skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The odds of a terrorist group detonating a nuclear weapon are, for all intents and purposes, zero.

The odds of a terrorist group detonating a dirty bomb are not, but the casualties from one will be much, much lower then what they can accomplish with an equivalent effort put into bathtub explosives.

The danger of nation-states using their arsenal of nuclear weapons against each-other is at least two orders of magnitude greater. If those two nation states are the US, and Russia, the death toll will also number in the hundreds of millions.

If you really want to optimize for 'not dying in a nuclear explosion', you should be clamoring for immediate, unconditional disarmament, instead of worrying about orcs from Mordor carrying out Hollywood suitcase nuke plots.
I'm not buying that most people use Lyft in your area - passengers or drivers. I believe you think that and your circle of people may also be doing the same, but beyond that, I'm guessing there's a lot of bias. Especially if you're saying everywhere you go Lyft seems to be more popular among riders. It's just not true at all.

For my own anecdote, I'd bet 75% of my FB friends with smartphones within my age range, 21-40, have Uber on their phone or have only ridden Uber. And a fraction of them will have Lyft. Among people I actually know, this is roughly the case, with Lyft being a bit more popular, but that's because of who I am/surround myself with.
Your cited sites don't care for the reason. But Germany had a lot of immigration of people which make more money in Germany than they could at home, but less than the more native population.

Singles: http://www.google.es/url?q=https://www.forbes.com/sites/thea...
In Australia we only have Uber and taxis. Nobody is switching to taxis because of a 10% price increase. Because most people are using Uber for the fact that they will always come, always pick you up and always drop you off at the right spot.

So it's fantastic that Lyft is doing okay in the US. But Uber is playing a whole different game.
That actually makes sense if you get rid of the assumption that they were in orbit in the first place.

Once you have cheap, powerful thrusters like starwars/startrek has (thrusters that can hold the mass of the whole ship against gravity in any direction, independent of the main engine), it makes little sense to actually bother going into orbit, unless you actually want to turn the thrusters off.

Instead, just pick a point on the planet and hover over it. Or pick a circular orbit-like path around the planet for maximum coverage. Just pick whatever position or path through space makes the most strategic sense.

If you have a ship operating like this, and it loses power to it's thrusters... then of course it will 'sink' into the nearest planet as gravity suddenly becomes the primary force acting on the ship.
This is a common problem on HN. There is a specific spot for the email address that is visible to the member him/herself and many people think it is publicly visible, but it is not. If it has not been added to the freeform "about" area where you can tell the world about yourself, no, it isn't visible to anyone else.

This is likely what is going on here.
Permutations are always invertible. Otherwise several different inputs will be mapped to the same output, which needlessly reduces your state space.

The inverse is also required for decryption: If you encrypt as ciphertext = permutation(plaintext + key), decryption is plaintext = inverse(ciphertext) - key.
Beaten Amazon to it, then. c5s are still mia.
Why? You really want to know the Truth?

He was a lawyer by training, and then went to a BIG Money house in NYC, but dropped out of that.

Then drifted to high-tech, some how got involved with paypal, next obvious thing, right transfer money by email.

He's a recovering Drug Addict. He's a homo-sexual, and no matter what they tell you, its not 'gay' to be queer in a straight world.

He's a classic adrift middle-age crisis man.

He always compares himself to his nemesis and partner, Elon Musk, Elon loved high-tech from the begin, played computers, wrote games, went to college, dropped out ala gates/jobs started a company, and then used the money to be make rockets and cars. Elon loves TECH, Thiel does not.

Thiels biggest project now is Parabiosys the idea that blood from children/infants can provide immortality to the old. It's a multi-billion dollar biz say's Thiel, the only problem is getting the blood of children from their parents.

