skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that neither an actor, doctor, or government agency is a good source of information: you have to look at the sources they are using (and determine if they are accurately portraying the sources).

The only really good public health recommendation I can think of is to wash your hands. Read the book Good Calorie, Bad Calorie if you want to learn how dietary public health recommendations are not at all based on good science.

In the best case scenario our public health recommendations have generally distracted us from the truth. I would probably get heavily down-voted for discussing the worst case.
More like "a small price to pay for having the jet age". We will be able to eliminate the need for gasoline in cars long before in airlines.

And frankly your alternatives for oil in power generation are coal and nuclear. Take your pick.
Their market cap has dropped a staggering 40 billion since the spill broke in the media, maybe the stockmarket knows something that is not yet too visible ?

The rough estimates of what it could cost are topping 8 billion already, if that's 'all' (for want of a better term) then why that huge drop in stock price ?

I'm thinking the economic damage claims that will be filed could easily eclipse the cost of the actual cleanup.
It is still usable, both for asphalt and for burning in some furnaces. It won't end up in your car but it will be used. I'm pretty sure Slate.com had an explanation of this recently: http://www.slate.com/id/2252136/

As for oil/water emulsion in sea water, having been around that stuff one thing people don't point out is the stench. It is at or worse than sewage.
It works as advertised but I've yet to be convinced that the limiting factor in phishing attacks is insufficient cleverness in fooling people.
It is still usable in some context, and they are collecting it, it is just a matter of square miles covered in oil vs vessels capable of collecting it.

http://www.slate.com/id/2252136/
Any estimate on the value of a barrel of this stuff vs a barrel of crude?
As you said, there is not much in the way of direct financial compensation for having a PhD in industry, but it can act as a foot in the door and it can (depending on the company) mean you get treated a bit differently once you are hired. Researchy type projects tend to get pushed to people who are good at open ended researchy things, and having a PhD is a good indicator of that.

For me the biggest value from my PhD came from the writing up. It is really, really, really hard to get from having "done all of the work" to writing a coherent, well defended thesis on it. You will get very good at spotting holes in arguments (particularly yours, but also other peoples). You will get a very real understanding of how much work is involved in getting from 95% to 100% finished. It's not directly valued in industry but I know that I benefit personally from my writing up experience.

And you get to call yourself doctor. That's nice.
Who's hiring remotely?
I haven't seen a post exclusively for remote jobs. Are you hiring (internships or otherwise) remotely?
Nobody cares about the oil in the middle of the ocean, it will break down. Oil naturally breaks down in the ocean from microbes and the sun, not to mention it is flammable and they can burn large sections of it.

The problem comes near the shore - and thats where absorbents and booms come in. Oil absorbent are not naive ideas, they are standard operating procedure. Any place that sells gas on the water in this country has a box full of booms and absorbent mats by law. This is just a much larger version of that so the availability of mats becomes an issue and so hair, mattress padding etc become options.
One solution that Steve didn't discuss is JSON. To be fair, JSON wasn't that popular in 2005, but it's still a great solution.

The way it works is that their are no mandatory newline characters in JSON. Whitespace between lexical elements is ignored, and any embedded newlines in strings can be escaped (i.e. as \n). So a log format that a few people are using today is like this:

{'kind': 'foo', 'id': 1, 'msg': 'hi'}
{'kind': 'bar', 'id': 2, 'msg': 'there'}

Each log message takes up a single line in the file. You can trivially deserialize any line to a real data structure in your language of choice. You can (mostly) grep the lines, and they're human readable. I do this at work, and frequently have scripts like this:

scribereader foo | grep 'some expression' | python -c 'code here'

In this case we're storing logs in the format described above (a single JSON message per line), and scribereader is something that groks how scribe stores log files and outputs to stdout. The grep expression doesn't really understand JSON, but it catches all of the lines that I actually want to examine, and the false positive rate is very low (<0.1% typically). The final part of the pipe is some more complex python expression that actually introspects the data it's getting to do more filtering. You can of course substitute ruby, perl, etc. in place of the python expression.

I feel like this is a pretty good compromise between greppability, human readability, and the ability to programatically manipulate log data.
Err, my formatting got messed up. Pretend like there's a newline between the two log entries I described.
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Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
I've been using TextMate for a few years now, but recently have been doing a lot of work in projects that have either 1) a lot of files or 2) really big files. Both of these situations cause TextMate to crawl to a halt.

I've used Emacs in the past, but something about the way in which you can navigate code just makes me feel less than efficient in it. Maybe I didn't take enough time to memorize all the required shortcuts. Mastering an editor that can be used over an ssh session certainly seems a plus.

