skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I don't participate in the mailing lists and message boards where these battles were fought, but the only python/ruby users I've met in real life have always been pretty neutral towards the other language, at least acknowledging that it's better than the alternatives (PHP, Java etc).
Cancelled nuclear plants probably have more to do with public relations then actual danger.

As an example, 4,000 people died in 2007 collecting coal for power plants, oil pipelines have a habit of https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_pipel... exploding, and tankers run aground, hydroelectric dams routinely kill off migrating fish and do damage to ecosystems. Solar cells require large amounts of toxic chemicals in their production and neither solar nor wind turbines can provide baseload energy reserves simply because the sun doesn't shine at night and the wind rarely blows the amount you need it to.

At the end of the day, we only really have three options for baseload energy: You have fossil fuels, hydroelectric or nuclear power. From what I can see, we are starting to run out of viable hydroelectric plants, fossil fuels are apparently causing widespread short term and long term damage to the environment, and nuclear power has gotten a lot better over the past few decades.

It is my opinion therefore that the view that nuclear power is horribly unsafe comes from the same sort of thinking that leads to the belief that planes are unsafe vs. cars, ie. that a small number of accidents make it to the news, simply because they are uncommon as opposed to lack of news coverage on the more dangerous subject simply because people dying of it is not news.

Case in point: How many news stories do you hear about "X died from terrorism" as opposed to "X died from a heart attack?". The latter is more likely to kill you, the former is the one people are more afraid of.
I opened the page with the intention of mirroring it, but I decided there was not any information worth spreading.
They actually have lots of--if not all--reactors along the coastline. It's about having access to water and Japan isn't exactly a land of rivers and lakes.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/03/13/article-1365569-0B...
Applying math and geekness to unrelated topic stories is getting old.
The problem is that I always find myself disagreeing over silly, pointless things.

Such as? People disagree about what counts as silly or pointless so much that I don't have any concrete idea of what you're talking about.
Bank of America Leaked Docs [torrent]
See the reddit link up above. I don't see anything wrong with the email nope@gmail.com.
If you have more specific questions, I'd be happy to provide additional clarification.

Can you tell us more about "the software development process Wave was using" and how it made it "practically impossible to iterate on the product"? It's always good to know what to watch out for.
i think there are boxes that do it. the googleable you are looking for is "video wall"
combining cell-phone screens automatically? lame.

combining video projectors automatically? awesome.

i wonder if the code can deal with overlapping displays.
Social Is Too Important For Google To Screw Up A Big Launch Circus
That sounds like John Rawls 'veil of ignorance'. Are you sure it was in Plato?
These look amazing, but they're just parabolic plastic, with presumably less-than-nice sound quality.
The presentation threw up some suspicion alarms (in a similar way to the Journal of Cosmology for the recent meteor paper), it reads like some kind of weird stream-of-consciousness. I guess I'll reserve judgement until somebody
a) I've heard of
b) presents it logically.
What does your OS X dock look like?
I have just switched back from a Linux (Arch) to OS X, and I was wondering what applications you usually have sitting in the dock.
A scaled up aerial photo of the blown out building #3 now the smoke has cleared.

http://gigazine.jp/img/2011/03/14/fukushima_daiichi_3rd/Capt...
Nothing to see here. Hopefully this is just setting the stage for what's about to be released, but nothing in this first batch is in any way shocking or concerning.
The trail stops as soon as the internal confrontation begins. If it's real at all, how are we to know that it didn't end there?

It's just not thorough. This better be just the tip, because I think it's more damaging to the credibility of this leaker than anything else.
Tweenbots
This is the first thing I thought of as well. Sounds like a normal corporation to me.
You'd be surprised at how quickly people can get things done if their lives are on the line.

We have more then enough thorium in the world to deal with the world's power demands (It's about as common as lead), we have much safer reactor designs created and tested, and we have thorium designs created and tested. It's just that there is a lot of politics and public opinion is not for nuclear power, it is very much for "green" power, which makes it not politically viable to create the number of nuclear plants needed supplant say coal/oil/gas fired power stations as our main supplier of baseload power.

