skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We aren't dodging your question, we just think you should be able to grasp the point without further explanations. Firstly, it's not a true binary choice, it's not containment vs non-containment - it's containment vs. vastly varying degrees of non-containment. Secondly, non-containment scenarios will likely settle nothing (unless we have multiple 'mega-Chernobyls' or something, in which case then the proponents of nuclear power should admit they were misled) - the damage caused will be disputed, the value of the damage caused will be disputed, the appropriateness of the safety plans will be disputed, the correctness of the emergency operations will be disputed, the analogy to other plants not at risk from tsunamis/quakes will be disputed, the effectiveness of newer designs will be disputed, it will just go on forever because there will be no significant result.

But if the situation blows over without a large number of people being affected by harmful radiation, if the failsafes work despite multiple catastrophes (which almost certainly wouldn't threaten most plants), then the doom sayers really should admit nuclear safety is feasible, if they want to maintain any integrity.
Who claimed that nuclear safety and contingency planning handled every single forseeable risk? Who claimed that operators and officials react in a perfect manner during a crisis? I don't think anyone has. I certainly haven't. Putting words in other people's mouths is stupid (see, I can make oblique insults too).

The bottom line is that nuclear power is still safer than many activities/environments that regular people encounter on a daily basis, and is certainly safer and cleaner than other, much more prevalent sources of power generation. It's obviously not the safest or cleanest, but it's up there.
What, realistically, is the difference between knowing how to mangle URIs vs. knowing what content types are available for negotiation?
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why would rules about subscriptions affect the Kindle store?
Then the shuttle is the problem. It's like saying crossing the river is impossible because you are required to use a school bus as a vehicle.
Endowment Effect
As for your point 2, if you consider a REST resource as a collection of fields, you can update it without custom verbs:

GET /resources/picture/orientation => 0
PUT /resources/picture/orientation?value=90

REST is not so much about a simple API, but a scalable service. Custom verbs break scalability.
Wow, he was originally told by product team members:

> that "generics is for academics only"

I can't imagine programming C# without generics!!
We had a Ruby user group meeting at MySpace HQ here in LA after the redesign but before the troubles. The reception desk, the signs, everywhere I was confronted by their new logo. And I literally couldn't believe it.

My mind was blown and refused to believe this was their actual identity. So every time I saw it, I said to myself, "Really?!" I just had to visit their website again just now to make sure. This should not be anyone's reaction to a logo.

I still don't understand how such a mistake happened. "You know, we've seen lots of logos but we really love the one where you literally rip off the 'my' from the MyNetworkTV logo and put a sideways brace next to it. It makes us feel like crazy madmen that can do anything we want." I mean, that's my best-case scenario.
it's not a walk in the park, but since a lot of stuff is backwards compatible; it's not that bad
As with most industries, sales of healthcare software are made to executives and not to the actual users. Sometimes an outspoken physician will be involved in the sales process, but the final decision is usually made by the CIO/CTO and CFO and is typically made for financial reasons more than anything ("Vendor X promised us that our revenue per patient would increase by Y").
The problem is who 'they' are

The CIA/NSA etc spying on the US and UK's enemies?

Or US companies spying on UK companies to gain a competitive advantage?

If you were a BP boss would you be confident that they weren't handing your emails over to the Whitehouse during the gulf spill?
Hi, Adam Brown from Etsy here.

Just wanted to let you know that we have resolved this issue. As of right now, all your purchases and feedback on Etsy are now automatically set to private.

You can read more about it in our blog: http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/rethinking-feedbac...
I've been meditating with different levels of practice for the last 7 years. I also attended a 10-day vipassana course (taught by s.n. goenka (http://dhamma.org). Recently, I've been sitting at least 30-60 minutes per day.

For the last two months, I've been sitting while wearing the NeuroSky Mindset and using it to record my brainwaves as I meditate!

