skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"considerable uncertainty ... estimates point to several thousand deaths ... will be indiscernible from the background of overall deaths in the population group. The estimate does not substantiate earlier claims that tens or even hundreds of thousands of deaths will be caused by radiation exposures from the Chernobyl accident" - [1] p2

"The mental health impact of Chernobyl is the largest public health problem caused by the accident to date" -- [1] p95

One thing to note is that these estimates have been dropping consistently over the years as more data has become available.

[1] Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident and Special Health Care Programs, World Health Organization
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/43447/1/9241594179_... (2006)
Add selfie with a PR
I'm not sure how this addon could possibly work without that permission. After all, that's literally the point of the addon, to read the data on the websites you visit, find instances of Millenials, and then modify the data so it says Snake People instead.
There was a period where there was major demand for form widgets in the browser to have a "native look and feel" to decrease the learning curb for people coming from native apps (while meaningful at the time, is less of an issue when most things are web-deployed), and then like the next month there were demands for CSS styling of form widgets and browsers were being shat on because they only supported it in a limited fashion, only color changes, and not actual shape and text styling.

Now you can make text on a button bold italic, but who knows what that means when you see it in relation to a button that isn't bold italic or is just bold or just italic (other than that the designer has bad taste). I once worked with a designer who wanted control over the focus-caret styling (the dotted line in Firefox/highlighting in Chrome that indicates where keyboard input is destined, which changing has potentially huge impacts for accessibility). Having a UI/UX that grossly visually distinct negatively impacts usability, discoverability, and accessibility, IMO, for very little gain in branding (unless your branding is purposely meant to be "confusingly different from everyone else").
I envy people whose passion is useful for others. Most of my passions are totally self-centered and will never produce anything anybody else will be interested in. So following my passion would not make any money.

I would much prefer if my passion was to sell things.
I'm in Edmonton and I promise you mine is at least as bad. I just took the drive times off google maps.
Twitter’s new transparency report is disclosure done right
Thanks for your feedback. Yeah, I don't think we got that far :)
> Hardware that works better = better sales, more money, less support cost?

Utter bullshit. The hardware doesn't work better - it works in the same way that AHCI systems with a single disk have done in the past. This is not going to increase sales, as is obvious to anyone with half an ounce of sense, it won't make more money as a result and it will be lovely to see their support when people clone disks and realise the on-disk RAID format isn't compatible ;-).

But you know, slip and slide ;-).
Are there good references for journalistic standards for embargos?

From a science (and future funding) perspective, large collaborations with important results are interested in making a splash (which, referenced in the article, backfired for BICEP). They're interested in quality reporting, but they want to have the opportunity to bring the discovery (think Higgs, gravitational waves, etc.) to the world.

Science stories are hard to report, as the journalist, even one with a science background, needs to come quickly up to speed with a nuanced field.

What's the best way to ensure that a science story can be reported well, as argued for in this article, without the embargo getting jumped?

"Hello, Dr. Not-in-ATLAS/CMS physicist, we've never met before, but I work for the NYT and I'm working on a story appearing Thursday, around the same time as the CERN press conference. If both experiments had observed a single Higgs at 125 GeV mass, what would it mean? Interesting. Also, please don't tell anyone."

Such an embargo would last only tens of seconds after the physicist hung up the phone (and for good reason, as free exchange of information is paramount in academia).

How would you like to see scientists report results? Would you prefer that researchers present results to an unprepared press at the same time as the journal article appears, with improved reporting a week later, or get informed but embargoed reporting at the same time as the announcement?
> On a more serious note: there's a tectonic shift going on in the US too, it's just not as stark. Young'uns are moving to the cities enmasse, resulting in skyrocketing rents in places like SF, Seattle. The old American Dream of having a McMansion out in the 'burbs has largely died out. Now people prefer the urban areas.

Popular public opinion but not actually true: http://web.archive.org/web/20160327033112/http://blogs.wsj.c...
> Sometimes I wonder if boomers have _any_ idea of the frantic pace of today's workplace and how little power you can hope for, regardless of how much you work.

Millennials have as much or more power than the boomers did when they started working. The difference is that they expect more, because they spent their childhoods getting participation trophies and being waited on hand and foot by adults concerned for their comfort and 'safety.'

In the real world, the reward for doing exactly what is expected of you isn't promotion: it's that you keep your job.

In the real world, sometimes you're expected to sacrifice for your goals.
I really wonder in what % of the elder people your grandfather is and what does that mean evolution-wise e.g from an end user perspective, how much of that is google accountable for or, if you prefer, any other search engine.
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Billions of deaths? Really? No matter what happens, we aren't going to see several feet of sea level change in a matter of hours, which is what it would take to cause large scale casualties.

