skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No one has been crazy enough to test another nuke of its size. Even in the height of the cold war no one was crazy enough to test something like that again.

and thanks to the test we know for sure that ignition of the atmosphere with even such a bomb still wouldn't happen :)
In addition to the other commenters, "burglary" generally includes breaking and entering a vehicle as well, so without further information it's hard to tell what percentage is attributable to each. Particularly since the OP is interested in "an extra layer of home security", if home burglaries are a lower %, then those numbers could seem inflated with regards to the issue at hand.

Additional factors just from the linked page are:

1.) Burglaries of residential properties accounted for 74.5, of which the OP specifically mentions

2.) 60.6 percent of burglaries involved forcible entry, and 6.3 percent were forcible entry attempts.

So naively (without additional data on if forcible entry is less or more common for commercial or residential properties), then one could assume that a more realistic number is 2.2M * .745 * .669 = 1.09M which is about half the chance given the "totals".

This is also compounded if the OP is actually living in a "safe" area (or if it just feels that way)
Just because the marginal price is near zero doesn't mean you're not going to pay a lot. The marginal price for software is near zero as well. You may be right about it being a cartel, but the marginal price doesn't tell you much.
Not to harm your peace of mind, but trust me when I say you don't want a frustrated (nothing valuable to steal) armed criminal at home. Chances are he is going to be either desperate or with no regards towards human life (or both) and extremely angry.

Stay safe.
I find it pretty funny that you say that the only company that can target ads loses money every quarter, while you bash on a company who makes gobs of money through advertising.

Also, advertising certainly does work. Just not so well for organizations like The Economist, because they are pressured by new media companies like Facebook, which have the eyeballs and the necessary targeting options to deliver the same audience cheaper, plus every other audience you can imagine.
Their products are really neat, I second your recommendation. Very handy for what they do. At work I have the legacy 8-bit-wide and the faster 16-bit-wide devices, and they've paid for themselves tenfold.

And their software indeed is very shiny, even though the latest version I got (1.1.20, 64bit, Linux) starts up but then completely hangs on my machine :-(. 1.1.15 is fine, on the other hand.

Add: Just tried the latest beta (Logic 1.1.34), it's working ok again.
why shouldn't there be "firefox users" in the HN crowd?

Anyway, the purpose of the code example there was to show how it looks and explains some more things in the text afterwards. If you don't see what he means because you're using a different browser, it's essentially pointless to show it at all.
How could this possibly make sense to German taxpayers?
Here in the UK a perrenial problem with alarm response companies is despite taking your money, they often won't turn up until a few hours after the alarm has activated - if they turn up at all. So there's really not much point in paying for them.

How do the companies in South Africa convince their customers they're worth paying for, and that they'll show up in a timely manner if the alarm goes off?
Also, in the UK I know several colleagues who have had house contents insurance claims denied because their alarm system was inoperative or malfunctional.

It's actually better in that case not to have any alarm system.
Not sure what "intimacy of care" means, but most docs, like me, are frustrated and annoyed by the barrage of wolf-crying that comes out of these systems, of which Epic is one of the best and best-designed. (So far, all the others I've seen are FAR worse.) I WANT to see the meaningful alerts, but it's difficult to do with a sea of identical-appearing utter BS. Besides alert fatigue, there's a related problem with cognitive load. For this patient, I want to order A, B, C, and D. Now erect roadblocks in front of A, B, and C, and quite often D will fall by the wayside. By the way, I've never been able to set or even influence the alert policy. This was mandated by corporate risk management, whose policy appears always to be more alerts = safer.
With all the news lately about Bazel, kind of refreshing to talk about this war-horse.

Consider:
1. Paul Graham recommends to "do things that don't scale".
2. Google designed Blaze when gmake started to scale badly.

Chances are, gmake plus some shell scripts and language-dependent build flows is all you really need. Worry about replacing it with something more scalable when you actually have that problem :).
The author conflates abstract and immaterial. Computer programs don't have to be abstract, and often are not. And that's precisly what makes them more approachable than mathematics: you manipulate actual structures, see the results in real time and get to see how the actual process is carried out without language ambiguity. In short you get a concrete feeling of things that you can build a mental representation of that's closer to the senses.

Now some software engineer should explain to the author how programming is central to his understanding of mathematics and see how things develop.
We have a dog, which is an excellent anti-burglary system. He won't bark at the mailman, but he will bark at strangers in my yard or people standing in front of the house in the middle of the night. (This actually happened a couple of weeks ago when my neighbours came home from their holiday late at night).

