skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Besides, it may be nitpicking, but kids eating dirt right outside power plants would die horrible deaths within days. It is the lesser doses in the rear by populated areas whose effects may not be so well understood.

Nah, it's not nitpicking. It's just totally wrong.

The radiation that upon ingestion kills you is alpha/beta radiation, i.e. particle radiation. This radiation doesn't otherwise cause harm (except in very large doses,) because it's a particle radiation that can't penetrate solid matter.

Nuclear reactors handle their fuel carefully (well, that's the default assumption. I don't know if all do,) and so, only gamma-radiation actually escapes the power plant, except in emergencies, of course. Gamma-radiation permeates through solid matter without too much difficulty (well, depending on the (amount of) matter, but the human body is basically translucent to gamma radiation. This is why X-Rays actually work.) and therefore it really doesn't matter whether the kids do ingest it or not.

Now, coal power plants on the other hand are an entirely different thing. Fly Ash, which coal power plants exude in large quantities contains Thorium and Uranium in rather high concentrations. Ingesting that might indeed be hazardous, though I don't know if you'd die a "horrible death" from the amounts typically in the vicinity (around 1 mile or so) of coal power plants.

Fun fact: coal power plants actually cause more radiation pollution to their surroundings than nuclear power plants (during normal operation.)

EDIT: I was wrong, nuclear power plants also emit alpha and beta radiation, as well as gamma, neutron, neutrino and positron radiation and other stuff. But apparently in such small quantities that I really can't imagine anyone dying from eating the soil around a nuclear power plant. Proof: this is a German AKW (Atomkraftwerk, nuclear power plant) in Phillipsburg. Notice how it is entirely surrounded with fields where crops is grown? People and animals eat all this stuff. http://goo.gl/maps/jydz1 Actually, Biblis (another AKW) is even more impressive: http://goo.gl/maps/LP1Hi
Substances like mercury or lead spring to mind...

Ditto chemo, steroids, smoking, alcohol, marijuana, human growth factor...

Professional baseball fathers seem to have quite a few kids with physical troubles. I've always wondered if it's job related.
On Password Cracking & Amazon EC2
Why not use a cookie, or html5 storage? Is security really a concern here?
With all of the emphasis on learning how to code I think this is really useful. The insight I really like is that simply learning to type in this weird way is a big part of being an efficient programmer.

Maybe when codeacademy students get frustrated they could spend a few minutes doing this.

Nice work!
It'd be nice to have a way to get notified when the Mobi/Kindle version is available.

I have no way to read a long form PDF.
The donation process sucks too.
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Thanks for the feedback and criticism. I decided to keep error correct close to the error instead of allowing navigation to simplify navigation logic. Mimicking normal editing may have still felt stilted if I didn't support the mousing around or keyboard shortcuts programmers are used to with their editors.

I debated whether to require typing the import/include boilerplate at the start of code. As you noted, this usually done piecemeal and often inserted by an ide. I decided to include it as it's part of the code and looked for code samples that didn't go overboard. For the Java and Scala examples, I collapsed imports into wildcards imports.
If Delta should be reasonable (getting him accommodations) shouldn't he also be reasonable next time he gets on one of their planes?
> Do you have any suggestion that provides the same features

Message passing.

That's all HTTP really is, but it's dressed up in a bunch of historical complexity and inefficiency centered around supporting web browsers.
So this is a common misconception about the text (and Prof. Mohri's NYU class). In this case, "foundations" does not mean this is an introductory course.

Rather, the class and text provide mathematical foundations for understanding the error bounds and growth complexity of various learning algorithms. So you'll be workin with convex optimization, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, and Rademacher complexity--definitely not "introductory" in the least!

It's a completely different beast from Mitchell, Bishop, or EoSL (which I'm studying right now!), so I'm not sure comparisons are valid. It also fills a prominent gap in the ideas reviewed by the popular ML texts.
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Huh? His shirt didn't say anything remotely like "bombs on the airplane are cool"... anymore than his second shirt said "I'm going to poop on this plane's drink cart".
Looks ambitious in liberating the user and their data, but it seems you've taken too long and have stumbled upon substantive problems on your own. The screenshot of the platform seems old fashioned, but eventually by liberating the user/data, you are making them stand on their own island, hence there will be no "networking" or connections in the true sense, as it is currently happening on a single platform like Facebook or Twitter. By attempting to set the data and user free in such manner and by eliminating the single and cohesive platform, we risk excluding ourselves out.
Human curation is still the state of the art; computed curation is a miserable failure that utterly fails to capture my tastes. It's trivially easy to guess what iTunes or Netflix will recommend to me, which indicates to me that the decision taken is tautological.