The Mindset is a $200 BCI (brain-computer interface) that looks like a pair of headphones. It measures the electrical activity of your brain via 4 "dry sensors" and sends the raw 8-channel feed of your electrical brainwave activity (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, etc) wirelessly via Bluetooth to your computer. Additionally, the chip in the headset has algorithms that interpret the raw data stream and give readings of "attention" and "meditation."

The manufacturer has put together a pretty decently documented developer center with several different APIs you can use to create games and applications that make use of the headset.

The fancy headset costs $200:
http://store.neurosky.com/products/mindset

Here's a link to the developer center:
http://developer.neurosky.com/

I haven't written any apps yet, but I've been using this app to record and chart the brainwaves in my sessions over time:
"http://store.neurosky.com/collections/alchemy/products/medit...

After I get a couple more weeks data recorded, I plan on writing up a longer post!

If anyone in the NYC area would like to come over and have their brainwaves recorded and try it out, give a shout. I'm in the East Village and I'd love to compare my brainwaves to other people interested in meditating and seeing some sort of "tangible" measure of "progress."
So does Jazz to a virgin ear. That doesn't mean it is.
> Who would have ever thought that Apple would be worried
> about anti-trust suits!

How do you know they are? Your baseless speculations does not mean it is true.
This might actually be a security improvement, with people choosing names with numbers and capitals in them, and ridiculously stupid passwords.
It applies to all in-app purchases, not just subscriptions. The rules also require all purchasable content that's available through the app to be purchasable within the app (so not going to an external site to buy it, as is done currently). Of course, as someone else pointed out, these rules doesn't go into effect until June, so this article is rather pointless.
Nothing about Series F?
Founders Institute has special Series F in their incorporation docs in order to protect founders.
That has been my experience too ... the place where I work had about 3 Rails 2 apps and we've built 2 more using Rails 2 in the last 4 months.

When we go to Rails 3, we'll do it all at once and it won't be in the next 3 or 4 months either ...
Chile's offer?
I'm not local and didn't have a great view of it. From what I heard, she was on the air so early and so obnoxiously often that it destroyed whatever message she may have had (and the message was lousy/stale/reactive, too). I think that loses to generic dem in California, but again I'm not local and don't really have the pulse there.
Bing bing. That's what it is. There's both a free and paid version. Time to contact the developer...
The first 6 months of Reddit (YC S05): "Entrepreneurship is a bipolar existence"
the article explicitly points out Sony's ereader application, thats similar to the Kindle app
What the hell is my home town's newspaper doing on the front page of hacker news?

I'd be lying if I didn't believe that they would do something this stupid. They recently put the site behind a pay wall and I can no longer catch up on hometown news as a result. Who ever running that business is an idiot.
The golden rule if you want to become a good SEO is to not take Matt Cutts (or anyone at the big 3 for that matter) at face value when they say things. Test test test.

Traffic (and Analytics data) absolutely has an effect on your rankings. As mentioned above, it's part of the QDF effect
AwStat is unreliable, or at least, I don't understand how it works. I'm getting something like 50,000 unique a month, but with Google Analytics they are only 2,500. Not even close.

I doubt the author does even get 10,000 unique a month. The keyword "it turns out" turns out to be a not so popular keyword with only 8.1K search per month. (Data From Google Adwords Keyword Tool)
Albert Einstein: How I See The World
While I know this isn't exactly your idea, it's one I've had for a while and this seems like an appropriate time to share.

First, be specific. You may feel comfortable in the general "travel" space b/c it's bigger, but your message will just be diluted. Get specific -- I've seen discussions on HN discussing a site for travel that focuses on disabled accessible trips, etc. Hell, a trip that takes you to regional breweries might work here in California.

Anyhow, my niche idea is a museum system. People frequently attend museums when traveling, yet the museum makes you use their systems to hear the audio. Why not use the 2d barcode system to pull and TTS the wikipedia article for a given exhibit?

