skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> zero people died from Fukushima

You don't really know that until you have 20 years of cancer rates to study, and even then you still won't be sure, because god knows where the ocean sent all that crap.

Regardless of accidents, anyway, the dirty little secret of nuclear is still there: untreatable waste. Sure, we don't breathe it like fossil fuel byproducts, but it's still there, ruining the planet.

EDIT: Note I'm not mentioning coal anywhere. Solar and wind have little to no waste - that is what we should be aiming for. It's doable, today - if only we make sure all the money that goes into white-elephant new nuclear or new coal goes in actual green energy.
And this is coming from NYT, a bullshit venue, whose boss said in a recent letter: "... we aim to rededicate ourselves to the fundamental mission of Times journalism. That is to report America and the world honestly, without fear or favor ...". NYT should close the business, nobody trusts them anymore.
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Using Vue.js in rails apps- the second breath of multipage apps
Who is talking about everywhere you care to look? Thats a completely made up claim.
>The people who write these articles just can't accept the idea that people didn't vote for Trump unless they were tricked into it, or were fed lies.

I agree with what you're trying to say, but you are being overly broad.

Talk to Trump supporters prior to the election, and with the exception of "anti-establishment", most of them will give reasons that they were tricked into believing.

Go to fact checking web sites and look at all the statements Trump continually repeated that were demonstrably false, and see how many of them the supporters believed (hint: many of them).

So yes, they were fed lies and believed them.

However, you are correct in that it was not the only reason why they voted for him. They believed those lies as post-hoc justification for their picking him. Really no different from people who pick any candidate, including Hilary.
Sorry, just to clarify -- Streamus did not bypass ads. The minimum allowed video player is 200px * 200px, their ad network doesn't run on that small of a player because advertisers were unwilling to pay to have their ad shown that small. I was initially accused of this by their legal department, but if you read through the entire e-mail chain, you'll see they eventually relent and admit that advertisements are not an issue.

Additionally, I did patch in support for video content (and wrote a huge post on the tech. challenges of it: https://medium.com/@MeoMix/beautifully-buffered-bytes-ff798e...), but that proved insufficient.

YouTube took the view point that Chrome extensions should function similar to mobile apps not like browser tabs. They indicated they wanted the music paused whenever the main UI window minimized. I argued that would be like pausing YouTube when you click between tabs. They disagreed and terminated my API access.
AMP Speed/Performance Optimisation for Mobile Web
I see no one recommending Ring. Is there something particualrly wrong with it?
It's very clear from the context - which you've omitted - that they meant the selection part rather than the mutation part:

"random mutation is an important element in evolution, but less important than the process of natural selection, which is not random at all"

So their point is that random mutation occurs but is then filtered non-randomly, like a high-pass filter on noise. It's still a bit of an overstatement to say "not random at all" since there is obviously some (bad) luck in "fit" individuals dying or "unfit" individuals surviving. In the long-run though, you can see their point.

They go on to make a ridiculous claim that because you are here, nothing random happened to your ancestors. I would say it's just one possible history, and perhaps everyone makes mistakes with randomness.
I was also curious as well. But it's also often a matter of privacy.
Expect Everything to Be Unexpected (From the Epic Guide to Bootstrapping)
Coal has a much higher concentration in mines than uranium so it does not take 2 million times the mining.

The 60% figure is also off as it excludes a lot of small scale off grid solar power.
I got to the bit about the Enterprise and thought, they trusted that kid aboard a nuclear wessel?
Where on earth did you get that impression?
Which part of the southeast are you looking at? If "the southeast" comprises NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, and TN, then the only sparse areas are northern AL and MS and western TN, and northern AL and western TN have sites under construction which will probably be done in a month or two.
Tech Giants Send Trump a Roadmap on Copyright, Encryption, Net Neutrality
> The people who write these articles just can't accept the idea that people didn't vote for Trump unless they were tricked into it, or were fed lies.

This looks like a middle ground fallacy.
reporters have found that the spread of false news is far more common on the right than it is on the left

Citation needed.
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http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/
Net neutrality under threat of the Trump administration
> If you throw a bag of a trillion^trillion^trillion particles into a purely self contained environment (i.e. the Universe), and let it stir for a while - whatever is going on - at least from a materialist perspective - is random.

This seems to lead to a meaningless/useless definition paradox. 'Randomness' comes to mean everything and nothing. This is one of the things that led me away from an interest in the materialist/physicalist position. Like you said elsewhere, it seems hard to swallow the idea that all that we can achieve in defining 'randomness' is a negative definition. Personally, I find it problematic that materialism has no positive definition of what 'randomness' is and does not seem capable of offering a meaningful/useful definition.
But we aren't talking about that.

