skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We aren't building enough nuclear plants now to compensate for the future closing of the old ones."

Which is an intentional choice, arising from a combination of ennui, defeatism, and witch hunting. Those political movements seem to have run their course.

"Fusion research is blooming, but it didn't make much progress, particularly compared to the huge effort (see ITER)."

Most of the tokamak megaprojects were done to give academics a safe way to demonstrate activity. ITER is the plasma physics version of string theory. In my opinion, the real progress has come from small quiet projects involving vacuum physics and power electronics.

"'Space ore' simply can't happen unless you find the way to harvest the power from some magic ponies yet to discover."

It's metal, not ore. If you can lay your hands on asteroidal metal, you can turn it into useful articles with a blacksmith's forge. Fancy alloys and precious metals are more effort, but often easier than dealing with crappy terrestrial ores.

The magic pony is to cancel the failed Shuttle, yet another stagnant megaproject. And avoid replacing it with other doomed megaprojects. The barrier to space activity is heavy lift capability to get there at all. Once you can get above the atmosphere cheaply enough, the solar system is your oyster. (It's like Fed Ex. The capital investment to build Fed Ex is ludicrous, but once somebody has the balls to do it, entire industries rise up from nowhere to exploit it.)
If Ballmer were to show up at a WWDC Keynote, (which I very much doubt) I can think of a better reason than a technically impractical dev tool announcement: integration of Bing services into iPhoneOS. Given the current friction between Google, this would be a huge finger in Google's eye.
Based on past experience, nobody will bother you.
This is a complete product on its own. It just needs some work on the front end (I was just commenting that this could also be turned into an addon).
Unsolicited advice: this is the market telling you "Charge more."

(I also suspect that, if you offered more money, your freelance contacts would discover an almost magical ability to find free cycles for you.)
I didn't know about \K and -MRegexp::Common. I liked the explanation of '..' too. Thanks.
For a mind boggling good time (If you can have that in C) take a look aftr.c. This is Comcast's open source ipv4 -> ipv6 routing code. I'm not saying it's pretty... but if your interest lay in C and systems level bit twiddling it's 13000 lines of good times.
Make sure to watch the video, it's pretty awesome.
They really don't seem all that monopolistic to me. A company that has a "Data Liberation Front (http://www.dataliberation.org/) allowing you to switch out of their services at any time is hard to argue as a monopoly. Furthermore, I can search Yahoo or Bing from my Droid just fine, the only thing that's "locked in" is the phone wide search, which I'd say is somewhat reasonable. You aren't forced to use that feature even if you're using Android. I agree that people should be wary of them, but calling their behavior monopolistic is stretching it.
This doesn't even pass the giggle test from a technical perspective - iPad/iPhone is so massively tied to the Mac platform, how could you ever write any sort of meaningful integration with VS2010. You'd have to port all of the UIKit/CoreFoundation libraries over, you'd have to make a Windows version of the iPhone Simulator, you'd have to write a Objective-C compiler from scratch (remember, Microsoft would never ship GCC), that was compatible with GCC, the list goes on and on.

Now, maybe he's announcing a compatible version of Silverlight, or a way to compile SL applications to iPhone/iPad, which makes far more sense, and would be very compelling for developers. From one codebase, you could have a rich website, a desktop app, a WinPhone7 app, and an iPhone/iPad app, and you could write that app in C#, VB, Python or Ruby. That'd be awesome.
I also think it is a win-win but for entirely different reasons.

Microsoft failed to get Visual Studio into the mobile app development world, simply because previously it only allowed developing for Windows Mobile which is, honestly, something nobody really cares about. With iPhone development support, they could get new markets for Visual Studio.

Apple wins because (I hope I won't offend anyone with that) Visual Studio is just simply vastly superior to XCode. It is a truly great IDE (as opposed to Adobe Flash) that could make OS X / iPhone development an awful lot easier.
So then success is tied to intention? What if John Doe did a bootstrap startup with the intention to become the next Bezos, but instead ended up making $500k a year? I'd still call that a success.

