skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The War on Terror is, to a large extent, about creating a domestic counter-insurgence apparatus in the US. Perhaps there are changes coming that necessitate, from the perspective of those in power, this level of control over the population.
The 10^18 Bq is from Cs-137 alone, which is only one of many radio-isotopes released by nuclear weapons. Others include: I-131, Co-60, Sr-90, Am-241, Kr-85, and of course U-235 and Pu-239.

Here's a good analysis: http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/fallout/feasibilitystudy/t...

Check out Table 3.3, which is deposition of radioactive fallout in the continental United States (not worldwide). You'll see that nearly 2,000 times as many Becquerels of radiation from nuclear fallout comes from isotopes other than Cs-137. That's because many of those isotopes are short-lived and so generate much higher doses of radiation.

You'll note that over 4,000 petabecquerels of radioactive nuclides were deposited on the continental US alone through nuclear testing. And that does not include the Pacific nuclear testing, such as Ivy and Castle, where most of the largest tests took place. Nor does it include the impact of Soviet, Chinese, or French tests (which included several multi-megaton tests including significant fission yields which would have produced enormous quantities of fallout).

Remember that folks who were 40 miles away from just one nuclear test, Castle Bravo, suffered from acute radiation poisoning. We haven't seen anything like that happen with Fukushima, because the radionuclide output is significantly different. The fact is that the majority of radionuclides from the Fukushima disaster come from old nuclear fuel, fuel that still contains Cs-137 but where the very much more hazardous short-lived isotopes have already decayed away.

This is in contrast to the situation with Chernobyl where the reactor itself experienced runaway nuclear fission activity before being disassembled by a steam explosion and catching fire, dispersing enormous quantities of extremely nasty isotopes into the air.

This isn't to downplay the seriousness of the Fukushima disaster but compared to what's been dumped into the Earth's biosphere already it's not terribly frightening. We're not all going to start glowing in the dark or growing extra arms and legs from Fukushima.
Demand is closely tied to the velocity of money. When the transaction rate on the blockchain is high, coins should be hard to generate. When transaction rate is low, coins should be easier to mine.
I've had just the opposite experience. Every IBM and Lenovo laptop I've used has died or had to be replaced within a year (2 IBM and 2 Lenovo). I've had decent experience with Windows towers, but not laptops.

Now my Apple experience, having laptops going back to the Duo 280c, I've had to have two faulty batteries replaced and one screen replacement, all which were fixed within a week. That's 8 laptops over 20 years, each were passed to family members when I was finished and each worked when they were given to family friends or donated to charity.

And as you say, once probability, twice coincidence, thrice certainty. That's why I stopped buying Lenovo in 2009 and finally decided Windows and its grief was not necessary in my life.
Thanks.

Community moderation is quite a nice concept. Slashdot has indeed implemented it quite intelligently.
I sort of like this idea, but in all honesty, I think the time for secessionist movements has passed. That's not a snarky comment about the Civil War--it just seems to me that the idea of having a sovereign state with a monopoly of force over some geographic terrain seems outmoded to me.

China Mieville wrote a novel a couple years back, The City and the City, that is exactly the type of thing I want to see more of: pushing the boundaries of what we consider a plausible political entity. In it, there's one city but two governments that are both sovereign within its limits, and people choose to be part of one or another. I'm also reminded of the historical political mandalas of Southeast Asia--one city state might simultaneously be a client of two other states.

Is either the future? Of course not. But my point is that our vision of what governments have to look like is sadly limited, and our myopia has caused us to see the Eurocentric romantic state nationalism of the past two centuries as the only way for a civilization to exist. Think bigger, folks! (Or smaller, as the case may be.)
I was an anarchist in high school too. I was an over-achieving individualist who took personal affront to the norms and rules imposed on all school kids, and people in general.
I researched anarchy philosophy and policy as it presented itself over the years. It worked for me: I felt that people could be trusted to behave correctly without the imposition of external rules and laws and the violent enforcement thereof. Obviously I was wrong. But I remain basically committed to my original ideals: an ethically motivated individual does not need to be ruled by fear and force. What, however, does that same individual do when confronted by the violent - or even not so violent but still evil - application of the rule of law?
I wonder if I am one of these people. I have been trained by now-countless instances of things happening that I was told would never happen. I'm not "what-if-a-SHA1-collision-is-found" though.
Vermont from NY+NH

What? Vermont was its own sovereign state before joining the union.
I would totally like to support you guys, but you never replied to my technical issue inquiry on twitter, so I haven't been able to use your site.
Uh-oh... oO;

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Hi Steven,

Sorry to hear your horrible experience loosing good friend and after reading your reply, i feel that the person like him did not deserve such death :(

Sometime it is very difficult for human to understand GOD and his punishment !
Similarly, my mother always told me to drive as if the oncoming person who appears to be stopping is NOT, and that people with turn signals on are liars or forgetful, and will continue straight, when evaluating safety of turning right.

