skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i tried MBProgressHUD. it is way too heavy. so i wrote my own, smaller one:

http://www.platinumball.net/blog/2010/02/27/uiprogresshud-re...
>The system still has a fallback system in the event of a core meltdown that is designed to cool and manage the core without radiation release.

What do you think is failing and is the entire cause for all of this concern. The fallback system is pumping water into the reactor to keep it cool. Those are the systems that have been failing and have failed (during the explosions/fires) and have caused the (temporary-ish) meltdowns in the last few days.

A full meltdown has the potential to release a significant amount of radiation. A full meltdown increases in possibility as the reactors become harder to control and cool due to explosions and containment failure. It probably doesn't pose a significant risk to CA, but they will receive some radiation if it were actually to experience complete failure.

Meltdown isn't binary. They're experiencing meltdown right now. By definition. That's what the release of radioactive material is. The question is, can they keep it under relative control and prevent further exposure of the still proceeding fuel rods.
"fake it 'til you make it",

similar one but a bit lighter way to think:
"you can't fake what you can't make".

if you are making things you are not faking, of course.
Its becoming a pretty common practice to charge extra for IE6 support. If you hate IE that much its always an option to charge for the full gamut, but don't act surprised when the phone stops ringing as much ;)

On a serious note, IE has always been a challenge for front end dev, but its at least up front about its lack of support. Chrome, FF and Safari will sometimes have a minor margin bug that will drive me more insane then the expected behavior of IE.
All current efficient power sources have associated risks. It would be silly for anyone to call nuclear power 100% safe.
And if we discover that, short of an asteroid impact, the worst case scenario is that we end up with a sealed containment vessel which has to sit on site for 10 years to cool off and then cleaned up and disposed of. What does that say?

I think in the context of 'major disaster' if the nuclear plant's core stops being usable as a power plant but otherwise has contributes little to the final cleanup, that would suggest to me that its a good strategy.
Looks like a neat concept. It seems dropbox is fast becoming a platform. The other day, I was suggesting someone that they use quickbooks over dropbox for using it on multiple locations. I figured it does not work very easily, but the whole idea of using dropbox as a platform was kind of interesting.
Time Warner Cable trying to make municipal fiber illegal in North Carolina
Failure Is Failure - Harvard Business Review
Describing humor with an equation
Broadband is a utility just like any other, and ought to be treated as such. I completely agree it should be capped or metered just like water and power are. I also agree that my usage should be my business, and that telcos have no right to tell me that I can use megabits I paid for in one way but not another. I wouldn't tolerate it if, for example, Xcel Energy told me that I could only power General Electric appliances.

Also, unlimited is an awfully big amount, and if your business model depends on unlimited in any way, the odds are that you either haven't thought it through or that it's simply not viable.
Strategically Yours
+1. Agreed, I'm bored in a security consulting career. It pays well but does not make me feel like a creator. Getting into some node.js as a place to start building things.
It's almost as if they're speaking in code. They don't want to spread panic, but they also can't hide the reality too much from those who understand engineering.

My theory is that the vessel pressure vented into the suppression pool which caused the drop in pressure. That could have made a loud noise, perhaps one they had never heard in testing. Since the pool is a metal torus containing water held up by concrete and tightly coupled to the other parts it's a rigid, massful, structure. It may have been damaged by the quake.

If the radiation is explained by the spent fuel fire at unit 4, the question remains whether or not the containment on unit 2 is still effective.
That's the risk - you make an unnecessary manned vehicle to launch satellites because you can get funding for it being 'our brave heroic astronauts' then when it goes wrong the same publicity comes back and bites you.

Exploration of the West wouldn't have been possible if Nasa had been in charge: http://www.spacefuture.com/vehicles/how_the_west_wasnt_won_n...
We mainly use TableStorage as well for storing data, however since none of the data that we have is stored (besides user information) we have each webnode talking directly to each other. I am not quite sure if each of these transactions costs money, but since all the connections between servers are stable connections that are left open in a separate thread, I am thinking it will be pretty cheap.
We did run into some problems when using TableStore since I think we underestimated how much we need Count, GroupBy, Sort, etc. Even basic operations such as bringing back a list to display to the user, then clicking to sort by a column is difficult.
previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2317243

on Slashdot: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/03/13/2117222/Researchers-...
You're example is too small for the differences to become clear. There isn't any OO in your code for example.
Reminds me of Pownce. Sorta.
Yes, basically. Its a storefront for someone who sells at 100% markup stuff you can get elsewhere.
>whether it is a good idea to try to introduce students to the acoustic/mathematical derivation of the scale

I did this when I was teaching my roommate about theory, but he has a degree in math, so it seemed like the logical approach.

