skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has come up several times in the Navy-nuke Facebook group in which I lurk (I used to be one of them). The posters in that group have been, shall we say, scathingly skeptical of these claims of radiation sickness. The group includes a number of current- and former radiological-controls specialists, known as engineering lab techs or "ELTs." Navy-nuke ELTs are a select lot who are trained to face the facts and tell it like it is. As a general rule, they're very good at spotting BS, and they're not especially inclined to just passively accept it when they do spot it. Their skepticism about this radiation-sickness story is worth taking into account.

EDIT: Consider some circumstantial evidence:

- In the Navy nuclear-power subculture, people pay attention to detail (to put it mildly). This is true in general, and especially on the subject of radiation exposure to the crew or the public.

- The commanding officer and executive officer of every U.S. aircraft carrier are nuclear-trained, on top of being senior aviators or naval flight officers; they must successfully complete the full, one-year, very-intense nuke qualification course even to be eligible to hold those jobs. Then before they assume those jobs they undergo still more training to be an XO and then CO.

- On any U.S. aircraft carrier, the chief engineer (who "owns" the evaporators that produce the ship's drinking- and washing water) and the [chief] reactor officer (who "owns" the ELTs) are nukes, of course. They're among the most-senior officers on the ship.

- Unambitious people don't put in the years of stressful work that it takes to get these jobs. It's a safe bet that these senior officers all want to be admirals someday. A radiological "incident" of the kind being described likely would severely impair their chances of ever being assigned to a responsible job again, let alone being promoted to flag rank.

So: We're being asked to believe that, in a non-combat situation, somehow all of these career-minded senior officers aboard the Reagan inadvertently allowed the crew's radiation exposure to get to dangerous levels. Sorry, I just don't buy it. I suppose we can't categorically rule out the possibility, but to me it's another reason to be skeptical of the radiation-sickness claims.
> I don't know why you were voted down.

Possibly because access is a lousy example being hat it remains after 20+ years.

Silverlight would have been a much better example.
and you could have used your skills to create xaml applications..
The point is that it advanced the intelligence gathering half of their mission while seriously compromising the protective half of their mission.
Well, you've outed "Chris" as the male form of the name "Chris" as there are certain female reproductive system issues where once you're outta eggs thats all folks. Dudes are fertile to a ripe old age. So at 75 you need a wife 1/3 your age.

The cultural issues could be pretty huge if women are only fertile for a small fraction of their life and dudes are fertile for X times as long as women. Or maybe it becomes a cultural "job" of young people to churn out kids as fast as possible for old people to raise them, which we seem to already be implementing in certain socioeconomic classes.
I also like mediocregopher's suggestion and second the call for folks to share their thoughts on the dot-bit.org forum. :)
What a piece of crap link-bait. The actual title of the article should have been the last sentence of her piece: "Having a servant you cannot pay a decent wage cannot be a birthright".
The one thing I always add to my profile is "export COMMAND_MODE=unix2003". This will make some commands behave as you would expect them to under Linux instead of BSD.

Don't recall seeing that in my brief scan of the dotfiles.
Target's card readers, last time I checked, suck in the whole card like some ATM machines. So they can easily OCR the card number and CVV2, and store that.

What always weirded me out about Target is that they used the credit card number (or name, or something on the card) as the key into their "loyalty program". If you bought some generic drug last time, this time their machine will print out a coupon for the name-brand version. This always weirded me out a little bit, though there is nothing preventing them from just storing a hash. Of course, the average developer never stores just a hash, and here we are.
Fun with Markov Chains and Clojure
So you are correct that purely programmatically its a bit wonky to construct an XML document using a bunch of strings and then pass that to the client and pray that that your XML (HTML) is well formed enough.

I think the reason for why HTML construction is done the current way that it is is that it goes back to when most web companies had "software engineers" handling the system and "web developers/designers" who spruced up the data coming out of the system with HTML. The designers didn't know much deep programming per say but they knew HTML and would create HTML templates in plain text with placeholders to expose anything dynamic. Those templates would then be handed off to engineering whose sole concern was getting the system right and didn't really want to care about HTML. This workflow is also what gained PHP a lot of traction originally.

So ultimately I think stitching together HTML with strings makes the system a lot more accessible to semi-technical folks and its honestly probably a lot faster to do development by typing out HTML rather than building XML objects.
Nitrogen is correct, the fuzzyness in the US is around whether or not jailbreaking your own phone is a violation of the DMCA or not (ruled "no", then ruled "yes", not sure where it is at the moment), and then the contractual (civil vs non-civil) issues with running software on your phone without Apple's permission) It is that "grey" area, where folks can give themselves a credible story about how it is "perfectly legal" and so take the money. My point was that they are dealing with people who don't care if its legal or not. (remember they don't "charge" the end users, they charge the app store bundle guy). That guy (or gal) doesn't care about what is or is not legal, they care about money any way they can get it so that the person they got it from can't get it back. Period.
That was added after posting it here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6951288
And this particular anti-aging therapy, if it works, will only treat a subset of those age-related diseases. There are many different mechanisms of aging, and each therapy we develop will only incrementally improve things.

