skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"horrible UX on Android"

This is more than a little hyperbolic. Sure, the animations may not run at 30fps all the time. Some animations running at 15fps != horrible UX. I am an iOS dev as well but use an Android phone and just completely disagree on it having poor UX.
If Go compiles to ARM, there's no reason it couldn't run on Android. Check out the Android NDK; all you need to port is the Java Native Interface. After that, it should be almost as easy as dropping in the next version of GCC, which will support Go.

It's not a full replacement for Java, as most of the APIs are currently inaccessible via the NDK. But it's getting there.
Forget wikipedia and go the site of the World Health Organisation.
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241594179_eng.pd...
http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/chernobyl_di...

The reports range from 4000 extra cancer deaths (of 100 000 deaths) to 10 000 deaths out of a million. While 10000 isn't small, it represents a 1% increase in cancer related deaths. Stricter smoking laws can save more people than a nuclear stop.
I disagree.

Who decides "what works best", and how?

Edit: I say that each of us has to do that for ourselves.

Also, I'm not a conservative. I'm anti-religion, pro-selfishness, pro-gay, anti-environmentalism, pro-abortion, pro-capitalism. I'm a radical for reason.
There are about four ways of authenticating a person, in traditional security-think: something you know, something you have, something you are (fingerprint et al), and somewhere you are.

The secret question is an attempt at the first method. However, "what's your mother's maiden name" fails because it's so easily discovered through web sites (Ancestry.com!) and via social engineering.
That's from here btw https://github.com/nrkn/SimpleRLGolf
Why couldn't it replace Java? From reading about it and my limited use of it I get the impression that it's meant to be able to replace C or C++ but it's also meant to be used to write applications as a replacement for a language like Java. The libraries and API stability are lacking, but I don't see any language issues that would make it a bad application language.
I haven't posted any alternate studies, I would have to take time to source them. Maybe you didn't notice?

If you bought a kill-a-watt or something similar, you could investigate how much money you can save on appliances. Same goes for energy saving bulbs, based on my own power bills, before and after, I saved about 75 percent when I started to make an effort. It would be foolish to attempt any extrapolation based on my anecdote, but I would surmise there are massive consumption savings to be made. Particularly in the home, insulation and in transport. Particularly startling to me is the frequently thrown about statistic that 5% of the energy consumption of the world is coming from datacentres. And that it was 20% more efficient to use DC to each blade than have a PSU doing ac/dc conversion in each.

I have had a look at the calculation in article linked:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...

The source on Chernobyl (there are lots of caveats given about how it was a once off freak incident and these figures are absolute worst case):
"If those possible 4000 deaths occur over the next 25 years, then with 2800 TWh being assumed average for 2005 through 2030, then it would be 4000 deaths over 112,000 TWh generated over 45 years or 0.037 deaths/TWh."

If one were to include the upper limits, the earlier upper bound figure mentioned was 1 million, assuming they died over 112,000 TWh it would be 1000000/4000 * 0.037 deaths/TWh which is 9.25 deaths per TWh. It looks pretty dangerous then, given that. It is grotesque doing this sort of calculation in the midst of unfolding events.

below is the source chart, figures in TWh:

Coal – world average 161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity)

Coal – China 278

Coal – USA 15

Oil 36 (36% of world energy)

Natural Gas 4 (21% of world energy)

Biofuel/Biomass 12

Peat 12

Solar (rooftop) 0.44 (less than 0.1% of world energy)

Wind 0.15 (less than 1% of world energy)

Hydro 0.10 (europe death rate, 2.2% of world energy)

Hydro - world including Banqiao) 1.4 (about 2500 TWh/yr and 171,000 Banqiao dead)

Nuclear 0.04 (5.9% of world energy)

(edit: mistakes, , more mistakes, formatting, reproduced table came out on one line)
Hi, Jack Gamble here, editor and founder of Nuclear Fissionary. Would kitsune_ care to post a link to where my website allegedly published the story by Dr Oehmen?

