skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Food & water isn't contaminated unless fallout particles enter into it

Is that right? I had always thought objects absorb radiation, so it's actually inside the thing.

Does this really mean If I have a bunch of apples in air tight plastic bags and plastic water bottles and things like that, I can just leave them outside during a nuclear blast and then eat them later?

(Assume the plastic remains air-tight?)

That... sits badly with me.

Does that mean I can put an apple in am air-tight plastic container into an x-ray for a year then take it out and eat it... ?
I follow Godot since it got open sourced some years ago - great project.

What scripting language beside visual scripting does it support? Lua? Squirrel? or only C++? (I saw some screenshots there: https://godotengine.org/features )
I've never been a fan of PulseAudio, and always remove it and replace it with Jack on my Linux DAW systems, so this article wasn't really of interest to me .. until I started reading it. I think its the first time I've actually had any respect for PulseAudio as a framework .. but I'll be darned if I'm going to ever try to use it again. Jack just works so much better and with far less fuss and overhead .. still, I'm yet to see a "Jack under the hood" article nearly as impressive as this one.
> Not trying to be ultra-critical, but just think this is wasted resources, which could be better spent elsewhere.

This is an open-source project. Priorities are defined by what the developers need for their own projects, and if there's any time left by what they want to spend their spare time on.

I for one am glad that someone decided to contribute a C interface that is friendly to most languages with C/FFI capabilities to allow people to more easily integrate whatever language they want, rather than providing tighter integration with a single language that is a second class citizen on all the platforms I care about.

If you think C# integration is more important, go ahead and contribute to it.

They have just recently managed to get enough money through Patreon to pay for their main developer to work full-time on the engine, and they are planning to let patrons vote on which features get worked on for the next release. So if you don't have the time or drive to contribute good C# integration, you could donate and vote for C# integration to be picked up by the core developer(s).
Now extrapolate this to the same author's init system that controls how your
machine boots. He didn't become much better programmer since then.
"early to rise, early to bed, socially dead"
Yeah. Open source software also kind of demonstrates this. Solving problems and producing value for others is a powerful motivator in itself.
Whenever I see these types of laws actually being applied, I wonder why the companies involved don't just outsource the payments to subsidiaries in jurisdictions that don't have (or don't enforce, which is most of them) such laws. Are there any specific legal barriers to that?
just use https://news.ycombinator.com - works great on mobile too
I've got 20 years of hating audio on Linux at my back, so it's hard to let go of the pain, of which a significant amount was contributed by Pulseaudio. But, I have to agree that we finally (as of a couple years ago) have a good audio experience on Linux. It's good enough to where I don't even think about it anymore. I can even use pro-oriented audio software effectively.

I can also use old devices that don't work on Windows, anymore, of which I own several (a keyboard and an audio interface I'd planned to get rid of, but don't really need to now that I can do most things under Linux). Which is kinda funny...now Linux is more likely to work flawlessly with a given piece of audio equipment than Windows.

If only an official REAPER port would come along (I know it'll run under WINE, but there's also been rumblings of a Linux port for years, and I'd much rather run something that works natively)...
Agreed it feels a bit weird, but how would you distribute the money directly to the Uzbeki people? I'd imagine if the government of Uzbekistan received the settlement, it would find its' way to Swiss bank accounts rather than the people of Uzbekistan
What's the problem?

I buy bottled water as a drink on the go. I'm perfectly happy drinking tap water that's been bottled. If I've got the choice between a fizzy drink or water, I usually prefer water, thanks.

When I was a kid in the 80s there used to be public water fountains, now there aren't. I think we're all a little more germ paranoid these days too, so i doubt people would even use them if given a choice to buy a bottle of water for a £1 or use a fountain for free.

I mean the guy argues against himself:

Compared with the water needs of agriculture and energy production, the bottled water business is barely responsible for a trickle; in Michigan, it accounts for less than 1 percent of total water usage

The only thing I wish was better was that it wasn't plastic bottles, but I always recycle them if I can.
I spent the weekend with some employees of a company that did an ICO earlier this year, and YES they are paid in the ICO coins.
That's assuming that the governments don't game the unemployment statistics (and they do agressivly) for example if the UK used the older definition of unemployment it would be higher than 4.3.
Uber to Lose Private Hire Licence in London
Google, Facebook Supports Racist Ad Campaigning on Its Platform
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Many pesticides get absorbed in the fruits, washing doesn't help.
If I ruined your day monsanto ruined your life.
This is the main reason, why in spite of my complaints, I will support any Go project.

