skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because it's an account from someone associated with this game and Rejection Therapy (made by the same guy).

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sims

Not that there's anything wrong with posting your own stuff on HN, just explaining why the title might sound biased.

Edit: Although there seem to be a few accounts that post primarily on Rejection Therapy-related items. A quick browse around:

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pauledwards

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lothar (Zero to Superhero is also by the same guy as Rejection Therapy)

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=edburgess

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=edburgess

I'm not sure sock puppeting is so cool.
then how are you counting?
Future gazing: The prospects for interstellar travel
I like this "hackers in need idea". Though there needs to be a way to keep out the leechers/time wasters. A turing test of sorts or captcha for programmers?? Dunno...
I found an issue when I signed up in current dev version of chrome (untested in everything else): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7948781/screenshot.png
He commented earlier on HN that lots of people from the news media had been contacting him. Here's a link to what he said:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2330783
I don't think there's much that can be done with this. I spent a week with a Xoom and while it isn't slow it isn't lightening fast either. So you can't really cut any of the hardware specs.

The cheap Android tablets that came out before saved money by putting a sub-par touch screen on. But last I checked Google was insisting on Multi-Touch ability for Honeycomb tablets. So there's no way to go cheap on the screen.

So I don't see where Android tablet manufacturers could cut from. As it is Apple's ability to buy in bulk and manufacture their own chips gives them a huge cost advantage.
You are missing the word "sans" from that comment.

The general opinion used to be that serif was better for bodytext, and sans for title, and Arial is sans serif, but not one of the better ones.
Weird reading comments with 10 year old technology. All you can do is "Recommend", "Report as inappropriate", or add you own comment without knowing where it will fall in the thread. Replying to someone else is basically useless.

Maybe I'm spoiled by Hacker News, but without the give and take of healthy debate, it's hard to learn much.

But then again, maybe that's the point.
They'll do their own research when the government stops competing with them in that arena. Until then, why duplicate it when they (and everyone else) has been forced to pay for it anyway? (I'm all for research, but I'm against forcing people to pay for it. The best scientific research is intricately tied into industry anyway. For example, where would biochemistry be without cyclotrons, radiolabeling, glassware and chemical reagents? All of that was possible because of private industrial work. Ever heard of Peter Mitchell?)

Second, pharmas aren't free to develop whatever they think would be profitable. New drugs cost around a billion dollars to develop because of the FDA, which is ridiculous. There are many rare illnesses for which affected people don't want the "safety" the FDA imposes. As long as billion dollar development costs are imposed on every drug, there is no chance that any progress can be made for these people. So it's not the pharmas, it's the regulation.
Nope. Even when you count per hours, planes remains vastly safer than car -- more than 4 times safer.

Deaths per billion hours
Bus: 11.1
Rail: 30
Air: 30.8
Water: 50
Van: 60
Car: 130
Foot: 220
Bicycle: 550
Motorcycle: 4840

Deaths per billion kilometres
Air: 0.05
Bus: 0.4
Rail: 0.6
Van: 1.2
Water: 2.6
Car: 3.1
Bicycle: 44.6
Foot: 54.2
Motorcycle: 108.9

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_safety#Accidents_and_incide...
Series A + 2 to 3 people is way earlier than I thought. I would like to have someone to take care of all this paperwork for me though... :)

How did you find yours? Was he a friend before hand?
I'll never forget when I saw a code in a production java app with lots of JSP, SQL, jdbc, html and javascript in the same file. One of the lines was something like:

<a href=# onclick="document.getElementById('field').innerHTML+=parseInt(this.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parenNode.childNodes[7].childNodes[13].split('|')[3])">...</a>
Does anyone else not get a scrollbar on that site?
Copyright and patents are very different bits of IP.

Creative works like books are under copyright. You don't think that the ability to earn a living benefits the public by allowing a higher level of production of books, movies, music, etc...? I'm certain that things are tilted too far in favor of companies like Disney, but that doesn't mean the system should be thrown out entirely.

Patents seem like they depend more on the field: I think they're a hindrance for computer science, but am less convinced that they're a bad thing for things like drugs. In any case, it's a compromise, like you say, so the answer is likely to be in the middle somewhere.
Can a gaming startup be lean?
If I could give you 10 points I would, just for the effort.

It was originally there, for what it's worth, but we ran into exactly that issue.

My personal (minimalist) favorite position was just outside the grid, to the left of the picture, with JUST the application icon -- of course, that had to be rethought as soon as we had our first iPad app submitted.

I'll keep playing with options, naturally -- can I pester you again later to get your thoughts on what we end up with?
The proposed Thompson cycle -- learn > build > measure -- discounts the difficulty of leaving the learn node and entering the build node when you first start.

Perhaps it's different for designers, but my experience with people in other areas is that people get trapped in a learn > learn infinite loop.

