skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the quality is really good. Thank you for pointing out the "Best of" link. Another hour removed from "productivity" and moved to "always wanted to read about" for my day. =)
but also very true, no?

yes. but why do you think that is? people aren't afraid of nuclear for no reason. While it isn't magic, it isn't exactly trivial either, even for experts.

Could you explain to me how the hell fuel in Reactor 4 storage pond at Fukushima 1 went critical?
Pot meet kettle. ;)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419166

Or is this something intentional?
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The underlying principle is that you have to understand and control the factors affecting your startup's success. If you're not doing so in a meaningful way, you're exposing yourself to large / unknown risk factors, where "large" means "very likely to lead to your failure".

Not having launched the product (esp. in the consumer market) as early as possible is definitely one such factor.
you cannot take constructive criticism, cannot take risks, cannot sell ice to Eskimos, do not have a sense of quirky nerd humor, and most importantly if you do not like eating cereals for breakfast, lunch and dinner for weeks at a time as money is getting tight in your startup budget.
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If you can send messages back in time, then someone can build a robot that can accept messages from the future, and kill your parents that way^. Sending information back in time is a paradox. Period

Not quite. You're neglecting quantum mechanics.

Very roughly speaking, in quantum field theory, the probability of an event happening is a weighted sum over all the possible ways that it could happen (a path integral), and (again, speaking roughly) the options that seriously violate the various conservation laws tend to have negligible contributions. Presumably the path integral formulation would still hold up even with closed timelike curves (time travel curves).

An inconsistent state, like one where you kill off your own parents, would probably exhibit all sorts of self interference that would make its contribution to the path integral very small, whereas the consistent states would be much better represented, and much more likely to happen. Weird "violations" of physics could quite easily present themselves as the most probable outcomes, especially if the alternative was an inconsistent outcome.

A good way to think about this is in terms of waves on a string, or the "wave" of an electron in orbit around a nucleus - the only vibration frequencies that "survive" are the ones that reinforce themselves, and the rest get cancelled out by interference (in the electron case, because they don't "match up" when they meet themselves after an orbit). If you think of the state of the universe as the electron, and the orbit as a loop through the closed timelike curve, then it's easy enough to imagine quantum mechanics doing all the hard work for us, and making sure that only consistent outcomes are reinforced, while all the other ones are destroyed by interference.
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so...

Username = "wilhil"

Password = "asdfghjkl"

Username = Password

Password = Password

Username & Password = the same?
Apogee is known to make some of the best AD/DA converters around. IMO, the Apogee Duet absolutely blows away everything else in its price range.

The difference between the Apogee Jam and something like the iRig is huge. The iRig is very noisy, and doesn't do AD conversion, it just alters the signal level to a mic level signal instead of instrument level. The end result is less than stellar.

The Apogee Jam does AD conversion itself, using Apogee designed converters. I can't speak from experience with the Jam, but if its anything even close to the Duet, the sound quality will be excellent.

The only disappointment for me was that it didn't come with a microphone, like the Apogee One.
There are studies from the russian science acadamy that there are 270.000 cancers caused by Tschnernobyl and 93.000 are expected to end deathly.

http://www.n-tv.de/panorama/93-000-statt-4-000-Tote-article1...

It also doesn't include the destruction of a huge territory for thousand of years and the thousand's personal dramas caused by that.
Counting only direct deaths is wrong. One has to take the whole risk into account not only one.
I should point out, though, the fact that it's theoretically conceivable that the universe could support time travel doesn't necessarily mean that it does, and I suspect most physicists think it's highly unlikely.
Pure Programming Language Survives Wikipedia Deletion Frenzy
Background: A number of programming languages were recently deleted from Wikipedia: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fkt7t/nemerle_factor_alice_ml_and_other_programming/
Marc, he law of the land here on Hacker News is not to sign your messages. Cheers!
In Which We Welcome Matthew Rothenberg to The Bit.ly Team
The elevated rates of asthma occurring in inner city kids is also pretty shitty. One of the better things they did in NYC was to shut down most of the power plants that were actually in the city.
The Planetarium (mozilla html5 demo)
I think people are less critical towards casualties from damns because it’s water, and therefore perceived as natural.

I think if 50 000 dies from a oil-related incident you would get some serious backslash against fossil fuels as well. (Electric generation from oil or gas is already quite controversial here in Norway.)
Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium
Yeah thats what I wonder. But I do feel jealous of those people.
The story about Obama O's had me excited. I start imagining myself in such postition and thinking if I would be able to pull such a stunt and the objections keep popping in my head. I wonder if it's just my fears or maybe the situation in USA is so different? Please say if the following is true in your home country:

1. You cannot go to presidential nominating convention (or similar political event).

2. You cannot engage in unauthorised commercial activity (sell stuff) at presidential nominating convention (or similar political event).

