skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not particularly in favor of nuclear energy.

But it seems the danger of plutonium in particular may be exaggerated. I've mostly read the wikipedia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Toxicity

Several populations of people who have been exposed to plutonium dust (e.g. people living down-wind of Nevada test sites, Hiroshima survivors, nuclear facility workers, and "terminally ill" patients injected with Pu in 1945–46 to study Pu metabolism) have been carefully followed and analyzed.

These studies generally do not show especially high plutonium toxicity or plutonium-induced cancer results.[89] "There were about 25 workers from Los Alamos National Laboratory who inhaled a considerable amount of plutonium dust during the 1940's; according to the hot-particle theory, each of them has a 99.5% chance of being dead from lung cancer by now, but there has not been a single lung cancer among them."[95][96] (etc, it's not something you'd want to ingest mind you).

Any counter-references are welcome.
How to deal with business failure
Why MapReduce is Easy
Thanks again for the resources, there are some there I have not heard of before. I have both Windows and Linux boxes.
Google buzz should be killed
I work on mesh wifi, so I'm familiar with Freenet. You can see their (admittedly quite awesome) footprint here:

https://cloudtrax.com/overview2.php?id=freenet_production

Of particular interest is that the mesh admin tool / firmware they're using, which is based on OpenWRT, actually underreports the number of clients and traffic because of its size. The operators say the real figures are order(s) of magnitude larger.
be careful (see other comment in thread):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2387945
I fully agree and that makes sense. Just like 37Signals.

But I was wondering if there was something out there that showed that's what they are doing.
> Google did it by storing an index of the whole internet in Ram. That's performance you worry about from day one, not something you can add in retrospect.

It really depends on implementation. I have changed many applications from RDBMS-based to file-based to memory-based when the need arose. Of course, if you intend speed to be your competitive advantage, then you need to optimize early.
Serious question: why would you want to share it? I think the default for most websites is already that no one goes there. Telling someone "This exists but don't go there" is like the canonical, "Don't think of a polar bear."
Anybody know what Michael Burry's up to these days?
Rationality Engine
I don't see mainstream users regularly +1'ing (or plus'ing???) search results. Feels awkward and forced to me.

Hopefully this is just a very small part of their larger plan.
Long-form version: http://pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

Short-form version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
Do you think Internet popular over the world, only 29 percent.
I believe you're talking about the GMail functionality, but the Receivd team will definitely be able to see the +hn in the email address you send them. Google has nothing to do with it.
Social search is likely the next killer app. The tastes of my friends are far more relevant to me than the judgement of bots.

The question is, who will do it better: Google or Facebook? The search engine or the social graph?
You will most likely want to go through a broker. However keep in mind that with just two people it can be very expensive. There are PEOs which run payroll and provide benefits and HR. The big ones are administaff and ADP total source. administaff I think has a min of 6 employees (or something like that) Im not sure if ADP has a minimum.

Their fees typically run 3% of payroll, but you will save that by being in a much larger risk pool.

there are many smaller PEOs which would cost less or require fewer employees so just search for PEO
4chan already regularly troll google search results by mass-searching for a specific, disturbing sentence. This seems like another tool in their arsenal.

Not saying Google should let bullies dictate their behaviour, but this _could_ be abused.
Are HTML Meta tags still important?
Google introduces +1 button. Answer to Facebook LIKE? 
What you'd do? +1 it or LIKE it?
This is a very naive implementation.

Better off using a keyboard hook or GetAsyncKeyState as someone suggested.

And if you want to write a 'real' implementation, you write a keyboard filter driver. Or hook NtUserGetAsyncKeyState.
>"We all hate you, so please go away."

>"We...laugh at you because you have to go on weekends and holidays when it's crowded and icky."

>"So go be shallow somewhere else."

>"It's not fair"

>"shut up!"

Apparently, the author attended public school in the seventh grade. Unfortunately, the author still relies upon the same set of social skills. Ironically, the author makes secular homeschooling appear less like a well considered decision made by a thoughtful adult.
Headline should really read "Kansas City, Kansas" since "Kansas City" typically refers to either the Missouri half, or the combined whole of the two.
No worries. I was intentionally a bit snarky and deserved the downvote.

I have essentially poured my entire heart and soul into launching and running MassChallenge and I believe deeply in our mission and philosophy, so I took a little umbrage to the phrase "these people" -- they are, after all, my people and they are enabling something deeply important to me and many others.

I do believe that what we do is transformative and outstanding. But I also recognize that it isn't for everyone. Even if you don't end up entering, I encourage you all to come visit us at least once this Summer. I am sure you will find value in the experience and I promise to personally give you a tour and answer any questions you may have.
Well have you got any experience of hard drugs? If so have you seen the downside yet? It doesn't appear so.

