skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keyword here: "acute". Nothing about chronic exposure, which is what is relevant here. Even if they did have a long-term study of low-dose exposure, it would be an extremely limited one (rats, mice, controlled conditions) missing the mix of much more stuff we are exposed to all the time.

Having suffered from (finally clinically diagnosed and clinically treated with chelators DMPS and DMSA - with great results) low-dose long-term heavy metal poisoning I had to find out, both myself (studying as much as I could) and from the doctors, that there basically exists next to zero clinically relevant research for a) low-dose exposure, b) long-term, c) (and this one is by far the worst) a mix of chemicals rather than examining just one or two at a time in isolation. The last one is very relevant - mixing stuff often dramatically changes the effect. I once found an LD (lethal dose) heavy metal poisoning study on rats where mixing lead and mercury was about a thousand times more lethal (i.e. 1/1000th the dose of both) compared to poisoning the rats with only one of them.

The reason isn't a conspiracy of course, it's just impractical to impossible to study anything but acute poisonings and only of one or very few chemicals at a time.

Also, each time somebody recites officially allowed values I cringe - for example, the medical science opinion about the desirable lead exposure is zero. However, of course this isn't practical - and this is what all those official limits are: Administrative practical values, considering what can be done, where the research stands (always erring on the opposite side of caution - you have to prove the bad effect before the limits are lowered) and at what cost.

So no, science does not have the answer about any of this. The internal medicine + environmental medicine research doctor that was my main doc is pretty pessimistic about the stuff we (humans) do, and this guy lives with the research, always citing this or that new study when we meet.

Maybe I should add that there indeed are lots and lots of studies. However, they are incredibly specific, they won't be the basis for tougher legislation/lower official limits, because even if you take a hundred (good) studies of that kind you did not prove that the specific effect observed in the lab is relevant "in the world setting", and/or on humans, and/or what the combined net effect of "everything" might be. Which is, at least today, pretty much impossible.
Ordinarily (and as indicated by your expectation), a timestamp records the time at which an event occurred. In most databases, the tranasction time is either the start of the transaction or the time at which the transaction coordinator initiates commit.

In spanner, there is a twist. The timestamp is decided by its transaction coordinator. Notice the word "decided". It means that the coordinator picks/computes a timestamp, not merely record an event's real time. The timestamp given to a transaction is the largest of: (1) timestamps from the various participants (other servers that may have been touched by that transaction) (2) its own latest clock time, and is strictly greater than any previously committed transactions.

(Bonus material:) Having picked this timestamp, it is possible that it (the timestamp) is greater than the coordinating machine's clock. A spanner server does not reflect the transaction's modifications to concurrent queries until the server's clock is past the transaction's commit timestamp. This is called "commit wait".
And yet here we're discussing an idea for which you personally believe that someone or some group will be harmed but it is not certain, some of us would say it's not even likely. Some of us would even say it would be a great benefit to society and have the opposite affect you claim.

But because you believe (perhaps even irrationally) that the idea could harm you give yourself, and anyone who thinks as you do, the right to damage people's reputation. History has shown this to be very dangerous behavior.
The question, though, is with or without feathers. Elephants have huge head radiators and no plumage, so there is a point to the article
All over Europe they have a requirement that you carry ID at all times. It's very handy for governments.

It is also a hangover from Nazi occupation. The UK has no ID that you have to carry at all times, nor does the US.

So where as requiring ID in the Netherlands is a non issue it's a massive issue in the US, especially as many people don't need a passport if they never leave the US.

Personally I prefer the US and UK systems. I like the basic level of anonymity that you have from not having to carry ID.
A DevOps Christmas Carol
It's exactly what NULL is about: the NULL value signifies "unknown", and as soon as you have an unknown value on either side of a relational operator, the result must also be unknown.
I'd add a cloudwatch alarm keeping track of the number of invocations you expect in a given hour. You can also set a concurrency threshold (a relatively new feature)
They're going after the Daily Mail readers who can cope with a few more syllables in their words.
What will happen is massive ugly in-fighting among professionals over turfs, who is responsible for what, whose faults what is. Eventually, winners of that cut the throat and backstab fight will take the role of middle managers.
Introducing the GoodWatch
If that's the best example of a 'falsehood' the ISPs presented then I'm not surprised the ISPs won. What kind of consumer ISP doesn't provide DNS servers? And in which universe would it be acceptable to sign up for a new ISP and discover DNS resolution didn't work?

