skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a city in Brazil where there was a very grave cesium leak, and two people involved in the incident ended up eating a cesium sandwich, including a little girl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_accident#Ivo_and_his_da...
> " 'Umm... a thousand dollars' ... unfortunately for some people, 4th grade math remains difficult for them."

patio11 himself was merely citing their misunderstanding.
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...which is, if at all, this type of card should be used for storing an user identifier which is linked to the UID of the card and both verified on a server.

Of course, this does not prevent cloning with chinese knockoffs where the UID can be overwritten.
Sometimes I use the mobile version of Wikipedia just so I can read text that's pleasantly formatted with limited line widths like almost every printed or post-1990's digital text. The wide-as-possible lines, which sometimes make me resort to putting my finger on the screen to keep track of what line I'm on, are a ridiculous legacy.
Subresource Integrity is still a working draft, and has quite a way to go before it's even ready to implement. If you read the current draft, you'll find a lot of sections are incomplete, or have outstanding issues. Nevertheless, it's a really fascinating proposal, and I look forward to it (or a derivative) being available in browsers!

http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
Found this for Firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...
We can't legislate that you don't spoof - it'll simply be an arms race. If you want to participate in a market without spoofers, simply require a deposit for offers cancelled within a certain period of time.

The problem is that the market is only capable of defending against what it is used to dealing with, if we "ban" scammers we end up with a market susceptible to scammers. If we "allow" everything we'll end up with markets that can withstand a sybil attacks. As another poster said, the "correct" metric is accepted offers, not outstanding offers. ("Correct" is complex of course...)

It's like passing laws making web-scraping for email addresses into hacking. It feels like it'll make us safer, but because "only criminals have guns" it just ends up shooting a few people in the foot and weakening us overall against actual threats.
Are there any animals that develop Alzheimer's?
Oh, and if you want to try out some of the DOS programs in your browser, there's this collection: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_frostbyte
I would argue that mentally disabled people deserve some rights even if they didn't have any possibility of being cured. Or if you encountered a child that could never grow up or something like that.
That was a year ago and they seem to be doing fine since.
>>Mathematically, if we had infinite precision

Or just fixed precision? For example the calculation is intuitive for `int`s.
I was howling at that. I half-expected apes on horses and a half-buried Statue of Liberty in the next scene. They could ride off with the kid whose outfit looked like it was something out of Dune.
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Python works better on windows than bash does. This is for less technical people who may not want to install and maintain cygwin.
What about animal testing? Most people think torturing animals is wrong, but are ok with it when it is necessary to save humans.

In fact I can think of many examples where something is a crime unless it is necessary for survival. In law there is even a concept of "necessity" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity) that says it's ok to commit some crimes in some circumstances when it is necessary, e.g. self defense.
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Ah, heady days when the world's best computers were made in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and featured waterfalls of Fluorinert for cooling.

By the time I saw a Cray-2 in person, it was shut down (it was so outmoded it was not worth running). But an awesome sight.
I get instantly annoyed when I go to a site on my desktop browser and see the hamburger icon. Another huge annoyance is site with 5 break points.
One of the higher-end base malts often used in British/Scottish style beers (and Scotch Whisky), Golden Promise, was bred in this way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding
How feasible will it be to use 60+kWh of home battery storage for time-shifting arbitrage (not pure arbitrage, but close enough)? Is it yet possible for a consumer to get direct exposure to the spot electricity price for both feed-in and feed-out?

It would be interesting a) What the payback period is on a strategy where you charge when the spot price is low, and discharge when high, and b) How much installed battery capacity would be required to eliminate this arbitrage? i.e. what MWh of installed battery capacity would flatten the 24 hour across-grid demand cycle.
From the Article:

They are unlikely to be reading stuff like this...Surfing the 'Net is a deadly timesuck...

Ouch.
Because I've noticed that my general happiness in life is inversely proportional to the time I spend writing bash.
That would not generally rise to the level of lethal force. People also kill flies, roaches, etc. and the self defense justification is a lot more flimsy there, particularly when people will preemptively attempt to wipe them out, based on the assumption that they will do bad things... because of their species.

Interestingly, that also points to one sort of intelligence. That is to say, you can't assume anything about how a person will behave simply because of what race they are. You can reasonably do so with unintelligent animals (e.g. you can assume a mosquito will bite you, given a chance).
The other book keeper just needed the data to keep. Why did the tool you used matter?
I've been trying to connect to my raspberry pi without interface. Even this wasn't too helpful because I can't locate its ip_addr. Thank you.
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> I don't think caring for the well being of animals is that far out of the mainstream of ethical thinking.

