skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I agree, it's one hell of a hack idea, and it probably could turn into a startup if the hackers really wanted it.
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You are ignoring the fact that an interesting article is much less interesting the tenth time it is posted.
Good points. I didn't really understand Einstein's points about the individual being so dependent on society, though. Therefore what? We shouldn't be so selfish? When I see government workers protesting cuts, while regular workers are losing their jobs quietly, and going back to work somewhere else, I think those protestors are selfish for thinking that their paycheck is a right - at my expense.

There are two other issues that I have with the piece:

Economic: what the owner sells is the not the product of labor, but rather the product of all inputs (investment) that went into the production of the good or service.

Historical: nuclear war (or WWIII) was not prevented by a supra-national organization, but rather the collapse of a (inneficiently) planned economy. But how could he see that coming?
Well what's the point of letting large numbers of people in if it fails to make those already here better off? And that's pretty clearly the case. That there's space to accommodate them is irrelevant.

Also, considering issues like fresh water and food security, the country is in fact full. Japan maybe super-overfull, but the US is definitely full or overpopulated.
and the point of this is?
Nuclear Expert: "Fukushima Has 24 Hours To Avoid A Core Meltdown Scenario"
If Peak Oil even exists. I've read that Russian scientists believe that oil is a renewable source of energy produced through the action of heat and pressure on water and rock. (These conditions can actually be recreated in a lab and do produce oil, at least according to the link that follows).

They do not believe in the whole 'fossil fuel' business.

Link for those interested: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/04/27/861354/-Peak-Oil-My...
Surely that method of multiplication is not suited for larger numbers, to get 246 * 369 u do
200 * 300
200 * 60
200 * 9
40 * 300
40 * 60
40 * 9
6 * 300
6 * 60
6 * 9
So for x-digit multiplied by y-digit u need to write down x*y products and then sum it up, where as for the old method you need to only write down min(x,y) products and sum it up.
Japan 2011 Quake - 1 quake per frame/second
If oil is priced above demand, there should be large supplies of unsold oil piling up in tankers.

Period, god damn it.

If there is no unsold oil piling up in tankers than oil is currently priced at the level where demand at that price equals the supply. You cannot blame commodity speculators for this!

My understanding is that during the last price speculation bubble, there were oil tankers piling up. If this is not happening now then commodities speculators have got nothing to do with it. Why is this so hard for people to understand?
I think you're on to something there.
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The fact that we're having this discussion means LinkedIn is doing something right. LinkedIn is under-valued because they are still the only social network for business professionals. LinkedIn continues to make improvements to their service. I know a lot of professionals, myself included, that use LinkedIn regularly and don't use Facebook much at all.

Incidentally, everybody is welcome to add me to your LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/citizenkeys
The current spike in gas prices is not primarily a result of anything to do with the freedom fighters in the Arab world...Nor is it a result of OPEC’s production levels...

Rather, the spikes are primarily a result of the speculative market on oil.

Well, uh, what are their speculations based on?
Really? To me as a developer, "cloud" means PaaS or IaaS.

It's fun to ridicule a trendy word when it is misused by marketing types. But among smart hackers, aren't we past that?
Party of Logic & Reason.

That's what I saw when people ask me what political party I'm for.

It doesn't exist as far as I know.

I think it would take years and years and years to get a political party to assemble unless it was hyper accelerated by the internet in some way.
> Some people find it easier to work with this visually in Interface Builder.

All of our designers use IB to layout the UI. It works really well - as they don't have to touch the code and we don't have to touch the layout.

Unfortunately, if you are doing any kind of custom animation (think sliding/expanding), IB is useless - you'll have to set the frames in code.

In general, IB is great because it helps separate presentation from the code.

When I first started out, I hated IB, but I've come to accept the fact that it really does help productivity (when working with designers closely). If you hate IB, consider going Android - there is nothing like IB on Android. All XML and a simple (nothing like IB) layout editor.
243 minus 15 = 227. Ummmm... what did LinkedIn spend $227 million dollars on?
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Not just tankers, but oil storage depots. One of the largest oil storage areas is in Cushing, OK. The amounts of oil stored there are at record levels. As reference, read: http://www.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2009-01-23-voa61-68... or http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN02226876201....

It's so full that they're building more capacity to store more oil. The situation is the same in other parts of the world.