Sometimes it feels like I drive like the stereotypical granny, but this has saved my bacon several times in the past two decades.
She wants to learn kernels, and she wants to learn Rust. There are no extant kernels written in Rust, so she's making one.

Contributing to an existing program (positively or negatively) may be more valuable, but I would say this project is more ambitious. Also, if her goal is knowledge of the system, it's more instructive to build from the ground up rather than start with a system where you can always take parts of it for granted.
"Any such creation [must] be approved by the legislature of the affected state(s), as well as the United States Congress."

Not strictly true.

It certainly wasn't the case for the West Virginians.
Most people are not at uni and rented boxes usually have root open by default expecting customers to then disable root access and create a user with su / sudo rights. Plus I tend to take things further and create a dedicated groups for ssh so that rsync / sftp users cannot use a system shell nor port forward and are chrooted while a very small subset of administrators have full ssh access.

Plus even if you do borrow someone else's box, can you be sure that they'd even be grateful that you're using up their bandwidth?

Ssh is a dangerous protocol to leave open to the WAN, so setting up an ssh server properly, while not a time consuming job, will still take longer and more effort than simply deleting a few files afterwards.
This doesn't address your comment itself, but: a lot of people assume that any kind of insult to the other side in a debate is an ad hominem. This isn't true. If you tell me that 2+2=5, and I say "no, you're delusional, 2+2=4", that's not an ad hominem.
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"The only reason California is so diverse is because of immigration"

Time was, California only had indigenous peoples.
> Sometime it is very difficult for human to understand GOD and his punishment !

What a rude, and offensive thing to say.
Hasn't California's primary been in like freaking June.
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> Where are the feminist fighting for 50% of all divorce cases ending in fathers staying with children? Any arguments? Or just the usual aggression, name calling?

Fathers who seek custody tend to get it: http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/archives/2012/04/chi...
Why do those who can't hack the "exercise left for the reader" never directly ask for help?
Thanks for clearing that up for me :)
And yet they believe in an invisible "creator" who takes a personal interest in their daily lives. How should we weigh their valuation of science and logic relative to someone who doesn't believe such things?
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The water table in Seattle is very high, about 4 feet in that area. So at the point of the blockage they are under 40 feet of water. Every ~33 feet of water is an extra atmosphere of pressure.
I haven't been able to tell from any reports yet. What is it about this object that they weren't able to discern existing through sonar/ultrasound/core samples/whatever pre-engineering I imagine these sorts of projects do? Is it that it's just so far down? Or do we not even know?
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I was reading through the discussions here on HN about Buffer's open salaries.

The two sides are. a)open is good and creates a fair environment. or b) open is bad because human nature will get involved and things will get ugly...

This is fundamentally the difference between democrats and republicans. Democrats have a positive perspective of an idealistic world, and republicans say, we have to face facts and acknowledge human natures role.

Same goes for pretty much every disagreement I can find. One side has an optimistic perspective, with short term results in mind and the other has the long game in mind, and wants to account for all the horrible things that might happen...

I am not saying one is right or wrong, although I certainly have my own personal opinion...

I just wonder if most theoretical, and political disagreements are all fundamentally about the same thing...

Whether we are short term optimistic thinkers, or long term pessimistic thinkers.
Into which group would the person who is genuinely very technically smart, but thinks they're too smart comprehensively to even be bothered checking in with the actual users to see if their vision meshes with the actual requirements fall in this analysis?
on the topic of debugging, i would just like to heartily recommend "the medical detectives", which has a dr-house'esque streak to it, but it is real...
Before systemd, Nagios was employed to do that and alert you when it happens. It's still a good idea to have proper monitoring set up, be it Nagios/Icinga, Zabbix or something you know will fit the bill. In good fashion of Unix philosophy, a combination of components works really well. This repository has most of them: https://github.com/monitoringsucks/tool-repos
You really need to review U.S. history before you write stuff like this. The past 100 years is full of examples of citizen action overpowering moneyed interests, including huge movements like labor, environmentalism, and civil rights. Each of these movements grew public support until it was large enough to leverage government power to achieve their goals.

You're right that each person's vote, by itself, is only a tiny drop in the bucket. That's not a flaw; that's the whole point of a democracy: it biases the government toward action that will please the most number of citizens. The lone whims of one person should not carry the day in a democracy.

