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Yes, I agree here. The couples love to hold hands etc...

What I meant before was when the boy was still chasing the girl...! Apologies for the confusion :P.
when I first read the headline I thought it was going to be a "How-To" blog for all you would-be pirates
It's Louis C.K. His last name is Szekely. I'm not sure where the C.K. comes from.
I think catastrophes demonstrate interesting properties of human communications. All of these reports on imminent meltdown are plausible to people ignorant of the plant's design and even those who are experts on nuclear energy . The levels of distrust and recognition that there is probably noisy communications increase simultaneously.

From a sensationalist viewpoint, the plausibility and terrifying nature of the consequences are seductive, so these stories are widely read; from the expert standpoint, seeing a system with so many redundancies in such a wounded state calls into question just how many things might be going wrong.

At this point, unless your dealing directly with the reactors, your really in the dark and if your one of these people, you're focused on preventing further degredation, not managing the message. Even for organisations that do manage the message based on a team of experts (e.g. nuclear regulatory agencies) things move at such a frantic pace, things are wrong by the time you say them.

Regardless, it really does show that people like watching car crashes.
I'm a Brit living in California and I've definitely noticed this - in myself and others. At first it's almost shocking, but after a while it seems so much healthier.

The odd part is that I've noticed myself feeling suddenly shy and self-conscious upon meeting other British people here.
Should have been a poll. Short answer, interested if it's local to the Bay Area (where YC is located)
So, the difference that I see between Stack Exchange sites and what I'm talking about is that each Stack Exchange site is based around one content area. Within that topic, you have people of all mastery levels interacting and problem-solving. Many of those questions/answers are simple, many are obscure and complex, and many are what I would be looking for.

I think the difference between any question & answer and what I would consider a "hack" is that it would be a somewhat common problem with a consistent way of solving it very easily that many people might not figure out.

I'm thinking of creating a community, very much like a Stack Exchange site, but NOT based on a certain topic (programming, cooking, etc.). Instead it would be based on the idea of sharing these "hacks" from any topic.
"it nearly killed me."

Proximity to an unshielded nudity core can have that effect.
I have loosened up mightily as the years have gone by, but these days it seems to be more grandmothers than sweet young things.
People who may be held responsible for Very Bad Things tend to downplay the probability that the bad thing will occur and express confidence that they have it under control. That an official admits a meltdown is possible is the most noteworthy thing. When I run what he said through my public-official-Bayesian-filter, what comes out is "There is a non-trivial chance a meltdown will occur."
Contracts incorporate all relevant contract law in the jurisdiction, though, since you can't enter a contract contrary to a jurisdiction's law.

Say you sign an employment agreement in California that purports to include a "non-employment" condition, which CA doesn't permit. I suppose you could say that it was "agreed to but not enforceable", but it makes more sense imo to say that non-compete agreements simply aren't possible in California (because an unenforceable contract is not a contract in any meaningful sense).

Or, if you deal with mortgages in a state whose mortgage law says that all mortgages can be exited with no further legal obligation by returning the property to the lender, then all mortgages in that jurisdiction have such a termination clause written into them, whether the contract purports to include it or not. For clarity, it probably should be restated in the document as well, but even if the document omits it, it's legally there.

The phrase "nothing wrong with" did have moral content. The morally required activity when dealing with contracts is exactly equivalent to the legally required activity. That's the whole point of contracts, to impose legal obligations on the parties. I could see an argument if someone was misled, and didn't realize what legal obligations were being imposed. But I don't think that was the case here; lenders in no-recourse states presumably were aware that they were agreeing to a mortgage where the borrower had that option.
I appreciate the thought, but it takes $2k to bring you here, which is enough to put an out of work Japanese twenty-something on the project for a month. He's literate and can understand directions.

I understand there are charitable traditions in which one's personal suffering incurred matters more than results. In this case, you could work really really hard at project management in the US, say it was for Japan, and donate half your salary there and half here. Everyone would end up better off, because you're vastly more effective doing that than your are being an illiterate manual laborer.
Kissing (an acquaintance) in the UK happens a lot - one cheek, sometimes two. I the fact this guy was surprised says more about him than the population in general.
If your goal is to provide electricity, you would ship in generators and diesel (, gas, etc). Batteries are useful because you can store the energy being generated onsite, but their energy to weight ratio is an order of magnitude smaller than combustible fuels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
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I remember reading a comment the other day from someone who misunderstood the sarcastic tone of a previous comment. Paraphrasing 'it's so hard to discern nuance or sarcasm in a comment'.