First of all, alcohol is not without problems, how much does alcohol cost society, how many violent crimes, divorces, lost jobs and so on is directly related to it?

Cocaine is more addictive, much more likely to kill you from an overdose. It will take you from decent citizen to someone who hasn't slept for a week and thinks about nothing else than how to get hold of more at a much faster rate than alcohol. Now, increase availability, quality and reduce the price.
Why doesn't iTunes have this?
I think this is cool and interesting, but we should approach these biological energy solutions with caution. Body-powered gadgets are the sort of thing every 8 year old imagines he or she can create and mass produce, but I think homeostasis and the fragility of the metabolism have some objections. We may imagine these tensions as having negligible affect on our hearts and diaphragms, but over years of daily wear, we have no idea what these body-power systems could do to our bodies. We take meticulous steps to make sure our children develop perfectly with no type of bodily obstruction with special bottles and cribs and music, why shouldn't we be as hesitant to wrap a tension generator around our mid sections every morning for years on end? I think this technology is very innovative, but I hope these scientists don't take what they're doing lightly. The human body is fragile to long term abnormalities, and I hope they have several doctors advising them as to how to engineer these generators before they hit the market. Its incredible, and life changing, but its also new and body changing.
I don't find this very useful. My friends often like things that I don't like. They're not my friends because they like the bands or movies or web sites that I do. Recommendations from my friends carry no more weight than they would from anyone else.

The only difference between a friend and a stranger is that I might engage a friend in a conversation with specific questions about something they've used or seen that I haven't, but the value of that conversation comes from the detail of the exchange and targeted or objective questions I'd ask, it's not expressible as a boolean like/+1 or a 1-10 rating.
As a semi-finalist last year, I too had a similar experience with the judging, however after getting feedback from those that completed the surveys, MassChallenge hired software entrepreneur Karl Buttner, who also served as a mentor last year, as Chief Mentorship Officer. He's helping to combat cases like ours, and improve the judging/mentorship experience. I think he's even somewhere on this comment thread...
Furthermore HFT is really interesting for a lot of folks because of

(1) high technical sophistication, really hard to do (for each of the servers, network, algorithms, historical data, machine learning, etc)

(2) done behind closed doors (always interesting to get a peek)

(3) technically 'exploits' the financial system in a way that provides certain companies with immense profits
Oh, I agree. The amount of mercury that coal consumption puts out is horrendous -- and a permanent blight. And coal ash is one of the nastier industrial waste products we've managed to create. (I won't start down the C02 discussion, here, but of course it's another huge factor.)

That's one reason I specifically cited renewable energy (and I'm skeptical that geo-thermal really applies in this regard, long term). If you want nuclear energy, we have the solar system's biggest fusion reactor at our disposal. Just divert some of its output on its way to becoming kinetic (including heat) and chemical energy, to do what we need. Yes, there are problems, but progress -- even in the face of meager funding -- has demonstrated that they are solvable.
What if I'm facebook and I'm processing >500M "likes" a day?

Could I create a reasonable search engine only using URLs people have "liked" and weight search results based on number of likes and whether people in my friends list have liked it?
Zipcar Gearing up for an IPO
Probably some credit for the title and article goes here?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364648
You're right, I guess practicing your pitch in front of the mirror is better preparation for pitching a VC.
I see some references to family throughout the comments, but one fundamental thing is that things are different once you have a family. The founder of our startup always goes home to have dinner w/ his wife and kids, but it would be a complete mistake to say he's slacking -- he works late into the night from home.

Steve Blank wrote a great post about how to navigate this tricky balance of startup/family and what worked for him. It's here: http://steveblank.com/2009/06/18/epitaph-for-an-entrepreneur...
This is the actual chapter about it from the guide http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/languages.html

Co-incidentally, I was tinkering with Racket this afternoon and completed their Quick Intro tutorial. Racket's centralized library distribution system PLaneT gives Racket a good environment. Coming from the ruby world, that means a lot to me.

Anybody who wants to start with Racket, even with no prior programming experience would need just the docs and nothing else. Racket has excellent and detailed docs. More-over their quick intro skims thru racket by teaching you to create some super-simple 2D graphics (think circles and squares).
Whether you measure by hour or by mile air travel is still comparatively safe (1/4th as many fatalities per hour and 1/60th as many fatalities per mile, compared to automobiles).
Is the techcrunch article more interesting than Google's own announcement? I personally don't find their coverage to be very insightful. (except for the occasional Mark Suster guest post)

Makes me wonder if jacques' blog may not be the only one targeted by HN auto-posting bots.
Open access legal scholarship is 50% more likely to be cited
You could also ask "Are we getting overly reliant on technology"?

But the original question about GPS is already interesting. The GPS network is getting pretty old. What if a few satellites fail? Replacing them will take a while, won't it?
>if you take anyone's ideas without permission, YOU ARE STEALING.