The major problem with solar is that the sun goes down half of the day, there isn't any viable means to move power halfway across the world and there isn't any viable means to store anywhere near the amount of energy that is required to power a civilised country overnight.
Because a phishing page is basically just a mirror. No successful phishing can really occur unless you provide the page with information, though, so as long as you don't fill in any forms or download any weird applets you should be okay.

(The linked URL was, when I checked, a legitimate and non-malicious mirror of the original.)

EDIT: Obviously a phishing page is not a proper mirror - but they both share the attribute of being very similar to another page, and with "name.tld" as a sub-domain it makes sense that a browser might incorrectly label a mirror as a phishing page.
Merging used to be harder in them, and forking was a big deal.
> Two reactors are still OUT OF CONTROL.

You may have noticed that they use defense-in-depth. Even though they were just hit by one of the biggest earthquakes ever and had several unthinkable things happen, there are still people inside the control room fixing it. If it were that "OUT OF CONTROL" that panic was required, they would have fled too.

Sure, the reactor may be expensive to clean up and it may be damaged enough that they'll retire it (it's a 40-year-old BWR design, after all), but years from now, we'll probably still be debating over exactly how much radiation was released, what sort, and whether it did anything. Just so you know, educated people will completely ignore alarming reports about radiation leakage that don't contain words like "Sievert." My professors would be remiss if I didn't.

But that's the problem with radiation. It's too invisible. Most causes of death can be seen and avoided. But radiation is invisible (except in a few weird circumstances) and it can linger in some cases, so people fear it as some kind of unavoidable, invisible poison.

Never mind the fact that it's all around us. Cosmic rays. Bananas. Background radiation is everywhere. It has been for your entire life and it's not going away.

I wonder if owning a Geiger counter would calm people down or just drive them away from Brazil nuts and potatoes? [1]

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=...
If it needs access to the production DB, I use regular ol' authentication/authorization for pages built into the site. If you're not me and you access it, you get kicked out. (There are a variety of reasons why one would not choose this approach for extraordinarily sensitive setups, but it is quick to implement and adequate for teaching tools.)

Things typically get promoted to my admin panels after I get sick of doing them manually on another site (e.g. log into Paypal for refunds or parse-and-crunch a CSV repeatedly).

I keep all my notes either in paper or Dropbox. If I had a team, I'd have a wiki running on a physically separate machine. (Putting software with that sort of risk profile on a machine with production data scares me.)
The Mercurial guys even go out of their way to show how they are like git (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GitConcepts).
Here's a mirror:

http://www.kalzumeus.com.nyud.net/2011/03/13/some-perspectiv...
Using the 1.5 * IQR (Interquartile Range) rule of thumb, there don't appear to be any significant outliers.

Q3 = 400
Q1 = 200
IQR = 400-200 = 200
1.5 * IQR = 300
300 + 400 = 700
200 - 300 = 0 (can't have negative years)

All of the data points fall within that 0-700 year range.
Michigan Governor Invokes Radical New Powers
Dock is usually hidden, use Quicksilver [http://qsapp.com/] to launch programs and run common operations on files.

Common software used - iTerm/DTerm, Textmate, assorted browsers, Zend Studio/Rubymine/Netbeans, Adium, Colloquy, zsh, CS5, Caffeine, Dropbox, GitX, Hex Fiend, Skitch, NetNewsWire, Parallels Desktop...
Alifesoft Gives Special Offer for Top iPad 2 Apps 
To celebrate the release of iPad 2 and meet the customers’ demand on top Mac apps for iPad and iPad 2, alifesoft will give a special offer for iPad and iPad 2 related Mac software and some hot selling Mac apps. It’s the greatest discount for iPad-related apps by far that buyers can expect to get up to 40% off for some iPad /iPad 2 apps.
> I can't speak for the previous poster, but I started 'sipping the nuclear kool-aid' once I took a nuclear physics class.