It would be a lot easier to parse if we hadn't collectively decided that emoticons were rendered passé through misuse.
Isn't Ubuntu server a fairly minimal install(not OpenBSD minimal but still).
It was a serious and looming mistake for the web to rely so critically on the identities of content publishers, because it gives some knuckle-dragger in marketing a motivation to break working URLs for pure branding reasons. This could be a valuable service for someone like archive.org, a view of the web as if everyone were competent stewards of their namespaces.
An infographic history of sci-fi
Or you could just use the 'listen' flag ;)

sudo netstat -tpl
you're right. but that's the kind of thing that got techcrunch where they are, right? it's easy to point back at your accurate predictions, and not remind anyone of the wrong ones.
Borders and the 20-20 Hindsight Phenomenon
yeah i think bay area for sure

(and how do you do a poll?)
Was Jesus a Geek?
Vanity Fair is a bizarre magazine. One day they'll publish a penetrating article by Michael Lewis on the Irish financial crisis. The next day they'll have a great article about a team of English mountaineers, two of whom died on Mont Blanc. Then they'll turn around and do a huge cover story on Justin Bieber. If they publish something I care about, I'll find it extremely interesting and well written, but the other half I find completely inane.
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Sounds quite similiar to startup school, which I would highly recommend

While the speaker at startup school are generally the big name guys, lots of the YC founders are around during that time.
I agree, nothing sets "I will not buy your crap" more firmly in my mind than a sales person that touches me physically.
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

But I'm not sure if you need a certain level of karma.
Be prepared for this to fail more or less dramatically every now and then. Some people just don't like to be touched; I've met them.
Unrelated to what you said, but I like how you start your references by 0.
First word of his comment gives it away, 'Generalizations' rather than 'Generalisations' make it obvious he's American.
It's possible that only MobileSafari.app is signed with the entitlements needed to do JIT (write to executable memory segments?). The full-screen web apps open as separate applications and might not look like MobileSafari to the OS.
Yes I believe when the SquirrelFish (now Nitro) JS engine was initially announced that it relied on allowing certain items in memory to become executable (most likely due to the JS interpretation and then execution) - and that due to the security model in iOS and the ARM processors this was not allowed.

In general I believe its good to not allow random bits of memory to become executable as it can easily introduce a large number of security and memory overflow vulnerabilities.

Perhaps as part of iOS 4.3, Apple has allowed Safari to circumvent this restriction but not any other application. Which would make sense because they control and are responsible for Safari, but to allow any application to circumvent this restriction could open iOS up to large security issues.
My advice wasn't the one solicited but:
UI Frameworks are great at helping you get things done. If that is your primary goal, then you should use them. Plain and simple.

The only drawback is that you're incurring some technical debt because you may not be able to easily add needed features to the framework. That's okay for a MVP but needs to be considered before buying into the YUI Control #12 wholesale.
I don't have a problem with C, although if I had to do it I would use C++ for object-oriented support and more or less guaranteed portability. Possibly also to compile in a lua interpreter. That said, I'm not a domain expert and was responding to the question of whether nmap should have been coded in C rather than what the best language would be for something started NOW.

I don't know what the best alternatives would be and while I doubt I can contribute much to the discussion, I've read your other posts on security with interest and would be interested to hear which language you'd pick and why.
To the extent that people use the word startup to mean, "Er, I made some web pages, maybe a little glue code in Ruby, etc., and it has a purty design and single toy barely-a-feature feature", yes, the word startup is being devalued. Wake me when there's a real business there, making money, and it lasts for more than a few months. Investor money is also dangerous because it's much easier to create a sort of shake-and-bake business, out of nothing, purely on investor money, as opposed to bootstrapping and growing off of real customer revenue.
Great advice! You sound like you have a lot of experience in server security.

What is your recommendation on strong passwords? Also, should all passwords on a system be different (login passwords for different servers, email passwords, etc...), and if so, how do you keep track of all of them?

Thanks
Sometimes a delicate and formal hold of the fingers, slightly raised, is more appropriate than a handshake.

I grew up and was taught this method when shaking a lady's hands, and to have a firm, dry, handshake with men (as a judge of character).

I know it sounds silly, but it's built in to me now and I'll walk away from meetings thinking about the handshakes of the people in the room as much as the content of the discussion.
Apologies catshirt. I just re-read my comment and I realize in retrospect my comment was WAY too aggressive and snarky. You might consider adding some contact info to your profile, as I was unable to email you with my apology directly.
I live in Romania. The price for gas has gone up almost 30% in the last year, a raise that's so high that it's not justified by anything. We have 5-6 big oil companies and they artificially drive the price high. We're one of the few countries that has a decrease in gasoline sales (a decrease of 18%), but they keep raising the price.

