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Does anyone know if all applicants receive some type of feedback, even if they are not chosen for an interview? Basically, an explanation as to why they were not chosen to move on to the next step in the process and which areas they may want to improve on.
I've read news reports that they were thinking about helicopter drops of water and/or boric acid.
Is there anything in the article to actually support the headline "we're worried"?
Well the fact that it was necessary to be revised, should give you a hint that some things were wrong with the original one.
Is this really even a story?
Shouldn't this be something the TechCrunch staff discusses amongst itself near the watercooler?
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Wire a toggle switch to cut the connection between the baseband and the antenna, and it shouldn't be able to transmit more than a few inches.
I've lost my wallet quite a few times over the past 10 years in the US, and I've recovered it all but once. Once it came through the mail (missing a single gift card). Today it was waiting for me in Walgreens.

I've found wallets and cell phones, and tracked down the owners, too.

The US isn't the den of iniquity breathless journos like to pretend it is.

I attribute it to a sense of basic human decency that nearly everyone manages to maintain if one isn't suffering from crushing poverty.
BBC also reported 1,000 mSv measured at the plant. Pretty sure they got that wrong too.
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Parser composability is trivial with Pratt parsers. One need only introduce the idea of denotation groups/categories, and allow one to specify a specific category along with a precedence. Add to this the ability to do ordered choice on denotations based on the first token(s) of the led/nud and you've got yourself a nice system :D
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I'm really kind of sick of listening to people talk about how everything is hunky-dory. I heard one supposed expert on CNN basically state that a nuclear meltdown is no big deal. The lesson to learn here is when a government tells you everything is ok regarding an event with potential regional impact, get the hell out of town.

I'm assuming the reactors are melting down and are out of control. Pumping seawater in may be keeping the thing from blowing up, but obviously isn't cooling the reactors down. So what happens now? Do they keep melting down indefinitely, or do the reactions eventually fizzle out?
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Hello, I would like to ask a question. I am about to start a new internet startup. I have talked to a person who's interested in joining the new venture and helps out with the blogging and forum stuff. I did mention about financial commitment even though it's not a obligation and there is a possibility that he is not willing to invest any money except his time for blogging and scouting the forums. Up until now I am the only owner and foot all the bills but he's a talent and probably will help a lot with sale later on. We will have a first face to face meeting next month so I want to be prepared. Should I consider him a co-founder, partner? What offers would I bring to the table? If you offer a person any title, what kind of incentive? Equity, percentage on net profit...? Please advise. Apology for my broken English and thank you.
The farmer that discovered the colony on his farm killed the infestation before the concrete was poured. They were doomed anyway.
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Heartwarming tweets from the eye witnesses of 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami
Japanese people have been very open on Twitter about their experiences following the earthquake. These snippets of what moved them and touched them during these very trying times are heart-warming.<p>We hope these mini-stories will bring strength and encouragement to friends and families
in Japan by letting them know that, not only does the world sympathize with them, but it looks up to them in admiration.
No.

http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html
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Amen....its a 2 way street.
My current hobby is to make a visible point of calling out litterers and picking up their litter if they don't (especially cigaretes).

So far, I've gotten ignored a lot, a couple of sheepish looks or mutterings, and I've been assaulted once (after returning a dropped cigarette to the owner, she threw the coffee drink at me, littering further.)

I strongly exhort all decent people to make a point of transmitting their values loudly, clearly, and defensibly. If only vandals and thugs feel free to express their beliefs in public, where will that lead us?
If your accusation is that the article should have been updated to include this, I think that's fair. But my original question was about the facts of the article as is.
mitnse.com is linked to from http://web.mit.edu/nse/.

I imagine it would be either hard to fake that or it'd be noticed quickly if a MIT department's website was hacked.
I think I grok your meaning of "efficiency" now; I'm definitely not suggesting you are an intolerant person.

I would politely challenge, however, the idea that there's roughly equal virtue between Brooklyn-style embraced diversity vs Japan-style conformity. Not only does multiculturalism have a genuine moral attractiveness, which should not be dismissed, it makes for a stronger, more resilient country over the long term. Fresh ideas, fresh values, fresh labor, fresh taxpayers, fresh consumers, fresh inventors and indeed fresh culture are stengths that have been indispensable in allowing the U.S. to overcome its many deep (and often chronic) flaws and attain the level of economic and cultural success that it has. Similarly, a tendency toward xenophobia has hampered Japan's many intrinsic strengths, which have nevertheless been strong enough to set the country as an (oft misinterpreted) example of How To Win.

