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> The support given is purely selfish as Israel is the only nation in the region which mirrors the values the US wishes to promote

Call me cynical but I think it has more to do with the million of dollars that an organisation like AIPAC contribute to American politicians than that the same values are in play.

>> with rampant antisemitism in Europe

The problem is that any criticism on Israel is automatically classified as antisemitic. Have something to say about the illegal settlements ? It's antisemitic. Say something about the constant war mongering ? It's antisemitic. Don't like netanyahu wardrobe? antisemitic.

You have jewish organisations literal stating that any criticism against the state of Israel is automatically antisemitic of nature. In those circumstances it isn't that difficult to have "rampant antisemitism" in Europe.

Some – not all – take it also extremely far. I remember a couple of years ago there was a big uproar here in Belgium because a cooking show was presenting Hitlers favorite dish, a trout. You guessed it...the show was suddenly antisemitic.

When I was younger a surviver of the holocaust visited my class to speak about the things he have witnessed and the hardship he encountered. He talked about how we should value peace and our freedom. 20 years later I still remember his testimony as it had a big positive impact on my life. I honestly don't think he had these things in mind.

It sickens me how antisemitism or the WW2 atrocities are abused sometimes just to have no healthy discussion.
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One thing that probably confuses many is the mechanism by which ionizing radiation causes cancer. A lot of non-ionizing radiation, such as visible light, wifi, radio, or infrared, will only excite the molecules in your body, causing an increase in heat. Obviously, too much heat is bad for you, but it won't cause cancer. It will just cook you like meat in a microwave oven.

Ionizing radiation, on the other hand, has a small chance of popping an atom out of a molecule in your body. It's the energy of single particles that matters, not the number of them (although you can certainly be cooked alive by enough ionizing radiation). If an atom is popped out of the right molecule (i.e. the DNA stored in one of your cells) in exactly the right place (e.g. the portions that suppress out-of-control replication) then you can get cancer. That mistake in your DNA might be repaired or the cell might simply die. It might be fine for a while, but that one mistake could lead to compounding errors in future cell divisions, eventually leading to cancer.

There are many forms of cancer, but their severity is not a function of how much radiation a person has been exposed to. Someone with a lot of exposure to man-made radiation sources might get a slow growing tumor in a non-vital area while a person who spent his life a thousand kilometers from civilization could get an aggressively spreading form of cancer in an inoperable area.

So, can light exposure to radiation be therapeutic? Probably not. If there are benefits to the treatments at Radhausberg, they are likely either due to some other factor or the placebo effect. The radiation is at a mostly harmless level for visitors, but it's not impossible that this could be the place where you get cancer. I'd be more concerned for the staff who are exposed year-round. The exposure received by nuclear plant workers is meticulously monitored and is likely far lower than what the workers at Radhausberg are receiving. 1 mSv is in the range of a medical diagnostic test, but multiply that by 2-3 hundred per year for several years and you get a pretty big dose.

Perhaps the most ironic thing related to this story is the fact that background radiation exposure for typical Germans has probably increased significantly in the last few years. Germany's main source of electricity is coal power, and they're relying on it more heavily than before now that they've shut down their nuclear reactors. For power plants of the same capacity, radioactive emissions are typically two orders of magnitude higher for coal power plants than for nuclear power plants.
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Three things are needed IMO:
1) autonomy
2) upside
3) minimum red tape
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Wow have you seen this
http:/you.tu.be/rZHeYvk9ulY
> if the data differs across industry or types of services.

You hit the nail on the head here. In the more "degenerate" spaces, chargebacks are high. The more trustworthy the products/services, the higher ticket the items, and the more gracious the return policies, the lower the rate of disputes.

So for example: If you're running an adult site selling pay-per-download pornography for 99 cents, you're going to see tons of chargebacks and disputes all the time. If you're selling high-touch services (like Notary-Public services or something), where there is a trust-relationship between you and the buyers, your rate will be much much lower.

There are a lot of factors that raise and lower the chargeback rate, but I've found industry and type of services to be the most important. People charge back for all kinds of reasons (regretting the purchase, slow delivery, finding a better deal elsewhere, not wanting to deal with customer service), but generally the better the relationship between your company and the customer the lower the dispute rate will be. The more they respect you and what you're selling, the more they admire your brand, the lower the rate. If your brand comes off as a snake-oil-salesman, there's no trust there, no respect, and here come the chargebacks. Hope that helps.
> Part of the claimed innovation here is that the thing sticks directly into the user's nose.

Putting the whole machine in the nose is novel, but I don't see how that is innovative in terms of changing required functionality compared to nose-only masks, which are already a thing.
Yeah it's so frustrating that what I consider the prime price range for mid-range but well built phones existed for awhile, but has since ceased to.