We're all going to change our cars for bikes soon. Or we're going to have something similar to what happened in Libya focused on the oil companies.
Thank you.
It helps to know other people are out there struggling.
Yes, it's bug #108978: Can't figure out where to extract 30% of revenue from.
Is this the 'ultimate test' for nuclear power? And if so, and if the Japanese escape unscathed from radiation, will the global anti-nuclear contingent give credit where credit's due?
This is written as if convertible debt financings were like regular debt, where if you can't pay a loan back by a certain time, you're in default and bad things happen to you. That's not how it works in practice. Investors who fund a startup using convertible debt are not hoping the debt will be repaid, like a regular lender is; they want it to convert to equity. So in practice if there's no equity round by the end of the term, the debt either gets converted or the term gets extended.

It's not like convertible debt was invented in 2010. I've seen many startups hit the end of the term of a convertible note before raising an equity round, and it has never once been a problem.
A follow-up. I'm running sunspider on both my iPhone 4 w/ 4.3 and iPad v1 with 4.3 to get better numbers on this. I'm actually seeing my iPhone is 2x faster than the iPad in completing this test. This seems odd...
What's funny is most of the people in Indiana ... are German.
The Ubuntu Minimal CD is one of the leanest distro install options available.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
Having a standard API for doing realtime notifications across devices would be great, but running Javascript in the background of a mobile device and exchanging JSON or XML sounds like a good way to chew through battery life.
I'm from Britain, line in Canada with my Canadian wife. Ditto.

People here go from repressed up the wazoo to open and friendly as anything. Being in my early 20's, this is what I've seen all my life.

Claiming Britons don't like to be touched is wholly misleading as I hugged most of my friends, even my guy friends. Girls didn't avoid touching you. Put it this way, for a term of English origin, I had no clue what cooties was nor had I heard it mentioned growing up from anyone. It took me associating with Americans and Canadians to even hear the word.

On this topic, I've noticed that North America is seemingly the only country with a sociopathy over touch. Back in Yorkshire I remember getting served at bars and convenience stores and people would slap change into your hand frivolously. Here in Ontario there's this anal-retentive dance that people try to give you change but refuse to touch you to actually give you the damn change. They'll try to slot the note into your hand and drop the change from like 4 inches, it's psyco-level bizarre.

I guess this is the difference when you grow up in an area with a history of mining, fishing and farming. People aren't afraid of touch.
DDOS protection strategies
[4]: http://elementaryos.org/ (I presume)
The good news, assuming this happens, is that it won't be as difficult for profitable startups that aren't saddled with debt to hire great technical talent since more startups will go under and more developers will be available.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is a valid concern, and it could make a very serious impact on our energy strategy for a long time.
Dubai government turns a blind eye to these practices.

This is the real problem. Consider:

none of the men in the room had actually read their contract. Only two of them knew how to read.

This contract would not be enforceable in the United Kingdom (and probably the US, but I don't know how much common law the US applies to contracts) whereas Dubai's legal system doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the people it should be protecting the most (I admit, perhaps it shouldn't be.. I have a rather liberal Western viewpoint).
Most standard two-column layouts follow the golden ratio roughly. If you look at, for example, subtraction.com (a good place to steal layout inspiration from) it's 2 columns within 2 columns within 2 columns.
Or instead of relying on (flawed) heuristics, you could just click on his username, check out the pages mentioned in his profile, and figure out Peter Cooper is a "UK author, entrepreneur [..] digital jack of all trades based in the north of England.:
This particular official (or his office, honestly) doesn't have much to gain from downplaying the possibility of a meltdown.

He is part of the regulatory agency, not the plant management. They are already going to have to revamp all of their regulations with regard to coolant water pumps (whoever screwed up there, be it someone writing regulations or an inspector, is already in trouble).
From what I've been able to find, UIWebViews run as they traditionally have on 4.2, the JS just runs 2x faster exclusively in Mobile Safari, so no performance hit, just no gain either.
For a while now, I've aliased a version of wget as 'wcat', (alias wcat="wget -qO- -U NoSuchBrowser/1.0")
to dump pages directly to my browser so I could quickly search through and use less, sed, and all sorts of other stuff. Integrating text extraction into that would be pretty useful.
back now.
There's this whole odd thing recently in New York where people in Manhattan want to do the French air kissing on the cheeks thing. You never quite know who is going to do it, and what the proper response is, and being from Texas its all rather awkward. There are no hard and fast rules anymore, people pick things up from movies and travel.
I'm british and just turned 30, i consider it normal to kiss someone when meeting them. The only potential point of awkwardness is knowing how many kisses you're meant to give. Depending on the person it can be between 1 and 3 kisses, 2 is a safe bet but there's always people that are surprised by the extra/missing kiss.
From “Businesses” To “Tools”: The Twitter API ToS Changes
Minor point, but from where I'm sitting, the standard term length seems to be two years rather than 12-18 months.