3. You cannot engage in unauthorised commercial activity (sell stuff) without proper license, cash register.

4. You cannot sell food without proper license (stating your right to sell food), certificate(stating origin of your food; who's made your "Obama O's"? Are they safe?).
Aaron also wrote a similar post about 6 months ago: http://formisfunction.posterous.com/how-to-make-your-yc-appl...
Do you think closed-source projects are just as good? I can never think of an undone open source thing that I would be able to do.
No, I don't think so. Whatever sources I got that from had it as milli. I triple checked.
There's almost certainly a much better place to ask this question. Might I suggest:

https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/

http://superuser.com/

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38
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"Physics isn't biology/medicine. The laws of physics are not discovered by running experiments to enumerate every possible combination or permutation of configurations."

Wanna bet? Guess how we know most of what we know about criticality and neutron cross-sections? People like Louis Slotkin, who spent hundreds of hours poking at piles of radioactive material in the lab, to derive those mathematical models that you're leaning upon. Critical mass calculations, in particular, are so fiendishly complicated that the entire field of stochastic simulation (i.e. monte carlo methods) were invented to address them. So tell me again about the "laws of physics", and how they're not tested through pemutation.

"The optimal shape for criticality is a sphere....a wide, shallow puddle at the bottom of the containment chamber is the least dangerous shape."

Prove it. It's pretty amazing how everyone wants to cite "physics" to prove that there's no problem with a meltdown (in the face of overwhelming empirical evidence to the contrary), but nobody is doing much more than hand-waving allusions toward their undergrad physics textbook in defense of their assertions.

A sphere is definitely a shape where we have good calculations to model critical mass. Otherwise, we don't really know much that wasn't determined empirically. We know that criticality depends strongly on density. We've assumed that the structure of this reactor will prevent that density change from occurring. We don't actually know what will happen.

I can almost understand why a community of nerds is so strongly interested in maintaining the self-delusion that the world is a fully knowable, controllable place, but I don't understand how so many people can ignore so much real-world evidence for so long. If you're seriously telling yourself that a meltdown isn't a big deal, you need to go back and re-examine what you know about the situation, and why you think you know it.
Optimizing your Rails site with HTTP Caching
Definitely seconding this. Very "From a Basement on the Hill", especially around the 1:40 mark.
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Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion
If Itaipu [1] bursts, it's said that it would flood and destroy a large part of Argentina. In the past, argentinians were worried that it could be used as a weapon against them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam
With respect to Growl, it's become commonplace to have Growl support, even though OSX doesn't natively have it.
A PEG parser generator will produce a recursive descent parser, which should be exactly what the author was looking for. That pesky operator precedence thing is solved (as it is in most BNF-like grammars) with rules nested in precedence order. Rats! is a PEG parser generator for Java. http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~rgrimm/xtc/rats.html If the author would like more links, he should google "PEG parser generator".
Do You Have What It Takes to Be Unreasonable?
Well, they certainly aren't making money by lending $100, waiting for a default and then selling the loan for $10.

But you are right, the article does make the claim that defaults are profitable. I missed that on the first read. So I guess maybe most defaults are just late payments or something? Do you have any more info on this?
To be honest, I was looking at filled submit link form about 10 minutes, thinking that my offer don't worth people time. I hoped to get something like 3 comments. So much attention is amazing to me. This was not planned as clever lead gen trick.
Facebook promotes Groupon attack with new Facebook Deals page
"units m^-3" is another way of saying "units per m^3", i.e. radiation per cubic metre. For comparison, speed is "m s^-1" and acceleration is "m s^-2".

Radiation per cubic millimetre would be "units mm^-3".
Totally agree. Reading HN, blogs/etc is fine, but the net result is: more time reading == less time doing [whatever].

Play + Build should absolutely be 90% of the activity of a would-be developer. Most of the rest of the list could go away. Research is fine, but really only if you're going to _use_ it.

I do find local meetups beneficial, _particularly_ if you can work yourself up to do a presentation on something. Presenting on a topic is a great way to make yourself learn it better.

++FIND A CUSTOMER: Maybe the best advice ever. Has the additional benefit that unless you completely mess up, you get paid. And if you do mess up so badly that you don't get paid, hopefully you learn something about how not to repeat that.

