skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, thank-you for clarifying. And I agree, it certainly is easy to mix-up the types of radiation.

But yes, I do consider particles like Iodine-129 and Cesium-137 "contamination".
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Meditation enables the getting of a better brain with the goal of having a better life. Yoga(modern western understanding of the asanas) enables the getting of a better body with the goal of having a better life.

What is this better life? Well, in respect to these two areas, it is a brain with the ability to focus and relax and a body which is flexible and balanced. That's my interpretations anyway.
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I'm gonna say the article "Should Digital Monopolies be Broken Up", in the Economist, is a much more informative article.
That's why I like Twitter. I know everything tweeted by accounts I follow will end up in my feed.

Although, as another commenter said, email ultimately is the best communication channel.
Microlenses!

The article Geek.com links to located: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-realit...

is probably a better read.
It's a fork of node.js
$4K for learning how to dump a nand chip? Im clearly in the wrong business.
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like gold and copper, nuclear fuel is also mined. the nuclear industry produces large volumes of finely pulverised long lived low-level radioactive wastes in the form of uranium tailings. Unlike arsenic and cynaide, the hazard posed by uranium is not onyl checmical, but also radioactive. Whereas these chemical pollutants can be neutralised by the right chemical reaction, the radioactive hazard of uranium mining wastes cannot be neutralised, only contained.
The link, to save anyone about 2 seconds on Google: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21635000-european-move...
> actively seeking input on new features like better numerical comp libs

That is one of the most comedic issues on github. Worth a read, but tl;dr:

"all we need is to compile these ancient libraries! It should be easy, they are ancient and I am async!"
...
"I failed to compile these ancient libraries."

https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/1
Yep, I know guys who worked at WD and they mentioned how cluttered their firmware is. They have an incredibly rigorous code check-in process, which means not a lot of code gets cleaned up, only more code gets added. It sounds like a mess.

Thanks for the read!
That IP address should be reported to Amazon so they can either cut off the owner from AWS or inform them someone has cracked their system.

*Edit: here: http://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/co...
As someone who has gradually moved away from the more "woo" end of the spectrum and more towards the practical end, I found Waking Up to be a really good read.
I'd say breathing is sort of a two-way binding mechanism.

When you're at peace, it's slow and deep. And when you're stressed, exhilarated or angered it's turbulent and erratic.
So when you're, say, stressed, you can transition to a peaceful state by deep-breathing; and as you are relaxing you find yourself not needing that much focus/energy to keep the breathing that way - the binding automatically happens.

One can use almost any object to meditate upon - visual image, mental image, sound, music, whir of a motor, randomness of objects around you, tick of a clock; just about anything; the more rhythmic, the better. But for us inexperienced ones, breathing works the best.

Also, we should not think about breathing, rather feel it, granted it starts with thinking :) Thinking is what meditation shuns, at least when we're practicing
Jeff is actually known for being a micromanager.
We used to have to take care of the wordpress sites of a few friends of the CEO. One of them, a middle-aged tech naif, had an admin login that was the same for the username, password, and domain (effectively www.johnsmith.com, johnsmith:johnsmith). I had to 'crack' it to log in to apply an update, as we didn't have a record of what he'd set it to...
Marshall Sahlins is one of the most well respected anthropologists in the field, the context of the book "Stone Age Economics" was to refute the popular misconceptions of hunter gatherers at the time (1960s-1970s) within the field. This book does not have much to do with modern theories within the field on hunter gatherers. It's usually added to introductory anthropology books to refute commonly held notions about hunter gatherers that students may have.
Reducing the effectiveness of search does almost nobody any good. If the concern is so great, pool some resources and make an equivalent government sponsored search engine. Which probably no one will use because as much as they mistrust Google, they likely trust their government even less.
Did you mean the browser code itself? We are actually trying to do that in gngr[1].

(1) https://gngr.info
Being more familiar with assembly would definitely help. The only time I look at assembly is when I'm using a JTAG debugger, which is not my primary activity.

Our firmware has a lot of ASIC pathways that are only accessible through register reads/writes, and in some circumstances only statuses are available through the registers, so I believe reverse engineering an SSD would be more difficult than it first appears.
How fitting that the lone voice of dissent in this thread would eventually be charged with spreading religious propaganda. Guess we should have saw that one coming!
"with the psychiatric calamity of workplace Taylorism, people are arguably even unhappier than they were in all of those societies where life was nasty, brutish, and short."

This is a fantastic quote.

Frederik Taylor is a daunting historical character but applying his methods to all aspects of organizing most of adult life in the industrial nations is just incredibly ... unimaginative and intellectually impoverished.