To be sure, the economic impact of sea level rise is potentially devastating, but billions of deaths is wildly hyperbolic.
Personally, I very much dislike using CSS classes unless required. I prefer having a clean markup with classes used only where they make sense.

For a context, I somehow can't wrap my head around writing something like:

<div class="nav nav-inverse nav-hide-xs">

when `<nav>` makes more sense. Sure, if you have a case with alternate "inverse" navbar, go ahead with a class `<nav class="inverse">`.

About the flexbox, ah, well, even now they have undefined behaviour on several elements such as a `fieldset` [1].

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28078681/why-cant-fieldse...
No, the issue in Newfoundland is the collapse of the fisheries, not because more kids went to college. This isn't towns having an issue because more kids don't want to do fishing, this is because there are no fish to bring in.
Author here. I have been thinking about writing a react-like component system for Go, that outputs HTML. The major down side is that then you can't re-use much between your web-based app and your desktop app (which I think is a common pattern now).
Nice to read :)

Had some problems with React/JSX back in the days.
Glad to announce Statsbot Alerts. It examines patterns in data, using machine learning and anomaly detection. Statsbot point out which findings are important to check without requiring you to build mathematical models. Now you can leave tedious job of checking your dashboard every hour.

Happy to get feedback and answer all questions during our AMA session today:
https://www.producthunt.com/live/ask-bots-anything-part-2-bo...
Same here. I think the only time my son sees traditional advertising is at a movie theater. However, I have noticed more "native advertising" in his favorite youtube channels.
Ask HN: If you were paid to learn, 8 hours a day, what would be your routine?
What you are learning would have to be software development related and the end goal would be to become an expert. At the end of the week you would have to have something to show how you spent your time. This question isn't about what tech you would learn, but more so how you would maximize your time spent to become and expert as soon as possible.
Ask HN: Best online courses on Biotech
Hi there,

I'd like to learn about Genetics > Gene Editing > CRISPR > Anti-aging, Enabling behavioral changes (fixing sleep), Curing chronic illnesses. Perhaps in that order although please do recommend a better alternative. I don't have a Biology background though (EE here).

I really enjoyed Andrew Ng's ML course on Coursera and am hoping to get recommendations similar to that style of teaching.

There are a few courses on Udacity and Coursera on the Genome and Bioinformatics but I'd like HN recommendations before I commit to those courses.

Thanks for your help.
The statement is there in black and white and it is as crystal clear and unequivocal as you can get.
Just means the market needs to raise the prices. In bitcoin this is similar to raising transaction fees to add a disincentive for DDOS attacks.

Right now, it seems ethereum is just an almost-free VPS service and people are surprised that actors are taking advantage of it.
I thought from the title it was about gender i.e., how do we assess whether a bot is male / female / neither.
Show me a lion who express their own destiny. Lions are alive no? :)

The human mind can be seen as a pattern recognizing feedbackloop with (lossy)memory.

The desires, fears, selfawareness are all bi-products of this loop.

I don't see why desire or some other concept can't be expressed in the digital space in a way that make them very much like us just based on different elements.

Any reason why evolution wouldn't be favoring them rather than us?
Same as the past probably before Ads.

I'm willing to pay for content, but honestly only up to how much a site would get from me for an ad impression. I am not going to do $N/mo/yr for X sites however.

Once I found out the sum total of what my ad impressions for every site amounts to about $10/yr, I am really annoyed that the ad industry and content publishers aren't coming up with their own google contributor type deal.

Free content isn't worth the cost in Ads. By this I mean the bandwidth, the cpu/energy use, and the cognitive cost. The monetary cost for people is insane. I'd pay $20/year to tell ad companies to go away and let companies replace my ad impression with a micro transaction equivalent.

Until then, screw the whole industry, ad blockers it is. Give me a real choice or accept that reality.
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Interestingly the challenge was finding a power source with enough thrust-to-weight for power flight. Heavier-than-air flight can be decomposed into "power source," "stability of design," and maybe "scale". So for instance, Da Vinci came up with pretty good designs for heavier-than-air unpowered flight.

Our current decomposition of mammalian intelligence seems somewhat weak in comparison: we've divided the mammal brain into regions, yes, but we still haven't made an accurate simulation at the electrochemical level of a functioning mammalian brain.

That's not to say nobody has or is trying, only that our simulations are more like approximations at present. They also don't have good simulations of astrocytes and glia.
I doubt that line ("ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal") is creative enough to meet the threshold of originality required for something to be protected by copyright.