In that light, philosophical discussions about anti-aging therapies are somewhat doomed to only have a specific context such as "what's wrong with curing alzheimer's?"
Doesn't do this currently, but there are proposals for exactly this type of bidding system on the forums, including in the comments of the linked thread.
I don't know why I find doge so funny, but this is great. Unfortunately "very view" causes Chrome and Chrome Beta to crash on a Nexus 5/Android 4.4.2. I get the idea though.

What does the tech stack look like? Is it open source?
I've always liked this too. Let the bank figure out how not to have their money stolen.

(Yes, this adds cost to the transaction. But as long as people want to take each other's money without permission, there is always going to be a cost to using money, whether it's an interchange fee, higher taxes, or just getting $500 bucks stolen on the subway from time to time.)
But they'll pump us full of anti-aging meds that restore us to youth, so they can work us to the brink of death again. It's more efficient than growing new humans through that whole irritating "childhood" phase.
How about cobol on crutches
Yeah just what I want, to wait behind some slow old person to figure out how to authorize their purchase.
Even though HN is open source, you might want to use a more "modern" and approachable project like https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
Cool, I've done so.
My hesitance is based upon performance, learning curve, difficulty of selection and perceived lack of benefits.
This depends on the configuration of both your web server and your application server. There's a good chance things won't work this way out of the box. But this is generally something that you want for high performance.
pg. 30 contains what sounds like a much too broad request for any and all public and private keys for ALL lavabit users including HTTPS sessions and SMTP communications, not just Snowden

Actual search warrant is much more narrow to just Snowden, although missing the date before which the warrant must be executed

Served in TX on a Thursday to show up for court the next Tuesday AM in VA - gotta love that prep time!
I work in medicine, and find that a lot of the limitations to what I am able to do for people are related to money. Everyone knows this, I am saying nothing new there. My component of that equation is my salary, or at least it will be upon the completion of my education (a late life decision to become a doctor). It seems reasonable to accept a reduced salary in order to free myself to properly care for people. Satisfaction is far more important than gross purchasing power.

I do not however have any desire to by a martyr. I want to do a good job and show that outcomes can improved via new modeling that was otherwise cost-prohibitive to attempt, it can subsequently be expanded out and will not require others to accept the same sorts of pay cuts that I anticipate. Admittedly this is in the planning phase, but I was a visual artist for a long time before this and so the prospect of not having much money is not frightening. I proved long ago that I could live on a relatively minor amount of resources. It is, in a way, an investment of my own earning capacity into the development of new ideas.

Determine the end goal, figure out how it is possible given everything that I have the power to modify, figure out how to compensate for the things I cannot modify myself, and then use that to show that it is a meaningful thing to do systemically. Sounds lovely. I'll let you know how it goes in real life and how I adjust as I proceed.

I think it's not too hard to come up with ways to change things, it requires some rigor in the approach: how did they come to be, how have I been granted any role in that, and how can I change it.
Cancer is a big treatment problem. Well here I am a tired old 95 year old cancer cell, too tired and sore to start reproducing madly and my hosts blood chemistry is too F'ed up anyway for me to grow, so I'll just sit here in my lung cell sized recliner and watch Fox News with my host... Ah I see now after some treatment I feel I'm in the body of a healthy 25 year old and I'm absolutely bursting with energy... lets get fissioning boys, there's a new sheriff in town and we're takin' this here place over.
Well, there are other ways of protecting one's wealth from inflation tax, like real estate and gold. BitCoin, if successful, would just be more stable and liquid.
Sure. Another way to interpret "JavaScript" is that it means using one of the various data-binding frameworks. But who knows, I didn't write the article.
Understanding how killall works using strace
> it pisses me off that so many countries denied the carrier to dock up.

Why is that? Countries that don't have the technical expertise to judge how dangerous it could have been for their people are absolutely right to have prevented them from docking.

Their only loyalty is to their own people, as it should be. As long as they don't have the expertise to verify that their is no risk to their own people, they should default to GTFO.

Do you think the US would allow a shipload of people with the SARS coronavirus or Ebola to dock at one of their ports?
Someone once asked me why I'm so interested in life-elongation technology. I said, "I'm BETTING MY LIFE on it!"
Why would I use python if I'm well versed in perl?
It's Smalltalk. Not SmallTalk.