What if it ended up that Diaspora managed to gain enough users and convert enough of Facebook's user base to gain about 17.5% market share? (Measured in time online, on-site. Probably hard to measure, but this is a hypothetical.) Would they be a success? What percentage would represent the threshold?
"How would you run/debug apps you compiled with VS?" --> Visual Studio could launch or connect to a virtualized iPhone device and let you debug there. That's the approach you use when developing Android apps with Eclipse ... Eclipse connects to a virtual emulated Android device.

I also think if this happens that Visual Studio would support Objective-C (and C/C++) instead of C#/Silverlight on the iPhone. Microsoft would prefer the C# approach but Apple won't allow it.
A better title would be: "Study shows that happiness does not increase with salary if you make over 60k a year"
I was just going to say almost exactly this. The problem is that your financial advisor's purpose is probably to make money, which he or she probably does most efficiently by separating you from yours through fees. A few minutes ago I recommended the book The Millionaire Next Door, which points out how fees can quickly kill your returns, which can't beat the market over time anyway.

You have a major principle-agent problem with financial advisers, and that's why I suspect many are better off without, especially if they can find an investment column in a newspaper or something like that. Years ago I read a guy named "The Coffeehouse Investor," which helped me enormously, as did the books I recommended previously.
There are still people who complain that driving an automatic isn't driving, it's steering.
When I graduated SSC (Class 10th), when we choose our field of study (Science/Commerce/Humanities) my mother sat down with me before I filled my forms and said

"Dear, this is all your life now, we will just invest in you, what you make of that investment is all in your hands"

To people who aren't familiar with Indian parents let me tell you they can be a little pushy. I have seen parents push student to take Science then take Engineering/Medical school and then work in a company with nice salary, they want it or not. I often found it rather unnerving how my friends were pushed to top classes, my parents always pushed me to do what I love, but do it right. Sure I couldn't crack the most prestigious exams of the country but that is not the only way to get a good life is it?
Put half with Goldman Sachs and half with Smith Barney. Tell them both what you are doing. Make it a competition. Tell them that within 5 years you will choose a winner based on returns. You will soon be making over $400,000 a year in income, if not closer to $750,000 if you go aggressive.

At this rate you can fund a startup every 6 months as an angel.
Chris
A public which spends a lot of time being "informed" but is only informed on a cursory, distracted, and superficial level is a public which is easier to control. (Even easier to control than an uninformed public.)

What makes that true?
Because they have the same enemy - Google.
(and not to mention Bill and Steve look very much alike now, AAPL will be the next MSFT)
Codeita Founder on a web development platform & note fr DocStoc raising $$ event
Yes it has. When I submitted it, I just removed the "BBC News" prefix in the title and nothing else.
dupe
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383537
Why not post here? He won't be the last HN user to have this question.
The intension is to clear the rightmost 1-bit.
Forgive me for being trite, but that's the high-school economics view of things.

Stock prices are about as complex a thing as exists in our economy.

For buy-and-hold investors, you're more or less correct. But they're a fraction of the money in the market. The truth is, stock prices represent a witches brew of investor motives that coelesce around making money on the stock. And you can make money on the way up, on the way down, in a stable market or a volatile market, in a growing company, and a bankrupt company, etc.

And the "symbolic thing" is exactly my point -- some minority of people seem to be assigning symbolism to something that couldn't be more abstract.

