skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It almost certainly didn't went critical. Spent fuel doesn't have enough U-235 for criticality. Moreover steam (boiling water) isn't a very good neutron moderator. I can't do the calculations but I seriously doubt it.
Should the fuel have gone critical, a lot more would have happened than a fire. The damage would make the site comparable to Chernobyl.
TSF is great, but how is it different from Mixergy?
We let you add friends through Phone Contacts, Facebook and Twitter.

its based on an asymmetric follow model which means you can also just follow people whose game interests you like
Many Americans are wondering what we can do to help. It's natural to want to send money, food, blankets and the like to the survivors. But for now, what may be most urgently needed is all possible assistance and expertise in bringing the situation at the nuclear facilities under control.

I don't know what benefit there is in prioritizing what is more-urgent and less-urgent. These efforts are not mutually-exclusive, let us provide both. What good is it to generalize the utility of an option to the entire scope of the disaster. Let's try to deal with each sub-problem individually.
I recall being asked by PayPal what the last four digits of the last credit (debit?) card I used was, when I needed my password.

Problem was that the card had been ditched months ago, so there was no way I was going to remember that. I eventually remembered the password, but I wonder how I would have gained access to my account otherwise.

Some people are too creative with password "security" for their own good.
Do you have any idea what UAC you need to maintain in order to turn a profit via upselling? Doesn't have to be too specific, just looking for ballpark numbers.
the reason it didn't catch on is because it was terrible to work with. it did not synchronize consistently. it would detect that changes had been made in multiple locations, then just keep extra copies -- leaving the user wondering why the number of files suddenly exploded. I used it for a bit, and finally gave up because it was too much hassle.
All of those points apply to coal as well. Increased risk of cancer, asthma, all sorts of health difficulties. Strip-mining literally destroys land, not just makes it uninhabitable (which is what you meant, not "destruction of a huge territory").
Because they are unoriginal followers. If they had any sense of direction they'd be able to build something of their own.
Despite that being its stated purpose it is an excellent general purpose programming language; GC, 'true' interfaces, i.e. interfaces that are implemented simply by a type having a function set which matches a specified interface, and a lot more - it's simple, clean and obviously has a great future ahead of it.

There's no reason to label go as simply a systems programming language in the same way you can't just label python or ruby scripting languages.
Today I was at a University small business lecture. Someone asked one of the entrepreneurs "What was your biggest mistake?". The guy said his laptop had been stolen, but luckily it was all auto-backed up onto Dropbox. A nice anecdote and good press!
I was going to donate to aid organizations to help supply food and water, but I guess I should send some nuclear engineering textbooks and maybe my old exams from Nuclear Engineering 101. That's obviously the best and only way for the average American to help, what with our expertise on these matters.

I've also included this link[1] to the wikipedia article discussing the current situation involving the threatened nuclear reactors; hopefully, this will elucidate matters for Japanese officials. Maybe someone can help with the translations.

We should also send them the most insightful reader comments from CNN.com, reddit, and YouTube.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Japanese_nuclear_incidents
Speechless =)
How many people in the world are actually qualified to offer any useful help on the Japan nuclear situation? Does anyone really think that they're just sitting around doing nothing right now?

I don't care how organized and prepared the Japanese are - they need help right now. Even before the disaster, they relied on imports for food and fuel. Large portions of their economy are now offline, and hundreds of thousands of people are displaced. Even if Japan has the will and resources to deal with all of this on their own, if the rest of us are willing and eager to chip in to help, why should they?

It's not like your donation is going to a Real American Hero who will personally swoop down into Tokyo and start wrapping every Japanese person they come across in a blanket and dousing them with a bottle of water. That money is going to be spent how it was spent here in the US after Katrina: yes, it will help feed people who need feeding in the short term, but it will also keep people in temporary homes until they can rebuild or relocate, pay for school clothes and supplies for kids whose families lost everything, provide grant money to help kickstart businesses in the affected areas once cleanup is done, etc, etc, etc.