For example: the Iraq war was very popular when it was started. Then, when it became obvious what a mess it was, and become unpopular, the American people voted for a change in government. Now we're not at war in Iraq anymore.
I have seen a lot of departments in my office understaffed. Immigration department, Talent management department, the HR department etc., who job is seen as mostly mechanical and less stressful. In reality, they juggle between a lot of things and are stressed. People keep on calling them and act as if the they are there to serve. I have raised this concern in my organization, but only to deaf ears.
> In October, workers walked through the first
> rings of the highway tunnel being built under
> Seattle’s waterfront toward the _boring_ machine
> called Bertha.

What's so boring about a huge, self-propelled drill making a gigantic hole under a city? … oh (facepalm)
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I've followed Sirlin for a long, long time. He definitely has a ton of misplaced arrogance (it's arguably his defining feature), but he is extremely good at game balance. I'm sure there are flaws with Chess 2, but I highly doubt that a dominant strategy is one of them.
If for no other reason, to be with the rest of your employees, the dead fellow's direct co-workers?
Yes, these ideas are evergreen in California. The "Jefferson" one in particular comes up constantly. There's only a tiny problem: all of "Jefferson" would contain a tiny (fewer than a million) population, would have essentially no economy other than timber and tourism, and currently runs an ENORMOUS budget deficit when considered by itself because the negligible economic activity produced by the timber industry wouldn't even pay for filling the potholes in the 1000s of miles of highways in the region, much less for fixing the bridges and staffing the rural fire departments and whatnot.

Of course the idea can't die because 1) rural poor people are particularly susceptible to "stabbed in the back" propaganda about how liberals are robbing them blind, and 2) incumbent timber owners are all too happy to peddle such propaganda because all they want is to clearcut the remainder of California's forests without interference from pesky laws.
On another note: maybe if the installation of ClojureScript would be manageable in, say, an hours instead of having to search half a day among outdated information, more people would try it (and this is from someone who already uses Clojure and Leiningen a bit).

Clojure and its libraries has the worst documentation, and this malpractice seems to be continued in ClojureScript.
If you're on reddit, you must have like negative ten trillion karma.
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Lol, but if only 1 of them applied to you, you're doing pretty good. :)
Ok, if you really think the term "White Knight" has some undertone about gender, you have to be trolling at this point.
I'm not sure it's really what Sivers means, but I agree with what you wrote. I even think that if (after learning how to read and write) children only studied history and maths, they'd be better educated (and even better people) than the average today.

I encourage everyone to pick a slice of history this christmas and study it for a bit. It's entertaining, too.
Seriously, why would you click inside an ad to turn it off? That's the kind of behavior that gets you even more "one weird trick" and flashing "millionth visitor this second" ads that follow you around everywhere. I probably would've gone another year or more without knowing what that stupid triangle was for.
As someone who owned severals Lenovos at work, and several MacBooks at work, from my experience 3 Lenovos broke the plastic rim of the screen and keys flew out, MacBooks have all been fine and upgraded to new ones while still working.
Having used webRTC with the TURN server REST API (multimedia conferencing app), it's not that bad.

STUN will get though the NAT most of the times. With the latest browsers, Firefox to Chromium is a bit dodgy, but there are workarounds. But Chromium to Chromium is perfectly fine.
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If you or one of your children were one of the <who knows how many> lives he's affected in a very positive way you'd have a more mature perspective of the world instead of making flippant criticisms from the comfort of your living room.

You're probably living in the top 10% at least of humanity, what have you done for the world lately?
I am not rude against GOD and i am not complaining. Here i was trying to express my views as i seen many-time that good people are suffering and bad people are enjoying !
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Recently, iOS7 shifted all Siri queries to Bing by default. Seems to work quite similarly, but I'm sure that's pushing accesses and usage quite a bit more now.
I didn't know retargeting existed until a few years ago when a family member died. I had pulled up the website for a cremation service provider to look up their number, so I could pass it along to the person in the family who was making arrangements.

For the following week, more than half of the Google ad banners I saw all over the web were for the cremation company. Even on things that were completely unrelated, like an Android developer blog. I could reload over and over again and I kept seeing ads for that company. I cleared cookies and it went away, and that's when I realized they were specifically sending me that ad because of an original visit to that website.

To me it really seemed insensitive on the part of the cremation company for them to have bought retargeted ads. You'd have to think that more often than not, people visiting your site have just lost of a loved one. Is it really the best thing to remind them of it on every subsequent website they visit?
> I am not rude against GOD

No, you're rude against PEOPLE.
It was a reply to a now deleted comment!

It was about social network from spain. He provided a link to an article that talked about the old HpHp (HipHop C++ translator). I pointed it out, and then the guy deleted the comment entry, as it seems.