We are talking about whether it effects election which is what the article claims he is in denial about.

"Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief, believes that it is “a pretty crazy idea” that “fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of content, influenced the election in any way.” In holding fast to the claim that his company has little effect on how people make up their minds, Mr. Zuckerberg is doing real damage to American democracy — and to the world."
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One way to look at it is from a risk balance perspective. Let's say that with increased nuclear use we would have a Chernobyl every 10 years. So between now and 2200 we would have 20 such disasters. Reading about the Chernobyl disaster and multiplying by 20 still results in orders of magnitude less damage both to humans and the environment than the projections of what will happen if we continue on our present course.

In addition, taking a realistic view, we will not be able to control climate change at this point just from a reduction in emissions. We will likely need to remove atmospheric carbon which will likely be very energy intensive. Having the extra power that nuclear brings to the table would be useful in this scenario.
Because you arguing that rampant misinformation is not a threat to a well functioning democracy is so manifestly nihilistic and trollish there's really no point in even discussing it further.
"Random" is a fancy way of saying "the gods" did it, which in turn means we have no idea why things went down that way.

In earlier times if you rolled dice and won, you would think "the gods favor me today". Nowadays, you think "I am lucky today". In almost all cases where an analogous situation can be found historically, randomness (sometimes combined with extremely long periods of time) replaced God as an explanation.

Also, already there are people who worship RNGesus in the extremely rudimentary virtual realities we can construct.
http://diff.so

It's a simple diff-as-you-type tool. I realized that I often had two strings (test output, code samples, etc.) and wanted to compare them in as few keystrokes as possible, from any computer.
That's even less 'for the masses' AFAIK.
> But the Chernobyl / Fukushima risk cannot be dismissed.

Chernobyl was a massive fuck-up that IIRC wasn't even possible in Western plants of the time, let alone afterwards.

Fukushima demonstrates the risks of building a power plant in a tsunami zone, but its death toll is zero, and even the worst estimates of cancer deaths are only in the hundreds. A single coal mining disaster kills more than that, and we have them fairly regularly.

In short, the risk can be dismissed, especially if you factor in the risks of things like coal mining and emissions.
What if these aren't establishment propagandists, but are regular people who are seriously concerned? What should they do?

What would the right response of the paper be to a demagogue?

In retrospect, fake news might have been the most effective thing. But they're part of the establishment so they won't allow themselves to do that.
<Mr. Zuckerberg is doing real damage to American democracy — and to the world.

We are so so so much better now that newspapers matter less and that the network news is not the main game in town. How does more sources make democracy worse even if it's "buyer beware?" it's arrogant to think truth is always hidden.

<<People vote the way they do for a variety of reasons, but their information diet is a crucial part of the picture.

We had a choice of candidates that was leftovers or diner food for Thanksgiving. That was the problem

Do you really think the NYT will say good things in an op-ed about it's nimble young competitor?
You're right, thanks for the heads up. Pandoc crashes if one of the fields is empty. Will look into it!
https://addue.com

Online marketing tools - conversion tracking, etc. Rather unique in the way these as are defined as "rules" which can be concatenated.
Side note:
The Author has invented a BSD 2-Clause license, making it a 2+1 non-BSD license, by adding:
NON-MILITARY-USAGE CLAUSE
Redistribution and use in source and binary form for military use and
military research is not permitted. Infringement of these clauses may
result in publishing the source code of the utilizing applications and
libraries to the public. As this software is developed, tested and
reviewed by international volunteers, this clause shall not be refused
due to the matter of national security concerns.
I like expounder, definitely haven't seen something like that before. I'd like it if there was an option to have the expanded text highligted in some way, just so I can keep track of everything mentally.
Far as filesystem part, you might be interested in COGENT. They did a basic verification of an ext2 filesystem coded in functional, system language with certified compilation:

https://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/TS/cogent.pml

Note: Paper is in publications on bottom. You'll know it by title.
I think this has more to do with NATO having encircled the Russian Federation with those anti-missile-missiles that were apparently put on the border with Russia to counter a threat from Iran.

This has been seen as an aggressive move in Russia and the current thinking inside the Kremlin is to go back to MAD with a credible deterrent and credible defence.

Whether it is technically feasible or not is one thing, the bigger picture is what those clowns in NATO are doing and how that the world situation is pretty bad re: aggression towards Russia, a country we need in Europe for things like oil/gas and security. It is the sanity of our leaders and not the technical ability of their engineers that we should be questioning.
Unless you are fetching data async. Google and other will not wait for data.
Too many engineers on payroll, or engineers held onto by managers that are good at building a kingdom in the wrong place.
An Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
Universal Beat [0] - When Apple Watch came out I had an idea for showing day & year progress 0-1000.*

Open for feedback!

