skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The World Nuclear Association (http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf23.html) says that the major production is in Kazakhstan but that as you assert if you add Aus+Can production together it does beat the Kazakh production marginally. But I can still say based on those figures that in fact the majority is produced in Kazakhstan and Namibia - I'm afraid I have no info about their safety record but do know (see these links) that they use strong acid leeching which has been considered harmful everywhere else (this could be due to specific geology, or not).

They also say that "Conventional underground & open pit [accounts for] 57%" of global Uranium production.

Moreover the analysis in the OP article appears to be an historic one though whilst wide scale use of ISL (aka ISR) leeching appears to be relatively new.

Further pages from WNA (eg http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf27.html which I've not corroborated) - says that Australia didn't use ISL (for Uranium) until 2000 in Beverley (I've seen other refs say it was trialled in Aus in 1997). So presumably before that they used heap leeching or regular mining methods?

Quoting that second WNA link:

"In 2009, a total of 18,262 tU was produced by ISL, this being 13,473 tU in Kazakhstan, 2429 tU in Uzbekistan, 1217 tU in USA, 583 tU in Australia and 560 tU in Russia. This was 36% of world total production, a share which has risen steadily from 16% in 2000."

WRT my query elsewhere about extracted ore, the BHP BIlliton facility (2 fatalities since opening; largest deposit known of apparently) extracted "933,000 tons of uranium oxide concentrate" in one quarter of 2007 (http://uk.reuters.com/article/2007/12/12/us-bhpbilliton-olym...). Forecasts for BHP Billiton (http://antinuclear.net/2010/11/17/bhp-shareholder-opposes-da... - note apparent bias of source).

Like I've said elsewhere this is a complex field, one that appears to be being misrepresented.

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Edit: other notes
1 - US production was 98% ISL in 1993, http://books.google.com/books?id=pXbdrH6_AVEC&lpg=PR28&#...
Yes, that's the theory. In practice it doesn't seem to work out so well. Neither the promised benefits of using private fields actually manifest, nor the promised costs of not having private fields, but the costs of actually having the private fields manifest in spades. In cost/benefits terms, the benefits are almost entirely theoretical and the costs much higher than advertised. I consider them a major net loss for OO.
Don't ask engineers how long it takes to build a feature, just sell it!
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'Pruned' microchips are faster, smaller, more energy-efficient
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I'm not sure what sexism you mean specifically, but my skepticism has nothing to do with the specifics of the persona. Of course there are 16-year-old girl hackers. My wife once was one.

I doubt that the character is really a 16-year-old girl because she's telling Forbes she's a 16-year-old girl.

If 'k said he were a 16-year-old boy, I'd doubt he were a 16-year-old boy.

If 'k said she were a 33-year-old quant on Wall St., I'd doubt she were a 33-year-old quant. Etc.

I just seriously doubt that this character is giving any real identifiable information to Forbes.
tl; dr's rarely do justice but I think that's a bit snipey.

The point I took from it was in the organisational culture in the team that looked after the reactor. A macho attitude celebrating exposure to radiation does not inspire confidence.
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IMO, just plain wrong.
I can only hope that the longer this goes on, the more ridiculous and offensive it will seem, in light of the situation they've been dealing with.
What's also disturbing is that people have been falling all over themselves in attempts to praise the Japanese for their superior awesomeness in everything, yet these records have been easily accessible to anyone who wanted to any serious research.

P.S. I love Japan, I think the Japanese are amazing people, and I am enormously sympathetic to them in their hour of need. However, the recent trend of what amounts to cultural fellatio has been disgusting and disturbing.
I'm not worried about it. Browsers are more fragmented that they've ever been. I'm going to leave the compatibility stuff to library writers like socket.io, persistance.js, etc. And when those aren't available or are too complicated, I'm just going to write to the most modern browsers and concede a certain segment of web users (the least valuable, in my opinion), won't be able to use my app.
More regnibrah, I think.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/phodabgmalihpnmm...

there's also this chrome extension, but it only blacklists, not whitelists.
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I feel more and more that Stallman has a point. Everything that's in the cloud is there for the taking. Not to sound like a luddite but if he'd have cashed checks instead of paypal or hosted his own website this wouldn't be possible, right?

I remember Rob Gonggrijp's comment when his Twitter logs were subpoena'd: "This is why people run their own mail servers".
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FWIW, it could be referring to the opcodes in the .NET virtual machine.
You can start with a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami...
Steve Jobs sends email to Apple employees in Japan
With that reasoning, assembly shouldn't be possible to write correctly.

In other words, because I'm not dumb?
Rare earths in your pocket to shrink the size of ur gadgets. Supermagnet power
Forgot to mention that I don't use flash at all.
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Everyday startups are still severely undervalued.

