skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Follow the link in the Wikipedia page to the article on reprocessing. It solves both of the issues you raise: it greatly extends the time the fuel lasts, and it greatly shortens the time that the remaining waste is dangerous. The only reason this was even an issue in the US (it isn't in other nuclear-using countries) is that the Carter administration banned reprocessing because of misplaced concerns about proliferation. In March 1999 the Clinton administration finally reversed that position (probably because it was obvious by then that reprocessing didn't increase proliferation risk--every other nuclear-using country has reprocessed its fuel from the beginning and there have been no incidents). So we can just take all the stuff that was supposed to be stored in Yucca Mountain for 10,000 years and reprocess it instead. Problem solved.
No no, no need to be fair about that, there's precious little docs publicly right now :) It'll be rectified, but we're deciding which docs to write by working with developers and end users in the private beta.

I'll add your questions http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403003 and answer there - Lemme know if there's anything else you'd like to know!
"Having air around the text reduces the stress level, as it makes it much easier to focus on the essence."

But his extreme left margin creates unnecessary tension and looks unbalanced on the page.

On the other hand, I applied his 140% line-height advice to my site, and it reads much better.
Yes, you need to be proactive for legal reasons. Legal precedent in the U.S. concerning equal employment opportunity is based on "disparate impact" of hiring practices. That means that you can still be held liable for discrimination if the effect of your hiring practices results in discrimination even if you did not intend to discriminate. Companies claiming that affirmative action is not important are really just waiting to be sued for discrimination.

Affirmative action is not just about race. It's about religion, sex, age, and sexual orientation. Good recruiting practices can eliminate bad job candidates prior to hiring. You can also always let go any employees based on poor performance. However, employers must still be proactive in hiring members of legally protected classes.

Yes, my college degree is in business management.
Factoids On The CAN-SPAM Act
It's called experience: before you discovered HN, you knew less. HN lifted you to a certain level. But now that you have reached that level, you are no longer impressed, you feel like it's all repetitions.

Be assured that there are hundreds of people who were like you two years ago, who are discovering HN today, and are benefiting immensely.

What HN can't provide you is a community that will grow more and more specialized as yourself grows.

It's funny because in my latest startup (http://letslunch.com), we have a very strong notion of reputation, so we match entrepreneurs with increasingly experienced entrepreneurs, as your reputation rises. I believe it works for in-person interaction, but I doubt it can be built for an online forum.
I think you may have mis-assessed "no profit motive"

HN support YCombinator in several ways. In particular consider how much less visibility YC would have without HN.

YC has been very clear that they evalute HN contributions of new applicants.

I am not being critical of YC or HN, I just wanted to point out that YC is run as a money making venture and HN is managed to support it.
thanks for the suggestion. done
It is only unethical if there is a conflict of interest. Not enough details to in your write-up to identify one.
> why are they still relying on Ctrl + Alt + Del

I bet it's gonna be optional.

> and implementing that god awful Ribbon UI across the board?

Well, that's for consistency, although I am not entirely sure it's a good move, time will show.
My other notebooks all have a reinforced power connector at the stress point where it meets the machine; this really is a solved problem. However, like you said, it's far to ugly to be put on a Mac out of the factory.

But considering it now, maybe I should liberally apply electrical tape to the area around the end of the MacBook's power cable to strengthen it. I don't care how ugly the computer is as long as it doesn't break.
if so, maybe you can cache the 'top apps', thus people can see what is it about ?
I agree. There is absolutely no excuse for not having some sort of source control and deployment system in place at an organization with a commercially deployed solution. Why would anyone regard such a system as optional? It is irresponsible.
I once read a quote that goes something like: "If a book causes a reader to reevaluate their own life, it says more about the reader than the book".

That has happened to me a couple of times. Most recently was probably reading "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. I had pigeonholed that book as something that banking types read and presupposed the book advocated "Mining" (to use Wil's analogy). However, the protagonists in the book are hard-working (in spite of family wealth) and innovative. In the book, the protagonists opt out of what the world at large deems as the "right" way to do things.

Ignore the mythology that glorifies "mining". It's nonsense. Find different people to look up to.

This interview with David Heinemeier Hansson reinforces Wil's point of view:
http://mixergy.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-37signals-interv...
Agreed. My second year in college as a CS student I felt like I was rolling in money (relative to working at a grocery store) when I had an internship.
I could see it being useful if you aren't sure how to get an encrypted message to some one.

Much encryption can be done in javascript.

https://ziyan.info/2008/10/javascript-rsa/

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/

http://www.beanizer.org/site/index.php/en/Articles/Practical...
I should've written "somewhere over 200," just speaking from my experience.
deaths/TerraWatt.

