skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One spectacular outlier of a failure does not make a rule.

For the record, I wouldn't agree that all the nuclear power plant dangers have been solved, but they're a hell of a lot safer than most of the day-to-day activities most people engage in, and certainly safer (and cleaner!) than more prevalent electricity-generation schemes in use.
Chailette doesn't say they would withdraw money from startup accounts: "angel/vc investors start to panic and withdraw from the market" presumably means that startups could be deprived of the next financing stage, which, if they're still burning cash, will shut them down.
I used http://www.howthemarketworks.com/ for about half a year and learned that making money on stocks is very difficult.
Windows ME was a result of MS moving their top talent to the NT group. ME should have never been released, but Win2K wasn't ready to be the consumer OS.

When you don't have the company riding on you, you can take bigger risks. It will be interesting to see what Windows 8 ends up becoming. Vista was largely a failure because they were overly ambitious, despite common belief. I fear that this failure will prevent Windows from being ambitious again. I hope they learned that they failed for very specific reasons -- not just ambition in of itself.
SmugMug's social aspects are largely external. Due to its very high adoption on sites like AdvRider, and its rudimentary community support (e.g. http://www.smugmug.com/community/ADVrider/popular/all), it seems to be more than a typical gallery site.

IMO Flickr will lose because they focused too much on the social angle. Meanwhile, it's a mediocre photo-management site, with lousy uploader apps, and people are just posting directly to Facebook.
How to trade the STOCK MARKET
you can save a lot of the Wall Street Journal coupon codes good.
If you're looking for something to do, beat the rush and go to Walgreens and buy iodine tablets.
You forgot to mention the final part: after 10 years of getting screwed by Microsoft, the guy is still hopeful that they are going to get it right.
Stop it! This is the proper time to panic and disregard any empirical evidence. The Sky-Is-Falling crowd has needed this release of pure panicgasm for a long time, don't ruin it for them.
This is an article based on a comment(!) to a NYT article. The comment itself is just a repost of the original (and now discredited) Oehmen "why I'm not worried" blog post. So this BI "article" is a repost of a repost.

So much for investigative journalism.
Franklin's autobiography is my top pick in the "books for entrepreneurs" category, and is also simply a must-read Americana book.
Wouldn't the money pulled out of Japanese markets be invested in other markets?
Nice design, loved colors and typography.

However would like to suggest that,

1. please capture all click events on links with "#" as href. Its annoying when someone clicks on such link and page suddenly scrolls to top.

2. I kinda didn't like "Join today and earn money" header in almost every page.
I used Virtual Stock Exchange for a test portfolio last year.
http://virtualstockexchange.com/Game/Homepage.aspx
But it does contain pertinent and new (to me) information: first, that the original "not worried" post was not written by any kind of nuclear authority (I'm sure I'm not the only one who assumed it was); second, that it has since been taken down; third and most importantly, the interview from the Tucson paper with someone who has deep experience in this area.

(Yes, the wording of the post is inappropriate and goes against HN guidelines, but that doesn't change the above.)

A word in Josef Oehmen's defence: what he wrote was an email to a relative. It isn't his fault that the relative published it, hyped up his credentials misleadingly, and sent it off into viral-land.
True story, probably experienced by thousands of people. Know someone who was into daytrading stocks and such. He had a home, no mortgage, no debt. Ended up losing the home. Wife left, took the kids. Wife eventually came back with the kids, they live a simple life now in some apartment. Life is not what it was, but they're getting by.

If you don't know what you're doing, you can lose everything. When you talk with truly successful traders (I know one who makes a million a year or more), you learn to appreciate that doing it well is difficult and requires a discipline that few people have.
Having to wait on Apple sounds like a distinct disadvantage. That alone will keep me out of the app store.
I like poking around FreeBSD's code, specifically some of the drivers and userland. I find a lot of code that rpaulo commits to be particularly clean and understandable. Some of rdivacky's work on boot2 and clangbsd is also inspiring to me.

http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/rpaulo/
Both now bookmarked - a while ago I went hunting for a good domain name helper and came up very short.
I'm from Philly, too. Early in the book, where he talks about his impetus for all the early inventions, there's a section discussing how he rigged a kite to pull him downstream while swimming.
You read the post wrong. 'Specifically' is used to address how this will affect the startup industry, which pertains 'specifically' to this forum.
@dennisgorelik :

Yes, I offered them everything I had, asked to refinance - filled out all their forms for refi - got a re-appraisal - sent them new employment info once I got a new job and they refused to work with me.