Now ask again. Why is Peter pessimistic?
> Lyft came to town

Sounds like the parent is referring to his/her town. It's still anecdotal because surely the parent doesn't have that statistic but it very well may be the case in his/her town.
Having only IEEE 754 floats is a very limiting design decision, but okay.
Original commenter is correct. This has little to do with salaries. The political power and money goes toward a government that sends tax dollars at high margins to contractors who don't even earn it in many cases. There's no major liability for malice so long as it affects taxpayers instead of those in power. The defense contractors continue to cut anything nonessential to their mission of turning tax dollars into profit for the people on top. And vicious circle continues.

Here's a nice write-up on the bribery and abuses of just one:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/03/spyagency200703

The others pull the same shit. The biggest trick is the revolving door of moving people back and forth into the private sector with them benefiting while taxpayers lose.

https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/

And note before any counterpoint that a non-corrupt system might pay better wages in the event you're right. Most of the wages are rigged to go up and to bullshit that benefits people I'm describing. That could easily go to better tech. For instance, the first time the private market started doing strong security was a small initiative by the U.S. government mandating it with purchases promised in return. Led to the strongest systems of the time that resisted NSA pentesting. Although NSA killed that (incompetence or malice), it could be done again with a different group.

http://lukemuehlhauser.com/wp-content/uploads/Bell-Looking-B...
That's the variation I remember from my childhood in Miami.
There's this weird thing in the US where ads can say "ask you doctor for <drug brand>".

That's incredibly stupid and illegal in all but one other country in the world.
Sure.

I used to work on Compute Engine itself. I led the team that built and launched Preemptible VMs, and I still participate in its upkeep / improvements. So I generally still write little bits of code that nobody else wants to (especially monitoring and other cleanup type work).

About a year ago we started an Office of the CTO with me as the first "hire". So I transitioned from building new things and writing code much of the time (Note: Many at Google will snicker at this, as I am routinely teased for being a pseudo-PM) to talking to high-profile customers most of the time (think CTO / VP Eng types). We usually talk through where they are, what challenges they have, and whether or not GCP can actually fulfill their needs today (and as my group focuses on candor, we certainly say "You shouldn't migrate to us until we do X, Y, and Z, or you rewrite Foo").

I just hang out on HN as I like the dialogue :).
Central Illinois: same version
Definitely agree on the suggestion of looking for problems. Reddit and forums are great places to start. What do you think of bloomberry.com?
Regardless of how we respond, a considerable amount of damage has already been done. From the article, it is estimated that the number of current addicts in Ohio is equivalent to the population of Akron, one of Ohio's bigger towns. This has already wrought havoc on the communities - it's unclear to me whether they would recover even if we could snap our fingers and dispel everyone's addiction instantly. Family members have died, social ties have been altered or destroyed, jobs lost, credit ruined, savings spent, homes foreclosed, and so on.
I believe the solution to this isn't "let more people have opioids", it's very hard to determine abuse, and requires monitoring. Reducing the number to monitor is one way increasing safety. Long term I believe the solution will move to "let's find a safer alternative to opioids".

Based on research canibis is promising http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullart...
With a 25% reduction in opioid abuse by allowing patients access (not necessarily prescribing).
The US could easily do the same.

Just pay the same Chinese companies to build our roads, cities and railways.
Notes from an Emergency (pinboard)
Well the loss this past quarter went down. Though yeah, it doesn't seem like they are looking to break even any time soon.
> The fact they're losing money like this doesn't really mean anything because Uber isn't a normal business.

Yeah, Uber is different because of its insane amount of investor money but losing money is still losing money; it can't go on forever. So saying it doesn't mean anything is a bit shortsighted in my opinion.

> It's a place for absurdly wealthy people to park vast sums of cash on the bet that Uber will continue to gobble up marketshare from taxi companies, etc., until they're in a position to disrupt transit in general (and ride sharing services, too) with self-driving cars and who knows what else they'll come up with.

