skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, there are a lot of reasons it's extremely unlikely to happen again with an event with >5k deaths in a single day.

And even if that does happen, so what? Even if an attack happens that dwarfs 9/11, it'll still be insignificant compared to the country as a whole, and not justify anything near the amount of money spent to fight it.

Barring the detonation of a nuclear bomb in a major US city, there's just nothing that terrorists can do that would really count for much, as long as we can avoid a massive overreaction.
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Excellent. Not being in Texas anymore has me stranded in a sea of poor BBQ (if you can even call it that). There is simply nothing worth eating in Omaha. The more options the better.
The R&D Data Scientist job listing doesn't seem to mention the possibility of telecommuting. Do any employees currently work remotely?

Also my email address is jackmaney at gmail.com
Is it possible to use just the graph visualisation package as a standalone thing?
If you're going to go by Taleb's logic, your point-of-view is directly contradicted in his later book, 'Anti-fragile'.

With every occurrence of a black swan event, you are made more resilient in preventing an event of a similar kind. So, now that we know that 9/11 can happen, we're now more mentally prepared than ever to prevent something like it if it happens again. Case in point, pilots now carry weapons and are much more likely to thwart attempts of hijacking. Passengers will also react more violently and vigorously now towards any sign of threat. Note that we actually have a few precedents since 9/11 in which hijacking of airplanes were thwarted in this manner.
Absolutely agreed. Even just considering the energy it takes to keep its battery charged, I'd be deeply skeptical that this device would hold the lead for more than a few months, even if the manufacturing energy for a bicycle is higher -- and if you care about keeping the manufacturing energy of your bike to a minimum, you can buy a bamboo bike, or (even better) buy one used, something for which there is no equivalent with this device both because it's new and because I can't imagine it could hope to last 20 years the way a good bike can. And on yet another level, I'd also have to be convinced that this thing can facilitate car-free living the way bike ownership in an urban area can, which is a huge source of energy savings that bikes can bring to the table.
Expertise doesn't have to be situational or contextual. Soup kitchen operations can benefit from operations experts, even if they have no experience with the soup kitchen context. They do this using the same tool that programmers use to model the world: abstraction.
Understanding how SQL Server executes a query
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the wercker blog also has a post on how to set up a delivery pipeline with Middleman:

http://blog.wercker.com/2013/06/10/Streamlining-Middleman-De...
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Can anyone explain what Jet Cooper is?
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Max Clifford I think it was said something along the lines of "there's no such thing as bad publicity".

If people are discussing something then you've made them aware of it, you've shown them "this is worth discussing" and you've displayed it as normative. Ergo promotion.

Samsung have got more publicity from this guy than they'd have got if they paid for it. Indeed the conspiracy theorist in me wants to research whether this is actually the primary method of promotion that was intended ... but that's just madness.
This demonstrates why native matters; something like this would be impossible without being written and tuned for the target processor.
How do you end up with 430,000 lost jobs from direct damages due to the attack? No, I'm pretty sure those are damages due to the reactions to the attack, not damages due to the attack itself.
Don't forget your post on how to deploy to GitHub Pages:
http://blog.wercker.com/2013/07/25/Using-wercker-to-publish-...
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You can put your theory into practice by walking into a bank with a gun (in states where it's legal) and kindly asking them to hand you a million dollars. It'd be interesting to see what happens next.

But, more importantly, it seems to be that your point is that crime is not a crime as long as it appears to not be one. As long as a robber asks and I cooperate, it's not a crime. As long as IRS doesn't use force first, it's okay to steal things from me. I don't agree with that. What right on earth does anyone have to take away from me the money I honestly made? Who gave anyone this right? Why should I comply except for the reason that if I don't, they will make my life difficult and will still manage to take things away from me? I haven't stripped anyone off their money, I created value and sold it to people who were willing to buy. Explain to me: why does anyone have the right to take money from me?
> doesn't say anything about registers at all

Considering that C has a "register" storage-class specifier keyword, I don't see how you can make that claim. Granted, modern compilers ignore it.

