skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your arithmetic is correct except for lead production figures and optimism on iodine. You are including recycling, so real production is about half of what you wrote.

The trouble is that at current rates of consumption the world will run out in 42 years (according to wikipedia). So this project would use 20% of all the remaining lead in the world. (Well not really, the film is not 100% lead, but it's still quite a lot.)

I call that "not enough". Although it might be worth it anyway. But what do you do when energy use goes up?

And despite people saying there is bromine and iodine in the ocean, there is no practical way to get it out of the ocean in quantity. There is everything in the ocean - in huge quantities! For example 1/10 as much gold as has ever been mined by humans exists in the ocean - but no one can get it out in quantity.

World production of iodine is about 1/200 of lead production and we already see that we barely have enough lead.

And world existence of iodine is 1/100 of lead. And considering we need a significant percentage of the lead in the world, there is no way there is enough iodine.

But we are ignoring the substrate. It won't be so thin, so we'll need a lot of it. I wonder how much of it is for mechanical strength (i.e. replaceable) and how much is essential.

Maybe this could work - using a thin film is very promising, but I'm skeptical this could be scaled.
More Resignations Coming at the Bitcoin Foundation
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And the 2012 NPR article doesn't include the 2 years since of further net price increases above inflation.
I suppose that's a fair response, but at the risk of being rude please consider some advice from a marketing perspective.

> All are subtle things that are of little meaning to most people...

If the changes do have little to no meaning in themselves, it's important to consider: Why did you submit it, and why does it sit at the top of HN?

HN didn't upvote it because of the changelog itself. There's nothing there. HN upvoted it because HN wants to know more about what's going on with Go.

So what's really happened, is that HN is affording you a great opportunity here, but the contents of the post are sorta clutching defeat from the jaws of victory. I think we could both agree that Go is a great language that we want people to be excited about, and releases can make good front-of-mind advertising at the very least.

If making the release announcements is part of your job then I think you should take it on yourself to get the prospective audience excited. Tell us everything that's happened since 1.2, including reminding us of any major advances surrounding go. Here's what people want to hear:

The Go team is plugging along. Go is getting more dependable than ever. Here's what we're doing with Go, by the way. Here's the latest projects. Here's the latest tools.

Don't just say the changes since 1.2, tell us everything in your ecosystem that's changed.

Teach us to long for the immensity of the sea, as it were[1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/simonsarris/9318374
It only appears three times, is a proper medical term, and is absolutely relevant to the article subject.
I wonder if anyone in the pull request thread read the README (which was committed a month or so ago, well prior to the pull request)

Hi, I'm starting this fork of the Laravel framework to fit my needs.

While it was wrong to modify the license file, and we should always observe license fully, this isn't the blatant unattributed theft it's presented as.
Actually the rhythm is XX-XX-XX-X-X- where each X or dash represents a beat (or half a beat). You're lopping a beat off at the end and there should be a full beat's rest between the last two notes (and not two beats' rest between those and the previous note).

So yeah, 13/16 (or 13/8) is about correct.
I'd bet it's the latter (with a character limit), since this really isn't that groundbreaking of an app...
That's because you're a pussy.

I'm a teacher. My colleague is a former marine sergeant with a Computer Science degree. We'd soon make a ma(thematicia)n out of you.
Writing a large scale iOS app with 100s of XIB based views is equivalent to writing a Visual Basic app in my opinion. Suddenly your app is now dependent on -awakeFromNib and subclassing requires yet another another XIB. Just some reasons I prefer writing layouts in code (auto or not).

There are two camps of iOS Engineers in my experience. Those that feel IB makes your life better and those that feel the opposite. Both sides make valid points, but I vote for sticking with code as much as possible.
"legal tender" is a strange concept. For example, £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes are not legal tender in Scotland. But I don't think most Scottish people consider those notes to be "more like a commodity than money."
Thank you, Harrison Bergeron.

Will you also ban those families from reading to their toddlers, teaching their kids music, helping their kids doi homework, and having rich friends?

I'd prefer to tax those folks and invest the funds in improving public schools.
Actually, I am a young white male who is not disabled.I was just making those facts up to sound more convincing.
Intel NICs are a far more plausible, useful, and hideable location for a backdoor (or even just an unintentional vulnerability) than RDRAND.
Our little niche is we get the hackers signed up when they signup for hackathons. Big university hackathons need a lot of value to keep the cash rollin' in from sponsors.
It's odd and invasive on a preliminary application, especially if asked without explanation.