So, no, sorry. I'm still sending money.
Definitely not clueless. Stateless. Big difference.
Fusion power is 20 years away and always will be.

Less snarkily, is there actually good reason to believe that we're any closer to usable fusion?
So, "traveling longer distances is more dangerous than traveling shorter distances."
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210692.aspx
It works even better after clicking the button a few times.
Map of Geiger Counters in Japan
> my other favorite argument...if a similar disaster hits, say, the Tokyo area?

It has probably already been considered, which is why there is no nuclear plant within 100km or so from Tokyo, and the Chernobyl exclusion zone has a radius of 30km. So, that is a hypothetical situation.

http://www.japannuclear.com/nuclearpower/program/location.ht...
So we can all go protest in Denver only?
Inform HN:Potential Flash replacement
I built a developer platform for building Javascript applets using SVG as a potential for use where flash can't be used.

Demo: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 programmers:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhZcIMvejVA
I cant wait!
It does :) though it's early days with the arm side of things. I'd be surprised if google don't work on specifically making it easy to code in go for NaCl and android.
Reminds me of my buddy Mats Bryntse's IE6Frame. He presented it at a meetup at Yahoo about a year ago:

http://mankzblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/ie6-frame-to-battl...
I'm glad the article pointed out the cartoon dinosaur riding a shark on the jobs page, even though they mistook it as not taking things seriously, instead of convincingly signalling, by the fact of its nature and presence (as an awesome and surprising drawing on a recruitment page that's subversive of conventional expectations for a potential employer), the claim made in the heading on that page, that Dropbox is a pretty sweet place to work.
How does someone become a musician in the first place if they won't go beyond noodling?
In general it is true that BigCo X could do function/feature/integrate Y and totally kill Startup Z - but it doesn't happen all that much.

I asked why they haven't done it. You haven't really addressed that -- you're attacking a strawman. I'm simply curious as to why VRBO's parent company hasn't decided to handle bookings directly.

VRBO already supports transaction processing -- they use it to sell the listings. They also went to all the effort of providing a consumer insurance service. Why didn't they add support for processing the booking transaction directly and guarantee it as a matter of course?

My guess is that because to do so would wading into a regulatory quagmire, and as an established company (rather than a disruptive startup), they have more to lose. Maybe Airbnb knows this, too, but is hoping to get away with it anyway -- at least long enough to either change the regulatory environment, or see their exit and leave the problem to someone else (see: napster) ...

.. but I could be wrong, so I asked the person who has the details :)
Review My Startup: PopuGamer, user-submitted video game reviews
Hey guys, I'd love to hear any feedback you might have on my site PopuGamer (http://popugamer.com). It's new and I know there isn't a lot of activity on it, but I'm working hard to try and get it off the ground. Here's a rundown of the site...

What it is: PopuGamer is a gaming review website focused 100% on user-submitted reviews, kind of like a Yelp for gaming.

Why I started it: As an avid gamer myself, I've read my share of total BS game reviews by professional reviewers, and I wanted to create a place where regular, everyday gamers -- those without relationships with game publishers and developers or access to pre-release games -- could discuss, debate, and discover great games. Just like Yelp democratized the restaurant review process, my hope is that PopuGamer will do the same thing for game reviews.

I'd love to hear what you guys think and if you have any advice on building a community from scratch.

URL: http://popugamer.com

Thanks for your time, guys. I really appreciate it!
The reason you have the discount rate is uncertainty about the future. There are many things that could happen - we might be super wealthy and be able to easily dispose of waste. We might be dirt poor, and death of cancer at 65 rather than at 40 due to ulcers is the least of our issues. We might, as dstorrs speculates or as France demonstrates, consider nuclear waste to be a valuable resource to be harnessed.

