skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He said 'is probably going to be' not 'has already been'.

There is plenty of suggestive evidence, like the nytimes article EScott11 referenced, showing cesium 137 contamination 200% of Chernobyl levels 25 miles from the plant, or the recent Greenpeace video where they max out their Geiger handhelds 35km from the plant, that there are going to be some fairly widespread consequences to the contamination of soil by radioactive material.
"As we've discovered in Canada once you've dug that hole you can make decent coin by allowing cities to fill it with their trash."

Ah ha! The mining industries version of a "pivot" huh?

Seriously though, I assume that actually means "you can attempt to recover some tiny part of your existing loss" instead of "make decent coin".
Miners use software to find minerals to mine, farmers use Combines and harvesters run with software. The farmers plant seeds and use fertilizers and pesticides that were created with the help of software. Mining and farming equipment is designed and built using software. If a farmer or miner gets sick, a doctor might use software to display and interpret their MRI or ultrasound.

We have come a long way from subsistance farming, and computers, software, and the people who create them have helped make miners and farmers (and everyone else's) lives much easier and better than they would be if people only mined and farmed.

So, congratulations for doing important work!
You have to think of a term sheet as a marriage proposal. Money wired to your startup's bank account is the consummation.

A lot can happen during the engagement and after the wedding... the way the 5 lbs. of legal documents are written, an annulment is possible, and it will go really bad for the startup.

Trust and respect will help in almost any relationship!
I don't know, the 'contraband' term is like the ultimate pivot.
ohhhh the tesla jokes on top gear for years to come from jeremy is something i'll look forward to.
There are two problems I have seen with them. First, they are not good at handling false positives. As the poster on Reddit found out, they are slow to respond. Also, they don't seem to have a mechanism to recognize that their scan does a poor job at certain sites. They should have some kind of internal white list of sites that their scan can't handle well, and only let those sites make it to the block list after human review whenever the scan purports to find something.

The second problem is that there are many obvious people gaming the community review system. I saw one reviewer, with a 9/9 reputation rating, that was reviewing thousands of sites a day. I suspect that there were many more shill accounts participating in this.
>"...when you don’t actually know what you are doing..."
This is where CEO's psychology starts melting down.

Uncertainty leads to fear and fear leads to panic. It's like driving a car blindly. What a CEO needs is a light which points to a right direction, whether this direction is really right or wrong is another topic.)

This is just my own view. All uncertainties can be grouped into two categories: Vision and Culture.

Vision is like a guiding system, it tells your customers (consumer, employee, and investor) where your company is going. Culture is like an internal machine which take your company to where you want to go. When these two things are defined and guidelines are created, uncertainties become clear. It's because now you have two groups of high-level guidelines to tell whether you should handle an uncertainty seriously or not.

However, even your company have a good vision and great culture, you will still feel uncomfortable. It's the feel like driving at 200 MPH when you are used to drive at 70 MPH. Experiences can certainly help to ease this feeling when you gradually increase driving speed.

The other way is to build a data-driven company from beginning. This is like flying a jet plane which you do not visual see what's going on outside, but rather you see if you are doing well through dashboard panels. But at least a CEO must learn and know what information is important in order to have a meaningful dashboard. This is getting too long. Any feedback on my opinion is welcome.
I use KeePassX, because it works on all desktop OSs, including Linux. It is pretty good. Too bad there's no iPhone version.

As a side note, one feature I'd like to see in my password manager software. Say, I suspect that someone might have stolen my passwords db and now owns all the passwords for the websites. I wish I could click one button and the app would do all the job of changing those passwords both in the database and on the websites for me.
And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires. When we look back through history, we can see that a lot of different stories all turn out to be stories about information.

It's these kind of statements that drive me nuts about Gleick. If you don't pay much attention, it almost sounds profound. But when you examine it, you realize the statement is almost devoid of meaning.

And, to top it off, he gets the facts wrong, and implies a causal relation when there is none to be found. Galvani did experments on the muscles of frogs in 1791, and proved that electrical impulses could animate movement. The telegraph invention came several decades later.

I just get the feeling Gleick doesn't really understand what he's writing about, or dumbs it down so much for a lay audience that the facts get mangled.
The question of whether or not you have a startup is determined by your intent. Are you planning on making money once your product achieves scale? Or is it simply a hobby or something you do for fun? Remember, that few businesses(and even fewer tech businesses) are instantly profitable, but if you stick with it, you'll find a business model that works for you.
A site needs to know email is valid before allowing it to be used to log in. In OP's world malicious attacker can do whatever between time they register and time (if ever) email's owner clicks the "wtf, not me" link.
Unsure if the author made a typo or is misinformed, but the YouTube video (right now) stands at 78 million views, rather than the authors claim of 73,000. Quite a magnitude of difference!
Do you also know Cocoa Touch well? Even if I prefer Obj-C compared to Java, it's Apple APIs where the real beauty is.
I'd be interested in hearing more about it. Health insurance may not be sexy, but solutions to extremely complex business problems are, and I imagine there's some element of that in a health insurance startup.

