skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a front-end developer I still prefer to think of ourselves as a scarce resource.

For selfish reasons I admit.
We are still far away from having computer's truly be able to learn on their own, without having a human optimizing the responses.
> Getting the courts involved in these foreign national security issues undermines the institutional capital of the judiciary.

The courts shirking justice when LEOs transgress undermines their institutional capital with the only group that should actually matter - the people.

When "law enforcement" can routinely violate the law yet not be charged and the victims not made whole, equal protection has gone out the window. Why should anyone respect a "court" that simply functions as a rubber stamp for government activities?
> this is actually the third iPhone I'm receiving as a gift

Must be nice?

> I have many reasons for why I prefer Android

Do tell...
It's the same issue as long-press, it can be super useful when you know about it but it's just not discoverable.
This website is blocked by Fortinet: "Category: Meaningless Content".

Edit: I've never seen the website, nor have I ever visited any url with 'piano' in the domain name, from work, afaik. ...
You were talking about applications in general, I assumed. The world doesn't
end on websites. And even then, people rarely deploy two or three versions of
the same website on the same machine, and thus, distributing its code as
packages gives all the benefits of a package system.

Regarding Facebook, their problems didn't originate from HPHPc producing
a binary. Their problems came from ridiculous size of the resulting binary and
HPHPc having a subpar support for PHP.
Reading that made me very happy for some reason. I find it exceedingly cute that after churning through what was probably millions of gmail users' email responses, this Google machine decided the most likely response to many new emails is simply "I love you." Makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside to know there's so much love out there in the world for this algorithm to absorb.
PopcornTime shut down in Canada
> I disagree. As long as you're referring to a non-coerced transaction

If both parties receive the benefit, obviously you can still model that as power exchange where both parties apply their power to the other party. Just like physical forces on an object can be nonzero and yet it stays still. It actually seems like smoother model of social interaction than all the kerfuffle around coercion, but I haven't thought about it in depth.

In reality though, there exist many coerced transactions. For example, I need to eat, and that's why I go to work. I am being coerced by nature. But maybe someone thinks it's better to die in freedom from hunger than to live under coercion with full stomach.

Regarding "political power". What is that? I don't see significant boundary between "political" and "economic" power, but rather smooth transition. Therefore, to me power is power regardless of the social domain where it manifests.
There's a quip at the bottom: "This blog post may or may not have actually been written by a neural network."

Has there been any progress in AI-driven/assisted creative writing (other than sportscasts)?
The current estimate of the number of excess cancer deaths that will ever be caused by Fukushima is between 0 and 100. Radiation actually isn't all that dangerous, especially after a few months when the fission byproducts that have a tendency to bioaccumulate disappear.

Deaths per TWh is not ridiculous and arbitrary. It's comparing energy sources by how much death they will cause for the amount of energy they produce. Any other comparison would be unfair.

The problem with wind and solar is that they produce so little energy, you need to build a lot of infrastructure to match the energy you'd get from even a single coal plant, let alone a nuclear plant (note that nuclear power plants produce very high amounts of power for the space they take up). You can't ignore the fact that more people are going to die from construction accidents with solar power, even if you assume that the construction accident rate is the same (in deaths per man-hour) for both nuclear and solar plant operation.
Emitting hard gammas seems like it would be troublesome for a power plant as well.
The Grove Ecosystem – an intelligent, indoor, aquaponic garden
If you weren't located in the US (or FIVEEYES) in any way, I'd use you in a heartbeat, and recommend all my friends.
Yes and this new NOV as well as the excerpt I highlighted from yesterday applies to those engines. Essentially EPA has evidence of a defeat device on the 3L now too.
Sure. UIUC had one for many years, also Rolla, and no doubt many other engineering-oriented universities. My office was literally in the next building over from the UIUC reactor for a while, and I never worried about it. That's about as "in my backyard" as you can get. :-)
Beautiful, I often dig for lisp history but never heard of this.