Plagiarism isn't [generally] a crime. There is no general legal protection for artistic ideas (patents usually have a clause requiring industrial application; copyright protects works and not ideas per se). In addition - and this makes me think you're trolling - using another persons idea isn't stealing unless you do something like electroshock therapy to remove that idea from their memory. Stealing requires that something is taken and then can't be used any longer by whomever it was taken from; you can't steal an idea.

>Re-using the exact same image is just insult to injury.

The original and subsequent use appear to be [copyright] infringing use of an image which from what I can tell is the original work of the owners of petitelapgiraffe.com. Certainly if iandennismiller.com has any default right to use it then too does longislandpress.com.

I can't access the original cache but from the rest of what is presented this just looks like Mr Miller wrote a blog post that a journo read, journo wrote a story on the same thing referencing the same source; TBH I can't see the fault in that. Whilst it would have been nice to credit the reference that gave one the source I don't really see it as unethical not to.
It's a brilliant mission, which I of course stand behind. The seed funds and accelerator programs which do mentoring are of incalculable value -- to offer them with no equity as recompense is as noble as it gets, though I don't think an equity stake is 'molestation'.

I'm ignorant to much of it, so I'm glad to see the discussion here where I can learn more. The website really is quite hard to follow for those just wanting to learn more.
Ask HN: Wouldn't you want this feature in Photoshop?
Except from not being able to use the arrow keys in the Camera RAW plugin,
I would really like to be able to decide how far back between two history entries
(between two ctrl+alt+Z) I wish to revert changes.

Imagine something like a motion tween in Flash, but between one history entry and another - and then be able to pick where you want to go back in time to.

Makes sense? I'd love it at least!
Ron Burk: 3 Strange Definitions of Computer Programming from Edsger Dijkstra
Please, let's keep the fear mongering down. This is the first incident of this kind in 40 years and the number of casualties will probably not exceed a few hundreds.

Coal alone killed over 100,000 people over the past century.
Google Wants You to +1, But Why Would You?
Tips and Best Practices for being On-Call
Merlin Mann at Webstock: Scared Shitless [video]
Tell HN: Twitter is 'technically wrong' again, but why can't I tweet?
Like email, twitter could have MTAs, or T(weet)TAs that cache inbound tweets until the twitter backend is up.
The US was very slow in asking for help. It officially asked for help one week after the disaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurri...).

The US also waited over two months to accept any major international help with the Deepwater Horizon disaster (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/06/143771.htm).

I have a friend working in the Swedish Foreign Ministry, with disaster management. She tells me that another problem, except pride, is that many developed countries aren't well prepared to accept help. Apparently, lots of equipment sent to the US during these two crises was just waiting somewhere along the way, because there were no logistics in place to handle international help.

It might be a similar situation with Japan.
It can have a nerdy connotation, but +1 is pretty well known. The average person probably sees it in the party invite/club culture context where you vouch for one person, much like you'll be vouching for sites.

Probably not better than Like, but definitely not worse than Tweet.

Edit: And the ultimate arbitrator of slang agrees: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=plus%20one
I like it. Seems unintrusive and simple, but useful en-masse.

(-1 the mouseover animated highlight glossy thing though.)
Its quite indicative of the audience here that on the top 10 browsers IE does not appear, whereas if I look at daily traffic for the health site I work on in my day job (older and significantly less techy demo) IE is the number 1, 2 and 3 browsers.
google: windows 7 iso (first result) (mydigitallife)

The links that say msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent are the same as when you buy online (at least when I bought my win 7 professional license for my desktop the iso linked is the same as the one I downloaded).

Those are probably the only ones I would trust, make sure you are indeed going to digitalrivercontent website, download appropriate language and version/arch (prof, home prem 64 or 32)
Wanted to come here and say this! It seems to me a lot of this is to inflate the ego of the interviewer almost.
But isn't this the classic problem regarding the dinosaur and the egg ?!

I would have made sure that those embeddable buttons (some basic rudimentary version) are out along with the roll out. Because, I know literally no-one who goes back to the search results page for anything !
The searchengineland article explains it: http://searchengineland.com/meet-1-googles-answer-to-the-fac...
As far as I understand, things from connected accounts is the social connection. The friends are your buzz friends (I think, please correct me if I'm wrong).
Interesting. Most of my chemistry knowledge is 20+ years old. I'm curious to look a bit further and update it.
I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, Google should have done this years ago, even if it had no effect on result placement, think of all the data they could have collected. On the other hand, the big appeal of Google is the simplicity and minimal clutter, and this is just another useless (at least on the first search) thing added to the interface.
I think Google has a bit of an upper hand here. They already have search data, so if they can combine that with the social data...

