skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I'm guessing there might be others thinking the same question, I'll go ahead and ask -

How is this different from something like rsync?
I think Varsavsky is a little in left field, but I can see how the Apple -> WiFi thing got started if you read up a little on some of the experiments that Apple was doing.
Just skimming some sites, I found this one: http://www.squidoo.com/antenna-advice-and-information

It points out that some antennas for PCBs are built at 1/4 wavelength (from 2.75 to 1.3 inches for GSM networks). Something to do with this combined with how waves are either reflected or refracted when hitting a surface like glass could explain how (depending on the angle of the glass and its length) you could see a portion of the signal actually directed upward or just in a different direction. Maybe combined with a flat metal table as a shoddy groundplane?

Whatever is going on it's probably limited to the signal inside and above the glass, as going through non-tinted glass is (iirc) supposed to have a -3dB reduction in signal.

More reading:
http://setup-wireless.blogspot.com/2008/11/radio-frequency-b...
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:FGiX56l9G3MJ:w...
http://www.wifi-doc.com/Cisco.Press-802.11.Wireless.Ne/15870...

(i really wish an RF/electrical engineer would comment!)
The phase out seems to have become political consensus during the last years, there is only disagreement about the time table.
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It has more up to date browsers if you click the image: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/internet-explorer/product...
I use duplicity for incremental encrypted off-site backups. Would be interesting to see how it compares to the others.

As I store the backups on a shared machine, the most important feature for me is that the backupped data never passes through the target machine in unencrypted form, at any stage.
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Considering hindsight bias, it's difficult to really know what we would have considered likely.
> Either way, there is no possible way you have enough information to make any of the claims you just made.

I took out this from this report (http://www.euronuclear.org/reflections/nuclear-facilities.ht...), which I think was also mentioned by jgrahamc:

> The studies showed that even if knowledgeable insiders could disable key safety equipment, redundant systems would provide backup protection. In scenarios where all engineered safety systems were ruined, there was still a period of hours to take corrective actions before onset of core damage.

Now, you may argue that what indeed went wrong in the case of the Fukushima plant was that the "redundant systems" didn't provide the "backup protection" the experts relied on. I see this report is confident this would not be the case were the terrorists to hit a nuclear plant, but based on what happened in the last few days I'd say the confidence level for that scenario is bellow 100%.

Anyway, thx for those downvotting me, and I hope I'll never be proven right.
I'm happy to see a thoughtful, objective post on WP7 by a generally pro-MS developer.

Well done.
There are loads of free books online:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...
I never said it'd easy, or that it wouldn't cost money. Everything costs money. Nuclear power plants are expensive, and they have vast hidden costs that are offset to society (how much will it cost to Japan to clean up this mess? is this added to the cost?). Many countries are already getting a very significant percentage of their energy from renewable sources, things like solar power or wind power are getting more efficient by the day, and if a real, massive and sustained investment was done in this area I think we wouldn't be having debates like this one in 10 years. And I won't even enter to discuss topics like energy independence, which are huge.

Anyway, clearly a complicated issue, not trying to convince anyone here of anything.
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Not that this isn't amazing, but is it really toughness and bravery to do what's necessary to save your own life?
I attempted a comparison with rdiff-backup here: http://www.synctus.com/ddar/rdiff-backup.html

Some others are briefly mentioned under "Alternatives", including a comparison with Tarsnap.

I only have direct experience of Tarsnap and duplicity. Additions/corrections welcome.
Stunt.
No, I am talking about german news reports. It makes no sense for the soviets to say that light water reactors are safe after a graphite moderated system has gone out of control.

Chernobyl could never happen in germany, because the construction of light water reactors is inherently safe. Thats what the news reported and the politicians claimed.

Do you see what happens now? Something like in Japan can never happen, because we don't have earthquakes and Tsunamis like they have.

These reports are not reliable. The basic idea, that a reactor has to shut down, if it gets out of control, is the right one. But it seems, the idea is not implemented well enough, even in the light water reactors.
The question is what exactly you expected of it. You've taken one of the oldest and least intrinsically safe designs since chernobyl (at least compared to anything recent like a nice pebble bed/molten salt reactor), hit it with an earthquake, washed it away with a tsunami and blown it up with hydrogen gas explosions.

And it's basically just that there, leaking a fairly small amount of radiation. Compare that to other objects that could cause environmental damage, like say an oil tanker or a chemical plant and try and compare it in similar circumstances.