They said, quote:

"You make too much money for us to help you" - but with divorce, bills, child-support - I couldnt affor the 3600 a month mortgage any longer.... Now I can only afford about 1400 a month.
That's what Etsy has done on past controversial/unpopular changes. They back off or modify it, only to trot it back out, sometimes bit by bit, later on when people aren't paying attention. That is, if they listen to their customers at all. Other times they just say 'we think this will be beneficial to sellers' and ignore their customers' opinions.
I live in Tokyo. Many, many people slept at their offices on Friday night. That wasn't uncommon at all. Indeed, I'm at a loss to understand why would anyone think that was an exceptional decision by Apple (not saying you're one of them, but OP seems to be).

Maybe your father-in-law was one of the millions who got stranded halfway home, or maybe he really wanted to be with his family. But he too could have probably slept at his office instead.

Edit: for example, "many of [BofA Merrill Lynch's] bankers even remained in the office overnight because they couldn't get home. The same thing happened to Goldman workers. Because of transport disruptions, bankers returned to their desks at 5.30 pm and then slept in the office.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-did-the-banks-do-when-th...
Toyota's trading at 21 times earnings on the NYSE... that doesn't seem like a crazy bargain. (Or is there some parallel listing on the Nikkei?)
The demo page is primarily for potential users to provide feedback on the features before building, and it's a bit sloppy but should illustrate what it's all about. Feedback is very welcome!
According to the WHO, yes. Other reports have claimed up to 15,000 deaths, and 50,000 people handicapped after the disaster.

McIntyre, P (May-June 2006). Chernobyl 20 years on. Cancer World, 40-44.
Also, many of the things that qualify today for activity level we would deem "exercise" was reached by everyday chores, such as chopping wood, feeding livestock, walking, &c.
He clearly spoke too soon.

Perhaps this can be taken as an example of why to be skeptical about ALL opinion coming out about ongoing catastrophes until the facts are actually known.

I found it interesting to read about the Three Mile Island accident (TMI). Here's an excellent resource: http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/tmi/index.htm

TMI Experts had resisted the idea that much of fuel had completely melted FOR YEARS before imaging and core samples revealed that half of it melted and had pooled at the bottom of the container.
That might not be a bad idea. Not only would there be far fewer fatalities, but we'd be much less reliant on fossil fuels.

That, in turn, would not only forestall global warming, but possibly prevent some of the "hard crash" scenarios that could happen on the way down from the oil peak.

Unfortunately, getting rid of cars would probably be much harder than getting rid of nuclear power plants.

So I'd vote to start on something that's realistically accomplishable in the relatively near term: get rid of existing nuclear power plants, and keep new ones from being built.
If those are the only productive actions I can take to ensure this won't happen again, then I think I don't want this to not happen again. Not saying I want this to happen again, but nuclear power is still safer than most of the alternatives.

Of course, you're presenting a vastly incomplete list. We can also do things like:

3 - advocate extra layers of redundancy

4 - analyse what could have been done up-front to eliminate the possibility of this happening given the conditions of the earthquake+tsunami and implement the findings

5 - work to replace older nuclear reactors (with less-safe designs) with new reactors with state-of-the-art safety features

...
To be fair: in the 90's, at least Mac fans had the excuse of not wanting to give up existing hardware/software peripherals. That's not really applicable to MS mobiles.
Can Googlers Save Itself From Google?
The trick to getting rich is trading with other people's money.

You win, you get commission. You lose, it's not your money.
You're making a giant bet with your entire life, you're all in, you can't even afford a safety net.
Yes, you've been always able to see this information. But did it appear in Google with your full name, or did your account show up when people uploaded their address books? No. It seems Etsy hasn't figured out that dealing with people's real-life identities is a serious matter.
According to the IAEA (2005), the radiation contamination from the radioactive fallout exposed up to 6 million people in the surrounding area (including Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia) with radiation.
If you plan on being alive at 65, then yes you should. Both are fantastic investments because of the tax free growth. Basically everyone should follow this pattern with extra money they have:

1.) Max out employer matching in 401k

2.) Max out roth IRA contribution (in most cases, sometimes you might want a normal IRA)

3.) Max out individual 401k contribution limit

4.) Invest in other things.
"Otherwise, can iptables ban those who failed more than 10 SSH logins?"

Yes, sort of, though it's not "more than 10", it's "drop packets that look suspiciously like an automated attack", which I think is actually cooler because it never outright bans anyone but it makes it impossible to run an effective brute force attack. You'd use the "--state NEW" option to determine whether the connection is a new one or an established one. If someone connects over and over again to ssh (or any login-able service, really) within a short time you can drop them. Rules would look something like this:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 -m state --state NEW --dport 22 -m recent --update --seconds 15 -j DROP

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 -m state --state NEW --dport 22 -m recent --set -j ACCEPT

Assuming, of course, that you're already accepting ESTABLISHED connections above those rules.

iptables is astonishingly powerful and flexible, and it's usually pretty easy to google up the right recipes, if you aren't quite sure of the incantations. It can be a little intimidating, but it more than repays you for the effort. When I did network consulting I was always surprised when I came upon a network where they had a Linux router, web server, mail server, etc., and then a Cisco PIX firewall sitting in front of it. Once again, it's just needless complexity, when the Linux box could do everything the PIX does (and possibly more, in the case of the low end PIX that I usually see).