I.e., there are many scenarios in which the deaths we hypothesize never actually materialize. Hence, discount rates.
If I'm going to get a percentage of the business, I would definitely work my ass off after-hours with red bull to get the app/business going. However, if I am just an employee, I will do my best, but not put in anything beyond what I am paid to do.
I agree that it's an issue, however it is nice that they aren't simply going to sit on mistakes that need breaking changes to fix. In some respects it's another aspect of the 'beta' culture at google, which is IMHO a good thing - open it up to public use then fix as you go before switching to a stable model.
27, Both, OSX/Ubuntu Server
Why do people use @ mentions in places which don't support them?
Oh, they're also requiring that we encrypt the answers in the database. With encryption keys stored on the same server. But that's a separate (and arguably sillier) issue.

Well, that's fine. Just keep the decryption key somewhere else, or don't use an algorithm that can be decrypted.
I love CashFlow and Text. Many places pay bi-weekly, so you might want to add that to your frequency drop down list.
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You can make it 'week' and put 2 in the frequency. I have gas set as 3 weeks because that's usually how it ends up being for me.
> Patio11 is writing a contrarian article -- an article that goes against conventional wisdom

Yeah patio's polemic is "cool" and all, but when the ship starts to sink after it has hit the iceberg and you still insist that all is well because "this ship cannot sink" then its not so cool anymore. The people affected need help and for them the plans obviously does not work and situated actions are called for. They need, food, shelter, medicin etc. and fast.
FYI, underlined hyperlinks make it impossible to tell the difference between a "q" and a "g" in a URL. As such, I'd suggest you spend some time finding a better name for that unfortunately named site you linked.
The Next Web covered it also with a cool video: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/03/16/heyzap-for-android-sim...
A message from my .LY registrar regarding the unrest in Libya
What if a nuclear disaster happened in Hiroshima or Nagasaki? What would those cities look like today?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hiroshima_montage.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nagasaki_C1414.jpg
My deeply-ingrained image of the Ugly American get the better of me here. I actually thought you were serious until halfway through the post, and was mentally preparing a response to rip you a new asshole.
Assange ambushes Australian Prime Minister on live TV
So your argument is that as long as the asset or land is reusable then it does not matter if people died ?

So if you were driving a buick roadmaster and got killed in the car. the fact that they could hose of the dash and reuse the car is what matters ?

Or that in World War 2, when the tank crew of a Sherman tank was killed they could refurb it and send out a new crew, does that mean it is somehow better for the first crew ?
You would be able to see sexism in the workplace is a coworker explicitly came up to you and said, "you only work here because you want to support your wife!"

Serious question: did you read the post?
To indicate they're talking about a Twitter user, without saying "The Twitter user, HipsterIE6", you humourless ninny.
I'll begin dumping all of my garbage on your lawn. I expect at some point you will find a use for this "waste". At some point you will thank me profusely.
Well, pardon my phrasing here, but all you're doing here is doubling down on the hand-wavey bullshit in longer form. I could give you a similar academic paragraph from a trotskyist, it would be just as substantive and just as wrong.

To his point, in the last 30 years, we've slashed taxes for the rich and really slashed welfare. Shouldn't the poor be picking themselves up by their bootstraps by now? Or is something a little more robust than "I don't even need to know the details, the problem is SOCIALISM and the solution is FREEDOM" required?

And meanwhile, none of this has anything to do with the very real problem of FDA regulatory reform. You haven't laid out the first reason why I wouldn't be poisoned by a bottle of cough syrup from duane reade or why it should be on me vs the drug company to prove that their cough syrup is safe.

I suppose we could always have a company that was in charge of rating drugs, and the drug companies could pay them for ratings, like AAA and BBB. I mean, it works for the financial industry, right?
Connections, not just "check-ins"
So I take it you're not a fan of http://www.gamefaqs.com ? ;-)
HN readers: in case busy (shouldn't you be?), @jemka's comment will save you the trouble of reading the rambling article.
Languages don't reach mainstream popularity overnight. Go has been public for one year. Look at where Java, Python, or even C++ were a year after their release. With that in mind, I think Go is doing pretty well.

