skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple probably doesn't care much about how much you use the apps, as long as you come back to the store. Even for the free apps, they're probably thinking primarily about store engagement rather than app engagement.

As an apple shareholder, I like revenue optimization, but I can imagine it's pretty frustrating if you have a horse in the app race. Or out of a general sense of fairness :)
Its hard to read at this point... I am assuming the reactor is shutdown (rods all in) and they are dealing with residual heat (still hot enough to melt the core). The cooling systems (primary and backup and emergency core cooling) may be damaged and they are working around these problems... I would be very surprised if the failures were such that it prevented any method to cool the core. They almost certainly were able to establish some kind of core cooling but it may be temporary and require more actions to fully stabilize.

Also, don't forget these quotes are translations from Japanese and may be mis-translations or inadvertent exaggerations (very common when I worked with Japanese engineers).
Twitter became twitter thanks to its community that always created value and contributed most to its future path. The invention of hashtag and @ were also contributed by community.
the power users that always contributed high quality content and conversations to twitter.

The developers that contributed best applications for twitter ecosystem.

but now that it has justin bieber and other celebrities along with millions of their followers twitter feels like it does not need that core contributing community anymore.

To me it looks like start of demise for twitter.
Multiple nuclear engineers on Hacker News have written that the situation is, effectively, far less dire than Three Mile Island. All of them have said there are still options and time before core damage is even on the radar. You're scaring a lot of people for no reason.

I trust Bob the self-proclaimed nuclear engineer on HN more than CNN, anyway, even though I have no idea Bob is who he says he is.
I like that code is now measured in miles.
You're actually further proving my point. I said that if you are writing an external library, it's a good practice NOT to extend prototypes since the context the plugin will be used in is entirely unknown.

The argument that you are giving for internal application development is akin to saying, well shit, someone could set your global namespace to null, so now what? Stop namespacing?

The better solution is don't use a crappy plugin. I prefer to write clean, maintainable, easy to read code with great abstractions, which would mean I refuse to use a shitty library and would opt instead to rewrite it myself or find a new one that does it right.

Again, I really don't see this as an issue, because extending native prototypes is one of Javascript's more powerful utilities.
When I was in the nuclear business we used to say the best place to be during the proverbial big-one was onsite.
Often true, but still dozens of startups monetize, thanks to a good idea.
Oh, good reply. What about server racks though? An entire array of hard drives could fall down and get destroyed. And many laptops will also fall down from the quake
A Commit a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Show HN: Markdown/latex math paste site.
cool thanks..I'm new to gdb
looks a lot like turkish kimdir.com
Escape < and > (and everything else), and check the site for XSS. I don't mean to be rude, and I realize you two coded this up in a really short amount of time -- but before this site goes live it would be best to have it secure.

Demo: http://profile.io/foobar

[EDIT] As someone else pointed out, viewing the list-of-developers page puts up the XSS, which is even worse. I didn't know that page existed.

[EDIT2] It turns out I broke a lot more than I tried to. I also own the account 'xss' which has an unclosed '<' inside of its name, and that destroys half the page. I'm really sorry, please delete that account.

[EDIT3] I broke that account even more in order to fix it. I had an unclosed script tag, so I closed it off in my 'location'. If you fix the xss in just the profile information, then the page will get messed up again.

[EDIT4] The 'test' account was deleted, but the XSS's haven't been fixed? Updated to point to a different page I had made.
Because., It is Delicious. If they made an internal bid between Digg, Reddit, Google & Bing. They could sell it between $15-20 million. Because., It is the #1 social bookmarking service.
you should prune the 404's.

thanks for posting this, though. some of these are hilarious and great examples of what not to do!
Django likes to call it 'MTV', or Model-Template-View. Templates are similar to Rails' Views (markup with variables/tags) & Views are similar to Rails' Controllers (methods used to validate/process data coming from/going to the Model).
Hmm, can you expound on that and clarify the distinction as it applies to StatusNet?
And adding to that, it seems to me like the main idea here is that "eventually you'll get lucky, but it'll take time" and not really the expertise required.

