skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're speaking with unwarranted certainty on this subject. there is much that is unknown on this subject due to very sparse data, and the fact that cancer rates are already relatively high in the general population and affected by a myriad of environmental and lifestyle factors.

We live in a world where the available data allows credible scientists to observe a hormetic effect in animal models exposed to low-dose radiation, and where longitudinal studies of people who live in areas with naturally higher background radiation (higher than large areas of the exclusion zone), such as Colorado experience lower than average cancer rates.[1]

Furthermore, the death toll from nuclear power generation, should be considered in comparison to the death toll of other power technologies. While it is arguable that many renewable tech are comparable and possibly have become better than nuclear in terms of safety, the deaths caused even just by radioactive particles spewed into the environment from coal plants is much higher than nuclear. It is a classic case of seen vs. unseen effects.[2]

The unstated argument in this thread is whether the precautionary principle should be applied to public health policy with regards to human-caused radiation. It's perfectly reasonable to argue that it should based on unknowns, but it doesn't help to make overly certain assumptions that have weak scientific support.

[1] a decent jumping off point on this stuff is the Wikipedia article on radiation hormesis - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis

[2] Another quick jumping off point, with a myriad of links and charts from credible government and international organizations. http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energ...
Then in this case the problem seems to be ignorance. Ignorant people will always find themselves in trouble though. Anyway, you still haven't proved that they wouldn't be ok with this even if aware of it. I've talked to many people about this and most were ok with it. I think you're assuming a lot here about what others care about.

It seems like you have a problem with people consenting to things you don't like, just like homophobes have problems with gays because they personally don't like consenting to same sex intercourse and think gays are ignorant of some facts (they're going to hell etc), maybe people don't care or believe in these facts and are just enjoying themselves, ever thought of that?
What's the problems if other people enjoy things you don't? Live and let live.
Community moderation just won't work with Facebook - the whole point of FB is that it's gated communities. Your options are to only moderate the public areas (which may catch some, but not the vast majority of the content they are talking about here), allow moderators to access private areas (which leads to invasion of privacy that is a different problem - imagine the "strangers can sign up for moderation and see your private stuff!" headlines), or only allow moderation over content they can see, which means not catching this kind of stuff, as the only people in those communities are a part of it (or investagative journalists, I guess).
from css/main.scss `$monoFont: 'Courier New', Monaco;`

I think it's caused be the missing fallback `monospace` in that list.
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And government oversight isn't the same thing as authoritarianism. As with most things the devil is usually in the details. I recommend looking into the anarcho-syndicalist strategy for structuring economic activity for a snapshot of one possible approach to the problem of establishing planned economic activity without devolving into a gulag-riddled dystopia.
What should happen when there is a conflict between Europeans "bettering themselves" and economic migrants "bettering themselves"? Would you like to see Europeans roll over and ignore their own economic interests? Or do you believe no such conflict is possible?

Does bettering oneself mean the same thing for economic migrants as it does for Europeans, in your mind? I gather from your comment that it means "attaining greater material wealth" for economic migrants. What does it mean for Europeans? Does it mean sharing their material wealth with the less fortunate, at their expense and the expense of their progeny?
I don't judge them, I was confused by the choice of systems to compare with and thought that I didn't understand article. I think that comparison with MongoDB or RethinkDB would be more appropriate in this case.
Because I just want to read a real book. Disconnect from technology as much as possible in my day.
It's also widely used (in chemistry labs) as a titration indicator. Because of its vivid color, you can very easily determine when you cross the boundaries of a specific reaction.
I would recommend taking the "0.16 times per second" number with a real grain of salt. That neuron is evaluating inputs from (oh, say) 1k-10k sources simultaneously, computing some analog function that we don't really understand, which involves membrane dynamics, past spiking history, the amount of post-synaptic intracellular calcium, etc. These little units are absolutely incredible, and we don't quite know yet what parts of this behavior are actually the "secret sauce" that makes it work.

For me the most authoritative answer is what the Human Brain Project in europe is able to achieve: http://www.nature.com/news/fragment-of-rat-brain-simulated-i...

31k cells with 37M synapses. That's a start, but pretty far from a mouse brain (100M cells) or a human brain (80B? ).

Also if Moore's law really is dead, this all gets much more depressing.
It's more that even Chernobyl is a tiny little blip compared to things like the Banqiao dam failure, even if you take some of the worst long term death toll estimates. And coal kills several times as many people every year in the US alone as what Chernobyl is projected to kill from the accident until the radioactivity released is all gone, even without any accidents.
It was a focal point but I couldn't call it a major driver in and of itself. To the degree that it represented trade restraint and taxation issues, sure, but people didn't actually start a war and found a new nation because of the contents of their teacup.
> Developing against a cloud machine sucks too

Really depends on where your cloud is in relation to you. I'm currently sitting in a coffee shop, and ping times to my workstation at home (on the other side of the city) are ~5ms.
Can we name one Bebop?
Just out of curiosity, is there a similar technology for "shazaming" video footage?
It was a long time ago and I wish I was less foggy on the details but I read this comment on Reddit by a purported neuroscientist or some such who was talking about how we don't actually enjoy social media.

