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A single cross-country flight is a 40usv exposure; flight attendants make the equivalent of 20 of those flights on average every month. An hour maximally exposed to the highest recorded level of outdoor radiation 50km away from the plant is roughly equivalent to two round trips between LA and New York.

If you want to call this "Russian Roulette", that's fine, as long as you're also never going to get into a car, never going to eat red meat, and never going to ride a bike down a city street. All three of those things are demonstrably more dangerous than standing at the gates of the Fukushima plant.

I want to point out that we are talking about you misunderstanding risks at two different points:

(1) You appear to perceive a spot outdoor measurement of 170usv as a significant amount of radiological exposure, when it is in fact a very minor exposure, equivalent to an amount of air travel common in western culture --- and this, despite a concomitant spent fuel pond fire at a nuclear reactor.

(2) You appear to perceive a cumulative 100msv (note unit) exposure as a significant carcinogenic risk, when it is in fact the lowest level of exposure you can endure at which there is any measurable impact on cancer; the behaviors (such as eating red meat) that I am hammering you with produce what appear to be much higher levels of carcinogenesis.
I also have the VM Optimus V and the main issue I see is losing data connectivity occasionally then the phone not being able to get back onto the data network. However, turning airplane mode on then off usually gets things working again.
You can say exactly the same set of things about smog, the soot that blackens a grilled hamburger, the hamburger itself, and the breakdown products of the oil that fries the french fries that go with the burger.
My experience is that AT&T's level one support is excellent, their level two support is mostly ok, and their level three support is /dev/null.
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Unlucky choice of words.

Mr Altucher is implying that the whole Greece thing was not a big deal. Maybe not for the world at large.

Greece was in fact nuked. Nothing is the same and the people will have to look hard for hope amidst rapid decreases in their quality of living. Wage haircuts left and right, across the entire public and private sector. Unemployment. Inflation. Insecurity. Fear. These are real.

The media do report things that are real and scare people. He prefers taking a deep breath and relaxing a bit enjoying the gift "we have". Fine. He can hide his head in the sand. I prefer being aware of things. Regardless.
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Programs written in Python are often augmented with programs written in C. Didn't Python become popular BECAUSE it worked seamlessly with C programs? Use both types of languages together.

But I'm interested in whether type-inferring languages will ever take off, bringing the best of both worlds, i.e. the code tersity of "dynamic" and the compile-time checking of "static". I'm not sure if types can be changed dynamically in these types of languages, though.
He is (very reasonably) expressing frustration at your attempt to reify an irrational fear. If measurable increases in carcinogenesis merit public policy discussions, it is reasonable --- probably imperative, in fact --- that we begin our discussions with things that actually cause cancer. Before you get to talk about the cost/benefit of producing electricity without nuclear power, we have to ban red meat.
Are you a recruiter or something...? This seems like a pretty hostile comment which is based on a number of assumptions by you.

Why do you assume that we can't afford to hire developers or that we offered an insulting salary? The developer accepted the offer -- he was initially disappointed because of the unrealistic range that the recruiter advertised.

Also, the fact that the candidate responded to the recruiter's ad is indicative of nothing. If I post an interesting job description and 3 recruiters repost it with the details tweaked, many candidates (I know some avoid recruiters) are apt to respond to the first one of the four that they come across.

Your comment about making money seems completely out of left-field. We do make money (been in the black for a decade or so) and if we didn't, your comment seems unnecessarily harsh. So with that comment you ran the risk of being wrong, a jerk, or both.
I agree that all you did was interpret XKCD.

You should read more (than XKCD) about the Japanese nuclear event and radiological exposure in general. I think you may be unduly alarmed.

Simply setting foot outdoors with your dog doesn't instantly expose you to an hour's worth of radiation. If you walk your dog for an hour every day, then it will take 480 days for you to achieve the 100msv exposure you're concerned about.

But that's also vanishingly unlikely, because the fission products that produced the 170usv (note units) measurement you are fretting about are short-lived. The few radioactive nuclides produced by the reactor that aren't that short lived aren't simply aspirated out of the air. For 480 days of dog walking to produce this cancer risk you're concerned about (which, again, appears to be significantly lower than the risk you get from eating steaks), the reactor would have to continue leaking radiation at a level comparable to that produced by a spent fuel pond fire, which is the most likely proximate cause of that measurement.

