skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reason this is interesting is because of the possible role of charge transfer in the DNA repair mechanism. See the work of Jacqueline Barton's group at Caltech [1] for more information.

Here was how it was described when she was awarded the National Medal of Science: "For discovery of a new property of the DNA helix, long-range electron transfer, and for showing that electron transfer depends upon stacking of the base pairs and DNA dynamics. Her experiments reveal a strategy for how DNA repair proteins locate DNA lesions and demonstrate a biological role for DNA-mediated charge transfer".

If it turns out that the cell does locate damage by looking for sections of DNA that do not conduct when they should, then having the DNA acting as an antenna could interfere with that. The induced currents in the separate strands on both sides of a break could make it look like there is no break.

I'd guess that this would not be as bad as getting hit with ionizing radiation, which can actually break bonds. Non-ionizing radiation inducing currents would not break bonds--it would just interfere with repairing bonds that were broken by some other mechanism.

Still not something I want to encourage, so I'm going to avoid dumping large amounts of non-ionizing radiation into my body just to be on the safe side [2].

[1] http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jkbgrp/

[2] ...says the man who just ordered a handheld ham radio transceiver that puts out 5 watts at 144/220/440 MHz, which is several times what a cell phone puts out.
> "Too big to jail" happened because we tried to use mortgages for

No, it didn't.

Too big to jail happened because money drives political influence, and the people responsible for the collapse of Wall Street have the latter because of the former.

If you mean the collapse itself happened for that reason, that's not true either. To the extent the "social welfare hack" thing is true, it was being done for decades before the bubble even started building. The frauds that lead into the buble and collapse didn't happen because of that, they happened because of the regulatory structures put into place designed to prevent exactly that kind of thing after the Great Depression were removed; at the time that occurred, critics warned that doing that would lead to exactly the kind of shenanigans that, in fact, occurred.
The fact is, transgender people have extremely high rates of suicide before and after any surgeries. Life on the margins of society is not easy, and surgery does nothing to address that problem. Here is a study, using the data from above, which explicitly mentions this:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... "It is therefore important to note that the current study is only informative with respect to transsexuals persons health after sex reassignment; no inferences can be drawn as to the effectiveness of sex reassignment as a treatment for transsexualism. In other words, the results should not be interpreted such as sex reassignment per se increases morbidity and mortality."

Further, numerous studies exist which disagree with the claims posted above:

http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/bitstream/handle/1871/23255/189321.pd... "The results substantiate previous conclusions that sex reassignment is effective."

http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567%2809%2962807-0/abst...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2008....

What is known, is that "conversion therapies" are not useful. It's not possible to modify a person's sense of self, just like it's not possible to modify a person's sexual orientation.

Lastly, let's remember that slapping the word "science" on something does not make it correct. Everyone has a political agenda of some sort, and plenty of science has been used to justify homophobia and racism.
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If they had a dropdown for a few beer brands on the booking site, and rolled it into room price at a 30% margin, I'd totally go for it, and it'd be good as a cheeky marketing stunt too.

Imagine it - which 6 pack would you like to be waiting in your room? Much more enticing.
After installing this software, I increased my number of Hearted repositories by 33%!
I lived in DC for many years, and that was the consistent advice. OTOH, in the City Paper (local independent weekly) there would occasionally be interesting stories about how, for example, you could not get toothpaste from the shelters (maybe it was something else, it's been awhile, but some similar toiletry item). You need toothpaste to maintain yourself, and so there is a lot of seemingly "minor" needs falling through the cracks.

It is undeniable that most of the homelessness is due to mental illness and/or drugs, and if you give to panhandlers you are perpetuating the problem. But living in DC you are also in the street a lot (hanging out in Dupont circle or whatever), and you get to know the homeless in your area. It's just really hard to feel good about any decision you make, and it is hard to say no to someone you've had conversations with. OTOH, you also see them absolutely incoherent on a bench and know this is not going to end up well. Then they disappear.... it's hard. So many still haunt my mind.
So basically TUNIS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUNIS for the Rust era and language.

It makes sense. Some of the best Unix implementation work I've seen (e.g. the DG/UX reimplementation of SVR4 UNIX for multiprocessors, large storage farms, and manageability) came from the "let's consider refactoring everything" that comes with a clean-sheet design.
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Good call. I was thinking packages in my head despite you specifically referring to ports. Thanks for following up!
>Mozilla must walk a narrow line between protecting user privacy and angering publishers such that they block Firefox users. //

Is there any precedent for that, it sounds impossible, that publishers would block one of the major browser brands like this; wouldn't it just mean people would use UA switchers?

