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But then stopping terrorism should fall somewhere around where the statistics say it should on priority list (adding in the anger/trauma). So right around vending machine accidents or whatever? Those are additive as well.

Terrorism disproportionately dominates our media attention, but has a small affect on our death rate. Of course we should stop it if we can. But why place a larger priority on it than something that is more damaging to us (even after weighing in the negative emotions)?

I get it. Terrorism is scary and it's easy to have empathy for the victims. But if we accept car deaths as a consequence of modern life, than why not terrorism deaths? That I don't get.
> You probably wouldn’t be able to eat 6-8 medium apples in a single sitting.

I recently had to discover this, for any kind of raw food actually, even carrots. Anything 'processed' (either industrial pre-made meals, or even home made sauced/whatever) will tease your mouth and brain in an incomparably different manner. You can eat at least 3 times more of anything if it's dipped into fat/sugar/spices. Without these, your brain will very clearly and very quickly tell you "enough". Even delicious strawberries have enough acid, sour in it to make you sick pretty fast.
> If you plot the blood sugar concentration of the person consuming a solid piece of fruit you see a nice curve where the levels rise, peak, and non-violently fall.

There's nothing wrong with this except that it probably makes you feel more hungry and eat more. But the blood sugar surge isn't really unhealthy in normal people, it's usually the subsequent behavioral impact (the low that makes you feel hungry) that causes the real harm (ie: the total sugar matters more directly than the glycemic index).
... just like a bunch of hicks with Kentucky rifles couldn't be of any use against the greatest military power the world had ever known to that point (1770s), with its vast navy, cannon, artillery, and mercenaries.
Two things:

1. Don't give them ideas. I have a bunch of LiPols I want to get back home with next week.

2. I've heard and repeated that fact, but come to think of it it still makes me wonder - do hand grenades really have so little energy?
You're using an arbitrary, uncommon definition of blockchain. A blockchain is a Merkle tree of validated transactions with a consensus algorithm.
It's no longer the 1770's. If you wish to engage in revolution with a bunch of plastic guns and low power bullets be my guest but it's your funeral.

A Glock is also largely made of plastic, but the barrel is made out of steel. Presumably this is because they would like to be able to fire it many times and because this greatly reduces the risk of injury to the user of the gun.
The issue I take with the message behind these statistics, that one should not worry about one's enemies simply because they're unlikely to do as much damage as other problems, is that they make it seem like the best course is to do nothing; that because the odds are low, no preventative action should be taken because everything will be OK.

That seems to be a poor stance to take against one's adversaries. It puts them in a better position over you that improves the likelihood of another attack occurring. The current rate is associated with our current amount of "security". Surely lowering the vigilance and thus lowering the security would just make matters worse!
Going off-topic here, but the AWS logo used in the article seriously looks like a cheap knock-off version.

Edit: apparently they sourced it from Wikimedia Commons, which has a rather... shoddy replica.
The trick of a grenade is not the amount of energy that it packs, it is the duration over which it releases that energy.

Compare with a balloon. You blow it up with a little bit over atmospheric pressure over a large amount of time. But when you puncture the balloon all the energy is released over a very short amount of time.

This is also why relatively harmless firecrackers become a lot more violent when you constrain them using duct tape or some fracturable container.
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Dying from slipping and falling in the shower adds terror and all that as well. Why is it not fought to the same extent?

Surely terrorism is worth fighting. The question is whether it's worth all the effort and attention it gets, or perhaps some smaller amount.
I don't see how this is going to be of use for anything else than crime. It's too dangerous for home defense, but just about OK for shooting someone point-blank.
Bitcoin solved decentralized trust, but at the same time, it solved distributed trust. What preexisting database product allowed multiple organizations to confidently write to a single shared database?

Distributed ledgers are perfectly capable of reversing transactions.
Where possible I encourage friends and family to approach news as a single recent frame from a long-playing narrative, a blurb tacked onto the end of history. Without history you have no context. My agenda is to get them to ignore the 24/7 news cycle and review topics from a historical standpoint - Wikipedia and podcasts make this easier than ever before. They're imperfect sources, but if you want to crawl through dozens of topics for no cost, they're fantastic tools. From there you can purchase books on topics that you'd like to learn more about.

Something about the Middle East? You need at least a hundred years of historical knowledge to understand what is playing out. Ideally more. But it's not that simple; you need to understand the politics of countries that are recent but significant players.