That domain seems to be one of the most intractable around these days. It seems the gist of the situation is: There are four parties - doctors/staff/hospitals, patients, health insurance industry, and government/taxpayers. Effective reform is going to mean at least one of them gets [screwed|insert nicer word here]. There just isn't enough margin for all of them to make out comfortably.

Or is there some elegant solution hiding in the morass, waiting for some clever entrepreneurs to find and implement it?
Yeah, but they are lobbying to we allow industry to build new plants without a fundamental and transparent rethinking of the safety issues, and with various proposed schemes to limit or eliminate corporate liability. (Is that really the best way to ensure safe designs and operation procedures?)

The reactor designs are newer, but we also need newer designs for management and disaster prevention/response. Even with the crappy obsolete Fukishima reactors, we would have come through this event fine had there been a (much) bigger investment in those non-technological areas when the plant was built and over the decades since then.
You guys know about the problem of nuclear waste right? You've read plenty about it right?

Because this whole "it hasn't caused an apocalypse yet" argument in favor of nuclear power is just a tiny bit short-sighted. If you make your software like you reason about nuclear power, send me a note naming your products so I know what to stay away from.
I've been very happy with LastPass

http://lastpass.com
Clean energy alternatives are not viable. And they won't be for a long time.

Wind and solar power are inherently unsuitable for providing base-load coverage - you need to have sufficient generating capacity spooled-up and available to cover any lulls in output. They can reduce the environmental impact of conventional generation, but they're useless on their own.

Nuclear power already produces 100x more than even the largest wind farm, because when you're working out how much base-load coverage you've got, you need to think about that wind farm at it's worst-case 0 MW output.
I've been using KeePass(X) for couple of years. There are two paid iPhone version (no iPad version though).
> pretty much every Unix but AIX

OSX is actually a certified UNIX.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/08/mac-os-x-leopard-r...
Consider something like GMail. For all those who have an unsupported browser, they have basic HTML view so that you are not locked out of your email on an old browser. The bells and whistles go to users who can use a decent browser.

It is far nicer to think of a basic HTML minimum viable app and an app with a desktop like experience than thinking of gracefully degrading each feature of your app.
The problem I have with this idea is that Apple made such a big deal last year about the fact that the camera on the iPhone 4 was backlit. Presumably, the company making those image sensors patented the technology, and wouldn't license it to SONY. So won't the camera be a step back for Apple? It would probably be wiser if they kept the camera they use now,(after all, they used that cheesy 2MP in the original as well as the 3G) and update once the factories are back online?
I am not familiar with Weave -- I'll be honest, I did not look to see if anything was addressing this problem - I guess due to the fact that with as much as I read - I would have assumed to have heard about it...

What would you add/change with respect to the idea?
I don't think lawyers do the same or less amount of work than scientists and engineers. I've watched up close a big patent suit (I was one of the inventors named on the patent, and the only one available for the trial), and at least in that area of law, the lawyers worked more hours sustained than any scientist or engineer I've known.

When I was in my early 30's I got burned out on programming, and went to law school with the intent of going into patent and copyright law. However, after the third year, when I had one paper to write to graduate, I went back to my old job for the summer. I was no longer burned out on programming, and I also had the worst case of writers block in the history of the universe, so never got around to writing that last paper.

Having watched the lawyers during the patent suit, I am pretty sure I dodged a bullet by not becoming a lawyer.
You guys know about the problem of climate change, right? You've read plenty about it, right?

Because this whole "it hasn't caused an apocalypse yet" argument in favour of every-feasible-alternative-to-nuclear-power is just a tiny bit short-sighted. If you make your software like you reason about every-feasible-alternative-to-nuclear-power, send me a note naming your products so I know what to stay away from.
By "dominates", you mean racks in nearly $20B a year in profits?
I'm always somewhat disappointed that no browser supports e.g. the TeX line-breaking algorithm. It is slower and it does need some extra data on "odd" hyphenations, but the results are quite pleasing.
Videos at http://blog.sproutcore.com/post/4214558845/catch-up-on-the-s... may give a better perspective
Yup, even more so since we're not even sure new consoles are even going to come out.

Have you heard about Microsoft's plans for the next XBox? Or Sony's next generation PlayStation?

Exactly. Nothing.