The only reason FF wouldn't want to serve it users like this, that I can see, is so as not to annoy those they're in commercial relationships with like the company they forced the browser toolbar button on to everyone's Firefox to get sponsorship from.
Wonderful. I'll certainly try building stuff with heat shields, but I have a feeling I'll have that set somewhere pretty low :)

Thanks!
Well that's cool; the lack of a good resource overlay was one of my only qualms with Karbonite/ORS v. Kethane.

Thanks!
My favorite moment is when I first got a spaceship big enough to land on Laythe (the earth-like moon of KSP's equivalent of Jupiter.) It was my first time doing a transfer orbit to Jool so I didn't really know what to expect other than that Laythe had about 85% of Kerbin's gravity... so if a replica of the ascent stage could get into orbit around Kerbin, I should have no problem taking off with it from Laythe so long as I could land with that stage intact with most of its fuel.

After a long mission to get there, "aerobraking" in Jool's atmosphere to get into a capture orbit, orbiting Laythe, landing, planting the flag: I realized I forgot to build a ladder on my spaceship to get back into it.

Sure, I could temporarily cheat and turn off gravity long enough to get into the ship, but that would be too easy...

So I staged a rescue mission to recover my kerbal, this time requiring a spaceship that not only had a ladder but was large enough to fit two kerbals instead of just one. I sent it on its way, and even docked with the orbital component of the original ship to combine fuel resources, and landed within a few hundred yards of my old kerbal. I had to leave a weight on the keyboard on the shift and W key for 15 minutes or so while he walked towards the new ship. I took off, rendezvoused with the orbiting stage, escaped orbit, and slingshotted off the orbit of another moon to get me back to Kerbin with just barely enough fuel to make it, but I made it just the same.

I really love this game.
I'll make a stronger case to Keep it Simple: even if you have infinite computing resources and memory, implementing the simplest possible thing is far easier for other programmers to understand than the ugly generalized 'abstractions' most of us come up with 99% of the time. That 'cognitive bottleneck' will remain no matter how far back you push the resource bottleneck, and it will keep an anti-abstraction ethos competitive.

(Now, the Forth way isn't the one I would choose to be easy to understand: http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines..... But that's a separate story..)
A daemon that isn't part of systemd init or even started by default does yes.
Again with the fuckin' chickin?!
> the statute that created his agency, in 1988, specifically forbids the office to support legalizing any substance classified in Schedule I by the Drug Enforcement Administration

... That's so beyond obviously moronically corrupt I'm not sure what to make of it.

The idea that police should have naloxone is nice, but why should the police be responding to such things in the first place? Naloxone should be available OTC. (Well it should come bundled with OTC opiate packages, but that's probably hoping for too much.)

The big undercurrent of this article remains the same: using opiates and other drugs is a problem. I'm also a bit cynical. He appears to have been an alcoholic, only went to rehab after being arrested. Wanna guess how many alcoholics there are in government? That occasionally used coke and smoked some pot?

On the plus side, comparing medication usage to gay rights - well that's super encouraging.
I wonder how the price of the items in the minibar affected the update.

It's not clear if the prices of the items in the first mini-bars back in the 60's were 1300% inflated. If I were, for example, only paying 2-3x of the cost, perhaps the volume might justify the convenience.

I'm surprised that a blog named pricenomics hasn't addressed this question.
Two-dimensional semiconductor comes clean
My problem is access to content, and I have many solutions available, some of which are not legal.

Your problem? Is something bad going to happen to you if you don't get to watch any program you desire at any moment? If I understand you correctly, your big existential risk is that you might be...bored? That's very interesting. I'm going to worry about it in every available moment I have in between trying to finance, produce and distribute a low-budget film in pursuit of profit so I can enjoy things like keeping a roof over my head, buying food, and paying utility bills.

Since your apparently endless desire for convenience and low cost means ever-narrowing options for monetization, ever-less predictability of revenue, and ever-increasing downward pressure on budgets, I may not be able to get around to worrying about your problem for some time. I apologize profusely for my failure to provide you with a perfectly frictionless global content delivery network for free while I've been wasting all that time learning to how to make the films you so desperately need to watch.

I don't like expressing myself in such a sarcastic fashion, but honestly, the attitude of entitlement that comes from comments like yours is depressing. It's like you don't even consider the possibility of waiting until you see the movie you want become available on a channel you are willing to pay for.
Getting SEC filing data is an absolute nightmare. Every time I think of a project that includes SEC filing data (Executive names/ages, MD&A text analysis, etc.) I skip it and move on to something that's just as interesting but less time consuming and more doable. There doesn't appear to be a scalable solution.
China's “Great Cannon” is being use to attack WPKG
> try using actors for parallelism

Erlang

> or MPI for concurrency

Go uses channels as a message passing interface for the "composition of independently executing processes"
Ah, I see.

