skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory we should be more worried about the ash radiation from our coal plants (which releases a lot more, in an unregulated manner, and makes me wonder sometimes if it's a trigger for the increase in cancer in industrialized nations).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_station#Radio...

it is estimated that during 1982, US coal burning released 155 times as much uncontrolled radioactivity into the atmosphere as the Three Mile Island incident
Forgive my ignorance, but when does this actually matter? My application can't run anywhere near that speed, so time spent at the webserver level is less than 1% of the total response...

For static files or cached pages, I can maybe understand the fuss.
Rock, paper scissors: Should I get a Kindle, iPad or MacBook?
On the first Apple employment:
"Learned many things, including do's and don'ts for building executive teams."

Snide remark of the year?
Actually he bought Pixar to turn it into a hardware company. John Lasseter is probably the bigger reason why it became such a successful animation company. Of course, thanks to Steve the company survived long enough to discover its true purpose and thanks to Steve got such a great deal with Disney for marketing the initial movies.
Raising awareness of an event of this magnitude? Really? Does anyone honestly think this is what Microsoft was doing?

I don't know if it's more ridiculous to think that anyone who uses Twitter or Bing need to be made aware of the destruction in Japan, or that someone honestly believes Microsoft thinks there are such people.
This is one of the things I love about Turkey. No matter what rules are put in, even socially, people find a way to route about it.

Also central Anatolia is an incredible place.
More interestingly, this site first was noticed by Wayback on September 25, 2000. (Presumably about the time it was first published).

Apple's homepage at that time: http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20001008232304/http://apple...
The strange story of etherpad
This presumes there is a decent manual!
8 feet - a little less then 3 meters. But impressive nonetheless.
In my 45 years, I've yet to meet anyone that doesn't.
Iranian Web Activism Animation
So true!

The prerequisite for executing something, is the idea that you have an idea. Otherwise you will never go through the hassle of making something in the first place :)

Before you write something it feels like you already know what you’re going to write. Still, writing is though and it takes a long time before you come to a result that says what you figured you want to say all along.

That is, because what actually happens, is that you work hard on converting this network of vague assumptions in your head, which already feels meaningful, into something which can actually be meaningful to others.
It seems this does not work for my sites.
I'm not contesting Steve's vision. This just seems too cutesy to be serious, by several orders of magnitude. If this was really Steve's home page, I bet he put this up as a joke.
You should have read the article which explains why this explosion wasn't nearly as dangerous as it seemed to be.
The billion dollar Smart Cover
If the projections do come true, it will be like adding insult to injury on competitor tablet sales.
'The Narrow Road', the Felix Dennis book that's quoted from, is a condensation of his earlier 'How To Get Rich' (not 'How To Make Money', that's identical to 'The Narrow Road'.) I found the longer version equally valuable and vastly more entertaining.

While Felix is worth reading - a 'get rich' book from some who actually built a business and got rich! - he comes from the publishing world and his advice is very different from the practice of most technology startups.

For example, he advises never giving away any equity in your company, ever, and includes the story of how, early on in his publishing career, he fired all of his senior staff because they asked him for a small cut of the equity pie.
Fear of not shipping
This is a very well-written article. In the end, the author provides a nice collection of links to usable resources.

If you want to stay informed, please forget the usual media outlets and consult the following websites:

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Battle_to_stabilise_ear...

http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/12/japan-nuclear-earthqua...

http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2011/03/11/media-updates-on-nuclea...
The author should get over himself. Everything is not about the US, and that map is pure fear-mongering based on nothing resembling facts.
Be aware that this site doesn't do what it claims: "See which web sites are sharing the same IP Address." The truth would be: "See which web sites that have previously been searched for on our site that shares the same IP"

Basically it will only show sub-domains within the domain you search for, unless previous searches for other domains happen to match the IP.

I tested this just to confirm: I searched for one of my domains (apr. 20 domains on the same IP) and only sub-domains showed up. I searched for another of my domains and the sub-domains+my previous search showed up.
Don't Repeat Yourself, Repeat Others- how to improve
The writer is not an expert on earth quakes. Making such a bold claim that nothing can go wrong is plainly false. Just because they are an expert in one area, does not mean they are an expert in all areas.

There are already a number of people being treated for radiation poisoning. They have already admitted that there have been radiation releases above safe levels.

I feel sorry for the engineers working so hard to fix this, as they face the largest dangers. They are sacrificing a lot to save other people. As history tells us, in other nuclear disasters these are the first people to die from the affects. Some have already died.

A previous earthquake a few years ago caused an explosion in one of the reactors in Japan. I guess the costs and risks were weighed up - and the risks ignored. Previously the company CEO resigned because of falsified safety reports.