You can care for the well being of animals without completely ruling out animal experimentation. For instance, you could say, "the well being of animals is important, but less important than saving human lives".
>You have fallen for the false assumption that evolution is teleological

it isn't false, it is true - the evolution leads to exponentially more complex systems. There is a very simple mathematical reason for that - evolution changes are small continuous deltas and a delta-changes to a more complex system cover more volume in the parameter space. Very rough - an organism with 2 times more types of cells, limbs, other morphological and behavioral features, etc.. will produce 2 times more of survivable variations.

>humans are the farthest along that teleological path.

mammals are farthest down the complexity path and humans just a bit further as it seems that we have a bit more complex brain.

Your Harward link is wrong on at least 2 metrics of biological systems both of which shows clear [exponential] increase as result of evolution - complexity and entropy increase integrated over given biological system's life-path in the space-time (that ability to maximize entropy beyond what can be achieved by following local gradient is the main differentiator between live and regular matter)
I wonder how big of a market this is. I don't even know that many people who owns a Genset.
I think we're getting close. I'm really hopeful that someone like Simple (https://www.simple.com) will eventually release an API for their service.
Nothing more? That all you need to know in 99% of the time. Just in case you didn't get the memo: ‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’.

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/may/10/we-kill-peo...
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I sold books door-to-door in 1996 for Southwestern company. I don't know if they're a different kind of company today, but I must say it was one of the best experiences I've ever had.

Yes, it's true that you have to work 80 hours per week, in a town where you don't know anybody, and where you don't have a place to live (you actually have to knock on doors and find a place to live). I mean, it sounds crazy on paper, and over 50% of people quit, but if you can make it through the summer, you really learn a lot about yourself and what you're capable of.
Has Oracle been run through this test battery?

Or would publishing the results of doing so bring down an army of Larry's lawyering henchmen? "You violated the EULA, now you must pay! You will only wish you were dead when we are done with you, bwahahhahahaha!"
...and it was maxing out her meeter, which I think was showing 100 mSv/h, wasn't it?
As Kyle himself mentioned (I think it might even be in relation to this document), Jepsen cannot prove that your software is safe, only prove that it isn't.

He even called them out for modifying timeout value to pass the tests[1].

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/316-call-me-maybe-etcd-and-consul
For one off transactions, I have no problem using a text interface. However, a sort of companion app that converted receipts and bills into ledger parseable bills would really help with mass data entry. Does anyone know if something like this exists?
https://github.com/cantino/reckon imports CSV to Ledger, with Bayesian automatic categorization.
That's a really bizarre and biased writeup about Venice. Venice did not "transplant itself to London" (whatever that even means)... they were separate cultures. Venice was not "comparable to switzerland during WWII" (again, what does that even mean?) Sure it was a refuge from barbarian invasions, and it developed its own culture.

Who says that Emperor Justinian was "evil" or that the Roman Senate was "sinister"? Who wrote this, George Lucas? If I had to choose between getting the shit kicked out of me by invading barbarians and living in Constantinople, I know which choice I would make.

The Ottoman Empire was a completely different religion and culture from the Byzantine Empire. It's pretty silly to even compare them... like saying the US is a continuation of the Iroquois league because we live on (some of) the same land. Nope.

Venice was perfectly correct in calling itself a "republic." The ancient Greeks, who gave us the word "republic," for the most part did not believe in giving everyone the vote. And the United States, the world's most famous republic, originally gave the vote only to male landowners. The US still doesn't give the vote to many people, including convicts and immigrants.

Venice was its own power in world affairs. Sure they made alliances with Byzantium when it seemed convenient, but Byzantium usually didn't care enough to actually send any troops to help with things. They had more important things to deal with, like not getting killed by invading Turks (which they ultimated failed at...) Venice even fought against Byzantium in 1296, and probably other times that I'm forgetting.

It's pretty laughable to say that "Venice was never part of Western Civilization"... say what? Venice was a vital port where goods flowed from the orient and from the middle east and into western europe. And it was an important stopping off point during the Crusades. And port cities like Venice helped spread the Black Plague... I'm sure that had no impact on Western Europe. Nope, no sir.

Usury and slavery? Again, this is silly, written from the point of view of someone with an axe to grind. Venice was a mercantile republic, an island of capitalism in a sea of feudalism. While the rest of Europe was under kings and queens, Venice had an elected doge. While the rest of Europe had peasants bound to the land, Venice had citizens and commerce. I could go on but you get the idea. You need to read more and stop idolizing royalty, who were really just military leaders with fancy hats.
Listening to him talk really doesn't inspire much confidence. Especially his claims that GaAs "enables quantum computing".
I think Riak's theory is fine, but theory isn't enough. And they may have succumbed to the Osborne effect with Riak 2.0.

