skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right right, I actually expected that to be the case, but you won't necessarily always be the owner of Synctus, etc.

You should probably do the short amount of paperwork required:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html

"If you think that the employer or school might have a claim, you can resolve the problem clearly by getting a copyright disclaimer signed by a suitably authorized officer of the company or school. (Your immediate boss or a professor is usually NOT authorized to sign such a disclaimer.)"

Stick everyone's mind at ease.

Neat project (which is why I care enough to get the ducks in a row).
Why? I actually think the events of the past week prove it's safety. Let put it in perspective: a 40 year old nuclear reactor gets hit by a 9 magnitude earthquake, then slammed with 20 ft. tall swell of water, followed by an explosion due to the buildup of hydrogen gas that blows off the roof of the building, and after all that the core was still mostly intact and contained. That seems like an amazingly positive result to me.
> Is it any better with Android?

Undeniably. Google may not be fixing these bugs and their communication is definitely less than stellar, but at least they are getting releases and bug fixes out of the door, as well as improvements to the platform. Likewise with iOS, there are bugs & features & long-needed fixes (I'm looking at you, notifications) which still have not been released, but the company is moving forward, fixing bugs (again not necessarily my or your own pet bugs) and adding features.
Sony, If You Can't Beat Hackers, Give Them A Job Instead
Why doesn't Android support SVG? Is it coming in Honeycomb?
and while i'm here - the original earley paper is full of bugs.for a modern treatment you may find aycock & horspool's work on 'practical earley parsing' interesting, as well as the work on the Marpa Parser in perl.

to me: the earley parser and the packrat parser are similar in nature - they are both chart parsers. one is depth first, one is breadth first.

my question: can you engineer an earley parser that supports ordered choice and exploits this to avoid broadening the search too early -- ie can earley parsers support PEGs

I think it is possible and when i'm not drowning in my startup work i'd like to take a longer look at it.

fwiw my terrible attempts at an earley recognizer are here http://pastie.org/private/uezi1mxiur8dymdbh2scw

i've tried to use some ideas from the aycock and the aretz variants of the earley parser - avoiding lists of earley items at a character - instead storing the reductions/completions seperately from the scanning items,
and using a driver rather than the predictor/completor loop (still need to add nullable support...)
They are not permanently shut down. This is most likely a move because of the impending elections, as nuclear energy is quite controversial here in Germany.
... Which would mean an explosion damaged the containment vessel. The earthquake did remarkably little damage to the plant.
It looks fine on my Firefox (a 4.0 nightly build).
Context: The previous government had decided to phase out nuclear power by 2020. After the last election the current revoked that decision and even allowed old power plants that were due to be shut down to operate longer. So, if they hadn't revoked that decision, the seven reactors we are talking about her would have been shut down already or would be about to be shut down anyway.
Why isn't that gap being arbitraged away? Sure reactors aren't exactly portable, but a 5bn gap surely can't be right.

1. Build reactor pieces in China 4bn
2. Ship over to Finland at 1bn cost
3. Installation 2bn
4. = 2bn profit
1: It's funny you mention data and documents, the fact that Android even allows you get documents on your phone and then edit them in whatever app of your choice is quite a feat. I have a friend who is a Grad student/TA at a tech school. They all got iPads and he couldn't for the life of him figure out how to edit word documents on the thing. Took him 5 minutes on Android. For music, I use mostly cloud services like Pandora and Slacker, so not too familiar with how the music is stored.

2: You don't know where the app locker is? It's the main button on every home screen. Once you take 5 seconds and figure that out, you will never have that issue again. Not knowing the name is probably a moot problem that happens in a very infrequent cases. Getting it on one of the home screens has the same usability as the iPhone... hold and drag. I prefer to have clean home screens with the 20% of the apps I use 80% of the time. The other 80% are in the locker for the infrequent use.

3: Not sure, is that really the issue? Sure it would be nice, I agree. But to discount an OS cause you have to drag an app onto a home screen of your choice?

4: I have used Android (Droid X) for about 8 months now. I'm not consistently switching phones, so I learned my phone in a day and I was set. When I use a friends phone like a Galaxy or an Incredible, the main points of the interface are the same. Sure there may be a few different buttons here and there.. but it doesn't take more than a minute to figure out what they do.

5: It's a different line of thinking, for sure.

Like I mentioned once, its a moot argument. You don't like Android? Fine, get an iPhone. Some of us like the customizability of the OS. I like that different phone manufacturers have slightly different concepts of what makes the OS the most functional. Because at the end of the day each iteration will better future phone models as they learn what the market likes more. Instead of what one companies design team likes better.
Everyone has their own style and code of conduct. I feel it's disingenuous for me to state personal opinions in a neutral tone, implying that they are facts.

