jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> What's always bothered me about this argument is: how much of that cost stems from the nuclear industry being misregulated into a pulp over the last 50 years??

Agreed! Nuclear could be much cheaper were there not so much fear mongering and red tape in the path. Chernobyl and TMI taught us the wrong lesions as a society. However, fat chance getting those policies, politics, and activists minds changed to decrease those regulatory costs.

> And beyond that, nuclear and solar/wind are not directly comparable. Solar/wind cannot provide the base load that nuclear is so apt at. What you really need to be comparing is a nuclear plant vs renewable PLUS energy storage. And last time I checked, grid-level energy storage is still extremely expensive.

I don't discreet per say. However, for the US, most power grids simply aren't at the point where storage needs to be considered. A large portion of power is coming from fossil fuels (more than the tipping point where storage needs to be considered).

In those cases, the clear path forward that will cut carbon emissions the fastest is deployment of renewable tech. You can bring online new solar and wind plants in less than a year. Nuclear requires at least 10->20 years of time before it can be brought online (mostly due to all the regulations surrounding it).

Storage will enter the equation when a large percentage of the grid is renewable (30->50% someone cited). We simply aren't even near that point yet. However, even before we hit that point, natural gas can provide a stop gap to allow us to have even higher mixes of renewable generation.

Nuclear doesn't solve the storage problem. You still need a peaker plant with nuclear.

> It still blows my mind that we found an almost magical solution to use of fossil fuels over 60 years ago and fumbled it so hard. Shame on big oil, shame on our regulatory agencies and politicians.

Agreed. We SHOULD have been ramping up on nuclear usage. I would MUCH rather have to deal with localized nuclear waste problems vs our current issues with climate change. It was simply a societal failure that we didn't go nuclear for everything from the 1960 onward.

It was the best solution to climate change for nearly a half century and the very people that should have supported (environmentalist) killed it with fear mongering.
Have you tried seroquel? I’ve found even a small dose at night both helps me sleep and keeps me “normal” during the day. I take modafinil (in the morning) and seroquel (at night) and find it works well
For me. I’m BP type 2 so it might be different for you though. Even though the seroquel isn’t XR I have definitely noticed a reduction in me.. jumping on tables or screaming at people. Anyways, just a thought!
Nice to see someone offering public borg hosting! I have two security questions:

(1) Are you doing any hardening of the borg remote side? The server is pretty complex and it has lots of code paths which can be exercised by a potentially untrusted client.

(2) Is there a way to protect compromised clients (like a cryptolocker)? borg offers "append only" mode, but it does not allow pruning (obviously). And trying to run "prune" using separate trusted connection will commit untrusted changes as well.
It still seem unnecessary. I have a hard time believing that most investors would want to even spend the time to go through a bug/task list since most of those won't need suggestions. You shouldn't need to be told which bugs are important and how to implement them! On the flip side I don't see anything wrong with a high level overview of maybe the milestone objectives if they ask. But every single little bug and task if over the top.
I was confused by the headline, too. I guess system means in this context something like technology and the rules and guidelines that come with it. A system failure would be a failure where rules and guidelines were followed exactly and the system failed nevertheless. That definition would make sense in light of the article.
Heh yeah... If I was going to make that mistake I should have at least gone for 1984.
That's a bit pedantic. What I would consider the key difference between systematic and human failure is whether or not there was actually a system in place to prevent the failure, that humans simply failed to work within. That was clearly the case here.

Systems themselves are sometimes inadequate to prevent failure, but this follows from a lack of human creativity, rather than the inability to follow straightforward rules.
Believe it or not, friends and family have been the most supportive. May just be the circles I run in.

Totally agree with "Confidence is contagious"
If you were doing it before and can prove it then you can render the patent void. You can make submissions to the patent office if you want to be clear that the patent won't be granted. Hence, something you're already doing can't be stopped by patents (in theory, given a perfect system). To recapitulate the collective is not taking away a right to do something you could do before.

