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While the mainstream media is busy selling the global nuclear angel of death scare to people, the techies are just as busy to convince everyone of the other extreme: absolutely everything is fine!!!

While there are certainly quite a few engineering victories to be claimed here, I would not call several explosions at a nuclear plant "nothing happened". Also, the earthquake did damage at least reactor 4, there are two approx. 8m² holes.
I watched a documentary about Chernobyl yesterday (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiCXb1Nhd1o) an although it's obviously a little sensationalist/emotional I have a really hard time having any respect for people claiming it didn't have that much impact.

Fukushima is very different but I agree with others that we should wait at least a couple of weeks till we make any conclusions

Speaking of jumping to conclusions: Germany just started to shut down 7 nuclear power plants because of Fukushima...
Who said they were sacrificing their lives, the plant workers are well prepared, equipped and drilled for this.
He's right, if you look broadly at statistics rather than anecdotes that you can count on the thumb of one hand.
I can sympathize with the author about C, but with Java... Every time I need to figure out a Java program, I end up being in almost physical pain. Huge trees of empty nested directories and files with nothing but method definitions that do nothing but return a property... or, better yet, tons of empty functions called pure virtual.

It's hard to feel the logic and necessity of code when you can't stop being flabbergasted why the language has to be so verbose and complicated.

I admire Java as an environment, but am scared shitless of it as a language.
I don't know what happened in Bhopal, but the captain of the Exxon was drunk (not an engineering failure) BP didn't maintain their crap (management failure) and filling the Hindenburg with hydrogen was stupid, but happened because of political moves that made it impossible to get enough helium.
Clickables:

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http://7dow.com/design/pu-ft-basic.jpg

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I don't understand what's unique about your offering. In fact, I don't know what it is you're offering. What does this do that isn't already catered for by half a dozen other forums?

What other forums have you checked to make sure your idea is different, or better, or more valuable?
Either the LimeWire guys are laughing or freaking out, either way that is just plain ridiculous!
I don't believe the number of perceptions can be enumerated that simply. "Who Alice thinks Bob thinks he is" and "Who Alice thinks Bob thinks she is" plays a role, and then the rabbit hole just gets deeper.
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Way to bring an OS not mentioned in the article into the discussion. But to be fair, I think your point about K-9 makes a great point about the power of open source. And now Google has the ability to merge those changes back in, but even if not, the choice is there for users. I, for one, have not had the problems listed that are revelant on my Droid 2 with Android 2.2 either on Motoblur or my current Liberty. The one time I needed to transfer 800MB (for quite a while, mind you!) of data from a Macbook Pro of a colleague to my phone there were no issues. I have connected to several hidden SSIDs as well. The other issues all relate to the use of the Google Accounts... and it is well known going in to the platform that it is current very Google-account dependent.
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Gag me with a shovel... can't get any more pretentious than this teenie bopper pop star. Equally pretentious are his so called fans who think their portable music devices certify their hipness.
"considering one's yearly dose limit is 1 mSv total."

In Ramsar, Iran the background radition is around 200 mSv/Y (compared to a worldwide average of 2.4 mSv/Y) and _according to wikipedia_ this "high level of radiation does not seem to have caused ill effects on the residents of the area".

Call me confused.

Is the 1 mSv/Y total one of those made-up safety guidelines?
What people are you talking about?
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I don't think we have anything that can stand a 9.7 quake (the biggest was 9.5 in Chile) and frankly it would properly cost so much money that it would be cheaper to produce the power by having humans run on threadmils.

It is also likely that the money could be better spend elsewhere (that is, it could same more lives) such as in improving road safety or to hire more police officers.
WP7 was also the seventh version of WinMo, keep in mind.
I guess I should look at it. It sounds like Kile is its natural competitor.
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Anywhere specific in mind?
Actually the effects of Chernobyl have been very accurately gauged by a number of international organisations and take into account birth defects and other permanent injuries. See these two posts for for more details including links to reports.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326672

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326129
TeXmacs is a true WYSIWYG scientific word processor. It's not a TeX/LaTeX GUI front-end. Rather, it has its own typesetter that produces quality comparable to TeX in real-time as you type.
Also because building a new typesetting system could be a very very boring thing to do
When an editorial is so desperate to take a contrarian view to what everyone else is saying it starts claiming Chernobyl didn't affect the area much (linking as supposed evidence to an article whose second page is entirely devoted to observed negative effects of the radiation on the wild animal population two decades later...) it's ill-researched sensationalism itself.