Applying it more generally, for your situation, and I would recommend that you focus your content on one niche.
Nice...

"Your password must be unique. Password 'mybirthday' is already in use by 'fred_bloggs'. Please try again."
I think it's the same UIWebKit. If you're willing to Jailbreak your device, you could take a look at the files and find out.

The issue is that no apps other than MobileSafari can do JIT compilation, due to security constraints put in place by the kernel. You can't write to a segment of memory and later make it executable.

To pull this off with MobileSafari, I suspect that Apple put a back door in the kernel, and requires apps to be signed with a specific entitlement to get access to it. And I'm guessing that MobileSafari is the only app with this permission.

For full screen web clips, it might be possible for Apple to give the wrapper the right permissions without breaking their security model. Hopefully they do this in the future. But I doubt that 3rd party native apps will ever be given the ability to modify code.
Once method handles come out in java 7 things should get even more exciting.
Erik DeBill did some interesting benchmarks lately that showed JRuby has a more linear performance overall when scaled up with heavier loads:

http://erik.debill.org/2011/02/03/ruby-performance-in-the-ra...
http://erik.debill.org/2011/02/19/ruby-start-up-times

And the Torquebox team (Torquebox being a JRuby Rack app server using JBoss) also did some benchmarks and discovered (surprise, surprise) that Torquebox on JRuby significantly outperforms the alternatives on 1.9.2:

http://torquebox.org/news/2011/02/23/benchmarking-torquebox/
http://torquebox.org/news/2011/03/14/benchmarking-torquebox-...

(Disclaimer: Of course, benchmarks aren't authority figures so it's always worth running them for yourself..)
One of the nicest things about JRuby (apart from performance and stability) is that you get easy access to all the wonderful Java libraries out there, which you can use with Ruby style syntax. These are often far higher quality than the Ruby equivalent, if that Ruby equivalent exists in the first place.
He said it was accidental, and he meant to put it in a private unindexed directory.
> they can open Safari and browse to Amazon.com to order
> books.

It's the only way to buy books with Kindle app, be it OS X or iOS.
Highlights of this video:

1. Initially the Reddit team was rejected by YCombinator. Paul Graham then followed up with them via a phone call and said “as long as you ditch your original idea, you can come be a part of YCombinator”. This is a great reminder that investors often care more about the team then they do the product.

2. Alexis also talks about how Reddit was able to get new users by creating fake accounts to simulate an active community.

3. Alexis talks about a meeting they had with Yahoo, but he felt that the meeting sucked because Yahoo was more interested in the traffic they were generating then the actual mission of the site.

4. Met with Google, and things went really well. This was a huge boost of confidence for the Reddit team as “some very smart people at Google were interested in our product”.

5. Alexis also reminisces about doing “digital grunt work”. Alexis attributes a lot of Reddit’s success to doing things that aren’t glamorous. Great reminder that entrepreneurship is all about “the hustle”.

6. Entrepreneurship is a Bipolar existence. Sometimes you feel like you’re building an online empire, and other days you feel like a nobody. This is completely normal.

7. A tip that Alexis shared for other startups was to “celebrate quick and easy wins” (especially in the first 6 months). This helps to build momentum, and establishes comradery on your team.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drudge-report-free/id35633115...

It shows jongales.com/drudge on app load then quickly redirects to drudgereport.com. HTH
Kudos for launching a product. I had a similar concept but my approach was different (and unlike Michael Una I didn't actually go through with it)

I got an email in January from JameCo (electronics retailer/distributor) which has a story on building your own optical theremin[1] which turns out they have re-published an instructables page [2] where the author simply implemented another circuit which he found on the internet[3]. (the page is gone but the internet archive kept it)

Its a fun circuit, I'm wondering now if someone entered it in the 555 timer contest.

I figured this would be a great $9.99 Maker Shed kit, you could sell them to O'Reilly for $3.00 (making 100% markup) they could sell then for $9.99 and discount them to $7.50 on sale days. I'd probably make the circuit board shaped to fit easily into a Altoids tin.

