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> It is interesting that before Fukushima the common knowledge was that any amount of radiation is bad and may cause health issues

Well, the common knowledge is wrong. We are surrounded with background radiation every day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation
You're going to need a massive amount of traffic to get statistically significant results from 50 different choices.

I do like the idea of using A/B testing to double-check your designer's decisions, though.
How would that be an improvement over the current situation?
That's the right thing to expect and require!
But we cannot be surprised if a country that was behaving in one way in year X is behaving in a radically different way a few years later. As you say, a country is run by humans (note the plural) but many of its accomplishments or errors are done by part of that population, not necessarily sharing the vision and ideals of the whole population.
Didn't they already re-write these apps?
This isn't malware. Malware is defined as software meant to disrupt or compromise your machine.

This is fuckyou-ware. Software that serves a reasonable purpose, but does it with utter contempt for the user.
As bitcoin is likely only quasi-legal in the eyes of the government, I doubt they'd be selling it off before they take a stance on it one way or another.
This website, hckrnews.com, is developed and maintained by Wayne Larsen: https://github.com/wvl

BTW another project of Wayne's is: http://clara.io
Both are free, though.
It's said that the best way to be a primary source for wikipedia is to write a webpage that posits the change you want to make to a WP article, then cite that page when you make the change.
Unfortunately, bureaucracy is the only way we know to synthesize a kind of homogeneous, approximately unbiased store of knowledge like Wikipedia wants to present. Stack Overflow's gamification seems to work well--or at least better compared to Wikipedia's--so it makes sense they would try it. I bet few people can write in an unbiased way about topics they're passionate about and have achieved a great depth of knowledge in. Are you going to get a higher quality encyclopedia by taking raw, highly biased, unsourced, "bad" content and coaxing it into shape through a very contributor-affirming hand-holding process, or by simply turning away the "bad" content and the people who created it? I don't think anybody knows which method works better, but it's clear that Wikipedia's method falls into the second camp and its shortcomings are only becoming more obvious as time goes on.
"FBI Says It's Seized $28.5 Million In Bitcoins From Ross
Ulbricht, Alleged Owner Of Silk Road"

"It believes that the stash belonged to Ross Ulbricht, the 29-
year-old who allegedly created and managed the Silk Road..."

The title and that sentence are in contradiction with one another. They either seized it from him or they did not. If they did seize it from him, why are they saying that they "think" it is his.
Australia and Canada have info sharing deals with the NSA but their citizens are not mad at their governments. Germans howl when a US military base might close. Serious cognitive dissonance does not deserve endless vapid repetition and HN users rightly flag such nonsense.
Completely agree and most cities are built with cars in mind first.

Lucky for me, I live near the most bike friendly city in the country - and it's not on the left hand coast. ;)

http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/1-bike-city-m...

If it was feasible and I lived within 10 miles of where I work, I would for sure bike. Right now, I commute almost 20 minutes in my car, so biking to and from work just isn't a great idea. If I lived and worked in the city, I would for sure bike every day. Even if I worked in the city, I would utilize the light rail for the majority of my commute. It sucks I would still have to drive 10-15 minutes to get to the light rail though.
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If I was willing to risk biking to work, going with a buddy would be nicer. I just don't like the risk of body versus car.

If there were dedicated bike lanes going to work, I'd be in them.

As it is, I walk or take my car.
Actually the comparisson would be that there are more
free software than patented software installed.

And I think it is an interesting question, someone knows some statistics regarding that?
I wonder if we are the first generation to come to this observation, as it seems to be a common observation across the board.
No, that switch is 10G copper, no sfp+ required. Thunderbolt and 10G ethernet aren't really competing in the same space, so I'm not sure why you brought it up.
There's so much misinformation about cycling going on in this thread.

There really needs to be better education regarding commuting via bike.

"I sweat too much" = you're likely out of shape.
"The weather is too inclimate" = wear appropriate clothing.
"I live too far away" = 15 miles in an hour is very reasonable.

