skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just thought it relevant to point out Job's old resume(currently frontpaged) says that little "vision thing" as skills. Thats what I think "idea" is. And it's constantly reevaluated and adjusted.
It's a huge market now.
It's true. This fear is what created the "Defense of Depth" in the first place (It may have been the absence of it, or the none-allowance of it, that enabled tchernobyl).

The ability to run when alerted by others seems to be a evolutionary proven advantage.

The ability to condemn those false intended alerters I think will pay back as an advantage too.
I think this'll be a big deal.

While I do have to agree with pak about the ugliness (and annoying semantics) of $this->load->thing(), it was something the CI team had to keep around since the framework was already very successful in the wild, and the devs had their backs against the wall to support PHP 4. The Kohana team (or any newer framework) had the benefit of initially not needing to appease anybody when they wanted to build something for pure PHP 5.

Kohana had great beginnings, and I used it to develop a major website owned by NBC. The most annoying part of using it? The documentation was sorely lacking, and class names were inconsistent at best. At least docs are something that can change for the better quickly, but broken docs are something that have persisted through 2.x and 3.x.

Beauty is not something CodeIgniter has going for it. In fact, if you agree with that, you're likely to agree that PHP in general in an ugly language. But CodeIgniter has gained it's loyalty and reputation because of:

1. Speed - It's always at the top of PHP framework benchmarks, and use of minimal resources is ingrained in it's design philosophy

2. Documentation - It has the best documentation of any framework that I've seen or used

3. Principle of Least Astonishment - There is little magic in CodeIgniter, and things in CI only happen because you told CI to do it. Like $this->load->view(). It means more typing, but it's logical, and explicitly stated.

CodeIgniter has a big user-base, and it's weathered time, which is more than other frameworks for the language can say. Now, users are begging the Reactor team to add libraries and helpers to the framework as features. The Reactor team's goal is to keep CI light and fast — the idea is to pack a lot of power in a small footprint.

That's where Sparks comes in. It's not just about easily installable libs (@pan69), it's about keeping the core framework ultra-light and doing what a framework should be doing.

I think sparks is going to help CodeIgniter cement its place as a staple PHP framework, which really doesn't exist for the language. Newer frameworks with snazzier syntax and cool features will always pop up, but the Reactor team plans to make it /the/ primary framework to use for PHP.
It wouldn't be starting from "nothing" if he got to keep his zillions of dollars.
I hope it remains popular. I know, this is a disaster, but the reactors at risk are old steam-engine types. Comparing this to modern reactors is similar to comparing an old steam-locomotive boiler explosion to a modern formula racecar.

e.g. http://www.nuscalepower.com
What of if you cannot ship alone? I can ship my blogposts alone. If a line of code has to be written by someone else, I can only hope. What do you think about that? I am working on having my initial product less dependent on something beyond my control
As of yet, no one was killed during the nuclear incident.
I think you are only partly correct: there was a natural barrier imposed upon free-ranging economic expansion right where the west coast of North America meets the Pacific Ocean.

This doesn't affect my analogy so much.

...you have to start estimating the opportunity costs of your neighbors as an input to transaction costs, and it's cheaper to put contractual arrangements in place than to settle disputes.

There was emotional reaction against barbed wire. The barbed wire fences were there, otherwise the contractual arrangements wouldn't work very well. With the fences, it's a lot easier to know whose land you are on and whose cattle are grazing where.
The thought alone is hilarious enough to justify an upvote.
Bing/MSN Search had this for ages in the form of query "ip:IP_OF_THE_SERVER" which would return a list of indexed websites having domains with this IP address.

I suspect this site uses Bing under the hood - finds the IP of entered website domain, queries bing and returns the results.

This is widely used by security folks when doing pen testing - even if you don't find any flaws on the targeted website, there's a great chance other websites won't be as secure if it's on shared hosting and such tools help to find those other websites.
> It is true that we could turn America into India, bursting at the seems with people fed on poor rice and vegetable diets, and with poor access to open space.

Who said anything about India? The EU has almost twice the population of the US, half the arable land area, and still manages to be self-sufficient in terms of food and water.

> The US is ecologically over-full. We share this country with animals and plants, and they are suffering.

So in your opinion it's better to let humans suffer than animals and plants?
The PhD from MIT failed to mention in his article, when he talks about the 3rd containment being concrete poured around the steel casing, that the reactor which caused an explosion was built prior to this 3rd containment layer being mandatory in BWR design. So, it would seem that his confidence in the 3rd containment layer preventing any melted radioactive materials from getting out should be taken with a huge grain of salt.

