behaviour), dynamic events (such as networks going up or down), human input (manual start or stop) or other factors. There's no conceptual difference between a clock and a human action, for example. If job X is set to run at midnight, and I want to run it a little sooner today, couldn't I just trigger it manually? For Cron to have this, and for Cron to fix the other deficiencies I mentioned, it would have to replicate features to the point where it becomes... Systemd. Because Cron starting processes at specific times is just a special case of starting processes at boot (init) or starting processes when networking goes up (/etc/network/if-up.d or whatever).

Systemd is a process lifecycle supervisor. It tracks the lifetimes of processes. That's about it. Everything else is pragmatic problem solving. Just like grep's simplicity ("finds stuff by text") is clouded by the dozens of arcane flags it must support to real-world use cases (styles of regexps, reading patterns from a file, printing options), so must Systemd cater to many minor aspects.

It can be argued that Systemd could be less monolithic and more pluggable, but I feel that's another story.
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Heads up to the Irmin folks, looks like your website is down.
Or just install solar roofs with power walls in every single american home for 1 trillion dollars and be done with it. No need to occupy extra land or run expensive machinery and power lines all over the country.

Distributed energy is the future.
With respect to our Android developers they have an uphill climb to catch up to iOS. Our iOS application has been in development for something like 4 years now, and several years before that as a previous incarnation (version 4 was a complete rewrite).

Our iOS application also shares a great deal of underpinnings with Mac. That means when our Mac team implements something super great our iOS team gets some of that grunt work for free. Then it becomes an interface deal in many cases which may not be easy at all but at least some of the work was done.

The Android team, well, they have to implement everything themselves and it's simply going to take time. Combine this with UI changes and stuff that mean we have to rewrite existing things to match up with that and it just becomes very overwhelming sometimes. I work on our iOS application and it's incredible the amount of stuff you can do in a short period of time because groundwork has been laid for years. I don't envy our Android developers because they have none of that to work with. I'm sure it's both overwhelming and exhilarating for them.

I guess that's a long answer but really, it's simply going to take some time for our Android developers to catch up. I know it's tough as a user to see one so far ahead of the other but I hope the above information puts some of it into perspective. They'll get there :)

Thanks!

Kyle

AgileBits
Nope. Real-world share-ability and resale is a pretty unsolved problem...
I don't know about that....

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

That story is probably untrue, but the potential for similar things has to be there.
It's possible that I'm wrong. It's maybe even likely that I'm wrong. I guess my point is that, in the big picture, of the factors that make a child successful or not, being told they are smart seems to me to only be a mistake if you don't tell them anything else -- if you don't teach them what it means to be smart.

At some point, I learned that I wasn't as smart as I thought I was. That was a valuable lesson, and one that I learned as a child.
It seems very weird to ignore homes people own in this analysis since it is the largest store of wealth for most people and produces ~5% dividends tax free in the form of not having to pay rent.
> You can create polls from twitter web, but you cannot answer one.

AFAIK this is only a bug with FirefoxDev & IndexedDB. It should work in other browsers or in private mode, where IndexedDB is disabled.
To be fair, recent mainland Chinese immigration has enlivened a lot of otherwise dead areas of Sydney, and I'd wager Melbourne. Places that were ghostly failed malls are now thrumming 24 hour apartment-ringed nexus for food and entertainment. (Eg. Chatswood.) A similar transformation has permanently improved central Auckland. Smiles from China, where I now choose to live ... a Sydney native.
I was being really cheeky above, but I do see this as a rather outlandish example of how beings of very high intelligence seem prone to getting stuck in odd thought loops.

I recall an episode of STTNG where they attacked the Borg collective in this way: they gave it an idea for object that appeared geometrically valid but could not exist in three dimensional space. The collective thought about it and thought about it, devoting more and more resources to it, until it basically crashed.

Personally I think the answer to the Basilisk riddle is computational irreducibility:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ComputationalIrreducibility.htm...

Roko's Basilisk is impossible because to simulate the universe in such detail would require something that is the universe.
> I don't think it is necessary to do so in order to have a good sense for what common issues a language like Swift solves.

That's true but when you're running a business this type of analysis makes a lot of sense. As experienced software developers we're probably all pretty wary of the "big rewrite", knowing full well that this often doesn't end up saving time in the long run but rather eats up a ton of time without delivering any new features or functionality. This analysis likely helped make the case that going forward they could expect substantial time savings, not to mention happier customers.

In any case, great article overall, very interesting.
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So we're watching the progress of a public interface to the keyboard of a linux computer? And it accepts one keystroke per individual at a time?
I think the attach file reminder is now part of regular gmail.
> It was tenuous when it was first established. It became less so over time.

From the Restoration to now the complete immunity of the monarch to civil and criminal law has been given; and its only in the mid-20th century that British law recognized some claims against the monarch's government being of-right rather than by-license.

The idea of the monarch being subject to the law was more of a momentary, fleeting, and swiftly violently repressed concept in English law that had already been generally repudiated in England itself when the idea got raised as part of the Revolutionary propaganda in some of England's American colonies a century later, rather than something that was tenuous when first proposed in England but which later became firmly established.

(To the extent Britain has made progress in the rule of law, accountability of the chief of state to the law is pretty much the worst place to look for examples; the bloodshed on both sides of that issue has led to most subsequent progress in the direction of rule of law focusing on making the monarch irrelevant to the law in anything other than a symbolic sense rather than accountable to it.)
Money's also flooding out of Canada:

>Money Flooding Out of Canada at Fastest Pace in Developed World

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-02/money-floo...
We do have multiple feature flags in place at once. Our dogfood server (we use LaunchDarkly on LaunchDarkly) has about 30 feature flags going at any given time, and we're a relatively small team (still one standup).

For the most part, flags are independent. When I first started using DVCS (back in the Bitkeeper days) we all thought that merge conflicts from doing feature branching would be a headache, but this didn't end up being the case. I've found the same with feature flags. While it's possible for flags to interact poorly, or to introduce "dependent" or nested flags, it hasn't been a problem for us in practice.

This seems to scale, too-- I haven't heard this to be an issue in practice at larger orgs (Etsy, Netflix, etc.) that do feature flag-driven development.
Well, they kind of made that one for real too, didn't they? http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/index.html
You don't make wind turbine pylons or blades on assembly line either. You don't install solar panels to rooftops by assembly line. If nuclear gets enough momentum, large portion of the parts can be produced on assembly line too. But I think this is better covered by cost analysis than any argument about serial production.

If the absolutely poorest parts of the world are not going to get fission plants in near future, that doesn't mean places like China, India and Indonesia could not get them. This is what matters if we want to combat climate change. But I'm not opposed to solar panels either. Whatever can be done quickly that cuts CO2 emissions.
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