skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thorium, fusion or fast breeders. The biggest cost of current nuclear fission reactors is in the initial capital outlay (and regulatory uncertainty). The price of Uran is low; if the price would go up, more reserves would surely be found.

I agree, that using coal on a large scale isn't a good idea. (That includes the current scale.)

I agree with all the actuals / current data with you. I just don't see that we will need to use less energy in the long run.
"The deal should add a substantial number of new TV shows and Movies to instant watch. The episodes will be added rather quickly to instant watch only 15 days after initial telecast."

I'm not too excited about any of the specific examples of shows/movies the article calls out, but this is a good thing nevertheless. I hope the experiment proves successful enough for Disney-ABC that they expand their offerings and maybe convince some of the other networks to jump in as well.
humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions

Well, humans aren't designed, but we did evolve holding our arms in front of our faces making small motions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gestures

I know it's hard to remember around here, but it's not just a UI buzzword.

(Which is why I see promise in this tech; using touchscreens is unnatural, but using gestures in front of your body to communicate with something a couple of feet away is quite human.)
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It's certainly cost this person a lot more than $418, because most of this seemed to be earned with credit card reward points. Spend $4k in 6 months and get 75,000 points, etc. So.. great. Spend a lot of money (possibly buying more than you intended to) and get a reward.

I guess being on the other side of the table - a merchant - I resent the whole 'rewards' racket. A) I end up getting charged more as a merchant, and I can't not accept your card. B) It's encouraged a culture of chasing after rewards that often aren't really something you need or end up being hard to use for most people (airline miles).

Yes, there are a few people who can really 'make out' (like this guy) but in the end this is mostly just another way for banks to make extra profits off people's greed ('something for nothing').

"If I were to pay for this adventure with cash and book individual flights, it would cost almost $6,000"

I'm guessing there was a lot more than $6k spent on 'stuff' to get this.
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Snow In A Photograph here I have a photograph of a deer that I took in my backyard,It had already snowed the day before, so there’s snow on the ground in photoshop tutorial,
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its not as difficult as you would think, its more a matter of effort and ability. i readily recognize i could have almost double the miles i currently do if i put more energy into it.
The automated video interview idea is really cool. This would have been useful to us earlier this year when we were filtering through many candidates for a junior role, where you don't necessarily want to disqualify people with a lack of experience, but want to get a good feel for their personality and their ability to talk about what they're interested in.

I think the biggest comment I'd have with your project is that the name of the product doesn't communicate to me what it does nor does it hint at the video idea -- I had to dig in and find it myself.
You make a good point and I suspect that you may be right :)

I'll give it a try, I'm going to sit down now and think about what rocks about my web app (ahh, sod it, it's http://tweetingmachine.com), what makes it relevant to the people I contact, and why it should be covered. Thanks!
I think you just nailed why so many modern companies suck.

100 years ago you put your name on the company and treated it's performance as your personal reputation (for better or for worse). Today the most common "strategy" is to build something just good enough that you can attract enough customers to generate a revenue stream that is interesting to someone else, and then wash your hands of it.

This punishes everyone who was willing to suffer with you while you worked out the kinks.

I'm sorry but the whole thing just seems too "deadbeat dad" to me.
I don't think it does. The life insurance contribution to Berkshire Hathaway results is quite small. The bulk of the income is from reinsurance and P/C activities.
Not sure how this should shift people's attitudes towards taxes. Do we increase them to encourage charitable giving or decrease them so the rich have more to give?

At some level this type of thinking lets government off the hook. Philanthropy by the ultra rich is not a solution to government waste and won't solve the fundamental problems in the US government.
We're talking about 80% of the population here at least. It's pretty diverse. Perhaps some "moderates" may be folks who simply haven't heard the right argument. Yet we saturate the airwaves and internets with arguments every day, so while historically such people may have been more significant in number, I suspect their numbers have been steadily decreasing for some time. Most moderates are moderate for basically the same reason, that being that unless you are literally burning down their homes and starving their friends and families, they don't want to get involved. They might vote if they remember that day, although you can't count on them to figure out for whom, and they certainly have opinions, but they have better things to do than reason about them or articulate them to more than a superficial degree. They may occasionally get passionate about something but then they lose interest. In short, they have to be given a concrete, not an abstract, reason to care about anything.

Most people don't fly, so they don't care about the TSA.

Most people aren't Iraqis, so they don't care about Iraqi war dead.

Most people aren't Paypal, so they don't care about Anonymous.

Most people don't have much to say, so they don't care about the First Amendment. And they don't expect that anyone wants to search their home, so they don't pay too much attention to the Fourth, either.