The explanation may be perfectly logical (e.g. if there were financial responsibility in the role and they wanted to run your credit), but the appropriate time for something like this would be after the initial qualification. (All employers, obviously, will eventually need your SSN to report your income to the IRS.)

A move like this is reasonable to interpret as a signal of the kind of company you'd be working for if you joined -- placing their process above your personal privacy. In my experience, the UX of the hiring process has almost always been a very strong indicator of the company UX.
> The words 'and' and 'or' should not be used for boolean comparisons, they are intended to be used to join two separate clauses such as "render 'template' and return" in rails.

Is that true? Because I found a bug in our code recently that was in a line like

render_error and return

where the return was never getting called because render_error returned false. I don't understand why you would write code like that when you could simply write:

render_error

return

and not have to deal with thinking about whether render_error could ever return a falsey value.
I'll add to that. Public access to the recorded video and audio via an established process managed by a third party (to prevent access to inappropriate content which would otherwise occur with unlimited public access).
My goal with the mailing list post and the submission was to let as many Go users as possible that a new release is out and they should upgrade. Should I use a minor release announcement as an occasion to get people more excited about Go? I'm not sure. I like the short and sweet nature of these point releases, and I'm wary of turning them into a marketing exercise.

Otherwise, I do spend a lot of time telling people what's going on with Go. For instance, my presentation on what's new in Go 1.3 was at the top of HN for a day.

Appreciate the feedback, though.
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فوازير وحلها دمها خفيف ، احلى و اجمل فوازير و الغاز صعبة جداً ملهاش حل جديدة 2014
"1 (2) . 4 (5) . 7 (8) . 10 . 12 ." isn't a time signature.

It's 7/8.
"The NYPD aren’t tasked with policing, the act of maintaining law and order."

Exactly. That goes for all police. Their only job duty is to make arrests. Only. It is a fallacy to think that the police are there to help. They're not even required to help by law and have no duty to do so. Once this fact is realized by someone, not interacting with police and other smart actions start to make complete sense. It's just too bad that children are wrongfully taught otherwise. It's one thing that parents can be squarely blamed for, as they usually believe the lies themselves.
Center button position in layout xml of #android application
Sending character response from #Servlet in #JavaEE application
I think you guys should make the "hackathon" piece more prominent, I think that's your main value proposition. Otherwise, to someone who doesn't immediately realize the hackathon niche being a part of it, it seems like yet another LinkedIn type website for developers.
Freescale's IoT angle has been delivering the cheapest MIPS per watt. IoT isn't all about wireless communication in their eyes - you also need a capable data acquisition and processing system that can run on sub-milliamp power for long periods of time.
I have CentOS on my main computer in part because of it's long support cycle.
So what is the point of setting up a Call Centre if they have no information to shared and no help or solution provided?
I'm wondering, exactly what is it about this post that makes so many people want to share it? I tend to ignore most pop-culture stuff, is there something all historic going on here?
You can't train overseas and "just" get a license in the USA. Even if you've been practicing as a dentist in another country, to practice in the USA one must attend dental school in the US and pass the board licensing exams. It may be that some states allow taking only 2 years of dental school instead of the normal 4 if one has been a dentist elsewhere.

I've found that many people are surprised when they discover that dentists in the USA are medical doctors and have a similar education.
Further on down the page it says,

Furthermore I would like to kindly ask that people refrain from asking questions to our staff: they have been instructed not to give any response or information. Please visit this page for further announcements and updates.

I am not sure I would I understand what an inquiry is if you can't ask any questions.
Deciding how to educate their children is part of their religion. If you tell them "you must send your children to a public school" you are limiting their ability to practice their religion.

And this isn't just an ad-hoc excuse... this has been true for a long time. For example the puritans in this country highly valued public education. They thought all children should know how to read so that they could read and understand the Bible (a direct consequence of their sola scriptura reformation roots).

So suppose you come from that background (like many Reformed and Evangelical Christians today), and the top priority in the education of your children is that they know the Bible: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom" and all that.

Well children won't be getting that in a public school in America. And more than that the social institutions in this country (at all levels) are dead-set opposed to those kinds of traditional religious doctrines. (parents might point to things like evolution, sexual education, etc..)

Now I understand that from a secular perspective this looks ridiculous. That line of reasoning isn't even something I would necessarily agree with. All I'm advocating here is a bit of tolerance as well as a little bit of knowledge about your fellow citizens. The very type of people who are predisposed to bypass the public school system for religious reasons, are also the type of people who won't bow to government pressure. You'll have to lock them up and take their children away from them before they'll stop. (There is abundant historical precedent for this)

As to your point about Catholic schools... do you think that a Catholic school ought to be a place where other religious teaching is tolerated? Do you think such a school ought to be required to teach Islam or Protestantism for example? Or, to take a popular topic at the moment, should a church be required to perform same-sex marriages?