Such dastardly statistical trickery!
Waterloo University has the biggest coop(internship) program in the world, and it has had the program since the university's inception in 1957, and the program is required for all their Engineering students and optional for the other faculties. In Engineering, all students alternate between school and co-op usually every semester, so the length of the whole degree gets extended to 5 years, with 3 full years worth of studies, and 2 full years worth of experience.

The way it works is that the co-op department, CECS, has an internal job posting website, where students view jobs, and submit their resumes and maybe cover letters. The employers will then look at the resumes and decide on the students they want to interview. Most interviews happen in interview rooms in the CECS building. If the employer cannot attend, then Skype or phone interviews are arranged instead. After the interviews, both the students and the employers rate each other 1 through 9, and the students get automatically paired with the job where the sum of the ratings is the lowest. CECS constantly contacts companies to get them interested in hiring uWaterloo students. Companies that currently hire uWaterloo students include FB, Google, MSFT, Apple, all the big banks in US and Canada, Qualcomm, RIM, and tons of other medium and small companies including Allerta, which HN has been hearing about quite a bit, and which is currently employing me. In terms of job locations most jobs are in North America, however there are quite a few in Japan, Germany, NZ, Australia, UK, and students can set up their own jobs if they don't like what's offered through CECS.

Now about salaries, even for a first work term engineering student the range is $12-$22.50 with an average of $15.94. CECS requires that employers pay the students. Until now however there were few exceptions: start-ups were able to discuss with CECS to see if they could offer unpaid internships, however that's now being phased out. If the company can't pay the students with money, it is now required to pay them through other means such as equity.

The latest Earnings Information for uWaterloo can be found here: http://www.cecs.uwaterloo.ca/pdfs/Hourly_Salary_Information_...

On another note, I think having all these internships spread out, is better for us, students, since it allows us to try out different type of jobs. Once semester you can work for a start-up, while the next one you can work for a big corporate.

EDIT: Even humanities students get paid however relatively less than say, Engineering.
Um, the root cause of the problems at Fukushima had nothing to do with the design of the reactors. The root cause was that their backup diesel generators, which were to supply power to the reactor control and safety systems in the event of a shutdown, along with their switchgear, were sited behind a seawall that got overcome by the tsunami. If the backup generators had been sited properly, this whole fiasco would never have gotten started; the reactors would have shut down safely, end of story. I'm actually amazed that the reactors have held up as well as they have in the face of having no cooling water over a significant part of the fuel rods for this long.
I think the main point of the blog post was not a self-centered I'm leaving but a commentary on the state of the community and quality of HN.
While the price tag is pretty bad, at least she'll be ending with an advanced degree. Some of the people in this article had comparable liabilities but were going to wind up with undergraduate degrees. I hope it works out for you all, regardless.
Why We Can't Walk Straight?
I opted out of the internship during school for various reasons. I graduated about two weeks ago and landed an unpaid internship.

I know there are plenty of paid internships out there but companies that offer those do not understand what an internship is or are looking to take advantage. All the paid ones I have seen want you to have either advance knowledge in the subject, x years of experience, and/or previous work history.
I looked this up recently, and it looks like it was bumped from 200 to 500 in the last year or so.
Mid Stage Startup Analytics (or When to Pivot)
The more a community grows, the more susceptible it is to PR attacks to manipulate its content. With just 100 fake ids, any attacker can bring to the front page any news they want, even astroturfing becomes easy, downvote everything you don't like and upvote your agenda.

ie. one thing is to call Ubuntu's latest release a disaster, another one to call it just different from previous releases or just point out the differences and let every reader decide.

Linkbaiting should be banned, sensationalism should be banned, highly biased news should be banned, hype should be banned.

Once groupon (just to name one of many) appeared more than ten times a day in the front page, now their PR machine has slowed down to a halt. Yes, they pay PR agencies to launch torpedoes at every news outlet, we all know that. But without proper monitoring it can become tiresome to the reader.

Moderation is key, news should be moderated according to every forum's interest, in our case tech news and entrepreneurship.

I hope someday PG understands that to avoid the fate of slashdot, digg, TC, etc he must enforce stricter rules for quality content, even if he has to pay a couple of editors to maintain the front page and the comments clean. And no, HN is not untouchable, it may fade into oblivion too.

Unless he is in bed with some PR agencies (like TC) in that case, everything I said is moot.
as we say in poker (when someone's giving up the game), "see you next week"
It just crossed my head. What if we use a flag count (times a comment or submission was flagged and flagging was agreed on by a moderator) to "counter vote". If someone who get flagged often upvotes something, that upvote acts as a flag and could, maybe, be turned into a downvote...