It is property inasmuch as it is owned, bought and sold, licensed, mortgaged as if it were property. Property is not immutably owned - bricks and mortar can be retrieved for the public good (eg compulsory purchase; at least in Europe).

The deal is that the right to the newly created/discovered intellectual property is vested by power of the people to the individual as a reward for their efforts and on the understanding that the people then later receive unencumbered access. That is why a disclosure of an invention is required for a patent to be granted and why (historically and optionally in the USA) a registered copyright requires submission of a copy: the copy disclosure are held to ensure they can be released at the end of the term.

As the pace of technology accelerates this naturally lends itself to shorter terms of monopoly. Sadly the purpose of the law has been lost and longer terms have been forced for private financial interests.
Zed loves Fossil SCM: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki
Oh. Right you are. I hadn't heard of it, but it looks interesting. Certainly a big time-saver to get all that for free.
(Nomen omen) spectral look is an artifact of using negative values. It's nice to see non-negative components - http://www.quantumblah.org/?p=428. They are both more accurate and more human-interpretable (at the cost of computational efficiency).
>My comment was a statement of fact.

"He's trying to sell a visual coding tool" would be a statement of fact.

"This is the essay of a man trying to sell a 'visual coding' tool", is a snarky statement that insinuates of Chris' motives.

Just like "X is a jew" is a statement of fact, but "X's essay is the essay of a jew" is an insinuation of some (sinister?) plot.

>Maybe he was inspired to sell the visual coding tool BECAUSE of his beliefs, not the other way around.