If you believe this to be true, you should immediately invest all of your savings into startups.

Second, anything that pulls opportunity into the hands of the smart and ambitious, instead of the socially well-connected who usually monopolize it, must be encouraged, no matter what its financial implications are.

See above. Got your checkbook ready?
I believe the answer is electromagnetic interference. Reactors produce many forms of electromagnetic radiation, not just the ionizing type.

Also note, that machine vision was a big deal (for a while) in nuclear, because it would have meant that you could do without radio transmission, but even so, the robot would need to be really well shielded...

(IANANE)
That's a more accurate metaphor, but it's not usually better. There's two reasons to employ the "technical debt" metaphor - to get programmers to think about the issue, and to explain to external stakeholders why you need time for technical issues.

As a quick shorthand, "technical debt" works better than "technical unhedged call options" - and if you need to go back and explain what the hell is a call option, then you've lost your audience. Everyone understands the concept of debt already.
To be fair, many things are the reason jwz sells beer. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1274612 =]
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A lot of this information is only readily available on websites with a strong environmentalist or anti-nuclear agenda and thus is usually dismissed with comments such as this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2317006
The title is more provocative than the story. There's actually a lot I agree with there. Nothing is worse than "status update?" emails. If you want to know how a project is going, or you want to accelerate it, come participate and watch what is going on.
She has no physical hard drive and boots her computer from a microSD card. "I could hide this card anywhere or chew into a million pieces in a few seconds," she says by e-mail.
do tell! make sure to mention whether you're a pm or dev or someone else
Why would you expect go to replace java in an academic setting? Java is only partly taught due to introductory simplicity and mostly taught due to it ubiquity.
Just do it. Now.
The re-emergence of DIY vs Big Organizations
"Messaging" is polymorphism in action and a way to describe it to people without headaches by concentrating on benefits and use-cases, instead of implementation details.

And to be a little pedantic -- virtual method calls in Java/C#/C++ are also messages.

What Alan Kay meant was that a static type system doesn't blend with the OOP he enabled in Smalltalk. Do you know why?

Because in OOP polymorphism, method-dispatching is late-bound. And being late-bound it makes absolute sense for the developer to be able to override the method-dispatching that's being done (by means of method_missing and other mechanisms). But that's directly at odds with the purpose of a static type system.

And btw, structural typing is not dynamic typing. It has the same problem as the one described above.
I was going to say that it's the pipes of the applications they use, but now I'm thinking I might be wrong. We've stupidly moved to an internet of proprietary APIs.
I get best results with pngout

http://www.advsys.net/ken/util/pngout.htm
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The banks probably keep scans of the cheques on file now-a-days. I know that Bank of America does.
I think they mean you can't do that because of the patents? Or you can't do that because it was already tried and it went nowhere, as the author found out.
Yeesh. Running a pixel shader on a CPU is not a pretty thought.
He says that companies are overvalued, and they may be. But the difference is we don't have the situation where everyone and their brother is buying those overvalued stocks left and right. Risk is very compartmentalized at the moment, mostly with professionals.

There may be a bit of a bulge here and there, but I do not think it is a true bubble.
I've always thought that too. It /is/ a google product, after all.
CCIA: copyright wiretaps are Hollywood's "PATRIOT Act"
Does people only get the data who donated, or also how much?In the latter case, Sony now has a strategic asymmetric advantage: it can estimate how much money Geohot has for his defense, and then drag out the process so long until he has no money left.

I'm very surprised the Judge sided with Sony on this one.
See the updated blog post.
Ask HN: Benefits of software patents for web businesses?
I'm building a site for a client, and they've started looking into patenting the work. Having seen the shenanigans with Amazon's one click purchasing, and the general state of patents, I'm a little wary. What are the benefits to patenting a social software business process?
Good advice. Generally when I give feedback on an idea or proposal that is not possible to implement I try to give it as "I see the following challenges, ... " and try to outline my reasoning for problems for which I am not aware of a solution to. If you come back with credible ways to attack those issues I'm all for it.

Its a big demotivator if you feel like you are being dismissed out of hand. So if you're managing a team or have folks coming to you with new ideas, 'you can't do that' is probably the worst thing you can say to them.
He just implied he doesn't. Not that his pages doesn't render, he just don't care to polish them for IE.
I think that they want to sue him in CA so that they can group him together with the other people that they are trying to sue over this. He's just the only one that they can connect to an actual person thus far, IIRC.
"2010-09-09: NEW: MDP migrates to BSD license!"

