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If Austin or New Jersey had either the area or population close to that of Japan, maybe these would be relevant comparisons.

Ok, let's reframe: I shouldn't even have bothered. Comparing the population density of a country like Japan to a state like California (as you originally did) is meaningless.

I guess you've been reading different news than than I have. What I've been reading says three of the reactors have exploded and a fourth has caught fire.

Then you've read wrong, or at least drawn the wrong conclusions from it. I haven't read up on the 3rd explosion, but two of them were "cosmetic" in nature and only affected the building structure around the reactors (the purpose of the structure is to keep weather out and is not designed to keep nuclear material in). Neither of the reactors "exploded." Yes, there were explosions at the reactors, but those are two very different things.

I still don't agree that this is a disaster by many reckonings of the term, but I recognize that people are free to define the severity to invoke it as they wish. I just happen to disagree.

Now, whether it escalates to the scale of Chernobyl (or larger) remains to be seen.

Highly unlikely, but yep, remains to be seen.
You could be right about Bluetooth issue being linked to manufacturers.

My Android (v2.2) does not allow removing Google account.
Is it just my copy of Firefox, or does everyone have to manage to hover over and click on a 1x1 dot in order to change the images? Not very easy on a touchpad.

Seems like a "Previous | Next" UI would have been much easier to use.
TLDR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jllJ-HeErjU
Yes, that is precisely my point.
The friction isn't in the movement of code, it's in the movement of ideas and prioritization. Adding functionality, cleaning up the code, etc. When a project's contributors disagree substantially on how a project should be run, where the priorities should be, etc. then there can be a significant amount of friction just in day to day operations (like communicating about ideas on the mailing list).

Perhaps some of the fixes from libav can be brought back into ffmpeg, but eventually people will want to standardize on one or the other, and if the libav folks are splitting off because they want improvement, revitalization, etc. and the old guard doesn't, then I suspect people will move to libav instead.

Similar issues happened in the past with xorg (where XFree86 was mismanaged and eventually the community had enough and decided to fork it and fix it) and with KHTML/WebKit (where Apple forked it and made so many improvements to it that WebCore/JavaScriptCore have replaced KHTML in most (all?) projects (including Qt). That split wasn't a philosophical/managerial split, mind you, but the end result was the same.
I'm not sure that the inverse of your statement- that men are considered inherently superior by virtue of the fact that there are more men in the tech industry- is necessarily true, either.
"Oh please. Occasionally running into a rude man? "

The point was not there is an occasional rude man, the point is that there is a reoccurring theme of inappropriate discrimination based on gender. Of course there are going to be rude men. As you pointed out, there are rude people everywhere. But what if that rude person is only rude in certain situations to a certain type of person--that makes a difference, no?

"As a woman genuinely in tech..." I think that is a bit pompous--under your definition is groupon tech? All they do is glorified coupons, not very techy under your standards yet google, a tech company, wanted to acquire them...

"Take it personally and you're just telling yourself a story. But in reality, it's not about you. The way a person treats you is very rarely about you. It's about them. So ignore them and move on with your dignity intact, and stop telling yourself lies."

Would you tell this to MLK or Harvey Milk? I doubt it. Over simplifying the problem and claiming it's all in these womens' heads isn't going to make it go away.
Good point, but if you consider corps like those mentioned by the parent, they are clearly internationally-diversified companies. If their operations in Japan alone are impacted, it's cause for concern, certainly, but the company as a whole is likely none the worse for wear, and this is just Mr. Market overreacting as he likes to do.
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I would bet that coal mining has resulted in far more deaths than nuclear power plants, and yet we love to burn that stuff.
Packaging / look and feel, are also part of marketing a product. Apple gets it btw.
This pretty much jibes with the conventional wisdom that Microsoft is a company with deep political entanglements. If something is important, it stands to reason there would be a lot of paralyzing infighting, whereas teams on the periphery could actually do some good work.
For the sake of completeness, cos is the x value, because of the identity sin(x)^2 + cos(x)^2 = 1. You should find a good unit circle trigonometry picture if your class isn't giving it to you.

Wikipedia's picture is frightening (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_circle), but perhaps http://www.themathpage.com/atrig/unit-circle.htm or http://www.snow.edu/jonathanb/Courses/Math1060/unit_circ_tri... will help.
2 reasons:

1) The goal of the bill is to hang on to entrepreneurs who will generate new value and create new jobs. To drive "real value" you have to improve business productivity, make information accessible that wasn't accessible before, automate things that were hard to automate previously, etc. These are almost always technical accomplishments first.

