skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the above wikipedia entry:

> In the July 1904 edition of its monthly publication, Sherwin-Williams reported the dangers of paint containing lead, noting that a French expert had deemed lead paint "poisonous in a large degree, both for the workmen and for the inhabitants of a house painted with lead colors."

"Poisonous in a large degree" seems pretty serious to me.

People were regularly dropping dead due to lead poisoning in factories by the turn of the century, and it looks like lead was recognized as being capable of doing significant, though hard-to-recognize, harm:

"Although plumbism is usually easy to diagnose, lead occasionally induces obscure affections of the nervous system, the cause and true nature of which are not always easily recognized. As a cause of poverty, too, its influence is not sufficiently known nor the role it may be playing in the physical degeneracy of the race."

https://books.google.com/books?id=gQY9AAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA29&ots=...

Lead paint looks to have been largely banned in Europe in favor of zinc-based paint by 1911; it was clearly viewed as a public health threat, not least by housepainters themselves, who were dying of lead poisoning (see the table on page 25).
> ... that Julia is confined to scientific computing whereas I find it should really be a general purpose language.

It is intentional. Julia could be the new Fortran like Rust could be the new C++.
Empathy has been evolved in animal communities who collectively care about the offsprings. It is an evolutionary strategy to make communities possible. It is protection for offsprings from being murdered and eaten as it happens among reptiles, fishes, etc. It is a weak bond though.
What they need a decade-long quest for, except funding?
And, obviously, higher animals do have at least some cross-species empathy toward pups. Any villagers who had cat and dog pups will tell you that.
The sexual attraction and parent-offspring bonds, including affection towards young, are the strongest evolutionary forces.
C++ is not relevant? What world do you work in?
Crazy app thing that enables you to connect to your mind twins. CereBuddy
Mind twins (noun): any two people thinking about each other or about the exact same thing.
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> Julia Computing carried out this work under contract from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to support its TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) program.

It's great! Looks like a very interesting contract.
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Thanks god KDenLive is catching up. Cinelerra[1] (and the cinelerra-cv community fork) was/is more advanced, but its interface is stuck in the 90's, it manage to crash twice per CPU cycle due to horrible code and is resealed without warning in big code dump every year or so. I lost -so- much time in this back in high-school (10-12 years ago) because it was the only high end editor on Linux. Back then the early KDenLive version were not so much better stability wise. However they came a long, long way. Too bad I don't need Video editor anymore, but I still compile KDenLive to see the new features.

[1] http://cinelerra.org/2015/index.php/features/editing
Almost every US child has blood work done on an annual basis? For what? What are they looking for? Lead specifically?
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> coworking spaces, which Buffer pays for as part of our team perks

"Going to work" is now considered a "perk of the job"? Now I have heard everything.

Just last night a friend in hospitality was telling me how tips were pooled and shared out, and money was taken out of the pool against staff parties (okay, kind of defensible) and breakage (wtf!?). He said the place was even dicier than it sounds - when they did have the staff parties, the boss made it sound like the money came out of his own pocket, rather than sucked from the employees tips. Some "perks" are definitely less valuable than other "perks"...
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Julia seems like an almost perfect MATLAB replacement. (for my personal preference, I would like a slightly more static/rigid language, but I understand why that's not the right choice for Julia's target users.) There is just one problem... I really, really wish they had dropped the 1-based indexing and <= upper bound on index ranges. It is so annoying.
love it! great work keep it up!
When writing manuscripts in git, my favourite "trick" is git diff --word-diff (of course aliased to git wdiff).
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I've spoken to an Amazon rep about this.

The best approaches they were able to suggest were:

* Lookup config from dynamo db when the lambda runs
* Lookup config from S3 when the lambda runs
* Bake config into the artifacts

You can read the name of the alias you're currently running as from the context data, and use this as a key into some external system.

Not ideal.
Not when compared to tooling offered by iOS and WP SDKs for C++ developers.
How long before 'The world wide web is just something that you shouldn't try and do yourself on a small scale.'.

Really that's bothers me greatly. Email is the example of a successful open protocol and by all means you should try and do it yourself. The less we are reliant on these giant companies the better and to abdicate email to google just because they've achieved critical mass is to wipe 25 years of internet history under the carpet.

Decentralization is good, not bad.

If installing and operating a compliant email server is too hard then we should make that easier, not push to get everybody to switch over to some corporation.
See my comment below, I don't think it has the same use case as kdenlive. But I will be trying out kdenlive this year to see how it stacks up for my simple use case.