Here's what I mean. Think of all the nice things you expect to come out of Riak's theoretical basis -- bulletproof distributed writes, for example.

Well, the default last-write-wins writes aren't bulletproof. They clearly fail Jepsen [1]. And if you turned off last-write-wins, then you'd have to handle siblings -- and how you were supposed to handle them without introducing inconsistency was quite unspecified. Riak clients gave you no help there.

Or, as the Jepsen article says, you could use CRDTs. Before 2.0, Riak had exactly one CRDT, the counter.

Something that might be appealing to some is built-in MapReduce. On the forums, people would warn you not to actually use it unless you didn't actually want availability after all. I don't know if they ever sorted that out.

Another supposedly nice thing was Riak Search. A distributed DB with full-text search out of the box -- that sounds great, right? But there were two things called Riak Search, and the first one just plain didn't work. They deprecated it before it had a replacement, but the replacement was supposed to come in 2.0.

So, Osborne effect. When people gradually discovered that Riak 1.x was bad, and the response was "but Riak 2.0 will be great!", that's a great reason not to use 1.x. 2.0 took a very, very long time, enough time for customers and potential customers, including us, to find other solutions.

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/285-call-me-maybe-riak
I think most people would be happy to just charge the thing up via solar during the day and use it at night.
My ElixirConfEU talk should help answer these questions once it goes live in a few weeks. To answer them now, we have generators, like Rails, for scaffolding resources, except we split them into html and json. So you can do `mix phoenix.gen.html ...` to bootstrap a model, migrations, forms, templates, controller, etc, but you can also do `mix phoenix.gen.json ...` and it will do the same but bootstrap the controller and view for a JSON endpoint. We also ship with live-reloading in development, so you save your Elixir templates, css, js, etc, and the browser reloads/recompiles without a refresh. Outside of those things, our Channels layer that Rails is borrowing from makes it trivial for realtime clients. You don't have to worry about the transport layer (WebSocket/Longpolling/etc) and the client takes care of automatic reconnects. Once 1.1 ships, we also will support replaying missed messages b/w disconnects, which can be time consuming/tricky to get right on your own. Beyond what Phoenix offers, Elixir and OTP provide a distributed platform out of the box. So automatic failover, service distribution, clustering, are all baked in, which should be considered when evaluating X vs Y. Hope that helps!
I believe the real reason was that FDB was not open sourced.

Jepsen tests cannot be used to prove the system is safe, but to prove it isn't.

It looks like very often he looks into source code in order to figure out how the system operates, that way he can find weaknesses and write test to his testing framework to demonstrate the issue.

I wouldn't trust any company that uses Jepsen to show that their product is safe.
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I have ~10 codes from different sites in Google Authenticator on my old Android device. How can I migrate them without rescan all QR-code so I can migrate them to new Android device?
Or PyParallel, when they include Windows in the next round: https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-pycon-2015-language...

Consistently orders of magnitude faster than everything else out there in the Python landscape.
IANAL, but this is probably still allowed in Virginia, since all traffic violations are arrestable offenses, they have cause to detain you.
Especially since many people will judge the competence of the engineering based on the response. It really makes me nervous when a database company doesn't even understand the problem for many days and then pretends like it's expected behavior afterwards even though it flies in the face of their documentation, advertising, and tech talks.
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Any recommendations for similar material but for Ruby?
We have just set up a Campaign for email encryption (join it!): https://www.iwoulddo.it/en/campaigns/2949/email-encryption

This Campaign allows for a coordinated migration of your "social network" towards encryption b/c: Encryption can't be done alone and is often prevented by the fact that people ignore if/when their friends are willing to join them in their effort - an answer we can generate using the "conditional pledge" ("I'll set up encryption if Alice, Bob and Chris encrypt as well").
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Disk channels to SMD or SCSI disk subsystems (maybe IPI but those disks were temperamental at best).

As I recall it wasn't until SSE3 instructions which were in the mid-2000's that an x86-64 desktop could compute an image convolution in the same time it took the Cray 2 but I'd have to ask Ram Nevatia. He was always finding the fastest way to do various image analysis programs.
I wrote a very neat web ui client for managing remote downloads in angularjs. It has a simple codebase to learn from:

http://github.com/ziahamza/webui-aria2
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Perhaps what you're getting at was addressed in the Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
It of course depends on the "assembly dialect". But given any two "assembly dialects" A1 and A2 their respective "length functions" f1 and f2 produce the same result, up to a constant. The idea is that you can write an emulator of A2 in A1 - code of constant length.
No, from all the videos I've seen in the last few years she takes safety seriously. In the really serious urban exploration videos of Chernobyl, Pripyat, etc. you can see everyone in suits and masks to keep out radioactive dust, and many different detectors for gamma, alpha, etc. radiation in use. The areas being explored have radiation levels that are hundred and thousands of times higher than normal background levels, but they're still safe enough to be around for a few hours without lasting harm.

