skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're talking about the Academy of Sciences, in their review of the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation report. Here's my layman understanding: for many years, this authoritative basis for nuclear safety regulation recommended a precautionary adherance to LNT (linear no-threshold), a heuristic that states that small doses of radiation carry smalll risk, corelating to the linear relationship measured at higher doses. The latest review of this important report admitted doubt over the validity of linear models at low doses.

I'm not certain how relevant this is to the fukushima disaster. Certainly, many people are today living in radiation levels well above those which defined the Chernobyl exclusion zone. I guess the abandonment of LNT has fed into the WHO calculations, that actually don't say there will be no deaths, just that the deaths due to the fukushima reactor disasters will not be discernable from cancers expected to occur in the population over the next lifetime due to other causes.
Literally not a single word in this comment addresses the substance of the article and the event in question.
It looks like they are actually aiming the tear gas canisters at people's faces and heads. Terrible
I'd love to learn more about your background -- trail maintenance planner? Ecological impact study coordinator? Surely it's something that would allow you to make an authoritative statement about what does or does not damage a piece of protected parkland, otherwise you'd simply be making unsupported assertions on a topic you know nothing about.
> The government should be in the venture capitalist business funding companies based on the recommendations of the board of People Who Know Things, now?

Sure. Why not? I want the government to stimulate innovations in places that need it.
I think League of Legends or maybe Team Fortress 2 are about as good as it gets in terms of over-delivering value and not overselling their micro-transactions. Not everyone is going to be so successful with the same approach though.
oh, stop being so sensible, pick a side like everyone else ...
> Other smaller car manufacturers are having to go through dealerships, even with zero pre-existing relationships. Why should Tesla, which has a market cap that far exceeds those aforementioned manufacturers, get special rules?

They shouldn't. Remove dealership requirements for all manufacturers. I think that's pretty clearly what Tesla is arguing for.
If you want that, you can just remove the caching, and it'll always accurately reflect the server time. However who changes their local clock? I think we could definitely get away with caching it for 7 days.

Same thing with DST (I even mentioned it). Also once you have an accurate time, the javascript time object includes the DST logic itself I think. We're only dealing with an inaccurate local clock, we don't have to reimplement whatever ISO standard stands for Time. As soon as we have the delta between local time and server time, we're golden.
Sure, I agree that there's some contention over this.

It is interesting, however, if you entertain the fact that because there exists a separate word for different types of snow, you may perceive it as a separate entity entirely from another kind of snow rather than a just "snow" with a different modifier out in front.
50 Ways Ordinary People Reached World-Class
Pedophilia frightens people because of the recidivism rate, the damage it causes to the victim and the fact that the young age of the victim means they will live with the consequences of the crime against them for decades.
IANAL of course, but it would depend on what the courts have ruled on non-incrimination. But in terms of law-enforcement, it's hard to imagine that the possible errors/misunderstandings that the professor describes here would also not apply to any law enforcement bureaucracy (the tendency for authorities to mistakenly remember things, and the intense pressure not to admit mistakes, to the detriment of the accused)
Thanks for the suggestion. I've also used Jira in the past and wasn't super impressed with it at the time for just the reasons you mentioned -- lots of features but not integrated seamlessly and often overloading the user with options and not presenting a very good user experience (both in terms of speed / design / etc.). That said, I have the sense that GH is slowing down, I constantly have issues that seem to be similar to the old Twitter fail whale problem, either with what appears to be incorrect old cached data or Octocat "hello these droids that you are looking for can't be found since our ORM sucks." I assume this is some Rails stack issue (i.e. some aspect of the old Rails can't scale argument that was never really refuted but people forgot about as they stopped trying to optimize Rails apps for speed).

btw, I don't think that there is necessarily anything wrong Milestones, but there are always too many clicks involved in the GH interface and the buttons are often not where I expect them to be -- even when you have something that works well (i.e. dynamic adding of tags that automatically updates the DB), there is frequently no indication of actual success, which ends up puzzling the user.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion for YouTrack, will definitely check it out.
I like how Meetup does it: http://www.meetup.com/whats_new/?offset=80
They're also subsidizing cheap gas to the tune of $1 billion per day in Iraq and other Middle East engagements. Economies are very complicated, there's pros and cons for every action and inaction.
How many of you who think Nuclear power is safe will

Visit within 10, 5 miles of Fukoshima power plant ?
Take your kid(s) there?
Eat any food produce there in next 5, 10, 20 year?
Won't move or leave the area if the government give order to evacuate?
Won't file any lawsuit against the power company when something happen?

Or will knowing buy a house, start a family within evacuation zone (20, 30 miles) to Japan coastal nuclear power plant if it 30, 40, 50% cheaper for similar house AND if you can afford not to?