The end goal is that the overall software stack should become safer, regardless of what layers one is actually busy with.
They are in terms of NI (social security taxes) increases
So what does this program do? The README doesn't explain anything.
Just because they say that they can in a press release doesn't mean they really can. But what an average Saudi take a chance and risk jail or beheading b using Whatsapp to plan overthrowing the Saudi regime?
Just a note that PulseAudio maintainer Tanu Kaskinen is on Patreon [1]. He publishes monthly notes on PulseAudio changes there first and wouldn't mind people supporting him via Patreon.

[1] https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
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Better tell that to the Android, GWT, Guava, OpenJDK teams.
Uber sensationally stripped of licence to operate in London in shock move by TfL
Uber loses licence to operate in London
NLP Tutorial Using Python NLTK (Simple Examples)
That's odd. I found my Linux system always got HDMI audio right while Windows always got it wrong. I seem to recall I was able to force VLC to go to the right place by adding it to a config file, but the system sound never did work right on Windows...I had to manually select HDMI every time it got plugged back in.
I hope the quality of their pathfinding code is not indicative of the overall quality of this engine:
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/master/core/math/a...

They scan the entire open list and recompute the heuristic value for every node all so they can find the min. Yikes! Seriously guys, implement a binary heap. It's easy and your pathfinder will be much faster for it!
> I have yet to see a "Visual" programming environment that is even close to as efficient as normal programming. I may well be in a minority on this one, but surely time spent on this would better be spent in other areas like improving C# interoperability etc?

Visual programming languages are not designed for experienced programmers, who would rather type it out. It's designed for those who don't have a programming background, but still might need to wire up some logic on occasion. It's not necessarily meant to be efficient, just user-friendly to someone with no programming experience. If this language makes it easier to write tutorials or get into making games for people coming from an art or design background instead of a programming background, I'm all for it.
Thanks! It may not seem like it to you, but there's a lot to digest in your post. Before selling my company, I just had a big standard 401k. Now, I have someone who actually manages all that stuff for me.

It is quite a change. I've been retired for ten years, but I'm still getting used to certain things - and there were many things I had no compelling reason to learn.

Which is why I dabble in the market. I've even done some of my own bond selection. I am a sort of partial to bonds because then I can see what project it is that I'm supporting, find out who that project is supporting, and make choices that are both ethical and financially sound (less risky might be a better term).

It has been fascinating to learn some of this stuff. I do visit Mötley Fool sometimes but I mostly only use it as an educational resource. I'm not sure I can put my finger on it, but it just seems a little bit off to me. It's a vague thing, but it seems like they are trying to push me in a certain direction, like they are trying to influence not just what I should buy but the categories I should buy in - and I'm not really sure they have my best interests in mind.

I don't know if that makes any sense, really? It just seems off to me. It's like a feeling that I'm being manipulated. I'm pretty sure I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic or anything, it just isn't where I go for specifics. I happily go there to research and learn.

I still own a whole lot of shares in the now-parent company. I've been pondering unloading some of them and moving them to a more risky position. They are steady growth and I have no complaints but I'd like to put more into the account that I control and that is one way of doing it. Again, nothing that I can't afford to lose.

You've given me a lot to think about and I'm quite grateful. I'm always open to good advice. ;-) I freely admit there are many things I don't know.
Much more likely is that they've grown to a headcount that would require making quarterly disclosures as a public company would and thus might as well IPO.
There are visual languages that basically do "functions as boxes", lines as calls". These are useless.

There are visual languages that look the same as above, but lines are actually dataflow instead of function calls / control flow and the boxes are not opaque functions but introspectable data flow descriptions themselves. These offer some unique benefits, like transitive optimization and code elimination, that operate at a higher level than even full program optimization can achieve. (The latter being Simulink, for example.)

Then there are state charts (which are the big cousin of cumbersome non-hierarchical state diagrams as most people know them). These are, to me, practically a silver bullet regarding real-time systems. I went into automotive software development being very skeptical of Stateflow (coming from a classic C and Java background), but it has transformed the way I work with real time systems (even if not using it). It requires a huge upfront investment in analysis and thinking things through very thoroughly, which is why it is not particularly suited for systems with very volatile requirements, but it leaves you basically at state "done" after the design phase.
Some of these breaches, for instance the Gmail/Google breach, might have not been a breach of there systems at all. So far for that example (but there are more), one could apply that to Outlook/MS and get identical results. Aka; hack some service that has millions of emails/password (accumulated), filter all gmail emails, try to login to gmail with that compbi and if it works, put them into the list of 'hacked gmail accounts'.

Not trying to stick up for Google here, but, like MS, there seems to not be a real breach there.
The practical problem with having two qualities of water in a home is that the contractors who are working on water installations are not careful enough. Obviously you want to have zero risk that drinking water gets contaminated with less clean water.

