skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no clear data indicating that x amount of millisieverts per year is harmful.

Radiation damage is a game of statistics: A single charged particle, electron (whatever) striking the right molecule in your body may be enough for you to develop cancer and die in a particularly nasty way. The chances of this singular event happening and at the same time all safeguard of your body failing are minuscule, though. But the more events you have (the higher the radiation), the higher the chances that it will happen. This is what we basically know about radiation: it damages cells and for some events the natural cleanup doesn't work. Basically you could say that every bit radiation is harmful, even the natural background radiation [1]. All guidelines and limits are based on the question whether the increased risk outweighs the possible gain. Early X-Rays had the problem of exposing the doctors to high doses, modern machines are designed with safety in mind. Still, patients and doctors wear protection when possible.

[1] to make matters worse, there's different kinds of radiation: alpha rad which doesn't even penetrate the skin, but is very harmful if dust is inhaled to high energy gamma rad that is basically impossible to shield without lead or other heavy metals around. So "1 millisievert" doesn't even tell you what it is, 1ms of alpha is probably better to handle than 1ms of gamma rad..
> Bribing politicians to try and force a stock to collapse is market manipulation and is illegal.

I really don't want to get into a flame war, but can you please explain where you got the impression that politicians were bribed by Ackman? Lobbying != Bribing.

> If I were to open a betting pool in vegas on what hedge funds were going to be shut down and the partners put in prison, and then bribed the SEC to investigate to make sure I win am I in the wrong?

Firstly I'm not really sure whether you are being serious, because the SEC isn't an organization that you can just "BRIBE". I'm not talking about the past but the current day, and nothing remotely suggests that you can bribe the SEC. Believe me with the amount of money at play, bad actors in the SEC would be soon found out. Besides it is more lucrative for lawyers/accountants of the SEC to join the dark side (corporate law & accounting firms) instead of accepting bribes while at the SEC.

You have the right to state / make your complaints to the SEC (with evidence) and it is up to them to investigate whatever they deem investigation worthy.

Also, I feel that that talking about Wendy's or attacking Ackman's profession adds nothing to this discussion. Dumping stock is quite similar to early engineers of a IPO'ed startup cashing out. That is what you (mostly) do when you want to capture the upside of your position; you close it down when the upside is still there.
I’m guessing challenging the health benefits brought by their products, or the scientific background of their users and comparing the overall business model to… say snakes marinated in oil.
Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology in the enterprise
Have you considered generating a unique URL for the requester (technical support) to share with the client, maybe with their name ini t? Once they visit it, pull their details, store it, and email it to the requester, or add it in their account.
Do you have much clients? How can you work with a fixed price?
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Did it too successfully 3 years ago with my Acer laptop. It worked but as you're saying, didn't lasted so much. Anyway was pretty cool ;) Pic here: http://imgur.com/iDaYpBD
If you're seeing a 66% failure rate, may I suggest replacing your faulty burner or reader? I've yet to experience an instantly unreadable CD/DVD that I've burned, whether using the burned disc in the same drive or another system's drive.
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So more balanced than real-life?
> Only one problem -- archiving is mostly a big business use case.

Not necessarily. With photography having been digital for about a decade and home video for about half that, tech savvy families easily have several TBs of data that they would want to hold on to for the long haul. The prospect of being able to burn a complete copy of these things on a few discs and leave them at the grandparents or in a bank box seems very appealing, and only more so over the coming years.
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Good question. I go with -O3 because it does even more optimizations, but to be quite candid I really don't know what impact -fpredictive-commoning, -ftree-vectorize, and others have on my resulting machine code, if any.

I did a quick experiment, compiling one C file with -O2 -finline-functions and another with -O3, using the -S flag so I could see the assembler output.

The only difference I saw was this:

.comm	free_list,8,8

Versus this:

.comm	free_list,8,16

Who knows. I guess I'm really using -O3 because "3 is more than 2" -- in other words, "Ours goes to 11!" :)
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It was the opposite for me, even before reading I thought about how the site seemed very easy to read.

Macbook on my knees though, I will have a look at it on my iPad later.
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That's probably an open polyfuse. Unlike the fuses of old, the new ones actually regenerate themselves (re-crystallize).
Archiving is very much a consumer use case. Photos/videos, and generally old computer HD contents are the main applications.
And a lot of people (think Europe) observe DST but not on those dates.
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This is why I obsessively check the oven before I turn it on. Always.

