skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the reactor is shut down it's no longer generating power. Specifically, when the control rods have been "scram"ed there is no longer enough power being produced by the reactor to turn the turbines and their generators.

However, the shutdown nuclear reactor still requires power to maintain proper cooling. The reactor core itself is at an incredibly high temperature and it continues to generate heat as the fission byproducts undergo radioactive decay. Generally only active cooling is sufficient to maintain a sufficient rate of cooling for used reactor fuel, that requires a continuous flow of coolant which requires a power source.
First Image of Mercury From Orbit
I was with one of last year's winners, RelayRides, and believe me there were no strings attached. Our founder decided to move the company to San Francisco and he was able to do that. Being part of MassChallenge was a HUGE win for us. It very much helped us raise the $4.5 million we got from top tier VCs on the west coast.
True if you need just one baby. If you need one baby per month on the other hand... Not quite sure how that translates to software development though...
I agree that you shouldn't screw a friend over obviously. But, there does need to be some way to make sure equity of an early stage company is in the hands of the people who are most incentivized for its success. Ideally Gates would offer a contract where he could buy shares from Allen to make sure he and his family was taken care of. But- I do understand the logic of trying to ensure key stakeholders in the company are leading it.
Last year a dozen firms won $50k and 4 firms won $100k.
Google gets biennial privacy audit after Buzz blunder
Very simply, when a nuclear reactor stops, the fission products in the fuel rods continue to decay and therefore continue to generate heat. A lot of heat. An external power source is needed to take that heat away from the fuel. Failing to keep the reactor cool can potentially be rather catastrophic.

There is lots of information online. Why not start here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_safety#Failure_modes_of...
Already exists, It's called ETrade.
I'll add that that disk was actually stolen in a burglary. When I subsequently needed to reinstall, a friend burned a copy of his XP Pro disk and mailed it. In combination with the code on the license sticker on the machine, this worked fine.

(I'm hesitant to download an image from an unknown source.)

I don't know about Windows 7 -- I seem to recall reading that installation disks for it work somewhat differently, but I don't recall the details.
In line with the whole low glycemic index thing, I've been doing Tim Ferris's slow carb diet lately. The main thing about it that gets me endless ridicule is that Tim is big on eating the same few simple meals over and over again. This is absolute sacrilege in west coast foodie culture.
Are you seriously asking for a citation to show that Bill Gates is (was?) a ruthless person with questionable ethics? Forty years of ripping off other people's software, berating and humiliating his own team, buying and shutting down competitors, and impeding progress in the name of vendor lock-in, plus the newly-published "insider" memoir of his co-founder isn't enough for you?

I've met Bill Gates, so I'll stick with my personal opinion. You're entitled to yours.
They're just piggybacking trend and making profit of it, that how there used. Maybe not why and how they were designed. Still, IMHO, it is not fair and goes against the very definition of stock exchange.
> But if someone owns a PC and decides to switch to a Mac, it's because he explicitly doesn't like the PC experience.

[citation needed]

edit: bring them on! :D
Stop sexing up IT and give Civil Servants Macs, says gov tech boss
Exactly.

I went to a reactor at INL and their rods were just chilling outside of the reactor, about 50 feet from the controls. Of course, they were highly enriched uranium, so average half life was over a billion years (some was U-238)

With a 24,000 year half life, Pu-239 is sort of on the border of being fairly dangerous, and it decays with an alpha particle, which is good from the standpoint of ionizing radiation but not so good if you are drinking it.
For future references, here is a great resource for future plagiarism woes: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/stopping-internet-plagiarism/.
Nobody is scared, don't flatter yourself. Your attitude is simply invasive and pointy-haired. Couple that with using a URL-shortened blind link where you are supposedly establishing some kind of safe-computing credibility, and I can only LOL.

Worried parents?! Now you're really getting dangerous. I hope you think long and hard before having children if this is the kind of treatment you expect to give them. If you have a 12 year old who is already uploading "dances" (?) to YT/chans, you have much bigger problems than a computer or the internet (hint: mirror).
Hey, I work for Mendeley, so I can comment on a few things. Commenters here have noticed that it's the lamentable reliance on journal prestige that is keeping this whole dysfunctional system held together. The good news is that there are a number of smart people working on alternative metrics for papers (and for datasets and code as well) which focus on reuse, basically an extension of citation. Mendeley helps because we can collect and display some of these stats back to the academics who use our service. Not only does this allow research to proceed much faster by radically shortening the feedback cycle, but it provides a possibility that as the alt metrics get better uptake and respect, the lack of a suitable IF won't be a barrier anymore.
i wonder if this will promote junk content. if paris hilton starts popping up over paris france when you search paris there might be a big issue here.
Me too, I find it much easier to use and much more functional then Skype 4.
+1’s: the right recommendations right when you want them—in your search results
The IHttpAsyncHandler doesn't work the same as the non-blocking event loops in Unix which only uses a single process for all requests. We actually didn't fare to well ourselves and had a poor experience trying to debug them in IIS, in the end we moved to a bespoke windows service to service our comet requests.