The goal of a recommendation system should be to expose me to things I wouldn't be likely to find by myself.
This is a great way to generate new ideas and get everyone involved. Google kind of did this with the whole spend 30% of your time on working on new projects. But yeah, this is a hackathon not a vacation.
Marshalling back and forth between HTTP requests and in-app models via the like of NSURLConnection is far more ugly to do cleanly and efficiently than a simple state machine modeled on message passing over a socket.
Really nice.
It felt like shadow-boxing the creation of a language. What I mean is that the ability to type what giants typed before me in such an easy and accessible way made it worthwhile. I'll do it again.
No, I just have worse things to say about CORBA and the notion of distributed objects in general.
Let's see what the actual journal article says.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/825.abstract?sid=...

Long-Range Ordered Carbon Clusters: A Crystalline Material with Amorphous Building Blocks
Lin Wang, Bingbing Liu, Hui Li, Wenge Yang, Yang Ding, Stanislav V. Sinogeikin, Yue Meng, Zhenxian Liu, Xiao Cheng Zeng, and Wendy L. Mao
Science 17 August 2012: 337 (6096), 825-828. [DOI:10.1126/science.1220522]

The Science editors also solicited a commentary

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/812.summary

on the article.

AFTER EDIT:

As I read through the full-text article, it seems that the kind of nanoscale observations being reported in the article might be consistent with the "new" material simply being local, small-scale diamonds (the substrate material was carbon molecules, after all, before they were subjected to high pressure), being "as incompressible as diamond," as reported, for the unremarkable reason that it is diamond. But I will defer to someone who is more knowledgeable than I in materials science to see what other interpretation of the published article might make more sense.
it will be available by the end of next week. it's already in process. anyone who buys the pdf will receive an update via email with mobi/epub asap.
Smaller portions do not help with the logistical (disposing food is less expensive than losing out on sales) and product placement (occupying more shelf space with your brand increases sales) issues.
We will need to dig deeper to the core issue, the consumer's desires.

The USA is not dramatically leading at food wasting either, Germany also wastes approximately half of all its produced food. Here is an in-depth study on that topic (in German) http://www.bmelv.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/Ernaehrung/WvL/Stud...

But then again - when it comes to food - Germany is to Europe, what the USA is to the world, so it might not be the best example.
"I agree with the very top post - food is simply wasted out of laziness in the US."

Did you actually read the article? It had several reasons for the wasting to occur...

EDIT: grammar.
The real question is do the Instagram founders, employees and investors still approve of the acquisition?
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Facebook transforms Messages in to an email inbox
See my comments above. The book fills a large gap created by the popular ML textbooks (namely, none of them review learning theory).
As air travel has matured into infrastructure that is generally depended upon, flying has become a right. Especially a return trip. Failure to see this is a deficiency with the narrow "base primitive" view of rights.
This is the part where they find out people don't really like watching ad's
That also breaks IMAP(S), SMTP(S), Jabber, AIM, and a slew of other applications.

I don't see that we should model the internet architecture on bad technical choices made on a limited number of open wifi networks.

Or, we just frame our standard protocol over websockets as an (unfortunate) fallback, if it ever is revealed to be a real problem.
As a Lisp programmer, this amuses me. :-)
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The name of your app is not ideal. Googling it seems to produce lots of irrelevant results. Otherwise well done on getting featured!
I think that's his point, though: No matter how rare indium is, it isn't going to suddenly run out on a Thursday. In fact, the price of indium is at its 2-year low and 5-year median with a negative year-long slope.

We can afford to incessantly & wastefully shed indium, food, and Macbooks into landfills until we can't afford to anymore. At which point it becomes cheaper to not be so wasteful, indium prices gradually rise, and the system adapts as it always does.
Is the "502 bad gateway / nginx" page after signup submission part of the challenge?
This was the mistake Open ID made, which they later realised complicated things way too much for the average user. Regular users want to identify as an email address, not a URI.
Like most individuals, and probably, most mathematicians outside his field, I do not deeply understand much of Thurston's work. But he did have a rather large impact on my life insofar as a paragraph of his has stayed with me several years (not many do, I'm afraid), and has been my reminder to slow down whenever I find myself saying "psh, that was easy, all I had to do was browse through the documentation":

I prided myself in reading quickly. I was really amazed by my first encounters with serious mathematics textbooks. I was very interested and impressed by the quality of the reasoning, but it was quite hard to stay alert and focused. After a few experiences of reading a few pages only to discover that I really had no idea what I'd just read, I learned to drink lots of coffee, slow way down, and accept that I needed to read these books at 1/10th or 1/50th standard reading speed, pay attention to every single word and backtrack to look up all the obscure numbers of equations and theorems in order to follow the arguments.