I'm criticizing you for not reasoning through this stuff. It's not a huge mystery. It works in fairly predictable ways. You can measure it and count it and add the risks up. The risks are very, very low.
Hmmm. If by "rule" we mean use/consume, then this seems accurate. However, in terms of creating/leading/shaping the internet that seems to be ignored here. I don't have particularly strong feelings one way or the other, but it seems like it would probably be a good thing if more women were actually driving usage and behaviour and services on the internet.

A better thing than this perhaps, which a cynic might label as "it's easier to monetize women users". But that would be very cynical.
Well, we have :) or ;) [archaic ;-)] – not that different from other proposed or existing sarcasm or irony marks. The problem is its bad image, using it feels at least to me like hitting people over the head with the sarcasm or irony. I think it shouldn’t be that way.

Expressing sarcasm or irony in a text without any punctuation marks or any other obvious hints is hard and, if done right, brilliant. It’s an art quite unlike expressing sarcasm or irony in speech where we actually do hit people over the head with our delivery. We are just more used to it and it has a better image.

We probably shouldn’t be all that ashamed of hitting other people over the head with our sarcasm and irony in text, at least in casual online discussions and when we don’t have time for brilliance.
> And since then, AT&T bought Cingular, now T-Mobile

AT&T didn't buy Cingular per se. In late 2006 AT&T and Bellsouth each owned 50% of Cingular. AT&T got their 50% ownership via SBC. AT&T became sole owner of Cingular by acquiring Bellsouth. That deal closed about Dec 30, 2006 (after many delays getting approval from the FCC). The original iPhone was announced by Apple on January 9, 2007.
I use that on my HN mashup... http://hnfluence.com/

Also my nyt mashup... http://influentialtimes.com/
I didn't mean to sound like the blame is solely on the physicians and nurses. The consultants make mistakes too. Sometimes the software is not perfect. Sometimes there's miscommunication. Sometimes the scope of the project gets way out of hand.

My main point was that due to the size of these projects, there are so many things that need to happen for a successful switchover.
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Devlin has now written 4 (or 5?) columns trying to figure out what multiplication means, and fighting with his readers over it, including arguing at one point that he is not able to get his point across because he is British and his readers are Americans.

Here's my understanding of what the confusion is. Normally, we define multiplication at several levels: (i) define multiplication on integers using e.g. Peano arithmetic, then (ii) define it on rational numbers using the definition of multiplication on integers, (iii) then on reals numbers, complex numbers and so on.

The important point to note is that each of these operations or binary functions are distinct functions because the domain of operations are different. The confusion arises because the operator symbol and the name have been overloaded for these different functions. At no point in his discussion does Devlin seem to make this distinction, that multiplication means different things for different domains.

The further issue is that certain common properties of these operations have been abstracted out to form the concept of a group operation, and this is the perspective that Devlin hangs on to, somehow seeming to think that the multiplication operation for integers, rationals, reals etc. follows from this group-theoretic conception, rather than the other way round.

Which I find strange, considering that he is a mathematician. Perhaps I am misunderstanding his position, but that's not for lack of effort.
>it did not say that radiation does not harm people.

Neither did I.
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Here's a nice concrete article on things you can do with one particular dataset:

http://norvig.com/ngrams/
Who are their competitors?

Why did Facebook buy them? There must be a few clones around?
Do most people avoid fried food out of a fear of the breakdown of polyunsaturated fats in heat? Do they avoid more than one serving of dairy in a day? Do they avoid red meat? Do they take pains to eat kale and chard and spinach to avoid cancer risks? Do they measure their basements for radon? Do they refuse to live downwind from coal-powered nuclear plants? Do they avoid breathing the fumes at gas stations? Do they keep their car ventilation on internal-circulation-only on congested highways? If they fail to do any of these things, they are in all likelihood far more exposed to cancer than anyone who does them and sustains a 100msv exposure to radiation.