That said, teaching theory is incredibly good practice, so I like to do it whenever possible, and in my experience, the best time to explain the mathematical foundations of music is when they start to ask questions about it. It's like the matrix - if they're not ready for it, it's just too much.
I should point out that this supposedly-ruinous fixed-fee system has been working in Canada for over fifteen years.
Thats untrue. In his 2009 Ted Speech Bill Gates shows pretty easy why that idea is not realistic:
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
I'd think that the bandwidth on an embedded device like this is too low for enterprise use -- it would be a network bottleneck. You'd have to have a much higher clock rate than most small devices can achieve to get full 10/100/1000 bandwidth, so the market would be pretty small.
I'd also say that the hardest part isn't the parsing itself per se, it's error reporting and recovery. Showing parse errors as someone types in an IDE, for example, requires an order of magnitude more sophistication than simply handling valid productions does.
Ok,so ~10% aren't indicating their true location. Why does it matter? Maybe they just said whatever was needed to get the HIT?

If the HIT is not actually locale specific, there is no reason to expect all takers to truthfully divulge where they are located.
'Music Theory for Computer Musicians' was very helpful for me. http://www.amazon.com/Music-Theory-Computer-Musicians-Book/d...

There's also a great TV series from England called 'How Music Works' which gives more of a historical background. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnbOWi6f_IM
Cyber-World Statistics
In Scheme try and compare

(car (list 1 2 3 4))

with

(car (lambda (x) x))

But I guess we are talking about different levels of abstraction?
If the domain is for sale, visiting the page will bump its value.

You should just query the WHOIS database. At least, that's what I do.
Energy efficiency only goes so far when we're pushing to power more transportation off of the electrical grid as well.
Think of it this way: he's not attacking the politician for her opinion. He's attacking her for attempting to make her stupid opinion into a matter of public policy.

Everyone is welcome to have their opinions. When one attempts to act on those opinions in a way that's harmful to other people, one cannot but expect others to oppose.

Let's say I believe that three-year-olds can fly if only they're forced into a situation where they must do so in order to save their lives. It's a stupid opinion, but it's harmless if it's just a thought sitting in my head.

Now let's say I decide that I need to teach a bunch of three-year-olds to tap their innate flying ability by throwing them off a bridge. Is stopping me from doing so disrespectful of my opinion? Would that actually give you pause in stopping me?

Respecting someone's opinion is fine and dandy, but your inalienable right to your opinion stops when it starts motivating action involving others; at that point, the general rules regarding your rights when interacting with other people apply.
Former (non-nuke, non-electrician) US Navy carrier sailor here. :)

According to Wikipedia, the output for a Los Angeles-class attack sub is around 150-165 MW and the output for a Nimitz-class carrier is around 194 MW.

The damaged Fukushima reactors have a total output of 2,812 MW, so even in a best case scenario it seems like you would only be able to use naval reactors to power emergency and critical services.

Of course, there are probably a lot of emergency and critical services needed right now.
I'm a designer, and a "user" of software, and I use several terminal commands on a regular basis. I don't consider myself anything approaching a "developer," but I code a little in Ruby, Javascript, etc. It's semantics, sure, but when you draw hard lines around what people are and what they "need," you potentially limit a lot of blurrier, less-stereotypical scenarios. And how is a designer (or a child, or a business-person, or a manager, or whoever) supposed to cross that mystical threshold into beginner developer if the tools are behind a financial or obfuscatory barrier?

I think that's the main argument. Getting started with command-line tools and developer-type stuff should be as easy as possible, so that people can try new things and break stereotypes and do more than they thought they could do.
It was proposed in Northern Ireland during a power workers strike. Although considering the limited electrical power you can pull from even a nuclear sub and the 'security implications' of parking one in Belfast during the euphemisms it never got very far
I wish that was an option for quite a few people. Verizon doesn't really cover a lot of places and they don't plan to expand their services in the near future

e.g. here in Boston, they provide services in the suburbs but not in the city {i tried getting their service at 2 apartments but got the same answer both times that they don't service the area and the only available product was their DSL service}.
If you can do it, try to add android-environment which allow to run android app on ubuntu.
Something close is

http://www.morphwiz.com/

and

http://misadigital.com/index.php?target=home&lang=en

They are both interesting because they are using touchscreen meaning that they are fretless.
Great idea! A few things that bothered me though:

1. Once someone has replied to your message you can't delete the conversation. If you could perhaps implement a "request delete" or something, so that if everyone agrees you can delete a conversation tree? Right now my "feed" is cluttered with lots of test convos. Another solution might be having a separate .json file for every user?

2. It wasn't obvious to me how you shared files. The "Set hotkey" option in the preferences should maybe be renamed to "Set file share hotkey" or something, at least explain a bit better without having to go the FAQ.