2) There is an oversupply of people on the business side and an undersupply of people on the engineering side. For the US to stay competitive it has to hang on to the technical talent.
and that's a very convincing reason to support it in a browser
What a great post-- thanks for sharing! I've been wanting to write a post like this for a long time... It inspiring that you actually did it.
It's wrong to single out one industry, yes, but it doesn't mean that the industry itself can't try to improve its own situation even if other ones fail to.
While we're making silly analogies, let me make one of my own. C is a bit like a horse. It's fun to ride a horse from time to time, and there are still plenty of valid, practical reasons to ride horses. However, you're kidding yourself if you think you're going to talk me into giving up my car (well, ok... my public transportation) for a horse.
"iPad" and "iPhone" were both some of my kid's first ~20 words. She watches a lot of YouTube :)

This is fascinating on two levels, 1) the power of the internet and 2) the power of branding.
Where in the article does she say it's unique to Tech?
I always thought that part of the reason that c sometime fosters a feeling that "syntatic sugar" is because it doesn't haven nearly as much ability to abstract things as other languages. Although this can be useful to some people in that things may be less context sensitive and more straightforward.
Is the cup concrete? I'm having an discussion with #sthatipamala and #ericz - I'm pretty sure it's fake, as it looks like the guys fingers are depressing into the foam.
"One spectacular outlier of a failure does not make a rule."

If only that was the only spectacular engineering failure.

Unfortunately, history is littered with them: from Bhopal to Exxon to BP to the Hindenburg, and many many more.

For some more examples, see:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_accid...
There are other things here and there that I don't like about Ubuntu but the four finger swipe is one of those polished aspects of OSX that you don't realize how integral it is to trackpad usage until you don't have it. I would guess with a high degree of confidence that you have never used a Mac with four finger swipe for more then a token amount of time based on your response.
Yeah, code without abstraction is good and works on a small scale. But on a bigger scale, it leads to not being able to see the forest for the trees. I want to be able to see the big picture while being able to dig up the smaller pictures if I have to.
Person A has lost 50% of assets in Japanese stock, and cannot afford to drop to 30%. Person B has money they're interested in investing long-term, and is not afraid to take a 40% hit up-front for the possibility of a long-term 20% gain.

So there we have perfect information about the stocks' long-term performance, but two situations in which both buying and selling the same stock is wise, or at least understandable.
I almost want to agree (because $300 is an obscene amonut of money to spend on a concert), but seriously, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber don't seem to be struggling.
While none of this is surprising, they out an interesting twist on it when they say “...place additional pressure on physical bookstores...". Wait, so now they CARE about physical bookstores?

No, wait, they want to have their cake and eat it too: "Publishers are nervous that e-book borrowing in libraries will cannibalize e-book retail sales." Well. OK. Let's all make sure we don't let anyone BESIDES publishers fuck traditional bookstores... 'cause that'd be bad. Somehow.

What I don't see is HOW this is any different to the traditional model for libraries? Sure, an eBook doesn't wear out, but well treated, a hardcover won't either. People who are low commitment will borrow, and might then buy. Otherwise those people are never going to access your material at all.

And once again, they trot out the old "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the CONTENT CREATORS!" handwringing cliche, in this case "in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.” which, as we know, is bullshit.

And now I'm wondering why I bothered writing this because it's not news, it's not surprising, it's just another installment of Traditional Publishing VS The Horrid Internet... OF DOOM.
Slightly worse? They were designed to withstand 8.2 earthquakes, they got an 8.9 earthquake. That's not "slightly worse", it's seven TIMES worse. The scale is logarithmic.
Those are great they just don't generate a lot of power though. The biggest one so far peaks at 60MW while your standard nuclear or fossil power plant generates 1000MW consistently. You'd need at least 20 of these to replace just one coal plant. That makes it what, 5 times more expensive than nuclear / fossil? Not even the USA can afford to go 100% renewable with a price like that.
Calling me a moron and you get upvoted...I thought HN was better than this. Re-read my post and think about it and perhaps you will understand what my point was.
> several decades of extensive use of nuc lear power generation with practically no deaths in multiple countries

That actually hurt me physically to read.

Take Chernobyl. All of those kids that have developed and will develop thyroid cancer, the firefighters that knowingly sacrificed themselves to get the fire out (thereby directly saving more lives), the plant workers who killed themselves in order to minimize the effects, the liquidation workers who contracted cancer in the process of building the sarcophagus, and the babies being born -- even today! -- in the surrounding area prematurely and dying before even being able to comprehend where they are (which some doctors from that region blame on Chernobyl). Yeah, those deaths aren't practical at all. How can you be so obtuse?