Minnesota has heat indexes in the summer similar to the Middle East, in the winter we can get windchills <= -20F, yet Minneapolis is one of the best cities for cycling in the United States.
If they did sell them off, would give the currency some legitimacy as being legal?
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What I'd like to know is how they seized it. It requires they find his private key - either Ulbricht made serious blunders when storing his private key, or (paranoid) the FBI had some techniques to get it that we wouldn't expect.
It's so weird to continually hear authors parrot the claim that the trivial cost of an OS upgrade is relevant to businesses. Fact is, any business over about 20 employees has a Microsoft Software Entitlement license, where you pay (substantially under market price) per user for Office, Windows, etc. And Software Entitlement is valid across all currently supported versions of the OS and Office. That means that if your company is running XP and Office 2003, it's entirely because your IT group didn't want to go through the trouble of upgrading everyone (and retraining users), NOT because of the cost. The time to test various enterprise apps and ensure they work and work reliably is expensive. Just because Apple wanted to encourage a bunch of bloggers to update their Airs isn't going to be a tipping point for Apple into any real market share - in fact it'll harm their chances in the future when they stop issuing security patches to a 2-year-old OS because "upgrades are free".

What is driving Apple's new-found fondness for free is that they don't want to deal with supporting older OSs. Unfortunately, that's a requirement for being in the business world. Apple has just excluded themselves from it.
Wow... it's definitely not a perfect place, but it's also not the horror show you make it out to be.

More than the far right that wants to paint Japan's past in a rosier light, the problem with Japan's government is Japan's culture: They don't want to do anything without consensus from everyone, which pretty much never happens period. This is a big reason for their stagnation.

You should also be looking at the atrocity angle from a global perspective: Right now apologies and compensation are being demanded all around not because they haven't already been given (they have) or because they were insufficient (they were accepted) but because China, South Korea, and Japan all hate each other at the moment and are bickering like children, in no small part due to all three being in a nasty phase of nationalism and using territorial disputes to antagonize one another.

It's easy to denigrate just about any government, and right now current events are making it laughably simple, but that doesn't mean every accusation you hear on the news is true or even provided in context.
Presumably, any real world customers are likely to be those in developing markets.
I got an email about this quake over an hour ago - here is the USGS link if anyone else is interested in setting up similar notifications[1]. You can set up customized magnitude ranges for customized parts of the globe, it's a pretty neat little service. Rule of thumb for context is 7.0+ happen about once a month and 8.0+ happen about once a year... I have it email me about every 7+ on the globe and I think every 3+ within a decent range of my city.

[1]https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/
i dont like it. its shit
Slow news day at NPR.
So use twinax.
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Our summer heat indexes get up to 130F, people still bike here.
They can call it GoLangular
Can't you just declare those exploded source deps as submodules?
It doesn't help that when you try and fix obviously broken stuff, or even provide desperately needed citations, the majority of the time you'll get insta-reverted and flagged as a vandal.
Oops, that would be the 1492, which was the end of 781 years of land war in Western Europe proper.
They aren't going to tumble all 32 million. Even 10k-20k USD worth of coins is enough to work with for most criminal cases.
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That's it? A paltry 40km/yr? I think I put like 5000km on mine in the past year just by commuting daily.
Because that is how SSL works. I don't understand your question. Your bank uses one SSL key as well. Google has one SSL key for their homepage. It is not possible for a top level domain to have more than one SSL certificate. Are you asking why SSL works the way it does? You'll have to talk to the people who wrote the RFC.

SSL is what is used to protect communications between a client and the Lavabit endpoint. Once a request is inside the lavabit network other security measures are used. For example, each email message is signed using the account key for a given member, the account key is itself encrypted with the members password. The only way to decrypt a message is with the account key and the only way to decrypt the account key is with the member password. If you lose your password, your mail is gone forever. The feds had access to snowdens encrypted emails, but they had no way to decrypt them without his account password and the only way to do that is with snowdens personal password, which is why they wanted to sniff unencrypted traffic (to snag his password en route to the lavabit server). I've simplified a few things but this is a rough overview of how his system is designed.
I have plenty of women friends who have told me flat-out they wouldn't date a man shorter than them.
Yeah, I have no idea how Shakespeare got anything done.
It makes secure use of git a pain in the ass. You can't do even fetch objects from a source that isn't fully trusted, because they could override objects from a trusted repo.
Tax deductions aren't very legit for sustenance programs.
Tax credits are however.
If you want to understand how any process with multiple independent agents with not-exactly-matching interests will behave, and why it will behave so, then game theory is the appropriate toolset for that.

Don't get fixated with the 'game' word which has a loaded meaning outside of game theory, it's just a math term here.
> The title and that sentence are in contradiction with one another.

No, they aren't.

> They either seized it from him or they did not. If they did seize it from him, why are they saying that they "think" it is his.

Because possession ("from Ross Ulbricht") and ownership ("belonged to Ross Ulbricht") are not the same thing. Its possible to have more certainty about the former than the latter.
I'm not worried - if this becomes a problem, it's easy enough for them to promote editing just like they promote donations.
+1 vote for Practical Typography. It's simple and straightforward, and it's oriented toward the average person rather than professional designers. And since it's available in full on the web, you don't have to pay anything to start reading it.
You can try /about again. Server was having problems there with the load.