Did it? You can pick up a 2014 Moto X for $299. You even get to customize it to your own taste. This phone has nice specs and near-vanilla Android. (Love my Moto X 2014 with cognac leather back :). Though, I bought it when is was still 200 above the current price.)

I hear that the Asus Zenfone 2 is also pretty ok. In Europe it's a little more than 300 Euro for the variant with 4GB RAM and 32 GB storage (there are some cheaper variants as well).
Yes, I have heard about this as well. A bunch of people from India have emailed me about using Witness there and some have already been field-testing it. This version does work in India, with full calling/texting support, but I definitely want to work on it a little more to better tailor it to places outside the US
Not very convincing. In the first two minutes, she has already committed the fallacy of touting a change in relative risk while glossing over the fact that it is tiny in absolute terms.

She says -- correctly -- that a CT scan during pregnancy doubles the risk of leukemia. But another way to say the same thing is that it increases the lifetime risk from 0.0005% to 0.0011%. Compared with all of the other acceptable risks we choose to take every day, it is very far down the list of things that are worth worrying about.

And yet she chose to lead off with that particular fact. Which is proof to me that she's not actually sticking to the hard science, and more interested in telling scary stories.
Right. It's like the "just hit delete" line from spammers, and the invisible "x" boxes to reject "shared" posts in Facebook.

Firefox doesn't even predefine some of the things in "about:config" that need to be set to turn off some of these undesirable features.

There's IceCat, a GNU fork of Firefox without all the proprietary extensions.[1] It may start getting more traction as Mozilla puts more junk in the browser.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
> There is no money involved in the Pocket thing.

* It doesn't matter if money are involved or not. Firefox always was a pure browser free of crapware (at least that was a goal: open and free software). Now it is not. The problem is: if one piece of adware is allowed, then there would be another one and in 5 years it will be fully supporting AskToolbar. Just stick to original plan and keep it pure.
I bet there will be money involved: I just cancel my donations to Mozilla and send them to EFF instead if this adware won't be removed.

> Pocket was added internally and not as an extension because it was easier.

* It doesn't matter if it was easier if the idea was not right in a first place. According to FirefoxFeedback 92% of requesters asking to remove "feature".

> You don't become a Pocket user simply by using Firefox, you need to actually use the feature.

* Then why it is in the bundle, why it is on toolbar, why I have to perform actions to hide it? Why adBlock plus is not in the bundle (it's waaaay more popular)? Software is good when there's nothing good to remove from it; Pocket and loop (hello) are both not welcomed and not wanted pieces;

> If you don't use it, then it is not doing you any harm. If somehow the presence of a button annoys you, then you can click the "customize" menu item and remove that button.

Until someone will find exploit and create security hole. Removing the button won't remove code from codebase.

> Try to see how partnerships and opportunities make things better for everyone.

I believe it is better for everyone not to include questionable 3rd-party services into FF platform.
Edit: I was responding to someone saying `(INT_MAX+1)` was implementation defined so couldn't go skynet; and I was asking honestly because the C standard is twisty as heck and maybe they knew something I didn't.

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Isn't it undefined because of signed integer overflow? Or at least implementation defined whether it's undefined or not?

The C standard (n1570) even uses integer overflow as an example of undefined behavior in section 3.4.3

> An example of undefined behavior is the behavior on integer overflow
it is by far the largest preformance drain in pretty much any dynamic website.
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No mention of Nagasaki.
Well, ask the soviets how it worked out for them. I'm sorry, but your military is nowhere near as badass when it comes to subduction and ruthlessness. And the soviets failed spectacularly.
Ok, now I have to ask, why the down votes on a link to a previous article directly related to the parent's question?
"If some physicist wants to continue the tradition of naming quantum gravity theories using monosyllabic words for
elongated objects that mean something completely different in computer science, then I propose the most revolutionary
advance yet: thread theory."
The amount of bad science in the article is incredible.

The idea that "small amounts of radiation do little/no measurable harm" is neither new nor unknown. This does not mean that exposure to low levels of radiation is beneficial. That argument is on a par with homeopathy.

Yes, there's a long-running argument that a nuclear power industry causes less damage to health than the traditional fossil-fuel alternatives. Again, nothing new.

But on to the radon tunnels: "I spent my 30 radon-breathing minutes had room for 20 or so people who had signed on for its protective value or its alleged benefit".

"The doctor in charge on the day of my visit…told me of clinical trials" - so far, so good.
"of surveys testifying to the popularity of the treatment" - uh oh.
"of patients who are able to cut down on or even abandon the drug therapies they would otherwise have been using" - hmm.
"How much of this evidence would rate as gold standard in quality, I have no idea" - then perhaps this is the time to investigate further, before reporting.