Nothing wrenches my gut more than a child dying before being able to speak a single word. I'm actually tearing up that you dismiss such things as impractical statistically, in order to further your argument that us laymen have no idea what we're talking about when it comes to nuclear episodes.

You take relative figures and turn them into an absolute. In multiple comments, you have denied that nuclear power has ever had a disaster, and that "practically" anybody has died (whatever the hell that means). You might believe strongly in nuclear power, but you cannot erase or modify history.

Nuclear power is safe. It can also go horribly wrong, and we learned a lot from Chernobyl. Why does it have to be polar with you? It can be both.

> And its certainly not about facts.

Such cruel irony.
A quick Google pulled up the Wikipedia article on Incarceration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration) which actually puts the males at a lower 7 times more likely than women.

Here are the stats for 2005 on murder citing men as 4 times more likely to be murdered. http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/gender.cfm
Innovators are no supermen. Like everyone else they need a conducive and encouraging environment to realize their full potential. In reality location, laws, business culture, family ties and other factors contribute how successful we are, how mobile we are and whether we will move halfway around the world to be in the global maximum of business opportunity. Case in point what happens if you are a bloke with solid ideas and a great work ethic but are responsible for supporting a relative who is ill ? Also the US has stupid laws which prevent spouses of visa holders from working. Getting a green card helps you overcome that.
These rhythms reflect a greater underlying symmetry. All languages have them, and some of them reflect these symmetries more easily than others.

When you start to get familiar enough with a language that you see past it to the underlying structure, that's when you really start to appreciate a language. This process is not unique to C, or any other language.
The standard is defined by what browsers implement. Thus Microsoft is keeping the standard back.

That's OK, consider Javascript Web Workers; apps will be able to run without direct support, but on capable browsers will get a performance boost. That's fine by me, more reasons for people to upgrade from IExplorer.
I don't see what sharing music with your friends and incorporating GPLed software into closed/proprietary systems have to do with each other. Nobody's selling their torrents or claiming the music as their own.
Amazing that a must-read American classic was written in a week:

... expecting the enjoyment of a week's uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write ... for you.
One thing that I think is being forgotten in all this is preservation. While I don't think that most libraries (except for librairies like the LoC) are in the business of preserving books anymore, how will this new licensing model HaperCollins is suggesting will allow for books to be kept for future generations?

Publishers haven't been the best at making sure out of print books don't just disappear. Same for the music, some music from the early in the century is probably going to go away because of copyright issues.
Those statistics are bullshit. I agree that people have irrational fears about nukes but quoting back bogus stats at them doesn't really help. We'll never have good data about Chernobyl because the autocratic Soviet government not only made it impossible to obtain at the time actively suppressed info to spin the global media and to keep the affected population calm and controllable. There is a large body of evidence that hundreds of thousands of people were 'affected' by the radiation. Given that tracking the effects of radiation exposure is challenging under the best of circumstances, will never know how many or to what extent. But we can definitely say that those WHO numbers are garbage, and it strains the imagination to think the real numbers aren't a lot worse.
Actually it's been upgraded to 9.0 and 4th strongest now, which reinforces your point.
Christchurch is $12b, and there have been whole cities leveled in japan, a whole prefecture is majorly affected if not downright destroyed.

$150b seems very low.
I think most tech companies understand the volatility of a startup. I was with a startup for a while until our primary investor cut ties and left us with 35 salaries, a lease and plenty of network and utility bills to pay with barely a few thousand a month income from clients. It was a disaster and the subsequent company I ended up working for cared little about the details. All I had to tell them was "it was a startup". They nodded and continued with the interview. Three years later, I'm still happy to be with them. There's plenty of startups around if that's your thing...but in the end you should be happy when you hit the sack at night.
mmm, or better yet I could just get a virtual number from Vonage but it would be pretty useless ;p
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Put your money into a Vanguard (lowest maintenance costs) targeted retirement account and leave it there. Dabbling in stocks is a good way to lose money.

(by all means, trade stocks if you're serious, but if you're serious you wouldn't ask)
I love the argument that "pro tools is killing the music industry"

No. Pro tools and the internet saved the music industry, and Steve Jobs helped.

The smaller bands are bigger than ever, and the bigger bands are still huge. I'm definitely not an Arcade Fire fan, but the fact that a band like the Arcade Fire can win a grammy on a label like Merge is something special that's not going to go away soon. Every once in a while this happens, and the result is something that drastically changes the industry, things like Sun records, Def Jam, etc...