That seems like a very strange definition of tolerance to me... Catholic schools ought to teach Catholicism, and because the government doesn't require you to send your children to that school you have the freedom to educate your children how you see fit.

Yes that means parents will sometimes choose badly and children will suffer because of it. But that's the price we pay for living in a free society.
Once we figure out gene therapy there'll be a Moore's law. Until then, we're stuck with the inverse Moore's law of small molecule drug design.

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/02/innovation-in-drug...
Big thank you for publishing in multiple page sizes.

Everyone: when you publish in 2-column journal format, almost no one can read your paper -- since we don't use paper anymore! Please publish a single-column version for electronic readers.
I agree that a law which wasn't as specific would be better.
The internet cats on Hacker News are of a classier variety than those you find at more run-of-the-mill pages, requesting cheese hamburgers and speaking unskillfully. These cats have Wikipedia articles, with footnotes. Some are decorated veterans.
The idea that the most strident and extreme argument is a valid summation of an entire position is a very common form of straw man. Just because someone said it (even if that someone was famous, even if what was said got a lot of coverage) doesn't not make it the strongest argument for that position. And as with all straw men refuting one argument for a position hardly classifies as refuting the position entirely.
No, I think that means that the thieves are those who made it available for that third group of people.
You...were day trading with money you needed to pay back loans?!
Any good hacker news podcast recommendations?
My goal is to listen to one podcast a day while I'm at work. I'm currently listening to shoptalk, but I would love to hear some other great recommendations that apply to programming.
They erected a half-assed containment structure around the area and evacuated a huge exclusion zone around Chernobyl. For the record, it was much worse than Fukushima.
Also I think the first bit in Biblical Violence by Hella is 17/16.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7S-RhlG1bk

and this is apparently a transcription of one of the following parts in some sort of drumming tablature

H |------|----|--------|----|---X--|----|--------|----|---X--|----|----------|
t |o-----|o---|o---o---|o---|o-----|o---|o---o---|o---|o-----|o---|o---o---o-|
S |-ooo--|--O-|-o---O--|--O-|-oooo-|--O-|-o---O--|--O-|-oo--o|--O-|-o---O----|
B |o-oo-o|o---|o-oo---o|o---|o-oo-o|o---|o-oo---o|o---|o-oo-o|o---|o-oo---oo-|
Hf|----x-|----|--------|-x--|----x-|----|--------|-x--|----x-|----|----------|
___1tl2tl|1 2 |1tl2tl3 |1 2 |1tl2tl|1 2 |1tl2tl3 |1 2 |1tl2tl|1 2 |1tl2tl3 4 |

C |X----------|------|-----------|------|-----------|------|-----------|----X-|
H |---X-------|------|---X-------|------|---X-------|------|---X-------|------|
t |-------o---|o-----|o------o---|o-----|o------o---|o-----|o---oo-o---|o-----|
S |-oo-ooo--O-|-o--O-|-oo-ooo--O-|-o--O-|-oo-ooo--O-|-o--O-|-oo---o--O-|-o--O-|
B |o--o--oo---|o-oo--|o-oo--oo---|o-oo--|o-oo--oo---|o-oo--|o-oo--oo---|o-oo--|
Hf|----x------|------|----x------|------|----x------|------|----x------|------|
___1tl2tl3tl4 |1 2 3 |1tl2tl3tl4 |1 2 3 |1tl2tl3tl4 |1 2 3 |1tl2tl3tl4 |1 2 3 |

w.t.f.
"Fat" as a description of a person is as medically valid as "stupid". That is to say, not at all. "Overweight", "obese", and others are actual medical terms that have real definitions, quite unlike "fat".
The world needs a better way to make decisions together
This was considered a big breakthrough: http://www.aimath.org/news/partition/brunier-ono.pdf

Notice Theorem 1.1 gives a nice formulation, but unfortunately Tr(n) is really difficult to describe.
Medicaid does get decent prices, but providers may refuse to accept Medicaid. So some people have no access to affordable care, despite having Medicaid, because none of the providers within a reasonable distance accept Medicaid.
I think the writer was comparing Mt. Gox to certain US financial institutions, not Greece.