Seems like an extremely risky bet to me. I'm unconvinced they'll be able to make any decent amounts of money in this service especially considering the majority of auto manufacturers are working on similar capabilities; they'll be able to drive the price down far below Uber ever could unless they start manufacturing their own vehicles.
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Lyft just isn't a real competitor outside of major American cities right now. Go to a city without an international airport and see how many lyft drivers there are.
We don't have many - panadol & ibuprofen combos, viagra generics, branded asthma drugs. Generally they purchase ad spots outside of prime time (and likely with more regularity on channels like One & Prime, where there's a slightly older audience.
You haven't been paying attention to what Uber's been doing. They started by charging flat fares on Pool, now they're charging flat fares for all rides. They're decoupling the price that the rider pays from what the driver gets. Pool makes this obfuscation easier, since the calculation is much more complex for rides that are partially shared. They do seem to be raising prices on riders without passing it on to drivers.
Yeah, it's one of the benefits of being attached to "the rest of Google". As with Broadwell, Google was front and center in helping Intel qualify this part. The distinction is that with Skylake the lead time over general availability was even longer (see our announcement of this at Supercomputing in November).

We still have some things on Skylake we're going to do beyond today's announcement, so today is really "Welcome!".

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud.
They are surely gonna run out of top c-level execs faster than out of cash.
I remember before this epidemic, patients were just in pain.

Medical schools tried to train new doctors of the importance of alleviating the pain. We had doctors whom were taught it's not ok to let the patient suffer.

My fear is we will become a society that goes back to not treating pain, and it's happening.

I had a friend die in extreme pain because they were afraid to give my 75, severe COPD, multiple health problems, including a lifetime of untreated Psychological problems--opoids. They were afraid of "Hooking" him. Yea--rediculious. Where? Supposedly the best pain clinic in San Francisco. Oh, the wonder boys did offer to to cut a nerve for his back pain. He died approximately 6 weeks later, in missery.

I'm not saying opoids aren't addictive. Actually, there's studies done on older patients that prove that opoids are not addictive, but don't feel like looking them up. And don't feel like a big debate.

My wish is society taught responsible drug use, and that might involve legalizing opium. Oh no! End of conversation.

I do know people who are just on a maintance dose of opoids. They function. They don't want more. They are happy with the dose they were prescribed. They are on them for years. They don't have the need to abuse them. You wouldn't know it though. They make it out like Everyone is looking to overdose. Most people are overdosing because they have to rely on unregulated street drugs, and then again--no one besides their idiot friends gives them any advice.

Like, if I gave you a case of beer, would you drink the entire case? Well yes--I might? Go ahead, you might just wake up. You won't wake up from a huge dose of opoids though.
I grew up in Georgia and this sounds like what I remember.
The Econtalk podcast recently had a episode about the economics of opiate addiction. How people become addicted, how the drugs are distributed, etc.

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/sam_quinones_on.htm...
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo,

Is deterministic, so

Make the outcome more elastic

With a rhyme that's more stochastic.

(You're welcome.)
Peagus rockets aren't cryogenic, they are solid monopropellant rockets. Not really all that dangerous.
As long as we're sharing anecdotes, most of the people I know, parents and young kids included, have made the switch to Lyft starting about 8 months ago. They seem to be the less evil company, so people enjoy working for and using them.
Isn't this simply "fiscal stimulus?"

I mean, the federal government is supposed to create jobs by spending money. Doesn't matter what they spend the money on.

The only acceptable way to measure economic output is in terms of the dollar value of all the goods and services bought and sold. It could consist of marijuana farming, muscle car paint jobs, bass fishing lures, watery beer, custom gun barrels, cow-brain sandwiches and East European strippers. Doesn't matter. We can't go around imposing our value-based notions of "bullshit jobs" on top of that measurable dollar amount.

That wouldn't be economics.
Starting a Business as a Developer in 2017
The irrational fear about "terr'ists" the parent post is getting at, though, seems to rarely have anything to do with cataclysmic events like nuclear weapons these days. I literally hear people I know talk about keeping their guard up around Muslims because they're afraid of knife attacks, or you see the TSA freaking out about people pulling their clear plastic bag containing travel size toothpaste out of their suit case when this particular airport doesn't require you to do that. Statistically, individual acts of terrorism like that are indeed exceptionally unusual.
Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland
Similar feelings st the beginning of the 20th sentury... everything invented, nothing more to discover... bottom line, no body can predict the future and something amazing can be right around the corner...
>An irrelevant percent of people will choose to take the bus because their $10 ride is now $10.50.