I'll edit it and make it clearer in the next hour, but I wanted to leave it here while I have lunch (and think over it) so others can demolish (it's always nice to be corrected by people smarter than me) my idea.
How that jet got in the Bugatti, I'll never know.
Steganography with
StartupGuild 2.0
Does anyone else find it highly annoying that browsers started to size the whole page instead of just text with this? I liked using it to change the size of the characters, but without upscaling images and such.
As a first years CompSci undergraduate at Cambridge, I've found more or less the opposite of this: it seems like I've suddenly become really recruitable. Despite the fact that I'll have only had a years CS tuition, and no industry experience, I've managed to get a well paying internship for the summer.
I guess quite a solution to the submissions quality problem would be allowing down-voting of submissions at some karma level cap.

This way, a group of users with best karma would be allowed to just stop crappy submissions. Otherwise, they have to be here all the time to promote non-crappy submissions only to not let them sink in a flood of crappy ones, which is dumb.
Also in (3), very portable to old architectures. PCC is written in C, where LLVM/Clang is C++. This makes one less hurdle to bootstrapping a new compiler on some archs.
"And WHY do device manufactures change the connectors with every generation"

Have you looked closely at the last generation of changes? Pretty much every single phone except for the iPhone now uses micro-USB. So yes, it's annoying that everybody changed in the last generation, but everybody changing to the same thing is double-plus good.
That's the problem with Quora for me. When it first started to get big, I tried searching for things that weren't startup- or Silicon Valley-related, and the results were practically nonexistent. Maybe that's changed since then, but it didn't give me a good first impression. Not that there's anything wrong with a Q&A site for startups - that may well be a very good niche - but Quora clearly seems to want to be something more, and it seems that they're having a hard time breaking free.
While that's true, it doesn't mean it's a good solution. I was commenting on whether or not the solution was optimal, not whether or not it was able to fulfill legal requirements. If a solution is needed to fulfill legal requirements, but is not optimal, that would speak to something being wrong in the law that needs to be updated. Laws usually exist for good reasons, but they shouldn't defeat the bigger picture.

And while I'm no legal expert, my shallow research tells me this is more of an issue in US law, not necessarily laws of other nations. In Canada, we have the requirement to give preference to minorities where qualifications are equal. If qualifications are not equal, the one who is more qualified gets the job. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
I was going to say something very similar. I've been irritated by repetitive content / themes, but a lot of that is simply because I've read it many times before - it's not necessarily a sign that the community is getting stale, it just means I've been reading it way too much.

Interesting point about the community growing more specialized - I thought that HN losing its focus on startups (circa the Startup News -> Hacker News rename) was overall a negative thing, since that's what attracted me in the first place, but in retrospect it's probably not. I think I would've got bored much faster reading effectively the same posts about startups over and over again. The wider scope has probably helped to keep the site fresh for me, at the cost of somewhat lower signal/noise.
If you like shit pay, hard work, long hours, thrashing, anxiety attacks, frequent failure, rude "peer" reviewers, massive egos, grinding your teeth at night, pains in your hands, cut-throat competition, and near total isolation, then by all means pursue a PhD. It's the perfect high-risk/low-reward opportunity.
I remember the halcyon days of Microsoft. Despite the odd anti-competitive dirty trick on their part, their real edge boiled down to being able to out-strategize and out-execute the competition.

Their current approach to extracting intellectual property rents via patent licensing isn't the Road Ahead, it's the Road to Obscurity!
so php == ignorance? are we really going to make that assumption? thats just foolish.
They were wrong because they didn't take into account the possibility that backup power would be unavailable for so long. The backup generators and their switchgear were sited very poorly--behind a seawall that was overcome by the tsunami.

Please note that I'm not saying the reactor designs themselves weren't old and out of date. They were. But that wasn't the root cause of the problems. The stresses that these reactors have withstood due to the lack of backup power are far beyond any safety specification they were built to.
Unless you are under 1 year old, you _can_ drink milk and water. You are overreacting.

If you are female and pregnant, that overreaction can be justified, but otherwise you only have your overreaction to blame.
Great animation... but I was really hoping that it'd answer the question at the end!

potential:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system#Erro...
Fair enough. I just looked around for other times PG talks about consulting work, e.g. from http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html,

"""The trouble with consulting is that clients have an awkward habit of calling you on the phone. Most startups operate close to the margin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clients could be enough to put you over the edge. Especially if you have competitors who get to work full time on just being a startup.

So you have to be very disciplined if you take the consulting route. You have to work actively to prevent your company growing into a "weed tree," dependent on this source of easy but low-margin money.

Indeed, the biggest danger of consulting may be that it gives you an excuse for failure. In a startup, as in grad school, a lot of what ends up driving you are the expectations of your family and friends. Once you start a startup and tell everyone that's what you're doing, you're now on a path labelled "get rich or bust." You now have to get rich, or you've failed."""