The reason I asked is, though I agree with the papers content, Nuclear Fissionary never published it. So basically, kitsune, you're a liar.

As for the attack on Jay Morgan, we're getting a kick out of that. Jay likes to describe himself as a Corporate Bean Counter, but he doesn't work in the nuclear industry like I do. I'm a nuclear engineer, not a lobbyist. I suppose you could describe me as an ADVOCATE for nuclear energy, but I'm no lobbyist.

But if you know of someone was willing to pay me a lobbyists salary to do what I do, I'd gladly take it. Until then, I shall bask in the tens of dollars that Google Adsense has paid out to my website in the last 13 months.

Of course, you're all welcome to come by nuclearfissionary.com and ask me technical questions about what's happening in Japan. Just don't expect me to give you the kind of chicken-little song and dance you're hearing in the media. I don't do fear, I'm a science guy.
Do you honestly think they rebuilt scroll views and the web browser completely to get Android 3 launched?

I know from my visits to the Verizon store to play with one that they hype it up as "completely new OS", but other than making the hardware buttons software finally, it looks and acts identically. As technical people, I think we both know that this is a revision of Android, not a completely new OS.

More to your point - iPad ran iOS 3.2 - the 3rd revision of iOS. The Xoom is running Android 3 - the 3rd revision of Android.
The title was referencing page views. Sorry for the confusion.
absolutely.. I just showed her this thread :-)
The original post went much further because that's the message the first-time internet entrepreneurs need. There's a tendency among experienced businesspeople doing their first startup to look to their experience in successful companies and try to analyze that success and bring some of those things to the new company.

The problem is that successful companies have layers upon layers of processes and refinements, all of which (in a healthy company) play some role in their ongoing success. But the marginal benefit of 99.99% of these things is irrelevant to a startup, and the assets that an (internet) startup has to protect are nil at the beginning.

This is one of the reasons very young people are often successful despite inexperience; they can focus on building a compelling product—something they've known very intimately for their whole lives growing up with the internet and mobile phones—rather than the trappings of "business".

To get back to your point:

> if you discover that people don't like the product you rushed out the door, it might be because you rushed it out the door.

If you built the wrong product up front, then it's better to learn that by getting real feedback, rather than laboring on a false premise in secret. I think stealth mode has pretty much been debunked by now. The bottom line is that you can launch a shitty product, and it doesn't matter because know one fucking cares. You may have all these grandiose dreams, but getting attention and traction is a huge ongoing uphill muddy slog. If you have a seed of a good idea, but it's very poorly implemented, at least you will pick up a few very early adopters, and they will be the ones providing the most valuable feedback to make the next refinement and layer on the next batch of slightly-less-early adopters.
If by "location data" you have points, and the only location operations you need are distance or bounding-box searches, it may do the trick.

If you're interested in polygons, lines, etc; more physically accurate (and completely implemented) distance queries, spatial joins, aggregation, 3D and surveyor-annotated data, set-theoretic operations ... PostGIS is far and away the way to go. It's far more mature and debugged than any of the NoSQL geospatial stuff I've seen, not only WRT correctness but also performance.

As a point of reference: There's a growing legion of geographers who do all their vector work in SQL using PostGIS.

All that said, for some applications, being tied to the relational model is a deal breaker. Just know that in terms of capability and maturity on the geospatial front, you'll be trading off a Cadillac for a partially assembled rocket sled.
yes... I am up for it
Yeah, SOMA is fine. Just steer clear of Hunters Point, and you'll be ok...
You can even go a little further and use trigraphs, which is one of those ancient features that most people have forgotten because it doesn't make much sense anymore. ??< and ??> are equivalent to { and } in C, which could be handy for further obfuscation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs
I agree, and even without nuclear disasters, no human society has ever lasted for as long as nuclear waste must be looked after.
Insider Threats and IRS Network Security Controls
Same here. But for developers who've worked at organizations like Mozilla in the past, you'd think they'd be better at handling this the way it should be rather than going script kiddy and juvenile on their own site.
I've suspected that Tim Berners-Lee knew TeX before he did HTML. That he was a physicist in computing at CERN means that he had to have seen TeX.