Or maybe we should just discuss the ideas and beliefs, and leave what he wants to sell out of it? One can agree 100% without wanting to sell anything, and is disrespectful to even hint at attributing that to marketing.
the regulations are meaningless with the current state of regulatory capture. The Democratic and Republican parties in the united states appear to be united together in this corruption.
Just FYI, all the hackers out there: not yet in production!
Big Data Checklist
https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/1b8e3214f96
Do you have big data separated from the rest of your product?
Do you have established metrics?
Do you have a live dashboard?
Do you have the fastest possible prototype-evaluate-ship-repeat cycles?
Do you log everything?
Do your designs enforce repeatability of results?
Do you run live experiments?
Do you run regression tests?
Do you have infrastructure ready for big data?
Do you understand the importance of organic data?
Do you know how much headroom you have?
Do you do research outside your main task?
Ask HN: Who needs a business model?
If you think you have a great technology or app but your not sure how to make money from I can help provide you with a business model. In exchange I will write about it on my blog. If I don't think you can make a business out of it I will explain why.
Freemium Success and Freemium Fail
http://www.venturestab.com/2013/06/freemium-success-freemium-fail/
Two case studies of successful and failed Freemium business model. Anatomy of the good Freemium business model.
PogoScript - it's not for real programmers
http://pogoscript.org
Pogoscript is a programming language that emphasises readability, is friendly to domain specific languages and compiles to regular Javascript.
Property Sale London & Letting Estate Agents
http://www.marshandparsons.co.uk
Marsh & Parsons are leaders in London property sales and property valuations. Our highly skilled and dedicated team of estate agents will guide you through the process of property valuations and sales. We settle for nothing less than the highest level of customer satisfaction.
BitBar - put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar
https://github.com/stretchr/bitbar#bitbar
BitBar lets you put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar. Powerful tool for developers who use a mac.
Power point on Ipad
http://paper.li/weejeelearning/e-learning
great product
Medical Coding Certification
http://www.codingcert.com/ 
Earning the gold-standard CPC certification means more expertise, more money, more career opportunities, and more professional recognition for coders, billers, and other health care professionals.
Solidplatform
http://solidplatform.co.uk/
Solidplatform is a well organized and trustworthy construction company from England. We offer a wide variety of construction services at reasonable prices. Check us out at our website to find more about what we have to offer.
Truly Free People Search - SWiK
http://swik.net/Truly-Free-People-Search
Truly free people search. Search by name and results include: Age, relatives, city and state, street address, zip, phone numbers and photos.
Not your Grandma's XQuery
http://www.28msec.com/html/entry/2011/11/03/Not_your_Grandmas_XQuery
Presentation given about XQuery at XML Amsterdam 2011
PS Vita information
http://community.us.playstation.com/community/consoles/psvita
PlayStation Vita is the recently launched handheld version of game console. Join the Playstation community for PS Vita announcements, features, games, and information, the latest gaming system from PlayStation.
Dreambook W7 Android 2.2 3D WiFi Table PC Is All In - A Fun Way to Be Connected
http://www.vvdeals.com/blog/2011/04/dreambook-w7-android-2-2-3d-wifi-table-pc-is-all-in-a-fun-way-to-be-connected/
Cool Dreambook 7 Google Android tablet PC, a fun way for you to connect with the streaming
Create private classified for your coworker/church/school or residence.
http://www.LiztEZ.com
Create private classified community for your work place, school, church or just about any group. Its FREE
60 seconds to validation
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XZCRVRG
Please spare 60 seconds of your time? Our team is @ Startup Weekend (Silicon Valley) right now and pitching a new tool to help developers boost donations on their websites. We need a few answers to help validate the concept. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
CFD Negotiation and Its Benefits
http://www.cfdsoftware.net
The emergence of CFD negotiation in trading business has opened the market in new ways of earning money. It opens door for people who are willing to engage in trading but do not have huge money to invest. Now people with huge and minimal money are almost of the same footing. But skills, strategies and experience will spell the difference.
CFD Negotiation and Its Benefits
http://Cfd.me.uk
This set up can be very enticing with the new investors because if they want to experience and test the market, they are open to choose short positions while the seller is not given such opportunity. This will allow the investors to have the upper hand and earn money regardless the situation. This set up is considered as the primary advantage of CFD negotiation because it is not entirely affected by the fluctuation in the market.
Mobile commerce is more than just app purchases: Mobile economy to hit $66B
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/mobile-commerce-more-just-app-purchases
annualizing and combining the app purchase, mCommerce and travel booking estimates of the three firms produces a combined estimate of a mobile economy of $66 billion in 2013, excluding smartphone and tablet hardware.
(Apple) Newsstand is a place where apps go to be forgotten
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/06/25/flipboard-nyt
I'd have to agree. If you force users to search for magazines or newspapers (that might or might not contain content you'd like to read) an they're concealed inside an App (like Newsstand) users won't bother. It's just too much trouble. Apps like Flip provide the right solution: The content you'd like to read about can be scanned quickly and you can instantly read it you want to. It's all about (quick access to) the content.
2011 SXSW PanelPicker Voting Has Begun
http://sxsw.com/node/5318
Who at HN has a panel?
DARPA's Humanoid Robot Challenge
http://www.innovationnewsdaily.com/1024-military-humanoid-robots-driver.html
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/darpa-humanoid-robots/
Designing With Code
http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/designing-with-code/
With an increasingly complex array of platforms and screen resolutions, it’s time to embrace the creative capabilities of HTML5 + CSS3 and make development part of the design process.
Neanderthal Capitalism
http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/neanderthal-capitalism/
Planet Earth is screaming hints at us. Birds are dying, fish are dying, the air is polluted, all while the TV is telling us to use less water. In the meantime, British Petroleum pollutes more water than humanity could consume. We must hit the brakes, urgently.
How to recycle time
http://youtu.be/W6XzJEZqF9g
Vitokito is a platform to share virtual objects created by the users with other users. There is a limitless potential to create the objects that you like or you need and share them with others. On the other hand, if you wish to acquire a virtual object why not look around and see what’s available; if you can’t find what you need, simply wish for it and it may turn up. Why don’t you come, have a look and, see if there is anything that you fancy.
Netflix declines studios' requests for 'buy' button
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20042317-261.html?tag=topStories1
That's what leaders from the Web's top video-rental service have told some of Hollywood's largest film companies, industry insiders told CNET over the past week. In licensing talks with Netflix, execs from the film studios have offered better terms if the video service agreed to add "buy" buttons.
Intel: Version of Clover Trail will support Android and Linux
http://techreport.com/news/23582/updated-while-clover-trail-drops-linux-hondo-wont-support-android
While the initial versions of Clover Trail are Win8-only, Intel is working on flavors that will support both Android and Linux. Looks like the next-gen Atom CPU isn't anti-Linux, but simply the victim of careful product segmentation.
Show HN: A Doodling app like Wordle
https://www.doodle.day
I've been working on this fun little app for a couple of weeks. I've been inspired by Wordle, but I found it a bit too intense and competitive, so I wanted a daily "zen" app to play with my friends and family, and I came up with this!