I realise The Register may have published the story before the relevant Japanese authorities abandoned their face-saving pretence that there weren't going to be any further problems, but that doesn't mean this kind of denialism masquerading as scientific counterargument deserves any more credence than the doomsday prophecies spreading elsewhere. Particularly when it's written by a layman masquerading as an authority whose last article was entitled "Balanced, neutral journalism is RUBBISH and that's a FACT" :-)
Then I guess people are stupid, aren't they, because of all the friends I know none of them would prefer having his/her house close to a nuclear plant, compared to having it close to a coal plant. And what do you know? These stupid people (including me) do have the power to vote, and I sure as hell would vote for nuclear power plants to be closed down were I given the chance to do so.
TeX should be replaced by TeXmacs.

TeXmacs is a true WYSIWYG scientific word processor. It's not a TeX/LaTeX GUI front-end. Rather, it has its own typesetter that produces quality comparable to TeX in real-time as you type.
Let's keep the thread generic. But personally, relocation is not a problem.
ConTeXt Mk II has had solid MathML support for a long time. It's also there albeit still undergoing construction in Mk IV, which is the newer LuaTeX-based rewrite.
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Nowadays, I suspect Microsoft's strategy is "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks"
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> What people are you talking about?

These: http://streaming.tepco.co.jp/tepco_people/index-j.html

From here: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/g3zel/breaking_ex...
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In what sense is it true that "that hasn't helped"? Are you suggesting that if they'd kept the reactors running things would have been better?

Perhaps what you mean is "hasn't made the impact of a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami zero". Honestly, I can't see that that's a reasonable thing to ask for.
The National Geographic article, the author links to, states that

The effects of the Chernobyl catastrophe are still being felt today—whole towns
lie abandoned, and cancer rates in people living close to the affected areas
are abnormally high

then goes on to say that

But it turns out that the radioactive cloud may have a silver lining. Recent
studies suggest that the 19-mile (30-kilometer) "exclusion zone" set up around
the reactor has turned into a wildlife haven.

So basically, the accident at Chernobyl turned the area into a wildlife haven, because it was left to wild animals. If this were to mean that Chernobyl had a net positive effect, it would still contradict the author’s claim that there hasn’t been “much impact on the area around Chernobyl”.
It would be really nice if I could middle-click "details" to open palettes in new tabs, or favorite palettes to come back to or even compare in a grid view later.

I'm also really confused about the swatch download. It tries to download as "default," and even if I change the file type to aco, I can't load it as a swatch in Photoshop.
I agree with you re: whole-steps and half-steps. When you teach "what makes a scale major?" in reference to the scales whole and half step pattern, it is then much easier to introduce minor, and scale modes (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian).
Basic theory taught in this way is really not that hard (however, I majored in music in school).
If you introduce intervals, then you don't have to say "forget about B diminished. You won't miss it". You can say "B-dimished triad has a darker, more moody sound because it is made up of two-minor thirds. Or a Phrygian mode has an "eastern" sound because its scale starts with a half step.

That said, a lot of work went into the tutorial, and it is certainly well done.
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But that means it's not a fair bet. Had I been in the situation and had some idea of his value I would have said: "Very well, all my money versus all of yours. I choose tails."
But the nuclear power is already here and was for last 60 years. You can't put the genie back into bottle, unless we're going to have nuclear war and humankind will be reduced to stone age level, which incidentally is one of the things IAEA tries to prevent.

So we need to have responsible, transparent and safe nuclear power, and IAEA is the only organisation that tries to ensure that on a global level, IMHO.
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Yeah, sorry, I had to edit the title to get it into 80 characters, and I cut out "Rooftop". I still thought the comparison was interesting. Edited: title to be a little less alarmist.
Mmm. Thinking about it, I can't think of a positive connotation of the word "hipster", or even a neutral one, so given that; you're right - it's become a slur, and probably worth abandoning as a term.

I realise what I'm describing sounds like a caricature. I wish I was simply being snarky, but spend 10 minutes at a bar on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy, Melbourne and you'd definitely witness what I describe. There are quite a significant proportion of people in that area who do indeed dress as described (for whatever reason) and who will hold conversations - at length - about the invalidity of any artistic endeavour that gives itself over to financial motivation.

I neither agree nor disagree with them on that point, but I feel I certainly have more productive things to talk about!

I think the usage of the word has probably varied within Australia from its usage in the US. Certainly when I read articles in Wired about 'hipster' culture, I'm left scratching my head (behaviours or purchasing patterns they describe therein tend to amount to the local use of the word 'trendy', which is rarely construed as an insult).

There's probably a PhD in sociological studies to be gained from the comparative usage of that word in Australia vs. the US. :P
And replace their HTML rendering engine with webkit.
I'm a Tech recruiter. Not what you are looking for in here no doubt but I'm not the typical bottom feeding type with no soul.

I focus primarily on London but the company I work for has offices throughout Europe.