The thing is: the vast majority of burglaries are spur-of-the-moment things. Here in The Netherlands at least. Sure, if they know you have a lot of cash at home they might actively target you, but most of the time it's much simpler: they see an open window or 'easy' door lock and they act upon it. Burglars are extremely opportunistic. To fend off most burglars, you don't need to have the best security, you just have to have better security than the least protected.

If you read the crime reports in the US, this rings true. I can't tell you how many times you read 'phone stolen from unlocked vehicle' or 'entered house by slitting the screen door'. Common sense can go a long way.

For countries like South Africa and some countries in South America it's a whole other story I guess.
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Or the 3d version, which is a bit scary in combination with the 3d building imagery from aerial photography - for my house it's good enough that I can easily make out individual trash bins and features as small as a couple of square feet in my back garden. When you hit the detonate button you get to see the mushroom cloud as well as the blast radius :-/

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap3d/#
You're totally right, though there were sections that made it sound like he was saying "They're getting the look and feel nice, but missing the normal critical features"
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WhatsApp hasn't even updated their TOS in their site since 2012 and moreover Facebook can disable account only if someone "infringe other people's intellectual property rights" inside FB. This makes me wonder what made it in the first place to allow FB disable account for violating WhatsApp terms.
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Ever heard of "less is more"?
My experience: https://medium.com/p/196b5024899c
Major browsers will not support h2c switching(switching from http, rather than TLS), and faster(but less secure) ciphers or null ciphers will not work for those browsers either, so speed in the HTTP/2 world will likely be something on top of SSL's latency.
The big mistake here is using a split host name CDN (instead of an edge/origin CDN), and then putting the primary CSS on the split host name.

That means you have to wait for DNS resolution and the TCP connection roundtrips (or worse, unoptimised TLS roundtrips) just to get the CSS.

If they were on the same host name, and the CSS is the first thing in the HTML, it'll be downloaded immediately after the HTML.

(And with SPDY, the browser could start downloading the CSS on the same connection as soon as it parses the link element.)
> Plus just getting your news once a week:

Which is why they launched Espresso, a daily roundup.

It's always been clear they don't want to be a 24h-news org -- they would never have enough resources to compete with the likes of Murdoch, and that's really poor journalism anyway. They basically want to be the most popular think-tank ever -- that's what "thought leadership" means. So they just have to do enough to let you feel like you're in the loop, and then put the hammer down where they want to steer discourse.
As a sanity check, what about showing the ordering physician a picture of 38.5 tablets? "Is this correct?" I think that would grab my attention.
He mis-wrote it. The Netherlands is significantly less, but not by an order of magnitude.

US per 100000 people: 715
Netherlands per 100000 people: 428

For reference, England is 986, Sweden is 1029, Australia is 1017, Belgium is 891, and Japan is 117.
Is there any project under way to translate PNaCl code to asm.js?

Edit: reading further, PNaCl happens to be a subset of LLVM IR. The Emscripten code could probably be repurposed to run NaCl and thus Android apps everywhere.
It's recursively ironic which is the sweetest tasting type of irony.

Any idea why going through search results succeeds and allows us access to the full content by the way?
Agree. The LTS releases are great, but for anything you expect to be working with on an ongoing basis I think it's worth the yearly pain of upgrading rather than a huge headache every three years.
> According to the DAAD, half of foreign students getting a degree in Germany will stay. That's not just in the short term either — 40 percent of students plan on remaining for at least 10 years. In the U.S., only 12 percent of international students opt to stay for even one year

That probably makes financial sense. Of course, it doesn't scale, but for the number of people studying right now it's probably a net benefit.
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"blocking GitHub is not really a viable option" he said.
Tell that to the world's craziest democracy - India, which banned GitHub, Vimeo, Pastebin and a bunch of others in December last year.
Some bans were lifted later.
Source : http://www.zdnet.com/article/india-blocks-32-websites-includ...
Google used to say "We're aiming for 100ms!" a lot quite some time ago. Now the their advocates are saying more like aim for 1000ms(1s) which is very realistic and good. 200ms will easily be eaten by SSL's 3 chunks of RTT(with the smaller initial cwnd cases).
We need someway to authenticate websites. The only viable alternative I know is DANE with DNSSEC. As long as DNSSEC is not widely deployed - and actually authenticated on the client - what alternative is there?
Advertise bidders have a timeout of 200ms, so if your ads are going to need 200ms at least, your page is going to tae longer than that.
What's surprising about certain cities is how close the ghettoes are to rich areas. Most people expect there to be a gradual decline in quality from the rich part to the poor part, but there are often dramatic cutoffs. You can literally take a wrong turn and go from zero crime to "Keep your doors locked and don't stop at red lights or stop signs."
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From the article:

>Germany wants these international students here, even though their taxpayers foot the bill.