And they're not rich, so they don't see how tax cuts for the rich are any of their concern.

I mean, we supposedly had this great national progressive moment in America not two years ago. Well, what happened? Would you say that the so-called leader of that progressive movement, Barack Obama, has spent too much time appeasing his base, and not enough time convincing moderates? (I'm not even sure what his base is anymore but let's pretend it's the left for the sake of argument.) His entire Presidency so far has been about trying to hog the center, while the Republicans spent the last two years nurturing the fears and hatreds of their most extreme and vocal supporters, while ceding as little ground as possible to the victors of 2008. So, who won?

So no, au contraire, I don't agree that the job of the extremist is to convince the moderates. His job is to basically leave them the hell alone, and outflank his opposition so as to relieve them of their hold on the status quo. Then, replace it with one of his own. The moderates will go along because they don't give a shit either way. In this case a good start would have been to get the Fairness Doctrine reinstated in the FCC by revoking the executive order of 1987, and hit the Right where it hurts. But now we're talking tactics.
Not if you play the system, particuarly 'sign-up bonuses' designed to lure new customers (who will then not be bothered to switch). The OP uses an example - AA Citi Cards currently give you 75,000 miles if you spend $4,000 in 6 months.

Using that as a base measurement (even though I'm now probably stretching the math too far in the other direction) he could rack up 300,000 miles spending $16,000. Very easy, especially if you also have some business expenses.
>The idea of a giant hivemind conducting business as it sees fit frightens me.

What about a government doing as it sees fit? That should be more frightening to you because it's existing for a long time and it's cost countless lives. And it's still doing so.
Outside the movies, it's quite hard to get an explosion with gasoline. Total energy density isn't the only factor. And that applies to batteries as well.
It would be rather interesting if the google folks involved in this could provide their side of the story. Just wishful thinking of course...but maybe someone from HN could try asking the question...
You don't.

You'd avoid creating circular structures as much as possible. You can get pretty far that way.
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Given that our current Lithium batteries decay over time, its not unreasonable to suspect that new ones based on this technology will too.
Did you get a confirmation from Google that they were going to send you the laptop?

Where are you based?
Good luck. Hope they are onto a winner.
I take death seriously, that does not mean I get to live forever.
Agreed. Also, why does a company have to be tied to one bit of technology?

We hear a lot that being a good programmer/designer/etc. isn't language-specific but that it is a skill-set that transcends technical knowledge. Why isn't this the same for companies and products?
Several weeks ago, I made a Chrome extension with an identical interface for the same purpose. I wanted to be able to read through HN in one window, article on top, comments on bottom, just as you've done. Like seeing I'm not alone.

I also ran into the same issues I see hitting your implementation, as well -- namely, sites that do not like to be framed ruin the HN-in-a-window viewer.
Pretty nifty rich text editor.

I don't really get the "semantic" thing, though. Can someone please explain?
I've worked at places tha would be OK paying 2K+ for Mathematica but nothing for stuff like this. Real companies are not logical.
Yeah, but I also flag stuff that I don't like but others do (judging by their eventual front page status), such as some of the recent TSA and Wikileaks submissions. I flag social media stuff from time to time if it doesn't seem very technical. I even admit to sometimes flagging submissions without reading the linked content.
thank you, unfortunately I can't edit the post now. You know what I meant though.
Because using a mouse is faster and more convenient perhaps?
I submitted too. But no email or delivery yet. fingers crossed
Unless he's hiding his powers so that we don't get jealous and overthrow him.
No, the safe move is to assume that pg is doing as good a job as he can to make the rules line up with the collective behavior he wants to see. If you systematically flag every story by an established user whose comment you just downvoted, that would probably trigger a reduction in the weight of your flags. However if you flag lots of spam, and it really is spam, that's good. Please keep doing it.

(And by the way, thank you.)
The only feedback I can give you is that if an employer wanted me to complete this process I would look for a different employer.

Being treated like a machine even before you are hired by a company would be a gigantic flashing warning sign for me.

However, you might have some luck with companies & governments that I would never consider working for because they treat their staff like shit.
the phrase, "for 8hrs a day" is implied...
DoS, I love it. Technically, it was a DDoS, a Damsel's Denial of Seat, but credit goes to you. Wonderful. /bow
>In all countries today, the power of the government, or an individual politician, exceeds that of a corporation.

Nonsense and demonstrably false. If Al Gore had won his election that would have been the first time in 20 years that a candidate who didn't spend the most money won a presidential election. In Michigan the only Senator to vote against the Patriot act got ousted by a clueless hack who, once again, happened to spend a lot more money.