So in some projects where they started out with such a dual water quality setup, they have revered to only drinking water.
Depends on what you measure :-) yes white goods (flat screen tvs etc) have reduced in price but housing costs (not normaly included in inflation measures see the UK's CPI or RPI ) have shot up.

And not all groups have the same inflation rate eg pensioners vs those of working age - pensions spend more on heating for example.
These considerations are usually elaborated at length in the studies. And usually take more things into account that what people think about in the first 5-50 minutes after hearing about the study.

That said a lot of studies are crap, maybe the conceptual framework is sound, but they botched the mathematical parts (the stats handwaving), or the sample size is too small, so even if the math is beautiful, the study is meaningless.

Now, for these data from the real world studies the controls are the differences between individual games/movies/albums. Because there are games that take more time to upload (because they take more time to crack, or the game publisher aggressively started to shut down torrent trackers). For movies and albums I don't know what kind of controls they came up with, but they can look at IP addresses of big torrent swarms and asking film studios for marketing spending data and then later cinemas for seats sold data, and try to look at the signals. (Did downloads with a lot of IP addresses from a state had an affect on cinema tickets sold in that state? Is there a per movie difference? Is there a common cause variable - they can try to control with DVD/Blueray/video-on-demand sales.)
Can you share ?
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I've used hn.premii.com for years and couldn't be happier. I also like the name, it means 'prizes' in Romanian.
I was just about to say the same thing. A few years ago it was a bit annoying to read on mobile, but they eventually made some minor CSS tweaks which made it much better.

Performing certain actions, such as upvoting, require zooming in a lot in order to hit the desired arrow. I'd love to see that improved, but it's hardly a deal-breaker for me.
Transport for London confirm Uber licence will not be renewed
If the union was any good, they would negotiate a price that was better than the individual could get on their own but cheaper to the company than moving a whole factory half way across the world. There is a spectrum between the two extremes where negotiation should take place.
I have used my national ID for:

- Applying for university

- Managing my student loan

- Registering a company

- Delivering taxes

- Changing health provider options

All online (various different services). This is in Norway.
Actually the electronic state ID systems supports multiple identity providers, I mostly use the one from my bank. Which them also covers all my banking needs.
No, but they will affect most of the equipment connected to those generators.
If it's so obviously a bad idea, why do investors keep buying into it?
Strongly agreed.

Especially since multiple successors to Unix already exist -- notably, Plan 9 and Inferno.
Uber London loses licence to operate
Uber's London licence renewed for only four months
They don't want you to know the secret to reading HN!

On a more serious note, I'm pretty happy with seeing it right here on this very domain. Hell, I haven't even changed the orange header.

The layout and navigation are simple but intuitive. The site is very light and loads quickly. I don't like how voting will make me jump around the page, but I can live with that. No site is perfect for everyone, after all.

Yeah, I think I'll just keep reading it right here.
This isn't true. Almost all "ordinary humans" manage to keep and use a pair of physical keys to there home, among other things. We only need a physical key with one simple piece of software that provides the key when asked for it, the user says yes by physically pressing a button on the key, and the key is "connected" (phy or wless). This isn't because ordinary humans can't use and manage protecting a key, it's a UX problem, and IMO a simple UX problem that hasn't been solved because it will destroy the major technological incumbents major source of revenue.
the legal and medical question that comes up is "when did it start?" Pee-wee football? high school? college? certainly before they get to the NFL. While I don't defend them for hiding the issue for so long, at this point, now that its common knowledge, its pretty much like boxing or MMA. Its people's choice to do it. The consequences are plain to see, and still they continue.

Others may be in the situation that football (and the incurring injuries) are all they have, or all they know and that maybe its too late to turn back or 'fix' the problem. its not just the NFL. It's also the NCAA which makes far more money off these kids than the NFL.
IMO visual scripting languages are less about efficiency, more about accessibility. Given a few simple rules and easy to discover widgets, just about anyone can make stuff happen. If anyone can make stuff happen, your going to increase your potential userbase significantly.

It always amazes me when I see people (who would otherwise be freaked out about learning a programming language) having great fun making stuff out of what a seasoned developer might consider archaic gui-driven logic editors. And in comparison to more "pro" development systems with "proper" programming languages, they can churn stuff out by the bucketload with relative ease.
An Introduction to OpenStack Technology
It does have a readme and that’s what the link takes you straight to?
Why not open an issue with references on how to improve it?

It's open source.
You could even go ahead and submit a PR with your improvements.
Dang. Good thing London has Addison Lee.

Edit: who are a long-running minicab service who give fixed price bids, have a reasonable app, have their own fleet by dedicated drivers, and are usually price competitive with Uber.
Lose or never had one?
Visual scripting as an aid to designers has been a thing for a long time in commercial game engines. For example Unreal Engine has had visual scripting to aid level design and shader creation for quite a long time.

