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Correct. But I never ask the question if I go by car or plane from New York to L.A because it would take too long by car. This simply not a practical relevant comparison.
The question what to do or not do in my livetime is the relevant one. And for the answer to this question the risk of a activity has to be related to livetime.
Nice job. Japan quakes visualized via Quakespotter
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Sure, from anywhere it can. But a lot of people are talking about ramping up nuclear spending (and the costs are always understated).
Is fallout from an atom bomb worse than fallout from a reactor meltdown?
i'm a man, and I wonder what "I'm a woman" has to do with in that title?
The outcome in Japan may have no impact on the statistics, but it will have a massive impact on the opinons and beliefs of the human decision makers. Waiting for it to resolve will allow calmer heads to prevail.
I doubt your qualifications to make that statement "without the benefit of factual knowledge". The two biggest disasters listed on your source, the wikipedia link are from locations that were behind the iron curtain at the time. I cannot state categorically to the contrary either for that reason. The statistics for the worst nuclear incident to date are provided on that page by the IAEA. Here is an excerpt from their mission statement[1]: "assists its Member States, in the context of social and economic goals, in planning for and using nuclear science and technology for various peaceful purposes, including the generation of electricity, and facilitates the transfer of such technology and knowledge in a sustainable manner to developing Member States;"

http://www.iaea.org/About/mission.html[1]

edit:
IAEA article II "Objectives" of their statute[2]:
"The Agency shall seek to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world. It shall ensure, so far as it is able, that assistance provided by it or at its request or under its supervision or control is not used in such a way as to further any military purpose."

http://www.iaea.org/About/statute_text.html[2]
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I'd like to offer you some prime property in Pripyat for your home. If you buy today, I'll even throw in a free well-drilling for your water supply.
I'm guessing you mean this was the straw that broke the camel's back for you, because there's been a continual stream of indications that the Flash codebase is a mess for the last few years.
>If the education level in all industrial countries was raised to the point that the average person felt they had a strong understanding of nuclear power

Considering the average person seems to be pushing the limits of their mental abilities differentiating between the debt and the deficit, for example, I for one am not optimistic it's even possible to have widespread understanding of nuclear power.
Jazz sounds awful.

I can understand styles of music sounding awful, but what does it mean for a whole genre of music to sound awful? How does that even make sense?

Just to be clear, do you think this (Desafinado) sounds awful?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So718wk426c

Crazy talk.
> No Flash at launch even though that's its biggest selling point

I don't think that Flash is the biggest selling point... I think the biggest selling point is that it's the most powerful tablet out there. And it sounds like the WiFi Xoom will have Flash at launch anyway. Not really a big deal.
It's CNN. This is the best they can do these days.
Some Unixes that are meant to support real-time applications allow you to do an actual allocation. e.g., AIX had PSALLOC=early.
The comment she got from an "entrepreneur", and being part of a husband and wife team?
Well just about everyone other than Pilots spends a lot more of their life driving than flying, which is still irrelevant to which is the safer mode of transportation. When you boil it down, you're still saying "Going somewhere is more dangerous than not going somewhere."
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It makes more sense in context of the lengthy post.

I think the tl;dr is "sexism still exists".
Need a technical co-founder for startup
I'm looking for a technical cofounder to partner up on a new startup. I'm a design guy and entrepreneur and run one other small startup that has gotten a pretty good amount of press.

I don't want to disclose too much information about the idea here, but it is going to be a service for startups.

I need someone who knows:
HTML / CSS / JS
PHP / AJAX or RoR

In addition to these skills above, I'm looking for someone who is interested for the long-term, working with me to roll out new features and changes. Along with this, I'd love to partner with someone who can make decisions as far as software, hardware, scaling etc go.

If you're interested don't hesitate to email me for more info marcom10@gmail.com
It "kinda" supports LAN sync.

Files still first need to be transfered to the cloud first before you can sync them over LAN.

At least it was like this the last time I have looked at it (a few months ago).
AFAIK there is a difference between Linux and NT: Linux allows overcommitting, while NT requires that every page has a "backing store", for example a physical RAM page, a swap page or a memory mapped file.

Thus when you touch the page, Linux may figure out that there is no memory that page can be mapped to it, but now it is too late because the application "believes" that the memory has been allocated. So the kernel kills the application (or, to be correct, an application) too free memory with an OOM exception. This is one of the reasons why it is good to have loads of swap even if the physical RAM is big enough for all the running processes.
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Maybe the parent poster is from a rural area and hasn't yet reached driving age.
"A few 10s of European"... I think you should correct Wikipedia. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chernobyl_dis... "Estimates of the total number of deaths attributable to the accident vary enormously, from possibly 4,000 to close to a million".
If you run a full analysis large scale wind farms are the safest form of power generation. The problem with a simplistic analysis is most wind deaths are upfront and most wind power generation is vary new. Build 1TW of just about anything and you see construction related deaths the first year. However, after you build the thing deaths related to the fuel used and the difficulty servicing and decommissioning the power plant start to dominate.

