skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The WHO did not speak of "minimal" human health impacts. In fact, the health impacts were significant.

It's just that those impacts are not primarily due to direct effects radiation. The biggest impact appears to have been over-reaction to the fear of the effects of radiation. Again, those effects due to the overreaction were very real and very significant.
Svelte is a framework... that disappears at build time.
That rumor started in November 2016, or a bit earlier, when Assange went dark for awhile, right after tweeting about a large police presence outside the embassy.

I don't think it's a very popular conspiracy theory that Obama would have killed him. Just a few people who remember SECSTATE Clinton talking about droning him, and that has given them fuel for this speculation.
Who is having trouble getting a Visa exactly? Just curious, trying to separate fact from hysteria
To get the actual verification process open in incognito mode.
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This looks awesome, if I'm understanding this right there's type checking with the template at compile time(I.E. if "name" in the template isn't found in the Rust struct it's a compile failure).
What about the Persian empires, the Sassanids for instance? They had built huge military and civic structures, and rivalled the Roman Empire in many areas, but weren't as expansionist. Please correct me if I'm wrong, not a historian but it seems to me whatever the 'golden age' was, it would happen regardless of whether the dominant religion was Islam, Arian Christianity or whatever else.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/business/how-trump-became...

> “Trump is the Silicon Valley candidate in every way except that the ideology is flipped,” said Sam Altman, a prominent technology leader, chief executive of Y Combinator.

So now that the government has been "disrupted", YC has decided to avoid the issue by fleeing the country? Maybe instead of avoiding the issue, YC could organize Silicon Valley and spend some of it's political power actually addressing the issue (lobbying, funding local candidates, etc). Silicon Valley is home to many fantastically powerful corporations and individuals, it's time they took a stand for justice.
and cheaper than Vancouver

and Mexico's a lot easier to go to than Canada (which now also has an ESTA like system)

also I would guess that people in Tijuana are pretty good with their English
I second this recommendation. If you're a person who enjoys historical fiction, you'll love this book. I found it a tad difficult at first, but it quickly sucks you in.
kinda feels like the tail wagging the dog. Roads are there to benefit society not lets charge more to keep those pesky people off my roads. If cities get bigger they need wider roads.
Nice!! ..if one watches long enough Phalanx/Atari ST demos should appear.

Made a number of screens in that group around 1990 :-)
There was no "golden age" in Islam, unless you think that an age of slaughter, murder and enslavement can be called "golden".

Sam Harris on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I2WyY_R_hA

Bill Warner on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXtTwNvWXc
Anyone know of a good intro-to-web-app-security-best-practices resource? I don't have the resources to hire a security person and don't have the time to begin learning it all from scratch. I'm generally aware of what attack vectors look like (e.g. XSS, SQL injection, etc.) but am generally unfamiliar with solid low-cost, low-overhead ways of dealing with these problems. I don't have the time or the money (at-present) to set up a WAF -- but I know how important security can be. Where do I go to learn more?
Vue is really small: 18kb min+gzip is tiny compared to the competition.

Check also http://riotjs.com/ 9.73KB (gzip)
Distributed Systems (3rd Edition – 2017)
I'm not surprised to see Airbnb became profitable. They've expanded everywhere. I nomad around and always use Airbnb, I've booked places on several continents.

However, I'm definitely feeling the effects of their growing pains. For example, many people have bought places to only rent on Airbnb full-time. Most of these people suck at being an hotelier. It's clear people get lazy and are just trying to make money.

Think about how many hotels you've stayed at that were less than stellar? It's hard to have a good hotel with full-time staff. It's much harder when it's just you on the side, renting some place. I've been to many horrible Airbnb's that I had to checkout of early, and go find a new place last minute.

Unless, they fix this and get more people to review honestly. I think they're going to run into a lot of problems.
Have a Look at Backbone.js. http://backbonejs.org
I have choosen the lib for similiar reasons and i loved it
I am getting a lot of traffic in the past week to http://www.averageweather.io yet my SEO doesn't seem to change. I'm the #2 most upvoted post on r/weddingplanning in the past 24 hours. I did 2k visitors yesterday.

Any advice? Current revenue is 100% AdSense.
It doesn't contradict that much of it. Consider that the context was an environment where people tried to shove CORBA down our throats and insist it didn't matter where the objects lived (apparently latency wasn't a thing). He is arguing against distributing objects along class boundaries or similar granualr splits, and to avoid distribution internally in a backend service when possible.

Microservices, meanwhile is a reaction to ballooning applications, increasingly containing many orthogonal services / APIs, and in favour of splitting them up, with common advice seeking to avoid splitting on boundaries that will require coordination between the resulting services.

