skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's almost certainly not going to matter. Go back and read my post above and ask yourself whether there is any chance whatsoever that the Fukushima disaster could possibly cause 50 million deaths.

That's fifty million deaths. Why 50 million? Because that's about how many excess deaths have been caused by coal power over the lifetime of nuclear power.

If Fukushima fails to cause 50 million deaths then the entire nuclear industry will be that much behind in the category of ending human lives. Are new buildouts of fission power plant capacity likely to cause enough deaths to even the balance scales between fission and coal? Extremely unlikely. Even if people build irresponsibly outdated designs like the Fukushima daichi plants or even criminally unsafe designs like the Chernobyl plants it's extraordinarily unlikely that the reduction in threat to human lives caused by being able to shut down coal plants will more than make up for the much smaller risk added due to operating nuclear plants.

Edit: a much fairer assessment of relative risk of coal vs. nuclear would delve into deaths and injuries per kw-h, and it would also compare modern first world coal or gas plants vs. modern first world nuclear plants. But that math has already been done and shows that nuclear power is overwhelmingly one of the safest methods of producing power that has ever been created by mankind. And that remains unchanged even if you factor in Chernobyl and Fukushima (which in many ways are equivalent to allowing Chinese unfiltered coal plants into the equation on the other side). And even if you imagine some speculatively high number of deaths, even as many as tens of thousands, as the potential impact of the Fukushima daichi disaster there is just no way that the track record of the fission power industry to date could fall below the level of any other major power source that could potentially serve as base load power for a large industrialized country. It would take multiple Fukushima disasters happening every few years for the fission power industry to finally become as hazardous as gas or coal.
Its just as valid for people outside of climatology to comment on this as it is for people outside of finance to comment on financial issues.
Or you could sub-rent your place for a few months in winter and rent a place in a warm country. No wealth required.
Correct. The farther one gets from the equator the more the differential between day and night hours.

http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/june-solstice.html

http://www.govisithawaii.com/2009/08/05/hawaii-fact-34-of-50...

Then there's the fact that the Southern hemisphere experiences "summer" and "winter" at different times of year than the Northern hemisphere.
Except he's enabled WEP because it's "more convenient" for him. It's still a strong signal that he doesn't want outsiders on the network.

A better door analogy is replacing the deadbolt with a slightly crappier one that unlocks whenever you're in bluetooth range (for "convenience"). Just because the system is "easily broken into" doesn't mean that you're not "breaking and entering" when you break the security and enter the house.
I like the concept but like not having my laptop on my vacations more.
Disarm: A Mechanized Orchestra of Instruments Built from Decommissioned Weapons
This assumes that the cost of fixing the climate doesn't grow faster than economic growth, and that brute work (enormous masses of chemicals, etc) is not essential for fixing the climate. The amount of brute work we can does not necessarily grow with GDP.

Suppose we detect an asteroid which will very likely hit the earth. You might make the same argument. But in the case of an asteroid, the amount of force required to divert it from its path is trivial when it is a long way away, as it becomes closer, grows until it is impossible.

Fortunately, in the case of an asteroid, this fact is calculable today. It would be a pity if when we have 'much more accurate climate models' it turns out to be too late.
still not cool. still not cool at all.

-bowerbird
Anonymou Hacker 'Kahuna' sentenced to 3 years in prison
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What Our Telescopes Couldn’t See
Ha its my moms birthday tomorrow
For HNers who may have missed it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butter_Battle_Book
It's turned out to be a deeper rabbit hole than I expected.

That's quite ironic, given the subject of this thread....
If you have the option of re-dumping it, use mydumper instead. Crazy fast.

https://launchpad.net/mydumper
&nbsp; has been my friend for years. Its the only way to make the browser give you two spaces between sentences.

Or is there some better way to do it, a setting for an entire paragraph or page? It'd be great to have that.
Greenwich I dare say
> What about those companies that prioritise code quality instead of growth? You probably never heard of them

Please stop spreading that nonsense. Speaking from inside knowledge, some of them have strong, sustainable business growth and very successful recent IPOs. Some companies survive despite crap code. This does not make it the only way to work, or even the best way.
It's a cheap shot but shouldn't that be:

> Its just as invalid for people outside of climatology to comment on this as it is for people outside of finance to comment on financial issues.
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Has anyone tried this working only in the United States? I feel like this would be easier as internet access isn't at a premium (you can always tether on your smart phone worst comes to worst). The United States also has lots of large clients and if you want a larger technical challenge you can always set up camp near their offices for a few weeks and work in house. On the non-technical side of things you can find any kind of environment you want in the US. Mountains, beaches, cites, etc. I know you won't get the rewards of traveling abroad but you get 90% of what the ideal is and you can always take some time off big projects and travel abroad if you feel like it.