Games are pretty profitable on consoles, but makers of these consoles usually lose hundreds of millions of dollars over several years before they can even bring a console to market, and then they need to hope that this console will be successful enough to recoup the R&D.

No wonder even rich and successful companies such as Microsoft and Sony are just a few steps away from giving up on creating consoles completely.
When should startups create a financial model?
You are much more likely to be taken seriously if you use punctuation correctly in your blog posts.
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Anyone find details as to how Epsilon was compromised?
Is there any precedent for your assertion?
I've been using it for quite awhile on both Windows and Linux and have never had a problem with it.
I vote for neither.
First point.

$6000 in funding that comes with all these restrictions and gives away 9% of ownership is a terrible deal. It values your company at only $67,000.

If your company is only going to be worth $67,000 or less you should stop what you are doing right now and get a job working in services or retail.

On the other hand, if your company is worth much more than $67k, then this is not a good deal at all. VCs are not going to invest unless they think the company will be worth much more than $67k.

Second point.

If you need $6000 and somehow have not managed to save $6000 in the bank working as an engineer or designer then you should also reconsider whether you have the skills to create a successful tech company out of nothing.

Third point.

If you can't get a credit card with a greater than $6000 limit because of poor credit, please consider whether your financial skills are conducive to running a business.

Summary.

If $6000 is what you need to launch your company, borrow the money from mom, sell your car, or get a job for a couple months and save it.
I tried unity in 10.10 and found it to be cumbersome. I was shocked when they announced they were moving to it for 11.04.

But, it looks like it's undergone a few improvements.

(Strangely, I know,) I trust the people working on Ubuntu to make rational decisions. It looks like unity pulled through.
If he was drinking contaminated milk from coal power plants, then he is still alive.

Surprise, coal power plants have filters now...

Surprise 2, coal is also not the energy of the future...
Yeah, currently the spent fuel is piling up.

You need one a more large reprocessing sites and one or more storage sites.

Currently the nuclear industry is running without it.
>I don't recall them ever saying something like "Toyota claims it gets 20mpg, but we've worked out it only gets 3mpg on our test track".

They actually kind of did for Toyota Prius here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTOyiKLARk
Do you think coal mining is more dangerous than Uranium mining?
If being a good developer is correlated with IQ (which I suspect is true), skill should be normally distributed independently of age.
Tell HN: Always have a way to reach you in your profile
I was browsing around this evening when I came across a thread looking for freelancers. Being a freelancer(or trying to anyway) I clicked and saw several companies that were looking, but nothing that matched my skill set. There was one post though I saw that piqued my interest. It was a New Orleans based developer looking for work. I'd seen another "who's hiring" thread yesterday offering a great position to people willing to relocate to New Orleans. So I figured "why not pay it forward?" and I copied the link to the original post, with the intent of forwarding it to this person. They have no way to be reached on their profile page. So let that be a lesson to you. Always have an email or other way to reach you in your HN profile. You never know when someone offering 20% equity and a founding position in a funded startup will come your way.
Everyone is doing backlit CMOS sensors these days. More importantly, Sony invented the technique in the first place. Thus, it is pretty likely that if Sony is doing the camera in the iPhone 5 it is still backlit.
True you'll lose some signal along with #2 and #3, but gain a lot of time. You have to recognize the tradeoffs and then decide which is more valuable to you.
Got family tree to work, you've gotta click the plus sign to create a family, then click on the family to give it focus, then the "Add Male..." stuff works.
Kinect doesn't work using 2 or 4 front-facing camera and analysing the differences; it projects a IR pattern of dots and analyses its distortion. They say it's more robust and requires much less CPU power.
The idea with Weave was not exactly the same as yours, but it shares the same feature that I consider the main draw: sharing tabs across devices. Weave really is supposed to be a platform for sharing all of the browser data (history, bookmarks, etc) across devices, but the inherent Firefox dependency and cumbersomeness of use stopped me from using it.

Interestingly, at around the same time I was looking for that, I was also looking for a way to construct a digital tour such as you describe to use to show some things to remote coworkers, so I'm somewhat amused that you seem to be combining these ideas.

If you did end up creating a service that let me seamlessly share tab sessions across multiple devices on different platforms, I'd be ecstatic enough. Being able to tag tabs to various sessions and be able to pull them up like that so I could easily share the sessions for my projects between my work devices without bringing in, say, my HN tabs would just be a dream.
I tried Unity in 10.10 too. But, it seems much more polished and usable now.

One real plus in 11.04, is the installer. Really convenient.
"useful"..but no one wants to pay for it. How useful is it then?
Email isn't something that has ever been a productivity drain for me, so I haven't considered it much either way (iPad or desktop).