Same here. And I think I know why: understanding the risks puts you in control, to some degree. People are highly averse to risks they cannot control.

I mean, the news is a joke. They talk about "radiation" but appear to have no idea how it's even measured. The news anchors don't seem to know what a Sievert is, nor why knowing that kind of stuff is important.
Public baths are segregated by gender.
The vast majority of these comments seem to misunderstand the article as saying that Git is revolutionary for managing code.

That's wrong. The article is about using Git for managing data. The examples cited are using it as a backend for a distributed filesystem or a wiki. The OP is talking about Git as a revolutionary new kind of datastore and network protocol, not a revolutionary new kind of VCS.
The problem with solar is that they require large amounts of resources to produce but also that they also produce the wrong type of power.

To give you an example, think of a way to run a large aluminium smelter overnight using just solar cells. There isn't any sun shining, so you arn't getting any power in. You need to somehow store enough energy to run the plant overnight, and do it in a form that can actually be produced, isn't absurdly expensive and isn't utterly dangerous.

And at the end of that, you need enough solar cells to produce enough power so that your countries economy doesn't stop in the first spat of bad weather.

I do agree with your point, however. Fossil fuels cause too much damage to the environment for them to be viable long term.

The only question is how do we go about replacing them, with the current political state of the issue?
> This is a company that has been caught falsifying safety reports, and had resignations because of it.

That's highly encouraging. That means that caught the people falsifying the reports and that they fired them.

If they had a "perfect" record, I would be incredibly worried.
Exactly what does the publisher of Maxim have to teach us about great ideas and/or the execution thereof? "It's all about the breasts"?

http://www.maxim.com/amg/girls/girls-of-maxim/94039/lindsay-...
Apple's Mobile Payments Revolution May Have To Wait Another Year
Good point about waiting for things to really annoy you before promoting to the admin panel. I'm wary of spending too much time on this given the userbase is 1.

When you say auth access, do you mean a .htaccess password over SSL? I had not thought of such a simple solution.
Yeah, that's a funny contradiction, but trust me, I work on the Gmail team.

Check out the spelling in the blog posts on Google's own blog:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
What is nicer is that your body naturally replaces most of its water every few days, so you arn't stuck like you would be with say sr-90 trying very hard to embed itself in your bones :(
I'd be curious to see how they modeled that. It looks like a very small horn with a large phase plug, but if you look at the cutaways you can see it's really a sort of tweeter horn sitting inside another horn (which won't have much effect).

It's probably never going to sound good, but they might manage something listenable if they modeled it as a regular exponential horn.

Are you guys around here? How did you come up with that shape?
I seriously hope that there's a lot more stuff coming out, because this would be a truly useless thing to spend the rest of your life in court, litigation, judgments, repayments and debts, etc. for.
Joys of OpenGL in a Browser
Study: Cheery, optimists die younger
Facebook Will Add Video-Conference Features
Volkswagen's Dresden assembly line (video)
Military Crew Said to Be Exposed to Radiation
> You know, it doesn't sound like you are working there for the awesome product and the great team experience to begin with.

Actually, I like the product and the team. The person I don't get along with is actually pretty likable until you discover that there's a nasty mean streak underneath the surface. It's not that I figured that they weren't smart as much as it is that I figured that they genuinely meant well.

That said, I think it's probably a good idea for me to start looking around now anyway.

> What do you mean your work history isn't terrific?

I was fired from my last job after 3 months for much the same reason, albeit with me being much more naive about what was going on than this time.

> I believe you can always look for a startup with a concept that motivates you and simply jump onboard as long as it's a good personality match this time?