This is coming from a US citizen who loves his country despite all the fucked up shit that it's government does sometimes, so maybe I'm bias, but I definitely think the life is possible.
Number of openings < number of seekers. It's not really a hard concept to grasp.
(half kidding) I have a similar system for making estimates:

1.) Think of a number,

2.) Double it,

3.) If it still sounds reasonable, go to step 2.
Show HN: vim-extended-ft - Multiline/Smartcase f/t for Vim
Thanks, you've inspired me to give this a try and the inclusion of private repos will really help.
I totally disagree with this!
There are obligations, such as young children that clearly might keep one from jumping onto a plane for 20h (from Europe) to get to south-east asia.
It is really strange how many allegedly technical people are so invested in believing that thermodynamics isn't real.
oh come on mods. this was well titled. you removed the mention of lisp, leaving the title as guesswork about the contents. there is no rule for keeping original titles. please don't butcher them when someone actually adjusted them well.
A lot of the poor estimates come from not taking time to break out the features and subtasks of the project. Planning. Because clients never want to pay for planning.

We spend about 35% of the budget on planning and estimates. And they're usually fairly close, for projects where we've done similar things in the past.

When I worked at a smaller dev / consulting shop, we'd be lucky if we got 5-10% of the budget to spend on planning. Short sighted to say the least. Projects succeed or fail based on planning.
So, in essence, most scientists today are busy writing papers or pushing bits around in computer simulations rather than doing real experiments?
I agree, some of it was a little off-putting, but Andrew Leonard is one of the better writers at Salon and I thought he was just trying to address the stereotype about "Silly Con" valley and speak against it. He wrote: "Watsi must also bear the misfortune of coming of age during a simmering backlash against Silicon Valley" and then goes on to hold Watsi up as a counter example. I'm not aware of this simmering backlash against Silicon Valley, but it must exist somewhere for him to write about it this way.
China is out-innovating the US with a vending machine full of live crabs
Ask HN: Is it time for a public GPG audit?
With GPG being a common destination for those concerned by the recent privacy revelations, it bothers me a little that I can't find any audit or security review of GPG's codebase.

The Wikipedia page says that a German IT ministry funded a windows port, the EU Agency for Network and Information Security list GPG as part of their index of tools and claim it's in use by some related parties [0] but don't go so far as to recommend it. Considering that several governments within the EU are allegedly complicit in the SIGINT scandal, I don't think their word counts for much.

GPG is open source, but while the code is readily available the knowledge and background to determine its security is somewhat rarer. Would you be willing to contribute to a project to fund a public audit of the codebase? If so, what sort of people would you like to see participate.

[0] http://www.enisa.europa.eu/activities/cert/support/chiht/tools/gnupg-the-gnu-privacy-guard
Then it's Unicode code points, which are still am abstract concept to users. The only thing that's meaningful to users is graphemes — and with Unicode one grapheme can be formed of a potentially infinite number of code points (continuation characters stack, and can be repeated indefinitely), so you cannot practically use that for any limit.
Thanks for your reply.
I would love to hear from you in an update-post, when those customer relations actually end and you have to establish new ones. Especially given the situation that you both, can't profit from the company's relations and are working remotely.

Awesome travel blog as well...went straight to my feedly! Cheers
I built one for Wordpress, as I like you couldn't find it anywhere. Also I just checked my blog, where I have it running, and it looks much better on iPad

https://github.com/seanvoss/medium-clone
Well, we kind of have that planned. You don't have to be super rich, just have to know your places pretty well and buy smart, maybe something that needs a little work.

We bought a house in Richmond, Indiana (more or less where I'm from) for $8000 - that was actually a mistake because it needed too much work, but the principle was sound.

Now we're looking for foreclosures in reasonable neighborhoods in Puerto Rico, we're probably going to build a house here in Budapest, and maybe we'll find something in Indiana in a few years. If you have modest houses in your places instead of putting all your real estate money into a new garage and a pool, it's totally doable.

A lot of not-so-wealthy people have a house in the North and one in Florida, after all.
This. Is an amazing story.
This was the article if I recall (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-tas...). And it doesn't actually prove experts can't tell the good from the bad in black and white terms, but simply that given the same wines they may rate them differently each time.
The classic rule of thumb is to double the estimate and bump up the unit of measure. So an estimate of 1 hour becomes 2 days; 1 day becomes 2 weeks, etc.
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Nice.. You can also do in browser client and sever side encryption now with https://www.noteshred.com

See https://www.noteshred.com/client-side-encryption
>adequate math background

Do you know what kind of math is needed other than linear algebra.
That's good news for those of us waiting for the GTA V release at Midnight tomorrow.
"Read a few links on HN" slow, or "time to make some coffee" slow?
The article you linked vaguely hints at the role of a coach, helping in areas outside of sports (study habits, motivation, team building)

Sounds good. I propose having more real tutors and assistant teachers to get the mentioned benefits directly. Practice team building in, say, engineering competitions.