TLDR: Monoculture is a harmful, false optimization at the national level (though quite useful within, say, an apartment, church or startup incubator).
Just out of curiosity, what web apps are you thinking of that only require html, css, and javascript? Given, I believe there are some simple frameworks in javascript, but does anyone actually use just these three? Anything I can think of uses at least a database.
Meanwhile, TC posts another piece on Quora...
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I was thinking the same thing. Modern Japanese culture looks very negatively at people who put their own interests ahead of everybody else's, to an extent that you probably can't imagine if you haven't been there, and this is backed up by very low levels of inequality.

I remember a news program I was watching in our Japanese class in, uh, probably 1992. A couple of policemen were interviewing a distraught convenience-store clerk who had just been robbed.

"Did he look blue-collar, or white-collar, or what?"

"He just looked like a normal person! But obviously he wasn't, because he robbed the store!"

Our whole class (this was in the US) burst out laughing. The idea that, in order to commit armed robbery, a person would have to have some kind of mental abnormality — it was so alien to us as to be comical. That idea used to exist in US culture; Lombroso's theories used to be popular, eugenic policies were often justified on the basis that "morons" were likely to be criminals, and the word "crook" was a neat little package wrapping up the idea of mental abnormality causing lawbreaking. Much of Clarence Darrow's career was spent defending the most abhorrent criminals on the basis that their criminality was beyond their control, although not merely because of mental defects.

But, at least since the 1970s, an alternative conception of law and lawbreaking has been popular in the US — perhaps due to the absurd drug war, perhaps due to the discovery of abuses like the Tuskegee experiment, J. Edgar Hoover's campaigns of persecution against national heroes like MLK, and government deceptions about Vietnam and the dangers of fallout from open-air nuclear testing, perhaps due to the increasing cultural influence of Hollywood, or perhaps simply due to the failure of prosperity to be widely shared.

Whatever the cause, though, people from the US almost universally think of lawbreaking as a common and often harmless activity, not something limited to the mentally handicapped or partially insane — something that many people would do if the law weren't restraining them.

Also, in Japan, if you deviate from social norms, everyone will pressure you to conform. In the US, it's usually just the police.

Therefore the difference in looting behavior is unsurprising. I hypothesize that if you look back to 1955, you'll find natural disasters in the US with almost no looting, too.

Here in Argentina, things are even more American than in the US.
I accidently down voted you :(

But, in answer to your question, it is practically impossible and impractical. Even if you were able to design a radiation proof bunker, you would have to account for the eventual removal of those occupants.

And that is just one of the enormous obstacles. Frankly, it's just not that simple.
Yeah, this is common. Otherwise this moviefone rep gets grief for not even talking to the author. Now the moviefone rep can say, I talked to her and she's not making the edits.
I'd argue that is splitting hairs. What will magically lower the radiation when the workers leave?

They can't drop boric acid and water on the half-melted reactors from helicopters for fear of rupturing them further, the control systems are no longer effective, and pumping in seawater hasn't worked too well so far.
Do you ever tell them something like, "There's a bunch of cool stuff you can learn about this, if you go to the web site, or look for _____ on Wikipedia?"
With respect to #1, I don't think the measurement of if an idea is disruptive should be fixed only on price reduction.

I'm sure there are great examples of companies that were/are disrupting their markets through creating entirely new opportunities in the market, and charging for those.

unfortunately, I'm stuck thinking of examples. Anybody have any good ones?
When the powers of an agent of the federal government come into conflict with the rights of a citizen, the powers granted to the government most certainly apply (the right to freedom of movement). TSA agents are not law enforcement officials; they can conduct administrative searches /only/. The extent of the searches is currently being litigated, but we have to deal with the status quo until the courts or the legislature deals with it.

The TSA has moved from airports, to train stations, to subways, and roadblocks. If you live in any portion of the US you most likely use at least one of those methods of transport on a daily basis.
The AP reported that figure as well in the linked article.
Next time, try saying something instead of thinking, and see how it goes. Science has two[0] legs, theory and experimentation.

([0] Some say that science has a third leg now: computation.)
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My university is one of those in the article. They never should have stopped hosting their own POP/IMAP servers.

University IT departments seem to be constituted of a mix of brilliance and idiocy.
That particular lesson was actually learned decades ago (see my comment 3 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316593)
That can't possibly be right, can it?
When the AIs are deciding what to do with the humans that keep infesting their solar panel farms, I hope they don't watch this video.
The worst case scenarios are bad:

If one reactor gets so bad (meltdown) forcing permanent evacuation - all the remaining reactors won't be maintainable/saveable and thus in a domino effect - if one goes, all go (meltdown).