If the moral of the story was about expertise, you'd expect that any game developer with 20 years of experience could write huge successes like "Angry Birds" in 3 month, on demand.

Now, true, they're getting better at it over the years, but I don't think that this story belongs the "10 000 hours" category.
It might me nice to see some LaTeX in the example!
Hats off to Japanese engineers and architects!
How Groupon hurts loyal customers
Miserably. It's a miracle (although disappointing) my misanthropy doesn't cause people to spontaneously combust. Upvoted.
Maybe they used software correction or a self-balancing camera apparatus.
My details may be off (its been over 10 years) but the post scram core needs to be cooled with forced coolant for something like 30-40 hours. After that it can be cooled by boil off (assuming no core damage) but the down side is radiation release mostly due to neutron activated nitrogen dissolved in the coolant water (which dissipates in 36 hours or so).
A Friday afternoon release of bad news is a typical PR move to blunt the blow.
Instructive trademark decision on battle over "Post Post" mark
Ah yes, I just added a page at http://notepag.es/latexdemo that I copied from some course work.
Yeah, because, you know, Python (being a magical language) prevents spaghetti implementations.

Spoken like someone who's tinkered with Wordpress for 20 minutes and decided that was grounds to make sweeping assumptions. Drupal's internals are tight. You ever hear a developer complaining about coding against it, guaranteed it's because they don't know what they're doing.
A tablet device that is $800 is to me completely missing the point of what's supposed to essentially be a supplemental media consumption terminal.
I spent quite a few years building out server rooms, large and small, in California. They were all braced against seismic activity, even when installed in closets. All the critical equipment was mounted on rails and bolted in. Yes, there were the occasional towers sitting on shelves and rack mount systems that were not secured against sliding out, but in general, the server rooms were the least likely places to get hit by falling equipment.
I work for The Bay Citizen and we're hiring developers. Email me (sshifflett@baycitizen.org) or check out the post on our site... http://www.baycitizen.org/about/careers/senior-software-engi...
So are they pushing the next wave of developers to resort to scraping instead of playing nice with the API?
Apple vs. Microsoft: A tale of two mobile
Modern web services like Heroku and Twilio are awesome, it would not have been possible without them!
Using #111 or #222 softens the page a tad without making it harder to read.

Hypocritically, the text on this article's page is black.
Ask PG: Informal commitment to secrecy still hold if we aren't accepted?
My co-founders and I are applying to YC Summer 2011.

In the FAQ, it says:

"Will you fund multiple startups working on the same idea?

Yes. If you fund as many companies as we do it's unavoidable you'll end up with some overlap. Even if you tried not to accept competing companies, you'd still get overlap because startups' ideas morph so much. The way we deal with it is that when two startups are working on related stuff, we don't talk to one about what the other's doing.

In practice it has not turned out to be a problem, because most big markets have room for several slightly different solutions, and it's unlikely that two startups would do precisely the same thing."

There is currently a YCombinator company working on an idea that is similar to ours. We came up with our solution before we even knew about the current YC company. Our solution is more viral and addresses a larger market.

I'm not in the least bit worried about sharing our ideas if we are accepted. However, I am concerned that if we aren't accepted that the ideas/solutions we present in the application/interview are shared with this YC company with an overlapping solution.

Assuming we aren't accepted, does the informal agreement to secrecy still hold?
All my comparisons have been "Control Panel -> System -> Remote Connections tab -> Enable remote desktop". Client built in to Windows.

versus

"Nomachine NX is a commercial product starting at $700+ but there's a limited 2 user free version, and also an admin console and a web package. Here's a 14 page PDF with install instructions and a link to the client install guide download location, along with the library version prerequisites..."