The costs of nuclear reactors - even if you don't factor in the costs of these disasters are higher now than other forms of cleaner energy generation. Let's use the smarter, more innovative, and safer energy solutions available today. Let's leave these 50's and 60's era shitty technology behind.
The Emergency Internet Bunkers
My monitor is a wide-format one and the viewing angle is quite bad when used vertically :-( (Dell S2409W). What's yours? In general, do you know the principle(s) to keep in mind when selecting a monitor for vertical use?
Private schools have three great advantages. First, by definition, they have the backing of the parents. Second, they can expel students who are not doing the work or who are sufficiently disruptive. Third they can go by common sense rather than by the rule book in cases where it is called for. The better of them have a sound curriculum and are resistant to the fads that come out of the teachers' colleges.

In fact some teachers may be willing to settle for the worse pay at a private school in the knowledge that they have the administration's and the parents' backing, and so a more gratifying task. But I am here to tell you that the private schools hire some turkeys--incompetent, idle, with a bad attitude, slipping unnoticed over into dementia, I've seen cases in my own and relatives' experiences. Yes, you can replace them more easily, but you may have shot a school year or a semester before you do.
Oh, you still need a resume but you don't start by delivering it. You start by talking to the person who is doing the hiring. the resume only comes out when they say "I'd like to hire you please send your resume to HR".
It's fascinating how little the homepage has changed over the years.
I'm not too sure where most of these examples fall on the line between DSLs and just regular CoffeeScript functions (I think the latter), but to pitch in with another, here's Arel DB querying:

Post.where published: yes

Account.joins('customer').where customer: name: 'Pepsi'

Which compiles into this JavaScript:

Post.where({
published: true
});
Account.joins('customer').where({
customer: {
name: 'Pepsi'
}
});
Wish he wrote those do's and don'ts down.
Amen to this one. I found a sock I like (Cole-Haan black pin-dot socks) and just load up once a year at the Nordstrom men's sale. The old ones get washed and donated (they fade slightly in a year, so don't mix-and-match).

Keep a reserve pair or two "fresh" (on the card stock) for those days when you forget to wash socks and you somehow run out.
Here is my financial "hack" if you can call it so. Helps to save some time and money when you really need it.

Plan all your meals and everything else during the weekend. Buy stuff on the weekend. Then, your commitment is not to pay for anything Monday to Friday. No coffees, icecreams, drinks or whatever else you might be tempted to buy. If you feel like you need something desperately, put in on the list and buy when the weekend comes. Rinse and repeat.
100k per month with a free app? Can you elaborate on the revenue model?
I'm not sure that the cisterns he speaks of are meant for drinking, I think they're meant for fighting fires.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Fire_Department_A...

If they were used for drinking in the case of an emergency, I think you'd have to treat it a little bit unless they flush them regularly.
If you do get a ticket, hire an attorney who just deals with tickets. $400 and it's almost guaranteed to go away, with no impact on your points, insurance, etc. The $400 easily outweighs the NPV of the recurring costs over the next few years.
Ask your superiors for advice, even if you don't have any intention of following it. They'll love you for it.
Nobody can change others, and there are plenty of guides online about personal development if that is what one is interested in.
The only alternative that I see is that the benchmark is rubbish.
I can generalize this tip a bit further: always understand your surroundings. Look for optimization.

The other morning I drove up to the bank's drive-thru. There are two lanes of teller+ATMs, but for some reason this morning the second lane had a red X over the lane, meaning there was not a teller manning the manual transaction tube.

But the ATM was still working, the green light was on. But guess what? The other 5 cars saw the X and decided to queue for the other ATM. I swooped right up to the free machine, got my cash, and left. I would have waited 20 minutes in the other line.
That's why I use horizontal screens as well.

If you're looking at a screen or paper all day, you want narrow text to avoid a lot of unnecessary eye movement, and relatively short windows so you avoid unnecessary head movement.

Readability is still a good reason for keeping functions narrower than 80 columns and shorter than 24 lines.
And then you starting calculating how much time you spent in the bathroom and hopefully you realise that time is not the essence of life.
You're supposed to spend the $20 before the earthquake.
Not really. We seeded it with millions of sites/ IP addresses. But if yours are very small/new they wouldn't be there. But we do add each searched site in the db.
Interesting also that in the INES pdf on that site, the requirement for INES4 is at least one death from radiation. Perhaps the declaration of INES level four was in error, or the requirement is not strict.
Another interesting link just found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accide...
Hey now, dickbars are a solid business model!
Keep food stashed in your car, desk, etc. A Luna/Clif/Power Bar will get you through that low blood sugar phase, or more importantly, get your partner through it when they're cranky and they have no idea how close they are to being left in a ditch by the side of the road.