So one of the advantages of the Ries cycle -- build > measure > learn -- is that you gain a critical bit of forward momentum right at the start.
Confirmed: Kanye West will be performing at SXSW (Exlusive Quote)
Microsoft lands on list of world's “most ethical” companies
PyCon 2011 Video Archive
If you are working with location data, Mongo has built in geospatial indexing built in since 1.4 (earlier in the unstable builds) - http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Geospatial+Indexing which has been a big draw for a number of people I know using it (it looks like 1.8 brings spherical distances to the stable branch which makes the geo lookups a lot more useful if you need accurate distances and not just near by lookups).
AI Journalist Helps You Talk Trash During March Madness
"Comparably" is what I meant, certainly. When you add only negatives to an existing assessment, everything will look worse, but relative positions can change.
Thanks, that looks like it might be it.
So, I know that the Japanese are well prepared for earthquakes - I watched documentaries on Discovery about it :)

But my God, this earthquake went off the charts. Then 500 other earthquakes of magnitude 5 to 7 happened. Every one of those earthquakes would have been a problem in my city, as we've got plenty of old buildings.

So it's really hard for me to believe that the Japanese are so well prepared. I also saw pictures of survivers and of various affected areas and the situation is rather not good.

The thing I admire Japanese for right now - they don't complain much and they don't go creating more mayhem on the streets.

But that doesn't mean they don't need help, and if I were in Patrick's shoes, I would be careful about stating such things - maybe because of this article, some poor neighborhood / city that has been badly affected won't receive help in due time, as public opinion does tend to have crazy effects like that.
Yeah, saw those figure wrt the other thread and wondered how many tons of non-uranium are mined in order to extract the uranium. I decided I didn't know enough about uranium mineral deposition to come to a reasonable analysis and couldn't readily find such information. Is uranium ore found in large seams like coal?

Others following one of my other comment have basically said that in situ leeching is the only method used but I doubt that for several reasons. Not least of which that I gathered uranium is mined alongside other metals and I doubted acid leeching would work for all of them at the same time.
Sure - I'm just pointing out something that could be a big deal (streaming results through an ordered structure in memory, that may or may not be backed by a lazy disk store) is actually not a big deal, due to a current implementation constraint.

But you're right too, of course.
The Sole Purpose of Formal Education
Google Earth's Surreal, 'Melted' Bridges
This is excellent, thank you. Miles better than any of the TV news coverage.
Compile and boot linux kernel in 15seconds
Dropbox already takes advantage of the local subnet if it can for synchronization... has for quite a while now.
can't bury that which is true.
The author publicly stated he no longer comes to HN, so he won't see any comment here.
Zune Death Report Denied by Microsoft Hardware Exec
After a point, all communication relies on assumed prior understandings. The question becomes if those assumptions are reasonable or not. I think hers were.
Design clones are super lame.
First this:

They don't make any economic sense or any other sense.

Then this:

They should be working for the public good. (Applause) And that means it should be available to the public. So...

So...why aren't any of these (his 145 books):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_tc_2_0?rh=i%3Astripbo...

in the public domain?
I still like the idea to be paid for producing, not for copying. The 100 guys you mentioned did it right.
It rendered somewhat incorrectly for me, but it was smooth and didn't crash. I'm on Safari on iPad 2 iOS 4.3.
The new Xerox logo sphere has the same problem as AT&T's new sphere logo. The perspective is off-center, so the poles are not aligned! Just looking at the AT&T logo makes me dizzy..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/Att_svg....
Maybe you should read the article; the point was that there's no way to win... so suggesting solutions is just as pointless as following the rules.
Teach Your Forms Some Manners with Formalize.
This was the main reason why I picked it for a project. Its just sick the amount of code you DON'T have to write to use this database. I literally have 1 class called GenericCRUD with 5 functions that do all my database functions for all my models. Plus not having to worry about stored procedures anymore is a heavy weight lifted off your shoulders.
"But can you explain why that reactor pond at that time (presumably lost water and) went critical???"

No, but I can speculate.

We "know" [1] that the ponds were boiling at one point. As boiling is the point at which water becomes vapor, if nothing else the ponds will eventually boil dry.

We also know that the spent fuel pools require cooling and that all power has been cut to the plant so there is no cooling.

Temperature rise in the pond will be a function of how many fuel rods are present and the amount of U235 in those rods (are they 'new' waiting to be installed, or 'old' waiting to be disposed? I don't know and its not clear from what I've read what there relative age is.) The uranium is decaying to lead [2] and as it decays, and its decay products decay. It generates heat. Not enough heat to be a useful source of energy, but certainly enough heat to keep the water boiling.

My speculation is that since the other electrical infrastructure has been severely damaged around the plant (and they do not have power back yet [3]) that the equipment that was responsible for circulating water in the pond through convection coolers isn't running and natural convection has either been disrupted or is insufficient to keep the water temperature down.