Won't object at all after you purchase a house and some company decide to build a nuclear power plant within 20 miles of your house?

I am an engineer and also think it is safe, but it can't be in my backyard or within 100 miles of silicon valley. It is perfect safe, good for the environment and produce a lot less CO2 - in Japan.
laws differ, but police getting people to talk is pretty universal across the world - get a confession, case closed, less work to do. he's innocent? who cares, that's justice work now.
hey, in Poland classmates who send each other nude self-shots get accused of distributing child pornography. have a good day.
From the description they provide, I think it's musical theory and composition... represented through keyboard and mouse mashing...

I didn't see any information related to unique controllers/interfaces, which would probably be pretty key to mention if that was the case.
This is just funny. Which car manufacturers on that $7,500 federal tax subsidy electric car list get $500M loans to build out their electric cars?
Breather - Airbnb for private spaces so you can meet, work, or rest
Home automation exists and is cheap. There's a huge niche industry built around it. The problem is that people don't actually want it as much as they say they do. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Domino's Tests Multicopter Pizza Delivery
Who determines what needs funding? A lobby of People Who Know Things?

If you wanted to curb carbon emissions, there are many more efficient ways to do so.
>It is a pretty weird world we live in where nudity is automatically pornography.

I am concerned. Should people here call their parents and ask them to destroy all pictures of them being bathed and oil massaged in the sun as an infant if they exist? Is it CP if I possess a picture of me as an infant? What is this absurdity?
Chromebooks soon to get NFC support
I think all you need is someone involved to have a US address and bank account to sign up for an amazon payments account.
Thanks for sharing this and i'm currently in the capital city of Turkey (ankara). I'm one of those protesters.

I can answer questions if someone wants to ask something.

Thanks to HN community for following protests in Turkey.
It's also a classic case of projection -- roughly 90% of cases of child sex abuse occur within the family and are perpetrated by direct relatives of the child, or close family friends.

The stereotype of the evil drooling paedophile lurking behind the bushes by the school gate with a panel van and a sound-proofed cellar back home is vanishingly rare, but it makes a good target for psychological projection.
What, the whole national park? No. He didn't destroy an entire national park. That would be ridiculous.

He developed, without permission or permit, in an ecologically sensitive area, without any thought given to erosion control (amongst other things). Some of the other issues include that this land was supposed to be used for the general public. While Sean Parker unfortunately is a member of the general public, the general public should not do whatever the fuck they want with land designated for public use.

"The unpermitted development has thus impacted the existing redwood forest habitat and has likely caused sedimentation of Post Creek."
Ask HN: How Can the Sports Industry be Disrupted?
I'm a sports fanatic, plain and simple. I love to watch and play almost any sport. Favorite is soccer (I've played my entire life) by far, followed respectively by football, hockey, basketball, tennis and baseball. But with any of them, I just can't find a 'problem' with it. Maybe I'm trying too hard to look. But the only things that seem to do well is verification technology (GoalCam in hockey, Zoom-in technology for refs, etc.). Isn't there something else that can be done?

One idea was to allow for people to upgrade their tickets in-game. So let's say I'm sitting in the nosebleed section (really high up) but I really want to move closer to the action...I would open x app on my phone and see what open seats are closer. Once I find one that I like, I can pay for it right on the app (I take a cut of sales) and head down to those seats. But then I quickly realized it would be pricey and I don't think it's something that many people want.

There's gotta be more...

If you have any ideas you'd be open to discussing, ping me: aashayk @ Googles Email Service
> solicitors (lawyers) are paid based upon how much work they've actually done on the case - with a flat rate.

Which is it: a flat rate or an amount based on the amount of work done?
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If you get tab happy, tabs are really difficult to navigate in Firefox without and extension, and I've tried most of the popular tab extensions - and have yet to find anything I like (that works without some bug).

Chrome and Opera squeeze the tabs, but list them all, whereas Firefox forces a scroll after so many, which feels horrible. Also Opera has let's you list and switch open tabs with CTRL+TAB, or lets you reposition your tabs.

Really though managing tabs should be left to the window manager. Otherwise you just get inconsistant behaviour between applications.

That's when the title comes into it's own.
>victim means they will live with the consequences of the crime against them for decades.

Should people get "discount" for hurting terminally ill patients with no more than a few months to live?
WordPress for the win :)

I self host my WP blog and use a Bootstrap theme that integrates very nicely with the other part of my site that is pure Bootstrap.
Zero idea, sorry :( I'm really most familiar with enterprise and web/mobile dev.
Good luck getting legal aid for a criminal defense in the UK, is all I can say ...
to me, a worst case scenario is that one or more of the nutcases who leapfrog a weapons program off the back of the materials, technologies, facilities and expertise developed thru their power program, decides to test a bomb. or shake it angrily. or drop it.

