skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I took a different approach: http://www.deserettechnology.com/journal/wm-read-bookmarklet... . As a frequent reader of articles on Wikimedia, I get really annoyed when there is a big chunk of wasted screen space while I attempt to read. It becomes distracting pretty quickly in long articles.
That really depends on how you define "safety." In terms of mortality, yes. But, nuclear plants have other risks associated with them. There is a nuclear plant in the Ukraine with a contaminated area the size of Switzerland around it, a significant portion of which is currently uninhabitable. Ideally, we'd like to ensure that never happens again. I think replacing aging plants with new plants would help a lot.
Well, the settlement would have given Google a bonanza, but made things harder for others (by conceding both a key fair use point, and a budget for more litigation, to the Author's Guild). Whether that bonanza for Google would have been a net win for total books scanned is hard to tell.

It doesn't have to be a company; you mentioned the government, and the nonprofit I work for (Internet Archive/archive.org) has a large book-scanning effort. It's also not that hard to do in a distributed, at-home fashion; see the following on DIY efforts and how to upload scans to archive.org:

http://onthecommons.org/diy-book-scanning-takes

http://blog.archive.org/2011/03/14/book-scan-wizard-software...

Further, the total number of books that need scanning (as opposed to being born digital) is pretty close to capped, given the rise of born-digital versions and ebooks. Google itself estimated the total number of unique "printed and bound" materials recently as only 146 million:

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-...

Google's scanned over 15 million with no guarantee of the ability to sell them or legal victory. Other libraries have scanned hundreds of thousands more. Scanning is definitely happening faster than new print-only books are being created.

Clearing up the situation with 'orphan works' would help. A victory for Google and others on the matter of fair-use scanning for indexing and excerpting (without sales) would help, too. As you note, the scanning is still "cheap compared to the rest of the operations".

So it was never the case that Google needed a big economic incentive, or nothing would get done by Google or anyone else. That everything will be scanned is now a lock; it's just how fast and whether one company will dominate that's an open issue.
If this was a planned exit all along and he was only meant to be on short term then Groupon would have prepared a better statement. I assume that whatever equity he has he'll keep as he was looking for a big pay day and I don't know why he would pass that up.
Keeping your job regardless of performance is what's wrong with the core element of many unions. Not all unions are corrupt but the majority of them fit the description my mom gave them, "Unions are to protect lazy workers". By the way, she's a union bus & light rail operator for 10+ years.
Sounds like he won't make that mistake again. This is as good an example of why people should RTFM as any.

I'm sympathetic to the notion that cal(1) behaved counterintuitively, but at the same time, there's no obvious right answer here. Different people have different ideas of what is obvious. I think '08' is obviously an octal number, but that notion isn't necessarily shared by everyone.

The take-away here is to read the docs, run the program, ensure the output is what you expect, then move on.
I read him being very apologetic for their security shortcomings in all of the appropriate places, and only blaming delayed fixes on timing issues. He was very contrite and forthcoming about their security issues. Accountability was all over the article.
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Your skill list makes you look like a noob, which I suspect you are not.

Btw: There is a broken link to http//mightycv.com under "Experience" (in the first entry), which doesn't work because of the missing colon.
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bring him to criminal courts. close enough.
Why you should never ask permission to clean up code.
> Finally, while I am not attacking nuclear power here, it is erroneous to reason about the relative safeties of technologies based purely on the historical track record.

I'm the one who made that argument.

That the safety systems failed points to the systemic flaw in Fukushima: it requires active safety. Better designs, such as those developed in the 40 years since Fukushima was started up, rely on the operation of physical laws to maintain safety in the event of a reactor emergency (edit: It's since been pointed out to me these only lengthen the window of reaction time, but do not remove the necessity to provide active cooling eventually).

It is not specious reasoning to point out that these designs would be even safer than a flawed design which has so far (with active management) survived an event far above its engineering specifications.

The problem with calculating unknown risks based on imaginable catastrophic consequences is that 1) the scope of imagination is large and 2) interested parties to the estimate can skew it up or down. The best known example of this problem is Pascal's Wager.
That's exactly what happened. Still -- should have RTFM'ed.
I don't think DRY applies here unless you really stretch it. The "fix it if you see it, don't put it off" principle fits a lot better.
Never said I wanted more coal and natural gas plants.
TRWTF is that the design requires active cooling for safe operation.

It's less of a WTF than you think. You have to read the fine print of the supposedly "passively cooled" designs. The Westinghouse AP1000, for instance, is "passively cooled" in the instance of a scram, but only for 72 hours. Although this is about 9 times as long as the Japanese cooling systems ran on batteries, it is significantly less time than the reactors have been without power. The fact is that a lot of decay heat is dumped into that system in a pretty short time, and you're going to need mass flows (read: pumps) if you're going to reject it all safely.