Yes, in theory ISPs can outsource it, in theory a company can outsource everything. That doesn't make any difference to arguments about whether it's an integral part of the service though.
Sidenote: Given the types of people that are traditionally familiar with public key use (journalists, linux users, etc.), and weird tax situations these highly fluctuating, unregulated type things might create, sometimes I wonder if cryptocoins might be a tool used by unscrupulous governments or such to knock-off opponents (certainly not in this case, but given that it's a global thing, it could be anyone... ).
The question is not whether you have to carry an ID on you at all times, but whether you have to show your ID to vote. Having an ID does not really change anything with respect to anonymity, unless you have to carry it. Something that really impacts anonymity and privacy: mobile phones.
Yes, bitcoin is decentralized and distributed. But blockchains don't have to be inherently.
8 App marketing trends to watch out for in 2018
Science can't really measure 'societal harm', it's not a well defined concept. The moment government delegates what 'societal harm' and 'societal benefit' mean to a bunch of self-proclaimed scientists they've effectively given up on democracy and delegated to a dictatorship of doctorates. But history shows us that having a PhD is hardly a magic talisman against dangerous or delusional thinking.
Show HN: Swimlanes – A web app for creating sequence diagrams with Markdown
The use of "female" as a noun when referring to human beings is in itself a red flag for me.

You're not being whiny. Default startup culture is not particularly welcoming toward women, and it seems to be worse in some places than others - particularly where founders in their 20s who've never held a job outside a startup predominate. The behavior you describe is unprofessional and suggests some of these interviewers may be skirting the lines of legality (in the US at least).

May I ask what location you're looking for work in and how you're finding openings? It seems to me that typical culture varies from city to city.
A Letter from the Publisher of Nautilus
Yeah, I had no idea there was another company by virtually the same name. A little disambiguation would be nice.
It's almost like you can choose whether or not to use Facebook
Bought a Trezor. Wish I could reverse my decision.
While secure and works great, their dev team is not the most responsive and they are showing no inclination of supporting other ALT coins / crypto platforms like NEO.
At least, Ledger Nano has supporting NEO and is looking to add support to other ALT coins.

Not fun when you plunk down a hundred dollars to realize that you have to buy another device once you start getting interested in other ALT coins.
If you don't count tech companies, plenty of non tech conglomerates, restaurants, even things like cosmetics and trading make it big on just their savings and bank loans.
The EU doesn’t enforce the regulations anyway, member states do through their respective agencies. In this case, the Environment Agency and/or Scottish EPA will have responsibility.
I use this tool a lot. Simple but effective!
Be fair. The burden on the defender is harsh as fuck.
You're only as strong as your weakest link and attacks/probing is very cheap
You could be married for convenience / shame / societal cover etc to a woman, but "inside" be gay.

You could be married to a woman normally and feel straight or bi, but decide to be strictly gay (or to identify as such).

It depends whether gay one deems something you "are" (e.g. genetic) or something you "decide you want to be" (e.g. personal decision).

Add all kinds of BS cultural trends and it can be any combination.
The core issue here is surely not Dems vs Reps but rather that there's a meaningful difference in law between "information service" and "telecommunications service". This is the kind of vague regulatory language that causes so many fights in the halls of power.

Can someone reasonably argue an ISP is an information service? Hell yes! The internet started out by being called "the information superhighway", I guess some of us here are old enough to remember that. The internet is literally used to retrieve information, that's all it does. If an ISP is the on-ramp to the information superhighway then it can obviously be classified as an information service.

Can someone else reasonably argue an ISP is a telecommunications service? Hell yes! ISPs move packets around, they may also provide other forms of information on top, but their core service is the movement of data over wires: surely the essence of being telecoms.

In such arguments it's important to take a step back and realise it can legitimately go either way. The problem is not the players, it's the game. And the only way to fix that is to change the rules of the game. Instead of bickering about the exact bucket into which ISPs fall, pass a new law that is explicitly targeting ISPs and say explicitly what they can or cannot do.
Is Digital Transformation Clouding Our Security Judgment?
Winning the most votes is irrelevant if the contest was something different. I‘m sure the campaigns would have looked differently if the contest had been about the number of votes.
FCC Premium Comment Line to Fast-Track Net Neutrality Complaints for 49.99/Month
In terms of political philosophy it's a fundamental issue. What is paramount? The sovereignty of the individual, or the government?
This strongly reminds me of the various math magazines we have here in Germany. (I know that other countries have similar magazines, but I only grew up with the German ones, except for one Canadian one.)

The most popular seems to be "Wurzel" [1] (translated: "root").

