skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ridiculous thing about all of this is plain topsoil has between 0-4ppm of uranium and thorium. Means fly ash is roughly as radioactive as dirt. However pointedly in modern coal fired plants fly ash it scrubbed[1].

Deal with Uranium and thorium is normal geological processes aren't very efficient at concentrating either. Which means commercially exploitable ores are rare and the element remains widely distributed.

[1] It's a bit more tricky since part of the radioactivity from uranium and thorium is due to decay products, some of which probably escape out the stacks. (See radon).
For most people once their connection is fast enough that any given thing they try to do is not noticeably annoying due to slow download speed, their download speed and their monthly data usage are largely independent.

For example, over the 12-17 years I've had Comcast they increased my download speed from 8 mb/sec to 20 mb/sec, then to somewhere around 40 mb/sec, then to 60 mb/sec, then to 90 mb/sec, and now it is at 120 mb/sec.

I don't remember what my monthly usage was back when it was at 8 mb/sec, but from 40 mb/sec onward, and I think maybe at 20 mb/sec, my monthly usage has stayed about the same, varying between 20 to 40 GB/month.

I've always appreciated the faster speed, even though I don't use it to download more. I appreciate it because it means it takes less time to download. For instance, if I'm working at home and realize I need a big file from work to continue it might be 5 minutes to download at 120 mb/sec. It would have been 30 minutes at 20 mb/sec. The former means I can grab it while I take a bathroom break and a refill on my water, with almost no disruption to my work day. The later means a big disruption.
What is wrong with the traditional approach?
- (Startup): 0.3 * 0.8+60.3 * 0.2 = $12.3 >> $0.9
Soul of a Molecular Machine: Venki Ramakrishnan (President, Royal Society)
"kudos to the developers for discovering a class of rich, pseudo-intellectual suckers willing to value the work they haven’t done at multipliers that would give a private equity partner an aneurysm"

This is pretty great.
i'm concerned about this as well, but i'm fine letting Chrome function simply as a dev tool and actually browse with Firefox, Opera, Servo, etc. w/uBlock Origin & uMatrix
Go read about the "1 child policy" and get back to me when you have a clue what you're talking about. "Enabling", sheesh. You're enabling them through buying iPhones made in China, not through this agreement. You're so way off in this discussion that I don't think it's worth continuing it.

Have a nice day!
6 months later
Now you are on to something.

Perhaps those goods shouldn't be made in China, an ocean or two away from where they are needed, under lax emissions laws. If we held China to the same standard as the US and EU, some of that problem would go away. It wouldn't just make fly-over country happy. Huge container ships do not run on solar power. They burn huge amounts of heavy fuel oil, which is nearly tar and not too far from being coal.
No.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
Ad-supported tech company employee#1: Users are blocking ads.

Ad-supported company employees: Uh-oh.

Ad-supported tech company employee#2: We can use this as an opportunity to block our competitors ads!

Ad-supported tech company employee#3: We might win some goodwill with users, too!

Example tech companies:
Apple
Brave
Google
etc.

Naive user: Oh well, I guess we just have to accept whatever the tech companies give us.

Real answer: No, users are actually the ones in control. That is why ad blocking is causing these companies to take action.
Show HN: Time Adaptive Count-Min Sketches for Summarizing Data Streams
> Pinboard works with a variety of outside services, including Reeder, Delibar, and Pukka. If there is an API feature that you need to make your app work, just ask!

https://pinboard.in/tour/#api
I was going to mention something similar. Someone, somewhere, is looking at all the ways you can headline the same information to generate clicks[1].

I've seen a number of people make this particular leap though, that people will cite this as a precedent for either reversing or defending lawsuits against post sale use.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1283/
Gold doesn't make money either. Gold isn't as valuable as a commodity for engineering (what's it's actually useful for) as the markets sets its price at.

Gold, like fiat currency, like "cryptocoins" are all just stores of value that a market sets a value to.
No, it wasnt a treaty. There is nothing that Trump can't undo with a pen.
"Well, it's better than nothing" exhibits a level of resignation that essentially concedes the Internet as we knew it to whatever dominant company wants it.