(edit: this was the article the other guy posted yesterday: http://corporate.tuenti.com/en/dev/blog/the-epic-tale-of-mov... )
Trolling is more difficult if you're not a native speaker or come from a different culture, so even if there were any international trolls they didn't know proper expletives for trolling in english.
Except, people are more than supervisors. Maybe it's the vacation that he's been planning with his wife and kids for 5 years. You can just as easily make a rule like "To all parents: Family time is not work time. Not even a death at the office trumps that. No exceptions."
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What the hell is a happiness hero? It sounds like some sort of horrible orwellian euphemism.
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I suspect that this is a very clever joke. And possibly that I might be the butt of the joke. But I suspect that even so, the joke is so good that I'd still laugh heartily at it.

Unfortunately, I freely admit that the joke goes right over my head. I used to know something about Riemann surfaces, so I could invest some time and eventually get the joke perhaps, but I just don't have time now. :)
This bothered me deeply, and so I had to take it apart, point by point.

1: Singapore is not right for "someone like Sivers"

2: People move to Singapore because they're narrowly selfish

3: Singapore is communitarian, not liberal-individual-empowerment (sure.)

4: Corporal punishment and military conscription are burdensome and soul-crushing for an individualistic soul.

5: strlen feels it's relatively unprincipled and selfish of Sivers to "compromise his (Siver's) greater cultural and religious heritage" because of love

6: But strlen would not endorse such a compromise himself because it would result in great misery

7: strlen is lucky for not having had to compromise his personal views/values

8: strlen hopes Sivers finds a culture he can belong to

While all of this is written in good English and the language sounds pleasant, I can't help but react negatively to it. It feels somewhat... patronizing?
It depends what your life goals are. If you're not sure, these are two options that come to mind:

- Find a decent paying job, start investing the money. Time is the biggest thing you have going for you when it comes to investing. Figure out how to become financially independent (not have to work for your money, but make your money work for you).

- Live life for a year or two (do so cheaply, there are a lot of resource on the Internet to help you in that regard). Use that time to write a novel, explore the world, do something unconventional and/or risky. The younger you are, the more risk you can take (because you have more time to recover). It's going to be a lot harder for the average person to do these kinds of things later on in life when you have financial, familial, and other obligations.

If you can share any thoughts on what you want to do with your life, that might help. It's cliche, but the sky is the limit, don't let other people's expectations keep you tied to the ground.

Also, at this point I would call buying Bitcoins speculating, not investing. When I say investing, I'm talking about the stock market, mutual funds, etc. However, like I said earlier, you're young - you can take more risk. With Bitcoin, the risk is high, but so is the potential reward. With $20,000 and a few more years of continued strong growth of Bitcoin, you could have enough money to become financially independent that way.
Can someone please answer what problem is being solved here?
Right, now it's drone-launched crematoriums speeding towards boxcars.
^and many if not all of them do just that, yes.
I like the general idea, but the current proposal isn't going to get much support because it splits the Bay Area in half. Doing that fails to recognize that a significant portion of people commute from the North Bay into the city. Not to mention that numerous agencies have been established to coordinate planning and environmental efforts in the area (ABAG, MTC, BART, and BAAQMD to name a few.)

I think the proposal would be stronger as a four-state solution:

1) a state similar to the proposed "Jefferson" state

2) the greater Bay Area/Monterey/Sacramento area

3) Central Valley & the south half of the Sierra Nevadas

4) SLO/SB/SoCal
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Hi Joel- thanks for being open to the feedback.

Like you said, you are in growth mode. To me, growth mode means reinvesting as much of the profits as possible back into the company. Paying yourself a large salary during this time is the same as taking money off the table.

There are some good reasons to take money off the table, like paying back personal debt or supporting family members. But paying yourself more because you're the CEO doesn't seem like a good one, because your equity position is so significant.

If you don't have a good reason to take money off the table, it signals to employees and investors that "Joel thinks the money is better spent going into his personal bank account vs. making the company's equity grow in value." That sort of logic doesn't work in a startup that is targeting high growth, where employees are hoping to receive some sort of payoff from their equity. Moreover, it casts doubt on your judgment in capital allocation, which is one of the most important responsibilities of a founder / CEO. *

Obviously, all of this logic falls apart if you're not working on a startup. Low growth businesses that have achieved much of their potential are a totally different story. But you aren't starting a restaurant. Even Uber, at its $4B valuation, is giving compensation packages that are weighted towards options vs. salary.

* http://www.amazon.com/The-Outsiders-Unconventional-Radically...
I honestly don't understand much of that comment.
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