If you find yourself struggling, then give me a shout. My email is in my profile. Good luck!
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I think it might be time for those who don't have a clue to stop talking about this. People are and will be diing because of what is happening now. Calling this "ok" and "safe" is borderline obscene.

Plus, as told in other comments, this article dates back to yesterday and recent news are less and less reassuring (e.g. the containment vessel is now broken in one reactor).

Thank you.
Well, it's prudent to low-ball the dosages in safety guidelines.
Apple did far better then Microsoft atleast.

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/bings-japan-tweet-tasteless-mar...
Wildfuse (http://wildfuse.com) in Prague and soon in Brno (CZ).
Regardless of whether or not the situation is under control, I think the triumph is more for the Japanese. I'm sure that if the plant were in Greece the fallout would have been much greater because everyone would have cut corners and not followed the safety procedures.
Exactly. When I'm doing something that I'd like to be pixel perfect (or have a clever layout by some other measure) my current priories are:

1. works perfectly as intended in Firefox and Chrome at reasonable window sizes (this usually means it should in other reasonably compliant browsers too)

2. degrades gracefully (i.e. some display discrepancies but no behavioural problems or illogical on-screen layout that inhibit viewing/use of the content) in other browsers (including IE8), and/or when pressed into a very small viewport (such as on a mobile device, though obviously some content is never going to be particularly usable at QVGA resolutions)

3. try not to do anything that will break the design on IE6, but no care overly if that does happen (and give users a warning that it might at the top of each page: the one IE specific CSS hack I use is one to make that message display to IE6 users)
It is interesting, don't get me wrong! The larger message for me is that we have a lot of strange causes of death, simply because of the large population size. Of course every death is a tragedy to be avoided, but it follows - somewhat counterintuitively - that sometimes a few thousand highly linked and direct casualties drown out an even larger number of people who die routinely without anyone questioning why. The same issue became apparent when we started looking at the number of deaths resulting from terrorism compared to ...pretty much any other cause of death.
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It is a curious social phenomena that people often want to believe the best possible interpretation even when the evidence shows that things are not going well at all. In this case denialism is probably a strategy to avoid panic, which could have even greater negative consequences.
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But then is the Lua scripting at the user level? Can it be used in the building of documents? Or is it a scripting language for the underlying engine, invisible to the end-user?

Incidentally I went looking for what pure TeX actually looks like as most people say TeX when they really mean LaTeX. Here's Knuth's TAOCP Volume I errata:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/err1.textxt

Talk about Perl being line noise... I wonder if Knuth has ended up being the only person to actually write pure TeX.
I am conducting myself politely. My objection is to the snark when disagreeing with me.
Have you met Pegman? http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/learn/pegman.htm...
I like the idea and the name.
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Some discussion from when this was posted just over a year ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1053148

Includes several references to equally incredible/bizarre feats.
Are tech recruiters as reviled as laywers now?
kile is more of a lyx competitor (latex frontend versus latex ide). texmacs has its own rendering engine; despite the name it does not in any way depend upon tex.
Don’t Engineer Anything You Can’t Sell
Perhaps when they built it (before the 1971, when the first criticality was reached) 8.2 was the `largest + 200%'? Does anybody have more data?
It's just one of the many ways the C user interface is broken beyond reason.

I'd say this one is just a question of preference. I happen to like to be able to declare my variables together with my ponters.

A good UI makes good things the natural way to do things, and actively discourages bad things. C's UI is the opposite.

In my opinion, that's the beauty of C: unlike Java (and, to a little extent, C++) it doesn't dictate how you write your programs. You are free to shoot yourself in the foot, but you also get to decide exactly how you want your code to look and feel.
I love sailing too, but I'm not huge on wind power. The problem with it is that it's not constant (whereas the demand on the power grid is). The only form of energy that we currently have that's sufficiently controllable to be able to top up wind is burning coal.

I'm also not quite sure what you mean by "the quality of life provided by different sources" - surely wind lights your lights just like nuclear does?
1 mSv is estimated to increase your odds of serious medical complications by 1/1,000,000. Not a significant amount, but one's regularly allowable dose should not be expected to cause health problems in the first place. Also, these limits are very conservatively set for various reasons - most of which I agree with (used to work in a nuclear facility).

So no, if you got blasted with 10 mSv all at once you shouldn't expect to vomit blood or fall over dead, but it's still a sizable amount of radiation.

