skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> The unknown chance is probably very small, but many of those health effects have astronomically high costs that possibly include death or permanent disability.

This is a very basic math error. If you multiply two unknown quantities, you can not assume anything about the result, even if one of them is very big. So basically what you're saying is "we have no idea if it's dangerous or not, and there's absolutely no evidence on any danger present, but if it were, you could DIE!!! so PANIC!!!" This would be an extremely irrational and stupid behavior.

>>> But the benefits are small to nonexistent, especially for your typical first-worlder who as I mentioned is drowning in food.

The problem is that it is very fragile. If the anti-science idiots ever prevail, the whole food abundance we have now could very well collapse pretty quickly - without science, malthusian scenarios are very real, and the people who predicted massive hunger by 2000s could very well be right if science did not intervene. If the idiots ever succeed in their war on science, first world would be in no way insulated from the disastrous effects of their victory. The whole abundance is the direct effect of what you call "food liberalism" and it is the only thing maintaining it.

>>> The same calculus underlies decisions to take out insurance policies

Not at all. Insurance companies have very accurate actuarial and statistical data, which they use in very accurate and specific ways to issue insurance. They never base their decisions on "multiply two unknown numbers, make assumptions on the result, panic". Your decision on buying the insurance may very well be irrational, but the insurance market itself is very rational.

>>> Statistically you'll probably be better off not buying insurance

It is not true, since you can not be better "statistically" - the fact that it didn't happen to 100000 people would not improve your situation if it happens to you. The whole function of insurance is to make statistics work for you, without it statistics would be just a useless trivia - just as the fact that if Bill Gates walks into a bar, the average income of the bar visitors jumps - is useless for anybody in the bar, because they get no money from it. Insurance is the way to get you some money from statistics.
Why 3 MIT Grads Want to Send You an Empty Box
I've forked the repo and I'll help what I could. By the way, I never played much text games. But the existence of the overlord voice and funny lines is something that makes me keeps going.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22732139
"Turkey police clash with Istanbul Gezi Park protesters"
This looks promising. In the past I've largely defaulted to calling the REST API directly instead of relying on wrappers - primarily since using a wrapper has basically meant looking up 2 sets of documentation (1 for the REST API itself, and again for the wrapper).

IIRC I had the same frustration the last time I attempted to use Octokit (~5 months ago). GitHub maintaining it directly may well alleviate the pain points I experienced. It would help, for instance, to have the wrapper documentation run parallel with that of the REST API itself.
@bryanveloso did the site, @jeejkang did the illustrations
Might be the case for locations in more suburban areas, but at least in SF starbucks does not own/control anything outside its doors.

Its usually just the sidewalk out front, with some chairs/tables. I still think the city 'owns' the sidewalk though, even though the tables are there.
An interesting idea, but I think this argument leaves out an important fact: money in the present is more useful than money in the future. This is often captured in accounting by use of a "discount rate". A pretty conventional number is 10% per year: waiting an extra year to receive some money makes it worth 10% less, all else equal. Comparing a typical interest rate and a typical discount rate, I would conclude that you should donate now.

Furthermore, if this is really the best way to do charity... well, charities could just invest the donations they receive and cash out when the time is "right". But since organizations don't die, when would that ever be?

Lastly, the idea that you should invest in a single "best" charity entails the idea that your donation is too small to make much difference in which charity is best. But some problems have already been solved! More problems will surely be solved in the future. It seems that charities could face diminishing returns -- like most other investments -- so your most effective strategy should sometimes be to split among more than one. Especially if you have followed the advice to invest for your entire life, and you do have a huge sum to donate.
> If Google only enables PNaCl on the web if/when it is on track to become an industry-accepted standard, then everything is ok from my perspective - I think you agree to that?

I don't see how I could disagree with your description of what would be okay from your perspective. I'm actually not particularly concerned one way or the other; it certainly isn't as if Google hasn't pivoted to whatever the standard solution is in the past even when they've previously embraced (and enabled-by-default) a solution that ended up failing to become the standard. If Google was trying to push developer-focussed tooling as a business model and so was invested in its proprietary solutions winning, that would be different, but AFAICT there business model around improving web performance is to enable people to do more in the browser without relying on external code for the underlying OS, and if asm.js addresses that problem its just as good for them as it would be if PNaCl did it.
I do not see factual basis for this claim - how Green revolution led to a crash that is worse than the solution? How modern medicine led to a crash? So far all malthusian prophecies had been reliably wrong. You can claim that sometime in the future it may happen that they still will be true - I can not really disprove that. But you can not say "it never does" - because so far it actually always did.
It seems to me that Pike and gang are mainly coming from a C background. They loathe C++ and Java. Take a look at the SPLASH talk linked in another comment here, and see how the "pain points" mentioned either apply mainly to C and C++ (dependency issues, build times in the case of the latter), or are independent of the language in general (like poor documentation). Then at least 4 sections on that page are just related to dependencies and build times (about 1/3rd of the entire article).