Your attempt to swat away the cigarette point isn't going to succeed. Radiation simply isn't as significant a cancer risk as you're portraying it to be.
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> "We will take over the world together and I will make both of us very rich"

That doesn't sound like a smooth talker, it sounds like a tacky sleazeball. Great story, though.
Have you even read that article?
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FYI, Tmob is a defendant named in the EFF suit for illegal wiretapping, along with Verizon and every other major carrier except Qwest.
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While I don't think the mandate would have been a good idea, I don't think you can use the US as a case for 'making the technologies better'.
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Hey ComputerGuru, thanks for reposting this. Where'd it go?
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I feel like the future competitor of telcos won't be a telco. It will be something like an interconnected wifi network spread across a vast area. Imagine a city like New York or SF, with wifi access points everywhere. You use a "phone" to access this network. In other words, an iPod touch that's designed specifically for communication over wifi networks.

Obviously that's a wild prediction, and I really don't know much about cellular network, but hey, it seems possible.
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Founders are more savvy now, and no longer ask questions like, "So when we get money from investors, when do we have to pay them back?"

So if you do get $$ from investors, when do you have to pay them back?
I am saying that despite people's concerns that consolidation in the wireless market will allow AT&T to abuse customers, the wireless market is already so intrinsically consolidated due to capital requirements for entry that AT&T was already asymptotically close to the maximal level of customer abuse it could inflict. This is similar to the argument security people have about the "Microsoft monoculture", as if 2-3 more operating systems were going to be anything more than a speed bump to attackers. One is a monopoly. 2-5 is still a cartel.
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Homeopathy is not a valid field of science, rational people already ignore it.

> It's actually pretty rare for a field to declare outside opinions worthless.

You're the one that keeps bringing up the word worthless. I said people who hold strong opinions on topics in which they aren't educated should be ignored because they have a high probably of not knowing what the fuck they're talking about. That's a fact!

Perhaps you're confused about the difference between outside opinion and uneducated opinion or perhaps you just want to setup a straw man to demolish.

> I'm also not sure why you are attempting to conflate not being a climate scientist with being uneducated.

I'm not, you're projecting; but it tells me plenty about you.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347487

Death by flagging.

James seems to rub some people the wrong way on HN. I like his writing. He's witty and always has an interesting point of view.
That was just an example. The AVC Patent Portfolio has hundreds of such patents.

On the Diary of an H.264 Developer, [1] - the preliminary analysis of Intra Prediction as implemented in VP8 is that "this is a patent time-bomb waiting to happen. " - though there may be prior art to invalidate the H.264 stuff.

We'll see, MPEG-LA has a call for patents on VP8 right now.

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377#more-377
What many seem to be missing is that the potential downside of a black swan nuclear catastrophe is many orders of magnitude worse than anything that could occur at a coal plant and includes such lovely scenes as giant radioactive clouds circling the earth. Clearly the Japanese disaster has come nowhere close to this severity, but what would have happened if another larger earthquake and tsunami had struck in the midst of the containment operations? How about five more? Yes, these scenarios are extremely extremely unlikely, but if the possible results include worldwide radiation poisoning, it still could be worth considering, so I think these fears do have some rational basis. Comparisons to x-ray output or air pollution are completely missing the point.
I think that the frequency of posting has something to do with it as well. Just a few hours ago another story of his was front paged.
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I would suspect it is more of the latter right now, but as apps come out for the iPad, I think it's definitely going to be an asset for doctors, especially in the inpatient setting where doctors need their technology to travel with them.

I don't see iPads being very successful in an outpatient or ambulatory setting, mainly because most exam rooms are already equipped with desktops, and limited functionality may be more of a hindrance.
Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honesty.
Wow he's got a lot of old and bad news to make a post like this. You can go to pretty much any other HN thread besides this one to find better info. This is just full of too many inaccuracies. Here's a few off the top of my head-

1. The Fukushima reactors are an old version of the BWRs and while they do have containment, it's not 100% foolproof and at least one of the reactors already has a damaged containment due to one of the explosions.

2. People will die from this accident. It has been raised to a Level 5, which is the same level as the Three Mile Island accident. Level 5 signifies "severe damage to a reactor core, release of large quantities of radiation with a high probability of significant public exposure and several deaths from radiation." Several of the reactor cores are significantly damaged/melted.