Needless to say I use RDP, push install VNC and SSH constantly and have never installed NX or seen a server with it installed or used it. I have my answer.
Nokia Dreams Of Shipping 200 Million Windows Phones
The Xoom just looks embarrassingly out of touch with everything that's happening around tablets.

Motorola keeps advertising features that the average user doesn't care about whether that's their specs, (currently non-existent) flash support or (currently non-existent) support for 4G networks.

If anyone is going to take market share away from Apple they sure as hell won't do it by checking boxes on some feature list.

Think about this, have you ever seen a single Xoom ad featuring a person actually using and enjoying the tablet?
This is why Twitter is soon to be bankrupt. They don't understand how to stop insulting the people that actually provide the content and value. The value isn't the technology, but the people developing and using it.
I'm sorry, but what exactly is this? I can't find anything on the website describing exactly what's on the cards.

Why are they called red pill and blue pill?
Stopping the Gears
"bubble" - when an investor willingly drops stable 300% profitable business (his drug trade in this case, which in Somali is as conservative business as Safeway here) to invest into that new opportunity.
What's the best way to find UI/graphic design company for a $10,000 budget?
Is there some site where you can say (for example) "I have a $10K budget and I'd like to choose a designer to work with"? And then designers respond with some expression of interest.

Note: not looking at crowdsourcing solutions, just a way to find one designer/design company to work with.
Promote your Business Products via Car Window Stickers
Idsketch.com provides you a large collection of car window stickers. Our every car window sticker can be used to promote your business products. Although we are famous for every type of printing but we are specialized in making custom car window stickers
are they really? Rovio might be the exception, but how fat are Zynga and FourSquare right now, compared to their debt?
As interesting and fun as honeypots are - unless it's your own gig, or the data from the honeypot fits into a larger security plan, it's just adding one more thing to manage. Move the port, run denyhosts, and in general just have access firewalled off to begin with.
"Twitter is planning to monetize by making their product worse" - exactly. I wrote a similar blog post about this sentiment a few days ago:

http://www.happybuy.com/blog/2011/crossing-the-line-twitter-...
Well, I'm done using Twitter. Their engineered experience sucks, but I do like third-party clients.
"And the models have to come from multiple disciplines because all the wisdom of the world is not to be found in one little academic department. That's why poetry
professors, by and large, are so unwise in a worldly sense. They don't have enough models in their heads. So you've got to have models across a fair array of disciplines. "

This is analogs to "Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287213)

"It can be hard to believe a true strength coach the first time he tells you that by pressing and dead-lifting on even days, squatting and doing chin-ups on odd days, avoiding all other exercises, and adding a little to the bar each time, you’ll be stronger than you’ve ever been in only a month’s time. Thanks to the fitness industry, we’re so conditioned to equate sophistication with complexity — and to think we’ve got to “work each body part” — that our gut just says, No way; that can’t work. But it works like magic, and the entire body hardens up in unison."

The common principle is that you grow in balance -- if one part is deficient, it can hinder the growth of the whole.

http://www.mensjournal.com/everything-you-know-about-fitness...
Yeah, I meant the control rods are all in. This is a potentially dangerous suitation but there is time to still get the reators under control. I doubt the worse case would be a meltdown because you could open the primary loop and stick a hose I it.

Edit: this is a good explaination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_Water_Reactor_Safety_Sy...
After four years working in the industry I can say with confidence that in 100% of the news organizations I've interacted with humoring the developers resulted in a disaster. Newspapers are not software shops.