Every day, a new random shape and colour palette is generated. Draw what you see, relax and have fun. I've been playing with my wife and some friends for a week and it's quite addictive! Have a go and let me know what you think!

Cheers

Tom
iPad Apps To Justify Your Purchase and Wow Your Friends
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/08/9-ipad-apps-to-justify-your-purchase-and-wow-your-friends/
If I had a dime for every person who asked me whether the iPad was nothing more than a large iPod Touch, I would probably have a small fortune by now. Truth be told, in theory, there is something to that claim. However, once you have used an iPad, you know that in this case, size matters.
Man vs. Computer on Jeopardy 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tv_man_vs_machine
The game show "Jeopardy!" will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence.
Beautiful Photographs of Open Spaces
http://www.designbastard.com/2011/10/beautiful-photographs-of-open-spaces/
We have a roundup here of fields, roads, canyons, oceans, and even night scapes. Enjoy!
Reddit Users Surprise Terminally Ill Man With Random Acts of Kindness
http://mashable.com/2012/05/13/reddit-terminally-ill-man/#63911
Amazing example of human kindness with help of reddit/internet.
What Does Quantum Physics Have to Do With Being in a Startup?
http://thinkspace.com/what-does-quantum-physics-have-to-do-with-being-in-a-startup/
Thoughts become things. Whatever you focus on, becomes your reality.
Glass app for geek's dating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf9gJcpgLrw
Is this real ? this engineer guy is amazing..billion guy ..
Jetray: Concurrent Email Load Generation in Scala
http://blog.pongr.com/2011/06/16/jetray-concurrent-email-load-generation-in-scala/
Pongr opens its scala-based email load generation tool.
Black Hole Information as Topological Qubits
http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0516
We propose that black hole information decomposes into elementary units in the form of topological qubits, and is protected from local sources of decoherence
Show HN: LCON 1.0 – For reals this time (Ludicrously Compact Object Notation)
https://github.com/ar-nelson/lcon/releases/tag/v1.0.0
When I posted LCON before (https://github.com/ar-nelson/lcon), it was a horribly broken prerelease version. This version actually works (it has unit tests and everything!), and it has a slightly modified syntax that takes into account some of the criticisms from the last HN thread. In particular:

* Lists are now bulleted with - instead of .

* Comments are now delimited with # instead of ;

* Block strings are now delimited with """ instead of ``

* Stringify functions are now available, including one that stringifies to JSON with key order preserved.
Doc-N-Toc
https://github.com/wballard/doc-n-toc
Build a simple, slick, single page manual for your project with Markdown
Startup Weekend Gurgaon
http://pitchbucket.com/swggn
This is one of the apps which was made during the startup weekend Gurgaon - 11th to 13th November 2011
Tell HN: Gmail Login Delays
For logging in Gmail using my password manager, I've had to increase the delay between entering my login and password from 1s to 2s after submitting my login name for it to work all the time... I use keepassxc.

I wish they would just switch back to a login form with both the login and password on the same page.
Trekking to the other side of the world to hatch a startup
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/11/08/india-has-become-a-hotbed-for-tech-incubators/3445257/
No funding, no tech skills? Don't want to go through the hassle of outsourcing? Head to India! New startup incubator in Chandigarh will build, design and send your startup into the wild for free.
Living in Bellevue WA
Hello all,
Love HN and figured this would be a good place to post. I live on the east coast and just got a job in Bellevue, WA making 80k. Just curious if anyone has good resources to learn about the area, or any tips. I'm also trying to find a good apartment, and was curious if anyone had tips on finding something good besides Craigslist!