How does kdenlive stack up against Cinelerra? I thought that was the most advanced video editor?

Next week I will be testing kdenlive, Openshot, Cinelerra and Blender Video Sequence Editor to see what works quickly and easily for my use case. One of the problems I face is that I have to make 3 compilation videos in one evening, using a weeks worth of footage. When I used Premiere one year it took me from 8pm until 5am to get it all done (mainly because I was learning how to use the software at the same time).
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> It isn't wrong, its just not perfectly unambiguous.

Yes, it's perfectly wrong, because those objects are not 13Gly away from us. A light-year really is defined as 300,000 km multiplied by whatever number of seconds there are in a year. The object is not at 13e9 x 300,000 x <a lot of seconds> kilometers from us if it took 13 billion years for the light to reach us.

> It isn't a surprise to anyone to point out that the source of something that was moving away from us 13Gy ago is now further away than it was.

If I wanted to give words the least charitable interpretation, I could point out that their motion has nothing to do with this -- they would still be farther than 13 Gly away from us even if they would not be moving away relative to the Earth :-).
I Will tell you something I wish my psychology would had told me: go some weeks to the coolest hostel you can. Don't go with your laptop, go just to have fun, meet people, to enjoy your present, that you are fucking alive. In fact if the hostel is good, you will be able to make at least 20 new "friends" almost fucking instantly. You will hear so many different life stories and you will tell yours. This year I went to one with some friends after living a big depression of the same "working" feeling and just by the second day I was feeling "fuck I wish I had done this way before ". I overstayed alone for two more weeks than my friends. I even ended working in and from the hostel and staying for free. Hope it helps you as it did for me.
In the original comment I replied to, the point was "black holes cannot form because we cannot observe it, so black holes don't exist". This is a misunderstanding, and is what I was pointing out.

Saying that something objectively "doesn't happen" because an observer infinitely far away can't see it is ridiculous.
I am pretty convinced by the argument of this article. but, this looks to good to be true. Are there some drawbacks I can not see ? Why nobody has thought about this simple api ?
Yes, I know that, but the press only mention ligo. I'd assume because it's the only American one.
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Heh, this year is the first time I've actually been able to get Cinelerra to run. I think the worst time I ever had with it was trying to compile it on Slackware a few years ago. Hours of compilation and nothing to show except insta-crash.
That's the great thing about open source: a project can outlive its stewardship.
The missing length field was a selling point back then: you could have strings of unlimited length unlike Pascal's 255-byte strings. People liked overcoming that limit with the same storage overhead of an extra byte.
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pbcopy && pbpaste are also available for windows - https://ghuntley.com/archive/2016/01/20/pbcopy-pbpaste-for-w...
That sounds fine. There are several 19th century versions of this in London, where a railway line was built next to or through a park [0]. Depending on the elevation, the park may continue underneath all the viaduct arches, or just some.

But, rail noise is considered much less annoying than road noise (British noise pollution regulations recognise this, and allow for more rail noise before sound barriers etc are required). I used to live on the 3rd floor overlooking a major line in London, and the students on that side of the building complained far less than the ones on the other side, overlooking a middle-sized road.

A highway is a different matter though. There will be fumes from pollution, and noise and vibration from vehicles. It's no wonder it's "affordable housing", no-one who can afford better will want to live there.

Zoom out a couple of steps from [1] and decide if you'd want to live next to a highway. Or, to a lesser extent, a railway with diesel trains, which have faint lines compared to many roads, but electric railways don't show up at all. (I can't find an equivalent map for Seattle.)

[0] http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4062888

[1] http://www.londonair.org.uk/london/asp/annualmaps.asp
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Before any proof, the debate would benefit from more precise definitions.

For instance, the issue around the usage of fencing tokens to reject any late usage of a lock
is unclear just because the protected resource and its access are themselves unspecified.
Is the resource distributed or not?
If distributed, does the resource has a mean to ensure that tokens are increasing over all the nodes?
Does the resource have a mean to rollback any effects done by a client which session is interrupted by a timeout?

Likewise for the timing arguments.
It seems clear to everyone that timeouts provide only some protection rather than a guarantee.
A more precise timeline of the worst case scenario will help to estimate that protection given the misc timeout values and clock shifts.
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PptRk2k...