Wait ... is it specifically for diabetics? Then I think you should specify it. I personally am trying to maximise time between meals and not to have any snacks in between. For those not having any disease, the human body is extremely efficient in maintaining blood sugar and homeostasis in general even during prolonged fasting. And intermittent fasting has significant health benefits.

Either have someone wash and iron your shirts (a couple bucks a shirt)

Well, I made a habit of ironing five shirts for the next week during the weekend. When you're used to it, it takes a minute or two per shirt. Maybe it's cheaper to hire someone for couple bucks per shirt, but my time is not that precious yet unfortunately.

I wholeheartedly agree to most of the other points.
Are you making money from iTunes affiliate fees and simply passing a cut of it on to your users, or are you charging application developers for placement?

Right now the biggest cost-per-install networks are doing 50x to 100x your revenue and growing quickly, and they're hiring every experienced salesperson they can possibly find. That's your true competition for app developers' advertising dollars, not the little stuff like 'Daily App Dream'. You probably need sales more than developers.
hitting the buttons programs your physical procedural memory which is different from declarative memory
And now what? They get 30% less? A nice problem to have.

No, it's not. Ever.
> Almost everyone should cut their sugar/artificial sugar intake at least.

Then we should be talking about that, not cutting calories and losing weight. I think I could use more energy, feeling of well being and skin quality. But I suspect that if I just throw away carbohydrates from my ration, I won't be able to get up in the morning ('cause there will be not much left and I'm not eating much as it is, anyway).

I'm not even pro-soda. I could understand if one says that soda can be bad for one's stomach or teeth (diet coke won't help here). I have a problem with the line of reasoning that soda contains calories and everyone needs less of them.

It just undermines the credibility of the dietary advice when the author assumes as a given that everybody should eat less.
Great life hacks, but how do barter with a big retailer?
Awesome post Joel. Exactly my feeling about shipping and doing it early. One of the things I have also observed is that oftentimes you don't know how more "minimum" you can actually get something to work out still. This is my next step in line of this process. Not only having a mindset to ship early, but also getting a feel of when the "early" is reached. More often than not it is earlier than you think!
Moslems have a LONG history of enslaving people, and this is just a continuation of that.
Old 2004 news ? : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3766863.stm
The name kind of implies somewhere startups are made, but I long ago learned to not put too much literal interpretation on URL's. It's certainly more relevant that the word "Techcrunch" anyway.

I'd say of the 18 decent sounding .com domains still available, he did pretty well!
If you're working on projects outside of your full-time job, do it BEFORE work. Go to sleep relatively early, wake up at 5 and put an hour towards your projects every day.

You can work in the evenings as well, but you've done your work, so there's nothing wrong with chillaxing with your other half/friends/beer/PS3/any combination of the above.
Yes, that is another great point. I'm also fascinated by that question: how minimal should you make something.

I've found, and indeed I mentioned it in the post, that with each new startup, I aim for more minimal. Even with the latest startup I think I could have launched it perhaps even sooner. So as you say, it is almost always earlier and more minimal than you think.
You filter out the other elements, and release the water.

Water pretty much can't get radioactive. (For more than a few minutes.)

The longest radioactive oxygen you can make in a reactor has a half life of 26 seconds.

For hydrogen, deuterium is not radioactive, and tritium can't be made in a light water reactor.

So water effectively can't get radioactive.
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"It's not about time, it's about choices. How are you spending your choices?"
- Beverly Adamo

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
- Michael Althsuler

"The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves." - Steven Covey
install denyhosts
my guess:
400 times the daily dose is what you would get from natural radiation in a year. This amounts to about 2 milli Sievert depending on where you live. Articifial radiation of which 95% comes from medical scans is also about 2 mSv.

So the dose recieved is the same as the average person gets a year in medical scans. So those people in the area shouldn't have a scan next year.

The negative effects on health from these levels of radiation are in increased risk of cancer.

To suffer from direct radiation poisoning, the those would have to be many orders stronger. In Chernobyl, this happened to the firefighters on site without protective clothing and an exposed and active core.

All in all, the risks for the population so far a very minimal apart from the increased risk of cancer.
At this point there are many things we don't know. We don't know for sure that the core is contained. Just because a sensor says it is, does not mean its correct. These plants sustained heavy damage. We cannot assume all sensors are working properly. Time will tell.
I can't do much about 4 domains pointed to one IP and handled by apache vhosts config. But the good thing it does is that it co-relates previous searches to build its DB.

That's quite better than fail actually, it understands that the user is trying to test me :), in turn it benefits.