I guess that Smalltalk also likes bottom-up programming, but it does not meta-level or language-level programming often in an object-oriented way. Lisp might do that too, but it often puts other interfaces on top. CLOS is an example: CLOS is itself an object-oriented system (see AMOP), but on top are functional and descriptive (macro) layers.
9 indie devs + 15 months = Strike Vector
Hi, thanks! It's a node app with some simple canvas rendering code. The rendering code is shared by the client and server. The text splitting is rather simple too but I had fun writing it. It's open-source of course! https://github.com/codazzo/dogr
Not the first time someone's slipped up [1].

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ExposedABlogCommentSpammersSou...
Wouldn't this treatment system create an immense selection pressure against irrational belief?

So kids born to families who think its an affront to god would not have the social / cultural / monetary resources to even begin to compete with kids born to more rational families?

Not that I'm saying a selection pressure against irrational belief would be a negative or a problem, I'm just saying it would be strongly selected against?
they can't. Firefox has themselves said so.

they cannot implement eme because they are open source.
MODs were around (I'm pretty sure) years before Soundblaster. At that point there was really no way to create them on the PC. Pre-SB you could play them through the PC speaker, which was a tease because you could hear them, just not make them--without an Amiga. There was this thing called the STM format (ScreamTracker) that was an attempt to create MOD-like music on the PC. ScreamTracker wan't compatible with MOD though. Problem with ScreamTracker, it kinda worked but just barely--it was unstable. Also the Amiga was lightyears ahead of the PC so the STM format never really had a chance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Tracker I think tracking on the PC got to be more popular later in the 90s with the rise of Drumnbass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_and_bass
Yes, but what the GP said was the opposite.
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The part of not being able to create them on a PC really is striking a chord. That sounds right.
I wholeheartedly disagree with you -- you're ignoring hypermedia, an essential component in proper REST architecture.

If one correctly leverages hypermedia, you may and most likely will have heterogenous responses and relations. Side-loading relevant relations is highly encouraged and is a core component of efficient API design.

To your credit, I believe most of the information out there about REST and REST-like APIs discount how much work actually goes into building a proper REST API with hypermedia -- so we will always have half-baked design patterns that solve problems when doing REST incorrectly.
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they are pressing for html with drm so Linux and friends will still be left out with no viable legal options.
Not a fan of the meme, but I did want to link it to friends...I found out that you can't just right click and save the image though since it's in a canvas. Perhaps a different implementation would be better here?
If you can't bother to understand the work then heuristics are your best bet. In this case, the authors are leading academics from good computer science departments. This makes the probability of the paper being an outright hoax very low. They would be risking their careers and the respect of their peers - and for what exactly? Shamir in particular is already at the top of the game (full professor + turing award + many millions of dollars from royalties).

Now, mistakes CAN happen. But in this case, it would be very hard to make one. If they built a system that reconstructs the cryptographic key then you could compare the keys on both sides.
+1 for Simple. I LOVE the transaction push notification feature, as well as the enable/disabled card functionality in-app.
Sending the SSL keys to the FBI as a multi-page printout in 4-point font when the government doesn't specify what format it wants is pretty funny. (Page 127 - 137.)
Some people actually find Perl fits the way they think better than Python does. They may find the culture a better fit, or they're better able to find existing solutions, or they simply prefer the concept of "There's more than one way to do it" over "There should be one – and preferably only one – obvious way to do it." Finally some are better paid to write Perl than they are to write Python.

The reality is any/some/all of the reasons above apply to any combination languages in your question. Might as well ask "Why are programmers still using COBOL rather than Erlang?" Because.
Many times they post just to see if the blog has auto approval or not. Or if the blog has auto approval after 1 approved post they'll post an innocuous one then later come back with the links once they'll get auto approved.
Which is why you setup your shell (bash/zsh/fish) to check for the existence of $SSH_CLIENT. If it exists, you can assume you're connecting via SSH and add username and hostname to $PS1.
The fact is COBOL is still used, and useful today, all these decades later. I wonder what the sentiment about Ruby on Fails will be in thirty years time, and I don't think we will still be using it.
> I know it's a play on Cobol being old

err... just from reading the title, I assumed it was a play on cobol being disadvantaged, but being old would also imply being disadvantaged physically. metaphorically speaking it makes perfect sense on first read... You seem to be using eval() on human language
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At the end of the day, it's not their money, its your money. You're paying the transaction and fraud costs built into purchases, which flows to merchants, which flows back to the banks and processors.