This topic is a triviality of C programming. You run into performance (or usability) issues with standard strings - you roll out your own. It takes... what?... 20 minutes? OK, maybe an hour. Would it help to have an alternative standardized? Perhaps. Is it critical to have it? Hell, no.
Could it be that all animals have empathy, but some have a much smaller and/or different set of feelings they experience? As an analogy, if I see you eating candy, I can understand that you're currently tasting sweet, but if a cat sees you, it has no concept of sweet, because its tongue doesn't have those receptors. You can also see this in people, the most egregious example being "Let them eat cake" oft mis-attributed to Marie Antoinette. If you have never felt something yourself, either due to your upbringing or because your species has no capacity to experience that feel, is it that you have no empathy towards someone having that experience or that you simply cannot so much as conceive of the feeling in question?
Locals will also tell you vaccines will give you autism and wifi is making them sick so they need homeopathic medicine.

Better to go with facts over hearsay.

The EPA requires yearly water quality reports (called Consumer Confidence Reports) for all municipal water supplies in the United States. Specifically they are due by July 1st each year.

LA - https://dpw.lacounty.gov/wwd/web/YourWater/AnnualWaterQualit...

Seattle -
http://www.seattle.gov/util/MyServices/Water/Water_Quality/W...

New York - http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/drinking_water/wsstate.shtm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Drinking_Water_Act
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They should go out and ride in heavy wind then. Wonder what kind of clothing is going to protect you from heavy sideways thrusts :P
But yeah, in this season clothing is all-important.
A comment combining solar energy, global warming, self-driving cars, 3-D printers, the Hyperloop, and telecommuting? That's it, we have reached peak HN for today. Thanks for playing guys.
For all the "just go to W3Schools" people in this thread:
http://www.w3fools.com/
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I don't think anyone who's had a dog could ever question whether animals can feel empathy, it's just so obvious. I am sure that the level varies from species to species and also within a species, as it does in humans. But a story like this https://www.thedodo.com/lost-dog-saves-trapped-friend-135355... is hard to read and not feel a little warmer.
You mean in the asynchronous systems model, in the presence of failures, it is impossible to write a reliable failure detector:
http://the-paper-trail.org/blog/a-brief-tour-of-flp-impossib...
However, you can write a failure detector for a practical system with the help of omega (weakest failure detector):
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lorenzo/corsi/cs380d/papers/p685-c...

In practice, failure detectors mean timeouts. What I am arguing is that you can have systems that adapt their timeouts for failure (such as our one), based on the current level of network congestion or load or whatever. The setting/changing of the timeout is averaged over a period of time, to ensure it is high enough to not give false positives. You could do the same approach at the per message level, but for all possible messages, it may be prohibitive. If you have a small number of messages, it may work. The problem with messages, compared to failure detection, however, is the following: how do you figure out you have had a false positive? For failure detection it's easy: the timeout expired, butre i'm still alive and my heartbeat arrives late, so we increase the timeout for that node. Vector clocks (fencing tokens) make it easier to reliably find out if messages arrive very late (identify false positives).
Infinite scalability is all party until you get DDoSed and have to sell your house to pay the bills. How do you prevent that? Cloudfront maybe?
I'm in the state of Victoria in Australia. While we don't have the truly ludicrous sentencing that the US does, we have our own share of tabloid-driven "lock-em-up-and-throw-away-the-key" vocal idiots who don't think of the whole picture. Every sentence is met in the public eye with "that's too short!"

Anyway, the law institute of Victoria did a study where they asked members of the public what an appropriate sentence would be for real cases (without telling them the actual sentence). The kicker was this: the survey included much more detail on how the crime occurred. It wasn't just a throwaway line in a paper, but gave context. Turned out that the respondents suggested sentences that were actually shorter than were given in court.

The whole "tough on crime, because votes" is a hideous thing, because most voters don't think about the big picture.
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With SSNs the problem is not in the fact that they are in an email, but the fact that they are sensitive information at all.
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Interesting to know that Apple is sometimes behind stuff like this https://medium.com/startup-study-group/steve-jobs-made-warne...
As an NRA member, shouldn't you be outraged that merely having a gun in your home should count against you in a trial?
Possible, but not cheap. It's much cheaper to install aerial fiber.
Together with SES i am using lambda to route inbound email to http endpoint.
Huge number of Mac apps are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks
> If we receive light that traveled a distance of X light years, then the event is occurring X years in the past.

Not necessarily. By the time the light arrives here, its point of departure (and parts of its path through space) may have receded because of cosmological expansion, so its total travel distance, and its velocity, are no longer synchronized as they would be in Newtonian physics.