I'm not sure though, would I call the splitting work to simple sub level tasks Fordism or Taylorism, though, and which one causes more anguish: dividing the work to boring tasks (by Ford) or just trying to formalize the individuals work to a level of trivial minutiae and measuring everything (by Taylor) leading asymptotically to micromanagment at all scales. (I'm exaggerating of course.)

Based on my understanding of the history I would say the splitting is very much Ford, but Taylor's methods come to play after we have decided on the division labor, after which the token Taylorist comes to the show with a stopwatch and some silly non-value-adding key performance indicator chart and starts to take time.

Of course, all of this could be applied properly, I think, but somehow this cargo cult "scientification" through arbitrary measurement is a fantastically tenacious facet of the modern society.
Please don't use 'common sense' and talk about how they design bombs and core reactors when you have no physics education. But hey, I'll humour you with as crude comparison as I can string together in a few minutes.

This link [1] roughly compares Chernobyl to a Fat Man equivalent, which had a 21kT yield, or 0.021 MT. That's 0.003% of the total yield of all the atomic tests mankind has conducted (545MT total [2]).

So by a first cut of the numbers, we've set of 26,000 Fat Man equivalents. Even considering that Caesium ratio of 890:1 between Chernobyl to Fat Man, that's over 29 Chernobyls worth of the stuff flung out. Pick any of the other ratios and it looks worse for your argument.

Oh, and on the note of you freaking out about the amount of radiation that Fukishima is dumping into the Pacific and how it's screwing up all the ocean life, remember that about 10% of all of those explosions were detonated into the ocean half-way between the US and Japan.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Chernobyl_and_ot...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests#...
Not when you have an awful, tangled mess of garbage that's not all "loose leaf". Then a special person to disentangle and find out what truly is garbage can be a lot easier than trying to do it manually, every time, as a part of the computation itself.
There is anything but a consensus at that link, many of the commenters at that link believe a fork and/or change of stewardship is a bad choice.

This is an open-source project, and Joyent's repo has always been open. Node-forward and io.js's silence and secrecy can only invite suspicion in this situation. If contributors don't like Joyent's direction, kill them with kindness. Overwhelm node with useful PRs that have a ton of community support behind them. Playing these games IMHO is only bad for the community and for Node's image. Joyent seems to understand this.

I am trying to form an opinion to support Node's positive evolution and I shouldn't have to petition for access to contribute. That is exactly the excuse the forkers are using to justify their fork, and they're guilty of the same.
Yeah. The planet's naturally occurring radiation is a hell of a lot stronger and more dangerous.
Visual Studio 2013 has better support for C99, here is an article from MSDN about it http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-librar... . But it is not a complete C99 implementation.

The good news is that with VS 2015 you will be able to use Clang for compiling C code, so hopefully a complete C99/C11 implementation on Windows at some point.
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We're working on an AOT compiled build of JRuby Truffle that has no dependency on the JVM and starts about as fast as MRI, but it's not public yet.
The bombs dropped on Japan in World War II (Little Boy and Fat Man) were firecrackers compared to many of the thousands tested since then, which still haven't rendered our planet anywhere near uninhabitable.
You do not give us enough data to help you. What difference will that person make?

A real cofounder should get 10-50%. But first, you should work together for 1-3 months minimum. Once you know you are a good fit, vesting will protect you. Remember that 40% vesting over 4 years isn't that much if you fire your cofounder after one year for lack of performance. That's really just 10% equity for a full year of work, not bad for you. And if it works out, everyone is happy.
(Every app store is littered with F2P games that never recouped their costs.)

But this is true of any industry ever, regardless of business model.
I appreciate the spirit of the request, but to be blunt any large company would probably never spend resources on this. Basically large SSD manufacturers are focused on billion dollar markets, and the demographic who would appreciate a "bypass mode" is probably so small that the company would never recoup money spent on implementing the feature.
Shouldn't we already be suspended in disbelief given the languages we have had for 30+ years?
I guess it is how you look at it. Much of this article has issues but one of the most glaring is this one:

"Born of human error, continually generating copious heat, the Elephant’s Foot is still melting into the base of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. If it hits ground water, it could trigger another catastrophic explosion or leach radioactive material into the water nearby residents drink."

One of the things this 'foot' proved was that the supposition that a meltdown would have a core melt through the ground and down into the center of the earth, aka the "China Syndrome" was false. The reason was of course that once the core became molten it begins to mix with the materials around it, that causes it to become diluted until it drops below criticality and then it ceases to be a threat. All western reactors (and all of those in Japan) have a pool of borosilicate sand underneath the reactor as just such a final safeguard. Should the core melt through to that, it turns the sand to borosilicate glass which kills neutrons and stops the reaction. Leaving behind a solid, cooling glass chunk. Not contaminating any groundwater and generally not going any further afield. It remains to be seen if any of Fukishima's core material made it as far as the sand underneath those reactors.