Even if it actually were copyrightable/trademarked it wouldn't be a valid legal strategy to prevent fair-use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
Think about it this way - regardless of the revenue model, it's the users that are paying for the content. It might be direct, as in a NYT subscription, or there could be detours (advertiser pays the publisher -> a business pays the advertiser -> the customer pays the business). There would be no ads if they didn't work and people didn't buy the things that they advertise.

The fundamental problem is the same as with spam. Let's say it takes $1 for a business to show an ad to a person and that every hundredth person is going to buy the product. If their product brings in $100 or more of profit, they break even and are justified in running the ad.

What this model doesn't consider that for the rest 99 people the ad was an inconvenience and, in fact, provided a negative value. Let's say that was 20¢ worth of attention and annoyance. Is anyone going to give them their 20¢ back?

In essence, businesses are only concerned with their customers while non-customers are in a way subsidizing the business. What kind of system can fix this, I don't know, but I'd be interested in hearing what other people have to say.
Um, rolling out software has no comparison to pulling out millions of phones and replace them all around the planet. This is just how Google ships stuff - from the announcement to the day when 0 people care.
Warm intro's work better, but I'd also wager that good cold emails work as good. For example; if you can connect with the writer about one his articles, and transition into your startup..this is a good 25% chance to get covered (assuming your story is good).

Don't just submit a "tip" or go to the contact page, actually find the person who has written similar stuff and find his email
> "Millenials" is always used in combination with derogatory terms like "entitled, lazy, hopeless"

No, its not.

> Sometimes I wonder if boomers have _any_ idea of the frantic pace of today's workplace

Probably many of them don't. Then again, its not boomers that are mostly writing about "Millenials" (there's probably more Millenials writing about Millenials than Boomers doing so, and Gen-Xers are probably next. There's certainly more Boomers than Xers, but a lot of them are retired rather than trying to eke out a living in the frantic pace of today's publishing workplace.)
If there is life in cellular automata, is it brought to life by symbolically representing it with voltage differences in a computer, or is it alive whether we run the simulation or not?

I think the second makes more sense, the implication is that a simulation world need not be simulated at all.

It's just as real inside if it isn't symbolically represented somewhere else as if it is, and ending the calculation of state transitions doesn't change what the next state is.
Unfortunately, while the assertion is probably true to not talk about jargon, there needs to be a starting point of conversation somewhere. Here, it's probably easier to define what devops definitely isn't and cut away irrelevant things than by talking about what anyone's jargon defines it as. This is similar to the whole "cloud" definition but only even more vague than that.

Be very wary of anyone that has trouble distinguishing "devops" from system administration with modernized toolsets, especially if they aren't talking about deploying in-house software. Those are the kinds of organizations that are so far behind technology curves they'll drag you down as a vendor, contractor, or employee trying to support them if you don't hold them at arm's length. Because if you're not competent at basic system administration, I doubt spending money on any form of "devops" by any definition will be useful - think of the "you must be this tall to use microservices" concept.

The worst is if there's something about culture that's the fundamental goal, the larger the company the more clients seem interested in essentially under-market-rate management consulting by using engineers than MBAs. These also tend to be the same companies that seem to incessantly talk about "it's hard to turn around an aircraft carrier" and have probably discouraged and disengaged employees enough that any form of bottom-up culture change is hampered before it can take off.
Extensions are so broken. They can update at any time without your knowledge or permission. There is a whole market of selling extensions to malware companies so they can put malicious code in an update.

But besides that, most the extensions I use have serious bugs. I'd be willing to fix them, but there is no ability to do that. Chrome makes it difficult to view the code and there is no ability to edit it or copy it. Let alone submit pull requests to the author, unless they happen to have put the code on github also.
Government is the guarantor of property rights. If the current government was overthrown do you think the new government would necessarily need to honor your deed?
It's common knowledge around here that PR is wasted effort for startups. So why do this?

For startups and for any company, brand makes things nebulously easier. Sales require one fewer call, hiring pipelines are slightly more full, fundraising intros are easier. The point about creating News is really at the core: if you can make News one of the consistent outputs of your company, and you can see the results of News on your actual work, then you should do it.

Like everything else at a startup, brand is one tool. Don't use that tool unless the founders are strong with it and there's a well-defined path between that brand and traction.
Author here. I would expect binary sizes to end up similar to Electron since they will be dominated by libchromiumcontent, unfortunately.
IT journalist here:

Yes, it does. These are good pointers, the most important thing is to treat media relations and pr as a marathon not a sprint.

Good relationships with companies and people there help me be better in my job, because I can get feedback, additional information or the exclusive we all want.

It will also help you if some catastrophic event happens, say a hacked database.
Datadog announces application performance monitoring for dynamic environments
It's pretty simple. Greed seems to be what motivated the act of corruption, which leads to people dying when they could be not dying.