Plus, I don't necessarily have all that much in common with my friends, but if Google can categorize me and say "oh, people with similar interests as you liked this", that's likely much more relevant. This isn't to say Facebook couldn't do something similar, I just feel like this is much more up Google's alley.
Someone should make a +1 function with a GRE question as a captcha.

A web for the rest of us!
"Liquidity is needed most when markets are falling outside the norm"

True but humans have fail-safes and kill switches too, thus this is not a valid argument against HFT in favor of human market makers. At any time, humans could step in and provide liquidity during the flash crash and during other crashes.
As far as I can tell, if something shouldn't be on HN, we have the ability to flag a post.

You cannot flag comments downvoting is there to discourage, trolls and abuse.

We can say that it might be better to never down-vote - but many users have the ability, and it's a regular practice. Neglecting the fact is a little like ignoring the fact the emperor is wearing no clothes.

I am well aware of that and it has lead to a decline in the standard that HN used to be (while my account may not reflect it I have been around here for a long time, and witnessed the decline first hand). It has been complained about on HN ad nasium. No one is neglecting the fact that it happens, I am just stating that doing so makes HN a worse place the results are obvious and have already lead to some valuable people leaving.
Have you really thought this through? For example, here are 3 possible search queries:

1) Is Blockbuster Movie any good?

Here the opinions of your friends might be more valuable to you, as valuable to you, or less valuable to you, depending on how important it is to you to have the same taste as your friends or whether you consider their movie tastes similar to your own.

2) Courtship rituals of early-modern spain

Here the opinions of your friends are almost certainly less relevant than that of a bot, unless you run in a very niche circle.

3) Directions to Skyline Chili

Here the bot is almost definitely a better choice than your friends.

Lastly, you always have to fall back to a bot because most searches are not going to have many results that friends have actively curated. So bots will continually have a place in search, and I would argue will because more important over time, as they become smarter.
I just did some searching around to confirm this, because I had thought Apple released the spec back when they announced it, but you're right. Not a peep.

It sort of behooves them to release it... it would build support for FaceTime, which would make their phones more useful.

But it seems pretty certain they don't want other phones to be able to check that FaceTime box on their marketing materials just yet. I know being able to chat with my mom and sister who both have iPhones is one reason I'm considering buying one.

Seems low to announce it as an open spec if you don't have any intentions of opening it any time soon though.
A 16dB+ panel antenna and Ubiquiti Networks Bullet2HP radio, and a suitably high location, would shorten that distance for you very nicely. ;)

From my own experience working on a community wireless project in St. Louis, the benefit of a 1Gbit/s fiber uplink (or several) would be that you could use newer 5GHz radios with MIMO features to build out >=50Mbit/s distribution for that uplink over a few square miles. So, 1Gbit/s could be parted out to 20 end users getting 50mbit/s each, and with an infrastructure cheaper than running fiber or some other wired medium directly to those 20 users.
I still don't get this. What does my social circle have to do with my Google searches. I am friends with lots of people who I don't trust to influence my search results. The Hunch approach makes a lot more sense where it uses recommendations of people who have similar tastes to me. People I am friends with is not a good proxy for people who's opinion I care about when searching for camera documentation, or dog breeds, or Python libraries, or anything at all. I hope I'm proven wrong, but I just don't see it.
Amazon Cloud Player
Apparently the thread is too deep to reply to you directly: but yes, I have tried hard drugs and walked away. My brother was not so lucky -- he died of a heroin overdose.

I have lost other friends to meth.

My mother was an alcoholic who died homeless.

Is that enough "cred"?
I do find it slightly troubling that a single utterance of "NO LIMIT" is enough to alter a contract.

"NO LIMIT" is not very explicit in what it refers to.

A contract signed and in place was able to be refined without additional signatures nullifying the previous contract -- This is a scary precedent. May there be mercy on anyone that IMs me something that could be perceived as altering a contract we have.
I think they've done this a few times, I remember there used to be an up and down arrow in search results, but they abandoned that a while back.
No, it's actually been around much longer than that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookss_law

Not even sure if that's the origin of the phrase.
It looks like an ALEC-based bill. The article mentions weird-accounting rules for indirect subsidies, see section 13.5 of this, ALEC's model "Municipal Telecommunications Private Industry Safeguards Act":

www.muniwireless.com/reports/docs/antimunicipalbroadband.doc

(I don't know if this is the most recent model bill from ALEC)
Bookmark-ish functionality I guess?

Maybe you could pretend it's a microtransaction gift to the receiver, which it probably is in some vague way.
Hacker group defies U.S. law, defends exposing McAfee website vulnerabilities
>With affiliates it's often difficult to know, since they have an incentive to project success to boost e-book sales.

If you're a successful affiliate I find it hard to imagine that you'd want to write an e-book and even harder to imagine that you want to have more people competing with you for affiliate money. So presumably the intention is to go pyramid and get referral fees for those you subscribe in?