[1] http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/PressRoom/theremin.html?CID=BBD...
[2] http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Build-An-Optical-Ther...
[3] http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20050313211004/http://www.o...
IMO it's because western families are orientated around wanting their kids to go off and do better things than they did. So they pay for them to get a better education, have more fun, etc. etc.

So how can you want your kid to have things better than you did, but succeed you in a business you just told them they're better than.

Where I presently work the 2nd owner wants his kid to take over. The only problem is that the kid doesn't understand the job whatsoever because they went from nowhere to the top and in construction you just can't do that. You can't quote jobs if you don't know how much material it takes and square footage doesn't work because the worker needs to make the job look good too otherwise you'll be running awfully short of people wanting you to work on their houses.

I've noticed a lot of Japanese and Chinese families don't have the bizarre mentality that because they have it much better than their own parents that their kids should expect to have a life much better than they do. They simply think "I have a great job that lets me live a happy life, so I want my kid to have a great job and a happy life too" so dentists will have kids that are dentists, and you get surprising things like the Kongo Gumi construction firm lasting 1400+ years and through 40 generations.

Any country can have a great history of long lived family run companies. The UK has its own history, even France and Germany have quite a list. However Japan had a history of isolationism and had a similar benefit like the UK in that an island is very defensible and invasions rarely succeed. This is why Japan and the UK seem to have the biggest list of long lived family run companies.

However, the UK has suffered quite a bit of turmoil from itself. Japan's isolationism seems to have kept it out of too many problems for legitimate heirs to the throne. The UK had major problems with French and Scottish heirs to the throne.

Again Japan seemed to get away from the risk of invasion more than the UK did. Without the Roman and Viking invasions of the UK, there would have been no difference between the British and the Scottish, meaning there wouldn't have been centuries of war. IIRC Japans biggest threat was at one point from the Mongol's, however they were very inexperienced with navies.

Why doesn't the US have a long list of long lived family run companies? Well the US isn't old, that's why!
The secret life of chaos
>I think the true tipping point will be when people of a new generation (readers of HN perhaps?) become hospital administrators and with that bring a new culture and view of technology.

I have very little hope of that happening. Hospitals are run by doctors and frankly, they lack the technical foresight and respect for non-doctor advisors (cio, cto, etc.) to make correct technical decisions.
Young Entrepreneur Council Q&A: Pitching Your Business to Angel Investors
I guess we're disagreeing about what's essential. At this point, I prize robustness more than power. I'd be pretty happy if LaTeX would just work smoothly. Additional capabilities would be gravy.
My day job is in healthcare informatics in the UK. I'd love to see us making more stuff like this, but I think that it somewhere gets lost in all the bureaucracy.

We're currently diverting a lot of our considerable efforts on "interoperability", which will hopefully see this kind of thing take off over here.

The geek in me is still waiting for the Tricorder, of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorder
I made a "ed simulator" in the URL
What about recommending a potential matchup to your friends? I don't use dating sites, so this might be out there already.

In short, what if I'm looking at a profile and think, "hey, this would be a good match for my friend XYZ." The mechanics of it could allow me to set my friend up with someone, basically allowing me to act as an agent on behalf of my friend (initially).

Alternatively, you could do a take on the double-date idea. Have people with friends post a double date, where your user fills in the 3rd/4th person depending on the calculated compatability of friends (for this, you would need to answer a few questions about your friends... which would make their signup seem slicker and faster).
This is why I will never base my entire business on twitter. I wrote a stats app 2 years ago, but I never released it.

There's nothing stopping Twitter from using you as a test while you build your business up and then directly compete with you by adding in any features that they know are popular.