FYI top 10 / top 20 / top 50% should be the "Top N" stories by number of points for each day according to your timezone.
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It seems to be some evil bot or human, coming from different IPv6 addresses and changing the magnitude order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polish_Armed_Forc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russian_Armed_For...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russian_Armed_For...
At the same time, Huxley's Brave New World also appears to be becoming more and more true.

"In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies -- the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant.

In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." [0]

Most people don't perceive these changes to affect them/their daily lives, so they are not concerned with it. They don't care.

[0]: http://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/
This is a fabulous idea. More experienced WPedians could then offer advice as to what would make the change acceptable (must be cited to an actual policy) and the person doing the edit could keep working until they fulfilled the requirements, automatically completing a valid edit. There would be no possibility for immediate revert and any edit made this way would have to persist for some time.
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The constraints of Fukushima and Chernobyl are vastly different. First of all, in Chernobyl the surrounding infrastructure was not destroyed. Second, they had an open reactor in Chernobyl, so it was immediately clear that they need to build a sarcophagus. By contrast in Fukushima the biggest problem is water management. And especially the management of contaminated ground water, while it is not clear that a sarcophagus would solve much, since the containment is apparently somewhat intact.

So while I think that Tepco did make horrible mistakes, I am actually not sure that the response was less than optimal. Largely because the USSR did commit similar mistakes in Chernobyl, for example not registering the liquidators.
I don't think that's what is meant by "go looking for the citation."

I read it more as "by being an expert in this subject I know this is true; by being an expert in this subject I also probably don't have time to find the journal that has the article in question, cite it per Wikipedia's rules, and put it in the article."

Frankly that sounds like a great task for editors that aren't subject experts. Maybe the expert can say "this is missing knowledge, this is where I think a citation should be or what to look for" and the non-expert can do that.
Just the opposite. We already know that she chose physics even though the prior of being a woman made that choice less likely. We can infer that she was probably more dedicated to the subject itself than her average peer. The fact that she eventually made it in academia supports this hypothesis.

Another possibility is that she had a partner willing to support her if things went south. Obviously this situation isn't unique to women, but I do think it's slightly more probable for a woman to have such a partner. If this is the case, PaulHoule's point becomes that the decision to enter grad school only made sense for her because of the artificially reduced consequences of p(failure).

Even if affirmative action did play a role (a recent paper found very damning, well-controlled evidence of systematic bias against women in the evaluation process, so I wouldn't assume this with any degree of certainty), PaulHoule could have simply been observing that she saw a better p(success) and was therefore the only one willing to take the leap.

Or maybe PaulHoule is a misogynist. But I'd be willing to bet against you if you still thought that.
Are Android phones actually cheaper than their proprietary counterparts?
for question 1: Chrome, Opera and IE (10) all use IndexedDB as does most other browsers , a few other browsers (android and safari I believe) fallback to WebSQL.

as for question 2, I'm not aware of any FF issues in that regard aka I have no idea what your talking about, link?
Is anyone surprised that an organization which created user classes called "Bureaucrat" and "Oversight" has become difficult to manage?

To the extent that reform is possible, they'll have to figure out a way to attract new, inexperienced editors who either don't care about or don't know the organizational structure and technical requirements (will all due respect to the software engineer quoted, wikitext is significantly more complex than # or @ symbols, and is most definitely not user friendly).

Maintaining a complicated language of policies and procedures is not an effective way to do this. It's all too easily used as a weapon by those who understand it best.
Perhaps a better synonym for the recent usage of the term "realtime" would be "interactive" or "continuous update".
He blundered or he caved. We only have evidence of past blunders so that is the best guess.
We only settled into our long period of whining after stomping round the world and setting fire to bits of it whenever people complained. I sort of prefer us in our current mode.
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Aside from football, cycling is the most popular sport in Belgium. Maybe the bicycle market is saturated?
There's a bit of a movement to encourage going back to Real Books(tm) for sourcing. But lots of wikipedians know about and lament linkrot, site death, and robots.txt hijacking (which can "disappear" an entire dead site from the Wayback Machine behind a domain squatter's temp page). So we soldier on with archive.org, WebCite, archive.is (new, and under indictment for bot spamming at the moment), and several other archivers to save our citations. Still, properly filled out references (author, title, publication, date, page) will always be verifiable even if its link rots, and one must take a trip to the library.
Why is CloudFlare such a piece of shit?
No, no, no. Don't give me that now. How came 100mSv/h used to be horrible and is just good for your health. Explain that.
If Fukushima were Chernobyl, it would have needed a sarcophagus. However, it was already designed with containment that worked, and as a result, a sarcophagus wouldn't have changed anything. In fact, building a large concrete structure over the reactor core would probably have complicated cleanup efforts by limiting access.

