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Please read patio11's article again!

The nuclear power plant is 160mi from Tokyo. You'd think that there's some difference in the conditions across that distance?

When the 2004 tsunami happened in South India, a town on the coast would be devastated, while a village 2km inland would be completely unaffected.

From this Google Maps link to driving between http://bit.ly/g4hfPm Tokyo & Okuma you can see that the road runs along the coast and might have been hit by the Tsunami, causing lack of supplies.

So most likely explanation

1. On the coast, esp. in the Miyagi province, a lot of things are screwed. It could have been much worse if there was not the Japanese emergency training/response.

2. 5km inside the coast-line, there will be earthquake damage, no tsunami damage, and life will be near normal by now.

[edited for grammar/formatting]
Apparently they've been ordered back 2 minutes ago.

http://roound.com/redalert
You're mostly right - the one caveat to this is that most providers are not as "revenue focused" as you'd think. Most of them are more focused on the potential outcome ratings improvement that they could see. Often times this means going with Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, eClinicalWorks etc.

The phenomenon going on here is that CIOs don't want to get fired. They're the gatekeepers - and as someone famous put it, "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." Except in this market it's Epic.
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Haha. You made my day.
Please click on the title. It has a link to the article.

Also, the article referred to Y-Combinator as to a tech incubator and not just a news aggregator. Let me know if you need help clicking on the title link ;)
I would guess they're worried about some unknown or unprecedented contingency caused by the unique circumstances, as any rational person should be. Still, this has not happened and there is no scientifically sound reason that it should happen, based on our experience.
How could you read that in under 2 minutes and respond?
They never should have stopped hosting their own POP/IMAP servers.

Why?
Isn't this what perl6 grammars set out to solve?
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Yeah, I think we were writing at the same time.

Thanks for the tips. I know that the PCA implementation is very naïve, but I never put as much work into it as into some of the other parts of the library.
The guy has a long track record of saying he's going to do something, and not doing it. Take his proclamation, upon entering office, that the detention center at Guantanamo would be closed within a year. It's still open. Take his statements back around 2004-2006 that we needed to decriminalize marijuana. It took two years of the same issue rising to the top of polls for the guy to even address it, and he brushed it off. Take his promise to fight for better healthcare -- except during the voting, I heard more from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid than I did from Obama. Or the whole "let's talk diplomatically to Iran".
This idea strikes me as resulting in a situation similar to the need for malpractice insurance in modern western medicine. Not good for anyone but the insurance companies.
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We hear nothing about the coal power plants currently.

The nuclear reactors seem to make much more trouble right now.
I hope ants were given enough time to protest their eviction notices.
The points that I took away from this.

- The movie industry is used to getting random articles changed when they don't like them.

- Moviefone doesn't even fact verify these requests before passing them on to journalists. But does word them innocuously enough that they have plausible deniability.

- TechCrunch had many choices of how to handle this. Their chosen strategy is apparently to blow any sign of manipulation public to let the rest of AOL know that they don't want to play these games with TechCrunch.

- I read an article (http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/12/the-source-code/) about a movie that I otherwise wouldn't have read, and found that Hollywood still appears to believe that Microsoft runs tech. As is evidenced by their using Microsoft Tags in their game rather than the industry standard QR codes.
This link that you posted seems to be sending a lot of misinformation, though the "return to work" part is correct. Radiation levels in Tokyo are near-normal as far as I can see on the online counters.

I'm collecting the factual links that do not contain the hysteria, on a post on my blog. No, there is no adsense on that blog.

http://bnpcs.blogspot.com/2011/03/links-about-situation-in-j...
I am located in Hashimoto, Kanagawa (search for 神奈川県相模原市橋本 in Google Maps if you want to see where this is) and may be able to provide some insight.

Japan is a relatively small country, but the current atmosphere is considerably different in different locations. My experience near Tokyo has been quite interesting, but it is nothing compared to the disaster that has unfolded north of here. For those close to the big earthquake and tsunami, life has been completely changed if they are lucky enough that it was not ended.

Life is nowhere near back to normal where I live. It is surreal: with trains stopped and few cars on the road, the neighborhood has become very quiet, with the exception of public announcements through loudspeakers and "incoming quake" alerts through mobile phones. The rolling blackouts are likely a significant factor of the atmosphere. Some train lines in my area were stopped completely while others are only stopped when the power is out. The queues of people for trains have been very long, so it is difficult to commute. As a result, most stores in my area are completely closed. Some stores open when electricity is on, but many shelves are empty of goods that are in demand. Other stores have special security to allow small groups of shoppers (at a time) through a fence into the entranceway in order to purchase in-demand goods, while entrance to the actual store is blocked. Most apartments require power to pump water, so our water goes out as well when the power is off. With strong earthquakes continuing to roll in and blackouts scheduled for some time, I do not know how long it will take for things to return to normal here.