They described basically what you've said. We take the actions and get the tiny reward and our brain gets a little jolt of there you did it but when it comes right down to it we don't actually enjoy the activity. More importantly, we're no more satisfied when we finish the activity than we were when we started, we just do it because we've become conditioned to.

I suppose a more concrete source would be the Extra Credits video on Skinner Boxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWtvrPTbQ_c
2nd to last sentence:

> It’s about finding balance. I became conscious of what matters to me, in my life. My smartphone is still a part of it, but it’s no longer the boss.
I was only being half-flippant - maybe there's a better way to leverage this situation. Alas, tho, I don't have one.
Yeah it's basically browser fingerprinting (incl. GPU fingerprinting, hence the slowdown) plus google cookie.

If your browser is standard (AKA no anti-fingerprinting plugins) and your advertising cookies are not blocked (privacy or adblocker plugins) you'll probably pass with no issues.

If either of those is not true, you have to solve a bunch of image captchas.

Mouse/keyboard input analysis was just marketing talk; at least when they first released the nocaptcha it wasn't even captured.
Does it support syncing over git yet? It didn't last I checked.
On the invention, not that much. On the mass production, yes, a lot.

The Wealth of Nations has some interesting anecdotes about Newton's work helping industries. (But it's been a long time since I've read it, so no pointers.)
Indeed. There's a crazy amount of current going through these things. Apparently the limit used to be 1200A, and beyond that, traditional fuses don't work well because the metal vaporizes and starts conducting electricity even after the fuse wire has melted. To get to 1500A they created a computer-controlled pyrotechnic fuse. That's what enabled the "ludicrous mode" that you can get on their high-end cars.
This is also bothersome to me. I find that we've completely dismissed the wisdom of the Greeks in regards to moderation. There's always a middle path to follow. When I find my smartphone usage is interfering with life I just make simple and small changes to make it slightly inconvenient to pull out and read. I'll plug it into a charger at home and leave it my bedroom so I'm not tempted to pull it out when my son wants to play, for example. Or I have an annoying unlock pattern to keep me from casual reddit reading when I shouldn't be.

The problem is that 'boring' solutions like these that actually work aren't exciting enough to make it to the top of a voting system like HN or reddit have. So we only get the big dramatic articles because those tickle the lizard part of our brains that say "omg upvote this!" The more calm and rational side of us is far too slow moving and less easily excited to make that effort for more 'boring' articles. Its like we're all living in Kahneman's thinking 'fast' world now.

I sometimes wonder what it'll be like for the kids growing up today who will know nothing but targeted ads, customized news, clickbait articles, and everyone gaming the 'attention economy.' Will they be better or worse off than those who grew up before those things. Endless 'fast' thinking and constant instant gratification may come with a price in the long run.
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Well, if we have people willing to kill us based on the type of socks we like or porn we enjoy, we have a bigger problem than the fact that this information is being collected. It's not like people willing to kill for such ridiculous reasons would be stopped by the lack of available data. Crazies don't really care about fact and data in general. I think you're assuming a bit too much about them.

Obligatory xkcd about it https://xkcd.com/792/
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Yes, the scientists are full of bullshit, but your quasimystical interpretation of requiring an observer is insightful.

I think your post is just nonsense. Particularly because you used the phrase "crystalize time" rather than "crystalize matter in the time direction", which makes me wonder if you even know what a time crystal is.
Is your username the Slack ID or something? Nothing on your profile page.
The parent comment "debunked" my reasoning by citing logical fallacies.

There's a page on Wikipedia that lists all logical fallacies and links to their pages, it's often cited as one of the best / coolest pagest on Wikipedia (seriously, check it out.)

But recently a lot of people think they can win (or shut down) arguments (or pleas for equality) by leaning on these logical fallacies a little to hard. It's a lame and desperate move, as there's literally always something you can throw out when you can't defend your point anymore. It's become such a "thing" that you can counter "oh cool that you found that wikipedia portal". It's particularly frustrating since combating inequality (or any social issue) often requires more of an emotional / social intelligence and personal experiences / understanding, which are apparently not fair game to these Greybeard Grand Wizard Gatekeepers of Logic(tm)

And asking for concrete data/stats on an incredibly personal, often legal, and highly politicized systematic trend is obviously absurd, but a good way to dismiss an argument you find inconvenient and don't want to address.
Contrary to this article, there is an easy way to block apps - and websites - on iOS. There's an app called Freedom that lets you create lists of sites that you'd like to block. Once blocked, their apps will not work either. I find it to be a phenomenal way of increasing my focus. When I compulsively grab my smartphone and realize that my usual time-waster sites and apps are blocked, I just put it right back down.