If you want to offer sports, don't just have an elite team in one of the big sports (telling people they are not good enough to take part, putting people into a spectator role, giving them artificial entities to root for), but offer a wide variety of popular stuff for the whole student body.
OSHA is only for the workplace and dates to 1970. UL goes back to the turn of the previous century. I don't know for sure, but I'd bet most electrical standards for OSHA defer to the UL standard.
It's not the reference to philosophy and the classics I meant - it's actually the decline of academics in general in favor of Reality College, and it's not new. I regard the specific mention of philosophy and the classics as a sort of fusty stand-in for all the other academics.

Add to that the "running the university like a business" - which generally means jacking up CEO pay into the stratosphere while cranking the productivity screws on adjuncts and raising prices for the customers (which in an earlier world were "students") - and you have the recipe for the ruination of the university, just as you have the recipe for the ruination of everything else American corporatism touches.

These programs are sold as advertising - which is insane. Seriously. If you want to compete for students, then make sure your students have fulfilling and/or lucrative careers (whichever your students are optimizing for) - don't sell them on which college is fun. You do that, you're not going to get quality students - and that means low-quality end product, a failing reputation in the job market, and you'll end up having to pay even more for a president who says he can fix it all. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
Macbook Air - Fantastic battery life

Mac or Linux OS is fine (I prefer Mac)

Text editor is personally dependent on you
Thank you for the PDF. I am a math major and have been feeling rather bummed that I haven't had much of a chance to learn techniques for data analysis, so this is really appreciated.
I believe, but hope I'm proven wrong, that climate change has passed the tipping point.

The earth's massive carbon sinks are now sources. Melting tundra, burning forests, boiling oceans (acidification).

If we stopped all human CH4 and CO2 production (stop the economy), the atmospheric levels will still increase.

I also hope that we humans are clever enough to figure out how to sequester CO2 on a massive, industrial scale.

Many humans will certainly survive. But it'll be a bumpy ride.
I'm curious, where are you exactly in the South West of France?
Show HN: Videos from Coursera class "The Science of Gastronomy"
Coursera took down the videos / slides from the Science of Gastronomy class which ended recently (https://www.coursera.org/course/scigast). However I grabbed a copy and I'm providing it for your viewing / learning pleasure: http://torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=1896531
Lessons From Seth Godin
It's because the new guy was a competent professional and realized the point of a school is to educate. That's a lucky strike for your school and not a general rule. Most school administrators wouldn't have had that foresight, because they believe the buck stops with the sports - period.
You can wrap each sentence in <span class="sentence"> ... </span>, then use CSS to apply a style to the sentence class. This may seem complex for such an issue, but it does obey the rule of separating content and style.

Another advantage of this approach is that you can have a JS checkbox on the page so people who feel strongly about this can choose which style they prefer. :)

Creating a sentence class as above does for sentences what <p> ... </p> does for paragraphs.
I've never traveled overseas and worked, but I've done a bunch of work remotely in the US while travelling for business, and I've recreational spent a few months in places like ireland and thailand.

I hate working out of hotels when I'm traveling for business, so I usually post up in a library, or coffee shop. I also end up doing spending a lot of time in airports where I have to be able to get up really quickly and stow everything. After a little optimizing, I never had a problem getting up in a few seconds, walking off to use the bathroom and grab a soda, and coming back. You just can't splay your stuff out everywhere like you might at an office. It also helps a ton to have a laptop that's got a solid battery life.

Getting up to go to the bathroom for me usually mean: close laptop and slide into bag > Put bag on shoulder > holster drink bottle in side pocket while walking wherever.

It's kind of fun figuring out efficient and quick ways to unplug quickly, but it really doesn't add that much overhead, especially once it's a rote thing. I also just don't plug in the majority of the time, if I can help it.

ymmv, and that doesn't counter all the other myriads of problems you would encounter being abroad working, but at least for that little part, I think it's a pretty solvable problem
> Estimations are based on experience, yet developers are constantly building brand new types of products. If all you built was "blog engines" over and over again, you would get damned good at estimating them. The trick in software is as soon as something needs to be reused over and over again, it is abstracted, put in a library, built into a framework, so you can make your product different (read: build something entirely new) -- and EVERYONE sucks at estimating the cost of building things entirely new.