As well, it literally is "web breaking" when one company has control over the entire network. This is not a matter of mere dissatisfaction with the current state of events; it's a description of the seismic shift in control.
This might help some aspects of ASD. Hopefully. However I do not see how it will reverse the altered neural migration occurring early in development, for example, unless it is administered in infancy or earlier while in the womb..
Dunno how bad it can be elsewhere but even third-rate dev shops using ASP.NET can be pretty damn bad. I mean staying in the office until 7pm every night, and getting nasty phone calls on Christmas eve.
> Entertainingly, this is no less wrong: the one time a live butterfly is likely to have forward-stretched wings is in flight.

I'm sorry, do you have evidence for this assertion? The author specifically addresses this, saying the position is atypical even during flight.

It just seems rude to me to dismiss the author's argument so flippantly with what seems to be an unfounded supposition.
Sort of?
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_black_hole
I had the very same offer. The founder made this big brouhaha about telling everyone he wanted to compensate the engineers "very well" to build his vision, and he made a point to say the compensation would be so much better than at a typical startup. The guy had a pretty big vision for a technical product/service that would need good engineers. I nibbled the bait and found out that his "amazing compensation" was $0 salary, and 1% options! Not even shares, just regular options. Yeah, let me sign right up for the "golden" handcuffs for zero dollars. It was infuriating that a veteran startup founder would make this lowball offer to employees (not even like cofounders). I've been working in startups for twenty years, so it was astonishing bullshit to me. I'm not sure how he was able to sign anybody else on. Needless to say, that company didn't make it more than eight months. The only team he could build was really heavy on the business side, and then a couple of (obviously) incredibly inexperienced developers.
Just, no. It is clear: he's an idiot with the attention span of a 3 year-old. He's not a masterful schemer whose every move is carefully calibrated for strategic success. These narratives about how it's all part of a cunning plan are just ridiculous. Sometimes floundering is just floundering.
There's a huge difference between cleaning up the surrounding landscape and dealing with the broken reactors themselves. Eventually we'll figure out how to fix those. Nothing an X-Prize contest or two can't help address if things get truly desperate.

I'd take a contaminated room any day over a whole planet slowly cooking itself to death.
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First off, the open net is dead, people not giving a fuck killed it when they simply said yet to the shitty deals the unscrupulous companies offered. Those tech savvy should have lead the way away from these sites to alternatives - that didn't happen.
If that wasn't enough the knowledge of EchelonV killed it. People will never again act truly honestly on the net, which hopefully will offset any short sighted plans google and NSA has to premeptively steer public opinion.

The last real breath was drawn as people kept on using google and that breath was drawn precisely when google "modified" their algorithm to kill off private sites who came in high on rankings.
Since then any site that has arisen to challange google seems to have magically have been killed or taken over (suddenly swapping to using google coding for unexplained reasons). Oh to mention a few; scroogle, qwant, lycos, zapmeta, qwant, wn, millionshort, gigablast, xirkle...
You can still search through the old altavista pile if u want but yeah. Most other motors gives u a shitstorm of companies that you do not care for before you can read private sites off enligthened people who strive to improve x thing.

The next terryfying thing is as what happens when large sites get taken over and the large libraries of knowledge falls into informal hands or simply disappears (IMDB boards to mention a recent setback, and i meant the positive discussions not the large clusterfks of idiots and astroturfers et al).

And of before i forget - as someone who saw through FB before it took off (previous avid user of ICQ, AIM, newb at IRC etc) i fucking told you (if any of those i actually told would stumble across this).

Localised meshnets could have been the future (with "netbrowsers" as the tool to reach em), though with the thought of all that information being in the hands of normal people governments are "finally" reacting and starting to spread fibre as far as i know through some of europe (scandinavia) which could effectively kill that effort.
So start taking political action for a free future of information \/.
Yes, so glad other people also see what I see. Bookmarking is like the missing piece of current web.

I don't have that feature in Kozmos but will keep it in my mind.
Well, damming rivers turned out to be a bad idea in cases so (Washington State)[https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/publ...] is undoing them. Wind turbines require surmounting large technical hurdles with storing energy. Solar takes a lot of resources/space. Heck, in 50 years we might be in a dust bowl and solar doesn't even work.

Why would you suggest we prevent using all appropriate options at our disposal? Why not push for using a different type of fuel instead?