So a question to all the coders out there: what editor do you use? Why did you choose it? What are the downsides?
When I click on a tab my eye is on that spot of the screen. Just above the URL.

You'll have to get a very similar address to fool me, and good luck making the page look exactly the same as the original. The rounded buttons and differently aliased text on the attack page were enough for my red flags be raised.
>...but that seems rather irresponsible.

Imagine that.
To my anonymous downmodder: the parent's text seemed to think it impressive that B-52s fly at a height where "even a 10-second straight vertical fall should not be a problem".

Basic physics shows that such a height is scarcely more than about 500m, the distance an object in freefall would fall in that time and whatever other distance would be traveled during deceleration.

What, exactly, is the justification for downmodding a comment pointing that out?
In terms of aggregate usage, cars are by far the biggest transportation users, though, so are the main place to look if you wanted to reduce usage. In the U.S., for example, aviation used about 15 billion gallons of fuel in 2005, while road vehicles used about 175 billion, and rail used about 5 billion: http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_stat...
You didn't answer the question. What's wrong with it?

For extra bonus points, figure out how to actually answer the question without reference to the utility of the biosphere to humans. (Which includes the classic "But plants and animals being driven extinct might have the cure for cancer!" which manages to be simultaneously ignorant of how modern drug research is done and how evolution works.) For double-bonus-points, explain why your answer doesn't imply that all tool users anywhere in the universe should immediately commit suicide. (For quadruple bonus points, explain why every other tool user did come to this conclusion and how this solves the Fermi paradox. But I digress...)

Once you get past the fuzzy-wuzzy "I wuv pwanet Earth!" indoctrination, it turns out to be a surprisingly challenging question. I'm not saying you won't find an answer. But actually taking the time to work it out and encode it into actual words based on actual arguments can be very educational. (And you may be surprised. A lot of otherwise popular axiomatic ethical choices lead to not having a reason to care as long as humans aren't impacted too badly. I'm not endorsing this, just observing that there's a lot of ethical hypocrisy in this area.)
Yes, but from what I understand reading elsewhere they've done a lot of work to keep the oil underwater, so it will come ashore with the water itself rather than just on the surface, right ?

As for the hair being naive, I figured the sheer quantities involved would make it rather impractical, the hay was a nice little setup in two bins of water on a benchtop but to execute that principle on a several hundred by several hundred kilometer area (at the moment) is a little bit harder.
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Yeah, it's a good question. If it's going to cost say 5 months profits, that sucks, but it's hardly the end of the company.

Does that estimate include lawsuits?
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Yeah, I found that tip on the Amazon product page for the replacement cartridge. Which really amuses me.
Oy, a holy war is about to happen.

I'll open the Emacs lobby with http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs and http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem

To give the illusion of fairness, here is a blogpost in which I praise Vim: http://zipwith.blogspot.com/2010/05/power-of-vim.html
This shows another benefit of always logging in using a password manager like 1Password. Even if I were fooled and tried to login on this phishing form by pressing Cmd+|, 1Password wouldn't fill my password because the URL doesn't match... which would lead me to think something is definitely wrong.

Also another win for Single-Site Browsers like Fluid and Prism. I wouldn't expect to see Gmail in my main browser window.
"Bootstrapping to $10-100MM strikes me about as unlikely as being the next google."

That's not even a contest. $10MM+ bootstrapped companies are far more common than "being the next Google." More stories on the way.
No, that's just the cost of cleanup. After the Exxon Valdez the law was changed, back then you had to be 'physically touched' by the oil to be able to file a claim, now you can claim economic damages.
Thanks for the article. It's a very good read. Definitely going to check out the book. I meditate once in a while and when I do, I find out that I can concentrate better. It's great for those who have or suspect they have ADD.
It's not either-or. We can use oil, while still asking the question, do we need to use so much, and do we need to push so hard to get more? You don't have to stop using oil entirely tomorrow to be concerned that the returns we get from what we're doing now are not worth the damage.
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They charge 0.9% to put the money into Vanguard and iShares ETFs.

This is not professional advice but I can't understand who needs this product. For investment, most people should be trying to max out their 401(k)/*IRA options, and the people who still have a lot of money left after doing so would likely benefit from more thoughtful investment and wealth management strategies.

If somebody needs some emergency cash, it's unlikely they want to keep it in an instrument that can lose value, since that defeats the point of emergency cash.

And frankly, if they don't want to be thoughtful, there are already products that are even easier to use. The Vanguard Target Retirement funds, as an example, require only that you pick your planned year of retirement, then the asset allocation is automatically handled for you. Added bonus: it's cheaper than betterment.
> for making my life that much easier.

Yea it really sucks having to sit next to somebody else on the way to work. Especially if they are really fat. Of course you need a 2 tonne truck to get to work as well, cause smaller cars or motorbikes just aren't safe enough with all those 2 tonne trucks on the road.

