skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought that the reactors survived a tsunami and a earthquake at the same time was pretty good. Damaged but still intact, I do think it will take awhile for the whole picture to emerge on what took place. It seems most of the news about the nuclear hazards are an echo chamber so there might be some real danger. Most of the safety systems were wiped out and it's still standing? I had imaged the reactor turning into a roman candle launching fuel rods all over the place. The entire picture has yet to emerge and yet people are talking about it like the show is over.

But then again most people commenting about the situation are pretty far away from Japan. Myself: I'm sitting in California. I'm sure if the San Onfre Plant started venting a small amount of radiation I would get a little edgy including a shift in perspective

An out of control/damaged nuclear plant is still a out of control/damaged nuclear plant. Radiation leakage or no radiation leakage. I would be mad if any radiation came my way due to someone cutting corners or just not caring, no matter the dosage.
They were hydrogen explosions, not nuclear explosions.
I think his point is that up until now the Fukashima situation has proven to be an illustration of the stability and safety of the technology rather than the dangers of it. Since the situation seems to be stabilizing, I think its a pretty good argument.

Also, there has been no nuclear explosion. (IMHO, that's not a trivial error you made there)
China’s Facebook counterpart creates a LinkedIn clone with a Quora twist
I fail to understand (conceptually) how this is any different than what ASCAP has already negotiated with songwriters, composers, lyricists and music publishers .

Do you oppose what Pandora does?

See: http://www.ascap.com/licensing/about.html

A brief excerpt:

"It is impossible for individual composers and publishers to monitor the hundreds of thousands of businesses that use music. It would be equally difficult, time consuming and expensive for business owners to locate and negotiate with all the owners of the music that might be used. There is a simple, fast and reasonably priced alternative. Through ASCAP, in one simple transaction, businesses can obtain the right to perform the millions of songs created or owned by more than 400,000 of America's and hundreds of thousands of the world's best songwriters, composers, lyricists and publishers. Founded in 1914, and still owned by and managed for its writer and publisher members, ASCAP grants businesses the permission they need to perform music publicly. The money collected is distributed, after deducting operating costs (currently 11.3%), directly to ASCAP members and to affiliated foreign performing rights organizations for their members. "
Great to see disclosure. This can happen to anyone, and more so for startups, where labor is short, focus is on developing features. Using the phrase "Never Happen Again" is a bit strong though.
Security is risk management; spend until you can accept the remaining risk while still maintaining profit and avoid being a hacker's low-hanging fruit.
Nope, the main site is also hosted on EC2. I saw Adrian Cockroft give an abbreviated overview of their architecture recently. There's very little that isn't already on EC2 and they're actively working to move those things.
This just, again, shows the core problem with censorship. By removing the right for the user to choose which app to download, Apple takes upon itself to filter out "inappropriate" apps. Where do you draw the line? To some extent, something will always offend someone.
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And indeed there couldn't be such an explosion, the fuel is not rich enough in U235.
Ask HN: How to build a Minimum Viable Product that is a smartphone app
I am hoping that someone with more experience building Minimum Viable Featuresets for products can tell me. I can understand the value in building a MVP around a SaaS(Browser based), because its quite easy to add features, and deploy with out much disruption. But, how does one do it in the smartphone app arena? I have quite a number of apps on my android phone that have never been updated since install, and if I release the bare minimum featureset as part of Version 1.0, wont I stand the risk of my initial launch base possibly never being able to experience my Version 1.x feature release?

Or should I be releasing Version 1.0 to a closed (invite only) user base and iterate like crazy based on feedback received from them before doing a public launch?

Any advice is very much appreciated.
New York Times Asks Twitter to Disable Paywall-Jumping Feed
Hiring white hat hackers is a joke. They are the ultimate in hacks.