It's as if I was drunk-driving and drove you over. It would not be said that "the car killed" you, but that "a drunk driver" killed you.
The part of that EULA section that really gives me trouble is "...that is already running the Apple Software...".

I want to run OSX in a VM on my MacBook Pro with Windows as the host OS. I used to do it the other way around, boot into OSX and run Windows in a Parallels VM. These days most of my work is in Windows, especially VR work, so it's more practical to boot into Windows. (And I like Windows better than OSX anyway.)

But I still do need to test on OSX occasionally. In an ideal world, since I have VMware installed on Windows, I could just boot up an OSX VM.

But because of that one EULA phrase, OSX will never be supported by a commercial vendor like VMware or a large open source product like VirtualBox - even on Mac hardware!

This leaves booting back to OSX as the only way to run it, and rebooting back and forth is a real pain.

All I want to do is run my legally licensed Windows and legally licensed OSX, and have it be my own choice which one to run as the host OS.
Data Storage in DNA Is the Future of Data Storage – Science/Tech
At 1:03:00 he expresses his disappointment in the progress.
Why choose "readonly" as the modifier for immutable properties? A little long, no?
Just yesterday, I was about to turn off uBlock for a certain site, then I noticed it had blocked ~30 things on the page. No thanks.
We use SRP with our online accounting software [1]. We counter brute-force attacks by using Scrypt for the work factor, and forcing all login credentials to have a high degree of entropy.

[1] https://www.solaraccounts.co.uk/
Ah. Thanks for the correction!
Tesla sues state of Michigan for right to sell cars
Does what?

This method of press does. Generate news, invest in the people. It's like sales.

Does press for startups? Sure. High-profile startups can raise a lot of money and do great things with them.

It's not everything. Color had great press and didn't do more than light $42M on fire.
While I primarily agree, the problem from a more long term prospective is not intra-day balancing but between summer and winter. Every place that is not near to the equator gets less sun in the time of the year when there is more need for electricity. While there are some concepts with liquid salt etc., it becomes much harder to store such large amounts of energy for long periods.
Whats the throughput? Can it handle speedy internet?
Artificial Intelligence has written a beatles-style pop hit
Of course in this case you can avoid both the repetition and the goto at the cost of more nesting:

rv = -1;
a = open(...);
if (a) {
b = open(...);
if (b) {
c = open(...);
if (c) {
rv = something(a,b,c);
close(c);
}
close(b);
}
close(a);
}
return rv;

I wonder if there is some sort of program organization analog of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, where the product of some measure of repetition, some measure of non-structured jumping, and some measure of nesting must be greater than a certain value?
Yup, the filters are learned. Here are two great resources for convolutional neural networks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEUX_56Lojc

http://cs231n.github.io/convolutional-networks/
Skip the anti-virus. It's not that there aren't viruses, it's just that anti-viruses don't protect against them and increase the attack surface.
Pay how much?

Everything changes depending on the price, both from the reader and publisher points of view.
Your hypothetical refusing to pay your tax is also theft; you are stealing from the rest of us.

I'm glad you agree that taxation is necessary for government to exist. Some day, I hope you'll come around to doing away with silly word games like "it's theft". Because it isn't.
Wow, that surely is thought for programmers.
Author here. Yeah using servo might be workable because you could test all your HTML ahead of time and work around any problems (unlike the any-browser web workflow). Still I agree re stable release.
I will actually click ads if they show me things that interest me. I'm not a miser or trying to hide my true interests from advertisers. But weirdly I still seem to see more ads relevant to my interests when reading a niche print publication (e.g. Scuba Diving) than I do reading a newspaper article about diving online. The ad networks have had years to gather all sorts of information about me and the end result seems more scatter-brained than old fashioned print ads.
That's the fun though, you need to find a balance. I like video games, movies, and reading. On their own, these passions don't add up to much. Recently though, I've found a good blend - I make video essays on topics I like.

I recently made a video on how Kirby Superstar redefined other kirby games. To do that, I had to play some Kirby (video games), analyze it (a bit of critical thinking), write a script (writing), and put together a video (movies).

Of course, doing this isn't as fun as playing a video game or watching a movie, it still takes hard work, but it's a nice blend of things I like and things that other people like. It's going to take a lot of hard work to get even a part-time job out of it, but I'm committed to making a video every single week.
The most concise Arch User Repository package version
There is no way that using a fake RAID set of drivers and a completely incompatible and more complex on-disk RAID format is going to increase performance in any way.

There's a reason why that hasn't been done on any system in the past - because it's stupid and fake RAID drivers are notoriously buggy and require support from cloning and other low level software that gets used.

Yer, you're not an expert, or appear to know anything about hardware.