I'd say that the main difference is that TeX was looking backwards and HTML, forwards. Again, TeX was trying to computerize old, stable, slow, expensive, high quality manual typesetting for math, and HTML, at least now, is on the way to being the main way people view nearly all information and interact with computers. The emphasis on the 'typographic quality' of the results is very different: TeX goes for the highest quality, and HTML is to be quick and dirty.

Yes, both had smaller beginnings: For TeX, Knuth wanted to write his books. For HTML, Berners-Lee wanted a physics newsletter.

At this point there is a huge difference: TeX is solidly frozen, and HTML continues with changes as fast as Jeff Jaffe and the rest of computing can implement,

In the future, sure, HTML could replace TeX. For the very high quality paragraph setting, there's no fundamental reason HTML could not specify and implement that. For the math, similarly. There does need to be an 'executing language' (TeX is a programming language, maybe Turing machine equivalent, and not just static text), but JavaScript might suffice.

A big advantage would be that HTML now knows about all the characters in all the languages.

But such high interest in math is likely in conflict with reality!
I'm not a founder here; I just get enjoy this.
See also: The people at Reddit.

I'm not expecting people to climb over Everest, but there's a difference between people who show up, and people who try to make a difference.

I've worked big companies Twice before.. In both cases, I knew it was wrong for me within two weeks of starting. I didn't stay at either longer than a month.

There IS something very different about the entire startup environment. I just don't know how to select for it.
I see where you're coming from, but sociology is a soft science. Even in an experiment like your resume example, there are many uncontrollable variables (company sizes/values/morale, hr staff, etc) that render the data somewhat anecdotal, even if it follows a pattern.

Moreover, this post is a personal outlook, and doesn't necessarily need hard data to prove an individual experience. There is really no "If A, then B" implied here.
On a very off-topic note, I fell madly in love with Totally Wicked Mini DSE901 [1]. And since I started composing liquids to my taste, I'm half-way in heaven ;-)

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Really great stuff.

I don't suppose you are looking for a job?
Thanks

wow.. its amazing how many of us share this feeling about the first sale

every sale actually. congrats
This is why sometimes web developers are considered 2th class developers, we waste so much time reading blogs and news, that we don't practice what we love.

I don't see half of web dev blogs for languages such as C/C++, Java, C#, etc..etc.. I know the web is like a living organism, creating new things to learn everyday, but still.

But what about algorithms ? Design patterns ? Code optimization ? This are boring concepts I know, but they are amazingly useful if you want to be taken serious on this area.
I love when I meet web developers who know what a C pointer and what memory allocation means. They don't have to, but that just shows that they know what's behind the curtains when they code in PHP, Python, whatever...and I will trust their code more than a guy who knows dozens of frameworks and tools, but don't understand the concepts behind those.

I just think that there's so much things going on that's it's either: or you get highly skilled at something or the jack-of-all trades.

So instead of the list the author gave I would suggest:

- Download open source code, and read it, understand it and try to come up with better solutions for small code fragments and share with the community or the author. You have no idea how fast you will learn and will look great your CV.

- Comeback to IRC, irc.freenode.com has amazing dedicated developers channels where you can share ideas and get help.

- Dedicate only 1h per day to read a book or a tutorial, and write down stuff you think you need to understand. Come back the next day, read what your wrote last night and continue.