If you were to take say a standard pesticide factory, hit it with an earthquake, followed by a tsunami, followed by multiple explosions, I would be very surprised if it could keep the same level of containment of its material.

To give you an example of what happens when a major chemical plant breaches, have a look at the Bhopal disaster. It isn't unreasonable to say that a major chemical breach is on the same scale as a small nuclear incident and as such I would consider the comparative reliability of nuclear plants to be rather remarkable and a testament to the engineering that goes into building them.

Also interesting to note is how things have progressed. Remember that this reactor was built in 1971. If you look at a newer design, such as a pebble bed reactor you would notice that it exhibits passive safety, ie. that if you were to subject it to the kind of failures that have befallen the fukushima plant, it would simply fail safe until it could be fixed. Even in the event of a catastrophic failure of the reactor core, very little radiation would be emitted as the core itself is encased as a series of nearly indestructible silicon carbide pellets, and the preferred coolant very rarely absorbs neutrons. This would also mean that coolant leaks would be a lot less of a concern environmentally as the coolant would not be as radioactive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor
I've done a ridiculous amount of reading the past few days, and I still believe that nuclear power is probably the best source of power that we have available to us.

But I didn't realize that keeping a reactor vessel (and fuel storage pools) cool after the reactor has been scrammed is such a challenge. I also didn't know that hydrogen explosions are a normal byproduct of cooling down a reactor core. Yes, I know that there are third generation reactor technologies available today that don't have all of these issues, and fourth generation technologies in development. I really do believe that we should be investing in these technologies to make nuclear power safer.

Unfortunately now we're stuck with a lot of aging reactors that are operating past their design life, and a public that is unwilling to bear the cost of the upgrades.

Japan is probably about the best prepared place that this incident could happen, and even they are having trouble keeping their scrammed reactors cool. And another earthquake could happen tomorrow, making the situation even more unmanageable.

I have far less confidence in almost any other country being able to handle a crisis like this. Nuclear power is clearly here to stay - Germany may eventually turn it's back on the technology, but there are dozens of third world countries running reactors now (or trying to).

Our focus really should be on making nuclear power as safe as possible, not on preventing it entirely. Perhaps the biggest problem with this current crisis is that it is the first nuclear incident where we can't just explain it away as 'human error'. Everything did work exactly as it was designed to, with the best trained people handling the crisis, and we still can't have complete confidence in the technology to cool itself off without releasing radiation into the environment.
Yeah, I got that installed. Unfortunately, there's still quite a few apps that only install to the internal memory. I hope that will change over time.

" roll around in the money you saved from not getting a 32GB iPhone."

That's exactly what I'm doing! For all my aggravations, the phone is still great. I only paid $140 for it (contract free!) and the savings from the virgin mobile prepaid plan will pay for the phone shortly.

As for a minimum spec, I'm a little torn. If Google had imposed a minimum spec, then I wouldn't be having this problem - because I wouldn't have bought the phone and wouldn't be telling my friends what a great deal it was.
To complete integration we open Dropbox login form in a new window. Since you will enter your Dropbox password, it should be in a new pop-up window so you can see that the domain name of the site is dropbox.com.

On one of our Usertesting.com tests, a tester clicked on the button and nothing happened. She did not see the "enable pop-ups" message on the browser and was not able to complete the integration. That's why we added a check to see if the user has problems with opening the window and we show that warning message.
Wow, they're really not comfortable with letting you see the URL for single page: http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=...
Usually, eh? I assume you have bought your put options?

This can be true, but remember that you don't know where the sell orders are placed. We could have already seen the trigger and the corrpesponding drop-off.

Also, remember that many investors believe this, so they put buy triggers below where they think sell triggers are. Also, there are value investors who place buy triggers without regard to the existence of sell triggers.

I'm not saying that the phenomenon you describe does not exist here, and I acknowledge it has happened in the past. But you need to qualify axioms like that to see if they apply to new situations.

Full disclosure: I made a small-but-quick profit on the Nikkei today.
This is one of my favourite pieces of engineering /ever/. It's simple, elegant and beautiful.
I've never tried iOS development, and I'm a bit surprised by many of these library recommendations. For example HTTP requests, regular expressions and progress indicators strike me as something your platform definitely should provide you with. Of course it's great that there are quality libraries to fill in where the platform falls short.
The chromatic scale is basically playing every key, black and white, from one C to the next. Whereas the C major scale is every white key from one C to the next.
We were playing with it too, but ended up doing our own thing in the end.
No luck finding Atlantis with Google Maps, at least not for my 15 minute effort :)
Supposedly an A380 carries much more fuel, whose explosive power might make up for the difference in impact speed.
Personally, I would attend to my educational duties, and try to enjoy these years the best I can. That's not to say you shouldn't give attention to your development interests -- you absolutely should. Just don't worry too much about optimizing every second for maximum productivity. You're still really, really young, and have many years ahead of you to bury your head down in your work and really make progress. Plus, in my opinion, abandoning high school work wouldn't be the wisest thing to do. Make sure you stay on top of it; I don't think you'll regret it.

