skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not help the people of the Ukraine. It happened there and it affected millions of people.

The nuclear industry has a couple of worst case scenarios which are extremely frightening. From the sabotage of a nuclear facility to large scale accidents like in Japan. I know not many industries which have that.

I remember years ago, the air here in Germany was very dirty. Then there were tighter regulations and improved technology. Now the air is much better, still not good enough in some areas - but the difference is huge.

When you have an exposure of radiation here, then you can't clean it up. The particles are everywhere. Tighter regulations will not bring improvements. The damage is done. Possibly for decades.

People here accept neither coal plants nor nuclear technology. They demand that most of the investment in future energy technology goes into renewables. This will not bring improvement in a day, but after a few decades a multitude of actions will make dirty and/or energy production phased out.

This scenario is planned here for Germany in 2050. Fourty years from now. Under the impression of the Japanese problems with their nuclear power plants, people are willing to accelerate that.

This means that for years there will be investments in new technologies, there will be implementations of those that not everybody will like, but Germany is a country with engineering tradition and this is a challenge people like.
Are you saying we have a populist system today?
What do you mean by "dynamic"? Syntax happens at compile time, right? Different syntax can apply to different part of the source code, but that's still static. Did I miss something?
One reason is "the last level of containment held" doesn't give engineers the safety margin they want, or the public-reassuring PR they'd want. Much better to be able to say that the last level of containment is never even relied on, but is purely insurance.
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Most of that is government stimulus which cannot last forever. The banks are definitely not liquid. They are basically insolvent. You can tell this because they don't mark their assets to market.
So he's forcing users to register, just to know what they're registering into?
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Or just open a private/anonymous session in another browser window :)
I see Groupon as a company that re-sells spas, manicures, meal deals and teeth whitening. If you see it in those terms, it just seems like normal retail.
I'm 100% sure it's fake but on the 4 screen example, we have a setup like that here at work. They have a daisy chain board on them that is used to chain the inputs together and the screen is set to only display a certain section of the image (the daisy chain board do the interpolation or whatever is needed) so if it was even possible to send that signal which I doubt very much, the screens would only show their portion.
Cool. There are a few disparate erlang implementation right now. Misultin has one, zotonic has one, I patched mochiweb to support websockets on the same port too: https://github.com/RJ/mochiweb
Now I agree with you. The bank bailouts were supported by just about every economist with a brain. They worked, not ideally, but well enough, and better than some expected.

But the populist sentiment comes from that the lowest bracket of society is still not out of the recession. The recession is over in the technical meaning, but tell that to the down-and-out and see how they react. It's also not the case that the financial system is totally repaired, though thankfully it looks like the perverse incentives in home mortgages are going away, at least.
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That criticism could be directed just as well at the original article, which is attempting to logically deduce why failure is unlikely (using questionable logic and analogies). It'd be much more convincing if the article instead presented something more like evidence, which likely also exists (since of course these designs are extensively tested).

Unsurprisingly, the article isn't written by a scientist; William Tucker is a pundit and journalist who writes about energy from a popular and political perspective. In his multiple books and hundreds of articles, he has done no experiments to verify any of his hypotheses.
You are right, the commands in the article definitely don't produce the results which are claimed.
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"Just because I can write `f(x)` as `f x` with full featured operator precedence and associativity tables doesn't mean I can introduce new syntax into the language."

There's two definitions of "DSL" and I find mixing them to be a bad idea. I prefer to confine "DSL" to a fully-fledged actual language, with its own parser and evaluator. Haskell is just about the only language I know that makes this easy enough to actually consider as the solution to a problem.

Then there's "glorified API to look like a language", a definition I don't like but is clearly in current use, and the one used in this post. Haskell is pretty decent at that, but of course you can't escape from the fact you're using Haskell. But then, people pretty freely use the term "DSL" in Ruby where you can't escape the fact that you're in Ruby. In either case, "adding new syntax" is not actually part of the general definitions of DSL nowadays. The "adding of new syntax" is an illusion, and I guess that's part of why I don't like this definition of DSL, there's actually an element of deception in it and in practice I have found people not 100% comfortable with the base language the DSL is in often end up deceived and less effective. And either way, if you really, truly want some new syntax, Template Haskell can mostly keep up with Lisp anyhow, but not entirely. There may not be, at this moment, a precise match for the rx package already on Hackage but I believe Haskell has all the necessary functionality to create one, up to and including compile-time regular expression compilation. Though given the way Haskell works, it is also the case that compile time RE compilation is way less useful, because it's easy to make it compile only once even at run time with the way Haskell works. As is so frequently the case, what takes a macro in Lisp does not require a macro in Haskell.