An important thing to note is that, while Go is a great general purpose language, we're building it to make systems development easier. That's what we're using it for at Google, and also how it's being used at other companies like Canonical and Atlassian. In that sense Go is already successful.
Whilst using my Nexus S, it rings. I pull it out of my pocket, only to discover I can't answer it because there's a keyboard over the Answer/Decline buttons.

Huh? I'm running Android Gingerbread on a Nexus One, and when the phone rings, I see the usual "unlock" screen, with one option for answering, and one for ignoring the call. There's no way to get a keyboard, no matter which buttons I press.

Is your phone fully awake and unlocked in your pocket? Is there something weird about Gingerbread (or the buttons) on the Nexus S?
It dropped <5%. I fail to see how that is a crash.
Scaling PHP Up, Out, and Around
LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: Data Wrangler of The Modern Age
Hydro - yes. Nuclear - no.

Denmark and Norway - no nuclear.

Sweden - 45% nuclear.

Finland - 30% nuclear.
How to play a sound in a web browser (it ain’t easy)
It actually sounded like a bit of a test as I read it. Sort of a second trial by fire, the interview being the first. It simulates the feeling of pressure (for some, at least) while the stakes are relatively low, making it easier to handle tough questions when the incubating company is pitching clients or future investors.
He is `set' because he continuously fulfills the expectation of the employer: he publishes (and teaches etc.). And expectations of the wide public: he provides information to us. The employer (university) is happy, because those publications bring them money, even if indirectly.

And you were going to say that's a bad thing because...?

Sure university is a somewhat special case; we don't expect everybody to become a professor. But, in similar vein, artists earn money by performing. Open source developers earn money by utilizing their knowledge and skill in paid-for projects. Etc., etc.
oops, sorry, meant to upvote, not downvote you! +1
Apple Downgraded for First Time Since October; Shares Drop
Wow I was just thinking I needed something similar to your text app earlier. That is perfect! Cashflow will be handy too!

Thanks a lot.

EDIT: Is there an option to clear a whole sheet? and in the cashflow, you only allow the american format of dates.

Oh and with cashflow, how is someone meant to handle long term use? Update their own balance?
You're quite right. I think Go will make a great applications language. It's just a matter of library support, which is nascent but rapidly improving.
There's no mention of how the figure for Biofuel is arrived at so I'm not sure that I can agree with it (the idea that arable land is spent on biofuel, thus driving up food prices was doing the round a while ago). With that possible exception, my opinion is that all four are pretty dangerous. It seems they are all at least twice as dangerous as Natural gas. I disagree that it looks really safe compared to the others. I agree that it is grotesque to use current events to support related agendas.
Chomsky trivializes the work of synthetic organic chemists, the engineers that set up and keep production lines going, researchers that test the drugs, and so on.

Because private companies would be willing to throw money into the wind to fund research. The concept's been proven, the risky part is over; although not necessarily the difficult part.
but you're gambling with other peoples health, not your own. When you say "we" you really mean other people not including you.
Angry Birds’ Peter Vesterbacka: Tablets are killing console games
Will donating money to Japan actually help?
What's your input?
I get the feeling that Apple is preparing another big push into this area. Between cloud-iTunes, the mega datacenter, and rumors of some sort of new iPad sync system they've got plans for sure.
R means release

14 is the major release number

B is the minor release 'number'. By convention, 'A' is not considered ready for production, whereas 'B' and later are.

02 is the 'patch level', i.e. an even more minor release number

This scheme, or at least the part up to the 'B', was used all over the place in Ericsson while I was there (a decade ago). I just pulled the battery off my phone to see if it was still used and it doesn't seem to be. One of my previous mobile phones had R1F on the sticker behind the battery...
The solution to this problem is to not let programs realize that there is a such thing as a window manager. "You have an x by y rectangle to draw in. There is no such thing as `other programs'. Enjoy."