But definitely no results for first timers. Multiple sources (gps, wifi) could be used to build out a cell-id -> location DB in similar way.
I have the same issue when publishing blog posts. I disagree that you should always ship without delay. Using your blog posts as an example, I often do the same and put off publishing. Not for the reason that it could be better or it's perfect. Mainly for the reason that I want to make sure it expresses my thoughts/ideas/opinions correctly. I think this also applies to startups, sometimes the things you ship are an expression of something about your business. It is important to take the time to express your business in the way you intend. An author will still take time to edit and reword a book. The shipping part just means don't let it get to the point where you don't do anything with it. Not that you should never hesitate.

I agree with main point that shipping is the most important thing you can do. And you should always ship what you have done. In the case for startups it can easily be referred to as shipping in stages. Not delaying shipping because your product isn't fully built, and then shipping the rest in small chunks over time. You shouldn't have a fear that causes you to wait until your product is complete and perfect to ship.

But just shipping isn't the correct solution either. It's a case of balance, you have to find the right one. There is no hard answer to what that is, it's down to you. But as the post says don't let that stop you from shipping anything at all.

I doubt that the intention of the post was to suggest you should just ship anything. But that is a prime example of sometimes taking the time to express yourself correctly. If the author didn't just click the ship button, and took a little bit of extra time he may have expressed that part the way he intended.
Great article. This seems to be a great story in the media because "normal people" are not as pessimistic as engineers, and see an explosion at a nuclear reactor to be something that is extremely bad and that could be ending the world soon. After all, atomic bombs are nuclear, and those are bad, right? But in reality, while not great, failures are accounted for in the design of the reactor, and can be managed.

It's sort of like driving your car into a concrete wall on the freeway. There are buckets of sand there that dissipate the energy; they get destroyed, but you and the freeway survive. This is the purpose of those sand buckets, to blow up to prevent other things from blowing up. The outer containment building is similar; it blows up, but the environment and the reactor core are still both fine. It would be better if it didn't blow up, but it is manageable because the engineers designed for that contingency.

Good for selling newspapers, but won't be ending the world just yet.
It almost died because of Steve as well. In 1994 (shortly before the release of Toy Story) he very nearly sold the company because it was losing so much money.

John Lasseter and Ed Catmull did more to save the company than Jobs ever did ... most accounts I've read of him paint his contributions as "not screwing up quite enough to ruin the company".
While this is one important aspect, I think what's interesting is not so much the GPU and what it can perform, but what it brings.

The iPad2 may very well have a better, faster and more available "general purpose" GPU and I'm willing to accept that.

However, when looking at tablet demos, the iPad2 seems flat and dull and the UI entirely 2d. Honeycomb on the Xoom and Galaxy Tab 10.1 looks awesome, spacious and full of action.

If the Honeycomb experience looks better, more exciting, more advanced and visually appealing, do I honestly care about the GPU specs themselves when they bring nothing to the platform?

Note: I do understand that a more powerful GPU allows more sophisticated 3D games graphics, but I just don't care. It's not that important to me, just like I don't care about 3d GPUs on PCs.

As long as its powerful enough to drive the general user-experience I'm more than happy. Everyone may not be like me, but I suspect most are.
Anonymous goes after the Fed
According to the BLS, the average full time teacher works slightly less than 40 hours/week (see Table 2). This includes time at the workplace, at home and at another location.
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf

*stolen directly from yummyfajitas
That could be true too; primarily because I wonder what the motivation for putting it up would be?

I highly doubt to find a new job outside Apple - so that would make sense.
Ive asked my Nuclear Fusion expert mate on this article and others, waiting to hear back and Ill post his response. He is currently working at the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological engineering at a US University, so I figure he'll know a thing or two.
I called it awhile ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581609
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His PhD is in risk management and one or two of his publications are in waste disposal. I would rate his ability to accurately assess the risks inherent in the situation far higher than I would those of the news agencies.

As for the people that know what they're talking about, remember that you and the news organizations you're listening through are biased to make radioactivity scary stuff. For all we we know, our reflexes are giving their calm, everything-is-completely-under-control statements a disproportionately alarming cast.
If Lean Works, Prove It
How To Donate Money By Mobile To Japan Quake Victims
That's why I wrote "get contaminated not only by neutron activation but also with Uranium, Cesium, Iodine". I doubt that in the current situation there would be the necessary facilities to filter out those elements, but I would be interested in having more information on this.
Hmm, if you are in San Francisco and you are in an "apocalyptic event" you are now likely floating in the Pacific ocean. Your $20 kit does nothing for this predicament.

Perhaps spend that $20 to research moving to a new location that is not on a major fault line with guaranteed major earthquakes? I mean Japan only has so much room and they built for surviving all but the worst, but what is the excuse with all the land in the USA?

We have hurricanes here but no-one is going to be "surprised" by a hurricane (unless you live next to a levee I guess).
Are there any Phonegap-style templates out there to get people up and running quickly?
Microsoft apologizes for using Japan disaster to market Bing