skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a Windows users but I hope that IE9 gets enough buzz that people feel that they need to have it. Hard to believe that (almost) more people could be running IE9 by the end of the year than users of Firefox and Chrome combined.
To me this is a sign of healthy engineering and management team that's confident enough to have fun with what they're doing.
How does one invest in the Nikkei 225 in the USA? I'm looking for an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) type of deal. I see that there are a couple mutual funds (UJPIX) but I'm more interested in something on one of the US markets.
Not really. Men and women are different and relate to families differently. Deal with it.
The U.S. budget for 2011 is $3,690,000,000,000. Can we spare just a sliver of that for innovation and job creation?

Imagine a national contest, YC-ish if you will. 500 businesses walk away with $100K each. That costs just $50M.

What would you get in return? You'd get tens of thousands of people racking their brains and being brave and innovating. Even if they weren't chosen, many of them would have a solid plan and go for it.

If we really believe that creating new jobs is our top national priority, then we need to find new ways to create new jobs. After all, that's where 80% of jobs come from: new companies.

I can already imagine some of my friends screaming: "You Socialist bastard!". No.

It could be done to reward merit, and it would provide critical support to promising startups right when they need it most. This is not about handouts- its about rewarding and encouraging innovation and supporting job growth.

Angel investors might be pissed though.
I think this attitude has been the downfall of a lot of developers over the years. You fall in love with the development environment and then you transfer that love to the platform itself. The problem is sometimes great platforms aren't paired with great products.

Microsoft is at least two generations behind Google and Apple at this point. Some would argue three generations. I'm a .net developer who loves C# too so I'm sympathetic. But putting a lot of resources into Windows phone 7 at this point is just folly
Although it should have been worded more neutrally, I appreciate the information. Not following the issue closely, after seeing the original post on HN I had filed it in the "no worries, fears exaggerated" box. It seems that was premature.
> By the way, selling cosmetics -- but being in search of VC -- does not a "woman in tech" make. For the love of god, are your cosmetics web-enabled?

Actually, it would appear that their distribution is entirely web-based. That, to my mind, would make them as much a tech company as is Woot, with its non-web-enabled wine, and Amazon circa 1996, with its non-web-enabled books. Diapers.com? $550 million exit, that one.

http://www.birchbox.com/
Can you please send me $150 so I can fact-check that "nearly 1 million people who died as a result of the Chernobyl disaster" claim? Or just lend me your copy?

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-157331757...
any recommendations? Toyota?
Pretend you have $100K and set up a fake portfolio, and play with that for a bit. Meanwhile put aside a few thousand dollars you can afford to lose, and when you're comfortable enough with managing your fake portfolio, start investing for real.
take a look at EWJ: http://us.ishares.com/product_info/fund/overview/EWJ.htm
Japanese thing. It's actually happening to every corporate and stores in Japan, from our more extensive coverage here in Asia. It's just that they are too busy continuing to combat the aftermath to think about writing things down and tell the public in the middle of the disaster.
Careful. Japan's debt level, when compared to GDP, is higher than US: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/03/sovereig...
I don't think it's about the money, as you propose, but more about Etsy craving to be more than just a place where people buy and sell stuff. They probably consider that uncool. Perhaps success has gone to their head a bit.

Be that as it may, I can imagine it's not easy to resist the urge to 'swing for the fences' and 'make a platform play' or 'build a social-commerce ecosystem' when you're killing it in a space you pretty much invented like Etsy is.
This is a very consequential difference: 被ばく does not mean radiation poisoning, it means radiation exposure. You can have sub-clinical (i.e. no impact to health) exposure. For example, if you've ever had a dental X-ray, you've been hibaku'ed.

So far, the only report of radiation poisoning which I've heard is a SDF member who was on-site when one of the steam explosions happened.
ZFS root has been possible for a long time, providing that you're willing to set up the filesystems manually.
exactly. I hadn't heard about it either before seeing this post.
Good idea. iShares markets an ETF called the Japan Index Fund that tracks a broad range of indexes: http://us.ishares.com/product_info/fund/overview/EWJ.htm
I mentioned my possible intentions to apply for this to my Spanish teacher one day, yet she cautioned me saying Chile like many South American countries is quite racist towards blacks and that I should consider somewhere like Brazil instead if I was still interested in the region, since it is much more welcoming and less prejudiced than somewhere like Chile.