My point about packages still stands, though; I don't use ports on my OpenBSD servers (since it's much easier on server load to just download/install a package than to try to build things from source; well, that and the lack of a need to install a whole lot on an OpenBSD server besides a runtime for $SERVER_PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE, but whatever). I suppose if you're particularly paranoid about downloading things from the internet, you could build packages on your personal workstation with the necessary env vars to disable X11 support in the package, then move those packages over to the server and install them there (basically, doing what OpenBSD's ports/packages maintainers already do in order to create the packages in the first place, but on your own).
The "injection of race and religion" was not that at all, rather an observation of the usual "identity" attached to him.

I agree with the idea that many or most readers won't have a working knowledge of Carter's policy--I certainly fall into that group.
I think the article has it pretty spot on. The mark-up is invariably absurd, particularly in today's 24/7 culture where often you could just buy the same product at a normal price from a store within a short walk of the hotel. On top of that, the scary warnings and (clearly justified) fear of incorrect charges probably keep a lot of guests from even opening the fridge door.

I don't even go near the area of the room where a mini-bar fridge is these days, and I actively consider mini-bars a negative factor when choosing where to stay. The "I obviously don't believe you but I can't be bothered to argue" look from the reception staff when you entirely fairly and correctly point out that you've been charged for something despite never even opening the fridge is just a little too much for me when I'm already spending a small fortune on staying somewhere "nice".

I did notice that the last place I stayed, the fridge was actually locked by default, and (I'm told) you had to leave a special deposit with reception if you wanted to unlock it. I guess that takes care of the never-opened-the-fridge argument, at least. On the other hand, it did make a mockery of their "generous" gift of a free bottle of water on arrival, since that bottle was left in the fridge. Way to turn a tiny advantage into making a guest feel robbed within five minutes of arrival...
Erlang is about concurrency, not parallelism; ditto for Go Channels. MPI was designed for parallelism in the HPC sector, not concurrency for distributed servers.

Saying concurrency and parallelism are equivalent basically invalidates all design decisions made by these systems.
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/could-...
You should consider changing this to link to `https://github.com/Lobos/react-ui` with title `react-ui: A collection of components for React`
What development tools do you need to buy for Powershell? (unless you mean Windows itself).
That's exactly what I did with Pouch (https://github.com/bramgg/pouch).
I'd play a pirated version of a game before using the Steam version. Steam implements DRM and is generally obnoxious, trying to force itself all over games (popups), showing sdverts, etc. It just shows how terrible things are in game-buying-land. Look at the Xbox 360. A marketplace UI so laggy, you wonder how they technically able to make it that slow.
I do know a few who have the $10k Ic-7800. They have multiple stacks--often one for each band. The ratio there is still in teh 4:1 range.
The 22 KJ seems widely varying form other estimates on this discussion (6KJ, 15KJ).

For example, is it clear that the pressure of 100 atm would actually be attained by a simple thermos and dry ice? What lead you to use that number?

Furthermore, the .50cal round is focused on a small area, the impulse and destructive force are multiplied by the shape of the bullet. Just like how shape-charges magnify the explosive force of munitions to bust armor.
Thanks for posting the article here.

Some of McHugh's stats/arguments are misleading:

1) "Most of the surgically treated patients described themselves as "satisfied" by the results, but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn't have the surgery."-- This could be a valuable piece of data, but you're potentially comparing two different groups of people. The ones that elected to have surgery obviously had stronger feelings than the ones that didn't. If they were denied surgery and joined the latter group, it could potentially lower the average psychological health of the latter group.

2) "Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable non-transgender population." -- The only stat that would be worthwhile would be comparing transgender who had surgery vs the ones that didn't. Comparing transgender populations who had surgery vs normal population only would show that transgender populations need more help, acceptance, and support.

3) "Facing long sentences and the rigors of a men's prison, they have an obvious motive for wanting to change their sex and hence their prison." -- This is absurd. No one would want to remove their genitalia just so they can be in a different-sex prison.

Despite all this, I do think he makes some interesting points when it comes to the nature of children. Altering a child's body dramatically before he/she hits puberty based on some beliefs that we know often change does seem absurd to me. Adults should make decisions for themselves, not anyone else.

As with all medically invasive surgery, data and research are key. We should not stop based on some pre-conceived beliefs.
alchemist.el does the trick. I got it to work after some configuration tinkering, but so far so good. Thank you.
I'm in Missouri, so paradise compared to Maryland, and initiative wise better than Washington. Heck, our recent constitutional amendment on the subject (http://ballotpedia.org/Missouri_Right_to_Bear_Arms,_Amendmen...) ought to make such an initiative impossible, but the one very bad thing about the state is our courts. So I'm not following Washington state closely, but as I recall there was an "on pain of lawsuit" AG opinion/pledge not to prosecute on temporary transfers. Or see Colorado where the authorities promised not to prosecute folks who left their guns with friends during the nasty flooding not long after the Bloomberg laws passed.