I do not have direct experience of what it is like where patio11 is at, but without the rolling blackouts, I am sure that the atmosphere is very different.

I have more that I would like to say, but this comment is long enough already, and my power is scheduled to turn off in five minutes.
Gmail is an imap server. It probably is also a pop server. GAFYD is too.
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Plot of Radiation Levels at Fukushima Daiichi and 75 Miles Away
Best of all, you can submit those apps to the Mac App Store. (I have. Great compromise.)
It's quite possible, I have no idea who's updating it, and NHK TV isn't confirming it (yet?).
Whoa... Internet in the NEK now? The largest introduction of new technology I ever saw growing up in Walden was getting a paved road that wasn't the highway. I figured up there you guys were still busy wrapping copper wires to make your memory cores ;)
Um. Where did you pick up those items? And, uh, did you consider running the experiment somewhere other than near your groin?
the ny times has a pretty amazing article now about the 50 remaining workers trying to avert nuclear disaster in Japan. apparently they are back at work now after radiation levels dropped:

http://t.co/7H

also, reuters has a very good real time blog, I think it's best source of up to date, level headed info. They curate commentary from other into their stream, and have experts, such as nuclear expert do live Q and A in the stream.

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2
Actually the BBC does seem wrong in that it is reporting 1000 millisieverts rather than microsieverts.
I just don't see that working. It's a classic British show dominated by one impressive and charismatic actor and just won't translate to american audiences (it's all talking, no action, everything is implied rather than pushed in your face). "Edge of Darkness" which was a huge Mel Gibson bomb seems like the closest analog.

I highly recommend the original BBC show.
Thanks, definitely helpful!

(I find designing webpages so much harder than mobile UIs: can't figure out how to use so much horizontal space.) Arrows might help with the /learnmore page. Maybe we could number the images or labels too?

Regarding ShopKick, we're certainly not trying to create confusion. We just grabbed the best name we could find. I'm hoping the names are sufficiently different that it won't matter. We wouldn't want the shelf-scanning aspect to be part of the name though; we don't know what the product is going to look like in the future. We're just pretty sure it'll be your 'sidekick for shopping' :).
On the INTERNET, of course! And my kids are grown...
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Just as an FYI (I am not arguing with you), I was in a relationship with a photojournalist for thirteen years. She regularly used the expression "blowjob" to describe the various ways in which advertisers and media climb into bed with each other.

My understanding is that this is the industry jargon covering things like an obscure radio reporter being invited on an all-expenses-paid trip to L.A. to screen an upcoming movie, or a magazine doing a story about a company in the exact issue where the same company buys a two-page advertising spread.

I'm not saying you are wrong to be offended, just pointing out that this seems to be the way "professionals" talk within the media industry.
I've also recently started working from (a temporary) home. A couple of remarks:

- develop a good routine that keeps you moving. For me, it means:

- working from home from 9 to 12.

- eat lunch at home

- go to coffee shop to have coffee/work from there until 6

- stop working at 6 and do something else: sports, meet with friends etc.

- big space/natural light is very important. Right now I'm in a tiny hotel room with no windows and I simply cannot work from there. So I'm all day in a coffee shop (in a new town, so no getting bored feeling yet).

- Talk to other people about what you're doing (significant other, friends, etc) Try to explain progress you've made today. It can get pretty frustrating if you're spinning your wheels all day without nobody to talk about it.

- If your work (and your finances) allows it, go somewhere else where you can stay for a week (friend or family place). I'm currently traveling in South-East Asia and it helps not to be locked in the same room all the time.

- Get out and join classes. You're already doing it with gym classes, but maybe you could try something else if you don't like it.
Many of those things can't be done unilaterally. The president can't force something threw that Congress isn't interested in (medical marijuana, the Gitmo closing).
As a total aside, I find it interesting that Wikipedia, which 5 years ago would never be considered a reliable source for a developing event such as this, is now (rightly) considered a good place to go to for up to the hour information.
As for the practical construction of parsers, you don't have to make special case hacks for operator precedence, you only have to express operator precedence directly in grammar (using trick that seems obvious once you see it).