Updating with more information: Please see this list of BWR reactors throughout the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_boiling_water_reactors

You will notice that Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 (which caused the hydrogen explosion to the building walls) is a BWR/3, MK-1 model reactor. From this page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWR#Evolution_of_the_BWR, you will see the following:

The first [General Electric] series of production BWRs evolved through 6 iterative design phases, each termed BWR/1 through BWR/6. (BWR/4s, BWR/5s, and BWR/6s are the most common types in service today.) The vast majority of BWRs in service throughout the world belong to one of these design phases.

1st generation BWR : BWR/1 with Mark-1 containment.

2nd generation BWRs : BWR/2, BWR/3 and some BWR/4 with Mark-I containment. Other BWR/4, and BWR/5 with Mark-II containment.

3rd generation BWRs : BWR/6 with Mark-III containment.

So, it would seem to me, that this confirms, it was not until at least BWR/4 or above that Mark-II containment was used. I'm pretty sure this confirms there is no 3rd containment layer.
Cool. I've wanted to attend PyWeb-IL for a long time, but I haven't been able to make it. Hopefully I'll be at the next one - look for a student with long hair.
Love the bravado. And further proof that building something on the iOS platform is a great way to make some money.
I wonder if you make make more adding functionality from another app that I use that looks at your installed apps and suggests new ones based on that. Seems like you take age into account. Why not other factors like gender, interests, hobbies...in addition to popularity. All of these would be able to deliver better recommended apps. I would hesitate on just featuring the apps that pay you the most. Maybe hold out on those really good ones until you are able to prove success, which you might be able to do now. Too bad I can't see the app on my droid.
Pi IS pretty much random notes (digits). There's nothing about pi that says "express it in base ten". Probably in binary it would get pretty repetitive tho.
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Thanks for writing this. I recently started an etherpad server at work, and while it's still going to take some time to gain traction, I figure it's way easier than sharing files on the network or teaching managers to use subversion.
Clickable http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id399128529?mt=8
From: http://ycombinator.com/apply.html

"We usually invest $11,000 + $3000n, [...] in return for between 2% and 10% of the company. The average is 7%."
If anyone wants to read a much more thorough technical analysis of all the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini, as well as a great analysis of what has happened, I found this page has some great info:

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Battle_to_stabilise_ear...
This is absolutely one of the most innovative ideas I have come across in a long time. Elegant, simple, and solves a major problem. Everything a successful startup should be. I'm impressed Nd can't wait to start using it on my iPhone.
Actually, hydroelectric plant failures can cause 100+ kilodeaths. In terms of prompt fatalities, hydroelectricity is by far the deadliest power source.
Good challenge! I think I'll take you up on it. That's a good Sunday project.
> We also put out a chainsaw, because you don’t want to go through a 2x4 with a hand tool.

I don't think buying a chainsaw is practical, buy a proper carpenters saw (AKA cross-cut saw) and you'll be able to get through a 2x4 in less time than it takes to even start a chainsaw. It's easy to maintain (about once a month a spray down with WD40 will keep it from rusting, which rust will only become a pain in the ass if you've left it in direct contact with water or after about a decade hung up in your average garage). A 24" (full-draw, why full-draw? Because you'll have to work 3 times as hard with a 15" half-draw as you're spending 1/2 your cut moving slowly and keeping alignment) carpenters saw will run you around $30 for a top-notch brand.

If you're going to buy a chainsaw don't. You can get a battery operated sawzall (reciprocating saw) for a similar or lesser price. It would likely be cheaper and safer to buy a miniature generator and a sawzall. The sawzall also has the nice ability to be used for precision and with a metal-cut blade can be used for other things (IE cut open a jammed lock). You can get a hackzall (one handed reciprocating saw) for around $130 MSRP and sawzalls for around $200 MSRP both often include two batteries and a charger.

If you're going to have a generator, you can go as low as $70 for a 9A sawzall.

Chainsaws are dangerous for even trained users. Sawzalls are hardly dangerous when operated by idiots. A fullsize sawzall can be operated with one hand. A hackzall is easily operated with one hand (I'm talking an electric knife level of easy).

Carpenters saws are the safest you can get. Aren't effected by power and last a solid decade in a good location with zero maintenance. WD40 it once a month and it'll last your lifetime if you're keeping it solely for emergency use.
There are many water-purification techiniques superior to boiling. heating water takes time, fuel, equipment, a stable clean environment.

Iodine tablets take a water bottle, plus water.
> IMHO strip you idea of unnecessary complexity (advanced functionalities, etc, etc) in order to be able to execute it as good as you can as fast as you can. Simplicity allows better execution.