The problem is that it always seems like a good match at first. It's just very difficult to tell how things will work out before joining a company.
Ask HN: Advice on  sharing articles with programmers
When I see posts on HN that seem related to a project I’m working on, I always try to pass it along to someone on the team. I don’t know programming languages well, so it has to be related enough to the project that I would recognize it as such, but it might not always be specifically related to the programming we’re doing. I do this because I figure that even if it’s not specifically related to what we’re working on, perhaps there’s a nugget of information there that could be applied in some way; a connection that could be made that could improve the product. I have informed everyone I’m working with that I’m currently a programming idiot and when I pass along things that aren’t useful to tell me I’m dumb and ignore them (Why would being wrong about something I don’t know a lot about bother me? Just more encouragement for me to learn). I'm hoping it's not a time suck though.

Anyways, I would like to know: would someone you’re working with doing this annoy you, or be helpful in that they might spark some new ideas?
How To Install Facebook Comment On Your Website - The Copy Paste Blog
Solar Updraft Tower
We've only heard one side of the story here.

My inclination when I consider my work history in the Valley hasn't been terrific and they simply know too much about how our servers and code work would be to suspect that the silly, pointless things that you're disagreeing over might not actually be nearly as silly or pointless as you think they are. And perhaps in the process of figuring out how to do those things reliably, you can improve yourself.

Of course that depends very much on what the silly things are, and what the person is like. Which I obviously don't know. If the silly things are things like unit tests, check-in comments, maintaining the existing coding style, or maintaining documentation, then I'd consider my suspicion confirmed. Those may all seem silly and pointless, but they're not.

If the things complained about are things that I'd consider truly silly and pointless, then I'd agree with you. But if they're not actively harmful, then I'd try to figure out how to adapt myself to the rules, because that is easier (and more likely to lead to productivity) than initiating conflict.
I generally use HTTP Digest Authentication for personal projects - since I don't really require fancy login boxes, and it's really trivial to implement.
Cost of Hard Drive Space
I dunno. It may be that I can derive more from a longer blog post, with more information, than an SMS that imparts nothing useful to me. For in-depth information, it's nearly useless and I, for one, don't need/am not interested in a running train of thought.

I do think it would make a great discovery aggregator, now that it's up and running.
Are we ever going to use antimatter to drive a starship?
90% of users are already on the official client (see the link to the announcement in the article) so the "fragmentation" argument doesn't hold water. I'm guessing this is the nice letter asking devs to stop developing competing client apps and the next letter will be more forceful.

Reading between the lines here it looks like their official client is going to be making them money in some capacity so they don't want people using 3rd party clients that might bypass that mechanism (whatever it is: ads, selling click data, whatever). That's just a guess.

Also notice their TOS is getting stricter. You cannot display data from alternate services alongside data from Twitter's API. Again, that only seems to make sense from an advertising perspective. Future restrictions are hinted at, too.

I used to wonder why the hell companies like Twitter would operate without any solid plans for making a profit, incurring huge costs and just taking on a massive amount of users. In hindsight it looks like you create an awesome free site to get a bazillion users and then once everyone is entrenched you can start to make it suck more in order to get paid.
There's also an article about a research facility in Argentina developing a new version of this tower:

[spanish] http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-164105-2011-03-...
Even moving directories was a pain in the ass in CVS.
Elo Pro doesn't sound like a real name...
The operating system is irrelevant to any musician worth his salt. The important thing is that you have a robust DAW that supports all the VST plugins you use and does everything you need. Ardour is a laughing stock compared to Logic, Live or FL. Last I checked, it hasn't even caught up to the feature set of Garage Band, which is a stripped-down version of Logic designed for 12-year-olds.
What you've said about using staging and production servers and never pushing directly to the production server is valid.

Of course an online IDE doesn't mean editing code on the production server! You would still need to run a deploy towards the test/live server, run tests, etc.