"This is either weird nonsense or the old variable capture argument."

No, it's a functional purity argument. Lisp in practice has the same problems with mutation and state as pretty much any other language. Insert debate about importance of functional purity here. (That is, I'm not making the argument now, I'm just letting you know that's what was being referenced.)
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What about the intangible cost of diluting the experience for valuable, fully-paying customers by loading down the class with a bunch of yahoos who don't value/respect it anywhere near the same level? Doesn't that impact things a little?
Point 3 is nothing more than character assassination, and I'm disappointed that you are voted up with that in your comment. I do get it.

Point 2 is moot. Yes, the cumulative effect is felt—but I'm pretty sure we can adjust for that. In fact, I'm certain that the applications which would notice the change are adjusted for accuracy every so often.

Point 1 I concede; I just wasn't certain because I do not know the exact methods by which we measure day length and the level of accuracy they have. I am not blindly assuming that the day is exactly 86400 or 86400.25 solar seconds.

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I do not consider the OP news-worthy. Aside from the attentions of these incredibly accurate applications, which likely get their data from their own mathematicians or from scientific journals, why should the rest of us care?

Perhaps I was wrong: this is story dredging, not scientific navel gazing. No mainstream journal would care about this, except to raise its search rankings by covering ANYTHING related to the Japan quake.
there is one protection already taken away..

What do you think the amount of reserves banks have to have on had is now? Its the lowest its been 20 years...02%

What does that mean?

That means each bank bank, individually, has to have .02% cash reserves or by law it has to close until it gets cash from the Federal Reserve to bring it up to that total..

Translation: all it takes is some depositors pulling out
$200,000k to make a statement to any bank branch and put in a credit union which by most state laws cannot enter
into transactions that bet against the customer..

This has already happen in Wisconsin..after that vote to ban unions..

We have the power folks..will we exercise it or sit on our lazy asses?
>The electric backup worked as designed.

No, that is the reason they where suppose to fall back on diesel based pumps. The electrical outage after the quake made the electric pumps fail. The diesel based pumps also failed as we agree upon. After that there was a mechanism simply based on preasure which supposed to push out hot steam, cool it off and feed it back as water. However this mechanism led a decreased level of water (from what I have heard). Which is why they now resort to pumping it in manually. I think it's safe to say that two major explosions at the plant (even though it wasn't the reactor it self apparently) is a sign of failed safety mechanisms.
The music thing is not true. Many people use dropbox to dunce their iTunes library. (I do) and that's just crazy talk.
This launch announcement was an epic FAIL on my part http://sharescribe.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/launch/
I know on the old iPod's with video out you could get an RCA cable that went from 3.5 mm to AV cables:

http://www.macworld.com/article/149335/2005/11/apple_ipod_av...
Dreamhost's core network goes down at 2:20AM.
It went down early this morning and has been struggling to get back up in fits and starts ever since. (Access to dreamhoststatus.com is even spotty. It's hosted off-network, I'm sure that's just because of the pounding of traffic it's getting as America wakes up and goes online.)

For a bit of schadenfreude, do a Titter search for Dreamhost right now. It's a fire hose of complaints.
That works in the short term: you have ten paying customers, but you can accommodate twenty-five with very little additional cost. So you bring in fifteen people at a lower cost. Presto, found money.

However, eventually the market catches on and your existing ten people start waiting for the GroupOn deals, and now only five people are willing to pay the full price.

Selling unused capacity at a discount without cannibalizing your existing business is non-trivial, especially in this age of rapid peer-peer sharing of information. I suggest that the problem GroupOn solves--selling the capacity--is not the hard problem for this scenario, the hard problem is getting away with pricing discrimination.

(running a "sale" every once in a while is a different scenario, of course. I am only talking about regularly selling off excess capacity.)
Same here. Perhaps I'm not as sensitive to most regarding spacing, etc, or perhaps I'm just not sophisticated enough to recognize the shortcomings, but my Ubuntu desktop experience is just fine, and seems to improve with every release.
I certainly agree with his main point: the nuclear reactor accidents are a comparatively small part of the earthquake catastrophe. But the rest of the article reads like pure propaganda-- like he started out writing the article with the goal of downplaying rather than assessing the risks involved.