Your remark would have been true for the static universe that Einstein believed to exist when he proposed the first version of the cosmological constant (before 1929).
I presume the majority of the point of standardizing is in controlling what implementation third-party libraries use. It's not like libraries are grabbing opaque String* handles from some String.new-alike in libc, where all the strings in your final linked program could be replaced with a better implementation of the same ADT just by linking in a better String.new.

The C standard says that "strings" are examinable buffers of bytes you can do arithmetic to and stream until NUL—and thus, every single library that uses C strings ends up baking in a bunch of pointer arithmetic and NUL-checks on buffers of bytes.

It doesn't matter how optimized your own code's string implementation is if 99% of your time is spent in, for example, OpenSSL's string implementation.
The article makes no mistake, it just doesn't go into enough detail.

To determine the amount of energy reaching us, we need to integrate over the energy density divided by the square of the distance over the whole 3d space. As any physicist can tell you, an integral over the whole space will diverge unless the kernel falls off faster than 1/r^2.

This means that one of the following must be true

a) either the universe is finite, ie. the density falls off

b) we don't integrate over the whole space (we can't see far enough due to age of universe)

Which is exactly the argument this article is making

Edit: in other words, infinite or finite-but-huge is an important difference when integrating over constant density; the former integral will diverge, the latter will not
I don't think "not getting a server" is enough justification. With Gmail I don't get a server, but nobody calls it "serverless email". A server is still involved.

It seems like an ill-fitting adjective even in a vacuum, but what's worse is that "serverless" is commonly used to describe something that runs entirely client-side (e.g. p2p).

Just because AWS Lambda is a "mental shift" doesn't mean that "serverless" is a good way to describe it.
Hey! A word for my friends who are interested in machine architecture, but like me, aren't already experts in the topic.

I'd command-clicked this article to read it later, got busy with other stuff, then ran across the tab again. Found it so compelling that I wrote dang - well past midnight! - to see if it could get boosted back to the home page. Turns out this had been done once already, but he gave it another shot thanks to my suggestion.

So don't make me a liar, go read this article if the topic is at all interesting to you. It takes a simple little case - zeroing a register - maybe the most fundamental "spike solution" there is [1] - and traces a few ways to do it and how different processors interpret them.

I learned quite a lot in the ten minutes it took to read this.

If my advice is wrong, you know where to find the downvote button. ;-)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=spike+solution
So and if these devices are hacked to injury people nobody can prevent it or is even forced to take responsibility as it's the fault of the device and not those of the owners/creators?
55% who want it to be more strict is still more than the 45% who don't want it so or are undecided. If this were a voting matter, picking up 15 percentage points means nothing if it still doesn't take you past your opponent's percentage.
>its engineers were using HTML5, a programming language that ...
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I am all for replacing Python with Julia.
Like a bank :)
Wow. Is it really that hard to add in a table of contents?
No, you can get most parts for bikes since 1940 or so I think - I was looking at a 1945 bike recently and the shop had spare parts. Some stuff needs to be adapted a little, and more parts will stop being available soon alas.
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It's caused by Sparkle's framework vulnerability.
I do some video recording, with separate audio and then I use a video editor to multiplex the video/audio. And then of course, some nice titles, video fade in/out, brightness adjustment, etc.

Over the past 3 years, I've gone through Cinelerra, OpenShot, Kdenlive, and some I can't even remember. Very frustrated over the state of video editing on Linux, I unfortunately once had to use the editor on Windows. :(

But now, I'm using Kdenlive each time, and I'm very happy with it. There are some tutorials out there on YouTube which help too.
I was trying to do the same thing in London, and so posted on my local Clojure user mailing list, it worked really well. More so in fact if you're happy to help people with their own project ideas, rather than your own.
I think there are plenty of reason for this, and the question should be 'why open source the original code rather than having a clean start without all the dependencies and ugly things that accumulated over the years?'.

Once it's open, people will scrutinize everything, especially something as high profile as parse. They don't need publicity about commit message "Joe is so fucking stupid" that slipped away or something equivalent.
Build fails in Yosemite inside zlib.
I forked it and trying to fix it..
Anyone did?
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I think this [0] is worth reading before starting a project in julia (it's quite shocking). Does anyone know if anything has changed in julia's development process over the last year?

[0] http://danluu.com/julialang/
> For some reason, though, we don't allow that sort of privacy violation in our actual lives.

Because shops never monitor footfall in certain aisles. Of course real-world businesses do this. Plus all those people who carry loyalty cards.
Anyone here remember Faqomatic [0] ? Remember using it around 2001. Very similar to Stack Exchange except without the karma points.

[0] - http://faqomatic.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/1.html
Those drugs aren't exactly hard to find today either.