Spending more money doesn't always win, but it has enough effect that politicians live or die based on campaign contributions. Snap their fingers and wipe away a corporation? Yea right, so no other corp would ever give them money again?

I'm afraid you're living in a dream world. The US government is completely owned by big business. The only difference between republican and democrat is which companies they are owned by.
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My family is asking me what I want for christmas and I am having a hard time coming up with things. I usually buy things as I need them, does anyone have ideas.

Right now I have an aurdrino, Sennheiser Headphones, and a subscription to Make. Mainly looking for things that you just don't go and buy yourself but somethings geeks use and like.
You don't give some random army grunt access to your on/off switch.
Wikileaks has not been charged with any crime anywhere in the world, let alone been found guilty.

At a very minimum wikileaks is distributing copyrighted information without authorization. Technically they can be taken completely down via the DMCA.

Ultimately of course PayPal, Amazon, Mastercard and others don't want to do business with Wikileaks, or anon, or any similar "fuzzy" business. The business doesn't have to be illegal, they can just be a liability business and that's what they are -- only a lot of people spouting a lot of hot air are going to patronize your service because you cater to them, yet a lot of people will leave you because of it.

Nonetheless, the kids will get bored. GUARANTEED the governments of the world are going to introduce anti-DOS legislation that mandates an immediate cutoff of nodes that participate in DOS (and further a cutoff of networks that don't manage DOS attacks originating in their network). That is absolutely inevitable, and honestly is a very good thing.
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I've chosen C, Python and Lisp: because those aren't languages, but mindsets, that allow freedom of thought and expression.

I am a hobbyist, so I am free to discard anything, that The Man wants to see in a resume. Hence I've never really got into Java (a nice language, turned into the Cobol of our generation -- to all people writting Enterprise: Java's blood is on YOUR hands!) or C++ (if C is a scalpel, then C++ is a chainsaw... while you're drunk... with someone preaching protected attributes and virtual destructors in Fran Drescher's voice).

But C has inherent beauty to it, expressed in terse verses of absolute and utter control.

Python structures my thoughts.

And Lisp is all that is and ever will be.

Amen.
Also made the strange decision to include a generic "Lisp," as well as Arc, Scheme, and Clojure, but no Common Lisp.
> You cannot seriously argue

No, I cannot. =) Knowing that, reread my post.
http://www.longbets.org/

Not that I'd go down as opposing, but it could also be a nice way to get this idea some attention/publicity.

(And make some money in 20 years :)
Notational Velocity + Simplenote perhaps? That combination works really well for me
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Whatever they're doing, its not having much effect. I used PP last night, and again this morning. What I saw felt normal. Last night there was briefly some slowdown, but nothing of that this morning. Hammering a lesser web site could bring it down, but PP has been in the net facing business for enough years they know better.
Here's another good example of why memory management isn't as simple as this article makes it out to be

-(void) addAccount:(UIBarButtonItem*)button {
ListController *list = [[ListController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStylePlain];
UIPopoverController *pop = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:list];
pop.popoverContentSize = CGSizeMake(320, 200);
[pop presentPopoverFromBarButtonItem:button permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny animated:YES];
[list release];
[pop release];
}

Anyone see the problem with this code?
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I got not confirmation. The outer box didn't even say it was from Google.
So what did you put in your application? I submitted before the announcement ended. But no word yet.
If you have the money, pay someone else to deal with it. e.g. VeriSign's offering: http://www.verisign.com/ddos-protection/index.html
If you are a people-pleaser (and this doesn't necessarily carry a negative connotation), then it's a good tactic for any employer to play the victim card by talking crap about previous "walkers" in order to instill loyalty. You don't want to be a "walker", do you? ;)

Actually, I think you should pay extra precaution when dealing with "trashtalking victims", because I think the risk of dealing with a toxic customer is greater than losing a bit of revenue from someone who was genuinely burned.
I submitted as an individual, but haven't heard anything yet. I did already say my goodbyes to the CAPS LOCK in anticipation.
Pretty cool, such an project to make an international visual language. And even better that the icons are in SVG format, and can be freely used.
If you click to edit the document and then escape out again the library automatically chooses tags from the content and adds them to the bottom.

Really cool actually :-)
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I applied via noticing the message on the "new tab" page of Chrome dev version.