I didn't grow up during the nuclear scare times. Fukushima wasn't great, but it wasn't so horrific either. If it gets us off coal and natural gas then I'm down.
Let me know what you think!
Just for my sake what's ALB and ELB mean. I assume elastic load balanced and … load balancer?
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Aren't 83(b) elections only really available to founders, though?
Completely irrelant to Sigma itself, but the landing page crashes FF on a Galazy S6 :(
Would you pay for a more meaningful career?
Yes. However, you are basically making the argument that your options are worth ~50% salary. The problem with that argument (at least in the valley) is that you are making the calculation off the initial starting salary. Salary/RSU growth at companies like Google, FB, etc is surprisingly rapid in the first ~24 months, to the point where I would argue that if you haven't doubled it in that timeframe you need to work on your extrovert/self promotion skills
You can disable Cortana
Exactly. If it's a packaging problem, we'll just need to be smarter about how we package things. Shipping Photoshop as a unified blob of WebAssembly is a dumb idea, just as having the executable load in every single DLL it might ever need is ridiculous. These things are fetched on demand.
Yeah, it's no big deal, just the leadership of this country wants to do things that will make life much worse for my descendants. Obviously I'm not actually outraged about it.
If struct A implements trait S and trait T, and there are two functions

fn foo(x: &S);
fn foo(y: &T);

in scope, then the compiler needs you to disambiguate foo(&a) if a: A. This isn't a whole lot different than disambiguating the same expression if the functions are:

fn foo(x: &A);
fn foo(x: &mut A);
Common Pitfalls in Writing Lock-Free Algorithms
... or going abroad travelling & woofing. Which is also a rationale behavior.

Did your friends keep the unemployment allowance while creating a new company ?
Idea for startup: Compete with Facebook on one item: meetings for groups and organizations. Allow users to join groups without having to join Facebook.
Ad blockers work just fine. It's very rare for an advert to make it past the filters, and it will be quickly fixed if it does. The preferred format is "no ads". The web existed before ads and it will exist after ads. It's not my problem if you've built a business around the unethical practice of manipulating people into buying things against their own interests.
I was referring to the software, yes. Some examples were documented here, and have been seen this year as well in a recent HN discussion: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/03/google-and-paint-net-need...

I absolutely disagree with your suggestion it's "obvious" FileSendSuite is what that download button is for. Notice how the text for the actual name is drastically smaller than the Download command, which is at the top of the ad, so it appears to directly follow the page content above. Notice how it also lacks a border or background so it is more easily mistaken for page content.

I am not inclined to go into the detail here, but I have spoken with Google employees on this issue before. And reporting an ad Google doesn't think violates it's policies is pointless.

From the recent HN discussion on this topic, site owners have confirmed that even if they ban these malicious providers, they're rapidly replaced by other accounts doing the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14336695
In which circumstances, lock-free algorithms are NOT better than locking ones?
To get a better average you'd need to compute the total radioactive emissions of all nuclear plants divided by their operating time and compute per GWh versus coal plants on the same scale.

Chernobyl and Fukushima are two exceptional events. There are hundreds of reactors out there both civilian and military that have never had catastrophic faults.
This probably shouldn't link to the google amp page...

Correct link is https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/1/15724520/tesla-fires-femal...
If he's a 3 year old floundering idiot, what does that make his political opponents who he continues to trounce?
Were they fiction?
Fair enough--that wasn't a trap question, I was honestly curious. I usually go the butcher's-and-farmer's-market route and the amount of waste I end up with is very low, usually paper products and the like, so my view of that stuff is a little different. (If I hit a supermarket, I usually have my big ol' backpack.)
True, but the oil will run out. Ask the former coal mine towns what happens then.
People who don't feel a need for personal space and privacy will move to cities. People who value those things move out. There is a difference in the voting behavior of those different kinds of people.

If you find crowds of strangers exciting in a good way, you move to the city. If they excite you in a bad way, you move away from the city.
I've been using Perl for years, it's a pretty neat language. It can seem a little esoteric at first, but once you get into Perl it's pretty intuitive. I don't know how many times when I was learning it the I thought "this seems like this should work", tried it and it did. I'm not bashing any other languages (I think it's pointless, the "best" programming language it the one that makes you productive) but Perl definitely has it strong points:

- Great for sys admin stuff. Working with files and external programs is a breeze. *NIX administration is how I got into Perl. Perl is a devops friend.

- Handy for processing anything text based. Tedious tasks like screen scraping is straight forward.