There will still be a music industry and record labels, but the industry paradigm is shifting away from the corporate megalabels of the 80s and 90s and clearchannel derivative radio stations to something much more decentralized and exciting.
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They are using it for their own gradients:

background-image: url(http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/assets/images/layout/glass-pan...);

Awkward workaround.
Judge calls music biz request for $75 trillion in Limewire damages 'absurd'
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Ugh. I think these comments are incredibly sexist on so many levels. I respect that you hate the "kid gloves" form of feminism, but I think you're going waaaay in the other direction in order to achieve some balance. The part that MOST makes me want to throw up is this:

If you want the money more than you want respect, well, you're not going to get respect.

Wow. So it's HER fault that she doesn't get respect because she doesn't handle viciously sexist comments properly?
Finally ... hopefully it will work .. will certainly be a breather for many of us outside the US ....
If you were dating a couple of girls, that could end up with some really embarrassing situations.
If this is all it takes to lock up DOD, I would hate to see what a coordinated cyberattack looks like.
I was a kid at the time and we had a Taiwanese IBM PC AT (12MHz 286) clone at home in Moscow which my dad who is a research scientist used for work. He bought it unofficially and it cost more than an apartment. I remember making a very simple space shooter in Turbo Basic on it.

For three days during the putsch the computer would not turn on. We still don't know why. Amazingly, the computer still works.
Anyone tried snapixel? http://www.snapixel.com/

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Stow the politics, this isn't the place for it. Take it to Reddit.

A few points:

1. Consumer Reports messes up, your dishwasher might break down before the end of the warranty.

2. A drug company messes up, hundreds, potentially thousands die or have their lifespans severely curtailed in terms of quality of life or length.

That's the last I'll say on it, the magnitude of what's at stake should be otherwise self-evident.
My kid's an Android geek ;-)
Seriously though, he does know his way around a touch interface scarily well (he's 4) and he is fascinated with trying all the different options available on the laptop (my work VPN username mysteriously transformed into his name after I left it alone a while back).
Odd - this comment was posted 5 hours ago, and 15 minutes ago I went to my Etsy account and still saw, as my account's default privacy setting:

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Who can see your purchases?

[x] Everyone (public)

[ ]Only you (private, between you and the shop owner)

I then decided to opt out - a decision I only knew I had to make after reading the Ars article.
Who do you think is oversensitive to it? What do you think would be an appropriate amount of talking about it?
You're correct in pointing out that we can only be buying if someone is willing to sell to us. However, one big factor is your time horizon. For average investors like ourselves, if you're investing for the long term / retirement, you generally know that it will recover, whether it's over 1 year, 2 years, or longer. It may go down further, but will it be in the same state 30 years from now? Probably not, so it's relatively safe to buy in at a "discount".

Contrast that to hedge funds, investment banks, and other investment groups that have investors to please and targets to hit in the immediate/short term. For them, their time horizon is shorter and 1) they need to free up cash and 2) they cannot take the risk of holding on because the economy is definitely impacted in the short term.
Jobs declaring his donation to japan would give him a lot of free sympathy. There's really no point in not declaring a donation when you're a ceo and I highly doubt there are a lot who do so.
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Energy talk: Nuclear vs Coal. But what about wind, water, sun?
Due to recent events, I've witnessed a few Twitter fights debating nuclear safety, viability, and coal energy.

But I'm wondering why people discuss water, wind, and sun energy less seriously. Where I live, we have an option to get a major chunk of our home's energy from these sources. (And yes, I use this option.)

I've always assumed that these three sources (nicknamed "renewable" in Oregon power companies) just suffered from the "organic catch-22." There's not much of it, because people don't buy it, because there's not much of it, because people don't buy it.

But in the back of my mind, I assumed that if infrastructure slowly moved over, we could actually live in a world run by this stuff.

I've also seen and read about very big businesses powered by these energy sources.

But now I'm feeling like an ignorant dork. People who I respect don't even bring up the renewable trio when discussing nuclear vs coal energy. I can only assume there's something really inefficient about them that everybody knows about except for me.

Anybody truly informed about it wanna chime in? Though I may ask further questions, I am not trying to start anything contentious.
The common case isn't the drug company messing up. It's that the FDA gets in the way of a new drug (stopping it forever in some cases), and the patient with the incurable disease dies because there is no legally available treatment. With the FDA, his right to pursue what remains of his life is sacrificed to the FDA's illusion of safety.

Human life is so important, and the needs of each individual body are frequently so diverse from one another, that we can't trust decisions like these to a one-size-fits-all regulatory body.

This is yet another case where ethics and politics is a life-and-death matter (and for more people than you'd ever care to think about).
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Regarding the explosions, according to http://mitnse.com/, the Fukushima explosion occured in the ventilation system, outside of all containment vessels.