The 'foot' at Chernobyl isn't going anywhere, and in a couple of decades will be safe enough to chop up and dispose of more permanently. Unlike radioactive dust in the plant which was getting carried out of the containment building. I expect that within my kids lifetime people to be living once again in the surrounding area.
and freeze to death in winter? not cook your food and eat it raw? walk/cycle for 3 hours to commute to work?
"Facebook is eating into Google’s advertising revenue. Despite the success of Android, Google’s mobile platform, the rise of smartphones may undermine Google: users now spend more time on apps than on the web, and Google is gradually losing control of Android as other firms build their own mobile ecosystems on top of its open-source underpinnings. "

(from: the economist article - http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21635000-european-move...)

I read Peter Theil's zero to one, I feel this article is trying to make an effort to some how dress-up Google's search monopoly (just like the way in the book Peter points out Monopolies want to hide by expanding their competition space definition).
Can't wait until the cable companies do this to facebook/.

basically an anti-net neutrality approach to communication.

obvioulsy 2 sides, but still...seems manipulative ate best

but somebody has to pay the piper to pump that stock up
Meditation is more concentration than relaxation.
From the GP:

> Where can you cut costs and get away with it?

The second clause is just as important.
I run a wordpress site for a friend with the work "anonymous" in the domain name. I run WordFence on it with 30min lockouts for failed password attempts from the same IP address. I get ~60 locked out messages a day from it, the vast majority attempting to log in as "admin" (and account which doesn't exist). I have no doubt that it's _continuously_ under attack from several botnets, and that without Wordfence in the way it'd be dealing with thousands of login attempts per day.

Like this article closes with though, non "admin" accounts and strong passwords foil all these lame automated attempts. (I suspect one day it'll get attacked by someone with a Wordpress zeroday, and I'll have to reprovision the vm from scratch - Yay Ansible! - come at me scriptkiddies!)
Aren't most folks in positions of privilege and power above the law? ;)
I think the idea here is to split off the search business from Google's other business areas to prevent those from abusing the data collected by Search. Not saying this is a good idea, but the distinction is important.
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They could just double down on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero

What I find rather disturbing is that this isn't so much based on the idea of increasing search competition, but apparently, is being pushed forward because Axel-Springer and others want to charge people for linking and snippets. But if Google had say, 50% marketshare in the EU shared with a competitor, or even a three-way split, it's unlikely to competition would convince anyone to do something as web-breaking as to start paying people for the right to link. Bing already has a sizable marketshare in the US, and yet, neither Google nor Bing are paying the New York Times for search snippets or links.

These publishing orgs are having their business models killed by digital media, you know, models like charging exorbitant pricing for scientific journals behind paywalls, or for school textbooks, or having pricing power of advertising markets, and want to abuse copyright to extract fees from deep pockets. (I'm lumping in Axel-Springer with Springer-Verlag here)

Maybe there is a good argument to be made there should be competition in the EU in search. But protectionism for publishers who want to abuse what has always been assumed a fundamental web freedom, and fair use, I think is a pretty poor reason. The fact that the backers of this motion are also working for the publishers is a huge conflict of interest, and no doubt there's probably intense backdoor lobbying by Microsoft.
That is an excellent summary. One of the more interesting developments here has been the development of zeolites for CO processing that you run through a concentrated solar facility for heat. (Zeolites suck up CO2 while cold, you ferry them to the focal point of the CSP, they outgas the CO2 which is collected, and get returned to the pile below.)
You are right, in that your guess is wrong ;-).

Total activity decrease in realistic "atomic waste" is not at all exponential.

Try a simple example:

Take a mixture of two isotopes. The one isotope has a half-life of 1 year and there's so much of it, that the activity is 10 decays/second. There's also a second isotope in the mix, with a half-life of 100 years, but there's 100 times as much of it, so that in total, you also get 10 decays/second.

After 10 years, the first isotope will be down to 2^-10, so only 1/1000th is left, it will be hardly measurable. But the second one will have decayed only 1/10th of a half-time, almost everything is still there: You are now down to half of the original activity.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxaUhDCUXNJCTjNKNFNxdDhuLTA...
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He also described it as a hierarchical system: Set your terminal to "research." Punch parameters in succession "North American culture," "English-speaking," "mid-twentieth century," "comedians,", "the World's Greatest Authority." The answer you can expect is "Professor Irwin Corey." You'll find his routines timeless humor.

Mind you, this is after Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" and Memex, which got many people excited about the idea. This in turn was influenced by earlier investigations by Davis and Draeger in 1935 on searching with microfilm.