If a Fields medalist needed to slow down to read some maths, I can slow down to really understand whatever it is that I'm doing. And when I tell myself "I've learned that already!" I stop and ask whether I learned it at a "1/50th pace."

http://matrixeditions.com/Thurstonforeword.html
Use this link instead:

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~mohri/ml12/

It's the last class he taught before the book was published. I was in the class, and can confirm the lecture outline closely matches the book's contents.
The first I know of is "The Fountains of Paradise" by A.C. Clarke. Great book.
> Are there any other reasons why thorium based nuclear fission is not being pursued as an energy source?

Mainly because we don't need it. It's got some advantages, sure, but not enough of them to make it worthwhile to spend on the money on it.
That's only for Objective-C, it's nicer in Go.
The site's down again. 502 Bad Gateway.
The question really is if going to something 'harder' now is worth while. We do something more expensive (and have large oppertunity cost) to avoid problem we will only really have in 200 years.

If you look at the change of technology in the last 100 years you can only assume how small this problem will be then. I mean in 200 years using solar energy will possibly be cheaper then fossil fuel, and if it is not we will be better equiped to solve the problem then.

I do not want to say that we should not keep working in direction of renewable energy but I think it is a valid question.
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They're still getting hundreds of millions of dollars for a zero revenue product. If they don't approve at this point, they're idiots.
Why conserve it? There's tons of it.
This makes sense, but a lot of the time the "one thing" you are talking about is simply the very last required thing. If you had done things in a different order the "one thing" would be something else entirely. And if you had omitted one of the hundred other things, that daily grind and ton of work, then doing the "one thing" would mean nothing.

In short, I think you are completely right, but it seems the point is that you need to focus on achieving that "massive body of prior work".
> It is also completely within Delta's duties as his employer to question his judgement and fire him for being a racist later.

Seems like the only reasonable response.
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I'm not following your rationale. Isn't that Facebook's default model? I explicitly choose who is allowed to see my content, and I have control over how much of that content they can see through privacy settings / lists. The problem with Facebook is that I simply don't trust them with my data.
Sorry 'bout that: scaling issues. Should be fixed now!
What do you mean not Valve? Not Valve because they're already doing it every month of the year?
In that case, we should modify the system such that the political establishment doesn't control the price of food, and let the market work, since the short term incentives of those in control clearly are not aligned with the collective long term problem.
When I was 20 I had a pen in my pocket and it leaked all over my pants on a flight.

On the way back home, I was going through airport security and had another pen in my pocked. I picked it up from the tray, turned to my friend behind me, and without thinking said in a fairly loud voice, "I wonder if this one will explode on the plane".

Dead silence as every eye in the room turns to this young kid holding up a pen. I just stammered out an apology as my face went bright red and I shoved it back in my pocket.

I can't actually believe they let me on the plane.
But those 'little things' are precisely the things that are generally cheap and easy to replace with the real thing, rather than some approximation made of resin. Sure there are old parts that are hard to find, but that alone probably won't justify everyone having the capacity to make their own. Jigsaws have been around forever, but not everyone has a one, and they can make a lot of things with more versatility in materials than a Makerbot.

I would agree that if there is a killer use for a Makerbot, it's probably something the device was never intended for.
Not everything is good as leftovers. A fair amount of Chinese food, salads, and cooked vegetables don't reheat well or don't make good leftovers.
CtrlP + tabbar has done a lot to make this Emacs user tolerate the occasional vim outing.
awesome wm, urxvt, ssh, tmux, vim, dwm.vim
http://i.imgur.com/fC556.png

nerdtree <cr> opens things in the active window, nerdtree i opens a split in the master window, and a dwm.vim focus tidies things up. no fullscreen mode is unhandy though (i've not learnt how to unmaximise from Ctrl-w _ and Ctrl-w | yet).

edit; silly me, doing Ctrl-f now unmaximises the window.
In now, thanks! :)
Retaining copyright means that you can't fork their code to easily establish a working but slightly incompatible version, which is what fragmentation is.

Project leader is not a formalized position (or even a meaningful concept, really) in free software and doesn't come with the power to prevent forks or fragmentation. I guess their thinking is once a community of users and developers is brought together, they can be trusted to establish a model that retains compatibility since it is in everybody's interest. While at the moment, an incompatible fork would have the same "network effect" as the original.