(I suppose a molten salt reactor might allow you to get more creative with mass transport, since you can conceivably move the fuel somewhere else, but those designs are a long way off, and I'm sure they come with their own unique hazards)
If you insist on a cited post, lead by example.
You'd think the same thing about half the shows on TV.

"There's only so many cupcakes you can watch a person make."

"There's only so many times you can watch somebody bolt headers onto a motorcycle."

"There's only so many times you can watch somebody eat rice on an island."

In more general media: "There's only so many times you can watch a guy throw a football."

"There's only so many 'medical mysteries' House can solve."
(a) Do you really think people only use 80x24 terminals today?

(b) If the OP used an 80x24 terminal, then less(1) is his friend.

Yes, small terminals are restrictive, but those who use them nowadays should also understand unix.
Ontario will never be hit with a tsunami. They're ocean waves. [[edit ok, maybe on hudson bay. my geography isn't that good sometimes]]

Seches though ... they're the lake version. That could happen.
Ask HN: Can You Code Under the Influence of Alcohol?
I can't code while buzzed/drunk, so I avoid drinking at all if I'm going to do any work at night.

But recently I was talking to a co-worker who told me he can crank out even more code with a buzz. So, can you code after a few drinks?
Thanks, I didn't know that about the 3+ systems. However my understanding of Gen 4 systems is that passive cooling is the central design element.

I mean, it's inefficient, but when you're talking about nuclear it's not as though source energy is hard to come by.
"Can I please speak to your supervisor" works sooo often in these situations.
Why did they name it Chameleon, there's already a Chameleon Bootloader for OSx86 (http://chameleon.osx86.hu/)?
I couldn't agree more. The phpFog team cut corners to deliver quickly. We (devs) all do it. The important part is to clean up after yourself.

The whole blog post seems a bit melodramatic. I mean seriously, who here hasn't spent 3 all nighters in a row fixing a mistake? sack up and do what you should've done before deploying other people's data.

...and who would seriously sue these kids? they handled it poorly but they're smart (definitely smarter than i was at 16) you're lucky it was curious kids, rather than malicious (and experienced) hackers that would've been harder to catch. Do you really want to burden them with a criminal record for life?
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I don't think my point about plant lifetimes was clear. It's not a good thing that they last so long; after all, you're still paying a lot for that long lifetime. But the long lifetime means that, for all that is said about whatever potential nuclear power plants might have (breeder plants and whatnot), that's not what would get built right now if all governments caved to nuclear lobbies right now. What would get built is today's technology, which would be so expensive that we would be stuck with it for 40, or 50, or as you say, 80 years. Renewables, which everybody loves to say aren't good enough, will get good enough, provided we shift enough funds to develop them. I would prefer if those funds aren't tied up in 40, 50, 80 year projects. Because if a project is projected to last 80 years, you'd better believe that'll allow a much higher bottom line to get passed in the local budget.
There's a great quote in the coreutils documentation[1] to this effect:

"Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had some tyrannical god contrived to enslave our minds to time, to make it all but impossible for us to escape subjection to sodden routines and unpleasant surprises, he could hardly have done better than handing down our present system. It is like a set of trapezoidal building blocks, with no vertical or horizontal surfaces, like a language in which the simplest thought demands ornate constructions, useless particles and lengthy circumlocutions. Unlike the more successful patterns of language and science, which enable us to face experience boldly or at least level-headedly, our system of temporal calculation silently and persistently encourages our terror of time. ...

"It is as though architects had to measure length in feet, width in meters and height in ells; as though basic instruction manuals demanded a knowledge of five different languages. It is no wonder then that we often look into our own immediate past or future, last Tuesday or a week from Sunday, with feelings of helpless confusion."

— Robert Grudin, Time and the Art of Living.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Date-...
Thanks for submitting this jakedahn! If anyone has any questions, I'm around to answer them.
And we're all aware that this wasn't a PHP exploit, right? Right?
> I don't understand why geothermal is always overlooked.

Because it's hard to come by. Either you're in a geothermally active area, in which case it's a no-brainer, or you aren't. If you're in a normal area you need to drill extremely deep for the heat and then, somehow, keep the drill hole open. Tectonic drift is actually a serious show-stopper at the depths we're talking about.
Sure, they're a great idea. Idea. In reality, teachers unions don't seem to care about actually educating kids. Particular example, why was the rubber room process in NY so hard to get rid of? And why does that seem like the norm? Anybody who cares about education should despise a system that makes it take years to fire people who -deserve- to be fired.