Microservices takes the consequence of the problems Fowler complains about in the linked article by trying to split applications into individual services while keeping interdependencies minimal, so that we ideally only pay the latency cost at the user<->service boundary where we have to pay it anyway, instead of all over the system, which was one of the major ongoing problems with the CORBA craze.
Very few people at these companies would have any idea about the vulnerabilities and even less would know where the reports came from. Big tech companies realize that they employee a lot of people and heavily restrict who can know about the reported vulnerabilities,me specially before they're patched. To think that those "privileged" people would tell you about it is asinine, especially regarding this very high profile event.
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> This we have no way to know.

We do have a way to know. It's called chemistry, and one of the primary goals of chemistry is to be able to predict what sort of reactions will occur in a mixture of molecules. Anyone who takes organic chemistry should be able to tell you how alkenes, alkynes, aldehydes, ketones, ketals, alcohols, aromatics, amines, amides, peroxides, ethers, esters, etc. are likely to react in various conditions, and hopefully what factors promote or retard such reactions.
Alright, now if I work like a dog and make a successful company (chances of this are in the low single digit %), after I hand back the YC cut I can get me a small family home in Vancouver that a regular factory worker could afford 30 years back!
The general rationale that I have for this, is that someone else possessing my private information gives that other person power over me.

How do you figure? If someone has on their person a thumb drive containing your.. by way of example: PII, bank account info, and browsing history for the last week - but isn't giving it to anyone else, using it in any way, heck, they might not even know they have it:

How, exactly, do they have power over you? Be specific.

We can, and should criminalize those two things, but we're not talking about use or transmission, we're talking about existence.

For a sobering thought experiment, consider how many times someone may stumble across video or images of sexual exploitation, and then make the rational decision to scrub their history and cache rather than report it because doing the right thing opens them up to life-ruining liability.
Anyone's Uber password change 30+ days after account deletion?
"Boring but reliable" is often underrated.
That's the blind spot of being technically competent.

You would be amazed at what the average person considers hard. For example, the idea of converting a repeatable calculation into an Excel worksheet is regarded as arcane black magic by a fraction of the professional population.

Automating a repetitive task with Excel macros? Whoa there, cowboy... Gonna have to get IT involved...
Snowing in Switzerland
Good point. I think its a little bit of both. I don't think you need autocracy as much as a strong state: and Islamic states were pretty strong. But the common religion basically meant that a muslim in India could travel to Baghdad and have something in common. It meant that technological advancements in one part of the world would travel faster to the other. That skilled people could travel to different countries...and religious scholars as well. I believe this contributed a lot to the progress in Islamic society during this time.
Working for a company like Google, FB or even Airbnb or a questionable 'startup' is still much different than working for any other type of company. It's even markedly different than working for tech companies that would never be referred to as startups, such as Samsung, AMD or even HP.

These large companies (FB, Google, etc) may no longer be bootstrapped and employees may no longer have versatile roles, but they still resemble what we'd call 'startup culture.' It seems reasonable to define a startup based on culture rather than size, though it's not so etymologically sound.

edit: If you disagree, please comment why rather than downvote!
This is a question I've heard people discuss extensively and would appreciate input or an opposing perspective.
English, and Vancouver is a lot safer/cleaner than TJ.
Going to 'Diet USA' is likely more seamless and convenient. I lived in Canada for several years and I honestly think that's a good description for it, you cannot really tell whether you are in Michigan or Ontario if you don't look at the road signs.
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I agree. I stopped reading after the first few sentences because it was too much effort. Its the end of my work day and I'm too tired to deal with awkward or annoying font issues.
Oh you want to quiz yourself occasionally? There's a minor mode for that: org-drill http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html
We had to learn SPICE in my ECE program. I found that inexplicable- writing a circuit in SPICE is like using a slide rule. I can derive a circuit on paper (just as I can do math), and I can use an actual circuit analyzer (just as I can use a calculator). Knowing the foundations of simulation programs is justifiable, but using and practicing with them is just excessive. As the circuits got more complex, I "cheated" by using a script to generate netlists and eventually I just used LTSPICE because christ, I have better things to do than type until my fingerprints wear smooth.
I found someone to help with filing a patent on upwork.
This feels like another example the new gilded age, where the spoils of capitalism stay at the top.
Dubai? So are you not interested in attracting women to startups?
Literally unseated.
It is a solved problem. A benign mistake happened at one sanitation plant. The city is working to resolve it. How does that make water quality a 'debate'?
1. It is not true that no new coal plants are being built. It is not even true in developed countries.

https://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2017/01/13/southeast-asia-...

2. Usefulness of renewable energy sources is still not universally comparable to fossil/nuclear.
It's hard to tell if you are making a counterargument to the parent or if you believe inner city residents[0] expect government to solve their problems, lack motivation, and don't work hard.