Then the end user can script these complex interactions in a way that pleases him. Composibility is better than following an arbitrary spec.

UNIX gets this: I can program all my window interactions in Haskell. When mplayer wants to be fullscreen, it gets it. Everything else... nope, sorry.

(Also, I have a solution! Run all the non-super-important programs in a VM. Then minimize the VM when your super-important program wants attention. This even composes properly when a more-super-important program comes along!)
PyCon 2011: Running Django Apps on Google App Engine
Bad Oehmen: Confirmation Bias, Sources & Astroturfing
I use it for offline operations since we only have a single overloaded MS SQL database server. So i sync the data to my local mongo instance creating documents with only the fields that i need. And i have scripts written to do analytics and partition the data to reveal patterns and generate reports and so on.

It's very fast and the flexible schema makes the code much more flexible and easy to write. And did i mention it was fast?

You should definitely give it a try and consider using it for such systems.

My only issue with it is that i am running it on a 32-bit system and so i'm limited to 2GB a database.
Erase Windows and it shitty ecosystem and start over with code that the end user can modify and improve?
IE6IFY unleashes the pain of IE6 at your command
Paper on violations of causality (time travel) at LHC
If you are in the NYC area, you should check out the MongoDB track at PgEast next week to find out ;)
https://www.postgresqlconference.org/
I work on Go, and just used gofix to update all the Go code at Google. It was just a few command lines to update many, many files. Gofix will make updating much less painful (for me, it already has).
Incredible news, Steve Jobs is Homer Simpson's Uncle. No really
When I read it I couldn't help but think of Timescape[1] which, when I read that, well it really creeped me out.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553297090/102-4803255-3756...
Your Free Condo Could Only Be A Twitter Tweet Away
Dennis Crowley on the Future of Foursquare
Just use a different password for secret questions. It thus becomes impossible to guess or socially engineer.
Thanks man.... I have ammmo for the arguments now.:-)
In reference to the OP, when comparing Mongo and Postgres, I wouldn't bring up geo...
Maybe a better example would be going into your neighbor's backyard and testing how readily his shrubbery lights on fire. Oops, it's burning! Tell him to "fix the bug" and move on.

No, a better example is going into your backyard, shining a flashlight onto your neighbor's shrubbery, and then having the neighbor complain to you about changing the shrubbery's color from black to green.

The protocol for a shrub is: you shine light on it, it reflects light back. The protocol for a public web service is: you send it an HTTP request, it sends an HTTP response. If you don't want your neighbors to see your shrubbery, build a fence. If you don't want your website to contain arbitrary scripts, don't let users submit arbitrary scripts.
I ended up doing that. It is just that its a commonly used frequency.
http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/featured_images/japan_...
Do you typeset any serious mathematical work in Word 2010?

When people talk about TeX's mathematical typesetting abilities, they are often (from personal experience, as a math major currently in school) referring to having to typeset documents with many pages and upwards of 25% being math. It's much easier for me to type \int_0^\pi \sin (x) dx than it is for me to go click-click-click-click in Word. But besides that, when you're writing proofs, for example, and you have to keep referring to the same symbol, say sigma, over and over again, in LaTeX, you would simply write $\sigma$, but in Word, you would have to do Insert->Symbol or some nonsense. Several more seconds wasted, and that adds up when you have 100 occurrences of the character sigma in your document.

TeX has a learning curve, but it's not even actually that steep. Within 4 days of starting to use it I was already starting to grok it.
You haven't laid out the first reason why I wouldn't be poisoned by a bottle of cough syrup from duane reade or why it should be on me vs the drug company to prove that their cough syrup is safe.

No, just see the other comment right below:

You should be free to do this yourself or to seek the advice of those you've chosen to trust on scientific (or any other) matters.

As to your comment about the financial industry: it's inapplicable because it's not a free market. In a free market, there would be no Federal Reserve, no Fannie or Freddie to distort the market. Immoral firms such as Goldman Sachs would have nothing to take advantage of.