The target audience of the magazines are students (pupils) at school, as well as young students at university. The articles explain advanced math topics. Not too advanced, of course, but still far outside what they see in school. The articles use formalisms only where they make things more clear. They build on common school knowledge. Advanced formalisms are only okay if they are introduced in the article. And the articles aren't too long. The goal is that everything can be understood by students, if they are interested.

Also, the magazines usually contain reports about math olympiads and similar activities, usually written by participants (i.e. by students, not teachers).

Finally, these contain math exercises. But don't think of school exercises. Think of math olympiad, just that you have more time to solve them. Students send their solutions in and it is published in the magazine which students solved which exercise successfully.

The latter one should not be underestimated - it is more or less how all these magazines started: You have math competition, the students go back to school, and you want to keep in touch with them, so you offer them so solche math puzzles in their free time, give them feedback to their solutions, and do everything they don't feel alone with their mathematical interests. You can do that individually only with so many students, so you start a magazine for a more efficient communication.

[1] http://wurzel.org/
I've seen this design in the wild quite often. It's most often attributed to the abuse of an intended original design. The original designer most likely intended the value populated in the "DateofDeath" column to imply death. The intention didn't account for someone down the system's evolution to imply "ALLOW NULL" to be interpreted as optional.

If your table is expected to answer "how many dead people whose date of death is unknown" then you'll most certainly also need an "IsDead" (true/false) NOT NULL column. (Best separate the table into "Death" with NOT NULL DateofDeath.)
> I think the only thing you can turn out to be is bisexual.

It's not your place to decide.
People Don't Get the Link Between Meat Consumption and Climate Change (2016)
You say "let's get something straight" but follow up with blatant misinformation.

Directly from wikipedia:

"Even though the H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa, it is one of the few temporary visa categories recognized as dual intent, meaning an H-1B holder can have legal immigration intent (apply for and obtain the green card) while still a holder of the H-1B visa. Effectively, the requirement to maintain a foreign address for this non-immigrant classification was removed in the Immigration Act of 1990."
Why is this even on front page? This is 2017 people, not 1997. What does the gender/sexuality has to do with when dealing with cancer of a loved one. You will do anything you could do for a loved one.
What about voters ? They are money-seeking. Who would save them from themselves ?
Apple News seems to give me full access without a subscription. I don’t know if this is a temporary, promotional thing.
And if you expect the WSJ to be anything other than pro-corporate, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Kevin Mitnick's "The Art of Deception" comes to mind. While it's more the black hat type, it's a good look at social engineering from the perspective of an expert. I'm always intrigued at how a lot of hackers start with an interest in magic tricks.
>The reason why comments aren't allowed anymore in the spec

Is BS.
But wouldn't the sex quality be an obvious indicator? I feel like this kind of thing would only happen to two people who are especially prude. But what do I know...
People in this very thread are saying anyone who works on such technologies are inherently unethical people. Do you not see how this kind of labelling is dangerous and distructive to debate?
Liquorice in Pregnancy: All Sorts to Think About
Uber investor Shervin Pishevar quits Sherpa Capital amid sexual harassment claim
Wouldn't this suppress republicans more than democrats?
To me, and I'm entitled to my own feeling about "E Pur Si Muove" ;), it also stands for a strong believe in one's own observations, a strong will that is not swayed by the masses and the loneliness that comes with it. The sentence "E Pur Si Muove" may provide people with the strength needed to voice their unconventional theories.
The Mastermind: a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss
PineappleFund gives $50k to OpenBSD Foundation
Well, yes, the difference between "waste" and "feedstock" is whether there is some valuable use for the thing and whether it can be easily collected. Insecticide once used cannot be easily collected again.

Much of the history of the petrochemicals industry is trying to find valuable things to do with less-valuable fractions and non-oil stuff that comes up from wells. Of course, if it's not valuable it tends to be flared off and contributes to global warming.

> Wasted food is ground into powder and given to animals

.. although since the CJD epidemic I think this is extremely limited. By regulations.
Hi. Im Frank, creator of swimlanes.io, would love to get some feedback!
I put a bunch of the ones I enjoyed here:

https://coffeeandcode.neocities.org/presentations.html

One of the best though, for me, has to be this one on fixing a Guitar Hero bug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9U5wK_boYM
I prefer chromes DevTools, that's the only reason I'm still using it.
Google AI helped find the first solar system outside our own with 8 planets
They can send their words my way, I can either believe or reject.

So can you. There's nothing that says turn off critical thingking when reading a piece.
W3C: HTML 5.2 is done, HTML 5.3 is coming
I didn’t read them as related, just a young dying woman reflecting on the unforeseen surprises of her short life.... her marriage and her diagnosis.
> getting incorruptible, good, and objective people into office is not really possible - certainly not on a regular basis.