Definitely, I wouldn't recommend ignoring your clients. If most email is a productivity problem for you, but you need to respond to client emails, most email clients will allow you to define special alerts for certain senders as part of email processing rules.
Read that again. The copies are given away. It's a perfectly good analogy, and if you want to get really picky it's also accurate on a technical level. An ephemeral copy in memory and TCP is made, given away, and lost.
IMO, starting with Django or App Engine or the like to learn Python is like learning to write poetry in French before you have the basics of French.

I think it's best, for N days, to focus just on Python itself. Learn the basics of the language. Then for another M days work on a simple problem that's meaningful to you. Iterate, and play around with different ways to accomplish parts of your program in Python.

Then learn a framework or CMS or javascript library or whatever you like.

My first Python program extracted email addresses and names out of any of one's imap accounts' messages, and put them in ldif format, ready for import into any email client (that understands ldif). I already knew a bit about imap and ldif.

I learned the basics of Python, data structures, list comprehensions, unit testing, etc. As a newbie I went overboard on different coding techniques, but that was partly the point, in addition to creating a working program that was useful to me.
If memory serves, the problem is that it is politically impossible to create some area to place the waste fuel. ie. it would be much safer to move the spent fuel out of the reactor, however there is nowhere for it to go to.
"Don't do other things"

I see what he is saying about the consulting helping parse.ly succeed, but I do not see him prioritizing it over the startup. I believe you can do other things & should if you have to, but minimally. Other things often become the thing, because of the decrease in focus on the original thing.

"no one ever gives you money when you need it!"

It's true, most people are bandwagoners in life & even more so when it comes to investing funds. Which of course builds up the "F U" mentality in those vested in a venture toward tardy supporters. But at the end of the day cash is cash...

"Fact: America’s broken healthcare system is harmful to entrepreneurs."

I won't even get started on my health insurance woes...
Isn't there a problem if you sign-up to services with your "temporary" work email? Get a gmail account and sit on it, what's wrong with that?
Yes, "at scale" is succinct and accurate, I will adopt that term too.
And bloodletting was once modern medicine. You're so full of shit, it's unbelievable.
Would you care to elaborate on the errors you are getting? I've been using socket.io with no problems.
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I think detractors "handwave" the importance of building new reactors. By refusing to allow existing reactors to be obsoleted, they force existing power stations to stay in operation without interruption, keeping outdated and inferior equipment online long past its prime.
Related: The 'email' profile field is only visible to PG (and maybe other YC people?)

PG, can you please s/email/email (not publicly visible)/ on /user so that people stop getting tricked by this?
"I don't see why we should build even one more plant without the safety planning and preventive measures being an order of magnitude better than they have been so far."

Because then the bids might be too high and they would never get built in the first place? This is probably what happened in Ontario: the requirements for the bids were strict, and the cost of the only one that met it was three times expected. The runner up, from France, was only 10% lower.

Good balanced comment though, thanks.
That's really fun to draw with. I'll have to take a look at the source and put in some different color options and such.
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The problem is that people also compare this with outdated designs for coal plants.

There are much cleaner modern coal plants with filters.
Still coal is dirty and dangerous.

In the nuclear industry you have new designs. But this does not solve the basic problems:

* mining of Uranium is dirty

* you need to transport dangerous material

* nuclear weapons can be produced

* reprocessing is extremely dirty

* storage is unsolved

* it promotes large corporations with all problems (corruption, ...)

* a society needs to be sufficiently advanced to handle the risk (i.e. better than Japan, the Soviet Union, or the US)

* the capital costs are large, needs to financed by the government

Plus with the new reactors you get interesting new dangers. Ever heard of 'stuxnet'? There are now viruses and attacks against nuclear facilities based on computer viruses.
The second problem is that there are many obvious people
gaming the community review system. I saw one reviewer,
with a 9/9 reputation rating, that was reviewing thousands
of sites a day. I suspect that there were many more shill
accounts participating in this.

Yup. Here are their top 3 reviewers:

* pharmalert: http://user.siteadvisor.com/forums/member.php?u=19138 with 1400 posts per day.
* Nodes: http://user.siteadvisor.com/forums/member.php?u=107161 with 750 posts per day.
* DougW: http://user.siteadvisor.com/forums/member.php?u=1699 with 451 posts per day.

For me this is a pretty solid indicator that their review system is, at best, useless.
Publicity stunt. CSS cannot change the window size.

Skype need to provide a download of version 2.8 on their site until they have fixed 5.0. A "classic mode" will suffice.
Renewable already generate similar amounts compared to nuclear.

A single wind farm may have 0 MW output. But for a European grid of wind farms this is highly unlikely. Like 1% of the year. For that 1% we will have other energy sources pick up nicely.