* I'm aware that Swatch had this for the day only long time ago, it was called `swatch @beats`.

[0] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/universal-beat-different-loo...
A great short story Ted Chiang wrote that have some themes similar to Arrival (free will) is the one he wrote for Nature Futures:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7047/full/436150a...
The Performance of Images: Inlining
I just realized that W3 Schools has a responsive layout framework. There are some components in here that save quite a bit of pain and leaves out some of the assumptions bootstrap makes.

Anyone else using it?
> what if you had a scanner, and a powerful computer, and knew the arrangement and composition of the material, and could 'predict' on some level, when those atoms would produce radiation (I know this is probably impossible)

Quantum theory specifies that this is impossible not just in practice but in principle. Radioactive decay on an individual-atom level is literally impossible to predict, and not just because we don't have sensitive enough measurements. "Arrangement and composition" don't have their standard meaning at atomic scale; particles are probability fields, not BBs.
To be honest, considering how no one (or very few commentators, that I missed) was talking about the fake news phenomenon before, this debate does feel like a talking point being propped up.
Doing that for the resume template would be the next step. Would be more difficult though, since you want them to be customizable.
I agree they probably wouldn't have been as critical of Bush or Rubio, because it's unlikely that either of those two would have provided them with anywhere near as much material to be critical of.
https://zonewatcher.com

After having multiple clients change their DNS settings without warning and then email us when shit hits the fan I knew I needed some type of warning system.

This checks every X minutes and saves each version so you can see the revision history for all your DNS zones across many providers.
Thats your argument?
How big is a full archive of them all?
Ah, you're talking about the philosophical concept of whether random even exists.

As far as we (humanity) know, true randomness is still a thing. Quantum effects have no known predictors. From the article I linked: "Quantum mechanics predicts that certain physical phenomena, such as the nuclear decay of atoms, are fundamentally random and cannot, in principle, be predicted"

So Quantum science believes that true random does exist. Until someone demonstrates otherwise, or I start working on the problem, I'm good accepting that for now. The tests to demonstrate these ideas are fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments

In the mean time, there's the very real concept of whether something is practically predictable, and a Geiger counter is currently not practically predictable. (And worth noting, it lands into the category of currently not theoretically predictable too.)

Personally, I feel like the definition "unpredictable" is quite good, especially for regular people. Going deeper than that requires all kinds of baggage and explanation. But the point the author made is very good -- people tend to start expecting things when "randomness" is involved, and that expectation is a problem, because randomness is unpredictable.
You need 2 GPUs and one of them isn't utilised at all in the guest, so I'd say that's more than a ~3% performance loss.
Molten-salt reactors like LFTR's are extremely safe against catastrophic meltdown and are probably the best path forward, but we still need to actually put theory into practice with them. Gen IV traditional reactor designs are much improved over what was used in Fukushima as well, but with that said there has probably been fewer casualties from nuclear energy disasters than people that have contracted illnesses or died from our use of coal in particular.
AI vs. HR
Thats cool, me on the other hand I rather look at the code and see with my own eyes whats going on, that means peeking into .bat and .ps files.
Ha! More like, NYTimes is in denial. Especially considering one of their biggest subscription losses in history just happened last quarter.
I got tired of remembering how to format date/times as strings and made http://www.foragoodstrftime.com/
Sometimes it is worth looking at what if we go all in on a technology, what happens and how will that play out.

So lets assume we are going nuc crazy and are ordering a 10 GW of plants. Can any nuclear power plant builder actually build this within 5 years? 10 years? Areva can't, Westinghouse seems to take 8. Who is going to man them, where is the training capacity for that many engineers.

Consider that if a grid is full nuclear, capacity factors drop to 50%. Unless, you have lots of storage i.e. same as wind and solar.

If I order 30gw of solar today, who can build that out in 10 years? lots of companies can. First Solar, Panasonic, LG and many more
If I order 30gw of wind today, who can build that out in 10 years? lots of companies can. e.g. Vesta, Enercon, GE and more

Nuclear construction capacity has dropped over the years and will take significant time to rebuild and re-equip.
That takes significant financial resources. Can anyone afford that at this time considering the competition of solar and wind?

Basically, isn't wind+solar+storage a lot cheaper and easier to finance than nuclear? So why go for the big central plants with lots of project risks.
Ah, well, with the huge caveat that IANAL, I don't think that can work here. Maybe if the only right was the access and distribution of the source, but one of the GPL Four Freedoms is "The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose", and the App Store terms restrict that.
http://statenislandferryschedule.com

Proud of it because it's the first basic thing I've built from, mostly, the ground up. It's just basic HTML and uses Materialize CSS for the styling. I hope to learn enough JavaScript soon to add a dynamic component to it which highlights the next departure times for ease of use, so the visitor doesn't have to scroll through every time.
> most of them will give reasons that they were tricked into believing.

what makes you think they were "tricked" any more than supporters of some different as-yet-uninstalled president.
>So Freedom wanes because governments are doing what internet monopolies(facebook and google) have been doing for years?

