skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan takes a lot of criticism for being a closed off culture. After living here for a while I have started to believe that it is necessary to support these values. Multiculturalism means lowest common denominator. There are efficiencies you can gain by having a monoculture. Nobody has to lock their bikes, subways can have nice cloth seats and you can walk around in any neighborhood and be safe.

When I came to Tokyo, a lot of foreigners I met who had been living here complained about the uptight nature of Japan. Too rigid, too exclusive, too slow to change.

Before Tokyo, I lived in a very nice part of Brooklyn. I remember I was walking down the street and I saw a man with his child come out of a store. The kid unwrapped his new toy and promptly threw the package onto the curb. I had a flash of anger and was thinking "what's wrong with that guy not correcting his kid?" As I was thinking this, the guy threw his cigarette pack cellophane on the sidewalk. He had different values than me, and I had a dirty street because of it.

In a place like Brooklyn you learn tolerance and how to live with other people's values on a day to day basis. In a place like Tokyo, the system shuns you until you adopt their values. I don't think either is necessarily better but you should be aware of it when you live in Japan and feel left out.
If you have reason to believe that the information is doctored, it would be a better idea to explain why. Attacking the messenger is fine for scoring points in a debate, but it isn't going to bring anything valuable to the discussion. We should be thinking about the people who are confused and scared right now, not Siemens and their bottom line.
Aye, me as well. And later written my fair share of them when the going got rough.
Thanks for that link, that is the best source of facts without unnecessary blabber that I've seen so far.

The IAEA site also confirms the radiation level that I heard in various places: As reported earlier, a 400 millisieverts (mSv) per hour radiation dose observed at Fukushima Daiichi occurred between Units 3 and 4.

Just so that we're clear: 400mSv/h is a serious amount of radiation. A short-term exposure of 1Sv is a ballpark value for acute radiation sickness, and you'd get that in 2.5h.

Like the IAEA says, that's a point value right in the plant, but if the workers were exposed to that sort of radiation level, saying that "no one will die from radiation here" is not justifiable.
Where the Unix philosophy breaks down
It would probably be illegal. Google is the dominant player in both the analytics and the search space, using it's dominance in one area to strengthen in dominance in another would practically be asking for an anti-trust suit.

Plus it's incredibly easy to rig google analytics data, you can just modify the GA javascript you're serving.
Library, Starbucks, Co-Working facilities, if they have them in your area. Working from home is not for everyone - if it isn't working for you, change jobs. I would suggest that 2.5 months is enough time to determine if this type of arrangement works for you or not - but maybe it will take a little longer.
Averaging the results? They probably discard outliers too. Unusually high output is something you'd want to be aware of rather than hiding it in an averaged result.
... also your username is now 0fa9d314017d68a235015a9344bc9c09bbe87ec3
To generate a list of tone frequencies, start with A=440Hz and multiply by 2^(1/12) to get the frequency of the next higher tone or divide by 2^(1/12) to go down to the next lower tone in the chromatic scale. Notice that the octave is 12 of these intervals away, making it's frequency (2^(1/12))^12 = 2 times the initial frequency.
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Yeah, that sounds interesting; in particular, I'd like to see how many people came to your site from the print mention, how that compares to the online mention, and whether there's any significant difference in their behavior.

For what it's worth, I remember coming to your site through the online article :)
Min.us unveils new user profiles  SXSW
my point is that needing a team doesn't mean you are useless. do you grow your own food? did you design the integrated circuits that your computer is made from?

My point is that a well-constructed group can accomplish a lot more than a lone person; and being more effective in a group than alone does not mean that the individual members of that group are somehow worthless.

This is why I think the "what can you do by yourself" is a poor test of the ability of a person.
Or Perl if we're going down this route.
For fantastic free weekly video tutorials you must check out Ryan Bates' http://Railscasts.com. Each one is typically on a new topic, (although there have been "mini-series") each exploring some new feature, technique or add-on.

If you need a quick-start on deploying one of the many gems out there, there's a good chance Ryan has you covered.
Playing Video Games gathered around a couch is way more fun
Holy potatoes, I'm truly and deeply dazzled.
Speaking of canvas, can you grab canvas/svg content embedded in the page?
Hope everyone likes it :) Full changelog here: http://blog.min.us/2011/03/14/v2-00/
I like speakers who don't take themselves too seriously, especially when they are talking about a top 10 list. So, for me, the last rule adds 10x credibility to the first nine.

It is: "The laws of entrepreneurship are not laws of nature. You can break them."
Sure, but those hordes who designed it didn't spend time training him to set it up and run it correctly. Just face that it is a horrible analogy and move on.
What I love about this video is at the end it repeats the introduction again. It's super awkward, but it shows how unpolished something can be and STILL be useful/valuable.