This is always one of my favorite new features.
Inform HN:Develop interactive graphics apps in JS
Program flash type applications (display ads, sims,games) using plain Javascript and SVG, all in your browser and in the cloud:

Demos: http://colabopad.blogspot.com/2011/03/public-release-of-simupad.html

Product Tour for Users: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhZcIMvejVA

Product Tour for developers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wma9MU2e_U0
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If you are using a router, Frame Relay can be easily set up only on the interfaces that it supports without any hesitation; it is mostly supported on synchronous serial interfaces. Only a single comma
"Let your limits be determined by physics and other real world constraints, not by the lack of imagination or (wrong) knowledge of others."

Awesome takeaway! Without people taking that attitude, we probably would still be living in caves.
"You can't do that" - translation:

1. I don't want you to do that because of x,y,z.

2. I saw some other people try that, and they failed.

3. Someone else doesn't want you to do that.

4. I tried it, and I failed at it and my ego is tiny.

5. Rule or Law X states you shouldn't do that.

Can't is such an abused word, better to not use it at all to make yourself clear.

When you understand the laws of physics, anything is possible.
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The only "innovative" thing about this is- its not flash. The reason its not flash is because front end developers, hate flash with a passion that borders, frothing at the mouth psychosis. They hate flash because very simply it takes work off of their desk. At the end of the day, a client still won't want to pay twice as much for something that works on half of modern browsers when in reality his high school kid could have done it in 10 minutes with flash, (unless its for mobile). Its the same stupid argument I've heard for the past 10 years, but the difference today is mobile platforms won't support flash (or it just sucks on mobile) and there is finally an opportunity to kill flash. That pretty much sums it up. Haters will hate, client will still pay for flash, flash sucks on mobile, lame slide shows are not innovative.
Discovery is a phase that's always been there in the court system. What I don't get is that the judge is allowing them to go on a fishing expedition to prove that they can sue him in that jurisdiction. I mean right now, they haven't even proven that they can sue him in this court. If they can't prove that on their own, then why are they allowed to waste the court's time spending months (years?) searching for some proof that probably won't turn up?
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A comment from twitter on the article page says: "Maybe half the fun is finding a place with free beer."

Which makes me think that all you need to decide is how much you rent the glasses for and how much you charge people to get out of the toilet?
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To be honest I think there were two seperate things there; the macho attitude to radiation exposure, and the mistake (understandably) made by a new team member.

The former is just a defence mechanism, probably related to them being in the forces where the alternative (expressing concern or fear) doesn't fit. But I don't think it would translate into "go on, lean out over there and you'll be top of the chart this month!!"
you are the Bear Grylls of the tech conference circuit
In sum the difference between 'Unlikely' and 'Impossible' is crucial...
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"In the end the project led nowhere, apparently there was a patent that it violated (of all things, one that had to do with the codes on laundry for hotels and hospitals held by Philips) but that by itself had nothing to do with the technology or whether it was possible to build this."

Hurray for the patent system supporting innovation.
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How will US companies deal with EU privacy and the "right to be forgotten"?
Definitely. I think the 'Looking like physical items' thing is just a phase, and will soon look as dated as 'translucent glass beads' and 'embossed cursive font'.

'Flat, simple iconography' is the future, man.
All of my savings is about $2000 right now. I had $60,000 when I left my last hedge fund job and decided to work for a startup. Great decision with no regrets, but in a world where things like multiple liquidation preferences and participating preferred exist, I think I can say that smart people don't hold enough cards and powerful people hold too many. (Of course, it's best to be smart and powerful, but the number of people blessed both by God and Mammon is, like, seventeen.)

I am working at a startup. Shouldn't that count for something?
I can't resist chiming in and reiterating how stunningly stupid the MPAA is. People have fistfuls of cash that they're ready to hand over to watch content, and these cartel cavemen refuse to allow it. Then they wonder why people pirate.
Man, Does he "fulfill the expectation of the employer"? This guy rocks:
According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992. He is also the eighth most cited source of all time, and is considered the "most cited living author".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
Some circumstances warrant "there is a theorem stating that what you want is not possible."
Believe in yourself, because no one else will.

That may be the single most important point of all... well said, sir.

The thoughts of a 22-year old with no life experience

Well, FWIW, this 37-year old agrees wholeheartedly. :-)
Yes, although I guess if you include shareholders in "owners" then that could prove difficult to implement.
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Coding standards are helpful and not uncommon when collaborating within a team.

As much as you don't like using 4 spaces, it's much worse to have a codebase littered with some sections using 4 spaces, some sections using tabs, some sections using 2 spaces, some sections using 8 spaces, and some sections using a random assortment of nothing in particular.