I can spot at least one inaccuracy. He claims that TMI showed that there is no risk of nuclear fuel melting through the steel containment structure. But at TMI, the core was actively cooled through the entire incident, and the temperatures were not even high enough to melt the fuel itself. So this does not given any information about what would happen in the absence of cooling.
Please point to evidence of this alleged dishonesty.
I've worked with a lot of legacy code over the years. I don't usually care whether code has comments or not. Comments are a very poor way of expressing semantics in code.

When working with legacy code that is not commented, how do you determine the invariants of an API?

That is, how do you ensure that the change you're making will not break other code? Do you have to scan the entire project, and any other projects that depend on it?

Unit tests are often not sufficient here -- changing the invariants of an API may not result in deterministic failure -- in fact, invariants often describe requirements necessary for deterministic behavior.
The "culture of fraud and deception" is illegal. Acts of deception can range from fines to decades in jail. Wall Street firms make money from customers who choose to do business with them. Any hint of deception completely destroys any future business with that client, as well as many other clients. I know this might sound like a shock to some of you, but banks make their money by providing services to customers who choose to pay for those services. It's basic capitalism.
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I was curious a bit back how successful Groupon promotions actually are -- i.e. if there's actually significant value being created or if they were just moving from one burn to the next based on hype. Turns out for 66% of customers it does pan out. Here's the study:

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~dholakia/Groupon%20Effectiveness%20...

I'm glad to hear that they're planning on pulling together ROI management and more general metrics stuff for small businesses. I've thought for a while that was the natural direction for them to run. Small businesses are usually experts in their product domain, but are often lacking in the more traditional business skills.
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Or an older iPod video that has a video out on the 3.5 mm jack.

http://www.macworld.com/article/149335/2005/11/apple_ipod_av...
The "hacker" is claiming that every video system works the same. That's crap.
At an average selling price of $650 (including accessories), that's $650MM of revenue for Apple.
which would mean that the session info is also going over the clear, which means that you don't need to dump the files or info, you can use their own client to do that along with a forged session token
often when i'm fleshing out ideas or trying a new approach, i don't need everything to be consistent---just the bit i'm working on, even then i don't care too much.

What I do is I simply compile/run unit tests for a piece of the program rather than the whole thing. Then, if I decide to keep the changes, compiler errors tell me every single thing I need to fix.

In python I need to hope everything that will fail fails in unit tests.
The domain you have linked to doesn't seem to exist ..
Thanks!

I built it on Rails. After building out a good amount of functitonality in PHP I decided to take a chance with Rails. Amazing decision as it was a huge return for the time investment (45-ish hours to learn). I don't have a blog, as blogs don't seem to have that much worth in terms of marketing unless they are amazing. I'm opinionated, sure, but you can find most of those opinions on Signal vs Noise :)
This was the first lengthy article I read today and what a great way to start the day! It's not sexy - it's not hip - it's just some good old fashioned advice framed in a way that anyone should be able to understand. I especially appreciate the way he defined "The Top."

"someone that I helped (this will be my downfall one day)"

I doubt this will be your downfall! It's likely a major contributor to your rising!!! I know you only from your contributions to HN, and now your blog posts - and I hope you continue to provide your valuable insights to those you've never met!

p.s. - I sure wish you would come back!
Node idea (on hype textuality and Google aura of books)
It's not perjury if it's not willful; the issue with what you're describing is proving that the factual errors were willful misrepresentations and not, as I'm sure the banks claim, honest mistakes that they made a good-faith effort to correct once discovered.

I can imagine that filing documents with errors in them would really annoy the hell out of a judge, but it doesn't seem on its face like it necessarily crosses into perjury.

The securities fraud seems much stronger, maybe via some sort of breach of duty claim by the bondholders who got stuck holding the bag? They pretty much got sold a bill of goods, so they would seem to have the clearest path to getting their pound of flesh out of the originators.
How do you collect your customers birthdays?
"These produce radiation at about the level of one dental X-ray in the immediate vicinity and quickly dissipate."

How do you compare nuclear radiation/poisoning (apples) to electro-magnetic radiation (oranges)?
I truly believe Ubuntu is missing a huge opportunity regarding apt repository statistics. They should be able to track (at least on the mirrors they control) each time a user installs a particular package. Collecting these sorts of statistics and making them public via the Ubuntu website or through Synaptic would add a lot of value to the user community, IMHO. When I'm looking for a particular type of software in the repository, I for one would love to know how many downloads a package has had and how those stats compare to other alternative packages.
Upvotes for first 2. The window resizing game is agitating, and window snapping should be a native feature, if there is keyboard shortcut space for it.
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If we don't fix this, everyone at the galactic congress is going to laugh at us.
Barnes and Noble has indicated they are launching an Android App store of their own [1]. Although, judging by that discussion, I think they see the opportunity they've created with the NookColor but they are still trying to figure out how to take full advantage and win developer's trust.