Clinical, peer-reviewed studies would go a long way to supporting the article. But even though clinical studies are mentioned in the article, there's no link to the supporting study.

Sure, homeopathy and all sorts of dodgy remedies have their advocates. But until this is backed up by a published peer-reviewed clinical study, this article belongs firmly in the camp of bad science.
At least the very short-term trades are executed by algorithms and they are susceptible to making mistakes. What the article fails to mention is that the rise was quickly reversed once enough people actually read and analysed the news and started shorting the stocks. Right now it is essentially trading where it was before the news hit.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding, the old gentleman is looking for roads that no one uses and are unusable to add to an official Vermont map?

What is the practical aspect to this if the entire point of the Act was to clean up the legal landscape from unused roads?
It would be nice if the bits of Play Services that could be open sourced were open sourced.
It is very similar to the emotions stirred up by a plane crash vs. the ongoing car accidents. I believe in both cases it comes down to not feeling in control.

As a population, we over-estimate our ability to safely drive cars. Yet because we are in control, we FEEL safer than being in a plane where, should anything go wrong, we'd be totally powerless as we descend to our doom.

Most of us have a general grasp on how a fire is put out, or how a dam is repaired, or how an oil well is fixed. But this invisible thing called radiation, which is used in the most powerful bombs ever made and which appears to be near incontrollable because it deals with the very structure of matter, this radiation ends up associated with a very powerful fear.
We should apply our logic to ourselves, and theirs to themselves. That means, be rational, and not expect them to be.
With enterprise sales, at least in my industry, I would never get through the corporate procurement process in order to become a vendor -- without being a legal business entity.
The doctor in charge on the day of my visit was Simon Gütl. He told me of clinical trials, of surveys testifying to the popularity of the treatment, and of patients who are able to cut down on or even abandon the drug therapies they would otherwise have been using. How much of this evidence would rate as gold standard in quality, I have no idea – but I was struck by the enthusiasm with which some people seek out the same force of nature that most others think we have to avoid at any cost. One of my fellow transient troglodytes was on her 70th visit.

Considering the headline, I was hoping for a bit better than this.

edited to add - I found their website - http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http:/... - it has not improved my opinion.
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I've read somewhere that it's very hard to sell VCs on dating websites, but with OKC and PoF both now being owned by big companies, is this space opening back up for someone without the stink of big corporate?
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s/only/in general/

And in that case... I'd like to trade you $1 million dollars, for $1 a year for the rest of your life.
"The media is downplaying its effects,"

I have to admit that if I have to choose between "the media is playing up the disaster, it's not as bad as they make it sound" and "the media is pooh-poohing the disaster and it's way worse than they're making it sound", you've got a huge uphill battle to convince me of the latter. Especially in radiological matters.

The media is basically paid to play up the disaster. It's through a couple other steps, of course (pay-per-eyeball is a terrible model for generating truth), but that's the net of it.
An all knowing, or at least efficient, market would have rejected obvious spam instead of working itself into a frenzy.
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Kato (or their previous better name lechat) was a great product. I still miss some features Kato had although we moved to hipchat then to Slack.
I think with Uber you can control when you do and do not show up as a driver, so its choose your own hours in that sense
The Moto X is also great. It's only $299 these days (Amazon or Moto maker), has flagship specs, near vanilla Android with some useful extensions (touchless control, active notifications), and I really like the build quality.

My wife and I both have one. The primary thing that I miss compared the Moto G (EU) and some other models is dual-SIM.
There are many ways to answer this question - I will try to keep it simple: Most of the top 1% of Product Managers are folks who get their team to focus on work that produces the maximum impact. In order to do this, top product managers gather data and interview enough users to have a clear understanding of the following questions:  Who - Who is your user? What do they care about in their day to day life? What kind of business are they involved in? How they think about themselves?  Why - Why do they need your product? Why can't they find a solution? Why do they find existing solutions frustrating? Why will they go through the trouble of learning/installing/deploying something new?  What - What will happen if the product is brought to market? How will the world of your customers change? How will the world of their customers change? How will the world in general change?   Relentless data mining, interviewing, focus groups and other methods will ultimately help provide a clear understanding of these questions. Once you can articulate these three questions, you will be ahead of 99% of Product Managers in the field.
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I think the main reason is that Pluto has an active atmosphere; it snows. Plutos icy surface may be somewhat active as well, so craters may disappear over time in a way that the craters on the moon cannot.