Just as you accept the apparent standard of 2 spaces when working within the Ruby community, for consistency's sake I'd hope you would accept the standard of whatever other team you're working with.
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Don't forget the time that another Japanese nuclear company (JCO) allowed workers with "no proper qualification and training requirements" to prepare batches of fuel. What could possibly go wrong ...?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tokaimura_nuc...
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I love the flatter aesthetic, but man does that strong white ring make me want to push the center blue "button". It actually brings that feature so far to the foreground that I ignore the rest of the logo. I would seriously prefer a thinner white circle.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2335677
First to predict complete and total failure, followed by a quick about-face back to the ad-only model.
The point is that the hidden partition is marked as free space on the disk, and the free space is filled with statistically random noise. Some portion of it will be the encrypted hidden partition, which is also statistically random. It is mathematically impossible to prove that any of that random data is actually an encrypted hidden disk. The only way to open it is to use the correct key, which is indistinguishable from the other key which simply unlocks the normal, clean partition, which is also encrypted.

When the police demand the key from you, you give them the one that unlocks the clean partition. Now, at this point it doesn't matter if they don't believe you, it doesn't matter if they know all about truecrypt and hidden partitions, there is no way for them to prove in a court of law or otherwise that there is a hidden partition there. You can just keep telling them "I gave you the password! I just wipe my free space with noise every night! It's just noise!" and you have plausible deniability.

As far as I'm aware this is only in theory. I'm not aware of any case of this actually being tested in court. But mathematically, it is apparently sound.
Every band that's ever gotten popular, every community (online or off) that's ever gotten big. Lamenting that the scene was cooler back in the day seems to be a deep-seated human behavior.
I only have one comment to offer: No.
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How will this affect instapaper, read it later, readability, etc. Does this limit apply to curl access?
I'm at the point now of showing it to folks, getting user feedback, and deciding what to do with it based on the user response. If I get some users, I'll continue to enhance it.
More discussion of this on the zfs-macos group, which was the community port of the available apple code and updates from opensolaris:

http://groups.google.com/group/zfs-macos/browse_thread/threa...
Do you think they would use cookies to track usage? If so, I'm predicting that many more people will learn how to clear their NYT cookies.
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I think that the point is that the CEO/President of the company would be less likely to attempt to please the share-holders at the cost of safety measures if his/her own family was in the line of fire.
this site looks really cool; I've been wondering for a while if a site like this existed, and this one seems really fleshed out.
You could read the comic instead.
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A caveat: In creating something, requisite domain knowledge is required. Know where your strengths and experiences are, how to leverage them, and be resourceful enough to obtain new skills. Don't be afraid to seek help.
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Which is why OO seems pointless for most being programmers, they can't deal with sufficiently complex problems to gain anything from OO programming.

Beware, this is not biconditional. I'm sure you won't have to go very far to find programmers who deal with complex problems but who do not feel that they gain anything from solving them using OO.

And there is also the argument that OO as implemented in popular languages introduces its own complexity, such that it ends up being used to solve the problems it introduced in the first place.
Nice article - thanks for posting.
I keep telling my kid, the worse bad words out of all of them are "can't" and "never".
Ask HN: Any demand for C and system-level Unix consulting?
I'm currently working on my startup, but the time has come to pause and replenish my bank account. This means doing some consulting work.

I'm a decent C hacker, with system-level Unix and POSIX experience. In a past job, I wrote a large virtual filesystem plugin which runs on top of Samba, so I'm pretty qualified to help anyone who needs a custom filesystem (either networked with Samba, or local with FUSE). Other low-level systems projects would be fun, too. I have no experience with kernel-level code, but I'll happily give a discount to anyone who gives me the opportunity (or excuse!) to learn more about writing kernel modules, for Linux, any BSD, or Mac OS.

So, dear readers of HN: is there any demand for this skill set? I recently moved to the Bay Area, and I don't have too many industry contacts.

PS: YC companies get a discount, too. :)
That's fitting. I need to log-in to read about their change to a pay-only model!

[update]

Though:

wget -qO- 'url' | less

gets me to the content just fine...

[summary]

Beginning March 28, visitors to NYTimes.com will be able to read 20 articles a month without paying, a limit that company executives said was intended to draw in subscription revenue from the most loyal readers while not driving away the casual visitors who make up the vast majority of the site&rsquo;s traffic.

Once readers click on their 21st article, they will have the option of buying one of three digital news packages &mdash; $15 for a month of access to the Web site and a mobile phone app; $20 for Web access and an iPad app; and $35 for an all-access plan.
Can someone explain why the scram rods are not made to automatically fall into the reactor when power is cut?

I would image power would keep them out of the reactor and when power is cut, they drop in.

My ill informed understand of the Chernobyl accident is that specific safety measures had been deliberately disabled as part of testing.

Does anyone know why the Fukushima reactors weren't scrammed? Also, can you scram the waste pools?
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