I also find such writing bloodless. Others may have a knack for doing it well, but when I write without putting myself into the words, it reads like I'm pretending to be an academic writing a paper with all the neutrality and "fair and balanced" viewpoints.

Context affects my perspective on this. Sites like Quora, Stack Exchange, and Wikipedia exist to build compendiums of knowledge. Neutrality is crucial to their mission. But is the article comments of Hacker News the same kind of place? I don't know, but so far I don't think so. (I could have written, "But so far it seems this is not the case," I imagine). Hacker News is composed of people discussing ideas with people. Personal opinions seem to be the point of the comments section.

So... When I state my opinions I use the word "I."
It could be lead glass..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_glass
I wish this were true. Well, you're not completely wrong- An outright asshole is getting by on confidence alone. But a guy who is polite but disarmingly arrogant, condescending in subtle ways, is much more desirable than a confident nice guy.
tzs, feel free to get in touch with me if you need more information on this.
You can also make your own with the standard Mac color picker. Open up AppleScript Editor, and type this:

choose color

From there, File -> Save As, and choose the "Application" file format. Done!
The news ticker at heute.de was pretty sure about it, saying there are two holes each eight square meters in size in reactor 4.
Of course I can't say how much truth lies in that statement.
That's basically the questions that music theory answers. As far as I understand things, it mostly relate to frequencies and harmonic resonance. The octaves are exact multiples of the same frequency (so a higher octave is 2x the frequency of the lower octave). The seven notes all fall out from that as well, but it is more complicated to explain and I don't know things well enough to break it down in a way that would be correct and make sense. But basically they resonate with each other.

As to why the human ear finds harmonic resonance pleasing is a more difficult question to answer. Why do we find order pleasing, and chaos frustrating? Speaking generally, the human brain functions as an advanced pattern seeking machine. What we do is take in chaotic and diverse information and make sense of it in some way, piecing individual facial features together into a specific face, and so on. Information that is ordered to begin with requires less work for the brain to process, so perhaps we find it pleasing because it is easy to sort and label mentally?

The intervals of black and white keys relate to the major scale. Basically, the major scale has the property of consisting of two whole steps, one half step, three whole steps and finally one half step. So the piano is constructed based on that scale.

Again, I can't explain it much better than that, but any book on the mathematics of music and signal processing / frequencies would have more information.

But yeah, the reason why you can't answer those questions is because you don't know music theory. That's where the answer to them is. It's not that they can't be answered.
What potentially devastating consequences would there be if instead of a nuclear plant a windmill had been hit by an earthquake, tsunami and explosion? I honestly fail to be impressed by this kind of reasoning about nuclear energy's safety.

Disclaimer: I still think fission power might be better in the long run than coal power (catastrophic global warming is worse than any nuclear disaster), but I'd rather do without either and strive for 100% renewable energies. It can be done, just needs the willingness to do it.
Here is the 'mothership' - I guess your searches should be as secure as they can be:

http://internic.net/whois.html

[From site footer:

InterNIC is a registered service mark of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It is licensed to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which operates this web site.]
True, but this appears to be much smaller than an Arduino.
Microsoft IE9 site compares IE9 to Chrome 6
This is why I always use the command line 'whois' tool to look for domain names. I don't trust the registrars.
Live Tokyo Geiger Counter
ShareKit http://www.getsharekit.com/ is also an awesome library for sharing content on social sites.
Airbnb is a great company (I'm a user and like it a lot) but not a typical web startup. Take all YC startups and divide by number of employees, what's the average?
What I find especially ironic is that while I completely understood that I could get the x and y values using rcos(t) and rsin(t) and used it a lot when I worked for a video game company, it's only more recently that the idea "clicked". I always thought about sin and cos in relation to triangles and not circles.
I'm not an environmentalist, but as a technology person, I'm extremely skeptical of claims that nuclear power can be safe, however well-designed the reactors are today. It's hard enough to tell whether my web server will be able to handle next year's traffic.

Nuclear power produces waste that is dangerous for thousands of years. How can anyone say, with a straight face, that they have a plan for that? All of us will be dead and every government in the world will have changed. Our current languages won't be spoken anymore. The location of the waste deposits will likely be forgotten. There is absolutely no way to predict what will happen to the waste, and it seems awfully selfish to foist that kind of problem on people in the future to solve our very short-term energy needs.

If there is a form of nuclear power that completely expends its fuel to the point where its demonstrably not dangerous TODAY, or if we can launch the waste into the sun, I'm all for it. But lets not pretend we can control the damage from things that will persist for thousands of years after we're dead.
I still remember the voices after Chernobyl: Light water reactors are safe and core meltdown can never happen, because the moderator is water. If it evaporates, the moderator is gone and the core will cool down.

Chernobyl was a graphite moderated reactor. When the core overheated, the graphite melted together with the uranium and the nuclear reaction could not be stopped any more.