We had an incident when I was probably 5 years old when my sister put a stuffed toys in the oven then a while later my mom turned it on to use it. Then we smelled smoke...

There was no lasting damage (beyond my sister losing her favorite toy) and she of course was much too young to know better. That incident however got me paranoid about me turning on the oven with unknown objects in it. So now I check first.
A comment on the OP says:

> Don’t forget that if you’re loading jQuery from a common CDN like Google’s or Microsoft’s, you’re likely introducing zero network latency as the browser will almost certainly have it cached already.

This claim is frequently made, but I’ve also seen many people express skepticism of it. The many different versions of jquery, and several different CDNs, combined with actual typical user behavior patterns, the limited cache capacity of some mobile environments, etc…. it MAY still be true, but I’d really want to see some evidence one way or another before assuming it either way.

It’s not an easy thing to measure though, because we are making claims about “most people’s browsers”, and there’s no easy way to measure other peoples browsers. But is anyone aware of anyone trying to approach it?

Why does it matter? If the "cached in most people's browsers" theory is true, then we would not want to concatenate JQuery into one big JS file (as the OP suggests), and we would not want to customize JQuery to include only the AMD modules actually used (as the OP hints at considering), as either one would prevent cache reuse accross sites.

Me, being skeptical of the theory, I still choose to concatenate (I think it's clearly the way to go), and would consider modular customization in the future if it were more convenient for development workflow or it was for a site where size/speed were an absolute priority.
Agreed but the mice study also included a higher fat diet as well as antibiotics. Presumably farm animals are not being fed donuts and so that explains the implicit difference between the two situations adequately. Nonetheless, I agree that the distinction should be made more clear.

I'm wondering whether body builders are already dosing themselves on antibiotics? It seems like someone would have tried that a while ago and then built a minor religion out of it had it worked. A quick google search suggests that body builders tend to think that antibiotics will reduce muscle gain due to inhibiting digestion through killing off bacteria.
I generally turn everything on and then use

-Wno-parentheses

because that one really rubs me the wrong way.

Also, speaking of flags, I'm personally in love with -MMD. It makes dependency generation pretty painless.
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Google Glass? Maybe in ten years time we will be able to look back and say that yes, this was a brilliant and influential technology. But that time is not yet come, and Google Glass may end up as yet another dead end in the Augmented Reality field. Not to mention that as such, it is hardly the first - HUDs have existed for a long time, and phone screen based AR also came out before Glass. Maybe the form factor will turn out to be a critical game changer, but again, as of today that has not proven to be the case.
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So little demand for Blu-ray is there that Panasonic's own archival storage device reached End Of Life four years after its launch in 2007. That one was called PowerFile [1].

The idea was pretty good, the industrial design was lackluster but serviceable. But the longevity of the discs was questionable (especially if you took advantage of the ability to remove the spindles holding them), and the devices themselves were abruptly pulled from the market around 2011.

The drives inside were actually laptop drives--the kind you used to slide into your laptop before you had a MacBook. I doubt they would last very long, but we didn't really get to find out, because once new units were no longer being sold we had to abandon the system.

So, do not buy this thing for long-term storage, because one of its main backers already proved they do not have what it takes to service this market.

[1] http://www.kintronics.com/powerfile/prodSubIntro.html
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Harddisks (magnetic storage) are very poor for long-term storage. Especially modern 2TB+ ones. If you saw the raw error rates (that get repaired using checksums) on a typical drive you'd be very afraid.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4971196
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My experience is that is you add MSVC, ICC, GCC 3.3, clang, hardened GCC on Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, OS/2, Solaris and allow PPC or MIPS and have many cases of Cross-compilation, this just does not work.

Especially when you have ASM code or complex arithmetic, and when you allow to compile for different versions of Windows...

It's a good idea to have it on your build-farm, to track bugs, but it is not OK on your shipping build.
I was keen on keeping as much of the complexity on the GPU, so I wanted to avoid having to update the geometry. Not to say I'm against exploring different approaches. Did your "Google Earth"-alike, ever see the light of day?
It's 2014 and Javascript is awesome.

If I ever do anything 3D, it will probably be WebGL. Some industry veterans have reservations against it, but so long as it doesn't look like poop smeared origami, it's OK.
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Go with both. Personal branding is important in your situation but you also want to take care of liabilities,taxes etc in a more professional way. One way to do it is to market yourself individually through your website,blog whatever using your own name. When you do have a client ready to hire you, just mention to them that "for tax/liability purpose, I do contracts and payments via my company <xyz>". I doubt that any client will have an issue writing a check to a company vs. a person. In fact, in the US, it is preferable that way in some cases where liability is an issue. I know that you are in the UK but I would guess something similar there.
It is very different having taxes automatically taken out of your paycheck and having to remember to pay them automatically on a quarterly basis.