Step 1. Open up Metasploit
Step 2. Button Mash.
????
Step 3. Profit
The screens get oily enough as it is...
I am saying that I am sure the level of vitriol being directed at Netflix right now via email or other anonymous/private communications channels is disproportionate relative to the otherwise high value that is derived from an $8/mo luxury purchase.

With tongue firmly in cheek I am urging calm in this moment of national crisis. In other words, it was a joke.
The problem, of course, is that the works most likely to benefit from the settlement, those that are orphaned or abandoned, will have no-one to opt-in for them.

Works that aren't orphaned have already opted in - just go to amazon.com. :-)
If you need that many cores on a single machine, then I don't know how to help you -- but if you can split them up, Amazon EC2 would probably work.
The actual streaming is from CDN, though: http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/cloud-innovator...
The one true exception of HN. Everyone gets an upvote from me.

EDIT: I cannot believe I just Motherfucking upvoted all of you Motherfuckers.
> An out of control/damaged nuclear plant is still a out of control/damaged nuclear plant.

Indeed. To borrow a meme from elsewhere, TRWTF is that the design requires active cooling for safe operation. Fukushima has proved that any safety system requiring active operation will inevitably fail.

The worst failure mode is meltdown, which the containment vessel would catch as the final line of defence (a la Three Mile Island), but it shouldn't have gotten this far in the first place.

That said, Fukushima is a 40-year-old design. Hopefully it'll be replaced with something with more passive safety.
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Nuclear power is necessary to provide "bridge" energy until we can go fully green. We don't have the resources yet to meet all our needs using green energy sources, and nuclear is far better than fossil fuels. Also, modern nuclear plant designs don't have any of the dangers that reactors like TMI and Fukushima had. Those relied on active safety-- that is, there is something that must be done to stop the reaction, and if the safety devices fail or if some input, such as electric power, becomes unavailable, it becomes difficult to stop. Modern designs (pebble bed, thorium) have passive safety (i.e. the reaction stops if not continually supported).
Works from the iPad too.
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> However the new Succinct Trie ends up being disturbingly slow (taking about 5.5ms to look up a word in Node.js on a fast machine)

Ouch! A succinct trie I implemented in C++ took 2-3 microseconds for lookups. I guess Javascript is not the best language for low-level data structures engineering.
Open source Chameleon project aims to ease porting iOS apps to Mac
By buying nuclear plants now, we lock into today's nuclear technology for the next 50 years (nuclear plants have 40-50 year life cycles). By investing heavily in renewables and a new power grid, we can continually improve renewable generation and incrementally add to and improve existing facilities.

Also, when a disaster happens, we can go "uh oh, 100 windmills fell over; man, we better wait until it's safe to go fix/replace them" instead "holy shit this could turn into a disaster right now unless we frantically try to control the situation and in doing so put several workers' lives in immediate and horrible risk!"

Every dollar wasted on nuclear power is a lost opportunity. Renewables can be vastly improved, several advances have already been made just not fully capitalized on. Nuclear power doesn't show the same promise. Maybe in 50 years it will, but now it looks like same old same old. In the meantime I keep reading how advances in solar cell technology and long distance power grids can tap into more energy than perhaps most expect.
As a bisexual man (who in no way claims to speak for anyone else), I'm torn on this.

Of course, I am fully supportive of freedom of expression and the phrase "I strongly disagree with your opinion but will defend to the death your right to voice it." But...can you imagine an app claiming to "cure" black people? That'd never be approved by Apple. "Curing" LGBT people is just as absurd as "curing" black people. Exposing children to such bigoted, offensive material is really awful. It should almost certainly not have the 4+ rating, and I'm really torn on whether Apple should even allow it into the App Store.

Stuff like this isn't just some abstract issue about 'gay rights' with two equally valid sides of an issue--this homophobia can ruin lives, and sometimes even result in death. It's really a very emotional issue that can't be easily dealt with or abstracted into some 'gay rights' issue.