Unfortunately it does cost money, but they regularly run promotions up to half-off on their "forever" plan.
> how challenging is it to recycle a the first stage

Depends on how well it lands. There's a 'loss-leader' booster that landed but is in bad enough condition that they're keeping it for comparison purposes as to how bad it can get (JCSAT-14, someone else posted in these comments).

In terms of time, this first refurb happened in the last year or so, because no booster had ever landed before Dec 2015.
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the letter of the law is DON'T DISTRIBUTE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.

you're all idiots.
I thought "central Europe" was mostly a label used in some post-communistic countries to feel less Eastern.

This "central Europe" thing is very funny indeed. I've lived in the Netherlands - they think of themselves as "Western Europe". In the UK everyone knows Europe is split into West and East by the Iron curtain.

For me as a Czech, Eastern Europe is everything East of Slovakia - Ukraine, Romania, Belarus. But try asking a Romanian - they'll tell you Romania is Central Europe! When you ask them what is Eastern Europe then, you'll learn it's Ukraine and Russia.
Fair enough, and I respect that! I have a good number of real books that I need to read as well. I guess the only real use case for using Amazon books for me currently is airplanes, where the bulk of books gets unwieldy for shoving under the seat in front of me.
How hard? Extremely. It turns out that people work around keywords extremely quickly, creating new euphemisms, acronyms and mispellings to avoid it. Eventually (or already) they will use such common terms that you get such a high false positive rate it makes the rest of the site useless.

People always make out like this is an easy problem, it's not. The best we can do without false positives is probably hashes - something already done (there are databases of hases of known images, and I think I remember there being a hash collision that got tons of sites reported for some normal image at some point, so even that isn't foolproof), and those are trivial to work around by modifying images in tiny ways.

Human moderation has huge cost and means that you have to give humans eyes on private content, which can be abused in itself, so you have a catch-22 there.
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It is very well known as IPython which is now on referring to the kernel of (Interactive Python). Project Jupyter is the name for the Notebook and it has access to many different kernels and is language agnostic now.

Your comment is condescending and not very informative.
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And interestingly, drinking is the opposite - consuming liquid kills thirst immediately, and it won't come back for ~20 minutes even if you still need hydration.

Both systems make sense, since you can hydrate in ~60 seconds but might need to stay hungry for ~10 minutes after you start eating. But they can both cause problems: hunger by prompting fast eaters to overeat, and thirst by letting dehydrating things like liquor satiate you.
Check out http://spacemacs.org/. Adding the org layer is a one-liner: 'org' in dotspacemacs-configuration-layers.
A Skinner box is a great example. I see it more like a slot machine: you put in your time, pull the crank, and say to yourself: "This is SHIT! Why am I wasting my time on this?"

Then you put in another quarter...

That being said, I do enjoy HN yet I rarely if ever comment on reddit or Facebook. It's really the community that keeps me here.
For reference:

http://www.caruscorporation.com/resources/content/7/5/images...
Well, yes and no. The article does cover an increase in radiation:

> Even if a 30-percent margin of error is taken into account, the recent reading, described by some experts as “unimaginable”, is far higher than the previous record of 73 sieverts an hour detected by sensors in 2012.

But it is talking about the reactor. That does not immediately translate into a high radiation level outside, but it shows the potential radiation level we are dealing with. At least in the beginning that radiation leaked, and that might happen again.

Also in Chernobyl there are people living in the zone. If they are old enough that they will die before the radiation will cause cancer, and they are never unlucky enough to step into a pocket of escaping reactor radiation, that's probably not too bad.
Hah. We got rid of the tv a decade or more ago. Though being pretentious wasn't part of the decision. :)
That's in my bio ;-)
Some are more equal than others.
Well, if they downloaded the pictures then emailed them to Facebook, the BBC is breaking the law. If they sent links to the groups in question, then no.
The bailouts were a follow-on action.

Back in 2000, we had an asset bubble, primarily in tech stocks but also in stocks generally. But the bubble was not primarily debt-fuelled (Thank you, post-great-depression limits on margin loans!); when in burst, it had no direct, lasting consequences. Sure, a lot of people felt less wealthy, which caused a bit of a general slowdown, but the economy recovered fairly quickly.