Most people don't realize how big of a chunk gets taken out. And as was mentioned, as a self employed individual you also pay the "employer's" piece of Social Security which is an extra 7.5%.

If you're incorporated there may be taxes related to that. I pay a yearly fee for the privilege of doing business in Connecticut.

I also must file a yearly annual report with the state; which comes with a processing fee.

I also pay property taxes on business property, such as computers and desks and chairs. My accountant has me list all of these.

Many people go into sticker shock when I tell them to put aside 40% of their income to pay taxes.
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The plane turned around? http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/oil-slicks-malaysia-airlines-plane-crash-site-terrorism-article-1.1715004 …

but the transponder data does not show that!

And now phones on that plane are ringing! Mystery deepens ?
What article were you reading? The entire point of this was to connect the fact that antibiotics enable unusual animal growth to the possibility that antibiotics were enabling the unusual human growth that has been occurring these past few decades. This is a reasonably hypothesis that I, at least, had never considered but in retrospect seems like something that obviously should be investigated further. There is nothing moralistic about this. Sure, the article mentions in passing about drug-resistant strains but this was not about painting farmers as greedy dumb and evil. If this is a click-bait link it's one that feeds on our self-image issues and on passing the blame to others and things like that, not on some morality play environmentalism. You can find that in other articles if you want.
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So how does that account for the supposed idea that people who live in Denver, who get 2x to 4x the average radiation than the normal population have far lower rates of cancer than average.
How much revenue can you be generating from this if it went really well? What's the cost of that revenue?

Based on what you have been saying, your total potential revenue doesn't seem to be very high (less than $100K,$200K,$300K??) and the cost to get these clients seems to be involved.Especially considering each instance is effectively its own mini-product with development effort.

Personally, I would suggest you consider this an incredible learning experience and start focusing on another product that can be more profitable.

Going after a niche market is great but the niche market also has to have the money to pay. For example, you may consider oil and gas a niche market, even a small segment of it, but, the money flows like water for them so getting them to pay and pay big (if the ROI is there) can be done.

Anyway, maybe not what you want to hear but worth thinking about.
Yep, exactly. Product Businesses are tricky these days.
Or even TireJS if it fits your needs: http://tirejs.com
Furnaces usually have thermal cut off systems. Not as an input to the thermostat, as part of an independent control loop that the thermostat asks for heating.

I guess smarter thermostats make it tempting to centralize that functionality, but keeping the thermal safety systems separate from any networked functionality seems like a nice, clear and sensible design principle.
An interesting approach!
Can I ask why a store (sixrig) has ads on their site?
This problem has been solved. The idea is to use identity federation, claims-based authorisation, and a privacy-enhancing technology that lets the subject determine which claims to share with a resource provider.

Such a system can verify identity without divulging that identity. For instance, when you buy beer you need to prove you're over 18. The barman doesn't need to know your name, address, what vehicle classes you're licensed to drive, or age. All the barman needs is to know that you're over 18.

The reason nobody uses it is that it's unpalatable to identity and resource providers alike.

Imagine a world where you could buy anything without the seller ever knowing who you are. Or your bank not knowing what you bought. Or your identity provider (government) not knowing where you're using your authN credential.

The tech community doesn't like it because even though it's open source, it's from Microsoft. And that it uses XML. So we keep on using broken identity systems like Persona and OAUTH.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/u-prove/
If digital works are not scarce, where are all the great public domain licensed movies, TV shows, and video games?
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For the "Archive Disc" to be viable, it needs to still be viable several years from now. Despite areas with poor connectivity, connection bandwidth will only ever go up (and prices down), and it does so very quickly.
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It can be explained by the concept of radiation hormesis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
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So I am guessing that these boats perform poorly when the weather is really rough.
Hopefully you at least wrap the regex in a function, then it's easier to reason about given the function name. Regexes randomly placed in long functions are harder to grasp.
Giving it a try now, will send you an email with how I go :)
Isn't this a tooling issue, namely using something like Google's Closure Compiler to perform dead-code elimination?

https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/api-tuto...
Like I already mentioned: radiation != radiation. A raw number in MS does not tell you anything at all. For a light treatment of the topic, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

"The absorbed radiation dose depends on the type and energy of the emitted particles, as well as on the location of the source in the body (external, inhaled, ingested, etc.), and the biological half-life of the compounds ingested."