The take away lesson: Do something publicly and reap the reward. Keep it private as you perfect it and loose big time.

Andrew Warner has competition now!
TwoSixty (YC W11) Launches TellFi, a Google Voice for Companies
Related submission today about overheads imposed by abstraction boundaries:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2330206
> Hospitals are run by doctors

Typically US hospitals are run by MBA types, whether it's a for-profit or not-for-profit facility. They, or their corporate overlords, make all the decisions about capital outlays, like IS. The marketing folks just have to tell them, "The docs'll love it!" No EMR system I've ever looked at successfully models my clinical thought process. I have to work around or against the tool, rather than it disappearing into the task at hand. </rant> Now ask me about modal popups...
You should have said something to the guy who's kid littered. That's how culture is supposed to work.
well I'm not as familiar with the space as you, but I've used facebook for example to do exactly what you're proposing. I can share a specific album with other facebook users, which sounds very similar and you can even create a public link for others to view that album. You can even create Photo Album and share them with other people and people can add to them.

So I was assuming your user base was that of more professionals that wanted to be able to have everything in its original format. So what are your differentiators, since you are using facebook login only, where you are just redoing facebook functionality.
This happens when you owe more in royalties than you make in revenue.

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20110212/pandoras-music-fees...

Check out what they paid in 2009 for royalties. Yeah. That might lead to some big funding rounds and some major dilution.
In this situation, I'd seriously consider throwing down a binary blob as a string that directly represents this data as whatever fancy structure you want and writing the small handful of functions it would take to traverse that "string" to do the lookup. Then you can do whatever optimal thing you want and memory usage is very predictable.

Technically this is what his final solution converged on, it's just the least fancy "fancy structure" there is.

It's a last resort, certainly, but in certain cases it's the simplest answer. Be aware of encoding issues, though; UTF-8 technically can't carry arbitrary binaries and you may have to work around some things a bit.
Very well written article with substance.
I should be able to drive whatever car I want, free from unwanted control

Even if that car is a coal-fired chariot with whirling spikes extending from the axles?

I agree with your sentiment entirely, but also recognize that so long as I live within the confines of human society, absolute freedom is impossible.
Just a nitpick, I see no comparison against 1.9.2 there in those Benchmarks. It is either REE or MRI 1.8.7.
the matchmaking idea was tried by a company called thread.com http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/threadcom-raises-12-million... ... they could never find traction, but again its about execution.
Thanks for the info guys.
I said 'if the Japanese escape unscathed.' If you're wondering where the 'goalposts' are, it's approximate to disasters that could happen at any other power plant: ie. workers injured/killed, maybe a few civilians hurt. That seems objective enough to me when you're comparing the safety of different power sources.

Obviously there can be no 'ultimate, ultimate proof' unless we get a direct line to God, but if you're going to be the person standing on top of the hill saying

'I don't care if you can show nuclear plants can withstand unheard of earthquakes and tsunamis, I don't care if there's 50 years of further research and improvement on those standards, I still wont believe nuclear power is safe. In fact there's pretty much nothing that would sway my assessment of nuclear safety...'

then I don't see why anyone should take you seriously.

edit: oh, and let's just wait for the clear light of day before we decide what exactly 'the situation' really is/was. I've seen many conflicting and retracted reports so far
Nice, I like the idea. I've been exploring something similar on http://www.thematchinggame.com (it's only visible after you register), but I think there's a lot of room for an interest specific site, especially one that's not focused on dating.

I would suggest giving people a little more to play with up front. I'm hugely against not engaging people in some way at the start. There is the curiosity factor with a blank sign up page, but from my experience with various sites (http://about.me/jaredcosulich), giving people something to play with without registering does a lot better.
I would have probably stored all the words as keys in a Redis DB, and then never would have discovered the neat ideas he did about having the dictionary client-side.
Need an organ transplant? Have a 3D printer?
Sometimes it feels good to work for IBM.
Your closing sarcasm tag isn't warranted, in a large number of circles.
I don't think pg is given enough credit for his hand in reddit. I wonder how many redditors have heard of him and/or YC.
Where are you located? I've wrestled with this in the past as well. Finding a co-working spot can be a huge help. I was lucky enough to get Pivotal Labs to host me as I work on my startup and it's made a huge difference.
Well, how could you imagine they might make up for this now?

This is something of a dilemma in any team-based development. Everyone thinks they have the right to go off and do their own thing. And everyone does have this right.

