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I'd be happy to, but it is difficult to understand. For some reason things like changing to metric, in some people's mind, means adapting 'European culture' and is anti-traditionalist. From what I can tell, the same group that holds onto the imperial system is the same group that is upset that cursive writing isn't a mandated subject in schools (how will kids read the constitution) and other such aversion to change.
Dow knowingly spreads poison, pays a fine, withdraws a product from household use, and that product continues to be used in farming? I had to stop reading.
You don't actually believe that pseudo science bullshit, do you? Please tell me you jest / troll. That article / interview is just full of half-assed science and made up bullshit.
You started down the right road. Much of their pay has to do with how they are paid. There are trucking companies that don't pay drivers to fuel the truck. Do you know how long that takes? It isn't like it is an optional task - that truck won't move without fuel.

I know a driver who spends 2-6 hours waiting to be unloaded. He doesn't get paid for that time but isn't free to leave the truck because when the loading dock is ready for him he needs to be there to move the truck. How is that not being "on call"? If he wasn't working he could go catch a movie or dinner, sleep or whatever, but for some reason the law says it is OK to make him sit without pay to do his job.
I think it's pretty clear from context that it was a paraphrase, especially since the phrase "must have been X of this particular type" is clearly a template phrase. It's a fairly common English construction; "oh won't someone please think of the children" in quotes as a response to an article doesn't imply that the article linked actually contains that phrase.

However at least the comments here are no stupider than the HN norm, when it comes to non-programming scientific topics. The frontpage right now contains two pseudoscientific bullshit stories: something from The Atlantic about "Toxins That Threaten Our Brains" (that's a verbatim quote), and this run-of-the-mill evo-psych bullshit.
No. Did you read the whole post?

For those who it is tl;dr the basic idea is to use familiarity with the Cut Spelling form (via a browser extension) to reform spelling from the bottom up. After you spend a few hours reading text that has be “cut” it looks totally normal. Get enough people used to the cut form and it will become the norm. That is the dream anyway :)
I think it's a legit point. If I had to do it again I would have used italics.
Yes, like incompetent management who tells a driver in freezing temperatures that they will not reimburse him for fuel additive to keep the truck from gelling up. Management was in Florida. The truck was in Montana. Eventually a call to a mechanic with a clue got the expense approved.

If there is a way for management to push a driver to cook the log book, they will. The best thing for drivers is the electronic log book that can't lie.
Sounds like another "it can be learned!" vs "you must be a natural!" disagreement. Practice 10,000 hours, no wait you need that innate talent. I haven't yet heard a conclusive argument one way or the other; so far I'm thinking "both".
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Can the driver-less truck put chains on its tires in the winter? I didn't think so.

I'm sure that we'll make use of the tech we have but there is so much more to driving a truck than driving. Maybe the "drivers" will be able to climb in the back and sleep while the truck does they driving and they can take care of everything else.
I don't think it's specific to HN, no. People have always been optimistic about their own products. You pour a big chunk of your life into something, and it's tough to imagine it failing, even if you know the competition has a leg up on you in some respects. One example that comes to mind is from Panic, makers of Audion, a shareware MP3 player that was killed by iTunes. From a conversation with Steve Jobs after iTunes was introduced at MacWorld Expo 2001:

"Well, Steve, I really think it'll still find an audience. We've got a lot of higher-end features that you guys probably won't ever add." [1]

That from someone going up against a free program that would be preinstalled on every single potential customer's computer. I can't speak from much experience, but I imagine that most people have trouble seeing the markets around their own software/customers 100% clearly.

So I wouldn't be too quick to blame it on the startup echo chamber of people wanting to keep image positive for VC fundraising. Nor do I think there's much anyone can do to change it. When people talk about their own products and how they stack up against the competition, you just have to take everything with a grain of salt and form your own opinions.

[1] The Audion Story, it's a good read https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
Why do you think, that there have to be future generations after aging is solved? And why do you think that humans will always be limited to living on earth?

There's plenty of space in the universe.
This release was unusually delayed, but future release should be more frequent again.

To quote the release announcement http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2014-August/024284.... (Mark Lentczner):

"I realize this one was a long time a'comin'. I take the responsibility for the decisions that lead up to being this late, including deciding it was worth it to wait for GHC 7.8, and that this was the right time to re-write the platform build system. I hope the speed that we can now turn the platform will be evident in future releases."
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How can it be true that any two words with a given levenstein distance will have the same hash?

If we picked the threshold to be one, couldn't you come up with two words that are levenstein distance one, and then come up with a third word that's distance one to one of the words and not the other?