- Practice and practice
Also habitable in the sense that a lot of people still live there, in ways extremely similar to how they did before, with (apparently) few ill effects. See http://outsideonline.com/adventure/travel-pf-201103-chernoby...
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
I think it's pretty neat that they have a tool (gofix) that can walk your code and rewrite it so it works with changes. This is possible in many languages, but it's pretty impressive for one so young to have it. I guess anything that makes it easier for them to make reasonable changes is good for the language long-term.
Nuclear engineering is a sub-discipline of mechanical engineering at many schools that offer it... Mechanical engineers do LOTS of thermodynamics.
Facebook is quite clever about this. To verify your identity under some circumstances, Facebook shows you pictures of your friends and asks you to identify them. It is up to you to figure out the best way to authenticate your users.
That is really awesome - but one thing (which is just an observation, not a complaint) I've noticed with all the CSS3 super-cool demos like this is that everything is very "linear". All the animation stuff happens in straight lines or repeating patterns (of circles, in the demo) which gives the page a certain feel.

I wonder if it's the start of an effect that will eventually be used to carbon-date websites... "Ah look at this specimen - table based layout, and JavaScript littered with variable names beginning with "mm_" from the late Dreamweaver era. Oooh, now look here... completely linear animations... my guess is it's early 2011! And in such condition!"
My understanding is this release is the first stable with single node durability available as an option, which is why I'm considering picking Mongo back up.
Automated is correct. It certainly is not a come-on-and-crack-me password. When they move on to a brute force attack, with 14+ chars it is not doable. Check out this article:

John Pozadzides Tells All http://www.bnet.com/blog/businesstips/how-easy-is-it-to-hack...
Show HN: TimePiece.Me - A Simple Search Engine For Timepieces
I fully agree with the article and I am also one of the people that give bogus (but consistent) answers to these questions. So for example for 'what is your first pet' I fill in something like 'the last unicorn' or another phrase that has never left my brain.

The article also reminds me of another anecdote.Many years ago in the last millennium I checked out this German teenage forum (bravo.de) because well, I was a German teenager. Anyway, on that forum you could not only give the answer to the security question. They even allowed you to specify the question you want.

That feature amused me a lot and I checked out other people's self-made security questions. Being a teenager forum in the later 90s this is what happened. A very substantial number of forum users had the security question 'what is my favorite Backstreet boy' or a variation thereof. And, well, pretty much everybody loved Nick Carter. Nobody liked the others. In just one our I was able to log on to many, many accounts just with the phrase 'Nick'.
It's just an overall lack of attention to detail, compounded with the need for the OS to work on 1000 different kinds of hardware combinations. It's near impossible to describe without sounding whiny or silly, because it's death by 1000 stones, not one killer thing.

Anecdotes:

- Whilst using my Nexus S, it rings. I pull it out of my pocket, only to discover I can't answer it because there's a keyboard over the Answer/Decline buttons. Later, I realize I must have pressed and held on the Menu button long enough while pulling the phone out of my pocket to force the keyboard to popover the Answer/Decline buttons. But why the heck is this possible even? It vaguely reminds me Joel Spolsky's article on the Windows shutdown menu - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html .

- I want to make it so there's momentum/inertial/bounce scrolling in a text view. This is impossible. Why? So phones that still have trackballs don't have whacky scrolling behavior going on for them. But the ListView has inertial scrolling. How the heck can I possible explain this to my client without sounding foolish or lazy?

- I want to animated a cell disappearing from a ListView. Again, impossible. The solutions mentioned on StackOverflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3928193/how-to-animate-ad... ) (BTW, the Android presence on StackOverflow is abysmal), in order, and summarized:
1) Rewrite the class yourself because Android is open
2) Some hacky drawing solution that isn't a good idea.
3) Wait till Adobe's dev tools get faster on Android.
4) Re-implement the class from scratch yourself.

I understand now that Honeycomb has much better animation facilities, but we're not seeing that on phones. And when we do, the problem with carriers + manufacturers holding sway means whatever apps I build won't see any improvements on phones until Ice Cream is released and manufacturers ship phones with it. We're talking June or July at this point, right? For basic animation. That was in iOS 1.0. In June 2007.
and cell phones, texting, wifi, email ... it's about communication in general, yo.
Personally, its because of the arrogance they have with they way they did their UX implementation -- to the point that any criticism of it is brushed off as though the comments are made by morons who don't understand the vision.