Recursive descent is often ideal in practice, but it is "unfashionable" mostly because it's trivial to write tools that convert grammar in "right" form to parsers, but almost impossible to write tools that converts random grammar into such "right" form. Most other subsets of CFG are significantly more complex to parse, but better suited to computer manipulation on the grammar level (typical LALR parser generator does the above mentioned trick internally and many similar transformations).
I would agree with what code wrote, but please be explicit that you can not pay him at this time. It's better for him to know that he is going to do this for equity, evaluate your business and think about how much value is he going to bring in, then do the math about how much equity should he get and under what terms. I would do some terms that would keep him at work, so that after 2 months you will not see him flee. Meaning that the terms should state something like: 2 articles / week in order to have x% of the profit or company.
Outside of the immediate disaster zones, I think "everything went as planned and life went on without missing more than a few beats" is substantially accurate. The context for my post was originally I got literally in excess of a hundred people who thought I might be dead trying to reach me because of the reporting, despite me being several hundred miles away. I have been talking to news reporters the last few days (whose Rolodex of English-speaking Japanese people is apparently non-existent, so I'm the next best thing) and its like we're living on two different planets: "Can you comment on the food shortages you're experiencing in Fugu?" "Fugu is a poisonous fish. I live in Gifu. There is no food shortage here. I just got a pizza delivered despite there being an earthquake in the middle of the delivery." "I thought the quake was days ago?" "Not that earthquake, the Shizuoka earthquake, at 10:30 PM last night." "Shizuoka... is that by the nuclear power plants??" I nearly exploded. Halfway between Tokyo and Nagoya, cut off power to a lot of people, and would have been virtually unremarkable except that it happened this week.

This is a disaster localized to a small portion of a big country. That was certainly not a given: Tokyo could be burning right now, and the situation at the nuclear plant which literally had a tsunami hit it could be the situation at every nuclear and chemical plant in the country. (Or the plant could have suffered immediate, catastrophic failure, rather than immediate work-as-designed followed by a deterioration which gave us enough time to evacuate everyone.

Food distribution and trains got a hiccup in Tokyo -- they're now operating normally. (They're decidedly not normal in the towns destroyed in Miyagi, obviously. 500,000 people were displaced at least temporarily.)

People do not live in Apple stores. They stayed there one night while waiting for train service to be restored. If you're worried about displaced folks, look to the evacuation sites like e.g. schools in Miyagi, which is where folks who don't have a home to go back to are staying temporarily.
| I wonder what would happen if some super-wealthy retired philanthropist (think Bill Gates, minus the MS monopoly tarnish) donated $1B to a promising Presidential candidate, with very few strings attached.

I wonder what would happen if some super-wealthy retired philanthropic billionaire with a sense of noblesse oblige decided to donate a vast sum to one extra-special Presidential candidate and if only that billionaire had no ulterior motive.

No way.
Can someone explain to me how netflix is in a good position when all major broadband providers are looking at throttling and/or caps?

When all the major ISPs are also selling their own video content, how can Netflix continue to compete?
If anyone at Netflix is listening:

BUY FIREFLY AND MAKE NEW EPISODES.

I would gladly play an extra $4 a month (or more) on top of streaming just for access to new weekly/biweekly episodes of that.
It amazes and shocks me that colleges still don't check the accessibility of their educational tools. Ever since the ADA and the Rehab Act of 1973 (Rehab Act only applied to schools getting federal grants), schools have been required to provide students with disabilities with equal access. But there are still foul-ups all over the place.

This reminds me of the Kindle debacle last year. Some universities provided Kindle DXs to students for course reading. Guess what? The text-to-speech feature is not enabled for all of the kindle books (copyright issues - a whole seperate story). The universities had to settle with the DOJ and DOE.

Here's a legal opinion letter from the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights - http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-... (tl;dr: don't use inaccessible technologies for classroom learning).
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Possibly. The largest human study ever done on the effects of chronic low-level radiation found them to be beneficial.

The researcher involved proposed a radiation hormesis model, in which the body adapts to the destructive effects of radiation by upgrading its self-repair response. US regulatory groups adhere to a linear no-threshold model in which all radiation, regardless of how weak it may be, leads to cumulative damage. It's not a resolved issue however. The French Academy of Sciences & National Academy of Medicine, for one, cited the study linked below in an argument against the LNT model.

http://www.scienceboard.net/community/perspectives.122.html
Now that would get a lot of people's attention! I'd sign up...
Well, it is all in the original title. The author's conclusion of "Why I am not worried" was based on the facts listed in his article. However, given the gravity of the current situation at the power plant we can assume that even though the facts listed in the article were all correct the author has misinterpreted them and reached a conclusion that that is wrong.

Edit: Think of it as a physic text homework problem. You have various facts listed throughout the problem, but your job is to use a correct formulas applied in the right sequences in order to derive a correct answer (aka interpret data "facts"). Simply re-stating the facts won't give you credit for the problem - the correct answer will (aka "conclusion").
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Definitely JavaScript - particularly its functional abilities (higher-order functions & closures)

Then Java would be good not because its great but because the JVM is great and Java will be a good intro to static typing.