But once someone has created something, how do they work that into the "mainstream"?
But do they have a "recover username" form that requests your already known password?
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Times have changed. Please don't try to reproduce that in an upscale hotel in Tokyo. They'll just call security (I've heard the story in first-hand).
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As usual, rvm is quick to update. If you're on rvm: rvm update head; rvm install jruby.
Wonderful, do you know how accounts I have to change because of this reckless post?
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I've been struggling through that lately. I keep getting distracted trying to prove or disprove there is a solution to the MU puzzle. He will present a new idea and I always have to go back and check to see if I can make any headway. I've tried the problem forwards, backwards, and from a numerical standpoint of counting I's. I just want to get to the end of the book and know whether or not it is possible.

Regardless, that book will make your brain fold in it's self. Highly recommended.
I think by 'publishing' Jobs meant magazines/newspapers not books. But you're right, the Kindle does offer magazine subscriptions...
> Nobody has to lock their bikes,

Wait, you live in Tokyo, don't you? (I think we met at one of the meetups)

Everybody locks their bikes here, and even so bycicle theft is common (well, at least compared to the other types of crime). My own bycicle was stolen while I was out of the country for a couple of weeks...

That said, I understand that's not the main point of your comment.
No need to berate the guy. We've all made silly mistakes before. Yes, I know that this is bad, but there's no need to send him harassing emails.
This is totally normal and understandable. Even the days I work from home, I usually feel like going to the office by noon.

As other people have suggested, try going to a place where you can still work. Maybe ask people at your office to set up a webcam/mic for you(maybe a netbook in the office kitchen?, might get interesting for both them and you!), or during meetings.

If not then think about getting a job where you can go work in an office. Depression can be serious business, do not neglect it, it's not worth it.
They remind me more of Microsoft at Apple's 90s low point. Their software is everywhere, and it's full of security problems as a side effect of how there was little consideration for security in the original design.

Microsoft has only recently caught up with its insecure legacy. That suggests that we have another 15 years before Flash becomes stable software.
Looking at the new logo reminded me of Aperture Science [0][1]. I guess they hummed "We do what we must, because we can."

[0] http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091201202611/half-li...

[1] http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Aperture_Science
He did explain why.
Yes, there is plenty of graffiti in Tokyo.

(edit: "plenty" is relative, in this case of course)
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Netflix Branches out into Original Programming
Dojo 1.6 Released
Thoughts? Other than what not to do, how about some really original tactics that work for you?
Intel Plans a Macro Push Around Micro Servers
Looting is the exception in most Western nations, not the rule. I love crime here, don't get me wrong, but how many reports of widespread looting have we ever heard in the US? Rodney King riots, Katrina (and that was exaggerated)... that's about it, right? Massive floods strike Iowa, war breaks out, terrorist attacks, lethal heat waves, Bulls win trophy, none of these calamities cause looting.

Yeah, one of those things is not like the others sigh.
What's the purpose of being able to inject Flash files into Excel documents again?
Has anybody else noticed the magical effect of sunlight? A few days ago was the first sunny day of the year. Everyone was very happy.
The author gives WebDAV as an example of a good standardized REST API.

Is adding new HTTP methods (like PROPFIND, MOVE, COPY, etc.) considered to be RESTful? I always thought you were supposed to structure all actions around the main 6, and add extra functionality in the data payload or query parameters.
Either I'm misunderstanding you, or you read that the wrong way around. The point is that those who do consider themselves civilized are, in reality, not civilized when compared to the Japanese.
I don't know about NO gain in security, but certainly less gain in security than other measures that cost less, don't cause health concerns and don't violate the Constitution.
I could argue that if you are, for any reason, creating a formal computer language which requires more than just a CFG to parse, something has gone wrong somewhere. CFGs are narrow in comparison with general grammars but that doesn't stop them from being (1) exceptionally powerful and (2) exceptionally well-understood.
By all means, please do elaborate.
Dojo Mobile 1.6
Sure... I've thought about that a lot too. You're saying I should have challenged their values with mine. I probably should have said something. And yet I would spend all day long every day in arguments with people who just don't agree with me. I tend to be rather non-confrontational and don't like arguments. Many people can just shrug it off but I get upset by them. In my mind, this is an example of an efficiency gained by the monoculture.

edit: Just thought of another little anecdote: I was sitting outside roppongi hills eating a bento on a bench when a woman with a kid and a little dog walked by. The dog stopped to poop and when he was finished she quickly scurried away into her high-rise.

My wife and I were flabbergasted. An old woman and her husband walking by gave her the glare and you could see everyone nearby was shocked. About 5 minutes later she came out without the dog but with the kid and a woman from the front desk of her building. They cleaned it up. I guess she didn't have a bag with her and she wanted to drop the dog off and then grab a bag from her house. During the five minutes that it was there, I was thinking how I should have said something.
So, What Is This Hipster Thing?
Actually, it's: rvm get latest ; rvm reload ; rvm install jruby
But this is a business truism, really. Never EVER build a business based on another who is in a power to revoke it, unless you can make a TON of money in a short amount of time.
How do you change your password?
The 'why I am not worried' article, edited by MIT nuclear scientists
Well, that's surviving, not looting.
They also cost a lot of money, which (surprise!) is going right to a company in which former Homeland Security goon Michael Chertoff has an ownership stake.