Other than that, looks good for a beta! I got a really strong "why didn't I think of that" feeling when I first tried it :)
I understand what you are saying, but I thought that it wouldn't matter for browsers on mobile devices. I thought that the performance on a mobile device was slow enough to ignore the setInterval limit. Apparently not, since your test gives me a 200fps on my iPhone 3Gs.

However, although the fps is higher, the animation looks worse. Is that because the 'render cycle' is not completed using this technique?
People sometimes guffaw at this, but I can't recommend Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEVGQKwKeCc They skip over several centuries of shifting and tweaking between the triad and the modern (western) major scale, but it's a great visual answer at least to your second question.
I agree that balance is good, and that in truth, nuclear power is very safe, but consider what happens if there is a major release of radioactivity. How is this article going to look then? I think you'd agree it would weaken the credibility of pro-nuclear campaigners.

Lying for the sake of truth is a bad idea.

As it stands, a meltdown is a definite possibility (not necessarily probable.) Perhaps a better stratergy would be to say "It might meltdown. In which case the reactor will be ruined, but no radioactivity will be released. Or the primary vessel might be damaged, in which case this would be a Chenobyl style disaster, except we have already evacuated the area as a precaution, so the estimated death toll would be 10 (or 100 or whatever.)"

I'd say people fear what they don't understand; having lots of people, especially scientists and politicians, say "there's nothing to worry about" only increases peoples' worry – especially when bits of the plant keep exploding.
Of course it's terrible it's using the xavian scale which you are not used to.
Thanks for sharing this, Martin. I agree. But let me play a devil advocate and ask you question. Take a look at the history of the biggest startup hits like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. Do you really think that investor matters in these cases? Why?
Japan’s nuclear reactor overreaction
They're experiencing meltdown right now. By definition. That's what the release of radioactive material is.

Not really; in this case "meltdown" refers to the actual process of core melting, it is not entirely clear but it does not appear much or any of the cores have melted. Certainly not to the stage I would refer to as a meltdown. They are still in a "struggling to cool it down" stage.

The release of radioactive material is not equatable to a meltdown - all manner of things can lead to such a release, meltdown is just one of them.

If they actually have a full core melt (to the point it drops out of the reactor vessel into the dry well), yes, the risk of release of radioactive material is heightened. But probably not to the level you envision, and it is certainly not a case of "if it melts it's game over".

Explosions within the reactor shell are extremely unlikely, even in the event of a core meltdown, because the system is specifically designed to stop such an event occurring (which is one reason it has not so far happened :)).

Note; containment failure has not occurred, as far as we know, at any stage. The reactors are not being "controlled", the process is stopping by itself. The reactors simply have to be kept cool while that happens.

What do you think is failing and is the entire cause for all of this concern.

There is a different system in such a case (or, rather, a different approach). Essentially they just flood it with water.

With the best will in the world; it is worth reading some of the more technical explanations rather than just the media. They explain the process and the issues much better - even Wikipedia has reasonable material (and is at least a place to start with links)
Is it considered acceptable practice to not include a 2nd password verification text field?

I can see that there's less friction in the process (1 less field to fill out). Perhaps since this is a specific lightbox call to action instance and not the traditional register page, there is no password confirmation text field (meaning the full fledged register page would have a pw confirm field).
The OP said he likes something and perhaps it looks like something socialist, I've answered saying that that is socialist and that I do not like it and that I would support something else.

I don't see it as an ad hominem, nor was it intended. Just two disagreeing opinions.

Actually, this is just a recent annoyance of mine. In my country (Romania) the government just released something like this: they are giving away 10.000 eur to new companies started by young people, based on some form of contest (they read a business plan, etc).

This annoys me for multiple reasons, but one if very personal: I am disqualified from that contest because I already have a company. So I am literally paying taxes that are wasted so another guy gets free money from the government based on how good he is at writing business plans (or bribing).

What they could have done instead is say: all companies with young owners get a 10.000 eur tax deduction (maybe, for example, if they create one extra workplace). This way, you have to actually prove that your company is profitable, not that you are good at writing business plans.
Every U.S. ship has the necessary connections to connect to land-based power grids. Normally these are used to draw power into the ship, but they can be made to work both ways. Even non-nuclear ships can push power, at least until they run out of fuel. The big problem is that the power grid is usually deavily damaged by the disaster (or non-existent to begin with in some countries), so there's nothing for the ship(s) to hook up to.

Even without tying up at the pier to push power, an aircraft carrier or large amphibious ship can provide tremendous support: desalinization plants capable of producing thousands of gallons of fresh water each day, helicopters capable of conducting search and rescue and/or transporting relief supplies, doctors and corpsmen trained in field medicine, command and control aircraft to tame all of the chaos listed above, etc.
Sorry, I only want it if a) Jonny Ive designed it and b) it has a nice etched Apple logo on the side and c) it's an ideal size for quaffing fine bourbon.