Further, the tidbits of information on the site are captured and displayed in a way that makes it very unruly to manage if you want to know a lot about any given topic.

You have a TOPIC - which is effectively a big ass bucket to throw everything. They try to oversimplify data classification making it seem as though tagging etc is too complex. I am not saying that it is an easy problem - I am saying that there is not the deep level of experience being brought to the table to solve these issues.

I do feel that there is a hell of a lot of Facebook Alumn echo-chamber cock-sucking that occurs in the valley. Quora falls square into this area.

Sure, Facebook is an amazing success - but to say, categorically, that all of the alumn who came from facebook out of college - and have that as their only experience ever are going to have messianic vision to every other aspect of online experience is just plain stupid.

Everyone has had the co-worker who's only frame of reference to anything is "their last company" -- and even if your last company is big, and successful - its still just one data-point.
No worries. Congrats on such awesome traffic numbers!

Of course, if you were following the true spirit, we'd see a hockey stick chat comparing TechCrunch's launch traffic to your projected traffic :)
And what would the equivalent number for coal mining/burning be?
I am a big fan of TSF. REally love the interviews and would like to say a big thank you for the inspirations. My only problem is it seems you are already going the way of techcrunch. I would love to see TSf as a place for the small start-up guy and not the already made ones. I sent a tip about my start-up and even if a story would not be written about it, an email saying why you are not going to follow-up on it would be appreciated. I contacted you several times but was totally ignored..
In this conversation, "works better" was defined 2 short comments ago as "easing the regulatory burden for exceptional cases [and in general if possible] while still maintaining safety standards for mundane drugs". Paraphrased.

But you jumped way past "working better" into some unrelated and 100% ideologically-driven conception of "freedom". What are we talking about here, my freedom to get poisoned by cough syrup because I didn't perform my own scientific studies on the matter with a large sample population?

How come freedom only ever applies to the already-rich cutting corners for an extra buck?
Horrible term? Just because it's the catch phrase du jour doesn't mean it's totally meaningless. I get annoyed with the buzz and malapropism just as much as the next guy, but like it or not, cloud computing is a major global phenomenon.
Fabrice Bellard is one the most impressive hackers around. His other accomplishments include QEMU, launching FFMPEG, and discovering the fastest (at the time) method for calculating digits of pi.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard and http://bellard.org/ for more info on the guy. I wonder what he's doing these days?
تعديلات مواد الدستور المصرى 2011
Or we could throw it into the sun (yes, exploding rockets, I know. It's not an especially viable option, but it exists).
Very briefly, it works by randomly repositioning page elements.
As a former web application security guy, and now developer, identifying and disclosing vulnerabilities on websites is still very much a troubled area. Most companies don't have proper security@ email addresses set up or monitored, and still don't take kindly to vulns being reported.

That said, publicly disclosing a flaw in addition to defacing the website, even temporarily, is certainly not a classy way to go about it.
Apple should really work on having its products displayed closer to the competition then, because this apparently glaring flaw hasn't stopped Android phones gaining popularity to thei point that they're outselling iPhones 4 to 1 in the US so perhaps Google's priorities aren't as messed up as you might think.
I'm getting high-quality traffic from Facebook for a fraction of the cost of Google Adwords, it takes more work but it's definitely viable.
I recently got my dad's large real estate brokerage to start using Dropbox for all of their file sharing. Anyone who's ever worked in or near realty could tell you that the technology in the market is usually 5-10 years (at least) behind where it should be, so I considered this a huge accomplishment.
It's almost a clever idea, but what FB really does is show you pictures that have been TAGGED as your friends, when in reality it's up to whomever tagged them to be correct. And I've seen plenty of pictures of woodland animals, circus and carnival performers and other less respectable items tagged as my friends when they clearly are not. So, it can be worse than secret questions when you try to create an account somewhere and the secret question is "who is this?" and the picture is of a horse in heat doing what nature dictates.