Also, 400 mSv/h is 3,504,000 mSv/Y (aka 3504 Sv/Y, aka 17,000 times the radiation output in Ramsar, Iran). Of course, one doesn't expect this radiation leak to last for a whole year, but the dose rate does matter. Sucking in 400 mSv over an hour is many, many times worse than getting it over a matter of years or decades.
Better tooling and better displays; e.g. browsers that do justified text right.
Thanks for that :)
Another problem is that solar is an alternative to nuclear in the same sense that sex is an alternative to food: no matter how much you enjoy it, attempting full substitution would be fatal. The alternative to nuclear is fossil fuels (+). Thus, you don't get the moderate increase in deaths from going nukes to solar, you get the massive increase in deaths from going nukes to fossil fuels. (And that's before you get to worrying about global warming, if that is your thing.)

There are a variety of reasons for this: the necessity of meeting the base loads, the fact that solar is ridiculously geographically restricted, the cost issues, etc etc.

+ Or decreasing per capita energy needs to below that of the late 1800s, which has aesthetic appeal to some people but absolutely nothing else to recommend it. Among other reasons, it would condemn the worldwide poor to perpetual grinding poverty, which kills a heck of a lot more people prematurely than every other cause combined.
Apologies accepted :D

We've tried to give more FFmpeg visibility, by adding badges to ffmpeg.org from our website (but this is on hold, because of the fork and the logo dispute), and we've reworked our about:box to show it more...

But, the truth is that the actual reason we want to find a business model for VLC is that we want to pay FFmpeg developers to work on FFmpeg.

If you have patches for VLC on OSX, please share, we need help on the OSX version of VLC.
Are these positions available for remote work?
Penn & Teller? Talk about being condescending and passing on negativity!
Adobe's FrameMaker?
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Is TeXmacs still maintained/developed?

TeX has a huge ecosystem built around it (Latex, Contex, many others). It's going to be very difficult replacing that.

Better build on what exists rather than replace it.
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this is extremely fun to play with and smoothly done.

If you dig this, please also see the work of Kumi Yamashita, who does similar shadow artwork with letters and shapes, but in real life.

http://kumiyamashita.com/

some stuff is super hard to believe, like:

http://kumiyamashita.com/images/BUILDING-BLOCKS-FOR-WEB.jpg

other artists working in this genre too:

http://www.designer-daily.com/remarkable-shadow-art-405
Doing QA for 2 more years will look bad on your resume when applying for an engineering job.

Your plan could be:

1. Look for another job.

2. Talk to your boss, tell them you'll quit if you don't get the engineering job you were hired for instead of a QA job (be clear)

3. Quit and start at the new job.
The physics and physiology of radiation exposure seem to be quite complicated. I can't really answer your question, I'm very far from qualified to do so, but again _according to Wikipedia_ the short term effect of 0.2 Sv per day, let alone a year, seems to fall into the "no effect" category[1]. And according to this[2] post on Boingboing, the long term effect may not be as bad as one might think either.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert#Symptom_Benchmarks
[2] http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/14/radiation-dose-and-r.ht...
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Sadly within a few weeks, armies of anti-nuclear campainers, writers, and politicians will have jumped on this and pumped it so through the roof that, even if everything in this article is correct most people won't listen. Look at Chernobyl or Three Mile Island (study after study found no major exposure by anyone).

The hysteria over this is caused by the anti-nuclear people and groups trying to use this as a case against nuclear power, blowing everything out of proportion before any facts are known.

I think a few articles calling for calm balances the shrieking cries of "meltdown imminent".
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> Maybe "the largest + 200%" is a better place to start? Of course, it costs more money.

Consider two possibilities.

One: design the reactor so that a magnitude-9 quake leaves it completely undamaged. Let's say that makes it cost $4B instead of $2B.

Two: design the reactor so that a magnitude-8.2 quake leaves it completely undamaged and a magnitude-9 quake (which might affect it, let's say, once per 200 years on average) makes it fail in a way that takes 100 lives and requires it to be completely rebuilt (to the same spec, let's say) at a cost of $2B.

Cost of option 1: $4B now. Nothing more. Cost of option 2: $2B now. $2B and 100 lives in another 200 years.

Suppose your discount parameter is 0.5% per year (much, much lower than just about any real person or institution uses). Then $2B + 100 lives in 200 years = $740M + 37 lives now.

Can you save 37 lives for $260M? Why yes, you can. Far more than 37 lives, in fact. If you do anything reasonable with $260M you may well save more than 37 lives just by (say) making everyone a little better off. (Wealth correlates with health.)

Therefore, option 2 is probably better.

Turning from hypothetical examples to the real world: $2B/$4B is probably an underestimate (in which case, the advantage of option 2 over option 1 is greater) and 100 lives is probably an overestimate (in which case, again the advantage of option 2 is greater).

On the other hand, the earthquake happened improbably early in the life of the plant. It is not an error to do things that work out well in almost all cases but badly when you get unlucky, when the alternative is something that works out (relatively) badly most of the time but well when you get unlucky.