And this is the problem: people believe it's reasonable to form an opinion on complex matters from consuming a few soundbites and massaged footage. How is that at all reasonable? Answer: it isn't.
30 and 100 is a pretty substantial change organizationally.
Been wanting built in ssl forever.
Why not use Debian Stretch (the current 'testing' release)?
Has anyone calculated how long flipping bits through an unguided process would take to evolve a function? It seems unlikely as randomly finding a private key or breaking hashes, but how do they compare and what is it like in terms of computing?
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Ask HN: Startups working on Hard tech problems?
Hey, I wanted to find examples of startups working on challenging tech problems, perhaps the ones you don't hear about too often.

I don't mean to put down other startups here obviously, I'd be a food to do so, considering the value that these companies add in our daily lives.

But, I wanted to find examples of companies that are trying to tap to sectors that haven't been tapped into yet and are innovating with technology instead of just enabling the industry with technology or companies that truly have a technology based IP instead of an operational IP , which can be focused purely on one sector only.

Thanks!
What's missing in all that is that they are talking about HTTPS for custom domains, username.github.io supports HTTPS already.
I wouldn't think of it that way at all. Your work helps support you and your family, and your coworkers and their families! Kids get to go to school, parents get to provide nice homes for them, and non-kid folks get to have nice lives, all because of your work. Sometimes, even if the work is prosaic, it enables wonderful lives for the workers.

If you are interested in it, I would highly recommend looking at working with National Laboratories, or companies that work with or manage National Labs. FFRDCs are another great place to look https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federally_funded_research_and_...

Be prepared to take a salary hit, but the work can be really rewarding (if you end up in the right place).
"... they'd look, complain about the annoyance, put it away, and then repeat as soon as the next notification popped up."

But I'm guessing they'd be a lot less likely to purchase anything from that entity than before the pushes. That's how I react.
No, there isn't. The metadata is washed away when the VOIP call hits the Signaling System Seven switch.

A simple policy fix would solve this problem: Treat any caller willing to threaten police with death but unwilling to reveal his identity with great suspicion.
If you believe "the moving bits in organisms came about through an unguided process" - remember, some people don't, and I suspect a lot of people just sort-of believe - it's still fine to ask what functions those bits perform well and which they don't. It's building a model, just like we build models in physics or chemistry. The function of free electrons in an atom is to let many atoms stick together. In science, it doesn't imply that they were explicitly designed that way.
>> the mechanisms are totally separated from the physical reality.

> There were honest to god LISP machines

As LISP-flavored stack machines, yes [0]. Alas that Linear Lisp [1] never received a hardware implementation [2].

To those exploring high level language architectures, forget not also the noble SCHEME-79 chip [3]: a Von Neumannian register machine, but one which executes a SCHEME interpreter microcoded in LISP.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#Technical_overvie...

[1] http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/LinearLisp.html

[2] http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ForthStack.html

[3] http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334
Do you really think that, even if widely available, this would be used more often for crime than for harmless purposes like simply experimenting with 3D printers?
These are the people who watch home shopping channels,
Evolution is not random. It's very much directed by what we like to call "selection pressures". The whole way this process works is that some outcomes are more likely to survive than others.
Uncle Matt's costs a couple bucks more, but doesn't use flavor packets. They store their juice in frozen drums in the off-season: http://unclematts.com/resources/flavor-packet-faqs/
Being somewhat practical oriented I've half a mind to try to see what kind of a 'bang' one could get out of a cellphone or laptop battery but I have two worries: the first that it will succeed, the second that it will succeed a bit too well resulting in people no longer being allowed to bring laptops and cellphones on board of airliners and I have enough enemies as it is ;)

It's strange that nobody tried this to date (or at least, I can't find any hard evidence about people trying to blow stuff up with cell phone or laptop batteries).
That's so cool of you. I'm sorry I'm just now seeing this.
The pi was an odd thing. Out of the box it was 'suited' for GPIO from python. For any better project you'd need to know electricity. Or going below and learn the SoC weird architecture...

But recently I used one as an IRC bouncer, and another as a XBMC host.

Before that I just wanted to see how arch+dwm+emacs would feel on a 700MHz prev-gen. ARM CPU. Acceptable. I tried to underclock it down to my first desktop computer freq (p75), I've never seen linux run on such slow freq.

I also enjoyed the pre-compiled cross compiler so I could write factorial on my x64 machine and then deploy it on my rpi cluster of 2. None of this is amazing and no hard requirement on a pi (I could have done the same in VMs or with MIPS emulators but ... it would be more setup and less toying).