And this isn't "high-minded free market idealism". It's a practical observation. The state has given unconditional support to large financial institutions; institutions that are owned and managed for private profit. How can that possibly end well?
I keep wondering though if this can be thought of as a variation of the halting problem. I.e. it is a question of halting state rather than halting execution. The problem here seems to be the inverse:

Can you guarantee that, over time, the program sequence will not halt even if the individual programs in fact do halt.

"Halting" would have to be defined differently, i.e. with the capacity to resume.

Am I missing something?
Mobile apps overtake PC Internet usage in U.S.
It seems to me that time signatures assume a particular model of musical structure that doesn't apply to this score. According to the article, the sequence was looped a little short of a complete measure. So there's no reason to expect a rational time signature.

It's kind of like creating music that repeats every π (pi) beats, and people arguing if the time signature is 25/8 or 22/7. (Actually that might be an interesting piece of music.)
i don't live in NY, so i'll concede to your actual experience with NY cops. BUT, i think your assumption that a lack of mistreatment of minorities results from a more diverse police force is naive. in my experience, i have seen abuse against ethnic minorities at the hands of police who are themselves ethnic minorities - sometimes even the same ethnicity as the victim. perhaps in many cases police brutality falls along racial lines, but only by correlation. i think it is probably more of an issue of class, and groupings like "people who look like thugs to me". either way, as a professional-looking white or asian dude, you can usually escape being classed as a "thug" sight-unseen just for your appearance.

i would also offer that due to the fact you're a successful guy, you have probably not had police interactions in, say, east new york. police attitudes and behavior are highly variable based on where they work. if you're in a shitty neighborhood, you will have much worse interactions with cops no matter your race. in nice neighborhoods, cops are nice.
I love the way the Go team operates, including the way the point releases are handled. The last thing this the world needs is more marketing bullshit- No nonsense, just like Go: Go by engineers for engineers. Go will do fine "marketing" itself on its merits and the merits of things created with it.

>The Go team is plugging along. Go is getting more dependable than ever. Here's what we're doing with Go, by the way. Here's the latest projects. Here's the latest tools.

gag

You realize golang.org isn't a startup right? :)-

If this is what you are looking for check this out: http://www.golangweekly.com/archive/ (or if you want smaller bites the mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-nuts)

>don't just say the changes since 1.2, tell us everything in your ecosystem that's changed.

This is a tiny maintenance change, I don't want to read a fricking newsletter. Of course maybe I'm wrong- maybe- CVEs, and issues filed need more marketing speak too! After all, they might get linked on Hacker News! What an opportunity!
I got excited reading the title thinking it was Type 1. Sigh, more waiting I guess.
Promise and Peril In An Ultra-Connected World
This one's an old gem:

"Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
DJB's attack assumes that RDRAND does more than generate "evil" outputs, but that it also includes microcode that watches the entropy pool (which is constructed differently for every software RNG) so that it can know which output will generate a specific value. It's not just that it's an implausible attack (though it is; again, it assumes a hardware backdoor tuned to each OS's kernel CSPRNG). It's also the case that if the hardware is that thoroughly compromised, RDRAND is the least of your problems.

It's a great post. It just isn't as damning as you might think it is.
Yes, those most familiar with war are usually the ones most interested in stopping it. Only the sociopaths in the military go to war hoping for there to be another one they can participate in.

And so Adm. Rickover's message: 'I couldn't stop war – what I could do is make it less destructive to us, so I did, grudgingly.'

So it is with civilian power. Nuclear power proponents don't say that nuclear should be used at the exclusion of all other sources of power. They say it should be used to the exclusion of worse sources of power.

You could paraphrase Rickover's entire excerpt here for coal, and oil, and even gas generation; all of which produce horrible things that will wreck the human race (via climate change).

On that beautiful day when it's actually achievable to power the whole world by renewable energy and energy storage that doesn't involve widespread chemical waste and destruction of entire areas then you'll find nuclear power advocates telling Congress to "sink them all" too.

In the meantime, we generate electrical power with the means we have available, not the means we thought we'd have, or wished we'd have.
Those numbers don't sound right at all.

Bureau of Labor Statistics says the median is 55k.
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes333051.htm

Since you said NY is stingy, I tried other big cities. Here's a list of Chicago PD salaries.
https://data.cityofchicago.org/Administration-Finance/Police...
The only people on that list with a salary of 125k are ranked captain and above.

Here's the LAPD salary schedule.
http://per.lacity.org/psb/lapd_salary.htm
Not even close to averaging 125k

Houston PD http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/government-employee...
Again, much lower than what you're talking about.

If cops in the 4 biggest cities in America aren't making that much, who is?
What application code are you thinking about here? Some examples would be great.