Certainly, the C specification states that "register" storage is non-addressable, so it does say something.
I wonder if this means Shopify will start doing per-customer custom theme development themselves.
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99% of the damage "done by 9/11" was actually done by the massive overreaction to 9/11. You cannot use the damage done by the overreaction to terrorism to justify the overreaction to terrorism.

It's like saying that your immune system's response to an allergen is justified, because just look at how terrible you feel when exposed to that allergen.
Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my
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There are lots of JS graph viz packages if that's all you want.
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The fallacy of the comparison to heart disease/cancer/traffic accidents is that tremendous resources are spent preventing and then resolving those issues as well. They are side effects of living productively, however, so we can't rationally just ban cars. But we can put hundreds of thousands of officers on the road, and endlessly add regulations and safety features to our vehicles, etc.

Snowden is a true hero in the sense of the word -- he is in actual, physical danger for what he has done for others -- however it is not a reasonable argument when people argue that terrorism is a non-issue because <body count> less than <some other body count>.

Do you think those who wish to do you harm don't want to exponentially increase that count? If various groups could get a nuclear warhead or dirty bomb, do you really believe they wouldn't use it? If they could sabotage a major city's water supply or a nuclear power plant, do you think that would be below them?

This doesn't seek to justify the NSA's all-encompassing surveillance at all (human intelligence is where it is at), however there is an actual possibility that they have actually preventing significant events. But the problem with proactive actions is that no one gives you credit for what didn't happen.

As an aside, to add to what others mentioned about the enormous costs and economic damage that resulted from 9/11, for instance, another reason terrorism of even the smallest kind sees a dramatic response is that it is terrorism -- it terrorizes a whole populace. If someone randomly shoots people in parks, there will be a massive response because the impact is on everyone.
Being gay or not is not a choice, so how can fertility rate be linked with number of homosexuals?
They are a design agency in Toronto, noted for their work in the startup community.
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It also is found most podcasts; if you hear a recommendation in a podcast, there is a high likelyhood that the recommended company sponsors|ed the podcast -- either through money, access, or 'perks'. Even in cases where sponsorship is disclosed, there is generally no separation between the podcasters and the acquisition of sponsors.

Editorial integrity is long dead on the Internet; its long since time to get used to turning a critical eye to technology-related editorial content.
I think he might be referring to the WKKK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan) but its still a far fetched leap to claim that the KKK was founded for the sole purpose of protecting women's rights. That most certainly is not true.
Let's not forget the roughly 15,000 people murdered each year in the US (which number does not, as far as I know, count drunk driving fatalities). If those don't count as "wrongful death" then nothing does. But nobody cares, because it's a continuous drip instead of a single big event, and because it mostly happens to poor people and minorities.
We have. But that's because we're a big publisher and Apple manages our account with humans. They expect us to follow their rules (in return for heightened visibility with the iTunes store curation/editorial/marketing folks).
Indeed. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about, although from what I've heard access times for DNA are still a bit steep though ;)
"Error establishing a database connection".

Bigger servers are always better.
If you were an agency touting expertise in internet memes, a $1600 investment in 2005 could still be paying a handsome dividend in internet street cred today.
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The Banqiao Reservoir Dam failures in 1975 cost an estimated 171,000 lives and made 11 million people homeless. That was a single event too. By your line of reasoning that makes 9/11 pretty much irrelevant and we should all care about dam security instead, ignoring that it was an extreme outlier, and that aggregate deaths from other causes quickly outdistanced dam failures again.

Clearly there are psychological issues at play that makes us care greatly about large disasters, but that still does not make it rational to compare individual events to decide what resources to use to fight a type of event as a whole over long periods of time.
UberX is may be cheaper than UberTaxi some of the time, because the latter has a mandatory 20% "tip" plus a convenience fee, but it's not cheaper than a cab.

For one, the minimum fare is more than double that of a cab in SF, but more importantly it "surges" 2x at all of the busier times.
And let's not have the illusion that HN an pg are too smart to be manipulated by people that are at least as clever as we are but who have specialized themselves in manipulating people instead of bits and bytes.