Also, even though very subjective, I often conflat functional programming and lisp and recently found "some history of functional languages" by D.Turner which list the ml lineage nicely http://www-fp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/tifp/TFP2012/TFP_2012/Turn...
I'd really love if this were the case, but sadly it really isn't.

The affect of US tech companies coming here has largely been a small-scale version of Palo Alto-esque gentrification of a small area of Dublin (docklands) and any improvements in standard of living being limited to a small white male tech elite. Overall poverty is up (we're dealing with a very serious recent homelessness crisis) and average standards of living have dropped significantly in the country otherwise and reported economic improvements in world news are typical of our conservative government's focus on primarily export-based GDP figures, etc. over actual progressive population-based data.

I think on the other hand, politics aside, there is a definite strong movement away from the church at least, which I think is largely a lingering result of the various very public abuse scandals over the past few decades.

Edit: That NPR article is interesting in its focus on Cork. I live in Dublin, so I can't really comment much anecdotally on Cork, but with the exception of Apple, almost all major US tech firms that have HQ-ed here (Google, Facebook, MS, Twitter, etc.) are Dublin-based, so it seems an unusual focus in that regard.
After playing around with my Nexus 7 for a long time and performing all kinds of experiments (like running Linux alongside Android) I found I used my tablet almost exclusively for web and media consumption.

So my latest tablet is a Samsung Tab S 8.4 and it's perfect for those needs in a way where an iPad would be sub par. Media management is way more straight forward on Android and I can have 64gb SD card.

But I did root the tablet and uninstall 70% of the bloatware running on it on the first day. It came with 4-5 pages of (useless) applications and I'm now down to 2. Apple products also come with useless uninstallable applications (Stocks, Watch, etc) but it no where near what this Samsung device had running.

My wife has an iPad and I really could not recommend, for her, an Android tablet.
Architecting the New Imgur Mobile Web
Wait. A big elasticity coefficient is not the same as 'unbreakable'.

Being a mixture of silicates and alumina, I'll be very surprised if this is not fragile. There's nothing about it on the article.
It doesn't invalidate their findings, it means they understated their case - thought I think that is what you are saying too.

(Also, http://www.theretheyretheir.com/. Not usually a grammar Nazi, but that's pretty hard to read)
Redundancy is not always bad. It allows concurrent evolution in your code, specialization, and info hiding, because each copy is in a more specific context and you know just what you want from it there.

Related:
http://yosefk.com/blog/low-level-is-easy.html

In Objective-C writing headers by hand gives full manual control of what your library's users get to know about your class, including comments. Internal things just don't appear in the first place.

C++, of course, makes it impossible to hide anything from your users because they need to allocate your class themselves, you need to put all your private ivars and methods in the public class definition, and you can't add ivars to the class later. But that's its problem.
/me puts on Devil's Advocate hat

> at runs a scheduled job once and then terminates, cron runs scheduled jobs repeatedly.

Make recurring scheduled jobs reschedule themselves as their last action. This makes your job scheduler do one thing and do it well. :P

> [ed] _can_ be used to search but it's very heavy for the task.

So? ed was around before grep. Grep is therefore redundant.

> grep also searches content of files recursively, where as find does not.

The point there was that find can recursively create a list of files for grep to search, passing them along to grep. This means that grep's -r switch is redundant.

/me removes Devil's Advocate hat

> cat and < are different...

If I had more time today, I would figure out if one can abuse the hell out of shell redirection to replace cat. It sounds like a fun way to waste a half-hour.
Couldn't disagree more. CMSs enable non-developers to publish good-looking content, which is basically what the web is. You can have a small army of 10-20 writers and 1-2 front end devs styling templates for them. It scales, and it makes sense.

Content is certainly not code; it does not get compiled, it contains no logic. At best content is a property of an object with its structure defined in/as code.
China's Money Exodus: How the Chinese send billions abroad to buy homes
Totally agree.