I have to add (since this is a list for people learning): learn git or mercurial. If you know one, you can pick up the other. I don't really think this is optional.
>they can't get it to work on one of the most important non-Apple tablets in existence

Actually I am running the 10.2 beta on my Xoom (w/3.0.1) and for a beta it is looking quite good. May be crashes the browser once a day but the work they did for tighter integration with the 3.0.1 browser is clearly showing - it scrolls smooth even with lots of Flash content on page, the videos all work without much stuttering.

I think they still aren't accelerating the HD videos in the beta or are doing it sub optimally but I am very hopeful it will work at least as well as it does on a desktop!
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Was the Maritime Treason line a joke? I'm not sure I follow how the wiki article applies to leaving a cruise early.
Far too many variables to gauge how long it takes a person to become a competent, I see no point in entertaining a figure and it's a useless indicator of a goal that can't be measured.
did you get accepted?
There is nothing age specific about YC. There have been YC founders over 40.

I think that folks that complain about being "too old" for YC usually mean that they have lots of commitments that aren't compatible with the requirements of the program.

But, there are plenty of YC founders of all ages with significant others, kids, mortgages and other financial commitments.

People that are looking for an excuse will typically find one.
Make your own Movie Barcodes with this Python script
I hope this is easy for Canadians to purchase. All the Wi-Fi Xoom articles today mention US retailers, many of which have Canadian stores but there doesn't seem to be any mention of Canada. Sure, I can order it and send it up here but they'll charge me all sorts of extra fees for that. Anyone know what the deal is on international Xoom purchases?
ZFS finally coming to OS X
On that thread, it's important to look at new breeder reactors and Thorium reactors before denouncing waste from nuclear reactors as a permanent problem. We have technology that is much better, much safer, and less damaging than even what we have now.
Hah! I'm glad you replied so I can say thanks for your kind comment earlier.

Thank you.

And this is indeed something intentional. I continue to explore the community, as well as trying to provide value. I don't duplicate things unless I think there is genuine value, and this is (a) very old, (b) really cool, and (c) genuinely hacking.

Thanks for noticing. More details if you email me, but I've got a large backlog at the moment so won't reply immediately.
As the years progress you may find that those people are jealous of you.
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Fukushima incident is out of control: attention must turn to evacuees
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How do you compete with Spafinder and spaemergency ?
The alternative is just security through obscurity.
You could maybe try putting it in the top right, like this: http://idea.s3.amazonaws.com/appdiem.png. The problem with that though is if you get a long app name it's going to overlap.
Expected an article from 4 years ago...
Trying to parse this, how do you mean "designed for someone else"? I'm just looking for screenshots, surely a designer must have some screenshots. Even of work that never went live, was rejected etc?
No, actually. Here's my son's (17 months) usage pattern:

1: Open app.
2: Watch app for 3 seconds.
3: Close app.
4: Goto 1
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If you compare flying vs. car driving upon the live-time spent with this activities, then 2h flying is much more dangerous than 2 hour car driving.
Usually this is compared by distinance, but this is wrong. For example last year I spent my holiday nearby driving by car, this year maybe I am going to fly to a distant place utilizing the same transport time. The flying holiday is far more dangerous than the driving one. I do never decide between car and plane for a given goal, therefore the risk relation to the distance is wrong.
I wasn't 100% passionate about my first product (I stumbled in to it in the wedding space - I'm not at all passionate about weddings, but I do like helping people during a stressful time), and I was able to stick at it until it became profitable. Now I'm using those profits to build products and a company that I'm more passionate about.

There are a lot of things to be passionate about while building a company then just the product, and a successful product can lead to more opportunities.

That said, not feeling passionate about your product increases your chances of quitting by a huge percentage.

Personally I would say drop it now and focus on something you're more passionate about. The entrepreneurial road is long (it took me almost 4 years to get to profitability with my first company), so you're going to need to draw passion and inspiration from somewhere to get through it. It doesn't have to come from the product necessarily, but that sure helps a lot.
Fair enough. But if you're looking for an experienced web designer?
Biomass - comprehension error on my part, I thought that it was using dung in fermenters and like apparatus.

There seems to be enough solar farms to make the same sort of estimates as have been used in the article though.

I think what would be most helpful would actually be a comparison for a large country with similar safety standards across all industries looking at facilities over a fixed period. That would help, IMO, to rule out problems like people continuing with a hydro project even though the dam is cracked from the off ...
It just seems odd that the core still generates heat enough to damage itself (50 MW is a lot) but that the heat cannot be used to operate the pumps that should cool it down.
> one could suppose nuclear reactors would only fail catastrophically when something catastrophic happened, not when being shut down.