Can anyone here remember going to war because we though the other crazy guy -might- have a coal bomb?

there's more nuclear actors than ever before, and it only takes one of them to have a bad day for all of us to have a bad day.
Photo Essay: Weekend in Istanbul supporting the protests
I somewhat disagree with you, but I think in this case the downvote was unwarranted. I have voted you up because your opinion is interesting, at the very least.
> Going forward, making the combustible engine and hybrids more efficient will do magnitudes more to curb carbon emissions than all-electric vehicles.

Simply stating it as fact does not make it true.
I've got to say, compared to some photos I've seen on my Facebook feed, these are nothing, many people lost an eye or had concussions when the police aimed the gas canisters directly to their heads at close range (I really don't want to share these, they're gruesome).

The now-famous "woman in red being tear gassed" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/03...) photo, taken by a Turkish Reuters photo journalist (who later was wounded himself by a gas canister) has been used as a symbol of the brutality of the police. But wait, maybe this was manipulation on the photographer's part (know to happen) and the policeman did it by accident? Yesterday, the followup shots to that photo were released: http://fotogaleri.hurriyet.com.tr/galeridetay.aspx?cid=69735.... Note how the guy is very deliberate in his spraying, angry that this woman had the guts to stand against them.

Lest you think this was just a twisted policeman, let me assure you that the violence is very common. The police has always been violent against protesters in Turkey, irregardless of who's ruling, so this is not a first with AKP. What was interesting, however, was the persistence of people against the onslaught.

If you have a couple of minutes, here's a nicely done video summarizing the Gezi Protests: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=demnc4sQ0VI
As far as I can tell, it's almost never the case that not saying anything prior to talking to a lawyer will actually harm you defence, despite what the police may say.
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Fisker and Solyndra and several others couldn't pay back their loans. The government didn't arrest any of them and didn't take any of their personal assets. The debt was simply discharged.
Can this differentiate between multiple humans gesturing at the same time (intentional or otherwise)?

What about pets moving around or turning the shower on?
Nope, the police can start questioning right away. You can decline to answer without a lawyer, which isn't an admission of guilt and cannot be used as evidence of guilt, then the solicitor can council you on what you can and can't say. However, if during the questioning even with a lawyer present you omit something and use it in court, the prosecution is allowed to say "Well, this is a new piece of evidence" and use it against you however they can, or ask for it to be disallowed.

I think. It's been a while since I looked at the strict policy and regular interpretations. Police don't have to wait for a solicitor though, that's up to you and you have to ask for one straight off. If you're in the UK and you are arrested, be very polite with them, ask for a solicitor and wait, even if you know you're innocent. Actually, especially if you know you're innocent.
It's a minority crime that _everyone_ (else) feels morally superior to. We're all bigots really.
It is already here if you care to spend some money on it.
To be fair to Stalinist Russia, the mortality rate tended to keep the Gulag population down.
Whiskey Rebellion: A Serial Entrepreneur Fast-Forwards the Bourbon Aging Process
Cool. Feedback is always appreciated.

I'm also collecting interesting compositions for demo & test purposes. So anything you're able to share might help me implement the required patches.
They're watching and they're stupid.
s/Chief/Chef/g. :)
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Yep, that first builder is hard to avoid.

"I'll never pay for anything in this game. What, 50% increase in output? Well, I can reward the devs a bit I suppose..."

And thus begins the gemming.
New principle sets maximum limit on quantum information communication
Or when the session times out on the server side because it's rate limited. I'm just talking about my own use case I would have had. We had a session timeout of 10 minutes there. But i realize this might be an edge case.

Keep up the good work.
there are a significant chance of surviving a car accident, but almost none at all of a plane one.

I think this demonstrates the overarching point well because the chances of surviving an air related accident are surprisingly high.

The NTSB figures for people involved in commercial airline accidents between 1983-2000 show that 95.7% of people survived: http://boingboing.net/2012/11/05/surviving-a-plane-crash-is-... .. even narrowed down to only the "worst accidents", the overall rate was 76.6%.
This doesn't jive with history. The world had the same disgust for the robber barons of the late 19th century - and those people fit your stereotype to a T. They spent decades building traditional businesses that everyone could understand, they didn't get rich overnight, and they weren't fresh-faced children.

There is, perhaps (though IMO not really) a larger issue with how Americans perceive the Silicon Valley elite (or, more accurately, the self-anointed "elite") and how it ties into perceptions of success and the American Dream.