Tried an iPhone 6 and switched back to my Nexus 4 after a week because the notifications were driving me nuts compared to Android.

I have three different email accounts, and unless I used the native Mail app (which I hate), the Gmail app would show all of the individual email notifications on a separate row combined across all accounts. My notifications quickly became useless. On Android, they are rolled up into an accordion grouped by account, so I have three separate mail notifications, and I can long hold on them to see the top few email subject lines at a glance. SO much better.

There also didn't seem to be a way to have more visibility into the notifications on the lock screen the way you do on Android.

Lastly, lack of widgets.

I guess I'm one of the rare power users who cares more about the OS and the interface than the apps.

Oddly enough, I have an iPad 2 that I use as a browsing/media/reading/gaming device around the house and I love it for that. I almost NEVER check email on it because I usually have my phone in my pocket and that is just easier.

--EDIT--
Not sure why I got downvoted for stating my opinion for why I prefer Android. iOS does some things really well, and I happen to like the Android way for other things. Different strokes for different folks. But apparently saying anything negative about iOS is not acceptable...
Maybe. There are other reasons you might not want to help find your replacement. Maybe you are more junior than the company needs and you don't feel comfortable interviewing someone more senior than yourself. Or maybe you've never interviewed anyone before, and don't feel comfortable for that reason.

Very few things are obvious, when you think about them.
Security Review Threema: Security Statement [pdf]
MongoDB made complete it's security feature set!
From my understanding, he was giving feedback up until the end, which is both commendable and sad at the same time. Still, it probably helped him not dwell on the negative.
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The short version is more likely CO2, not CO, and the detector was probably fooled by methane. In more detail:

I was motivated to google, and much like radioactivity or electric current its possible to measure "scary" things to low levels that don't usually matter, and according to a 1982 gastroenterology paper that I found, aerobic fecal fermentation will produce an irrelevent yet measurable extremely low CO output while the anerobic fecal bacteria find CO to be a yummy fuel and will rapidly consume it. Unfortunately they cannot consume CO fast enough to scavenge your blood clean if you're suffering from CO poisoning, which is too bad. Carbon monoxide being known as that thing that gives you massive gas would be far preferable to being known as that poison that kills people, but thats how it goes, can't win em all, so despite our helpful fecal bacteria CO does kill people. The paper theorized the anerobes protect the host by eating the extremely small level of CO that normal aerobic gut flora output.

From fooling around with chemical sensors in my youth, quite a few work by heating up an oxidation catalyst and measuring its temp very closely given the carefully measured outside air temp and electricity fed into them. So feed it a fuel like carbon monoxide and it gets microscopically, yet measurably, hotter. You can play molecular weight games to get a catalyst that preferentially responds to light stuff like methane or CO, or heavy stuff like vaporized wax. My semi-educated guess is the aviation CO sensor got fooled by methane in the guy's gas. Methane isn't a serious threat in an airplane fuel tank so its unlike bowel gas analysis was a high priority in the specs. This is in the class of proving things by ruling them out, and you can't rule out a heated oxidation catalyst sensor getting fooled by low molecular weight methane, its a believable scenario.
Maybe I'll be the only 1Password fanboy in here. I use 1pw personally and LastPass for work (shared between team of a dozen or so technicians).

To compare the two - 1pw is basically one of my favorite programs. LastPass is um... adequate? We have a lot of items in our LastPass vault and anytime we search it, add or change an item there is a 5-10 second lag. This according to LastPass support is unavoidable. Something to do with each item being individually encrypted/decrypted each time.

In anycase if 1Password for Teams is half as good 1Password I assume it will blow LastPass out of the water. And my experience with the Agilebits team gives me confidence that they'll work on actually improving the product instead of just looking for an exit.
I personally use the Page Monitor chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-monitor/pemhg...

It also has Selector functionality (in addition to full-page monitoring), which let's you explicitly choose which elements on the page to monitor for changes.
> could you explain

No. I am not in a mood to receive a false accusation of sexism.
The post comes across as biased (and wrong).
I can't imagine there are many people who would want to live near a coal mine or coal power plant, either.