In the last year I've been researching earlier information systems, including those of the punch card era. Calvin Mooers, in his paper "Making Information Retrieval Pay", which coined the term "information retrieval", proposes a mechanical search engine called DOKEN which could handle Heinlein's proposed query (see http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=4243 ), except that "Professor Irwin Corey" is too specific to be an index query using Zatocoding.
Clearly you wouldn't send people in there.

Is there too much radiation in the room for robots with radiation-shielded electronics to operate?
I did a bit more reading, and found this crazy and scary graph. It's under "Uranium-232 Series Activity" near the bottom of this paper[1]. It shows that gamma ray output from U-238 increases > 5x a year after U-238 is first refined, and stays higher than originally was for >100 years.

It's due to the decay products of U-238 (and their decay products) all producing radiation that adds up to more than the original's.

I never would have guessed that.

[1]: http://www.wise-uranium.org/rup.html
That kind of architecture might be ok for problems but I not sure how general it is. Also, why force a diffrent programming model when it is possible to have a GC that does a good job.

There is erlang on java and it performs quite well, so you can combine the two things.

I dont want technogoly to force my architecture, if I make a choice to go with actors I want it to be, because its the right choice and not because I have to.
My first thought was that it's a pretty short pronunciation hop from linkell to 'link hell'. Not everyone will make that association though.
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I emailed you, but my answer will probably be unsatisfactory. Too many IP rules.
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Yes, thanks for pointing that out. Uranium tailings are one of the biggest environmental issues with nuclear power, and one of the ones I never hear anyone mention.

The radioactive waste produced by the plants is more of a political issue than a technical one, as is the switch to far safer, more maintainable, non-proliferating reactor designs.
Is Joe Armstrong kidding?
Could you also just alter the login page irk? I.e. Are the boys all directly targeting /wp-admin - if so could you change the url to /secret - and then they won't even be able to attempt to login in the first place?
If you check the errata #77244, that's his ONE SINGLE example of how you can use pattern matching with maps. I smiled as I read the example. But when I tried it, boom! That piece of code does not run on any released version of Erlang, and I am here trying out Erlang to see if I can use it in my enterprise project! The most disappointed I have been while learning any language.
> It makes me wonder what sort of numbers the really famous sites are seeing

Not exactly a famous site, but I thought a larger sample size might be interesting...

We [1] provides shared hosting for about 500 WordPress installations, of widely varying sizes. The sites are mostly static "blogs" for student groups or individual students, with about half on a single domain (www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~something) and others on different subdomains of berkeley.edu.

In the past week, the webserver handled 3,527,157 requests (about 814 MB of uncompressed access logs). 111,409 of those were WordPress login attempts [2].

I was going to compare the list of top IPs with the list in the article, but was surprised to find that there were no shared IPs between the lists. For context, we had 435 unique IPs, 9 with > 1000 requests, and 32 with > 100 requests.

The top ten requestors in the past week are from (cities from whois data):

56742 Kiev, Ukraine
19302 Novosibirsk, Russia
7645 Sofia, Bulgaria
7641 Moscow, Russia
7190 Kiev, Ukraine
6748 Kharkov, Ukraine
2160 Roubaix, France
1041 Kharkov, Ukraine
967 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
894 Putian, China

[1] https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/

[2] POST requests to wp-login.php. I don't have accurate numbers on how many failed, but to say that less than 250 were legitimate user logins is probably accurate.
As your predecessor has already said...

"A far bigger threat to our ocean is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

...compared to the mind-boggling amount of commercial waste we dump into the environment in a completely unmonitored, uncontrolled, unlimited way the radioactive contamination of the Pacific is absolutely insignificant.

Maybe it will even help the ecological systems there a tiny little bit because (even if only few...) people might back down on seafood from the over-fished areas there.
What Google is doing so far is actually REDUCING the quality of the overall search, by promoting their own services unfairly more than the competition.

So no, letting them into a monopoly position harms the society more.
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Whiel I agree with your statements, it should be noted that sometimes scuba-diving in nuclear reactor's pools isn't as safe and fun as originally intended.

http://www.isoe-network.net/index.php/component/docman/doc_d...

[A diver not briefed on avoiding unknown objects picked up a highly activated bolt laying on the pool floor and received a substantial amount of radioactive dose.]
This does not prevent you from proving the program correct by hand. Regrettably that is rarely done, but could in principle be done regardless of the type system of the language. Of course that would require you to write a specification of the of the features you want to implement, which might be messy depending on your problem domain.
> In the end, email is the best way to communicate with your customers.

Except being flagged as spam kinda sucks.
I remember reading this article about a person who had no sense of smell, and how they had to always make sure that they have no BO, have to worry about not being able to smell gas or rotten food, and various other things that the rest of us didn't have to struggle with. It's these subtle things that makes the lack of a sense more challenging than one would expect from the common perception of these disabilities.