Curious what those actually living in or from the region perceive as to the racial climate there in Chile and Sourh America in general.
If it can ever work, I tried to install on a 64-bit machine and it consistently failed no matter what I did...then finally what I did?...gave up! Will wait for IE10, if it can install at least :)
Kyodo News (http://english.kyodonews.jp/) are reporting that radiation levels in Chiba are twice to 4 times normal level and 33 times normal level in Utsunomiya, Tochigi.
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There are productive actions you can take to try to prevent this from happening again:

1 - work to close existing nuclear plants

2 - work to make sure no new ones are built
Be careful. Good work ethic doesn't always mean business success. The two are correlated, but that doesn't suggest that tossing money at any Japanese company is the way to go. Still do your due diligence and only invest in solid companies. This is certainly an opportunity, but not a reason to be irresponsible.
I'd be very careful, if you're not experienced at all, you could get wiped out pretty easily in a market with this much volatility. A lot of people would've said today's trading session was a great day to buy, but look what happened.

This is what they call a Black Swan event and nobody's sure that we've seen the bottom yet.

Edit: If you want to see an example of how these drops can be deceiving and might not represent the true bottom, look at Citi's chart: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=C+Interactive#chart2:symb...

You don't want to be the guy who bought a large long position when the PPS was $20, thinking it would easily jump back up to 30 or 40.
Be opportunistic. You'll be successful at every age.
I had no problems with Softbank's 3G either.
It looks like it did. The internet archive crawled bits of Lycos Circles from 2005 to 2009[1] as well as the original eCircles all the way back to 1998[2]

1- http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://circles.lycos.com

2- http://waybackmachine.org/*/http://ecircles.com
Meanwhile, Microsoft donates $2million (http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2011/03/14...), and nobody notices. I don't mean "oh, poor Microsoft" - it's just interesting that certain kinds of generosity are appreciated more than others.
The Nikkei is now at a ten year low
Why is it wrong to follow up when someone is incorrect or inaccurate? "Smart" people are wrong all the time. Some very smart people didn't see the Wall Street crash coming either. I don't think we need to be childish about it, but it's helpful if we can examine when and why we are wrong.

Sometimes, "smart" people are wrong an awful lot of the time but we only remember the few times they were correct. There was a recent HN post about criminal profiling that reminded me of this.
His Microsoft-centricity is pretty annoying.
Sorry, you are right.
I actually don't know at what point exposure becomes poisoning.

I believe there were 3 SDF members who were hospitalized for radiation, but I could be wrong (also, I read it on the 共産党 site, so who knows)
Well in a worse case scenario, which is not as bad as chernobyl then the answer is no, they dont really have anything to worry about. Chernobyl has actually killed very few people or cases of cancer. The death toll directly killed by the accident was around 50, with 4000 affected by radiation.
Scott Adams take on Japan's earthquake
Some additional clarifications here -- I also work for Etsy:

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/03/etsy-users-irked-aft...
This isn't a "here is the latest news post" post. It includes no new pertinent information. There are several posts, on the front page, that give the latest news.
Be careful - "John Mauldin: Japan Is a Bug Searching for a Windshield"

http://www.fool.com/investing/international/2010/07/22/john-...
Japanese chief secretary's press conference which I was watching on NHK. NHK repeated the number several times. Found a press report here:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-14/japan-appeals-for-i...
Toyota's stock is probably undervalued to begin with because of the stupid pedal thing, and this probably makes it extreme. Short-term traders need not apply, though.
Unless you really want to play with buying/selling individual stocks, you're probably best off buying a broad-based index fund, which effectively buys you a slice of the entire stock market. Eg VTSMX/VTSAX

Also, are your 401k and IRA/Roth fully funded? Be sure to do that first. (Assuming USA resident here)
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Yes - especially since right now everyone and their broker are thinking of ways to get in at those prices. Chances of you getting a decent deal while it's still around are slim, especially if you have no prior knowledge. If you don't know enough to know who the fool is in the market, you are the fool.
Is Twitter really "lying to get money" here? They're telling you that you can build your brand on Twitter. And you can. Is it misleading that they don't have a little asterisk that says at the bottom in fine print, "but we may take it away if someone else has a trademark on your brand name"? Yeah, maybe. Is that fraud? Ehhh... I'm not convinced.
The area around Chernobyl was also very lightly populated compared to Japan.

In Japan live over 100 million people, in an area the size of California.

If the Fukushima disaster grows anywhere near the scale of Chernobyl, the damage (both economically and in terms of human life) will likely be much, much greater.
Chernobyl statistically irrelevant?

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs303/en/index.htm...

There are a lot of relevant statistics in that document, such as the thousands of thyroid cancer cases directly attributed to the radiation exposure, not to mention the tens of firefighters that died saving the rest of the world. I would hate to live in your world, where there's a threshold of death to call something a disaster -- you are really minimizing the effects on hundreds of thousands (potentially millions) of people, simply because they haven't died yet or at all. How about getting uprooted from their homes and lives?

Just as I pointed out with my airliner analogy, the deaths from mining coal are over time, and many probably attributable to basic industrial accidents. Black lung has kind of been figured out, hasn't it? Five hundred coal miners didn't wake up on a Tuesday and die from coal poisoning, and as a result we're not talking about a disaster that needs investigation with coal power production.