Author just ignores the 'they are often corrupt' and 'arguments against unions emphasize their attention to the interests of the teachers at the expense of the students' points - they get one sentence and then dropped. This reads like an argument in favor of communism. Look at it on paper, looks great. Doesn't work well with actual people involved.
Maybe then they'll stop with the half-assed apologies and recognize that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things.

PHPFog built a castle out of sand and you're upset that a wave came and demolished it. I'm always surprised at how thin-skinned a lot of HN commentary is. "Oh, Zed shouldn't be so rude" "These kids' lives should be destroyed for playing games with an wholly insecure website." "I stopped reading that article because it used the word blowjob."

I don't get angry at my dog when he shits in the house. Being angry at something that can't understand only satisfies the urge to shift blame.

My dog shits in the house and it's my fault for not walking him sooner. If some children compromise every level of your company then getting mad at them is only trying to deflect the blame. PHPFog is the only responsible party in this mess. I feel for the customers who still trust them.
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It's Apple's platform for "raking in the cash", not your platform for "freedom of expression."

Apple has a ToS, and Apple isn't censoring (def: "forbid the public distribution of") anyone.
Unless it's a spiritual cure.
How is that any different from what OpenID offers?
There's a reason text is usually put into columns of a limited width when being laid out – it's much easier for the eyes to follow. (You'll see this nearly universally in print.) In fact, the current columns there are still way too wide by conventional standards, but Wikipedia's content isn't structured in such a way as to make even narrower columns tenable.

The Readability plugin, for example, uses a larger font and a 700px wide div for the text.
I may convert my monthly archive of websites over to snappy; the speed of the compression / decompression will allow me to implement a more consolidated storage scheme than I'm using now.
I downvoted this too, but wish I hadn't. He has a point.
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More discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2356194
"PHPFog built a castle out of sand and you're upset that a wave came and demolished it."

Your analogy is slightly off. A wave is an act of nature: this is more along the lines of a jealous kid who knocks down someone else's sandcastle because he can't build his own.

"I don't get angry at my dog when he shits in the house. Being angry at something that can't understand only satisfies the urge to shift blame."

While some HN posters might feel the the 16 year olds involved in this incident have the same mental capacity as your dog, I'd like to give them slightly more credit. ;)

I can only speak for myself here, but I do think the people involved in compromising PHP Fog should be punished. No, I don't think they should get life in prison (</hyperbole>): I hope they can learn from their mistakes. However, they did commit a crime, as they've admitted both here and elsewhere online. They should be capable of understanding that their actions have consequences, so I think some consequences are in order. What those consequences should be is up to PHP Fog.
I've heard that a big earthquake hits the Ottawa Valley every century-and-a-half or so that the people there are totally unprepared for, but tsunamis? C'mon now, if a tsunami was big enough to hit Ontario, I think the tsunami would probably be the least of our worries---I think we'd be looking at The End Of The World.
Amazon's Android Appstore is open for business
For an iPhone app though? Meant to be installed over the air? That's incredibly poorly thought out.

Better would be to allow you to download which maps you need as you need them, to shrink the initial installer down. Better than that would be having the maps be online accessible, and are immediately cached to the device after first use. Best is probably somewhere between those two, or something along those lines, but I can't imagine who packaged up a 4.2Gb iphone app and didn't ask any questions about that.
This software is awesome! As a UK magazine put it - "it's not often Software spoon feeds happiness to the brain - Scrivener does this."
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Actually kinda cool.

Does anyone actually use Voice Control on an iPhone, or any other speech recognition tech? I've never seen it used in real life except in IVR systems.
Feedback purely on the résumé. I noticed at least the following upon a quick look:

* Several run-on sentences with too many "and"s; otherwise wordy as well--too wordy; too many buzzwords; you use the word "sector" too much

* Say "technology" rather than "tech"

* It's "MacBook Pro" and "OS X" (upper-case B and space between S and X)

* You dabble _in_ something

* "I also hope it showcases it might lead": I think you mean "what might lead"

* "one half of a team of two" (sounds redundant)

* "Ryan B's nifty generators": apostrophe

* I would punctuate "etc", but it's acceptable usage to omit the "."

Trim and tighten it, a lot.
I see a dot in Siberia :). That's awesome.
Before I realized he'd posted those comments 2 days ago, I seriously considered trying to track down his parents. Do you think they even know? Their kid is arguing with people on message boards about a breach. And not arguing "I didn't do it". Crazy.
Its very fast compared to firefox 3.6.
I actually find it makes my hacking about twice as productive. When I tune out all of the other things going on in my head, the only thing left is a brainstem that's quite optimized for the C++ pointer twiddling tedium that fills my nights.
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This is something that took me 2 years or so to learn. One day I realised nobody was really looking at my timecards in depth so I started allocating extra time to things and using the extra time to fix the things I thought needed fixing. Once I started delivering on this I showed my manager who agreed that it was a good use of time. I was given free reign to fix anything I felt would add maximum value, provided the bug fixes continued to be delivered without any major compromise.