[1]http://connect.nookdeveloper.com/t5/General-Discussion/Nook-...
The What-The-Hell Effect
1) that common stuff reused as-is (such as jquery) can be cached and reused by many, funny picture memes are usually resized, cropped, modified and I frankly do not see many of them, but I load jquery 200 times a day, it seems to me you want to optimize a non-bottleneck.

2) how do you send such content? suppose it's in the db, you need to convert it to a wire format (json or whatever) and then generate an hash for it, but you do not need to, you could just send a revision id as ETag without even reading the full data from the db

3) whatever you want to do with an hash, you can do using an hash as the etag. The latter is simply more generic
Actually I have been using Vodafone Mobile Broadband here in London and it has the same kind of filter. Somehow it disappeared after three weeks. It didn't seem to be as bad as this one from O2 since I did some tests and I was able to see erotic images without a problem, only porn sites seemed to trigger the filter. That and also maybe 5% of all the different sites I have visited on the last month.
Perhaps how the business would lose is in the form of quality members; essentially they are signing up because they see it as a good deal rather than an investment in themselves. I would doubt if the business will be happy dealing with such customers.
My understanding is that those clauses (or similar ones) are standard. We have one on our house. The point is, the bank doesn't gain anything, usually, by foreclosing. They are (at least in theory) better off receiving the payments they are certain to get rather than trying to find someone new to make them (for probably a smaller loan amount- because the property wouldn't sell for as much).
Right, just pointing out that graphite is not in and on itself a stupid choice.
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This could not be more true. I have ran three groupon in 3 different markets and although they were successful I felt the Groupon representative I worked with in each case had no idea what was going on. The first time around they sent the wrong coupon codes to everyone and had to resend them. The second time they promised us that we would be the primary deal in our entire region of 250,000 people. We ended up getting sent out to subset of 50,000 people most of whom were not in our coverage area. A similar thing happened with the third Groupon.

The problem in my case seems to be that the Groupon representative is just trying to make the sale and is lacking a lot of operational knowledge.
Works for me, what are you seeing?
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That's a great point I hadn't thought of - I haven't seen this happen since I go to the 6am class, but I suspect the later afternoon classes have this happening with them.
We got IdeaPaint for our office, it's pretty cool.
I call bullshit too. I know a bit of electronics, and the transmitter that's plugged into the iPhone looks like a nonsensical circuit: it has something that looks like a transformer (the big black box with an horizontal metal frame that would be the magnetic loop), 2 quartz rezonators (the 2 small vertical rectangular-with-rounded ends metal things next to each other), a red LED (that's off!) and a switch on top left. I'm pretty sure the white plastic horizontal rectangle at the bottom is a capacitor. Actually, if what I first said are quartz crystals are rectifiers, this thing would be a power supply! The wires hanging on the right are the 110 volt leads. You can even see the thicker copper tracks on the circuit board that lead to the transformer. Also, the bit that goes into the iPhone (what port does it go in btw ?) looks just like a metal bit, not a cable or jack.

There's also the hand waving. Usually experimenters are so proud of their puppies that they can't wait to publish the schematics.

Finally, the author is a film maker. Film maker get it ? He made a cool fake film, kudos to him, that's what he's good at, and he got us to talk about it.
I will start using tau exclusively the minute I don't get F's in math for using it.
I think watermarking - inserting a few nearly-inaudible bits in a song/whatever to identify the owner - is becoming more and more common. To name just one example.

That said, I don't think Dropbox should care.
It's a brilliant idea, and makes sense in context of Amazon setting up their own Android store. Of course, Amazon's Android store policies are fairly heavy-handed when compared to Google's, but if they launched their own tablet/phone it would make perfect sense. It solves the problem of why Android phone manufacturers don't really need to update their phones firmware: they're not getting a cut of the software revenues like Apple does.

But if Amazon had their own device, running their own store, hopefully not excluding the default store, they would have an incentive to keep it up to date with the latest Android OS. I would also imagine Amazon could do something worthwhile in their Android mods to improve usability, given that their entire business revolves around superior customer service.

An Amazon tablet could be gangbusters, and a way for Amazon to keep their Kindle owners from jumping ship to Apple's platform.
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I agree his TMI comparison isn't very useful, but about 1/3 of the fuel at TMI did melt, according to http://www.ans.org/pi/resources/sptopics/tmi/whathappened.ht...
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