I feel like I didn't express myself as well as I would've liked, so if anyone has questions, please feel free to ask them.
Accurate iPad 2 Case from Dec-2010.
On Windows, automake is an order of magnitude slower to compile than the projects generated by CMake, not to mention that compiling with MSVC is very difficult to make work at all with autotools. automake just isn't a viable option if your projects need to be portable to Windows.
Also, another link, from engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/09/alleged-ipad-2-cases-show...

Surprised by this one. It's exactly right. Camera position, size and position of speaker, etc. Posted 5-Dec-2010.
Indeed! Google started by arguing that scanning/indexing/showing-snippets was legal, then switched to 'settle in a way that gives us the pole position and lays mines for everyone behind us'. They should get back to arguing the fair-use principle.
Anyone who doesn't know that "nukes" refers to weapons not power sources should perhaps steer clear of offering opinions on the subject.

I stopped reading after this line:

Some greens have wildly exaggerated the dangers of radioactive pollution.

Firstly, "some greens"? A surprisingly snide remark from someone who only just become pro-nuclear.

Secondly, that's not even the point he then goes on to make? His argument is that what happened in Japan is below the safety guidelines. The worry of people who are anti-nuclear is that there is a possibility that something could happen to put the radiation levels above what is safe.

I'm not anti-nuclear personally, but the worry I have isn't that, if a small amount of radiation leaks for some reason that it will have worse effects than believed by scientists. My worry is that the accident/whatever could cause the leaks to be far higher, if that happens it will be a very real problem.
'Renewables can be vastly improved, several advances have already been made just not fully capitalized on' such as?

I think the major advantage of nuclear is its cost efficiency and low pollution.
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I think this illustrates how screwed up copyright has become.

I dream of a world where copyright lasts for 14 years or the copyright holder dies, which ever comes last. Thus an individual can retain copyright for life. If he or she dies before 14 years have passed the heirs will benefit for however much of the 14 years are left. Corporations would never hold a copyright for longer than 14 years.

I'm convinced that this would be a fair system for everyone and would return copyright to its original intention; to promote creativity and writing rather than being a corporate cash machine that screwes everybody other than the large corporations.
Seems a little too wordy to me -- perhaps more content could be hidden behind 'click to expand' sections?
I feel for the people at phpfog.com, but this is a bigger blow to cloud computing.

Customers who are already pretty risk averse to their data being stored in the cloud would see this as another reason not to take the risk.

The cloud computing consortium needs to work on a stable stack as well as figure out how to audit that it works properly.

In addition, it calls for security ahead of features. Given that phpfog is funded, they'll need to implement the equivalent of a bleeding edge stack and a locked down stack.
I would have liked the post to include specific instances and episodes that illustrate why teacher unions are a good idea. As it stands, it's difficult (impossible?) for me to evaluate
I can,

1) Search my history
2) Delete items in the search results

As shown in that screenshot.

EDIT: Since I can't reply to him (yet?), thank you mbrubeck for replying and explaining the comment instead of just typing "YOU CANNOT."
MetaLab Launches Flow, A Beautiful Tool For Task Management
To whatever extent this disincentivizes Google from scanning, it also incentivizes others, who now can make the argument such scanning-for-indexing-and-preservation is legal without Author's Guild approval, and can try models other than the Google-financed rights-clearinghouse.

Disclosure: I work the Internet Archive, a key part of the 'Open Content Alliance' that opposed the Google Books Settlement, but I don't work on any of the book-related projects and I only speak for myself here.
1 million people is not the majority of 300 million people. Unless you think you could gather up 151 million people who would accept your trade?
This is a much better solution than downloading an extension.
Ask HN: Viable concept or flop startup idea
TV and the internet: Never the twain?
You also don't hear about the attempts that were successful and unbeknownst to the hacked service provider.
Don't trust what computers say? You shouldn't - they're too sure of themselves
Invite only is a good idea for an MVP, and you could also write it as a browser based app using jQTouch or jQuery Mobile (not sure what the android equivalents are) and use that to prove the concept.
Is this doing anything you can't do with something like stylebot? http://stylebot.me/
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Unions are great when the group supported is homogeneous. Otherwise, in my opinion alone, they are pretty inefficient to the functioning of the firm.