Either way, the copyright only covers the software, not the protocol.
Built in 90 minutes. Infact the form and data entry took bulk of the time
FTC closes investigation into Facebook's buyout of Instagram
And if I take away your 4 rounds of funding have I changed the viability of your product in the market place?

Conversely if I fund you, does that in any way validate your product? Nope. Paying customers do that I'm afraid.

To suggest that a round of funding is an achievement in and of itself is to put it in the same camp as winning a business plan competition. Sure it might show that One person likes your idea, but that's pretty much worthless compared to paying customers.
1) This isn't clear in the docs right now, but unauthenticated notifications are allowed, and eventually we'll add signing (think Domain Keys).

2) Every piece of data in the system will be available via the API including negotiated app and follow credentials, moving will consist of authorizing an importer app to have read access to everything, and then pushing a post that tells all the servers to check the profile again for updated entity and server details. It should be a very simple process.
Nine months of pair programming
You mean like using Gmail as email client similar to Thunderbird and Outlook. (You know, where you add POP3-SMTP address ... )

Why not, it will go to that point.
Logical inference does not work the way you'd like.
The right to free speech is rule that restricts the power of the government only. It has nothing to do with companies or individuals. Just as I can ask you to leave my home if you insult my mother, a company can refuse you access to their airplane if they don't like your T-shirt. That's their business decision.
Iron Foundry Adds Service Bus as a New Application Service on Cloud Foundry
A collection of Tents could be called a "Camp".
You have a point about the analogy I struck- it's not the one I intended. My analogy was intended as the thoughtless act of wearing the shirt, not the relationship of what the shirt condoned.

Once the other passengers are upset, it's the pilot's call. Same will happen on a boat or a bus. If you upset the other passengers you get to find some other means of getting where you are going.

The pilot made the right call. It sounds like he was only kicked off of one flight. That's fair.
While the example of Justin Bieber makes it seem to make sense to push the cost of following to the followed rather than the follower, I am not at all sure this makes sense in the general case. It puts the user at the mercy of spammers & bots and ISTM making the follower bear the cost of following would disincentivize this kind of bad behaviour.
So we'd essentially need a very tightly controlled fast breeder reactor or 20 that handle the world's less pleasant nuclear byproducts? It seems that if the breeder reactor is cohabitated with the reprocessing facility, most of the danger would be nullified (I imagine that transport is the riskiest part). Or perhaps people simply don't want those things to exist in concentrated form, ever, to eliminate the risk of someone getting their hands on it.
There are some great business people out there, don't get me wrong. You just need to be very cautious if you don't already know the people. And yes, those skills (negotiation, marketing, management) are extremely important. But there are a lot of business with mediocre skill using "connections" to justify their disproportionate split.

I've never heard of an engineer getting 90% of the equity (prior to future dilutions) while the well-connected MBA gets 10%, but the reverse isn't uncommon.
THAT's AWESOME!!! Please file an issue with how you would see the user interface for a fullscreen mode. I'll be happy to add it asap! -> https://github.com/spolu/dwm.vim
That part made me feel old, but the rest of it was well worth a read. This article can be a great read for someone at a certain stage in the career, which doesn't necessarily directly relate to age. Lots of Dev Bootcamp graduates, for example, should read this.
Tweets vs. Likes: What gets shared on Twitter vs. Facebook?
Some great gems in this article. Thanks for writing this!
The deal is now worth $747 million. Congrats, Instagram. :)
Wonderful, ta, I'll check them out soon! Links for the lazy yet interested; https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1338
Its proponents seem to think that it would be significantly cheaper and safer [citation needed], which sounds worthwhile.

Could briefly expound upon your reasoning?
Get all your scripts with one request using Jazzcat and Mobify.js
TL;DR - Mobify.js fires off one request to Jazzcat, which grabs all of your scripts and returns back a single concatenated file. As for how it actually works, we use the DOM pre-parsing capabilities of Mobify.js to grab script URLs and remove the scripts from the source document before it's rendered by the browser. THEN a request is made for the single javascript file from Jazzcat.

The feature currently only works for Mobify.js projects. Soon, you will be able to use this service on any website by adding a single line of Javascript into your existing site.
> we're talking about TSA agents (who more or less acted appropriately, in my opinion)

yes... the TSA acted appropriately because they were the only ones that ignored his attire (poking fun at the TSA even) and focused on checking that he had absolutely nothing on his person or in his luggage that would be a threat. It was the Airport Police and Delta Agents... both of which should be well trained in dealing with the volatile public since their jobs often involve dealing with the volatile public.
That's not because of the diet, that's because of the crowded and unsanitary nature of conditions in CAFOs.