PS: Arguably dam's save lives by reducing flooding and change the landscape over a large area so it's hard to calculate deaths from Hydro power.
really? Some better [citation needed].

2002:

Scandinavia and the Baltic countries had the cleanest air in Europe this summer while Greece, France and Italy faced the worst smog levels, said the European Environment Agency (EEA).

http://www.am.gov.lv/en/?id=574

And BTW, I am fully in favor of replacing coal plants with nuclear.
Interesting spin by Intel. Having recently priced out power and cooling costs I can see where ARM hopes to be, but Intel having a 64bit offering before ARM does is definitely an advantage. Now if the chipsets let me put 96GB on each chip (sadly another 36 - 50 watts) we'll really be interested.
IndexedDB is not good enough. WebSQL and LocalStorage are not viable alternatives. IndexedDB lacks first-class indexing support. Developers have waited years already. Time to stop, think, and work through these things properly.
I still read this word as "Planeh-arium" in my head. Maybe a bad reference :)
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Right, + the US crowd majority here probably have a hard time that Japanese cannot move to the other side of the country in case of a major disaster. It's just too small, too full.
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Thank you. The page I linked to worked when I linked it.
It should be pointed out that there will never be another Chernobyl. It was a perfect intersection of criminally inadequate design, early-adopter naivete, incompetence, and Murphy's Law.

In these discussions, bringing up Three Mile Island is fair game, but Chernobyl is not a realistic parallel.
whatever goal this guy had with his trick it failed in a terrible way

Not really. The company had to pull in an expensive consultant, causing it financial damage.
Ask HN: JavaScript is cool again, but the learning resources suck...
...so if you had to recommend one JavaScript learning resource, what would it be?

Specifically I'm looking for something suitable for a relative novice (have done some cut & paste programming and messed with RoR), and that focuses on core JavaScript without getting bogged down in DOM stuff (I'll get to that later!).

Web searches turn up a bunch of mostly outdated resources or focused on browser development. I did find the moz stuff, but I'm looking for something more tutorial or easier to digest.

What's your top: website, book, webcast?...

Thanks!
Aw. For a second, I thought this was going to be about a Wi-Fi-only phone.

When that becomes a popular product category, it will be an interesting day in tech.
Someone questioned whether Dropbox could compete with Amazon at scale, but decided to delete it. This is a really valid question. I recalled a while back that Backblaze asked a similar question and came up with a really cool solution.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h...

I see this as Dropbox's future. PaaS is good for getting started, but with numbers like what's shown in that blog post, it's hard to argue that something like S3 is really priced at commodity levels.
Have you tried to voice your concern to them? If not, I think you should give that a go. For all you know, that's all it would take. :-)
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And people turned out to help, first to clean up their own blocks, then to help with citywide food banks.
And of course, they skip over the only part I don't understand about that hack. The real meat and potatoes, the magic number.
U kidding? JRuby is slow to startup. The performance increase isn't realized until the JVM "warms" up. Good luck running JRuby on a 512MB VPS.
I'll point it out again: These figures are under dispute[1] and not "factual knowledge".

It seems only the IAEA is claiming 4000 deaths/cancers, whereas other studies claim tens of thousands or even a million[2].

I'll also repeat my other favorite argument in this recurring discussion: Chernobyl happened in a sparsely populated area that was quickly evacuated. Have you considered what the figures could look like if a similar disaster hits, say, the Tokyo area?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Assessing_th...

[2] http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3...
> After cooling off, I realized that I was angry because I had just found remnants of the prejudice I thought was gone from startup circles.

Why would you think this? You don't have to be particularly socially enlightened or progressive to create a startup. I'd imagine that "startup circles" sample from the general population of smart people, and as such would have their fair share of any proclivity you can imagine. Sounds like you bumped into a run-of-the-mill chauvinist. As much as we may like to believe, "smart" does not imply any particular worldview -- I've met academics at research conferences who would take off their wedding rings before talking to a female colleague of mine, and other distinguished faculty members who would consistently talk down to female colleagues. Hell, read James Watson's (of double-helix DNA fame) book The Double Helix for some prime sexism, if aggravation is your thing.