Perhaps I just don't "get it" and there's a groundswell out there who cares about these things. But what I'm wondering is.. it's not investors that care much about market cap. it's not customers. Who is it? Is it really just apple fans that want some sort of feather in their cap?
I'm not arguing with your overall conclusion, but Apple has been working on replacing GCC in their toolchain with Clang/LLVM.
The flip side of this is that at 20 something he may not have those relationships established, or may not be sure about the lawyer/banker he's chosen. There also seem to be quite a few people here that have been through similar circumstances and may be able to offer advice. In my own experience in my early 20's when I suddenly came into a large sum of money I had a good financial advisor in the sense that he helped me make more money from my investments in the short term, but I had no long term strategy. When the bubble burst I lost a lot of money. I also didn't have a good tax strategy and ended up with some very large unforeseen consequences of my decisions. Then there were the people looking for handouts and investments in their "amazing ideas." I lost every penny I put into investments or loans, though I was smart enough not to expect to see any of that money again.

The best advice I would give is to be quiet about how much money has been made. Find a good CPA and wealth manager. Talk about long term strategies, be sure to look at tax issues up front. People will come looking for hand outs and investments, avoid those for the most part. Make sure you trust your advisors and fully understand the decisions you are making. Don't take specific advice from somewhere like HN, try to look at patterns that may emerge from that advice however. So far it seems like everyone is advocating a conservative approach.
That's good advice!
Eh, Not sure what the point of this post is. If they have $190,000 and they wanted $10,000, who cares if they have to spend $50,000 up front? They still have a few years of run way.
How are you implementing your buffer? If you just add 48 hours delay to everything, that would probably not work very well. (And you probably aren't?) I guess if you just have a batch email answering session every 48 hours, that should be very good for your productivity.
Originally, I thought it was a device in search of a problem. However, it has made my life more efficient in one key way. Reading. I put my iPad on the treadmill and crank up the font... I can run fast and read iBooks. I love that I'm getting smarter and staying fit.
Is there any evidence that what this article suggest happens to our brains while we are on using the web affects us when we are not using the web?
I had to re-read the part where he skips from

"You might describe my attitude, in the words of the philosopher McCartney, as “live and let die.”"

to

"Three weeks after my 18th birthday, I was taken by gunpoint to a Greyhound station in Orlando with a ticket to California and a twenty dollar bill."

I thought I missed a paragraph there or something.
There's an old joke that says:

The intellect of the planet is a constant, the population is increasing.

genius != intelligence, but still :)
That's funny, I actually considered doing that at one point.
More impressive to me is the X-15, which flew faster than the aircraft in this video, had a pilot, and flew in the 1960s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15#Fastest_fli...
>I actually understand Steve's point about cross-platform GUIs being the lowest common denominator

Sure. iTunes on Windows.

>I don't know if it's true or not but there's certainly smoke

All of the smoke emanating from a single nobody making a completely unsupported claim. It's actually a bit extraordinary how little is necessary when it comes to Apple.
Assuming that Ballmer is speaking at WWDC about VS ...
Easy Money, Hard Truths
Unreleased Hacker Documentary Leaked
After collecting cobwebs in a studio vault for the better part of a decade, an unreleased documentary on the 2003 hacking scene leaked onto the Pirate Bay Thursday.
Top kill animation from BBC - how BP oil well is being plugged
I can see how his "buy stock of evil companies" strategy might work, but typically you do that when the company is actually doing well, and not, say, when they're about to be curb stomped by the US government.

But if you're really smart, you buy when they've just been curb-stomped but not killed, then sell after they recover and return to their prior growth curve. (This presupposes that the company does not die and has an upward sales curve.)
After reading this PG classic http://paulgraham.com/distraction.html, I have a machine only for work. (Which, ironically, I'm posting from right now, heh.)

I only connect via Ethernet, and often physically disconnect my laptop from the net, so when I feel the urge to get on Twitter, HN, etc. I have to reach for the cable again, which is enough of a red flag to get me back to work.

I've managed to keep myself from "needing" to be connected. My business partner is great about never bugging me when I'm coding, we use status.net to do asynchronous communication (think a private Twitter), Google Wave to collaborate, and phones for anything urgent and plenty of meatspace every week, of course.