In this essay, his opinion seems less absolute than the other one. I could summarize as, "Accept consulting as a means to an end, not an end in itself." Indeed, that is the advice I heeded so perhaps he's right after all!
They did an extremely poor PR job. My account is no longer working. I would expect an email of apologies that explains the problem and buys them time. Instead, I got an account that mysteriously doesn't work anymore, and a password reset link that claims my account doesn't exist. I had to learn about what happened from a random HN post.
I think there should be a different system, where Karma is "invested" in the posts you make, and you lose maybe 5 Kara when you post but if 6 people upvote it, you will gain that one Karma and the user would choose how much Karma to invest, and the more Karma invested the higher it appears on the page. There would need to be a slightly higher starting Karma though, but it would be interesting to see how and if it works out.
Amazing stuff. Already addicted to this. It's like a social network full of entrepreneurs, a lot of from HN.
1) Read the OP
2) He could have donated money he spent on the expedition to feed that village.
3) He could have relocated the elephants. They are called tranqs, it won't take one, but it'll take a few and get the elephant down.

This is just an excuse for a rich person to brag about killing an endangered specie with a gun. OOOO SKILL. If he did it with his bare hands, then I would applaud.
"HN support Y Combinator in several ways."

The maintenance that HN receives is proportional to its value to YC. This is a problem, because as the userbase increases, the maintenance required and the marginal value created scale at different rates. It's not a show stopper by any means, but eventually there may have to be some sort of realignment.
I didn't vote you down, but people are probably considering the difference between design and aesthetics/taste. Design should be a solution to a problem.

In this case, the problem as defined is readability. Having lines of text one after the other with no leading (line-spacing) can be difficult to read.

Having text that's too wide requires you to turn your head which can be uncomfortable.

Text that's too small can be... too small. The article was arguing for an optimal font size which may or may not be correct, but the argument was that 16pt/72dpi font is effectively the same size as most printed books, which are optimized for reading.

Text with poor contrast — light gray on gray is going to be difficult to read no matter the subject matter.

His individual arguments may be wrong (although I don't think they are), but the scope of design, for a given problem can be more absolute than just taste or aesthetics.

Taste is more about liking 10pt fonts even if you're designing for something to be readable.
I'm also a Reddit refugee, which has been taken over by troll, derp, meme, and pun.

I've seen this so many times before, though. It's one of the basic rules of the internet; every community will converge to 4chan. Hell, even 4chan couldn't get rid of their 'cancer'.

I would like to see a HN-style board which does not have a public client, but rather only a public protocol specification. Only people who can actually implement the protocol would be allowed to join. The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to stop people from publishing open source clients - I'm thinking angry nerd death squads.
I love this idea. Does it only support Rails apps, or does it also support LAMP as well?

I tested it with https://github.com/ginatrapani/thinkup because I'd be very impressed if it could set ThinkUp up with no user interaction, but like many others I'm stuck at 8%.

I'm sure you're getting a lot of traffic from HN now, so I'll wait patiently :).
Is it just Ruby or can PHP and Python play aswell? Any library/network restrictions? Any tips for making apps deployable?
A possibly new representation of DAGs
Delious Colourful CG Pattern Designs | CG Wallpaper Collection
This is an incredibly awkward title. And they're wondering why more women aren't in our industry?
With some of the first magsafe-based macs, I was buying a new power adapter every three months or so. The cord would fray at the end of the way-too-small strain relief between the magsafe connector and the cord. I had one nearly catch on fire (melted a bunch of the plastic covering) when it wore enough that it shorted. I figured that this was the recurring part of the 'Apple tax'.

To be fair though, in the last couple years the connectors have gotten much better - I think they extended the strain relief collar so that it does not get bent at as sharp of an angle. Also the new unibody macs have a 90-degree magsafe connector which eliminates a lot of the strain. (Unfortunately I think it is also a less safe design - it takes much more force to disengage the magnets at most angles where the cord would actually get pulled)
That article is a real mess, full of bits that are "not even wrong". How can you simultaneously claim that some alternate way of looking at the data (a) won't reach any different conclusions, AND (b) must have had its science corrupted (to reach different intended conclusions) due to a dubious funding source? Aren't those mutually exclusive?

And then there's simultaneously (a) publicizing early claims (outside the scientific literature) that "mainstream" climate researchers are sure the results will be X, while (b) saying that publicizing early claims outside the scientific literature is unethical?

Not to mention the ridiculous confusion over Climategate...
I'm both. I'm a single (tech & non tech) founder of my company. I'll need to freelance in the summer as my business is seasonal.

I'm looking for ways to make the right impression to both possible employers and possible co-founder. I'm a social guy but I'm new to professional networking and don't know how to talk shop yet.

Please share what you've learned.