That's it. Most, actually all, literature on software estimation I've seem ignores this simple fact. It's feasible to estimate cost and time for building houses, even skyscrapers, if you do that all the time. But how long does it take to climb a never-climbed mountain?
The primary public policy that people who care about climate change have advocated are carbon taxes. Nuclear power proponents insist that these carbon taxes would benefit them significantly. So what more do you want?

In many countries, the nuclear power industry already gets a free ride on liability and special government loans that other industries don't get. How much more do we have to tilt the playing field to favor nuclear power before it is enough?
I've been using ios 7 since beta 3 and most of the apps work just fine. I'm not saying that there were no issues, but not as many as the article states. Of course, this is limited to the list of apps I'm currently using on iPhone/iPad.
The really sad part is that at least somebody at Microsoft once knew how backup was supposed to work. Windows Home Server backed up every Windows machine in your house over the network to the central server. It was a bare metal recovery type differential backup, the backups were aged rationally, and the machines were woken up in the middle of the night to perform the backup, but laptops would only do this if they were plugged into AC so you wouldn't wake up a laptop in a suitcase and drain the battery and burn up the machine because it had no cooling airspace. It was pretty damn perfect (OK, a couple of minor issues), one of the best products Microsoft has ever produced.

So of course they screwed up the next version so bad that all the OEMs dropped their products that were based on it and Microsoft killed the product.
Britain's academics to produce 'doomsday list' of catastrophic events
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Haven't done the course, but from the preview of the videos, they cover the math you need and it's just basic, high-school level knowledge of linear algebra.
yeah. but I'm more suprised nobody noticed the 1337.
I enjoyed it, I think if this film was out when I was a teen several years back it would have been enlightening to parents about typical teenage computer use and how much it differs from their own.
5 questions to ask before you jump into freelancing
I ran into the same problem, and eventually the only workable solution was to use ranges within the software development group, but to only communicate the high end of the range to the project management group and executive team. Most of the time our projects came in "under budget" this way, which seems self-serving, and sometimes projects we thought we could complete on-time were shelved as being too-expensive, but whenever we tried to give those groups better information (eg: the range) they always went straight for the low-end and gave that out to marketing and other groups as a committed deadline date.
"In Brazil, I was going out 4-5x per week! My average night out in Rio I'd spend about US$5, maybe $10"

That is certainly not nowadays... Even though yes, this may be doable in some places still (if you keep yourself to drinks and maybe some food for sharing)
That article still gives a biased answer! Floating point numbers have limited precision, too. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/2013/rand-Consid...
Kind of. This guys point is basically "well I didn't do any research, but I believe X". There are plenty of people outside finance capable of doing basic research who are far more qualified to comment on finance than this guy is to comment on climatology.
Imprecise transcript:

Q: Are you convinced that you're more successful
because of OCaml?
A: <jokingly> I certainly have job security! But
seriously, I think the answer is yes, for many
reasons that are difficult to tease apart. One
of the big reasons is that it became easier to
hire great programmers. We hired many great
programmers before we switched to OCaml (and
they have since adopted OCaml) but it took more
effort to find them than it took to find great
functional programmers. It's hard to describe
how significant the effect was, but I believe
it was important; our language choice impacted
our tools and results in a positive way.
This is spam, there's nothing of value on that page (at least on mobile).
> Also, it being cloud-based you never really receive the documents, but you are just enabled to view them if the site is online.

Yeah this worries me. If it's a document that requires my signature, I want a real live document in my hands that I can file away for safe keeping... I know it's about preserving forests and all that good stuff, but legal documents are something I want physical copies of.
Things You Didn't Know About Google
Just a tip - LAPACK and BLAS are available for OpenCL now. No need to link against Fortran, and you get to use the GPU.

http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/cpu-development/amd-...
the way to interpret this situation is to treat high-certificate-churn https sites as though they are plain http. the software UI should communicate "I give up, I can't trust this site anymore" and stop annoying you with attempts to manage the noise
step through all of Spring in your debugger with no problems

You misunderstand. Java breakpoints, yes. Spring breakpoints, no.

To troubleshoot Spring, the best you can do is trace (log) and inspect untyped nested hashmaps.

No thank you.

The IDE can sometimes pre-detect trivial errors. Whoopie.

Python has decorators and Python 3 will soon have function annotations.

My condolences.
Eleventy seven.
One of my favs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2092745
Basic vector and matrix operations. The first half of a typical freshman linear algebra course is more than enough. But like I said, there is a matrix review in the beginning, so if you're willing to study those extra lectures, then almost no prior knowledge is needed.

Also being able to take derivatives helps in a couple of places, but is not necessary.
KV asks for less control provisions than other comparable funds. Indeed, we rarely even require a Board seat. Most often, the founder persuades us to accept one.