But you're right it should be included - care to contribute a piece on the topic?
Fair enough. I read the article portion, but didn't make it through all the updates at the end.
It seems like no-one disputed their authenticity, so they probably would not bother verifying them.
I guess that would be my point as well? I felt my comment was less a retort and more of an addition.
re: 1. from the picture it looks like about 4 ft x 1.5 ft
"So they’re taking it slow. There will be no +1 buttons for publishers at launch (but they’re coming)."
Restaurants No Fan of Yelp and Groupon
also longer and richer content might get pushed aside by shorter gawker style content. wikipedia should be ok though... =)
Saw this quote most recently in a Chris Dixon post: http://cdixon.org/2011/02/05/selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold-...
Downvoters who didn't get the memo, this is an apropos quotation from the article. The million dollars actually turned on this phrase.
It's still creepy.
Experiment with “release early” mantra
Austin also sprawls very far and there's no reason they would have had to cover the entire city.
The same way they verify anything else: one side says "These are IMs", the other side declines to say "No, they aren't" (wisely).
That's so wrong it's not even funny.

You know, part of the reason Google is Google is that they were worried about performance from day 1 - every possible kind of performance.

AltaVista was king at the time. It gave low quality answers, true -- but it was also slow. All the early adopters that I know of that switched to Google were impressed more by its speed than by its quality - if you knew what you were searching for, you DID get high quality content from AltaVista at the time (much like you could with Google even before the recent "farmer" update, despite the complaints from all over). What you couldn't get from AltaVista, no matter how much you tried, was a speedy answer. AltaVista would take 5 seconds; Google would have a response in 0.05 seconds.

Unless your app is defining a new niche, you have to compete with the current players. Facebook needed to compete with MySpace. Google needed to compete with AltaVista.

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.
Smoking Everywhere doesn't seem to have contested the authenticity of the IMs.
Yes they did, it just shows up as Wyandotte County. Kansas City and Wyandotte County share a unified government.
Well over half the time E is used it is preceded by the letter S. It seems E is only used with very few letter preceding it. BE, LE, RE, TE and SE
I wouldn't include Apple in that list. I don't think they get it.

The big question for me is, will users be willing to give one big player all their data? Or will we have a system, much like in personal financing, in which many individuals "invest" their data with several companies and use "brokers" to manage it. I want to favor the latter paradigm because this way, you don't have one big player locking it down at users' expense.

Google and Facebook playing keep-away with each other opens up a big opportunity for the small guys to come in and be that one broker who will help users manage their location-based data, their status updates, etc and offer them great services. Greplin is one such player and I'm sure there will be others.
Very nice, my initial impression was this is a service I want to use and I hope people will use.

The only problem I see is signup with facebook, to be perfectly honest that's the reason you don't have a user extra (mine). While I do understand the choice, I think you should provide an alternative signup option.

It's also a bit unclear how much I get to keep when a user pays 25cents and how/when the money will reach me, if I would be implementing minno as a payment option I'd like to know...
The March edition hiring thread is already over with. Please don't make one of these before the first of the month - doing so will just result in multiple threads making things harder to find.
It's even bigger for Indians :)
"maha" means great/big.

Big-O-great or Big-O-Big. take your pick.
Surely though, one could pre-calculate potential future positions or other useful data on stock in advance of next day's trade between close and re-open of the markets?
looking at it for about 30 seconds, I'm going to guess those two map null checks then inserts should be synchronized?
> but I wasn't aware that there are "usual, legitimate" reasons for downvoting

Yup, there are. Here:
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(A clear deviation of the guidelines deserves a downvote, a clear compliance does not. Like any law, there is a grey area in between requiring some amount of judgement. But these guidelines still stand to ground the discussion around what is/isn't a "usual, legitimate" reason for downvoting.)
Site is down. Was really interested in seeing what the article was about.
I was in last year's class. I don't believe the endorsement points matter that much in the application. I spent almost no time on them and we got in. I think they're really more of an excuse to engage with people you otherwise wouldn't. If you have a good idea and traction, you'll get in with 0 points.
Glad to hear this perspective, as a lot of early comments were on the other end of the spectrum. Still finding my way in startup world, but it's encouraging to hear others who have been there and managed to make it work!
I don't know much about the competitor sites so am asking out of interest as opposed to any professed insight (although I did buy my wife a kndle for Chrsitmas). It seems a smart approach (if it's not being done already) would be to pick a specific niche and become the 'kindle lending site of X'. That way you can get a reputation for having the most books about X available to lend at any moment. What that would ne I don't know.
Or maybe look into book clubs, a lot of book clubs must read the same books a lot of the time, maybe seeding with a few copies of books from some celeb endorsed list could kick start a book club lending site?
>> Besides, if I've learned anything, I've learned that
>> everything I believe about people's behavior is
>> probably wrong.