>“Germany is not a country that's growing,” Malone says. “Its population is not growing. They need people, they need immigrants. They want to be a migration country.”

>Think about it this way: it’s a global game of collecting talent. All of these students are the trading cards, and the collectors are countries. If a country collects more talent, they'll have an influx of new ideas, new businesses and a better economy.
I apologize because I have not had time to really looking into this closely, but I think you are correct that the author's conclusions need to be reviewed. He repeatedly says that it is a man in the middle attack, but the link he points to says it is a man on the side attack. This is a very different beast: a man on the side attack does not rewrite packets, but rather uses it's position on the backbone to send replacement packets that will arrive before the real ones do. Also, the referenced link states that these packets are being sent on only 1% of responses. So if this is the case a traceroute is probably not going to find the issue. The offending node does not have to respond at all -- especially if it sends the bogus packets by a different route.

Again, I have not looked at this in detail yet and probably won't have time for a few days. I would welcome a discussion on this point.
Haha ... yeah just wait until you cool down and the reality sets in, been there done that
If GitHub were down for two days that's a metric shitload of projects that can't get deployed. There's a significant number of software projects with dependencies on Github-hosted stuff.
Educating someone from 1 to 20 is not free either. Being able to attract educated people is historically a big competitive advantage of the USA.

It is better to get someone who has already graduated, but getting someone about to graduate and contribute to the economy is not bad either.
1) Put your assets on the same domain.

Did you see how much time was being used in multiple DNS requests?

To an end user, everything not on your domain is CRAP. It's not there for me, the end user. It's there for you, the website owner so you can aggregate my eyeballs, pitch me something, use somebody's comment service, extract advertising revenue, push network bandwidth onto Google, jQuery, etc.

2) Why on Earth do you need megabytes of images?

Really? WTF? Just because you took the picture with a gigapixel camera doesn't mean you need to serve every pixel.

3) Minimize the Javascript

No, you don't need that Javascript framework. Shoot it.

Especially on tablet/mobile browsers, a very small number of pages cache before the browser has to reload and regenerate (and that's REALLY slow).

The research is against you. Every extra 100ms is a significant drop in retention rate. Your website will stick out because everything is so snappy. Users can feel this--especially on tablets and mobile.
Focusing on ad clicks is a classic case of measuring what is easy rather than what is important. Even if I don't click on an ad I may notice it and remember it and next time I'm in the market for whatever the ad was selling I'll think of that company and type their name into Google.
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> As soon as you fuck up, you're out.

That would create an even bigger incentive than today to cover any misuse up. Not sure that's what we want.
Just a heads up to let me know if you ever open offices outside of London. Quite a fan of you guys, but still don't fancy the commute into the City!
I think that this is a perfect case where tech giants can increase "cost of doing business" for NSA. NSA is having it too easyfucking over citizens. Now let them try fucking over businesses and still get away with it.

I think that this is a great reason to have zero-tolerance policy to CAs fuckups.
I don't agree with author's conclusion, having a server in a chinese ISP does not mean it's orchestrated by chinese gov. Also, I don't suppose MITM attack organizers have no clue about how TTL works.
Yes and no. It's better than it was 30 years ago, definitely! Has an entire generation been wasted, and thousands of lives needlessly lost in that time? Yeah.

I think the biggest change we've seen recently is English becoming more popular among the youth. That and technology which brings about education and positive influence from developed countries.

I'm very supportive of subsidized and ultra-low-cost smartphones and laptops. I think a lot of our issues won't be solved in the next 30 or 50 years, but as the world becomes more connected and social issues are democratized, ideas and efforts are spread through passion and action rather than advertising budgets..

Money will eventually no longer run this government and people will start to think for themselves.

Look at China, they employ hundreds of thousands of people to save their public image, they have a walled garden which they pluck and trim to fit their needs. But only half of their country (excluding rural and unregistered jurisdictions) has access to the internet. Is that going to be feasible long-term?

This is why things like Reddit, albeit very American-centric, have such a positive affect on the world. I want to see more countries get their "own" Reddit which is free of corporate interest and censorship. A medium that everyone has access to and uses.
Tsar's destructive force was incredible, but I think it bothers me a lot more that the US built 500 B41 bombs with a 25Mt yield during that era. What's the functional destructive difference between 50Mt and 25Mt? Zilch, any practical target hit by it is gone.
Try the dutch tech site http://tweakers.net/ it's one of the best sites in terms of page speed vs complexity and shows what can be done if you just do it right.