Just because its not a line item somewhere on your bank statement doesn't mean you're not paying for it.
You may want to consider using a different name if you're marketing to customers in the United States.
This isn't true SaaS because the images are generated on the client side. You could add value to your service by saving the images on the server and providing URLs that people can link to. https://bayimg.com/KaegiaAFP
Awesome but the music on the website made me jump. Please turn off autoplay.
Stolen Target Credit Cards & the Black Market: How the Digital Underground Works
JetBrains Javascript IDE
If you click "Very View" it will show it as an image that you can save.
Could you explain a bit more how the busy beaver problem applies to this context?

Are you proposing that the error messages generated are analogous to the tape in a busy beaver Turing machine, and the 256 bytes of C++ is the machine's state transition definition?
Fish is wonderful, but as someone who is novice to middling in skill (2 years), I found the fact that it had a different set of syntaxes to be difficult to work with. Instructions for random things to install I found all used bash syntax, which broke when used in fish.

I've since switched to zsh, and I am terribly happy with it. It has a lot of the nice advanced features that fish has, without breaking from bash syntax.
Good stuff, cheers! Very good to know
Why is it that it seems only NYTimes can comment on the president lately?
Another paper dealing with IP-layer anonymity:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/phantom/phantom-design-paper.pd...

And a first try at implementing it:

http://www.magnusbrading.com/phantom/phantom-implementation-...

DEFCON 16 presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYM_zog5Su4
Prepared to reconsider the name if people actually object to it, but quietly hoping we can reclaim the definition of "communication or dealings between individuals or groups".

Fingers crossed...
Good point. But I'm sure that's a problem that will be solved by that time.

Not sure if this is 100% true but "It had been widely accepted that a woman was born with a limited number of eggs [...] But, in 2012 this dogma was challenged in a paper that found proliferative germ cells that sustain oocyte and follicle production in the postnatal mammalian ovary. This means that women do not have a limited number of eggs."
Noise in this context refers to perlin/simplex noise, not the use of rand()
Well, except that as I recall, Lavabit didn't use SSL with PFS, so giving the FBI their SSL keys means that all previously-captured ciphertext is decodable.
interesting idea - keen to use it on some pitch practice
On the other hand you will definitely need these tools (or similar techniques) to do state of the art Python development anyway.
It'd be like blocking a special number, say 1111 (which is the UK landline Childline number), which kids could use to only get advice on bullying, stress, self-harm and abuse.

It's extremely sad that parents can be given the option to block these sites from potentially at-risk kids with abusive parents.
Also said "I'm not showing up to court unless you pay me to" - pg. 41

Grand jury subpoena guarantees he would be paid for travel but that subpoena was later withdrawn
You cannot compare eating a banana to ingesting the by-products of man-made nuclear fission.

I'm sorry but you have fallen hook, line and sinker for the nuclear industry's PR / propaganda / talking points.

There are real numbers from the Fukushima disaster. Just because this single NYPost article does not cite that data does not mean it does not exist.
I work in a group that manages a large amount of Solaris, AIX, and Linux servers, of varying versions.

When I'm writing scripts that can be run on any given system, there are very few things I can use that I know will work. One of those is Perl (5.8.8) and the other is Korn Shell (ksh).
Hi, I'll add upload to imgur shortly so you'll be able use that. In the meanwhile you can play wheel of fortune and use doge as a service :) http://dogr.io/wow/suchfriends/manysharing.png
It's interesting that the author chose to put the spectrum analyzer after the volume control. Usually media player visualizations are computed before the output gain is applied, to make them look the same regardless of playback volume.

Has anybody implemented a module player in JavaScript? I've always wanted to write one for fun; maybe I'll put a Web Audio version on my never-ending experimental projects list.
There is a NoSQL joke floating around in here somewhere.
Closed that tab as fast as humanly possible. Jeez, autoplaying blasting music? Come on.
It's been fascinating to see the difference between normal pitch feedback, and the feedback we get when people can comment anonymously.

Would love to hear how you find it.
Either that, or the developer community has appropriated the term to mean something more generic.
The flip side to that argument is that right now life is short, and so I try and fit as many wonderful experiences into it as I can. If life were long I could put everything off until tomorrow. And that doesn't sound good to me.
I could be wrong, but I think Modedit 2 was the first PC app to make MODs. But it wasn't really floating around in the wild, maybe you had to be "elite" or something to even know about it, LOL. There's a guy in here who mentions Modedit 2, I didn't see anything in Google but I didn't look very hard http://www.inthemix.com.au/forum/archive/index.php/t-68295.h...
His lawyer quit or was fired the day after a conference call on July 10 with FBI about the extent of trap/trace - 5 days before next court date
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Hmm... As I'm new here I'm a little confused. I posted the same article yesterday but this one posted by Mizza got picked up quite heavily. Does the poster's "karma" have something to do with it? Or is it just a coincidence?