Impulse buy for most.

ps: One more major downer for me, hardware compatibility, too frail. SDCard would fail, usb would fail, first psu would not push enough amps ... It made you realize how the ATX desktops shielded you. And now I was at the point where I couldn't be sure of anything without researching wikis for hours. Again electricity.
You can experiment with 3D printers just as well by printing toys for kids or plastic roses, simple machinery and other gizmos. Once you decide to print an unlicensed, unregistered gun and get ammo you'd better be prepared to use it for something because in a large number of places you've just crossed into illegal territory which would seem to be a lot of trouble to go to just to 'experiment with 3D printers'.

I don't think that you'll get much mileage out of that line for your defense when you're caught with a stash of illegal weapons.

No, your honor, those 25 guns are misprints, really...
My impression is that the student isn't a customer or a pupil - he or she is a conduit by which government tuition subsidy is added to the school's budget.
You still get the benefit of eating the whole fruit though. None of the nutrients are removed, and you're less likely to eat 6 apples worth of puree than to drink 6 apples worth of apple juice.

> slower/evenly absorbed

Also, I'm curious what you mean here by "evenly absorbed." Even in what sense?
This Japanese schoolgirl wakeup call startup is just wrong
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I see it as a gradual thing. Early in the project loosey and then as the software matures add in more typing. But yeah, everyone needs to agree on the right level for that stage in the project.
> I feel a rare sense of violation whenever I find an unexpected push notification on my Android device.

Oh, exactly this. I remember the fist time when I got a push notification about offers nearby from a banking app. My reaction: what the fuck? Why is the banking app even running in the first place?. The violation came mostly from that a banking app has approximately zero sensible reasons for running in the background, wasting phone's resources.
This is a must read for product managers and designers.
I used my first Raspi to build one of these - got me interested in other music projects like DACs etc.

http://www.pimusicbox.com/
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To be fair, bungee-cording kids to the roof looks more tacky and dangerous, plus it worsens wind resistance.
Webroot SecureAnywhere Endpoint. Really light on the memory and works well for me.
What's the difference between giving these and giving existing revolvers?
These banks aren't talking about _Bitcoin_ block chain.
Where to your propose that the money for infrastructure repair/maintenance come from?
Funny, I just read another entry here in HN titled: Things the media does to manufacture outrage.
Could be useful for getting through metal detectors for an assassination. All you need to do is get the bullet through and you can hide that in a cap or a shoe.
This is precisely why we should change our sampling process for selecting representatives, from corruptible elections, to completely random selection.

For more info, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
It's hard to cut useful rifling into anything but metal or ceramic.

A revolution mainly just takes strength of numbers; it's different from a war. The Berlin Wall fell without a shot, for the most part. And there's an awful lot of killing going on in urban areas of Israel right now with just blades. Likewise, 9/11 was accomplished with just tiny blades.
We used to teach middle schoolers to use such tools. It was a class called "shop" or maybe "industrial arts." Who ever thought they might be used to make a gun. Oh wait -- that was the project of one of the kids in my shop class, ca. 1979.
I've seen that movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107206/
I get that this is an unpopular opinion, but why does all of society have to have the same priority?

As a computer engineer, the likelihood of me contributing to a 'cure for <x>', is very very low. I'd like to focus on things that I can solve, or work towards.

So telling people to stop trying to solve something (that is an actual problem), because something else should be a higher priority.....seems kind of ridiculous.

As for attributing terrorism to "modern life", I think that's a joke. We should just ACCEPT mass murder?

Also, people DON'T accept car deaths, there are huge segments of the population working towards reducing car deaths (that's kind of the whole point behind autonomous cars, as I understand it).
Your sample is subject to some pretty heavy selection bias though. How would someone who does not have a degree and is having trouble finding a position know you through working at a game dev company?
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We're shipping our first rear view and data overlay motorcycle helmets over at Skully next month:
http://www.skully.com/#smartest-helmet

As far as I know, there are a few announced products in development that do this sort of thing, but we're the first out the door off a production line. I do believe we can honestly improve rider situational awareness and safety too, so we will be saving lives.
I've built something like this with web tech before [1]. Unless your commands are going to the internet, and not through something like bluetooth or wifi, you need to do it with native.