In effect, Fukushima already had a sarcophagus integrated into the structure of the building in 1971, 6 years before Chernobyl even started running.
Fruit contains far more than just sugar: fiber for example, is great for you. Vitamins and minerals are also, generally speaking, good for you.

Furthermore, eating fruit will not spike your blood sugar the same way an equivalent amount of pure sugar or a caloric equivalent amount of junk food.

These are not controversial statements, there is plenty of actual research to back this up.

Finally, there are many ways to heat healthfully, and fruit is not essential: however it is unambiguously healthier for you than junk food.
I used to try fixing grammatical and typographical mistakes, and most of my changes got reverted. This was perhaps 4 years back. It was frustrating seeing ok/good content written by what seemed to be a non-native english speaker that could have been good/great content if it were cleaned up, but instead was left to rot.
Your impression was wrong. He showed all of the differences in the screenshots. That's how few there were. Not a single bit of the code portions was different. Only a handful of metadata bytes, plus appended certificate.

The disassembly was only there to be cute and emphasize the point.
> Women have a lot more invested in sex and children than men do.

Why would you say that? Again, it appears to be biased against men.
I hope here we have the right to original thinking.
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That's pretty common as a phenomenon: I wouldn't say it's a cliff so much as a very steep grade. My current girlfriend is an inch taller than me, and taller than that in heels (and I love her in them!). But she's the tallest person I've ever dated.

It also shows the shortcomings (no pun intended...) of the 0-10 rating model: there's neither generic Man nor generic Woman. Your rating to women you're more than two or three inches taller than (could be 0, could be 10) is almost entirely independent of your rating to women you're two or three inches shorter than (0).
How many mixers would you trust with $30M in Bitcoins?

How many trustworthy mixers are going to want to be the service that mixed $30M for the FBI, causing suspicion to be cast on all their other clients?
I think you won. I see 90.7.
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Your 0.7% figure is slightly off. The total number of Bitcoins to be mined is 21 million, putting the percentage at slightly more than 0.54% (114000/21000000).
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I work with scientists that love the IPython Notebook technology. Some claim the IP[y]: Notebook to be the best thing since the Mosaic web browser and the most important development in scientific computing in a decade. They are replacing a variety of tools (Perl, Matlab, R, etc.) with the notebook technology. I tend to agree, it is a revolutionary technology and the idea of executable papers is tantalizing. But I also see some limitations. Setting up a Python environment with all the necessary libraries can be a real pain in the neck even with technologies like pip. Also taking advantage of multicore parallelism is not trivial because of the Python Global Interpreter Lock. I have also worked in JVM environments where parallel computing is becoming significantly easier and I don't see that happening in Python anytime soon. I would love to be proven wrong, of course.
Indexes, albeit T-tree instead of B-tree.
We also know that they waited until he entered some keys on his laptop before they seized him. The likelihood it was these keys is probably low, but still should be considered.
If that's true, then incumbent Wikipedians need to take it upon themselves to communicate that to newcomers directly, and not in a random comment in Hacker News.

Probably the easiest way to do that: If someone makes a substantive edit that isn't obviously vandalism, but doesn't quite meet Wikipedia's standards, then don't just undo it wholesale. Instead, temporarily pull it off the main page and into a back-end discussion. And then immediately contact the author with an explanation of what's going on and what they can do to get the changes reinstated.
What you can do is first start a section on the talk page about the topic and which sentences/sections could be changed. Then go ahead and make the intended edit on the article and then link to the section on the talk page in your edit comment. Then any editor who may potentially revert or have an issue with the edit will see that link and can go directly to that talk section that you started.

The markup used for the linking in the edit comment is the same as the wikitext markup. For example, an edit comment like this:

... see talk page for discussion.

would be marked up:

... [[Talk:Article name#Section heading|see talk page]] for discussion.

This might help start discussions about low-traffic article topics that would otherwise languish at the bottom of the talk page for weeks if not months.
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Excellent move! Cheers! Can we also look at those Arials at the top?
Oh, that's another association for sewer that I wasn't thinking of. I didn't actually mean that the comments are crap or nasty, though they sometimes are. I just meant that it's a big backlog of comments that people would probably not read through.