edit: Here's a good video that shows some of the gear and safety equipment for more serious explorations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdhdCbDch6A
Most of bank websites (in France at least) provide .QIF downloads, so I coded a tool to semi-automatically add categories to qif transactions by matching keywords from your past transactions history : https://github.com/Kraymer/qifqif

I use it with GnuCash but could work with ledger as long as ledger importer links categories with accounts.
$22 an hour for programming is definitely scrapping the bottom of the barrel in the US (unless you're an intern or trainee).

I live in a pretty cheap area of the US, and the only place I've seen jobs paying that poorly is on odesk (and most of these jobs are taken by people in low cost of living countries).

If you're working for $22 an hour, you're selling yourself short.
I didn't realize until now, but phones are currently always passively listening for "okay Google" or "hey Siri." Look into whether you can tap into that.
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No, the rules for adding and subtracting (etc...) random variables are pretty different than what's at the link.
It's also a huge waste of instruction encoding space! Especially given that 99% of non-branch instructions just put 1110 (AL) or can't be conditional at all (1111).

Incidentally, available register read ports are the reason why cmov takes 2 µop on Intel architectures, but only 1 on AMD, since Intel's µops can only read from two sources but cmov has 3 sources.

Then A32 could have up 4 sources with a conditional op + register shifted register source.
If the RPi is on your network, you can use nmap to find out which IP address it has.
for me, it was about getting anything and everything the moment it hit the sites. It was just fun knowing I had access to it faster than most others. Most of the time spent in the irc channel was just bullshitting about what was going on in front of you.
Like this?

* https://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/

* https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector
Not to be a jerk but literally googling your post answers your question...

The answer is yes, what was your point?
I'm curious to see what (if anything) these batteries will do for users that isn't already handled by a UPS.

Not that a cheaper, more energy dense UPS isn't already a win but the article keeps focusing on the fact that the product is a battery, not what it will actually be used for.
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> His books are freely available under a Creative Commons license...

So perhaps they will be available for free from April 25th?
You call it "the Ingress", and it kind of looks like the Ingress app icon.
To me that's not surprising. If the client connection drops, you might not know whether the transaction committed or not... the only way to know is to reconnect and inspect to see what happened.

If you want to avoid that kind of problem, use 2PC.

Do you (or the author) see this as a bug, or just something that might surprise people who haven't thought through the guarantees?
Yes, but radiation sickness is caused by prolonged exposure - that is, 100mSv/h for two hours (dimensions are important here, dosage is in Sv). Additionally that's for a full body dose and she was mostly irradiating her fingers.
Sadly Tim Holman removed this essential feature: https://github.com/tholman/elevator.js/commit/7e19e0f23edf6b...
The reason why Mongo was able to "solve" those hard replication problems is because they simply ignored all those hard parts. That's the reason why Mongo is not reliable and most likely never will. The issues they have are due to fundamental design choices.
I think there are some advantages. No gas fuel, no noise, maybe less maintenance. Insurance vs. a genset should be different. I'm assuming you hook these up with a bypass switch, so you effectively have a whole home online UPS; this would eliminate brownouts and dirty/noisy power. I wonder if there's a power factor advantage on the utility side as well.
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A few years ago, somebody got a Cray 2, barrels of Fluorinert and all, and was going to restore it. Whatever happened to that? Probably not much.

Restoring old computers is a huge task. The Computer Museum in Mountain View worked for years to restore an IBM 1401, a small mass-produced machine from the 1960s. They had techs who'd worked on them and access to the original designers, and it was still very hard.
Exactly my point. There is nothing wrong with indicating you disagree with something. There is something very wrong when disagreement with an opinion leads to the removal of that opinion.
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I think this kind of thing is great, but it runs into some of the same considerations that make probabilistic graphical models hard.

If I have two variables defined as

x = [0,1];
y = [0,1];
z = x - y;

Then we see that z should be the interval [-1,1]. But for a similar problem,

a = [0,1];
b = a - a;
x = a;
y = a;
z = x - y;

b should clearly be the interval [0,0]. z is computed the same way as the first example, as the difference between two [0,1] intervals. But this time we want it to be [0,0]. That means we want to keep around some notion similar to the joint distribution of x and y. That makes arithmetic immensely harder than simple rules.

Not to say it's not worth it, just that it's hard.
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