This combines to allow the water to boil, and if the spent fuel rods in the water were to be uncovered, there is sufficient U235 remaining in the rods present for the group to reach crititcality.

"why aren't isn't the fuel pallets in these ponds spaces so far apart that one could never interact with another under any circumstances?" because the contingency plans did not include a triple failure of main power, diesel backup, and battery backup. I suspect in the future two things will be true, one there will be stronger limits on how many rods you can keep in the pond, and there will be a passive cooling requirement.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-0316-ja...

"Reports from the scene indicate the water in the cooling pond is boiling vigorously and engineers fear it will soon boil away, exposing the fuel rods, which would allow them to melt. "

[2] http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/radiation/radiation.htm...

[3] http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html

"Attempts to return power to the entire Daiichi site are also continuing."
"How about file formats? Graphics manipulation algorithms? "

If Einstein wouldn't have come up with his theory, someone else would have. Those properties aren't going to change.

Photoshop, file formats, and algorithms are unique to the individual/individuals that created them.
The nuclear calculations have a long timeline. They include mining deaths for plant construction and refueling, and one Chernobyl-scale event every 20 years or so. The numbers are explained in much more detail here:

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...
I'm starting to get feed up about patio11 and the all's well attitude and "we'll manage, thank you very much". The last head-count is seventeen thousand dead and rising. It is obvious that all is _not_ well and that people in the affected areas need help and fast.
Hey there, you're welcome. I found your study very interesting and very important to publishers and SEO. Good stuff and appreciate the comments!
Definitely a good idea to change the icon. The old one looked like an evil robot eye. Not the best imagery for a company trying to convince everyone they aren't an evil robot...
Ouch, we'll take a look, we saw that issue earlier and though it's been fixed. Thanks!
I wouldn't have strict rules when finding talent. If the person is wonderfully talented, a strong worker, professional, and nice, but w/o online portfolio VS less talented person with portfolio?
Without any hard data, I really doubt it went critical. Unless I'm faced with incontrovertible evidence, I'm going to conclude that if there was a fire, it was due to failure to remove decay heat, not due to a criticality excursion.

It's possible, of course. But I just don't think anyone would be dumb enough to put the fuel in such an arrangement that lack of water in the pond would cause a criticality excursion.
A seemingly good question I ran into was "Enter the last 5 digits of your driver's license." I always have my driver's license with me, which sounds good. The problem is NJ driver's license numbers are actually encoding of your data. The last 5 digits are your birth month and year (MMYY) plus a digit that maps to your sex (0 or 1 for a female, 5 or 6 for a male). My Facebook profile contains the answer to the security question.
This is an old comment, so I'll not type out a long reply, but note that bcrypt has random salts while your scheme has a fixed salt. With a large database of passwords plus your fixed salt, an attacker can try each calculated hash against each hashed password in your database. With sufficiently long random salts (bcrypt has 2^176 ~= 10^53 bits of salt, if I count correctly), the attacker only gets to try a calculated hash against one hashed password.

And yes, you should tune the number of rounds to get something sensible for your application.
It's ironic that Einstein couldn't file a patent on relativity.
With their kind of scalability, any positive cash flow is awesome news.
Hey, there are even old boring people walking around on campus who are users . . . heck, even in Carrboro

If it wasn't a HIPPA issue, we might be using Dropbox for more internal projects here

Love, love, love dropbox. You undergrad at Sitterson?
I forgot the name, but this is it:

http://www.edg.com/index.php?location=c_frontend
Reminds me of the "Stranger Danger" scare a while back. Teaching children to beware of strangers makes them safer from kidnappers, but less safe if they get lost or need help from a random adult for some reason. Guess which of these situations is more common.
Thanks, I didnt know this , was pretty obvious for them to do it that way.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Gap's 2010 logo change (which lasted just one week):

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/new-economy/2010/1012/New-...
Super 8 film rocks South by Southwest, at least sort of.
I started to include links to my website on my resume as it contained a lot more interesting work and code than my day job.

It didn't seem to be helping, however it turned out that most recruiters were scrubbing it from the version they passed on to prospective clients.
I'm curious -- VRBO could easily pivot and handle transactions themselves, directly. Instead they've chosen to offer optional insurance:

In general it is true that BigCo X could do function/feature/integrate Y and totally kill Startup Z - but it doesn't happen all that much.
Your chemistry class example is nonsensical. In class, if there is an opportunity to explore a few things and a mess is made, maybe you would not be blamed. That's usually not how labs are run--you follow a procedure and mixing chemicals with no forethought is a huge safety hazard to everybody in the lab. Neither the "real world" nor the Internet is a place with a mutual agreement between all participants to experiment with each other's property.