And as the above commenter noted, they don't detect the threat they are designed to protect against, which is plastic explosives worn on the body.
It was 11 mSv/hr at the front gate. The 400 mSv/hr figure was from literally right next to or inside the reactor. And this was a spike, mind you, not sustained for even an hour (as with the 0.809µSv/hr figure).
This was already debunked:

'Professor Pflugfelder evidently needs to study Japanese history a little better because after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 there was widespread looting and rioting, and during the firebombings of WWII looting was a common practice. If these are deep cultural roots, they only go back about two generations'

http://partialobjects.com/2011/03/is-looting-our-default-rea...
Is looting our default reaction to trouble?
In response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2329842
Politician likens illegal immigrants to feral hogs
Ask HN: Geckoboard, AppointmentReminder and other recurring, how do you price?
I am working on a project that will be charging companies monthly if they decide to subscribe. It will be a hosted platform. I'm not sure how to price it at all, however. Any thoughts on this? Some corporations that use it will be large, some will be small. It's inventory related, so some will have larger inventory than others as well.
From another board:

"We have friends over there and what info we are getting is that they are having to deal with heartache and problems of Biblical proportions. If it weren't for those citizens who are in the older age group who know what to do in desperate times there would be more problems. The older people are self reliant and remember Hiroshima, Nagasaki...they know how to share with each other and help each other in the worst of times. Panic has not gripped them as it would a lot of other countries...look at Haiti..look at other regions where something less than this has taken hold and how they react."
Python gevent suddenly switches from libevent to libev
Please, please open the device up before you stop supporting it. When you sync images to the device they get resized to the native resolution. This means when you "zoom" in on a photo, it looks like crap. Why even have a zoom function?
IE9 gets WebM support plug-in from Google, Internet video gets more friendly
Agree. I work from home and prefer it but I can definitely see how it might not be suitable for everyone. My friend worked from home for a year and he remarks that he could only do max 6 hours of work per day. It's surprising to find out just how much those office distractions eat out of a day and when you work from home, you no longer have them.

You may want to see about trying to shorten your work day.
Why are Stumblers so elusive?
I get 200+ uniques a day from StumbleUpon but < 5 will sign up on our website compared to 1 in 5 that find us by other means.

Anyone else see/explain this pattern?
I've had a similar problem after working for 10 months for a company in Scotland (from Vancouver). Unfortunately, I didn't have any co-working/café/library options because for security reasons I had to be connecting from my static (home) IP address. It didn't help that because of my coverage time, I needed to be at home on weekends and during the evenings - all the times that my friends were available. Basically 10 months without a social life.

On top of that, I never had the feeling that I could 'go home' and relax. I was always at home, so I could always work, so no matter what I was doing (reading, web browsing, watching TV) I always felt like I should be working instead. This ended up carrying over to other activities, even when I was out in the mornings before my shift, and I ended up feeling constantly guilty for not being as productive as I could have been, which led to me feeling more and more depressed and being even less productive. It became a reckless downward spiral that I just couldn't deal with.

In the end, I took a pay cut ($20k loss in take-home) to start at a local company so that I could shake the depression I was dealing with and stop being so squirrely. Some people can do working from home, and some jobs are worth doing from home, but personally I couldn't deal with it.
It's strange that these aren't required to undergo some sort of more standard and professional safety testing. I get that they don't need quite the same level of reliability as medical scanners, but the level of radiation safety should be similar, or perhaps actually higher, since many more people are routinely exposed to them. Could you get a device with the amount of ad-hoc testing that's been done here even into your local doctor's office? My guess is no.

I'm not particularly confident in what I've found of the failure analysis and testing, either. For example, the devices appear to work by scanning a beam rapidly across one's body. If the beam got stuck in one place, it would have to shut off extremely rapidly to avoid an unhealthy dose of radiation being concentrated in one place. Is it possible for the beam to get stuck? Are there fail-safes that would cut off the beam, and how fast do they operate, and how reliable are they? As far as I can tell, miscellaneous doctors and medical-device folks have been asking these sorts of questions, but there aren't very professional looking tests and analyses available to answer them.
Not major, but just anecdotally, all of my Rails apps are 2.x and I have no plans to migrate within 6 months.
I found this insanely helpful! At first I thought the tutorial was just a scripted app which only listened for the right queries to move on. I was a little blown away when I realized I could run other queries against the tutorial db.