However, there may be other factors:

1. As you note, the mass of the Earth-Moon system is much greater than the mass of the Pluto-Charon system.

2. In the Earth-Moon system, the moon is the outer protector. In the Pluto system, there are five smaller protectors and Pluto is the protected.

3. The inner solar system is a small, dense region closer to the gravity of the sun and gas giants. Objects thrown in our direction are likely to stick around. In contrast, the Kuiper Belt isn't very dense and objects thrown in that direction not only have more places to go, but may be on their way out of the solar system or into extended hyperbolic orbits.

3. KBOs aren't very dense, so even impacts which occur may not create massive craters.
No, it is much much harder. Especially the survival part

Delta-v is literally Physics 101

Landing on Mars is hard, but feasible. Because it has a thick atmosphere to help with the braking

Sure, it adds a lot of complications as well, but it is a very good way of slowing your craft enough for other braking systems to work (like rockets, parachutes, etc)

Of course, bodies with little atmosphere also have a small gravity, so that makes things easier as well (like landing on the Moon)
The problem with Google is that you don't know if any product/service they launch will still be supported in a few years' time, or if the product/engineering team will lose interest and move on to build the next shiny thing.
How EA Lost Its Soul
According to the press release, they describe themselves as "San Francisco’s leading office catering service."

Unless they plan on dramatically expanding their product offerings, "Improve[ing] the Health of Humanity" sounds like disingenuous marketing-speak.

Don't get me wrong, catering is important and meals are a great way to bring employees together. Having used Zesty, the meals are from local restaurants and, though there are healthy options, there's lots of greasy options available.
Yes, and the world would also be a safer place if people went 0 miles per hour and never left their houses, but both situations are pointlessly unrealistic.

We won't see a major population of self driving cars for decades. There are perhaps a dozen live models. We have millions of human driven cars now. This is the problem we solve for, not the ideal future fantasy.
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If you have your own system which doesn't send UDH headers, and you can't reassemble, it's your problem. SMS messages are not ordered, but then can contain ordering info.
The major smartphones all send UDH headers, which have enough data for reassembly. At least if you don't keep old fragments for insanely long periods.
> It was agreed that psychological factors in the target selection were of great importance. Two aspects of this are (1) obtaining the greatest psychological effect against Japan and (2) making the initial use sufficiently spectacular for the importance of the weapon to be internationally recognized when publicity on it is released.

Nice when people are honest enough about their own terrorism. (Like "shock and awe".)
Nicest founder ever. People should give them even more money.
Exactly. A content that is consumed is worth the time and effort of the individual person consuming the content.

I don't fancy Buzzfeed top 10 lists much, but someone out there finds it valuable.

The way I see it is that you have a choice (if the opportunity knocks).

1) Create a product (that you don't like) that a mass audience likes. Reap the benefits, and then start something that you do like.

2) Create a product (your life's work) that an audience may like and see what happens.

There are more options than that of course, but I hope my idea does come across clear.
Please don't start flamewars on HN. Perhaps you didn't mean to, but threads are sensitive to initial conditions and vulnerable to being derailed, and the trainwrecks that result are not at all what HN is for.
At the border US customs ask you whether you have "accounts on remote computers", which means, practically everything. It's better to move the data offsite so police actually needs a warrant to inspect it (instead of a "I thought he had a gun" excuse), but it can still require them to provide access to the remote account to the police.
Time is not money
Blackberry? Seriously?
If you had a bunch of puts, sufficient dumping might be enough to create a panic, and then the puts would be worth more than the loss from dumping.
It's 2015. Nobody gives a shit about flash games in their browser.
Sure, and one of those business reasons is keeping bloated, buggy software that is ill-suited to mobile devices away from their phone's user experience.
So retrofitting arbitrary layouts onto a ~text document specific one is that much an error. In hindsight I find it fantastic how web pages became the basis infrastructure of all this UX reinvention.
He has no legitimate concern. You have already come down to a very fair percentage, IMHO. 10% with no protection is fair, his will to throw you off the company with a very low evaluation is opportunistic.

Serious investors will look at the potential of the company and the potential of their return, the amount of time another shareholder spends is secondary to it.

Good luck!
OP here, would be happy to hear your feedback and tips for improvements!
Whether or not everything you say is true, they should be generating more than $8.3m in ad revenue.
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I think it would be interesting to see apprenticeships become more popular as a post college option. As someone who just graduated and is seeing friends struggle to have enough experience for entry level positions, it would be cool to have opportunities to do this in a variety of industries like tech, finance, ect.
The one thing I'm confused about with Google is what product do I select if I want a server to host a website on? Azure has the smallest VM at around $13/month, and on that I can host a website, database, services, etc. Does Google have a similar option? GCE's setup and pricing doesn't seem geared towards that.