In that case, the first two would be in one bucket, where does the third go?
They are all hazardous material tank drivers. Some are owner operators, some are not. And some were close to that as local drivers.
Could be safe in agricultural use even if it wasn't safe enough in household use. Best not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Cheap food with /almost no/ risk of developing a condition or losing functions of the body is better than expensive food with a marginal reduction in risk.

Even if we were "missing out on" 41,000,000 IQ points(this alone sounds arbitrary and unprovable) in the U.S., that would be 0.2 IQ points roughly per person... I'm not even sure that's statistically significant by any definition.

Then again, maybe I'm just dead wrong about that and I need to shut up and hop on the hysteria bandwagon.

I certainly don't like that Dow conspired to suppress completed research, although it is also abhorrible that people gave in to that pressure, probably through paltry bribes.
Time's page has too much space for the header.
I mean, it's the same company that made agent orange...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange (in case anyone isn't aware)

Along with everyone's best friend, Monsanto!

Lying to the masses to make some profit off of poison you peddle is kinda part of Dow's "DNA" as a company...
Oh dear. When a student answers that 7/12 is 1.5 and doesn't immediately see why this couldn't possibly be true you know that the problem is rote learning of algorithms. Whoever gives such an answer does not connect classroom learning with the real world, he does not understand what the answer means.

You see this often, even in university students. The problem isn't solved with more accountability or more teacher autonomy. The only solution is better teacher training and a different syllabus.

Also this: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/benezet/
You could still have webmail under this proposal; it just wouldn't be much more secure than the current email system.
You know correlation implies causality when you can make money from the correlation.
Why do you reject the person's website out of hand because you found one thing that does not agree with your worldview? The goal of science is to challenge our worldview and assumptions (whether we like it or not).

A quick google scholar search shows that the person has a quite strong publication record:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Peter+Frost&btnG=&...

I won't dismiss a person who wrote articles/books with citation counts of 500+ out of hand.
> Today I learned Hacker News is a great venue for spreading pseudo science and quackery.

On non-programming topics that's always been the case. HN is full of programmers who are not knowledgeable in science, and tend to trust their personal political or cultural beliefs on other subjects where science might be applied. Today's frontpage is actually great because it contains an example of that with both political valences. There's a "left-ish" pseudoscientific story about toxins, and "right-ish" pseudoscientific story about evolutionary psychology. Amazing. We're only missing a thread on weightlifting or nutritional fads to complete the bingo card.
97% is pretty high, but I agree that it's not too likely that's the drug company's plans.

Note that the government grants the drug company a monopoly to sell their drug, so it makes sense to place some limitations on pricing, or at least negotiate like other government do.
What's stopping intermodal containers being used to displace the long-distance trucking? Trains should on the face of it be cheaper, even when you're not transporting bulk commodities (you're talking in the US case a train 1500m long, potentially with the containers double-stacked depending on the route).
I may be thick but I don't get the tagline at all. How can A not imply A for any value of A? (A = correlation in this case.)

Or maybe this is one of those clickbait titles that state something logically contradictory so that you'll get miffed and read the rest.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't the main 'hook' for this library that it looks native? Looks like it uses GTK+, so from a technical standpoint it would be as "native" as Qt.
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This article needs an abtract.
The author may have written good articles, but I would rather have one of those submitted than the linked blog post, which is not a piece of well-supported scientific writing.
The magic is in the creation of the hash.
Isn't prostitution legal in Germany? I wonder why it isn't happening there.

That said, I think the market for GFE and escorts is the future since legal prostitution means a general depression in prices so its no longer worth it to engage in what's actually a pretty physical activity.
Whether or not the article is true, why don't you provide more constructive information? Presumably you've read the referenced studies and seen how bad their controls are. Which studies, and why is it bad?
i agree. so you have to hash things into multiple buckets, ie each word needs to have multiple coordinates/buckets in hash space. i think this is what is meant by "well-chosen hash size" / "one or several", maybe. it makes sense if you think about the distance matrix / PCA sketch - PCA leaves you with a low-rank approximation of the distance matrix, and the rank would be the number of coordinates for each word in hash space.
>> The Mars Climate Orbiter disintegrated due to an error introduced because its software used metric measures, while its ground crew used pound-force units.

There was an incident in 1983 where Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet (12,500m) altitude [1] about half way through its flight. An investigation revealed that one of the cause was a conversion error between metric and non-metric units for the fuel loading calculation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
I take a person's website with a big grain of salt out of hand if they link to a lot of HBD blogs like hbdchick and Steve Sailer. "Take with a grain of salt" is not the same thing as "reject...out of hand".