3. The controlled releases of steam are no longer the issue in terms of radioactivity emissions. The steam is an issue in terms of venting hydrogen gas and possibly causing more explosions. The radioactivity being emitting now is much worse. At least one of the spent fuel ponds boiled dry, and the rods are on fire releasing ash and smoke into the atmosphere.
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holy crap, we nuked ourselves nearly a thousand times? I thought the amount of tests we've conducted was far less.
The difference is that with a technical skill it's hard to break away from $x/hr, but if you can leverage the technical skills into areas that have a direct impact on revenue for your client, you can charge some percentage of the revenue increase, which can be way more than your hourly rate.
And a headline that's the very definition of linkbaiting. Flagged, and will flag it again if it comes up again.
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> I know that many apocalyptic predictions from environmentalists turned out to be false

Let me know when it's actually most climate scientists making those bogus predictions and then maybe you'll have a point. Being an environmentalist doesn't make someone's opinion qualified.

> ClimateGate letters show strong evidence of politics and groupthink affecting the field

They showed no such thing. There was no wrong doing uncovered nor anything unethical, ClimateGate was a fake story put on and kept alive by the press.
My mom is a pretty senior manager at T-Mobile, so when I first read this post I texted her about the acquisition. She said that there were rumors in the company that Sprint was trying to buy them, but she had heard nothing about the AT&T acquisition. Five minutes later she got the news break from the CEO. HN ftw.
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If it is a convertible bond, that isn't really as silly a question as the article makes it out to be, and is very relevant given Yuri Milner's convertible bond offer - in which case I believe the answer is "1 year, unless Yuri decides to exercise the option to convert".
There is a timeline form 1945 to 1998 of all the nuclear detonations recorded, where they took place and what nation did it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lquok4Pdk
Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honesty
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As just money, it would be horrible. As a whole package, it's basically the standard for incubator, quite successful, and has a great oversubscription ratio.
Actually, I don't view the article as linkbaiting. The stock market fell 20% over the Greece headlines. Now nobody discusses it. And the media just moves on. No apologies. The same thing will happen with this Japan crisis. I view this as much more serious because of the stark fear people have over the world "nuclear". the media and the pundits know this and take advantage of it.
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What Johnny thinks fails to mentions is that since 2006(a major shift in the parlament from socialism(No, not soviet socialism, rather "I dont care how much money you have in your pocket, you are no difference from a poor man, NOW GET BACK IN LINE!") to right wing(Well hello there Mr. Blue Blood, you see that poor man in the line right at the front? Yeah him, well go take a piss on him and take his place. You deserve it, you are after all rich!)) more and more of the good things about Sweden have disappeared.

The leader of Alliansen, Moderaterna, have in the past voted against universal suffrage(1904-1918), 8 hour workdays(1919,1923), the right for women to vote(1919), two weeks paid vacation(1938), free lunches at schools(1946), three weeks paid vacation(1951), civil union(1994)<br />
Thats not even the tip of the iceberg, thats just a snowflake about to land on top of it.

Sweden used to be about social security, the need of the many outweigh the need of the few, arts and giving anybody a fighting chance. That was the Swedish model

Its getting colder, and its getting cold really fast. The Swedish model 2011: getting rid of the expensive social security and lowering the taxes for the wealthy.
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> Actually, I don't view the article as linkbaiting.

I didn't claim otherwise, and I appreciate your articles. My comment was about the fact that your articles, however insightful, appear often on the front page, sometimes more than once per day. This may rub some people the wrong way.
Also of note that with Bell and Telus's new 3G network, Bell built out the Eastern half (its home base) and Telus built the Western, and they each share their networks with the other. That way, they could build out a next-generation network for half the cost, and twice as fast.

There are also a large number of non-major players (such as SaskTel in Saskatchewan, Aliant in the Maritimes, and so on) that are largely irrelevant unless you live in their coverage areas.
I submitted the same link like 4 minutes ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347698
I'm not saying this is the best article on HN but take a look at this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347017

Is that really a much more insightful piece?

In my mind that's much more pandering to the HN crowd and has a lot less content.

Anyway, I think the worst you can say is that the guy is a little agressive with self-promotion.
Thanks axiom. I felt this was a particularly important one. I don't like how the media operates in terms of scaring the population. But i guess this article had its run. Thanks again.
This is terrible. I've had T-Mobile for 3 years now, and although I had terrible reception sometimes (granted expecting reception in an underground laboratory might not be so reasonable, but my sprint friends had it), the customer service and voice plans were A+.

ATT screwed me seven years ago and I vowed never to take their business again (from what I hear their customer service is still not much better), so I guess if this goes through it's goodbye T-Mobile.