It's all cost/benefit but in the 21st century I think we can afford to change the balance.
I somewhat suspect I'll be unique on this one here. I use nano full-time.

I use it because it is simple, it gets the job done, and I don't find that I need anything more.

It's true it's missing a couple of features commonly found in code editors. But when I start thinking code folding would be useful, I take it as a sign that this file is getting too large and would be better split. Nano also obeys the simple UI principle of having a non-modal interface. I haven't used an editor with bells and whistles for some years, and I'm liking it.

Also contrary to popular belief, nano does support syntax highlighting - this just isn't enabled by default in most distros.

Now, laugh.
what the hell kind of article is this? says 39 out of 500 sunscreens pass the test, and they don't bother to put a list of the sunscreens that PASS said test?
Thanks for the links. I don't mean to start a holy war, though they are fun :) I'm looking more for a reasoned discussion of the pros and cons of different editing environments.
Equities:

DIAMONDS Trust Series 1,
iShares S&P 500 Value Index,
iShares S&P 1000 Value Index,
iShares Russell 2000 Value Index,
iShares Russell Midcap Value Index, and
Vanguard Total Stock Market.

Bonds:
iShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund.

So not only do you get to pay them 0.9%, you also get to pay the (much more reasonable) fees charged by Vanguard and iShares.
"XML is better if you have more text and fewer tags. And JSON is better if you have more tags and less text. Argh! I mean, come on, it’s that easy. But you know, there’s a big debate about it."
— Steve Yegge

http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/15/steveys/

That's the problem with discussing old articles. Information gets updated
> though they are fun

not the fifty thousandth time.
Then I owe you at least a penny, would you like it couriered or hand delivered? And would you prefer it in British, Canadian, American or Euro? I have all four.
A BP poser's satirical update on the oil spill
I would have totally fallen for this attack. My mind is blown. My father has been raving about 1Password forever, but I use a unique password "algorithm" in my head which has served me well so far. Now I'm actually considering 1Password. Anyone else what to share their experience with it? Good idea? Bad idea?

And for those, like me, who had not heard of Single-Site Browsers, here are some links:

http://fluidapp.com/
http://prism.mozillalabs.com/
Now I guess phishing attacks need to move to simulated password managers. :)

Its a never ending problem owing to the nature of computers being easily programmed... its lucky phishers are so extremely bad at what they do - it certainly within reason to abuse existing websites far beyond what we see regularly - if you can find and use the right type of exploit then you can actually just use google or whatever to provide the exact login page, with correct URL etc, then just steal the input. Although saying that... it can be done so well that I wouldn't actually know if it ever happened... maybe there are some smart ones out there and the swarms of poor attempts are just a distraction from a much more serious potential problem?
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Notepad++ because it's relatively simple and gets the job done. I like unbloated minimalism.
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Now, laugh

Well, I'll admit that was... unexpected, but I am certainly not going to laugh. After all, the best code editor is the one you feel most productive in, and you seem to have a rational explanation for it so sure, knock yourself out :-)
Sublime Text. It has the minimap. It has multiple cursors. It has macros. It has plugins. It has color schemes. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's actively developed. It's affordable.

Downsides? It's Windows only.
I think he means lost revenue due to people not searching and clicking on ads as much.

Of course, it also drove a lot of people to google to check it out, hard to measure the good feelings towards google due to that. The images they display really does generate a lot of good feeling, for a tiny bit of work for google.
a) Fosdev ;)
b) because I'm part of the team developing it, and it takes care of a lot of setup stuff, etc.
c) plenty (almost everything) as it's a new, fresh product/project

I'd love to hear more about how the projects have 1) a lot of files or 2) really big files... and how you navigate around the proj. should the really big files be broken into smaller files? etc...
Vim of course.
Just wondering, have you tried getting ddg.com? My only real gripe is I find typing duckduckgo.com to be cumbersome for some reason, even though it's only 4 characters more than 'google'. It just doesn't seem to flow.
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Things like conservation are about optimizing the last 5%, which in the long run (unfortunately) doesn't matter too much. Technological development is more of a punctuated equilibrium than a gradual upward slope.