It didn't ask for anything but my name, address, and email.

edit: it specifically asks for gmail if you have an email, and I've submitted bug reports for at least two google products on google code. Maybe that factors in?
That's a lot faster than I thought they were going to get them out (I was figuring they'd be arriving around the beginning of the year). Well, here's to hoping that I get one. Definitely anticipating posts with user experiences.
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Thanks! Look forward to it.
I can easily see the point of an upvoting cabal -- you'd use it to get your stories onto the front page. And you'd only need five accounts in order to do that quite successfully.

What's the point of a downvoting cabal? To allow you to severely punish comments you don't like? Sounds petty even by internet standards. And if you do manage to get a comment down to -4, then I notice that comments in severely negative territory which aren't obviously awful tend to get rescued anyway.
And did you find out how many of the up and neutral clients also came from the yellow pages? That bit of information is useful only if it draws a distinction, e.g. what if the agency only had one working form of advertising?

(Of course this almost goes without saying, and I don't doubt you thought of it, but this is such a common logic error that I thought it shouldn't be left hanging in a public forum.)
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Of course, that's a valid point. But again, lots of (perhaps most?) people engage in conversation for several hours per day, and a lot of that time is spent gesturing, mostly unconsciously.

I'm not envisioning it as a primary input device, naturally (although the deaf seem to get by fine). But I don't think I've ever been in a situation where a heated conversation made my arms tired; as a replacement for a few basic mouse tasks, I bet it could even improve ergonomics.

Just try it: raising your arms as if gesturing conversationally is way, way less stressful than reaching out to touch your monitor.
"The tradeoff for assenting to a period of future ambiguity, of course, is the promise of a large breakup fee if the deal were not to go through. "

Really? I would have thought the tradeoff was promise of the large purchase price.
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At the moment, I think you'll probably have to use two different programs for that. I've yet to find a program that does a good job for todo lists, notes, and has a good mobile apps. So far the best combo I've found is Evernote for notes, RTM for lists.
Seems like reward points programs are much better in the USA than in Australia -_-
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I wouldn't be so sure. This was organized somewhere and I doubt every one of the people involved was technically good enough to completely hide their IP address. Don't be shocked if someone gets jail time and a fine of millions of dollars over this.
How do you deal with applicants which either don't have the necessary equipment or refuse to create a video?
How would building an IDE from scratch be better? Why not just improve Eclipse? How is Eclipse deficient, anyway?
I'd expect to see exploits using Flash sockets as the attack vector before seeing attacks using native WebSockets.
Maybe he travels for work...easy to do if you charge expenses to your personal card and get reimbursed.
The only people who are going to blame this on Wikileaks are the people who are uninformed enough to already think they're a terrorist organization anyway. I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about what such people think because unless you can get a spokesmen on Fox News you can't change their mind anyway.
My impression of the original article is that it suffers from overrationalization. The author knows, from empirical observation, that toxic customers exist. And he feels -- possibly accurately, but possibly due to the awesome power of hindsight -- that these customers should be detectable in advance.

And that may be true. But if so, it's not a scientific process. The warning signs do factor into it, but in the end it's a matter of gut feeling. (Perhaps because it's not necessarily the case that a given customer is universally toxic, it's that they don't fit you, your company, or your product.)

But it's always embarrassing for an engineer to write a blog post like "how to detect toxic customers by going back and forth in conversation, trying various rhetorical strategies that you make up on the fly, and occasionally closing your eyes and trying to use the Force". So instead the author tried to invent a nice, rational checklist. It has the virtue of looking scientific. The only downside is that it may not actually work very well. It's not what the author is actually using, either. You can't do sales, especially corporate sales, with an algorithm unless you're willing to leave money on the table, maybe a lot of money.
The rumors circulating around the deal surely did more for their valuation than their business model. They should be paying Google.
I think that's what Catch (formerly Snaptic) (https://catch.com/home) is trying to do, to be the alternative to Evernote. There are probably a few others as well.

Considering now many to-do list websites and apps there are out there, I'm surprised the isn't more competition for this kind of note-storage app.
If you put everything you buy on your card it's not hard to rack up points really quick - especially if you can find a way to get your landlord to put your rent on your credit card. My wife and I are flying to NYC soon for free on this year's miles.
/Warning Sign #1: Disrespectful or Abrupt/

I've found that people who email with no explanation or "sell" of their own but just immediate, terse requests like "What are your rates?" or "I need a copywriter. You available?" are typically NOT interested in finding the right person for themselves or their product; instead, they're looking to just outsource what they think they COULD do themselves, if only they had time/energy/desire.

People who know they're considering (hopefully carefully) how to add value to their product/life are the ones who will take the time to build trust from the beginning, will be honest about expectations, and are more likely to give the freedom and flexibility necessary to maintain a healthy working relationship over time.
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