[1] https://github.com/reustle/meteorgame
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This is a great project. He had some help from Dad with the power tools, but it seems that he wrote the software completely by himself.
Maybe you could use a mold instead of forming them by extrusion. Square leads were common in the past:

http://www.officemuseum.com/pencil_history.htm

This website reminds me of "slate pencils" (soft slate wrapped in paper). I remember my parents having some of these for a message board in our house. You can still get them:

http://www.amazon.com/Slate-and-Pencil-by-KCFT/dp/B017N0U4CS...
For a counter-argument, see Karl Popper's The Open Society and it Enemies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Society_and_Its_Enemi...
I don't think it's binary choice. The statistics call into question if we should ever decide to launch a full scale invasion due to the threat of terrorism, but isn't arguing against ending safety measures currently in place.

Another way to put it is if the threat of terrorism is so low, should we direct investment into terrorism versus other initiatives? If we were a start-up we'd determine the most efficient way to deploy capital to have the maximum lives saved.

Something the article ignores is really taking into account efficiency of preventative measures and money spent on those measures.
A fully charged 1000mAH 3.7V battery contains ~ 13kJ of energy. One gram of TNT gives you ~4kJ. So at best - assuming you had some way of efficiently exploding a smartphone battery - you'd get a couple grams of TNT yield.

I suspect shocking, burning or smoking would be a better route to weaponising a smartphone.

Edited: for comparison, the muzzle energy for a .50BMG round is ~15Kj. Bearing in mind you get ~4kJ from a gram of TNT, this explains why being shot hurts so much :)
Ask HN: Can we get Browser and OS Stats for Hacker News?
Distilled water is not "pure H2O." If I'm not mistaken there is only a few facilities in the world that can make pure H2O. Pure H2O has no flavor and will kill you if you drink too much of it. Distilled water or reverse osmosis machines only remove -most- things from water.

I believe there is an episode on National Geographic channel from the show "Going Deep With David Rees" where he visits a lab that makes Pure H20. He is only allowed to sip it. The episode was about creating ice without impurities. (it was found that pure H2O is not necessary to creating perfect ice, not is it made for human consumption.)
There's nothing wrong with this

I agree there's nothing wrong with the part quoted. That's an ideal outcome. And the surge of blood sugar concentration from juice wasn't the part I was concerned about (unless it results in a child going into a hyperactive transdimensional shit-fit). The blood sugar crash is the significant part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoglycemia#Signs_and_symptom...

Low blood sugar also plays a major part in decision fatigue. Do you make dinner after work or buy something on the way home? Making a healthy dinner is the better decision but right now you want satiety. Do you do the washing or sit in front of the TV? You don't just have decision fatigue, you're out of energy - the real deal.

This is in contrast to a low GI meal where the energy supply is provided over a longer period at a stable rate, providing the stamina to make good decisions and act on them.
Yep. All knowledge is 'dual use', and metal working skills more so than most.
"Michels theory states that all complex organizations, regardless of how democratic they are when started, eventually develop into oligarchies."

How is sortition going to help? It should either also become an oligarchy, or simply be a dysfunctional government, or not actually have anything at all to do with this subject.
Newer powders are hard to make, but black powder is actually relatively easy to make from what I understand. You certainly won't be shooting modern quality ammunition, but guns are still possible. The .38 special was originally a black powder cartridge if I'm not mistaken. That's why the case is so large compared to the actual quantity of modern gunpowder that you use.
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I've never understood the glycemic index stuff. It didn't seem to fit my experience. I just researched this, and I came upon this article: http://www.foodrenegade.com/glycemic-index-vs-glycemic-load/

I had never heard of glycemic load before today, and I'm always reading articles about nutrition science. It seems like fruit and veg have relatively high glycemic indices, but low glycemic load--which means that they're fine, which makes sense. Who here can imagine a doctor telling anyone on earth not to eat more carrots?

EDIT: I also found this article: http://www.calorieking.com/learnabouts/The-Glycemic-Index-Th... which had this quote:
The glycemic load (GL) goes a step further than the GI by taking into account the amount of carbohydrate in a food. A weak point of the GI is that it fails to do this.

For example, carrots have a high GI of 47, but you have to eat a pound and a half of them for there to be a steep rise in blood sugar.

This completely meshes with my experience.
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How is a "sharing" economy, or the vast majority of startups, helping anyone but stakeholders? Without citing a particular piece of content it's hard to say anyone's lying, just being way too dramatic for more clicks. Because that is the current incentive structure for web publishing. Bullshit outrage pieces make way more money than long form investigative peices that are significantly harder to make, and exponentially less people read. Just like working on big hard problems takes more time/talent/research. Easy money and complaining for everyone!