How about we make these people complete a PhD in three different fields. After that, they will be humbled enough to be fit for politics. (Of course, experimentation needed for validation of this claim; anecdotal: Merkel has a PhD and she did pretty well so far).
It will be a paid upgrade. I'm sure we can work out how to migrate our customers who have bought FoldingText recently, but, honestly, we still have to figure out these aspects. Right now, we're heads-down on getting the beta out :).

Also, while FT is in beta it will have a significant discount.
I'm sorry, I just realised that as well - my mistake.
Indeed, God is much more powerful than many people realise. :)
Mosquitoes are a large food source for birds, especially migratory birds in the northern regions.

Eliminating them would be devastating to Scandinavia's biodiversity.
Get by as in find a job without speaking a word of French or German?
This is actually a classic way in which bisexuality gets ignored (some would say erased). There is a strong narrative of "so which are you, gay or straight?". People also apply it to themselves, "well, I'm dating someone of the same gender now so I guess I'm gay now".

All the LGBT letters have their own battles, but this one seems rather unique to bisexual people. I think there are a number of reasons for this which I could go an about at length if anyone is interested.

I think this was rather hilariously (IMHO) demonstrated recently by Kevin Spacey's coming out letter (if we can look at it in isolation from everything else going on in that department)[1].

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/a...
Similar to this is the PlainTasks plug-in for Sublime.
'What does the gender/sexuality has to do with when dealing with cancer of a loved one'

The basis of the article is that she made plans that didn't work out, such as getting married to someone who turned out to be gay.
UK's undersea cables at risk of 'potentially catastrophic' attack by Russians
Show HN: SplitShare - Shamir's Secret Sharing  with PGP and Mail Delivery
It's extremely irresponsible of you to suggest that H1B holders are abusing the program by intending to immigrate because...

a) As pointed out by the comment earlier, H1B holders can have dual intent: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/About%20Us/E...

b) Structuring of EB2/3 queues according to the birthplace of the applicant itself is more abusive than most things to do with immigration to the US.
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>Sept 19 2017, 02:21	The actual MitM against our ClientPortal starts. At this point, the fraudulent SSL certificate for ClientPortal was in place and the IP DNS record for clientportal.fox-it.com was changed to point to a VPS provider abroad.

>Sept 19 2017, 07:25	We determined that our name servers for the fox-it.com domain had been redirected and that this change was not authorized. We changed the DNS settings back to our own name servers and changed the password to the account at our domain registrar. This change will have taken time to have full effect, due to caching and the distributed nature of the domain name system.

5 hour, 4 minute response time. I would be okay with that _if_ I could get over what was overlooked.
Exactly.

{
"__directive__": "phpstyle_stringly_typed",
"boolean": "true"
}
Poor Millennials
I think he means it will get worse when we leave EU
Senator Schatz: Strike Fear in Congress by Turning Your FCC Rage into Votes
> To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?

If it was me on an 18 day streak, I would not feel offended. Actually, I find the tweet funny.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15927902
This Student Used Trump Quotes for a Photo Series Protesting His Presidency
Re: 2 - that's an inaccurate way of representing it. Hillary had an 0.1% difference in voter turnaround relative to Obama in 2012. What actually won the election for Trump was (a) the distribution of votes across the landscape and how that translates to Electoral College votes and (b) demographically speaking, white people (at every income level).
Fuck this hit a little close to home today. My dad was just diagnosed with Leukemia and all the reading is grim. Basically every aspect of his situation puts him in the low-survivability group.

I wish I could say there was something beautiful and redeeming about this situation, but right now it's just fucking grim.
That is a very hard question. The simple answer is _that one_ security company that manages to compromise you and point out all issues within your company and or code for you to fix/address, that's the best one (for you). (if we can leave the financial part out of it, because security advice or audits aren't cheap either.)

But it is not that simple. I don't consider that very likely, that you actually find that 'right' company. (and putting faith in a third party to audit your code/company, brings other risks too). And chances are that some issues will be overlooked but not by that 'weird' guy/girl in the attic that has all the time of the world to security probe you 'for free'.

And there will always be a part you can't audit properly, your employees, which often is the origin of a hack, disgruntled employees. Or even worse, a disgruntled employee of the security company that just audited you.

And keep in mind, with enough power, you can get anything offline or in a non acceptable state (half working, data compromise etc). So security companies can only help you a certain length, nonetheless it can be very helpful to have a person from outside look at things with 'fresh eyes' and see things you have overlooked for so long because you are right in the middle of it all.
Canadian government gag order in CIA brainwashing case