That's not how the market works at scale.
But what destabilizes it, if it remains a statistical anomaly, is irrational, disproportionate terror. Putting other threats in perspective helps prevent that.
Hmm. Fair enough, assumed new context from paragraph. Regardless some data would be interesting here as I experienced seemingly the exact opposite. Lyft is essentially useless in my part of the bay area.
Just like real estate sales and bond trading?
$ dig +dnssec github.com
will give the answer and the answer is NO.
I agree about the hype but the technology is based on solid grounds, revolutionary, and evolving beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. Just look at new stuff like DFINITY [1] and the cryptographic primitives behind it. Since the barrier of entry is null there will be a lot of scams, no doubt about this, but we will see interesting projects arising. Good projects with good leadership have new ways of funding.

[1] https://dfinity.network/
That would be at 0% growth, which is unlikely.
Shadow, a full Tor network simulator to improve Tor network performance
If drugs are over prescribed in such a number that mass diversion is possible, does it matter? This is more than stealing from grandmas pill bottle, the drug companies knew how many pills they were selling to pill mills for example.
I never heard that variant but I just read it to my kids and as soon as I got to "atchie katchi" my 16 y/o daughter shot up and grabbed her 14 y/o brother and the two of them broke into a paddy-cake like routine to this:

eeny meeny sesalini
ooh ah tumbolini
achi achi liberachi
i love you

take a peach take a plumb take a sip of bubble gum
no peach no plumb no sip of bubble gum

saw you with your boyfriend last night
how did you know
i peeked through the window
nosy
didn’t take a bath
dirty
stepped on a baby
must be crazy
that’s why they call me

eeny meeny sesalini ooh a tumbolini
achi achi liberachi
i love you
I wouldn't doubt it, Uber comes preinstalled on most android phones.
Vertical Farming
Sounds like you have the luxury of picking and choosing your jobs. Most American's don't.
I've lived in multiple cities of different size where I had multiple grocery stores within 5 minutes walking. In dense-for-US SF where I need to drive for 10 minutes to get to the closest Safeway.
> "I" vs "me". Example: "He told Tom and me to get ready." vs "If John and I get married, we’ll have two kids."

For both those sentences, "me" and "I" are interchangeable. In the second, "me" is more common in speech. The "I" in the subject and "me" in the object rule is only hard-and-fast when it's the only word in the subject or object.
I remember Ms Meeker from dot-com-bomb v1.0. The most likely answer to your question is Ms Meeker's numbers continue to be as evidently fraudulent as ever. Some people just fail upwards. Anyone believing such information and using it to buy something is the fool who fully deserves to be parted from their money.

Check the sources, they're mostly investment bank and accountancy consultancy sales documents. They aren't audited and apparently there are no adverse consequences for lying like a rug in such things,
How to parse contextual keywords in a programming language
Interested to know why this language made the front page?
I suggest you go do a little research about what Purdue did before commenting further. Other commenters have already provided links to the LA Times investigation. Read it.

Purdue knew full well that 24 hour effectiveness was the factor that distinguished Oxy from other drugs on the market, despite the fact that their own studies showed the drug did not offer 24 hours of relief in many cases.

Upon hearing that doctors were shortening the dosage schedules, they could have left well enough alone. Doctors prescribe off label all the time. There was no need for Purdue to step in.

But that's exactly what they did. Purdue actively fought the doctors and lobbied to convince them to stick to the marketed dosage schedules because otherwise Oxy would have no perceived benefit in the marketplace over other opiods. There is documented evidence as reported by the LA Times that supports this.