So really the best thing to do is leave things alone until oil becomes scarce (i.e. expensive) and an alternative will be developed. Any attempt to legislate conservation will just result in us burning more oil for longer.
it can be done so well that I wouldn't actually know if it ever happened

yes, i think you're just seeing what the bad ones do and the good ones never enter your consciousness. good bank robbers and jewel thieves have never been caught, and i'm sure good virus writers and phishers have probably never even been detected. think of a gmail login phishing attack that, after capturing your information, re-posted it to google's servers so it actually logged you in. by the time you stopped to think about what just happened, your browser is already at mail.google.com with a green everything's-ok address bar.
I understand RescueTime wanting the exposure, but it's too bad many people and publications will now take this number seriously, as if it has any meaning, just because they were given a number to hang on to.
Why were you looking up open graph in house analytics? :)
And what percentage of those gallons are used by people who have an option for mass transit and choose a car instead? A tiny fraction. The OP basically is saying that people drive their car instead of using mass transportation. There are a tiny group of people who choose to drive instead of use mass transit in the scheme of things.

I'm not a mass transit hater, my girlfriend and I use mass transit more than any other people we know. We drive to the bus stop together in the morning (5 miles), get on a bus, transfer to our respective subways once in the city, and make it to our sailboats on the weekend by train. There often weeks where we'll go 5 or 8 days without getting in the car other than to and from the bus station because we're either using buses, trains, or subways. We're not environmentalists per say, but it is far cheaper, faster, and convenient (especially when you are out at bars drinking and the other option is a taxi) than driving.

But I still need a car to get to the grocery store during the week. I still need a car when I want to go skiing. I still need a car to get to the movies. I still need a car to get to the library. I still need a car to visit my parents. I still need a car to go to a concert, or hang out with my friends.

But - almost all of my driving would work just fine with a plug-in electric car. The bulk of it is <20 miles each way. Some occasional longer trips will have to be dealt with. I see gasoline usage in cars as something that is basically a technically solved problem. Look at Better Place - they have figured out the system, or even some plug-in hybrids (although I think they are overly complex). It is just an inexorable transition that will be based on economics.

On the other hand, I just can't imagine a technology we have on the drawing boards today that is going to replace the jet engine in airplanes simply due to power density. We've had oil fueled airplanes from the start with 3 minor exceptions - solar power (prop only, basically no payload), rockets (not feasible on a large scale, and probably worse enviromentally), and molten salt cooled nuclear reactors (and even then I'm pretty sure it wasn't driving the plane, just testing in it). You can't use fuel cells or batteries for jets (you could for props, but that sucks), you can use biofuels but honestly is that any different? Personally I prefer my oil out of the ground instead of from ex-rainforest land or competing with the food supply.

So I see airplanes as the big technological problem.
Dare I say Coda? Um, I guess I just did...
Then where are the wars archived?
http://www.sublimetext.com/features

This looks like a great editor. It's proprietary, though. Damn.

Why is it that, as with Opera, every now and then you find an amazing program which, even more amazingly, is closed-source?

Emacs, however, offers minimap as well: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap

I wonder how well we did compared to Sublime.
So set those daemons up on Windows.

(Linux, sadly, isn't necessarily the intended market for things like this.)
By extension from Rawlsian justice, not distinguishing one form of life from another by reference to anthropocentrism.
Not sure, obviously cheaper but how much cheaper would depend on its makeup.
This is a rather interesting question to ask. Why does developing for an operating system - OSX, say - feel better than developing for Facebook (e.g.: the Zynga/FB relationship you mentioned)?

The only good answer I can come up with, at the moment, is that OSX has been around for longer, and there are plenty of successful apps on the platform to date - which shows that it can be done.
That's great for node.js!
given the hostname (iproxy) it would look to be an automatic cache, not a malicious phishing site.

http://iproxy.saverpigeeks.com/
I keep asking for, and I will do so again here, a non-toy web application written in clojure as a study object for newbies to dissect. That would help a lot.
I use kwrite, unless I'm at a console, in which case I use nano.

Easy to use, and no holy wars.
Was this the site: http://www.saverpigeeks.com/?

It seems to be an iPhone proxy: http://wiki.github.com/tcurdt/iProxy/

Didn't look much further into it but it doesn't look like a phishing site.
> ... for anything other than a _netbook or a laptop_ that you don't 'sleep' is a case of premature optimization.

From the article:
"Take a standard issue 7200 rpm, 500 GB _notebook SATA drive_. Add 4 GB of fast and reliable single-level cell (SLC) flash."

(Emphasis mine in both cases).
Did anyone else think of CL-PPCRE as they read through the "lisp does not have regular expression support" implications? That was answered by the comparison of elisp to modern Common Lisp, and I wonder if anyone has done any work to make CL-PPCRE work for elisp. In spite of being someone's library, it is much faster than perl's built-in regex support.

There is a point to be made for the idea that you are solving the wrong problem with the log parsing. On the other hand, if you are trying to interface with other developers' popular engines, you may not have a choice.
I have a not so computer literate family member who wants to see what this whole linux thing is about but don't know whether to suggest Ubuntu or Slackware? Thoughts or suggestions?