What about those that die mining uranium? Not talking about them, are you? The Navajo would probably like to tell you about their history with uranium extraction: http://www.epa.gov/region9/superfund/navajo-nation/index.htm...

I agree that nuclear power is statistically safe, but you are really skewing facts and doing a great disservice to less-educated readers about the (real) dangers of nuclear power, and calling it science elsewhere in this thread. This isn't a binary proposition -- something can be really safe and have the occasional Big Deal. Just like air travel.
"The issues were easily avoidable with proper upgrades, but it was decided that the cost of upgrading the plant was not justified given the low probability of an 8.9 earthquake"

And that decision may very well have been correct. If I don't buy a lottery ticket but the numbers I would have picked come up, that doesn't mean I made a mistake.
There is a fair bit a developer churn, the project doesn't have very strong leadership, and the source code is messier than it should be.

Let's just say my experience was less than perfect. Add to that language barriers and it is just a very hard project to work for.

Of course, projects like VLC and mplayer still get a lot of the credit for the hard work that FFmpeg is mostly responsible for.
Something like 40k deaths per year are from auto accidents. Is that worth it? 158k due to lung cancer, 86%of that smoking related. Worth it?
As far as contamination goes, my information is ~12 hours out of date, so I won't argue that point. I will point out, however, that it's not the level of radiation that matters, but the specific isotopes causing it. Radioactive Iodine, for example, is particularly dangerous because it has a relatively long half-life and naturally concentrates in the lymph nodes. Shorter-lived isotopes, like N-16, will contribute to high radiation levels but not have any real health effects.

As for this not being on the same scale as Chernobyl, I doubt even a full, uncontained meltdown would be as bad as that. Chernobyl made heavy use of graphite, which burned for a long time, spewing long-lived fallout everywhere. Fukushima I uses a different design, with less inherent risk.

Wikipedia has a pretty decent article on the matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents#O...

Fukushima is still listed as INES 4, or lower than TMI, although that could change.
Oh I doubt I will be jumping in to anything right now - while on one hand a low market seems tempting, I know nothing about it, so I still wouldn't take the risk. Though I will follow idlewords advice and do some pretend trading to figure things out. Thanks for the warning.
Wow, HN must have a pretty large readership. Note that before this got posted on HN today my SO score from the solution was pretty static, for weeks. All of a sudden it's sprung up 300 points.

If I learned one thing from the experience it is that often the popularity of something is not a measure of how "correct" it is. It's often a measure of the compromises you are prepared to make, and also how "appealing" it is.

FWIW, thanks HN. I actually read about the question right here in the first place!

By the way, the "correct" version was added by someone else. Posts to whoever added it.
Not really. Men and women are different and relate to families differently. Deal with it.

I'm not really sure what to say to this other than I would prefer not to see such blatant sexism anywhere, but especially not on HN.
This will trigger deleveraging around the world. Specifically, this will impact the venture capital in silicon valley. We'll likely start to see some angel/vc investors start to panic and withdraw from the market, shutting down startups, etc.
Also, we can solve traffic fatalities by getting rid of cars.
Looks like a only 2 stories of entrepreneurs dealing with visa issues on that tumblr
This reminds me of albuterol for asthema. I used to get it generic for $4. Now its $45+ with my insurance, since its no longer available as a generic.

I now have to purchase Ventolin, which is no different medication wise, just the inhaler is different.
Frankly, we have made efforts for quite a while to eliminate classifications which are used solely to put people down. While it is true that hipster is not as offensive as some other classifying words and carries none of the historical baggage, it has become a slur, nothing more.

What you've described sounds like a caricature. While it is possible that the more nuanced culture formed elsewhere and was made extreme on it's way to your shores (and, indeed, there is evidence of this having happened in many other cases), I am not sure that is what is going on here. The specific attitude you describe is one I see commonly attributed to hipsters, and only in very rare cases a fair characterization. I think that The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Radiohead (to throw something out there) are examples of incredibly commercial, mainstream bands which most of the people you are describing would be into.

Saying that you don't like the new Shins album because it is very mainstream doesn't actually mean that you don't like it because people are buying it (they aren't), it means that it doesn't seem challenging or interesting to you. It seems designed for mainstream appeal.

In the US, the word is not applied solely to the group that you describe, either. It's used to describe people who live in particular areas, people who ride bicycles, people who shop at thrift stores, people who listen to public radio, people who see lots of live music, and people who listen to records on vinyl, and this is by no means an exhaustive list. The most important thing is that people seem to have flipped your description of the attitude on it's head; It's not about whether or not you dislike "mainstream" or "commercial" things, it's about whether or not you like something which doesn't fall into one of these categories.