Since you have professed iptables ignorance...are you sure CSF is doing anything sensible in your deployment? By that, I mean, do you have any idea what your firewall rules are actually doing and if they are effective for what you think they are effective for? I'm always a bit wary when I come upon a network where the people maintaining it have no idea what their systems are doing or how they work. While CSF may be a net positive, if the trend is toward avoiding knowledge, it's a dangerous direction to go in. I'm all for simplifying, and sometimes tools make things simpler. But, as I said, in my experience the "pile of shell" firewall scripts complexify things rather than simplify them.
Well that was a rather non-sequitur statement and link.

Anything in particular you object to? I seem to recall that you were the one that suggested that somebody could not possibly be a good developer without a strong understanding of Bachmann-Landau notation and the associated complexity theory. That's rather insulting of an awful lot of quite good professional working developers in my book. Pardon me if I take umbrage with stabs at me and my colleague's profession.

I know that you've spent a great deal of time working towards your PhD (congratulations btw), but I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you've never worked for any significant length of time on production systems out in the world. In my younger years I too worked in academia (for an actual for real Nuke Lab believe it or not). It's a vastly different world, with different notions of what's necessary, what's useful and what's required to operate in the respective worlds.

The transition betwixt the two was not easy for me as I often rallied for far more rigor than was needed or required for any day to day development task. Why didn't we have a documented mathematically rigorous proof of the validity of the login system?! Ye gads! How can people operate this way? How come nobody knows the strict storage and space requirements of such and such algorithm?! What do you mean nobody can give me a provable upper and lower bound runtime for this query, you say "it's guarantee to finish before the Universe grows cold?"!?!?! How can the world function?! You mean nobody has ever calculated an average estimate for these portions of the queuing system?! What kind of knuckle dragging place is this?!

But you know what, things got built, they more or less worked, we got payed and then we moved on to the next project.

The poll could go either way and show either you or me right -- or open up good discussion. I think I phrased the question fairly and offered a fair set of choices. If you have a choice to add, feel free to suggest it and I'll add it.

I've tried to have good humor about this so far, I think it would be a good idea if you just lighten up a little and enjoy the stimulating debate instead of trying to bully new people around.

I'll also refer you to your own link:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

If you don't like how the conversation is going, for whatever reason, just flag me and let the admins deal with it.

One final thought: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2323831
Well, it is different in that the propellant doesn't work as good and so the inhalers tend to fucking clog.

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

Not that I would ever suggest that the EPA and environmentalists prefer their CFC purity to be 100% at the expense of asthmatics.
The Nikkei 300 is, you're linking to the nikkei 225.

The nikkei 300 index is "The Nikkei 300 is a market value-weighted index of the 300 major issues on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). The Nikkei 300 uses a weighted average based on market capitalizations of component firms to reflect movements in the overall value of first section stocks. This contrasts with the widely followed Nikkei Stock Average which is an average price and is suitable for monitoring the level of the market and its changes.(1)"

The Nikkei 225 index is "The Nikkei Stock Average is the average price of 225 stocks traded on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, but it is different from a simple average in that the divisor is adjusted to maintain continuity and reduce the effect of external factors not directly related to the market(2)"

Nikkei 300 on Google finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TYO:1319

Sorry for the confusion.

(1) http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/info/nifaq/300.aspx

(2) http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/info/nifaq/225.aspx
I don't think south america is any more racist than any developed country at all. We have a lot of black people in important positions (specially in brazil/venezuela/uruguay, where there are a lot of artists, sports people and politicians). There are, though, a bit more poor black people than poor whites, which kind of "justifies" the prejudice in some regions (mostly south of brazil). It's important to notice that racism is A LOT more common with indian-descendants and people from poorer regions (mainly north and northeast) than black people.

disclaimer: I've never been to Chile, so I'm not sure if any of this applies there...
It is the best method for the drug companies quarterly results.
Japanese Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake 
I am based in Asia, and I believe the Western world's reaction to the Japanese earthquake is a bit biased, and I wish to share something that may interest the HN community.

The reference post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2325226

Right now in Asia we are all discussing how Japanese has handled the earthquake on the Internet and mainstream media. The fact is, the Japanese citizen and corporate has impressed everyone how they cope with the disaster. The city remains orderly. Most shops, convenient stores and supermarket stays open to give out food and drinks for free. Vending machines has triggered their emergency system and drinks are accessible for free by press of buttons. Celebrities give out their advices on Twitter and contribute whatever they can to help to calm people's mind. Wifi hotspot has been made free by telecom companies to help people connect everywhere.