Maybe a better example would be going into your neighbor's backyard and testing how readily his shrubbery lights on fire. Oops, it's burning! Tell him to "fix the bug" and move on.
maybe but still far away from making any real impact in terms of popularity. maybe Google can take out Java (or Delvik) from Android development and replace with Go. Well, even if they try now it will take a long long while. So realistically I don't see how Go has any future. Google can but some how Google is bad in marketing it's own stuff.
Android does a lot more reflows than iOS. iOS zooms by first scaling a raster image of the page and then reflowing after a brief delay of user input. That kind of resize is very fast, whereas a full HTML document reflow is slow.
Everyone's right that it was an ill-advised thing to do, but stepping back ignoring the law (I know..) and just asking yourself the gut question:

What's worse? injecting a relatively harmless script into the product (that frankly caused them to fix an issue that could have been very painful for them if someone more devious had found it first), or Qato's ripoff of Quora in the first place?
Japan has a population of ~ 300 million and is one of the most advanced and wealthiest nations on Earth.

I am sure those affected need help but what makes you think others can provide help better/faster then Japan itself can?

Perhaps the US navy has lifting capacity that Japan could use, but what else?
iOS does that thing were the page sits still till it realises you're scrolling, not clicking, then accelerates towards your finger then decelerates again as it approaches your finger. Android (at least as of 2.2) seems to just snap to your finger once it realises you're scrolling. Could that be it?
The browsing on an original and even 3g iphone are so enranging that they almost make me homicidal - so I think what you are seeing is a rev 1 vs a rev 4 product, so I wouldnt compare them in such degrees
The Suburbanization of Mike Tyson
The other side of that argument is of course that most patients don't want "unsafe" drugs, so that regulation has a purpose.

Is there any way to get a best of both worlds in this scenario? Quicker to-market times for drugs for rare and dangerous diseases, and the safe route for the more common drugs?
I also do not understand the usefulness of "secret" questions ... mostly the correct answer would be far too easy, so every one with access to my website, Twitter or Facebook pages would be able to answer it (or trick it out of me or someone who knows me).

So now there are a lot of accounts with some very strange answers to their secret questions - answers so far out that I would have to write them down along with the complex password... which makes them completely redundant.
You are right about the facts. And perhaps that's a non-point on well-educated HN. But the general public seems to be under-appreciating the pervasiveness of natural radiation, and freaking out about any nuclear contraptions. In some countries you can't even import those glowing tritium keychains :-(
Yes; people also freak out when a few dozen people die of a mysterious new disease like Ebola, even though thousands die every year in car accidents. The reason is not "WAHHH viruses WAHHH," it's that sometimes, mysterious new diseases become epidemics which kill millions, like AIDS.

A higher level of caution with unknown new threats, whose full possible level of harm is not understood, is rational and appropriate.
I disagree.

1. There are plenty of proof of concepts you can develop that don't destroy the page.

2. The Quora engineers in question didn't enter stuff into a textbox and leave it alone. They went and publicly disclosed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in a competitor's website.

Edit: Ben deleted his "answer" which disclosed the XSS. However, the comments on the answer are still accessible (for now) if anyone is curious about them: http://www.quora.com/Is-Qato-a-serious-Quora-clone-attempt/a...

Edit 2: Rick Ross posted a comment there I think is worth highlighting.

"In a way, we're grateful to these guys (Ben and Albert) for helping us close a hole. Their method of publicly vandalizing a test site and bragging about it is another matter. A simple email would have sufficed."
You nailed it. Facebook ads work if you want to send people to a Facebook page or Facebook game where people will spend Facebook credits ending up back in your Facebook account so you can buy more Facebook ads.
You sure can. I think his point is still valid. Nuclear disasters are unique in that the damage from then tends to last FAR longer then the damage from any other type of disaster.
>> I'm starting to get feed up about patio11 and the all's well attitude and "we'll manage, thank you very much".

I don't know that he ever said that they don't need help. One thing he did say is that you are not going to BE much help if you come and don't speak Japanese.

(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318005)
I appreciate the thought, but it takes $2k to bring you here, which is enough to put an out of work Japanese twenty-something on the project for a month. He's literate and can understand directions.

(note: I can attest from personal experience that people that don't speak Japanese can have difficulty getting around without assistance once they leave Tokyo)
Thank you. I still hope Patrick responds because I wanted to hear the specific story. In what you linked, I imagine he was referring to reporters in information-hunting mode.
well, the article is in tech section. for someone to read or write a tech article on cnn and not know about drobbox is a serious WTF
Wait until Hipster is released. Here's the SXSW version, http://sxsw.usehipster.com/
First female engineer on the cover of WIRED this month
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/07/facebook...
>The question becomes if those assumptions are reasonable or not.

There is no question here - her assumption is reasonable based on the stereotype she has. There is absolutely no evidence that the guy shared her stereotype.
lovely list, except one thing , don't make your friend read Techcruch ;)