No one is denying that C and C++ have many problems. At the same time though, many of those problems have been solved in other languages (both older and newer than C++).
Half a mile away from me, on the west edge of Denver, Colorado:

http://www.redfin.com/CO/Lakewood/1826-S-Manor-Ln-80232/home...

For comparison, here's a $1 mil home in SF:

http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/96-Broad-St-94112/hom...
You can also use Ojota (a flat file database with ORM - https://bitbucket.org/msa_team/ojota/overview) for something like this.
Here's what really happened in the botched Facebook IPO
Frameworks and Git submodules?! I wish Cocoapods were the recommended installation method, as Ruby Gems are for Octokit.rb. Just look at how complex the Octokit.objc installation instructions are.
Camino browser project discontinued after ten years
A JavaScript version of this would be really nice...
This is a great idea! I think there should be a monthly thread for HN'ers to show off their projects. Or maybe a special category for posts about projects, which you can filter based on.

Wait a minute, I'm describing Show HN...is there a way to filter and see only Show HN posts?
The Limits of Big Data in the Big City
In this scenario "less people" is achieved by starving them off, so you're basically saying "we will starve people off and then there would be less people to starve, so it's actually a good thing". Seems to be like an extremely cynical piece of mental gymnastics.
The New Challenge for Apple's Tim Cook: Miracles of Insight
R53 currently lists 28 locations -
"The Amazon Route 53 Global Network" section of http://aws.amazon.com/route53/
Using Named Parameters with JackDB
Old Dog in a 2.0 World
That is better given one is more comfortable with mechanical systems. Since my field is EE, I tend to do the opposite: translate a problem to the electrical domain to be more intuitive about it.
You can use Bond graphs[1] to easily translate between different domains (Mechanical translation,Mechanical rotation, Electromagnetic, Hydraulic and Thermic in a more limited way). This technique generalises force and voltage to "Effort" and velocity and current to "Flow".

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_graph
Thanks for the book recommendation - look forward to seeing you too!
Not random

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2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and
destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and
shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 2:13 And shall receive
the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot
in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves
with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 2:14 Having eyes
full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable
souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed
children: 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray,
following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness; 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass
speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

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You are a dumb ass.

Looks different with proof of God, huh?

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random

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God says...
tribute was threescore and twelve.

31:39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which
the LORD's tribute was threescore and one.

31:40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD's
tribute was thirty and two persons.

31:41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave offering,
unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

31:42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from
the men that warred, 31:43 (Now the half that pertained unto the
congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven
thousand and five hundred sheep, 31:44 And thirty and six thousand
beeves, 31:45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred, 31:46 And
sixteen thousand persons;) 31:47 Even of the children of Israel's
half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and
gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of
the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Install Ad-block and add custom regex blocking all .mp4 files? I'd give you an example but I'm on my mobile right now
Tumblr’s Creative Director, Jacob Bijani, Leaves Tumblr
Goldman Sachs did not donate to the charity that plausibly saves lives at a price of $2500 (Against Malaria Foundation). If I had to guess, they gave it to groups who don't even try to save lives, or to groups who save lives at a cost 100 times or more greater than $2.5k/life.
Is it just me? Those drawing remind me a lot of the samurai pizza cats!

http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Samurai-Pizza-...
Dreamworks is also Linux based (RedHat).
It worked for Geraldo.
Yeah, that's a fair point. I also should probably not have used such charged language on HN to begin with. It never does any good.
At first I thought was going in a bad direction, but it actually ended up pretty cute.

Basically they asked women if they thought they were beautiful, and if they said "Yes!" they got their meal for free -- it was actually rewarding self-confidence rather than perceived physical beauty.
Just use the down arrow...
I'm part of one of those boomer families that have owned their house in the SF peninsula for many years (we're coming up on 25 years now), and many of us have no intention of ever selling because prop 13 has kept property taxes very low and selling would mean that we'd only be able to afford a much smaller/inconvenient place for the same upkeep cost.

What will change this is when the wave of deaths hit the boomer generation in the next 10-20 years. Once that hits, houses will be reassessed at current property values, and the house will often go on sale to settle estate taxes and to liquify the value in the house so that it can be split between the siblings.