From a business perspective there's no money in humoring the guys in the development department on this one. Money's too scarce. It's cheaper and more effective to can any dissidents, swap in competent PHP developers and go with an implementation that minimizes wheel reinvention and the amount of code the organization is responsible for maintaining.
Correct. I was just pointing out that your reluctance to discuss your idea is misguided.
> They just don't import two million people a year -- rather wisely in my opinion

I don't think the USA and Japan are really comparable in the amount of immigration they can support.
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Short hairstyles picture gallery. Short hair cuts with advice, accessories and a celebrity section.
Great catch. Although, in my defense I'm always looking to save time so I just used out of the box settings on the wordpress "Platform" theme. If you're starting from scratch on your own site, dont make this mistake :)
Blackwater/mercenaries don't go into the situations where they can really be hurt. One thing is to shoot unarmed civilians and the other - pirates whose "berserk" state is fueled by millions of dollars and the fear/risk brain center is dumped by khat (google khat)
Yeah, that's me -- I can't change my name, but if I could I would. I didn't realize there was the developer list and thought I would have an isolated test page.
That, and I don't know why they can't just be straight out and say what they mean, instead of wrapping every quasi-statement in 'developers ask us if they can..'
Even with OpenGL you don't get multi-platform for free. Neither with D3D (PC and XBOX)

There are more important things to consider:
- Image compression supported (DXT vs. PVRTC vs. others)
- Type of rendering buffers supported and precision (stencil, z-buffer, etc)
- Features of the latter - can you do some prepass to skip pixel shaders?
- Normal map encoding and compression
- Primitive buffering (batching) - static, dynamic, or low-level if the platform allows it
- Minimizing state changes
- Organizing mesh data for most optimum cache
- Hardware level queries - "Did last primitive actually drawn something on the screen?"

So what the drawing api is of little importance for big AAA games. Data organization and features (what actually is supported on the HW, and which rendering paths are fast) is more important.

Now for CAD/3D Designer apps - you have more dynamic data - your meshes change too much, textures. You need very good looking wireframe antialiasing, etc.

For games - almost everything is precooked - starting from global illumination, meshes that have been cache optimized and had vertices welded where possible. Level maps optimized so that they draw faster, and batched so that with few draw calls you draw the whole level, etc.

My opinion is that OpenGL is really suitable for the latter, but it's also suitable for the former. Though D3D by not keeping much backward API compability can talk to the hardware in more straightforward talk, hence the API design:

OpenGL - functions with general types, not much if not at all structures. Easily to serialize (protocolize).
Direct3D - functions with very specific goals, using structures more or less tied to the hardware, or the operating system, hence less portability.

For example I can't see D3D as an API taking off the way webGL is doing, simply because it's hard to map it's API to a scripting language, while OpenGL can.

Both are good :)
Ask HN: Review my startup, wompt.com
Check it out http://wompt.com/

Wompt is a group chat web app with an integrated twitter feed. My cofounder and I grew up on chat - we really missed old-timey web chats and IRC (every job we've ever had blocks IRC ports).

Would love to hear you feedback. Lurking in http://wompt.com/chat/startups.
I didn't know Google had this service. I found it brilliant.

Interesting how the banner is black and white instead of the usual colorful logo.
http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:FreeBSD <- that should be really a lmgtfy link...
My post was before the nuclear engineer appeared on this thread and my sources were the publicly available ones, which portrayed things rather grim.

Maybe i was not very subtle, but you must understand that i too am scared, having experienced the Chernobyl events and the aftermath (European here). But most of the downvoters don't even know what that feels like. Did i over exaggerate my worries? Perhaps. I'm not known to be an overly optimistic person.

Thanks for giving me the chance to reply.
When I think of best seller I think of the iPhone; I forget how many Symbian based phones are out there.
They could be using software correction. That explains only one building moving a lot, very small movement on the others(reference part of the frame fixed).
That makes it a good story, not a good service. :)
I really appreciated this blog post. At first I thought it was going to be a Scoble-style 'I got my first moderatorial slap and now my blogger ego is bruised' blogger poutathon, but raganwald clearly delineates between the sort of bonding, community building social sites that he prefers (and might have acted as though he was using), and the content-focused, at times unprecious with other people's writing repository that wikipedia or Quora are aiming for. Quora is so much more obviously social than wikipedia, which I think gives a lot of people the impression that it's more like the former and less like the latter. That might be a problem for them. But I don't think that the inherent lack of sanctity for any given user's contributions is a problem. I think it's a feature.
Not too hard.