- Versatile. Don't like X in Perl? Someone else probably thought the same thing and made a module for it. Even low level stuff like Perl subroutines and OO have alternatives. As they say in Perl TIMTOWTDI (there is more than one way to do it).

- So many modules! Write less code and get stuff done fast.

- Low level voodoo is easy. Perl exposes many of the internals of the interpreter so things like adding grammars and making DSL's doesn't seem like voodoo.

- Multi-paradigm. Doesn't force a programming style on you.

- Complex data types.

Not that everything is unicorns and rainbows in the world of Perl.

- Some features/syntax can feel outdated or seem "clunky" for lack of a better term.

- Versatility is a double-edged sword. You can write code so bad/evil it can summon an elder god and Perl will happily execute it.

- So much punctuation!

If your new to the world of Perl, try out Perl 6. It has all the cool features of Perl 5 and ditches most of the weird stuff but has all the modern features you would expect from other new(er) languages.
I'm assuming Tesla can prove this, because if not...
> What to do about this? Well, honestly, outlawing Fox News would probably be a good start.

So your final analysis is to tear up the Bill of Rights?
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On the author's points on content creation and advertising revenue, I think services like Patreon are making a huge dent in the right direction:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/how-patreon-is-disrupting-yout...
Tesla confirmed Vandermeyden’s firing in a statement to The Verge, saying it had conducted an independent, third-party review of her claims and determined that they were false. “Despite repeatedly receiving special treatment at the expense of others, Ms. Vandermeyden nonetheless chose to pursue a miscarriage of justice by suing Tesla and falsely attacking our company in the press,” a spokesperson said. “After we carefully considered the facts on multiple occasions and were absolutely convinced that Ms. Vandermeyden's claims were illegitimate, we had no choice but to end her employment at Tesla.”

Surely they'd want to be pretty confident to take this action and make this statement.
Interesting that Trump estimates the cost of the Paris Agreement in terms of the economy - 3.5 trillion in lost GDP by 2040 - but quotes the benefits in Celcius - two-tenths of one degree by 2100.

What exactly is Trump's estimate for the economic cost of climate change by 2100 if the Paris Agreement is not implemented?
You can write off anything with that, to be honest. It's like the nuclear weapon of arguments that ensures mutual destruction
If you find some time, take a cooking class or two. With some basic skills and some planning, you can easily do most of your prep in advance (sort of like /r/MealPrepSunday, but for the next few days' recipes). For me, I prefer to shop daily since I find it extremely relaxing, but most veg will last quite a long time in the right conditions[1].

Growing up, my mother was a horrible cook (still is), so I was in the same boat as you. There are lots of ways to get into cooking, but, if you're interested, one really easy method is to cook your way through Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution [2]. Don't worry about buying the bigger kitchen tools like a food processor or anything, just make sure you have a good knife and some basic pans. I believe there's a list in the front of the book.

[1] http://www.thekitchn.com/the-kitchns-guide-to-storing-fruits...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1401310478
I do the same thing. Funny how they won't let u use direct messaging on the mobile web client anymore and force you to download the messenger app. I refuse to ha e Facebook on my phone.
I vividly remember learning about recursive descent parsing in my compilers class and thinking, "Wow, I can use this everywhere!"

Of course in addition to executing an AST you can also generate CODE for it...
Fukushima isn't over, we don't know what it will have done in the next 50 years yet.
Free money is poor quality money. There is no such thing as a free lunch
What Kind of Hacker Are You?
Or, a company just refuses to sell you parts.

If the Rolex on my wrist stops working, I can take it apart, and clean/oil it, but couldn't buy a part from Rolex.

That is without going through a lot of expensive training, and certification.

Even then--their master plan is just restricting parts, so you need to send it back to them. "Here is you $900 bill from the Rolex factory".

Companies will just start ramping up the whole "Quality Assurance" BS. It's my expensive gadget. It's out of warranty. Allow me access to parts, and information--if you have them? I'm not being unreasonable?

Would I buy a new high end watch again--no, with the exception of a Seiko. They sell parts.

(I've been repairing watches for 15 years now.)
New Features. New Look. All Skype
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Or, it could just be that BigCo is... bigger? :)
You ever see a 3yo fight a 2yo?
That was my first thought. That's staking out some bold ground.