BTW, this is common knowledge for those who follow the commodities markets. Oil prices are high because of perceived risk of potential supply contraction due to instability in the middle east. It's a risk trade, i.e. speculation.
Sounds like it would be amazingly convenient. We'll definitely look into that for next release.
So you haven't read her, and you admit that you're acting unfairly?

How do you know that comparing her to Aristotle is laughable if you don't actually know what she said?

I recommend "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" if you'd like to compare her epistemology with Aristotle's.

Edit: again, why the downvote? Yes, I know some people don't like Ayn Rand (and others adore her). But there's nothing in this message that warrants a downvote.
SXSW is not a tech conference.
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In reference to what he want's you can't compare a LFSR with a Mersenne twister. His goal is not primarily to produce a good pseudo random number (->Mersenne twister) but to enumerate enumerate all IPs of net range without repetition an. When you wand to be fast you want to avoid repetition.
You really have to remember that, most people, far more than a tech savvy person could imagine aren't tech savvy, they won't open google , add a name + email to find a person they are trying to get in touch with, I think they will either leave it or pay the $30...most of the time. An alternative could be twitter or facebook, but that's another story trying.
The abiogenic theory has been discredited. A long time ago.
Nuclear authorities now saying there is a high possibility of meltdown.

http://twitter.com/Reuters/statuses/46439520094273536
Ask HN: Users vs PageViews - What's more important
If pageviews are consistently high, but registered users are not, is that bad? How much does it matter?

I know user data is good, but is it critical for investors? I want to understand what's critical and why.

Can someone suggest the most important/relevant stats of the following?

Registered Users, Visits, Pageviews, Pages/visit, Avg. Time on site, New Visitors.

Thanks!
Depends on your business/product and the business model
Apparently these power plants were build to withstand a 7.5 M quake. Unfortunately, that was not good enough...
eh, disabling password auth solves the problem almost as well.
Ha! If 'Inside Job' and 'Client 9' are correct then said financiers are spending a lot of their institution's money on said hookers and coke dealers. Then expensing it as research.
I believe oil sold on futures markets are in barrels and not tankers.
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They're one of the efficient charities though:

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...
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In simplest terms, the derivative (in this case, futures contracts) is causing the price of the underlying instrument (oil) to increase in price, because the value of the futures contracts themselves have appreciated due to inflation.

Analogy: let's say I'm Big Co and I want to lock in the price of oil at $90 per barrel in the next 6 months, so I buy a futures contract that will do this for me at a price of $5. If the price of oil increases to $100, then I would've saved my company $5 (price of oil at future rate - strike price - cost of contract).

On the surface, this is a good thing if:

a) There is a liquid market for such contracts
b) My company is actually buying and selling oil for the purpose of production of goods and services

Now, consider (a); it's precisely the problem he's describing. Because these banks have large positions in these contracts, it would be in their best interests to see the market value of the oil increase, since it would lead to a corresponding increase in the value of the contract. You can think of it in terms of an insurance "premium". For example, I would pay an insurance premium for my house, car etc because the intrinsic value is high, but an insurance premium for a bottle of water would be negligible in value.

The problem is made worse because the banks are not in the actual business of using oil to produce goods and services of economic value, but in fact have exclusivity to deal in these contracts.

Note that both the demand and supply side of the underlying oil itself has slight bearing on the actual value of these contracts. It's the volatility that determines the prices.
Feedback: It wasn't exactly clear that I was entering a topic or channel to chat about on the front page, rather then my nickname.
I can imagine an attempt to do this crumbling in utter disaster.Then a participant writing a retrospective article exploring all the reasons it didn't work in a very clear, logical & concise manner.
If somebody’s wondering about the double dot like me: “A common misconception is that number literals cannot be used as objects. That is because a flaw in JavaScript’s parser tries to parse the dot notation on a number as a floating point literal.”
I trust Japanese engineering more than Cringley predictions. Let's wait and see what the engineers do.

BREAKING NEWS: Pressure successfully released from Fukushima No. 1 reactor: agency - Kyodo

http://twitter.com/martyn_williams/statuses/4645894316531712...

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Govt says radioactive measurements near plant roughly doubled, confirming release of gas.

http://twitter.com/martyn_williams/statuses/4645969566958387...
I guess the obvious question is whether 80% of electricity supply meets demand, probably not, how can Japan generate the additional 20% in a hurry?
Isn't the real problem that oil is produced by a cartel that controls prices? Can't the oil-producing countries just put more oil onto the market to decrease prices, if they wanted to?