I think this is one of the important facets that determine how successful your execution will be. Put in too little functionality and it could fail. Put in too much and it could fail as well. All other things equal (design, marketing, etc) it's almost as if you need just enough to introduce the core functionality while still being useful, then iterating on that to bring in additional functionality once your customers grok the initial set.
in the iPhone you need correct execution and the App Store Mafia to emerge, otherwise no matter how good your execution is, you'll get nowhere.
Its ok, you will find out during the emergency - "hey! I have to sterilize this sewing kit before I sew up Jimmy! Anybody got some bleach?"
"it's really useful when you're cooking in the kitchen"

...as opposed to cooking in the basement.
Nobody mentions a gun. I know its not civilized or public-spirited, but after "the apocalypse" very few people are going to act civilized.
Is this the same app someone asked for a review of a while ago?
Nice, I just ordered "The Narrow Road" on Amazon. Felix Dennis's "How to Get Rich" is one of the best business books I've ever read, I highly recommend it.

Sometimes the startup world devises its own theories on what makes businesses successful, and it's good to balance that out with the views of an old school no-nonsense, and massively successful, old media founder like Felix Dennis. He lays it out straight for you and he's all entrepreneur. Tons of wisdom in his books.

Great review by Derek Sivers on his first book: http://sivers.org/book/HowToGetRich
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You're right. For them it was an absolute tragedy. I wasn't implying otherwise.

But the premise of the OP was some Australians that were freaking out because of the events in Japan. It's a similar situation.
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Its gmaps based visual traceroute is brilliant as well. I love that site.
It really disappoints me that everyone is being reassured by this article.

The author is working with the same information as everyone else (from Japan), and Japan has shown a systematic obsession with controlling the information that is released about its nuclear program -- and any crisis, really. Given that they put the ambassador on CNN to downplay the entire thing, I don't doubt for a minute that the same machinery is at work here. What the article calls a "weakness" in crisis communication, I call intentional.

So even though the write-up dances around it, really, the author is working with the same information coming out of Japan as we are and is describing what he theorizes is the case. You can go after his Ph.D. in Risk Management if you want, but that's beside the point -- I still think it's interesting, though.

I'm all for the long view just like everyone else, and I'd rather wait for, you know, those actually pushing the buttons on the reactor to tell us the scope of the crisis rather than some professor at MIT who digests information and dumbs it down like Bill Nye. Really, don't throw in the towel because this guy wants to downplay the crisis just like Japan's government is doing.

In case you're wondering, this is who (allegedly) wrote the article:

http://lean.mit.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...
There have been several studies of health effects in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island incident, some (like this one) found effects, some didn’t.

But that’s not even that important to the point I was trying to make. The amount of radioactivity released into the atmosphere was very low, in a real disaster (like in Chernobyl) much, much more radioactivity is released – more than any one coal power plant could ever release.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_19?url=search-alias...

The big one is Innovator's Dilemma. I finished that and am up to Innovator's Solution.
Instead of just voting up or down, maybe there should be a sideways vote: off-topic. That would allow shallow and non-hacker related, but yet popular, posts to be moved to a separate page. Should help clean the front page of such news, but in a way it might also legitimise it.
did the earthquake kill thousands, or did the total failure of a nuclear power plant kill them?

a tsunami can kill just as many people as an earth quake.

the subsequent deaths due to a destroyed power plant are another matter. from the article I get the impression that nuclear plants are built to withstand a lot of abuse and fuckups.

i see no reason to shy away from nuclear power. their power producing companies will know what kind of plants to run. we don't.
This is a very insightful article. Etherpad is still my favorite real time text editor after trying all the other products such as google docs.
It's not just a nice sentiment though - as well as being a matter of simple courtesy, treating people based on their individual merit ensures business owners don't treat people as commodities. There's a strong business case for investing in people and treating them as valuable assets.

I understand your point, but rather than sifting through 100 CVs/résumés, setting up procedures where applications are submitted using scalable processes presents a far better solution than using crude filters such as employment status.

For example, if details are submitted via an electronic form, the submissions can easily be compared with a skills matrix / person specification to ensure that only relevant applications make it to the second stage of an application process.
I don't know what the population density is, from your graph, it sure looks like Three Mile Island prevented a bunch of cancer. (Assuming of course you want to infer causality from one picture.) Look at all that dark green - those are areas with 50% less cancer than would be expected.

The wikipedia article suggests the science is very mixed, and there is no conclusive evidence one way or the other.

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

So whatever the effects of TMI were, they are almost certainly small.
No, you're getting your upvotes too. Don't worry.
Sadly, Fukushima was scheduled for retirement by the end of this month.
It sounds like you haven't read it. Please read it before you attempt to comment on it.
Thanks, that's exactly what I meant. The problem is that if you lack experience (most of people in the west have little experience taking care for themselves on their own) it's easy to forget such things.

Btw, you can also sterilize a needle using a lighter.
Wow, they only just figured out that managers don't need to have a greater technical skill than those they are managing? I thought that was management 101?

Managing and engineering are 2 different skills. While managers benefit from technical knowledge it certainly doesn't need to be greater.