There are probably other controlling factors that come into play in Denver, so yes, that is still possible (if it is so, I'll add the wikipedia-style "citation needed").
Of course it depends upon the systems in play in the countries involved but...

If a phone was last on record as "roaming" in a different country one would expect a delay in establishing it's current status and that the home network provider would play a ring tone while it attempted a connection. It is unlikely that there is anything more to read into this.
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In fact, exercise does help people lose weight. A hundred years of research has proven it. Go read it.

Your claim falls apart very quickly and very simply with basic math (and everybody can test this starting immediately):

Scenario: I'm a 225 pound, 6'2" male, basically healthy. 30 years old. I keep my diet constant at 2500 calories, and begin burning 750 calories per day through exercise. I will lose weight, and likely gain muscle (which will accelerate my body's natural caloric burn rate), and there's nothing that can prevent that from occurring in a healthy person.

Weight loss is a total calorie equation. Exercise forces your body to consume calories at a higher rate, reducing the total left for the body to store. It's that simple.

Another extraordinarily easy proof for this: Michael Phelps. Phelps was famously consuming 10,000 daily calories, lots of it trashy carbs like pancakes. His exercise routine - swimming countless hours per day - is the sole reason he didn't balloon to a thousand pounds. So run this test: consume 10,000 calories per day, do zero exercise, watch your weight explode upwards by 50 pounds in about a month; begin exercising heavily, enough to burn the excess calories, watch as your weight 'magically' falls.
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Show HN: making a $100 marketing animation
I was shopping around for a marketing animation. Typical cost was +$1000. I looked for a more budget option, and the only way to do it was actually to make it myself...

Here's what I used...

Goanimate 1-month subscription: $79

Voice actor from O Desk: $25

A couple of sound files: $5

Other tools used: PowerPoint, Paper53

It took about five full days, 10-12 hrs a day, to finish it.
I'd appreciate comments and suggestions...or any ideas for a new scene.

The animation is about our online test prep service called CUVE. We currently have a beta version for SAT math. (www.cuve.me)

Thanks.

http://youtu.be/224J9SibMyM
Cite your source. This data suggests that you're wrong -- cancer rates are in line with national averages:

http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/cgi-bin/ratetrendbycan...

Beyond that, it's like the parent said: you have to take into account the type of radiation, sources, method of exposure, etc.
No JS.. at all?
clickable- http://youtu.be/224J9SibMyM
Politicians in the West are astonishingly cheap compared to the budgets that they control. It's a sign that it's fairly hard to directly steal money and they have to be subtle about steering contracts.

We're almost at the point of someone Kickstartering a politician, but not quite yet. Howard Dean came close to this.
It's still the only option for long flights if you don't have the $ to pay for business class (power sockets there); I have a Pandora with 2 batteries (which are quite small) which is over 20 hours of a system which actually lets you do your work. Wouldn't have survived my trip of 25 hours last week without it.
That sounds really bad. Guess this laptop is totally doomed now. Thanks for the tip though.
the problem is that you will still include the whole of jquery given that it is passed in through an externs file to the compiler.
Despite all the plaintext password nonsense, I still can't wrap my head around the fact that there is an API call for getting passwords. What legitimate use could it possibly be?
I have a new board in mine as well. Without AppleCare, it would have been $550. Estimated value of the machine, from CL, eBay, etc: $575.

The downside to Macs having become popular is the severe price drop in the used market.
I think you're describing an HMAC[1] authentication code here.

Certainly signing your requests as actually having come from your application is a legitimate means of security. But there are much lower hanging fruit (in terms of available security measures). Specifically, using SSL to handle API traffic. That should absolutely always be step 0. In instance of this specific post, had the API provider enforced using SSL as their transport protocol we probably wouldn't even be having this discussion.

There's a ton of other security measures/protocols that should be taken and followed, most of which are already talked about in other parts of these comment threads. I just wanted to really point out that what you're describing above sounds an awful lot like an HMAC code.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authenticati...
Well it's a lot harder to sell a Minecraft clone than it is to sell the next generation of the genre.
I love my Pandora too .. 10 hours on a single charge, you really can't beat that. Plus the fact that its a portable Linux workstation just makes it so damned valuable even when I'm not playing games on the thing ..

I've definitely signed up for the sequel! :)