Also, I think in a large percentage of cases, the angel can convert at the cap if there's no liquidity event, so it's not necessarily going to result in mass defaults. If the startup is doing really well, this seems like a more likely outcome than the angels calling back their debt.
How does making app store apps slower increase apple's revenue?
What do you think? Thorium has been suggested for quite some time yet it's not going anywhere really fast.
An astute observation but I'm English and living in England; sorry! I write (but don't speak) US English all of the time because 90%+ of my clients are American and I spend most of my time communicating and working with Americans :-)

That aside, I prefer written US English as a "standardized" form of English in any case. British English feels a little parochial nowadays with the Internet as it is. I shall put my flame-proof suit on now..
Personally, I love sites like SO and Quora. When I'm digging into something outside of my experience/expertise (which is almost daily in my current job), I'm consistently landing on pages that have answers written to my questions. That's great.

What's NOT great, is having some esoteric need, landing on a bunch of pages, and finding that most of them have an "are you sure you want to do this?" response with no effort made to answer the question, ahm, in question.

The author is right in this respect. You are NOT just answering the person who asked the question. Stuff on the internet STAYS. For YEARS. That means that you're answering EVERYONE who EVER asks that question, and chances are that a lot of them DO know what they are doing. All they lack are the mechanical steps to take, which you have denied them by your second guessing of intentions. And that is MASSIVELY frustrating. Sites like Quora understand this, thus the "not helpful" button.

If you must question the judgment of the person asking, do so AFTER answering the question. Otherwise your answer is, in fact, NOT useful. Oh, it may be useful if you've successfully guessed the intentions of the asker, but for a great number of other people who will land on that page in the years to come it is nothing more than condescension.

I participate because I find it a godsend whenever I get stuck on some esoteric API or poorly documented technology, or I just want to use something in a way that it's not actually meant to be used BECAUSE I HAVE A DAMN GOOD REASON TO DO IT. And I want to extend the same courtesy of answering without prejudice so that some other soul can be similarly helped by my answer.
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Very true - you can be walking through the Tiergarten in Berlin on a sunny day and stumble across a group of nude sunbathers. You know, just sunning.
I don't think it's a big deal, just a hastily conceived idea that someone should have reworked a bit before releasing into the wild. But yeah it is offensive, when the dust hasn't settled and people are trapped in buildings, to try and cash in on the "opportunity" with a message that said, in effect, "Hey everyone look how we're generous we are and if you spread the message about how generous Microsoft is (by retweeting this message) we'll donate an entire dollar (up to the level of the salary of a low level flunky at our company)."

I think if Bill was still running things, he'd have a) made a bigger donation and b) wouldn't come across as trying to exploit the situation.

It's perfectly fine for a company to seek recognition for it's contribution to the public good, but if it's not handled well, it can come across as a crass and cynical exploitation. If they had just tweeted "Hey Microsoft is donating $100,000 to Japan relief, here's how you can do the same http:\\bit.ly\xxxx" they may have gotten more retweets, and certainly a lot more respect.
Oddly, in Britain this kind of thing happens quite a lot -- most older men certainly aren't shy about showering naked in public after swimming, for example.

Thinking rationally, being shy about our bodies doesn't really make sense -- are there any logical reasons why nudity isn't ok?
No it doesn't make sense, but its somehow culturally ingrained. Asia has a very different view, such as Japanese Onsen where everyone is naked in the big group pool, but you don't put your head underwater, no sir.
The hypothesis was that IgG tests may pinpoint foods that in some way trigger ADHD symptoms. This was found to be incorrect.

"We recorded no difference in behavioural effects after challenge with high-IgG or low-IgG foods. These results suggest that use of IgG blood tests to identify which foods are triggering ADHD is not advisable. However, IgG blood tests might be useful in other diseases." [1]

To me, this says that any deviation from restricted diet caused a relapse in ADHD symtoms. A less technical explaination about IgG testing here: http://www.tldp.com/issue/174/IgG%20Food%20Allergy.html

[1] http://marrym.web-log.nl/files/adhd-and-elimination-diet-rct...
That's the beauty of conspiracy theories: they don't have to make any sense.
Your second paragraph contradicts itself.
The name is Gandhi, not Ghandi.

And Gandhi never added qualifiers to his statement. As a matter of fact, the more broken a system is, the more it needs good people to step up and affect change.
The OA's theory does not surprise me. Food is just chemicals we put into our body. Alter the chemicals, alter the effects on behavior and health. And I wouldn't be surprised that, in addition to the cases where an allergy is involved, a lot more kids today are getting too much sugar and too much caffeine, and possibly trace elements from plastics and pesticides and detergents, and none of the latter group should probably be going into our bodies at all -- and weren't for the first few million years of our existence because they didn't exist yet!
Thank you for explaining this. I had a few misconceptions about these transactions.
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