I agree that your description of this group doesn't make me want to hang out with anyone in it, but it certainly doesn't make me feel like I shouldn't tollerate it. If there is a group of people who want to be very bad at conversation at parties, more power to them.

If I believed that most people made these judgements on a case by case basis, that would be one thing, but that's not the case in my experience. The assumption seems to be that if you match one of these very superficial and general categories, I can mantle your personality and judge you (with little/no other justification, see what I did there?)
It isn't the time and HN isn't the place for this "I told you so".
To update, NHK is reporting the fire at reactor 4 is out.
Could you make an argument for bothering to fund 401k + IRA/Roth at 20-something? If I'm trying to get fuck-you money by 40, don't I need every dime in order to get there? My nest egg is in plain old savings right now because I view it as personal runway.
New companies create 80% of new jobs. We need more jobs. So, how do we create new companies?
You beat me to it! I was just about to suggest the nginx internals. :)
No it's not... it's not even at a 2 year low.[1]

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^N225+Interactive#chart2:...
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Get involved, drum up some buzz on its behalf
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Thanks Chad for sharing your story. I remember you vividly from a dinner in Raleigh with Matt Mullenweg, Wayne Sutton, etc. You're a rock star. Code strong.
Use OOP. :)

But seriously, you don't need a language to smack you in the face with OOP syntax to use OOP, and with anything in programming, if you try to do it just like you do in other languages, you're going to be disappointed.
While watching CNBC today I saw a story stating Toyota had to close a few factories and had a lot of damaged inventory.
That's possibly the worst most inaccurate tldr I've seen. Did you read the article or just project what you'd like it to say. You do no one any favors by posting an inaccurate tldr.
I think one aspect of an answer to that is that they are less likely to have product-building skills, and also they are more likely to create or contribute to what you might call the shyster/shenanigans part of the economy (see Wall Street, the "Financial Crisis of 2008", etc.) rather than making real things people want in exchange for an honest price. Speaking in general terms, of course. Also, they are less likely to create some new innovation or breakthrough that gives the US a tech edge. Also, for a STEM person, it's generally easier for them to learn business and do the things truly needed in that area, than it is to go in the reverse direction. (Again, speaking in aggregate terms, and understanding there are always individual and exceptional cases in every direction.)
Wait what? There was a massive deleveraging event a few years ago and I don't remember VCs being forced to withdraw money from startup accounts. How would they do that anyway? Once they invest the money the money belongs to the company they invested in. They might be forced to sell shares I guess but they can't just take someone's money.
If society doesn't consider this comparatively small loss of life acceptable given the benefits, then society is stupid. But we already knew society is stupid, and terrible at risk analysis. If that weren't the case, we'd have many many more nuclear reactors, and no one would want to get in their cars, ever.
That is some serious narcissism right there, congratulations.
I don't think they're claiming that this problem is specific to "tech"; sexism pretty much pervades our society. And yes, sexism is different and worse than just generic dickery because of the way it exacerbates existing societal problems. Their point is that (contrary to the gut reaction of many of the commenters so far) we as an industry can do better, which would help more women to succeed in the IT world.
Having a brother who worked in constituent services: being lobbied is not a new experience for Congresscritters. If you really want to do something, send them an actual letter on paper. If you don't send a letter on paper, it is highly likely that your support will be discounted as someone who is weakly attached to the issue. This is because, if you don't care enough to send a letter on paper, you are weakly attached to the issue.

The very mild inconvenience relative to, e.g., "RT for great justice!!1" is used as a bozo filter. Startups aimed at reducing barriers to entry in petitioning Congresscritters should consider carefully whether removing a functional bozo filter is desirable to a group whose opinion of their products is super-critical.

As an example of a previous technological innovation: a few groups discovered years ago that you can hook up a CGI script to a fax machine and then get anybody who submits a web form to fax a form letter about e.g. abortion to their representative. Congressional staff thought that was a very interesting development... for about ten minutes. After that, they were "measured by weight."
Even though this is a Fairly Bad Thing, I think crafting an anti-nuclear agenda out of it is a poor move for society as a whole.

Nuclear power has overwhelmingly been shown to be safe, and something can be safe and have unexpected Big Deals at the same time. That's a non-binary attitude that this polarizing subject doesn't exactly favor, as shown by this thread in numerous places.

I mean, that's part of being human, isn't it? Nuclear power is safe. Humans build nuclear power. There will always be a human element...
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"will it look ok on my resume if I stayed with an organization for a short period (3-4 months)"

I don't think it looks bad on its own - as long as you are adequately able to explain the quick move if asked about it in an interview.

As for whether or not to leave, you only live once. If you completely don't like it and you can afford to look for something else, go look. I would probably try to line up another position before leaving this one.