Now we see how reliable those reports really are. There is no base for any beliefs, if you ask me.
I assumed this was intended as a posting for home hackers to have a go at internet enabling their devices; in which case I think the size consideration isn't much of an issue.

If we're talking consumer product design, i.e. mass produced internet enabled fridges, sure this is not a bad idea :)

But for a home hacker the Arduino is the way forward :)
The standard is constantly in flux and IE has long dev, testing, beta and release candidate cycles because they need to be backward compatible for the sake of companies.

If IE9 implements it, there's a danger of people developing sites that implement workarounds and fixes and will break when the issues are fixed.(i.e back to ie6 days).

For the new features here is the labs version:

http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/

>edit: I predict severe downvoting once people start arriving at their offices in Redmond..

Is this some kind of joke? Usually if you bash MS and praise Apple/Google you get modded up real high. Say thing that can be construed as mildly positive to MS or midly negative to Apple and you'll not get upvotes or get downvoted. There are HN users who have quit HN for good because of this.

There are HN users who have quit HN in disgust because of this.

If you're getting downvoted for bashing MS, then you must be doing something wrong, like being way off base with your hate or something.
I've heard it is in Honeycomb, but I personally haven't tested it. I also heard it may be in some Gingerbread builds.
What is there to explain. The shadow of the text makes a silhouette of a head.
could this be used the same way those wall outlet/pluggable web connected computers were for hacking networks? i.e. you replace someone's existing ethernet wall jack with this one w/a server in it, and they would NEVER find your machine piggy backing off their internal network.
> Regular Expressions are a really powerful tool, and the absence of support for regular expressions in the iPhone SDK seems to be a glaring omission.

NSRegularExpression was added to the iOS SDK in 4.0.

Not available if you still aim to be 3.x-compatible (for iPhones and first-gen Touch), but 4.0 has been out for 9 months now, I think it's time to bury this one (note: you could still find NSRegularExpression insufficient or inferior to RKL, that's a different issue).
Automatic content generation and other shady web practices
That seems like an amazingly positive result to me.

the result might be not positive enough regarding the possible long-term damage it still can have to the environment and the japanese people (35M in tokyo area alone).
"Biggest (nuclear) emergency since Chernobyl" seems hyperbolic unless the situation has changed considerably since I last looked at it. Indeed in Japan alone the Mihama Nuclear Power Plant accident in 2004 caused more fatalities than Fukushima has so far.
Assuming the conservative base in Germany wouldn't back Nuclear Energy. I don't know what it's worth but this wouldn't be true in France for example.

As for reconsidering Nucealr Energy, I still think we should wait for the end of the whole thing. Indeed I realize this won't happen.
Heaviest lobbying senators have ever seen over debit card fee
IE9 HTML Labs site for experimental features.

http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/
What is the safe way? I genuinely am interested so I know how to proceed in the future.

I've NEVER had a domain snagged from me by going directly to the domain (even when I wound up registering it a week or two later). I've had a domain taken from me multiple times by the domain registration sites... sometimes within a few hours.
Works on my cheap Galaxy Apollo in a pint glass - nice.
My fellow Germans are sometimes a funny people. Apparently the sales for iodine pills skyrocketed this week.
Here is a link to an article from his official web page where he appears to be stating a generally anti-nuclear point of view

http://www.sigmar-gabriel.de/Nachrichten/details/20110313_at...

This gives his statement about Merkel's move just being politics more weight
> That a nuclear power station situation in a major earthquake zone next to the coast could magically survive a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami?

The un-posed question is "what happens if a group of terrorists fly an A380 directly into one of these plants"? Someone on reddit was mentioning that a nuclear plant in Texas was built to "withstand a direct hit from an F-16 traveling at supersonic speeds", but I guess an A380 is so much heavier and larger than a F-16. Because right now terrorists don't even need to get access to the US aerial space, they can hit a nuclear plant in Mexic (let's say this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Verde_Nuclear_Power_Stat...) and still be able to cause important damage to the US population.

Here's the reddit comment I was talking about: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/g3tfr/and_you_are_tell...
IMovie faster on iPad2 than MacBook Pro?
The deaths from other fuel sources, while not as immediately obvious as "oh look that nuclear plant just blew up" are potentially far greater.
The Relationship Between Design & Code
Yeah, looks like an XPort. Maybe this is the evaluation kit, which comes with the carrier board for ~$150-200. It's been a while since I used one (probably 7 years ago), but the serial interface was rather limited. To develop firmware for the XPort itself, you needed an SDK only available under NDA for customers they were willing to support (we were such a customer and the SDK was reasonably usable). It was a cool idea & a great way to Ethernet-enable serial devices, but nowadays something like the Arduino with Ethernet shield is probably more accessible.
Known natural hazards within 25 mile buffer of a Nuclear power plant
To be fair, at this rate Chrome will be up to version 25 by this time next year.
It varies quite a bit to be fair. It depends on a number of factors including salary level, client size, formal agreements in place, potential for future business, etc.