Shutting down after a tsunami took out much of the support equipment seems somewhat catastrophic.
Ai, I read it wrong. That was reactors 1-3 of the Daini station, not the Daiichi station.
Oh, I should also point out that we're working on mobile apps for each platform that will let you see what deals are live for the day as well.
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I agree with your main point, but I would probably consider being shot with an AK-47 to be a pretty "once-in-a-lifetime catastrophic event".
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Hey, thanks. I actually do include my Github page (though admittedly I don't do much interesting I'd say) on my resume, but I'd never considered the difference between an HR manager and an engineer seeing it. Great insight, thanks.

(For the record, I wasn't giving advice :P )
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First, I'm not an immigration lawyer so don't take my advice.
However, I've been through a lot before I got my green-card and very familiar with the process.
Coming here as a tourist and working (even for a Russian company) is illegal. even if you come here just for a tech conference without working, it's considered a business trip. bottom line, you have to declare you are here on a business trip cause they will check your laptop, go though your emails, find out you are performing some work for a US entity and deny your entrance and take away your visa.
Definitely, not something I would recommend.
One gets what one pays for.
Thanks, but I received great answers for both browsers without having to register/post in multiple locations -- all in under 6 minutes. HN rocks.
Risk of something being greater than 0 is an equally uselss measurement. Otherwise we would have multi-trillion dollar asteroid defense networks, alien invasion detectors in the oort cloud, personal lightning shields, lottery backed retirement funds and so on.
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Learning From the Customer
You are being selective about the truths you raise. You are also downplaying peoples reaction to massive numbers of deaths from other technologies, saying it is nary a whimper of complaint. Some would argue that 50,000 have already died from a nuclear incident, and a large portion of the public do insist that a nuclear reactor never be built again. Any of these people would have the same problem with building a dam over a populated area, they would insist that one never be built again. Go and ask someone. There isn't a choice that has to be made between coal, hydroelectric dams or nuclear. Look at the waste you are surrounded with. The difference in reaction to the technologies you are noting is fear of the aftermath of an accident, leaving an area uninhabitable for generations.
No, sadly it wasn't. IANAL and neither was the customer service person at the cruise line who cited the Jones Act to me, but to my understanding, it applies because passengers technically count as cargo. Therefore passengers embarking on a ship leaving the US cannot disembark and not return on the same vessel.
12 months is barely enough to scratch the surface. I look at my code from 10 years ago, and it's absolute crap.

Modern web development is not just knowing one language, it's a bunch of technologies, and many of them seem deceptively simple, while they aren't. Just off the top of my head of what I use as a web developer:

1) HTML (and DOM) and XML

2) CSS

3) Javascript (+jQuery +JSON)

1,2,3 include

a) the knowledge of different versions

b) browser compatibility issues

c) how to write it properly and efficiently

4) Different image formats, proper compression. CDNs.

5) Unix shell + apache configuration + deployment

6) Database + SQL

7) Memcached (or alternatives)

8) Various tools like firebug, profilers, http sniffers, etc
Can you solve an anti labyrinth puzzle?
Sure, it's pretty unlikely that an experienced web designer won't have a web presence. Experience is a tricky thing, though. It obviously has it's benefits, but it can also be expensive, and, depending on the situation, may not be worthwhile. That said, an experienced designer who can come in and kick ass right away may be just what you need...
The Right Way to Respond to Failure
This is why traditional / mainstream media is fighting a battle to remain relevant.
This is definitely the best "Looking for a technical co-founder" post I have ever seen. While I can't help you (Rails guy, can't full time etc.), I wish you all the best. Something about your post tells me you will succeed :)
For what it's worth, they're both by David Fincher. I have to admit, I'd also be pretty skeptical if if were anyone else.

And you're right about the original. It is SO insanely good.
Congress told that Internet data caps will discourage piracy
Excellent, if my non-technical friends ever ask why I don't go to mainstream media for tech news, I'll point them to this article.
Maybe I'm not the right customer but I don't really see the value.

From the frontpage, they give me £265 today and expect me to pay £294.51 9 days later. With my credit card I get £265 and pay £265 anywhere between 1-30 days later.

Still confused? Is it only for people who can't get a £1000 line of credit?
Eh, "you've never heard of"?
What I've learned from the whole Xoom debacle is that I don't need a feature to actually "work" in order to use it as a main selling point. An inactive SD slot; No Flash at launch even though that's its biggest selling point. 4G networking, but only after you send it back in for refurbishing later this year.

Knowing this, I'm going to start a car company and start advertising that my cars get 1000 miles per gallon. The small print will have something about the installation of frictionless parts at an unknown availability date.
Illustrates again that people are afraid of what's scary, not what's likely to actually happen.
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