It's only the clueless an lazy ones that get caught like this.

Those seem fairly contradictory to me. Unless you are saying HN and pg are clueless and lazy, then I guess not.
"Catch’s flagship product, Enterprise Tester, actually automates this part. It takes specs created by analysts and software architects and automatically generates test plans. These can then be handed over to manual testers to run." <--- this is how they test software in Hell.
Except for when it surges 2x, which is most weekends - when you are most likely to want a ride.
One thing that's really cool about being a software developer (and I promise I'll relate this to the article in a sec...) is that you can practice your craft by yourself, with freely-available tools, and then point at something cool that you have done. This is advice that I give to software developers seeking jobs -- spend some time on your job search, but also spend some time contributing to open source projects or creating cool things of your own, which you can then point to as a demonstration of your craft.

This seems like a great opportunity for those in other professions to do the same. Laid off from your Industrial Systems Engineering job and looking for work? Help a homeless shelter optimize their processes. Accountant? Donate some time to a local thrift store to help get their books in order.

I think this could really hit the mutual-benefit sweet spot: it helps you get a job, and it helps an organization trying to benefit the community as well.
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Excuse me, but are you insane?

There's no way to make yourself safe from car crashes unless you confine yourself to your house. Even if you never drive, you are exposed to vehicular death simply as a pedestrian. There's no way to avoid it without becoming a hermit.

Meanwhile, it's pretty much trivial to make yourself safe from terrorism, if you wanted to. Avoid airplanes, avoid skyscrapers, avoid major cities. Done. Tens, perhaps hundreds, of millions of Americans already happily live this way, although most of them don't do it specifically to avoid terrorism.
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The problem is that most people wouldn't call it "Soviet misery". You were given a lot of things for free, so who cares you couldn't say bad things about the government? If you had a guaranteed job(at which you could just slack off and do nothing for the entire day with pretty much no consequences, since you knew you were getting paid at the end of the month regardless), free house/apartment paid for by the state, free medical care, free education, including higher education and state-sponsored holidays twice a year - why would you complain?

In fact I come from a country which used to be communist(Poland) and a lot of people(older people) say that it was fantastic. Obviously they don't realize that these policies pretty much ruined our economy and were unsustainable in the long run, but they don't care - they want their nice jobs, free stuff from the government and paid holidays twice the year.
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In New York City, there were approximately 430,000 jobs were lost and $2.8 billion in lost wages over the three months following the 9/11 attacks

That's just the number on wikipedia. 430,000 people lost their jobs in the 3 months after the attack. I supposed you could argue that it's not direct damages in the sense that 430K people were not all office workers in the WTC, but if they lost their job within 3 months of the attack it seems like the job loss is pretty directly related.

And, as a former NYC resident I would not at all be surprised if 430K people really did directly lose their job. The sheer number of people working in that area is immense. I remember an interview at the time with a guy whose bodega located down by Wall Street was destroyed, and he said he did $80K per week in business. And that's just one dude selling sodas, bottled water, cigarettes, etc.
The economic justification for patents is to protect from the free rider problem. If A invests 10 million in a technology, and B just copies it, B can undercut A on the market because it doesn't have to recoup R&D costs in the price. That leads to companies underinvesting in expensive R&D, because the winning play is to copy, not invent.

For most software patents, the capital cost is almost nothing. Even if it took a programmer a whole year to invent something, that's like 100k--no money at all in the larger sense. So it makes no sense to protect a capital investment that's negligible.

That said, the article really fails to explain why lawyers don't want to have a categorical exclusion for software patents. Usually, you want a legs principle to get to the root of why something is bad, not address bad situations ad hoc. Why are software patents bad? Sequential innovation, as mentioned in the article? If so, that should be the basis for the exclusion, not whether something is software or not.
It's never big enough...
It's a microcontroller, a hub driven motor and a lead acid battery. You could probably churn these out quite cheaply if you so desires.
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