When I'm coding, I have offline copies of all the web pages and documentation I need, so I can't use that as an excuse to get online.

I also use Firefox browser profiles extensively, one for Personal stuff, one for Work, one for <Projectname> etc. Between that and Firefox sessions, I can leave a bunch of shit open, but come back to it when I have time.

For a while I was a night person and just hit Twitter/HN/reddit once or twice a day, kind of got a digest in the "morning" (6 pm) and then worked all night, w/o too much happening on the Internet. (Yes, I'm an American, yes, I know about the rest of the world, but the point is that less happens at night and so you don't feel like you're missing something. Now that I'm a day person for the first time in years, I feel the urge to keep up every hour.)

I also have started exercising about half an hour a day (just a walk around the neighborhood) and limiting my online time to mainly using Twitter as a newsfeed, HN as a feed of interesting stuff and that's about it. I don't have time to keep up with world events too much anymore, sadly. No New York Times or NPR.org for me, though I usually read our little local newspaper in about 10 minutes each day.
I'm using and loving www.solvate.com -- think odesk or elance, but curated by people who know what they're doing, so you get matched with someone already well qualified for the project, and you don't have to waste so much time combing through results trying to figure out who is any good.

Solvate connects you with the contractors, then handles contracting, NDAs, billing, etc. so that it's a really easy process. For this, they take a cut of what the freelancer gets paid.

I've worked with Solvate "talent", as they call their freelancers, on several projects now and I have yet to be disappointed. I don't work for them or anything, just a happy customer.
Django-site-gen -- a tool for automating site creation
You can buy 20 CD's or buy a CDAR, which is a pass-through instrument that aggregates CDs at multiple banks to get it all under FDIC insurance.

http://www.cdars.com/

Personally, I think you'd just be better off buying government bonds from your favourite world leaders.
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Nullege: A Search Engine for Python source code
Silverlight has run on the Mac since day one, and is very conducive to running on small devices. This doesn't seem so implausible.
Worth pointing out that I don't see how this makes much sense from Apple's perspective either. Their march towards HTML5 is going surprisingly well, they aren't hurting for more apps or developers.

This'll be about Office 2011 on MacOSX, and maybe, maybe, some native office apps for the iphone.

I think even bing on iphone is out of the question.
Perl is dead. One-liners are unmaintainable. Everyone should write their one-off command invocations with test driven development, separation of interface and implementation, javadoc, and aspect-oriented programming.
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Be careful with video drivers... some of them are incompatible with Linux due to custom tweaks (such as 50hz monitors)
Are you kidding? Universities HATE it, but they sue all the competitors into oblivion via patents.

Methinks this will not be as successful vs google.
Up until today their stock price was down 25% from a month ago. He's pretty clearly betting that the short-term damage to the stock from the media coverage is just a blip in the long-term outlook of a pretty successful company.
<< The following one year of light immersion[1] ...

You need basic language proficiency before you can interact with people and benefit from immersion.

For English speakers learning Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, French), the Michel Thomas tapes are the best. Pimsleur tapes are also very good in almost any language.
This criticism is spot on, but it's not FB's fault. Look, if you have >800 "friends", chances are you will get many less than interesting status updates, that is true for any social medium. You can of course hide people, but I've found that the cost of miss is much larger than the cost of false alarm, e.g. I can quickly filter, maybe 20 status updates per minute to judge their level of relevance. However, even people who post "inane" updates sometimes post interesting stuff.

Now, one interesting thing that FB doesn't have is a "best-of-today" display of all public updates, that can be voted up or down by all users. This would be an incentive to post interesting updates. What do you think?
At what point are these things no longer airplanes and just rockets?
I don't want to ignore your comment, but these were generally private sales, and the private part implies a certain amount of trust and non-disclosure.