That's a tautologically pointless thing to say.

It's weird we live in a world of hand-holding comfort and plentiful documentation on almost everything and yet we still create more.

How terrible we are for wanting a world of comfort instead of superior discomfort and confusion.
Harley Davidson chooses crowdsourcing over traditional sourcing
Chernobyl was a result of Soviet disregard for safety and human lives, not nuclear power.
The article mentions "Another friend was skeptical about the concept because how can you keep up the quality if you offer the same deal for 1/2 price." It's not half price but rather a quarter of the price; Groupon takes a cut. Even though it looks great to the business to get started with these promotions, a lot of businesses are losing money from them. You have to put this into perspective with many of the traditional ways of advertising - cost to conversion for mailers, T.V. ads, etc... (you also have to consider how many of these customers return). It may turn out that Groupon is not the best solution, but I guess it depends on the business model...
Would the YC team mind sharing which of the "accepted" W11 bunch submitted a video in lieu of / in addition to their applications?

I was a YC applicant once - 2007 as a single-person founder. Although I personally would never do a video, it is an interesting idea.
Pretty Little Liars Season 1 Episode 21 - News Network Area
"Free" software (I use scarequotes because GNU isn't truly free - it restricts freedom, innovation and choice) is not generally standard in any of the biological sciences that I'm acquainted with (with the exception of R, which no one knows how to use - we all use Excel and pencil/paper instead). This guy makes it sound like he's speaking for all of science, but I suspect that he doesn't even speak for the majority of mathematics.

Science is not all reducible to physics or mathematics. The rest of us are not "trivial". Most of us are unaware of the GNU religion, and we'll stay that way because it has nothing to do with getting our science done. This is because GNU won't make good, easy to use software for us (that has the latest features we need), but a company often will.
This is cool, but I do wish people would not call a webapp a "startup" -- unless there's a viable business model and at least some semblance of a customer base. Otherwise, it's just a webapp.
Gruber refined the meaning so that it applies to such a move by anyone other than Steve Jobs.
thx, I do trust LWN to give us the gist.
I did this same page last funding session and submitted it to Hacker News:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1862327

Most of the applicants submitting video will gladly tell you which video is their and discuss it, which is one of the fundamental ideas of the site. I'm applying with AV Squid again this funding session.
Son of ACTA: meet the next secret copyright treaty
Think of it this way: instead of helping one person who can't even phrase a question properly, you're helping thousands of people who will find your answer in the future by searching for the version of the question that was properly phrased (and the one you actually answered).
Fixed. Let me know if we missed anything.

I wish we could use Django's autoescape filter but App Engine's SDK ships with just 0.96 by default.

We can only upgrade to a later version of Django in Prod and not locally.
That was my first impression as well, having recently set up a flavors.me page (which includes github, and visually looks identical to their site).

I'm all for competitors in the space though, so good luck to them.
I think they should use their large engineering team to build something new and separate from Twitter.
Funny how quick people are willing to believe a random analyst when it aligns with their viewpoint.

I wonder if they'd feel the same after hearing that the same guy just touted Blackberry as a strong buy due to the Playbook.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzVJFv9GyJg

Seriously though, I hope you realized that the best thing to do when someone has XSS issues is to just tell them rather than EXPLOIT them.
We might be interested.

Please email me caleb@oxzenmedia.com

Let me do a needs audit with you to see if we are the right fit for you.
RiderOfGiraffes: unofficial #1 flagger of duplicate submissions (a.k.a dupes).
Groupon Japan Creates Offer Matching Donations For Japan Earthquake
Support The Victims of Japan's Earthquake With Your Loose Change
So if no new twitter clients are allowed, but existing ones are "grandfathered" in, does this mean there will be a market of buying and selling these grandfathered twitter clients?