If you do view-source, they also provide their stats:
For me:
<!-- Request ID: Pontus_25418_551cff14675926.65349173, Server time: 0,0369 s (C: 0,0302; Q: 5; 0,0018; E: 1; 0,0008 s, M: 12; 0,0046 s, A: 0; 0,0000 s), Mem: 5270 KB, User: CMG, Engines: (S) pontus (1) -->
Most people did not have that luxury during WW2, yet they did. Safety is safety.
US Visa system is not very friendly to foreign students either.
Except we need an exponential leap in battery technology.

These 1% per year improvements are going to take forever to get us better EVs
Not much. To get to my place you actually have to know how to get there, you just can't randomly get to it. When inviting new friends over and even providing a map with directions, I get "where the hell is your place" calls most of the time.

Other than that, I have a Raspberry Pi with a camera running motion; it records video when movement is detected and offloads to a remote server. I have it in my room, pointing at the door, and I have a script that alerts me with Pushover whenever:

* Movement is detected and my phone is not in range.

* Movement is detected and an unknown WiFi device is in range (it sniffs WiFi probes).
They'll make it back with the increased business. You're having a large number of people come to Germany, make friendships, and learn the language. Some will stay. Some will do business with German companies even when they move back to the US.

Also, the program is selective, which means that you're hopefully only grabbing decent people and not riffraff. This further maximizes your return.
That's just how life is. People have varying degrees of smartness but success also has a lot to do with being in the right place at the right time and being ready to take advantage of an opportunity when presented. This is still a valuable skill that you can learn from them as individuals. One thing about successful people is that they don't get too hung up on things needing to be magical to get through life. Don't let the sense of disappointment lead you into depression, even though reality may seem a bit of a let-down compared to your imagination.
Tesla has a distribution-centre near Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
On the other hand, and at least in the US, in only 12% of all households violently burglarized while someone was home faced an offender armed with a firearm, and most of the time when there's violence, the burglar is someone known to the victim.
This is a pet concept of mine:

"the idea that news organizations can hand over their content so it can be consumed on other platforms. The advantage, obviously, is reach, and maybe that model works [...] I’m not sure it does — it just means you’re splitting the advertising revenue with someone else.

Standage assumes this model can only work where "other platforms" are sustained by advertising, but I think that's not the case. Any app with a subscription model could do it, and at that point you as a news org are actually tapping into their revenues, regardless of where they come from. I think the first reputable news org that will make its content developer-friendly from a licensing perspective, will soon become a platform for all sorts of revenue-generating experiments.

Software and hardware devices will keep expanding -- any news org in isolation will constantly struggle to keep on. The Economist were among the first to launch on iOS, Android and Kindle, but they've missed other boats likes Snapchat Discover and this can only happen more and more frequently as the web expands. The only way to exploit this is to leave the minutia of platform-specific tweaks to other developers, and concentrate on producing great content people want to pay for.
OpenSource: ESSSquareProgressIndicator for iOS and OS X
Debian, Ubuntu, and derived systems can flag CNNIC )if they've installed the 'ca-certificates' package) as untrusted themselves using /etc/ca-certificate.conf:

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/3167je/blacklisting...
Okay, here's the deal. Overall SA has a really big crime problem but it's not a complete warzone. It is heavily dependant on where you live. For example, Cape Town is statistically safer than Johannesburg and the area I lived in Cape Town is statistically safer than the areas around it - there are only a few break-ins a month and hell, my childhood home has only been broken into once and that was because someone opened up a 'troubled youth' centre a few streets away.

However, I don't want to diminish what others have experienced - I just want to put it into perspective. It is still a dangerous country to live in. Even though I lived in a 'safe' area I had to travel through 'unsafe' areas to get to friends, family, and work. On top of this the judicial system is a shambles due to corruption and incompetence. Apathy and burnout is extremely common in the police so they don't really care anymore because why should they? They bust their balls off investigating, arresting, etc only to have the court case thrown out because, for example, important court documents go missing and no one is arsed enough to investigate why :/
It is just that I imagine most IT projects have a timespan in decades so ideally you want something like Java that can still run your old stuff and where upgrading means putting out a new runtime.
Thanks for the detailed info.

Looking to the day all mainstream programming languages will be like Wolfram, even if it is beyond my lifetime.