I know this probably doesn't do anything to convince you I'm not full of shit, so I apologize for not offering concrete details. If you stop and think about it though, there is a lot more private money out there moving hands than you might think.
Umm... April fools was almost two months ago.
I find that this site makes more sense if you mentally do s/relevant/trendy or s/relevant/cool. It's annoying when people overload words with completely unrelated meanings, but there's not much you can do about it.
Honestly that is FUD. Microsoft did ship GCC with SFU 3.5 (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_Services_for_...) How do I know ? I worked on it.
When the startup can effortlessly expense a large shark tank to their office/space without pissing anyone off.

This reminds me of the T. rex skeleton that lives at the Googleplex.
The short slideshow at the bottom of the article is one of the better concise explanations I've seen of the process.
Just be careful with wealth advisers. I have heard more than one story about people losing their inheritances and stuff because of advisers. Also people who lost 100K+ by investing in the stock market by themselves.

I've come to the opinion that there really is no way around getting a little bit savvy about investing oneself. Until then, I would probably also stick to something fairly conservative. Or at least decide on a basic split into risky and less risky investments.
Ten International Organizations that are Hacking Your Computer
Damnit. When I click on Dilbert links, I want to be entertained. The world is too depressing to read a serious blog entry from such a comedic genius.
I actually bought an iPad instead of a MBP. Not sure how good that is for Apples bottom line (good, in the long run I suspect) but so far I'm very happy with my decision. I take the iPad to the bar, the porch, meetings, use it to stream pandora in the car and much more. I wouldn't do half those things with a laptop, and for the 'work' things I do on it (note taking, task management, etc.) the iPad is good enough.

When I'm -really- working, I want my dual monitors, wired LAN and an ergonomic chair. For me, it hasn't been yet -another- device.
So nowhere on the planet is less than 4000 miles from a US base?

Somehow I expect the answer to that question to be "yes".
I think the article misses a few points. If you seek out a stereotypical lawyer (meaning nit-picky etc.), you get what you pay for - lots of lawyerly arguing, lots of problems raised etc.

Whose fault is it then if a lawyer impedes progress on an important deal? In my opinion, the fault lies with the business side. Lawyers provide a service - just like consultants. You wouldn't let a consultant run your business, so what's up with placing all the blaim on lawyers if deals get stuck? It's the business side's fault for not properly managing their lawyer and not telling him what exactly he is there for.

Legal education makes you an expert in spotting problems and helping put consensual agreements between people in enforceable language. It doesn't make you nit-picky per se, it's more a matter of character. There are first-hand lawyers out there who are probably even better at the business side than the business people themselves (think Peter Thiel) - they have an expert ability to spot lots of problems, and then proritize those and decide what's important and what not. Full disclosure: I am a Ph.D. student in law and that's what my education provided me with - an ability to prioritize problem-solving according to importance.
Ask HN: I'm a contractor, how do I find good work?
Short and simple: I'm a contractor, I'm not in dire straights, but I want better work that is stimulating and pays well. I also want to get out of the "PHP rut", I've been enchanted by Python (my favorite language second to Scheme) and also consider Ruby to be an elegant option. But how!?

I've had core commit privileges to the open source Kohana PHP framework for over two years, worked for a startup, IP firm, entertainment venue, and now myself. I'm not lacking in skill or experience. The work I do have right now is from referrals and word of mouth.

Should I be networking in my area better? Advice on how I might go about that? When my schedule coincides, I plan to participate in the regional Hacker News meetup to make some friends. Should I publish more on the internet? Use my website a bit more?
In your example, I think you would consider it a success, but perhaps John Doe would not, in that he didn't fulfill his goal. If he did consider it a success, then I'd say that's due in large part to the fact that he must have revised his goal somewhere along the way.

Based on that, I would say success is 1) different things to different people, and 2) the fulfillment of each person's goals.
Yeah, I wouldn't really hold my breath for one, either. The closest anybody has come as far as I can tell is here: http://github.com/alphabetum/rbst and all that does is wrap docutils' reST processing.