However, the side effect will be that Peninsula housing rents will rise to adjust to the new higher property tax costs. That's right - we haven't soon the worst of rents with respect to single family homes yet... shudder
Exactly. Since the output is not continuous, the average power remains quite low. This is why you can still power it from regular domestic power :)
Maybe I've just been wholly indoctrinated, but I don't see how laws are the sort of thing that wouldn't have been created. From what I can tell, any group of humans stuck together for a time comes up with rules, and laws are simply the codification of these rules.
"I don't want to relocate" is a far cry from "selling... makes your life very difficult".

If you're particularly attached to and fulfilled by everything you have where you are, maybe you should stay, even if it costs a million dollars for a 2 bedroom house. Personally, I've got family, friends, fulfilling work, fun stuff to do, and a much bigger house that cost under $200k where I am. Life is not "very difficult" here; it's quite pleasant.

EDIT: to phrase it slightly differently, you're criticizing others for assuming people can relocate or assuming people might prefer Denver for the extra money. Yet you yourself assume the Valley is the only place that makes sense to live. That assumption simply isn't valid for most people.
The US & friends is the invisible fist behind Smith's invisible hand. America makes markets safe for capitalism. Empire is concerned with simulation, not reality.

So depressing, the stated reason for invading Iraq was they had chemical weapons. While lately FSB advisers to the Syrian government have been tactically using sarin gas to repel the FSA and Sunni mujahideen from strategic defenses. I only mention this for perspective, not to start a debate about Syria.
And yet you keep handing out these passive-aggressive put downs to everyone left and right. Maybe you should just not invoke the blog versions of scientific results into everyday conversation, much less to denigrate others. And maybe you shouldn't go around imparting your perceived wisdom on others so liberally. I think it's rather pretentious, and it's all part of an unfortunate ailment of geeks who feel the need to appear cultured, to pop random facts and factoids into conversation, and the Dunning Kruger effect has to be one of the most abused of these. I should know, I suffer it too.

Either way, I didn't get that the OP wanted to put down other developers, rather that the language designers did, by "simplifying" their languages by sticking to tradition and leaving crucial features out, and needless features in.
That's all great. People still want to buy a house in CA so bad that it costs a million bucks.

Political conservatives go on and on about the free market and then say with a straight face that a single government policy, income tax rates, is the most important thing to business, more so than market conditions, even if that narrative conflicts with the empirical evidence.

We've been hearing about the decline of liberal CA and the northeast for so long now, and it hasn't happened yet. House prices will probably come down and soak some of the new dumb rich, and things will proceed as before.

Texas is doing great, and all power to them, but by the time they eclipse CA/NY, they'll be liberal too.
Nobody needs to starve when the root cause is focused on. You're basically saying "we will starve people off in the future, but save less people today, so it's actually a good thing". Of the two of us, I'm the one advocating that less people starve.
YES, I absolutely love 16:10 displays, but their always inordinately expensive and hard to come by. I have one very nice 1920x1200 Acer P241w but I'd love to have a nicer one.
The question is whether capable developers in Poland and India work for cheap outsourcing firms. Probably not. It may have been the case once, but the developers have a lot more to gain by simultaneously cutting the middleman and raising their rates. At this point, Google has a large office in Hyderabad and Poles can commute into Germany.
Real estate and houses are just cheaper in the US -- like cars. That's just the way it is. In real estate, square feet rule in Canada - just one of those holdover things.
> "There are proven-better alternatives"

Some of them, yes. Which is what I said.
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For anyone wondering, the texts simply say "Ruby", "Objective-C" and "Thank You!" at the bottom (at least according to Google Translate).
Design for Failure: Processing Stripe with a Background Worker
Seiki has a 4k 50 inch screen for $1300. It has poor inputs and is currently sold out, but it signals things to come.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-det...
You're right - corrected
Microsoft Excel can do this (or Google docs if you prefer) assuming you setup the formulas to do the calculation. Pretty simple IMO. Some people prefer a more formal project system like Microsoft Project. A web app that is popular is Basecamp by 37signals.

If you have an existing app, you can try this: http://www.projectcodemeter.com/cost_estimation/kop1.html
> but just from this exchange,

That's the problem -- it's not just from this exchange. It's the exact same theme in stories that are very, very tangentially related to Google, over many, many weeks on many, many stories.