I later reject his argument after examining it cursorily and directing some half-ass arguments of my own at it. Not out of hand though
Also much of the work of David Hume

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume#Causation
This is why I think the "driver" will shift more to a "captain" type archetype. Ie, driverless road-trains will travel in fleets and there will be a mechanic somewhere in that convoy to deal with breaking down in dead of nowhere. Also hard not to imagine this guy being armed.
I've often found quite the opposite. I've been amazed at how knowledgeable HNers are about random and obscure science and medicine.
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...And greenwash them away by grandiose ad campaigns such as "human element" where they portray themselves as a part of the (humanitarian) solution to potable water.

If they really cared a tiddly bit about devastating human costs caused by their wholly owned subsidiaries, they would have at least spent a miniscule fraction of what they spend on such ad campaigns to actually clean up their mess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

The particular example I have in mind is the Bhopal disaster, and contamination of Bhopal's groundwater caused by the same company but prior to the disaster. Notably they dont shy away from claiming any of the assets of their wholly owned subsidiary Union Carbide, but none of their liabilities. 20,000 have died because of these causes, more have been disabled beyond the capacity to earn livelihood wages, but they do zilch about it. Well, not quite correct, they spend billions in ad campaigns, sponsor olympics and get a free pass. While Chernobyl rules the roost in western media as a prominent example of an industrial disaster (fits the narrative of "look how bad Russian technology is" very nicely) few if at all recall Bhopal although it is a tragedy of as epic proportions, I would argue that its (official) human cost was more.

I have not started on Nemagon or dioxins.
The problem is not how hard it is to get answers, but how hard it is to be sure you actually solved the problem correctly. Have you ever tried to debug a complicated spreadsheet? To validate one?

With so many financial institutions basing their decisions on spreadsheets designed in ways that would - or, at the very least, should - horrify even the most incompetent and irresponsible computer programmer, I don't think you understand how serious the issue really is.
By adopting micropayment systems, even as minuscule as those, you're cutting off email as a form of communication to significant demographics of people. On top of that, it's Bitcoin, so the effects are even more profound.

I don't want email to be taxed any more than I want IRC to be taxed.
From the nautilus article: She calls her theory “TILT,” short for Toxicant Induced Loss of Tolerance.

TILT posits that a surprising range of today’s most common chronic conditions are linked to daily exposure to very low doses of synthetic chemicals that have been in mass production since World War II. These include organophosphate pesticides, flame-retardants, formaldehyde, benzene, and tens of thousands of other chemicals."

Given this is HN, I would like to believe that you understand what a 'theory' is. I found that it was an interesting theory and nicely parallels with the article from the OP. Whether I believe the theory or not is irrelevant. I'm sharing knowledge cause it's fascinating.
Hm. I'm only going to talk about fluoride, because it's the easiest to pick on: yes, China does have dangerously high levels of fluoride in groundwater in some areas. Those levels are much higher than the levels added to water in Western countries, and, in fact, Western countries already implement policies to limit the concentration of fluoride that makes it into drinking water (so in, e.g., Colorado Springs, fluoride is removed):

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1104912/

>Opportunities for epidemiological studies depend on the existence of comparable population groups exposed to different levels of fluoride from drinking water. Such circumstances are difficult to find in many industrialized countries, because fluoride concentrations in community water are usually no higher than 1 mg/L, even when fluoride is added to water supplies as a public health measure to reduce tooth decay. [emphasis added]

Additionally, as even this week's Chicken Little proclaims:

> “Not at all,” Landrigan said. “I think it’s very good to have in toothpaste.”

--- of course! Do you really think that nobody studied the addition of fluoride to toothpaste when it was first adopted?

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002278...

> "Seventy-four studies were included."

The end. Fluoride is not a routine risk to neural health in developed countries.
Except when you're Dutch and male, then 1.8m is not so tall.
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Point taken, and I acknowledged in my first comment that it was a weak reason compared to the reasons for adopting. It wasn't meant as advocacy :-)

I would point out however that no one (that I know of) claims that English is the most popular because it is intrinsically the most efficient for all situations- i.e., on its merits as an efficient language rather than geopolitical factors. I definitely think that there are certain situations where communicating using non-English would be (locally) optimal- even if the parties communicating were fluent in English. Even as a native English speaker I truly wish English had the equivalent of the Tagalog particle "daw/raw," for example ( http://tagaloglang.com/Tagalog-English-Dictionary/English-Tr... ), or the fact that Cantonese can often communicate the same information as English using far fewer syllables...