It's definitely less efficient than text if you're already an experienced programmer but its also more discoverable and intuitive to understand for a lot of people that aren't. It's also nice to play with in a way that pedantic text syntax isn't. They're also really nice for processes where you can inspect the results so far at each stage (shaders, procedural texture generation, solid modelling).

It's not really about raw programming efficiency but efficiency to get the job done, it empowers people other than dedicated programmers to do their jobs without having to sit around waiting for a programmer to do something for them which is very important in terms of iterating on concepts.
Not until it catches up with Java regarding language features, UI toolkits, DB drivers, graphical debuggers, clustering monitoring tools.

Meanwhile most commercial JDKs do actually offer AOT compilation, with OpenJDK 9 intoducing it as well.
What changed four months ago? I didn't notice any change.
From personal experience.

1) MongoDB allows me to be more agile. I don't have to deal with database migrations (No locks when adding new column for example), which allows deployments at any time.

2) Indexed arrays. Allows to add "tags" to any entity which are useful in production (A/B testing, force specific behavior).

3) Easier to manage. I don't need an expensive PostgreSQL consultant to setup and hope for the best.

Your mileage can vary.
I've used the Hacker News Enhancement Suite for the past few years and thought it did just enough things to make the site a tad more usable without going overboard:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
Manhattan’s God of Insects
Greyball specifically called out by TfL as a primary reason behind their decision - that's karma for you.
goodreads links for the books in question

Albert Howard - Agricultural Testament - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2225725.Agricultural_Tes...

Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10023218-sepp-holzer-s-p...

Masanobu Fukuoka - The One-Straw Revolution - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/976905.The_One_Straw_Rev...

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You can read these books at archive.org.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.270767

https://archive.org/details/SeppHolzersPermacultureAPractica...

https://archive.org/details/The-One-Straw-Revolution
Their current license runs out on September 30th
The math of doughnuts: 'Moonshine' sheds light on elliptic curves
What functionality are you looking for exactly?
I have a bridge to sell you.
‘Not fit and proper’: Uber loses London licence
This is essentially a new form of luddism. The world is moving forward, with systems evolving by consolidating, grouping and analyzing every aspect of us, our world, and the things we do. Centralization is the answer to so many of our world's ills. Everything from crime, to poverty, to inequality, to disaster-relief. You name it, they can all benefit from a centralized store of all of humanity's knowledge. That is the entire point of the web: connected and cross-referenced knowledge.

Fighting that is fighting progress due to fear. And blanketly decrying "centralization" of data because of the fear that it may get lost doesn't address the problems. We should move our society forward, but we should do it while solving the individual security concerns piecemeal and as they happen.
This is an article published on 26th May 2017. The license was not renewed and the September 2017 thread "	Uber London licence not renewed" is at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310664
Can't over-rule the law everywhere Uber. (Public transport in London is incredibly good most of the time anyway...)
Pirates – yes, pirates – may be why the US doesn't use the metric system
Uber Loses London Operating Licence After Shock Ruling by TfL
I wonder where those 9 people are though. Locally, for a given job opening, that could perhaps be true. Nationally however, unemployment is at historically low levels in many Western economies; 4.3% in the UK, 4.4% in the US, 3.9% in Germany, 6.2% in Canada, 4.8% in New Zealand.

Which should then drive an increase in wages. But it hasn't, and economists don't know why - or at least as far as this armchair economist has read ;-)
Uber loses its license to operate in London
So they have to stop operating in London? I wonder if this will be used as a precedent to do the same in other cities?
Stop Asking, Start Doing
More from the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/22/uber-lice...

They have 21 days to appeal and can keep operating until the appeal process itself finishes (Oct 13th then).

> [TFL said] Uber’s approach and conduct demonstrate a lack of corporate responsibility
Expensive relative to other European capitals though (the unions control over TFL in part to blame for that though).
I could indeed and thank you for the suggestion. However I'd need to be motivated enough to spend time submitting tickets (good tickets!) to a project I'm not currently invested in. Which I am not.

I guess the point of submission is to draw attention to the library and garner community comments. I feel I've made my contribution to that discussion.
Dutch legal system is often chosen because you don't want to be a counterparty to an agreement in a shitty jurisdiction.

Typically companies worry more about their counterparty screwing (e.g. not delivering, delivering late, delivering low quality, or not paying, paying late or paying too little) them than the government.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Jurisdictions that turn a blind eye to bribery indicate strong levels of corruption, which means you're vulnerable to your contract not being honoured by your partner and being unable to enforce penalties.