> What do you mean by that?

Every time I've tried to reason carefully about the effect something will have, or the factors that will drive behavior, or the reasons people will do things, I've been wrong. I've been reading things like Dan Ariely's irrationality pieces, and Freakonomics, and other similar works, and nothing really resonates with me. In discussion with my wife and other close friends the consensus is taht it a very real sense I'm simply "not normal."

So protracted discussions about what might or might not "fix HN" are likely - for me - to be unprofitable. Experiment is essential, and I don't have the means.

Or the time.
Women: The "Invisible Entrepreneurs"
Standard of living != luxury

As far as my hypothetical uber life form goes - its an thought experiment. It was never meant to go and devour all there is.

I'm well aware of conservation of energy and I wasn't talking about it. I was talking about equalization of potentials. Thats what entropy means. The tendency that our universe has to equalize energy potentials. Thats what wind is. And thats why stars shine, the ice melts etc... Because if an more stable (read equal) energy state is available - the universe will find a way to achieve it.

Just as all elements heavier the iron try to (and will eventually) fission into lighter particles and just as elements lighter than iron try to (and again will eventually) fuse together, until eventually whole universe will consist of nothing but iron atoms. That would be so called thermic death of the universe, which is valid only in some end of universe scenarios, which depend upon shape of spacetime.
When I saw the domain name, I thought it would be about bughouse. Great app nonetheless!
I apologize for the jargon [I'm at work now and the markets dont close for another 100 minutes] -- I can give you a more detailed explanation later if you are interested.
Basically, it's because I have never developed with IOCP's before and their reliance on P/Invokes means its not a very popular option in .NET.

However I very much welcome any clarifications/contributions on this topic - please do send me a pull-request :)
One quick thing I could think of is to connect crime watch cameras all over the city and hook them up.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2387165

Note that doesn't mean this isn't of value!

ADDED IN EDIT: Really? A down-vote? For pointing out a related item - sort of "If you like this, then you'll like that" typeof thing? OK ...
I bet they care even less about privacy
All of the examples used were very physical - war, sports - any examples of similar strategies being used in the tech world?
can you try again? it's hooked up to Posterous, prbly just a hiccup
I think you missed my point. Charging "$90 per hour," some people will just give you that; that's obviously better for you. There will still be people who hope to get a discount, and now $75 seems like you're doing them a special favor.
Regarding mosquitoes - I'd propose that we mount anti mosquito lazers on the copterz.
Lendle is back.
That probably has something to do with why you aren't a nuke plant designer.
Cringely's article, as well as Allen's accomplishments outside of Microsoft make that questionable. Gates may have had more business savvy, but it seems pretty evident that Allen was in no shortage of it either. To put it another way, I don't think Allen was to Gates what Wozniak was to Jobs.
People love the new "everything is social" movement (twitter, FB, etc) and now color. The problem is that people don't realize what they are exposing and the conflict of interest is that these companies want EVERYTHING exposed so they can advertise/market.

That's the problem. People just don't get it. Or rather people don't realize the value their personal data has.
If you're considering moving just for gigabit broadband, you might consider Chattanooga, TN. We already have it.
100 world records, 2 days, 1 livestream
Anyone else having flashbacks to Yahoo in 1996:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo....

And then in 2006:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060101035628/http://www.yahoo.c...

? Google has featuritis.
http://www.google.com/experimental/
I guess I'm complaining more about the reader than the writer. It does provide a useful approach to test specific implementations. It gives good insight as to why certain features are to be avoided for performance, ie multiple inheritance, virtual functions under virtual inheritance, RTTI.

The section on exception handling says that there are compiler dependent code size increases and speed is impacted (5% - 10%) even if it is not triggered. That contradicts Stroustrup in Design and Evolution of C++ where its stated that it should be the same cost as a function call. I've heard other people say that exception handling is now "free". I should spend less time gaining second hand information and more time trying this stuff out myself.
I think it was a bad move since Groupon isn't a company that can really expand it's offerings. What do you think?
Gak! Thank you so much, I downloaded and installed their software this morning. I've deleted it and changed my skype password, I hope that's enough.

Version 2.8 can be found on Skype's website (Techcrunch linked to it in a recent article):
http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/maco...
It's more complex than just calories in - calories out. Just to complete your simple equation, what you're saying is:

calories in - calories out = fat stored/burned.