The issue is that oil producers have no incentive to increase supply: they have a fixed amount of oil under their land, and releasing it slowly makes them more money. Commodities speculators are also tying up some supply (in offshore tankers), but there is more oil in the earth than there is in investment-bank-owned tankers.
Actually the article says "experiencing the threat of a meltdown", which is a very different thing.
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“I trust Japanese engineering more than Cringley predictions.”

What does that even mean?
I pasted in the original headline directly from the article. They've (nikkei.com) updated it since.

I'm glad that this is the case, rather than having the headline get even worse.
The harder it is to write an application, the better the application must be. Putting stuff in the kernel means it will be harder to get right, so clearly the app will be better.

A security hole in the kernel is a small price to pay for a 0% speed increase.
Demand may be lower for quite a while, due to the same events that caused disruption.
That Cringely is less reliable than Japanese manufactured / designed goods.
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He says "That’s why the experts didn’t expect it because they are still thinking of how the plant can be saved, but it can’t be."

I will accept that statement as true when it comes from a fact-finding mission by the Japanese nuclear authorities, not Cringely.
Ask HN: Can my .org domain name be for profit?
Hi HN,

I've been reading on the topic, but I wanted to check with experienced users.

Can I use a .org domain name for a commercial (for-profit) business?

In both legal, and perhaps ethical terms. For instance is using a .org for profit 'frowned upon' in the web community?

Thanks!
"It's the volatility that determines the prices"

I thought this is only the case with contracts where the payoff is not linear, i.e. limiting the upside or downside. Future contract payoffs are linear f(t) = S(T) − K, so the upside is the same as the downside.
Ah, that makes sense... now, is it a conspiracy OR a coverup?! :)

I too am glad that things seem to be getting better not worse.

Cringely has an interesting take on it:

http://www.cringely.com/2011/03/flea-powder-may-be-saving-li...
I'm primarily a Python/Pyramid (web)programmer but have been wanting to experiment more fully with Racket/Scheme in that regard - I think I'll try throwing something together for the event...
Something similar that came up a few days ago:

http://caolanmcmahon.com/posts/writing_for_node_and_the_brow...
No, until now I was ignoring the fact that a few folks seem to have added some evidence that it is possible to spend way to much time on HN.
I think experts refers to “experts” on CNN or Fox. Here is the relevant passage in the text I think this refers to:

“‘Coolant?’ wondered aloud all the CNN and Fox News nuclear experts looking for a lede for their stories. ‘What is she talking about, coolant?’”

And what’s wrong with speculation? Seemed reasonable enough to me.
Can they not simply ship in extra batteries, or are they batteries too large to be moved?
That doesn’t make any sense.
Somewhat meaningless considering the quake was under an ocean a hundred miles away. The house of cards on my kitchen table is built to survive a 0.01 quake, but it survived this one. Why? Because it was on the other side of the world.
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Wow Paul Graham is amazing! I wish I had known about him and his essays a long time ago. Reading those is really comforting and validates that what I'm going through is normal. Thanks for the info...now back to reading some more of his essays!
This looks good. I'm already thinking of presentation topics.
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The longer you're involved the more you'll find that people in positions of authority and prominence rarely deserve them.
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People love useful, friendly accounts on Twitter. My wife and I built up a community of 250K followers just by following that simple formula. If Twitter had a several useful, friendly accounts that every user was forced to follow, they could run the occasional ad, if no single account overtweeted.

While there is no proof that this would achieve a required level of success, had Twitter been doing it for years, they would have learned a ton, and made a lot of money.

Using Twitter accounts to connect to their community and run ads could still be tried, and a level of balance found. (They can respond to inquires from a separate account that accepts no followers so it's replies don't show in anyone's timeline.)
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The way the article shows is essentially calculating:

(30 + 6) * (20 + 4)

Which is great and all, but I think it would make more sense to do this:

(24 * 6) * 1 + (24 * 3) * 10

This is a lot closer to how machines actually do multiplication, so if the goal is to conceptually understand multiplication so you can have a computer do it, that makes more sense to me.