The rest of the article was quite interesting though...
So, if you are allowed to use Chernobyl as an example of "typical" nuclear power installations, and come to the logical conclusion that all other nuclear reactor installations in the world carry the same risk, then can I similarly use the Banqiao Dam as an example of a "typical" hydroelectric dam, and declare that all dams in the world therefore carry the same risk?
I think "so far outside their sphere" was poor word choice on my part. What I was trying to say was that, for Netflix whose sole business is delivering movies and tv shows to consumers, moving into TV production is not a stretch. For a company like amazon, who already does so many disparate things, to now add something so monolithic as TV production might stretch them in uncomfortable ways. I'm an enormous Amazon fan so I don't put anything past them, but this is kind of a double-dog dare on Netflix's part, in my opinion.
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Which Hell would that be? The one in California, Michigan, the Cayman Islands or Norway?
I shall be equally honest - you have an extremely low threshold for what counts as genius. :-)
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Also doesn't work in FF 3.6 or Opera 11...
OK I'll play along- I also can't fly to work everyday because there's no airport nearby and I would be broke within weeks. Therefore, driving is more dangerous because I'm forced to spend more time doing it.
Chernobyl: the nuclear disaster to end all nuclear disasters?
>A young, but influential, entrepreneur I talked with remarked that I was probably “only interested in doing a startup to be supportive of my husband.”

That comment is equally applicable to the other husband in the 2-husbands homosexual marriage configuration. Why she decided that it was about her female physiology and not about her being a part of a marriage?
This same line of reasoning came up with the last few Netflix stories to hit HN. Netflix depends on Amazon who runs a competing on-demand video service. The general consensus is that Amazon's divisions are independent enough to not try anything funny. More importantly, Amazon is big enough that they wouldn't risk the publicity fallout of monkeying with the competition's services.
It looks awesome on Chrome, but there is a slight glitch in the shape of a flash that occurs once all animation appears to have finished. Anyone else experiencing this?
The biggest reason that misogyny exists in tech comes down to the fact that there aren't many women in tech. As an example my Calculus based physics course in college had 150 people enrolled. 3 of whom were female. And honestly, when roughly 2% of a workforce are women, there is a real risk of misogyny developing. The solution to this problem is that we in tech need to do more to inspire young girls to enter the tech industry.
The (biggest) problem is that BART has cloth seats, which are absorbant and more difficult to clean than plastic seats.

btw, the cloth BART seats pictured in that article are some of the cleanest I've seen. I ride BART every day. Most seats are collapsing, ripped, and filthy.
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But can you explain why that reactor pond at that time (presumably lost water and) went critical???

The waste was just sitting around an already shut reactor at the time of the Tsunami. After the Tsunami, the workers were doling out water to the other reactors and they just forgot about the cool ponds? Did the pond just spring a leak? The reactors lost power after the Tsunami but we can presume they have it back now.

Just much, why aren't isn't the fuel pallets in these ponds spaces so far apart that one could never interact with another under any circumstances?
Chernobyl used UNENRICHED uranium, containing only .7% of U235, and went kablooey. Which you just said can't happen, so I suppose Chernobyl didn't actually happen. /thread

This thread has brought out the worst aspects of Hacker News - reasonably bright people who feel compelled to opine, in their usual arrogant "I am always right" manner, about subjects where they have no clue.
"A young, but influential, entrepreneur I talked with remarked that I was probably “only interested in doing a startup to be supportive of my husband.” I was, to be frank, incredibly angry."

I'm not sure why she felt angry[1]. People judge, get over it; if a pattern of judgements becomes a problem, work on your credibility. I think reducing emotion at work has value in a lot of circumstances.

[1] or: "allowed herself to feel angry", which fundamentally reduces to "chose to feel angry" (edited in later)
Stephen Hawking is not a Nobel laureate.
The full quote from Rick Ross is "I am grateful that Ben Newman and Albert Sheu of Quora have identified a (now fixed) XSS vulnerability in our test site, but I am surprised that Quora policy permits developers to engage so openly in vandalizing other people's websites." which is slightly nicer than that article makes it sound.

Personally, I think the Quora engineers involved made some poor decisions. Anyone who looks for security vulnerabilities on websites they don't own or control is on shaky legal footing (there are exceptions: Google, Mozilla, Facebook, and a few other companies provide systems for the responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities). However, publicly disclosing vulnerabilities on a competitor's website (and making your proof of concept mildly malicious) is never going to work out well for anyone: it makes your company look like a bully and exposes you to potential legal ramifications.
I'm planning on doing HTML5 apps for Android tablets. Any word on whether WebView gains any benefits from hardware acceleration yet?
We've been using it for our band, and it's been working great. A really useful tool that the non-techy members have had no trouble adopting.
> Doesn't anyone die mining Uranium ores?