In 2007, we had an asset bubble in the housing market, fuelled primarily by consumer debt. When the bubble started bursting, consumers stopped being able to get big loans, meaning they couldn't buy at those prices and couldn't refinance their existing huge loans. Housing prices dropped, meaning even fewer loans, more foreclosures, more houses on the market and lower prices. Because consumer debt was also financing the rest of the economy, the collapse of that and the ensuing pessimism put the binders on the whole economy, hard.

In the midst of this, the institutions that had been making the loans discovered that the paper they had been shuffling around was actually worthless, leaving them with many debts and few assets. The bailouts were intended to do two things:

1. Improve the balance sheets of the financial institutions, preventing them from going bankrupt and falling over like a sack of doorknobs. (IMO, this was ultimately both good and bad. Uncontrolled collapse would have been bad, but a restructuring and breakup of those firms is still necessary or it's going to happen again.)

2. Increase the money supply, through the banks-make-loans-loans-go-into-accounts-banks-make-loans cycle. This was necessary to avoid deflation and support the overall economy. (Want to shoot an economy in the head? Think inflation is bad? Check out deflation.) Unfortunately, banks weren't making loans, so that didn't happen. Modern economic theory at its finest, ladies and gentlemen. Oopsie.

I maintain that the big, primary difference is the amount of leverage applied on the downside.
Japan transformed its entire country from nearly complete devastation during WWII into a tech leader in various manufacturing and industrial technologies, including automation and robotics. They also possess some of the world's best research and technology institutions (e.g. Tokyo University). So if it's "hand-wavy" to believe in their capability to build better future, based on a quite miraculous track record, you can call me "hand-wavy."
If you're healthy, after your quick sugar intake, insulin would kick in and you would probably find yourself with lower sugar levels than 30 mins before.
Back in the yesteryear of the early 2000's, I didn't own a television. It was better.

Now I'm one of those people that does spend too much time refreshing my smartphone. It's worse.

So maybe we were on to something back then.
While there's certainly reasonable concerns around the risk of these people accessing Facebook, by the admission of the company itself it's a new type of influential global community. By banning sex offenders outright they're being othered in a way which is a significant impediment to being reintegrated into society.

What do you mean? Facebook's business speak about being a new global community means what? People aren't being "othered" because they can't have Facebook accounts. The ability to have a Facebook does not have anything to do with getting back into society - lots of people do it (abstain from Facebook) voluntarily. On the other hand, the access a predator would have to children is a very real danger and is presumably dangerous to someone who has problems with that.

That aside, at least in the US, you can end up a sex offender for life for things as innocuous as stopping on the side of a long stretch of highway to empty your bladder. There's also no unified worldwide or national database of sex offenders to check against, nor are their uniform standards between states and nations on what qualifies. This means it's both difficult for Facebook to enforce this rule at all and practically impossible to do so in a way which would only apply to people convicted of offenses we can agree qualify (molestation, rape, sexual assault).

Do you have any stats for this? This gets thrown up from time to time, but how many people are sex offenders cause they took a piss on the side of the highway?

This means it's both difficult for Facebook to enforce this rule at all and practically impossible to do so in a way which would only apply to people convicted of offenses we can agree qualify (molestation, rape, sexual assault).

This information is readily available. Presumably Facebook can run the same check the BBC did. If they've been unfairly convicted that's not Facebook's issue, it is the courts, but Facebook does a have a very simple qualifier in most places.

Sorry if I come off as a little aggressive...it is just that in many of these cases there are real victims here and it isn't the sex offenders, it is the innocent children (or other) whose lives they have destroyed. There are cases were people are accused unfairly, but most cases are not that way (it is a major charge that is taken seriously). Sometimes people do things which are destructive to others, and there's only so much empathy when rights are restricted as a result.

Just don't personally feel that sorry for a sex offender who can't get on Facebook. If they've been wrongly convicted, they've got bigger problems, if not, then it's a privilege not a right.
This is a problem I thought would be solved by 2017
Yeah, it is.

The only thing that rates as catastrophe is Chernobyl, so singular. And that was 56 direct deaths. Fifty-six. Fukushima, which is widely regarded as a "catastrophe" has zero direct deaths and so far it looks unlikely that effects on mortality will be statistically detectable.

What was the worst energy-generation catastrophe? Banqiao Dam, 1973[1]. 170,000 direct deaths. Or that coal explosion with >1000 direct deaths. On those types of scales, even Chernobyl doesn't actually register.

And when you take into account long term effects, there simply is no comparison. 100K deaths per T-kWH for coal, 90 for nuclear. So for every death due to nuclear power, there are 1000 deaths due to coal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
Sorry; I shouldn't have let my personal opinions color my comments like that.
When I want to think of ideas I take a look at Indie Hackers[0]. There are a bunch of interviews with founders that are making money (from a few hundred/month to a hundred thousand/month) with their products.

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Exactly. I'm a fan of Swift on the server, but this is the best they can do with marketing?
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