But that's not what's happening here. This article is about how someone rich shit all over public property, illegally, and in a flamboyant manner. Invoking "they be jelly" is a giant cop-out. The narrative would be largely the same regardless of if they were European royalty, or a 50 year-old billionaire.

This sort of behavior is unacceptable no matter which way you slice it, so let's not make excuses just because they are "one of our own" (which, let's be honest, they're actually not).
Well, yeah. Who else? It's not dissimilar to how academic research funding works. Proposals are submitted, evaluated, and sometimes awarded funds.

As far as curbing carbon emissions goes, there are a lot of irons in that fire, both public and private. No reason to place all your eggs in one basket. There are a lot of reasons to publicly support new innovations in EVs. It's a very high-profile field, and Tesla is doing a fantastic job of showing that EVs can be fun, pleasant cars. Putting the money into academic research isn't going to generate nearly as much public interest.
I find I sometimes need to right click my title bar on Linux, to do things like move my window to another workspace. And other window functions, I have to have it on with Chrome.

I'd actually rather there was a simple meta key in each application, that you could use to just show you the vital data about a page. Meta data in webpages can be human readable - title, author, summary etc. How about an overlay? And how about have this for every app? Looking at an image - activate meta key, to see copyright info etc, listening to a tune, activate meta key to see tag info etc. Far better than hiding it under some menu item and distant properties tab.

Opera has an info bar, but it's not that user friendly.

That doesn't particulary address whether the title is necessary, it's great for window management, using windows instead of tabs. But you'll need a good window manager. I'd rather windows than tabs - though I fear that Opera introduced tabs as they were cheap windows more than anything else.
could you clarify this statement. mongodb native is consistent and atomic wrt to single documents. Are you saying that tokumx does something additional wrt to transactions (which also implies client api changes)?
Obama to Push Chinese President on Cyberattacks
Can you give me an actual link that explains what you're specifically talking about?
Interesting, tell me more about this Islamist Authoritarianism in the government and the peace ushered by it.
"More suspicious" is meaningless. If you can't prove - with incontrovertible evidence and beyond any reasonable doubt - that there's something there, then there's plausible deniability.
Shocking pictures.

This is converging with alarming speed on an all out confrontation. Turkey is a very beautiful country balancing on the Europe-Asia divide with a lot of internal pressure built up over a long time. If the government keeps pushing like this it will likely reap a lot more than they've bargained for.

The Turks that I've known in my life are tremendously proud and very hard working people, push enough of them around for long enough and all that energy will be directed back at the one doing the pushing.

I really hope that the Turkish government will read the writing on the wall and will change course, if they don't do that then I fear that a lot more lives will be lost.
although i have a google reader set up, for the last several years my reader has been techmeme. Since techmeme, I look at my reader once a week and techmeme throughout the day.
It's a horrible idea for those who are forced to use ISPs with capped upload amounts or speeds, though.
May 2013: two Cisco vulnerabilities
The title of the story is "Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick".

6 (?) workers died. Maybe not from poisoning or ionization but from something else caused by the accident. What exactly happened with the "Fukushima 50" is also unclear.

Obviously people are smart enough to carry Dosimeters and to protect themselves from radiation as appropriate and possible.

But please, saying that "nobody died/got killed (yet) from radiation => nobody died/got killed => nobody died because of Nuclear accident" is just naive. The people died because even after the power plant became unusuable, they needed to manage radiation and spreading of nuclear material. You don't exactly have that problem when dealing with non-nuclear plants. Most of the times can just run and wait. In case of a nuclear plant you need to stay on site or else...
The situation has more or less calmed down, police has started to behave more carefully. The PM has gone abroad, and the deputy PM yesterday made a somewhat warmer speech, recognizing some part of their mistakes. The president has also given a speech saying the message was taken. The media has started covering the issues finally. I would say there is an air of happiness among us, protestors now. We feel strong and united.

What the protestors now want in the short term, is an apology from the PM himself, but that's probably not very likely. We'll see when he returns from Algeria. (Isn't it stunning by the way that he went abroad while the protests were at their peak, in effect ignoring the protestors?)
Note: This article is set in the UK, and has limited relevance outside that jurisdiction.
Saying that "Turkey won't look that different from Syria" is not really a sensible statement. My understanding is that other than the Kurds in the south Turkey does not really have "factions" in it population beyond the normal urban/rural divide. It is not primed for any kind of civil war.

While one could argue that another Arab Spring nation could provide a parallel situation I do not think that any are very similar. Turkey has a history of repression by authority but it has relatively free and fair elections and it is not governed by anything resembling a brutal dictator. What it does have as I understand it is a government that has its base in the rural population and thus does not reflect the interests of the urban population very well.