This has absolutely zero to do with regulation. The only way you could convince yourself of that is if you've already got a conclusion ("big government regulations bad!") and are you simply trying to find an explanation that fits it.
I think I found the issue. In terms of absolute (not relative) MB/sec performance, the main culprit is the slow cpu speed of 1.2GHz single threaded performance instead of 3.3GHz. The other investigations into "/O2 /O3" optimizations or 8k outer loop were red herrings.

However, for relative MB/sec performance comparison to SHA256, it seems to point back to the blake2 official reference code (non SSE) being very slow. Wei Dai Crypto++ also happens to have BLAKE2 algorithm and when I executed that, it ran at 525MB/sec which was faster than SHA256 and also faster than SHA1. No outer 8k chunk loop necessary for Crypto++ benchmark.

>Because you'll be measuring a lot of memory copying time apart from hashing time.

Yes, I notice the numerous memcpy() functions in the blake2s?-ref.c. For additional tests, I rewrote the loop to call update() on chunks and tried various sizes (8k, 16k, 32k, ... 256k, 512k, 1MB). At 256k chunks and below, I got 235MB/sec which was an improvement but still slower than SHA256. As stated above, the real key was to use an optimized BLAKE2 algorithm instead of the official reference code.

>you should try to reproduce the results of https://bench.cr.yp.to

I can't tell if the blake2 entries in https://bench.cr.yp.to are using official reference or optimized code so trying to replicate those results with official reference files may be a wild goose chase.
Daemen talked about some figures for KangarooTwelve during RWC 2017:

* Intel Core i5-4570 (Haswell) 4.15 c/b for short input and 1.44 c/b for long input

* Intel Core i5-6500 (Skylake) 3.72 c/b for short input and 1.22 c/b for long input

* Intel Xeon Phi 7250 (Knights Landing) 4.56 c/b for short input and 0.74 c/b for long input

https://youtu.be/F_nAGS9L97c?t=2451
Lets by realistic, this is far more dangerous day to day than terrorism.

Neither are going to destroy the country. These drugs are going to destroy a lot of lives though.
They're called "black swan events."

Apart from writing difference of books and publishing hundreds of papers on the subject (see Nassim Talib), the tl;dr is economists and sociologists still really have no way of truly accounting for them besides being cognizant of their existence.
I'm not entirely sure, but models typically don't. Nassim Taleb wrote a book called Black Swans about these types of events.
Well, they were not about to drink heavy water, they were just breathing air with some percentage of heavy hydrogen.

How much D2 can you breathe in before you suffocate anyway?

Of whatever amount you do breathe, how little is absorbed?

Of the tiny amount that is in fact absorbed, how much ends up exchanging D atoms with your body?

I don't know the answers to these questions, but my bet is the airborne process is orders of magnitude less efficient than drinking D2O.

Their main concerns should be:

1. Suffocation from lack of O2

2. Risk of explosion if the D2 percentage is in the danger zone

3. If that think was leaking out of a reactor, maybe there were some byproducts leaking out with it? Like, I dunno, tritium? That would be really, really nasty to breathe in.
+1 For real world business problems that I most frequently encounter doing consulting, it's hard to beat Random Forests and/or Gradient Boosting. Truth be told, most business problems I encounter turn out to be largely helped by good old linear models.
I don't know about the bridges specifically, but that the interstate system had an explicit national security purpose is not just well-documented, it's literally right there in the name of the law that created it: National Interstate and Defense Highways Act.
To address your final question: patients are strongly pushed to take prescribed medications at the prescribed intervals.

You decided your didn't need anything extra for your pain. That is good. Many people have difficulty toughing it out, maybe they had it worse. Perhaps some got an infection from their wisdom teeth removal (or they failed to follow directions and got dry socket leading to extreme pain). Given the prior doctor instructions (and perhaps not understanding why they are currently in pain) patients take their drugs at the maximum (or in some cases, above) the prescribed rate.

This isn't too say your choice was wrong, but that many others aren't as fortunate to avoid addiction, add once they are: their choices can no longer be considered rational, but as those made by an addict in pain who had been told opioids will help.