It is unlikely that a meltdown through the core will occur but if that happens - the scary term China Syndrome - the melted radioactive fuel will melt through steel, concrete, rock, maybe even bedrock.

For the USA and rest of the world: Irradiated food supplies will be a real concern if hundreds of tons of radioactive melted fuel merge with the outside environment

To put it in perspective: If you were in Japan near Tokyo or closer to the affected nuclear plant, would you be more skeptical of the seemingly contradictory news coming out.
The problem is their actual articles tend to lead one to believe the contrary.

The only way TechCrunch seems to have any whiff of integrity is when they do an article that is explicitly about them showing off their integrity.
World Nuclear News has posted an update regarding recent developments to their site: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Second_fire_reported_at...

Sounds like reactor #3 may have suffered damage similar to #2 causing the increase in radiation.
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I've collected heartwarming tweets from the eye-witnesses of 2011 Sendai earthquake as seen on Twitter timeline.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2330680

They tell their experiences following the earthquake.
These snippets of what moved them and touched them during these very trying times are heart-warming.

From the tweets you can see the spirit of "in it together".
I agree, especially when the request to tone it done is followed by "I know of course that TechCrunch has its own voice and editorial standards, so if you have good reasons not to change anything that’s fine..."
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Enquiring minds need to know - and I just happened to have a Uranium sample and Geiger counter in the house.
It would certainly explain the evacuation.

Edano said "1,000 milli-Sieverts" had been measured last night, but that it was down to under 800 now, and that at the gate the measurements were now in the milli- range as well (hence the evacuation).

TEPCO is not exactly being forthcoming about Dai-ichi, but they're being really proactive in telling us the same exact thing about Daini every hour: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/index-e.htm...
People are using a MacOS-only IDE to design web pages, and this is a tool that converts its output to the input expected by a js library (which I find lacking in producing interoperable hypertext) that implements a MacOS-like API.
Design:
In a sea of web app splash pages from the past sixth months, your simple demo site is somewhat refreshing to me. With that said, I think you could improve a few things. The demonstration of the app could be more clear by making it linear (horizontal or vertical) as opposed to the 4 images -- which is kind of confusing at first..maybe arrows would help. I like the photo with the hand holding the iphone at the shelf, and the purple scheme :).

Idea:
I may be biased, because I love these apps and think this space is ripe for innovation (shopkick/stickybits), but I really like your idea/concept. One issue I see, however, is that a player in this space is indeed ShopKick and your name, ShopSideKick, is very similar. Since your concept is pretty unique in scanning shelf barcodes instead of the product, why not own it with a completely different name/brand/concept? I know they work with Best Buy as well, so there are a lot of small similarities that can be immediately drawn between ShopKick and ShopeSideKick.

Also, since you have an application that is the "first" to do shelf scanning instead of the product, maybe it would be wise to put more emphasis on this unique ease-of-use in stores compared to other apps out there now (when promoting to businesses and consumers).

Hope thats helpful...
I read his post as being about the quake. with the tsunami, all bets were off. i suspect what you're describing is the aftermath of the tsunami, not the quake.
One thing patio11's article did was to dispell many misconceptions that Americans have about Japan. It is easy to claim that hindsight is 20/20, but his post was very relevant and on target considering the circumstances.
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I think everyone (including myself) was reacting to your claim it was a false attention grabbing title. Regardless of that, looks like broken telephone, best source might be to watch NHK broadcasts directly as you did (CNN seems to be translating it live?). The HTML-news sources didn't note the further detail then, maybe they have now.

EDIT: Ah, NHK is providing the translation and stream. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv

EDIT 2: Apparently they've been ordered back now. http://roound.com/redalert

EDIT 3: Or not, no-one else is confirming.
SEO trick? Get people all over the Internet talking about this insane "Security Change" and increase hits. (Would love to see analytics on this). Would be surprised if it will last.

Oh well, 15 minutes of fame or in this case infame.
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I heard one supposed expert on CNN basically state that a nuclear meltdown is no big deal.

He's right, in a sense. Modern nuclear reactors are designed so that if the fuel melts it will end up in a wide concrete tray which sits under the reactor, where -- thanks to the fact that the tray is very wide and not at all deep -- it will cool down to a safe temperature.