In other words, I'm perfectly fine saying that using English is globally optimal (and convenient for me) because of its adoption, while still being perfectly happy knowing that some languages have attributes that make them more efficient, if you know them, in certain circumstances. I don't pretend ex-facto that English got this way because it is a truly superior solution in all circumstances if only everyone knew it. Nor do I feel like English's status as a (quasi)-standard is threatened by someone pointing out that Swedish would be more efficient in some settings (say, family history) even if everyone did know English. I would say "cool."

Defining units in terms of other units via something other than base-10 scaling in order to have more integer factors than 2 and 5- in some cases trading the 5 for 3 and 4- can be advantageous. That's all I'm saying, nothing more or less :-)
> The best thing for drivers is the electronic log book that can't lie.

Not while they're getting paid by the mile... They aren't called comic books for nothing.
Why is it a problem if legitimate email costs $0.01? If it's not even worth that to you, perhaps it's not so "legitimate" after all. (Organization internal mail doesn't need to pay itself)

The main casualty would be mailing lists, which would likely have to move to forums or subscriptions.
It might be technically possible to also say "I accept mail from X without demanding payment" but that's not necessary to make a pay-for email market work, and have much less spam.
> Could be safe in agricultural use

Didn't we find that some pesticide(s) is/are (partially) responsible for bee colony collapse disorder?
>Today I learned Hacker News is a great venue for spreading pseudo science and quackery.

I don't know very much about this topic but it interests me and this article looks like a quick introduction to some concerns. If you would like to inform me of why it's complete bullshit, I would love to hear. Your comment as it stands adds no value which I think is the reason why you were downvoted (I didn't personally) -- not because people "take sides" with the article.
Do you know the difference between pseudoscience and a soft science? I don't think you do.

Hard sciences like physics and chemistry are able to describe processes in minute detail because the systems being studied are relatively simple. As you scale the systems up, the level of detail that science produces is diminished, because there's a higher level of uncontrolled variables. This is why people make the difference between hard science and soft science, you can still try to follow scientific principles without getting a high level of conclusivity.

What soft sciences rely on is a body of observational evidence. Here's a classic example from the article...
"For decades, chlorpyrifos, marketed by Dow Chemical beginning in 1965, was the most widely used insect killer in American homes. Then, in 1995, Dow was fined $732,000 by the EPA for concealing more than 200 reports of poisoning related to chlorpyrifos. It paid the fine and, in 2000, withdrew chlorpyrifos from household products. Today, chlorpyrifos is classified as “very highly toxic” to birds and freshwater fish, and “moderately toxic” to mammals, but it is still used widely in agriculture on food and non-food crops, in greenhouses and plant nurseries, on wood products and golf courses."
Let's not stop there, it's the same country that made agent orange!
I'm a little surprised this isn't getting more attention. Check out these photos:

https://www.planet.com/pulse/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dove...

https://www.planet.com/pulse/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_...

The size of their satellites just makes this feel so tangible. Kudos to their team.
That's not good news for the truck drivers. I can even see automation getting banned in many states. In the same way some places require an attendant at gas stations.
Correlation (in sample) != Correlation (in population)

Also, apophenia. E.g. consider constellations. Stars are distributed randomly, but that doesn't stop us from making patterns out of them anyways.
Lol. Most of us are well entrenched into our specific scientific & empirical schools. We would be ready at any instant to defend against "Pseudo-science" the idea that synthetic chemicals causing unforeseen harms and conditions does not need forty billion pieces of evidence.

We're going to see and decide for ourselves. I know nothing of the author/etc have no allegiances.
Cameras, GPS, an inability to force a driver to pull over, no drivers helping on an inside job. It might be harder to steal from these trucks.

Plus Robocop will be hiding in the back and killing him with carbon monoxide will not be an option.

Of course, when thieves start using robots to do the stealing, it will get tough.
I can only speak for myself, but I for one am not downvoting you for your opinion but for the way you chose to express it.
That sounds quite close to what the article describes as already available.
Why its not as if anything is stopping people from installing 3rd party apps already.
Is there a CMS system designed primarily for the developer blogger?
I doubt that Amazon's classic strategy (Your margin is my opportunity) would be that disruptive to pornographic content.
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Remember that concurrency is not parallelism. Concurrency is an abstraction and organization mechanism that works great irregardless of the number of cores.

I personally am a big fan of CSP and love developing programs as a collection of collaborating services. I do mostly systems programming so can not say how good a fit it would be for most game programming, but it is a good general pattern that seems like it would work.