Plus it's easier to do in your head that way.
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Japan earthquake and tsunami today - 11 March 2011
There's obviously some shared art assets and toolchain, but it doesn't sound like the actual rendering code in iOS Rage has much, if anything, in common with Rage proper: http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/10/29/john-carmack-discus...
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Here's a live translation into English of NHK-TV: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/yokosonews
I saw the disambiguation page for "Real-time" again last night, and you're absolutely right.
As far as open source is concerned, it might be helpful to split the projects into two categories before examining their motives
1) Corporate driven projects. Here the need to reinvent might be due to profit based motives, or it could be because someone is trying to create work for themselves.
2) Volunteer driven projects. In this case I think it's the geeky need to understand things from first principle that drives the reinvention. The fact that for poorly documented projects the cost of reimplementation early on is comparable to rewriting from scratch doesn't help. Also large projects seem disorganized and bloated when compared against a new naive implementation with few features.
The supply increased while demand decreased last year, why then should oil prices be skyrocketing? Has the Libyan oil production slowed down enough to explain the price hike? I don't have any numbers, but the explanation in the article makes a bit more sense than the cartel theory given numbers for the past decade.
In the WebSocket spec, it only exists to open a connection to a url on a port, there is nothing about listening to a port for connections. You could open a connection to a server which can relay other websockets data, but you can't open a connection to another client. There is nothing in the spec to create a server basically.
Right or wrong it did a better job of explaining how coolant works in nuclear reactors and how they would usually shut down than anything I have seen on the news.
...Does anyone actually teach their kids with that retarded method? All it does it take up more space, and shift the burden from screwing up carries while multiplying to screwing up carries while adding.

And since it's so brain dead to implement, I can't see any significant amount of kids even reflecting on how 'the numbers work' based on that.
Nice idea and simple execution. But the color choice is VERY hard on the eyes.
If you keep adding water to cool the thing, there's probably going to be production of a fair bit of steam, which will be somewhat radioactive. This steam will get vented to the atmosphere. This isn't really so great -- even if it doesn't actually harm people, it will substantially hurt the nuclear power industry worldwide. :(

Next time, perhaps you would consider 8h of batteries to not be enough? Diesel generators aren't exactly the most reliable to start in a crisis; they're a good choice for maintenance bypass of a reactor, but I've been in enough datacenters which went dark due to a genset not spinning up...and post disaster puts even more stress on them, with particulates in the air, shocks, etc.

It looks like they could fly in enough generators from just what US forces have on hand to run the pumps, if they had to (and I assume the utility has plenty of its own, and the Japanese government does too), but coordinating all of this in 8h post-earthquake is really difficult I'm sure.

The (relatively unprotected) diesel reactors and cooling water sources have often been the most tempting terrorist targets in nuclear plants, at least from public threat analysis. You don't necessarily need to release radioactivity; just shutting down the plant in a destructive way is a huge hit.
It is not just Groupon that hurts customers. When another partner website jacks up prices - they are also accountable. How do I know this? I spent one day (I chose it as my final working day)working Groupon complaints at a company where the pricing on the company portal Groupon page was jacked.
Twitter claims preventing user confusion as a motive yet the move from old to new Twitter on the web is the biggest source of confusion. I mean, come on. Teaching people an interface isn't rocket science. Do something simple, such as put out a video a week showcasing use of the new interface. Heck, have user contests to come up with videos showcasing the new interface. Or go all out and develop an awesome training and help system, and integrate it into the interface. If users have a problem, do something about it!
Here's what you need to read instead of Cringley:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_Water_Reactor_Safety_Sy...

Combine that with these:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031219-e....

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031220-e....

And you can see what's going on. Ignore everything else.
(insert bad joke about non-user-replacable iNuke battery here)

I rather suspect the batteries are not easily replaced - they're a tertiary system, designed to be a short-term stopgap to get your primary and secondary systems back online. I'm sure that if just cycling batteries was an option, and the battery systems are operational, they'd do that - it's a heck of a lot cheaper than pulling the killswitch on the whole plant.
Japan's nuclear industry actually has had a fair number of releases of radioactivity over the past few decades, not all of which were immediately or fully disclosed. A lot were related to reprocessing, not reactors themselves.
Note this is actually from 1993. I wonder how things have changed since then.
These people do it:

Failblog [ dot ] org

No pun intended.

As far as I know it doesn't matter in the least but generally if you use .org you should do it for projects that mirror or reflect the use of the domain (unlike the example I posted).
It's always best to have the .com .org .net domains. You can then forward to the one you decide to use.
He shows technical understanding of the issue, but the alarmist tone of the article places it in the "pessimistic, under-informed opinion about the impact of a natural disaster" category.

Nevertheless, I'm waiting for the official verdict.
That doesn't make any sense. The browser server just responds to websocket requests the same way a server would. The other browsers acting as clients wouldn't even need to know it was a browser just that it was acting as a websocket server.