[0] Do the people you are referring to actually live in the inner city?
Dualism offers a solution: your soul could have access to the timeless perspective and transmit that insight to your conscious self through whatever mechanism they are connected by.
Stackoverflow explained visually
Ask HN: Flynn.io/Hyper.sh/Nanobox.io vs. Kubernetes
What benefits/drawbacks might one of these "pre-packaged" container orchestration tools like Flynn.io, Hyper.sh, or Nanobox.io have verses just rolling your own with something like Kubernetes?

Edit: I didn't make it as clear as I should have initially that I actually work with Nanobox.io. I'm legitimately trying to gain an understanding of why developers might find something like Nanobox (or a similar tool) appealing over something like Kubernetes.

Apologies for any misdirection initially.
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I prefer olduse.net. In 30 years will any of your blogs or walled garden comments still be available?
WikiLeaks believe in radical transparency has never applied to WikiLeaks itself.
Two things:

1. It is about CIA, not NSA.
2. What CIA did goes against the promise previous administration had made after Snowden leaks, where they promised that agencies will be immediately disclosing discovered vulnerabilities to the affected US tech companies.
I am interested too. Please let me know how to get in touch.
It also cost more than $6 for a single one way link. Why on earth would you ever take it when even an ordinary taxi is cheaper?
electrical or mechanical? or both?
The "landing gear viewer" is only required on older aircraft that do not have dual redundant electrical systems to report landing gear status. There are still some of these in service, the easy way to know on a Boeing is that one of the overhead bin doors will have a label "L/G VIEWER" on it.
Becoming a public company has it's own set of issues, though.
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As much as the tech world wants to "disrupt" they want to stay "cozy" in their California corner with their known business environment and English speaking places and their way of doing things.

To which I can assume there is cultural shock even when they go to the East Coast

But the world is big and not everything that happens appears on HN (or even on English speaking media).
Really? Where can I see more of this evidence? This is the first I've heard of it.
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But we have a phrase for that already, those things are called "tech companies"
I visited Guadalajara for a few days and it was great! People were extremely friendly and tolerant of my 100 word spanish vocabulary. Housing and living is very reasonable, food is quite cheap, the weather is mild and the city is lively, if a bit spread out. I didn't feel more unsafe than I did in Istanbul. I didn't get a chance to see the tech stuff but there were a bunch of companies and also a reasonably lively meetup scene too!
We started apptype.io as a service to convert PSDs, Sketch files etc into mobile app front end code. Going well from our existing network but not sure how to market it otherwise.
"Lily raised over $35 million in pre-sales and even secured $15 million in investment"

How in the holy crapping hell did they manage to burn so much cash with NOTHING to show except a fraudulently-produced pitch video?

Is there criminal investigation happening? This smells very bad.

edit: removed capital letters of outrage and replaced with asterisks
Why not just open a EU branch?
Participate remotely - bad idea :(
Thanks, I miss read that as calling something else coffee.
>but rather the distribution of it is.

Why?
I would say it's counter-productive - but at least a direct causal line can be drawn between slavery and the current lower average socio-economic status of black people in the US. Whereas, there is absolutely no causal line between the current plight of poor white people and Mexican immigrants/Islamic terrorism.
GPUs and Kubernetes for Deep Learning
> This means any attempt to get smooth, predictable execution out of the processor is very difficult.

The point of the article isn't about the language capabilities of the x86, but how processors (x86, in this case) evolved for efficiency that you can't consider that a FIFO rule applies while it's executing instructions.
Ask HN: How do you find your calling in the software world?
I am currently a grad student pursuing MS CS. After having 2 years of work ex at a company in India I left for higher studies. Here, I came to know about the details of functional programming and other 'hot' topics like AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Big Data , IoT Security, Re-inforcement Learning, Cloud Computing etc.

How do you find which is well suited for you? How do you find that you are really good at doing X and you should make your career in X? I know most of these are inter related but currently companies are asking for specific skills and it would be better to learn multiple of these to have high chances of getting hired. In some of these areas company only hires PhD and not Masters.
Depends if github / git is still around I guess https://github.com/divbit/blog
"Assange" the person may not be trustworthy, but Wikileaks the organization he created is, so far, beyond reproach. They have never released false data.
HN discussion of the Lily Drone when it was first announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9532777

> That is one of the first videos I've seen in a long time where I've thought "wow we can do that now?"
> And it wouldn't fit with the background color, of course.