And with Marissa Mayers comments on Google wants to connect the real world to the digital world, where have they been. In case they weren't aware, internet connected appliances, location based apps, RFID, QR codes, mobile phones have been around for a little while now.

Google's search engine is great though slowly declining in quality but that is all they have been great at. Android is a decent mobile OS but it only received market pentration due to it's zero cost. Their social attempts have all failed. They only seem to get wide market adoption from free software or services, which I suppose they use to keep their search engine traffic high so they can maintain their advertising revenues.

They seem like a company unable to create another profitable software line.
Of course not but I think Faraday was an exception and it would be rare for someone in this day and age to be an innovative scientist without having a strong academic background. It's hard to break into academia without going to college and it's hard to go to college without going to school. Of course it's possible but it's just not easy and without the proper motivation many people would give up.

Even before Faraday there were tons of self schooled mathematicians who would just write letters to each other with their problems and solutions but I just don't know how common that would be these days.
Yes, this is very normal in financial services, but it's not "forever". Rather "we will support API version x for y years" in writing, with cash having changed hands.
Except that "Fukushima Dai-ichi No.1 Reactor does not have a concrete containment dome. This reactor was built before the now familiar reinforced concrete dome became mandatory for most reactors. Instead, the reactor has a much smaller steel containment vessel around the reactor vessel."

This was from a Slashdot comment, so I trust it about equally to a newly minted blog with only a single post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2033910&cid=35463272

Someone with more knowledge of nuclear power history could surely cross reference the dates here for us and confirm/deny the existence of the 3rd containment layer:

Fukushima Daiichi
Unit 1

- 439 MWe BWR, 1971

- Automatically shut down

- Water level decreasing

- Pressure release implemented

- Explosion observed

- Containment believed intact

- Seawater injection has started

- Radiation levels did not rise after
explosion

Unit 2

- 760 MWe BWR, 1974

- Automatically shut down

- Water level lower but steady

- Preparations for pressure release

Unit 3

- 760 MWe BWR, 1976

- Automatically shut down

- Preparations for pressure release

Unit 4

- 760 MWe BWR, 1978

- Shut for periodic inspection

Unit 5

- 760 MWe BWR, 1978

- Shut for periodic inspection

Unit 6

- 1067 MWe BWR, 1979

- Shut for periodic inspection
care to speculate?

bandana: if it's large enough, it can be a sling for an injured arm

aluminium foil: it's reflective, it's a heat isolator, you can wrap stuff in it

bleach: to disinfect utensils
I use http://spyonweb.com/, which shows sites on the same IP address, using the same DNS servers, adsense publisher, or Google analytics account.
So you're saying the mean IQ at the time was so low because they hadn't started selecting for IQ yet?
guys..seriously is thing real? i always thought it was made by some fan boy
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What is the point of "I, I [...]"?
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You're forgetting the likely Yuri Milner $150k convertible note, which changes the math somewhat. (If not, we have a "typical case" $14k investment --- n is the number of founders --- for at best 2% post, giving a post valuation of 50*$14k = $700k, which is a very raw deal under the circumstances.)

As to whether this is worth it --- depends on the expenses (which presumably include at least salaries, promotion, and rent). If they aren't spending as much money as they're taking in (no names, but I do know of iPhone devs in this position), it's hard to see the point of giving up equity to get more.
What distinguishes a good software engineer from a great one?
Hmmm, in the context of modern day tech companies, you could only come up with 37signals?

Facebook, Groupon, Google, Dropbox, Mint, Heroku...dare I go on?

The methodology goes beyond just web tech companies and I'm afraid us in the tech industry fail to see that. Xerox once was a "lean startup".[0]

[0] - http://tbmdb.blogspot.com/2009/12/business-model-example-xer...
"references: available on request"

I wonder who will Steve Jobs ask for references...woz? Bill gates?...oh yes i think it would be Mark Zuckerberg..haha
I was disagreeing with your comment, "it just said that it wasn't as important as some of the people skills." The article did say that, but the statistics almost certainly did not. I agree with your new comment.
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besides Pyrex, there's also Cython (I don't know if one superseeded the other or what exactly their relationship is)
It's not a lie; it's magical.
nice! I didn't even know this was possible.

There are a lot of skills you can use in other online businesses that you can take from this:

1) watching auctions. Find something else to buy/sell besides WoW gold. There are tons of other online opportunities out there outside of the WoW universe that can make just as much money, you just need to find it. If you have some Chinese contacts, you might be able to get in touch with some wholesalers/dropshippers (if you want to go that route).

2) answering emails/customer support. Another good skill to have.

You could also reword your resume to say that you ran an online business and you have experience with customer support and sales. I think many business owners would be impressed that you were able to make a living on it, even if it is WoW gold.
I don't see why anyone following a lean approach would have to "prove" that it works. Prove it for whom? To what purpose?

I thought the point of lean development was to fail fast and try again.