As for VPS, you could use free hosting services like Heroku and Google App Engine to play with some ideas. And for books, what type are you looking for? There are tons of free resources online to learn everything you could possibly imagine regarding web development (see other comments here for links). For someone strapped for cash, seek out resources online -- the same goes for those who've got money, too.

For scheduling time, like I said, don't worry too much about it. You might want to make a very rough schedule to stick to (like finish homework by 8pm, do programming tutorials for an hour, and work on an idea for another 3 or 4). But don't break your back sticking to it. Go out and enjoy being a kid.
The problem with Steve Jobs and the Apple gang is that, they indeed innovate first, but then they stop. The iPad was a revolutionary approach at tablet computing, even if the device was quite dumb. But making your second iPad exactly the same (sorry but a cover and slimmer does not equal innovation) that is just plain ridiculous, especially when they have the capability to make something incredible.

They are just taking advantage of their brand right now, like if they were still the old Apple that struggled to innovate!

The vision and execution is there, it's still Apple, but now they are just taking advantage of their market!
That's good stuff, helped me get started a while back :)
Again, you are only testing the accuracy (and impossibility) of a 1ms setInterval in javascript which cannot happen.

Here is your previous canvas test I modified to a real "zero" timeout

http://jsbin.com/owino3

With "zero" timeout I get 2000+ fps in firefox, 500+ fps in Safari 5 and 9000+ in Chrome 11.

(looks better in firefox/safari, in Chrome it goes so fast it's practically trying to rip spacetime)

In your original "1ms" test they are all under 100 fps except Chrome which can fire as fast as 4ms so it gets 200fps.

Basically all your tests across different browsers with your current code is only proving how fast or slow that browser engine deals with a "1ms" setInterval request. Most of them will not fire faster than 8ms, some slower and some like chrome will go down to 4ms. Then because you are using setInterval instead of setTimeout, you get a "backlog" because the event will fire regardless if the previous one was done or not.

setZeroTimeout removes the entire timer overhead from the benchmark, it fires as fast as physically possible in the browser used and the remainder of the time is simply what's leftover from drawing the canvas or svg object.
The issue here was stemmed from the fact that seller feedback for buyers made it so the items you buy became linked to your profile through your feedback page. In other words, even if you left no public feedback, a seller could still do something that associated that item with your account on your public profile. This, combined with the fact that folks now optionally have their real names linked to their Etsy account, made it so that a persons real name (if they chose to make it available) could be linked to a particular item through the seller feedback mechanism through no action of their own. This combined with the fact that buyer feedback is less relevant to Etsy now than it was years ago made us decide it was time to remove the buyer feedback from public view.

The seller feedback mechanism we changed last night was something that had been in place since the beginning of Etsy. So, this particular issue we addressed was not a bugfix or a reversion of a previous change.
Also:

http://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks

http://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks

http://www.reddit.com/r/eebooks

http://www.reddit.com/r/econbooks

http://www.reddit.com/r/physicsbooks

And not just books, but there is a tremendous amount of useful technical informaation, tutorials, articles, etc. on the web that are free. Heck, you could spend a lifetime just reading papers from Citeseer or ArXiv.org.

OP: it might help if you told us a little more about what you're interested in, what kind of projects you're working on, what kinds of things you want to work on, etc.

Also, regarding the money thing... at the risk of stating the obvious, have you approached your parents or other relatives about funding some of your ideas? I mean, a domain name + cheap VPS really doesn't cost a lot... maybe they'd front you what you need to get started, and if you make something that actually makes money, then so much the better. If not, it's still a valuable learning experience for a fairly small investment.
What potentially devastating consequences would there be if an oil rig had been hit by an earthquake, tsunami and explosion? Also consider the size of an oil rig(s) that would need to provide the same amount of energy.

Similarly, what would the consequences be if a chemical plant producing say pesticides were to undergo the same fate? Simply because a process may be dangerous doesn't mean that it can't be safely harnessed into the service of man.
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Flurry's registration portal should be able to handle HN traffic without any trouble. I'll e-mail them.