There should also be a stainless steel band around the base which interferes with reception if you hold the glass the wrong way, ideally.
it isn't cubic time either iirc
Do you think you're at that caliber of innovation? If you're at that level, you don't even have to think about YC because your product is so compelling you don't need the help.
In this title I think "bad" is being used in the sense of possessing qualities of bad leadership, not moral badness. For example, the stereotype of having a bad temper, being controlling, calling names, are all traditionally qualities of bad leadership. However, why do some leaders get away with it? What compensates for it? Seems like a perfectly sensible question to me.
I would also add that a lot of what we call nuclear waste in the US could be re-used as fuel if we built processing plants and modern reactors.
No, we'r sorry. The guys should move to Zurich
I have not used a second password verification text field in some of my sites. While I have not tested it, I prefer it. Instead, if someone thinks they have mistyped their password, they might just retype the whole thing. Or, I give them an option to "show" or "hide" the password which toggles between password dots and normal characters.
Dear book (/music/film) publishers:

If you release works without restrictions, I'll probably buy them.

If you release works with restrictions, I probably won't buy them and might obtain the cracked version illegally instead.
Hang on, I'm confused. If you think nuclear energy is good, why should the others get a chance? Surely we should go with the best option (which obviously includes diversity, but ought to have the overall best as its main component.)

I don't mean to be rude, but this isn't a playground. Solar power will not get a complex if nuclear is chosen instead. Our way of life depends on energy, and just hoping other sources will work out seems naive at best.
I think it's perfectly clear what s/he means, and it's a well-known topic

I didn't think it was perfectly clear, especially in the context of saying that Mr. Stallman doesn't understand or accept it. I can conjecture what I think people mean when they say this and what argument they are making and why they think Mr. Stallman doesn't agree with them, but how do I argue with my conception of someone else's conception of what Mr. Stallman believes without attacking a strawman?

I thought it was far better to challenge the phrase and ask what it means. If someone replies and says "There's trade-off between convenience and privacy," we can have a chat about false dichotomies or whether the convenience is for telcos or for users, and so on. Or maybe they explain something else, and I might discover something unexpected.
I was referring to Japan achieving the 2nd (now 3rd) largest economy within 40 odd years following near total annihilation. Not really interested in debating that point either, in case that's where you're heading...
We are starting to use it to synchronize a photo identification database for wildlife conservation workers in Kenya: http://code.google.com/p/stripespotter

It becomes a lot easier if you design your application with Dropbox integration in mind (use plain text where possible, etc.)
Can we chat through email instead? Mine is startupz.net@gmail.com
It's worth noting that the Chinese government is in fact debuting a system to track the movements of every cell phone in Beijing right now:

http://beta.sg.news.yahoo.com/beijing-trial-mobile-tracking-...

This isn't a prediction, it's reality today.
Ask HN: Do you Hate or Love your Customer?
I hate my customer.
Otherwise I cannot make money out of him for my Product or Service.
Facebook trademark violation much?

Shutdown notice in 3... 2... 1...
I'm really glad to see this this morning. I've been working on something where the 3d transform technique may have immediate benefit.
I'd say the real problem is that the power circuitry _within_ the boats/ships are designed to handle quite a bit of load. But the physical connections _on/off_ the boat are likely not designed to carry it. To do this properly would require some redesign of Navy ships/boats.
The threat of death's and longterm genetical damages for our childrens and their's and the loss of a huge terretory for thousand's of years isn't exactly an amazingly positive result to me. Who know's if the cancer of my mother and my father (both died young) was caused by the radiation we received from Tschernobyl in Europe. I think one has to actually live through the threat of radiation ( I did and I feel with the Japanese today) to understand why the Germans are shutting down their nuclear plants and why this is the only reasonable thing to do, once you realize that it is an arrogant error of mankind to think they can control nature.
Airbnb NYC Rent Arbitrage Fund
Proxying node.js with nginx
HTTP is being replaced. http://www.chromium.org/spdy
It's because browsers render in memory and then periodically update the video display with a "snapshot" copy. Typically this method is fine for the regular content of an average webpage.

But with zeroTimeout, the movement is happening so fast that the snapshot copy is behind. The browser might be only updating the video every 20ms at the fastest, while the block is moving several pixels every few ms.

But be assured the render of the block is completely happening and then being erased. It's a proper render. If it wasn't, you'd get a permanent "smear" of the results in the browser.
I'm saying what the reports are saying.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326129
I can't stand developing on a Mac.

1) Linux has better language/tool support.
2) Windows has (much) better dual-screen support.