There are nice black ones a lot of cases. Not sure what controls whether monochrome or colour is used though.
PyParallel v1 was a nice checkpoint. I'm working on the next incarnation of it now.
Also a homicide rate of 2/100k vs 40 might be indicative of other problems one city may have that the other doesn't.
If you're complaining about the price of Vancouver real estate, it hardly makes sense in this context where San Francisco is the alternative.
For context, the full quote from the article is:

“Trump is the Silicon Valley candidate in every way except that the ideology is flipped,” said Sam Altman, a prominent technology leader, chief executive of Y Combinator and a major Hillary Clinton donor. “He’s an outsider. He took on a system he thought was broken and then disregarded the rules, he got to know his users well and tested his product early and iterated rapidly. That’s the start-up playbook. That’s exactly what we tell our start-ups to do.”
We're aware of the potential license issues, but not concerned they'll be a problem (for now).

Also, in my system all compressed data is marked with its compression type, so it's possible for me to later find zStandard-compressed data and recompress with a different algorithm if needed. It would be a lengthy process, but at least possible.
Any starches (complex sugars) in food are usually first broken down by saliva in the mouth while chewing. The enzyme amylase in saliva breaks starches into simpler sugars.

Drinking food likely reduces the amylase content of the bolus (dose of food entering stomach) and should consequently slow the digestion of starches and sugars in that food.

The pancreas secretes another form of amylase, so starches would eventually be digested anyway, just not as quickly. So your stomach would hold food longer and your pancreas would have to work a bit more.

Not a bad thing: I often eat only because "my stomach feels empty". Perhaps this would reduce that feeling.

"Amylase":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase

"Role of Amylase":

http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/role-amylase-8526.html
Yeah, all the more reason why comparing humans' unwillingness to live in high radiation areas with that of boars is kind of a silly comparison to make.
Could this type of vunerability be found using some clever fuzzer?
That Altman quote seems terribly out of context. I haven't found a full reference yet, but it seems to me that he's not endorsing Trump's policies, he's explainging that Trump won because he (perhaps accidentally) appropriated the "startup playbook".
I made a Discord channel [1] for startups and entrepreneurs. The goal is to have a place to hangout, share ideas, and chat with similarly ambitious people. It's pretty new, but every time someone in there has posted their site people have checked it out and given feedback.

1. Point at Infinity - https://discord.gg/F4jjKu7
I just wish rocket and diesel got the new tokio goodness, then Rust will probably replace flask in my workflow.
Probably, in Computer Science, the exemplar of unnecessary analogies is the first Paxos paper - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/part-ti...
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Nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen that do not currently hold dual nationality with another country, an existing visa, or another document permitting entry. No hysteria there.
The lead the US has had in science/engineering/technology over the past 70+ years is in no small part due to the massive brain drain from Europe, and the rest of the world, due to fascist regimes.

If the US's new shiny fascist regime keeps progressing at this pace, you can bet that things will reverse quickly. Good bye, world leading startups, nobel prizes, top universities, etc. These things can happen faster than one tends to think.

The best thing countries like China could do right now is heavily open up to English, and fund things such as foreign PhD students. Everyone is fighting to get into Harvard and MIT right now, but a half decade of Trump policies could have drastic consequences a few decades down the line and give us a very different world.

--

Edit: some followup to this comment further below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831085

People also seem to get stuck on "China" in my comment. If that makes you unhappy, replace that word with Brazil, Japan, Singapore, Estonia, whatever you want... the point is, viewed under the "startup lens", this new administration makes the dominance of the US in STEM/entrepreneurship ripe for disruption by a more nimble, flexible entity.
https://www.codebashing.com/sql_demo
Only slightly related is the excellent Arkady Renko novel Wolves Eat Dogs which is partly set in the Chernobyl exclusion zone (and touches on the wolves that have taken over that area):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_Eat_Dogs

Also, there was a great episode of Nature of PBS about this too:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/radioactive-wolves-introducti...
Hackaday writers do regular pieces on videos like this under the tag 'retrotacular'. Here's a playlist of several dozen hours of videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZISUfi-6Ik&list=PL6obLJ_zot...
Python, Ruby, maybe.

Node.JS with Typescript or ASP.NET with C#/F#... I doubt it :)
Just wondering if anybody from Google asked you to apply for positions there after this?
Is there criminal investigation happening? This smells very bad.

Yes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/01/31/failed-drone...
Wikileaks has a terrible record on vetting releases and be "truly transparent". See the timing of the dnc and podesta emails...

There were social security #'s in those releases.

They try and play both sides of the fence:
-we dont "editorialize", redact or make decisions on what is and isn't released
-release specific info with sensational headlines timed for optimal impact
They'll still need a visa to go though the YC acceleration period if they get selected though.
The mythology of programming language ideas (2017)
No, I doubt he was responsible for obtaining them, I'm just saying he's not impartial. He's repeatedly criticized Clinton on multiple occasions.