From media and bloggers, we are all at awe with the resilience of the Japanese and the extreme high standard of social responsibility for the corporations. And how we believe our city won't get even close to such order if we ever get an disaster like that.

When me and my friends (some Japanese) read about the reference post above, we feel that the discussion that follows do not do justice to what every other Japanese company, small or large, has done. I doubt Apple is intentionally doing PR out of a disaster - they do know it is of very bad taste, as least to Asian cultures. But by keeping close to what's really happening now in Japan, we will have to say that it is of more justice to salute all Japanese corporates that shows their human side in this disaster, not Apple Japan alone.

I wish I can put evidences of those amazing Japanese stories here, but I can't find much in English media. If you happen to stumble upon one, please do post.
It will most likely be in currencies (look at the strong Yen) and metals (gold/silver), not in equities.
I don't think US would need any such contest to attract talent - all the gov needs to do is allowing people to open businesses there and be granted a visa. I'm pretty sure a lot more than 500 companies would apply in a matter of seconds (mine included)
I agree with the author almost almost every point. There is one which raised a question in my mind.

The author states:

"The music industry is the problem—too many bad songs are the problem. It’s the reason the audience doesn’t roar when you talk about playing a new track or two that were added for a re-release of your greatest hits. If your greatest hits were from the last three years, imagine how much money you’d be making on album sales even beyond your touring."

When he says "greatest hits" here, what exactly is he referring to? Am I right to assume, that he means that bands, just like startups, need to be continuously iterating and innovating?

If so, then I'll sympathise a little with the frustration a musician must feel.

I think it's fair to say that musicians make their money of their long-time fans, which implies that they need to keep people happy with their music for a long period of time.

I think this is slightly harder for a musician, since unlike a startup, they don't explicitly have a "problem" to solve. For myself, I used to be a great Linkin Park fan, and I still think that 'Hybrid Theory' and 'Meteora' are 2 of the best albums around. They lost me after that unfortunately, and being 14 at the time when Meteora was released means that I never gave the band any cash.

On the other hand, there are other bands that I've been following for a long time whom I still gladly pay for their music. E.S Posthumous released their album 'Makara' last year, and even though its on YouTube, I still paid for the thing --- Thanks to iTunes =) [by the way check them out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kH781DV0U] The same goes for bands like 'Mr Big' and their album 'What if','Nightwish' with their album 'Dark Passions Play', and Steve Vai with his recent 'Live in Minneapolis' album.

I use those bands as an example because they've been around for awhile (10 years or more) and still can provide innovative, new music that retains the same appeal as their previous work, but yet provides a distinct WOW factor to it. ie: same but different.

I personally think that very few bands can do that, and the industry that supports long-term creativity like this will inevitably be small.

So that's a long way of saying that I agree with the author's premise, and that the music industry of the past is bound to see a major change (relatively shrinkage) thanks to the inherent nature of the craft along with the new-found efficiency of distribution.
Find some low dollar stocks and put a couple hundred dollars in. Don't go for the big boys yet until you understand what trends to look for and how to manage that.

I bought Atmel stock not too long ago, it has since doubled in price. I made my money and then some. I bought Jamba Juice when they were still below a dollar, they are now trading at around $2+.

I didn't put a whole lot in, means I can't lose a whole lot, and I definitely won't become a millionaire, but at least it gives me the security that I won't be screwed because I put my eggs in one basket without knowing what I was doing.
Just a little reminder:

> Let me just list some of the stuff IE9 doesn't support:

* Application Cache (offline)

* Web Workers (threads in JavaScript)

* HTML5 Forms (validation mechanism, CSS3 selectors)

* JavaScript Strict Mode

* ForeignObject (embed external content in SVG)

* SMIL Animations (SVG animations)

* File API

* WebGL (3D)

* CSS3 Transitions (for animations)

* CSS3 Text Shadow

* CSS3 Gradients

* CSS3 Border Image

* CSS3 Flex box model

* ClassList APIs

* FormData

* HTML5 History API

* Drag'n Drop from Desktop

...

> Let me list stuff that IE9 can do others don't:

* text-overflow doesn't work in Firefox 4.

* Calc is not supported in Chrome 9.

> So that's why I don't consider IE9 a Modern Browser.

Source: http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/ie9/
There needs to be money, but there's nothing saying it has to be big money. I'd happily take ten Jonathan Coultons over one Bon Jovi.
Thanks! I am not sure what reports to believe anymore...
I went with Dreamhost, because I use their Panel. It's cheap and works well for now...
"Developing a project under an open source license should never be an excuse for vaporware"

Actually, it should. If you want to have meaningful external/community participation in a project, you need to involve the community from the earliest stages. (Sorry, I'm a bit sensitive to this complaint after working for Mozilla. Apparently some people would rather we do our planning and development in secret, rather than allow community access to our design and product discussions.)