EDIT: This looks like a bug, but a bug caused by a user registering with an e-mail already in the system. I'm guessing you've either used Flurry (or Pinch Media, which merged with Flurry) before. Try the 'forgot your password?' link, it'll send you a new one.
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Dont really see a point for me going to another website to get some symbols. Usability can be improved.

1) User clicks on the symbol and it is copied to the clipboard. No need for Ctrl+C.

2) Make a Chrome/Firefox extension.
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The title sucks but the article describes some very real problems. In the places I've lived in the US, public transit is a bad joke. I'm originally from T.O. and didn't appreciate the TTC while I was there. It has problems (especially if you have to take the bus rather than the train) but it is far cleaner and better run than the transit systems of the Bay Area and NY. In most parts of the US, it seems public transit is for the poor souls who can't afford a car. NYC is one exception to this though ... upper-middle-class and poor have to deal with the same funk of the subway.
This. I do all of my school assignments in markdown + embedded latex. I convert them directly to PDF using the markdown2pdf helper that comes with Pandoc. It has pretty much replaced .doc files and monolithic word processors for me.
In case it's not clear, this really has nothing to do with Facebook except for the way it's marketed (suggested use).

Note: of the symbols there, '%' seems to stand out as a character that is on just about all keyboards right? (maybe '$' also)
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More like unicode symbols but OK.

http://panmental.de/symbols/info.htm this is more complete symbol list that you can copy from.
The level of leaking radiation here is nothing. How does it compare to a dental x-ray? Should we ban dental x-rays?

The exclusion zone is a precaution. You could be running around nude in it right now and you wouldn't get cancer.
Reach out locally and find a mentor. He/She could provide you with a tremendous amount of help and guidance. Perhaps even offer to fund your projects.
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Automatic selection is possible in most browsers through JS, though only some browsers allow automatic copying to the clipboard (some using flash hacks).
I understand your technical point, but the iPhone followed up on iPod features and when it was announced, the concept was sold and received as if it was the future of iPods. (And it was.)
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That's because you're mind is clouded by the effects of a mental fallacy (the availability heuristic to be precise) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
About as many as we have earthquakes.
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Thanks for your nice comments. :)

In addition to contact forms, JotForm is used to create many other kinds of forms: Surveys, lead generation forms, Facebook forms, feedback buttons, application forms, PayPal forms. That's why we keep the default toolbox with generic fields and keep most commonly used fields on the Quick Tools toolbox. But, I am intrigued by your idea and we will definitely run some tests with it.
I was just going to mention it. I think it's way better than the facebook library mentioned in the article. I'm using for my upcoming app and it was a snap to use it for facebook and twitter
The nuclear power plants in Germany are a mess. Negative findings of investigations magically disappear, threats like earth quakes are simply ignored.
The pre-defined runtimes are exceeded and still most of them are running. Turning these off is reasonable. It was without the Japan Desaster and still is.
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Feedback from a seller -> buyer is now hidden from public view. Feedback from a buyer -> seller is marked as public or private by the person giving the feedback. The public or private purchase option is opt-out and right now determines if the items you purchase are seen on your public feedback.
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True enough. I've needed some bits of docbook that don't have a direct asciidoc corollary twice, and just used asciidoc passthrough blocks to use them. It's a very practical solution to a leaky abstraction, while allowing me to stay in asciidoc 99.7% of the time.
This class seems to provide an interesting contrast to the YC model of mentorship, where the former centers on knowing what to build and the latter centers on knowing how to build it.

Of course, this is just the impression I've gathered. I'd be interested to know exactly how much emphasis YC puts on similar principles (read: Customer Dev). And if such emphasis is lacking, why?
Are you saying that only 4000 people were affected?
This is one of the smaller devices like this I've seen. I am really curious about the photographic opportunities that could be open with such a device. Footage could be directly streamed online via ethernet cable connected directly to the camera...
Norway even more, iirc it's around 99% of the electricity generation for the whole country.

Why isn't hydro used more? (2% of world production according to the post). Once built it will generate:
* Alot of power, as opposed to wind/solar.
* With zero emissions, as opposed to coal/oil.
* That requires no storage of dangerous waste, as opposed to nuclear.
Win, win, win.
Oh thats neat. I have tried to use them to craft a joke:

http://www.facebook.com/simonsarris/posts/588838121696

Or if they show up on HN:

I think in gay marriage chess the girls have an unfair advantage.

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