Frankly any energy production other than solar is rather undesirable to live near.
So... Gorilla glass?

edit: yeah...

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass

Gorilla Glass is a brand of specialized toughened glass developed and manufactured by Corning, now in its fourth generation,[1] designed to be thin, light and damage-resistant. This type of glass is not unique to Corning; similar glasses include Asahi Glass Co. Dragontrail and Schott AG Xensation.[2][3]

The alkali-aluminosilicate sheet glass [snip]

(The link is to asahi.com)
Beyond the Honeycrisp Apple
If they're being specific on 'profiting' then in theory dealers could 'donate' their stashes to addicts and write it off against the tax man :D
go templates are not nestable. Hugo lacks support for pongo nested templates, and refuses to include it.
Not great points:

1. Isn't a business POV or about deadends and it applies to any shift in energy production.

2. I think some geologists are going to want to have a word with him concerning tectonics. Also just because US can't do it, doesn't mean it can't be done. E.g. Finland is doing it.

3. The production cost of nuclear based electricity is very weakly dependent on the price of natural uranium. A doubling of the cost in U-nat results in a cost increase of a few %. Also backstop technologies (U from seawater or Th or bomb deconstruction) are available and technologically viable (though not economically viable with oil below $150)

4. No terrorist is going to build a Pu-bomb. It's orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive than a U-bomb. Moreover, no terrorists is going to 'build' a bomb. Also, reactor grade Pu is unusable for a bomb due to its isotopic composition.

5. I'm calling BS. Freshwater consumption for energy generation is typically a few % if cooling towers are involved. As for coastal NPP's: Fukushima Daini is located 12km from Fukushima Daichi one the same coast yet nothing happened there.
> However, while Mr O Ríordáin told The Irish Times that there was a “strong consensus that drugs across the board should be decriminalised,” he said it would be for Ireland’s next government to discuss.

Is probably the most important paragraph there. Election is in the new year - this is probably pre-canvass fluff. That does still indicate a belief that this is what voters want however, which is positive.
After the Snowden Revelations, Did We Change Our Behavior on the Internet?
> 40% of the freshwater in France is used on cooling nuclear power plants.

Wow, I never heard this. And apparently salt water plants are much harder, and part of what made Fukushima go down.
The reason for this is that Germany had developed and build 2 prototype thorium reactors, and had its fair share of issues with them.
You can't even see the toes in the top logo (http://cloudnative.io/statics/theme/cloudnative-logo-black.p...)

The only way I noticed was this image further down the homepage where you can see the toes (http://cloudnative.io/statics/theme/ecosystem.png).

So what was the reason why you have an emu in the logo then? :)
Top 10 Rising and Falling Buzzwords in Tech Job Postings
It appears that his rant/abuse is his MO when he has seen something he disagrees. Being polite is not in his DNA.

Imagine if all tech managers in behaves like him, I think most of us would be in other industries.
Anyone remember the absurd projects to freeze parts of humanity in the 70s - to solve problems.

Are drugs not basically a freezing process? You age, yes, but you are out of society, out of the high consume, reproduce circle, into something that gets you nowhere and costs you nothing but lifetime while doing them.Actually a good problem solution, if controlled by the state.

Lucky for us, every parent on this planet will scream in protest on this statement and enforce a counter policy to extend behaviour control into adult-hood and guarantee offsprings offspring. Thus a Thrug-of-War ensues, called the war on drugs.
A layman's guide to software
So my 'like' show up under my 'favorites'

Clear as mud !

https://twitter.com/favorites

oh

https://twitter.com/likes
Are you claiming that rural villages will be unable to produce their own ethanol? In what parts of the world do you see that being a problem?
Actually, Britain did that. They dumped most of their waste in the channel.