I don't say that people shouldn't have the right to collectively bargain. I just worry about the right balance of power between right-to-work and union extremes.
It's a 40 year old plant with a 50 year old design that was done before Plate Tectonics and subduction zones were accepted theories. (ca late 60's for those theories)

And, despite fudged safety records, losing all cooling power, and having a 9.0 quake and a 12 m tsunami hit it, it still hasn't killed anyone. That's pretty good. It's bad that it's going to cost billions of dollars to secure, but in the scope of the overall disaster, it's a small percentage.

In 20 years, there's a good chance that people will be saying "I can't believe that they kept building gas and coal plants, look at what it's done to the environment."
No, that isn't correct. Fukushima (along with every reactor on the eastern half of Honshu) failed into quench, within seconds, exactly as designed, as a consequence of the earthquake rattling a system around the control rods which is intentionally designed to only keep them out of the reactor by continued effort.

All the problems were caused by waste heat, rather than ongoing criticality (which would have produced 20 times the heat and been a much, much scarier proposition for the teams on site).
I don't see what's so snide about 'some greens', the Greens are a political party in Australia, they have a strong anti-nuclear stance as I recall(might be wrong).
some people report its down since last thursday on various other devices.
Can't stream here. Oh well I'll just go old school and watch one of the shows clogging up my DVR. Don't sweat it Netflixers
I am bothered by some of the language in this post:

- we were aware of the potential security threat behind post-deploy hooks and were about to disable them [...] but...

- we were days away from replacing this server

- They were a short-term stopgap measure we had been planning to replace

To me, it sounds like the real problem could have been stated as "We were lax on security," but almost worse than that is the lack of accountability that I sense from company. Yeah, maybe it won't happen again, but it's hard to be full of confidence to buy into a service like that.
The numbers are IAEA numbers - not released by TEPCO or the Japanese government. Certainly this isn't on the order of a Soviet-era coverup, but from the appearance right now information is as open as it perhaps ought to be, and preventative/remedial action not as aggressive as might be justified.

It's hard to say in this giant void of information, which is why I wonder how this will be viewed in time.
jQuery is particular about it's capitalization. :)
guaranteeing zero errors is a problem. but if the loaded bloom filter size is small you could expand to get a very low false positive.

the first link would do the lookup in javascript so it would run in the client.

and the storage is just a string so wouldn't have the javascript parsing on load.
They've gone farther than that. Take a look at the screenshots. There's an extra 300px of horizontal margin (150px on each side), after accounting for the space taken up by the hidden sidebar.
The streaming is from CDN, but the links to the CDN with the authorization to stream comes from EC2. The video source for the CDNs is S3.
Unfortunately, that cyclone may not be as easy to get past. Yes, people won't forever care about phpfog. However, if phpFog (which was at least PARTIALLY at fault here) presses charges, thats a criminal record and will come up on every background check for the rest of his life. This effects job opportunities, VISA opportunities, loans (not to mention lawyer debt from fighting it), hell even insurance prices.

What the kids did was bad, but I think pressing charges and seriously hindering two smart sixteen year-olds is a knee-jerk, over-zealous application of law and retaliation/punishment. Especially (I know I'm going to draw a lot of heat for this) when they found THEIR irresponsible storage of sensitive data.

I am a dev. I have also worked in the computer security field for a reputable firm. What phpfog did was irresponsible(actually, stupid!) and it was relatively easily avoidable. I know this because I (along with pretty much every dev) have used the exact stopgaps and quick-fixes that phpFog did. BUT (big lesson) cleaning up after your self is as much a part of programming as putting those quick-fixes in place. Unfortunately, its not the "fun" part and its not the most obvious money maker.