The lowest fee I have charged to date is equivalent to 15% of the candidates salary. I have also worked on roles where my fee has been 35% so as you can imagine, it really is circumstantial.
Meet the future of travel search
Seven Steps to Earthquake Safety
A disclaimer doesn't quite make sense for me. Let me explain: I fully own True Blue Logic Ltd and am sole director. Both Synctus and ddar are projects owned by this company. Copyright on both Synctus and ddar are held by this company. Synctus is not open source. This ddar release is open source (GNU GPL 3) as of today.

So my company retains copyright but licenses ddar to the public under the terms of the GNU GPL 3. Thus there is no disclaimer to sign, since my company still claims copyright.

Of course, now that ddar is released under the GPL, it will be forever (in the same manner as any other open source project).

None of this affects Synctus, which is not open source. If anyone contributes code to ddar, those contributions would not be permitted to be used in Synctus without a further licence from the contributor. I've considered this carefully and decided that this won't be a problem for me.
While nice, it is not without its caveats, if CBP officer does not like you, you are gone.

"Travelers should be aware that by requesting admission under the Visa Waiver Program, they are generally waiving their right to review or appeal a CBP officer’s decision as to their application for admission at the port of entry. Likewise, if the traveler is later found to have violated the conditions of admission under the Visa Waiver Program, they do not have the right to contest a removal order (See the CBP website for additional details.) "
p.s. Thinking about it, although I explained why I use the word "I," I certainly didn't dispute that I sounded smug and arrogant. So perhaps (a) I ought to use the word "I" when stating my opinions, but (b) I'm going to sound smug and arrogant when doing so. Which presents a few possibilities:

1. Stop using the word "I" but continue to state my opinions.
2. Stop stating my opinions.
3. Carry on, but live with the consequences of sounding smug and arrogant.

Is it possible that throwing opinions around is smug and arrogant, no matter how they are couched? Perhaps the real issue here is between pretending to be humble (option 1) or actually being humble (option 2)?

Whackberry, this is very interesting, and I'm sorry I only have one upvote to give your response.
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"There is no base for any beliefs, if you ask me."

Yet I bet you go on eating food, in the belief it will keep you alive.
How much land needs to be paved over with windmills to equal the power output of one nuclear plant?
Nuclear Plant vs. 9.0 Earthquake & Tsunami.

I honestly wouldn't have bet on the Nuclear Plant only a week ago.

I'll add that besides the headlines, Thailand is considering to cancel its 5 plants project. Fortunately, this simply means lobbying will be a bit more expensive.
Oh wow, I started using tarsnap yesterday night!
" ... finding the application in a sorted list of icons?"

1. The list can be very long. As far as I can tell, there's no scroll bar indicator or even a alphabet marker.

2. It's sorted by alphabet, not by install time, so it requires you remember the name of the application. If the name is different than in the market, you're really in trouble.
One of the music theory things it took me a while to understand is why different major keys matter. In an idealized world, one can start a scale on any frequency and move up in whole and half steps (WWHWWWH) and have a scale. So why talk about the "key of G" vs the "key of C" if all that denotes is the frequency of the note we start on (which can be shifted up or down arbitrarily to suit the range of the instrument or vocalist)? The answer lies the physics of frequencies. The notes are not exactly the same from key to key because the whole and half steps are not exactly the same width. A perfect "fifth" (e.g., C & G played together) from a frequency perspective (meaning the two frequencies that resonate together creating a harmonic one octave above the lower) has a frequency ratio of 3/2 meaning the G is 1.5x the frequency of the C. The octave has a ratio of 2 (the high C is twice the frequency of the C below it). G is 7 half steps above C and the octave is 12 half steps. So if we walk our way up the piano in fifths, after 84 half steps, we would have a note (3/2)^12 = 129.75x the original frequency. But if we do the same on the octaves, we get 2^7 = 128x the original frequency, so the note we need to make all the major fifths sound right is different from the note we need to make the octaves sound right. The two are diverging slightly. So the result is that we can tune an instrument perfectly in one key only or we can tune it in a compromise of all the keys which sounds okay over a short range but sounds worse as we try to cover a wider range. If you're interested, there's lots of good reading on the subject (google "well-tempered" or "meantone").

EDIT: I realized I assumed a key concept in there. When two notes are played together, a third is heard (the "beat" frequency). If f1 and f2 are the frequencies of the notes being played, f2 - f1 = the beat freq. An octave sounds nice because the beat disappears (2f - f = f, so the beat is the same as the lower note of the octave). Other "pleasant" chord combinations are ones in which the beat does not clash with the first two note (e.g., is an octave of one of the notes).