Result, 20 years later: The waste did not dilute, the radiation in the channel is damaging the local animals.
I've found not only is it faster (no waiting and no necessary hand movement), but I'm more accurate, maybe because my finger isn't in the way. Often with the mag. glass I have to do it more than once to get the insertion point right. The feature a minor revolution.

You're right, wish it could be more discoverable, but now that I know, am very happy.
Irishman here - living in Canada nearly two years now.

It's not very sudden to be honest - changes like the Marriage Equality Act have been wanted by a lot of people for a long time.

The criminalisation of drug use clearly doesnt work the entire world over. In Ireland, especially Dublin, it's not unusual to see a heroin addict shooting up on public transport.

I honestly feel that Irish people are in general a fairly liberal bunch. It can't be emphasised enough how much the Catholic Church held the country back. I don't think non-Irish people will understand just how high esteem (read: fear) that we held the institution in.

All we need now is to remove religion (not necessarily the teachings but rather the role the Church plays) from the eductation system and we'll really be getting somewhere.
Would I be accurate in restating your last point as "if they won't tell you what the shares are valued at or how big the pool is, and they just give you a percentage, you have no clue how much the equity is actually worth?"
This was the first book that popped into my mind when I saw the article. Great series, worth reading all the way through.
This is a robust and cogent analysis of the case for nuclear. Advocates, often motivated by global warming concern, do not look at the "grid that will be", and rather look at "the grid today" or "the grid of the past". That nuclear gets more expensive (lower capacity factor) the more of it there is should really give people pause.

Thanks for such a good note.
... and ends up choreographing the the civil war of independence of a prison colony. A great book, one of my favorites.
What's the best way to die?
> Canada did a survey a few years ago of all their nuclear workers, at much lower levels of lifetime radiation (<7mSv), there were significantly higher levels of nearly every type of cancer.

However, this holds for practically every worker near industrial equipment. Steelworker cancer rates used to be off the charts--the old saw at Bethlehem Steel was "nobody ever retires from the car shop"--you wound up dead before retirement. (car shop being a place where they made railroad cars).

IBM used to remove (probably still does) pregnant women from their semiconductor fabrication jobs because IBM had data about birth defects. Remember, most fabrication line tools are completely sealed, and the air is some of the most filtered stuff on earth. So, is it the presence of something causing the problem or the absence of something causing the problem? Nobody knows, and the company is sure not going to take any risk to find out.

So, you not only have to show higher rates but also show that it was due to the radiation and not something else. That's a very tall order.
Like all things perceptual, an exact answer is maddeningly difficult to pin down (individual to individual variation, subjective issues like ambient light, etc).

Even at 10-bit you could in theory see banding if your color discrimination were good enough, I think. It depends on the material... but the 10-bit displays I've seen look awfully, awfully good. (And the ability to represent more dynamic range starts to matter -- you have to have a wide scale to show off the bit depth, too. A monitor I saw at NAB this year has two backlights and can show off a lot more light... campfires glowed, headlights looked like they were bright, very real... that's the real direction for displays, I think.)
It frustrates me as an Australian, that our government scientists invented Synroc, and we have vast amounts of uranium, and probably the most geologically stable continent on earth, but no energy creating reactors.
What happens when when 52MWh (~216 tons of lithium iron batteries) goes into thermal runaway?
Aye, that's the ticket, laddie!
There is an election coming up. Maybe its smoke and mirrors
Since regulations don't allow any other option e.g. the US doesn't allow reprocessing.

Also: what better place to temporarily store nuclear waste in the exact same place where it is produced where safety and security measures are already in place?
Quite possibly, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it was actually CO. The western-fatty diet, a.k.a the stereotypical US diet, winds up promoting CO output by not only your gut commensals, but by your epithelial cells themselves.

Not really on topic but human microbiota papers from before the late 90's/early 2000's aren't the best -- especially when dealing with metabolic processes and outputs. Available technologies and techniques at the time made studying many commensal anaerobes very difficult.