I don't have to use Google for search, and I don't. And Facebook is far from being compulsory.

Can you tell me how to opt-out of what governments are doing?
>>Part of the reason I did not go out to vote for Clinton was because she was a continuation of Obama's policies; civilian collateral damage from extrajudicial drone strikes, no pardon for Edward Snowden, the possibility of a drawn out proxy war in Syria, as well as no stop to the NSA domestic surveillence program. (Neoliberalism = "Republican lite")
You might retort "But Trump! (and his threats of killing families of terrorists, etc)". If Clinton was elected it would've been business as usual, everyone would've gone back to their bread and circuses. Not now though.

Regardless of what you think of Clinton Trump was a far worse alternative on every measure. Trump will be able to dramatically change the supreme court and US federal legislation as well. Complaining about Clinton/Obama doesn't change the simple fact that he is far to the right on her on almost every issue.

>>Sidenote: Trump has already swung moderate, deciding to stick with NATO [2] and keeping most of the ACA after speaking with Obama [3]. Maybe he doesn't stick to those ideals, but its clear Trump the president may not be as bad as Trump the person. I have hope, but I had hope for Sanders as well. (Excitingly enough, the /r/SandersForPresident subreddit was reactived today, with ~210k active subscribers).

Trump CANT keep most of ACA even if he wanted to keep the good parts. The expansion of coverage is paid and supported by the entirety of the law, it doesn't work without all the provisions.
It is true that nuclear power is bad at peaking. That's why no one uses them for that. They are good at base-load power, which is where they are used.

Use the right tool for the job. Different sources of energy have different upsides and downsides and we should take advantage of those. Use wind and solar (possibly backed by batteries) and natural gas as peak load generation because they are good at that. And use nuclear as the base load.

I agree with the premise floated by the 1st expert in the article that we are not rewarding nuclear for its carbon free generation. The reason utilities are closing nuclear plants are because of the deregulation of electric power and creation of power supply "markets". Nuclear has to compete on price alone against cheap natural gas and subsidized renewables (not only are the fuel sources of those cheap, so are the capital costs compared to nuclear).

Re your PS, are you saying that hydrogen atoms in coal DO NOT combine with oxygen to create water during combustion? Because my college education and career as a mechanical engineer taught me otherwise.
http://www.SeptaStats.com/

Hits the API for Philadelphia's Regional Rail and displays real-time data on the system as a whole as well as historical data on specific trains and train stations. It's useful to tell, for example, that the evening train I normally want to take home (https://www.septastats.com/train/573) is almost never on time, for example.

There's more I want to do, such as displaying more detailed stats and train data (on-time percentages, for example). And hopefully get some interest from SEPTA so they can use it to determinate the "biggest offenders" and what can be done about them.
thefuck - https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

I just use it every day and I guess a lot of people too.
You can make it somewhat objective, e.g. a "Martin-Löf random" real number is a number where no algorithm can predict the next digit from previous digits better than chance. A specific real number can have that property, in fact most of them do. (Before you ask, pi is not random in that sense, because there's an algorithm that predicts digits of pi with 100% accuracy.)
MacBooks have long been tending towards disposable computers. That's why Apple have been working hard to make them recyclable...

Still, Apple targets the hipster market who think nothing of blowing $2.5k on a computer every few years...

(disclaimer: some sarcasm was used writing this comment)
There's really an amazing amount of misinformation and manipulation going on. I think there's a place for people developing critical thinking skills, but there's also a limit to what people can sort through. There's a big need for more software to fact-check and compare sources across the Internet. Having Facebook run it is one part of the solution, but people need to have transparent software that they control to do the same kind of work so it isn't entirely centralized. Google, Amazon, and Facebook assistants are great, but we need personal assistants that work for us.
Emergence is the principle that people are more than the sum of their parts: they're the product.
Upon reading the title, I thought they made it possible for users to make money on Stack Overflow.
Someone was talking about how, when you use existing systems to translate an poem written in arabic by a ten year old it comes out unintelligible, but the same process is flawless for descriptions of terrorist attacks.
That map was a really excellent link. I noticed there was one a few minutes away from my office. I just went and checked it out. Very cool! That explains why I seem to notice Tesla vehicles multiple times a day.
Kudos for friendly easy-going presentation and sleek implementation, enjoyed checking it out. Would’ve signed up were I in the market!
Try not to feel so guilty. I think everything on the planet has been contaminated a little bit since 16 July 1945.
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