It's not about throwing away the best practices or existing methodology, just about bringing the IDE more up to date with the online centric nature of coding.
I prefer the old adage of focus on what you're doing and ignore what others (including competitors) are doing. It takes away from your focus and spreads yourself thin. It is just as important to focus on a select few things you want to do well as it is to remove all other things that may come up. The more things you introduce may become more noise you have to deal with. In any given startup environment, there is already a LOT of stuff to do, probably more than you can keep up with much less add to that pie. That said, I'm sure your teammates keep up to date on a bunch of tech sites as well here and there.
quote:

RickBorovoy

To make your own Junkyard Jumbotron, please use
http://jumbotron.media.mit.edu
The jj.brownbag link above is an earlier version of the software.
And please post your feedback / results on the Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Junkyard-Jumbotron/207846822564634
Okay, not to nitpick excessively, but why in this day and age is the NYT providing pure text information in JPEG? I really thought user education was making better progress than this.
Thinking Traps
No. Last I looked their Java editor meant only a syntax highlighter. Without code completion and code folding it's not there yet.
Yes, and as I'm not about to notify the other party that I'm posting this here, I suppose you'll just have to take my word for what I say. Let's just say that this particular developer requires a much more rigorous coding style than the language's community does. And I would be thrilled to death if we had more rigorous rules about unit tests and documentation, but as it is there are practically none of those things. Suffice it to say, the rules seem to be less about improving our code and more about satisfying arbitrary whims.
The red areas almost look like where the wind would carry a radioactive plume. Why do you believe it would go towards the green area and disperse in a uniformed way?
Thanks, my mistake! Irradiation is the process of exposing to radiation while in this case the steam actually contains radioactive particles.
It's not a valid Gmail address. Gmail usernames are between 6 and 30 characters (excluding periods).
I'd like to recommend Alfred App [http://www.alfredapp.com/] as an alternative for Quicksilver.
Make sure to lock and patch your email server. Also, do not give your root passwords to anyone, including a tech support person. Lock domain access to all of your sites. Analise your contact forms for vulnerabilities. But, I am sure you've already done all of that....right?
Where are you and David now?
Another huge privacy hole is that Facebook itself knows who your friends are.

That's one of the main reasons I quit using it years ago.
Polymorphic stanamically balanced binary trees (did you say stanamically?)
A shame, if true. Apple (maybe to a lesser extent, Google too) is the only company who could get mass adoption of NFC in a timely and intuitive fashion.

Carrying wallets around feels so retro, considering we have the technology to solve this already in our pockets.
http://i.imgur.com/bzGxO.png

Minecraft, WoW, Steam - you know, the essentials.
I recently had to install Ubuntu for work. Before that I normally used Win7 at home (+ unix shell at work via Putty).

Things that Ubuntu sucks at:

1) Power management. It really blows.

a) My laptop keeps shutting down without any warning that the battery is low, and half the time Ubuntu doesn't even know whether my laptop is plugged or running off of battery.

b) My laptop is blasting the CPU cooler at full power, all the time. Under Win it's only audible when I do some crazy calculations.

2) No Photoshop replacement. I'm into photography and doing a lot of RAW processing. GIMP is not even close to Photoshop. There are lots of people online who try to convince you otherwise, but it's all bullshit.

3) Hardware acceleration seems to be often off in random places with various plugins.

4) I use a second language keyboard layout, and I'm used to Ctrl+Shift shortcut. Coincidentally, Ctrl+Shift+arrow buttons are awesome for text selection. Windows understands that. Under Ubuntu if you set keyboard layout key to Ctrl+Shift, the selection stops working.

5) Putty vs Ubuntu terminal. I'm used to Ctrl+C = copy, "mouse selection" = copy, and "right mouse click" = paste. It's extremely useful. Just doesn't work under Ubuntu.

6) Lack of file organization. I never know where programs are installed, where logs go, where configuration files are, and why they have to be in different places.

7) Little things like "Backspace button" = "go back" not working in Chrome. Like touchpad freeze while I'm typing (it just randomly stops working, even though the ckeckbox is checked in settings somewhere).

I realize I'm a Linux newbie (even though I've been using shell commands for a decade), so probably most of these problems can be resolved with some workarounds. My point is that they should be resolved out of the box.