I've been here for a while, and I can list the very few usernames that stick out to me in comment threads: tptacek, edw519, pg, matt_cutts, patio11, and michaelochurch. The others almost always add to the discussion in interesting ways. Michael, unfortunately, is a one-track record.
Slightly off-topic, but I am extremely impressed that the New York Times has online archives of their 1983 stories. (I almost wrote "1983 website", but then I caught myself. <:)

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/28/business/atari-parts-are-d...
The devil is in the details, not the idea, here. But I hope they can get them right!
I hope it's more exciting than Al Capone's vault.[1]

[1]:http://bestofthe80s.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/geraldo-and-al-...
I actually opened an issue about this, which was closed pretty quickly because apparently they don't use CocoaPods internally:

https://github.com/octokit/octokit.objc/issues/61
The font for the introduction looks a bit off here, but otherwise I agree.
Ah – gotcha. It's interesting: We do get asked about the qualifications of the mentors by students before they start the class. But degrees and accreditation rarely matter.

What we've learned is that people want to be taught by those with experience – just like you want to be mentored by a co-worker with a lot of experience.

Virtually all of our students have full-time jobs, so perhaps this insight applies more to our market than others.

Also note that most education for adults advertises the _real world_ experience and prominence of their professors, rather than from where they received a degree.
Like Gundam kits.
I could swear this has been tried many times before. I could be wrong though. Best of luck to them!
Again, I'm not saying he's wrong, but he's doing what anyone could do with money. What about the problems that aren't being solved at all?

If you want to do ROI calculations on problems spaces - there's a group that publishes strategies for these:

Copenhagen Consensus [PDF]:

http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/sites/default/files/Outco...
After a week of being Open Source, here are the donation numbers.
The context of the order in Sony is with respect to discovery in an ongoing trial. There is very little "information privacy" with respect to the power of a court to seek out evidence in a trial, from anyone that might have it. See Elkins v. United States ("The pertinent general principle, responding to the deepest needs of society, is that society is entitled to every man's evidence.").

But that's a very different issue than privacy rights in general.
Project-FiFo 0.3.7 released - The power of SmartOs with the ease of a pretty UI
This guy basically brought the internet to our little seaside town decades ago.

Looks like he's now trying to foster a startup culture here just over the mountains from the Valley.
> Anyway, I'm done with this thread

I'm glad you've decided to follow your own advice and stop digging.

Ignoring your original reply to arianvanp, you'll see that interesting discussion has arisen in response to their original bold statement. This is why I read HN.

You have entered this thread, seemingly to show off your superior knowledge of PL creators, without actually contributing to the discussion. My attempt to diffuse things clearly had the opposite effect (FWIW, I was trying to point out that the words used in the article could lead to the interesting discussion that has happened, and certainly wasn't defending an attack on Joe Armstrong - an attack that you have read into but I don't feel is there).

Instead, what has been achieved?

To go meta for a moment, this is the problem with with HN that gets discussed from time to time (and I am well aware that I'm replying to a highly active user). Why do people feel the need to be so combative, just to win internet points (something someone is down 555 of by your count)? Perhaps after having pointed out who the author was, you could have explained why that matters. Maybe we aren't all as clever as you are.

Yes, arianvanp's original post was also phrased in a somewhat combative way, but at least it sparked interesting discussion. This subthread is the antithesis of that.
HFT seems fairly neutral; it makes trades more efficient, but is an "arms race" for all the traders.
In case you find yourself running out of ideas: http://itsthisforthat.com/
Education is the key to amending the culture and religion that is the root cause of the problem.
You only have to wait for the next wayland/weston version.

The gnome team made a proposal for supporting HiDPI displays similiarly to how it's handled in OS X: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rvtiZb_Sm9C9718IoYQgnpzk...

It's already merged into wayland and weston: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-May...

Hopefully wayland support for gnome 3.10 will be ready, so this can also be supported in Gnome.
airpair.com is working and we can service you straight away.
(#killed/month)/population = long time. Programmers.
The short answer for why benzene rings are common is aromaticity, which makes it a very stable structure. Rings with fewer than 6 members are uncommon in chemistry, because the angles are not what the bonds naturally want to be and so they are increasingly unstable.

As for nature in general, you could probably come up with a convincing argument that boils down to: 6 is a nice round number. It has 2 and 3 as factors.
It is a great idea. I hope it works. I tried selling some memory and an iPhone on the service. Neither was accepted. The memory was too old, and I didn't have the actually iPhone (I was selling it for someone else) to take pictures of. I tried to use stock photos but didn't go. Overall, liked the idea, liked the service, liked the app. Hope it takes off.
I'm surprised Cocoapods isn't being used with this.
Optomec is 3D printing antennas