Don't worry about learning it all at once; build things ss you go and have fun learning.
I was reminded of the movie Contact (I don't know if it's the same in the book) when Eleanor argues that aliens would not be hostile because it would be analogous to us sailing from one continent to another to destroy an ant colony.
Yet another example of when the person reporting the news becomes bigger than the news.. The S/N ratio at TC has gotten really really bad and its hard to find interesting/insightful stuff there anymore. It's a pity
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12755739

^ 1:20 in the video. Milli. Not micro.

Those are Edano's words, not the BBC's. I was told above that he was corrected by another person and that various translations have it as a different figure, but that isn't in the linked video.
Because radio creates monoculture and monoculture has less overhead.
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This reminded me of a quote from Shirow Masamune's Ghost In The Shell:

"No matter how powerful we may be fighting-wise, a system where all the parts react the same way is a system with a fatal flaw. Like individual, like organization. Overspecialization leads to death."
What the Russians did at Chernobyl was they asked the army for volunteers fully informing the soldiers that it could be a suicide mission. They ended up getting more volunteers than they needed.
Obama spent $1.7 billion in 2008: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...

I think $1B is enough to tip the scales for the right candidate, but if everyone knew one candidate was being propped up by a billionaire it would immediately backfire.
No but they seem to have great meta-cognitive functions (ie the colony itself).
chuckle I'm getting tired of reiterating this, but NOBODY KNOWS which facts are right and which facts are wrong. They are epistemically bankrupt in the sense that their state of knowledge cannot rationally support the conclusions they are drawing. As I said, typical MIT hubris.
Thanks for the Trie suggestion! I’ll do a follow-up post and talk about that specifically. Note that this post was mostly written to get people thinking about practical forms of optimization (that hopefully transcend dictionaries themselves – which only have limited applications in JavaScript applications). I’ll definitely do another post digging deeper into dictionary lookups themselves. Thanks!
"2:53 PM - Workers ordered to leave the Fukushima plant have been allowed back after radiation levels fell, the Japan nuclear agency said.

Pumping of seawater at reactors at No. 1, 2 and 3 was proceeding smoothly, it said.

(Reuters)"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/#entry-6a...
If entrepreneurs shunned from the US have started great companies elsewhere, there should be plenty of examples from the past.
I suspect your parent did not realize a nuclear meltdown simply means the melting of the fuel, and instead (like most people) simply directly associates the words with "huge disaster".

(From that frame of reference of course- "a huge disaster would not be a big deal!"- it DOES sound ridiculous)
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With radiation you shouldn't bet, you should know with certainty.
I'm loathe to hand credit to Microsoft, but I think they're onto something with Powershell. Rather than being limited to passing text streams around, Powershell commands pass full-featured objects back and forth (with callbacks and everything!).

Not to state the obvious, but this step was taken by major scripting languages decades ago with the minor restriction that your program had to run within one executable. Furthermore the idea of encapsulating objects in a way that could be passed between programs is not much younger - in the early 90s you had (still used) protocols for that like CORBA and PDO. And Microsoft was not far behind with its ever evolving OLE/COM/DCOM protocols.

I have no idea how good Microsoft's current implementation is. (Given how many times they have tried to tackle it, it wouldn't surprise me if it was pretty good by now.) But it isn't as original as it may seem.
Is MRI embarrassed yet?
The Caledorian Record "IT" office 48 hours ago:

"Wait Walter, what? I don't understand this email."

"Turns out our $8/hr rent-a-coder destroyed the user table. All that is left are the passwords, which for some reason are in a different table in plain-text."

"Crap. Wait, what are you holding?"

"Its the hard drive from the server. I'm going to send it to one of those recovery places. The guy on the phone said that they could do a recovery for 10k."

"What?! I'm not paying that much. Wait, doesn't the server need that drive?"

"Dunno. It seems to still be working. Lots of lights flashed when I took it out, but I ignored it."

"Fine, then what do we do. We can't tell people to log in with their passwords, can we?"

"Why not? Its not like we'll be mocked by some roving gang of geeks. The passwords are still associated with their member IDs. We can just put in some bullshit about security and switching the username and password. We'll ignore what they type in as username!"

loudly and in unison

"Winning!"
Big difference between the sausage making and the sausage.

As a journalist who's spent several years in all kinds of newsrooms, I can assure you that "blowjob" is one of the more kid-friendly words you'll hear in a newsroom. But, that's just blowing off steam in a grinding job with long hours, little pay and a lot of cynicism.

Professionals don't normally take what they say in private to print. I'd argue that they're professionals precisely because they don't drop "blowjobs" in print lightly.
They'd have some clout when negotiating with ISPs if they have content the ISP's customers want.

Like Cablevision & Scripps
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/scripps-cablevision-deal-r...

Or ABC
http://www.mediaite.com/online/no-oscars-tonight-for-new-yor...