I suppose it might work for a short-term pay day, but I would be trying to diversify asap if I were any of the current businesses based on it.
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman’s 10 rules of entrepreneurship
Incredible Before And After Pictures Of Japan Earthquake Released By Google
Why is B&N performing well as a business while Borders has filed for bankruptcy?
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Thanks. The paid version does the same. I verified through the server logs too, that's where all the traffic is coming from.
Great, I've been waiting for 1.9.2 support..

Now I really wish some more work was being done on Jython because Jython and AppEngine is what is holding back Django from moving to Python 3+.
Former FCC Boss Michael Powell Now Top Cable Lobbyist
Because of their online presence, and their partnership with Starbucks.
You should use content negotiation for this. The client should have an Accept header that specifies what it wants (which could be "application/json" but really should be something that tells you more about the contents than simply how it can be parsed, such as "application/vnd.mything.MyResource+json" which would be documented in your API with what fields it contains and what it means etc.).

You should also question whether you really need multiple representations for each resource -- in many cases, it's more trouble than it's worth to automatically generate, say, both JSON and XML responses, since it just divides your attention to creating sensible serializations for your API.

If you expect to have clients which cannot modify the headers of their requests, you can support fallbacks like specifying the Accept header in a query parameter. Putting it in the actual URL though is doing a disservice to fully compatible HTTP clients, though.

But if JSON is so inherent to the resource that content negotiation doesn't even matter, it can be fine to include that in the URL, as you might include descriptive filename extensions like ".png" or ".wav" in a URL.
If I were paranoid and/or involved in intelligence work I might wonder whether these ancient facilities were retained to divert attention from newer intelligence-gathering facilities.

Disclaimer: I'm currently working my way through the TV series "24" :-)
Someone suggested to make an ed simulator in one of the "HTML5 History" abuses, so I went for it over the weekend. Decided I'd share it with you guys. (I never actually used ed since it was way before my time, so if there is anything that I implemented wrong, let me know)
My password is 12345 and I cannot figure out why my login is failing now, even with this change.

Edit: you know, now that I think about it they could be using Javascript to generate an MD5 hash of the username, which is now the password, and submit that to the login form. But....
This is cool, but I am kind of disappointed that you put the chords into inversions without explaining what you were doing.
The government is pushing standards for interoperability. The organization responsible is HITSP. The standards that they are pushing are the typical designed-by-committee mess.

HL7 2.x is the only standard that is widely supported in the industry. I have not come across many systems that offer no HL7 2.x interface options. The IHE monstrosity is picking up steam too.
Please elaborate on what this "bubble" is that you speak of... Do you mean "listening facility" or something like that, or does "bubble" mean something more specific in your context?
Oops, sorry, accidentally down voted this.
That's all true, but for _me_, the Arduino is invaluable for making it easy to go through the many iterations of hardware prototype and software I need before I decide on the final form (or, more commonly, give up on it as not-as-good-an-idea-as-I-first-thought).

If/when I get to a stage where I think I've got a "version 1.0", I'll sometimes (if space really is an issue - in my projects that's usually because I'm trying to fit it inside a small RC plane) reduce it to a 168 or 328 in a minimal-external-component configuration. Often though, an Arduino mini (or even a full sized Arduino) is perfectly fine.

If I ever thought I was going to build dozens or hundreds of something I'd designed, the ~$30 for an Arduino Mini might become an issue, but for my style of homebuilt projects the money spent on a Mini is often a good tradeoff between my money and my time.
Looks like a very cool service, but I wouldn't spend too much time trying to make the video go viral.. it's not going to happen.

Maybe try using http://launchrock.com for beta signups.. that in conjunction with the video may boost signups.
Maybe if you use the Dwarf Fortress term. "Losing is fun!"
THE WHOLE FREAKING PAGE RELOADS every time you click next picture!!

Dammit! Learn how to display this properly. It doesn't allow you to quickly move back and forth between images to compare.
I forgot to mention that the government is pushing the HITSP-chosen standards by making them part of "meaningful use" standards that are required for ARRA funds.