All good engineering works on the principle of defence in depth. This is the last step to safely contain the hot fuel, after the many redundant cooling systems fail, and it's certainly not ideal -- but it's nothing like the mythical "China syndrome". (Or like Chernobyl, which involved a graphite fire causing fuel to go up rather than down.)
They're gonna need a lot more than one show if they're going to try to use original programming as a reason to buy Netflix - 13 episodes a year means weekly for 3 months. They're going to need at least 3 shows to do yearly coverage (they can have breaks in between). If the original programming is the reason you buy Netflix, you won't pay year-round if they don't have year-round programming, you'll just binge on TV six months of the year and cancel for the other six months (and if it's not the reason you're paying for Netflix (and/or upgrading to the next tier or whatever), then it's a waste of their money).

I think two things will help them. The first is that they have no competition in their timeslot, because they'll have no timeslot. The second thing which will help them is that they can break a lot of TV rules in ways even HBO can't - they're less restricted in episode structure or length, for instance.
In the free software world, the functional boundaries between programs are, in fact, usually respected, even with interactive programs, where his "transaction costs" would apply. Emacs edits, awk does its thing, etc.

I think the reason programs creep in functionality is NOT these technical sounding "transaction costs", but in order to sustain vendor lock in. In a world where nobody worries about lock in, there is no reason to bundle an editor with a calculator with an email program.

In the Adobe world, the boundaries of the programs are pretty tight, with a little bit of bleed over. Counter example? Maybe.

That was not a great article, if you ask me -- I think the analysis was trite, and MS Office software probably isn't a good example of anything.
patio11 is undoubtedly correct that 'Japanese does not have a word for excessive preparation'.

But no matter how excessively prepared for a 7.0 or a 7.5, it may not be possible to prepare for the utter destruction of a 9.0 followed immediately by a tsunami.
I waited a while to get a feel from multiple media outlets before replying to you, and CNN aired the video of the remarks in question in that time...based upon waiting, it would appear that the headline is in fact true. BBC, AP, and CNN have all reported that operations have been suspended due to high radiation levels, as high as 1,000 mSv at their peak, which is enough to justify complete evacuation as I understand it. The last report of radiation levels was 600-800 mSv.

Edano's translator on the tape said (loosely, I typed quickly): "All the workers there have suspended operations there. Even the minimum ones. So we have evacuated them in a safe area."

The even the minimum ones is interesting. Edano himself promised more details on the suspension later, which is worrying in itself.

Edit: Video of Edano's remarks here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12755739
Expanding on this, I suspect that people have confidence that the situation is being well handled, and there are enough supplies to go around, so people don't tend feels a need to loot or hoard. The preparation and the perception are equally important. (Preparation without perception leads to pointless wasteful crime. Perception without the preparation leads to piles of abandoned bodies.)
They are not unrelated. There are very old reactors, some of which were to be closed already, hadn't the current government changed the policy.

NONE of these reactors would get a permission to get online based on current regulations. Some are very simple BWR designs, some are near an earth quake zone, some don't have sufficient protection against relatively simple aircraft accidents, ...

The government also says that the reactors are shut down for safety inspections and then it has to be decided which of those can get back online. Which is controversal, since there was already a negotiated plan which of those had to shut down and the oldest ones had to go.

It is not silly, it is just about using the current political pressure to force the government to follow the originally negotiated phase out plan (which was also negotiated with the industry).

It has nothing to do with 'silly', it is a political struggle to force the current government to reverse its pro-nuklear policy.
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I wouldn't be surprised if some workers stay behind or break protocol to do whatever it takes.
They've rejected helicopter drops because the targets aren't close enough to the holes in the reactor building roofs.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/15/japan.nuclear.re...
Japanese NHK TV live stream with translation
Gmail supports IMAP, additionally...The basic HTML view quite definitely has "clear labels to alert users to the type of information that they should put in each text field, such as the message’s subject or the recipient’s e-mail address,"

I'm not sure google's in the wrong here.
I haven't heard anything about 1000 mSv at all. I've been watching/listening to: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv
It is not.

These old designs would not get any permission to get online by today's standards, at least in Germany.

Some of these old reactor designs can't be brought to current safety standards. They just have to be closed.
If it's your very first face to face meeting, don't worry or think about potential co-founder or partnership at this point or what you need to bring to the table. Take your time getting a feel for him as a person, how well you two might work together base on chemistry, and what he's bringing to the table skill wise. I would save the discussion for potential cofounder or partnership and what offers, etc... for another day.
You can't reconcile it because they are two different things. I read it a couple days ago but I believe the points you refer to were all centered in Tokyo. I was in Tokyo for this past weekend and the metro was shut down Friday afternoon which made it extremely difficult, and in some cases impossible, for people to get home after work. In Tokyo and the rest of Japan outside of the affected area, yes life has gone on with just some minor interruptions. That definitely isn't the case for those in the disaster area.