But of course each state's enforcement will be different, and subject to change. The really nasty states didn't start out enforcing their laws in truly nasty ways until the zeitgeist changed enough and laws aimed for blacks and disfavored immigrants were applied to all but the anointed.
The problem with this kind of YAGNI thinking is that it 1. commits everyone to understanding how to do everything and 2. requires everyone to do everything afresh, every project. The fact is, I don't know the gory details of all the Unicode encodings, XML Namespaces, multithreaded concurrency locks, database indexing strategies, or SVG rendering pipelines my code uses every day. While I can dive down to understand those things if need be, at any given moment I don't know even a fraction of those things my program directly uses. If I had to dive down on them, I wouldn't get productive work done. And as a group, we'd each be reinventing slightly different, mostly crappy single-use versions of The Wheel. Thanks, but I'm perfectly happy standing on the shoulders of giants--even if it gets a little wobbly some times.
Depends what you're buying:

http://www.ford.com/cars/mustang/models/
For anyone interested in the followup: he ended up working at Bungie on Destiny http://www.gamespot.com/articles/skyrim-s-falskaar-mod-maker.... Truly inspiring. I'm hoping I can someday pause work life and embark on something similarly titanic - a magnum opus, if you will.
Actually, if your language is designed right, abstractions become much cheaper, especially conceptually. As an example, I find a call to `map' or `filter' much easier to understand than a (C-style) `for' loop.

Part of your point still stands: the `for' loop is harder to read and write specifically because it is more general. `for' loops can do all kinds of wacky things.
My parents have an AppleTV. Besides the crappy UI and dumb remote, it often (~1 in 20, sometimes more) refuses to play because it can't setup HDCP with their Toshiba TV.

Then there's the issues of subtitles. Good luck finding them for any particular language you want.
The Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors
What films do you watch that have ads in them? I'm not sure I've ever come across that, in any region.

TV: If you didnt pay for it, they are including the adverts to pay for the production. Just because you don't want to see those adverts doesn't mean it's "right" to go pirate the content.

It's more a form of protest than anything.
I can't see the difference between your proof and the given one, except that you didn't write yours out with the same degree of formality. If you wrote your proof using only applied axioms and theorems, it would be essentially identical.

The key point here is that you are partitioning the possibilities in a binary fashion: either x has even number of prime factors or it does not. You've shown that it must not have an even number of prime factors. You haven't shown that it isn't 2. You implied that if it were true, that would contradict what you have shown.

How you go from "X has an even number of prime factors" to "X can't be 2" is important.
> their "generous" gift of a free bottle of water on arrival

Oh, right, their "here have this bottle of water isn't it so nice that will be $5"... something I hate even more than the minibar.
Complexity = time to brute force a crypto algo. I am using the word in the formal, traditional sense, where a brute force solution (and heuristics of intelligent solving) literally is measured in terms of computational complexity metrics (big o) or probability.
No effing way. I'm sorry, no way. This is like the Simpsons with:

Homer, I'm in a rhubarb of a pickle of a jam here.
I was all set to go off on vacation when I get called up for jury duty.
Oh, it's a corker of a case.
Seems a man drove up onto a traffic island and hit a decorative rowboat full of geraniums.
Now they're trying it as a maritime offense.
That is indeed how multicol works when combined with pagination [1].

[1]: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-multicol-1/#pagination-and-overf...
heh this island reminds me of Odd John's island before they supposedly self-destruct
Oh man, that would be awesome.
> I'm not sure "try not to use [proof by contradiction] unless you really need it" is the optimal conclusion.

Oh, that's only a guideline for presenting your proves. Not for coming up with them in the first place. Mathematicians do exactly what you are suggesting already.

The first prove one finds is usually quite ugly, and then comes the simplification. Writers call it editing, programmers refactoring.
> I don't like the conclusion that students should avoid proving by contradiction unless they really need it.

Where is that conclusion drawn? This is an blog post for research (and armchair) mathematicians, not students trying to sit an exam.
Very true, but there are certainly ways that schools can up the response rates if they are interested. Some schools authentication systems that store a student's ID on one system when they complete the evaluation and the actual response anonymously on another system. You can then set policy to say, "Your final grades will not be released until you complete the course evaluation." I have also noticed that giving students 10 minutes at the beginning of the last class, with the professor leaving the room, helps the rate.
I can't envision that scenario (I would just not downshift if it required the gas, which in my experience, it doesn't).

I do know of a 3-pedal scenario, though--on an uphill stop, maybe a traffic light, when another car gets close enough to you that you cannot afford to roll backwards. If you haven't planned for the situation (by using the clutch to maintain position rather than the brake), you'll need to continue braking while you start the car moving forward, to prevent rolling back.