As you've seen from the other respondents, the answer to your question, essentially, is "no".
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I've been shocked at how often I see the Dropbox icon on friend's systems. I no longer live in silicon valley, and so I am completely out of the echo chamber (except what I read here at HN). These are not nerds, not techies, and not people who follow TechCrunch. These are artists, musicians, old folks, nomads, and all sorts of folks that just don't do technology. But, they get Dropbox. Admittedly, my parents aren't using Dropbox, but my parents don't read CNN.com, either, and I can't imagine what they would even use Dropbox for. I can't even get them to use flickr for photos, despite buying them a digital camera (my mom still uses a film camera when she travels because she's afraid she'll lose or break the digital one).

If I could invest in Dropbox, I would. But, that wasn't always true. I met Drew at a YC party before they had anything to show, and were still figuring out the diffing/versioning problems, and all the underlying hard problems. And, I came away thinking, "Well, that's been done before. A lot. And it never went anywhere." I had even built a little web-based file manager and sharing app as a RoR practice app, a couple weeks before. So, I thought I knew a business that wouldn't go anywhere when I saw it. I thought highly of Drew, but not much of the idea. I was obviously very wrong about the idea.

Anyway, my point is, Dropbox hasn't been something "you've never heard of" for quite some time.
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While I agree with you mostly What I saw in this quote is "don't be shy, go for it even if you are a bit rough on the edge" #hustle - Cheers
At 40$ a box, I don't think taste is really the issue.
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OK I can see a business plan in it and I can't blame people for choosing one way of earning money over another.

Still this is quite sign of the times we live in. If someone's putting most of his service from the pieces hosted elsewhere, what it will be? I can say that it'll be probably sloooow ;)

Anyway I share your sentiment towards ORMs, with a little difference that I prefer data mapper (as a pattern) over active record (as a pattern). Active record locks you in the ghetto where the only primary source of the schema information are your artificially crafted ORM-dependent tables, where in data mapper the database itself can give this information to you via reflection of the "real" tables. This is priceless when dealing not only with legacy databases but also with effects of ad-hoc operational fixes, which in turn can save your production sometimes. Data mapper has got also object identities right.
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Could you (or anyone else) explain Erlang's release number scheme?

Is R14 the 14th major release and B02 a minor release? Is there some other meaning in their numbering? (Sorry, my Google-fu is failing miserably on this topic)
>"sexism still exists"

to me it "she is still able to see sexism when she intends to do so".

For example, if i wanted, I could also see sexism in the respect for me at the worksplace - "they respect me because i'm a man!"
Setting expectations is important. You should let them know what your observation is about the amount of time that you expect the work to take, and give them the opportunity to explain to you why it's taking longer.

Agile/Scrum are good for this, because they give people the responsibility to commit to which work they'll be completing on a given day, and explain why they're blocked or moving more slowly.

Perhaps you should have a daily 15-minute scrum meeting to get a sense of exactly where they are and how things are going? More communication always makes things more transparent.

If you can't do that, set a deadline. Work will always expand to fit the allotted time, so make sure you're keeping the timeframe short enough to make sure the team knows that the project completion date is not open-ended.
http://eloquentjavascript.net/ - HTML version has interactive console to practice exercises

http://javascript.infogami.com/Javascript_in_Ten_Minutes

http://yuiblog.com/crockford/

http://javascript.crockford.com/

More advanced:

http://www.addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpattern...

http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/
I let out a sigh when I saw redundant but understandably necessary function calls to support all browsers. Is there hope in seeing stuff like this consolidated anytime soon?
-moz-transform:...
-webkit-transform:...
-o-transform:...
transform:...
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I don't see many people crying out for abolishment of planes, though.

But a lot of people, especially those who know anything about planes are always crying out for more safety. Both in mechanical terms, more plane inspections, and in human terms, more rest for pilots.

And I don't think many people here are arguing for the abolishment of nuclear power. That is a straw man.

I think what we all want is the safest possible nuclear power.

And this argument is between the people who willing admit knowing little to nothing and think things can always get worse, versus the people who keep arguing things are peachy and there's no way they can get worse, even as the situation has continued to deteriorate.

I think this boils down to an argument of "Shit happens!" vs. "Nah uh, engineering is magic!"
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I disagree. The logic of the post clearly states that the source of the information is a reason to reject it rather than a problem with the information itself. This is a common problem with a vast majority of the negative responses to the "why I am not worried" article.

Remember, the poster says that the origin of the facts makes those facts bullshit. Textbook genetic fallacy.
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