So for calories in == calories out, stable weight.
For calories in > calories out, weight gain.
For calories in < calories out, weight loss.

The mistake that most people make is that they assume that the left side is independent of the right side. We can rewrite the equation as:

//Assume that a negative fat stored is fat burned
calories in - fat stored - calories out = 0
OR
calories in - fat stored = calories out

Now in your original equation, assume that the person needs 1000 calories for their body to function normally. Also assume that the person eats 1000 calories a day. In your equation, since you assume that fat storage is a function of imbalance between needs and consumption, you get 0 fat storage.

However, in reality because of an insulin imbalance, what happens is this:
1000 calories are consumed.
200 calories are stored as fat.

This only leaves 800 calories to be used by the body. But wait, the body requires 1000 calories to function normally! Well there's two ways to compensate for that, either the person will consumed an additional 200 calories to get the body functioning normally, or the body will adjust it's needs, reduce the energy and movement of the individual, sleep more, etc.
WSJ's coverage, "Google Seeks Answer to Facebook With 'Social Search'", is here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870380630457623...

Search Engine Land does a good job of relating this announcement to prior Google social projects and rumors: http://searchengineland.com/meet-1-googles-answer-to-the-fac...

You can join Google's +1 experiment here: http://www.google.com/experimental/
Oh look, Google's very own "like" button.

Lets see how well they do with it.
I think the most horrible part of that is that I continue to experience the same shock I felt when I first saw it each time I bring it up. It is like I'm seeing it again for the first time and have to reorient myself. I'm wondering how many times it will take for me to rewire my brain.
It's not the diagram that's complex but the variety of its dependencies, particularly with respect to the variety of data storage methods.
Software Bugs and Scientific Progress
this all sounds ridiculously convoluted
Wow, so close, and yet so far. I'm just a few miles away, but I'm not moving to KCK ;-). I wonder if they will eventually spread out from there within the metro, that would be awesome! We need more options than AT&T and Comcast, that's for sure.
The conclusion I draw from these two examples is that the Washington Post is a much more ethical company than the Long Island Press. I really, honestly believe that if a Post reporter was caught lifting paragraphs from a blog the repercussions would have been the same. Likewise if an LIP reporter lifted paragraphs from another print publication.
But it adds nothing to the conversation here.
Virtually no hobbyist would be able to compete against big financial firms' hardware and algorithms.

This simply isn't true. There are many HFT firms started by hobbyists/amateurs. The company I work for started this way.

HFT is a field which has many niches and relatively low barriers to entry (thought certainly not as low as renting a linode).
I don't think it's either of those--I think it's a natural progression of a startup whose composition is pretty much entirely of young people straight out of school who don't have as many obligations outside of work, as say, someone with a spouse and kids (I have a spouse, but no kids). We're all trying to get on better schedules, and my post was was in no way a criticism of how things are run at Pulse.
I don't believe the system does hide posts. It creates differentiation between low ranking and high ranking posts.

I rarely ignore the comments at the bottom of a page - in fact, sometimes the least interesting comments are those that are highest ranked.

What's the difference between having upvote / downvote buttons and agree / disagree buttons?
I remember when Apple released FaceTime, they said it'd be an open industry standard. See:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/07/apple_announce...

and

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177819/Jobs_has_loft...

Seems striking that it's been nearly a year and we haven't heard a peep about making it open. I would presume that if it were, it could be possible to bridge the two protocols or eliminate the need for skype.
What a joke. Thie filesystem hierary wasn't complex enough for him?

> /var/run otoh is only available very late at
boot, since /var might reside on a separate file system

he forgot to mention that this is a non-standard, specialized setup. In normal case, /var is on the root partition.
Sensible approach from Lennart and the whole systemD folks. If you are wondering who lennart is, He is one of the creator of pulse audio and known for sending out an alternative kernel speedup patch http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kern...
Ask HN: How much should i sell a niche Ad network and where?
Hey guys i built an ad network (www.adclays.com) like buysellads in September. I have not been able to focus on it as i got into a degree course in pharmacy and have been distracted. It currently has about 50 publishers who tried it out for the beta. The site has not made any money for itself since i made it free for the beta period. I want to sell it completely or for equity. Please check it out and advice on how much i should sell it for and where. Thanks HN
My understanding is that electronic signatures are actually legally binding, and an electronic signature just means anything that signifies intent to sign (e.g. no crypto required). So the patent office accepts your name in slashes, as I recall.

Of course the real problem is that the organizations that require faxed signatures don't have any real idea as to why they're doing that or whether they need to do it or even whether it's legal, it's just "that's the way we've always done it"