Since that time I have refactored quite a few of our codebases; added unit tests, fixed some build processes, improved performance and generally feel happier at work for getting things done that are important to me.

Dont get stuck in constant bug fix mode would be my suggestion. If you cant get approval to fix things then change jobs because bug fix after bug fix is depressing and will bring you down.
My team at Amazon is using it. There's also been some talks given on it at Amazon.
A good boss will say, "Sure, just make certain that you have adequate unit tests and code coverage before you start cleaning it up."
No, but they'll be hit by giant nuclear plant bids that are 3 times bigger than the expected cost (and this is from the people who would build the plant). Post from 2009: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/665644

The price per kilowatt of capacity ended up being three times more than other alternatives (natural gas in this case, not my favourite, but interesting to compare).
Considering this seems to be working at the moment (2 hours later) does this really qualify as news? Sure, significant downtime might be of interest, but are we really going to link the URL of every web-service that is down for an hour or two here or there?

A post about the causes or effects of said outage, or general related social commentary might be worthy of a HN submission - but to simply throw the URL of any service showing a 404 for some small amount of time seems a bit pointless (exceptions perhaps being Google/Facebook being down worldwide for a couple of hours).
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I think we're in danger here of arguing in circles, but let me just say that I think the mindset of "I could've done so much worse, but I showed restraint, therefore It's (relatively) okay" is very troubling to hear (and I know it's not just you that thinks this way). If you broke into a home, and only broke a few lamps and changed the locks on the doors, and then tell the homeowner "no hard feelings, I mean I could've burnt the place to the ground", you sound like a mad-man -- but because this is virtual, the impacts of your actions aren't so immediate or easy to feel, but they're still there (downtime leads to loss of consumer confidence, leads to loss of sales, leads to loss of jobs and livelihoods, and on and on). However, it doesn't mean there aren't real, financial, consequences to the actions.

I realize everyone makes mistakes, especially as teens, but I just wanted to voice my opinion that this mindset people seem to have where because they didn't {burn the server to the ground}, they shouldn't feel bad is both naive and dangerous, and if I were you, I'd do my best to drop it, learn your lesson, and move on. Best of luck.
Great new browser...Heads off firefox guys..
Yay? A $200 million dollar company with what, 3...4 employees? I need to start smoking what some of these people are on.
What X was intended for in the 80s is irrelevant. What matters is that it sucks now.
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This might not be the best solution for everyone but for me it works, and I only recommended this if you have (and been tested for) ADD/ADHD and have no heart disease(s), as it will increase your chance of getting a heart disease

I take Adderall as prescribed by my doctor and it slightly improves my cognitive ability but much more substantially, it enables me to focus. And I focus seemingly more so than other people normally do while on Adderall. I take 10mg of Adderall XR (Time Release in 3 doses). There is a significant period about 8 hours later wherein one will feel fatigued and their brain will feel like mush (Or that's at least how I describe it).

Maybe you should try focusing more and not worrying as much about cognitive ability. I find that if you're excited and focused on something it's crazy what you can come up with.
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He could have made his point in a more intelligent way.
well as a app developer I don't know why I wouldn't just implement the facebook api directly, it seems your app would limit what information was accesible to me.
I once worked at the Microsoft Technology Center in Mountain View for a week and they had beer. They told me I could have one whenever, so I had a few Killian's and I was useless after about 2 or 3.

Interesting how others seem to benefit from it.
At my current job, I basically started cleaning up code in my spare time, just because I was leaving. But just deciding, oh wait, I'll just ignore my boss, and whatever culture is in place, on company time, is basically saying "I'm inexperienced."

Someone here recently talked about a factoring algorithm that some entry level programmer just decided had to be "cleaned up." He had to be lectured about the bits he failed to understand.
From the article: “Can I take some time to clean up this code? It is horrendous.” The answer should always be yes to this question.

No, it shouldn't. This entirely depends on the long-term prospects and importance of the code. Assuming that your boss is doing his job, he might understand the trade-offs between having you doing 'code gardening' in subsystem A vs. building new functionality in subsystem B. He may even understand them better than you.

Mileage varies, of course, depending on Pointy-Hairedness.
It's probably more robust to let iTunes download the whole binary, instead of have the user attempt to download specific maps over WiFi (the device may go to sleep, run out of battery, etc).