Like they (pretty much) said, phpFog put off the fixes because they wanted to deliver quickly. Thats THEIR decision and THEIR risk/reward assessment. I've made the same assessments in my work. They should suck it up and learn the lesson. Not hurt little kids. They're lucky it was found by these kids and not someone that knows how to conceal their identities and/or wants to do more serious damage (For example, hurting a phpFog clients).

If I knew some dev at my hosting company was keeping system passwords on a web server, they wouldn't be my hosting company. What about the trust/confidence of the clients that phpFog was knowingly betraying?

Edit: Yes, there is a proper way to disclose information. They're kids. I'm surprised they handled it as well as they did to be honest. I was a much dumber 16 year old.
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I think the main reason is that there is so much going on in Ubuntu, or Linux in general, with every release. I really like to run the latest stuff, but 6-month cycle is not good for development machine, the updates sometimes break the system and I can't concentrate on my work, so the development system is a Mac, I have Ubuntu on other machines.
Once you do a search, the option to remove items disappears. You can delete items or you can search, but you cannot delete items in the search results.
Fukushima is 40 years old and recently got an extension to operate for another 10 years. TEPCO had said they wanted to continue operating the plant for another 20 years. Maybe nuclear plants should have an unextendable expiration date -- you can operate a new plant for 40 years or whatever, but after 40 years you have to raze the plant and rebuild with a more current, hopefully safer design.
Google funds tools to expose government attempts to censor/shut down Internet
How is $10/mo expensive for this, or for anything in life?

That's where the disconnect is.
You seem to think that $10/mo is not expensive for anything in life.

I respectfully disagree. There are probably an infinite number of things for which $10/mo is too expensive, independent of how much money you actually have.

Would you pay me $10/mo to have me send you a random Mark Twain quote as a push notification to your device every day?

I'm not trying to nitpick - only pointing out that your worldview and ideas of what you would pay for don't match that of many/most people.

It seems to me Flow pricing is learning a valuable lesson from MobileMe

Not sure that MobileMe is the best example of this lesson.
Ask HN: Why does Chrome use IE's proxy settings?
Trying to understand why doesn't Chrome have its own proxy settings.
Any initial thoughts on the concept/site? Thanks in advance.
Date/time math is such a PITA. Honestly, I wish everyone would just switch to GMT, use 24-hour time, and write dates and times from most significant to least significant (ie, right now is 2011-03-23 02:30).

This is annoying for even technically advanced people - for example, set your phone to sync with the current timezone, then enter an event - it'll get added in your current timezone.

Lets say you get a call from home when you're in a different timezone for a meeting - you enter the appointment and when you get home it's off by a few hours.

Nobody realizes this as they're used to entering things on paper still, until it bites them.

Don't even get me started on Daylight Savings Time...
Pebble bed in particular, if I recall, is passively safe precisely because it resists waste heat.
I always used MinGW on windows.
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Thanks for the link, unfortunately we can't access Hulu videos from Finland
http://www.getflow.com/ The service is $9.99 a month and they offer a web client, free iPhone and iPad app, theres a beta app for mac os x also.
I'm curious: do you see any speedup from that Hadoop cluster? I always assume that on less than like 5 nodes it is faster to just run it all on a single machine unless you are highly disk bound.

Was it written that way in order to support future growth?
MAC... the makeup brand? Or the unique identifier for network interfaces? Sorry, the all-caps MAC is a pet peeve of mine. Almost as bad as iTouch.
Yes. This seems like something that would be valuable to a business (Say a catering service or a party planning service or package delivery service or whatever).

Their video (and pricing) seems to indicate this.

For running a business that requires coordination among many people, the price is utterly reasonable (if not slightly cheap).
Video done by this guy, in case you're interested: http://lonelysandwich.com/

He's done quite a few iOS/Mac promo videos.