Thanks Guys!
Business Advisory Services in India,
http://worldwideconsultants.net/
Wealth management company in india provide financial advisory and business planning services, company offer private equity, business learning advisory services on adr and gdr.
Android Phone embedded in Magazine
http://boingboing.net/2012/10/05/entire-working-mobile-phone-w.html#disqus_thread
Entire working android phone embedded in this week's Entertainment Weekly magazine.
The Enigma encryption machine (case study)
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/applied-math/cryptography/crypt/v/case-study--ww2-encryption-machines
Modeling the enigma in code is one of the things on my todo list. I thought this was interesting.
Willager's comprehensive list of Top incubator of Silicon valley and California.
http://awillager.blogspot.com/2011/03/willagers-comprehensive-list-of-top.html
500hats, Agnellist, founder's institutes., google ventures, Incubator, io ventures, plug and play center. palo alto, siliconvalley, startup, willager
Mozilla Gets its Foot in the Apple Door
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/07/mozilla-gets-its-foot-in-the-apple-door/
It is no secret that one of the more annoying things about Apple is its ridiculously strict and long app approval process. This is annoying for consumers mainly because a lot of apps we would want to see on the iPhone platform are rejected by Apple, such as Google Voice to site one big example.
RescueTime is awesome
http://rescuetime.com
Does anyone else think so? I run it at work so if my boss bothers me, i can just show him my rescue time and be left alone
Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo – and $1 billion for each to invest in something
http://www.about-technology.org/2013/05/17/facebook-microsoft-yahoo-and-1-billion-for-each-to-invest-in-something/
Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo! seem to have a lot of cash in hand, but no goal in sight. So, the rumour mill started mixing everything. Why wouldn’t Microsoft want to buy something absolutely obscur and with no immediat success? Why not Facebook buy something? It’s shopping season.
Ten Ways To Thank The Planet On Thanksgiving
http://myinspirationlounge.squarespace.com/
Nice 'green' post
SNAP Summit 2.0 focuses on the business and design of social applications
http://www.snapsummit.com/
i'm thinking about going - decent discount for startups as well - anyone else?
CSS Circles
http://davidwalsh.name/css-circles
A while back I shared a clever technique for creating triangles with only CSS. Over the past year, I've found CSS triangles incredibly effective, especially when looking to create tooltips or design elements with a likewise pointer pattern. There's another common shape that's easy to create, and that is the circle. Using border-radius, you can create wonderful CSS circles.
How to: torpedo your competitions Facebook pages
http://domaintower.com/blog/why-facebook-business-pages-are-broken-and-getting-worse-sabotage-is-imminent/
This is really a large problem, and i wonder why this is not more common today? Is it because Facebook advertising is dying?
Please send suggestions: ObjectFS API
http://objectfs.org/
I am the author of this doc.
Show HN: WebReducer.dev instant stateful endpoints with replayability
https://webreducer.dev
Hey everyone,

WebReducer is a project I've been working on since last December. You can read about my process here: https://offbyone.us/tags/micro-business/

Send some data to WebReducer. Then, write a reducer function to retain some state. You can change the reducer function as much as you want and recreate that state.

Still working on how to explain it. It's a tiny FaaS platform. It's a tiny database. It's "redux" on the server as a service. It's a backend for tiny personal projects. It's a place to send your webhooks.

I'm looking for feedback on the following:

- Do you get what it is?
- What would you use it for?
- What would I need to iron out for you to seriously consider trying this?
Becoming a good debugger
http://bobbelderbos.com/2011/07/becoming-good-debugger/
first post on debugging
The Last Browser Tab You'll Ever Open
http://www.droplix.com
Droplix makes it easy for you to manage your social media profiles, email accounts and favorite shared media from one location. Never open another tab to connect with friends, family and colleagues again.
Show HN: such English to Doge Algorithm. wow
https://github.com/ashbhat/dogeTranslate
so english to doge
such algorithm.
very open source
many objective c
wow